PPCoin Proof of Stake Minting Setup Guide - page 4.

xk5

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Quote from: kong2029 on May 03, 2013, 08:06:22 AM

Quote from: InitialLetter on May 03, 2013, 12:22:38 AM

I believe I read somewhere that user wouldn't be able to send payments from encrypted wallet while it is "open for minting purpose only". However, I tried sending 0.1 coins in this state and they went through without asking password. Can anyone confirm this observation?

Maybe I understood the logic wrong?

I can confirm this- I had the same thing happen.

Thanks for the info, I've updated the main post!

Yurizhai

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So do I need to simply unlock for mining for just 2 minutes or so, every week or two? Or leave it unlocked for hours at a time?

kneim

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And how do I identify if a specific PoS block is created by myself?

kneim

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How can I identify the instance that created the last Proof-of-Stake block? I want to identify PoS-blocks in-a-row.

kong2029

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Quote from: InitialLetter on May 03, 2013, 12:22:38 AM

I believe I read somewhere that user wouldn't be able to send payments from encrypted wallet while it is "open for minting purpose only". However, I tried sending 0.1 coins in this state and they went through without asking password. Can anyone confirm this observation?

Maybe I understood the logic wrong?

I can confirm this- I had the same thing happen.

kong2029

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Quote from: kong2029 on May 03, 2013, 03:13:24 AM

Quote from: gramma on May 02, 2013, 10:46:36 PM

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.

kong2029

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Quote from: gramma on May 02, 2013, 10:46:36 PM

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?

Sunny King

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Quote from: InitialLetter on May 03, 2013, 12:22:38 AM

I believe I read somewhere that user wouldn't be able to send payments from encrypted wallet while it is "open for minting purpose only". However, I tried sending 0.1 coins in this state and they went through without asking password. Can anyone confirm this observation?

Maybe I understood the logic wrong?

Oh ok so maybe I stand corrected. Only rpc on commandline is currently blocked from sending. This is actually considered a bug as the qt should ask you for passphrase in a future release.

InitialLetter

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I believe I read somewhere that user wouldn't be able to send payments from encrypted wallet while it is "open for minting purpose only". However, I tried sending 0.1 coins in this state and they went through without asking password. Can anyone confirm this observation?

Maybe I understood the logic wrong?

kokojie

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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?

gramma

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Do you have an ampersand in your encryption password?

Sunny King

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Quote from: kong2029 on May 02, 2013, 10:19:34 PM

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-

Oh I haven't tried xk5's script, yeah it was meant to be wallet passphrase, to see it you can start->run->'cmd' and then cd to the script directory to run it on command line, so you can see the errors properly without the terminal closing on you.

kong2029

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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-

Elokane

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Truth is a consensus among neurons www.synereo.com

Thanks a lot for this guide. I looked around a while ago and just gave up due to lack of time.
Great service to the community and hats off to you.

Will donate my first minted PPCoin!

robotrebellion

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This was very useful, thanks!

12gaFacelift

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everything say so much....ok then what i just have to keep ppcoind open thats it?

Sunny King

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Quote from: kneim on May 01, 2013, 03:48:25 PM

What hardware is appropriate for "Proof of Stake" minting?

At this time my coins are on a rather old laptop. For Bitcoin mining this is absolutely insufficient, and for PPC minting? Do I need a VGA card, or even an FPGA?

No special hardware required. Proof-of-stake minting is not computing intensive.

kneim

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What hardware is appropriate for "Proof of Stake" minting?

At this time my coins are on a rather old laptop. For Bitcoin mining this is absolutely insufficient, and for PPC minting? Do I need a VGA card, or even an FPGA?

Guido

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thanks Sunny

Sunny King

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Quote from: Guido on April 30, 2013, 05:15:21 PM

Sunny would you be able to answer the question above please
you prob didn't see as maybe didn't refresh
I cant' send coins to my wallet from exchange without knowing the answer and knowing is safe to receive while locked

and how to unlock???

it really needs an easy unlock feature, obviously placed like now tbh
thats gott be more important than anything else I can think of on backburner

thanks

You don't need to unlock wallet unless you want to mint blocks with an encrypted wallet. For Qt it doesn't need unlock in order to send/receive coins.

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