Ҝ Karbovanets DOWNLOAD USE LEARN EXPLORE Information about Karbo Information and Specification Useful links Mining Mining pools Official blockchain explorer Alt. blockchain explorer at democats.org Paperwallet (classic/nondeterministic) Mnemonic Paperwallet (offline wallet generator) Exchange rates informer Payment ID generator Documentation Source code Media kit Community sites × The official Karbo site is http://karbo.io! Visit these sites to find out more. http://karbowanec.com http://karbovanets.org http://karbo.digital http://krb.digital What is Karbo? The name "Karbo" is derived from Ukrainian word "karbovanets", that comes from an ancient way of recording settlements or debts by marking wooden stick called "tally stick" or "tally" with a system of notches that was very popular in the Mediaeval Europe from Antiquity up to the first decades of XX century. The stick would be split in half, down its length from one end to the other. The debtor would retain half, called the "foil". The creditor would retain the other half, called the "stock". Because wooden stick has natural and distinctive irregularities, the two halves would match only each other providing simple and effective protection against forgery. The way medieval tally sticks system worked resembles how blockchain works. Hence comes the name "karbovanets" and its shortened version "Karbo". The "karbovanets" has been a distinct unit of currency in Ukraine during three separate periods in its history. Nowadays it is obsolete and replaced by Ukrainian Hryvnia. "Karbovanets" therefore is a very well-known word, with very strong associations with "money" not only in Ukraine but also in Russia and other neighboring countries. It sounds familiar to people, which makes it more easy to adopt. It was resurrected in the digital form of cryptocurrency as people’s unofficial, independent exchange medium. Our misson To become "Fourth karbovanets" – People's Digital Exchange Medium Karbo is based on principles of the Austrian school of economics which emphasizes the spontaneous organizing power of the price mechanism and holds that the complexity of subjective human choices makes mathematical modeling of the evolving market practically impossible. Its scholars eschew what they consider "naïve" and pointless mathematical modeling of the economy, considering much of mainstream economics a form of economic charlatanism. Its proponents tend to emphasize the organic, subjective and evolving nature of market dynamics, advocating the strong protection of private property rights and the strict enforcement of voluntary contractual agreements between economic agents as the best way of facilitating economic exchange, and generally advocate a laissez-faire approach to the economy, arguing that the smallest imposition of coercive force (especially government-imposed force) on commercial transactions is the most effective way to secure long-run economic stability and well-being. In particular, they voice serious concerns about the distorting and damaging effects of government involvement in commerce, arguing that few government regulations in this area are necessary or desirable and often trigger a "ratchet effect" as problems associated with existing regulations are often blamed on the free market, thereby justifying further damaging, coercive incursions into the market. They are particularly critical of long-standing governmental incursions into the area of private money production, advocating instead the immediate abolition of all coercive legal tender laws and the return to full reserve - or free - banking, where the financial system is decentralized and not dominated or controlled by coercive monopoly government or a monopoly central bank. One of the most known scholars, Noble Prize laureate, economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek it it's book The Denationalization of Money states that instead of a national government issuing a specific currency, use of which is imposed on all members of its economy by force in the form of legal tender laws, private businesses should be allowed to issue their own forms of money, deciding how to do so on their own. Hayek advocates a system of private currency in which financial institutions create currencies that compete for acceptance. Karbo is proposed as one of such free exchange medium – egalitarian, decentralized system with enhanced privacy, where value of its units is based solely on supply and demand in the market, emission depends on constant mathematical algorithm, where everyone can participate in emissions of karbos, receiving them as a reward for the provided computing resources of their regular PC to support the network. For mining expensive specialized equipment (ASIC) is not required. Fungibility and privacy of Karbovanets Anonymity is implemented by ring signatures to hide the sender and one-time addresses that are hiding the recipient. Privacy Transactions in Karbo are untraceable and unlinkable. Karbo provides complete anonymity and privacy using cryptographic technology ring signatures. All transactions signed on behalf of a group so that it is impossible to determine who exactly from the group signed the transaction and, accordingly, one can not say with certainty who carried out the payment. The more participants in the group, the more confidential operation is. In addition, the transactions cannot be associated, – even if outgoing transactions are untraceable, everyone may still be able to see the transactions you have received. However, by using a variation of the Diffie-Hellman exchange protocol, a receiver has multiple unique one-time addresses derived from his single public key. After funds are sent to these addresses they can only be redeemed by the receiver and it would be impossible to cross-link these transactions. Fungibility Unique one-time addresses and ring signatures of transactions are providing resistance to blockchain analysis. Every transaction only increases entropy and creates additional obstacles for those who wish to dig into financial operations with Karbos. Resistance to the analysis, in turn, provides a very important characteristic inherent in real money, – fungibility. Fungibility of money means that all units of one denomination have the same purchasing power. Fungibility is the key difference and advantage over Bitcoin. All the karbos are interchangeable and uniform, unlike bitcoins. It is because in Bitcoin everyone can at any time view all transactions on the accounts of any and all participants and see how many Bitcoins is at the balance of an address. This can lead to censorship of the assets of people. Using Karbo you have enchanced privacy, independence, and freedom as if you used cash. Roadmap Launch 30.05.2016, 11:05:34 The announcement at Bitcointalk and start of the mining. Official website at http://karbowanec.com Windows and Linux wallets as well as Command-line suite Official block explorer 07.06.2016 New standalone block explorer: http://explorer.karbowanec.com/ First faucet 22.06.2016 First official faucet was launched Forknote support 27.06.2016 Karbowanec was added to Democats pool: Karbowanec pool Karbowanec blockchain explorer Karbowanec charts First exchange listing 05.07.2016 Listed at Cryptopia exchange Cyrillic support in wallets 28.08.2016 Only Karbo wallets have Cyrillic support of filenames and paths in its wallets among CryptoNote coins. This is a quite important fix because lack of non-latin letters support can lead to the loss of the wallets and funds. Mac OS Wallet 28.09.2016 Mac OS GUI wallet and Command-line suite released Livecoin.net exchange listing 05.07.2016 Listed at Livecoin.net Major update, scheduled hardfork 19.10.2016 transition to Bytecoin 1.0.11 core new difficulty algorithm tail emission restricted RPC (for masternodes) fee for masternodes Hardfork 22.12.2016 Hardfork at height 60001. This hardfork was made to withstand incursions of big miners who performed selfish mining, abusing slow reacting default CryptoNote difficulty algorithm by applying massive hashrate (in comparison to the average network hashrate) to quickly mine a range of blocks before difficulty was slowly starting to react and raise. Then they were going away leaving honest miners to struggle with too high difficulty to push through next blocks. This caused long gaps between blocks and unacceptable delays in transactions confirmations. To resolve this issue new Zawy difficulty algorithm v.1 was adopted as described here with our modifications. URI support for wallets 23.12.2016 Introducing karbowanec: URI scheme support that is important usability improvement which allows to request and make payments conveniently. Mobile phone top up service 31.12.2016 First real-world usage of krb! Here you can top up your mobile phone paying with krb. OpenAlias & Tracking wallets 02.04.2017 Introducing OpenAlias support that is another step towards usability and ease of use. Also released in wallet: Tracking wallets 'Transactions' tab overhaul 'Contacts' tab overhaul 'Mining' tab overhaul Solo mining Starting transition to Karbo branding Various amendmends, usability improvements and fixes Security update 10.04.2016, 12:00 PM UTC Security update to address Disclosure of a Major Bug in CryptoNote Based Currencies wich was published later at 2017-05-17 00:00:00 +0200 by Monero developers. By the time of the disclosure, vulnarability was already fixed thanks to slb from Forknote and Monero team. Network ID was changed with this update to get rid of errors from foreign network spam and to ensure everyone is updated. KRB/UAH exchange 02.04.2017 Listed on Ukrainian exchange BTC Trade UA. Payment Gateway, E-Commerce plugins 02.04.2017 Free Payment Gateway karbo.club with e-commerce plugins arrived. Karbo plugin for WooCommerce Karbo plugin for OpenCart Mnemonic seed in wallets 12.10.2017 Wallet update released with support of mnemonic phrase that allows to restore wallet. Mobile Wallet ETA Q4 2017 The light Mobile wallet that will work via remote nodes is in development. Release date TBA. Rebranding & new website Q4 2017 New website and transition to the name Karbo to be more friendly to the worldwide auditory. Promotion campaign Q4 2017 Promotion campaign to inform and promote Karbo in Ukraine and worldwide. Lite wallet ETA Q1 2018 Lite Desktop Wallet that will work via remote nodes is planned with emphasis on ease of use for non-tech-savvy users. Web-wallet ETA Q1 2018 Web-wallet is in development. Zawy v6 difficulty algorithm Q1 2018 Newest version of Zawy v1b with option for reward changes based on attacks. This is the improvement of v1 algorithm that was discussed at our Github repository. Untraceability enchancement Q2 2018 Updating the output selection algorithm (triangular distribution). All-seeing tracking wallets 2019 Modifying the viewkey to see outgoing transactions for tracking wallets. Specification Specification Ticker: KRB Symbol: Ҝ – Ka with vertical stroke, it is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a stroke through the short horizontal bar in the centre of the letter. Proof-of-work algorithm: CryptoNight Block time: 240 seconds Difficulty: retarget each block Block reward: slight decrease every block according to formula: BaseReward = (MSupply - A)/218 where MSupply is the number of atomic units and 'A' is amount of already generated coins Divisible up to: 1012 atomic units (up to 12 decimal places) Emission: infinite, initial supply – 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 atomic units, or 10 million krb. Tail emission: ~1.2% of initial supply per year, minimal block reward: 1 krb. Live stats Blockchain height: 235019 Hashrate: 58.25 MH/s Difficulty: 14.66 G Last block reward: 15.567994115120 KRB Last block time: Friday, May 25, 2018, 3:44:45 PM Available supply: loading... Графік емісії © 2016-2017 Karbovanets. E-mail: krbcoin@ukr.net Privacy policy | Terms and conditions | Donate | Foundation | Forum