Argentum integration/staging tree

http://www.argentum.io

What is Argentum?

Argentum is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Argentum uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Argentum is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.

License

Argentum is a fork of Bitcoin Core and inherits the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

The master branch is occasionally built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Argentum.

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Building

See files in the doc directory for generic build instructions for Windows, OSX and Unix.

Argentum Version 4.14.4.1

• LOW_S and NULLFAIL are now mandatory

Argentum Version 4.14.4

• Speed up Initial Blockchain Download

Argentum Version 4.14.3

• Adds 4 new mining algorithms (Activates at block 2,977,000) -Lyra2re2 (GPU)
  -Myr-Groestl (GPU/ASIC)
  -Argon2d (CPU)
  -Yescrypt (CPU/GPU)

Argentum Version 4.14.2

• These are just a few of the hundreds of enhancements with this new release

• BIP112 (CheckSequenceVerify) soft fork

• BIP146 Argentum will hard fork at block 2,977,000 (around March 13th 2018) to implement BIP146

• Signature validation using libsecp256k1

• Direct headers announcement (BIP 130)

• Automatically use Tor hidden services

• Notifications through ZMQ

• BIP9 softfork deployment

• Linux ARM builds

• Compact Block support (BIP 152)

• Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation (HD wallets)

• Substantial improvments to the client load time.

General

Six different mining algorithms

• Scrypt AUXPoW (Merged Mining)
• SHA256D AUXPoW (Merged Mining)
• Lyra2re2 (GPU)
• Myr-Groestl (GPU)
• Argon2d (CPU)
• Yescrypt (CPU)

Blocks

• Max Block size 10mb
• 45 Second block time
• 3 Argentums per block

Currency Creation

• 64 million Argentums will be created

Security

• 6 independent mining algorithms

Mining Settings

Use this to set the algorithm to SHA256D for mining (add to argentum.conf or use -algo=)

• algo=sha256d
• algo=lyra2re2 or lyra2
• algo=groestl
• algo=argon2d or argon
• algo=yescrypt

Mining

Lyra2re2 / Myriad-Groestl (GPU)

• AMD: - https://github.com/nicehash/sgminer/releases or https://github.com/tpruvot/sgminer/releases
• NVIDIA: - https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases or Cryptodredge https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4129696
• You might be able to get a hashrate increase using this Myriad-Groestl kernel with SGMINER https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1211739.0

Argon2d (CPU)

• Try this first https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/releases
• https://github.com/unitusdev/unitus-cpuminer
• Setup guide to merge mine with UIS https://pimovietc.github.io/EasyMineGuides/Argentum/

Yescrypt

• https://github.com/unitusdev/unitus-cpuminer
• https://github.com/nicehash/sgminer/releases
• https://github.com/koto-dev/cpuminer-yescrypt/releases

P2Pool (All Algorithms)

• https://github.com/argentumproject/p2pool-argentum/

• Point your miner to:

• Argon2d 144.202.80.45:9552 HashingSpace: Singapore: arg-argon2d-sg.hashing.space Dallas, Texas: arg-argon2d-tx.hashing.space Seattle Washington: arg-argon2d-wa.hashing.space

• Myr-groestl 45.77.210.177:9553

• Yescrypt 45.76.112.155:9554

• Lyra 45.76.240.8:9557

• for USA

• http://p2p-usa.xyz:9557/static/ - LYRA2RE2

• http://p2p-usa.xyz:9552/static/ - ARGON2D

• http://p2p-usa.xyz:9554/static/ - YESCRYPT

• http://p2p-usa.xyz:9553/static/ - GROESTL

for EU

• http://p2p-south.xyz:9557/static/ - LYRA2RE2

• http://p2p-south.xyz:9552/static/ - ARGON2D

• http://p2p-south.xyz:9554/static/ - YESCRYPT

• http://p2p-south.xyz:9553/static/ - GROESTL

• http://p2p-spb.xyz:9557/static/ - LYRA2RE2

• http://p2p-spb.xyz:9552/static/ - ARGON2D

• http://p2p-spb.xyz:9554/static/ - YESCRYPT

• http://p2p-spb.xyz:9553/static/ - GROESTL

Known pools (with Argentum Payout)

• https://prohashing.com (Scrypt)
• http://blockmunch.club/ (SHA256)
• http://www.zpool.ca/ (all but Argon2d)
• http://poolovich.pro/ (Myriad-Groestl)
• http://zergpool.com/ (Scrypt, Lyra2rev2)
• http://pool.hashrefinery.com/ (Scrypt, Yescrypt, Lyra2rev2, Myr-Groestl)
• http://blazepool.com (Myriad-Groestl, Yescrypt, Scrypt, Lyra2rev2)
• https://hashing.space/argentum (Argon2d)
• https://argentum.easymine.online/start (Argon2d, merge mining with UIS-Unitus)
• http://www.evil.ru/site/mining (Yescrypt)
• https://algopools.com (All algorithms)

Pools without Argentum payout

• https://litecoinpool.org

Trading

• https://LocalBitcoinCash.org
• http://bitsquare.io
• https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ARG_BTC
• https://www.coinexchange.io/market/ARG/BTC
• https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_ARG/
• https://www.simpleswap.io/

Bootstrap

• https://electrum-arg.org/bootstrap.dat

• sha256 checksum 37020ed0abe02d7bf97a9dde7de0419d278f88866ff9d67419492d2be0dd32db

• https://electrum-arg.org/bootstrap.zip

November 1, 2017 Block 2,723,638