PAI News πŸ“° - September 28, 2020

PAI News :newspaper: - September 28, 2020

26th Edition

Announcements & Reminders :speaker:

:exclamation:The PAI Coin Mainnet Hard Fork will occur at block height 154,550, corresponding to approximately 10:30 AM Pacific Time (5:30 PM UTC) on October, 6, 2020.:exclamation:

:point_right: More Information about the upcoming Hybrid fork:

:point_right:If you use PAI Up Mobile, WRITE DOWN YOUR PAPER KEY according to the instructions below. You will need this to restore your wallet on the new version of PAI Up, which will be a separate app, and/or PAI Up Web Wallet.

Write Down Your PAI Up Paper Key :memo:

In your PAI Up Mobile, go to Menu β†’ Security Settings β†’ Paper Key β†’ Write Down Paper Key Again. Enter your PIN, then physically write down the 12 words that are displayed and store them in a safe place.

Promotions :red_gift_envelope:

  • Set up a full node and have your PAI Coin Pool account topped up every month that it’s online! Set up a full node according to these instructions, then email promotions@projectpai.com from the email address associated with your PCP account. In the email, include the IP address or URL of your full node.
  • Don’t forget about the ongoing Project PAI Developer Challenges! Here’s a complete list. Note that all deadlines have been extended indefinitely. PAI News πŸ“° - July 27, 2020
Title Type Participant Reward Grand Prize
PCP UI/UX Design Design/Product 1,500 PAI 15,000 PAI
PoUW Docker Machine Setup Coding 1,500 PAI 6,000 PAI
PoUW Byzantine Detector Coding/Research 1,500 PAI 6,000 PAI
PoUW General Computation Coding 1,500 PAI 6,000 PAI
PoUW Grafana Dashboard Coding 1,500 PAI 30,000 PAI
PoUW Merkle History Log Coding/Research 1,500 PAI 60,000 PAI

PAI Hybrid Consensus

Here’s a snapshot :camera: of development work the team has been focused on:

  • Resolved some edge case issues of SV and vote usage in mempool;
  • Updated validation code to permit special transactions in the existing testnet;
  • Implemented hybrid consensus PoW difficulty and transaction order validations in the mobile wallets;
  • iOS wallet rebranding;
  • Custom error displays in cpuminer;
  • Implemented new blockvoteswaittime flag for setting a vote wait time;
  • Added verbose and blockheight flags for certain informational RPC commands, such as getblock, getrawtransaction, getrawmempool, livetickets, missedtickets, winnigtickets, and gettickets;
  • modified PCP payment processing for block rewards to take into account blocks generated by the pool;

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