Busy testing MN. Will revert back shortly if it works or not. Just waiting for C-CEX to take wallet out of maintenance.

Business in Greece must start to accept Bitcoin on a wide scale, including international airlines, hotels and restaurants. Fiat money will become scarce there soon. All they need as a bare minimum is a piece of paper with a QR code on it and people can pay with mobile wallets, although ATMs and Paypoint terminals will also be needed over time. There are various ways to convert BTC to fiat if they want to or they can just full out start accepting it without converting to fiat. Exporters to Greece can also start accepting BTC and then the businesses in Greece can use their BTC to pay for their imports. If businesses accept BTC the tourists can also pay with BTC. There is no haircut ever for BTC accounts.

I know this is probably utopian, but if there ever was a golden opportunity for BTC in a country this is it.

It is hardly sell wall abuse. If a coin gets to 1 sat and people want to sell at 1 sat to get out then coins tend to pool up at 1 sat into a wall since they cannot sell it lower. That is not called sell wall abuse. In the Yovi case the lowest sell price is in effect like a 1 sat wall because people cannot sell it lower to get out. Each time the price goes up the 1 sat bottom moves up with the price. It is as if people are selling at 1 sat all the time.

This probably only impacts Bitcoin itself due to the upgrades to 0.10+ and implementation of BIP66 for BTC.

Leave the guy alone. This community screwed him once already royally. Just accept that Ecash is done for and move on.

What I said is the truth and I also did say what you just posted that you can detach the database and copy the blk file but that imo it is a more complex process. My issue was that the normal way of doing a bootstrap.dat is not working. I have not appetite to dig in the past here and fight about things that is not relevant anymore because Ecash is screwed anyways.

People should stay away from the YOVI market and other markets of this type.  Lots of people are going to lose their money in the end. It is not as if there is a dev that can turn things around or implement a roadmap or the coin being used for something. If the authorities find out about it and deemed it to have crossed the line (illegal) it could mean big problems for the exchange. It is a pity because I really like Yobit.

Well, if the music stops the last guy standing without a chair is the bagholer.

I like Yobit very much as an exchange, but this type of market has the attribute of a pyramid. The guys that sit with the coins in the end are screwed.

Due to the issues with your current chain and the high number of coins in circulation, it does not make sense to work on the existing wallet and chain. You must therefore either code a new wallet or copy one. Coding a new wallet is possible but does not make sense due to the effort involved. Your best bet would be to do what all the scam devs do, take an existing wallet of anther coin, change the coin specs to what you want it to be, find and replace the name to the name you want, replace the graphics and put a premine in the first block. Then swop the new coins for the old. You need to get someone with coding and wallet experience to do this for you and while you are looking for a new wallet, you can just as well choose one with some features that you deem to be adding value.

You guys might or might not be aware that the old spots wallets do not have the ability import a blockchain via the normal method of bootstrap.dat. You can verify this by looking into the init.cpp file. In order to "import" a chain with these wallets you need to follow a more complex process of detaching databases and copying over those block files etc which becomes complicated cross operating systems.

The biggest problem with Ecash going forward is to get a wallet up to date. At some point I attempted this to help you guys but the chain gets stuck every 500 blocks. With a chain size of 1m+ it becomes an almost impossible task. There are ways around it with scripts but a person has to baby sit the process. I was willing to do it and got halfway before I realised during testing that creating a cross-platform compatible up to date bootstrap.dat is going to serve no purpose as the wallet does not have the ability to read it so I halted the effort. It is trivial to create a Linux VPS sync node and at that point I created one to see if it will sync better but the problem is to get an up to date chain on it. A normal chain sync from scratch on a VPS sync node suffers from the exactly same chain-getting-stuck-while syncing symptom than a normal wallet on a PC.

The way out of this for you guys imo is to do the following:
- Have an up to date block explorer (good luck) and export a snapshot of all addresses and the coins in them.
- Choose or create a new wallet, do a premine on block 1 of a balance equal to the Ecash balance less a bunch of zeros and let someone do the swap for you privately by proving ownership of the old address.

Just make sure this time that the new wallet can import a bootstrap.dat in order to easily sort out issues in future.

A staking coin with low money supply should not have 110 confirmations and coin management must assume that only 20-30% will stake at most. It is like specifying half a gallon gas tanks on cars in a race but placing the next gas station in 1000 miles. You will have cars out of gas all the way along the race and no-one will finish.

Looking good. Thanks for the hard work. Ill PM you a few suggestions for the new wallet.

Dev said he is implementing Masternodes this week and today is Friday. If he delivers on his promise things will probably go ahead. If he doesnt then it is probably over.

It does not have to be a problem. It only affects solo mining with older miners. As long as there is a stratum pool like there is currently it is fine. Futility of solo POW mining is an indicator of a successful coin and progressing with the times is an indication of strong coin management. Therefore, over time if vcoin is successfully managed and appealing, solo mining will become futile anyways.

I would still recommend that the work on 0.10+ should continue and that the differentiating factor of vcoin is its closeness to Bitcoin providing traceability to the Bitcoin core and compatibility with Bitcoin value added services, but with enhanced specs like the quicker block time and so on. Other services can be be added on, but the core must stay in sync with the reference client. Most alt-coins stick to 0.8 or 0.9 clients and that to me is an indication of poor coding skills and devs just copying each other wallets for their scams and short term plans. Coins sticking to pre 0.10 is bound to the past with little prospects of enhancing technically past 0.9 and must have superior coin management and business plans to counter that, so that its wallet just becomes a lesser technicality in the process and a mere vehicle for moving and storing coins.

Important aspects imo for vcoin would be the following:
- reference core that stays in sync with the changes in Bitcoin core. This would also enhance compatibility with value added services  created for Bitcoin that could be easily migrated to vcoin if people and companies so wanted.
- traceability to the core
- enhancements on top of the core that would be a good idea for Bitcoin, but probably not implemented currently because the core team does not want to take "risks" with the main chain.
- enhanced value added services by coin management and if coin management can ensure superior services that would mean a viable and promising alternative to Bitcoin.

One day is too little to determine if something is a good coin. A coin becomes "good" after a while based on several factors but the most important being dev attributes. Dev attributes consist of action / non-action, sincerity, commitment, skills and/or funding and whether the dev is legit or a scammer. There are also things like whether the coin gets adopted, popularity, usability and features. It is important therefore to watch the dev and then to make a risk assessment. Having said this, others will do the same and the principle of high risk high rewards come into play. Once a coin has establish itself as a good coin the price will reflect it and to get in then means that your profits will be lower. To maximise your potential profits you have to get in early in a coin that has promise but you can also lose all your money then. You have to make your own assessment of this coin as it is too early to tell. Statistically though almost all new alt-coins fail in the first few weeks and most of those failures are due to scamming devs that disappear after they have made their money, so the market will have to wait and see what happens and if this coin will be different or not.

You can run multiple wallets on a Pi for different coins and even multiple wallets fo the same coin but his second option is more complex to setup. Most of the time you can run about 3 wallets on your Pi depending ont he model. The latest Pi2 has a 1Ghz Arm7 CPU and 1 GB of memory and will give you 3 wallets safely.

You get 2 types of wallets and 2 build methods and 3 deployment methods which each has its own nuances and impacts on resource usage on the Pi.

The types of wallets are the headless daemon wallet with no graphical display and the Qt wallet which is the graphical wallet that you are used to in Windows. In Pi world you do not need the Qt wallet as the command line wallet does everything you need to do, but if you want to work in a familiar "windows" environment you can use the Qt wallet. Getting a Qt wallet depends on how the Qt environment is setup and if the dev has created a project file for a basic wallet using Qt4 then you are in luck since the mainstream OS for Pi (Raspbian) has Qt 4.8.2 with which you can create a GUI wallet easily. If the dev created a more fancy wallet he would have used Qt5 and then you are out of luck, since dependencies for Qt5 is not readily available yet. You can DIY Qt5 and build a static Qt5 wallet on Pi but trust me that you do not want to go there. I seldom go for the GUI wallets anyway because it servers no real purpose apart from seeing stuff visually and I run the command line wallets most of the time.

The first build method is to provide a static built binary where all code that is needed in the process to run the wallet is in the binary file. This is the least pure method to do in Linux, but since Pi's are very consistent from one to the next it is possible to get away with this. Binaries are larger though since all dependency code is in the file. The second build method is a hybrid where your script just downloads the dependencies but you provide an already compiled binary that is dynamically linked to the dependency files. The binary will call the dependency files whenever it needs some code from it.

In order to deploy you can write a script to compile it on users Pi which is the most pure way to work on Linux but prone to errors since many devs are sloppy with their code and dont do basics like create a src/obj folder or have incorrect permissions on certain critical build files which will all cause the build process to fail. The second method is to just deliver the wallet built with one of the 2 build methods but require a working and updated OS installation from the user, or you can provide the whole operating system with wallet installed to the user. The pro side of delivery method three is that the user does not have to install the OS himself, but the downside is that you are then limited to the wallet they give you and the environment may not be setup for you to easily install a 2nd and 3rd wallet.

It is a long introduction but necessary to explain my recommendation to you properly for running multiple wallets on your Pi. In your case my recommendation would be to install a fresh copy of Raspbian on at least an 8 GB card and update it. Then use the hybrid method of a dynamically built wallet  to save space and since most coins require the same dependency files. Then compile the 3 headless daemon wallets you want to run dynamically and set them up properly and off you go. It should run fine on a Pi2.

If you let me know the coins you want to run, depending on if I feel generous or not, I will help you build the wallets and set them up.

Yes it is. What do you want to achieve then Ill tell you how to do it.

Dont listen to him  

In most of the cases an exchange will pick it up early like Yobit or Bleutrade and then you can exchange for BTC. Most of the time better coins end op on larger exchanges. The ultimate reason for alt-coins to exist it seems is to try and create an alternative to BTC that could improve on its weaknesses and implement new innovation that is not easy to do with BTC and eventually come up with the ultimate digital coin to take the world forward. Because you are a beginner (n00b), I will give you the following advice to survive in the alt-coin environment:

1. Do not listen to most trading advice because 99% of alt-coin traders will sell their mother for $5. Most advice will be to get you to be a sucker so that they can quickly make their profits by exploiting your n00bness. Trust your own gut and instinct.
2. Do not keep coins long but rather get rid of your coins as soon as you can make a profit or in some cases when you can limit your losses. There are exceptions with perhaps a handful of coins that will put you in the green over the long term but those are rare and do extreme research to identify those.
3. Look out for traders that do give out good advice because there are those although they are extremely rare. At the same time, learn which BCT accounts including hero and legendary accounts are just shill accounts or members of pump groups and do the opposite of what they say or sometimes knowingly ride on the back of their advice to quickly make a buck on the up and get out before they dump large numbers of coins on unsuspecting n00bs.
4. Rarely listen to anything in troll boxes on exchanges because those advice are most of the time from bag holders/devs/pump groups that shill the coins they want to dump to make profits by selling to n00bs like you.
5. Do not invest any money that you have not already written off as lost.
6. Many new coin launches are scams since it is very difficult to identify devs and to determine if devs are legit, sincere and committed. Most of the time scammers hide behind newbie accounts and then disappear. Many people with "new money" like you have been burnt by believing hype and being taken for a ride by scamming devs.
7. Alt-coins is high risk high reward. it is possible to make a lot by taking a high risk but you can then also lose a lot. Depending on your risk profile it is sometimes better to buy established coins that have a proven dev team that have been around for longer than a year, but then your profits will also become less most of the time.

Based on statistics in alt-coins, the typical thing that happens is that a coin is launched by a newbie dev, then an exchange picks it up, then it is shilled then it is dumped by the speculators and then the people that did not dump early become bag holders and everyone moves on to a new coin. I am not saying this is hat will happen here but it is important that you know how the typical new coin works out. Therefore, be very meticulous with your research before you put any money into any coin. Most of the time, get in and get out quickly and play with small amounts. If you want, you can be prudent and apply rule 1 above to this post also  .