Topic: [ANN] Orbitcoin v1.6.0.0 ~ NeoScrypt ~ Green Stake ~ 4 Years Old - page 2. (Read 201336 times)

What do you mean by community development?

Hello! Is OrbitCoin interested in community development ?

Hi, the bootstrap link does not work, anyone got a working link for windows?

Exactly.


I've decided to make a couple more small improvements and compile Windows binaries after. It's a matter of a few days.

ghostlander: "technically valid" what does that mean.  will the total maximum amount of coins change by that 150k?

should everyone download new version now?

Orbitcoin v1.6.2.0 has been released.

It's a mandatory update for pools and exchanges addressing a critical vulnerability. There was a bug in block verification code that originated from PPC. It affected only hybrid PoW/PoS coins. It could never make itself to the block chain under normal circumstances. Someone could generate a PoW block with a valid coin base, a valid regular tx, and a rogue coin stake or even a few. The block verification code did not check for such injected coin stakes. What was even worse, it didn't check output values at all. A tx with a million coins output basically out of thin air was perfectly acceptable, though it would be never accepted to a mempool. The attacker had to compose a PoW block, mine it and broadcast to the network.

That's exactly what has happened in block 3237780. 150k coins were generated, 70k were sold on Freiexchange the next day, the rest were dumped recently on the 8th/9th of September crashing the price to 200 sats. The hack has been brought to my attention too late to counter it, even though I have identified the attack vector and patched the vulnerability in just a couple of a hours. It's a very bad idea to roll back such a large part of the block chain, besides the coins have been sold already. Whoever have purchased them at such a low price, well, enjoy them. They are technically valid coins.

Windows and Mac binaries coming.

Yes, actually I have almost forgotten. I've also scheduled a new release with all updates and bug fixes over the last 2+ years.

8th anniversary 3 days ago 

Data, not database.

Today after about 24 hours, the wallet still didn't sync. I will try placing the orbitcoin.conf notepad file with the two add nodes code written on it, in the folder called database inside the folder named data. Yesterday I had it placed just inside the folder named data.

It should be named orbitcoin.conf and placed inside the data subdir, or it won't be picked up. The wallet can learn about new peers from IRC unless you have blocked it.

I created a .conf notepad file and placed it inside the data folder and added the two codes

where exactly is the .conf file located

Add this to your .conf file
addnode=seed0.orbitcoin.org:15298
addnode=seed1.orbitcoin.org:15298

It still isn't functioning properly

Just keep it running for some time, should connect eventually.

I downloaded its blockchain and bought some ORB.
how to active that yellow triangle at bottom of right corner?
POS mining enabled but the triangle color does not shine.

edit:

It fixed automatically after few days.

looking at it, its interesting how many blocks contain coin transactions.

Explorer: http://cryptopool.at/explorer/ORB