It has been a busy week for Bullion with our lead devs, Alex4J and Malafaya, hard at work coding the Bullion Participation Nodes (masternodes) and we are pleased to announce things are progressing well. Today we would like to share with you some of these details and ensure the Bullion community is fully up-to-date. Below are the main points that have been addressed so far and the work still to be done:
Work Completed
After a long investigation, we finally found the issues we were having with regards to coding the upcoming hardfork; as we stand now, I can trigger a hardfork on demand, so this aspect of BPN is stable and repeatable.
The hardfork and the new versions of blocks used to cause blockchain corruption on disk was also fixed.
We have finished rechecking the validation process of Mutex Blocks with their own new constraints and needs that we added.
The BPN PoSP Blocks will have their own difficulty system, which is not influenced by the PoSP difficulty, basically CBX will run like a hybrid coin with PoW and PoS - except now its going to be PoSP and BPN PoSP running side by side.
Added new "Keep-Alive" block for the BPN network (basically just PoSP with extra data concerning the Mutex they are maintaining).
The BPN queue system has been implemented, using the Mutex blocks. Also, invalidation of Mutex if no Keep-Alive are made or if the user is moving his coins [yet to be validated].
The validation of Mutex Blocks also requires the BPN queue system to work. This is expected to be completed imminently, but may require polishing at a later date.
We started to add specific rules for the wallet BPN address, as the Vault app should not use these coins automatically for live transactions or regular non BPN staking.
Work To-Do
BPN PoSP block with its higher pay-rate (very simple to complete once the Mutex is fully validated).
[A bit technical here] Indexations/mapping of all TX's related to a Mutex block, or those keeping a Mutex Block alive, or those which are generated a BPN PoSP have to be implemented more efficiently on Vault app load.
Few control systems for the Proof Of Mutex to be more reliable (pretty easy to implement once mutex block and BPN queue systems are implemented).
Quit function for BPN (just need to make a TX to an other address from BPN address).
