Title: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 01, 2012, 01:28:22 AM Official release build is now available http://www.ppcoin.org/ (via sourceforge)
What's in 0.2.0 release:
The protocol upgrades are an important step forward for ppcoin. In my opinion v0.2.0 has now achieved most design goals of ppcoin project. Now we are reasonably confident that central checkpointing can be weakened gradually and eventually removed thus achieving similar decentralization level of Bitcoin. We plan to review our checkpointing policy on a monthly basis from now on. Upgrade instructions: Upgrade is required before Monday September 10th. Nodes that have not upgraded before this deadline will be disconnected from the main ppcoin network. To upgrade: 1) Before upgrade, you must first backup your wallet: ppcoind backupwallet <destination_backup_wallet_name> 2) Shutdown ppcoin ppcoind stop 3) Inside your wallet directory, remove all files and subdirectories except for leaving wallet.dat and ppcoin.conf in place. 4) Download 0.2.0 and unpack/install. 5) Start up ppcoind normally. 6) Use getinfo to confirm your ppcoind version is now 'v0.2.0ppc-beta' 7) You should see block chain is being downloaded again. Please note during redownload of block chain your balance will be shown initially as 0 and grow as block chain is being downloaded. This is expected. When block chain download completes your balance should return to the same value before the upgrade. Cheers and happy mining! Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: NothinG on September 01, 2012, 01:31:59 AM I'll be making this update at my pool 2/9/2012 @ 1 AM CST (UTC -6).
Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 01, 2012, 01:46:27 AM Please note after 0.2.0 upgrade you may still see the exception message about tx messages in debug log. This problem is expected to go away after the network protocol switch on September 10th.
Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: foggyb on September 01, 2012, 03:53:58 AM Nice work, thanks Sunny.
Works ok on win7 x64. Coin balance is correct, and solo mining works as expected. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: mtbitcoin on September 01, 2012, 07:13:32 AM Upgrade went smoothly on a Windows Server 2008R2. Mining looks to be working but haven't found any blocks yet.
Thanks Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: grau on September 01, 2012, 10:10:13 AM I freshly built from github on OSX and get endless exceptions:
ProcessMessages(tx, 226 bytes) : Exception 'CDataStream::read() : end of data' caught, normally caused by a message being shorter than its stated length Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: mtbitcoin on September 01, 2012, 10:22:38 AM I freshly built from github on OSX and get endless exceptions: ProcessMessages(tx, 226 bytes) : Exception 'CDataStream::read() : end of data' caught, normally caused by a message being shorter than its stated length As mentioned in a different post, I believe this is to be expected and will only cease after the protocol switch on the 10th. Cheers Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: FuzzyBear on September 01, 2012, 10:37:22 AM Hello Sunny King,
Congratulations on the 0.2 PPCoin release, successfully installed and upgraded on win 7 x64 here to... i shall be upgrading the windows GUI I made for PPCoin Wallet as well and will be releasing here.... http://ppcointalk.org/index.php?q=node/11 Many thanks :) Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: markm on September 01, 2012, 11:11:50 AM Does this include the bugfixes luke-jr merged into his copy?
-MarkM- Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Rubberduckie on September 01, 2012, 12:31:21 PM Hi Sunny king
Good job on the latest release, just upgraded with no problems :) Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: dishwara on September 01, 2012, 01:01:24 PM http://46.166.138.142/stats.php
not showing balance or showing balance 0 any way to know balance? Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 01, 2012, 09:26:04 PM Does this include the bugfixes luke-jr merged into his copy? -MarkM- No. 0.2.0 is still based on Bitcoin v0.6.3. Besides qt gui is not supported yet. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 01, 2012, 09:28:58 PM http://46.166.138.142/stats.php not showing balance or showing balance 0 any way to know balance? I don't see anything in the link somehow. Do you still have trouble with balance? If so please describe in detail how did you upgrade and what you see in getinfo and listtransactions. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: NothinG on September 01, 2012, 09:29:05 PM I have an idea, and am not sure why I didn't think of it.
I'm going to make a web-wallet that lets you put in your remote RPC. This will let you control your wallet remotely. I will create a LIVE SHA256 of the site + tarball'ed SHA256 so you know I'm not saving your information. This...will be coded one day. I've got a lot of people trying to contact me at once. Which explains why the pool's site has been jacked up for the past few days. >.> Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 01, 2012, 09:47:28 PM I have an idea, and am not sure why I didn't think of it. I'm going to make a web-wallet that lets you put in your remote RPC. This will let you control your wallet remotely. I will create a LIVE SHA256 of the site + tarball'ed SHA256 so you know I'm not saving your information. This...will be coded one day. I've got a lot of people trying to contact me at once. Which explains why the pool's site has been jacked up for the past few days. >.> Not sure I follow you. Don't you need to save user rpc username and password in a database? Sounds dangerous to me. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: NothinG on September 01, 2012, 09:58:45 PM I have an idea, and am not sure why I didn't think of it. I'm going to make a web-wallet that lets you put in your remote RPC. This will let you control your wallet remotely. I will create a LIVE SHA256 of the site + tarball'ed SHA256 so you know I'm not saving your information. This...will be coded one day. I've got a lot of people trying to contact me at once. Which explains why the pool's site has been jacked up for the past few days. >.> Not sure I follow you. Don't you need to save user rpc username and password in a database? Sounds dangerous to me. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: dishwara on September 02, 2012, 07:12:20 AM I've been mining at your pool for days now with the same username as here. Still no verified balance. Pretty sure my solo blocks didn't take this long to mature. Any chance you could have a look at what is going on? Thanks It can take a few days for blocks to be verified. I have been solo mining full speed for a couple-few days and as of now I have 111,789 PPC and only 8,975 have matured into a balance. The PPC project in the beta stage, so as the coin matures and comes closer to the release stage, these issues should be taken care of. Is this true? 520 confirmation? Bitcoin atleast needs 6 confirmation & that too called very slow. Seems ppcoin wont be used in anywhere, coz it will take years to get confirmation alone. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: FuzzyBear on September 02, 2012, 10:32:23 AM Its only the mined blocks that take 550 confirmations, transactions take less confirmations i believe
Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 02, 2012, 04:15:06 PM Is this true? 520-block maturity only applies to block minting. For Bitcoin this parameter is 120-block maturity.520 confirmation? Bitcoin atleast needs 6 confirmation & that too called very slow. Seems ppcoin wont be used in anywhere, coz it will take years to get confirmation alone. As for user transactions how many confirmations you wait is entirely up to you and market concensus. Generally speaking the larger amount you send/receive the more confirmations you should consider waiting. Currently the network is protected by central checkpointing so transactions are pretty safe. In the future it would be decentralized and work similarly to Bitcoin. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: NothinG on September 02, 2012, 04:47:13 PM Is this true? 520-block maturity only applies to block minting. For Bitcoin this parameter is 120-block maturity.520 confirmation? Bitcoin atleast needs 6 confirmation & that too called very slow. Seems ppcoin wont be used in anywhere, coz it will take years to get confirmation alone. As for user transactions how many confirmations you wait is entirely up to you and market concensus. Generally speaking the larger amount you send/receive the more confirmations you should consider waiting. Currently the network is protected by central checkpointing so transactions are pretty safe. In the future it would be decentralized and work similarly to Bitcoin. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 06, 2012, 03:49:17 PM Reminder that upgrade to 0.2.0 is required before next Monday
Upgrade is required before Monday September 10th. Nodes that have not upgraded before this deadline will be disconnected from the main ppcoin network. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 09, 2012, 03:43:14 AM Reminder that upgrade to 0.2.0 before Monday is required.
Network protocol will be switched automatically at some time around Monday September 10th 18:00:00 UTC. Nodes that have not upgraded before the switch will be disconnected from the main network. I will monitor the protocol switch and give updates on Monday. Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Sunny King on September 10, 2012, 06:13:38 PM Network appears to have successfully switched to the new network protocol. If you experience any problem please report here. You shouldn't be seeing the process tx message exception in debug log any more. Instead you might be seeing something about MESSAGESTART NOT FOUND and this is expected.
Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: Smoovious on October 23, 2012, 06:43:24 PM Any windows bunnies available?
-- Smoov Title: Re: [ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.2.0 Release - Upgrade Required Post by: 420 on December 09, 2012, 06:32:22 AM how many minutes for each block to be solved?
EDIT: appears to be 2 minutes. is that the target? where to view difficulty and next adjustment? |