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Charnacoin is a new cryptocurrency based on CryptoNote technology. It's major benefit is to provide much stronger privacy to both the senders and receivers of transactions.
With Charnacoin, you are your own bank. Only you control and are responsible for your funds, and your accounts and transactions are kept private from prying eyes.
Charnacoin improves upon the base CryptoNote technology in several ways that strengthen its anonymity and reduce the size of the global ledger of all transactions, called the "blockchain".

Because of the decentralized and peer-to-peer nature of the Charnacoin network it becomes more robust and resilient as it becomes larger. We encourage all users to run a full node, if they are able to.
Running a Charnacoin node does not yet require a huge amount of processing power, but it does require a few gigabytes worth of disk space to store the blockchain, and there will be some impact on your bandwidth especially from connected nodes that are catching up on the blockchain. The easiest way to run a Charnacoin node, without affecting your home bandwidth, is to purchase a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

Running the Node
Once you have the files downloaded and unpacked you don't need to do anything beyond running the Charnacoin daemon (charnacoind).
On Linux: dependent on whether you are running it on a desktop or server operating system, you will want to start charnacoind either in a screen session or in a console window of its own.

charnacoin (CHRC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that is not based on Bitcoin's code. CharnaCoin aims to be a tangible and untraceable digital medium of exchange. It intrinsically has a higher degree of privacy than Bitcoin or any of its various forks.

Features
Untraceable payments
Unlinkable transactions
Blockchain analysis resistance
Adaptive parameters

Specifications
PoW algorithm: CryptoNote [1]
Max supply: Infinite (see note below) [2]
Block reward: Smoothly varying [3]
Block time: 60 seconds
Difficulty: Retargets at every block
1] CPU + GPU mining (about 1:1 performance for now). Memory-bound by design using AES encryption and several SHA-3 candidates. [2] Initial number of atomic units is M = 109 - 1. However, once the block reward reaches 0.3CHRC per minute that is treated as the minimum subsidy, which means that CharnaCoin's total emission will forever increase by ~157680 CHRC annually. [3] Uses a recurrence relation. Block reward = (M - A) * 2-20 * 10-12, where A = current circulation.


Connection Details
 Mining Pool Address: charnacoin.com
Mining Ports

 Port: 18705
 Starting Difficulty: 100
 Description: Low end hardware
 Port: 18706
 Starting Difficulty: 2000
 Description: Mid range hardware
 Port: 18707
 Starting Difficulty: 10000
 Description: High end hardware

charnacoin.com

I downloaded linux daemon and wallet but the mining command seems to be missing from wallet.
How do I start mining?

simplewallet for win ?

pool is not working
"Job timeout error"

any bounty campaign dev
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thank you

Looks like I am doing something wrong, but downloaded simplewallet and after running command for wallet I get Error: you can't specify daemon host or port several times
edit: ok wallet is running but pool is not working for mining.

Official pool is not working. So we need alternative pool. What platform now is good for criptonote algo?

there is few to choose from, what about this: http://cryptonotemining.org/

something wrong there, mining doesn't work thought ? i'll waiting on it hope you fix as soon as posible, this coin quite intersted for mining, but at this moment just see as he posting, that why i said quite interested

Thank you, dev! Now i have much more experience about cryptocurrencies, algo cpyptonote, and solomining on linux with half-worked miner ^_^
I hope, you will awake, because i don't know what to do next...

So you looking for people to create nodes ?
I'm confused about the mining 0.3 per minute ? And it increases yearly ? I am not sure I know what you trying to say. Maybe please explain the for dummies version for me ;)

CryptoNote is good,but do the exchanges accept this coin? dev are you plan to running masternode option?  

What's the point of so many threads?  Nobody bought this coin and now you think re-posting will get people to give you btc or bother mining this coin?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1719470.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1717495.0

Nobody's going to buy this or waste time mining it. 

Is there any further development? Or is it just a joke?

Where is dev?
His last active was 11.04

Same guestion, but I think that we can wait some more days. By the way, is it really true that only XMR is untraceable crypto? Today I heard that monero is used a lot in darknet. If that is true and CHRC is based on the same code, it could be used also the same way, that would pump price nice up..

U think he knows what a node is? Its the same dude crying about his personal drama in goshen thread. Lol. First he made goshen and told idiots that amazon accepts his coin which allowed him to sell noobs over 0.09 btc worth of goshen. He had spare time and posted this charna ann thinking he can do the same here. Wait for him to announce that amazon accepts charna.

I am pretty sure that this coin will get accepted to most exchanges, maybe not Poloniex or Bittrex. OP did you ask YoBit to have the coin placed in their exchange?

Never ask for yoshit, that bunch of scammers cost me lot of funds. Nova or cryptopia is the way I would go. But if there will be any development, this could be interesting..

Ok, so it looks we are done here. It could have been nice project.

Hi, i'm one of the dev on this project. This to say it is not a joke  ;D. Have not worked on first and second launch of the project but with the new relaunching, I hope work done on it will bring to community what they expect for a good cryptocurrency.

That said, node is still on beta stage, a lot of improvements can be done and we are hoping you will help us to solve issues that will occur so that together we bring a great community support for the currency's network.

The project is actually base on cryptonote/monero and come with an awesome GUI wallet adjusted for a better user experience. visit https://charnacoin.com/ for more.

Note: The network depending of community involvement can take time to be stable. We are awaiting for your feedback and contributions.
 8) 8) 8)

...and you have some problems with some lib's, that NEEDED just for launch you binaries. Don't make me cry. Use standart libs plz.
Charnacoind started, but no node is available

 ;D on monitoring node connections and network establishment. Except exceptions with some node that failed to synchronize, i can say, yes node is available and on the go.

Can you explain us well issue you had with screenshot if possible ?
As you are seems to know what may be done on the code to make it "work well", assuming you are maybe an expert or advised developer, researcher or enthusiast on cryptonote/bitcoin technology, can you be more explicit about "standard library" you are referring that should be used and how it may impact the node to better run ?

This question because as my own community developer who have contributed on many open source projects (few of them were cryptocurrency projects - mostly just for research purpose), don't understand how as you said a missing "standard library" that you mention without indication of it utility can make you "cry" ?

This knowing that, as the developer contributing to the core code, i may said, necessary requirements are actually well included, and a fact to said "use standard library" isn't enough to index as a solution to a potential issue that you didn't give enough information about.

So awaiting to an explicit feedback, thank anyway for your comment.

1. For daemon and wallet launch needs Unbound libs (just for launch, not compile!). It's not error, but for people who want "work from box" it is not good.
2. Daemon was unstable (now problem solved). In logs nothing interesting, what was the problem - i don't know.
3. Now wallet can not sync, error in logs -
2017-05-25 16:21:18.924       7f78d9f95740   INFO    global   contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145   New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO
Height: 1/1 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 0 H/s, v1, up to date, 2(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 1m 59s

Testing in progress...

Hi, sorry for the delay of this replay. For my defense, illness  ;D ;D ;D.
Coming back to issues you mentioned, the 3rd and first one are related.
Your first remark is pertinent but i have already set a server with unbound configured, for the launch.
The fact is we now occur an issue that make any node through an ip address given by an ISP or that can't directly be resolved by a public dns, to not synchronize.
Then client nodes contact the first nodes on our servers but servers can not ping back to them. This cause a normal time out error to client nodes and result to their incapacity to get synchronized with actual online available nodes.

You seems to have some knowledge about needed prerequisites for daemons to synchronize, and if you are interested, i will be pleased that we can work together to achieve things for a better launching.

Hi

Our lead tech has fixed the Linux version. However we do seem to encounter and IP blocking and sync issue with Windows still. If you are able to assist with any insight that would be fantastic!

Hey great to see some progress here, this is new version? The old chain is gone?

Something strange with wallet and miner.
I have found some block, but balance = 0

Log -

2017-06-16 00:09:12.585   9132   INFO    global   contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145   New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO
Height: 2208/2208 (100.0%) on mainnet, mining at 4 H/s, net hash 17 H/s, v1, up to date, 3(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 34m 7s

2017-06-16 00:09:17.361   7804   INFO    global   contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145   New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO
Height: 2209/2209 (100.0%) on mainnet, mining at 12 H/s, net hash 17 H/s, v1, up to date, 3(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 34m 12s

I do not know but I am mining with windows wallet without any problems.

hello, there can be a minor issue with wallet data synchronization at it first initialization.
If you had mining even for an hour, you should have been rewarded (considering actual charnacoin network status).
So your coins are there, your wallet just need to be fully get updated with blockchain. (note: node can be synchronized, but wallet need to be fully updated too).

Therefore you need to restore wallets that occurring the issue (here those you use for mining purpose).
Below are what you have to do:

    open your wallet
    go to "settings"
    then choose "Show seed"
    enter your wallet password as will be asking by a prompt
    copy and save passphrase (nmenomic) which are given to you
    "close wallet" form settings
    in the opening window, after have choosing your language, choose the second option "Restore wallet from ..."
    in the other opening window, paste or enter previously saved passphrase (nmenomic)
    give to your wallet a new name (or keep old name but old associated backup files need to be deleted first)
    go to next step and give to a new password (or keep the old one)
    then your wallet will be well updated and you must have good behavior now (expected balance, unlocked amount, ...)

Very handy GUI wallet, on top! I will expect a release, and exchange. COOL! I have already begun to mine, everything is going well. Join Now

note that GUI is actually in beta stage, node is on stabilizing stage, so fix and changes will come with future versions.

Hope to have more windows and osx maintainers knowing i can not actually assume their support at 100% in time.

After more stabilization and minor fix, a new channel will be created for charnacoin since this one seems to have started with many disappointment.

new code, new node, new wallet, new network, deserve new topic/channel

There were some missing configurations that needed to be set to fix the issue.
One of it i missed which was important, was to indicated to our used and unbound configured servers their dns capability.
That said it is done since. These indications are just for "trace back".

why you are better than existing Monero or Zcash?

It turns out that now there is no sense of mining? Will a new blockchain be created?

I don't understand why users should run a node if there is no reward going with it ? It is like a masternode but without the reward  ?

Answer to this question is simple or apprehendable when you take a look to currency's specifications or white paper.

Each altcoins that respect works that have been already done in actual cryptocurrency world (thank to bitcoin), take initiative to launch because there is philosophy, new perspectives or better technology in which their believe.
From my research experience and minor contribution to bitcoin and some other altcoins (contributions is not just about code, but can also be support,...), i can say that cryptonote/monero's specifications are really particulars, well thought and implemented.
That's why we are base on it, not just that, one of our perspectives was to experience bitcoin "friendly behavior" with cryptonote technology.
Therefore when you have a vision in which you believe, even if it can create divergent opinions in global community (generally not missing), bring it alive if you have the possibility.

As it can be saw on the charnacoin's code, there is a notable respect of base works. In this case it is how it have to be.
Now the code is planed to evolve, like in the future migrate to a adjusted proof of stake concensus algorithm, which may bring a better perspective with cryptonote.
These as technical stuffs, noting there is also a social vision behind.

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I'm adding the implementation of charnacoin, I looked at the code. And it really works. Try to collect the code. It's not even a difference ... the case of immigration. We want to create a charity project based on Cryptonote, but I do not see any reason to rewrite everything, maybe a little work out! Sorry Google translate

 ;D ;D ;D everything is pretty ok actually!
 8) No there will not be a new blockchain

I was talking about new bitcointalk topic !

there is reward, there was a minor, fixed issue with wallet's synchronization with blockchain.
If you occur such issue, follow this discussion https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1865223.msg19687354#msg19687354

I'm ready to raise a POOL, And accordingly node

i also speak french and have little knowledge with language like German and spanish, so if it is on your range ...
Don't know if Google translated as you expected, however ...

Typically the only need to clone an existing cryptocurrency and launch it in different network with same behavior (without differences or particular aspects as i said before), can be in case of study/research, private/internal/local usage purpose, or maybe a particular "charity project" as you said.
Without these reasons, i can not personally understand the goal of kind initiative.
It is like to have to defend a thesis that you just do a copy from an author, without critics, improvements or little thing that show you know your subject and you have gave your own contribution.
This is ideologically one of the things I disagree with.
There is people who also do that just to make money, without respect of used works or why not a support as an equitable giving back.
As a open source and community developer, this also one things i can not encourage.

It is a fact, in general purpose, competitions which bring new perspectives or differences, contribute significantly to the evolution of target domain.
That is also what many cryptocurrency which actually succeed, have proved.  
That is my point of view but i'm sure many advised people in the global community agree with.

Great work dev, but we still need a pool, exchange?

will you go to have a roadmap for this?

Tomorrow I'll run the node

What about exchange?
Maybe novaexchange or coinexchange? They are friendly for Cryptonote coins

yes there is! Actually, priority is given to network stabilization (which is pretty ok at this step) and fix for actual minor issues

alright then, looking forward....

let´s keep on mining it  ;D

New version is out (0.11.0 : weloobe)
This version come with more stabilization, transactions bug fixed, and minor adjustments

Don't forget to update your binaries

We invite you to the pool  http://chrc.m42.cx/

I want to mine, but i don't see movement in this coin...

What about exchanges?

NEW

Dev, A few recommendations from me.
1. Create a new announcement with bounty campaigns (The community is now too small and this solution can help)
2. More actively participate in the life of the community, or find a person who will be active in the thread.
3. Need at least one exchange.
4. Maybe it will be necessary to make a more detailed roadmap. This justifies the creation of a new announcement.

Hi chrc community,
I am part of the chrc team. Please cast your vote. Roadmap will be placed on site this weekend. We already have channels waiting for us. We did a lot of preparation work before announcing our new coin, with new node that has nothing to do with prior charna coins. So please don't waste time comparing them. Our devs are fantastic. Hard working, and straight.
We are building a serious coin, and chrc works as you know. One project it will benefit from is on solar and breaks ground in October. That will be included in our roadmap.
We look forward to positive interaction.

https://c-cex.com/?id=vote&coin=chrc
Please show your support and vote for our listing

Thank you everybody!

CHRC

good luck for your Project  ::)

Hello guys this is the official pool of Charnacoin https://charnacoin.com:435/#

How does it work this CharnaCoin  ???

The new pool is active and can be found at http://185.206.146.71 or at www.mine-pool.ro.

Thank you

any exchange?

pool http://chrc.m42.cx/  - 0.5% fee

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