-[ANN]- TRADE PORTAL IS LIVE! That's right, folks... The LONG AWAITED RELEASE of the TRADE PORTAL has HAPPENED!
The core and UI should both auto-update (close the UI and re-open to get the UI update, core will do it automatically if it's running.DIFFERENCES between a typical exchange and The Trade Portal- The Trade portal DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO RELEASE CONTROL OVER YOUR COINS.
- The Trade portal does not work LINEAR in regard to trades placed and accepted.
- The Trade Portal orders at the moment, are SELLS ONLY, in order to BUY, you must click on a sell, and buy.
- You cannot take a 'partial order' in The Trade Portal, you must take the entirety of the order, or nothing. This means buyers and sellers must PLAN THEIR ORDERS ACCORDINGLY.
- There are still a lot of features and enhancements that will be made to the trade portal, starting with the minor update tomorrow which will include the SEND BTC section.
- Qortal has a FULL BTC WALLET inside, this wallet is the one that the Trade Portal Automation ('Trade Bot' for lack of a more appropriate term) makes use of in order to execute trades
- Everything in Qortal is done WITHIN YOUR CONTROL
We will have a MINOR UPDATE TOMORROW to include SEND BTC. AT the moment, you can use the wallet to receive, and place trades, buy listed sells, etc... but you cannot SEND BTC, until TOMORROW. (however, this doesn't mean that you cannot acquire the private key from the account and import it into an electrum wallet if you choose to. But it's likely a whole lot easier to just wait until tomorrow.)
I will be posting a LOT more information about it over the coming days.
THANK YOU AGAIN TO
LOTW,
CAT,
DMAX,
IRONTIGA, AND THE REST OF THE TEAM FOR EVERYTHING, AND THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY FOR STICKING WITH US, HELPING US GET HERE, AND HELPING OUT OTHERS TO GET INVOLVED. IT IS ONLY WITH EVERYONE THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS THE SUCCESS IT IS MEANT TO BE!
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@crowetic
Still struggling to get my client fully synchronized. Very slow, with partly high CPU usage (use an Ubuntu-based Linux distro). It also happens that if the client crashes, the blockchain file gets damaged, so that a resynchronization has to be done. Wouldn't it be a good idea to make the blockchain available for download at regular intervals?
Unsure as to why you're having sync issues... What system specs? The
CPU usage should be lower now on the newest version, and some network enhancements were made as well. I would sugget giving that a shot... But you have to also realize, a network with as much capability as Qortal, is going to use SOME system resources... it IS after all, capable of rebuilding the entire internet.
However, that being said, multiple things you've said are confusing to me...
1. I have not had any issues sync'ing on any machine, aside from the very start in which adding
into the settings.json file fixed the issue. But I only had that happen on Windows machines for some reason, never linux...
2. The db should not have to be restarted if you don't sync all the way... in fact, it's better if you do NOT do that, and simply let the system correct itself. It will certainly do so, and you won't have to worry.
3. Giving a downloadable copy of the db is possible, but not recommended, especially now with the BTC wallet and Trade Portal, as once you login to the UI tied to the core, the db is then personalized with your BTC information, so you cannot share it. Minting also personalizes your db, but that isn't as important as the only thing the person can do with it is mint for you in that case... That being said... I think we WILL provide an 'official download' of the db... regardless of the fact that it shouldn't be necessary at all.
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