Blackcoin More should sync faster than the original client.

Also there's a blockchain bootstrap

http://blackcoin.nl/bootstrap-the-blockchain/

That's good news. Good work!

For DEX PND needs to implement atomic swaps
https://blockgeeks.com/guides/atomic-swaps/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_swap

All coins, that originally deviated from Bitcoin should be able to implement atomic swaps and thus PND too.

Send them requests https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqpM6DVuxNRJ43oD90fCsm8UltR9oIiFaVxxqt3ch_eJ5Dlw/viewform

You can not simply move wallet.dat, it's not possible because it uses a newer database version that's not compatible with the legacy wallet.

Please keep in mind that this thread is not monitored by the team anymore.

If you have any questions, the team is available at reddit, gitter and discord.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/buxc4x/join_the_blackcoin_discord_server/

Yeah that's probably true, sadly. But for a small project it's certainly hard to get things up and running. I worked a little with Blackcoin and the team did a few things like implementing Colored Coins, Atomic Swaps where put in over night ect but none of that ever really took off because it's hard to get the attention about implementations when you are at the rank 300 and lower on CMC and have a small team.

I think the ICO hype caused alot of harm to the crypto community. Coins that collected millions with ICOs where either scammers or where able to actually pay developers and marketing teams and soon nothing went when you didn't create a huge fuzz about it, paid exchanges and coin sites to pitch the coin and appeared on cons. I guess a few developers of decentralized coins went frustrated when ICO coins passed them with huge fuzz and left community projects in the dust.


The launch was originally like Dogecoin, somewhat of a troll but they created a working coin out of it, got from PoW to PoS and they are still active and try to do stuff.

Sorry, I didn't pay attention to the 1BTC/day trading limit however I also suspect, that many volumes are actually fake because it's so easy for exchanges to artificial pump up volumes with next to no effort. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/03/22/95-of-reported-bitcoin-trading-volume-is-fake-says-bitwise/ So I don't know how informative volumes are at all. And in turn it spoils the validity of CMC rankings which in turn influences investors since it's one of the first addresses to look at coin performance data. Of course that won't help the volume of PND either.

It certainly would be great when exchanges wheren't centralized companies, that have a motivation to puff up maket data to attract traders. And it's actually somewhat daft, that we use decentralized currencies but then depend on centralized exchanges.

You can find nodes for your client here

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/blk/#!network (click on [node list])

As it is now, no one can make Bitcoin obsolete and especially decentralized coins often have the problem, that there's no company behind it. The thing that is good for decentralisation also makes coin development slow and maket share low since an open community often has no roadmap, no investment plans and development is done by volunteers that often get nothing for their work.

I don't know if Pandacoin (PND) would fit into the list. It was first a mere Dogecoin clone made to troll a scammer and after the scammer disappeared, was almost abandoned but then they decided to go full PoS and are now there with a new team which however too consists of volunteers. But it had no premine, ICO, instamine, dev fees or rewards ect, no "owner", has it's own chain so not a token.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1960307.0

Blackcoin was on BaterDex as far as I know and it's capable of being exchanged on a DEX since it supports atomic swaps.
I am however a little rusty in the knowledge so if you haven't done it yet, you can go to their discord if you haven't done it yet. There are community members active who followed the last developments more closely and probably can say more about it. Take this invite: https://discord.gg/9dJ8Qk

PS: This ANN thread is not monitored closely anymore, the community communication went mostly to discord and reddit.

PPS: Cool list of true decentral coins might come in handy

Any errors displaying? The blockchain db can get damaged for instance on crashes or when the computer shuts down, happened for me with blackcoin and other coins too. If this is the case, you need to resync the whole chain. Maybe try to install More and see if it synces (it should also sync faster than original QT) and try to import your keys as described above.

The original wallet uses a different database-format for the wallet.dat so they are not compatible. There is a wallet-utility.exe in Janko's blackcoin lore, but I am not linking it here because I am not sure if it works with More, which is the continuation of the Lore tree although not developed by Janko anymore.

You however can (and maybe even should) always make a textdump of your wallet and backup it. That textfile contains your private keys and they can be imported into new wallets. With the new hd-wallet format, you can backup the masterkey, so you won't lose funds when you didn't backup the wallet after each transaction (because a transaction creates new addresses for change funds ect). The masterkey can be used to access all privkeys deriving from it.

Another possibility would also be to install More and then send all your coins to your new address although that might delay staking, since the transfered coins need to mature first.

As More was just released can you try to run More?

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/b0is1i/blackcoin_more_fixes_block_spam_vulnerability/

I don't know right now but maybe you can ask the devs on Gitter?
https://gitter.im/BlackCoin_Hub/Support

I am sure that if something big is happening someone will post it here too, however the first place when it's announced would be Twitter and Reddit.
On a side-note: Blackcoin is still a community coin. There is no company behind it, it's a project done by people voluntarily in their freetime out of interest. So it's up to the community how big a thing is and what people make out of it. And no one can decide single hand what people want to do with blackcoin.

That makes PR more difficult but also the coin more free and decentralized.

The team is active but small, new contributors are always welcome. They just released a new client (More) with a few updates and they are experimenting with PoS on the testnet. Although the community communication doesn't happen on bitcointalk much anymore, they are active on gitter, discord, reddit. Twitter account is active and posts updates frequently.

https://gitter.im/BlackCoin_Hub
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/
https://discordapp.com/invite/xH7TPjC
https://twitter.com/blackcoinorg

The funny thing is that I thought I used the snapshot version, the download was over 2GB but apparently it still started from scratch downloading the blocks (that or it's the validation of the blocks that takes so long).

There are updates in other coins that don't validate the whole blocks, just validate the headers. It's less secure but the syncing goes down from days to a few hours.

How's the development going? The sync is awfully slow, it takes more than two days here and the client is constantly hanging during sync.

Are there any althernative clients planned?

I used the addnode from the blockexplorer to my client and it connected, however the synching never finished (kept hanging at 56% for days) and after client restart the blockfile was corrupted... I guess I have to reinstall

connection timeout
trying connection 78.41.204.35:22445 lastseen=133.1hrs
connection timeout
trying connection 78.41.204.35:22445 lastseen=133.1hrs
connection timeout
trying connection 78.41.204.35:22445 lastseen=133.1hrs