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Original announcement by Ben on PeercoinTalk.org here: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2902.0 (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2902.0)

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I'm proud to announce the availability of Peerunity 0.1.0! Binaries for Windows, Linux and OS X (10.7+) are available through the Peerunity project repository on Github.

https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/releases/tag/v0.1.0 (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/releases/tag/v0.1.0)

What is Peerunity?

Peerunity is a Peercoin network-compatible, community-developed wallet client.

The project has been designed to provide people with a stable, secure, and feature-rich alternative to the Peercoin v0.4.0 reference wallet (http://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin (http://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin)).

What is included in Peerunity?

New Features:

• Peerunity branded UI (new icons and text and content labels)
• "Unlock for Minting Only" menu item
• "Coin Control" functionality
• createmultisig RPC call added
• -walletnotify command added

Protocol Bug Fixes:

• New stakes will be displayed after a successful block mint without having to restart the client.
• When a proof-of-stake block was minted, the sum of the resulting balance (block reward + stake) was incorrectly being doubled when displayed through the listaccounts RPC call. This was only a display issue and did not affect the GUI or when getbalance was called.
• In the Options dialog, the mandatory transaction fee description was updated with accurate details about how the Peercoin network fees worked. Previously, the text referred to how the Bitcoin network's fees are processed.
• Updated compilation instructions for building on OS X (with MacPorts or Homebrew, for 10.8.x or 10.9.x)

Localization Updates:

• French language translation updates
• Norwegian language translation updates
• Chinese (Simplified) language translation updates

What if I run into a problem, or need support?

Please report any issues you encounter through the Peerunity Issue tracker on Github (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/issues?state=open), or, if you don't have a Github account, and don't plan on creating one, create a topic here on PeercoinTalk.org on the Peerunity board.

Peerunity FAQs

As this is the first release, I'm sure that the community will have lots of questions about how it all works. As questions come up, we'll do our best to get the questions and answers added to the Peerunity wiki (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/wiki), but as it will take us a little time to build that out, I'll first add the response here, to keep them in one place.

Because they use the same wallet.dat file on your computer, both the Peercoin reference client and Peerunity are accounting for the same coins in the block chain. It is recommended, however, as a general practice, that you keep a backup of your wallet.dat in a safe place. You can create a backup using the Peercoin reference client before you install Peerunity from the menu options.

Peerunity uses the same port that the reference client is configured for, so that they can connect to the same network. You should not run the two applications at the same time, because the default settings will use the same data directory. Unless you're trying to run them both for a very specific reason, using different copies of the block chain and wallets.dat with different "-datadir" settings for each when you launch the applications, there should be no reason to attempt concurrent use.

You don't have to uninstall the reference client, unless you really want to. Having them both installed won't be a problem, you just shouldn't attempt to switch back and forth between which one you'll use. If you do, you'll likely run into a known issue.

The issue is documented here, "Changing wallet software from Peercoin to Peerunity to Peercoin causing DB exception (https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity/issues/68)", and will not affect the coins you have in your wallet. The linked issue report includes instructions for fixing the database version mismatch that occurs. We're actively looking to find a solution to this issue, but in the mean while, we hope that the vast majority of peercoin holders who install Peerunity will find that the added functionality and cleaned up user interface will provide all you need for now, and you won't need to switch back to the reference client.

Check out the future functionality thread (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2740.0) on PeercoinTalk.org to learn more. We'd like to hear your ideas!

Peerunity 0.1.0 has been a truly community-based effort. Developers, testers, and designers who have contributed code, validation, and visual assets include:

• SigMike (https://github.com/sigmike)
• glv2 (https://github.com/glv2)
• JordanLeePeershares (https://github.com/JordanLeePeershares)
• mh001 (https://github.com/mh001)
• Bitpar (https://github.com/bitpar)
• Pennybreak (https://github.com/pennybreak)
• SirCoinGame (https://github.com/SirCoinGame)
• BlueMeanie (https://github.com/BlueMeanie)
• sandakersmann (https://github.com/sandakersmann)
• jmcfarlane (https://github.com/jmcfarlane)
• b0netruper (https://github.com/b0netruper)
• Sentinelrv (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=890)
• mphs (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=5782)
• irritant (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2673)
• cybnate (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=28779)
• brossi (https://github.com/brossi)

(If I've missed anyone, I'm very, very sorry, and will get you added to the list. Trying to combine contributions across the repo and PeercoinTalk wasn't as straight-forward as I had hoped!)

Enjoy!

If anybody has any features they want to see in v0.2, please post them here...

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2740.0 (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2740.0)

Excellent!

I am glad to learn of ongoing advances at Peercoin :)

Great!

Do you know the progress android wallet?

Very nice!  ;D

Minting with either menu "Unlock Wallet for Minting Only" or command line "walletpassphrase xxx 99999 true" is working fine.

minting is easier than ever thats a definite bonus. More developments to come!

Wonderful! I am using the Peerunity for POS mining :)

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114994.msg7100535#msg7100535
That means... we'll have both- new codebase and feature rich client! Great job guys, I bow to the ground.

Nice! I'm installing this now :)

This will formally expand the development team.

The "-walletnotify" command feature is also supported in this client, by the way.

That is great to see!!!

People have been waiting for this addition

Yes, you're right. I just added it to the original post. It was somehow forgotten.

Great thanks.

Time to dive into the improved multisig support we now have.

Very cool, I'm going to install this one on my windows pc instead of the original client. Lots of things happening right now in Peercoin world :)

could we see some screenshots ?

The design is boring so probably not.  :)

But it is really great. The unlock wallet for minting button is very nice. And the fact that the Peerunity client use the files the peercoin client already have created/downloaded makes it very easy to switch. Just download and install and you are ready to go.   

Yeah design won't have a major improvement until v0.2. There is a 300 PPC bounty for designing the theme.

I'll try to post some screenshots later.

I don't know what this is.

Could you please explain: what is the "-walletnotify" command feature?

Thanks  :)

Here's some screenshots. It is mostly just the standard look for clients. The first version is focused on adding all the functionality; the second version will be the one with a fancy new theme. As I said before, there is a 300 PPC bounty up for grabs and a referral fee too.

And remember, the Peercoin blockchain has no bloat, less than 300MB. So no waiting hours and hours to get started after you download  ;)

Splash screen:

https://i.imgur.com/Ignc8rE.png

Minting button:

https://i.imgur.com/Etj99m2.png

Coin control:

https://i.imgur.com/DD0lTRG.png

How does this one click minting work? I set to unlock wallet for minting, but with three days gone by i see no minted coins in my wallet. I have over 40PPC sitting in there, i do not need to create that .conf file and bat file that ppcoin wallet suggests due to this "one click minting" right?

Am i missing something?

As long as the padlock in the bottom right corner of the wallet says you are minting, then you are minting. It will probably take you a lot longer than 3 days to mint a block. You can use this calculator to find out what your chances are within a certain time frame: http://poscalculator.peercointalk.org/ (The current POS difficulty is 11.65). Even if it takes a long time, you will still receive 1% per year as the reward will simply be deferred until you do mint a block.

Also curious as to whether anybody has successfully generated any PoS coins via PeerUnity wallet?  I've been staking ~30 PPC since around 9/18 of this year and have yet to receive a single PoS payment.  Been minting 24/7 since adding the coinage too :/

I can confirm that I have successfully minted with Peerunity.

It has also worked for me. You may be interested in this tool from the ppcd project that tells you when your addresses will have chances to mint: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=3145.msg33431#msg33431

Also by the way, Peerunity v0.1.1 has now been released. Available for download here: http://peercoin.net/download-peerunity