On Friday this week it is expected that forging rewards will be re-activated. To forge with a desktop wallet, you have to do the following:
1) Check the height of the blockchain with the blockchain explorer (icon number 3 from top left)
2) Go to "Apps Server" (item number 6 from top left) and then click on "Start Server". Wait until the number of synced blocks equals the blockchain height from step 1) - you can see this in the log output window below the clickable buttons (this will take a while, several minutes).
3) Click on "Start Mining"
Forging rewards will initially be very generous, expected to be 7-8% per month or more than a doubling of your HEAT balance in a year. To forge a block per day, you need approximately 3800 HEAT if about 50% of all HEAT is forging (26,500,000 / 3,456 * 50%). To double-check that you have set up forging correctly, your account should appear in this report: https://heatbrowser.com/report.html after the first block has been forged.
First time running the new wallet and everything is working amazingly except for starting the apps server whereupon I see this:
"[SERVER] command >> bin\\heatledger.bat"
"[SERVER] cwd >> C:\\Users\\XXXXXXXXXXX\\AppData\\Local\\Heatwallet\\app-1.0.1\\resources\\heatledger"
"[SERVER] pid >> undefined"
"[SPAWN EXIT] spawn C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe ENOENT"
Should this be functional? Or should I wait until forging is re-enabled?
Looks like there are some issues with java on this machine-- I'll try using another and edit this post once things are working. Thanks for the suggestion.
Confirmed updated java on different machine and I get the exact same error. I'm behind a VPN, should that matter?
Do you have Java JDK 1.8 or higher installed?