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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?
ironsniper, if you have specific coin(s) that were abandoned, but you find interesting or important, we can look at those. The ones with innovative technology, and the source on Github, we can recompile and launch the blockchain from scratch.

There are also instances, where an active community exists, but the original dev had disappeared, and the rest of the users do not feel up to the task of running "full nodes" in the cloud or making small maintenance changes and keep going. They are likely to have wallets and the blockchain as it last existed on their computers, and we can choose to assist them with a relaunch.
 
If you are more into learning current and objective information about creating Altcoins, do join our community of like-minded developers and eager learners, at the Practice Coin project https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annpra-practice-coin-learn-by-doing-1850047
  Tearo
i can compile most coins no problem for windows, and mac as long as it is the older source code and not the newer source code that uses qt5 and as for bringing a coin back from the dead if i wanted to try that just to see if i can i would rather try and learn how to do it than say pay someone to do it for me, i find it more fun that way
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?
ironsniper, if you have specific coin(s) that were abandoned, but you find interesting or important, we can look at those. The ones with innovative technology, and the source on Github, we can recompile and launch the blockchain from scratch.

There are also instances, where an active community exists, but the original dev had disappeared, and the rest of the users do not feel up to the task of running "full nodes" in the cloud or making small maintenance changes and keep going. They are likely to have wallets and the blockchain as it last existed on their computers, and we can choose to assist them with a relaunch.
 
If you are more into learning current and objective information about creating Altcoins, do join our community of like-minded developers and eager learners, at the Practice Coin project https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annpra-practice-coin-learn-by-doing-1850047
  Tearo
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If a coin's blockchain is dead, as in, there are 0 active nodes, you can't bring it back, because there's no way for you to download the blockchain.
Unless there's a file of the most recent blockchain.

how the dev can bring it back then? i see some old coins that were resurrected, i think it's possible, like the dev can do it you can also, you need to restart the blockchain with the source of the genesis block
The dev most likely has a backup of the blockchain. If there was a resurrection due to transfer of ownership, then the previous dev did.
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?

Dead coin is dead coin. It is strange why do you want to run it from the scratch. But yes, it is possible to run a node with the latest blockchain copy and mining combined.
i am only learning, i am more for the technical side of coins, hence my op
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?

Dead coin is dead coin. It is strange why do you want to run it from the scratch. But yes, it is possible to run a node with the latest blockchain copy and mining combined.
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If a coin's blockchain is dead, as in, there are 0 active nodes, you can't bring it back, because there's no way for you to download the blockchain.
Unless there's a file of the most recent blockchain.
And, I might add,  then that coin fully deserves to be dead.  Most of these shitcoins do.  This continued interest in shotcoins boggles my mind.   And even if you manage to resurrect one of the dead ones, it's probably just a shitty clone anyway and will die again within a week.   Just don't do that.  There are so many better uses for your time and energy than giving CPR to a turd.
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If a coin's blockchain is dead, as in, there are 0 active nodes, you can't bring it back, because there's no way for you to download the blockchain.
Unless there's a file of the most recent blockchain.

how the dev can bring it back then? i see some old coins that were resurrected, i think it's possible, like the dev can do it you can also, you need to restart the blockchain with the source of the genesis block
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?

If there are no running nodes that means that you can't get any transactions that were in the past. Although you should be able to run it with few nodes but I think that then you will need to start from scratch. I am not super tech guy but this should be possible just to run nodes and start the coin from its 1st block.

You make a node simply by running core wallet on your PC (desktop/laptop etc.). Full node is when you are running it 24/7.
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If a coin's blockchain is dead, as in, there are 0 active nodes, you can't bring it back, because there's no way for you to download the blockchain.
Unless there's a file of the most recent blockchain.
legendary
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?

if you try to run a full node/or mining on two machine and create a network with two nodes, it should bring back the coin to life, but i'm not 100% sure about this, you can also try to setgenerate and start the mining with cpu on two machine, another thing is if there is the source you just relaunch it from zero but this is like making an altcoin i think
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?
I think if the coin is "dead" and all nodes are down than you're basically starting from scratch. There's really no way to get the blockchain at that point.
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hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?
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