Latest posts of: VladK

The hoster that hosted philosopherstones.org had turned off his servers and run away, though the hosting was paid till the end of this year.
The problem is that phs.org is complicated custom python software that requeres postgre database, web proxy, caching etc. All configuration files are lost of course, and I need a few days to configure everything again on a new hosting. And I have no free time now.
I will buy more expensive and reliable hosting and repair phs.org later. Have no exact date, but before the New Year.

But, as before phs community needs somebody who will lead telegram channel, discord channel, reddit, facebook channel maybe, write Medium articles and so on. Without this work PHS will die, and I can't do this job.

Quote from: Muzzargh on October 16, 2018, 06:04:39 AM

From Cryptopia Support:

Hi muzzargh,

Thank you for your response. We require a representative of the coin to contact our Coin wallets team, in regards a more in depth response. The representative can contact our coin wallets team at coinwallets@cryptopia.co.nz in regards to the details. Unfortunately the Support team only have a the basic details in regards to the coin delisting, which you have already received.

Kind regards, Emily

I have no established connection with Cryptopia as PHS dev. But other coin(HBN) dev have got the answer from the wallet team. They wanted 2 BTC and full KYS documents from two persons - coin dev and coin CEO or PR manager. And they still have the right to delist any coin any time due their new delisting police. I think it's not a good deal. I personly have withdrawn all coins ( not only PHS) that I had there.

The resons for de-listing PHS from Cryptopia are low volume and lack of activity in developing and marketing.
There are no security problems.

If somebody have more established relationship with Cryptopia team than me, maybe you can asure them that PHS is not dead.

But we strongly need somebody who will take responsobility for PR and marketing of PHS: negotiations with exchagers, writing articles,
advertising, organizing donations for listing fees and marketing expence etc. Somebody who is native English speaker.

I can handle technical questions and continue to develop the wallet and web applications for PHS, but I can't handle marketing and PR.

Quote from: Noob_two on March 03, 2018, 08:35:24 PM

Philosopherstone is a 4 stars coin now!

The rating at www.cryptopia.co.nz of Philosopherstone was increased for a second time from initially 1,5 stars via 3 stars in December 2017 to 4 stars NOW!
This means Philosopherstone is one of the 30 highest rated coins out of 585coins available at cryptopia exchange (only 29 coins have more then 4 stars)!
Check out here: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/CoinInfo/?coin=PHS
The rating is based on the following criteria:
Windows Wallet +100
Linux Wallet +100
Mac Wallet +100
Mobile Wallet +100
Web/Paper Wallet +100
Premine 0% No change, 0.1%-2% -200, 2.1%-10% -300, 10.1%-50% -400, 50.1%-100% -600
Website +100
Block Explorer +200
Cryptopia Forum Thread +200

Thanks to VlatK, Palmdetroid and all other supporters we have everything of the rating list above but no "Mobile Wallet" or "Web/Paper wallet" yet. (By the way in my opinion cryptopia itself is a web wallet, too.)

Great news. And mobile and Web wallet eventually will be done.

Quote from: DrHibernian on February 13, 2018, 09:54:28 PM

This was interesting to see when some minted coins showed up last night, after running the client for a few weeks (off n on)! Grin

Looking up my address: 9jzrgBnBY8V7LH9cSgvyYMtL9wbrgyt6RV on philosopherstones.org/block/

the transaction:
f6e41098360c26faf62203462bcb93be935e453becb674b96095b48991aa3023

The Operation History Tab show my POS reward as 43.99589000 PHS
but,
when I go to the Unspent Inputs Tab, the POS amount shows as 98.88279800 PHS
a difference of 54.886908 PHS.

My wallet only shows the 43.99589 amount as well. After looking thru all my POS rewards, the same thing has happened with all of them!
******Another reward just came in Cheesy

as I typed this and it also has different amounts between the two "info" tabs on the Block Explorer.

Can anyone give me some insight on what's going on?
Two clues to this, one: following the transactions connected to each reward, it seems some of the newly minted coins are being "sent forward" to future POS rewards?
the second clue, under Transaction Details, it shows some of the coins "Not Yet Redeemed".

Love to find out where to "redeem" a bit over 100 PHS that hasn't been credited!! Huh

In operation history you see your reward. The amount of new coins credited to your account. In unspent inputs you see all your coins, that you can spend. The amount of coins that was before reward plus reward it has minted.

Quote from: DrHibernian on February 08, 2018, 03:09:52 AM

I've been running my client for 7 days now and didn't understand why I wasn't minting anything

How old is your coins? It generally takes 10 days to stake. And if amount of coins, or chunks are less that 1000 PHS even much longer.

Quote from: dexterw1n on February 07, 2018, 10:28:39 AM

Trying 1.6.6.9, mine is crashing on startup as well, tried with a completely fresh data dir, both the 32 bit and 64 bit wallets. Gets to Loading blocks... and just closes. Windows 10 i7-4770k 16gb ram, wallet is on an ssd. I also tried with the bootstrap, same results.

You can use older version 1.6.6.7 before problems with new release will be sorted out. Follow the instructions http://philosopherstones.org/#product

philosophercoins.org is down. Our provider suddenly closed its business and stopped all servers.
Any way we need faster and alas more expensive hosting.
But it will take few days before I start new server.

Quote from: sorrros on January 16, 2018, 10:11:54 PM

The 'Check point too old message' is only a text message and has never created any problem in the 4 1/2 years of existence of PHS.
I don't think we should be toying with the conf file policy. Unless we know 200% what we are doing with this!

Check point server is controversial heritage from PPC coin. One node, usually running by developer becomes "main"
and in a case of blockchain split all other nodes are ordered to follow the chain "main" node have chosen.
More security, less decentralization.
The old crypto key for checkpoint server is lost and we need to compile new client with a new key.
It's not emergency issue and I need another few days to recompile and check everything.

For now, while there is no checkpoint server online it's doesn't matter what policy you choose.

Small update.
Telegram channel was not what we all wanted. So, I've deleted it and create supergroup,
where everybody can write like in chat room.
But those who was following old channel already, please join new group instead.
Address is the same - https://t.me/phscoin

Vlad

I updated philosopherstones.org to point to the new wallet and changed the description of bootstrapping process.
I've created new Telegram channel https://t.me/phscoin.
Version 1.6.6.8 will be ready soon. Most important changes are new checkpoint server and RaspberryPi build,
thanks to Noob_two.
Any help with graphics, articles about PHS, marketing and Telegram channel is welcome.

Quote from: Coinmaster87 on January 04, 2018, 02:59:40 PM

what is the max supply of this coin?

PHS exists more then 4 years with POS rate 50% and it's only 6,5 million coins now.
There is no hard cap in the code now, but we expect no more than 20 million coins.
POS rate will half in the September of 2019 and September of 2021 to 12,5%.

Quote from: b20lopez on January 06, 2018, 05:56:02 AM

Can someone please help me in installing the Mint Wallet for linux...
I am not a programmer so i am having a hard time...

I cant find any instructions on how to install for Linux commands.

Website = nothing about installation for linux
Github = nothing about installation for linux

https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/Mintcoin-Desktop-Wallet/blob/2.0/doc/build-unix.txt

Quote from: Chris180BTC on January 02, 2018, 06:25:30 PM

I've had it open for 4 days straight and it's about 1/5th through. It's the slowest sync I've ever seen. It's currently got 8 connections.
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MINT has a huge blockchain. About 6Gb now. It's take time to sync.

Block explorer is in sync now. Everything's fine.

Quote from: Noob_two on December 05, 2017, 10:02:55 PM

New 1.6.6.7 fork for ARMv7, (p.e. Raspberry Pi2+3)

Hi VladK,
Thanks for your new version 1.6.6.7. But unfortunately the majority is still using 1.6.6.4. Sure the link on http://philosopherstones.org/ points to the basic 1.6.6.4 version. But another reason might be that you just offer a binary for 64bit Windows. Until Yesterday it was not possible to compile it on Raspberry PI. But now it is possible with this fork: https://github.com/toxtox/philosopherstone
Please have a look at the pull request for merging this feature into your fork: https://github.com/VladK75/philosopherstone/pull/1

Running PhilosopherStone-wallet on a low power consumption device with ARMv7 would make the POS only coin even GREENER!
(Even when the wallet is permanently running 24/7 as full node for stabilizing the network and for bringing 1.6.6.7 version a head!)

Thank you for helping PHS developing. I'll check your pull request. I have some stability issues with scrypt code in 1.6.6.4 under Windows and I took the one from Hobonickels. If your code works on all platforms I'll add it.
If somebody needs Raspberry version right now, they can use your repository.

Quote from: wv8huuuger on November 16, 2017, 12:56:25 AM

The CoinInfo section at Cryptopia has a basic Explorer that shows which PhilosopherStone block it is on at any given moment. This at least lets you know if you are on the same block as they are. Since this is currently the only exchange where you can trade PHS I guess it should be the authority until a better Explorer has been re-established.

http://philosopherstones.org/block/ works well.

Quote from: Muzzargh on November 15, 2017, 04:31:07 AM

How often should a wallet be backed up?

From Bitcoin Wiki:

The wallet file contains the private keys for change addresses, and they can receive and send coins normally. However, the GUI in the default client does not display them in the address book, therefore a recommendation is to backup wallet.dat every 50 transactions.

PHS uses the same mechanic. So it's good idea to backup your wallet after every 50 outgoing transaction. Incoming and stake transaction doesn't count. They use no change addresses.

Quote from: cryptotank.io on October 27, 2017, 05:59:31 PM

Why has coin market cap not been updated to show correct stats? Maybe reach out to them.

Once the wallet has synced I also see error message: "Warning. Checkpoint is too old. Wait for blockchain to download or notify developers".

I know circulating supply is about 6 million but what about total supply?

Coinmarketcap use their own algorithms to determine circulating supply.
You can get total supply with getinfo method of your wallet, like in any other bitcoin based coin.
Also it's shown in http://philosopherstones.org/block/ in Money Supply column. It's about of 6012410PHS at time of posting.

The max total supply is not set for now, but I expect to be around 20 million coins before supply of new coins will almost ceased in 2025.

You can safely ignore checkpoint warning for now. I will fix it in the next release.