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Anyone else having issues with teamcatcoin?  It's been just about dead for quite a while now. Connects for a bit, then   
"Waiting for work to be available from pools."
disconnects and  then eventually comes back only to die again.  The web interface is also intermittent.

The slow box I got running seems to be able to stay mostly connected as it's only running  900K at the moment.

Thanks for coding that up! It looks great. The log algo works better than I thought it would.

For the next version, can you change one more line? Just delete the lower limit altogether. The response in terms of change per block looks great, but I don't like how the algo occasionally hangs the difficulty way up there for a while after a hash attack goes away, just because blocks aren't being found at all. If a block hasn't been found for 3 to 6 hours (or more), a downward change of much more than 12% is certainly needed. I like how the Penta formula drops back down if a block hasn't been found for a while.

In fact I'm not sure that algo needs limits at all, up or down, because it's inherently very self-limiting and stable, MUCH more so than SMA36LMT12 ever could be. What do you think? I'd also appreciate input from anyone who's looked at the simulator.

Same here. I sent 1500 CAT that hasn't reached Craptsy for almost a day now. I'm not happy but I'm used to Craptsy delays. Craptsy lovers say "it's because of the volume". I wonder how long before that excuse starts to wear thin.

Hadn't used it for months (and I'm regretting not going elsewhere - I should have checked this forum first actually) so I'd forgotten just how rubbish they are at supporting users.

They need to go to a VC and get some proper funding and sort this mess out. They keep saying they're upgrading their servers but the service doesn't get any better. I hesitated before I clicked send, but I thought "nah, it'll be fine" - How wrong I was!
 

Cryptsy is a problem with me as well. I use Teamcatcoin and cryptsy I got CAT in my wallet so fast like a second after doing withdrawl from Teamcatcoin and Cryptsy is taking so long I sent it a long time ago to since before my wallet didn't work. What I would say to do is to send to your wallet and to get the txid you just export the data. Also I think Cryptsy may need the instructions on how to update wallet. Maybe they believe since they have 8.9 that they are fine but a reinstall will fix their sync problems just like it did me. And LOVE the catcoin team and community.

Trianglez, I completely understand your frustration as I have CAT in limbo as well, but there is simply nothing technical this team can do to get your coins 'back' for you.  Crypto is non-reversible - this is by design.  When you send coins to someone you cannot take them back.

What I would do is the same thing we are doing - screen-shot any transaction you sent to an exchange and then open a ticket with them.

As we keep saying - we cannot fix the catcoin.biz charts or catchain because none of the development team own those websites.

Andy

I just received a 5 CAT test transfer (4.9 + 0.1 fee) from Cryptsy.  They were received within 5 minutes of clicking the confirmation email link cryptsy sends for each withdrawal request.  The coins I sent TO Cryptsy, however, have not yet arrived.

We have an open ticket with Cryptsy and they are responding to it - hopefully it won't be long before they're back in operation.

It's in their best interest to fix their node as they make money from each exchange - a rational business isn't likely to keep a cash-flow stream off-line intentionally...

...to Andy...
Andy, my coins are still not recieved nor the coinex, nor cryptsy, what do you syggest? I syggest, look at the cat-chain and fix that, my transaction is 4-th day on Not Yet Redeemed!!!!
...so fix the stupid chain please...

It's not just Cryptsy that seems to be on the wrong fork - none of my test transactions have shown up on CoinEX or CoinedUp either. On top of that, the blockchain explorer is also on the wrong fork or lagging hardcore. I have a small transaction I sent to Cryptsy a few days ago which should have shown up by now on the blockchain (around block 22014 or so) but of course it's stuck in limbo instead.

Honestly I don't see the exchanges caring too much about fixing their wallets at the moment. They're probably waiting for a more.. definitive fix. It's frustrating as hell mining away and not being able to even send them to an exchange so that I can use it to help increase my total funds - I'm stuck trading with the CAT I currently have on Cryptsy, unless I decide to move to another coin in the meantime (which I'd rather not have to).

Going off what the others have been saying on IRC, I believe we have to update the node(s) hardcoded into the coin itself. From memory the code currently points towards catcoin.pw as being pretty much the only trusted default node (which was shut down just before the fork because the owner couldn't be stuffed putting up with the coin's problems any longer, it seems). I'm pretty sure that's why the exchanges and block explorer are having so many problems syncing. The remaining pool operators came came up with the idea of linking their pools together to prevent any further forks during low difficulty periods, or something along those lines (of course the exchanges likely wouldn't know about this and them updating their node lists before the next hardfork would be a miracle in itself).

As far as I can tell, this is something that can only be fixed with another fork, so it likely won't be done until we have chosen a new difficulty algorithm (which shouldn't take too long hopefully, now that we have this new simulator to play around with) and are ready to implement that as well. I just hope we don't take another month to implement the fix like we did last time, I'm not sure even I have that much patience.

Transactions within the working section of the network (between the pools and user wallets) works well enough though, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

Woot!  Glad to hear you're connected again, kisa.  Thanks for the confirmation!

I appreciate your position here because we're all in the same one - I have CATs at Cryptsy as well.  I opened another trouble ticket with cryptsy last nite and so far have just received an auto-response.  They appear to be fixing problems with other coins so plan to keep 'beating on them' until they reset our wallet as well.  I can assure you that this is no hypothesis or theory.

In the mean time, I continue to send and receive coins to/from other users and it's working perfectly within seconds - we have a good network overall.

At most, my mining equipment can produce 2MH/s and I've mined nearly all of my ~500 coins as well - I know of nobody on the dev team with either a big CAT stash or any significant hash power. 

Bottom line - the problem with getting money to Cryptsy is THEIR problem and all we can do is keep asking them to reset their node.

Andy

Wow it worked!!! Thank you so much Andy!!! I had read to do that on other forum but I thought it wouldn't work because I did have 0.8.9 but it did!

If have the same problem, this just feels like a big scam. I send almost 2 days ago a depost to cryptsy:

67084    horus1    2014-02-09 01:43:39    Debit_MP    Confirmed    9mj7frm4...8km4SvGi    498f93fe...9b0dbf05    n/a    90.60835339

I created a support ticket at cryptsy but they want the full transaction id, so i contacted teamcatcoin but they just ignore me

As a test i send 1.002 catcoin from my wallet to cryptsy:

Status: 77 confirmations
Date: 2/10/2014 00:56
To: cat deposit cryptsy 9mj7frm4nFeH44imWT1hwnFhHg8km4SvGi
Debit: -1.001 CAT
Transaction fee: -0.001 CAT
Net amount: -1.002 CAT
Transaction ID: a39db05e2b4f23a9fbd56290a10f04eb019bd3b8be1ee242ad7a3d085acc2452


Of course.. also never arrived. I don't have a big rig.. I mined days for these coins

Someone help?

@SlimePuppy

I hope ur theory is correct man, cause this is just not funny...

And for the rest: DON'T GO MINE CAT COINS AT TEAMCATCOIN.com ! Look for a better pool with a forum where they actually help you!

-> my wallet was stuck at the same block 21908 ...

-> followed above instructions to reinstall and resync successfully.

-> sincere thanks to Andy for his effort, patience, and ongoing answers towards resolving issues!

-> 250 CATs now on the way to Keno's animal rescue

hjr91 - let's get you moving again.

You said you have the latest wallet - double check the version - help/about catcoin - make sure it's 0.8.9.0.  If it's not 0.8.9.0, you'll find links in the first post of this thread.

Then - make a copy of you wallet.dat file and catcoin.conf files

Then - if you're a windows user, please follow along in the readme.txt file in the package to uninstall your previous wallet.  Delete your %AppData%\Roaming\Catcoin folder.

Run the new catcoin wallet - it will create a new file system in %AppData%\Roaming\catcoin  Stop the wallet.

Move your wallet.dat and catcoin.conf back into %AppData%\Roaming\catcoin\

Edit your catcoin.conf and make sure it looks like this - especially the addnode lines:


Restart the wallet and let it retrieve the block chain.

The exchanges are a different problem outside either you or our control.  Some are on the correct block chain and some appear to be on an old fork.  We confirmed that CATs are moving into and out of Coinex as of about 30 minutes ago.  Cryptsy appears stuck inbound and outbound - we have opened another trouble ticket with them and asked them to add the node addresses and reset their block chain.  We don't yet have info from CoinedUp.

Keep mining - just make sure you send the coins directly to your wallet and not to an exchange.  Exchanges don't want you sending money directly to them, and you really don't want your money sitting on an exchange if you can help it.

Andy

My wallet is stuck.. I'm connected to the network but I'm still stuck at 21908. I have entered the nodes in my config file as well.. I don't know why it's stuck. I've seen several great oppurrrrr tuna ties to mine cat coin very profitable but whats the point if I can't send to my wallet or cryptsy or coinex lol. How do I fix this? I love cats! And I had loved the catcoin as well but being out of sync sucks ass! O ya I also have the newest wallet as well.

Not a joke - please post a catcoin address where you can receive coins - I will send you a cat and post the details here so you can confirm your wallet and the network is working.

Your coins are safe because they are coded into the block chain.  The problem is that the exchange might not be connected to the network correctly.  Your coins will appear when they fix their problem.

Also - please make sure you read the post directly above this and make sure you have the correct nodes in your catcoin.conf file.  If you're a windows user, this will be in %AppData%\Roaming\catcoin\catcoin.conf

Andy

This evening's dev notes...

etblvu1 continues to code and add difficulty adjustment methods to his application.  While this isn't an 'official' test device per his request, it appears it will be a useful tool for sorting the 'wheat from the chaff'.

We continue to test methods on the testnet.  The method under test tonight continues to be Blaksmith's solution and it's the best performing routine so far.

We might have identified the source of our network trouble this evening.  The original CATcoin developer, kr105, coded the 'master node' address into the catcoin wallet and catcoind code.  This 'seed node' is where all our wallets visit first in order to find a place to download a good copy of the block chain.  This is the same website that used to hold the compiled wallets - catcoin.pw - and that site was taken down after 1 month in service.  This is why it is so important that we add reliable nodes to the catcoin.conf file and explains much of our network stability as we add new users.

A new wallet runs through a three-step process to find good nodes.  1. It checks it's peers.dat file (and a new wallet won't have one or it will be empty).  2. It navigates to the seed node for a list of good catcoind addresses (this is currently catcoin.pw and it's off-line).  and 3. It gives up.

Please check your wallets and/or catcoind instances and make sure you have a catcoin.conf file and make sure it holds at least these addresses as these are known good, trusted, 24/7 resources for the block chain and all transactions:


This should go a long way to temporarily stabilize our network.  And I can guarantee you this will be fixed with the next code release!

Andy

Yes, I got a coin in my wallet

Then, I tried to make each exchange transaction - does not work

good joke 

fork probably die before there my coins 

Here's the deal as I understand it.

In order to transfer your coins, you need two things to happen.  Your pool 'sends' the money by adding your transaction to a block and sending that block across the network; and the receiving node (the exchange) has to accept that block and add it to the blockchain it's storing.  That's when it recognized your transaction and adds the money to your account.

If the exchange is on the wrong blockchain it won't add the block with your money in it - it'll ignore that block.  Your money isn't lost - the exchange will recognize the money once it attaches to the correct block chain.

You won't see your transaction on the blockchain explorer on catchain.info because that site is stuck on an old chain.  Neither the catchain nor the difficulty/block graph on catcoins.biz/charts are up to date.

Speaking as part of the dev team, we have no control over either catcoin.biz or any exchange so cannot make them update anything quickly.  We have contacted the owners of catcoins.biz to get them to 'kick the server' and bring it back to life, but that's all we can do until we get another blockchain explorer on-line.  We'll contact the exchanges again as well to see if they'll do the same.

Your money appears to be in limbo but it is not lost.  Stay tuned for updates.

Andy

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