[ANN][I0C] Resurrection, memory problems and instabilitiy fixed! - page 8.

Please upgrade to (at least) i0coin-0.8.3-2 (or current git HEAD, branch i0coin-0.8.x) as soon as possible. All old clients are on an unsafe, unsupported and mostly stale fork of the I0coin blockchain. The fork occured on September 10th.

I0C (logo by Lightlord), our favourite non-premined, fully decentralised, merged minable altcoin is back. I0coin used to require a lot of memory, about 8.2GB. The updated version only uses about 250MB (fully synced). The problem was fixed by moving data from memory storage to disk storage (this data was almost never used, it just took up space). Technical details are in the git log.

Merged minable means you can mine this coin for free while mining BTC. ~~The new release is compatible with the old one, users using the old crashy and memory-hungry client will see the same blockchain as users of the new client.~~ The old client is incompatible with the old client after block 895079, you should use the new client.

Short instructions on how to join the network, and start merged mining with P2Pool:

If you want to download binaries for windows or GNU/Linux, you can find release 0.8.6-1 on my i0coin website.

The sourcecode is in a git repository on github. The recommended branch (currently i0coin-0.8.x) is automatically selected. If you want to compile the program yourself, do:

Code:

$ git clone http://github.com/rsnel/i0coin/
$ cd i0coin/src
$ make -f makefile.unix i0coind

create ~/.i0coin/i0coin.conf which contains

Code:

server=1
daemon=1
rpcport=7332
rpcuser=i0coinrpc
rpcpassword=SOME_PASSWORD_HERE
port=7333
addnode=85.17.248.211:7333
addnone=198.154.60.61:7333
addnode=188.165.216.59:7333

Note, the seednodes are currenty hardcoded in the program, so the addnode= lines don't really do anything.

Run the daemon and let it sync. At the start of this resurrection, there were about 848000 blocks in the blockchain. Please open incoming port 7333 in your firewall, the network needs externally reachable nodes to grow.

Let's earn some coin with P2Pool. Miners that already are merged mining GG,NVC,IXC,DVC already know what to do.

For the rest of us:

Code:

$ git checkout https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/
$ cd p2pool
$ less README.md
$ # install required packages, you did read the README didn't you?
$ ./run_p2pool.py --give-author 1.0 \
        --merged http://i0coinrpc:SOME_PASSWORD_HERE@localhost:7333/ \
        BITCOINRPC_USERNAME BITCOINRPC_PASSWORD

If you point your miner to localhost:9332 you will earn BTC, it will be sent directly to your wallet. In addition, without extra cost, you will get free I0coins. If you want to earn yet more coins (like IXC,DVC,NMC), please see this excellent topic https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-complete-guide-to-p2pool-merged-mining-btcnmcdvcixci0c-plus-ltc-linux-62842. After that you should be able to figure GG out yourself.

Too much hassle? Check out http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool/ (BTC 01.5% DGM, NMC/DVC/IXC/I0C~~??!?!!?~~ PPS) ~~to see if~~, they have re-enabled I0C!

I hope that, once there is enough mining power, exchanges will relist this likable coin.

Updates:

bitparking has enabled support for I0C
added seednode from pankkake, thanks!
official binary release 0.8.3-1 http://i0coin.snel.it/
this coin is officially not dead anymore (undead? )
added DNSSeedNode i0seed.snel.it to current git (how it works)
official binary release 0.8.3-2 http://i0coin.snel.it/ (please upgrade asap)
official binary release 0.8.4-2 http://i0coin.snel.it/ (contains stability and DoS protection fixes from bitcoin)
the hard fork has occured, I0coin is ready for primetime!
official binary release 0.8.5-1 http://i0coin.snel.it/ (contains stability fixes from bitcoin)
Vircurex has re-enabled I0coin, you can make an account there using my referral URL
official binary release 0.8.6-1 http://i0coin.snel.it/ (contains misc fixes from bitcoin)

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