My plan is to hang back, watch the idiots, and catch what they drop.

And if you are dumping tek, you ARE an idiot! My sells, when I get to that point, will be at least 10 percent above the market that day, and I won't budge on that price. If all of you start doing that, it'll be back in the 70-80k range in no time.

Yes, of course that would work. I'm more interested in repairing it if possible.

Ok, I have a weird bug. I had a small amount of sync in my wallet from some time ago, and had frankly forgotten about it. Not heavily invested in the coin. In the early days, I saw troubles that were eventually resolved, and I bailed for the most part.

I'm not unhappy with that decision. I profited pretty well on the POW phase, and I used those profits to my advantage. I'm still pretty agnostic on the future of this coin, but it appears y'all are doing a good job. Much better than I expected, to be honest.

In light of that, I opened up my sync wallet and found it not empty. I went ahead and compiled the latest wallet release, copied wallet.dat over, and I continually get an error about the database being corrupt, with the instruction to delete everything but wallet.dat and try again. I did that. Same result. I copied in a new .conf file based off of the ones posted in the thread. Same error. I removed the old wallet.dat file and it starts syncing without issue.

So, at the command line I've run both -repairwallet and -salvagewallet. No effect, same error. This is under ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop. Without a config file I get no connections, but this error doesn't even get that far. It's upon opening the wallet.

I do have a back up of the old wallet and older client on my windows laptop, which I'm about to boot up and sync. But I'd like a way to solve this.

Any clues, advice, abuse?

open the console, type (without quotes) "walletpassphrase <password> <seconds to remain open>
optionally add <mint true>"

example: walletpassphrase somefuckingpassword 9999 true

Will leave the wallet locked for anything BUT minting.

Tell me more!

It always seemed to me there should be some way other than JUST solving blocks to get the chain retargeted if it's being slow.

Me too Almost back to where I was before I had to sell. (emergencies are a bitch!!!)

Well, presstab, it's probably time to implement that shorter period code Seems it's still locking up.

Eligius goes in waves

It seems all goes well for a while, then something gets borked in the frontend, payments pile up, Whizkid does a manual payout... wash, rinse, repeat. Just the character of the pool.

I'm probably missing the obvious, but I can't seem to find the source link. Help a brother out? I still have the pre-nitesend wallet, and I'm not using Windows.

EDIT: Yep, I was missing the obvious. I hate pictures instead of text for things like that

I'll give it a shot.

1st off, it is automatic. If you are open, unlocked, connected, and in sync, it will happen.

However you can get a better idea of when it's going to stake by looking at the little tab at the bottom (mining symbol in the prerelease, I think a green arrow now, but I'm not at the right computer) and hover over it. It will show you estimated time to stake (wildly inaccurate on EVERY PoS coin) and your stake weight vs. network weight.

As I understand it, and presstab/others feel free to correct me, difficulty can't readjust until a block is found. Given how long it's taking, it will probably adjust rather severely this time 'round. Once it does, the next few blocks eligible for stake should go fairly quickly. If they go TOO quickly, there will be more long rounds. So it's a good idea to use coin control to aggregate your blocks in a staggered fashion. I was late to the game on this coin (as in I'd already purchased a bunch of TEK when I found out about it) so I've only got one block right now of seventyish coins. But those of you with large numbers, please consider staggering your blocks over a several day period. You'll initially lose some coin maturity doing this, but that should average out fairly quickly. There are two plus sides to doing this. One, you'll have something staking every day, and two, if the majority of us do this, the blockchain will move at a much steadier and predictable pace.

I may be reading it wrong, being that NOMP is largely unfinished in github. However, I *believe* that you can add a new coin using nomp-cli without restarting the pools.

Nine days is a good way to figure it. I believe it was actually 8.8, so close enough for planning You can have as many blocks in a day as you care to. It's probably better to spread them over several days, though, to keep the chain moving. Plus it's nice to see a daily payout.

Well, that pretty much proves this community ain't dead!

Ok, so it actually IS 500 %, it just don't quite work out in realtime

One day I'm going to figure out all of this coding shit. I hope

Thanks, presstab.

I've run into this before, with a couple of different coins. After banging my head on the wall, I talked to experts and figured it out.

Your blockchain is hosed. Delete everything but walle.dat and your shacoin.conf file, and let it resync. It's a pain in the ass, but it will fix the problem. Almost always.

What's the max? I'm slowly learning about coin code, but it's taking a while for my poor old brain

Pretend I'm an idiot. Cuz when it comes to programming, I am. Can you explain what that code says/does?

The problem is that as the supply increases, there will come a point where the value decreases. I still think it will be a very profitable coin for quite some time, however. Also, if the staking becomes TOO high in the future, we can probably modify the percentage.

Wrong clown

I've staked on way smaller amounts than that. Just keep your wallet open for a bit. It will come. Longest I've heard of was 49 days, longest I've personally observed was just over 4, including an orphan.