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Title: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: SealTx on June 17, 2017, 10:11:42 pm
I am not sure whether this is the correct forum or not... please redirect me if necessary.

Blockchain Creation Tutorial Is there a tutorial or overview on how to create a new currency (like Ethereum ERC20) or separate blockchain using bitshares?

Bitshares Blockchain Mining? Can Bitshares blockchain implementations be configured for mining / proof of work, or are they only ever Proof of Stake?

Graphene API Does Graphene have an API, or are there frameworks for working with Graphene based Smart Contracts?

Technical Forum / IRC Is there a "tech" channel for Bitshares / Graphene?
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: Brekyrself on June 17, 2017, 10:34:37 pm
You will find answers to all those questions here: http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/index.html
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: SealTx on June 17, 2017, 11:00:10 pm
Okay...

Blockchain Creation Tutorial Is there a tutorial or overview on how to create a new currency (like Ethereum ERC20) or separate blockchain using bitshares?

I am going to assume that "Assets" are the equivalent of Ethereum ERC20 tokens.

Bitshares Blockchain Mining? Can Bitshares blockchain implementations be configured for mining / proof of work, or are they only ever Proof of Stake?

I am going to assume that because there was no reference to Proof of Work that the bitshares network never uses Proof of Work. Here is a whitpaper of sorts: Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus (https://bitshares.org/technology/dynamic-account-permissions/)

Graphene API Does Graphene have an API, or are there frameworks for working with Graphene based Smart Contracts?

I would assume that Frameworks would be third party... I didn't see any listed.

For my own future ref, here are the blockchain API docs: Blockchain API (http://docs.bitshares.eu/api/blockchain-api.html), Websockets (http://docs.bitshares.eu/api/websocket.html), and RPC's (http://docs.bitshares.eu/api/rpc.html)

Technical Forum / IRC Is there a "tech" channel for Bitshares / Graphene?

Here is an answer (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=18008.0) from 2015, good info
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: Brekyrself on June 18, 2017, 12:35:04 am
There are two main types of assets, BitAssets & User Issued Assets.

BitAssets: https://bitshares.org/technology/price-stable-cryptocurrencies/
UIA: https://bitshares.org/technology/user-issued-assets/
Recently added: Formula backed assets: https://steemit.com/hero/@Stan/the-billion-hero-challenge (steem links seem to capitalize some letters, just change them to lower case.)

There is no mining in BitShares, it's Delegated Proof of Stake.
https://steemit.com/dpos/@dantheman/dpos-consensus-algorithm-this-missing-white-paper (steem links seem to capitalize some letters, just change them to lower case.)

@xeroc can help with API info

Telegram has a more active instant discussion: https://t.me/BitSharesDEX
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: SealTx on June 18, 2017, 12:47:33 am
@Brekyrself  Thanks!

I will now look at formula based assets... maybe this will be useful. Also, the telegram channel. Thanks again.
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: pc on June 18, 2017, 11:58:57 am
Bitshares Blockchain Mining? Can Bitshares blockchain implementations be configured for mining / proof of work, or are they only ever Proof of Stake?

I am going to assume that because there was no reference to Proof of Work that the bitshares network never uses Proof of Work. Here is a whitpaper of sorts: Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus (https://bitshares.org/technology/dynamic-account-permissions/)

STEEM is a Graphene-based blockchain that did use PoW in its early days.
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: SealTx on June 20, 2017, 04:33:54 am
STEEM is a Graphene-based blockchain that did use PoW in its early days.

Ah, this is so very important to me... do you happen to have any links with technical details of how it worked early on? I am going to github to mine for treasure...

@pc, Thank you so much for the tip!

Edit to add: According to this paper (https://steem.io/documentation/consensus/) Steem still does use a POW / POS hybrid... and it is very creative. I need to study it a bit to make sure I like the algorithms, but I am very impressed. Thanks again!
Title: Re: Graphene and Protocol questions
Post by: svk on June 20, 2017, 06:48:03 am
Steem mining was removed a few hardforks ago so its pure POS now.