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Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: VforVictory on April 15, 2013, 02:46:15 PM
I question whether I should download anything from something named "SatoshiClone"...


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: fcmatt on April 15, 2013, 02:51:53 PM
I question whether I should download anything from something named "SatoshiClone"...

you download it from sourceforge directly....


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Frizz23 on April 15, 2013, 03:09:14 PM
you download it from sourceforge directly....

Explain please: Why is it called SatoshiClone?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: btbrae on April 15, 2013, 05:55:45 PM
Do NOT download this. Please don't be in the habit of downloading clients from forum topics directly. Go to terracoin.org's news page and await an update.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: btbrae on April 15, 2013, 06:06:45 PM
Do NOT download this. Please don't be in the habit of downloading clients from forum topics directly. Go to terracoin.org's news page and await an update.

Stupid or just new to Terracoin? I've put link to official mailing list, which links to official download directory. Go to terracoin.org and click on "Development
Binaries" at the bottom, you'll end on the same page mentioned in mailing list announcement.

Neither, I think it's irresponsible to link to anything but the main website when posting about client updates. Not everybody knows the legitimacy of your link. And who's to say your forum account hasn't been hacked?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: chriswen on April 15, 2013, 06:17:52 PM
What a troll...


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: SaltySpitoon on April 15, 2013, 08:26:39 PM
This thread will be stickied until the deadline has past.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: gambit on April 15, 2013, 08:38:04 PM
What should linux users do? When I'll be able to use my coins?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: crazy_rabbit on April 15, 2013, 09:01:24 PM
This thread will be stickied until the deadline has past.

Thanks!


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 15, 2013, 09:39:47 PM
What should linux users do? When I'll be able to use my coins?

Upgrade to latest source code and recompile. You should be able to use your coins already?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: MessyCoin on April 15, 2013, 11:47:19 PM
For relative noob, using Linux I:

Code:
git clone https://github.com/terracoin/terracoin.git

Then build by opening the terracoin-qt.pro file with Qt Creator. (Basically following the instructions in the readme-qt.rst file that's included with the source).

This has always seemed to give me the latest version, though mostly the version number reported by the binary is not correct. For example when I pull from git and compile right now, "About Terracoin" says "v0.13rc3-beta" :(

This is a little disconcerting and I wish the developers would ensure that the version compiled from source was 100% and would report the correct version.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: crazy_rabbit on April 16, 2013, 09:32:35 AM
For relative noob, using Linux I:

Code:
git clone https://github.com/terracoin/terracoin.git

Then build by opening the terracoin-qt.pro file with Qt Creator. (Basically following the instructions in the readme-qt.rst file that's included with the source).

This has always seemed to give me the latest version, though mostly the version number reported by the binary is not correct. For example when I pull from git and compile right now, "About Terracoin" says "v0.13rc3-beta" :(

This is a little disconcerting and I wish the developers would ensure that the version compiled from source was 100% and would report the correct version.

More then disconcerting, it's unacceptable. When this all started I asked in the issue tracker how we could verify we were on the right version and received no response. A lot of help that did me.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: human on April 16, 2013, 08:51:51 PM
people, why do you support this trash coin? it is so broken, that you should cry! let it die and leave space for new coins with a better developer and design.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: crazy_rabbit on April 17, 2013, 05:55:01 AM
people, why do you support this trash coin? it is so broken, that you should cry! let it die and leave space for new coins with a better developer and design.

Despite our frustration, there is real value in the learning experience the entire community is going through at this point with Terracoin. The lessons learned here can not only improve terracoin, but improve all the other altcoins- and even bitcoin as well.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: smoothie on April 17, 2013, 10:35:45 AM
lol you accept TRC?

good luck with that  ::)


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 17, 2013, 01:18:55 PM
You mean latest scam coins like Bytecoin, Mincoin, Feathercoin and alikes? Or classic scam coins like PPCoin, DevCoin, Freicoin or NovaCoin?

I'm curious. Do you consider every coin other than bitcoin a "scam"? Litecoin is the only one you didn't seem to list.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: super3 on April 17, 2013, 04:43:20 PM
I see two benefits to Terracoin:
  • Way faster confirmation time.
  • You can use Terracoin for Bitcoin project development without fear of messing things up. Just switch terracoind to bitcoind before you deploy.

Anyone selling any Terracoin for Bitcoin? I'm making a Terracoin faucet, and I need some more coin to start it off.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 17, 2013, 05:01:07 PM
You can trade TRC/BTC on BTC-E. :)


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Bogart on April 17, 2013, 10:09:05 PM
Great.

I missed the 0.1.3.33 upgrade, and at the same time, BTC-e appeared to have missed it too.

I ended up mining on a forked chain, depositing to BTC-e (which they accepted, also being on my fork), and selling for BTC.

Now that they've upgraded, they have locked my account for withdrawls, and say that I now owe them 6921 in "double-spent" TRC.

I "fought" to have my fork win, but I gave up after it fell 200 blocks behind.

It looks like I'm not the only one.  I've seen lots of other BTC-e users posting saying that their accounts are also locked for withdrawls.  They probably have no clue the fork even occurred.


Now I didn't see this 0.1.3.36 announcement until now.  I wonder if BTC-e will see it in time this time...


IMO, pushing out a mandatory update with a 2-3 day window to apply it is asking for this kind of trouble.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: kaerf on April 17, 2013, 10:28:03 PM
Great.

I missed the 0.1.3.33 upgrade, and at the same time, BTC-e appeared to have missed it too.

I ended up mining on a forked chain, depositing to BTC-e (which they accepted, also being on my fork), and selling for BTC.

Now that they've upgraded, they have locked my account for withdrawls, and say that I now owe them 6921 in "double-spent" TRC.

I "fought" to have my fork win, but I gave up after it fell 200 blocks behind.

It looks like I'm not the only one.  I've seen lots of other BTC-e users posting saying that their accounts are also locked for withdrawls.  They probably have no clue the fork even occurred.


Now I didn't see this 0.1.3.36 announcement until now.  I wonder if BTC-e will see it in time this time...


IMO, pushing out a mandatory update with a 2-3 day window to apply it is asking for this kind of trouble.

Same for me.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: niteryder on April 17, 2013, 10:33:30 PM
Ugg, was so pissed when I saw all my coins vanish.

Anyway, 38 is already out.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 17, 2013, 10:41:02 PM
I expressed my concerns to BTC-E about coins not appearing on the web site even after 150+ confirms but support just told me TRC was having issues and to give it more time. I finally wrote back, spelled out the fork situation and the .33 mandatory update, and asked them to reply and confirm what version of terracoind they were running. I told them I was worried what was happening to people buying and selling TRC for BTC if the exchange was on a forked chain.

They never replied to that one, but within like 30 minutes my coins appeared so they must have went and upgraded. I thought I'd read the dev did contact all exchange site owners about the update. So it might be BTC-E's issue for not bothering to upgrade their daemon. Plus you'd assume the exchanges would be on all of the announce mailing lists, since staying up to date is critical for them.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Moray on April 17, 2013, 10:47:31 PM
Same for me. Forked chain - BTC-E want "refund". They gladly accepted my coins, took their commision. They shoudn't make us buy TRC now, it's not fair, after the price tripled. I made 0.21 btc from the forked chain, if I "refund" them- I'll have to pay 0.53 btc. Fair ?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Mastergerund on April 18, 2013, 02:35:02 AM
Any particular reason you don't close your BTC-e account and just trade elsewhere? Since they are clearly at fault, I don't see any ethical reason not to walk away from it.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: fcmatt on April 18, 2013, 02:48:53 AM
isn't the true person at fault the one who solo mined using an outdated client or used a pool with an outdated client?

i mined trc at coinotron and sold at btc-e.. i can login and i see no problem. it seems coinotron upgraded. and btc-e not
upgrading was irrelevant.

right?


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 18, 2013, 03:43:41 AM
isn't the true person at fault the one who solo mined using an outdated client or used a pool with an outdated client?

Well, two different issues, with plenty of blame to go around.

If you were solo mining with the wrong client, that's on you for mining into a forked chain.
If you were pool mining into a forked chain, that's on the pool.

If you transfer forked coins into an exchange that is on the right chain, they would simply never show up. Good job exchange.

If you transfer forked coins into a forked exchange, then you sell them for USD/BTC and things will get ugly when the exchange eventually upgrades to correct chain. Bad job exchange, but you or the pool are also partially to blame for mining forked coins in the first place.

If you transfer valid coins into an exchange that is on the forked chain, they would simply never show up. This is what happened to me. So no harm done to me unless the exchange never updated to correct chain so they saw they owed me coins. (Well, there's also opportunity cost for price I could have sold at went down.) Once they finally updated and joined correct chain, my coins appeared.

The highest priority is for exchanges to be on correct chain. Way too much fallout for many users and potentially whole market as trades/prices are based on invalid coins.
Next is for pools to be on correct chain, so you don't hurt your (few, many) miners.
Lately is for solo miner to be on correct chain, they are only hurting themselves.



Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Bogart on April 18, 2013, 04:06:18 AM
Any particular reason you don't close your BTC-e account and just trade elsewhere? Since they are clearly at fault, I don't see any ethical reason not to walk away from it.

I could do that.  I'd lose about 3.2 BTC that's in the account.

But I like being able to trade on BTC-e.  They have far more volume than vircurex, and far more currencies than mtgox.  I could open a new BTC-e account, but they might figure out that it's me and lock that one too and seize its assets.

Plus I don't want to piss off the Russians.  ;)

I knew what was happening at the time, with the fork.  I had kinda hoped I could have my fork win (by being longer) and be accepted by 0.1.3.33, validating all those coins and many more still in my wallet, but that didn't happen.

I think I'll mine the TRC and pay BTC-e off over time.

I don't know precisely where fault lies, but BTC-e (or its users) potentially face a very real loss over this.  There were users on the other side of those trades expecting to receive TRC for their purchases.  TRC which BTC-e accepted for deposit, but now no longer has in their wallets due to it being "forked away".


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Mastergerund on April 18, 2013, 04:33:06 AM
It sounds like your best bet is to do the right thing and pay off your "debt." It's unfortunate, but it happens. Maybe you will get lucky and the exchange rates will move in your favor while you are trying to mine them and you can just pay it off early.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: kaerf on April 18, 2013, 05:58:01 AM
I don't know precisely where fault lies, but BTC-e (or its users) potentially face a very real loss over this.  There were users on the other side of those trades expecting to receive TRC for their purchases.  TRC which BTC-e accepted for deposit, but now no longer has in their wallets due to it being "forked away".

Because the TRC were forked away, BTC-E should reverse the trades. Those who bought the TRC don't have valid TRC...the forked away TRC cannot be transfered out of the exchange. If BTC-e still has those TRC in the system then they are letting people trade invalid coins and there is an inbalance in system.



Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on April 18, 2013, 12:43:29 PM
These patches do nothing, as soon as difficulty drops a miner with a lot of GH/s exploits this difficulty bug to mine at low diff, then when the difficulty increases by a factor of 3, he stops and waits.

Just look at the blocks at diff 5k
https://i.imgur.com/3aHKrCt.png


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on April 18, 2013, 01:24:48 PM
It seems you are still on old abandoned blockchain and / or have wrong miner setup. Also, network still not passed block 110322 required for new patch
to kick in so you should not judge on how good or bad newest difficulty retargeting works.
I installed 0.1.3-38 from the official website

getinfo yields
Quote
{
"version" : 80000,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.99000000,
"blocks" : 109377,
"timeoffset" : 214,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 123013.74119264,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1351971027,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on April 18, 2013, 01:36:19 PM
Where are you mining anyway? Switch to Coinotron TRC (https://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=home) for a while and check if mining works properly with such setup. For me it works fine.
I never said I was having trouble mining, I was saying that it's still being exploited with a person with a lot of hashing power. He mines till the difficulty goes up by like x10, waits for it to drop to 5k, and mine again. Then you will see a classical dump on the market. This miner likely has a few thousand blocks, if he sells those, he would get a nifty chunk of btc, which is a few grand.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: crazy_rabbit on April 18, 2013, 01:39:29 PM
Where are you mining anyway? Switch to Coinotron TRC (https://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=home) for a while and check if mining works properly with such setup. For me it works fine.
I never said I was having trouble mining, I was saying that it's still being exploited with a person with a lot of hashing power. He mines till the difficulty goes up by like x10, waits for it to drop to 5k, and mine again. Then you will see a classical dump on the market. This miner likely has a few thousand blocks, if he sells those, he would get a nifty chunk of btc, which is a few grand.

Yeah, I mean there is nothing wrong with this technically- he is mining and selling. But it's tricky I agree....


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: roy7 on April 18, 2013, 01:44:39 PM
Not much can be done about that, except more people mine so the impact of any one person entering/leaving is lowered. But still you just have to figure, if you mine for 24 hours, is the expected reward better or worse than mining BTC. The calculators out there right now aren't the best for rapidly changing difficulty levels, but great for things where difficulty only rarely changes (ie: bitcoin). I'd like to see graphs on historical profitability levels to make a decision about TRC farming, other than just random point in times when I happen to pull up web page.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: Bogart on April 18, 2013, 02:31:25 PM
I don't know precisely where fault lies, but BTC-e (or its users) potentially face a very real loss over this.  There were users on the other side of those trades expecting to receive TRC for their purchases.  TRC which BTC-e accepted for deposit, but now no longer has in their wallets due to it being "forked away".

Because the TRC were forked away, BTC-E should reverse the trades. Those who bought the TRC don't have valid TRC...the forked away TRC cannot be transfered out of the exchange. If BTC-e still has those TRC in the system then they are letting people trade invalid coins and there is an inbalance in system.

I do believe that is the situation.  If BTC-e were to reverse the trades, I would owe them BTC instead of TRC.

I would prefer to owe them the BTC, actually, since I sold the TRC around 0.00225.  To buy it back now would cost about double the BTC.


I "fought" to have my fork win, but I gave up after it fell 200 blocks behind.

Even if you went 200 blocks ahead, you would be banned by all new nodes the moment you would attempt to publish your blocks to legit chain.

Why?  What would have made the nodes reject my chain?


These patches do nothing, as soon as difficulty drops a miner with a lot of GH/s exploits this difficulty bug to mine at low diff, then when the difficulty increases by a factor of 3, he stops and waits.

I believe the past 2 TRC updates have made efforts to "fix" the oscillating difficulty, and that 0.1.3.36 and/or .38 make further attempts towards that.

Note that previous sha256-based altchains have only been able to solve this problem by implementing merged-mining with the BTC blockchain.


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: coinotron on April 19, 2013, 11:43:05 AM
Coinotron is on new version


Title: Re: Terracoin 0.1.3-36 yet another MANDATORY upgrade!
Post by: LightningFury on April 19, 2013, 02:28:18 PM
settings for solo mining with cgminer?