FAQ

Basics

Total supply

The supply starts at 50 per block, halving every 4 years.

Giving us about 21 Million total capacity.

<==== Proof of Work ====

We use a custom POW based on IO. See Technical-Design

"Illegal Reflective" or "Protobuf Unsafe" errors

Ignore for now. - https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/issues/37

Address Format

snow:address and address are both valid formats.

Node

• ==== Do I have to run a node? ====

  It's highly suggested and relatively easy. Everything relies on them, although the clients and miners are light and can connect to any node.

• ==== RocksDB Error ====

  https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/issues/32 - Upgrade to a recent release.

• ==== Block too far into the Future ====

  Make sure your clock is correct.

Client

• ==== IO Exception ==== Make sure the node is running.

Miner

• ==== Snowfield? ====
  • Miners are required to have the latest or greater snowfield.
  • Determine the current activated_field
  • It is suggested you download/torrent the current field
  • You may slowly generate it by setting autosnow=true in your miner.conf
  • the path looks like snowblossom_home/snow/snowblossom.#/*
• ==== Can I mine in RAM? ====
  • You must have enough ram for the current field + overhead.
  • Windows likely requires memfield=True
  • Linux kernel typically automatically loads files into ram
• ==== Directory Not Present ====

  Make sure the you have the snowfield in place.

• ==== GPU mining possible? ====

  Our POW is intended to make this infeasible.

• ==== When will the mining field change? ====
  • The snowfield increases each time the average difficulty doubles.
  • The difficulty may drop, but the activated snowfield is permanent.
  • Here, you may review the code that determines the exact difficulties for each activation

Network Diagram

images/modules.png