Maybe ask Poloniex to give us their blockchain? They told users to withdraw their NAScoins and I think it was the only important number of transactions during last months.
I think that those transactions are already in any of the current forks. Which is the NAS address of Poloniex?, I would check its last transaction on my client.
Why are there several forks surviving now?, does it mean that the automatic consensus mechanism is not working?.
Well, I understand that the main problem is a very low number of nodes and forgers.
The first think that we need is more independent nodes working, with different forging accounts. The stronger fork should survive, normally it would be the one on important exchanges. It is now like the early time of a coin, a rebirth.
For those interested on
setting up his own public node at home, I suggest to use my proposed
conf/nas.default-properties file, and follow the
instructions on the NXT wiki, changing the ports to the ones defined for NAS in that file (I changed UI and API ports in order to be different than in NXT and avoid conflict; name and folder of blockchain database file also changes, you have to move it manually if you want to keep your current blockchain):
- 7871 for peer interface (the one to open in your router/firewall),
- 7872 for UI,
- and 7873 for API interface (the one to use from your web browser).
Then we could collect in this thread a list of enough nodes to put on the file 'conf/nas.properties' under the key 'nas.wellKnownPeers=' (although it is not strictly necessary, just it helps to connect initial peers).
We have a
clone of NXT with an initial distribution already done.
Development can be continued by any medium level programmer, just by adapting again the NXT Open Source code.
I think that it will not be difficult to
get NAS running with the cloned last version of NXT, 1.4.16.
It can serve as an
experimental fork of NXT, or just as a
pure clone of NXT.
The second way will be easy to maintain, it doesn't need high level programmers.
Pure clones are not bad idea, why people think that cryptocurrency clones are bad?. Euro is a pure clone of Dollar, gold and silver are pure clones one of the other, just the total supply and the production rate is different. In a free economy it is good to have more than one coin of the same type, then market will choose.
