What does "No Block Source Available" Mean?

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legendary

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Quote from: bitideas on January 20, 2014, 03:39:40 AM

Wow! Thanks for this information. I'm going to bookmark this and learn it.

One more question: If a coin is dead, is there any way to bring it back to life without the involvement of the coin's creator?

Right now I just promote, but I'm getting ready to learn how to mine. Thanks again for the info.

if youre not mining by now, pm me, would love to help you get setup! it'll take u a couple hours of work provided you have a pc with a decent gfx card but theres just something sweet about mining your own coins!

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legendary

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thanks for the info! just what i needed to know.
Im also curious what happens if the developer of a coin abandons it? who controls the coin service or mechanism? where does it live? someone must be able to make changes to the dynamics of a coin as its constantly done to other coins. who has access to that & so on, guess i have some research to do! Wink

bitideas

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Wow! Thanks for this information. I'm going to bookmark this and learn it.

One more question: If a coin is dead, is there any way to bring it back to life without the involvement of the coin's creator?

Right now I just promote, but I'm getting ready to learn how to mine. Thanks again for the info.

hasar

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It means your wallet doesn't sync. You should add addnodes on conf file.

NUFCrichard

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It means you need to add nodes. Look at the ANN topic and generally there will be nodes to add. If not then the coin is probably dead.

divinity

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I believe that means the wallet cannot connect to peers and therefore doesn't have access to the blockchain.

Some of the more obscure/abandoned coins do this as their original nodes have given up on the coin. You will want to find working nodes (peers) to connect to. I usually just do a Google search (eg. "bitbar addnode" or "doge addnode") which brings up posts where the coins are announced - and in those announcements you'll find the working nodes.

You can cut and paste the code into the wallets configuration file (eg. 42.conf for 42 coin, doge.conf for Doge, bitbar.conf for Bitbar) which looks like this (sample only):

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
testnet=0
rpcuser=xx
rpcpassword=123
rpcport=5915
maxconnections=500
addnode=23.239.111.69
addnode=23.239.111.68
addnode=59.188.76.25

or go into the wallet -> help -> debug -> console
and type
addnode 23.239.111.69 add
addnode 23.239.111.68 add
etc.

Both methods work whereas the first method saves you having to type in the addnode command every time you run the wallet. The conf file goes into the Appdata folder (C:\Users\PCNAME\AppData\Roaming\BitBar)

Note you'd change bitbar to whatever folder your wallet is saved in (42, litecoin, multibit, doge, etc.)

The nodes listed above as examples, each coin uses different nodes so don't expect the code I've given you to work. Look for mention of the ".conf" file in the announcement thread for your coin here on Bitcointalk.

bitideas

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Sorry, I don't know much about mining, but when I open some of my wallets they just sit there for hours and say "No Block Source Available". Is that a problem with the wallet or does that mean nobody's mining it? Sorry for the noob question, but would be grateful for any information!

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