Which version of the bitcoin code have you forked? The new codes and the whole bitcoin network is very much complex and it would be better for you to fork a older 2010 or 2011 code to learn about them completely. Did you change any of the code in miner.cpp? AFAIK, miner.cpp might be responsible for including transactions to the block. So, if you have changed the code and build them wrongly such issue may exist. There are varying problems for a transaction not to be included in a mempool first. They can be

• If you have changed the total coin circulation, the transaction which you have sent should have lesser coins than the total coins present.
• The size of a transaction which you are going to include in a block should be less than MAX_BLOCK_SIZE.
• I guess the nLockTime also plays a role in inclusion of transactions in a mempool. The Lock Time should be less than the maximum values int can have.
• Segwit soft-forks can also pose a problem in the inclusion. I am not really used to the newer codes and would stick to very old codes from 2011-2012 era for easy understanding of the network.

Check debug.log and see to it weather there is anything present which might give you a positive result. Filter the debug categories to mempool and see to it if you can find anything. The OP is pretty much empty to answer anything favourable, kindly try to provide information on what you have changed in the code?

Some other questions to be answered by you :
Do you mine empty blocks? Do you receive block rewards by mining empty blocks? The new version doesn't have -setgenerate since the mining difficulty has risen too high in the original implementation. So how do you mine? -generate command was available only in regtest and in the upcoming 0.19 release they will be removed completely.


P.S Correct me if I am wrong!

EDIT :

That's quite a good suggestion actually and the recent changes of total gambling posts to 7 would make sense and would prevent much more spam. If you see through my post history, the signature I wear makes a round to almost all the important boards in this forum ranging from Technical Discussion to Gambling, Collectibles, Local Boards, Meta, Reputation, Beginners & Help and rarely Service Discussions etc  So the diversification I show in my post would be good only when I make one or utmost 2 posts in Gambling per day.

Sticking to spam boards or limiting ourselves to Gambling boards is of no use in wearing a signature. Gamblers may be anywhere roaming around the forum and they don't need just to be in Gambling boards. Recently I came across a gambler in other board (apart from Gambling) and by going through their post history it seems like they have never posted in Gambling board till now.

I guess the epochtalk was in development since 2013 and as far as we know the main development phase is complete.

Not true. The test forum is live here : Coinbistro You can register in the forum and can find defects.

The issues found by you can be posted here : https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk

Why not? Go ahead and test the forum. Here is the announcement by Cryptios for testing the test forum : Coinbistro.com - Epochtalk testing grounds

Bitcointalk username: Heisenberg_Hunter
Bitcointalk profile URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1564795
Amount of earned merit in the last 120 days: ~167-170 (if my counting is right)
BTC Address: bc1q4laa56gkch9nptvs2v84ewxpapnw6c83pd9amu

I will take 2 - Heisenberg

WE ARE FULL and LETS ROLL 

I frequently visit the bitcoin core github, but I have never seen any Indian contributing to core or neither testing the core.

But recently I found that, there are developers of Indian descent (not sure if they live in India) who has recently worked with sipa in the Miniscript project. For enthusiast who are not aware of what Miniscript does to the bitcoin network, they are a language used for implementing smart contracts in bitcoin. So with the language, we can change the way we spend our bitcoin such that like we can change the time at which we spend (in simple understanding terms) etc. You can find more information on Miniscipt in official reference website.

The script has been jointly designed by sipa, Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Kanjalkar. Sanket is available in IndiaBits TG group and I have personally spoken with him (friendly and very helpful in clearing my doubts regarding testing the code). You can verify this message from sanket in IndiaBits TG group. Apart from this, I also encountered btcdrak in IndiaBits, though I have never spoken with him nor he is an Indian, but his prescense is in IndiaBits. See this message from btcdrak in IndiaBits TG group.

Right now I guess, Gabru acts both as admin and moderator of the forum. When the forum increases with registration (which might happen when btc finds the limelight in India) there would be additional appointment of moderators I guess. Apart from that, they also have badges similar to Bitcointalk where the user would be able to earn them only after certain activities. Another problem with bitcointalk is the incentive to posting. This was the sole reason for the increasing amount of spams, but that wouldn't happen with IndiaBits or if it happens on bad cases, mods would take care of it.

A unique topic on signatures I have read so far in the whole board from 1.5 year of stay. I have been constantly participating in signatures till last year, but recently even during the pump periods I don't find them really interesting as it was last year. Even if they pay me anywhere around $50-$100 I feel like I am being forced to post certain minimum amount of posts to fit the criteria. This was the sole reason, I have distanced myself from bitcoin campaigns till December 2018.

But after the insane line-up of scam coins in the market, I felt like I should never promote any altcoin through my signature. Majority of the altcoin campaigns have a 10 post limit which is really good for somewhat better poster like me. As I have said in many topics before, I don't post like others do (posting in a row, saying the same shit which is present already) and would most probably limit myself within 10 posts from the OP. I may have been more active than the active posters here who joined during my time, but the limit of posting I have set upon has prevented me from gaining any higher posts.

For instance majority of the quality posters who joined during end of 2017 or at the start of 2018 has posted more than 1000+ posts within a year, but I am still lagging at 700. I spend around 5+ hours here daily at varying time frames but would post a maximum of 1-3 posts. To the contrary I have been kicked from many campaigns for not maintaining the post count nor posting in the desired boards. If I were to be like as I was during Jan 2018, I would have spammed 25 one-liners for $1 per week. But the change this forum has brought in me, has made me get rid of money even how high they may be.

There had been many instances when I was at 23 posts with 3 posts in gambling at the last date of the payment week. So to receive the $50 payment the next day I should post 2 more in gambling to finish up the quota, but I didn't do that and informed the manager to kick me out of the campaign since I was not able to finish up the minimum criteria. If we are to post in this forum solely for receiving money, then we can not qualify ourselves as a respected poster even how good your posts are.

P.S :  That being said, thanks for using the signature which I designed. Think it like satoshi is paying you for promoting bitcoin.

Spots have been updated just because I am in a very good mood right now  

Spots updated till Buchi-88


@iasenko, I guess the spot 38 is filled before you posted, so 97 is for you man. 14 more spots to be filled until we roll  

@iasenko FYI

Great choice of posters by DarkStar_ and good to see nc50lc wearing a ChipMixer signature. They were really helpful and contributing a lot to the technical section. Also I was watching them rise up from 50 merits to 500 now.  

As far as we know through the communication mails from satoshi, there is no real reason as to why secp256k1 is used in bitcoin security.

Also we need to note that, secpk1 was never widely used before bitcoin. Apart from pooya87's post on the usage of secp256k1 instead of secp256r1, there seems to be another interesting fact linked to the NIST curves and SECG curves. secp256k1 is a Koblitz and more importantly a pure SECG curve whereas secp256r1 is a NIST curve. NIST and NSA seems to have a good relationship right from 2000's, so satoshi could have figured out the backdoor vulnerability implemented by the NSA in NIST sort of curves. This backdoor was known to be true when Snowden leaked the private documents of NIST! Either way, when Mike Hearn communicated satoshi they said it was purely random and there was no specific reason to use secp256k1.

Another theory could be like, satoshi was coding and creating bitcoin from 2007 but on the other hand satoshi could be well aware of this news published by Wired in 2007. So, satoshi could have thought secp256k1 might be a secure way for random number generation rather than trusting secp256r1 created by NIST.

See this :

That's quite true. I am still not sure how much of them are really aware about IndiaBits forum! After I spoke with Gabru last week, they are totally against any sorts of trade or marketplace like stuff in the forum and they are feeling like it would certainly pave way for scams. This seems to be right from a forum's admin point of view and it totally differs from the way bitcointalk operates. Here scams aren't moderated and users should do their own diligent research before getting involved in anything which demands their money. Though I am not completely favouring the creation of forum nor endorsing the forum, but I believe the forum can we be a good way of connecting with various important personalities in Indian crypto community if they create a account there and discuss things.

I agree with this. Taxation and Legality are the only important problems we are facing currently and there isn't much of them even interested in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies after the outright ban draft being circulated. Common Indian people are quite afraid to deal with bitcoin nowadays and they are no way the same as it was years back. There was an incident which happened last month to me when I started introducing bitcoin to some of my friends. Once they got to know about the legality they started blaming and was talking shit without knowing about the tech behind the coin completely. Not just me, the same incident would happen to every one of us when we start introducing bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to our friends.

The group which handles the IndiaBits telegram group is the one who created the forum. I guess Gabru is the only admin of the forum as of now.


Not sure. I am using TOR for connecting with IndiaBits, so there wouldn't be any problem for me I guess.



There is nothing to be odd about the question since everyone are very much concerned over their own privacy in an online forum. As far as I know there is a major difference between privacy and getting involved in a discussion forum. I had been there from day 3 in IndiaBits, but I never use the forum without connecting through TOR or at least a weak VPN whereas on the other hand I use bitcointalk with my own IP. The forum is based upon in Indian and there are many ways for the government officials to sue the forum if on very bad situations. Even if my account gets caught and the officials try to get my IP, they will be varying every day and every time I close and open my TOR. That would make them certainly not possible to track me down.

But the case of bitcointalk is very different since they are operated from USA. Even if the Indian government issue a subpoena to leak our IP, theymos would neglect their proposal since he is against these sorts of things. Weather or not IndiaBits admin is trustworthy, I would never use the forum without TOR.

P.S : I am no way related or endorsing to use the forum. Just that the forum might  be helpful for us to reach a wider range of Indian crypto enthusiast.

Thanks Krogo for doing this

10 - Heisenberg

May the force be with everyone 

The forum is literally very new and was created only 2 weeks back. When bitcointalk was created by satoshi in 2009 it took around 6 months to make at least 100 members registered to the forum and there were hardly any active users as well. But over the time due to the popularity, we got engaged in the forum and here we are now. But since there isn't any moderator over here in bitcointalk, we can even try for IndiaBits as well to indulge in quality discussions. Every one of us need to take the initiative in building up the forum and discussing things regarding Indian crypto goings both in bitcointalk and in IndiaBits.

Their telegram is literally difficult to follow as there are over 4k people in the group and around 100-200 people talk all of a sudden. I guess the forum would be keeping up the topics tidy and clean and significantly help us to have a better connect. Regarding the instant responses we get in IndiaBits is very true, but the forum as a whole will have a better reach to wider audience I guess. Remember how bitcointalk was when Benson left his position? We, the better posters have spent time to drive the spammers and trolls who have been corroding the Indian board.

We still haven't made our board noisy as like the Russian and Indonesian boards since the majority of old timers have left the forum on whole. But I believe there would be fair chance for bringing them back when IndiaBits forum grow on a large scale. I guess the time and involvement of quality members like us will make IndiaBits like how bitcointalk (India) was in 2014-2017 era.

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About

IndiaBits is one among the most popular and oldest Indian crypto community, which for quite a long time has done various contributions to the Indian crypto community by organizing various meet-ups with some prominent members, spreading the awareness about bitcoin among the Indian population etc. As many of us here in the forum are already well aware about the Indiabits Telegram group, they have finally started a forum for the fair discussions about the crypto goings in India and also for reaching out to wider audience. The forum on the whole is written with Ember.js and Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL serving as its back-end database management system.

For past 4 years, IndiaBits has actively engaged in connecting some of the important and prominent members who play a key role in Indian bitcoin community. The sole aim for the creation of this forum is to reach a larger set of audience and to have a fair non-spam discussion on the problems faced by the Indian crypto community. How often do you get a chance to discuss about the bitcoin code with an Indian developer? I hardly see any of them in Development & Technical Section of bitcointalk, but Indiabits Telegram group has quite a handful of Indian developers who works behind the scenes with Pieter Wuille and other bitcoin core developers. Isn't it great and proud to know when a Indian is working with core developers? IndiaBits forum is a one-stop solution to meet and discuss about the development, trading, mining, collectibles which are happening over in Indian crypto community.

Vision

Many of us from here in bitcointalk have been worrying about the sort of activity and connectivity we all are going through since the start of crypto ban in India. With IndiaBits, we would be able to indulge in various quality discussions as similar to our Indian board which was back during the olden days. It is quite exciting to note that, we would also be able to end the inactivity issues which we are experiencing right now by having quality discussion with old bitcoin adopters from India.

Some of the prominent faces of IndiaBits community - Gabru, Skang, Chainsmith, Vkeyz, Unfamiliartruth, Sohail, Funyug, h4r0015k, Joel

Features

There are quite a lot of features in IndiaBits which are missing in Bitcointalk (India)

• Good Spam free discussion about Indian crypto goings
• Communication with Indian blockchain developers
• A moderator for cleaning up the spams
• Getting in touch with various Indian crypto enthusiasts through meet-ups organized by IndiaBits
• Can have a fair discussion with old-timers.
• No scams and marketplace trading where the majority of newbies are being scammed.

I request the Indian bitcointalk community to join the IndiaBits forum and have a healthy discussion to make the Indian community stay strong.

Let the chain of Blocks connect us through IndiaBits.

As you are building a new altcoin based on litecoin, your topic belongs to Altcoin Discussion. The OP itself is pretty much confusing 

You seem to be building the wallet in ubuntu and expecting a .exe file? .exe file is a windows extension and they cannot be used in Linux subsystem. Are you compiling and building the wallet in Linux or doing a Windows cross-compiling using a WSL to run Ubuntu on Windows? There are 2 possibilities to proceed with :

If you are building the wallet in Linux OS :

The executable will be present in /usr/local/bin and you need to type sudo make install in the terminal to install the wallet. Further, when you type litecoin-qt the wallet will run.

If you are building the wallet in WSL Ubuntu :

The same process continues and you can run the wallet using the above query in terminal. But if you need a .exe file, type ./configure --prefix='pwd'/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32 This command will provide .exe file which will be present in litecoin/src/qt.

As CounterEntropy pointed out, coinbase is the very first transaction in a block and they are added by the miner to the list of transactions they are going to include in the block. The coinbase doesn't have a UTXO input which almost all the bitcoin transactions have, but rather a coinbase input and a output which sends the freshly mined bitcoin to the miner's address.

Here is the code for the generation of new bitcoin from validation.cpp



Thanks for re-phrasing the line. As I have already said, the topic is meant to serve as a reference to the newbies who come to the Indian board to learn something new. So, the technical terminology wouldn't be good for the common people. Let me update the OP with your new phrase.

PS : I have no idea on the taxation, mining and their role in the Indian economy. So if anyone willing to contribute to that particular section, please post it here. Thanks again to everyone who have contributed so far.  We are cumulatively bringing back the Indian board and simultaneously driving away the shitposters and translation abusers!

Username: Heisenberg_Hunter
Post Count: 716
BTC Address (must be SegWit): bc1qp5zfymz70zdy82jlz73szrzy0wnw6zpz6fgkpx

May the force be with everyone and the best poster get a spot in this campaign!

As Coolcryptovator said, the OP is completely unclear and it would be difficult for us to give a solution for your question.

Let me try to help you as far as I have understood the question  

Download the latest version of bitcoin core from https://bitcoin.org/en/download Once you have done so, run the client and the whole blockchain will be downloaded. The first block to be downloaded is the genesis block.

Genesis block is the initial and the very first block of any blockchain. If you are trying to make an altcoin based on bitcoin, try to fork the project on github and change the code. You need to note that, the Bitcoin code is very complex and has changed a lot right from the 2009. So it isn't advisable for you to create a coin based on the current code. The code for changing the number of coins will be present in validation.cpp if you really need them.

The topic and code has changed a lot as it was in the topic. main.cpp has split up into 2 parts, segwit and other softforks has been put forth. It would be better to follow the topic and build an older version of core.

This is false. Private keys are not related to generating a new block. Private keys are used to spend the coins and they won't be exposed when a miner mines a block or when a programmer generates a new genesis block.

Such a good and refreshing topic on merits after a long time

What are merits to me?

[1] Merits in my opinion can be considered as a way/tool for querying and receiving response form bpip for some of my good posts from various sections.
[2] The merits which I have received in the technical section helps me in identifying my best posts by browsing through the bpip website.

Merits are also a way to determine or check myself how good my posts are and how well they are being written. Majority of my merits were received from Meta and Technical section, but it's quite funny to see how my technical knowledge evolved from December 2017 and how they are now. Though I got to know about BTC in the end of 2016, I obviously got interested at the end of 2017 as majority of us were. As all the newbies were during their initial run, I had no idea on the workings of forum and was a poor poster who came to this forum to talk shit about bitcoin. Then on January, merits were introduced which was a new way of identifying quality posts and helps the forum members in ranking up. Subsequently as days passed by and with the dumping happening all over the market, I started buying btc and to keep them safe I started educating myself on the technical side of the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

To understand the core concepts and the working of code, I spent countless hours (maybe some days it takes around 1AM - 3 AM to understand a concept) on Technical Section by helping members in solving their questions and got rewarded with merits. So these merits have proved that my technical posts are merit worthy and helps others in clearing their questions. Truly speaking I had no idea on the bitcoin during the start of 2018, but after hours and months of educating myself I have started testing the code slowly. Today, once the PR has been issued I would merge them with the available code and would build the software and retest them for any defects. The goal is to educate myself completely on the technical stuff and to contribute to the core development so that at least at one point of time in future my name would be present in the Core Contributors list with at least 1 commit.

What are smerits to me?

smerits on the other hand is like a database of posts which I have considered the best over the past 1 year. Similar to the merits querying, whenever I think of reading some best posts which has enlighted and taught me something over the years I would visit bpip and get the data. It helps me in identifying the various posts which I have personally considered the best among the posts which I have read.Recently I have started spending these smerits on my local board so that the board might get a little traction and would hopefully restore the board back to its normal and free from spam.

As Tony Stark quotes : "What am I even rambling for? The merit system is gonna work the way it supposed to."

satoshi could have gone for SHA-1 or MD5 or either SHA-0, but since bitcoin is a security critical software which depends on money, using SHA-256 is better while comparing the other 2 which have been broken already. SHA256 is very strong and safer as far as security of bitcoin is concerned. They can never be broken even if the computers present today become as faster as a quantum computer. 2²⁵⁶is a very vast number which can not easily be computed and there would never be any collision. SHA-256 has a long way to go and will surely serve for some decades and hence this was the reason SHA256 was chosen over others.

We don't need to ask him, he has answered regarding this back in 2010.

See satoshi's quote