Topic: [ANN] Slimcoin : Proof of Burn NEW BLOCK GEN, Mineable by low power computer! - page 25. (Read 284961 times)

Richard Simmons would be really proud of this coin lol

I really want to compile a windows binary file cpuminer. 

I have not been able to get SLIMcoins (purchased from Bter) transferred  to my wallet for more than 4 days. I was told by Bter exchange that it was due to 'network' issues although my wallet has been synced well. Maybe there are multiple forks going on?  I need these coins to test PoB.     .............Maybe using Banana PI,for example, in the near future.

The PoB concept and ability to mine with a slimmed down/primitive/no-frill computer are otherwise pretty much intriguing. It would be a shame to see the basic wallet issues are hampering mining and coin transfer as well as probably the ultimate prosperity of this crypto.

Got it to stop crashing, but now it's stuck at 93907. Already added in the node slimcoin mentioned.

I think I've had enough with this coin. Glad I only threw in a smallish test investment rather than throwing a lot in at once. If someone else makes a PoB coin (especially if its one or some of the people on this thread who actually know what they're doing) I'll definitely be trying that one out.


edit: nevermind... for whatever reason I spent the time to get it working again. I can't imagine anyone investing real money in this unless it gets some huge improvements and probably a new developer.



edit 2: aaaaand it crashed again. I'm done. For real this time. Probably.


edit 3: got it workin again. Obviously I suck at quitting things. Of course, so do you if you're still reading this comment at this point.

another 1: broken again. I don't think the new code changes anything related to the crashes- even reducing the number of orphan blocks from the 750 default doesn't help

The wallet finally synced overnight. It works now. But it has been quite problematic if any one sees their wallets forked for more than 12 hours with blockchains  running more than 200 blocks ahead.

Afterward, all the posted info/instructions help very much. Thanks.

I set up and synced the wallet yesterday.
Today, the wallet forked at 92053.

I restarted from the downloaded wallet, syncing all day, forked several times on the way and again forked at 92053, running Conf file with  a single -addnode=76.127.202.17 or multiple addnodes makes no difference; and the Roaming files looked different from the previous file (also forked at 92053) renamed for comparison.

Did not even have chance to start any thing yet, mining or getting coins and burn-mining etc. It would be pitiful for me to stop at this point. It is easier to do just that. But I would doubt any new comer would do any better, considering that I started to learn programming more then 40 years ago and I have several mining rigs for more than 10 months.

OK Thanks. Do we have any volunteers ?

I am maintaining this project, just development will be lower and more community based.

Just add -addnode=76.127.202.17 and you should get back on.

Yes most probably a $pork - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork  

Any sign of Slimcoin or I guess this is now a community effort already ?

*Sings* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ahc-oEFQ7k   

fork again.

I have 4 GB on win 7 64-bit and I still get em. Haven't gotten to mess with the code yet though (thanks for posting the fixes btw BitcoinFX)

Unfortunately I got the St9bad_alloc error again, and I even don't know if the fixes have changed something.

Now I did some testing and it seems the Slimcoind daemon (without GUI) on my machine needs in total about 1,3-1,5 GB of memory to run without these crashes. So if someone has a machine with less space you must assign it some swap space on hard disk.

On my 512 MB low memory machine it seems to work fine with 1 GB of swap (with Linux/Ubuntu OS), so on a Raspberry Pi and similar devices it should be similar.

Yes. There are a couple of user interface discrepancies in this regard still.

The check point error is just that, we need updated checkpoints or automated check pointing built in. Slimcoin probably started updating some seed node stuff for the updated release too.

I think what you're explaining might be the PoS thing I've encountered.

My SLM sometimes show up 100% in balance, sometimes 100% in stake, sometimes just a few % in stake. I thought PoS meant all coins older than x will be in stake, while newly moved coins will be in balance.
At least that is what the devs of other coins that I've been into so far explained it like. None of their PoS was actually working though, so this is new to me.

I'm still connected using that one node from one of you guys and it seems to work fine.
I do have the error "checkpoint is too old wait for blockchain to download" in the statusbar all the time. It still says "last generated block x seconds ago" and I guess that is okay.

Indeed. It has been apparent for sometime that the issues and 'crashes' are just over RAM related exception errors.

Hopefully you won't see any crashes at R-Pi levels of RAM now then.  

Even windows systems with large RAM seem to be more stable using only the current release, probably as the network, hash rate and block propagation is becoming more stable once again.

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PoS blocks take a while to confirm and will show as 'ticked' in transactions whilst still being 'staked' in balance, this is even more confusing if you have multiple stakes active. That's possibly what your describing m5j0r ?

Probably I have good news.

A couple of hours ago I have compiled the newest git version with the last fixes of "slimcoin" and they seem to solve the out-of-memory problem (the crash with St9bad_alloc error). No crashes so far at a low-memory (512 MB) VPS. I will confirm it if it runs 24 hs without any issues.

Also, I am now nearly one week without any sync problems. So basically, the client is working stable now.

@m5j0r: What do you mean with the "switching" between balance and stake? If you have found a PoS block when this happened (you see it when there is a little increment in the amount of coins after it goes to "balance" again) then it is normal behaviour in all Peercoin-based coins. Its a security measure to be sure the PoS system is not gamed.

I don't much care for the pump and dump coins and prefer to support the alt coins that have some innovation or that are actually alternative.

I should utilize my trading skills more to try and consistently profit in the alt coin markets, but I don't and mostly just mine and hold the coins that I like best on their merits, such as Slimcoin.

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ROOT coin (as one example of a future PoB coin) has announced that it will try to implement a technology similar to PoB and Korecoin has also announced that it will look to add PoBA (Proof-of-Burn-Anonymity), which as you will appreciate as a participant in this thread and Slimcoin user should be most interesting to watch!

Moreover, my main point being that their is actually increasing developer interest in the PoB concept and that Slimcoin will always remain the original 'stand alone' implementation of Proof-of-Burn - much like Peercoin has spawned many PoS alternatives such as Mintcoin and other coins like Cloakcoin with PoSA (Proof-of-Stake-Anonymity).

The likely hood that we will see increasing interest levels and community development for Slimcoin is therefore quite high.

I'm someone who spent well over a year mining, trading, researching, testing and promoting Bitcoin in the very early days of this forum - who cashed out at low value to pursue other projects - simply because it was taking longer than I envisaged to really take of - So, don't just delete / sell everything and quit Slimcoin, because that's just no fun whatsoever.

@BitcoinFX That's a very interesting POV but most if not all coin devs are in the game to make money. 99.99% of BTC users are in it for that.

Just like all the clones that got big. They excel in marketing and get people into it. Hype it. Strategically cash out. Then eternal downtrend. Same game with the next coin.

Anyway. My stake/balance is still switching around like mad. Looking at the prices on BTER I will probably never break even. Money down the drain. Not too much, but still annoying.

Hoping for: -a new wallet -an official dev node that actually works -dev talking to exchanges

Or I might just delete the whole thing and be done with it. So much trouble for so little.

OK good to know. The priority being a more stable Slimcoin client wallet that functions as described.

If the wallet is stable (again) then I'm certain that more people will get involved with mining and trading Slimcoin once its on a few exchanges.

One person can't do everything and this is a centralized development approach anyway. Lets get a stable wallet running and the community will just have to run with it from here.

PoB and the economic crypto-experiment presented by Slimcoin is worthy of more research and interest imho, perhaps by university economics, mathematics and computer science departments, for example.

How about
-actually making the wallet work. It still crashes a lot
-setting up a node that works. I've ran my sys 24/7 for nothing until a helpful user here posted another node
-doing some marketing. FFS it's your coin isn't it?
No exchange is interested in SLM at all.

No offense but it seems as if you rely on the community doing YOUR work.

Edit: My coins now randomly switch between stake and balance. Shouldn't they always be in "balance" until I eventually move them?