I don't think they have been for a long time. Their system is so poorly designed it causes double withdrawals sometimes so that may be why.

OK everyone. Thanks for being patient with the transition process. We have officially hired a new developer who is working on the project as we speak.  We'll be giving a more detailed update soon, but suffice to say we're working on a brand new wallet made from scratch with a new codebase that has nothing left from the old dev.  

However, the new dev is working on the update specifically with the plan of making it so there won't be any complex "swap the old coins for the new coins" process. So you should be able to just install the update once it's available and keep your existing wallet.dat files to make it as easy for everyone as we can.  

We're also reintroducing POW mining and reverting to the original mining schedule to allow a slow and steady inflation with POW designed to continue for decades. Since we have the hood up, we're adding in a few new features Gabe and I've been discussing and laying the groundwork for more we'll talk about in future.

I'll be back sometime in the next week or so with some more info. Once the new wallet updates are available, we'll schedule the beginning of the big giveaway we've been talking about.

There are two more specific milestones in development that we'll be announcing after that, with more to come!

Definitely better than trying to buy it, considering Cryptsy is the only market and their wallet is always offline so it's impossible to withdraw funds.

Guys, quick update. Still in discussion with a dev; just spoke briefly with him a couple hours ago in fact.  Will update the thread with more details pretty soon. 

In the mean time, I was having some internet issues Thursday that kept my own and the current Bitseeds staking wallet offline, but everything's back again now. I have some suggested addnodes for you that should help if you're having any problems running your wallets - I'm seeing 3 connections right now, and saw 5 just a few minutes ago, so that means there are people out there using their wallets, which is good to see.

You can add the following two lines to a bitseeds.conf file

addnode=72.130.92.25:2332
addnode=162.159.245.225:2332



please note these nodes may/will be changing in the near future so always use the latest info posted by Gabe or myself.

Hey, I forgot all about this one... Love the implicit endorsement by Oprah in the photos. 

Happy to help. I didn't think you were being trollish at all; perfectly reasonable to want an update. Can't always promise I'll have a ton of info to share, depending on the situation, but happy to answer questions as best as I can.

Delong,
  I was going to be posting any day now but wanted to wait for more specific/definitive news.  We were having problems finding a new dev but Monday Gabe interviewed someone who sounds like he is onboard. I've sent the dev the details of the project and we're waiting to hear back (unless he's just spoken to Gabe and I haven't heard yet). 

  The course videos that will be released along with the daily giveaway & before the final drawing are recorded, edited, and have been uploaded them privately to my YouTube profile so we'll be going ahead with that after the dev details are finalized and we have an updated wallet.

Patience.  Trees don't grow overnight.

This is pretty neat.  Do you have any plans to implement this in a decentralized fashion so it doesn't rely on storing the data solely on your servers? 

Sorry about the problems. They're the result of the original dev that was hired who abandoned the project abruptly and attempted to "destroy" it in the process (his words). We are hiring a new dev and one of the first priorities will be getting the explorer working and everything (including the source) back on GitHub as I mentioned earlier. 

We're already interviewing a couple people this weekend, but if you have dev suggestions feel free to PM me or GabeBitSeedsReal.

Don't use the GitHub, I think that still has the code from the original launch and I'm not sure Gabe has access to that GitHub account since the original dev parted ways.  Here are the current wallets

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitseedsofficialrepository/files/

We're working on a new version with a new dev with added features, but using the wallets from the above link should give you no problems with Bittrex.  We will either update the existing GitHub if we have access, or will create a new one. Not sure why the old dev suddenly switched to Sourceforge - I'm more of a GitHub fan, personally.


Now that I think about it, we probably should create a new thread since the OP can't be updated after Bitcointalk apparently locked Gabe out of that account.

Thanks for staking, Jubes. Just sent you a little more as a thanks.

I have three wallets open at any given time (out of several in rotation) and check them regularly and while I was seeing periods where none of them would stake and the network would stall in a similar time frame (12-16 hours) I've never seen them drop the connection to the network like that.  I wonder if maybe it's something your ISP is doing?

Gabe and I are planning on interviewing a couple of devs this weekend to make an entirely new wallet with some fixes and improvements including reinstating Proof of Work with a low interest rate. The idea is to create it clean with no code left from Bryce. 

It's really nice to see the network has begun minting new blocks nice and smoothly over the last couple of days since I "nursed it back to health" over last weekend.  Keep up the good work, guys - keep staking your wallets and if you haven't PMed me with your Bitseeds payment address, make sure you do and I'll send you a little thank-you!

Thanks, Steskoff!  I just sent you a little more at the same address to say thanks for chipping in.


Reminder: we're looking for people to open your wallets and leave them staking.  The network is running again and we need your help to let it build some momentum and run consistently and smoothly.  PM me a payment address and I'll send you a little Bitseeds as a thank-you.



For those new to Bitseeds: it's a project to help fund the mission of The Rainforest Foundation, the international charity co-founded by Sting in the 1980s.  The project has the full backing of the Rainforest Foundation and we're going to be reaching out beyond the cryptocurrency community to the larger world with the project. 

I have been teaching computers and technology for 20 years as a professional and I've created a complete course to teach everything a newbie needs to know about downloading and using the Bitseeds wallet (or any crypto). We'll start releasing the course one video a day starting soon (probably this coming Monday) and doing a big giveaway of Bitseeds along with the video releases.

The project will get crypto into the hands of regular people, including people who wouldn't otherwise be interested, by appealing to people's natural desire to improve the world and protect the environment. 

I grew up in rural Upstate New York and spent most of my free time out in the woods as a kid and I have a dream to buy wooded rural property here where I live now (Big Island of Hawaii) and put a conservation easement on it to protect the remaining old-growth forest we have here. 

So the mission of the Rainforest Foundation is one that's important to me, and I know that by getting new people interested in crypto by using it to help protect the environment (while teaching them how to use it) gives Bitseeds a potential greater than most any other crypto.  That's why I got involved and I hope you all can join in, too!

It's currently only traded on Bittrex for the time being. Yes, Bittrex is using the current version.



Delong, withdrawals can take a few minutes to hours depending on how the network is running. I've done a bunch of tests and it depends on my timing. If I send when a wallet is minting new blocks it's spendable within a few minutes, but if I send in a lull it can take hours or until the next day before a bunch of new blocks get minted and then it confirms rapidly.  Makes me think of stop-and-go traffic.

While deposits and withdrawals are a little slow, the more people stake and help out the better the system will work.  I'm currently staking three wallets at a time out of several in rotation but I can't do it all myself so the network stalls out for a few hours then moves again for several, then stalls.  It'll even out once more people are involved.


Everyone please post on your social media accounts - Twitter, Facebook, etc. - to get people to stake.  I've sent out some tips to people who PMed me; I'll send more out to anyone who sends me an address (limit one per person). 

Let's keep the ball rolling and get some momentum behind it, guys!

Guys, Gabe provided me with the wallets that Bryce had and I've been working on things since late last week. I wanted to post an update here, but didn't want to before I'd had a chance to move the funds into new wallets and completely under our control again. 

Basically I've been staking a variety of wallets (some from the project and my own as well) in rotation to try to keep the network moving.  Before I started this on Friday the network was frozen for almost a month because there were no wallets available with mature coins; this is why some people noticed transactions they'd sent a week ago suddenly went through. 

What we need is for more transactions to happen and for people to leave their wallets staking as much as possible over the next few days until more people get wallets and start using them.  So please open your wallet and stake. 

Anyone who PMs me a Bitseeds payment address in the next 24 hours or so will get a small Bitseeds thank you tip for your support (and to get more transactions happening).  Please note, this is not the big giveaway with the sequence of videos that we've been planning - that's coming in the near future. 

We're going to keep an eye on the network and post updates here and on Twitter regularly over the next few days and as long as the network continues smoothly, then we aim to start releasing the sequence of videos and doing the big giveaway this coming Monday. 

But in the meantime, please open your wallet and stake and PM me an address (do not post in the thread as it is against site rules!) and I'll send a little Bitseeds your way.  Thanks for everyone's patience!

That's a good question...  I'm not sure Altmarket is going to happen at this point.

I just PMed you. Just posting this so I can follow updates to the thread...

I don't see a XPD/UNO pairing anywhere... 

A signed message probably would be one way to do it. Here are a couple of articles on it:

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1526413-how-do-i-sign-a-message-with-a-bitcoin-address-

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/18qy88/bitcoin_message_signing_and_verification/

The feature is built into the Bitseeds wallet too and can be found in the File menu.  I've never had reason to play with this feature with any crypto, but it seems like it's for exactly this sort of situation.