That's good information. Thanks, Titan.

So the best would be to have some (master) nodes that are picked randomly to set the checkpoint every few minutes/blocks, if you use ACP? Is that possible, too?

http://www.coindesk.com/feathercoin-secures-block-chain-advanced-check-pointing/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/6263/feathercoin-interview-with-peter-bushnell/ (see below in the interview, where they cover ACP)

One thing to keep in mind: using one central node as the reference for the checkpoints is the opposite of decentralization.
Maybe we should develop a better system to overcome 51% attacks? I'm still wondering, whether it would be a good idea to change from mining to staking in that regard (also if you think about protecting the environment, as mining pulls a lot of electricity)? What do you all here think about that? Any other ideas?

That's basically right. A new thread can be set up as soon as MOON is fully on its path forward again, with regained forces (for example with a new wallet, peme back to have it further developed, help by another dev, like Titan etc.).

Mooncoin-Miners, check out P2Pool: http://5.45.105.66

Done. But what do you mean with "time updates"?
Please could you all counter-check, if there is some info missing or outdated? Thanks.

There is a nice list of "12 Mind Blowing Facts about Mooncoin" on: www.mooncoin.com (see on the right hand side).

Why not? That is a basic function.

Furthermore: Why isn't it possible to unlock the wallet only for staking, like with other coins? I haven't found a function to do that.

Nice rise of volume in the last days for MOON: https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/145

To the miners: if you'd like to mine MOON, try P2Pool: http://5.45.105.66

Basically the idea is nice. But even for BTC the need for OTC is not too big at the moment. Sure, big investors like that idea and are using it most probably to get big amounts of BTC without the hassle on an exchange and are willing to pay a premium for that service. I'd like to see that for Mooncoin, too. But as agswinner said, the question is, whether Mooncoin has so much demand from real big investors that would populate such kind of service. I'm not even sure, if there do exist OTC-services for any other currency than BTC already?
How would you realize such an OTC market? Via escrow?

Regarding the Linux-wallet:
The original Mooncoin-wallet for Linux is here: https://github.com/realmooncoin/mooncoin
It is still the latest version, made by deaconboogie back in time.
You should always build from the repository on your distribution, because some specialized installation-packages most of the time don't work anyway, as they can only be made for specific distributions and don't work on other distros.

If you like the wallet from gjhiggins better, you could also try that one: https://github.com/mooncoin-project/mooncoin-landann

Today it finally connected. Did not change anything since my last posting (left the old list of nodes), hence no problem with the connection or the ISP. Maybe there is no seed node the wallet can initially connect to, if the nodes from the peers.dat and/or config-file are filled up with connections or offline?

Any news on why it is not possible to add nodes via the console?

Remember to withdraw all your (Moon)coins left on Cryptoine before April, 30th: https://cryptoine.com

If you're still a miner, check out Mooncoin P2Pool: http://5.45.105.66
More nodes are always welcome, so if you run a Mooncoin P2Pool-node, why not make it public or even set up a new one? The scanner above will then find them automagically and add them to the list.

Just wanted to inform you, that www.moonchain.net has an API since the beginning. That is where sites like http://cryptmarketcap.com and http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mooncoin for example get their blockchain-data from. See here for available commands: http://moonchain.net/q
You get further information, if you click the links of the commands on that page.

Example on how to use: http://moonchain.net/chain/Mooncoin/q/totalbc or http://moonchain.net/chain/Mooncoin/q/getdifficulty

I told you already, that the terminal phase of Mooncoin-mining has been reached (since several weeks now), with now only 29531 MOON per block being rewarded to the miners. By the way: since then the price has been pretty stable at ~20 Litoshi.


Edit: Just saw that others quoted my previous posting. Thanks. I'll leave this here, because obviously it needs to be repeated to be understood ...  

Yes, that's strange. Any idea, why it is not possible to add nodes via the console? At least that should work.

Any idea, why it is not possible to add nodes via the console in the wallet?

For example: addnode 209.188.18.43 add
... results in an error: Method not found (code -32601)

My wallet does not connect, even after using  -addnode=209.188.18.43 (or other IP's from here: http://minemanic.com/mtlmcv3/nodes.php) as an appendix on the commandline.

Also a metalmusiccoin3.conf like this:

addnode=209.188.18.43
addnode=162.255.117.105
addnode=96.229.213.65
addnode=199.68.199.33
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=87.118.122.248
addnode=89.76.141.222
addnode=75.170.67.134
addnode=148.251.41.117
addnode=80.223.233.166
addnode=91.205.236.68
addnode=93.123.163.96
addnode=108.216.31.19
addnode=202.0.43.106
addnode=202.0.43.106
addnode=188.134.72.213

... does not work.

What could be the problem?

Check this photo of the blood red moon over New York: http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-832480-galleryV9-zsqe.jpg

Are you sure, Swisscex was hacked, too? They close their doors, yes, but because of a hack?

That won't help if the cryptologic basis as such is insecure, i.e.: private keys are recoverable with a method we don't know by now, but only a hacker, for example. Again, think of poor randomness.
Regarding multisig: for now that method seems to be safe. But who knows exactly? What if both signatures/keys were created on the same system? With poor randomness or other failure? Then it might even be easier to compromise such a wallet or the private keys, because the signature of the poor randomness is in both keys, which might make it less complicated for a hacker to decrypt them than decrypting a single one, only because of similarities in the keys.

Again: all hypothetical, but ... see above.


What if Cryptsy closes its doors because of a hack? Then the coins there are also gone, even if secured with 2FA and all other means. The question then is only, are they financially strong enough to recover the losses of their users/customers, AND: are they willing to?


Regarding the current Mooncoin-wallet, Titan reported the Mooncoin-wallet to be safe, after his investigations, at least the source-code --> https://github.com/realmooncoin/mooncoin. Btw: this is still the old one, created by deaconboogie. It is still the latest.

As far as I know, peme hasn't found anything either so far, aside from an old OpenSSL-version with the heartbleed-bug being used to compile the binary-wallets. But as I understood it, it is not critical for the normal use of the wallet.

According to both, it is difficult to check a Windows- or Mac-binary, so I hope they are still working on that, to get more information. If any expert for this passes by and reads this, please could you also check the Mooncoin-binaries, in order to help the community?

I hope that peme stops by soon, to inform us about the current situation.


Edit:
Btw: Have you read the latest information on Cryptoine.com on how they will return the remaining coins? https://cryptoine.com

At least that's a long story, and it sounds not impossible. The most important statement in that text is this:


That's what I say, too. Just think of all the hacks of BTC-exchanges in the not so far past (e.g. BTC-e). We don't have detailed information about all those, like we have here. And even if, for many it is simply an inside-job and they are done with it and move on.

But: may BTC and all its derivates be insecure somehow, but no one really wants to talk about this eventuality, even if it is only because they can't imagine this? Or because they all are too much involved and/or invested into cryptocurrency, so that it simply "must" be ignored, in order to avoid high personal losses? Can SHA256- and scrypt-encrypted private keys (and others like X11 etc.) easily be decrypted by someone who REALLY knows? What about governmental forces/resources (see: time and ingenuity above; add money to that equation) that are being utilized to protect conventional currencies? Sounds unbelievable, but many things sound unbelievable - until they happen or become true. All hypothetical, true, but never say never.

Hackers have always found a way to breach even the most secure systems. And someone who has the knowledge to break the security of cryptos (only think of possible poor randomness-problems when creating a private key) would be a very rich man or woman, so why would he/she share how to do that (if not a white hat)? He could steal thousands of BTC (or LTC, DOGE etc.) only by grabbing some here and a few days or weeks later some there, all without really scaring the cryptoworld too much. The personal losses of the single individuals (and exchanges, too) would be pitied and bemoaned, but life moves on and some weeks later it is already forgotten - only the victims are left with their loss and the exchanges want to carry on with their business (if even possible after a theft), so don't want to talk about that further anyway.

Back to Allcrypt:
They have not mentioned the possibility of a man-in-the-middle-attack. Maybe someone at the email-provider had prying eyes? Maybe he connected in an internet-café via his laptop/cellphone and even if using SSL/TLS, there was a redirection via an unsafe proxy or such and the one running the hotspot or someone else in the chain was grabbing information ...? Maybe someone at the hoster where Allcrypt.com had all its infrastructure was not reliable? All possible.

We're already in the last phase (29531 MOON per block). So no "crazy inflation".