Topic: [Ultracoin] [Est. Feb 2014] ~ ASIC Resistant & Ultrafast 6 Second Transactions! - page 121. (Read 381003 times)

it works - for me anyway?

I hate to say this (dont like Windows and MS) - but if you dont do Windows updates - thats the likely cause of your wallet problem.  May not be but quite often is.  Your possible fix is a clean install of the new wallet and recover your old wallet from a saved wallet.dat file as I described previously.

just some ideas from my previous mistakes and misadventures with QT over several coins.

First above all - make sure you have backed up your wallet/s.  Back up and save the wallet.dat to more than 1 place (a few usb memory sticks) - (and if possible, if you know what I am talking about - check the size of the file against the backup file in App data roaming Ultracoin etc).

You should be able to just extract the Ultracoin folder and run the setup.exe in that folder - and it should give you the new wallet with your coins all intact in an updated wallet.  That being said - many times the remnants of the old wallet and the bugs in the Windows system you use cause some issues - and I just dont do it like that anymore for any wallet - up to you.

2nd - never transfer coins to an exchange if you dont need to.  Bad things can happen on exchanges - and Cryptsy is about due for some. Keep your coins under your control.

With Cryptsy - there is another issue that folks need to be aware of.  With a wallet change and other changes coming 1st Nov there is a good chance that Cryptsy will put the UTC wallet in maintenance mode.  This will allow no transfers in or out.  They are very slow at reinstating the wallet - so it may take a month if history repeats. A recent good example to the extreme is DEM down for 4 months.  So my advice - do not transfer to cryptsy.  Keep your coins under your control.

If it was me - I would install the new wallet on another computer.  When its synced the blockchain - test and send it a few UTC and send some back.  If it works - encrypt your wallet with a password AND make wallet backups - send all your UTC to the new wallet on the other computer.

This has another advantage - if you stake a lot you have maybe thousands of small transactions and sending to a new wallet cleans out these cobwebs.  Be prepared to adjust transaction fees if you get asked because lots of small transactions require more data to be sent as part of the transaction. Send in decent size chunks to minimise the number of staking blocks and maximise your stake payouts in the future.

Then - if you really want your UTC back on your original computer. - Back up your old empty wallet (always keep old empty dead wallet backups - why - cos Satoshi Nakamoto said so).  Save to a few usb memory sticks.  Uninstall Ultracoin QT from Control Panel/Programs etc.  Go to (make sure - Show Hidden Files is selected in Windows) Users/username/APP data/Roaming and DELETE the Ultracoin folder (with prev data and your wallet.dat file).

Restart the computer and do a clean install of the new wallet.  Sync and test with a few small transactions.  Encrypt and backup.  Send your UTC back to this new wallet on you old computer.

Your choice - but if you have wallet backups - nothing can make you lose your UTC in the end.  There is always a fix.

Greetings. I have not updated at all. Just shut down the computer and turn it on again.And I got this problem. Automatic update Windows I generally disabled

Steven, hello. Update 7.4.1-8 I downloaded a few days ago. It's the same thing that you're talking about now? Or do I need to download it and install again?

Download link is down, can anybody upload ?

Hi folks,

Thanks for all the hard work in keeping the coin going!

Could I just check. I have my UTC on my windows qt, minting away. What do I need to do to upgrade without risking losing my coins? Should I transfer them to say cryptsy or something, do the upgrade and then transfer them back, or is there an easier way?
Please bear in mind, I am a novice at all this...

Many thanks,

Roister

When does the NF change takes effect?

Thanks Steven and Kracko

Been using this new wallet for a few days now and everything seems good.

Good stuff!

Cheers - usukan

Gr8 work with pushing up NF to solve botnet virus!

Also hope mining from 1 nov will be a lot more stable, now pls bring up pool updates etc

Dear Ultracoin community,

At long last, the much anticipated update is finally completed and available for download! In this update, we have updated the block reward schedule to ensure that Ultracoin remains sustainable long into the future. I know the reward drop may come as a shock to some of our miners, but I urge you that the long term repercussions would be much more severe if we don't take the responsible measures of tapering coin growth now. Block retargeting has been adjusted over a longer period of blocks which will smooth out the difficulty retargetting and ensure fairer distribution and a more secure network that is less susceptible to difficulty swing attacks and botnets. In this update we have decided to revert back to N-Factor 14 indefinitely in order to further our immunity from botnets, as CPU's get faster and GPU's become more powerful this will be a much more future proof solution, it is also still much more efficient than Scrypt and X11. Currently the update is only available for our Windows users, but updates for Macintosh and Linux are on their to be released soon, and I will update when they become available. The update is available for download below and should go into effect sometime around November 1st adjusting for current block time. Lastly, this update is Mandatory, meaning that you must update in order to be on the current most current Ultracoin network, Macintosh and Linux users please keep checking back until your update is available. I also want to thank our miners and community members for believing in Ultracoin and weathering the storm with us, it means a lot to me and the team, and I strongly believe Ultracoin will prosper because of the community and it's support.

Sincerely,

Steven "Rapture"
Management Director
[email protected]
Ultracoin

Windows Download: http://ultracoin.net/dl/UltraCoinQT_win32_v7.4.1-8.zip

Change notes:

Change to 10 UTC per block pending new update
10 UTC per block - 4,000,000
5 UTC per block - 6,000,000
2.5 UTC per block - 8,000,000
1.25 UTC per block - 20,000,000
1 UTC per block - 25,000,000
.5 UTC per block - 30,000,000
.25 UTC per block - 40,000,000
.125 UTC per block - 50,000,000
.01 UTC per block - 208,145,600

Change to 2% pending new update
1.5% per year at block 4,000,000
1% per year at block 8,000,000


Block Retarget

* Digishield variant
* Smoothing over 240 blocks
* PoW block time 60 second target
* PoS block time 60 second target (minimum diff 0.25)
* Max adjustment per block +12%/-16%


GitHub Diff:

https://github.com/Kracko/ultracoin-2/compare/6135192516147ae7d478fd850b085165289558a1...Kracko:master

@Steven and @Kracko

Is it possible to give an short update of de status of the developments ?

Thanks in front.

I believe its a problem that occurs with the Windows updates - if you are behind some things stop working properly sometimes - if you do the updates then some things change and don't work properly.

You just can't win.

Microsoft just don't care if its not a Windows program that you are running.

Yes, thank you, I will try to do it, but why it happened, vedya I have not changed anything in the system. Just when you start the next wallet happened.

@barbados-fs

 I see your problem now.

I remember that on updates to some of my wallets a while back - I had a similar issue on Windows 8.1.  It was on upgrading to 7.3.4 10 g6135192 dirty beta wallet version (which does not appear to be much different from the one you are using for the upgrade).  They would just not synchronise to the full blockchain.  Some other altcoin wallets have this issue on some Windows systems.

The fix was relatively simple - it is essentially a manual wallet recovery from a saved wallet.DAT file (but take care for each step) -

1 - Back up and save your wallet (wallet.dat file) to several places.  These should be encrypted with a password. Make certain that the backups are the same kb size as the wallet.dat file in your Apps/Roaming/Ultracoin folder (sometimes with copy/paste you can get an error - safer using the wallet backup route - I always use backup and a direct save and keep these offline).
2 - Uninstall ultracoin qt
3 - Delete Ultracoin files in App Data/Roaming (that will include your wallet.dat - so make damn sure you have this saved somewhere else - more than 1 copy)
4 - Restart computer
5 - Reinstall the UTC wallet
6 - Go to Apps/Roaming/Ultracoin folder
7 - Delete the new wallet.dat file in that folder
8 - Replace it with your saved wallet.dat file (saved at 1 above)
9 - Launch the Ultracon qt wallet (7.4.1 g 8 gdc521c7)
10 - You will need to wait for the Ultracoin qt wallet to resync the ENTIRE Blockchan again (a long time).
11 - if you dont understand 1-10 above - DO NOT ATTEMPT IT.

When it has resync the whole blockchain - your old wallet and all old transactions will be included.

I have installed the wallet Version 7.4.1 g 8 gdc521c7 (clean install).  It does resync the blockchain without any issues.  Well in saying that - it did take 3 whole days with a good connection.  It rolls back a few times - but eventually gets to the end.  Check in the debug window/blockchain to get more detail on progress if you wish.
I have tested it with transactions in and out.  No issues at all.

Hope this works for you - I remember my panic when I first struck this issue.
 

Hmmm, do you really think it is the teams fault ?

I remember they did a lot.
They invest a lot of private time.
They Invest a lot of private bitcoins for multiple purposes and developments.
They made it possible to participate at two large and  different crypto exhibitions.
They arranged before the first exhibition a lot of publicity.
They stayed positive and developed a new website and as I understand Steven and Kracko are still busy in the background with developments.

I think the problem is not the team but the market.
So many coins.
Serious coins and scam coins.
Next to that, the whole crypto market is since the beginning of 2014 in minor.
All the big coins are still down...for a long time... so why could do UTC it better then the rest ?

Next to that, don’t forget that a bank or an institution has a lot of investors and investing funds and payed professionals to do the job.
Every day again.
In this case the team invested private money and time and did everything next to their daily job and family.
For non professionals who did it all allone and by them selfs i give them applause.

And last but not least….
Onley a view good community members did helped from time to time the coin.
The rest sat leaning back and thought they could get rich quick.
A part of them were onley wining and crying, stalking and trolling.
They did nothing for the coin and did dent helped the team.
My advice for you dear pugman and for your "buddies" : Cry like a little cheerleader girl or better, look in the mirror and ask yourself some serious questions instead of blaming the team.

For me, I am not happy how things go.
But I accept how things went till now.
I have to.
I am bagholder and stay a bagholder and wish for better times.
I did invest in UTC, from the start, fully aware of all the risks. 100% aware.
And if not, if there comes no better time for UTC, than I accept it and I take my loss.
Without crying and blaming someone else !

this time last year we had marketcap of $800,000 now its $41,000 well done team! time to unload and move on? What a disappointment you turned out to be.

I do not load all the blocks again, just three days ago, my purse will not load new blocks. They simply accumulate in the queue, but it does not load them. I've updated the purse in the hope that the issue will be resolved. Yesterday was 3656 units (or slightly larger) 4487 today.
 Developers, what is it?

same thing here for me - its just very slow to download the full blockchain again - but mine is almost there now (after 3 days on fast connection and a couple of restarts).

I would try it first as a new install on another computer before deciding to upgrade an existing wallet and put your UTC's at any risk.  I just downloaded the new one to trial.

I'm only getting 2-3 connections with 7.4.1 g 8 gdc521c7 - this may be the reason for the flowing honey speed?

I get 5-11 connections with 7.3.4 10 g6135192 dirty beta (which I have been using for ages with no issues)

I live in hope it will finish very soon looks like another couple of hours