AstroBWT promotes anonymous mining through several key features:

• Resistance to Specialized Hardware: AstroBWTv3 is designed to be resistant to ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs, which means that it promotes mining on standard CPUs. This reduces the disparity in hashrate between different types of hardware, ensuring a more level playing field for all miners.
• Hashrate Variation Minimization: By minimizing the variation in hashrate between different CPU generations and architectures, AstroBWTv3 ensures that no single type of CPU has a significant advantage over others. This further promotes decentralization and fairness in the mining process.
• Hard to Trace Mining Activity: The algorithm makes it very difficult to trace which specific hardware mined a particular block. This is crucial for maintaining the anonymity of miners, as there is no clear evidence linking specific mining activities to individual pieces of hardware.
• Enhanced Privacy with Pedersen Commitments: When used in conjunction with Pedersen commitments(scheduled for integration in Q4), which make the UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) model untraceable, AstroBWTv3 ensures that all transactions and mining activities remain private. There is no way to determine who did what, when, how many, or for how long.

These features collectively make AstroBWTv3 an effective algorithm for promoting anonymous and decentralized mining, ensuring privacy and fairness for all participants in the network.

We chose to fork Kaspa because it offers great speed and scalability. However, we wanted to enhance privacy features, which led us to integrate aspects from privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero and DERO, combining the best of both worlds—speed from Kaspa and privacy from the others.

SpectreX proof-of-work involves a multi-step process to ensure security and fairness in mining:

1. Step 1: SHA-3 hashing is applied to the transaction data.
2. Step 2: AstroBWTv3 is used to perform a bandwidth-hard transformation.
3. Step 3: HeavyHash, finalizes the proof of work, ensuring robustness against specialized mining hardware.

We are excited to announce a major update to the SpectreX Rust Miner! This release brings significant performance improvements:

• Now using suffix_array with cdivsufsort instead of psacak.

Performance Gains:

• Up to 200% performance boost of SAIS vs. pSACAK in Rust vs. Rust.
• Up to 15% performance boost of SAIS vs. SAIS in Rust vs. Go.

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1. Welcome to the Rust-based implementation of the Spectre full-node and libraries: This release is a drop-in replacement for the Golang node and is now recommended for the Spectre network, offering enhanced performance and reliability. With Spectre on Rust, manual db downloads are no longer required.
2. Start the Node:
   • Download and unzip the latest binaries from our Rusty-Spectre.
   • Run the command: spectred --utxoindex.
   • Wait until you see the message 2024-06-18 20:30:45.630+02:00 [INFO ] Accepted block 59209d..., indicating the node is up and running properly.
3. Create a Wallet:
   • Run spectre-wallet to start the wallet.
   • Run network mainnet to configure the wallet for mainnet mode.
   • Run wallet create to generate a new wallet.
   • Secure your wallet's mnemonic, which will be displayed under "Your default wallet account mnemonic" (12 words).
   • Copy the wallet address under "Your default account deposit address" (starting with "spectre:...").
4. Importing Your Existing Wallet: Note: There is a minor bug that requires manual configuration to connect. Ensure your node is started with spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten-borsh=127.0.0.1:19110.
   • Start spectre-wallet.
   • Type: server 127.0.0.1:19110 and then connect. This will connect the wallet to the locally running full node.
   • Type wallet import and follow the on-screen instructions.
   • Initially, you will be prompted to enter a "Default Account Title" (wallet name).
   • (Optional) Create a phishing hint.
   • (Required) Set a wallet password.
   • Enter your mnemonic passphrase (12 or 24 words).
5. Begin Mining:
   • Download and extract the latest Rust miner binaries from our GitHub or from our download folder.
   • Start mining by executing: spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --threads X, where X is the number of CPU cores you want to use.
   • You can operate a single node within the network and direct all miners to it. To do this, set the --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 option in the node (using: spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110), as the default is set to 127.0.0.1.
   • Now, in the miner, you need to specify where Spectred (the full node) is running. To do this, add the --spectred-address X.X.X.X option (where X.X.X.X is the local IP address of the machine running your node). For example: spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --threads X --spectred-address X.X.X.X.
6. Support Development: If you wish to sponsor the development, it is highly appreciated to dedicate 1% of the mining time to the devfund address by running: ./spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --devfund=spectre:qrxf48dgrdkjxllxczek3uweuldtan9nanzjsavk0ak9ynwn0zsayjjh7upez

For detailed instructions and more information, visit our GitHub repository.

If you need help setting up the miner, join our Discord.

Thank you for joining our network and enhancing its growth and stability!

To get started with Tnn-Miner, you'll need a wallet and a synced, running node. You can follow steps 1-3 from the above guide. Step 4 is different:

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1. Download and Set Up the Stratum Bridge: You can find the Stratum Bridge here: Spectre Stratum Bridge. Alternatively, the built binaries are available here. Launch the Bridge by running ./spr_bridge (or spr_bridge.exe for Windows).
   If the bridge runs on the same machine as the node, the default config.yaml will work. If the bridge and node are on separate machines, update the config.yaml file by editing spectred_address: localhost:18110 and replacing localhost with the IP address of the machine running the Spectre node.
2. Install and Start the Miner: Download the miner from Tnn Miner on GitLab. Alternatively, the built binaries are also available here.
3. Start Mining: To begin mining, execute the following command: ./tnn-miner --spectre --daemon-address 127.0.0.1 --port 5555 --wallet spectre:x --threads x Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the machine running the bridge if it's on a different machine. Replace x with your wallet address and the number of threads you wish to use. Additionally, you need to set the --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 option in the node. Use the following command to do this: spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 By default, the node listens on 127.0.0.1. Setting --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 ensures the node can communicate when running on a different system than localhost.

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For Pool Mining: You can choose one of the available pools from MiningPoolStats. Here is an example configuration for tw-pool:
tnn-miner --spectre --daemon-address spr.tw-pool.com --port 14001 --wallet spectre:X --threads X --no-lock --worker X
Replace spr.tw-pool.com with the pool's address, spectre:X with your wallet address, and X with the appropriate values for your setup.
Tnn-Miner is a high-performance, unofficial miner developed by Trinton. You can view the project on GitLab. If you'd like to support Trinton's work, consider making a donation to his Spectre address: spectre:qr5l7q4s6mrfs9r7n0l090nhxrjdkxwacyxgk8lt2wt57ka6xr0ucvr0cmgnf