Webpage for checking mined blocks associated with your address

Hi folks, I created a webpage for everyone to check if their Nockchain address has mined any blocks and to see the current mining address distribution.
https://doge.monster/lab/nock

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Thanks for the tool, but am I missing something? When I check my pubkey with this tool, it has nothing, zero blocks mined, but if I run the command on my node, it shows plenty of UTXOs. So where is the source of truth?

I run any of these commands from README and they show me UTXOs:

nockchain-wallet --nockchain-socket ./nockchain.sock list-notes

nockchain-wallet --nockchain-socket ./nockchain.sock list-notes-by-pubkey <your-pubkey>

nockchain-wallet --nockchain-socket ./nockchain.sock list-notes
This command will display all UTXOs over the network
nockchain-wallet --nockchain-socket ./nockchain.sock list-notes-by-pubkey -p <your_pubkey> will show your UTXOs, I tried addresses on top miner list, the result looks correct.

Thanks for info. It’s so confusing - I remove checkpoints to refresh things, do a list-notes-by-pubkey command on my publey and there’s 3 things that I see:

  1. last balance size: 0
  2. note count: 230 (or whatever, it’s going up)
  3. There is no actual notes printed out, just this number.

I’ve been mining like crazy with all the ā€œgoodā€ signs from README and if that did not even produce a single block, than it’s not worth it, I’m just heating air for nothing, it’s like I would try to mine bitcoin with my CPU.

If you are not in our Telegram group or reading it, you should join it and read as there are many people learning in there and helping each other

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You can check this official twitter https://x.com/nockchain/status/1926012235249320347

Really cool looking website! Curious to know how you query all this? Is there an API for querying the backbone network? I can get my list-notes for my running instance, but I have no idea how to see what the other nodes are doing, or what they have done.

You could try rm -rf ~/.nockapp/wallet/wallet/checkpoints first, then use list-notes command.

I saw only four people mining.why

Please read this official twitter https://x.com/nockchain/status/1926012235249320347

So here is my take on Nockchain’s twitter post and I will respond point by point (and this is coming from someone with a lot more hours than money invested in mining):

1st We can confirm open source client works:
Well yes, it does work but not well. Communications led the community to believe that Zorp would be hardware optimized at launch, not that we would need to fix the software at launch.

2nd Regarding proof of work mining:
I think most of us understood that if there are 10,000 machines it was going to be difficult to mine a block…could take months and might never happen.

3rd Regarding vanishingly small:
Yep, you’re right, but wouldn’t it have been a lot more honest to tell everyone that you spent months creating a better mining algo rhythm than what was publicly available at the release? We expected you to have a hardware advantage, but not a huge software advantage too.

I would describe it this way. Zorp created a roulette wheel where there are 1000 spots on the wheel and the house owns 999 of them. If…by some miracle…the one ā€˜fan/participant’ spot gets selected, we spin the wheel again and one mining machine gets the reward. That is roughly 1 in a million folks. If everyone not Zorp were to form a pool, we still would have a miniscule chance of sharing a block.

4th They’re glad we came:
Let’s say 1000-2000 people in the orbit of Urbit and following Zorp and nockchain decided to be an early adopter/supporter…maybe average spend of $1500 and 40-60 hours to get to decent running machine. We went in with the knowledge that no hardware requirements were given so that is on us. What isn’t on us is that if 99.9% of the nock is mined by Zorp/insiders, and there is virtually zero reward for supporting this project.

I personally thought it would be really cool to contribute to a massive super-computer that could be used to solve real world problems with a neat technology. However, I did not anticipate that 2 wallets would own all of the nock.

I think you believe that is by design, but as a seasoned professional I can tell you that it is, in fact a bug. It is a marketing disaster! The people who are most supportive and care just got taken behind the wood shed and shot…as more and more drop out to spend their time on more lucrative opportunities…which by the way would include buying a net and catching butterflies, the network will further centralize into 2 wallets. Maybe this project made the best machine to date and it has so much potential, but if there is no hype and no hope there will be no interest. You can mine all of the nock over the next 100 years by yourself with ZERO adoption and zero interest because you treated the people who actually cared like children.

I think the big disappointment for me is that I had hope that nock would help facilitate Urbit adoption…but in all likelihood it has just increased the pace of the death spiral. Nock might as well be Trump coin, because having it all in 10 years will be worth absolutely nothing.

There is a chance that I am wrong…but I a in league with a group that was planning on purchasing nock when it became available on exchanges. Now that (let’s round up) 100% is in 2 wallets, we have no interest. Maybe this all gets fixed within a few months and we get back in, but with the arrogance expressed in the twitter post I have no confidence anything will change. Congratulations…you have successfully taken a Fair Launch and turned it into a centralized token. (OK, it has only been a week so that might be a stretch). Something like 30%-50% Zorp/Insider success would’ve been livable, 100% is not.

I’ve said a lot and I will end on this. If you don’t care about the people who are trying to support the project by arrogantly giving them no hope of real participation, you will be left with nothing.

Hi Vanguish, I am not a member of Nockchain team and they may not visit replies of this thread.
I believe you can share your point by starting a new thread :smiley:

Thank you, Dogemonster. This response was not directed at you so I hope you didn’t take it that way!

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