MOON on 1st place:

https://bleutrade.com/voting

Keep on voting, people!

As an addition to my previous posting: we should release the new wallet with a messaging system, that checks, whether the wallet is the latest version and if not, presents a warning to the user.

The "right" and "wrong" means the new wallet and the old wallet. We had the same problem the last time deaconboogie released a new wallet. Most of the people updated their wallet to the newest version, but some did not, because they did not know about the update. So they sent MOONs from an old wallet to the network and their Mooncoins never arrived at the wallet they were sent to, because the recipient was already on the new fork with a new wallet and vice versa.
Then they came to this thread and were complaining about the coin but simply they weren't informed about the need to update, so they lost coins.
This shows why it is crucial to have a long information-period in which we need to communicate, that an update has to be done and everybody needs to upgrade until block XY, if they don't wanna lose their Mooncoins in invalid transactions.
We also need to communicate this to the exchanges, as it would be fatal, when the coins sent to and from them will go to digital nirvana, because some are on the old wallet, and some on the new. Communication on this is everything, if we want to avoid confusion and loss of coins. It all depends on how many update to the new wallet, since if there are still a lot of old wallets in the network, we have competing blockchains leading to wallets not syncing correctly or being on different chains, hence even more confusion.

This is an interesting information by the DOGE-devs:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoindev/comments/2f30sb/18_contingency_planning/

It shows, what happens and has to be done, when a fork is to be made.
This will inevitably be the case for Mooncoin, too, in the not so far future. I thought, I should post the link, so you all can see and inform yourself about the procedure.

Of course. Better be safe than sorry.   

Most probably the information in peers.dat is outdated in a few hrs or days again, so it is questionable, whether posting it would be of great help.
I don't know the code of the wallet exactly, but it could be that a now missing seed-node, that deaconboogie coded, prevents the wallet from finding new peers immediately.
So if the wallet is installed from scratch, it does not find an active seed-node (maybe it is simply the mooncoin.info-server, which is offline now, as we know).
So the only real solution would then be, to issue an updated wallet with a new seed-node, which is always on.

Advising to use a mooncoin.conf like this:

addnode=5.45.105.66
addnode=37.120.168.233
addnode=multipool.us
addnode=moon.bitember.com

... could be the better idea meanwhile (until the new wallet with one or more updated seed-nodes is available) ...
(The first IP of the above list is from the P2Pool-node and the second one is the IP-address of the now working blockchain-explorer, so all of these addresses should be online most of the time)

Could you check, whether your compiled wallet is connecting, using a mooncoin.conf of that kind?
Otherwise just check the result of the command getpeerinfo in your working wallet's console, to see the current peers of your wallet. --> Help/Debug/Console

Check out http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide to find this:
--
 You can also set an initial “seed node” or always on system that the new coin wallets coming online will check for additional addresses:

src/net.cpp:
 LINE 1000  {"some website name", "somewebsite.org or ip x.x.x.x"},
--

which translates to this in the code of the Mooncoin-wallet:

https://github.com/realmooncoin/mooncoin/blob/master/src/net.cpp#L1198

... and because of mooncoin.info being down, the newly installed wallet without addnodes is not finding anything ...

If I read it correctly, soopy452000 was the original dev who handed the coin over to unick. See their new thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641241.0

Something like that would be ideal. Deaconboogie should do the same, if he doesn't want or cannot care for MOON in a reasonable manner.
We could then include an information here in the first posting and on reddit, that a new developer or development-team took over, so everyone who is interested (and/or does not read the whole thread nor even the latest postings) immediately knows, what's going on and will be forwarded to the right place to get correct information, Edit: instead of being confronted with incorrect/outdated and or missing data, like it is now here in the first posting and on reddit.

That's a good idea, I'd subscribe to ...  
I was researching as well at the weekend and found this one, which gives a basic idea of how the wallet has to be tweaked, respectively where the relevant parameters can be found:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide

For me the hardest part seems to inform all relevant parties like pools, coinmarketcap-pages, online-wallets, exchanges etc. prior to a hardfork (don't know, if we simply can release an updated wallet and when enough supporters install them, then the fork takes place automatically? Or has something special to be changed in the code also, to make this happen? Maybe you or someone else here can enlighten me ...?). I could imagine that they are skeptical at first, if they are not contacted by the original dev ...


I'd do that part and try to communicate with all the involved, in order to make it an as glitch-free (hard-)fork as possible ...
But of course we need the entire community behind us first, for this to become a successful thing.

Edit:
Do you have a GitHub-account, so I can add you to https://github.com/mooncoin-project ?
There we would have a nice basis for the next wallet-version. According to gjhiggins, it is a ported version of Litecoin with the latest updates (OpenSSL-fix etc.). We would have to ask him for details. Btw: you can then change back the coin-icon to the original one immediately as you like, since the other one there is only a suggestion by Graham and he already stated, that he is out of the project, regarding active work on the code. He just wanted to provide a good new starting point for the community, after deaconboogie seemed to be so unreliable.

Yes, you're right. We should set a deadline until deaconboogie should be back. If he doesn't reappear, we should look for a new dev.
Do you know, how to manage that? It seems as if you - as a legendary member - could know more? Maybe even have connections to a possible new capable long-time-developer?

Edit: But I would not go as far as declaring it a pump-and-dump-scam. Because if that was true, why would he have let MOON hang "back in the days", when the blockchain was stuck? A p'n'd-scammer probably could have made more money, if the KGW (or another solution) would have been implemented immediately, maybe pushing MOON to an even higher level. Keep in mind, that MOON was chasing DOGE then and ranked right behind it in terms of market capitalization.
I'd say, that deaconboogie just don't feels as commited and dedicated as he should, after launching (t)his coin (maybe also lacking skills to develop the coin further?). Which is not so nice, regarding investors and users believing in the coin and himself.

Edit2:
Maybe at the end he really "only" has serious family-based problems, as he posted on reddit. But at least he could give a short sign of life, sketching out a development-plan, so that we see a future direction of MOON. It's not that hard, to log in to bct and reddit and post about that. That is my opinion. And put mooncoin.info back online again, of course.

What do you all think?

If you have installed completely new, it has to find peers first, to download/update the blockchain from. So just be a little patient, if it doesn't sync immediately. As soon as the first peer is found, it will start to sync and find more and more peers to counter-check the blockchain.

Check these two posts, I have made in another thread, if it still doesn't work, or you're in a hurry:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760083.msg8575636#msg8575636
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760083.msg8575815#msg8575815

My current peers are (replace or add those found in the linked post above, as peers can change daily, because they are only the IPs of other user's wallets, that don't necessarily have to be online constantly and their IPs may change regularly over time, when assigned dynamically by their providers. So it is just a snapshot from today.):

"addr" : "82.226.151.241:44664",
"addr" : "92.238.186.27:44664",
"addr" : "116.49.143.141:44664",
"addr" : "24.87.44.66:44664",
"addr" : "23.20.113.24:44664",
"addr" : "188.226.176.232:44664",
"addr" : "192.99.167.170:44664",
"addr" : "162.243.98.174:44664",

Since pools are online most of the time, you could try to add their IPs or domainnames, too, via addnode (see the links above for a how-to). For example:
addnode=multipool.us
addnode=moon.bitember.com

As soon as the first peer is found, they communicate with each other, sharing IPs of other wallets to connect with. So when your wallet has the first connection, it will find more (up to eight) and then redistribute/announce these IP-addresses to the other wallets connected to yours, to stabilize the network. Edit: By the way, this is the reason, why you should start up your MOON-wallet, as soon as your computer runs, even if you're not using the wallet to move Mooncoins around. Because it helps the Mooncoin-network to always have a minimum of peers communicating with each other, hence building up a strong network.

Keep in mind, that the wallets on http://mooncoin.rocks are no new ones. So if you've already got a working wallet, there is no need to redownload/reinstall at the moment.

While it's definitely a thing to strive for, it is more important to issue an updated standard-wallet with an optimized algorithm first. We need to solve the problem with some miners cheating because of the random block-rewards as soon as possible (edit: this can also lead to the problem, that blocks with low rewards are solved much later than those with high rewards, because only the honest (smaller) miners work on them, hence the transactions contained in those blocks need much longer to be confirmed, which is also unfair for the users).
I have already asked in a thread of a mobile-wallet-developer. See what he answered here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336215.msg8576255#msg8576255
So first we need deaconboogie back, or another capable developer, to take us to the next level. With that new wallet and the dev being there for contacts, we can proceed and get a mobile-wallet-developer aboard, too.

Thanks for your work, but please don't post this link here. We cannot be safe, whether this is a clean copy of the official Mac-wallet, until verified. Please inform peme (see above) first, so we can check the checksums and then put it onto http://mooncoin.rocks. Thanks.

If it still does not load the blockchain after a time or gives you an error, you could try to delete everything in the above mentioned folder. But keep the wallet.dat and make a backup-copy before and save it to a secure place!! Which is a good idea anyway.  

Then create the mooncoin.conf with the addnodes as described above, make sure the old wallet.dat is in the Mooncoin-folder and then restart the wallet.
Now it should redownload the entire blockchain and give you back a nicely working Mooncoin-wallet.

Normally the wallet connects automatically after a short time. The first time it could take a little bit longer, because it has to find online peers first. Just be patient.
If you'd like to speed things up, try adding nodes to mooncoin.conf (see below).
You can find the Mooncoin-folder here: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Mooncoin

My current peers:

"addr" : "188.226.176.232:44664",
"addr" : "23.20.113.24:44664",
"addr" : "188.165.252.23:44664",
"addr" : "148.251.70.194:44664",
"addr" : "85.10.194.50:44664",
"addr" : "74.91.20.250:44664",
"addr" : "76.14.186.38:44664",

So just create a file with the following as contents in the above mentioned folder, name it mooncoin.conf and restart the wallet, wait a little bit and it should begin to download the blockchain (the first address is from a MOON-P2Pool-node, btw, so should be online most of the time):


addnode=5.45.105.66
addnode=188.226.176.232
addnode=23.20.113.24
addnode=188.165.252.23
addnode=148.251.70.194
addnode=85.10.194.50
addnode=74.91.20.250:44664
addnode=76.14.186.38

You could try www.moonchain.net, until the official one is online again.

That's right. I'm not the dev.
But I recommend to check out the Mooncoin thread, so you'll see that we as the community are only trying to help people to get a Mooncoin-wallet.

Unfortunately mooncoin.info (deaconboogies site, the official one) is down since several days and there were some people asking for the wallet, so peme (another fellow Moonie) set up a backup-site of mooncoin.info ---> http://mooncoin.rocks

Just verify the checksums to the ones from the original/official site after downloading from http://mooncoin.rocks. They are exactly the same, so can be considered safe.

You can find archived copies of the original site in the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140705185938/http://download.mooncoin.info/ (includes the original checksums)
http://web.archive.org/web/20140704123359/http://mooncoin.info/

If you need a good checksummer, try http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck
It features Shell-integration. So you can verify simply by right-clicking.

If you have any questions, feel free to post into the Mooncoin-thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=389403.0

http://mooncoin.rocks was set up by peme (see some postings above).
I wondered about the Mac-wallet, too. We should ask him, if he can provide that also.

peme?

For all new Moonies, looking for a wallet: try http://mooncoin.rocks/wallet-download - which is a backup of the official-site, which is currently offline unfortunately.

The correct checksums for the Mooncoin.exe after download and/or extraction from the 7z-file should be as follows:

     File: Mooncoin-1.862.1.exe
CRC-32: 63f8b21c
    MD4: 5a0fb654c0f45a5584ebd727e1b8a7e5
    MD5: edc341b411f2e138850827cc13570ea1
 SHA-1: f04fc5dde039af945fd70386066fdb5a75464480

Yes. Try www.moonchain.net instead, until the official one is back.

That shows the problems with not fully blown nodes/wallets. It's always a trade-off between security and the lightweight needed for mobile wallets, which aren't supposed to download and store the entire blockchain.
This is the key-problem in this regard: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Sybil_attack
So we have to make sure, that the amount of GOOD (i.e.: trustworthy) standard wallets/nodes is the majority.

Here is what Hive is writing:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637227.msg7107913;topicseen#msg7107913
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313489

Edit:
Regarding your last question, I understand it that way, that they need a working SPV-node (mooncoinj for example), to port the code to their wallet. See here: https://github.com/hivewallet/discussions/wiki/Token-support

Edit 2:
I think, this could be interesting, too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=256583.0;all