As said before, I have my doubts that we will be able to create a bootstrap that works for everyone on every platform. It should work with the -loadblock parameter that I posted (at least, that's what I have tested for myself with testbugs bootstrap).

Some coins have a -detachdb commandline switch for the daemon, that allows to create bootstrap-able copies of the chain - our wallet misses that currently. I can't say if that's the cause for your troubles or not but I create regular bootstraps for another coin with that feature and never had any issues or complaints so far so I am concluding that is a factor.

Anyway, if the -loadblock doesn't work for you, you are probaly left with the choice of synching from network - which I believe should be much faster than you seem to experience currently. I would rather try to find out why synching is so slow for you and improve that for everybody instead of further doing blindshots with huge bootstraps blobs.

Would you mind to PM me the complete output of getpeerinfo from your wallets debug console and also an estimated rate of how many blocks you see downloaded per minute (just to get an idea and comparison with the speed I am seeing when synching from scratch)? Also maybe the rough spec of your machine (RAM, CPU type).

Every wallet is a node as it is, but for example wallets behind firewalls that do not forward incoming connections (i.e. via UPNP) create only 8 outgoing connections which is more than enough for normal wallet operation but is probably not what you look for to support the network for others to  synch faster (from you).
Wenn running on a private IP (i.e. behind a firewall) either make sure UPNP works for your PC or just statically forward the TIPS network port(44890/tcp) from your firewall to your wallet PCs IP addresss.

For an easy check to see if you are accepting incoming connections from others check how many connections you have in the wallet, if it is more than 8 you are accepting incoming connections, just be patient and see the number of connections grow to over 30-50. If it sticks at 8, you are probably not. More hints are in the debug console with the command "getpeerinfo", it tells you for every peer if the connection is incoming or outgoing - make sure you start to see connections with "inbound" : true.

Yep, just realised the jump that hashrate (and diff) made the last days - we went from solid 4-6Ghs to almost 40Ghs right now.
The current difficulty keeps profit pools from switching in completely - in multipool speak TIPS is currently not profitable. That people mine the coin when it has a difficulty over profitability means probably something. Either people in the know about something we don't, people commited to TIPS (yeah!) or miners that are unable to calculate current profits :-) My personal bet is on 1 or 2.
In any case the activity and volume on Coinexchanges DOGE/TIPS market is very encouraging.

I believe to remember that Cryptopia lost around 60mio TIPS on the old chain through double-spent deposits.
For a more complete picture about what happened back then, please check the hardfork FAQ in the OP.

I have exchanged a few mails with them around that issue but they insisted their decision to delist was final. It has to be noted in defense of Cryptopias that TIPS was pumping back then when the attack occured and the price was at times in the hundreds of Litoshi.

Reports about the death of coppercoin are greatly exaggerated.

It's listed on Cryptopia and doing fine atm.

Unlikely that Cryptopia will relist TIPS, they have delisted it in July 2017 and refused to re-list even though they have been offered to cover their losses from double-spending.

Are there any news or even better an ETA regarding the coinexchange listing request that you could share with us?

Thanks and Merry Christmas btw to all Bitmarkers!

I bet your web server log contains incredibly valuable information regarding your problem.

You can check the debug.log in your fedoracoin folder, maybe you would need to reopen it to see new lines.
The above command does import the blockchain from the bootstrap files, it doesn't use them directly as when you copy them inside (which doesn't seem to work). This means in the wallet it looks like normal synching, but should be a good tad faster.

HTH

This bootstap from testbug cannot just be copied into the folder but try placing extracting the archive somewhere else on your disk and then start the wallet with


On a moderately recent pc it should import the full chain in less than 20-30min.

HTH

That move certainly makes coblee one of the more if not most noble and honourable minds in the crypto screne of today.

Tried two times to synch from scratch, no joy.

Same here, stuck on 850729.

First of all you should check the current thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1420302, this one is unmaintained.

Thank you, but one of the main reasons why I want to get out of CSC completely is exactly because of its use of discord as sole information channel. (The other being that I don't want to get into ripple based blockchains, because I lack the time and interest to do so).

I am not able to join discord after multiple tries without verifying by phone and I really see zero reasons why they'd need my mobile or any other phone number.

That said, anybody referring a buyer to me for my stash is going to get a tip from me, say 1% of what is being sold.

Still have ~140k CSC to sell.
Current asking price 2500 SAT (negotiable).

PM if interested. Thanks.

Yobits GRE wallet has never been updated and is disabled since literally years.
Coinexchange.io has the new wallet but it is in maintenance since a noteable timespan while the coin seems working fine.

The network hashrate reflects mostly the price on the market, i.e. is it worth to mine a block, do I get my power cost at least returned.
Now that there will be no price to rely on for calculations only enthusiasts are left mining/staking/burning. It is now easier to launch a 51% attack on the chain but you can't sell what you get or elsewise said, the reward for such a stunt is lower. Also if you can afford the coins and hashrate that would be needed for 51% attack now, you are likely to be able to do that also if the hash rate is double as high.

Though keep in mind, it is not about PoW hash only, PoB and PoS further secure this chain against a 51% attack, so I would say the temporary decline on hash rate doesn't mean the chain is less secure - I'd rather look at it as a situation where newcomers can again mine a block or two to start staking and burning.

Bittrex has become a nonsense gong show anyway, wouldn't waste my time with them anymore. They have gone so much TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Users Problems) lately that I wouldn't use them any more in the near future. Slimcoin should be IMHO on a small and fine exchange like Nova it was (it is not clear yet if the new owner take over platform and users) or decentralized exchanges which would suit the spirit of crypto currencies much better anyway.

Thank you for the heads-up, didn't notice. Thought it would stay closed until swap is done.

Thanks for that bounty, great idea. I'll increase that bounty by 1.8 Mio to 2Mio TIPS for a new quality logo.

WTS a seizable amount of CSC (Scrypt POW chain, old CSC) @4000 Sat.

Minimum batch is 10k CSC, escrow via Ognasty.

If interested, please PM me.

Edited 10/28/2017 to reflect increased BTC price