XRP Ninja

I just made a website https://orderbook.xrp.ninja . I have explained why I did it in the front page. I am going to record some of the problems that I had and how I solved them in this post. Prod code doesn't work The code works in development mode. But it doesn't after minified. The error message was: Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module rp due to: Error: [$injector:unpr] Unknown provider: e I found a post on stackoverflow and fixed it like this . Add domain to an existing Letsencrypt cert $ certbot certonly --cert-name rippled.xrp.ninja -d rippled.xrp.ninja,ripple.xrp.ninja,www.xrp.ninja,xrp.ninja,orderbook.xrp.ninja Redirect http traffic to https on lighttpd Add this to lighttpd.con and also enable mod_redirect . $HTTP["scheme"] == "http" { # capture vhost name with regex conditiona -> %0 in redirect pattern # must be the most inner block to the redirect rule $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*&qu

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-bash-completion I tried this. I followed the instructions on the above page, but it didn't work. Then I did the following and it worked: Locate the gulp-completion.bash file installed by the package. Change the echo_gulp_tasks variable in gulp-completion.bash file to gulp --tasks-simple Copy gulp-completion.bash to /etc/bash_completion.d and source the file in current shell. Now try type gulp [space] and hit [enter] , the completion should work. At this time, this npm package is no longer required. So you can uninstall it.

Update: as of Jan 15, 2019, trading is working. https://github.com/r0bertz/ripple-client-desktop The first goal is to make it fully functional with RippleAPI . Current status is most read only operations are working except order book. Please follow this twitter thread for the most recent updates: This weekend I tried to revive ripple-client-desktop. l I have reached a point at which I can run gulp without any warning on the command line. However, the app stuck at loading. Then I figured out that the client uses an ancient ripple-lib API. — r0bertz (@r0bertz) December 17, 2018

As you may know, my rippled validator runs on GCE. So I use stackdriver to monitor it. I created two custom metrics for it. One metric is uptime with rippled version as a label. Here's a live graph for this metric. From this graph, you can easily tell what the current version is and when it was upgraded to that version. You can also correlate this with other graphs to see if new version may have caused certain changes in rippled behavior. The other metric is the percentage of current uptime that rippled has been in a certain state. Normally the curve for "full" state should asymptotically approach 100. If it is not, then rippled is in trouble.

I know I am have been too lazy. It's just a matter of copy and paste. So thanks to any future coil subscriber who visits this blog. Your support will be greatly appreciated. PS: here is a howto  https://xrpcommunity.blog/how-to-monetize-your-content-with-coil/

https://github.com/r0bertz/ripple I have been working on this lately. It's a fork of its original one. I learned a lot since I started working on it. Specifically, I learned there are a lot of inconsistencies in the output of rippled API. See for yourself in  https://github.com/rubblelabs/ripple/issues/36#issuecomment-383355198

There's been some problems with the validator ever since it crashed about a week ago. It doesn't crash any more since I added much more disk space. But it easily falls behind and needs to play catch up several hours after each restart. I learned this from state_accounting field in the output of "rippled server_info". I created a metric and a chart from it. This is what the chart looks for the last week. The " Full " mode state means it is fully synced and participating in consensus process. You can see it is now asymptotically approaching 100 now. The value means the percentage of uptime the validator stays in each mode. I figured out why the disk was out of space. It was because the validator fell behind. When that happens, online delete is disabled. See this code: https://github.com/ripple/rippled/blob/fc0d64f5eec4386db7146251ab1a7fe880bec17c/src/ripple/app/misc/SHAMapStoreImp.cpp#L751 I saw some "Not deleting" messages in the l

The above graph shows what happened. I did get an alert from GCE that disk usage was high. I have an alert policy which says alert me if disk usage is over 80% for more than 5 minutes. However, it was too late, so I didn't get up and thought maybe it could resolve on its own. But it didn't. And GCE didn't keep alerting me, which surprises me. Rippled logged these two lines before it died: 2018-Jan-10 11:33:27 Application:FTL Remaining free disk space is less than 512MB 2018-Jan-10 11:33:27 Application:FTL Application::onStop took 23ms So rippled killed itself: https://github.com/ripple/rippled/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Remaining+free+disk+space+is+less+than+%22&type= Before that, log was flooded with the following messages for 5 hours: 2018-Jan-10 10:55:08 LoadMonitor:WRN Job: recvGetLedger run: 1390ms wait: 0ms 2018-Jan-10 10:55:32 LoadMonitor:WRN Job: recvGetLedger run: 1250ms wait: 0ms 2018-Jan-10 10:55:32 LoadMonitor:WRN Job: recvGetLed

Copied from the following link: https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/16362-rippled-0810-released/?do=findComment&comment=191441 mDuo13 wrote this. Kudos to him. To recap the Decentralization Strategy, here's a summary: Switch to using a validator list site (vl.ripple.com). This is where we are now. All rippled instances configured to use the site can automatically follow Ripple's updates to the recommended set of validators, in lockstep. In case you're curious, the validator list site publishes cryptographically signed recommendations of validators, so it's not easy to impersonate. And rippled caches the data it gets from the site, so the XRP Ledger won't go down even if vl.ripple.com is down for a while. (It might be tough to bring new rippled servers online while vl.ripple.com is down, but I think there are some protections against that, too.) Update the site and the existing validators to use validator tokens instead of master validator secret key

Information about this version can be found here  https://ripple.com/dev-blog/rippled-version-0-81-0/ . This happened at about 1:45pm local time. There were some behavior changes after the upgrade:

GCE provides various kinds of metrics from which one can create dashboard, alerting policies etc. However, there is no way to monitor performance of rippled unless we wrote something ourselves. Fortunately, GCE allows creating custom metrics. So as a starting point, I decided to create a metric for rippled build_version. This information is very useful. For example, you will be able to tell if the behavior of the server changes after version changes. However, I later learned that custom metric can't have "STRING" as its value type. So I created an uptime metric with build version as its label. It works just the same. Here is a screenshot of the chart created from this metric: Unfortunately, it seems I can't share this chart publicly, unlike charts created from built-in metrics which can be shared publicly.

I have been wondering about this lately. Then I found this article: http://eliasbizannes.com/blog/2017/10/why-bitcoin-or-another-deflationary-currency-will-lead-to-an-economic-revolution/ TL;DR: as long as investment has higher return then hoarding the deflationary currency, people will invest instead of hoarding. Similarly, if market maker can make more than hoarding XRP, market maker will make market instead of hoarding.

Maybe this is obvious all along to some people. Anyway, I just figured this out. So I thought maybe it's worth sharing. Previously I thought the bridging consists of two transactions, both on XRP ledger. One from fiat currency A IOU to XRP, the other from XRP to fiat currency B IOU. Then I saw this: https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/10981-xrapid-uses-crypto-exchanges-to-route-payments-in-real-time/ So Miguel Vias said in the pilot they used liquidity on bitstamp and bitso. However it's seems the trading volume of XRP/bitso.MXN since the beginning of 2017 is so low that it's virtually no liquidity there. See this: https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/markets/XRP/MXN:rG6FZ31hDHN1K5Dkbma3PSB5uVCuVVRzfn?interval=1d&range=1y&type=candlestick Then I realized, just like bitstamp, bitso has its own exchange and the liquidity there is much better. https://bitso.com/trade/market/xrp/mxn So now it's clear to me there is another way for XRP to bridge cross-border paym