Topic: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Hardfork block 1042000 - Merge Mine w/BTC! - page 780. (Read 1046651 times)

Hello everyone ,

Hope everyone is having a wonderful time and as per FallingKnife's directions and introduction and while greatly thanking him from bringing UNO to my attention and generating interest on the same, you must be having the Updated wallet by now which is Openssl Heartbleed Security Vulnerability Addressed , Versions Bumped to 0.9.4, Seed Node Updated, Check-pointed.

Please update your client as soon as possible to avoid any security issues arising from the vulnerability being exploited on the old wallets.

I will be supporting UNO as from now on and would be glad to answer and assist the UNO community in everyway for success of UNO and renew faith in it as well as interest.

Everyone should be thankful to FallingKnife for the renewed interest on the coin and getting me involved a round of applause should go to him.

~SoopY~

Soopy452000 is the new dev. Glad to see you here, Soopy!

Soopy sent me a new Windows wallet which I have been testing today. It synced right up on a fresh Windows machine and downloaded the blockchain without issues. UNO transfers back & forth to the Dice game work fine.

This is a download link that I am hosting on my premium Mediafire account (to avoid the ads).

Windows
https://www.mediafire.com/download/qtx7w6k1hjaz5s4/Unobtanium-0.9.4.0-win.zip

Linux
http://www.mediafire.com/download/76uepces30z853s/Unobtanium-0.9.4.0-Linux.tar.gz

Mac
https://www.mediafire.com/download/6txwvz11m6ms4g3/Unobtanium-0.9.4.0-Mac.zip

The Wallets have been updated to address Openssl HeartBleed Security Vulnerability, Versions Bumped, Seed Node Updated, Checkpointed.

Checkpoints are very important for the security of a coin. If some at a point a coin gets attacked we are able to revert to the last checkpointed block. The last checkpoint Soopy saw when he was going through the code was at block height 150000 and we are currently at block number 334XXX. The latest checkpoint is now at 334970.

All this has also been added to the OP, including VirusTotal scan reports.

If you appreciate Soopy's work so far and would like to thank him, his donation wallets are:
UNO: uW9XivXdwE9VVtBKYubnTzFgfwZP2hJpFN
BTC: 1DGB48wjZpfB9cnazuVr4Co8N1yoCR2bQc

Please be generous so we can keep him as interested in UNO as we are.

FallingKnife - please verify the new dev.  Thanks. 

a new dev is really good news. Everybody should tip him now and then some uno for the work he does so he is happy and keeps doing it.

Remember: Uno was not premined - that may play a role in all this.
It is important that the dev is holding the coin himself so he can actually profit from his own work - and that must be of course.

it is really hard these days to get your hands on a larger amount of uno if you are not willing to buy it for bitcoin.
Uno has one of the lowest inflations of all the coins out there - and that is one of the things that makes it so attractive.
One or two years from now you will see the envy in poeple when you tell them that you are holding a decent amount of uno which you bought at todays prices.
Now is the time to buy, really.
As soon the new dev pushes out the needed updates uno is going to be flying.


welcome soopy452000 - are you the new dev?

did you create the .conf-file?

Hello Everyone!

Hi Benefactor,
I guess that's fine.

The only feedback I have had with JacobUX was in this thread... https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5936230
Otherwise, no replies to several messages.  

This message was private from Blazr2:
Re: Unobtanium
« Sent to: FallingKnife on: April 06, 2014, 06:12:35 PM »
« You have forwarded or responded to this message. »
Hello there. We apologize for the delay in reply. We are no longer involved with Un--it was taken over/given to a group of developers/managers including: JacobUX, icanprogram, and some other members of a self-appointed 'Un Dev/Pump Team.' This happened approximately around the time of the last wallet's release. This team manages rockchain.info and unobtanium.io. Please contact them via freenode.net in ##unobtanium-dev or #unobtanium for more information.

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I did try to contact them through Freenode. I emailed JacobUX a few times. I was able to contact icanprogram and get some things updated on the site.  I also later email Blazr2 to ask him to return to UNO, but did not receive a reply. My final message was to Blazr2, Jacobux and icanprogram together, trying to determine their interest.  I received no response.

I hope we can continue working with those guys on Unobtanium.io and Rockchain. Those are important services for UNO, and they're good quality.

I also want to stress that the term "take over" seems so harsh and negative. I prefer the term "community involvement."  
I have no ill feelings toward Blazr2, JacobUX or anyone else.  My intent is to resolve thecommunity discussed issues around UNO. I'm doing this to protect my own investment in UNO, and because I genuinely like UNO and want it to keep moving forward and for new people discover it.  

I'm looking forward to you all meeting the new Dev (Soopy). Hopefully you'll like his work and support him with some good tips so he will keep on. I've taken a little risk coming out ahead of the new Dev, but I wanted to get the discussion going and pave the way for him. Ultimately its up to you all whether or not you want to work with him and support him, and its up to Blazr2 or JacobUX to show up here and say whether or how they want to remain involved with UNO.  But I hope nobody can say that they didn't see this coming or didn't have a chance to weigh in or influence the events.  Again--- no hard feelings whatsoever... I just want to make sure that my investment in UNO remains a good one.

Update: The proposed new Dev emailed me today:  "The Wallet has been Updated to Address Openssl HeartBleed Security Vulnerability , Versions Bumped , Seed Node Updated , Checkpointed.  Will Upload the Qts and send you the link."  I invited him to come and introduce himself here so you'll be meeting him soon.

Not at all and thanks for the reply.
Well, let me re-phrase my original question. The issue that i am having is that the UNO qt wallet(v0.9.2.9) installed on my machine is not working. It looks that is trying to connect to some ip addresses but "connection is refused" (i.e. trying connection 188.226.198.109:65534 lastseen=108.3hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused"
Than, what I was trying is to circumvent the problem that i am having with the UNO qt wallet not working. Though at the end of the day, what I really need, is to have the UNO qt wallet working as it should. There is perhaps some configuration, that that I am not aware of, which needs to be set in place.
 I haven't got yet too much background into all this and wander you if you can help. Many thanks.

"The numbers can get really big really fast and after a while you become a coffee drinking, vitamin starved, MACD addict rolling arbitrage across international markets 24 hours a day."  --Bryce Weiner

http://coinchomp.com/2014/01/10/the-bitcoin-blackhole-is-real-but-its-not-what-you-think-it-is/

Fallingknife - I have a good feeling about you on this.  I've been silently hoping for a community takeover ever since it was first suggested before Blazr2 'came back'.  Could you show us a copy of the correspondences with Blazr2 and Jacob?  I'd be even more comfortable if something like that was up.

As for the community investment in a fresh new developer - firstly, thank you for your work and contributions towards this end!  I really hope the new developer has a longer-term vision which include accepting smaller donations of Un, but knowing with her/his own work that they will become quite valuable as Unobtanium becomes a 'responsive' coin.  I know the community can build infrastructure and commerce over that, too.  Seriously, per unit, with good development, use, community, and networking, Unobtanium can be a more positive coin than BTC, IMHO, plus there is an added bonus with respect to opening up yet another formidible currency option in the real world, if you know what I mean, (referencing GUS and banksters, etc.)

Lastly, the whole idea with 'open-source' is that everyone can 'see' what exactly is going on, giving GREAT confidence in the financial instrument.  Unfortunately - MOST PARTICIPANTS DON'T KNOW HOW TO READ THE CODE!!!    I really hope there is some willingness by the new coder to participate a little in discussions, (and surely not teach people how to code,) but to post relevant portions of the code publicly to address issues.  For example, I reeeely want to know how to specifically AND PUBLICLY verify the total float of Un right now.  Etc.

Thank you.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I can attempt to answer from what I interpret...

UNO is a unique coin, like all bitcoin clones, and can only be used with the UNO qt wallet, or unobtaniumd daemon, both of which can be downloaded from the OP (at least until alternate services exist, like an UNO android client, or electrum-uno client, they do not yet exist to my knowledge).

That being said, you should be able to transfer UNO from one exchange to another exchange without an issue. In that case you are relying on the exchanges that are running the unobtaniumd client on their end. Note that you are typically not in direct control of those exchange addresses, they are being handled by the exchanges. The only current addresses that are in your direct control at the moment are the UNO qt wallet (or if you have your own instance of unobtaniumd) and the paper wallets (which you cannot send from, you must import them into the UNO qt or unobtaniumd).

Hopefully I have not confused you more...

Hi Crypt,
Do you know if I can use other currency wallets to receive my UNOs, or if I can send them directly to an exchange?

Edit:
All dice games opened, limits raised.
More coinbomb games added.
Limits raised again.

Hi All,

I downloaded and installed the uno wallet/client v0.9.2.9(for mac) however it doesn't connect to uno networks. Any one can give me some help or point to a good thread. Much appreciated.

Great post FallingKnife. I guess a community takeover is an option, if none of the previous devs can be bothered to step in and address the issues raised. It has happened before and successfully too (in fact my other favourite coin besides UNO, KARM has just gone through this). Looking forward to meet the developer you mentioned.

For the reasons outlined in my previous post, I have ben talking with some Devs who have experience with Altcoins about stepping in to do an update to the UNO wallet. I screened a few people, and chose the one I think could do the best job and who seemed most excited about working on UNO.  I hope to introduce you to him shortly after he's had time to set things up and look through the code.  

This is not a "hardfork" situation right now, and I don't see this as a hostile "takeover." I think of it mainly as an overdue maintenance job to fix up a few things, and a chance to get to know a new developer who might commit to UNO for the longer term to make new things possible for Unobtanium.

If you like this new developer's work and want him to continue on, then you should also reward him with a generous UNO tip. He wasn't rewarded with any kind of "pre-mine" on UNO (nobody was); your generosity will help him continue his work.  

When you meet this new Dev in the upcoming week or two, please welcome him to the community, and be generous if you appreciate his work and commitment to UNO. And thank you for your commitment.

FK

I just want to reiterate that I am not the UNO Dev. I'm part of the community. I own a lot of UNO. I love to trade UNO. I've been in the community since the coin started. I made out ok during the Wolong pump, and then bought back in.  Most of you who hang here know me. In real life I work for a software company, but I don't code.

First, I want to say that UNO is fine. It seems to be working fine, and there is no crisis that I am aware of. So there is no emergency situation here.  

But I agree with your concerns about the UNO Dev Team's long term commitment to UNO going forward. For example, there are a few basic issues with the UNO wallet that have bothered the community for quite a while that could have been addressed.  The fact that the wallet doesn't synch without editing the conf file with addnodes is a turn off to new UNO fans and could have been easily fixed a long time ago. There have been concerns posted here about what the Hearthbleed bug means, and how that relates to UNO.  Another question was raised about whether UNO was susceptible to the Timewarp attack. And is the Mac wallet working? It appears it is not (I'm not a Mac guy).

These are good questions that go to investor's confidence of UNO.

This month I reached out to the known Devs.  I began with Blazr3.  He told me clearly that he is no longer working on UNO, having turned the project over the JacobUX and his team.

I reached out to JacobUX early on. He made an appearance on this thread last month to post UNO graphics, but after several messages I haven't been able to get a reply from him. I see that he's still active on Bitcointalk working on 10-5 coin.  I know that his association with Wolong and Pandacoin have angered some people.  His silence on UNO I think shows that he has moved on now. I think JacobUX did a great job promoting UNO early on; he doesn't seem to be a Dev per se, more of a team manager. I hold no ill feelings for JacobUX. If he were to show up here again I would welcome him back with open arms.

Icanprogram was mentioned by Blazr3 as being part of JacobUX's team. I contacted icanprogram this month, and he WAS responsive and helpful. He updated some things on the Unobtanium.io website. I am appreciative to him for that.

But I am concerned that if a crisis should strike that UNO today might not have the help to respond promptly and decisively.

(cont)

pictures from the battlefield

Good time to buy?  Or will we go lower?  Check out the autofilled Buy side of available Sell orders - over a half ton (500+) Unobtanium for ~ 4.25 BTC.

i have to correct. 'Consensus' may not be needed. An opinionpoll may be just enough - i can calculate various things from the opinions. It will be important to get largest holders to participate especially. Those of you who know 'the wisdom of crowds' may see where i am going with this. I will present a well thought out opinionpoll to the community at some point in the future and give you probably good predictions based on the data afterwards.
If i can get mayority of holders to participate the prediction will actually proove reliable and helpful i think. I will report back when this thought has matured.