Yes, I think that realistically, you have to have a Chaincoin-QT UI and a consolidated wallet (i.e., all private keys together in one wallet.dat).  There is so much power, particularly in the new version which has a Masternodes tab so you can monitor them; and, naturally, you can spend the coins from Chaincoin-QT almost never having to touch the masternodes except for system maintenance and upgrades.

Using chaincoin-cli check into command lockunspent - beware the syntax is tricky because the same command can be used to either lock or unlock amounts (see complaints here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4163)

To answer this, you need to understand how wallets can "lock" amounts.  This is handled differently on masternodes versus the Chaincoin-QT UI.  For Masternodes on say linux, there are commands to lock and unlock amounts.  On Chaincoin-QT, when you go to the [Send] tab (with Coin Control Features enabled), you'll see a button [Inputs...] which will let you choose individual amounts with a checkbox.  By using this feature you can avoid digging into the original stake, and send out only reward earnings.

BTW I should say that to make Chaincoin-QT very useful, there are two things you can do (1) you can export the private keys from your masternode wallets and import them into Chaincoin-QT, and in so doing, you can see your earnings consolidated in Chaincoin-QT (2) there is an approach where Chaincoin-QT can be set up as a "control" node (I haven't yet done this and instructions are elsewhere).  I'm certain that with approach (1) it is awesome because you can see your earnings in the GUI without having to SSH into your masternodes, and you also have the benefit of Coin Control Features for sending out your earnings.  I'm planning to move to approach (2) when time permits, there are instructions for this elsewhere in this forum.

I'm looking at my wallet now, and it appears that the rewards are sent to the same address that contains the masternode's "stake" 1000 CHC. 

Here's a copy of my chaincoin.conf, which is working:



One other thing you can do is check your debug.log file, do this:

cd ~\.chaincoin
cat debug.log | grep "capable"

You should see a log line with the phrase "capable masternode!" signalling that you have the correct number of CHC in your wallet.  You may also see that the system is still waiting for <n> out of 15 confirmations, which is necessary before the masternode is deemed "capable".

Yes, I definitely know that you must have exactly 1000 CHC in a single transaction.  It won't work for example, to send 999.99 and then try to make up the balance by sending more (say 0.01).  Even though the balance in the wallet may be exactly 1000 CHC, that doesn't work.  If you are in a situation where you have the balance in more than one transactions, send the CHC out to another wallet.  Example:

chaincoind sendtoaddress CdaQ5zNe5271t8D838jpmoqN12Rq2xmgL2 1004.00

Then, send it back to the masternode 1000 CHC exactly at once in a single transaction.

The way to deal with CHC (psychologically) is to put aside the alienation and get on with the fascination.  I've got my masternodes generating CHC, and it is fun to watch the coins come in.

I have a Windows-based consolidated wallet with copies of the private keys from my five masternodes running on Amazon AWS.  

With the Windows-based wallet, I get the pop-up notifications whenever coins come in from any of the nodes, so I just leave the Windows wallet up 24X7.  The Address field shows which masternode the coins came from.

Right now I'm running the latest 0.9.3.0 (beta) so I'm ready when the consensus rules change so that masternodes get 45% of the block reward earnings.  

So, instead of fretting and panicking about the price, I'm kind of saving up for another masternode.  Right now I have 471 CHC which is both masternode earnings plus a few extra coins from trading on Cryptopia.  So while the value of the coin is low, it is more a game to see how many masternodes I can get running.  Eventually, I think we'll look back on this as a "fun" time when price wasn't a big concern.

We all need to do this: don't worry or take it so seriously.  Take some money and buy a masternode, or buy another one if you already have one.  It is so inexpensive that everyone can afford one.  If we all do this with a sense of fun instead of a sense of dread, we'll eventually lock up enough coins for the price to start moving upwards. 

Same, I'm running 0.9.3.0 on my five masternodes now.  They're generating CHC now, 12 CHC since upgrading this weekend.

BTW I recompiled each masternode separately, which was kind of a pain.  For those of you still facing the update, I used the following commands:


I'm honestly not sure that all of these commands are strictly necessary, but this worked for me.  Note that I had to install libevent-dev explicitly first.

Developers: I strongly recommend you package the masternode binaries so that users can use apt-get to install and update.  In my case, I had a lot of trouble running make, even with the swap file defined, because my AWS t2.nano nodes have only 512MB of memory.  This caused the make process to abort sporadically (also disconnecting my SSH session), requiring that I restart make several times before finishing successfully.  The compile process took perhaps an hour.

Recapping: Max and RichTV

Random Tandems has had an outstanding invitation for Max to come onto his Discord channel and clear the air regarding Random's allegations that he is (or has) colluded with Rich TV to defraud his subscribers.

The allegations are serious and the evidence is damning.

We have a transcript of a Skype conversion between Random and Rich TV, where Rich is trying to recruit Random to join a conspiracy between some crypto-focused YouTubers including:

• Rich TV
• HighOnCoins (Max)
• Crypto Trader Pro
• Random Tandems

In the exchanges, Rich TV say point blank that is plan is to push his own coin, of which he will own 9 million units, with the help of the other YouTubers listed above.  Rich TV admits point blank that his intent is to push the value of Rich Coin (or whatever is called) to $1.00/share and then shamelessly dump the shares onto the subscribers with absolutely no remorse or hesitation.  

In exchange for participating in this conspiracy, Rich offered Random Tandems 100,000 shares of Rich Coin.  Moreover in trying to sell the idea to Random, Rich TV alleged that Max has been involved in this already and has made millions.  Just to be sure, Random confirmed several times, and each time Rich confirmed that Max has made millions.

But there was a big problem: Random did not accept the offer and instead blew the whistle on both Rich TV and also Max.  Understand that if Random had simply accepted Rich TV's offer, we would know nothing and Random would be that much richer.  It is a tribute to his integrity that this didn't happen.

But it makes you wonder whether Max wasn't so strong.

Now, we have no proof of anything, but consider this: Random has been asking Max repeatedly, for over 12 hours, to explain what is happening to clear the air.  In particular, Random asks Max to show his Cryptopia account, where he should certainly be still holding 29K CHC if he is man of his words.  Max has said very clearly that he would HODL CHC forever, even if it reaches 0.01/CHC.  So unless he is a liar, or unless he has some very good reason that he hasn't explained, the CHC should still be there.

Random has shown his account over and over: he has the CHC as he says (I think he has about 3-4K CHC).

But for whatever reason, and you have to use your judgement, Max's is not responding to the challenge.  His position is that this is just trolling and he's not going to get involved in YouTube drama.  

So here is my opinion and mine only.  If someone accused me of the grave injustices that Random is alleging, and if I were innocent, I would move heaven and earth to fucking prove that I wasn't a scam artist.  I'd do anything: show my Cryptopia balances, show the IP addresses of my masternodes, anything.

Yet, Max seems to be too tired or busy to do any of this.  He has joined Discord, only to post short platitudes like "HODL" without responding directly to any of the serious charges being made.

I cannot prove it, but I have a theory: I think that Max may have taken up Rich TV on his offer, because I feel like Max changed before my eyes.  I do believe that Max was in the right place when he was trying to launch CHC, making the supporting videos.  I also believe that Max really believed the CHC could succeed.  But when it didn't succeed (and I think it was a matter of us not getting sufficient control of the outstanding CHC), Max got demoralized and went over to the dark side with Rich TV.  

I believe that he has been doing pretty much textbook pump-and-dump with every coin since, including LINDA.

By the way, Random also says that he has learned of a secret Discord channel that is used by Max and his insiders.  The secret channel is where the very close allies were getting advanced news of impending pumps prior to Max ever mentioning the coin.  They would load up, Max would sell the coin and then they'd dump.

So these are very, very serious charges and Max may yet come forward and offer an explanation.  I think he owes it to us to clear the air, but for now Random is not pulling any punches, he's calling Max a despicable scammer without honor.

Yes, if you want to hear someone with integrity, and you're upset about what happened to CHC, subscribe and like Random Tandem's YouTube channel.  This is refreshing.

Random Tandems is blowing the whistle on Max and Rich TV on his channel now.  Rich TV was absolutely trying to run a pump-and-dump scam, and apparently Max was at minimum standing by Rich and trying to soften Random's criticisms of Rich TV.  Max needs to come clean now and show his Cryptopia accounts.

Random Tandems is saying something that I believe: CHC is real, but Max looks very bad right now.  He could still come on the air and be exonerated but he has to act fast.

As I've always felt, Random is a much better "leader" (for lack of a better word) for the CHC HODL movement than Max.  There is simply no way to fake the passion that Random feels for CHC, he's still holding and he proves it by showing his accounts.

Dash Cash

Simple proposal: concatenate the DASH and CHC blockchains into a single chain, then re-launch the combined chains as DASH CASH.  The consensus rules would be CHC rules.  Anyone with DASH or CHC could redeem their shares on the new blockchain, similarly to Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Such a radical move would have to happen soon, because there will be many, many copy-cats after the apparent success of BCH.

I have only one thing to add:

Fuck fucking LINDA

OK, I've said my peace.  Thanks for listening

You're falling into a trap by guessing (incorrectly) at my motives I have no regrets about not selling at $6.00, and if and when CHC reaches $6.00 again, I have no intention of selling then either. I don't want to make a quick profit at the expense of others, what's the point?  What an empty victory that would be, I don't need it.

I think that many of us are hoping to disrupt this space by proving that the zero-sum game isn't the only way.  I'm sure that Random, for one feels the same way, and I think many others share this view.

I don't understand, why is this a new low? If we're going up against all of the other coins, there has to be something about CHC that makes it stand out. I think it is the CHC community that makes the difference.  What do you think?

Marketing CHC

Why do you invest in Chaincoin?

• I want to be part of a community that cooperates for mutual prosperity.
• I am sick of the pump-and-dump world where a few selfish people get rich leaving everyone else holding the bag.
• I am fatigued by the parade of scam coins, with all of their empty rhetoric and empty promises.
• I respect the honesty and transparency of the CHC community.
• I believe that the community is more important than the features of the coin.

Who are you when you invest in Chaincoin?

• I am honest and helpful to the community.
• I think differently than most investors.
• I reject the notion that the little guy can never succeed.
• I have the courage and grace to HODL under pressure.
• I stand with a community in defiance of powerful forces stacked against me.

Never Break The Chain

 

CryptoNinjaPanda, do you know whether there exists an infrastructure like the BIP protocol for CHC, someplace where we can write proposals to improve things?  If not, we should get that set up as well, some way to more formalize these changes.

I had no idea that there were so many developers, and my apologies to Roli (lead), I was under the impression that brakmic was essentially the sole developer. This is a symptom of the problem you indicated, namely no list of developers.  That would be such an easy thing to do to bolster confidence.

But given there has already been talk of implementing DASH-style budgeting, and there is a sense that this isn't an idea perceived as way out in left field, I'm going to quietly start accumulating more CHC, because if any of this comes together, combined with continuing increases in masternode lock-in percentage, I don't want to look back on this as a missed opportunity: a community-driven coin for people that would rather HODL than scam one another.

Dahman, in an earlier post today, I explained to another HODLer how to "lock" the original 1,000 CHC to make it off limits, so you can safely send only your earnings out of your masternode. 

No, sorry I don't know the rules, but I suspect that I have received some, because many of my incoming masternode rewards are slightly higher than 2 CHC.  Like I'm looking at one right now and it is 2.000025, 2.000175 and so on.  Looks like it is always a multiple of .000025 though, that may be a clue.

To import into Chaincon-QT wallet, do Tools -> Debug Console then enter the following command:

importprivkey <privkey> <label>

where

<privkey> is your masternode private key
<label> is a label that should be the name your masternode from which the private key came

Example:

importprivkey Q7WGfhYKnxDnubD2TVJPXEbzREhtzXLE8JZBwsT9XcM1rw7Aw5vU Chaincoin1

If you have multiple masternodes, <label> is super helpful, because it becomes the account field for incoming transactions.  The net effect is when you look at the Transactions panel, you'll see your <label> in the Addressfield, so if you are getting a bunch of income from different masternodes, you can tell which nodes are receiving that income.

In my case <label> is one of the following:

Chaincoin1
Chaincoin2
Chaincoin3
Chaincoin4
Chaincoin5

So, since I have five nodes, I had to import five keys.

Some helpful information about wallet consolidation can be found here:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/reubens-start-multiple-masternodes-from-one-wallet-guide-start-many.4034/

Even though this post is for DASH, the concepts are exactly the same for CHC.

Caveat emptor: although I believe this should work perfectly for you, in my case, I didn't actually use Chaincoin-QT.  Insteady, I consolidated my keys into a wallet on an Ubuntu machine using the command line, then copied my wallet.dat from Ubuntu to windows.  This proved that wallet.dat format is completely compatible between Ubuntu and Windows, but that was probably the more cumbersome way to do it.  You should be able to import the private keys into Chaincoin-QT using Debug Console.