Been a busy week, allot of great stuff happening for Ixcoin, not the least of which is a new client we can start to use.
At least for most of us, miners still need to wait a bit, and I'm sorry but the mac crowd too.
MrBodi should be getting the rest of the mining details worked out over the next month and then do the final production release, in all the flavors called for.
As I just completed this pre-release build & been working hard to get it all tested to the best of my ability, it's now ready for any/all of you win32 users to also give it a try.
https://github.com/GroundRod/IXCoin/releasesPersonally I wouldn't hesitate to start using this as my new Ixcoin wallet, but please-please-please, be extra careful with your funds, and as always backup your wallet.dat file before using it and then between transactions before executing them. Report any problems here. Myself or MrBodi will see them, we've both got really busy schedules coming up, so won't always be able to respond or help as much as we would like to. Once setup properly, it's fast, only sips on your cpu for power and jam packed full of features.
Also included in this release, is a bootstrap.dat file, created current yesterday by me, all the source code changes have also gone up on Github and to the Ixcoin-Dev repository as pull requests (1 pending)...
The only place I've noticed some stability issues is when trying to get this setup initially. The problem stem from the bitcoin 0.9.2.1 code itself, I'm sure if it. I solved one of the problems earlier this evening, by introducing a coding change from the Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 code, it helped, but working out all the kinks for everyone of you is beyond what I can accomplish at the moment. Importing the bootstrap.dat file is easy, if you know how, other threads here can explain the process, it sure is fast for Ixcoin. Everybody's setup is so different, if your having problems getting the initial install to run properly, by either upgrading your old blockchain files or by using the new bootstrap.dat file, what I've found that completely solves the problem, is to not allow it to connect to any Ixcoin peers/nodes right away. This can be done several different ways, add a -connect=
to your shortcut, before running it. Add a connect= statement to your ixcoin.conf file, or hell just pull the plug on your network connection before letting it run the first time.
The client needs to focus on thrashing your harddisk to get that blockchain built and indexed, once that is done, reestablish your network connection and in a few minutes you will be up-to-date & the new client should be at your fingertips.......
Enjoy,
GR