v0.6 just released and we are currently focusing on that. However, we've been discussing what we'd like to accomplish for a while now. Official talks have started recently about what exactly we want to include in v0.7. Once developers come to consensus, we'll most likely release some kind of roadmap so the community knows what to expect from us in the future.

You can track the current status and adoption percentage of the v0.6 soft fork here...

https://www.peercoinexplorer.net/forkwatch/

Try going into your Peercoin folder and moving your wallet.dat file somewhere else. Then start the client again. This will create a new fresh wallet.dat file with no peercoin in it. Once the blockchain fully syncs, then place your original wallet.dat file back in the peercoin folder, replacing the new one that was created. If that doesn't solve the problem, please let us know.

Minting should be disabled by default if your wallet is encrypted and you have done nothing to unlock it. If your wallet is unencrypted and contains coins in it, then minting should be activated by default. If that is the case, all you need to do is create a good password and encrypt your wallet, which will disable minting until you unlock it. Once the full blockchain has been downloaded though, then it shouldn't matter anymore and you can click "unlock wallet for minting only" to activate minting again.

It seems as if it was lost on everyone that Sunny just spoke mandarin for the first time. At least nobody has pointed it out yet.

Alright, the problem that some people have been experiencing has been identified. If your wallet is unencrypted then it mints block automatically. The problem some people were having is that they had an unencrypted wallet and it was trying to mint blocks before the blockchain was fully synced. Peerchemist says that they'll be working on a fix...

Hey ewibit. Thanks for reporting this. The same error message was reported here by Zangy...

https://talk.peercoin.net/t/peercoin-v0-6-now-released-upgrade-today-blockchain-redownload-required-instructions-inside/6289/14

He thought it might have been caused by trying to enable minting while the blockchain was still downloading. Can you tell us if it was similar in your case or if you did not touch minting? If not, then the issue must be coming from something else.

Solidcoin is missing from the list...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38453.0

If memory serves me right it was a scam and doesn’t exist anymore.

Yes, this was known about already. They said it's fine and the tag annotation will be fixed properly with a post release, 0.6.1 later.

I believe this was brought up before, but I'm double checking for you. Let me ask the devs.

Peercoin v0.6 is finally here. This upgrade will require a full blockchain redownload due to the move to the leveldb database. Installation instructions and a summary of what has changed in this version are provided in the following Medium article...

https://medium.com/@PeercoinPulse/peercoin-v0-6-release-2831fb4394ad

You can post in this thread in case you have questions or bugs to report.

Please help retweet this news for us here...

https://twitter.com/PeercoinPPC/status/925713995750936576

Announcement also posted on r/cryptocurrency here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7a468o/peercoin_team_officially_releases_v06_upgrade/

We will be making official announcements tomorrow, just so you all know. Keep an eye out for my post.

Hey guys, just a quick update. We had run into an issue producing gitian builds last week when everything was supposed to go live. The issue I believe has been solved now, so hopefully we shouldn’t be too much longer. I’m thinking within the next day or two, but we’ll keep you updated here.


Can I ask what is the problem with https://peercoin.chat? Is it the fact that registration is required before you can actually view the content of the chat? This is something that I don’t like as it creates an artificial barrier between our chat community and the outside crypto world, which results in less people seeing our content.

RocketChat is supposedly working on a way to let you view the chat as a guest without requiring registration. There is also our Telegram channel, which lets the Telegram community see what is happening in the peercoin.chat general channel, since they’re both connected by bots.

What is it about Slack that you believe makes it so valuable to hook into? Is it their large existing user base? Do they let you view the chat without requiring registration? Do you have any opinion on Gitter?


It has been known for a while now that we need to redesign and improve the website and content. It is just that nobody on the team has had time yet to focus on it. I have been working for the past several months on a design project for the team. It should be done some point soon. At that point I’ll turn my focus to the website. It will get done, but it will take some time still.

Hey guys. Sorry if there is any confusion. We are currently waiting on Sunny King to produce gitian builds for Windows and Linux. We're not sure when he will have the time to do this, but hopefully it will be soon. Consider this early access for those who know how to compile the source code. As soon as we have the builds though, we'll let everyone know so they can download and install.

Peerunity support is ending with the release of v0.6 and all its features have been moved over to the main reference client. Keep watching this thread and we’ll let you know more soon.

Paramind22, the pool operator has still not responded to me. I tried forum, email and Twitter and nothing. I’m not sure what is up.

Also to everyone, once Windows and Linux builds are available we will provide instructions for upgrading.

Sorry, we tried contacting the pool operator for you back when you posted this, but we did not get a response. We will try contacting again. The pool seems to be up and running though. In the meantime, can you confirm whether login is still not working? Have you tried any other browser to see if that helps? I will report back to let you know if we were able to get a response from the pool runner.

Also, I’m not sure if you associated health of the network with a lack of response or mining not working. Peercoin is secured through proof of stake only, so mining can’t effect the health of the network. Also as for lack of response, I explained above that we were not able to get a response from the pool operator. I should have responded here to let you know though, so I apologize for that. The team has been very busy lately getting the v0.6 release ready, so it unfortunately slipped my mind.

I can talk to the team about it, we’ll see. I guess there is no hurt in adding additional platforms.

As m4nki posted above, most of our community communicates through either our forum https://talk.peercoin.net/ or our main chat hub: https://peercoin.chat/ The General channel of peercoin.chat is also connected with our Telegram channel: https://telegram.me/peercoin via bots so both sides can communicate with each other. It's better to sign up at peercoin.chat though as there are multiple other channels and our developers usually hang out there and answer questions. We chose the RocketChat platform rather than Slack because it is software we can host and run ourselves.

Article from ppcman: The Tide of Cryptocurrency

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