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Topic: PPCoin Proof of Stake Minting Setup Guide - page 3. (Read 57036 times)

member
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November 04, 2013, 08:35:12 PM
#72
Need help on a Mac. This is what I've done so far:

1. Have PPcoin-Qt installed and encrypted. I have ppcoind in my documents folder.

2. I open PPcoin-Qt so it's running then I open up terminal and navigate to: cd /Users/username/Documents

3. terminal shows me that I'm in: Documents username$

4. then I try running: ./ppcoind walletpassphrase ************* 9999999 true
and I get the following error: -bash: ./ppcoind: Operation not permitted

Can anyone help?
legendary
Activity: 1918
Merit: 1012
★Nitrogensports.eu★
October 24, 2013, 12:06:09 PM
#71
How long is it taking you guys to get a POS block?  I have 7-8 transactions that are 6+ months old and around 90,000 coin days.  I followed the POS minting instruction in this guide and have been running my wallet 'unlocked for minting' for almost three weeks.  Is this normal?  I usually get several POS transaction each day in my Yacoin wallet.
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1005
October 08, 2013, 09:13:26 PM
#70
^^ It's easiest to just unlock your wallet every 90 days, the blocks solve almost instantly and you make the same interest..
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
October 08, 2013, 08:57:12 PM
#69
I have 100 PPC that I received over a month and half ago. I have everything I believe setup right. The wallet says that it is unlocked for block minting only. I have left it running for the better half of a week now and my stake is still at 0 with nothing going on in the transactions. How long does one usually have to wait to see something?

 I've googled this specific question a hundred different ways and cant seem to find an answer.  Huh

Read the white paper.

"The hash target that stake kernel must meet is a target per unit coin age (coin-day)
consumed in the kernel (in contrast to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work target which is a fixed
target value applying to every node). Thus the more coin age consumed in the kernel, the
easier meeting the hash target protocol. For example, if Bob has a wallet-output which
accumulated 100 coin-years and expects it to generate a kernel in 2 days, then Alice can
roughly expect her 200 coin-year wallet-output to generate a kernel in 1 day."

You have very little coin age... so it would take a long time to meet your target.
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
October 08, 2013, 03:51:21 PM
#68
I have 100 PPC that I received over a month and half ago. I have everything I believe setup right. The wallet says that it is unlocked for block minting only. I have left it running for the better half of a week now and my stake is still at 0 with nothing going on in the transactions. How long does one usually have to wait to see something?

 I've googled this specific question a hundred different ways and cant seem to find an answer.  Huh
full member
Activity: 194
Merit: 100
September 19, 2013, 08:32:51 PM
#67
...I have special characters in my wallet password. Does that affect it?

I had problems with special characters, yes.  If I recall correctly, it was the ampersand ("&").  Good luck!
hero member
Activity: 613
Merit: 500
Mintcoin: Get some
September 11, 2013, 09:38:08 PM
#66
Sunny,

I have gone through the steps but I can't get into minting mode. I am still seeing "Info: Minting suspended due to locked wallet". on the lower left and "Wallet is encrypted and locked" when hovering over the lock in the lower right.

I have gone through your following steps 1-4.  After starting the wallet up (in the several times I've tried this), I run the mint.bat file and enter my password- to clarify, this is the encryption password for the wallet and not the rpc password in step 2, correct?

before the terminal window disappears i can briefly see "Error: type mismatch".

Any idea of how to fix this?

Thanks and regards-

This is the same problem I am having. Which password are you supposed to enter?
If I understand correct, it's the PPC wallet password. I have tried it both ways and still not working. I have special characters in my wallet password. Does that affect it?
full member
Activity: 130
Merit: 100
September 03, 2013, 10:56:10 AM
#65
What is wrong if I get:
error: couldn't connect to server
?

Add 'server=1' to ppcoin.conf and restart ppcoin-qt

Thank for patience, it was lack of one restart more.
legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1002
September 02, 2013, 05:36:41 PM
#64

I need your help
I installed the PPcoin wallet-qt on my Mac.
After protecting it with a password the warning: "Info: Minting suspended due to locked wallet" came out on my dashboard.

Can somebody tell me how to resume minting also when you wallet is password protected?
I found a guide, but only for Windows based wallets.
Is there anything similar for Mac users?

Thanks a lot in advance



RPC Console:                   walletpassphrase *InsertPassword* 9999999 true                       will unlock your wallet for 9999999 seconds

EDIT:  I should look at dates before I reply
legendary
Activity: 1205
Merit: 1010
September 02, 2013, 05:29:15 PM
#63
What is wrong if I get:
error: couldn't connect to server
?

Add 'server=1' to ppcoin.conf and restart ppcoin-qt
full member
Activity: 130
Merit: 100
September 02, 2013, 03:27:23 PM
#62
What is wrong if I get:
error: couldn't connect to server
?
sr. member
Activity: 446
Merit: 250
CAT.EX Exchange
August 19, 2013, 05:19:13 AM
#61

I need your help
I installed the PPcoin wallet-qt on my Mac.
After protecting it with a password the warning: "Info: Minting suspended due to locked wallet" came out on my dashboard.

Can somebody tell me how to resume minting also when you wallet is password protected?
I found a guide, but only for Windows based wallets.
Is there anything similar for Mac users?

Thanks a lot in advance

legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1002
August 16, 2013, 06:45:27 PM
#60
I would be very happy if users start contributing to the github wiki page, so far there is a lot a complaints and no contributions, except for the quite nicely done reddit discussion forum page.

As to the website, there is nothing preventing anybody designing a nicer portal than ppcoin.org, I have a separate domain name ppcoin.info currently not used. If there is community consensus that the design is nice enough I would link ppcoin.info to it. But that would need someone to either volunteer the work and hosting, or try to raise a bounty for it.

I have a few things i could contribute to the wiki. When I get some free time ill try to add a few things too it.
legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
August 01, 2013, 11:34:09 PM
#59
Hello need some help here where would I go about adding to this conf file for solo mining

Code:
# ppcoin.conf configuration file. Lines beginning with # are comments.

# Network-related settings:

# Run on the test network instead of the real bitcoin network.
#testnet=0

# Connect via a socks4 proxy - default none
#proxy=127.0.0.1:9950
# Accepting incoming connections
listen=1
# UPnP
upnp=1

##############################################################
## Quick Primer on addnode vs connect ##
## Let's say for instance you use addnode=4.2.2.4 ##
## addnode will connect you to and tell you about the ##
## nodes connected to 4.2.2.4. In addition it will tell ##
## the other nodes connected to it that you exist so ##
## they can connect to you. ##
## connect will not do the above when you 'connect' to it. ##
## It will *only* connect you to 4.2.2.4 and no one else.##
## ##
## So if you're behind a firewall, or have other problems ##
## finding nodes, add some using 'addnode'. ##
## ##
## If you want to stay private, use 'connect' to only ##
## connect to "trusted" nodes. ##
## ##
## If you run multiple nodes on a LAN, there's no need for ##
## all of them to open lots of connections. Instead ##
## 'connect' them all to one node that is port forwarded ##
## and has lots of connections. ##
## Thanks goes to [Noodle] on Freenode. ##
##############################################################

# Use as many addnode= settings as you like to connect to specific peers
#addnode=69.164.218.197
#addnode=10.0.0.2:8333

# ... or use as many connect= settings as you like to connect ONLY
# to specific peers:
#connect=69.164.218.197
#connect=10.0.0.1:8333

# Maximum number of inbound+outbound connections.
#maxconnections=

# JSON-RPC options (for controlling a running Bitcoin/bitcoind process)

# server=1 tells Bitcoin-QT to accept JSON-RPC commands.
server=1

# You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
rpcuser=edited
rpcpassword=edited

# How many seconds bitcoin will wait for a complete RPC HTTP request.
# after the HTTP connection is established.
rpctimeout=30

# By default, only RPC connections from localhost are allowed. Specify
# as many rpcallowip= settings as you like to allow connections from
# other hosts (and you may use * as a wildcard character):
rpcallowip=
rpcallowip=
rpcallowip=
rpcallowip=
rpcallowip=
rpcallowip=
# Listen for RPC connections on this TCP port:
rpcport=9902

# You can use ppcoind to send commands to ppcoind
# running on another host using this option:
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1

# Use Secure Sockets Layer (also known as TLS or HTTPS) to communicate
# with ppcoind
#rpcssl=1

# OpenSSL settings used when rpcssl=1
#rpcsslciphers=TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!AH:!3DES:@STRENGTH
#rpcsslcertificatechainfile=server.cert
#rpcsslprivatekeyfile=server.pem

# Miscellaneous options

# Set gen=1 to attempt to generate ppcoins using built-in CPU mining
gen=0

# Use SSE instructions to try to generate bitcoins faster.
4way=1

# Pre-generate this many public/private key pairs, so wallet backups will be valid for
# both prior transactions and several dozen future transactions.
#keypool=100

# Pay transaction fee amount per kilo-byte. Default 0.01 (1 cent)
# Minimum required 0.01 (1 cent)
paytxfee=0.01

# Allow direct connections for the 'pay via IP address' feature.
#allowreceivebyip=1

Where would I add the other data in order to use while solo mining thx.

Also another question is do I need that conf any more or is this still needed for solo mining ?
hero member
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followed the instructions a few times, and kept having issues with the password (ppcoind would report password as being wrong even when i copied and pasted the same one into it and ppcoin-qt). Finally took out all the special characters and now ppcoin-qt reports wallet is unlocked for minting purposes.

I set a very low reserve balance for the time being. But the QT client reports all my coins as being part of my "Balance", with none of them a part of my "Stake". How do I get it so that PPCoin-QT moves my ordinary balance to being a part of my stake balance instead?

See a similar question of mine answered here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2641454
hero member
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followed the instructions a few times, and kept having issues with the password (ppcoind would report password as being wrong even when i copied and pasted the same one into it and ppcoin-qt). Finally took out all the special characters and now ppcoin-qt reports wallet is unlocked for minting purposes.

I set a very low reserve balance for the time being. But the QT client reports all my coins as being part of my "Balance", with none of them a part of my "Stake". How do I get it so that PPCoin-QT moves my ordinary balance to being a part of my stake balance instead?
legendary
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does it matter if I have balances on different addresses in the same wallet

does sending coins to a new address in my wallet destroy coin age?

even if the coins do not move, ie comes up send to self.

how long does it take for 520 block to go, ie until I can use the coins that I have been using since I used them for minting, once I stop minting

my current client says 0.3.0 beta do I have to upgrade?
newbie
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member
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FYI, if your pass phrase has spaces, like mine, which is a combination of 8 words with spaces, - When entering the password after running mint.bat, encapsulate the passphrase in quotes ""

That will eliminate the "Type mismatch error"

Do you have an ampersand in your encryption password?

No I don't.  I have upper and lower case letters, spaces, and numbers.  'type mismatch' is a variable type error, I believe.  Maybe the spaces?


FYI, I removed spaces from my password and the wallet unlocked and went into minting mode.

hero member
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Two questions:

1. how do I mint PoS without encrypting my wallet?

2. can I still send coins to my wallet while it is locked for minting?

Can someone answer this? I can't be borthered to encrypting my wallet (or maybe I don't want to forget the password after a year). Can I still mint PoS? If I can, do I just run ppcoin-qt to check if I find  a block? Do I need to edit ppcoin.conf ?

Thanks
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