The problem is that Cryptsy is *the* premiere exchange for alt coins. Most people aren't going to open accounts on swisscex or the like because most coins worth trading are on Cryptsy. It is a matter of maximum exposure and being delisted from Cryptsy is pretty bad news. Being on swisscex really only invites trading among die hard pennies fans, which isn't sustainable. The volume thus far is a fraction of what it was on Cryptsy. I thought it was only a temporary month downtime, but it seems they are doing it permanently. I can't believe MasterCoin is still listed but Pennies is not.

I don't want to get into catman's motivations, but it seems he stuck around long enough to get it stabilized before presumably cashing out. Perhaps I should have done the same. I hate to say it, but without someone to at least add updated checkpoints, this coin is going to peter out. I guess it was fun while it lasted.

Do you not know how to use twitter/file a cryptsy bug report? Assuming you are not just trying to scare people into selling at 0.00000001 XPM, getting angry in this thread solves nothing. Yelling obscenities at them won't help, either. Quite the opposite, they'll just write you off as a lunatic.

The best way to handle this is to file polite, but firm requests for our money. This can be accomplished through @cryptsy on twitter, their bug system, and the cryptsy support thread on this forum. Further, you should ask them what a one month shutdown is for and why that length of time. What are they trying to do? Hand inspect every tx on every forked blockchain? I've already filed my own support request, what have you done?

I think the time has come for action, now that Cryptsy is delisting CENT. If you want cryptsy to respond, you need to be polite and forceful through social media. You should let BigVern know that CENT is no worse than the many other crap coins, like TIX, that are very cheap. The volume for CENT is actually quite good in the XPM market.

So, if you are on twitter, send a message to @cryptsy. Or register your complaint in the cryptsy support thread on this forum (use the search to find it). Also hit up the cryptsy forums and create tickets to register your displeasure. But just sitting here angry and bitching about it in this thread is not helpful. In fact, I am positive none of the cryptsy staff are even looking at it.

If you have twitter, tweet @cryptsy, but be polite yet forceful.

Hitting up BitJohn's PM as well as the official Cryptsy threads on this forum might also be useful. The more people complaining, the more they will have to listen.

I followed the kicka-ass instructions and now am at 285929 blocks with 35 connect peers. I was making out at 57 peers on previous attempts. I hope people can continue to migrate to the good chain so that Cryptsy will have something concrete to sync with.

What about the code I mentioned in main.cpp?

Is this in git yet?

In main.cpp, is this correct?

Shouldn't you be passing this->nTime as the second argument to GetProofOfStakeReward()?

I noticed a fix for the sync issue is in git, but I feel the underlying problem (which you are just papering over) is that you should be checking the transaction nTime as opposed the current time. This is how other coins (like NVC) have done it, so I adapted the same thing for pennies when I was having problems syncing a fresh blockchain after the stake switch. I've been running the following patch since then without stake verification issues:
http://pastebin.com/kZn5jb4q

This also has the added benefit of being useful in the future if another stake change is needed.

BitJohn,

I know you monitor this thread, so I want to know 2 things:

• BigVern tweeted that CENT was back online, but why is it not listed?
• Has the issue involving CENT being sold for less than the amount specified in the order been resolved?

Further, I know you have been swamped with new users, but it has been nearly a week and I have yet to hear about my issue with Cryptsy shorting me XPM by selling CENT less than the floor I put in the sell order. I lost quite a bit of XPM. My tickets are 41023/41030, where the latter is an attachment containing a list of my CENT transactions with the problem orders in question marked.

Thank you in advance. While others are content to bad mouth cryptsy, I am willing to give some leeway in your growing pains. However, I do think it is silly to add garbage shitcoins like Betacoin, when it seems like you are overwhelmed with supporting existing coins.

So did the imageswap glitch, which made a lot of people on /a/ pretty mad after seeing based doge replace their waifus.

Yeah try posting a doge thread on /a/ and you'll see just how much culture it is relevant to. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Moot really did start a coin, of course /pol/ would never let us hear the end of it.

That is not what I meant.
I mean one repository for each client/platform that is non-compressed directory like what Doubloons had
(https://github.com/geocoin/doubloons-qt.git) and what Argentum has (https://github.com/AlphaC4/ArgentumQT.git). Like I said, it makes it super easy to keep your wallet clients up to date.

I'm working on syncing up the coin control code as we speak, I should have a patch ready to post soon.

Any Russians willing to look at the translations? A lot of them need fixing.

There was an issue with sell orders being executed below the specified amount (0.00000002 instead of the specified 0.00000003). Also, there was an issue with self-audit and mysteriously vanishing sell orders that would reappear and execute at random later times. I ended up 4 billion pennies in debt thanks to that. So yeah, I filed tickets and that is probably why BigVern is "performing maintenance" on the CENT markets.

Nonetheless, Pennies has been very nice to me in recent days. I have MaGNeT to thank for that. I'm still holding quite a few, despite cashing in some of the dividends. I may have screwed up by selling $15000 worth of QRK for $200 , but I'm damned if I'm going to miss the bus on Pennies.

I have a few concrete suggestions for near future fixes:
1)Integrate Litecoin's SSE2 blockchain validation code, you'd be amazed how much snappier it is.
2)Have 'repairwallet' fix or somehow "mark" a 'txout.nValue too high' transaction as 'OK' so we don't have to salvagewallet and loose transaction metadata, but still be able to load the wallet without having to recan the entire blockchain on ever load.
3)Either increase "reservebalance" maximums or otherwise provide a way to temporarily disable staking altogether.

Can we have binary repos like shake did? It was really helpful for keeping up to date.

One thing that I've noticed that is pretty annoying is constantly changing share difficulty. Example:

[2013-12-12 19:31:17] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 721.128538
[2013-12-12 19:31:17] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:18] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 610.394723
[2013-12-12 19:31:18] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:26] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 587.288722
[2013-12-12 19:31:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:30] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 425.892274
[2013-12-12 19:31:30] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:32] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 305.811480
[2013-12-12 19:31:32] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-12-12 19:31:34] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 404.744038
[2013-12-12 19:31:34] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:38] Accepted 5609c0ad Diff 762/405 GPU 2
[2013-12-12 19:31:45] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 784.580817
[2013-12-12 19:31:45] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-12-12 19:31:48] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 565.712544

Instead of sending a work restart/share diff change every 5-10 seconds, maybe cap it to a min of 45 seconds. I am pretty sure that having to do these computations for every miner so often is what is causing load issues, not to mention it increases the likelihood of stales.

Aren't you busy with Noirbits?

I am opposed to decimals, the whole purpose of pennies is to be the lowest denomination. Also, once a stake fix is in, then let the free market decide rather than dividing the money supply. If people didn't take the opportunity to stake when they could, that is too bad.

Now that you have it working, can you please post nodes so we can get our wallets synced up to recieve payout?

If you are interested, I've snatched NVC's coin control code and patched it into your tree. Once I sync up, I am going to see if I can test it out.

Maybe you could even convince CK to stop being a prick and put ScryptECDSA/GPU support back in cgminer.

I think it would be funnier and just if they did the switch after BFL and the other bozos dumped 100's of thousands into developing a piece of junk.

+1
I don't see why anyone would object since forks and forced upgrades are a dime-a-dozen in altcoins.