Wallet showing 8 years needed to synch with net... jesus...
Read a few posts above or click here:
Just an important note for everyone else to read in the future - I'm going to throw into question if people can actually fairly run simply a node at time of launch; there may be only certain parties that can really successfully connect to peers.
I've tried and failed - used official win10 exe from bitcoin's gold's github, opened port 8338, and even followed raffern's suggestion below of the bat file with the full list of nodes raffern provided, multiple instances of leaving it on for 20min, and no connections
"Connecting to peers" for 2-hours, tried multiple workarounds.
Current time: 3:11 AM UTC Monday, November 13, 2017
Others (again i question those who say they subsequently got it to work):
For anyone stuck syncing their wallet. Create a runme.bat file in the bitcoin gold folder using the following, then save as a .bat file and run
bitcoin-qt.exe -server
addnode=109.192.23.101
addnode=88.99.5.24
(snip)
addnode=143.207.67.209
Wallet - This is a pre-release test build - use at your own risk - do not use for mining or merchant applications
what does this mean? I thought the official bitcoin gold client was all we needed?
I tried checking out version 0.15 instead of master from the github source, and that took the pre-relase message away. However I'm still not syncing any blocks (ubuntu 14.04)
I have downloaded the official Bitcoin Gold Core Client, and it is running fine... and I am just not able to connect to anyone in the network. Any guidance for me? I have port 8338 open... do I have to boostrap to the Bitcoin Core Client?
OK, I found above the answer. Add a specific IP node via the command:
addnode "78.193.221.106" "add"
Issue resolved, now I am synching with that node, and found a second one (maybe via the same first one?).
I have downloaded the official Bitcoin Gold Core Client, and it is running fine...
where you download it?
From the offiical website, it just went live:
https://bitcoingold.org/downloads/i have donwloaded direct on ghithub .. but i need a node list for add ... where can find node list?
This nodes not work!
Not working for me either. Still stuck on 0 connections
