Josiah Spackman recently pulled out a trigger:  “There was no testing of these DigiByte mobile changes before the push to a release. You can see this for yourself.  It’s not difficult. It’s literally like 5 seconds per-line to test and check, but for some really fucked up reason, nobody bothered to check and test before merging this?”

In response, Jared Tate expressed:  Once again, he is completely misleading people and twisting facts about Digibyte mobile wallets. Great moment for education, though. 1st, several of us tested and compiled changes on Android and IOS. 2nd, he has the wrong repo branch. 3rd, seeds on the mobile wallet are working and tested.

There are 3 basic types of seeds that can be added. 1st is a DNS seed which only relays other nodes address running DGB core wallets, but no DGB wallet. 2nd are DigiByte seeds running the DGB core wallet at a specific address & 3rd are what I call “Super DGB seed nodes.

Super DGB seeds are nodes running the DGB core wallet w/ max connections configured to allow much more than 8 standard connections. I typically have set this to 1000. To allow 1,000 simultaneous connections. As well as making sure port 12024 is open to the public.

The reality is you cannot seed new core wallets without connecting to a node running a full core wallet. So ideally, you will combine a DNS seeder with a DGB core super seed node. Light wallets need DGB core seed nodes in order to connect and sync.

In the updated list, we put DNS seeders w/ super DGB seeds 1st, then DGB super seeds & finally a few normal nodes as we need as many as we can get. We want more, but we put what we had or planned to get up to get fixes out as quickly as possible. Both are under review.

Further, he clarified the details exhaustively in his tweets.

In the updated list, we put DNS seeders w/ super DGB seeds 1st, then DGB super seeds and finally a few normal nodes as we need as many as we can get. We want more but we put what we had or planned to get up in order to get fixes out as quickly as possible. Both are under review

The reality is we need more DNS seeds and super seeds than less of them. And we don’t want any 1 group or person to control more than 51% of seeds as it makes it easier for one group to push a hostile fork, so relying on only 2 or 3 is a bad idea.

The problem with solely relying on a DNS seeder node without a super DGB seed on a small server, is its actually slow and causes delays. Ideally you want port 12024 open w/ full node on first IP/ or domain address the mobile wallet looks up.

The DNS seeder code on a tiny server as advocated by some takes a long time to cycle through known network nodes, as core wallets are constantly coming on and offline. So the DNS seeders are not always relaying online nodes, which causes delays in light wallets.

The iOS version update fix is available right now for testing, and will be released soon. We are also still waiting for Google review. But the work was done 12 days ago, so we definitely have a fixed sorted.

Finally, the checkpoints were updated to recent block heights which will make new wallet installs much much faster. There is no need to cause unnecessary division and more FUD.