For how much time the deposit addresses are reusable?

Thanks, Faust! Thats a very nice work!

But the problem with this is that nobody can be sure that your copy of the blockchain was not tampered and/or is a fork of the original chain. So before everyone download it, please wait for some confirmations from the developers that this copy is genuine, or you might lose your coins.

Another problem with this is that nobody can be sure that there is no backdoor or any malicious code in the zip that could steal wallet.dat data.

And please dont take this as a insult, Faust: Its because in the crypto community you better be safe than sorry. So your work is very appreciated, but you need to make a reputation before releasing this type of files.

Did you downloaded the ZIP from Faust? You can check if the blockchain is correct by following these steps:

1 - Put the zipped files in the CLAM folder without your wallet.dat, and preferably in a virtual machine without any sensitive data.

2 - Open the clam daemon, and wait for it to finish sync. You can speed the synchronization process by using


on clam.conf file

3 - type


to get the latest block hash

4 - Access http://khashier.com and click on the latest block number (link in blue)

The hash presented in khashier sould be the same you got in your clam client. This does not guarantee that the files in the zip arent malicious, tough.


Suggestion to Faust: Creating a torrent might be a better idea to serve these files.


For everyone having problems syncing: Please use the new beta client, it syncs much faster. It can be found here:
https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/tree/2.1.0

It happened for me, too. Open a ticket, and they will take a look at it. For me, it took almost a week for them to send my coins.

Additionally, looks like poloniex is having serious problems with the CLAM client: I saw a lot of this cases happening after the bullrun, and i have two deposits still waiting to be processed. One of them shows with 0 confirmations for more than 5 hours now, the other does not even show in history.

I would recommend another exchange, but... Well, there are none trading CLAMs, i think. Cryptopia relaunched in read-only mode some weeks ago, and are working to enable trading again, but i wold not recommend them after what happened

Here is a list of live nodes:
https://criptocambio.com.br/clamNodes

To speed up the sync process, please use the bootstrap file from dooglus and/or update your clam.conf with this setting:


And then restart the client. The bigger the maximum orphan blocks, the quicker it syncs (but with the cost of ram usage)

Sorry sir, i completely forgot about you. I have not made a richlist in csexplorer because it takes a lot of resources from the server, and there is already one that can be found here:

https://tokenview.com/en/topaccount/clam



I got a problem while withdrawing from poloniex too. In the withdraw history there was a txid, but a invalid one that do not show up on explorers. A huge amount, scared the soul out of my body! They took a week to solve that. But for now, i will just send and receive small amounts from poloniex until the bullrun ends

This does not seem to be a bug in CLAM client, but a misconfiguration on your raspberry pi. Here is a link to get you started, but that's the best i can offer you as i don't have one to debug by myself:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41848227/debian-linux-raspbian-raspberry-pi-time-offset-is-65s-ahead-of-utc


Looks like you got forked from the network. To be sure, please verify the output of the command
and take a look at https://csexplorer.criptocambio.com.br/ or http://khashier.com/ to see if the number of the last block indexed is similar. A difference of 1 is acceptable, as the network can take a time to propagate blocks. But if the difference is bigger, then you got forked and need to resync

Either you need to update your clock, or everyone does. This can be caused because of clock drifting, or some other issues. Please sync your computer with an NTP server to be sure your clock is right: Google have a huge NTP server and a nice tutorial here https://developers.google.com/time/guides




All softwares that tries to manage a criptocurrency portfolio have some sort of way to export private keys. Multibit, for example, have this tutorial:
https://multibit.org/help/v0.5/help_exportingPrivateKeys.html

Access to a wallet.dat is not necessary, as you can import these private keys to any other compatible software. The lack of technical skills, however, can really be a problem for some people: But the wallet technology is quickly getting easier to use. We already have some wallets that you just need to write down some words instead of exporting keys, for example.


Please do not copy files from other coins inside the CLAM client. They are different, and are not compatible between them. If you need to update your CLAM client, please let it update by itself or use a bootstrap.dat made by dooglus.

I still get 5-10 seconds to validate after a block arrives, but then it gets to 0 again. Probably not related to the dust outputs tough, as i already got mininput in the clam.conf

Im not sure, but i think it's affecting everyone. Here is my debug.log:

SetBestChain: new best=6bb9fa2bb3c51f7526d153307d68e9acce3e00e1033e53e73f707310$
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
receive version message: version 60014, blocks=931607, us=51.158.75.80:31174, t$
stake took 10s


10 seconds to validate a block, as there is a lot of blocks that take only 1 second or less.

Looks like every block minted by just-dice is affected, as every time i receive them, they take more than 10 seconds to validate even in the ones that do not have dust output. Blocks that dont have your addresses, stake as quick as one second or less. Right now, i had put mininput=0.001 in the config file to see if this attack ceases, and hope this does not fork the network as someone can mint a block with outputs smaller than this and my node will reject it.

I saw blocks taking several seconds to validate months before and thought this was because some other software taking resources in my machine other than clam client. Also, the elevation in the difficulty from 90000-100000 to almost 200000 at some times started at the same time i saw these blocks that take a lot of time to validate. Maybe this attack is much more older than we think

The difficulty now is 228801, so you need aprox. 2000 clams to stake once a day. 100 clams will get you a coin each 20 days, give or take. But the difficulty is varying wildly in the last months, ranging from 100000 to 250000

I dont use them, but a exchange that makes regularly pumps and brag about it in twitter dont inspire any confidence at all. You can always use poloniex or cryptopia to trade clams, and there are other less known options like tradesatoshi and bitsane

 I know CLAM do not need a way to scale now. But if needed in the future, has the clam developers already choose the scale method as second layer? No way they will be growing the blocksize like BCH?

Its not so easy. A lot of them charges extreme high values for a listing, and the developers had been inactive for years and got active again only in the last month. The coin is nice, the idea of initial offering could not be more fair than what CLAM did, but there is a lot to do in the code, as the stable version still uses bitcoin 0.8 and probably carry some security risks for a exchange to integrate it

Not exactly news, but for anyone searching for an alternative to the exchanges currently listing CLAM, you can take a look at Bitsane

https://bitsane.com/news/post/5b4909a63dae7e6d878b45ea

Disclaimer: I never used and dont have an account at Bitsane

Avoid YoBit at all costs, as CLAM deposits are not working there last time i tried (deposits with 5 days old are still not processed) and support is not replying

Poloniex working as intended

Cryptopia working slowly, as they ask 480 confirmations for every deposit of CLAM

Pelo que eu entendi do que li a respeito, eles vão agir bem próximo do que seria uma bolsa de futuros ou de contratos a termo. Eles criam contratos de bitcoin que dizem "vale 1 BTC" e eles são negociados livremente como se fossem BTC de fato. Isso traz várias facilidades para eles, tanto pelo fato de não precisar lidar com a parte técnica de uma exchange bitcoin (depósitos, saques, etc) quanto pelo fato de que eles podem controlar o bitcoin que apesar de estar sendo negociado, está sob o poder deles. Portando airdrops, forks e similares trariam benefícios apenas para eles.

Parece uma coisa absurda para quem trabalha no mundo das criptomoedas, mas é uma coisa extremamente comum no mercado financeiro tradicional. Bolsas de mercado futuro já existem pra quase todas as commodities, desde soja até platina, e essa seria só mais uma. Nada de anormal, além do fato de lidar com criptomoedas ao invés de arrobas de gado ou algo assim. Aliás, não justifica toda a criação de uma exchange: Poderia ser apenas mais um índice na bovespa como fizeram na bolsa de futuros de chicago, mas acho que traria problemas legais ou existe um desinteresse pela bovespa.

Isso na verdade encaixa perfeitamente com o público-alvo da XP: Velhões podres de ricos que ouviram falar sobre bitcoin no jornal e agora querem brincar de especular com bitcões também. Mas nada de "baixar carteira no computador" ou "gerar endereço pra pagamento", dá muito trabalho e eles normalmente tem preguiça de aprender tecnologia.

Quanto ao preço do bitcoin: Se ele se alterar, vai ser muito pouco. Os contratos dificilmente vão ser negociados por um valor muito além do valor de mercado, e se o valor se alterar muito, na hora do settle down dos contratos eles vão arbitrar a diferenca. Mas dificilmente esses contratos vão ter um tamanho suficiente para alterar o valor do mercado como um todo

Aprox. 38%/year

Is this the most updated version? Someone of the official development team should talk to coingecko / coinmarketcap / exchanges. They use this as a way to measure development activity, and most of them are looking to https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams that dont have any commits for more than a year. Maybe this is the reason bittrex delisted clam, and coingecko lists clam so low on the rank even with a relatively large volume of transactions

Update: Dooglus and lordicon are working hard last days

Probably a new client will be released soon! 

I dont know if you are saying that im lying or that charging for listing a new coin is wrong, so here is the source link:

Charging for listing a coin in an exchange is a widespread behavior, but its always hidden from the public. Cryptobridge made it far more obvious than normal, this makes me believe that this practice is slowly being accepted by the public. Being listed in a new exchange gives a huge boost to any coin, and as you saw in clam, being delisted makes the price tank a lot. The market only took the initiative to put a price in these events, based in the size of the exchange and the difficulty to add a new coin, i think.

What makes me a little uncomfortable is the fact that they charge 0,25 BTC to any non-consensus wallet update. I am not an expert, but i think this means that any developer can make an undesirable change to a wallet and pay them to apply it. For POW you need to persuade miners to use the client you developed, but for POS things get problematic here: Exchanges have a lot of coins in their wallets, and exchanges like poloniex controls a lot of the network. If they follow this trend, someone can just bribe exchanges to apply any non-consensus changes they want. Scary  

Probably because of this

I tried it, but they ask for 480 confirmations. My coins remained stuck in limbo for 8 hours! 


btcpop is not an unknown exchange. They are in the scene for a lot of time. But they insist in doing everything, from loan to staking pools and all crypto services in between, but cant manage to do any of the services really good at all