[zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution

[Kevin]

I guess I meant mining and contributing to this.  I didn't mean to come 
off as rude so I do apologize if it seemed that way.



On 1/2/2018 9:39 PM, Andrew Miller via zapps-wg wrote:
> Hi Kevin, thanks for your note, I think we were just thrown off by the 
> word "mining" and wondered if you were in the wrong place :)
> Do you want to go next? If so Sean will designate you a spot in the 
> queue...
>
> To contribute, I'd suggest reading a sample of a few reports from 
> people who have gone earlier, for where to find the software and 
> possible steps you can take to contribute with good opsec.
> https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/powersoftau-attestations
>
> You can get the software to run from this github repository: 
> https://github.com/ebfull/powersoftau/ though others have made mirrors 
> and dockerfiles etc you could use too.
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Zx100 via zapps-wg 
> <zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation 
> <mailto:zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation>> wrote:
>
>     Excuse us? You asked "how do I start mining?" which is completely
>     unrelated to the topic at hand. You are not entitled to a
>     response, especially since it takes two minutes to Google for the
>     official information.
>
>>     -------- Original Message --------
>>     Subject: Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution
>>     Local Time: January 3, 2018 12:45 AM
>>     UTC Time: January 3, 2018 12:45 AM
>>     From: zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation
>>     <mailto:zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation>
>>     To: zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation
>>     <mailto:zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation>
>>
>>
>>     Not to hijack the thread, but I've asked how to contribute and
>>     was not given an answer.
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 1/2/2018 3:12 PM, Tony Arcieri via zapps-wg wrote:
>>>     I have finished running Powers of Tau. Here is the output:
>>>
>>>     The BLAKE2b hash of `./response` is:
>>>     d129d960 a645c735 ec52fc80 91f081d1
>>>     a6e4ff78 90e4fa55 51faa85e 95e3878a
>>>     96bd0c07 8315c0d4 e8e3f1a3 26dbb607
>>>     1ea2b43b 844a0d1e 0a3bca5a 8e21c3a5
>>>
>>>     I'm not a fan of GPG, but I can post a raw Ed25519 signature of
>>>     ./response, with Base64 public key:
>>>
>>>     a7aP6Okqx1YBtRubECVoiY2Z4reR34F9BPuPwTtxpQU
>>>
>>>     I have also posted this same public key to Twitter:
>>>     https://twitter.com/bascule/status/948285074872532992
>>>     <https://twitter.com/bascule/status/948285074872532992>
>>>
>>>     The Base64url signature on my response under the aforementioned
>>>     key is:
>>>
>>>     BkDDl831jxB21rPHX-6pC1REdZ2UoZs_sGuAfCTt8xAP_E-Cva6Qg72fjX8yuMG-ufn3sc4FoAuMKGMT_OGPBQ
>>>
>>>     I have since destroyed the private key/scalar used to produce
>>>     this signature.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>
>>>     Tony Arcieri
>>
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> Andrew Miller
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



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