Yes. Only online clients forge.

It doesn't matter where you are 'logged in' and forging, you can be logged in on many clients at the same time even (which does not give you an advantage btw).
The group of forgers influences the global difficulty which is adjusted after each block.

The only factor is your stake compared to the amount of stake of all other forgers.
Whether you're on RasPi or a high end desktop makes no difference.

A working internet connection does affect your forging changes 

No. If your block is better and it's transmitted to a single peer it will eventually end up in the blockchain.

That makes no difference.
Forging is done on the client level.
You can log in on as many machines as you like and have them all forging but you would basically be competing with yourself.

Well thank you, it's just something we threw together for our Automated Test Environment.
For the people interested, this version is built on Ruby on Rails and used Twitter Bootstrap for styling.
The next (and final version) will be based on Angular (that's what google used to create GMail).

We're still working on the blockexplorer so expect some downtime/reloads but it should be usable now..
Assets and aliases will be added later..

FIMK Blockexplorer http://80.240.143.139

What's a Teemu?

The party will be in Finland!

The FIM application restarts pretty often for various reasons. Uptime will vary greatly.

Is this an issue with FIM? Does NXT do work with that same proxy?


What does the rest of the cmd window say?


They run on different ports so that should work. Not sure if the device you mention can handle it.


You can forge a block which your client lists as forged by you, but since you're on a network with other peers your client can receive a block forged by another that has a higher difficulty. Your block will be removed then and replaced with the better block. Not sure if removed blocks are also correctly removed from the html/js client (frontend code) it could be thats why it's not removed from all places you see the block. Reloading your browser should normally fix such things.


These instructions for NXT seem to apply for FIM to http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/How-To:InstallNRSMacOS
After FIM is started navigate to http://127.0.0.1:7886 (instead of 7876 which is the NXT port)


When you enter your passphrase in the startscreen and check the "Remember my password" checkbox the wallet is basically unlocked and can be used by anyone who has access to your computer. Logging out forces the client to forget the passphrase. You can log out but still have the core code continue forging, running only in memory basically.

So you don't need to keep your browser open to forge blocks.


That's unknown. Only if you run a hallmark others can see what balance you are forging with but since not everyone has a hallmark you can never know. The current base target does give an indication what amount was forging when that last block was made.


The block time is an approximation and will vary. On the test net where we have run FIM for over a month while doing more than 2 million transactions the average block time was between 32 and 54 seconds, this varied per day.


1. Yes you can forge simultaneously with NXT and FIM. The java process is relatively light weight and since they run on different ports there is no conflict
2. Yes you can forge from the same ip address or on all separate ips it doesn't matter, there will eventually only be one block that wins.


We are working on that. The one in the opening post was the blockexplorer to our old automated test environment.


Look on the dashboard in the "Forged Balance" block, it shows the total amount of FIM you have earned forging.

If you're a stakeholder there is some specialness where you can forge immediately after your first transaction. But only if you do that txn before block 2880!
Otherwise it takes 1440 blocks. This is to prevent people from moving their stakes around to trick the system.


You're welcome. Thanks for trusting FIMK!


It seems to work here. What did you enter in the search box?

Try the passphrase but with a space added to the end.

Thats up to you. You forge by the second. Every 30 seconds there is a block.

Yes. Lots of difference. Running your local client is much safer.
Currently you must send your passphrase to the public clients, not because it's needed but because the client was put together that way. That will change soon.

We'll probably have our blockexplorer up tonight or latest tomorrow, you can safely check your balance from that.


In order to start forging we require 1440 blocks (or confirmations). For the rest it's up to you. There is always the risk of being on a fork, that risk decreases with the amount of blocks (confirmations).
Since FIM blocks go faster than NXT (30 seconds) the wait time to trust a transaction is *real/confirmed* is halved.

If someone send you some FIM and you must decide if the FIM is safely in your account so you can; send them your gold/release your hostages  as a rule of thumb 720 transactions is considered pretty safe.
The client uses an indicator of 10+ considering 10 blocks relatively safe. Basically it all depends..

Thats not what i see here. There are 30 peers on the network currently and most of them are on block 1158 which is less than a minute old.
There is one peer on block 1153 and one on 1155. Just give it time and the client will get you on the right block.

Great thanks, thats how it will work to! I'll put that on the other forum


Yes. That counts as a transaction. Sending a message counts as a transaction to.


You must either run a node and start forging there. Or start forging on the public node https://wallet.fimk.fi:7886.

But. I don't recommend doing that with large stakes. There is always the risk of that server being hacked/snooped or whatever.
We consider our sysadmin to be very good, but as a rule you should be very careful sending your passphrase to public nodes.

Not at all sure what's the cause of that. We do have an issue tracker for these kinds of things so our team can look into it later in detail. https://github.com/fimkrypto/fimk/issues


Thats the genesis account


Yes you can but i'm currently fixing a bug in the html/javascript client that does not allow to register account aliases.

Your block is overruled by another block from another forger with a higher difficulty.
There is nothing you can do about that. In very unfortunate situations (depending on your point of view) you could forge many blocks before your client realizes another chain of blocks has a higher difficulty and it will cause all blocks to disappear, thats called being on a fork.



The stakeholder advantage will stop after block 2880, you really should make a transaction before that. Or wait 1440 after that block.


Thank you, but NXT did pave the road for us.

That would be nice 
But no sorry that's not how it works.

While the algorithm changed slightly in some places, the outcome is still the same.
The more FIM you have the more blocks you make.