Just an addenda for those that aren't used to command line daemons. you can stop it by typing Firecoind  stop on the command line, or by going into the task manager and finding and ending Firecoind.

I'm on it

Not necessarily.

Make a text file called tekcoin.conf and copy the text with the nodes into it, and put it in your data folder. In windows that will be users\username\appdata\roaming\tekcoin

That's a hidden file, so make sure you show hidden files before you go looking for it

That's actually about the normal size of a daemon if it's not been stripped of debugging code. I've compiled most of my own and I don't care about the extra space, and they're all around that size.

Dump on a coin that stakes in daemon mode without being set up for it? HELL NO! Only place my coins are going is your contests. Well, merchants when the time comes and my stake is sufficient...

It's an ongoing question, isn't it?

Its POW is very minor, so you can compare it to a high POW mining coin such as Doge, which has definitely taken some hits but remains a viable trade. However, it also has the time factor. If the coin is promoted properly and used in commerce, that inflation will be much smaller as the coins have to sit in a wallet for 30 days before they are eligible to stake. It's a conundrum.

It's also possible to modify it's staking in the future if it proves necessary. Like all things crypto, it's an experiment.

1- FTFY
2- probably true, but it was supposed to be BTER
3- that's the purpose of the asset backed fund with the foundation. Something I'm not entirely comfortable with, but it does address the issue.

I banged my head on that wall for quite a while. Tek and Nomp don't seem to get along, and I never did figure it out. Sorry man.

Ok, this is for effort and a couple other guys who still seem a bit confused on staking and wallet recovery.

First, producing a bunch of orphans (conflicted or unaccepted stakes) is no big deal. In other staking coins I hold, I have produced 12 orphans in one day on more than one occasion. It's just the way things work. If your' block of coins solves the proof of stake and so does somebody else at approximately the same time, the one that gets into the chain first wins. Same as with regular proof of work, except it's MORE likely in staking coins. It is not a malfunction and it costs you nothing but time. Your staking weight remains and continues to gain if the block is not accepted.

tl:dr don't panic, orphans are expected behaviour.

Now, dumpwallet. Dumpwallet and importwallet, if we're to be precise These are cool commands and just might save your bacon. Dumpwallet makes a  human readable file out of your wallet.dat and saves it as a text file. You can name it any damn thing you like. The syntax is dumpwallet <filename> in the debug console. That's it. No hoops or big jumps to perform.

To restore it, you sync a NEW wallet. Remove wallet.dat (or the entire data folder if you want to resync) after having backed up wallet.dat AND the file you made using dumpwallet. Once you have the new wallet synced and all is well with it, you use the second command. It's as easy as dumpwallet.  You just type importwallet <filename> and it brings your old wallet into your new one. Takes a couple of minutes.  (just for safety, note that the <filename> in this case is the file you created with dumpwallet.

Hope it helps, and tips are always appreciated SbA8ZD5ME28RFQuGnrPn4b6JmPHnYmEgKx

Here you go gentlemen. I haven't the time, or I'd have a go at it. But if you guys have the time, there's the way.

I am assuming that by this you mean leave the cap at 1K as originally planned?

I think that's quite alright for the time being, as POS is the sole means of mining these coins. The inflation, currently, is not egregious. It can always be capped further in the future if necessary. So far, this has proven to be quite a successful experiment. Far moreso than I thought it would be. I'll be straight up honest here, I joined in because I like you. But that has grown. I think this coin has legs, and I think that we can make something cool out of it. I see it as the spending money arm of POS coins, with the lower staking coins being more along the savings side. In fact, I kind of foresee that as a good marketing goal among the "high" staking community. Coins like HyperStake being used primarily for higher volume transactions and trade for the slower staking coins such as HoboNickels, Fire and TECH. TEK kind of stands in an odd position in that hierarchy, as it's quite a large stake but it takes a good amount of time to reach it.

You, David and I have spoken privately about a trading website that is denominated in some of the high staking coins. I had intended to keep that quiet until I had time to pursue it, but I think the idea is too good to keep under my hat. I don't need the glory, and I'd like to see such a thing get going. So there it is, boys and girls. I had originally conceived it as a marketplace for TEK denominated goods and services, but presstab and David convinced me by mere suggestion that it would be better to make it a few staking currencies. I intend to do this, but it's a big web and a big project. Anyone who is inspired to run with it needs no approval from me, and if you can do it quicker and better than I, I'll support yours.

I believe that this is where digital currencies MUST go if they are to ever be more than an alternate method of acquiring bitcoin or dollars. We need to get real world goods and services traded DIRECTLY for the coins we believe in, or else they will fade away. This is why I'm never in a hurry for a coin to hit the exchanges. When it does, it becomes just one more trick to get bitcoins. Not that exchanges are without value, they are not. But they are a very narrow focus, and that is not the purpose of money.

So no worries Just an undeliverable transaction. It should resolve itself shortly.

I'm not personally involved in this coin, but I see the same bullshit on MOST coins these days.

Wise up, people. It's not going to get you rich overnight, if ever. The dev likely has a life, and that life likely takes precedence over his coin.

And as he said, and I have said a million times, these are OPEN FUCKING SOURCE projects. That means anyone can do development work. Even you. If you develop an app for this coin, and the dev don't like it? who cares? If it's adopted, and it works, and it drives the market, what's he gonna say to you? I know if it was me, even if I personally hated it, I'd say "good job and here's your bounty".

Just DO it.

The other day, on a coin I won't mention, I couldn't get the wallet to compile because it had a bunch of Windows specific commands in the makefile. You know what I did? I tracked down the problem, altered the code, and put up a pull request for a linux only project file. I'm not a programmer. A real programmer could have done what I did in five minutes. It took me the better part of a day. But so what? I helped. You know what I got for it? A thank you from the dev team, which is nice, and more importantly, a working wallet. I didn't whine to the devs that I couldn't get it to work and bitch that they didn't fix it for me. I just FUCKING DID IT.

Every day I see talk here about decentralized currencies, followed by blind followers waiting with open mouths like little baby birds for a central developer to "do something". Well, guess what? If you didn't pay them for it, they owe you shit. You want something to happen? MAKE it happen. You got a kick ass idea for your favorite coin? Implement it. Don't know how? Flex that google muscle and LEARN. Even if you fail, you learnt something.

Be men, not sheep.

Relax. If it's not a Sync address, it will never confirm. Just run repairwallet to clean out the bad TX. If it was a valid address, you may be screwed, but if you post up the sending addy and the TX (as you did) hopefully the receiver will be honest and kind enough to refund you.

I'm helping test the test code as we speak Let's hope all resolves... It should. There's smart people working on it. Smarter than me for sure. I'm just being a guinea pig.

I'm hashing the sha pool now. Getting nearly perfect connect. Good job guys.

That's very odd. I have multiple connections on the current wallet.

Might I suggest that instead of pushing for exchanges, you all push for real goods and services sold and exchanged for HYP as the base currency? If all it's going to be is another way to indirectly mine BTC, then what's the point?

Nope. It's just a mining contract. You pay them to use their equipment on your behalf at an agreed upon rate foran agreed upon amount of hashpower. They pay out the proceeds once a week to your wallet. You may or may not recover all that you spent, depending on difficulty, in a reasonable time frame.

Pretty normal stuff for a performance contract. To determine whether it's worth it to you or not, you have to do the calculations of physical hardware, money you have to invest, electricity costs, expected return vs. anticipated difficulty increases (I'd aim high on diff and low on return for the sake of safety in calculation) and make a choice. You are esentially renting their hardware for 5 years.

It varies by vendor, but in this case you are buying a 5 year mining contract.