You're good. You didn't actually have to delete the wallet file, but that causes no harm. Now you wait for block 506500 like the rest of us

For the tests, we had the fork at an earlier block (which of course would have screwed up the coin if issued live), but other than that, it's the same wallet. Thundertoe and I both staked within a few blocks of the test fork. I think it will be pretty dramatic come the fork I suspect there will be a LOT of orphans the first few days after the fork. Just because there will be so many people competing for stake.

Also, I haven't spoken to the developers yet today, but hopefully the version number thing will be fixed in git. But there's gonna be a majorly upgraded wallet soon, so maybe they'll just let it go. If you got it from Presstab or Argakiig's link, or compiled from the master github link after the announcement, you're good.

you can combine multiple blocks into one by sending your chosen amount to yourself. any number of blocks can be in the same wallet, even the same address.

Using coin control (which is under the send coins tab) you can choose what blocks to combine, which to exclude. It's fairly simple in it's mechanics. We in the high staking coin community have quite a widespread debate over the best strategies, but the short form is that bigger blocks have a higher chance of staking first than smaller blocks. It all comes down to how you choose to stage them. TEK is a pretty forgiving coin, so do what thou wilt. Some of 'em are picky in what stategies work.

Ok, here are some thoughts I've had on the subject.

One, the focus of Zimstake is entertainment, allegedly. So perhaps we should try to have it featured on sites like putlocker and other movie streaming sites.

Additionally, to my perspective, games of chance. Lotteries, poker, blackjack, roulette, things of that nature. People love to gamble. In good times they gamble for fun and in bad times they gamble in desperation.

Yet another arena which we could aim for is music. There are many people making music, now that the tools are readily available, so perhaps a two pronged approach. Music production services, and songs. Both denominated in ZS.

And of course the things that the users can do, in addition to any of the above. Those on social media, pimp this bitch everywhere!

Blog about it. Find some product or service you want to get ZS for, and make sure the whole 'net knows about it.

If we're to bring ZS out of the doldrums, it's going to be a ground up effort.

From the point of view of building a foundation, I'm not sure where to go with that at all. I like the idea, and I like how a couple others have done it, but I'm not sure how it would apply to Zimstake.

For myself, I'm willing to be invloved, but until approximately the second week in September, I will not be able to do anything useful. I'm moving, very far, and I work full time. This is going to consume my life for the next few days. I'll check in as I can, but please don't take a long silence from me as abandonment. Simply bad timing on this project. When I have more time after getting moved, I'll be very active.

damn, I wasn't even close this time Paid!

Honestly not a clue. I've run the daemon and two separate compiles (one static, one not) of the QT on linux without issue. Only thing I can think of is permissions. Try starting the daemon with sudo?

Any more experienced linux guys wanna chime in? It's what I run now, but that's pretty recent. I think at this point I've enough experience to call myself a novice rather than a complete noob

Yeah, I see your point. But this community does seem to have above average players. We'll see. To me, my method makes sense personally as well as to the community, because I always will have a small amount of coins that I can spend if need be, and always have more coming at a regular interval. But I tend to try to plan farther than tomorrow, and I guess that's not common sure. I usually do it as several lines of code (I always screw up combining code ) but here you go.

I was actually testing the TEK wallet fix at the time, or I would have Thanks for the kind words!

From a fellow American, Hell Yes. I don't care about King George's foot. Our ancestors kicked the bum out, so why are we STILL using his measurements when even his country has gone over to a more rational system.

Doesn't mean the ideas were useless. The Amiga was a failure in the market place, but all modern computers use it's basic setup. Take what you can get. Often, the best innovation is an aggregation of other's ideas.

Don't know that one. Can you contact them or post a link?


Also, on buying my stake, I'm not sure I'm selling, but PM me. I'd rather do it off exchange myself.

cool. I've contacted miner's point, dsync, and tompool. Central Cavern is down, and Raskul is out of the country for a bit, but I'll let him know in case he's bringing it back.

Any others?

v1.1.0.0-gf96a5a-TEK

Unfortunately, it's also what it shows in the older version It got by us in code review, but it won't affect anything. Just make sure you either compiled from the master github page, or one of the two windows versions that were posted. Presstab's is probably the best, as it has statically linked libraries and don't need .dll files.

@ Johan11, yes, it should start staking at or near that block. In testing it worked within minutes. Given the time frame, however, I would expect a lot of orphans as damn near every holder of TEK is gonna be competing for stake at that point. That didn't happen in testing, but we only had two or three wallets linked at a time.

@mmfiore again. Damn, you guys are quick! Yes, I'll contact them.
I had forgotten them.

yes. And also the current master link in github. This update is not much changed. No new features or anything like that, it's just a fix to the staking problem. It looks identical to the previous version, it just has a few lines of code changed to make sure that it starts staking again and that the particular circumstance that caused it to hang in the first place can't happen again.

Well, if you have the github link, you can look at a line in main.cpp. But if you are certain you're running the one from the dropbox link, it is correct. The version number wasn't incremented in the source. Thundertoe is aware of it and it'll be fixed at some point, but I noticed it after things were already pushed. The collective decision was to just go ahead anyway. Just be sure you ran the new QT and you're fine.

My turn to ask dumb questions

The block explorer in the new wallet shows all zeros. Is there a switch or a configuration option I have to activate to make it work? Or?

Thanks.

Good point. I like that phrase My personal thought on it, is "why?" I can think of better things to brag about. But if it's wanted, and it harms no one, what the hell. While technically correct, I still think this is not a good strategy unless you hold a very small amount. I'll detail my strategy here, and then say why I think it's better.
1st off, I'm breaking my blocks into a few days apart, blocks of 1000. Every time they stake, I leave them split, for now, but do a send on the next day to myself to make the block be a day apart. My goal is to have 30 1K blocks a day apart. Since this is a hybrid coin, that has nothing to do with moving the chain, PoW does that just fine.

But it does have to do with the health of the coin, and the market.

The reason behind this is that after the initial 30 days, I should on average have a block staking every day. Thus, if I NEED to sell for whatever reason, I have a bit to do so with, and I have plenty of immature coins to do so with. I have pretty good self discipline, but many don't. This has the added benefit of making you think about selling large amounts with a jaundiced eye, as it will interrupt your staking. It also, if enough people do it, tends to make a stable, steady market rather than large amounts of coins all hitting the exchanges at once and causing a price drop. And of course, if you don't sell any, you get a continuously increasing stake for later, when you do need money.

This, coupled with gaining commercial traction, will help to stabilize the market.  It's not a bad idea to add STATIC=1, as that makes it so you can move the client to another computer without recompiling.  so you're last line would be make STATIC=1 -f Makefile. I build all my wallets this way, and it makes for better control, especially since I'm constantly experimenting. It DOES make the final executable program a bit bigger, as it compiles the necessary libraries into the program. Depending on your circumstances and ability to resist playing with your installation. (my ability in that arena is nonexistant ) An option to think about.

I am not sure how daemon=1 could help, as that allows it to take and send rpc calls remotely and run in the background. I'm not an expert in the code, but to my knowledge that function is unrelated to syncing.

I've had the problem with a few coins, and usually you just deal with restarting it several times. Once it's fully synced, as long as you don't let it get way behind, it seems to be a non issue. Though some coins have specific points they stick at, while other's it's the number of blocks like this example.

I know.
But it's the same one he's used in the past. And it does relate to his real name.

Edit. It relates to his real name the same way that Vince Neil's name does.

Well, since he went public with his name, I am taking the liberty of confirming that Jeremy Biggs was one of the men I spoke to privately some months ago when making my own decision.

As a general rule, I'd agree with you, but this issue has given me hope.

During this whole period where we were unable to stake, and where updates were haphazard (no dig at the devs, I was involved and there was a lot of stuff that happened IRL to the people involved at exactly the wrong moment), THIS coin's community didn't panic. I expected massive dumping, twenty pages of FUD, ten pages of scam accusations, and some good old fashioned panic. And that would have been day 1 for most coins.

Instead, most everyone kept their head, or at least held their tongue, and let us get things sorted. Given that, I think this coin's community has a better class of people than a lot of our competitors. Maybe it won't go wild on monday. And if people DO hold, next month's stakings ought to reward them handsomely. I have some personal shit going on that very likely will make me sell some of my stake, but not a hell of a lot. I'm talking in the neighborhood of a few hundred coins. If I can avoid it, I won't be selling a goddamn thing because I haven't reached my staking goals yet.

My thought is that if the majority of us sell just a bit to take some profit or cover some costs, the market will continue to rise, or at least remain stable. As long as everyone keeps their heads, everyone keeps their heads.

Meanwhile, the development continues, and we should have a much nicer wallet in the near future. Nobody from Thundertoe on down the line knows exactly when that will be, but it's also not a major thing as the base functionality of the coin will be restored. All is well, just a bit delayed