Thank you very much for the information.

Sorry for the delay, i just wanted to let the community know that the wallet on our exchange has been updated and its fully synced.

Regards
Claudio

I'm not sure if you mean speed or when they will be available. I believe monkins1010 had been making the cuda 9 available and defaulted to 8 for performance. You might want to join the Discord and ask him. His handle there is: @Chris - LOUD Mining Dev-Ops#5278

Mining and staking block rewards are 24 right now, with the next halving in about 2 years. You can also earn rewards by catching proof of stake cheaters when the Verus Sapling compatible protocol activates. Cheat Catching is not actually creating new coins, just using proof that a previous staker cheated by staking the same coins on the main chain as well as one or more orphans to spend the reward they received on the main chain before they can. When mining and staking after Sapling activates, those full nodes who have set a sapling cheat catcher address will sometimes receive an extra coinbase shielded to their Sapling address.

Tell me, step by step instructions for solo extraction on GPU

All the issues have been resolved, and its been working good.

The rule for coinbases on Verus, Zcash, and a number of other coins with zk-SNARKs, is that you must "shield" your coinbase transactions before you can use them, by sending them entirely to a z-address first, then back to a t-address. the Wallet has a shield all recent coinbases option, but you must make a private address (use legacy until Sapling activates) before you will see the option in the send screen. it is possible to send the entire amount to a z-address manually, but the easiest way to do it is by using the automatic shield coinbase option on the send screen.

For #2, it will only select mature coinbase transactions that must be shielded and leave all other transactions alone.

mature means they have gone through the required confirmations. Yea you just send them to your shielded address and then send them back.

First a couple of the exciting items.  Besides all the improvements and features being activated on Verus at block 227520, this week we completed two very important developments. The first major development is with regards to Electrum server support for Sapling.  In our research we could not find Electrum support for Sapling, so we coded support into the Verus Electrum server, which is being tested now for a smooth transition on lite wallets. Secondly, we didn’t find an open source solution for upgrading pool software, so we also took on the task of coding support for Sapling into our pool software. Not only does the pool software in VerusCoin github repos now fully support Sapling, it will activate seamlessly at block 227520 for Verus and as open source.  This means it can even be used by other projects who are implementing Sapling! It's difficult to adequately communicate the gravity of moving all ecosystem software over in synchrony with our small community team. It was a significant effort and positions us to have full Sapling support throughout our technology.

We also need to share a couple items that aren't so exciting, but we believe it’s important to let everyone in the community know about imperfect situations as well as successes.

One of the things we love about Verus is the active and supportive community. It's also easy in such a positive environment as this to let our guard down. Unfortunately I personally made such a mistake with regards to the Stex listing. The good news is, we are approved for listing as we announced and VRSC/BTC pairing is coming soon. The bad news is that the messages and email we received asking for 0.2 BTC for the listing was spoofed and by the time we heard back from the real Stex, our payment of .2 BTC had been sent to the scammer’s BTC address. As it turns out, Stex has progressed significantly since they were a stocks exchange.  They have mobile trading apps for Android and IOS, and are now offering USD, GBP, EUR, and JPY markets as well, though listing fees for those are out of our range at this time. It also turns out that the actual listing price for Stex will be 1 BTC, not the 0.2 BTC that the scammers led us to believe. The community donated immediately and generously for the listing, and the Verus Coin Foundation is willing to make up the difference.

This sort of thing happens all the time in these types of projects, but we wanted to be fully open with our community about this occurrence. Also, as this is the first instance of a real scam connected to our Discord, we want to remind all of us to keep our guards up while still recognizing and appreciating what an incredible community we are.

Lastly, although we are absorbing this hit on the Foundation level, we are willing to refund anyone who donated and feels unhappy about this situation. As mentioned, the actual fee to list is 1 BTC and we will be paying the difference of donations and the fee from the Foundation, as we believe this listing is important, as is following through on our commitment to the community. Ultimately, we believe that moving forward with Stex will be the best move for Verus, the project, and the community.

The second item I’d like to discuss is the block height vs the date of October 28. Those of you who did the math have no doubt noticed block height 227520 lands us at right about 8:30 PM EDT on October 30 for the activation of Sapling.  When first coding Sapling into the Verus code I set this block height to allow a couple days of buffer, in case we found issues while we were testing things, etc. As it turned out, we did not need the buffer and our intent was to update this number to land us directly on October 28 before releasing the upgrade. The task of setting that number back the 2 days was mine, and it simply fell through the cracks, as I was focused on functionality and the importance of the coding and testing to be thorough and completed in time. It was only quite recently that I realized the issue myself and once the working software has been released that isn’t something we can now change.

What this means is Verus will still activate at block 227520, as originally stated, with all features described, however that is actually going to occur on October 30 at ~8:30 PM EDT.  This is not a problem of course, and we did release Sapling support, a solution for nothing at stake that allows all of us to earn more by catching stake cheaters with plenty of time to hit an earlier date. At the same time, these are corrections to what we’ve explained so far and we wanted to talk about it and let the community know the adjusted target date of activation.

Looking ahead to this coming week, we hope you will join us in celebrating new capabilities and the activation of arguably the most technically advanced blockchain running today, as we welcome these exciting new Verus technologies when they activate on Tuesday!

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this announcement further, please join us in the #general-discussion channel on our Discord: https://discord.gg/YqnhueF.