I compiled the wallet from the Github and used the addnode provided in the OP, but the wallet doesn't work to get a block template:
vectorcoind getblocktemplate {}:
error: {"code":-10,"message":"Vectorcoin is downloading blocks..."}
(Although there was only one node connected at that point, which had the same block height at the time.)
vectorcoind getinfo:
{
"version" : 80702,
"protocolversion" : 70002,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 12,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"connections" : 2,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 0.00024414,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1413526414,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"mininput" : 0.00001000,
"errors" : ""
}
UPDATE: It also seems to have a fixed low starting difficulty with a long difficulty retargeting method:
{
"version" : 80702,
"protocolversion" : 70002,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 838,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"connections" : 1,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 0.00024414,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1413526414,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"mininput" : 0.00001000,
"errors" : ""
}
(And getblocktemplate still fails to work.)
Please update your wallet.