Topic: BTCD is no more - page 211. (Read 1328507 times)

Wow, Bitcoin getting absolutely hammered.  Was quite a shock when I turned on my computer this morning.

Nice first post piratebenn. Welcome to the forum.

I neven had problem with the wallet and sync issue, except once. When I downloaded and installed in my friends PC to show him. The sync didn't start quickly due to not connected to any nodes. I had everything set up correctly from the OP. After trying different things I left it open for ~30 minutes. The BTCD wallet got connected and synced 100% automatically. Couldn't figure out what happened but worked at the end.

The privacyServer testing going quite nice as well. We are able to send and receive messages directly from nodes. Expect good things perhaps in the near future.

vanagandre, i suddenly got a problem where my wallet was no longer working/wouldnt synch suddenly out of the blue, i was using a BTCD wallet version from maybe 3 months ago or so, i followed these same steps in the OP, backed up my wallet.dat and downloaded and ran the new client (put the copy and paste .conf file in the app roaming directory) and boom it started working again no problem. thank god.

i have no idea why it stopped working in the first place, but after opening it and letting it load and get stuck at the same place for a week or so, i thought alright, i better have a look and do something to get it working right, even tho theres no reason i know that broke it in the first place. following the instructions in the OP under wallet sync problems exactly sorted the problem. i know you said you have done this and it didnt work, so you want any other solutions, but id say give it one more try and be 100% that you follow the instructions to the letter.(if it still doest work, i hope someone else can help you, and m sure they will if they can, good luck!)

and have a nice night.

(p.s. this is my first post ever!)

(p.s.s. im quite drunk! but i think that made it even more urgent that i helped if possible, someone else who was trying to used this excellent, yet to be realized coin)

to the future!

Did this, but my wallet still isn't syncing... Another solution?

If I open up my Debug window, and look at Network; Number of connections, I've got 0. How do I establish a connection? I think this might be the issue.

1) download new wallet.

2 ) back up old wallet.

3) windows start menu type %appdata%  this brings up your roaming folder.

4) navigate to bitcoindark folder

5) make new folder in here called backup, copy all contents of folder here. use this to restore original files if things go wrong.

6) delete everything except wallet.dat and your backup folder.

7) right click, create new text document.

Cool paste node info from OP

9) save as ...  switch choice from "text file" to "all files"   bitcoindark.conf

10) go to new wallet download

11) unrar and click on wallet to open. it assembles the missing files in your appdata folder.

12) make a cup of coffee, wait for wallet to sync blockchain

latest status: https://forum.thesupernet.org/index.php?topic=66.msg1030#msg1030

tl:dr new DHT method should allow much more reliable and scalable connections with peers and this means reliable onion routing and all app layers.

I coded most of the Kademlia DHT API today:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/109.pdf

I have ping, pong, findnode, havenode coded and about to do the store and findvalue API

I am hoping someone will be able to make a GUI that uses this API and allows people to make money by letting others use their HDD. I want to use the auction process to set the pricing. For example, people that want to store data would bid B per month to store their data. People that want to rent space would set the amount of space they can make available. At the end of the month, the total amount paid would get allocated to the people whose HDD got used.

Something like that. Anyway, I dont have time to do this, especially if it has to be all GUI fancy.

Also, I want to build this right into the SuperNET itself, so no new asset for this. The revenues from this would be shared between the user and SuperNET. The GUI would be an extra tab in the SuperNET GUI.

I will pay reasonable bounty for the GUI and billing code

James

Can someone add my site into the OP in the games section?

I will be offering 100% of all house winnings for the rest of Oct to the Devs as a donation.

Got the kademlia API added to the parser:

    static char *ping[] = { (char *)ping_func, "ping", "V", "NXT", "pubkey", 0 };
    static char *store[] = { (char *)store_func, "store", "V", "NXT", "pubkey", "key", "value", 0 };
    static char *findnode[] = { (char *)findnode_func, "findnode", "V", "NXT", "pubkey", "key", 0 };
    static char *findvalue[] = { (char *)findvalue_func, "findvalue", "V", "NXT", "pubkey", "key", 0 };

http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/109.pdf is the reference doc. Sort of the classic DHT algo and solves the reliable routing issue. I just have the front end and the k_bucket code implemented, next is the actual kademlia protocol

James

1000 BTCD bounty

I have outlined one controlled test: https://forum.thesupernet.org/index.php?topic=76.msg995#msg995

Hopefully there can be others identified.

So, the help I need is for ideas on how to crack the Teleport and also to implement such attacks.

Teleport uses public blockchains so the cloning (spend) events are visible on the blockchain. The part that makes it anon is that all teleports go from onetime use addresses to onetime use addresses. Effectively making a chain of tx without anything to link it to any actual person. Short of someone announcing (or being monitored) that a specific tx was theirs, I cannot think of any ways to correlate a spend on the blockchain with an account.

maybe if a node is monitored at the packet level, the signed tx being sent to the blockchain can be captured? To work around this, we would need to use remote pushtx nodes, eg. nodes that accept encrypted onions with signedtx inside and they submit to the coin's network.

For now, I want to make sure that even if the usage of the onion network is perfectly logged by the attacker, that the anon set is still all cloning events during the clonesmear timewindow. Of course, with each user's clonesmear parameter settable, I dont think it is even possible to know which tx are part of the anon set. And as usage grows, the anon set grows without any extra load on blockchains

James

[04:09] no new release today, I decided to revamp the low level IP comms
[04:09] I also decided to implement a subset of http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/109.pdf
[04:10] this is the Kademlia that is the basis for most DHT
[04:10] at small scale it wont matter, but at the larger number of SuperNET nodes, something like this will be needed
[04:10] might as well get it done now

James

no worries bro we all been there

FTR, jug is on.. [whistles to self whilst syncing]

http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/fullnode_image/public/articles_2012/obama-laughing.jpg?itok=UDjtoECb

You're so smart you're funny.    EMP haha... thought it was a joke at first, then realized I would lose my shet if the power was compromized
Thanks for having restraint when dealing with dickhead questions like the one I just vomited up.
Really appreciate all your smarts. 

this coin is  a new version

How do I Re-Download the Blockchain?

http://bitcoindark.pw/how-do-i-re-download-the-blockchain/

Do this:

start menu / search type in  %appdata%

this will result in one folder =roaming

your bitcoindark folder is in here

this is the folder u should be attacking

tip : inside that folder create a backup folder, copy all contents intothere b4 u start mucking about, that way you always have a way out of the rabbithole. also back up wallet.dat on a seperate drive in case the EMP hits while u are in action.

good luck.

Please help. Us noobs keep getting the hand off to check the OP. The OP step 6 "6) delete everything except wallet.dat and your backup folder."
 THERE IS NOTHING IN THE DOWNLOAD FOLDER EXCEPT THE QT (one single file). I really like BTCD, so I bought heaps of them, downloaded the wallet, created an address and sent them to it. Now I find out the wallet doesn't sync and there is no help specific to this wallet. This is a pretty fundamental issue and could potentially damage the rep of BTCD for noobs.
Is there anyone who has the correct rar file with ALL the necessary files in it?
Thanks in advance

Hi and Welcome!

It's always good to grow our community and have talented people reach out to us!

It really depends on what you want to do and what most excites you.

If you want to use your HTML/Python, etc. why not work on a web app for BTCD?

We can always use more testers if you know your way around a linux terminal and want to test SuperNET with us!

https://forum.thesupernet.org/index.php?topic=66.0

Let me know if you have any questions.

Matthew

Hi, I am a student who is learning programming and want to participate in developing BTCD in the near(hopefully) future.
I have basic knowledge in C, and little proficiency in Python, Ruby, HTML5/CSS3.
Could you advise me what to learn more specifically?
You can recommend books or sites although I would appreciate more specific advises more.
Thanks in advances

To quote James...

"The SuperNET tech is being tested with about a dozen live servers and while it is not working perfectly, the bugs found so far do not seem so serious. As soon as the low level networking is solid, it will be possible to complete the higher level applications like Teleport, Tradebots, etc. Also, the API can be opened up for other coins to use and to implement their own special features."