I think I can help out on the WordPress site and have submitted my login info via the "Become a Contributor" link.
What you have to do it save your wallet.dat, rename the folder Users/[USER]/AppData/Roaming/Flappycoin to something else, run the V5 wallet, close the wallet as soon as it opens, copy the bootstrap.dat and your old wallet.dat to the new Flappycoin folder, open wallet V5 again
I went through this procedure and can confirm it successfully transferred my 2014 balances and I was able to mine more coins on top of that as we sit here at block 769528. I did not need to install the old client, run importprivkey or any of the additional steps in Sravas's description.
Do you know where we can grab the old wallet and try this? I can't find it online
Given that menlatin's suggested approach works, I don't think you need to run the old wallet software.
4) And as of a couple days ago the administrator of the only pool shut it down; so your only option is to solo mine. It is possible to connect sg miner to your wallet (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-solo-minewithout-stratum-with-sgminer-1169627)
That link came up for me earlier via Google, but it seems rather specific to JoinCoin. I assume we'd have to write algo=script instead of x11, quark etc., and should one really append --algorithm darkcoin-mod?
Since I didn't have an AMD GPU readily available I thought to try the old cudaminer, and found this 2014 wiki to describe the solo GPU mining steps so succinctly. Downloaded ccminer since that fork seems to be the dominant successor and it's updated for CUDA 8.0 and modern GPUs, and I hacked up this ccminer.conf:
Code:
{
"_comment1" : "Possible keys are the long options (ccminer --help)",
"_comment2" : "todo: support /* comments */",
"api-bind": "127.0.0.1:9150",
"statsavg": 20,
"max-log-rate" : 30,
"quiet" : false,
"debug" : false,
"protocol" : false,
"cpu-priority" : 3,
"algo" : "scrypt",
"url" : "http://127.0.0.1:9150",
"user" : "hanzou",
"pass" : "none"
}
Then somehow, it actually worked: http://i.imgur.com/BSs28c5.jpg"_comment1" : "Possible keys are the long options (ccminer --help)",
"_comment2" : "todo: support /* comments */",
"api-bind": "127.0.0.1:9150",
"statsavg": 20,
"max-log-rate" : 30,
"quiet" : false,
"debug" : false,
"protocol" : false,
"cpu-priority" : 3,
"algo" : "scrypt",
"url" : "http://127.0.0.1:9150",
"user" : "hanzou",
"pass" : "none"
}
and I held the majority of the network hashing power that morning with a single mid-end GPU. Seems like we had better foster more mining participation.
Next question, the websites report the block rewards as:
> Blocks Flappycoin Reward
> 700000-725000
> 725000-750000
> 750000 (Proof-of-Stake Kicks In Again)
yet we're sitting on block 769528 and still mining. Is this plan out-of-date?
Lastly, the "About FlappyCoin" box for version 5 reports it as version 3.2.0 and from 2014:
http://i.imgur.com/Uh32Jh6.jpg
Does this need to be fixed? Or maybe I'm not running the binary that I think I am.
