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What is Ardor and how is it different from NXT 1.x?
From what I read Ardor claims to have every capability that NXT 1.x had but also:
Adds new features
"The platform offers a Decentralized Asset Exchange. Ardor will enable the trading and interaction ...
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Problem of colored-coins/assets and other coins with a parent/child relationship of paying for fees with only the parent currency
It's definitely a common problem found in a lot of those platforms that make it easy to create your own colored coin/token. Asking users to acquire the native token, such as Bitcoin with Counterparty ...
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How do I join the NXT 2.0 (Ardor) distribution if it isn't an ICO? And how does it affect NXT 1.0 holders?
The Ardor launch will happen in 2017, but the distribution of the main ARDR tokens will be based on the Nxt 1.0 balances. And yes, as far as I know it is the first scalable blockchain platform using ...
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NXT, Ignis, and Ardor Confusion. Purpose of NXT when there is Ignis / Ardor?
If NXT is switching to Ardor, what is the purpose of holding NXT?
Nxt isn't switching to Ardor. It will still exist after Ardor launches. The purpose of holding NXT with this in mind is if you need ...
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How can you tell if a Ardor / NXT public node is an archival node?
There are a few ways to do this, but I'll describe the most straight forward one. Find an archival node from http://www.peerexplorer.com/api_openapi_archival.
If you pick any one of the ip addresses ...
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Send an email when there is activity on a NXT / Ardor account address in php?
you can write up a PHP script to grab all the transactions within a set timeframe of the account. Save them in a file.
schedule a cron job to run the PHP every few minute, when it runs, compare the ...
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Can leased out nxt coins still be used or do you have to wait for it to expire?
According to https://nxtwiki.org/wiki/Account_Leasing:
Your balance never leaves your account
Your funds are still on your account after you lease them. They are still available for use: ...
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How to make PoS system work?
If you want a system with centralized trust, I suppose you could do a 100% pre-mine, and have some checkpoints to 'lock' this, and have all nodes verify against the checkpoint coming from a trusted ...
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How to setup https ssl letsencrypt for NXT / Ardor public nodes?
As stated here: https://nxtforum.org/public-nodes-vpss/method-to-configure-https-for-nxt-public-nodes/
Requirements
1) A Linux server running Nxt, and configured for public API access. This should ...
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NXT Private blockchain changing the block generation time
Yes, the block time can be changed, but not very easy. There are two ways to do it:
Change the timestamp resolution to be 1/6th of the second. The
drawback is that you will run out of int values 6 ...
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Can the coin symbol prefix in a cloned NXT blockchain start with a digit?
No, adding a coin symbol prefix is not doable as it will impact other functions that might take it as a parameter. Your better off just doing it on the front end using a css :before class using the ...
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Can an account prefix in a NXT clone blockchain be longer than three characters?
No, currently the account prefix (ACCOUNT_PREFIX constant) must be exactly 3 characters. This could be fixed in future.
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How is Bitcoin's Multi Signature different from NXT's account control feature for security?
NXT's account control is based on the phasing feature. It is very different than Bitcoin multisig.
When submitting an NXT phased transaction the user, in addition to the transaction information, ...
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Installation of Nxt on Ubuntu
Just download from https://nxt.org/download/ unzip, go to folder and ./run.sh
Then go to your browser open up nxt by going to http://127.0.0.1:7876/
Hopefully this helps.
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Problem of colored-coins/assets and other coins with a parent/child relationship of paying for fees with only the parent currency
This is a tough one, and I think it's possible to find a solution to it, but it will depend on what your application is and the tradeoffs you're willing to accept.
Today:
Using Bitcoin, you could ...
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How to make PoS system work?
If you have a central authority, why do you need a consensus algorithm like PoS at all? Just have the central authority sign all the blocks, and let nodes reject blocks without valid signature.
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How to make PoS system work?
Part of your issue with pure pos system with no checkpoints and full premine is that the fund holder of all the coins or tokens has nothing at stake to loose. This is fine when there is no value in ...
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Is it true that colored coins or digital assets (counterparty / ethereum / nxt assets / etc.) have an issue of paying fees?
Agreeing with all of the above, especially the point about seeing the native tokens in these systems as a form of fuel, rather than purely and simply a currency.
Nxt has taken a couple of approaches ...
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Is it true that colored coins or digital assets (counterparty / ethereum / nxt assets / etc.) have an issue of paying fees?
I noticed that even if I created an account for my customers, they have no way of sending that token back to me when they wish to redeem it as these platforms require their transaction fees be paid in ...
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What is the api function call to access NXT's Data Cloud feature?
You can download your file using this API
localhost:7876/nxt?requestType=downloadTaggedData&transaction=nnnn&retrieve=true
where nnnn = Txid of your uploaded file
You can search txid for ...
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Access the NXT / Ardor database console?
You can access the NXT's H2 database from the website by going to /dbshell path.
Example:
Show top 100 accounts sorted by balance:
select *, BALANCE / 100000000 as NXT from account where latest =...
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Where can I request ardor ignis testnet coins?
You can request Ardor Testnet coins here: https://nxtforum.org/testnet/some-testnxt-to-test-asset-exchange/
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What is the ideal public nxt.properties config file for a public facing node for NXT / Ardor?
Are the following entries still necessary:
nxt.uiServerHost=0.0.0.0
nxt.uiServerCORS=true
nxt.uiSSL=true
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Can the coin symbol prefix in a cloned NXT blockchain start with a digit?
It should be OK for the prefix to start with digit. Or at least this works for me in Constants.java:
public static final String COIN_SYMBOL = "5Coin";
public static final String ACCOUNT_PREFIX = "5CN"...
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NXT clone paramiters
Of course there is a way to change anything. But you must carefully think over the changes you do. The source code is available here. Here are some directions:
Blocksize to increase it?
Change the ...
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How do you generate a NXT / Ardor address using javascript only?
Codepen Example: http://codepen.io/satoshinakamoto/pen/ObGwXy?editors=1010
Yes, you can generate the nxt/ardor address by using the following function call:
NRS.getAccountId('asdf'); //Generates ...
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Set a public node to auto forge / mine / stake in NXT / Ardor without login via the gui?
On your linux box you can type the following:
curl -d requestType=startForging -d secretPhrase="PASSPHRASE" http://localhost:7876/nxt
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Without curl: wget -qO- 'http://localhost:7876/nxt?...
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How do you stake / forge in nxt / ardor using a public node without having to login publicly?
You should lease the balance of your main account to a second account which has only a small balance. Submit this leasing transaction on your local workstation.
See: https://nxtwiki.org/wiki/...
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Creating a NXT/Ardor transaction using the NXT api via post
Sure, connect to any public node or your local node using http://localhost:7876/test and use the resulting API test page as example.
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What is the difference between Exchange & Offer in the Monetary System for NXT / Ardor Platform?
Please refer to the official monetary system documentation https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/issues/205/monetary-system-documenation section "Currency Exchange".
The NXT wiki also has an ...
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