Topic: [ANN] Techcoin [TECH] [186,985 PoW coins 4% PoS] [BITTREX] [ALLCOIN] - page 14. (Read 69930 times)

Just had some minted coins matured and some more coins started staking slowly but surely

EDIT: tweet tweet https://twitter.com/fonzerrellie/status/493665627354054656

There's no way to get blocks produced by PoS any quicker with such low network stake, and no way to change that quickly enough by moving coins to stake because of confirmations & maturity.  Looks like I produced a block after my coins hit the 60 (one hour, lol) block target.  Now all my coins are staked - we'll also reduce the maturity time in the next version too so that these staked coins can re-enter the workforce quicker.

I'm merging the changes for PoW re-start now, I was hoping the network weight would start to rise again with everyone updating but it seems to be slowly dropping despite giving it a good amount of time, so time to move ahead with the original plan of restarting PoW.

I have also been working on moving the block explorer to a different machine, and while doing so it seems to be working better.  Currently it is not using the X13 or X15 hash modules, and relies on RPC to talk to the coin server, but I tracked them down and it seems to be reading the PoW blocks better.  Trying to implement a nicer interface before switching it over...  might as well look improved too.

I sent a message to Allcoin - it is disappointing that they haven't updated the wallet and kept up, just shutting down transfers and then the market.  The completely dead coin HPY (happycoin) is still being traded even though is was an obvious scam and there is no blockchain, block explorer or dev at all!  It is not on the chopping block list yet it's far more dead than TECHcoin.

Hopefully someone has contacted bittrex?  Hate to see the coin removed just as a revival gets into full swing.

Up to block 5084 and 37 confirms on my 3000 coins.  Oh, and yeah, I thought to withdrawal the 3000 coins in a dozen chunks of 200-300 coins.  If we can just move the blockchain enough to get these coins stake eligible, we will be moving again.

that would be awesome, and with the diff low it would only take a few cpu's to maintain the blockchain?  lol last time I tried mining on my cpu I smelt smoke from my psu, so could I use my gpu in the wallet to help if it happens ?

mines on block 5081 now, the blockchain is still moving slow... but moving, I've been adding what I can to my collection since these prices are so ridiculously low. if the new team gets the bugs worked out our patience will be well rewarded

Yeah, you would, because POS is hardcoded to end. That code would need to be changed and the block reward adjusted. If I understand correctly, we're talking maybe 5 lines of code that need altering, but those five lines mean that everyone who wishes to go forward would need the new client. As far as making it happen, you just need to add  a line to your .conf file, or edn247 could add in a mining module to the wallet. The command is already supported. Setgenerate in console, and gen or generate in the rpc commands.

we would need another wallet update to be able to mine in the wallet right now right? that sounds like a great idea... is our problem that there just isn't enough wallets staking right now? I have some waiting to stake lol but with the blockchain moving so slowly it'll take a bit for the coins to mature

thanks to everyone working on this coin, hopefully we can get it moving and give it good push on twitter before before bittrex drops it 

I'm not a coder, but I have been looking into this from my own angles. Code wise, it's probably not that difficult, but it IS a hard fork. Everyone would need to have the wallet that contains the change.

The harder question is how to implement it, and what I've suggested to edn247 is that y'all implement it with a zero reward, with a cpu miner active in the wallet. (it's already there, you just have to add setgenerate true in console or add generate =1 in your .conf) after which the wallets will be mining, solving blocks, and getting things moving. This is, in my opinion, is the softest way to do it because it does two positive things. It gets the block chain moving, and it takes away any incentive to attack the coin for profit, as the only profit in the POW would be from transactions. Everyone is likely to have their wallets open for staking anyway, so it's not an egregious burden on the users.

I'm not currently involved in this coin, I'm just friendly with edn247. So if the above is not workable for whatever reason, just think of what you paid for it

My two satoshis.

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what would it take to throw in some pow to help get this moving? the sooner the better.  Or is it possible to change nodes altogether in a new wallet version to disconnect all the old versions?

We took over the thread on the 19th - but we were planning an unauthorized takeover before that because it seemed necessary.

Sometimes it helps to quit and load it a few times to get it synced.  You can also download most of the blockchain from github so you don't even have to wait, check the OP.

awesome when did the take over occur? 

just updated currently stuck at block 5000 but its only been running a few minutes so i'll give it a few hours

forgot i only had 44 coins lol

Anonymity is as important as we all decide it is.  Personally I share your view on this, especially as it's not something I have experience with, I wouldn't be innovating, so might as well let the devs who want to play with different methods hash it out and see what ends up being the best and implement it then.

Payment platform / online shop platform / shop-in-wallet / other drastic gui improvement / innovations - that's the direction I'd like to head once we sort out the underlying problems the original dev left us with.

Time wise, yes they should have...  but unfortunately the wallet measures time in blocks, and is expecting one every 60 seconds, so that makes the 1h (v1.0.1.1+) maturity 60 blocks (if you have v1.0.0.1 it's 60 x 24, that's why it was changed).  If you hover over that transaction you'll see Confirmed ( XX confirmations) and that number needs to be 60.

I have a block that is at 59 now......  sooooo close!

I don't currently have this wallet. However, I think I can help you, as I had a similar issue with sync and recovered my coins. Unfortunately, not ALL wallets have this feature, so you'll have to look. There's another way if it don't work. I would do this in PM, but I think it might help others with the same issue.

Both of these method make the assumption that your client loads. If it's crashing on launch, I'm not sure what to do. I had that issue with maxcoin, and ended up losing the coins. (well, I still have the wallet.dat file, but I can't at this time recover it). In this post I'm only detailing the easier of the two. If necessary, I'll revisit it.

Preferred method. Dumpwallet.

(note, I'm putting this up for you AND for general consumption, so if the detail seems excessive, just bear in mind that others might not have the same level of knowledge).

click on help. click on debug window.

In the debug window, click on console. In console, type help and press enter. This will bring up a list of all available commands. You're looking for two. Dumpwallet and importwallet. Note the capitalization, especially if you're running linux.

Now for the fun stuff. Assuming the dumpwallet command exists, type "dumpwallet "  The filename is anything you choose, and it's a plain text file when it dumps.

Now, save your existing wallet.dat somewhere, and the dumped wallet file, and completely delete your data directory. In windows that will be in user\yourusername\appdata\roaming\techcoin. In linux, it will be /home/user/.techoin. Again, before deletion make SURE you have saved your wallet.dat file, and it's a good idea to keep your configuration file as well, though at this point in the game you might want to rewrite it with only known good nodes.

Now. If you don't have the newest wallet, get it. make sure you have th config as you want it, and launch it. As soon as it's up, again go to the console as in the first step. This time type importwallet using the filename you had dumped (make sure of the proper path). It will import all of your private keys and blockchain transaction as the new wallet syncs.

This worked on a wallet that just would not be repaired for me in SYNC. Got everything back, just had to wait for the chain to sync.

If tech coin don't have the dumpwallet function, all is not lost. But this is a bit more time consuming and tedious.

I don't feel like detailing that right now, but if someone informs me that tech coin don't have the dumpwallet function, I'll type that up to. I have manually recovered all of the private keys in a wallet before, but I have to look up some commands to type it up properly.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

Have you updated the latest wallet?  Try fully syncing it and then replace wallet.dat and let me know what happens.  if it doesn't work, hit me up on PM.  

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the direction that we can take this coin, and have not spoken to the devs much about future plans as I am letting them get the chain moving before we worry to much about future development.  The thing I do know is that there is no reason to copy every other coin out there.  Is Anon important?  eh.  everyone else has it, and at some point an implementation may add to what we want to do, but all I see at this point is a race to who can get it done properly.  Why not focus on other features, and when someone has a proven-open-source anon solution, well it would be easy to add to the coin while we have already moved forward with newer and more innovative features.

One of the biggest things we need to think about is how Credit Card companies entice consumers to use their product - (SYNC is on to something).  IF we can get a proper payment platform that actually rewards users for using the product and not just holding it...... well you get what I am saying.

alright, I will leave it at that.

devs, help me! My coins should have matured for a long time.

120-130 plus bittrex:

How many coins do you think you should have?  If you are having wallet issues I wanted to try to track down coins you think should be in your wallet pn the blockchain.