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​​2021-01-20

​​Agenda
  • ​​Sortition
  • ​​Open Source Governance
  • ​​Mining Pool
  • ​​Roadmap for next hard fork 
  • ​​Q&A
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​​Sortition

  • ​​smoothing: missing 1 of 6 blocks negatively impacts performance
  • ​​missing blocks due to RBF and insufficient fees
​​Action Item: Create a test
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​​Open Source Governance

  • ​​can we request issues/fix priority?
  • ​​can we issue bounties for fixes?
  • ​​master (stable release), develop(new features), next(new consensus) branch in github
​​Action Item: Create a SIP for sortition issue

​​Mining Pools

  • ​​Using mulit-sig accounts is the current recommendation for pooling

​​Running a miner

  • ​​Your account requires at least two UTXO to run smoothly (#2346)
  • ​​Your miner might spent BTC while syncing (#2364)
  • ​​Workaround for using working_dir in config file, uses rsync to backup in rotation: stacks-backup.sh
  • ​​could possibly end up on a fork? others recommend starting from scratch
  • ​​if using debug mode on Linux, rotatelogs​ is a good tool, example from user LNow:
  • ​​stacks-node start --config=config.toml 2>&1 | rotatelogs -v -e -n 5 logfilename 25M​
  • ​​above method really useful when working with DEBUG enabled
  • ​​note: I’m seeing this as logrotate​ on Linux, not sure what the above version is, but similar concept, could be part of apache2-utils​ package as rotatelogs​
  • ​​Data analysis?
  • ​​would be nice to link up with the bitcoin data (blockcypher has a nice free API)
  • ​​Observations
  • ​​faster bitcoin blocks it is more likely for smaller commits to win (data to “proof”?)

​​Q&A

  • ​​Peter S: with the right configuration, everyone should face the same problem? So equal sortition?
  • ​​Peter S: I just want to point out that the theoretical and the actual wins smooth out nicely since the start.
  • ​​Does mining from a raspberry pi or lower-performant machine cause a disadvantage?
  • ​​slow cpu = blocks not reaching in time ?
  • ​​running bitcoind on a separate machine ?
  • ​​Mining Challenge part 3?
  • ​​still in planning, unclear