Anything happening here?

As soon as simplewallet sees that the wallet does not exist it creates the 3 files. Have you looked in the right places? Search in the users directory right down and enable view of hidden files. Which OS are you using? For Win look in the \users\yourusername\app data\roaming. It must be there somewhere. On Mac look for /users/yourusername. The files are there somewhere, perhaps in the .fantomcoin directory. They must be there just keep looking.

It is not Invader Zim coins but Zimstake coins.

Try the following as this worked for me with FCN and MRO. If QCN also uses the 3 files wallet.bin, wallet.bin.address.txt and wallet.bin.keys, then just delete the wallet.bin file as it is probably corrupt now and 0B in size. Do not delete the other two. When you open simplewallet it will ask for the .bin file name and when you enter it it will not find it and create it using the other two files and your wallet will be back. The .bin file is just a summary of all the tx - the impotant files are your keys files.

If you want to solo mine, you dont have to use the interface you posted. All you need to do is run the fantomcoind binary and let it sync up to date. Then in the bottom of the daemon window (where you see all the connect messages scroll), you type in start_mining yourFCNaddress number_of_threads. So assuming you have 4 threads on your CPU and your address is abcdef you will type start_mining abcdef 4. The daemon will give you a message saying that mining has started with 4 threads.

Dont worry if messages overtake your typing speed as the daemon remembers all the keys you typed. Alternatively type the whole start_mining thing in a test file and copy it. Then put your cursor at the bottom of the box and then select the icon in the top left, go down to edit/paste and press enter.

To see how many coins you have, run simplewallet, enter your .bin name and password. Type in refresh in the window and it will update. Make sure that your daemon is fully synced before you run the wallet and the daemon must be running before you can open the wallet.

Whats this? Did you take a picture out of my kitchen window?

So our concerns were legit.

I am sorted now. I deleted the corrupt .bin file and simpleminer recreated the file from my.keys file.

Gus I lost my fantomcoin wallet with 48 coins in it.

WTB 50 coins for 0.05BTC to carry on where I was.

These did not work. I notice now by looking at the properties of the .bin files that they are 0B in size. By closing the wallet terminal windows instead of typing exit they files were overwritten and file size reduced to 0. I have a backup of my monero wallet but not of my fantom wallet.

I lost only 48 fantom coins. Anyone want to sell me 48 coins for BTC so that I can continue where I was?

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded the Linux software. I transferred the Mac blockchain which was accepted by the Linux daemon. I then transferred the wallet files to Linux, but when I want to open the wallet I get the same reading error.

I tried to think back to what I could have done to cause this and perhaps I just closed the wallet terminal windows without typing exit. Perhaps the files are in some kind of a state because the wallets were not closed properly by the exit command.

Any ideas?

I have an update.  I opened my monero wallet as well and it gives me the exact same error. It seems that simplewallet for both monero and fantom does not want to open on my machine. I thought that perhaps my fantom wallet was corrupted, but it is unlikely that both my monero and fantom can corrupt at the same time. There must be some other reason.

I am going to install Ubuntu on another PC and attempt to transfer the wallets there.

What is interesting is the error messages I get when I open the daemons for fantom and monero respectively.

For fantom I get:
2014-May-24 21:40:41.664069 ERROR /Users/user/jenkins/workspace/Fantomcoin - MacOS/src/p2p/net_node.inl:246 UPNP_AddPortMapping failed

And for Monero I get:
2014-May-24 21:41:18.856982 ERROR /Users/Shine/Documents/MRO/src/p2p/net_node.inl:246 UPNP_AddPortMapping failed.

I wonder who jenkins and Shine are? maybe devs that created the mac version of the daemons? Perhaps these error messages could be the reason that I get so many failed connection attempts when the daemons run.

I get this error message after entering the password. "Error: failed to load wallet: failed to read file "wallet.bin""

The wallet is on my Mac and does not want to open anymore. I transferred the 3 files to a Windows machine and it also does not want to open there.

It is a wired connection.

And now I have another problem. Simplewallet does not want to open my wallet anymore. I transferred the wallet to another machine and it also does not want to open there. Is there a way to recover my wallet?

Guys I have a problem. fantomcoind has a lot of failed connection attempts. Most connections are failed actually with a successful connection inbetween here and there.I observe this behavior on Mac as well as Windows.

What could be the reason for this?

I do get a very weird message when I run fantomcoind - I ave no idea who the "jenkins" is that this refers to. "2014-May-24 13:51:11.214526 ERROR /Users/user/jenkins/workspace/Fantomcoin - MacOS/src/p2p/net_node.inl:246 UPNP_AddPortMapping failed."

You have not missed anything. Absent dev, no markets.

The hash rate is not that high but the difficulty is. It is not feasible mining at this difficulty if there is no market to recoup electricity costs. Anyone mining this coin now must not be worrying to pay electricity, or must not be caring to lose the real BTC that could have neen mined.

Since there is no news from the devs and no markets, why should anyone mine this?

Most of my PCs run fine with the hash rate, except a server with Win7 64bit and 2 x Xeon 3.0GHz which runs at a combined 9Hz/s. Is this normal or what could be the issue?

Dev, 6 days have passed, lets have the conversation you referred to when you said "lets have the conversation again after six days. This is only the beginning".