Is there an active android wallet development? I saw people mention Bigchirv, but couldn't see any of his posts in this thread, maybe I missed it.
Certainly you may miss them. Hey there,  I've been studying the code of the wallets out there and yes, I'd like to start with the project. Some user days ago uploaded some images: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwpkXqmxmdGScm9lb21pTXhuS00&usp=sharingand basically is that what is holding me back, because I don't wanna waste my time (or any other's time) starting the project if someone already has something already on the table. However, many days have passed and no more news on the status of that work. Somebody can give us an update on this? Anyone? I'm thinking on minting on a mobile device. Minting uses 100% cpu to find a hash, much like PoW, but using owner's coins. A phone user would not want to enable it.
I stated exactly the same some posts ago when the topic came up. It basically will drain the mobile's battery and also will slow the device. On the other hand, a tablet-only user might want it if it's her only computer, so android wallet should ideally have minting, but the ability to turn it off. Or options like "mint only when charging", "mint only when charging and battery > 80%", "mint only when screen is locked"
And another user said the same tho. The argument was he has friends that would like to mint on their tablets. I still think the battery life will still be an issue. However we can always do what gonzoucab is saying and put a checkbox enabling/disabling minting. Of course, for that 1st we need the wallet up and available for download and 2nd have implemented the PoS algorithm. I'm thinking about the first use case, to run mintcoin wallet on a phone, but the user doesn't want his phone to mint at all. What happens if I share my private key between desktop wallet and android wallet?
Does anyone know how the QT clients react when the same wallet.dat is used on two computers simultaneously? Do they notice funds in an account are gone if they see an outgoing transaction in the blockchain, or do they assume only they can initiate transfers?
Those are real good questions. People usually goes with the new wallet/priv-key created when installing the app on their devices. Maybe the Mintcoin Dev Team can answer this to us. Or somebody can point us to proper documentation. I can't tell whether or not there's a mechanism to prevent things like you're mentioning. If it doesn't exists we may design one (by "we" I mean the interested developers that are lurking around the forum, ). I mean desktop wallet can mint all the time, and to sync my android wallet, I can show it a QR code from desktop wallet and voila, from that point android wallet can spend coins (and all future coins) from my desktop wallet. They should be able to track their balances over the blockchain.
110% agree. Maybe what I imagine* is not possible due to changes being sent to new generated addresses, but I'm not sure.
I'd like to have the answers of those Qs too. I'm no a cryptocoin expert; but I usually solve problems either with code or Linux servers. My employers usually give me broken code I'm not familiar with, written in <put_the_name_of_the_language_here> and then say "fix it". So, I think I'm capable to do the task. Of course, any of the developers on the forum can help. That's the beauty of Open Source. EDIT: Improve some English expressions. It is not my native language. I have repeatedly asked questions regarding the android wallet and they are never answered by David, who is the only person here who seems to have contact with the developers (and may actually be part of the development group/or possibly is the developer - how would we ever know?). The most important question, which I've asked about 6 times now, is how much are the developers putting up for an Android Wallet (from the 700,000,000 pre-mine). With this information, the job can be shopped around the development community. Without it, well....lets just say we still don't have a working app. Personally, I'm interested in the Android Wallet so that I can SHARE Mintcoin via mobile...and help others do so. Mintcoin is only going to spread by getting people interested, many people who may not even be Bitcoin holders at this point. An easy way to introduce it is to help them download the wallet, then send them some free Mintcoin...and watch their face light up at the ease of use. It's not a complicated concept. If you want Mintcoin to go up in value (instead of it being constantly wash traded in a box by the developer) then we need to be able to spread it - the Android Wallet is the key to this. The ability for the wallet to mint is really secondary and should not be an impediment to the wallet being developed. IMHO please tell us an approximate price so we can discuss whether such an amount can be raised by the community. thank you |
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Hi, I just made new image and reuploaded directly from my mac virtual machine. Earlier upload worked perfectly fine with my Maveric. I ran wallet for 45 minutes, it updated the blockchain beautifully. 8-9 connections in few minutes time and 12 connections when i closed it. Also sent some coins in and out from my windows wallet to mac wallet. All worked fine. Anyone having issue, should back up their wallet first, then clean first wallet from disk and afterwards install 1.7. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mw1i7glc4v6laa1/mintcoin-v1.7-macosx.dmgIf icon doesnt show up, then i cant help you, because i have same problem recently. Hopefully mac update fixes this. You could replace the icon just like you do with any other file. Now that I think about it, this might have to do with the Mega link. I recall someone mentioned mega links and Mac wallets weren't a good mix. i can confirm that the mac wallet is reaaaaally slow during the initialisation progress. then it runs very smoothly. i'm on mavericks. |
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guys i'm waiting for a mintcoin withdrawal from mintpal for over an hour and it still shows unconfirmed. also i can't open www.mintcoin-explorer.info is there a problem? did you get the withdrawal request email and confirm it via the link? oh god, i'm such a newb! i got a little confused with all the exchanges i'm on. thank you very much. that resolves the problem! |
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guys i'm waiting for a mintcoin withdrawal from mintpal for over an hour and it still shows unconfirmed. also i can't open www.mintcoin-explorer.info is there a problem? |
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hey there bigchirv! Glad to have you here! It's awesome that you're interested in creating such an android wallet.
I think the other developer has quit because he hasn't written in a long time. So I think you have the best shot. You can always contact the mintcoindev and ask whether he/them are working on such a wallet and if its worth your time to create such a wallet.
i for instance would mint on my phone at night when i'm sleeping and my phone is still connected to the power socket so that wouldn't be a problem. i also think that during the development process it will be possible to create a slim minting wallet that isn't eating up all the recources. and i have to say that a lot of android phones out there a lot more powerful than some laptops or PCs.
when i walk around i would like to just turn the minting of the android wallet off and use the wallet as it is (spending coins, checking the balances and so on).
further i think that we shouldn't think too much of all the ifs and problems that may occur. the most important thing is that we start the development of a (minting) wallet for that awesome coin.
as you have already seen there is already a nice bounty for your efforts.
so what do you think? can you give it a shot?
greetings
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Is there an active android wallet development? I saw people mention Bigchirv, but couldn't see any of his posts in this thread, maybe I missed it.
I'm thinking on minting on a mobile device. Minting uses 100% cpu to find a hash, much like PoW, but using owner's coins. A phone user would not want to enable it.
On the other hand, a tablet-only user might want it if it's her only computer, so android wallet should ideally have minting, but the ability to turn it off. Or options like "mint only when charging", "mint only when charging and battery > 80%", "mint only when screen is locked"
I'm thinking about the first use case, to run mintcoin wallet on a phone, but the user doesn't want his phone to mint at all. What happens if I share my private key between desktop wallet and android wallet? I mean desktop wallet can mint all the time, and to sync my android wallet, I can show it a QR code from desktop wallet and voila, from that point android wallet can spend coins (and all future coins) from my desktop wallet. They should be able to track their balances over the blockchain.
Does anyone know how the QT clients react when the same wallet.dat is used on two computers simultaneously? Do they notice funds in an account are gone if they see an outgoing transaction in the blockchain, or do they assume only they can initiate transfers?
Maybe what I imagine* is not possible due to changes being sent to new generated addresses, but I'm not sure.
edit *: fixed typo
i'm totally with you on that one. u seem like a techy guy if you know what i mean. Do you happen to know someone who is able to provide such a wallet? |
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We have been made aware of potential security issues for MintCoin recently. As we always do, we're actively looking into these issues if any. If there is anything to fix, we'll do it, and we'll do it the best way possible.
you guys are awesome! just keep us updated! really appreciate it! |
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isn't the forking thing the bigger possible problem?  |
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i understand that the developers don't work 24/7 on this project but a rapid response/fix might actually stop the price decline. i suppose they themselves have some MINT they don't want to lose value. on the other hand this way some people can get some really cheap MINT  |
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guys, thank for the efforts. but i do think, that such an issue will be easily fixed by the developers. as provided in the other thread there are a couple of solutions for an easy fix. so i think we just need to relax and calm down. no coin is broken.
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It's no longer theoretical it's actually happened. I didn't notice anything, what exactly is supposed to have happened? Was there a successful double spend? For about an hour they were able to stop minting completely. If this can be sustained this is just another coin without any value since our biggest selling point is minting. And since I don't know anything about development, I don't know what else can be done with this attack. But this isn't even the issue, due to the lack of dev responses I don't even believe they are too involved in this coin. This threat was posted 3 days ago, more then enough time to read through it real quickly to determine if it was FUD or not. Due to the timestamps, I can't tell you how long the bugs been posted or how long ago the attack was. The real issue is, how they address future problems. Do we have to wait another 3 days and a successful attack before we see anything? It seems as if they haven't been concerned with the issue and if minting was stopped for an hour how much did it cost the attackers to do that? As gonzoucab pointed out there was an attack but it seems to have failed without even a fork. I don't really understand the technical details but there is really not much there that I can go on except objective evidence of a doublespend or something of the sort. If it kills the coin then so be it, but I'm not listening to rumours and innuendo on the internet. Posting supposed email responses doesn't mean a thing because they are easily faked. We did not fork the coin as we did not want to. We could have and then you'd be blaming us for breaking your coin. As for the mails with the mintcoin devs (the e-mail address provided in the OP) http://imgur.com/9rIkQWwAlso, the attack used 3x 3.5Mh/s rigs. I think we could've pulled it off with less. thank you for the image. could you please provide the rest of the conversation? it stops at "to fix the issue at hand" |
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I understand honesty is hard in crypto. That's why when we found this exploit the FIRST thing i did was find the dev's contact details. You do not want to see the replies. Contact your dev's and demand a fix.
actually we DO wanna see the replies. Just post them here. That way you could provide proof that you've done as you told us. Thank you!
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http://coinok.pw/faucet/mint/ reactivated and tested. so please guys donate some MINT and spread the word!!! and maybe the devs could erase the other dry faucets from the opening post or highlight the actually working one?
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faucet is using version 1.4 so it might still work... still downloading blockchain... it should be done in about 15 mins
could you please explain what you mean? just tested the faucet and already received some MINT |
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hello http://coinok.pw/faucet/mint/ reactivated - the only problem is that it might need github upgrade - in that case this can only be done in the weekend due to lack of time. what is the github update? glad that i could help reactivate the faucet. the guys were really fast. just sent another 200 mint to the faucet. it would be awesome if others could donate too!!! |
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MINT people i know its not a lot of traffic but the mintcoin Faucet is dry at http://earncryptocoins.com/mintcoini think some MINT people should donate to faucet so people who dont know MINT will so when they can get 1-2MINT free from faucet every hour. it's awesome. i was just thinking about the same thing!!! but is there a faucet that people can use without a registration? i know i don't want to register at too many sites. why to donate faucets? Faucets SHOULD earn money from adverts - easy ... yeah maybe, but there isn't a single working mint faucet out there that isn't dry. This has to change! Anyone know of a sexy looking faucet we can add MINT to?  may not be very sexy but I can attest to the fact that it is very functional. I used it when I was first introduced to MINT, and I have donated to it since becoming much more involved with MINT. I will donate to it again if it is activated (I don't have a twitter so I can't contact them to activate it). yeah you're right, just donated some MINT and tweeted them. let's see what happens This might actually be something. |
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MINT people i know its not a lot of traffic but the mintcoin Faucet is dry at http://earncryptocoins.com/mintcoini think some MINT people should donate to faucet so people who dont know MINT will so when they can get 1-2MINT free from faucet every hour. it's awesome. i was just thinking about the same thing!!! but is there a faucet that people can use without a registration? i know i don't want to register at too many sites. why to donate faucets? Faucets SHOULD earn money from adverts - easy ... yeah maybe, but there isn't a single working mint faucet out there that isn't dry. This has to change! Anyone know of a sexy looking faucet we can add MINT to? |
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MINT people i know its not a lot of traffic but the mintcoin Faucet is dry at http://earncryptocoins.com/mintcoini think some MINT people should donate to faucet so people who dont know MINT will so when they can get 1-2MINT free from faucet every hour. it's awesome. i was just thinking about the same thing!!! but is there a faucet that people can use without a registration? i know i don't want to register at too many sites. This one doesn't require registration: http://coinok.pw/faucet/mint/It has been disabled though because it went dry for three days. yeah and it doesn't look very welcomy if you know what i mean. i was thinking about something like http://www.mintharvest.com/ is it possible to use that site for the faucet? |
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MINT people i know its not a lot of traffic but the mintcoin Faucet is dry at http://earncryptocoins.com/mintcoini think some MINT people should donate to faucet so people who dont know MINT will so when they can get 1-2MINT free from faucet every hour. it's awesome. i was just thinking about the same thing!!! but is there a faucet that people can use without a registration? i know i don't want to register at too many sites. |
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I think Jeff Jefferson said he would pledge 300k as well!
yes, but it REALLY has to mint. otherwise it's just another android wallet of a coin. we need to make the difference guys. I also think its not that necessary to use an escrow. I think MINT users are sincere and honest people, am I right?  I also had the concerns about the upcoming android wallet being open source so the others just can copy it. So I would propose a simple not open source app at first in the google play store. Than after a month or two the source code should be released. This is privately offered bounty for a working prototype, upon public delivery. Offered separately from other bounties that may exist. So far the total is: mgburks77: 250,000 stormia: 125,000 garicson: 200,000 jeff jefferson: 100,000 moderndezigns:200,000 Total: 875,000 Bonus for wallet that mints: mgburks77: 250,000 jeff jefferson: 200,000 moderndezigns:50,000 Total: 500,000 Total Total: 1 375 000 I'm sure there are other people willing to contribute! |
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