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• Introduction
• Rules
• Rewards
  • Official Skyminers
  • Official Skyminers - New Batches
  • DIY Skyminers
• Requirements
• Hardware
• Whitelist
  • Facts

This article represents the central source of information for the ongoing Skywire testnet. All information about rewards and potential changes will be published here, so check in regularely.

• Read this information thoroughly and ask in the Skywire telegram channel if some things appear to not be covered.
• Please join SkywirePSA as well to get structured public service announcements (PSA) about the Skywire project & testnet.
• In case you bought an official Skyminer in the [Skycoin hardware store] (https://store.skycoin.com/) please read the Official Skyminer Guide if you haven't done that already.
• Participants will contacted at the beginning of every month via the so called Skywire testnet status update emails including details of their last month's Skywire testnet participation.
• You can contact support at store.skycoin.com/pages/support

This section covers the rules of the testnet. Dependent on the amount of miners that are associated with your emails, some of these rules may apply to you or not.

As of now, each person participating in the Skywire testnet may own one DIY miner and multiple official Skyminers.

Based on this central rule, each whitelisted person is eligible for receiving rewards for:

• one or multiple official miners

and/or

• one DIY miner with up to 8 (eight) nodes

• If you are running two separate miners in the same location because you're joining the network living in the same house you still have to move one of your miners to another location.

• Eligible for rewards are only the whitelisted nodes, that comply with the Skywire testnet rules and meet the 75% uptime requirement during the month.
• The whitelist is being updated retroactively on a monthly basis so it is not important in which week you are being approved for the whitelist.
• Official Skyminers are whitelisted by default after purchase.
• The rewards are paid every subsequent month around the 5th or with a short delay, depending if other things delay the process.
• The deadline to submit complaints is being published in the monthly Skywire status update emails and in the Skywire PSA channel on Telegram.

There are two different reward categories for official miners:

• official Skyminers first & second batch - not sold through the hardware store
• official Skyminers new batches - sold through the [hardware store] (https://store.skycoin.com)

Faulty orange pi prime's/routers of official Skyminers will be rewarded regardless of your uptime until you receive a replacement. If the replacement doesn't arrive in time for you to make the uptime requirement because it arrived on short notice or not on the schedule at all you will be rewarded as well. Since we are taking care of this manually you are requested to contact one of our team members on Telegram (@Paperstream @asxtree) or at store.skycoin.com/pages/support

Rewards are being paid on a node by node basis. The total amount of rewards is limited by a pool size that is subject to change:

• You can receive a maximum of 12 Skycoin per node
• Rewards are being calculated on a node by node basis
• The total pool size is being divided evenly between all nodes eligible for receiving rewards. This implies that you will receive less than 12 Skycoin per-node rewards in case the pool size would be surpassed.

The official reward pool size for July was 24,000 Skycoin:

• 9.604 (9.603841536614645) Skycoin / node ; 76.831 Skycoin per 8 nodes

Summary:

• You are eligible to receive 24 fixed Skycoin payments ($83.30 USD)
• The 24 fixed Skycoin payments are comprised of 8 Skycoin node payments ($10.4125 USD)
• You'll receive up to 8 Skycoin node payments per month based on the individual uptime of your nodes
• The uptime of all nodes in your official Skyminer is being evaluated on a node by node basis
• You will receive traffic forwarding payments once the Skywire mainnet is live

We are calculating the underlying Skycoin price for your rewards based on the moving average exponential method:

• timespan 1M on the Tradingview SKY/USD chart
• 30 day length
• starting on the 1st day of the subsequent month at 00:00

Rewards are being paid on a node by node basis. The total amount you may earn is 8 per node rewards for each miner. The per node rewards for July are as follows:

• Skycoin price $1.15942020
• 8.981 (8.9807819460106) Skycoin per node reward; 71.846 Skycoin per 8 nodes
• Skycoin per node reward equals ~ $USD 10.4125

Rewards are being paid on a node by node basis. The total amount of rewards is limited by a pool size that is subject to change. The DIY pool size for July was 16,000 Skycoin:

• 2.797 (2.7967138612130746) Skycoin / node with a maximum of 8 nodes; 22.374 Skycoin maximum
• As soon as the total amount of rewards of all eligible nodes would be surpassed the pool size, we will adjust the rewards as follows:
  • The Skycoin in the pool will be evenly split up between all nodes which are eligible for rewards.
  • The maximum amount of Skycoin that any node can receive is 6 (six) Skycoin.

As of now, you are provided with two tools to check whether or not you're online and generating uptime:

• The [discovery website] (http://discovery.skycoin.com:8001/)
• The [Skywire whitelisting system] (https://whitelist.skycoin.net)
  • along with the Skywire whitelisting system user guide

You are advised to use this guide to verify that your nodes are online & connected to the discovery server:Online Status Verification

VM's, servers or personal computers are not allowed in the testnet, i.e. they will not be whitelisted and receive rewards.

The following hardware is accepted in the Skywire testnet:

 - Prime
 - 2G-IOT
 - 4G-IOT
 - i96
 - Lite
 - Lite2
 - One
 - One-Plus
 - PC
 - PC-Plus
 - PC2
 - Plus
 - Plus2
 - Plus2E
 - RK3399
 - Win
 - Win-Plus
 - Zero
 - Zero-Plus
 - Zero-Plus2

 - 1-Model-A+
 - 1-Model-B+
 - 2-Model-B
 - 3-Model-B
 - 3-Model-B+
 - 4-Model-B
 - Compute Model 3
 - Zero-W
 - Zero

 - Tinkerboard

 - BPI-D1
 - BPI-G1
 - BPI-M1
 - BPI-M1+
 - BPI-M2
 - BPI-M2+
 - BPI-M2-Berry
 - BPI-M2M
 - BPI-M2U
 - BPI-M64
 - BPI-R2
 - BPI-R3
 - BPI-Zero

 - X2

 - Cubietruck
 - Cubietruck-Plus
 - 1
 - 2
 - 4

 - Developer Board IV

 - 4

 - Le-Potato-AML-S905X-CC
 - Renegade-ROC-RK3328-CC
 - Tritium-ALL-H3-CC

 - MiQi

 - NanoPi
 - 2
 - 2-Fire
 - A64
 - K2
 - M1
 - M1-plus
 - M2
 - M2A
 - M3
 - M4
 - NEO
 - NEO-Air
 - NEO-Core
 - NEO-Core2
 - NEO2
 - S2
 - Smart4418

 - C2
 - HC1
 - HC2
 - MC1
 - XU4

 - Lime1
 - Lime2
 - Lime2-eMMC
 - LimeA33
 - Micro

 - Pine-A64
 - Pinebook-A64
 - Sopine-A64
 - Rock64
 - ROCKPro64

 - CuBox-i
 - CuBox-Pulse
 - Humming-Board
 - Humming-Board-Pulse
 - ClearCloud-8K
 - ClearFog-A38
 - ClearFog-GT-8K

 - Blu
 - Bricks
 - Dual
 - Neo
 - Quad
 - X86

 - X96 mini

If you like to use other boards please contact the team first to be approved before you buy them, only the boards on the list are guaranteed to be whitelisted.

• There is no waiting period at the moment
• The whitelist is updated on a monthly basis, meaning that we are whitelisting 200 applications each month.
• Whitelist applications are being updated every couple days (up to a week in exceptions).

- Login to the [Skywire Whitelisting System] (https://whitelist.skycoin.com) to:
      - review your current application state
      - view your whitelisted miners 
      - adjust public keys if necessary
      - adjust your Skycoin wallet reward address as you like
- Contact [email protected] in case your account is disabled or other issues occur
- You can double check with our team members (see above) if we received your application.

• Keep your account data up to date using the [Skywire Whitelisting System] (https://whitelist.skycoin.com)
  • Update Skycoin Wallet Address
  • Update public keys if it's necessary (you're still advised to backup your public keys)
  • Add more boards and include new pictures to receive the verification of an admin
  • Transfer your whitelisted miner to another email address
• The whitelist is a queue based on a first come first serve basis. Each month we are & have been whitelisting 200 applications, the benchmark for applications is the hardware list above + the official miner specifications.
• For email address changes of official miners please contact the team via the [support form] (https://store.skycoin.net/pages/support) or on Telegram if you don't receive an answer after some days.

 - MUST NOT USE THE APPLICATION FORM SINCE THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY WHITELISTED!
 - Skycoin wallet reward address.
 - Your 8 public keys. Simply submit less public keys if you have DOA components (reward will be paid regardless until you receive your replacement(s)).

 - Location; doesn't have to be 100% precise.
 - Skycoin wallet reward address.
 - Miner photos: At least three photos, each from a different perspective and max. 3 MB in size.
 - Description: Go into detail of the used hardware components (the router, boards etc. which are presented in the pictures
      - Telegram account. Join us, there is an awesome community waiting for you!
      - Node quantity: The number of pis you're running in your miner.
      - Node Hardware: Specify the hardware you're using. Add a note if you have merged more than 1 type of board in your miner. Elaborate on boards that may be in the pictures but were not (yet) submitted.
      - Node OS: The OS you're running on the boards.
 - Your public keys.