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Topic: STAR COIN [STR] - The coin with bonus STAR blocks - page 14. (Read 143782 times)

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I downloaded the new wallet client, but the database is still stuck at block 777855.

Should I delete the old database files and let it re-synchronize from scratch?

Generally speaking - no, you shouldn't, as the fork is at block 777856. It might be that all nodes your node is connected are running the old wallet.

Although I fixed the IRC seeding, try to add these nodes:

Code:
addnode=198.199.110.176
addnode=124.198.136.100
addnode=107.170.195.237
addnode=173.255.216.229
addnode=95.27.95.182
newbie
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I downloaded the new wallet client, but the database is still stuck at block 777855.

Should I delete the old database files and let it re-synchronize from scratch?
hero member
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Many coins simply dream of being on a cryptsy. Starcoin seems not appreciate this opportunity

This. This is why I did a fixed build. I did it being in a simple hope that someone who is strong in marketing but have no programming skills would pick it and develop.
Decent answer. thanks anyway. Why do not you want to become a member of the new team to support starcoin? Personally, I am not strong in C + + but versed in web design and have free time.
Also, I have a small amount of starcoins.

Because I am already involved into another project. Btw, I have already been PM'ed by one, who want to maintain the coding part of the starcoin (or even more, (s)he did not say) and actually was in attempt to fix the problem when I posted my fix. (S)he accepted it. I hope, (s)he will come up soon.
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Many coins simply dream of being on a cryptsy. Starcoin seems not appreciate this opportunity

This. This is why I did a fixed build. I did it being in a simple hope that someone who is strong in marketing but have no programming skills would pick it and develop.
Decent answer. thanks anyway. Why do not you want to become a member of the new team to support starcoin? Personally, I am not strong in C + + but versed in web design and have free time.
Also, I have a small amount of starcoins.
hero member
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Many coins simply dream of being on a cryptsy. Starcoin seems not appreciate this opportunity

This. This is why I did a fixed build. I did it being in a simple hope that someone who is strong in marketing but have no programming skills would pick it and develop.
legendary
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Please note, I am not going to be a developer of this coin, I just released a fix that may allow the StarCoin to survive.
Then why do it. Or coin will have normal design and own team or do not need it and must die. Let worried those who are bought tens of thousands of these coins.
They can’t sit back and wait for something indefinite

The community should decide to support the coin further or not by running wallet or not running. The holders could hire someone for part of their stakes, for example, if they do care. The coin has no team for almost 6 months already: the last update to the coin had been published on Jan 7 and it was a checkpoints update. At that time the PoS was already broken: the last PoS block submitted to the net on Sat Dec 14 12:49:20 UTC 2013. It had been delisted from cryptsy and then listed again in Feb. So, there is still quite a number of people who likes it for some reason.

Juts tell me please, if Gavin and company announce today that they quit the project, would Bitcoin die? Why do you think that the existence of a dedicated dev team is a must? I agree that it is nice, when the dev team exists. But still, this coin survived during 6 months without any developer support!
Survived? Total price dangling below the plinth. I think someone decided to buy more coins for pennies in the hope then sell expensive. Developers should take care of the coin, have your own website and be investors. Without such an approach - success will not. I like starcoin beautiful name. It would be unfortunate if it dies.

Many coins simply dream of being on a cryptsy. Starcoin seems not appreciate this opportunity
hero member
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Please note, I am not going to be a developer of this coin, I just released a fix that may allow the StarCoin to survive.
Then why do it. Or coin will have normal design and own team or do not need it and must die. Let worried those who are bought tens of thousands of these coins.
They can’t sit back and wait for something indefinite

The community should decide to support the coin further or not by running wallet or not running. The holders could hire someone for part of their stakes, for example, if they do care. The coin has no team for almost 6 months already: the last update to the coin had been published on Jan 7 and it was a checkpoints update. At that time the PoS was already broken: the last PoS block submitted to the net on Sat Dec 14 12:49:20 UTC 2013. It had been delisted from cryptsy and then listed again in Feb. So, there is still quite a number of people who likes it for some reason.

Juts tell me please, if Gavin and company announce today that they quit the project, would Bitcoin die? Why do you think that the existence of a dedicated dev team is a must? I agree that it is nice, when the dev team exists. But still, this coin survived during 6 months without any developer support!
legendary
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Please note, I am not going to be a developer of this coin, I just released a fix that may allow the StarCoin to survive.
Then why do it. Or coin will have normal design and own team or do not need it and must die. Let worried those who are bought tens of thousands of these coins.
They can’t sit back and wait for something indefinite
hero member
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Merit: 523
Version 1.7.0

Win64: https://mega.co.nz/#!9dBynbaS!YEvnMIXoKMyyMzcMlldZoLyQX6-zyH3VP6a03kmkook
source: https://github.com/bee7/starcoin

After the time-wrap bug hit Starcoin at block 777855 again and finally stoped the network from producing new blocks the following changes to the protocol were implemented:

1) The ActualSpacing is bound by 2 seconds and TargetTimespan, i.e. 15 minutes
2) The PoW/PoS ratio is set to 1:3 (compare to the original one 1:12) to allow more PoW blocks as anyway for the last half a year the PoS was already broken.
3) The block trust scoring algorithm changed to target 3 PoW blocks among past 12 blocks.

Release Notes:

The Windows binary provided is native Win64 application cross-built using linux mingw64 environment.
It is built with BerkeleyDB 4.8.30 and openssl-1.0.1g. The builtin CPU miner in above mentioned build should not work due to some incompatibility between mingw64 and original scrypt implementation. Though, mingw32 version should work just fine. Feel free to build one if you need this functionality.

Please note, I am not going to be a developer of this coin, I just released a fix that may allow the StarCoin to survive.

So, let's see if cryptsy updates its wallet to this version.

Good luck.
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Due to lack of support and development, CharityMiningPools will be closing it's Starcoin pool at the end of this month.  Please withdrawal any coins that you may have on our site by this date.

str.charityminingpools.com
newbie
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Hrm, yes I see what the issues are .. since this will force a global wallet update (fork) anyway .. let me see if I can rustle something up, will have a word with the other guy who's tentatively bug-fixing with me, and will try to get a release out asap.
hero member
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Someone could be forking the coin with lots of hash.

No. It was hit by the time wrap bug

Well either way, it was slashed. It was evident something along those lines was going on.
legendary
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It now remains to wait when there will be a new team and new developers. Otherwise, it can be stated that the death of the coin.  Undecided
hero member
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so this needs a patch....

Yes. btw, the PoS minting is broken on this coin long ago:

Does having that checkpoint message affect ability to stake?  I have the checkpoint message, was running wallet for 2 days straight it stayed in sync and at any point i could check and see the recent block would be up to date but it never attempts to stake ?  STR that i have is months old now since last time it staked, any ideas what the problem might be?



It has broken stake mining. The explanation is here and in the cross-linked threads.
The blocks of interest are #347385 and #347386.
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so this needs a patch....
hero member
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Someone could be forking the coin with lots of hash.

No. It was hit by the time wrap bug:

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$ starcoind getblock 00000001219aabf7a0c0e629bacf6b70cbd857ebeb7e2575c6049c70306b5190
{
    "hash" : "00000001219aabf7a0c0e629bacf6b70cbd857ebeb7e2575c6049c70306b5190",
    "confirmations" : 1,
    "size" : 268,
    "height" : 777855,
    "version" : 4,
    "merkleroot" : "0221710eae6afdcc6cec652e513b74898e9929da0fa14d6124c157565ccd66e9",
    "mint" : 100.00000000,
   "time" : 1400607967,
    "nonce" : 2163618803,
    "bits" : "1d03cb20",
    "difficulty" : 0.26360777,
    "previousblockhash" : "00000000dfa28f824f3c569dbe8ae78c6dd0bb659f084f48d6c72a70277fd76c",
    "flags" : "proof-of-work",
    "proofhash" : "00000001219aabf7a0c0e629bacf6b70cbd857ebeb7e2575c6049c70306b5190",
    "entropybit" : 0,
    "modifier" : "dc6c78fb8aaa45f0",
    "modifierchecksum" : "56e6bebb",
    "tx" : [
        "0221710eae6afdcc6cec652e513b74898e9929da0fa14d6124c157565ccd66e9"
    ],
    "signature" : "30460221008f5a3e299781b03df544c442b1461a6724257b327550be38a568505bd01ad06e02210 0a7ab840456c6054aec1f0b7373226d5f8c6c9fd4bd4a25ad4107d7e3b70b587a"
}
$ starcoind getblock 00000000dfa28f824f3c569dbe8ae78c6dd0bb659f084f48d6c72a70277fd76c
{
    "hash" : "00000000dfa28f824f3c569dbe8ae78c6dd0bb659f084f48d6c72a70277fd76c",
    "confirmations" : 2,
    "size" : 268,
    "height" : 777854,
    "version" : 4,
    "merkleroot" : "a7ed902b6a2dee6a5045d277d19b50c77db83d3b4e7ce55cf203ca59a62db8e3",
    "mint" : 100.00000000,
   "time" : 1400608554,
    "nonce" : 3908568320,
    "bits" : "1d03fb5b",
    "difficulty" : 0.25113525,
    "previousblockhash" : "000000025cb702b64c9f44a96ab1f0177c82c203e2dba288423c8abaa7f939ee",
    "nextblockhash" : "00000001219aabf7a0c0e629bacf6b70cbd857ebeb7e2575c6049c70306b5190",
    "flags" : "proof-of-work",
    "proofhash" : "00000000dfa28f824f3c569dbe8ae78c6dd0bb659f084f48d6c72a70277fd76c",
    "entropybit" : 0,
    "modifier" : "dc6c78fb8aaa45f0",
    "modifierchecksum" : "dd993608",
    "tx" : [
        "a7ed902b6a2dee6a5045d277d19b50c77db83d3b4e7ce55cf203ca59a62db8e3"
    ],
    "signature" : "3046022100ea0230879f31cdf498f658b604b1502ee967c0c40bfce5f34daa60bf6220f7b602210 0db1bce696553cebd95a8721a3dd8b865eb71b85000e85842881756ee115868cb"
}

The difference between times of the last PoW block and the one before last is negative. Thus the re-targeting algorithm in use produces negative difficulty. Though, the getblocktemplate RPC call produces some positive target, then the wallet declines all blocks you find.

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is this coin alive? I like the logo.
hero member
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Someone could be forking the coin with lots of hash.
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Anyone have an idea what's going on with StarCoin?  As of this writing, the last block generated was 777855 approximately 5 hours ago.  Both of my nodes are on the same block, and CoinWarz also lists 777855 blocks.  Difficulty isn't astronomical or anything.  It's almost like something got stuck.

I was solo mining and it just stopped dead - all found blocks were being rejected so I gave up.

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Anyone have an idea what's going on with StarCoin?  As of this writing, the last block generated was 777855 approximately 5 hours ago.  Both of my nodes are on the same block, and CoinWarz also lists 777855 blocks.  Difficulty isn't astronomical or anything.  It's almost like something got stuck.
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