Can you confirm the wallet version in the About section of the wallet and paste it here?

Also, the dev made a mistake int he OP with the nodes. There has to be an "addnode=" before each of the IPs listed. When he updated the OP IP list, he also by accident deleted the main IP which is 52.24.99.63. In addition, the main p2p port for the coin is 11621 but you don't really have to worry about that. rpcport can also be whatever you choose it to be, preferably 10000+ to make sure t does not conflict with anything.

Make sure therefore that the node IPs are added properly in the format addnode=52.24.99.63 and add this one as well. Then try again.

It seems that MTR coin management is going the legit route with certifications and registrations which is very good to hear. Mainstream support by the public especially big business requires these things in order to build trust.

A patent / trademark lawsuit is all about who has the most money for legal fees to fight the protracted battle and win it.

It is not a normal pump no. It is a masternode pump. It is the hype to get 500k to have a MN. Then when high POS is over (it has to be over at some point for inflation purposes) and when the MN owners get their free coins the dump will come. It is the same with all the others. Having said this, there is nothing wrong with making some money while it is ROS's turn.

Personally I am all for long term investment and development. My interests are not so much profit but the long term development of the digital world of the future.

95% of alt-coin market participants are however after short term profits. If something does not make them 50% by this afternoon they are not interested. Most people will slit their father's throat for a piece of bread and sell their mother for $5. These are harsh things to say but looking at the scams and where price movements are and how the groups move around in the scene this is the only conclusion I can get to. There are coins with good innovation in the works but it does nothing to the price apart from making the price go lower once holders realize that the coin is long term. Long term investment motives just does not exist or is very rare. A coin can say that they found a way to turn lead into gold and it will make nothing to the price and even let the price go down. The devs can just as well say they found a cure for cancer or a renewable energy source that can drive a house for $5 a day and people will just not give a ****. If it can double their profits in a day so that they can cash in and move on to the next "50% profit in a day" scheme they will be interested.

The choice is therefore as follows:

1) Bitcoin 0.10 and long term developments which will attract the long term investors and have very little impact on price over the next 12 months.

2) Say the magic word and post "masternodes with profit sharing" that will attract the locusts and flies and shoot the price up 5x for a few days until the next coin posts "masternodes" and the swarms follow.

I will always vote for the long term strategy because it is like a retirement benefit plan whereby you invest now and build something that can be very valuable over the long term in the future. Long term will also attract the sensible investors that do not pump and dump, but take note that the price will not magically shoot up for option 1. With option 1 innovation comes first and price will lag later on. It comes down to what appetite the dev has, if he has stamina to go the marathon route and if he is committed, sincere and mature and has the skills or resources to hire skills.

Another factor to take into account is if the coin specs match the strategy. Pure POW coins need miners with high power usage on it all the time to keep the chain rolling and if there is no return over the long term to make up mining costs people will move on and the chain will get stuck. Although it is possible to mine within a wallet with CPU there will always be some guy that put an ASIC on it and chase up the diff. POS coins lend itself to a long term strategy because one can fire up a Raspberry Pi and forget about it up to maxage at 5W power and the chain will move along in the background. Vcoin is POW but from what I can see it adjusts its diff quickly and if it diff gets high it goes down again quickly which helps.

Lastly the coin strategy and the exchange strategy must be aligned. Listings on big exchanges need lots of volumes or be delisted. This requires lots of resources from coin management to keep the volumes up artificially because what I have learnt from alt-coin holders is that everyone is out for himself and will not contribute towards the bigger picture. Only one exchange is needed to have a vehicle to get in or out of a coin in order to increase/decrease holdings. People shouting for big exchanges early on has a short term motives because they hope that such a listing will let the price shoot up so that they can cash in and move on. Do not give in to such comments and keep the listings on smaller exchanges if the coin strategy is long term.

You know my vote, but if this is a democracy it will be a landslide victory to the group that wants to double their profits in a day or two. It is up to coin management to determine if they have what it takes to do option 1 or if they just want option 2 and move along swiftly. I like to support minnow coins that shows promise of bringing something new to the table by a committed, sincere and skilled dev team and coin management. I do not know if Vcoin is this yet and I need to observe some more about the dev team and coin management's actions to make an assessment. I hope that Vcoin is not just another coin with a scam dev and short term profit motive but I guess time will tell.

Bitcoin 0.10 is probably the best way to go for a long term strategy whereas the current version masternode route is for a short term profit chasing strategy.

Anything for a quick buck. If all else fails it seems that the magic word to say nowadays is "masternodes" to attempt to get a coins price up.

I guess it was the last resort for the dev of this coin. Maybe it works out maybe not.

If this is about Qt4 vs Qt5 then I understand. Qt5 is not yet available for Pi Raspbian Wheezy as readily downloadable packages. The latest Qt for Pi is 4.8.2. I have built Qt5 on Pi and experimented with Qt5 wallets but it looks butt ugly and the dependencies is jut a nightmare. There is actually no need to have Qt wallets for Pi and the headless daemons work perfectly for staking. It is not really necessary to put all the effort into Qt5 wallets for Pi until they release packages for it. It would be beneficial for devs that release Qt5 wallets to also provide a Qt4 project file maybe in a separate git, but doing that effort will only really help the Pi users since Qt5 is available for normal desktop Linux.

Why did you have to use a previous version of the wallet on Pi?

No but I made a Raspberry Pi wallet that I mined solo with.

Is this live?

lol

You only have yourself to blame as it seems you are too attached to your coins. You have to assess these things all the time and get out when it is high and get back in when it is low. Very few coins can be kept all the time for long term and never get in and out. There are those but very few.

There were two correct strategies for 10k/Teeth. You could have sold your 10k stake regularly in the beginning and then when the price was low raked up some stash before the swop. Then swop it for Teeth and immediately sold all of the Teeth while it was going from 600k to 100k and then buy back at 30-40k. An alternative strategy was to keep all your 10k but sell Teeth immediately after the swop between 600k-100k and then buy back now.

Both strategies would put you at 10-20x your original investment, however there was not enough Teeth demand for strategy B and definitely not enough to offline 2600 Teeth. Strategy A worked the best with small tx throughout the process. Your next mistake was putting 20 BTC into a single altcoin. There is never enough volume to play with 20BTC in legitimate trading, meaning excluding pump group action. You cannot manoeuvre with that amount and cannot safely get out if needed. You must put in 1-2 BTC as there is normally enough volume to safely exit at short notice if need be. Rather take the rest of your 20BTC and put it in different coins to spread your risk.

Teeth is probably at its low point now and is starting to look more of a longer term coin. Remember that the altcoin market likes action and as everyone knows Spots, he puts an effervescent tablet in the glass from time to time to spice things up. Dev action/non-action is one of the most important things driving coin price. Teeth will probably not go lower than 10k sats unless people that talk like you start panic selling. In my previous assessment I put Teeth at 50-70k with an additional up to 30k allocated as goodwill to Spots. It traded in that range for some time. In the absence of factors like high POS, swops and other attributes that causes high volatility its new range for the time being is 10k-40k, until Spots puts the next tablet in the glass.

Spots has proved to be a solid, no-nonsense dev looking after his coins and their holders and is a very important factor for the future of a coin. The future of his 4 coins are therefore more optimistic over the longer term compared to others that are around and there seems to be regular R&D going on by Spots & Co. An important factor to keep in mind is the ability that Spots has developed to be able to manoeuvre the direction and attributes of a chain with little effort and impact to the integrity of the chain, which might look insignificant now but is an important requirement to apply monetary policy in a digital world. For the rest, it is up to the individual holders to spot opportunities along the way. Remember that dev action creates volume, volume creates volatility, volatility creates opportunity and opportunity creates profit. Apart from this you have to apply common sense, do not give in to greed and do not do anything before assessing the risk.

One last point - there comes a time where it does not matter if you hold 100k or 1.5m of a coin as it makes no difference. If you understand this then you have come a long way.

Here is a bootstrap.dat file for those that struggle with sync

Link to bootstrap.dat up to block 15961
Link to checksums.txt

Copy the file into the same directory as your wallet.dat and open the client. Verify the checksums first to make sure the file downloaded ok.

I have uploaded a new headless daemon binary for the Raspberry Pi with UPNP enabled to get more connections. I have also updated the bootstrap.dat to block 24622. The bootstrap.dat also work with Windows clients.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1045089.msg11299498#msg11299498

I said it elsewhere previously that Viral is long term project. It has long term written all over it and can be an exceptional long term investment (1 year+). Money can be made in the long term if coin management can generate revenues and pull it off. I hope that most of the Viral holders have a long term view on this. My gut tells me there might be a short pump (unless yesterdays mini pump was its pump) but overall there will be long term growth if coin management is legit. Pump group action is always excluded in assessments as a whale can change the picture completely. I hope that the promotors in this thread will still be around (if) after there was any significant pump before the price settles down and short term trader interest moves elsewhere.

The renting of a bitnode is just a normal VPS and then someone installs a daemon on it? Or is there more to it?

The malware thing does not seem to want to die down. Why not have the source code analysed by a malware expert to see if there is anything strange in it? The basic principle here is garbage in garbage out, meaning if the source code is ok, binaries compiled from it will be ok and if the source code is not ok, binaries will not be ok.

A question on the Vcoin nodes. If masternodes are implemented in the code, then people can rent their own VPS and set up the masternodes that will drive the network.

It is an old warning. It originated from the days when BTC was mined by CPU. At the time people infected other people's PCs with a miner that used their botnet to mine with the CPUs in the botnet. Although 2 or 3 AVs normally pick it up as a warning it is mostly false alarm. You will find the warning in most wallets that are a close copy of the basic BTC wallet.