I updated my wallet but I cant see my faircoins anymore. I only see transactions. I do have a backup of my wallet also. DO I need to do something else to see my coins
Hi there, here is a small step-by-step guide. - start wallet
- switch to transaction view
- right click on any transaction
- choose 'clear orphans'
- open the debug window
- switch to console
- enter repairwallet at the bottom
- enter stop (which will cause your wallet to exit)
- start your wallet again
- done. Your balance should now be displayed correctly
regs Thomas |
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Hi Jack, everything is fine with the FairCoin network! What you see in the connected node list is the starting height of the node when it connected to chain.fair-coin.org. So it's not the height that node is currently at. Nevertheless, some times I can take several minutes until the wallet is in sync depending on the structure of you peers.dat file. If you want to speed things up: stop the client, delete peers.dat and start again. The wallet will be in sync in no time. Anyway, thanks for reporting a potential problem.  regs Thomas P.S. if your problem persists PM me and I will help to sort things out |
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@matthewh3, I was convinced that it was not possible to transfer coins without supplying the password again when the wallet is locked for minting only. As the name implies, that is the actual behaviour one expects. But, as I learned now this is not the case. I consider this as a bug. I will change this as soon as possible.
The packages you installed are development pages only, but they in turn have dependencies to the right packages, that's the reason why it worked at your side...
But anyway, I will start top make progress in that field too and come up with proper documentation and/or packages for various distros.
regs
Thomas
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For linux distros Faircoin should really create repo's with all the dependencies included as well as including the wallet software. Or at least .DEB's for anything Debian based.
Or at least you should have an install section on the wallet downloads page. Stating that all flavours of Ubuntu and Debian such as Linux mint plus Raspian as well. Needs several of the following dependencies installed to run the Linux binary: sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev \
libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev It could help a lot of non expert Linux users use the FairCoin wallet. I agree with you, we should have repos for different distros. In fact I would rather like to bring the FairCoin wallet to the standard repos of ubuntu and debian and provide private repositories for rpm based distros like CentOS, Fedora, Suse or RHEL. This task is on my todo list for some time now. I'd like to complete it mid term. Ehrm, none of the packages you quoted in your post are needed to run the FairCoin pre-built binaries! This is only a selection of packages that need to be installed if you want to build the walle from source. But I agree, we should have the information on the web page which packages are actually needed to run the binaries for each major Linux distribution. Help is very appreciated here, please post findings here or PM me  regs Thomas |
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I also feel that the wallet would be a lot more inherently secure. If it had separate passwords for unlocking the wallet to mint transactions. And a separate password for unlocking the wallet for sending transactions. So as that the wallet is not left open insecure and naked when leaving the wallet for long term minting.
i agree with you. leave the wallet nake for long term minting ,just like put a sheep into a group of wolf Hi, leaving the wallet unlocked for minting only does not have a considerable impact on security! One can not send coins or dump private keys from your wallet. The key pool is decrypted in memory only while the wallet is unlocked. This is needed for minting because the wallet tries to create transactions (2 per second) that basically send coins to it self and adding 3% of interest. The private key pool is encrypted with your password using the openssl library. It does not provide a way to encrypt private keys with more than one password, therefore it is not possible to have one password for minting and one to transfer coins, because these two processes are mostly identical. Multisig transaction can not mint, so, this is no solution for this problem (if it exists at all ). regs Thomas |
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Alright guys, seems like i am missing around 30k coins.
How can we sort this out please?
Thanks.
You can write to support@fair-coin.orgto show which coins are this missings, and send your sign to show ownership I suppose, this was coins not touched, neither minted from the first distibution, if not could be very strange... I think is just strange, because i do have all my coins in one wallet and i missed the distribution, and also i did run my wallet every now and then to keep up to date. But i am indeed missing 30k. So, this has nothing to do with the coin recovery! Did you leave your wallet open after the hard fork? (block 94613) If so, your wallet most probably minted blocks on the wrong chain which confuses it. Do you have any unconfirmed transaction in your transaction list? If so, do a right click in the transaction view and select 'Clear orphans' regs Thomas |
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how to mine on this new client ? on the old one i used this parameters in faircoin.conf
gen=0
server=1
rpcuser=myusername
rpcpassword=strongpassword
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=3333
but now doesn't work, is changed something ?
@Jack, thanks for supporting the FairCoin network with some mining tells the wallet explicitly not to mine. But if you put in your FairCoin.conf file the wallet will start mining, provided you have it unlocked first. regs Thomas |
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Hi all, 2 updates: Binaries for RaspberryPI are available for download now: http://fair-coin.org/#walletWe already refunded 4000FAIR to two people. regs Thomas |
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Where do you get the new wallet from it doesn't seem very clear.
It will be available in about 1-2 hours at http://fair-coin.org/#walletThe version will be v1.5.0 |
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Impressed with all the good work!!!
So .. best thing to do will be to mint or move coins today right?
Yes, but only if you haven't moved or minted coins from the initial distribution (1000FAC each) yet. regs Thomas |
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Hi all, we have some really brave FairCoin network supporters that dedicate resources to FairCoin and help to keep the chain running by mining grøstl blocks. The block reward is only 0.001FAIR. For that reason I would like to thank them here and pay a reward to the top 10 FairCoin supporting miners. The following list contains the mining address and the number of blocks the address has found (until block 93539): - fZ4RyVNuiTusAKvjcNsxeh2GDg7bXJuGs5 31845
- fFgqkc88G5ctEKjgxov9DN1o1mGyWoo3hC 3743
- fYNhAasvvstvNd7YWTDvLmJZb56XecJvAd 2521
- fZsTaxPnXv3it57AbuL1GuiEuzVWWru9CP 1871
- fMXbiyhHv77jCXv9jjY7nAug6mPP2rRkQc 1251
- fS31EJKELTbnQDTfF8rTAUHWLDxcQMPqVZ 1228
- fMo1SikGGi12mp51PjW7h2f5JcQmRR9WSG 1198
- faTex29U1nwixTFpG5x9q3Pof3p9n9K2RR 1074
- fLaDfm6hr7bF6s37Y3Fw2U7XjXezEwfEgk 1049
- fWbvPKK966mBd7ovkRDikdZvRwrRX1eVZn 884
Please send me a PM with a message signed with your address and a FairCoin address you would like to receive the reward on. regs Thomas |
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do we need to move our coins in wallet to an exchange before the application of new algo?
No, there is no need to move your coins to an exchange. As long as you have a recent backup of your wallet.dat file, everything will be alright! Also, I'm working to extend the wallet to detect an old FairCoin data directory and automatically creates a new directory for the user and renames the old one, which means that there is actually no risk of loosing anything. regs Thomas |
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could you decrease the time until coins are mature for pos generation? the 21 days or what it is now is extremely long...
Why do you think it's too long? What would be better if it was 1 or 2 days? PeerCoin has 30 days... |
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How can I make sure to not lose my FairCoin's?
Do I have to mint or move the coins?
I have some from the early distribution and although I keept my Wallet up to date I never let it open long enough to mint.
Also I never moved them anywhere else because there was no need to. I am not into quick money.
I followed that coin from the beginning and I find that FairCoop project interesting.
Reading the latest post I have to say I saw that problem coming. Although I welcome that you choose that coin for your project because I have some for the projects perspective I couldn't really understand the motivation to take an already distributed coin instead creating a new one.
This 2 mil "dead" money as you see them are probabily hold to a big part from ppl like me. Some might have completly forgotten about their coin. They might come forward at a later time and create a "mess"
You would not loose them, even if you just did nothing. But to keep things simple, leave your wallet open to let it mint or better move those coins to a new address in your wallet. But, you don't need to create a completely new wallet. Just use the one you have, create a new address and move your coins there. regs Thomas |
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I would like to have your opinion about switching to SHA256 and how that would make FairCoin more compatible with BitCoin.
I have no problem on this as long as the system is still an hybrid pos-pow. Hi there, Well, there's not much need to ask for an option about this optimization that increases performance significantly and make further development much easier. But to clarify: What does it mean at all: It means that the next release will still be POW/POS with all the same parameters. And it is still only grøstl minalble! No change there. It's only about the internal storage algorithm. Scrypt was never meant to be a fast hash algorithm for block hash storage on disk. We are going to use a reasonable hash algorithm that fits the purpose! I'm also thinking about even using SHA-3 (Keccak) which is the successor of the SHA-2 family. It's important for the future of FairCoin that it really works on mobile devices, which is not the case at the moment. To give you a feeling about how poor scrypt performes for block hash storage: if you start the wallet on a RaspberryPI it'll take about 20 min. only to start up, ok. On the same device, same block chain but with only block hashes calculated with SHA256, it take about 30 seconds... any questions? To close, thanks to all the people that commented about the proposed recovery procedure. We will take all your opinions into account and put it into the big picture we have: Fair.Coop (the earth cooperative for a fair economy). We are not going to nuzzle yet an other useless altcoin for speculators, we are trying hard to form a monetary base system that fits the Fair.Coop needs. regs Thomas |
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Can we leave our coins on an exchange and let them take care of the swap?
I have coins from the initial distribution that I never moved from the original address they were sent to. Can I just send them to an exchange and leave the swap to them?
I feel the coin swap is not fair to holders who do not hear about it in time. I could have dumped during the big pump but chose to hold instead. Others like me could find they have had all their coins taken from them because they decided to hold and did not keep up on the latest developments.
Firstly. If you have minted your coins, in anytime, you dont have any problem because you wallet has been active. The recuperation of coins only is going to affect, wallets that has not been open from march 2014. So it not affect holders, but only people that abandoned faircoin from the very beginning. Anyway obviously if you move the coins also serves to mantain the control of the coins, but as i commented you dont need to do nothing if you have minted any time. Secondly. We are yet in testing phase, there are not a date confirmed for the hard fork. Third. As the statement explains, yet if someone recover acces to his wallet and shows ownership after the hardfork will be able to mantain their coins. Therefore, With this process all the faircoin community will be beficiated,  The first wallet gave a virus warning when scanned through virustotal.com Because of this I only ran the wallet on a virtual machine to collect my coins and never used it again. Others may never have staked for this reason. It's a lot of hassle to import the key from my virtual machine to a newer version of the wallet on a real computer, so I never got round to it. Will there be a time limit after which even proving ownership of a key is not enough to maintain ownership? The wallet.dat file is compatible as described here: http://fair-coin.org/faircoin-beta.html You should read it. So, there is no need to import private keys and therefor no hassle! If there will be a time limit at all to reclaim coins, it would be very far in the future, so nothing to worry about. regs Thomas |
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like this ?   Not bad, but it reminds me too much of Darkcoin or Blackcoin, doen't it? FairCoin is more light, see: http://fair-coin.org/ |
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