One of the reasons that the wallet is long to sync and freezes is because it's based on a super old fork of Litecoin (0.8.6 to be precise).

The next major version of litecoin (0.10.x) contained a bunch of optimizations to improve syncing speed and db optimizations, so to improve our wallet we should rebase our code against a newer version of litecoin.

I started this work here, but if someone wants to continue, i suggest using my repository as a starting point https://github.com/Worldcoin-Network/worldcoin as I've stripped out much of the unnecessary skinning that the worldcoin QT wallet used.

The wallets that are posted in this repo do not have hardcoded seeds that currently function so you'll need to provide a worldcoin.conf file with nodes in them.

I do suggest caution about installing random executables so I recommend building from scratch (windows is a pain in the ass though, and best built by cross compiling under linux). Building for linux is dead simple.

Add a worldcoin.conf file in the same directory as your wallet:

C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Worldcoin\worldcoin.conf

addnode=46.105.122.114
addnode=178.63.66.10
addnode=94.130.64.143
addnode=173.212.202.33
addnode=198.27.81.114
addnode=142.93.100.247
addnode=47.93.8.237
addnode=101.1.31.189
addnode=178.63.66.10
addnode=173.212.202.33
addnode=213.239.219.230
addnode=173.212.202.33
addnode=37.57.101.117
addnode=217.73.86.61
addnode=190.112.223.60
addnode=101.1.31.189
addnode=101.1.31.233
addnode=43.243.168.104
addnode=47.95.194.175
addnode=47.94.14.246

Gotta wait for the wallet to sync. Your coins are not lost as long as you have your wallet.dat file.

The exchanges enforce their own confirmation requirements... Cryptopia for instance requires 20 confirms before it's considered valid.

Updated wallet is here for Windows and Linux. Mac will come soon.

This is a move from using litecoin 0.8.6.2 to litecoin 0.8.7.5 as a base, as well as a removal of most of the extra styling. The wallets should feel much more like a regular crypto wallet.

It should be fully compatible with existing wallets and contains several security updates (notably OpenSSL). If you've previously been running the 0.8.6.2 wallet from worldcoinproject, you should be able to run the new software without moving your data directory.

Since the network is so weak, I've upped the number of confirmations in the qt client to 6 to match litecoin. This doesn't affect worldcoind since it's only a UI flag to prevent a a user from spending coins too early.

Source code:
https://github.com/Worldcoin-Network/worldcoin

Wallets for Windows and Linux:
https://github.com/Worldcoin-Network/worldcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.7.5

These wallets should be considered beta and come with no warranty - I've done a bunch of testing on my machines and I haven't encountered any issues yet.

Sure have (different discord name, but it's obvious who I post as). You should join us on the discord!


Actually you don't *need* to trust the developer, if the code is in front of you. I'll make the source code available when I've finished testing and you can vet it yourself. It hasn't happened yet because I don't believe in releasing code that I haven't personally tested completely. (For instance, the litecoin code I merged, had a hard fork at block 709999 which I only discovered through testing).

I don't expect anyone to install the wallet, but I'll provide compiled copies for testing when I release the source.

What I have done is rebased the existing codebase worldcoin-0.8 against 0.8.7.5 litecoin vs 0.8.6.2 litecoin which the current build is based off of. I also stripped out all of the non essential changes, (such as the entire UI) as those changes make the wallet very difficult and error prone to upgrade.

Not to get anyone too excited, but I've finished my refactor of the wallets, and built the linux client.

I'm still working on getting windows and mac builds, and I'll release my source code and wallets when that's done!

As I'm updating the wallet, one of the huge issues is that the built in seed nodes are no longer up.

In the WorldcoinGlobal repo, I see the following:

seednode.worldcoin.global
seednode2.worldcoin.global
seednode3.worldcoin.global
seednode4.worldcoin.global
seednode5.worldcoin.global
seednode6.worldcoin.global

In the WorldcoinAlliance repo, I see the following:
seednode1.worldcoincore.com
seednode2.worldcoincore.com
seednode3.worldcoincore.com
seednode4.worldcoincore.com
seednode5.worldcoincore.com
seednode6.worldcoincore.com

Does anyone have any recommended seednodes they can share? There's some IP addresses cryptopia lists in their coin-info. If not I'll add a seed node to worldcoin.network.

The beauty of cryptocurrencies is that you don't need to trust anyone. You can download the source code and build it yourself! (Though I'll admit it's a pain in the ass, I've only got the linux version of the wallet compiling right now).

I was a bit concerned with the rate of development on this coin - it's pretty far behind litecoin and bitcoin, but it doesn't need to be. http://worldcoin.global has been down for a long time and finding information on the coin is super difficult.

I will be putting some effort into modernizing Worldcoin. To start, I've registered http://worldcoin.network and I'll be putting links to the repository on the page. (There's no web page yet, and I'm a terrible front end developer).

The second thing I want to do is to merge the WorldcoinGlobal code changes back into the original worldcoin repo on github, and then begin upgrading the wallet.

Stay tuned for great things!