*** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE ***Regarding our latest fork issues today I have finished resyncing my nodes to the right (=longest) chain so I can provide a solution. First of all most of the nodes in the network are on the right chain. Unfortunately, key nodes like block explorer was not and Bittrex is not. Now block explorer is showing correct chain.
Here we go with the solution. First of all check if you are not the right chain. Go to
http://explorer.8-bit.party and compare Block number with a block number in your client. It should be a number higher than
429966 (2016-03-19 13:30:40 UTC, I will update this value in next posts). If it's so, you are on the right chain and there's nothing to do on your side. Everything is fine. If your block height is lower and you running synced node you are on the wrong chain and you have to perform following actions:
- Go to http://www.8-bit.party, click on Download and get the bootstrap file (direct link: http://www.8-bit.party/static/bootstrap.dat.7z?2016-03-19--00) [sha224 bootstrap.dat.7z: 3ee34f26c69aed8737c71c10c48aecf8e1f8f7e9ae9e2a3ec311c62c]
- Shut down your node. Make sure it's really off (use ps or task manager)
- Make sure that your node is off again
- Backup your wallet.dat. Always backup your wallet.dat, no matter what you do
- Remove peers.dat file. Add
addnode=node00.8-bit.party
addnode=node01.8-bit.party
addnode=node02.8-bit.party
addnode=node03.8-bit.party
addnode=node04.8-bit.party
addnode=node05.8-bit.party
addnode=node06.8-bit.party
addnode=node07.8-bit.party
addnode=node08.8-bit.party
addnode=node09.8-bit.party
If you use IPv6 you add also:
addnode=6node00.8-bit.party
addnode=6node01.8-bit.party
addnode=6node02.8-bit.party
addnode=6node03.8-bit.party
- Unzip bootstrap.dat.7z to a bootstrap.dat file in your 8bit home directory (~/.8bit/bootstrap.dat on linux, AppData\Roaming\8Bit on Windows)
- Run your wallet with -rescan flag and wait. Be patient, it can take serveral hours to load a new blockchain.
- Enjoy a correct chain on your node
If you are not sure whether you are on the right chain or not - just ask, there are other, more accurate ways to check it (eg comparing block hash with these shown by the block explorer).
