If this thread really represents the "community", it's almost a blessing they are not representing the coin on their own. It's like a bunch of teenagers in here.

This coin (and it's community) need a makeover in professionalism. Who would take anything seriously that comes out of this thread which is the main hub of information regarding UTC.

The price truly does represent this coin and until things change 0.0006 will remain the ceiling.  

I do not understand why anytime someone complains it is met with the same response "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP THE COIN?"

That's so easy to say, but so unrealistic. Do you expect people to be cheerful when a coin they have invested months of time mining into is literally evaporating in front of their eyes? Everyone can sugar coat this as much as they want, if UTC doesn't start making some REAL changes to get people to use and invest in it, it will drop to nothing, it is already on that path.

Also, not everyone signed on to be a core member of the UTC team. Some people want to mine, some people want to trade, some want to hold, some want to spectate and speculate. It is kind of silly and immature to tell Joe Average that they are not doing enough because they are complaining about a coin they care about and have been investing time and effort into is dying.

Everyone has a role, and to pass the blame onto the community for lack of real world production by the core team is insulting at the very least. People who did not get a piece of the pre-mine and obtained their coins through investing their own time and money, in most cases at a huge loss.

We all do what we can, but to not allow people to express their disappointment and dissatisfaction is flying in the face of the "core values" that the UTC team continues to preach about. People should have the right and freedom to sing the praises of UTC when it is doing well and criticize and complain about it when it is performing  poorly.

We all do our part and play our roles, I think some of this community needs to grow a little and understand what those roles are and who should be playing them.

I mined some coins, bought some coins and have been trying to get an additional block explorer off the ground in my spare time (which is very limited right now), asking me to champion this coin and go around and do marketing beyond what I would do in the normal course of conversation or communication is ludicrous.

If there were exciting news to spread about the coin the community would spread it, frankly, I am not sure that the things in place are enough for people to really care about.

I will say dcgirl's coin arb thing is impressive, very.  It would be nice if it forced all the arbitrations though UTC (since UTC is so fast) one could get money between exchanges at a faster rate than most other coins. It would be a nice way to emphasize that fact to the rest of the world and show them a real world use for UTC.

I am still working on my block explorer. Made some headway recently, but still probably 2+ weeks out before I can get version 1 live. Just short on free time right now. Sorry for the delay guys.

DarthMuffin,

I have tried a few different p2pool servers all with similar results. It seems I am almost always one of, it not the, highest DOA of the group.


Here are the meaningful settings from one of my rigs:

"intensity" : "19",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "850,1000,1000,900",
"gpu-fan" : "40-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500,1500,1500",

Anyone have any tips on how I can lower my DOA rate on the p2pool? It's at about 15-20% consistently. I lowered my intensity from 19 to 15 and my hash rates drops significantly (like 20%) but my DOA % only drops slightly (down to about 12-18% from 15-20).

I am running 4 of the R9 290X cards with 8GB of RAM per rig. Consistent DOA over all rigs. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Not at all abandoned. I just have limited time to work on it right now. It will come to life in the near future. I know we need it badly, but my time is divided right now. http://utcchain.info/  donations help me allocate more time to this, but are certainly not required by anyone.

Anyone with a sell less than 0.003 right now needs to have their head examined. Unless you are trying to capitalize (gamble) on short rise and falls you will lose the majority of your coin value selling at the current price.

Yes, I am currently developing http://utcchain.info/  I encourage anyone who can to donate so I can dedicate more time to this, I know the community desperately needs it, but my time is divided as it is.

Regards,
Bret

I think 16 coins an hour is a bit optimistic. With that setup you would be lucky to get 10 with the current avg difficulty.

Nitro1 is averaging about 10 orphan blocks an hour right now. That may have something to do with it.

Awesome, thank you!

I would like to get some feedback from the community on features they would like to see in version 1 of the block explorer. Any and all feedback is welcome.

Thanks to everyone that has donated to http://utcchain.info/ so far. This community is great! I'll be updating the site and this thread with progress as it goes (unless it is more beneficial to make a new thread? or keep it strictly to the site?).

It takes some reading, asking around and general experimentation to get your rigs setup just right. That is part of the fun of mining. The pool problem is being addressed, solutions will be in place, but it's going to take a little bit of time.

So what you want is plug and play mining? That's ASIC mining, go buy an ASIC and join the arms race, plenty of coins, including scrypt are going in that direction. Why does UTC need to follow that pattern to succeed? Some difficulty in setup, some in-depth knowledge of how the mining software works, a little elbow grease are contributing to the barrier of entry into mining this coin. If you break down all the barriers any joe with a large amount of money can setup a massive mining operation and make your GPU rigs useless. That is what ASIC mining does, it allows joe business man to be profitable with little to no barrier to entry (aside from the cash of course).

Being ASIC resistant means more than the literal. It means leaving the mining up to dedicated miners who want to make UTC mining their passion and hobby and not just their livelihood. It means keeping big business out of mining, keeping mining difficult to inhibit large plug and play mining operations. If someone wants to make a large UTC mining operation they are going to have to get their hands dirty and be an experienced miner.

I thought that is one of the principals of this coin, keeping the mining operation from becoming an arms race and centralized by the few elite.

Great, thank you very much. Every little bit helps and it adds support for the idea when people donate.

@Thirtybird great advice, thank you. If anything I can look to that for ideas when I become stuck. I also enjoy reinventing the wheel (sometimes), but time is a factor as you pointed out.

@dcgirl like I said, I believe in the coin and I feel like a new block explorer is something the community is asking for and needs.

Yes sir it is a wallet address (just generated). I've been involved with UTC since late Jan / early Feb and really believe in the coin. I feel like now is a good time to become an active member of the community (it's crucial times for UTC right now).

As far as the fees, yes, higher would probably be better if we really want to get serious about forcing people to switch off Nitro and distribute the hashing power.

@bumface @Stuhlman, it is going to take time for miners to start distributing the hash power. Most of us have our mining software setup to failover to other pools so when Nitro goes down we mine on a backup pool, then right back to Nitro when it comes back up without having to lift a finger.

If you want people to switch pools permanently you are going to have to do something drastic. Why doesn't Nitro up it's fees to like 12% or something insane and donate the extra 9% to the UTC development team? It has to be something where people find it unappealing to mine on Nitro for them to switch. Rolling "brown outs" doesn't really effect anyone, like I said, because their failover take over and they do not even notice it happened.

Also you are in a catch-22 situation here with UTC value so low miners do not want to lose any unnecessary hashing power (coins) so as long as Nitro is orphaning other pools people will continue to flock to it. I think my solution works well because it benefits the community as a whole (forced donations to the development community via Nitro's insane fees) and forces people to switch off of Nitro. Once the hashing power is distributed Nitro can restore it's normal fees.

@bumface please PM me when you read this, I have access to the domain utcchain.info and would like to code a new block explorer. I have 20 years programming experience and consider myself an elite coder.

If anyone wants to provide me with additional motivation to get utcchain.info off the ground, please donate: UkbuPc3fbCGWxGDyQYaVMZ65Zi6AAS8hgv

I tried to run the dump and I get this

./pywallet.py --dumpwallet --wallet recovered_wallet_1384920812.dat
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again.

Hello,

I am unable to post or reply in an area likely to be seen by jackjack but I am having some trouble with a recovered wallet and partially recovered wallet from a crashed HDD.

My recovered wallet is showing a balance of 0.00BTC and my partially recovered wallet appears to be useless.  I am really unclear on how I use either of these files.

I copied the recovered_wallet.dat to my Bitcoin folder and renamed it wallet.dat, did a BitcoinQT --rescan and it shows no balance.

I am unable to get the partially recovered wallet to do much of anything.

Also in my recovered wallet folder I have the following files

drwxr-xr-x   272B Nov 20 05:53 .bitcoin
-rw-r--r--   2.1K Oct 31 02:18 README
-rw-r-----   10M Nov 19 20:13 log.0000000001
-rwxr--r--   337K Oct 31 02:18 pywallet.py
-rw-r--r--   4.7K Nov 19 20:13 pywallet_partial_recovery_1384920810.dat
-rw-r-----   16K Nov 19 20:13 recovered_wallet_1384920812.dat

contents of .bitcoin
-rw-r-----  24K Nov 20 05:53 __db.001
-rw-r-----  200K Nov 20 05:53 __db.002
-rw-r-----  264K Nov 20 05:53 __db.003
-rw-r-----  96K Nov 20 05:53 __db.004
-rw-r-----  736K Nov 20 05:53 __db.005
-rw-r-----  56K Nov 20 05:53 __db.006


What do I do with the files __db files in .bitcoin? Can I dump or some how salvage the files in partially recovered wallet? If not, what is the purpose of this file? How do I dump the keys from my recovered_wallet_1384920812.dat and is there any way to determine the approximate age of the keys in that file?  Should I be able to locate some of my send/recv addresses in either of those files?

Thanks!

Can someone please point jackjack to this thread, I would greatly appreciate it.