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Quote from: breel on January 31, 2012, 04:05:41 PM

This one is working thanks a lot, I'll remove it once I get to 100%.

edit: It worked just fine thank you!

The client caches nodes that it has connected to in the past. So you should be good if you start it up with the vircurex IP, wait a few minutes, remove the addnode line from your conf file, and start back up again.

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This one is working thanks a lot, I'll remove it once I get to 100%.

edit: It worked just fine thank you!

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Use the IP address of Vircurex.com It's a node too. But pleace remove it once your blocks are loaded and things work fine.

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I wonder if the IRC server is down or rejecting your request?

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Tried that ip but not any better.

On the other hand the debug log is interesting:

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IRC connect failed
IRC waiting 381 seconds to reconnect
connection timeout
IRC connect failed
IRC waiting 479 seconds to reconnect
connection timeout
IRC connect failed
IRC waiting 586 seconds to reconnect
connection timeout

but not sure what to make out of it.

Thanks

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Quote from: breel on January 30, 2012, 03:09:36 PM

Quote from: breel on January 26, 2012, 03:58:07 PM

Quote from: Kumala on January 24, 2012, 11:20:11 PM

Add a known node manually to the config file, then restart litecoin, this does the trick (sometimes). Once it started downloading you can then take out the node from the conf file.

How do I find a node?

Thanks

Any one pretty please?

Did you try looking in debug.log to see what's going on?

Also, there might be a node at 85.181.140.125:9333 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg572045;topicseen#msg572045

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Quote from: breel on January 26, 2012, 03:58:07 PM

Quote from: Kumala on January 24, 2012, 11:20:11 PM

Add a known node manually to the config file, then restart litecoin, this does the trick (sometimes). Once it started downloading you can then take out the node from the conf file.

How do I find a node?

Thanks

Any one pretty please?

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Looks like the Loch Ness Miner is back. Scary that someone can throw that much hashing power at the LTC network. Looks like they're super close to the 51% mark.

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Quote from: Vanderbleek on January 28, 2012, 10:00:59 PM

Quote from: StewartJ on January 28, 2012, 09:42:22 PM

The sell price of LTC a few days ago was around 0.0009998.

Tonight the sell price on BTC-E is 0.005656 ?

Is there something going on?

Are you looking at LTC/USD or LTC/BTC?

Looking at LTC/USD for now. Looks more normal on the btc side.

Edit: sorry, saw something that was not there. It's all normal.

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Quote from: StewartJ on January 28, 2012, 09:42:22 PM

The sell price of LTC a few days ago was around 0.0009998.

Tonight the sell price on BTC-E is 0.005656 ?

Is there something going on?

Are you looking at LTC/USD or LTC/BTC?

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The sell price of LTC a few days ago was around 0.0009998.

Tonight the sell price on BTC-E is 0.005656 ?

Is there something going on?

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Quote from: StewartJ on January 28, 2012, 06:16:30 PM

Is the mining activity fairly robust now for Litecoins? I seem to get that impression on the Alt Curr Forum and on this thread.

Robust but suspicious... ~70% of the mining power is non-pool or private pool, and in the past it has been strongly botnet mined. But it's still surviving.

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Quote from: tacotime on January 28, 2012, 05:54:51 PM

Quote from: StewartJ on January 28, 2012, 05:21:26 PM

Quote from: tacotime on January 26, 2012, 03:39:42 PM

LTC is back from the dead ! Woohoo Grin

When did it die...or go into a coma?

There was a short period where there was only about 20 BTC buy side on BTC-E and it looked like it might go to the dreaded 0.0001 value.

Seems to have been actively traded these last few days on both exchanges, up to 0.001 now?

The only reason I found out about Litecoins is someone posted a few days back they wanted to buy 800 Litecoins
on the "Goods" forum. Stealth marketing...

Is the mining activity fairly robust now for Litecoins? I seem to get that impression on the Alt Curr Forum and on this thread.

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Quote from: StewartJ on January 28, 2012, 05:21:26 PM

Quote from: tacotime on January 26, 2012, 03:39:42 PM

LTC is back from the dead ! Woohoo Grin

When did it die...or go into a coma?

There was a short period where there was only about 20 BTC buy side on BTC-E and it looked like it might go to the dreaded 0.0001 value.

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Quote from: tacotime on January 26, 2012, 03:39:42 PM

LTC is back from the dead ! Woohoo Grin

When did it die...or go into a coma?

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Quote from: localhost on January 27, 2012, 11:57:38 AM

Quote from: michaelmclees on January 27, 2012, 11:16:00 AM

True, but I was implying that the multi-GPU setups we see around here are basically little compact supercomputers in themselves.

Yeah, but you can also mine decently enough with some APU or some $100 GPU. That's some cheap supercomputer Wink

(and that provides much more value in BTC than some quad core CPU provides in LTC).

Could you mine with a some sort of high-end laptop? Just curious

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Quote from: michaelmclees on January 27, 2012, 01:45:52 PM

Quote from: coblee on January 27, 2012, 01:29:03 PM

Quote from: interlagos on January 26, 2012, 04:08:35 PM

There is another hot topic - multisig transactions for better wallet security.

What if litecoin implements BIP17 proposal? The bitcoin crowd seems to be slowly converging on BIP16.
There is a heated debate over here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bip-16-17-in-laymans-terms-61125

This might bring some life and interest back into litecoin and it will truly compliment bitcoin by selecting a competing solution.
I think I have posted about it here a few days ago, but nobody seemed to pay attention.

Coblee, what do you think?

That's an interesting idea. I will look into it. Will need to weight the benefit of this versus the cost of having to maintain a separate codebase than Bitcoin. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people working on Litecoin (only me right now), so if BIP17 introduces a security hole, that might be disastrous. So I have to be careful there.

In the near future, I will merge in the latest bitcoin code and build a new Litecoin client. This will turn wallet encryption back on. Stay tuned.

If one wants to introduce a new feature, I would like to see this... The ability to send an encrypted message to someone along with a transaction. Is this possible? Perhaps large messages could require fees.

I'd love to see this in BTC too, but LTC has a bit more right to be a testing ground for such things. I think it'd be awesome to have that, at least then you could say who its from and such.

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Quote from: coblee on January 27, 2012, 01:29:03 PM

Quote from: interlagos on January 26, 2012, 04:08:35 PM

There is another hot topic - multisig transactions for better wallet security.

What if litecoin implements BIP17 proposal? The bitcoin crowd seems to be slowly converging on BIP16.
There is a heated debate over here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bip-16-17-in-laymans-terms-61125

This might bring some life and interest back into litecoin and it will truly compliment bitcoin by selecting a competing solution.
I think I have posted about it here a few days ago, but nobody seemed to pay attention.

Coblee, what do you think?

That's an interesting idea. I will look into it. Will need to weight the benefit of this versus the cost of having to maintain a separate codebase than Bitcoin. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people working on Litecoin (only me right now), so if BIP17 introduces a security hole, that might be disastrous. So I have to be careful there.

In the near future, I will merge in the latest bitcoin code and build a new Litecoin client. This will turn wallet encryption back on. Stay tuned.

If one wants to introduce a new feature, I would like to see this... The ability to send an encrypted message to someone along with a transaction. Is this possible? Perhaps large messages could require fees.

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Quote from: interlagos on January 26, 2012, 04:08:35 PM

There is another hot topic - multisig transactions for better wallet security.

What if litecoin implements BIP17 proposal? The bitcoin crowd seems to be slowly converging on BIP16.
There is a heated debate over here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bip-16-17-in-laymans-terms-61125

This might bring some life and interest back into litecoin and it will truly compliment bitcoin by selecting a competing solution.
I think I have posted about it here a few days ago, but nobody seemed to pay attention.

Coblee, what do you think?

That's an interesting idea. I will look into it. Will need to weight the benefit of this versus the cost of having to maintain a separate codebase than Bitcoin. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people working on Litecoin (only me right now), so if BIP17 introduces a security hole, that might be disastrous. So I have to be careful there.

In the near future, I will merge in the latest bitcoin code and build a new Litecoin client. This will turn wallet encryption back on. Stay tuned.

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Quote from: michaelmclees on January 27, 2012, 11:16:00 AM

True, but I was implying that the multi-GPU setups we see around here are basically little compact supercomputers in themselves.

Yeah, but you can also mine decently enough with some APU or some $100 GPU. That's some cheap supercomputer Wink

(and that provides much more value in BTC than some quad core CPU provides in LTC).

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