Hi everyone,
With the recent activity on the exchanges, I thought I had better check on the little laptop in my roof that was staking away for my wallet. Turns out that it hasn't been staking away since early September, and is almost past being usable, so I thought I would put the wallet on another retired laptop. Seems like it's struggling to gain connections after the following steps:
- installed & ran the freshly downloaded wallet
- exited the wallet
- copied wallet.dat from the old laptop
- pasted it onto the new laptop in the AppData\Roaming\Solarcoin folder, replacing the newly created one
I remembered some discussions earlier in the thread regarding peers.dat and solarcoin.conf; there was no solarcoin.conf file so I created one with
addnode=162.243.214.120 as the only line. I've tried reloading the blockchain and rescanning the wallet, but the best I get is 1 connection, and most of the time it has none.
Not sure how relevant this is, but my holdings also increased by roughly 5000 SLR without any new transactions coming in... Could possibly be staking revenues but that doesn't make a lot of sense without any transactions. Any ideas? I just wanted to get staking again, and hoped it would be a bit simpler than this...
Cheers
babbey
[EDIT] - The more I think about it, the more it feels like way back when the wallets forked, and we received massive amounts of coins from staking. I think I got over 73,000 coins at one point - if only I'd been on the right chain!
I think I'll have to fire up the old machine when I get home from work tonight & try to convince the wallet to start up properly; there's a chance that I may just have been a bit impatient with a very slow machine, maybe with enough time the wallet will come up properly and I can use the 'Backup Wallet' and 'Export Keys' commands.