Add support for ALEPHIUM (ALPH)

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 95218cc officially adds support for ALEPHIUM (ALPH) 🔥 🚀

In order to work properly the following procedure details how to setup an ALPH node for pool mining.

The ALEPHIUM WIKI is full of wisdom. And knowledge is always what you seek as a mining pool operator. BEFORE even considering jumping into the ALPH network, make sure you fully master all the economics and mechanics behind it.

Very good guide in order to install, configure and understand how the node works: https://wiki.alephium.org/mining/solo-mining-guide

How to configure user.conf config file?

(TESTNET)

alephium.mining.polling-interval = 40000 milli

alephium.network.network-id = 1
alephium.discovery.bootstrap = ["testnet-bootstrap0.alephium.org:9973","testnet-bootstrap1.alephium.org:9973"]

alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"
alephium.api.api-key = "<API-KEY>"

alephium.network.max-outbound-connections-per-group = 25
alephium.network.max-inbound-connections-per-group  = 25

alephium.network.rest-port = 12973
alephium.network.ws-port = 11973
alephium.network.miner-api-port = 10973

alephium.mining.miner-addresses = [
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-0>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-1>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-2>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-3>"
]

Replace respectively:
<API-KEY> with random characters of your choice (only alphanumeric characters)
<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-N> with valid ALPH addresses owned by the pool wallet

(MAINNET)

alephium.mining.polling-interval = 40000 milli

alephium.network.network-id = 0

alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"
alephium.api.api-key = "<API-KEY>""

alephium.network.max-outbound-connections-per-group = 25
alephium.network.max-inbound-connections-per-group  = 25

alephium.network.rest-port = 12973
alephium.network.ws-port = 11973
alephium.network.miner-api-port = 10973

alephium.mining.miner-addresses = [
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-0>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-1>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-2>",
  "<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-3>"
]

Replace respectively:
<API-KEY> with random characters of your choice (only alphanumeric characters)
<MINER-ADDRESS-GROUP-N> with valid ALPH addresses owned by the pool wallet

How to configure confg.json for `ALEPHIUM?

A pool configuration for ALEPHIUM can be found inside the examples folder: https://github.com/blackmennewstyle/miningcore/blob/dev/examples/alephium_pool.json

WARNING: ALEPHIUM has a very special block confirmation mechanism, when a block is found, the block reward is locked on mainnet for a minimum of 8 hours. I'm not joking. Again the ALEPHIUM WIKI is full of wisdom. Good luck.

[CloudBasedMe]

Great work as usual, thanks for your contribution brother

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 8f73bf2 fixes a possible case-scenario of Orphan which can break the AlephiumPayoutHandler.cs. It fixes also a missing CPU instruction sse2 in blake3 and build issue on Windows, although Linux is the recommended way to run miningcore.

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit cd3f102 fixes a little oversight in ALEPHIUM when the pool does not send back most rejected shares to the mining software.

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 49378e9 fixes multiple issues on ALPH including BlockTemplate streaming. Thanks to #53 for the fix.

[Mini-Digger]

Need to recompile miningcore?

[blackmennewstyle]

Absolutely.

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 64e8d16 fixes nicehash support for the ALPH

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit df5c3c5 adds support for ALPH (Rhône upgrade) - Activation expected on 12/06/2024 - Requires node >= v3.0.2

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit c913fb3 fixes an huge oversight in the block reward. Please upgrade as soon as possible. I truly apologize for that annoying mistake.

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 1be0f65 adds support for Goldshell AL BOX (I & II) & IceRiver ALPH AL0, an example of configuration is available here:

miningcore/examples/alephium_pool.json

Line 113 in 1be0f65

"3096": {

- As always for more fine tuning, always refer to the documentation: https://github.com/oliverw/miningcore/wiki/Configuration
It also improves ALPH stratum handling of "mining.notify" & "mining.set_difficulty".

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit c65b3ba adds support for Mining Protocol https://github.com/alephium/alephium/releases/tag/v3.6.0

WARNING: Although my implementation is cross-compatible with old and newer nodes, it is not the case of the ALPH node, if you upgrade your node to any version >= v3.6.0, you can not downgrade afterwards without a full erase of the blockchain database.

[blackmennewstyle]

Commit 5bb86a0 adds support for manual ASICBOOST hack, an absolute nonsense, which literally forces all JSON-RPC responses to have the field "error" even when there is no error :'(

This improvement, even i hate it, is aimed to make support for ASIC more easier, DO NOT FORGET to add the following option in your ALPH pool config.json:

miningcore/examples/alephium_pool.json

Line 77 in 5bb86a0

"enableAsicBoost": true,