TurtleCoin v 0.4.2 is now released!
https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/releases/tag/v0.4.2

The most important changes in this release are a move to 'walletgreen' wallet format for simplewallet (so that wallet format and code is consistent with walletd, which already used walletgreen) and the move to Cryponight Lite Variant 1 hashing algorithm (which will take affect at block 350,000) to circumvent recently released Cryptonight ASIC miners.

Big thanks to ZedPea, JerMe404, DeerTacos, Ereptor,Cryptonote Developers, Bytecoin Developers, Forknote Project, TurtleCoin Community and others for their contributions!

Enjoy.

-bebop

Unfortunately, we (TRTL development and community) cannot do anything about pools and exchanges. These are 3rd party services over which we have  no control or ability to make changes or resolve issues. Please contact the respective operators for issues and support related to their services.

That is far out from the truth, dude. Current work done on the core client deals with usability enhancements such as logging / messaging, mnemonic wallet exports/imports, using common walletgreen  format between simplewallet and GUI wallet, resistance to nicehash/botnet spikes, etc. 
Ongoing work right now involves algo change to deal with the cryptonight asic (current is switch to CN_lite_variant1), work on karai sidechain project, testnet deployments...

Outside of core, there is work on a web wallet, e-commerce integration tools, various alternative wallet software, etc. Additionally, there's been recent work on some bots (such as turtlebot++ and the popular Lotto bot in discord), games, and other fun stuff.

Outside of code there is lots of work being done on documentation and guides, marketing materials, etc. We want the code, the community, and the knowledge to be accessible for anyone to come in and pick up without *having* to rely on people for answers, so the documentation project I think is pretty important.

You can track a lot of the work in various github repos (http://github.com/turtlecoin) or in the dev channels in discord

-Bebop

More about TurtleCoin's response to the cryptonight asic:

https://medium.com/@turtlecoin/take-your-baikal-and-shove-it-up-your-asic-b05c96187790

I'm not familiar with any 'unsyncable wallets'. People have had a couple of issues with simplewallet not syncing w/ TurtleCoind daemon properly, which is addressed by doing a `reset` command in the wallet. There is also an issue related to trying to use a simplewallet-created wallet file in walletd and vice versa. The solution was to leverage the 'walletgreen' code for wallet file management and that is already in testing.

Large transactions can indeed be held up when the balance is a combination of many small transactions. Fusion transactions to combine smaller amounts into larger ones in a wallet, and chunking large payments into several smaller payments, are both solutions. Both are implemented and in testing in GUI wallet.

-bebop

Turtle Typhoon - Mine the Storm!
You are Invited to the Raindance Party!

From 8pmEST/1amGMT on Friday 9th March

WE'RE MAKING IT RAIN ALL NIGHT! JOIN US IN DISCORD AS WE MINE STRAIGHT TO THE RAINBOT!

MadK's TurtleFaucet will be set for NO LIMIT 10TRTL payouts!!

Typhoon Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKaGchF4p5c

If you would like to join the raindance and catch rain here's how to get started:
http://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/wiki/Participating-in-Raindance


If you are mining TRTL and would like to donate to the rainbot during the Turtle Typhoon
simply donate directly or change your wallet_address in your xmr-stak config to the raindance donation address:
TRTLv3nW7vX3WXx5CRprf1ifYcY26yYPiVK9E6ocN91DKpUmqADA17n9qcE9QBCgJriGZZcbHuwwKFC 8RomYVPDZah8dBN32BbZ

Remember, this is not an airdrop. This is just the community sharing and giving back to one another, because that's what we believe in. Hope to see you there!

visax, you can download a bootstrapped blockchain. Follow the guide in our wiki at https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/wiki/Bootstrapping-the-Blockchain

While we are happy to help you, but we believe this forum is best suited for discussion about the technology, the code, and the direction of the project and community. We don't want the meaty, important stuff to get lost in tons of support-related posts, and prefer (as stated) to do support via our discord chat (http://discord.turtlecoin.lol) - there are many community members active there and ready to help troubleshoot issues.

Well not everyone is in the same timezone, it was still the 13th for me when I wrote that...   nah just a brainfart, February* 9th. Glad you're paying attention


We never said we don't allow any kind of funding or donations. We have only said there was no ICO and that we have not done any fundraising to this point (which is still the case). In ful ltransparency, RockSteady did sell some special roles on discord for TurtleCoin to fund various efforts in the form of TRTL bounties, but that caused some issues and those people were all refunded. The bitcoin paid to get us on TradeSatoshi (now back online, btw) was bootstrapped by Rock also.

We have discussed various fundraising ideas and encourage the community to be entrepreneurs themselves. So far bounties and self-initiative from community members have accomplished a lot; we're happy with how it's going and hungry for more. This organic growth of very autonomous contributors seems quite scalable. We'll talk about more crowdfunding with the community if and when we feel it is necessary.


There is no drama around the forknote/bytecoin vulnerability. A moderator mistakenly gave a person access to a private channel and that person then posted a screenshot of discussion about the issue, not knowing the dev team had already followed proper disclosure procedure and reached out to other forknote/bytecoin developers as well as some downstream service operators. The person admitted the wrong doing and apologized, in public discord, and we changed our discord moderator system in response to that.

It is not within our purview whether or not other cryptonote developers choose to respond to the vulnerability. All we can do is appropriately inform them to the best of our abilities and provide the fix in our code. The issue was not at all unique to TurtleCoin code, it is present in many (all?) bytecoin and cryptonote reference forks. You can read about the issue in full here https://www.ayrx.me/cryptonote-unauthenticated-json-rpc

The "0 balance" issue was indeed deemed an urgent fix, but not because anyone's wallets or balances were affected. No wallets lost any coins, it was an issue related to simplewallet not properly syncing with the TurtleCoind daemon that was easily fixed by a manual sync (typing `reset` in the simplewallet console). We made an urgent fix of it because, despite not compromising wallets, it was at best a frequent annoyance and often a source of panic for many users who were unaware of the issue.

To your point though, we have been in lots of discussion this week about nailing down some of our processes to ensure code quality. We absolutely want to follow best practices and rely as much as possible on continuous integration with automated testing and building. If you think you can help in this area, or any other, we'd love to have you on board.


This is a true and fair statement.


I can say personally that I have no idea who is behind TradeOgre. Obviously whoever is behind it must have some interest and connection to TurtleCoin being that they popped up listing just us and a small number of other coins soon after we started, but that is really the extent to my knowledge. I have no way to prove this but I am least putting it out there in public testimony.

TradeSatoshi I think is a bit larger and under more eyes. I suppose it's possible we could be connected with them also though I will again say publicly I have no connection and am not aware of one with anyone in our dev team. We paid the fee and applied to get listed, went through a *lengthy* approval process that apparently riddled our community with anticipation, got listed and were put into an extensive maintenance mode shortly after. You can also see discussions between some of their devs and ours in the #dev_general channel on discord. All in all I think it's been a transparent process and doesn't exactly beam of inside connections and favoritism. As far as why tradesatoshi? Ultimately it came down to the people who paid and did the work made the choice of who they paid and what work they did. We're a doer's community. As far as I know there was indeed some open discussion about it, though admittedly I cannot specifically point to it.

As far as our anonymity, it is really only pseudo anonymous. Many of our core contributors and myself have appeared in person to present TurtleCoin at meetups. RockSteady and myself are known by many people. We just don't want it to be about that or about us; it's a PRIVACY coin and we don't see any benefit to forcing anyone to attach their identity to the work they contribute.


Thank you, Lovecove, for expressing your concerns and making those inquiries. I appreciate your interest and willingness to participate in the discussion.

-bebop

There seems to be a lot of confusion/misinformation spreading around but hopefully I can clarify some things.

1. We turned 2 months on Jan 9th, about 4 days ago.
2. No ICO, no premine, no funding of any kind. All devs and contributors are volunteers though we try our best to reward appropriately with TurtleCoin for everyone's hard work. We announced the coin on a popular and well known privacy forum. Word spread immediately.
3. The updated versions are not 'random' or 'emergency updates' scrambling in the fae of immature code. A security vulnerability that affects *many* cryptonotes was discovered, we fixed it and followed proper disclosure procedures. https://medium.com/@turtlecoin/mess-with-the-best-759c1fd230b1. We do not have a fixed release cycle, we roll out releases when we feel updates are sufficient and we continue to work to incrementally improve various pieces of the software such as difficulty calculation, user experience of simple wallet, correcting bugs, and security enhancements.
4. Neither TradeOgre or TradeSatoshi are in our control. TradeOgre has had some downtimes here and there but seems to come back reliably. Our dev team has worked with TradeSatoshi and provided updates to help address the issues. We apologize for the inconvenience but it is not in our control.
5. We are looking at getting added to some decentralized exchanges currently.

-Bebop

If you go to https://tradesatoshi.com/Status and type 'TRTL' in the box you'll notice the current mode is 'maintenance' - there are some issues that our team and people from TradeSatoshi are working on together to solve. I don't have the technical explanation together at the moment but we'll try to put a release out about it soon. We're sorry for any inconvenience, there was an unfortunate combination of things outside of each other's control but hopefully will be solved soon. You can trade on TradeOgre in the meantime, or try to do OTC trades in our discord.

Cowabunga

http://turtlecoin.lol/wallet will generate paper/offline wallets. it is in a browser but you can open your browsers dev console and look at the network tab to verify it does *not* make any communication that could be sending your keys (or any communication at all for that matter). save the page offline or disconnect internet if you don't trust it

Use the static build linked above. If you need additional help please join our discord http://discord.turtlecoin.lol and ask in the #help channel. Many folks there ready to help you.

Politely, I think you were unable to see through the characterization and light hearted tone in the article. We like to be relatable. As the article states, our belief is people are more turned off/confuzzled/dismayed by many digits to the RIGHT of the decimal. People like big numbers. Having 20 million satoshi sounds a lot nicer than 0.5 BTC, for instance. Can't tell you how many people have said "Yeah, I want to invest in bitcoin, but it's too late. I'll never be able to buy one." Laypeople don't like a lot of decimal places. Savvy informed cryptonerds should be able to understand the concept of atomic units. TurtleCoin is all about community and making cryptocurrency accessible for more people and we feel 1 trillion @ 2 decimals accomplishes that.

Arguing about supply after pointing out that it is actually lower is moot so I won't go further. People seem to enjoy mining, transacting and raining many turtle a day.

If your error was because of lib_boost, try the static build (TurtleCoin-v0.3.1-linux-staticboost-CLI.tar.gz) at https://github.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/releases. It statically includes lib_boost so the file is larger but is a workaround for that issue. Sorry for any inconvenience!! We're getting a continuous build server setup that will automate our build process, and should help us mitigate these issues moving forward - cowabunga!

Although our total supply is 1 Trillion TRTL, each TRTL is only divisible to 2 decimal places. In terms of atomic units, we actually have significantly less total supply than Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, IOTA...


Read more about the TurtleCoin supply and the motivations behind the 2 decimal places here:
https://medium.com/@turtlecoin/one-trillion-turtles-coin-supply-and-unit-economics-5bfbea0aa1f1

Check your balance on the pool website and go the 'payments' tab there so what the payout threshold is.
If your pool balance is zero check your configuration, make sure you are using the correct public wallet address to mine against.

Yup no premine. If you check my first post on this thread you can see links to the build published on github and /biz/ post with timestamps that correspond to the first block.

Great questions!

Re: CMC. TradeOgre (the first exchange we were on) was just recently added to CMC, we were not yet listed primarily afaik b/c their API did not have the 24/hr history support (changed, I think - not sure) and because we were not yet listed on any other exchange. We were added to TradeSatoshi early this morning, community members have reached out to CMC and made the proper listing requests so we're just waiting to see.

Market cap is current_supply * current_price, so it varies. About 8 satoshi * 4.9 Billion at time of writing.

You can mine with xmr-stak, xmrig, ccminer... any cryptonight miner pretty much.

Faucet at https://faucet.trtl.me/

Here's some helpful links for anyone curious about using and mining TurtleCoin.

> http://discord.turtlecoin.lol        -Discord Chat <<< This is the best place to come and get help and have discussion. Very active.
> http://getstarted.turtlecoin.lol/   - Getting Started Guide
> https://turtleturtle.surge.sh/       -Community Directory
> http://mining.turtlecoin.lol/         - Mining Guide
> http://github.turtlecoin.lol/         - Source Code
> http://supply.turtlecoin.lol/          - Info about TRTL Supply (max supply, etc)
> http://twitter.turtlecoin.lol/          - Official Twitter
> http://reddit.turtlecoin.lol/            - Community Subreddit

2nd* exchange. TradeOgre has had us listed. We owe them much appreciation and recognition.

TurtleCoin is now added to tradesatoshi. Still not online but we are listed and visible.
Congratulations everyone! It is thanks to the hard work of all of you that we are growing our community and expanding our presence even during this market downtrend.