All links link to the new version except the mac release which will be compiled soon! Your error is quite weird, there's one last thing you can try : Delete the whole content of appdata/roaming/silkcoin folder and relaunch. (Keep your wallet.dat if you have one!)
Tell me if it works, if not send me your Debug.log file by MP I'll continue to assist you.

Thanks for the mistakes we'll correct that asap no real work has been done on this menu yet. Yea I forgot to talk about the tutorial menu because this is sort of a mockup, it will be way more complete and sexy in the next update.

As for staking yea I believe if you send a whole amount to yourself it will make a cleaner stake. But be careful not sending from this whole sum with coin control. Also it will reset your coin-age when you do this transaction to yourself.

edit : since POS block generation include luck it's maybe better to have multiple stake with different coin age, i'm not quite sure about all that I'll ask the devs tomorrow

Hey,

As announced the update is ready to be released and I'll sum up the current situation of silkcoin a bit like I did last time.

Just to put a timeline so new comers know where we are, we're now block 30 000 and it's been 20 days since launch in about 12 days we'll pass in the last POW phase. We're now at the 3rd update each time bringing a lot of new features.

About the eco-system
We've been quite busy recruiting new devs to work on the eco-system. We got many applications but not a lot of serious ones, 2 more very active devs are now on the team working exclusively toward the development of this decentralized world.
As for progress we're pretty sure we'll be able to release the social network and exchange about a month or two after last phase has ended.
We're currently doing stress tests because we were a bit concerned about scaling, but the results are more than positive. With more than 10 million account name registered the size of the database will still be quite light (way liter than the bitcoin one). Also our system shares data via p2p over nodes , lot's of data are stored equaly so you will never have to stock too much data.
Before the first beta, we'll get out a white paper on the system, it's just not the priority at the moment. We'll talk more about this next week, releasing new screenshots to the public.

About anon features, we've explained ourself many times before : we're waiting for this race to end and we'll integrate the best option. In the meantime we prefer spending our time improving your experience, building the eco-system and new features. We don't want to put Silkcoin at risk integrating a non tested feature just for the pump, when it's ready have no doubt it will be integrated in no time. On the other side, expect a Tor integration quite soon in the upcoming updates.


Marketing is slowly starting and we already saw a great spike in Silkcoin price and adopters, imagine where we'll be standing in a few weeks. Giveaways are going on pretty much everywhere if you're looking for some head on twitter or facebook.

First of all the upcoming marketing news, we're releasing our dedicated forum at www.Mysilkcoin.com this will become a big Silkcoin center. And news about a BIG contest will be coming soon this week and a lot of other updates. So stayed tuned a lot of news are coming in the next few days.


Now about the update.
The main new feature is the ability to always know how much you have, spend, use, stake. When you spend crypto-currencies you never know how much you spend because you have to check the price of bitcoin to USD and then check the price of Bitcoin to Silkcoin and then maybe if all those price stayed stable you may have a chance to send expected sum.
Never again with Silkcoin :We integrated a new button, when pressed it will convert your wallet to $ or bitcoins, also when you send coins the price is updated live in a label in bitcoins and USD. This is a major feature to ease the use of Silkcoin as a currency.


Now let's see the other new feature : the next step in the market tab was of course to put graphics in there. Also put the last orders history, so here's a screenshot of the new tab in market data. Poloniex is coming soon but we had problems with their ssl certificate so they're in hold, Mintpal is ready for when we get integrated. We'll add a "Total" tab when we'll have a few more exchanges.

You'll notice a few other changes as an example statistic page has changed a bit, they are minor so I won't expose all of them as we don't brag about small unoticable changes like a lot of other coins. And fixed a few core issues, ie the way the market data is pulled.

Haha, made me laugh, I love your new wallet design.

Ps : congratz you made me post my first post outside my topic hehe

Thanks and if your blog is not brand new you'll receive 1000 SC  bounty

Thanks and we do not expect price explosion before the last phase has ended so price moving up now is really a good sign!

As for the devs, wait and see the next releases I believe in about 2-3 updates the wallet will be a war-machine! And when the eco-system gets released with at first social features and exchange it's just going to be epic.

And then when the fog around new anon features gets dissipated and we integrate the best option -because yes as you may think, our devs have a lot of work power and will be able to clone the best option in no time- just imagine where we will stand : with a wallet so advanced you'll never want to download another one, tied to an eco-system where you interact with the Silkcoin world all with anon feature .. Someone spoke about the moon  ?

We spoke a lot in this thread (more than 100 messsages), now we recruited a marketing team exactly for that, so that we have more time to dev and bring you regular updates and great features. This week has been pretty busy recruiting new devs for the eco-sytem because we got a lot of applications and we need to do extensive background checks each time, we've also been working on the new version of the wallet, and made significant progress on the eco-system.

As you see everything is getting in place for that last phase which comes in 20 000 blocks ~13.8 days, marketing is getting more aggressive everyday, the thread is even more positive than ever (never saw that much positive vibe in a ANN!), and we'll be releasing a new update on wednesday is everything goes well with a few new features improving again your experience using Silkcoin as a currency .

Silkcoin to the moon  !
Thanks to all for your support.

Coins do earn coin age even when wallet is not open but to hit a stake block you need to have your wallet open.

In settings->options you can set Reservebalance (it's the amount you don't want to stack)
In settings->options->display you can tick coin control, so you can control what coin you send (don't send old coins)
In settings you can unlock wallet for stacking only if you encrypted it.

If you have coins older than 12 hours, then you'll start to stack and you can see current staking status hovering the lightning icon. But beware this is the "expected" time, it can be shorter or longer, as in POW blocks. After those 12 hours, the more coin-age you get the more chances you have of hitting a stake block, you gain coin-age even when wallet is closed.

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As for news, today we are currently recruiting more devs to work on the eco-system because we got quite a few messages from different developpers since we unveiled it. And we are preparing the next release which is scheduled for wednesday (maybe before) powering up again the already powerful silkcoin wallet . We are also going to launch a few other things on the marketing side along with the new release early next week..

Thanks Judge Crypto, it's really great to see you support Silkcoin I know you weren't fully convinced about 10 pages earlier . About the price, same here we really can't know if the price will fall lower than now during POW phase. It's 5 days but there will be lot's of buy support, many people are like Mr Joker waiting for the POW dump to buy.

We got so much great feedbacks since we unveiled the eco-system, the devs are working even harder to try to release the social, exchange and download features as soon as possible after last POW phase has ended. And by the way we don't know who donated 1 btc but since it was shortly after this message I'm pretty sure it's related  .


Great! I'll send you a PM very soon, we already have a lot of dev work so any help is greatly appreciated.

At the moment it's the best time to buy, you will find the reason for this POS phase here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=599438.1720 and in the 2 pages before that post . Price is low because POW isn't over.

As for the interest won, when we reach last phase it will be full POS so price will rise.
Interest is 2% per year but keep in mind you're can get credited about every 12 hours so imagine the compound interest, the final result is that you'll win way more than 2% in the end. That's why 2% is not that low, putting a percentage too high would badly hurt the silkcoin economy. But it's true it would've been wiser to put a higher percentage JUST for this phase, too late for that .

Hey to all,

Hahaha I loved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qshbUi-xwx4 really, can't stop laughing  .

Quantum, your thread is a very good innitiative ! We miss a lot of exposure out of this topic, so we need more and more threads like that.

As for the multipool, I guess yes a dedicated multipool would indeed benefit to Silkcoin. Haven't I told before the Silkcoin team always want to please the community?
So its a YES we'll have a dedicated multipool ready before the last phase ! We'll start working on it asap.

And please don't forget to vote on mintpal n°79 at the moment

Yes, still haven't got any sleep hehe, I'm currently on my iPhone waiting for an appointement so I cannot test the windows compiled version quite yet but since flubber compiled it I m sure it's fully working so I'll post the link so you guys may enjoy the new features ASAP. If there is any problem I ll be back home in an hour to fix any issues. 


Windows compiled : http://www.mediafire.com/download/lo8aiy2bkd1cwqb/silkcoin-qt-1.0.7.zip


Oh and did you guys see that 1btc on mintpal? He's showing the way!

If it's the first time you open the wallet, relaunch it will work fine.

If not, your blockchain got somehow corrupted.
Delete the content of appdata/roaming/silkcoin but keep your wallet.dat and relaunch!

Hah, thanks for all the great feedbacks.
And don't worry, 20 days left to get integrated into MintPal .





The thread graphics has been updated, I'll take some time when I wake up to edit the infos at the same time as the compiled windows.
Really need to sleep a few hours now, it's 10 am here!

I'll be back soon .

PS : by the way it has been stated many times we have a view/answer ratio off the charts, so I think we have more visibility than you think . It's just there's only positive on this thread and positive usually makes less posts than angry people yelling at each other and threads full of bug issues. Lot's of people waiting for block 50k also.

We're not calling ourself 2nd generation, we're Silkcoin.

And we're closer to blackcoin than to nxt. Even so, it's not that important .

Wow judgecrypto, you haven't slept either  ? Seen you talking here since yesterday.

Hello to all,

As promised here is the new version of the wallet, infos about the eco-system and a bit more infos about the whole plan.


The second POW phase
First of all, about the second POW phase. You can find more than enough arguments here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=599438.1680. Silkcoin will stick to the plan, keeping the last POW phase. For those who criticize the lack of marketing and presence (btw we've been here 11 days and I have almost 100 posts on this topic alone), Silkcoin team is made of 5 devs including myself, a whole lot of BTC and the premine.
At first I was in charge of ALL the public view and a bit of dev this was quite a challenge, thanks to the community I now have a lot of help and we're all getting organized very fast, the team and supporters are building up. We started with no community, so this sort of "sleeping" phase we're in is perfect to let us unveil the enormous potential of Silkcoin; Building a solid community and making a perfect marketers team.
More solid arguments can be found in Wulfcastle posts in the Bitcointalk page I linked.


The plan
Now about the plan. Marketing you'll see more than enough till we reach block 50k POW phase, there's going to be a lot of movement everywhere.
About development, most of the devs are focused on the eco-system but once in a while throw in a few new functions for the wallet so expect continuous updates every week always improving your experience and of course we'll remove functions or infos once they become obsolete.
The main point about these "small" devs is that we want to be always improving the user experience and keeping them interested in Silkcoin. What better way to keep a community interested than releasing regular updates with continuous improvement. These updates also aim to make the wallet easier to use for new-comers regrouping all infos necessary to the proper use of a crypto-currency without typing a single command, or google search.
We're quite satisfied of the current distribution model, so instead of focusing on integrating X11, reducing supply or such, doing hard-forks and putting the blockchain at risk, we'll now focus on other aspects than mining like new uses for the blockchain, improved user experience, marketing etc..
About Anon features, we wanted to integrate zerocoin at first but the masterkey issue is just too big. But now with the upcoming release of darksend and all other devs on anon features we decided to wait to see how all this goes and integrate the fittest option. But be certain we'll integrate it in time, for the above reasons it's not the priority.
Tor integration will be released very soon, you can actually already connect through tor but we'll put a one click button because as always we want our wallet to as user friendly as possible.


New version released
Today we're also releasing a new version of the wallet, as always linux is available first you'll have to wait a bit more for windows and mac.
We improved the market data fixing glitches and adding the orderbook. Trading will be available soon but we would really like to be integrated at MintPal before we release it.


We also added a new "Social" tab with links to the main silkcoin hubs and a built-in IRC chat. Yes we got a lot of demands for a chat like billioncoin, but we could not just do a frame of a website with a chat in it like them, it would've been cheap . So now you can enjoy the built-in chat, connect/disconnect at will, send private messages and even join other channels! Only downside at the moment is that the userlist may get a bit buggy sometimes if there's too much users, just switch tabs to fix it.  As always, expect this to be fixed in next release .



Silkcoin eco-system
Now let's talk about this eco-system. We didn't want to unveil it this soon but since we talked a bit about I will tell you a few things. First of all it's in very early stages, so don't get too excited it won't be out before at least 2-3 months.
The whole system works with torrents and the blockchain, Satoshi's greatest invention wasn't the bitcoin currency it was the blockchain. He invented the first way to really decentralize anything, on a freedom point of view there's so much more to be done than a currency.

So here's how it works, once you're connected through your wallet, you will be able to access a local website on your computer at 127.0.0.1:1666, this hub will regoup a lot of different functions all decentralized and based on the blockchain.
And yes this means no censoring and freedom of speech. We're pretty sure we can succeed in time to make all the planned functionalities, but they will be added progressively. I'll detail later what the first integrations will be.
This hub works a bit like a social network, with profiles, friends, post boards etc.. You'll generate a unique user that will be tied to your secret key, if you lose the secret key there's no way to retrieve your account. To interact with someone (make an exchange, send a message etc..) you'll have to be friends with each other, this is a limitation we can do nothing about.
At the moment we think we'll launch social network features and file sharing first since they are already working pretty great on full POS. Exchanger will follow, we're still having a few unresolved issues. And we thought of a marketplace but we're still discussing the implications and we don't think it will be feasible because of a lot of obvious concerns. These are the main primary objectives at the moment, but of course there's plenty of possibilities and ideas who knows how all this will evolve.


Here's a screen of the network status when you open the wallet & connect to the website. You can't do anything until the blockchain is up to date and data downloaded. Then of the profile, most functions you see are already working pretty well. We'll show you a screenshot of the exchanger once it's a bit more advanced, at the moment it's not looking like anything .


Of course we welcome any dev who wants to help us, just contact us with your skills we need all the help we can get. And no, if you copy-pasted a coin you're not a dev .
We'll answer all questions in time, I know there must be a lot of questions arising but look at the size of this post hehe and at first we didn't want to talk about it so soon again, it's still in very early stages but the system we use seems to be working great.

As you can see, if this eco-system comes out it's going to be huge. It's a decentralized censorfree world, you'll be staking, securing the network and winning money while browsing the eco-system. And Silkcoin will be the main currency here, we'd actually be the first to really solve the issue of most cryptos "what to do with my coins other than speculate" and manage to keep a lot of users with the wallet open to secure even more the network.


Conclusion
The conclusion is that all is tied together, the only thing we missed was a good marketing team and a community at launch, and just look 10 days after how everything is building itself. Some of you made some pretty good arguments against the second POW phase, but reading all that I think it's pretty obvious it wasn't such a bad choice at first. When the last phase will happen followed by the release of the eco-system, we'll have maximum visibility, a solid team (which we didn't have at first) and you, the community.

Can't wait to see how last phase is going to be..

And once again thanks to all of you for all your positive/constructive feedbacks.

Ps : Yes I'll upgrade main thread asap at the same time I update the windows compiled. But right now I need a little bit of sleep, it's 8 am here and worked all night. I'll be back in a few hours, and don't worry still 30k blocks to go
Ps2 : Please avoid quoting this it's way too long!

We're currently very busy with the last update, that's why you haven't heard a lot from the devs the last 2 days but if you look a bit up in the topic you'll see we try to be available as often as possible and answer to everyone even if the same questions are asked many times.

As for the selling of the premine, as stated many times before we'll never the premine, I don't even know where to start to tell you how bad this idea is. Once it's time, yes of course we'll boost MintPal votes with our personnal BTC.

Also keep in mind we started this with only a very good team of devs, and the middle phase we're in let us take our time to settle, build a community, recruit marketers and raise awarness.

If you haven't seen yet, you'll see in the next few days, but silkcoin's marketing is getting better and bigger as I speak. As stated before we got a LOT of news for you, just be patient we're only at block 18500 , 30k to go!

Oh and wallet update may be a bit delayed, we ran in a few glitches and are currently solving everything .

1. We really want to avoid a hard-fork, and this second phase WILL bring more popularity to Silkcoin and act as a second launch, this also one of the main aspect of Silkcoin : reach more people with 2 "launches", great volume and diff during the POW phase showing the interest over SC and bringing more people IN. We're still thinking about what should be done... But it's pretty obvious most of the early adopters won't want the second phase, so it's hard to get an objective vision here.

2. Yes we're always working on these features while doing small upgrades of the wallet, most of the decentralized silkcoin world will come in about 2-3 months, in the meantime we'll integrate a centralized built-in exchanger and some other neat features.

We'll release a screenshot of the beginnings of the eco-system at the same time as we release the next version, so normally very soon (less than 24 hours).  But keep in mind this is still in early stages, more infos coming soon...

3. Yes the anon feature WILL come in time that's for sure. For now it's on hold since we're waiting to see how darksend goes, it would not be very wise to integrate it untested if it's going to be tested over the next few weeks  .

4. Multipool, once we're in the last phase it's true even if other multipools will support us, having a dedicated pool is nice so i'm pretty sure this will happen.

Ps : the eco-system is not only the exchanger it's a whole world based on the blockchain system , you access it through your browser while your wallet is open and it's all based on bitcoin and torent.

Hey everyone,

Last news from the devs :

We'll be be releasing the next version of silkcoin tomorrow, we fixed a few glitches, improved market tab in view of the built-in exchanger and integrated a new tab with a new function the public asked us about... But I tell no more, you'll see that tommorow!

We will also show you the first screenshot of the beginning of the "eco-system" we talked about even if this is not released until few months it's starting to take life.

We are trying to build a lot of features based on the blockchain, and will be releasing this whole "eco-system" some time after last POW phase it will be perfect for full POS. As for zerocoin, since there's the masterkey flaw we're maybe thinking about darksend integration, so it's on hold at the moment but anyway a anonym send feature will come in time for sure.


And yes we'll throw a bit of BTC in the voting, but not from the premine we do not sell the premine, never ! It's only for marketing, bounty & promo.