Topic: [ANN][XCN] Cryptonite | 1st mini-blockchain coin | M7 PoW | No Premine - page 12. (Read 578543 times)

Well I guess there's no better time than Christmas to let you guys know I'm still alive. I am truly sorry for being absent for so long, I've just had so many other projects that have consumed my time and honestly there's not much I can do in terms of core development. Like I said before, since there was no premine it's very hard to create an incentive for people to work on Cryptonite. However I am really amazed how well XCN has managed to chug along without absolutely any development and without me being around. It's still ranked #143 on coinmarketcap.com despite all the bugs and lack of development. That tells me people think the technology behind Cryptonite has value and I think developers should see that instead of focusing all their effort of complex scripting applications. Some times people just want to send some coins to each other and they want fast micro-transactions to be possible without needing to hear about how it bloats the blockchain.

Anyways, after new years I will make myself more active in this community again. I've finished most of the stuff I wanted to work on now and I have done quite a lot of C++ development in the process. So I'm probably at the point where I would feel confident modifying the Cryptonite code base but it's still a very complex task especially since it works very differently to most coins. As for the block explorer, the chain is now so large that I will need to recode the existing explorer so that it reads block files directly from disk instead of using the RPC API. However I could also design it to only show transactions from the last week so that anyone could create their own explorer without needing a complete copy of the blockchain. I feel like that's ultimately a better approach because it wouldn't have the sort of scaling problems that a normal block explorer would have.

Of course it would still show the correct balance because that information is stored in the account tree. I don't think people would really care if they couldn't see transactions made more than a week ago. However I've come to the decision that I cannot run the explorer myself unless I think the explorer can be kept alive by donations. The type of server required to run a coin daemon is not very cheap and I already paid to keep the explorer alive for over a year. I don't make anything from Cryptonite and I'm not going to keep spending money to keep it alive. I also decided not to run a XCN web wallet myself for the same reason, and also because I don't want to be responsible for all that money if something were to go wrong with the web wallet. I can share all the javascript code I wrote for creating valid XCN transactions, but I don't want to run a web wallet myself.

I also don't think it's a good idea to have XCN services so centralized, it shouldn't be up to me to build and run all these services. I will see what I can do in terms of core development, but I cannot do everything myself. One of the reasons I haven't been around here for a while is because I felt overwhelmed having so much to do myself. Obviously I care a lot about Cryptonite since I played a large role in developing the concepts behind it, so I don't want to see it fail. But I cannot do everything myself and I cannot keep spending my own money to get things done. I am thankful to you guys who have been helping others solve problems while I was absent, once again I'm glad to see so many people still showing interest in this coin. Hopefully in 2017 we will be able to make a bit of progress and get things happening again.

alright
Thanks for clarification

BDB == wallet
LevelDB == blocks

In normal implementations. however libmldb is used here.

I don't know what is "bdb versions", but does that mean what I'm doing (frequently creating a torrent file for the blockchain) is pointless and won't help anybody?

Could be incompatible bdb versions.

I don't know where the problem is!
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I have cleaned the blockchain of my wallet and used the one I created earlier to see whether it will sync correctly and it worked just fine.

May be because I'm on windows or what?

someone should stop the xcn, supernva miners them creating to many blocks to fast,

wallets cant keep it up,, should be d forked

Same for me - didn't work.

But the one that pallas posted, worked great and my wallet is finally synced! Yaaaay!

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

First enable it on the wallet preferences.
Then wait some minutes (better some tens) and run "getmininginfo" on the console.
If you see some nodes with "inbound: true", that means you are receiving connections from the outside.

OK I will let it run. How do I check if my UPNP is enabled? Sorry I am not tech savvy.

Yes it will help by validating blocks and helping other peers to sync. Better if inbound access is enabled by opening the port on the router or enabling UPNP (must be enabled on the router as well, it might be by default).

Tried this and it works and wallet is sync now. TQ.
I am running Windows' cryptonite-qt.exe wallet, would it help the network if I leave it running?

Ahah, Thanks!

I'm a windows user anyway and don't know the equivalent of "fuser" in windows but at least I would wait for a while after closing the wallet before copying the files.

I included the same.
And, before making the archive, I made sure the files wheren't open by any process, using "fuser".

what files did you include in it? may be I'm missing something that should be there

I include the following:
- blocks folder
- peers.dat
- trie.dat

Here is my updated chain snapshot (in case others do not work or you wanna use https instead of torrent):

https://app.box.com/s/1s6vekarhf4rdqwaf9bginctqn26m2to

May be there was a problem while creating the torrent file.

I have created a newer one

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0Jm_-4eCvONZnZmbEdjRWs5a0U

pretty close to just bailing on this coin myself tbh...I try n keep faith but always some dodgey shit goin on , wether exchange is delisting it or some other error.. private miner kernals... 1 miner doing 30% world hashrate........etc etc i could keep going  ..... I totally cant even imagine how u must feel pallas .

  Community always asking for shit... with no incentive for those that could help , just take take take and never give . I am sorry i blabbled on n attracted so many ppl to it , cause they all want want want without giving anything in return .
 
Folks hit this hard since then.... and Amph and yourself were right , the profitability went pretty bad ... to now.... where it aint even profitable..... i may as well just go mine on nicehash id earn more at this current moment .

I aint gonna lie either , i am always honest and straight up . You were so worried about me increasing the world hash when i asked you about buying your private miner...... i had 3 gpus only... not even high end ones.....you rly have no idea how small time i am in this mining scene , although you could have trusted me.. and as i said.... its the coin i tell no one about... let alone share a private miner for it .

Your answer rly twisted me.... so i went and told everyone how profitable it rly was . now look at it , heh . Killed it for myself , and never got a thing for giving out information that attracted miners to it ( not that i expected it...... but the guy who put me onto xcn i legit sent him 1k coin I mined on a single 750ti (all i had when i started mining it) for passing on the info and cause i was stocked i found a sick coin to mine on my old nvidia hardware .

  buncha kernts

Also getting that kind of error using the same blockchain:
http://imgur.com/a/MMxDw\

P.S. Can anyone please upload their working blockchain for wallet v0.1.1.0-g3fb0591-beta (64-bit)?