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Based on some research I did a few days ago many of the bugs in Cryptonite have been carried over from Bitcoin. For example, there are Bitcoin bug reports about wallet corruption submitted around the time Cryptonite was forked from Bitcoin. The bugs are clearly related because even the error numbers and error messages are the same as the ones reported by people using Cryptonite. I think many of the bugs in Cryptonite could be solved simply by applying many of the fixes which have since been applied to Bitcoin.
Since whis was fixed soon after XCN release, it may be trivial to backport.
Could you point me to the commit on the bitcoin git? I will have a look.
Once again I think many problems with Cryptonite could be solved by adapting the new networking code and new syncing code from Bitcoin so that the headers first synchronization works more smoothly. I am looking into how I can make some of these upgrades myself but like I said my skills are limited. Also I wont be back home for another day or two and I'm stuck with a slow laptop which doesn't have much of my software on it.
This might be a bit more complex: do you have an idea what kind of work is needed for this?
I have been considering the idea of remaking Cryptonite and implementing a pre-mine, then allowing the old coins to be converted to the new coins, but I'm not exactly sure how that would be done in a fair manner. I'm not sure if that would really be a good idea but at least then we could provide a reason for devs to work on the new version of Cryptonite.
I've been thru swaps some times and it always made someone unhappy, but if restarting from a recent version of bitcoin takes less or about the same time than fixing the old code, it will be a good choice because, in the end, the advantages are countless.
