Deleting the vertcoins.vertspvchain file and then right clicking on the .vtcwallet file and choosing open and browsing to the vertigo.exe is the only thing that ever caused the wallet to synchronize and show the value. The initial wallet as set up out of the box never synchronized. Choosing Resynchronize from the tools menu looks like it doesn't do anything. Exporting and then importing the private key never synchronized. It just always showed a green dot and "Online" at the bottom and a 0 balance no matter what I did until I did what was posted in the reddit link earlier. That caused a very obvious re-sync where the dot turned yellow and it said resynchronizing for several minutes and then updated to show the value.

If you want to look at my log file I can send it to you. I skimmed through it but it is 24MB of text and the same release notes are scattered through it over and over again, so it was pretty hard to make any sense of without knowing what to look for to do a search.

Hey now, I wasn't "expecting 24/7 support". I was simply asking the collective knowledge of this forum for help. Plus I assumed bug reports would be a good thing, especially if you want to stabilize the app enough to where people will actually feel safe using it. Hopefully I'm just misinterpreting your message, but it sounded to me like you were demanding payment to debug your own software.

Anyways, I'll dig through the log file you mentioned for anything obvious myself. I'm offering my help debugging here if you are interested. I haven't touched Java since college, but I've got 10 years of professional experience as a developer, so I can probably debug better than the average person.

As for the donations, what exactly are you expecting? CryptoCurrency in general is still not in widespread use, alternates to Bitcoin are even newer and more niche, Vertcoin is only a few months old, and your software's life is measured in weeks at this point. So your user base is incredibly small, and from the looks of it many of those users are having problems. You can't expect users to donate when they can't even get the wallet to work in the first place! Even if everything works perfectly, very few people will ever donate. Thats just the way people are. You need truly massive numbers of users to ever generate much from donations alone.

For another experiment I imported the private key for that address into the standard Vertcoin wallet and the balance shows the correct amount of ~3.08 VTC.

I'm having some pretty big trouble. I'm not personally using this wallet but I set it up on a friend of mine's machine. I then sent him a few VTC but they never showed up in his wallet. I've tried resyncing, exporting and importing the keys, creating a new wallet and importing the keys. No matter what it still shows a zero balance even though it is "online" and "synchronized".  Here is a link to the transaction in the block explorer:
https://explorer.vertcoin.org/tx/63192c3c6ab5909a8f02e74fcd8f8abd5abcc9222dbea0388e3fd75204c49bdb

It definitely shows that the address received the coins. What are we doing wrong?

Also, after updating to 0.3.9.9 I can no longer create new wallets. It fails with the error "Failed to delete cononical wallet file for replacement with autosave" every time. I've tried it on two different computers to verify. It worked before the update and then immediately stops after.

I couldn't see any output from p2pool to indicate if it was or was not working, but eventually I got a transaction for 1.0 MON into my wallet so I suppose its working. This was on my private p2pool node not using the temporary pool software.

Excellent work! This was a big step in the right direction. I've been mining VTC, but I have an "investor" of sorts that fronted some of the money for the hardware i'm using and wants to hold crypto currencies as an investment, but isn't technical to deal with the full wallet and properly backing it up with it hidden in his appdata folder. So I've previously set him up with Multibit with a wallet in an easy to find location and showed him how to back it up to external drives and simply had to trade the VTC I would be sending to him into BTC. Now I can get him set up with Vertigo and have him hold the VTC instead.

I'll do what I can, but as I mentioned I'm just learning and figuring it out, so I'm not very knowledgeable about it yet. I couldn't quite tell if that was a serious question, or you're annoyed I built it and posted a link. If you don't want it distributed as an alpha version, let me know and I'll remove my link.

I tried this on a 2nd system of mine and it just crashes, but a previous build that I did earlier did seem to work. The only difference I'm aware of is this build was done with both "--enable-scrypt --enable-opencl" versus my first build that just had --enable-scrypt, and this one was stripped using "strip vertminer.exe".

I decided today was the day I'd figure out how to build vertminer myself on Windows.
Here is a SkyDrive link with vertminer 0.5.4pre2 compiled from the latest source from Bufius' GitHub repo.

It seems to be working ok for me, but this is my first time ever compiling either vertminer or cgminer for that matter.

Also, check out my P2Pool node at http://vtc-us-east.oakagedsoftware.com:9171/  

EDIT: I removed the link. Instead I will try to post detailed instructions soon for how to build it yourself.

I've also started a P2Pool node on the new network.

http://vtc-us-east.oakagedsoftware.com:9171/

Its aged in oak, so it must be good, right? 

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I registered as GelatinousSlime at CoinArmy, Pooligans, and Steady Mining. So I've got several options ready to help spread the load out where its needed to keep it even.

I actually managed to grab 1 block so far solo with only 750kh

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Is that even valid? I thought 65535 was the max allowed port number. A quick Google search seems to confirm that.

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You might want to be a little more detailed on the "import the GPG key" step. After you import the the key and see it on your list, you need to right click on it and select "Certify Certificate". That brings up a list of certificates for Alan C. Reiner. On my system there were three of them. I'm not sure if all 3 should be selected or just the one labeled (Offline Signing Key). I opted to select just that one. Then at the bottom of that dialog box is the key fingerprint which you should carefully examine and make sure it matches the expected fingerprint given on the web site. Then select the "I have verified the fingerprint" box and click next. Then it asks if you want to verify it just for yourself or verify for others. Select the box for verify for myself and then accept.

After the key is verified, then you can verify the checksum file by right clicking on it and selecting "Decrypt and verify". However, the dialog that comes up had the "Input file is a detached signature" box checked by default. If I left that alone, it did not work and I'd get a "no signatures found" error. However, deselecting that box before pressing the "Decrypt/Verify" button resulted in a successful verification. It also created a new  file named armory_0.90-beta_sha256sum.txt in the directory beside the .asc file with the SHA256 signatures but not the GPG signature.

I hope that helps a bit.

Well, not entirely sure what the correct answer to that is. I've got a BS in CS and then 10 years of professional software development experience on top of that. But, as my initial post stated, I haven't really dealt with cryptography much at all so my actual relevant experience on that particular subject I'd still categorize as pretty basic. But I'd like to add it  my list of things I'm fairly knowledgeable about. So maybe the answer is both? I start with the primers and then move onto a textbook?

I'm a professional software architect. My primary area of expertise is cloud based computing at AWS and Azure. I usually stick to the .NET side of things with C# as my favored language, but I dabble in many areas and can pick up anything I need pretty quickly.

I've just recently gotten interested in crypto-currencies, so I don't have any specific project yet.

Thanks, but I was looking more for technical reference (mainly books or ebooks) rather than press releases.