Topic: Bytecoin Wallet (GUI) (Read 16499 times)

Hey everyone,

I have a quick question about the wallet.
This may be a super noob question, I have recently installed the Bytecoin wallet.
But, I don't seem to be able to get it to download the blockchain to completion. Am I just being basic?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Hi what version do you have, 1.1.5 ?
A friend a I had the same, we send some coins but they never showed in our wallet.
So I googled it, and someone on Reddit said, if you run 1.1.5 version you have to download the 1.1.4 version (fully synced)
After this, our coins showed up.... give it a try... and let us know if this worked for you ok.

good luck!

Hey guys im having a problem and I am hopeful someone here has an easy fix.

I had an amount of Bytecoin sent to my wallet last week. It didnt show up even though it was confirmed and I have checked the address about 10 times with different people checking it again even though I copied and pasted it to begin with.

I have tried resyncing the wallet as I think it might have been out of date. It showed that it had resynced however nothing showed up and it was showing the wrong date.
I then closed the wallet and reset my computer to attemped the 3 day long sync again. When I try to open it now I just get an error message "Blockchain load error".

I have moved to a different computer and tried the same process and it was stuck on 11 Aug 2014 19:57 for more then a day. So I reset the computer and when I open it back up it is saying that it is synced which it definitly hasnt as there is no Bytecoin in there. I am now attempting this on another computer in the hopes that a faster internet connection can assist in this matter.

Has anyone else had a problem like this?
Is there a way I can force the wallet to resync?
Is there somewhere that I can download the blockchain directly?

Hey Bytecoin People!  Quick question: I've searched around quite a bit already on this but have not found a solution.

I just want to very SIMPLY and QUICKLY generate a bytecoin address AND PRIVATE KEY to stash away a small BCN stake, long-term in COLD paper wallet.

Haven't you guys set up something to JUST do that, yet?  Very simple and quick?  Something like MyEtherWallet for ETH or BitAddress for BTC?

I mean, srsly even the gawd-awful Cloak coin has ported-over a quick simple paperwallet generator page (from BitAddress source --
 https://paperwallet.cloakcoin.com/ -- apparently)

And you guys are srsly expecting new/casual users to download your entire blockchain and use the command-line wallet ONLY to do this simple thing???

C'mon... LOL

A simple clean paper wallet generator ought to have been the FIRST THING to do on your list!!!

So IS there one SOMEWHERE, I have missed?

Hi,

I am having problem with the Bytecoin wallet 1.1.0, the synchronization is taking way too long than expected. is there any official blockchain data available to download please let me know

If anyone has downloaded the latest version please let me know how much time it takes to finish the synchronization

Thank you

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Bytecoin Wallet has been updated

v. 1.0.4:

• Color themes
• Customizable daemon settings
• Various usability improvements

Bytecoin wallet can be downloaded here.

Thanks, gonna download the new version.

Bytecoin Wallet has been updated with minor improvements.

I am part of the Monero Core team. I also have mined BCN on various occasions and I still have some. I won't use anything for any crypto that is not open source though and that has nothing to do with BCN or XMR.

LOL, on the main Bytecoin thread all you scream is this coin is a  scam, and in here you sound like an interested supporter ...... its obvious that your only interested if the wallet is open source... aren't you one of the XMR dev ? 

Nice work.

Even though I am not a fan of Bytecoin, this wallet looks really cool, so congrats on getting it out.

Thanks for the info.

Hi Jimbo, the address book is stored separately. In the next releases we're going to significantly improve its security.

This is great!

Downloaded wallet, ran once.
Downloaded blockchain files and shoved in my appdata>roaming>bytecoin folder.

Ran again - took a couple of minutes to sync.

Got my free Bytecoin from the bytecoin site. It appeared in locked instantly and then unlocked in a couple of minutes!

Well done! Great work!

btw - what files exactly do I need to backup on the new wallet?

Edit: Silly Jimbo - just noticed the 'backup' option under file - so it just backs up the .wallet file.

Next silly question! Does this file store the address book as well?

well yeah, GUI miner sounds great, but I'm against shoving it inside the wallet, that would be too much. The wallet looks elegant and easy now, but throwing the miner inside of it.. erm, that'd be overkill IMHO.

I think you need 850-1200MB of RAM for the wallet. First run or wallet takes the highest number 1200MB.

Damn I didin't think of that, thx. I guess I need another 2Gb.
Thanks, man!


I've tried before, same thing happens. So maybe it's all about my PC gonna find out soon. Thanks anyway

I encountered such an effect.
As a matter of fact GUI doens't consume too much. But during full synchronization it can.

Just close it (normally, don't kill) and restart. You can do this even in the middle of synch - it will significantly reduce memory requirements.

Get more RAM, and more diskspace. CN isn't as lean as Bitcoin (if BTC blockchain still gets called like that)

My PC froze twice because of your GUI!!! 

Oh come on, see ... everything is nice and quiet ... nooobody coulda hide a virus from virustotal, you know?


More precisely "It's Oh So Quiet" from Bjork

Thank you for the report. We'll have a look.

I will stick with simplewallet for now.

I noticed that some of the issues (improper display of spends) with simplewallet were recently cleaned up. FYI, there is still a crash if simplewallet is used on a old wallet without deleting the .dat file.

 

Bytecoin Wallet is currently in open beta. We're still cleaning up the code and basically await your feedback to finalize the Wallet, before we release the sources.
In case you are concerned with this issue, you may continue to use Bytecoin with simplewallet. In any case I would appreciate if you gave Bytecoin Wallet a test drive.

Is this new wallet open source because I never download crypto-related binaries, and most serious crypto investors are the same. It's much too dangerous.

Very nice work and I like the first BCN wallet.

Maybe there is space for some improvements:
To the current one: window Transaction details - in the right corner is Question mark, I would expect it will be like a help with explanation of different boxes in the window but you will see only icon of prohibition sign

Will be there possibility to add more own address and manage them from one wallet?

i was wondering where the skins are too. but then i checked bytecoin roadmap once again. skins will be released later. btw bytecoin wallet looks beautiful now. i'm not sure i want other versions.

That's a good idea, thank you! The problem is that among those who support Bytecoin community site there is no one who could make such guides.

If you have any ideas or a vision on how this should look like then feel free to help. I would be glad if you PM me or send email.

Label here means the name for this address that should be saved in contacts. It is just a good feature to save a new address directly after sending the money to it.

As I understand, new wallet files can't be opened with simplewallet at all.

I also send a giveaway and I've just tried to send 5000 Bytecoin to 10 people. I thought I have to enter the amount once and than add the addresses but it turned out that I need to enter the amount for each address separately which is not really convenient. Will this feature added in future releases?

Could you upload this wallet to Windows Store?

Could un-encrypted wallet generated with new Bytecoin wallet be opened with simplewallet? Would simplewallet ask to enter password in this case?

Thanks!  

I think that guides are required in any case. Will it be available on bytecoiner.org?
The wallet is nice, the interface is intuitive. But for a user new to Bitcoin and CryptoNote coins it may be difficult to figure out what's going on.

A video may be even a better idea.

Wallet skins are going to be available in the next release. The 8bit addition might be fun, we'll give it a try.


It's resizable and should fit within even on the smallest screens. What's your screen resolution?

Actually the wallet is too wide for small notebooks. Is there any way to make it more compact?

That's the funds that are not available for spending. It's either unconfirmed transactions, mined coins, or time-locked transfers. It may also contain the change: when you send money to a recipient, Bytecoin actually takes more than it requires for the transfer, makes the transaction, and returns spare coins back to you. So locked amount may temporarily increase after you've sent the money.

The funds are getting unlocked fast. Ordinary transactions require 2-5 minutes, while newly mined coins take about 20 minutes to get unlocked.

What's the "label" in SEND BYTECOINS? Some kind of a payment ID?. But there's already PAYMENT ID at the bottom.

There is a lot to like in Byteconi Wallet. It runs out of box, it has clear interface, and I bet you've made a lot of effort in trying to polish every usability aspect. I like that it's responsive and unambigous.

I also checked whether it can actually run on local daemon, and it does. If you have a local daemon running, Bytecoin Wallet consumes only 180 MB, while without the daemon it consumes about 1 GB. So there's a lot of things that you've considered.

There are also certain drawbacks that are visible on the second glance. E.g., the addressbook doesn't seem to be sorted at all. However, these minor things only mean that other main issues have been really polished. I hope you're going to further improve Bytecoin Wallet to eliminate those minor ones.

Congrats with new Bytecoin Wallet! It looks very nice!

hey, is there any possibility to mine just right from the bytecoin wallet?
i don't see this function in the wallet, but i want it to be there. bytecoin gui miner would be so damn cool 
if there is no mining feature in the bytecoin wallet now, bcn devs, do you plan to add it in the future? i think it is very very good to have "start mining now!" button in the wallet near the balance dashboard.

Can't find them too.


And btw the devs were gonna launch a block explorer as i recall https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bytecoin-roadmap-including-cryptonote-protocol-updates-1008146

Place it to bytecoin folder:

Are there any other skins? The light version if ok but I'd like to get the 8bit edition 

Yes, when the first opening the wallet generates a new address for the user

 
If you don't need that, just open the wallet that you used before. You've gotta go File - Open wallet, then find it and hit the button and you're done.

Btw if you're gonna come around and and use the automatically generated address, then you better encrypt it: go Settings - Encrypt wallet and create a password (complex one!).

The design is out of this world! It looks great!

What does "Locked amount" mean in the wallet? And why do strange amounts like this one pop up?

Where should I put it?

My antivirus software shows that Bytecoin wallet is safe for work. 

Wow! Copying address to clipboard in one click! Bytecoin Wallet is superb.

Personally, I believe that localization is more about mass adoption, which is going to be an issue later on. We're going to localize it for sure, but not in the next versions.

awesome! bytecoin devs are the best i gonna check bytecoin wallet and write a review for my blog. it's time for the friends to know more about bcn. i hope you did it well, bytecoiners.

Dat's ok! If you didn't use bytecoin for a while it will take time. You'd better download the new blockchain from site: https://mega.co.nz/#!ZF4A2BLS!6oS7NFz-pp_MI4YGQhYxLBLisGyr1xsrOfoC_bTLf9U

I've checked it with virustotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d9a9de490329c8445860a866dd137662f0fd842790f209723354938fb3b12d96/analysis/1428597755/

Everything is ok.

Looks like it generates a new address by default.

what does "address" in the wallet mean? does the wallet generate new addresses??? Is it my new bytecoin address?? Is it the one i should use?

Do you have any localization plans?

my google chrome browser asks me if i really want to download bytecoin Wallet. yes, i want to use bytecoin wallet! has anyone checked it for viruses yet?  
bytecoin developers team is trustworthy and honest and cool
but it's internet. you better check software twice before you use it.

I can't get synchronized yet so I'm waiting. It's not like I've seen lots of cryptocurrency wallets ,  I got almost nothing to compare with, but the appearance of synchronization process looks great!!

You should refer to our roadmap to check our closest plans: http://bytecoin.org/roadmap/
We believe there are other high priority features before we go for mobile platforms.

Oops, a typo in URL. Fixed it: http://bytecoin.org/downloads/

Thank You!
I've got a "Page not found" error now on download link

Correct link is http://bytecoin.org/downloads/

I am very glad that Bytecoin now finally has graphic wallet! Looking at screenshots, Bytecoin Wallet is one of the best cryptocurrency wallets I've seen. I'll test it right now to say more.

By the way, are there plans for mobile wallet? My phone and tablet is on last Android, and I don't use desktop pc much. It should be possible to use Bytecoin on other devices.

Reserved for further answer.


UPD
So I've downloaded the Wallet, it works fine. Design is good!
So, guys from Bytecoin team, good job!!! Thanks! Simple and stylish, kinda iphone in the cryptocurrency world. I mean its far more convenient than other cryptonote coins.

Today the Bytecoin team has released a fundamentally new GUI wallet, featuring modern design, intuitive interface, and high speed of operations in Bytecoin system. Bytecoin Wallet is available in versions for all major OS and allows new users to start working with Bytecoin swiftly.

Bytecoin Wallet is the second part of Bytecoin v.1.0.3 release. Earlier this week Bytecoin Reference Client has been updated to introduce new high and low-level API. These APIs give smart access to Bytecoin engine and allow third party developers to focus on building their own applications and services according to their business requirements.

Bytecoin Wallet and API libraries together represent an updated Bytecoin technology that allows both users and developers to shape and improve Bytecoin ecosystem, and take part in it in a simple and comfortable way.

Share your thoughts with us! We invite you to download and test Bytecoin Wallet. Your feedback is valuable for us and will affect usability and upcoming features.

Download Bytecoin Wallet


Bytecoin Wallet: Overview

Dashboard



The Overview tab is the first thing you see when you launch Bytecoin Wallet. We've tried to make this screen both informative and simple. Overview is going to be updated with further releases when more Bytecon features are implemented. Its purpose is to provide you with a quick insight into your recent financial operations.

With Bytecoin Wallet release we've rethought the way we indicate the balance. We believe this to be more intuitive than it was originally implemented in simplewallet.

* Available balance is the funds that are available for transactions.
* Locked amount shows the funds that are not yet available (unconfirmed transactions, the coins you've mined, time-locked transaction)
* Total

This change has been implemented in simplewallet too.


Send Bytecoin



With Bytecoin you are able to send money to various users with one transaction. You may add several recipients, but keep in mind that the transaction with a high number of addresses may get rejected due to being excessively large.

The way CryptoNote transactions are visualized in Bytecoin Wallet makes sending money simple and unambigious. What's more, the wallet provides you with exact feedback in case there might be something wrong with the transaction.

Please note that you are unable to send Bytecoin in case you're not synchronized with the network yet. The interface will get unlocked once your local blockchain is up-to-date.


Transactions



Transactions screen hosts the story of your financial operations. You may filter the table, check transactions info or export all data in CSV.


Contacts



Address book is a simple must-have for long CryptoNote addresses.


Important notes

First launch

Once you open Bytecoin Wallet, it will automatically create your first Bytecoin address and start synchronizing with the network.


Wallet encryption

It is highly recommended that you encrypt your new Bytecoin wallet with a password. Leaving the wallet unprotected makes it vulnerable in case your system is compromised.

To encrypt your wallet, choose "Settings" menu and then "Encrypt wallet".


Wallet file format

Unlike Bytecoin Reference Client, Bytecoin Wallet uses .wallet files instead of legacy .keys files to store your private keys for each wallet.

Bytecoin Wallet is able to import .keys files (with the existing password), but it will create a .wallet file for further operations.


Bytecoin Wallet files

Bytecoin Wallet introduces several new files stored in the standard Bytecoin folder:

Windows: C:\Users\%user_name%\AppData\Roaming\bytecoin\
OSX/Linux: ~/.bytecoin/

The most commonly used files are the following:

1. bytecoinwallet.wallet – a default wallet keys file that is created on first startup of Bytecoin wallet and gives access to your fresh Bytecoin address.

2. bytecoinwallet.log – a log file for the node that is running inside Bytecoin Wallet.


Links
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