It must have been something like that; rebooting the computer has fixed it.

I run Bitcoin core manually, and when that has caught up, run ArmoryQt manually. I guess that starts ArmoryDB automatically.

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

There's a terabyte free on the D: drive where the programs and files are. The C: was low so I'll see if freeing up space there helps, thanks.

It's 64-bit Windows and the permissions have been changed since it was working.

My Armory is stuck on Preparing Databases. It's v0.96.5, running on Windows 8.1. Bitcoin core is v0.21.0. I am starting Bitcoin core manually, and it is fully synced before Armory starts. There is no progress shown in the progress bar. The log contains lots of errors like:



There's also a few like:

I've been reading through the forum, and while I found some other cases of it getting stuck, I couldn't see any that had these errors. Any suggestions?

Approximately zero.

Currently 340M are forging, so 240,000 ARDR will yield roughly one block a day. 80% of the last 100 blocks were empty.

(ARDR needed for one block per day is total_forging/1440.)

If you had a keylogger, wasn't that equally likely to steal fiat if you used online banking? I'm not sure why you are saying there is no honour in the crypto space because of one bad apple.

I think you underestimate the work put into Ardor. It is based on Nxt, so the code base is more than 4 years old and has had several programmers working on it. The real value will come from how it gets used. Nxt didn't seem to get used much, but Ardor has launched with a bit more publicity, and Jelurida has funds from the ICO, so we're hoping for better things.

Poloniex general policy is not to claim customer airdrops for themselves. They'll either ignore them completely, or claim them and assign them to customers.

Poloniex is a bit scary. They've not made any announcement about the snapshot. They continued trading ARDR and it's not clear what that represents now. It used to represent the asset on the Nxt chain. That's now frozen, and Poloniex haven't said they will support the Ardor chain, so maybe it now represents the tokens on the Ardor chain and maybe it still represents the frozen assets on the Nxt chain. Nobody knows. Meanwhile Poloniex have noticed that ARDR withdrawals don't work and they've put up a notice about it which does not give confidence:

"ARDR is currently under maintenance or experiencing wallet/network issues. Deposits and withdrawals will remain disabled until a solution is found, which may require an update from the ARDR team. Any updates must be tested and audited before enabling."

Makes it sound like this has taken them by surprise.

It's not available yet but should be within a day or two.

Ignis will be on the new Ardor platform, which doesn't exist yet. It will take some time for the devs to import the snapshot from the Nxt platform and turn it into ARDR and IGNIS balances in the genesis block of the new platform. They'll probably release the final version of the software, with the final balances, within a day or two. That gives everyone a day or two to check their balance is correct and sort out any problems, and also to get the new software installed on plenty of nodes. Nodes can start running before the 1st; they just can't process any blocks until then.

It's going to take 4 days partly because it's a lot of data, partly to allow time for checks, and partly to allow time to distribute the software.

Using Help > Clear All Unconfirmed, restarting Armory, then remake the transaction from scratch with a bigger fee, is a brute-force method that has worked for me.

I now have the same problem, but with a transaction that has been broadcast. Bump Fee does nothing, and writes nothing to the logfile. I tried deleting geometry entries in the settings file, but it made no difference.

I have tried using Send Coins > RBF Control. It sets source to the right transaction. I have set a new receive address in my wallet, and set Amount to Max. However, I am getting Size: N/A, Fee: N/A, and Preview Transaction says it has an Invalid spend value. Using other amounts makes no difference.

I'm really not sure what I am supposed to do here. Is there any documentation on this I can read? Armory doesn't seem to have a help file.

A day or two after the snapshot on the 28th, there will be a new release of the Ardor software that will include the final genesis block. You should be able to run it and check your balance for IGNIS and ARDR is correct immediately, and you'll probably be able to check it with Jelurida's online wallet too. You won't be able to do anything other than look at it until the 1st. That's when forging begins and the first transactions become possible.

I have a similar issue. When I right-click and select Bump Fee, nothing seems to happen. No dialog appears, and nothing extra is written in File > Export Log File....

The transaction has 1 input and 1 SegWit output. It looks like it never got propagated to the network - there was a warning about P2P/RPC when I created it, and Blockchain Info says "Transaction not found" more than half an hour later. I'm using Armory 0.96.3.99, and Core 0.14.1. So it may be that this behaviour is as designed; if so, the user experience is not great.

Later: I used Help > Clear All Unconfirmed to get rid of it. Resending with a higher fee had the same problem. I'm going to try updating core to 0.15.1. If my node isn't well-connected enough, is there anything I can do to improve that?

Be aware that Armory has its own subforum at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=97.0. I doubt they will be able to offer better help than already given here, though.

Thanks. I'm surprised it needs a commandline option, given that SegWit is off by default.

Has Armory got slower to launch recently? I had it running and synced, closed it, then immediately restarted it. It's taken several minutes to build databases and now says an hour to scan transaction history. I'm sure it used to be much quicker just a few months ago.

Two reasons. First, is that the new Ardor architecture for child-chains was too radical to be retro-fitted to the old coin. Second, introducing a new chain, with a new social contract, provided the opportunity to raise much-needed funds.

The devs have said they'll support Nxt for at least three years. See for example Arthur Penzl on Medium. It doesn't cost a lot to run some full nodes for it. The bigger issue is whether enough other people use it to give it enough value that the security model works. However, in my view over three years Ethereum is not a sure bet either.

I'm unable to set the preferred receive address type to P2SH-P2WPKH for my offline machine. I've just updated both my online and my offline to this release. My online, connected computer allows all the address types. The offline one has P2SH-P2WPKH disabled. Is there a reason for this?

PS I really think you should have a sticky post at the top of this forum pointing to https://btcarmory.com/docs/. I just tried searching ang got https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/ again. It's not clear which is the best site to use.

The final snapshot will be taken around Christmas day (block 1630000) and the Ardor Platform will launch on 1st Jan. See https://www.jelurida.com/ardor-release-timeline.

(I'm sorry if you've seen this before. I just posted this on Reddit and I thought I'd say it again here.)

People had been complaining about the ICO, for good reason. They were also saying the devs didn't care; that they were happy if a few whales bought as long as they got their money. Those of us that have been involved in Nxt for a while knew better.

This update is important for two reasons. The first is that it levels the playing field. It effectively gives the bot advantage to everyone. Now whether you get to buy or not mainly depends on whether your transaction is lucky enough to reach the forging node before the offering is sold out. That mostly depends on your network connectivity. Whales don't get any particular advantage any more.

Perhaps more importantly, it also shows that the devs listen to the community, they care, and they work hard to fix problems. They have been doing this for more than the 4 years that Nxt has been a running crypto-currency. They will keep on doing it into the future. They believe in crypto-currencies as a force for good in the world and they are making it happen.

The potential here is huge. Nxt has taken a bit of a beating over the last year, partly because the devs have been working on their vision for Ardor and so Nxt itself has not had many updates in that time. All that behind-the-scenes work is about to come to fruition, with Ardor now on Testnet and going to be properly launched on Livenet by the end of the year. Ardor finally solves the scalability problems that cripple all other crypto-currencies.

The problems this ICO has had are problems of success. It is over-subscribed. Whales want in because they know the devs will deliver. They also want to put their money in because they know money is needed. Nxt raised some Bitcoin for development and marketing back when it started, all those years ago, and that money ran out. The community tried to raise money other ways, but really Nxt has been running on fumes for a while now. The success of this ICO means that phase is over.

The Ardor platform will finally have the financial backing it deserves. With that, and the unmatched technology, and some of the best devs in the business, Ardor/Ignis is poised for take-off.