I'm seeing some confusion here. If I read this correctly, he was using 1.02 as a reference, showing a different balance before upgrading.

Still, It is likely the blocks were produced after the fork, so first off VERYIFY that. If it staked after the update on the wrong chain, well, you wasted some electricity. Not a huge deal, but I understand the annoyance.

However, if you are certain that you have transactions not confirming after the update that are BEFORE block 86400, you have some things to do.

First off, forget blk0001.dat. It's just a piece of the blockchain. It don't matter to recovering your coins. There is one file that you should be concerned with, and another you need. The first is wallet.dat THAT is the one that contains your private keys, and therefore access to every transaction you've made on the blockchain. The other is the configuration file. Get rid of everything else in your data directory and resync.

If that still don't work, use the dumpwallet command to export your wallet to a text file. Reimport it into a new wallet, and all will be well.

SHHH! I need about another two weeks of dumpers to get to my current goal 

odd. I've had NO problems since just after the end of PoW phase, except for a corrupted wallet, and that was probably from me dicking around with Windows. Got that fixed, have since updated twice, no problems that didn't resolve themselves.

It seems the wallet just don't like some computers. It gave me headaches on my old windows machine, but not one on Linux or on my other windows machine.

Slick!

You just valued firecoin at 5X bitcoin for your contest. If you didn't intend that, you should have. Well played!

 

I knew there was a reason I liked you! I once shocked my workplace, just short of gales of laughter. Can't recall what I said that sat it off, but my boss called me a bastard. I said "I can prove my parentage beyond any shadow of a doubt. I am NOT a bastard, I'm a son of a bitch! "

Dogie has nothing to do with Blackarrow as far as I know. The only company that I am certain he received any sort of solicitation from was Spondoolies, and they were very upfront about it. I'm sure it influenced his rating, but it still seemed pretty objective Of course they have since proved themselves to be an upstanding manufacturer, and he still condemns their pre order practice in his rating system. Don't see anything wrong with his rating system in itself, though I think he tries to be a bit TOO neutral. Which is hardly an indictment.

We need merchants, and we need things to make us stand out in the crowd. I am working on a couple of things, but it will not come to fruition in a short time. However, there is something else to think about. This coin is very inflationary, and it has reached a point of acceleration. It's not a big deal yet, but at some point it will be. When that happens, the per unit value is likely to drop. There are a few good ways to counter this. Some of them involved the mechanics of the coin, and I won't discuss that at this time. But the biggest one is wide adoption. We need to convince merchants to take TEK and take it PREFERENTIALLY over other forms of currency.

Now, why would they want to do that? I guarantee you that the arguments that work for the trader, miner, and exchange investor will not work for them. I'll revisit this after I hear what the lot of you say. Because I know at least one answer to that question, and if that answer is met, our coin's value will go way UP long before inflation drives it down.

I got something to say to those calling for deletions.

don't do it. Yeah, it's a cluttered up mess, and yeah, a great deal of it is pure FUD with no basis. But deletions make it look as if you have something to hide. If nothing else, from the beginnning this coin has been pretty transparent, Hippie Tech's ravings to the contrary. If we start down the path of censorship, we lose out, ultimately.

Not all who are concerned are trolls. And not all who have concerns are particularly articulate. It is good that you rise to the defense of your community. It is not so good to be condescending about it. I'm a sarcastic son of a bitch, and I understand the motivation. It's EASY to lash out at those who appear to be idiots and agent provocateurs. Problem is, in the first case you can't cure stupid, but they might just not be very articulate, and in the second, lashing out at them vindicates them and achieves their objective.

I remain fairly neutral. I'm invested in the coin, but if I lost my whole holdings right this second, it would only irritate me. I dislike the personal attacks, both ways. I was once privy to a rather cool insight in debate. Luckily I was not on the receiving end of the comment. It goes as follows:

"Ah, yes, the ad-hominem attack. The first resort of the ignorant and the last of the defeated".

That was well put. What mostly went before was straight up hand wringing.

I have had some issues with Sync, both technical and professional, right from the beginning. At one point I sold. But the truth is, and this is what I think you are trying to address, is that the foundation and MsCollec have little to do with each other. MsCollec was the official creator of the coin. From the outset, not very professional, but did stick with it in spite of a lot of FUD, some of which was certainly justified.

That being said, the community rose to the challenges, and at this point I think I can say with near certainty that if MsCollec stepped away tomorrow, few would notice and the harm would be minimal. If a coin depends entirely on it's dev, then it WILL fail.

I have seen it stated that MsCollec is female, but the thread seems to vacilate. That was the impression I was under, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, MsCollec.

She has been quite cordial to me, even when I was less than polite on my concerns, and has made a definite effort to put things right. This doesn't alleviate all concerns, of course, but ultimately it puts a plus mark in my book. That, coupled with the other developments over the period of the existence of Sync have all militated to my continued support of the coin. It's not my primary coin and my investment is mining, primarily, but I like what this community is trying to achieve. I do NOT think there was any deliberate malice in her actions. I see more inexperience with managing people, which remains the hardest of all human endeavors.

In conclusion, I don't damn the dollar because of it's association with the warmongering bastards that mismanage the US Government, I damn it because it is fundamentally and fatally flawed. I don't support Sync because of the Dev or her reputation, but because it seems fundamentally sound.

Being the inspiration for this post, thanks! (irc chat, for the observers. Qmake couldn't find the .pro file, and I'm a dumbass newbie on linux. Presstab and several others were very helpful)

It's pretty bad when both sides of an argument don't have a clue.

No, MsCollec is not Sync. Nite69 is not Sync. The Sync foundation is not Sync.

Sync is ALL OF US. It's an open source, collaborative project.

Let me tell you guys something. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until SOMEBODY gets it.

A bad dev CANNOT kill a coin.

A Good dev CANNOT make a coin succeed.

A weak community can kill a coin, and they frequently do. This one has proven rather resilient.

A Strong community can bring a coin back from the dead IN SPITE of a bad dev, or even a scamming dev. Have a look at SHA coin, if you doubt me. It's not in great shape, but the patient is surely recovering. Unless the coin's code is just plain unworkable, it will continue on. Sync don't have that problem. Prior to Nite being brought on, there were some issues with the CLIENT, though the daemon worked well. That all got resolved.

This is why I simply do not care about all the fud. If the community can hack it, then the coin will continue with or without the dev, sync foundation, etc. They can help or hurt, but they can't kill it. Only you can do that.

If I had a bigger rig, I'd do it solo. But at the moment, I'd just be throwing away electricity. I have a zeusminer Blizzard coming soon, I'll point it at the scrypt side when it comes. But unless either several of us collaborate, or one or two guys with bigger rigs can hit it, the little guys won't make shit on that. I have hashed at both pools that they draw from.

Would be better if y'all could put up a dedicated multipool. There's a guy with a guide out there. I haven't the time, with my other projects, or I'd give it a go. here's the link.

Thanks. It appears to have resolved itself overnight. I'm now in sync, and got paid from the multipool.

Hoping for some cheap Sync??

Does anyone know if the block explorer has been updated? If it has I'm on the wrong chain.

I show the right block height, but it's saying I'm ~93 blocks out of sync.

Ain't nobody on that multipool, and it's not dedicated. My 42 GH of sha ain't gonna do anything without some other miners. For the moment, I have to pass.

I shouldn't respond. I tend to agree with your assessment. But they are still delivering what you paid for, very fucking late. It beats the hell out of nothing. There are several ways to make your money back in alts. It's a gamble, but you have a machine to gamble with, whereas if it's all tied up, you're just plain out the money.

Is it right? No. Is it better than the alternatives? Yes.

Hello Y'all. I'll be adding a miner to the pool part of the time.

But something Tomcat and I were talking about in chat, and I told him I'd speak on the issue.

And that is something that I've been saying for a while. The idea that there should come a time when a coin no longer needs a development team.

In truth, aside from initial concept and possibly programming, NO coin needs a dev team, specifically. These are open source projects. While a strong development team can help and guide a coin's future to some extent, in the long run, they can neither kill it nor cure it. A strong dev can certainly help, but only a weak or apathetic community can kill it.

Y'all are in a fairly unique position here. The coin was abandoned by it's original developer. I won't comment to how that came about, as I don't actually know. The man's reputation is not good, but reputation is not always reality. But that's not why I'm not focusing on it. I'm not because the point is moot. It happened, and THIS community had the intestinal fortitude to step up and do something about it. A few of you, Tomcat and his merry men, have taken the wheel. But the captain does not own the ship. In the case of a cryptocurrency, the owners of the currency own the ship.

All of you.

Do NOT wait for the dev team to develop uses and services for your coin. I'm confident that these guys will do a good job, but making the coin succeed is not their job. Making it work is, and they've done that. It's YOUR job to make it valuable. Sell it dear, and develop services and trading outposts and whatever else is necessary to boost it's value. Because ultimately, only you can make it happen.

It would be nice for all involved if there came a time when new commits came from the community at large, and when the coin is much more than just another way to trade for BTC. But talking about it is not enough. Those of you that have the ability, should go forth and do it. Those with services that they can sell, should do so. In FIRE. Those that can promote it, should. Those that can improve it in any way, DO IT. This ain't a bank. You don't need permission, you don't need a vote, you just need willpower and time.

Good luck, and I'll be joining you here soon as a user and collector of this coin.

Why do the dumpers always hit right AFTER I've bought or am out of BTC??

Dammit.

Cheers to those of you who caught the idiots.

It's an orphan. Any staked coins tied up in it will be returned to you once it resolves. It's normal in staking coins. In my experience about 1/3rd of stakes don't pan out the first time.

The good news is that if it's orphaned, you don't lose your stake weight when it resolves.

so voot is rising on cryptsy because it's dead?

I have had several problems with how MsCollec handled the launch and development of this coin. I saw it as amateurish and often foolish. But then, as others became involved, it turned around. I don't know shit about voot and have little interest in it. Spreading FUD like this is irresponsible.