Bamboo is minted by miners who earn rewards. Mining payments occur using the following algorithm, which yields a total final circulation of 100M BMB

• 50 BMB per block until block 1M
• 25 BMB per block for blocks 1M to 2M
• 12.5 BMB per block for blocks 2M to 4M

Bamboo is written from the ground up in C++. We want the Bamboo source code to be simple, elegant, and easy to understand. Rather than adding duct-tape to an existing currency, we built Bamboo from scratch with lots of love. There are a few optimizations that we have made to help further our core objectives:

• Switched encryption scheme from secp256k1 (which is used by ETH & BTC) to ED25519 -- results in 8x speedup during verification and public keys half the size.
• Up to 25,000 transactions per block, 90 second block time

Windows: Only binaries are available for windows they can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/mr-pandabear/bamboo/releases/download/v0.2-miner-alpha/bamboo-win-update.zip

• Run keygen.exe, this generates a keys.json file in the same folder as miner.exe, copy this file and keep it safe.
• Run miner.exe, the miner will start running and should indicate that it is loading blocks to solve.

Mac OSX build pre-requirements

brew install leveldb
brew install cmake
pip3 install conan

Linux install pre-requirements

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install make  
sudo apt-get -y install cmake  
sudo apt-get -y install automake
sudo apt-get -y install libtool
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip
sudo apt-get -y install libleveldb-dev
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.6
sudo pip3 install conan

git clone https://github.com/mr-pandabear/bamboo.git
cd bamboo
git checkout master
mkdir build
cd build
conan install ..
cd ..
cmake .

To compile the miner run the following command:

make miner

You will also need the keygen app to create a wallet for your miner:

make keygen

To compile the node server:

make server

Start by generating keys.json.

./bin/keygen

Keep a copy of this file in a safe location -- it contains pub/private keys to the wallet that the miner will mint coins to. If you lose this file you lose your coins. We recommend keeping an extra copy on a unique thumbdrive (that you don't re-use) the moment you generate it.

To start mining:

./bin/miner

To host a node:

./bin/server

NOTE: you will need to make a folder ~/bamboo/data to store the nodes data