1. The windows wallet is fucked. You'll have to use the Linux one. And it's difficult to compile because it depends on old libraries which aren't included.
Erm, difficult?
The whole procedure is a copy-paste thing that cannot fail if you use standard stuff.
And the following is from my personal experience:
Even with a chain snapshot, my fast i7 with an SSD had trouble keeping up with the blockchain.
Sending that 60-8bit tip to bakra, kept failing, I had to create an infinite loop to keep re-trying the send.
I had the same issue sending my remaining balance to cryptopia.
This is sad, but the fact is that there are several people running nodes on low end VPS servers (which have 10% performance of your setup).
I don't normally suggest this, but if you're not planning to setup a masternode, just keep your coins in cryptopia. Let their engineers keep the wallet running for you instead.
The risk of cryptopia dying or getting hacked is much lower than losing the coins in this software, especially since you HAVE TO use linux, and you're probably unfamiliar with it.
The problem with this approach is that several people stake & run masternodes and keep track of their assets growth while others sit on the exchange and wait for a price movement.
Last but not least, this is crypto, and as long as you are here you will find that many opportunities bypass you only because you avoid learning Linux basics. This has been proven several times - Dash, Ethereum, always same complaints that its not fair that Windows miner / wallet is not available etc. However, these are only general conclusions, it's obvious that all common platforms *should* be supported.
Additionally, you shouldn't have enough wealth in a coin like this that you'd be upset if you lost it.
Could you please mention one coin (or any other thing you can invest into) that will not make you upset if you lost it?
Finally, this code base will be buried soon, but as long as there's no other options, maybe its a good moment to get new skills and catch up with those who mint new 8BITs everyday and probably are quite amused with the wallet issues people report here.
I really didn't mean any offense mate. I know this is your project, and you're working on a new wallet, and that it's going to be easier to use once released. Objectively, I have setup masternodes in SIB, CHC, BRO and this, and this was the most difficult one to get working, to the point where I decided to leave the US$2 / node / day behind.
Some barrier to entry for this coin (in it's current form) vs other coins are:
- Links in the announcement here are dead, including the marketing website and chain explorer
- Blockchain is more difficult to sync and requires snapshots from community members*
* said snapshots are not in the main post, but buried in these threads
- No windows wallet*
** I don't use windows myself, but it's the biggest desktop OS, and the wallet is broken, but this isn't stated in the announcement thread, instead there's a dead dropbox link.
I think this coin will be get better in the near future (I'm holding some in cryptopia). The guy I was responding to is a windows user, with presumably limited knowledge of Linux. I stand by my advice that if you can forgo the masternode returns, but think this coin will improve, it's not too risky holding the coin in cryptopia.
> Could you please mention one coin (or any other thing you can invest into) that will not make you upset if you lost it?
touché
What I meant was, generally I wouldn't invest a large % of my wealth in a coin with such a low market cap, and in it's current state.
And since it's not a large amount of my wealth, I'm happy to store that in cryptopia. If I lost this amount money, I'd be okay to laugh it off.
I couldn't do this with bitcoin or dash, because I have life-changing amounts of money stored in them.
As for node operators seeing wallet issues and laughing, that's cool. I'm happy for them. US$2 / day for a 112-8bit stake is very good. I hope the guy above who I sent 60 coins to puts them towards another masternode and makes a killing.
