Topic: [ANN] New Piggycoin [PIGGY] | 3% interest | Web PiggyBank | Android PiggyBank - page 24. (Read 222647 times)

I had to download the PIGGY block chain again (the one I had got corrupted). I'm running into a snag, though. The wallet is stuck at block 752139 and eventually goes offline. I can close the wallet and reopen it, and it will connect to the network, but then it makes no progress and I find that it has gone offline.

Suggestions?

I just looked at my bandwidth stats on my wallet container which only talk to one other node and it runs an average of 600Bytes/sec in and 200Bytes/sec out. A quick calc puts that at ~70MB per day or 2GB per month so you would be better off using a hosted wallet. Note this was also a fully synced wallet and the sync would take orders more bandwidth. I would suggest using a hosted wallet, one on a trusted exchange perhaps? It has been tossed around increasing the block times to 2 or 3 minutes which might address this.

640MB seems high to me as I just built one and it was 350MB ... I will push a bootstrap up to the Team gtithub repo in the next couple of days.

neurocis.

the download for piggy coin on cryptochainer.com is about 640 MB. If a download is interrupted, I doubt the host mega.nz allows me to continue download from where it left off. So I doubt that I can download it with my bad connection ( cause its likely it will be interrupted).

So about the other suggestion, to give only one channel of team piggy, what do you think is the amount of bandwidth required to sync with it?

Thanks

Agreed, looked like pure speculation to me. We have much going on behind the scenes still, including games, but some foundational work still needs to be done IMO, especially supporting SPV wallets.

I would suggest downloading a blockchain bootstrap so you do not have the overhead of syncing the entire chain. This is not an endorsement but cryptochainer.com has a piggy bootstrap, although getting a bit dated. In addition, to reduce bandwidth, configure your wallet in newpiggycoin.conf (location per ANN) to not listen (listen=0) and to only connect to a single peer (connect=192.210.139.104) that address is the wallet running on a Team PiggyCoin server.

Only specify a server you know you can trust, and download bootstraps you know you can trust to avoid being on a forked chain.

neurocis.

GreenMo also suggested to me that the seed nodes may have become stale, which they were. I have since refreshed the bootstrap seed node on the piggy-coin.com domain so this should be fixed. Alternatively you may specify a list of nodes as per the ANN.

hello everyone,

I just downloaded newpiggycoin-qt.exe, and it has connected to other nodes ( says "5 active connections").

However, I am not sure what it is doing, and how much bandwidth it will or is using. I am on a very limited bandwidth, and cannot give 1 GB or so to just one app. So can anyone kindly shed a light on the amount of bandwidth that will be used by this application to sync or any other task?

Thank you 

Hi,

What version of the wallet do you have, and on what operating system? :8]

My take on it was that it was a pump and dump built off the news that a new game is being released this month (see posts above) that will pay out in piggycoin. A previous round hit on April 1, when the price spiked to 308 satoshi on the first news of the rumored game, IIRC, and then fell back right to where it was before after a while.

Hi all, A little problem piggy wallet will no longer connect to the network any ideas on how to fix it?

I am curious to know if their was a valid reason for the recent price rise. On 1 July, the price hit 120 satoshis. Even now, three days later, it is hovering around 50 satoshis. Previously the price was stable around 20-25 satoshis. I am always curious to see if anyone knows why movements like this happen. Is it based on real news (and hence the rise is sustainable) or some kind of hype or pump?

The volume for the 24 hours around 1 July was ~200 BTC.

Any ideas?

I agree. It's easy enough to find the current site, no need to put significant funds towards something that minor.

With the domain, I agree that the funds can be spent somewhere else. I do not think it's justified to spend $400 on a domain name when there are tons of other stuff that can be spent with that money.

 as the first standalone piggy-game is coming I suppose we should establish some kind of a promotion fund for game-developers  so they can use piggycoin as tradable in-game currency. Games for kids should be privileged. And that's a bright idea for crypto-promotion. Everything starts with children.

Not sure whether I mentioned it already, but the owner of piggycoin.com is offering it to us for USD 400.  Anyone interested? '(oo)'

We do already have access to piggycoin.xyz and piggycoin.io if those would be better than our present domain.  Thoughts?

Oink,
Mo

If it turns out to be legit you should post a link to it in the Games tab of the Piggy-coin.com website. Just a thought.

I had another thought derived from my idea above about using MellowAds advertising to promote the new Piggycoin game. The advertising on Mellow Ads can be used for anything - so why not run some advertising pointing people to the official Piggy-Coin.com website, as a way of building brand awareness and promoting piggycoin? I'm guessing most people in the crypto space have never heard of it, so just getting the name out there could be worthwhile. I'd be willing to try running some ads from my MellowAds account if the game falls flat.

The only thing Piggycoin boosters would need for such a project, besides signing up for a MellowAds account as described in my prior post, are some banner ads that could be used in our advertising. Could someone with greater graphic skills than I take a stab at creating some standard-sized banner ads for Piggycoin?

They could  be posted on a "Sharing/Resources" tab of the Piggycoin website, if that's OK. For that matter the website could host other collected resources for Piggycoin users. For example I've created certificates in powerpoint (or could be a PDF) for rewarding kids with piggycoin that I'd be happy to share.

We PiggyTeam don't yet know anything about this game, but we welcome third-party development.  Oink!

No kidding. I tried logging in and refreshing a few times to no avail. The mess with The DAO is burying Polo right now. I don't think you could buy piggy if you tried. Parts of the screen load, but from the comments in the trollbox it sounds like the trade engine was locked up. So, be patient if you want to trade Piggy today. :-)

I am wondering how the new game will effect the price. It would be nice to have a price in the 100 or 200 satoshi range. ~20 looks undervalued in my opinion. Hopefully the Piggy people can post or tweet about this.

The Polo trollbox is now obsessed with ETH and DAO. No-one else can comment! No-one cares about PIGGY!

Regarding the new PIGGY game, I have one thing worth sharing. It's in our best interest to grow the community to attract as many new people to the game as we can. For anyone looking forward to the game, here's a simple, painless way to do that. I've gotten 100+ referrals with it for other games so I know it works.

There's a faucet that pays out 5000/10000/100,000 satoshi once per day - the catch is that they can only be spent on advertising. But since most games (including hopefully this one) pay you for getting referrals, you still wind up helping yourself. So I suggest folks get on this faucet and start stockpiling funds with an eye towards advertising the game when it comes out. I've got a fair bit saved up (I won the 100,000 award a few days ago, it happens more often than you'd think), and plan to do exactly that!

Here's my referral link - feel free to share your own around once you have your own account, as you get a 50% bonus in your own account for all referral earnings. I pledge I'll put all my earnings into this game (unless it is a total crash and burn) for the next few months to support this effort. Hopefully the game will provide some graphics to plug into the advertising - in fact, I think I'll email the game's email address in that article and ask them about that now. I'll let everyone know what I hear back.

(EDIT: Good grief, I forgot the link. Here it is: http://mellowads.com/?ref=87C20ECA6BBD)

This could be a big splash in our little pond. I think the Piggycoin community could grow dramatically from this game if it is any good at all, and more people involved will lead to more projects and development, leading to more good things. Oink!