From November 22, 2014:



Would love to see some progress on this..   ANY ham radio operators able to link together over the air and record the conversation?  Showing real hammers (is that the term?) talking about hamradiocoin over the radio on youtube would be great.

It's akin to the "see? celebrities drink Pepsi too" concept.

Only this is amateur ham radio operators, with real ham equipment, using ham radio, to discuss hamradiocoin, and share it with the rest of the internet who can invest in this...

Your computer already holds files like blk0001.dat for Netcoin. Find them. They are usually in the AppData folder under Netcoin in Windows

That's what you'll be replacing with these new files.

Make sure you do it while the wallet is not running.

For the record, elenorrigby appears to be a troll. Scrolling back through their posting history, the majority of this person's posts are all negative and argumentative based.

Knowing this they'll probably stand up on a soapbox and start freaking out even harder. Seems to get off on people responding to their every word.

I'm now putting them on ignore.  Don't waste your time with this person.

Look at what this low life posted before:

I'm happy they are waiting. I still am trying to accumulate more Opal at these prices.

I bought some NET from Cryptsy yesterday and successfully received them to my wallet.

While writing this my wallet says:

"blocks" : 532763

So our block count is high up there.  You can verify you are on the right chain when you match the block number with the official Netcoin explorer:

http://explorer.netcoinfoundation.org

There was a lot of orphan blocks after the hard fork because a lot of people didn't update their wallets.  So it might take you a couple of blockchain redownloads before you finally get on the official chain.

Thanks to the devs.  I love PoS with NET.  It was also smart to keep POW too.  A lot of POS coins get "stuck" sometimes, so having POW keep the chain alive was a brilliant move.

This is interesting. Would like to see an interview on coindesk or some other crypto news site.  It's not everyday that an old coin like .NET rebounds and still has the same dev involvement since day 3 after being kind of dormant for so long.

The special feature of Netcoin is the name.  It is a great name, and a great trading symbol.  That alone has huge value.

Building a system that "depends" on eBay, and its allowing of the system without making prohibitions is very tricky and short-term possible, but long-term doomed to fail.

Anyone can build a marketplace community, and if using crypto is at the source of it, then it will slowly but steadily become more and more populated.

What we need is a new marketplace (which opal has already started), with a community adoption.  Silkroad did that successfully for the longest time.  I don't want to participate in a illegal marketplace myself.  But if Silkroad could do it, anyone could do it if it worked well enough, and had things available for cheaper than eBay.

Word of mouth and viral adoption can happen pretty fast.  But it has to have the user value already in place.

eBay has hundreds of thousands of products for sale, that's the attraction they feed off of..

Your new Opal marketplace would have to have unique products not found on eBay  (or if they are, they are more expensive to buy there)

The biggest thing plaguing eBay now, is chargebacks and reversals from scammers with stolen credit cards, etc.  eBay usually makes the seller lose the case, so they are out the product and the money.

Crypto is perfect for this scenario.  If you come up with a workable model, a lot of disgruntled eBay sellers who have thrown in the towel with eBay will surely be interested in your system.

Start small, don't expect too much, but build it to be scalable.  If it is fully scalable, once the media takes notice of  you, expect it to go very viral and popular fast.

Wait, that sounds like Bitcoin too doesn't it?

Start small, don't expect too much, but build it to be scalable.  If it is fully scalable, once the media takes notice of  you, expect it to go very viral and popular fast.

After all that hard work, you'd probably have a tough time because eBay is very protective about their listings and user base.

Calling yourself OBAY is just begging to get sued, shutdown, or enforcement action.

If you registered a domain name, I bet you eBay would pull it into a "Uniform Resolution Dispute" and get it suspended.

Take a look at these patents:

http://stks.freshpatents.com/EBAY-sym.php

Plus their legalese all over their site.

Some users argue that eBay is inherently broken anyway.  I think we shouldn't use them as a business model at all, and come up with something completely different and more effective.

The only way this could work, is if you had eBay agree to a partnership.  But who wants to work with a huge dinosaur with millions of dollars worth or legal lawyers behind them?

If you could bend the ear of craiglist, maybe they'd be willing to allow you to do something like that.  But I did read on wikipedia that eBay bought 25% of craigslist, and then tried to sue craiglist too.

This is a tough spot to be in..   If its decentralized, it would have to be 100% decentralized, which means no domain names, no websites. If you don't download the marketplace "wallet", you can't see the listings.

{
    "version" : "v2.2.0.0",
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "newmint" : 0.00000000,
    "stake" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 416003,
    "timeoffset" : -1,
    "moneysupply" : 0.00000000,
    "connections" : 9,
    "proxy" : "",
    "ip" : XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    "difficulty" : 4.95623220,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1423424286,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00010000,
    "errors" : ""
}

I'm having problems syncing from a compiled source version of the wallet.   The only way I can even attempt to sync is if I run netcoin 1.2.0 first, let it get to past block 200 000 and then run netcoin 2.2.0, but when I do, it says "moneysupply 0.00000000" which is very strange.

Also why hasn't the protocol version changed through 3 hard forks?  Very bizarre.  That's probably confusing to netcoind as it sees these very different chains.

The fact that we're on wallet version 60000 of bitcoin/litecoin code, means we are also missing good commands like "-reindex" which could be really helpful here if it existed.

I never run precompiled binaries.  If you try compiling from source on a new ubuntu linux install, you'll see it's impossible for netcoin 2.2.0 to sync up.  The only way it can even run at all is if there are some pre-existing blk* files in the .netcoin folder.

This is my experience anyway. I recommend the devs to a fresh install of ubuntu on a test machine and try and compile and run the latest netcoin 2.2.0 wallet. It won't sync. Which means that new users are going to be stuck unless they use your prebuilt binaries.

I think if you schedule a big IRC meet a couple weeks in advance, and email all hamradio forum members (and PM forum posters in here), you could get a good attendance on IRC, especially if there will be some giveaways, etc.  That's how Opal does it.

Instead of .TLD, they could just create *TLD, like *BIT as long as you have the right browser plugins to understand that type of URL.

I think if the faucet was smart enough to realize someone was using it via radio, it should pay a lot more.

0.1 HAM doesn't really seem like it's worth the effort by radio.

On the web, sure, that makes sense to only pay 0.1

I recommend using some premine funds to up the ante if someone uses a radio to obtain HAM

To find out if you are on the right chain is quite easy.

Buy a few KDC from Cryptsy and transfer them to your wallet. If you get them, you're on the right chain.

Or vice-versa, send cryptsy some KDC and see if they get it.

Also your "getinfo" on the wallet, should show this:

    "version" : 80602,
    "protocolversion" : 70003,
    "walletversion" : 60000,


Protocol version is the most important.

As far as restarting KDC, a lot of people would come back to this coin, it left a soft spot in their heart when it didn't "pan out" [pun intended].

The thing I for-see though, is that how can new devs get control of the github? Or are you thinking of a community take over with hard fork?  If it is the latter, you'd have to find out what obstacles are in your way as far as getting Cryptsy or other exchanges to support it.

Have you tried contacting any of the previous devs or community leaders? I bet some of them have private email addresses to the original dev team and could help get you access to the official github.

Good luck.

What I'd really like to see is a whitepaper that explains how a standard opal transaction can be colored/uncolored.

Where is the coloring information stored and how is it verified?

Does any of it go through a centralized "coloring transaction server" or are there special nodes that do the verification and storage?

How does this technically work?

You've taken it as an insult, it was not meant as one. As a community over several months we've observed your behavior which appears and continues to be irrational. As a result of this we have concern about your mental stability.

I'll stop posting now.  Good luck, and I hope things work out for you in the long run.

It's been 5 days, and NO Barwizi is not back full time. Full time means each, and every day, you check the forum, reply to posts, and ensure you respond to queries. He's absent for 5 full days once again.  So when Barwizi speaks and promises something again, do yourself a favor and don't listen.

It's very apparent he has an undiagnosed psychological disorder which makes him believe he's doing the right thing, eventhough he isn't.

I'm not sure how a good natured person can go this way, but I will tell you this:

This is my assessment / opinion of Barwizi

1) Barwizi isn't, and never intended to be a scammer

2) He is visibly and continues to be incompetent in his endeavors

3) Barwizi has no concept of the damage he's caused and continues to do on a regular basis.

4) The only exit out of this fiasco is for a community take over.

So thanks for everyone who has been more that patient until now. But it is obvious we have a "psychiatric patient" running around the hospital grounds as a developer thinking they are coherent.

Barwizi might be suffering from this, without his knowledge. Click this link

The reason I say this, is that from personal communication direct from Barwizi he admitted he was in the military.

The lead developer (Barwizi) for Noirshares / NRS may need therapy.

Or course he's going to reply, but I'll ignore what he says. In the meantime, is there any chance any of us can take over NRS and get it back to a functioning coin?

Barwizi: You unknowingly are suffering a psychological disorder.  I'm not trying to make fun of it. But you are. Please go to a specialist to have yourself evaluated. The longer you wait, the longer you could be causing damage to yourself or others around you.  Things are not ok. It's very obvious to us, and even if you don't agree, you need to be checked.

Noirshares has become this huge twisted joke. You're at the helm of it all, with plenty of absences and excuses.  In the beginning, a lot of the excuses were tolerated. Now it's obvious there is something really wrong here.  There is no windfall to be gained, so I don't believe it is a scam. I sincerely believe that you're suffering from a psychological disorder and you are unaware or in denial of it.

Reading the history of this forum topic, you've promised plenty and delivered very little.  You keep popping up and going away like a drunk in an alley who wakes up suddenly, mutters a few words, and then passes out again.

Your reputation is zero now.

The block explorer shows 925 confirmations which was included in
block 470c3383926ddc3ea72cd7f3d5bde2126b89d81d01f52bd12513a173d6fdf500

You can see that this is indeed in the blockchain:

http://blockexperts.com/opal/tx/20612330cbdb382e5deeb05ddd12fb457f0fec2da334779a7d363a50fd5e39bf

...so when you ask Cryptsy, copy/paste that transaction as a reference.


This second one from cryptsy to coin-swap 6dec doesn't exist as you can see (not there)
http://blockexperts.com/opal/tx/c974b7eb1ab87f71cf84aea175f4e2d57ad9ba4b99649823df678a643210329e

Which means that the transaction never completed. Could be a forked chain, anything. On that basis, the coins should still be in Cryptsy's wallet as that transaction id is invalid.

Please open a trouble ticket with Cryptsy at http://cryptsy.freshdesk.com about these issues (copy/paste this whole post) and ask them to investigate.

Of course you are... Once the rollback became imminent, he didn't have much choice but to negotiate.

The purpose of my post is to spawn discussion on how this can best be achieved.  Give it a day for us to discuss this..

I'll give you a possible solution to the scenario:

1. Opal team releases a new wallet, on a new chain, opal v2 with a 2.5 million premine.

2. The Opal v2 wallet has to be encrypted with a passphrase otherwise the wallet doesn't generate any addresses

3. Bob downloads this Opal v2 wallet, creates a passphrase, and generates a new address

4. Bob now gets in touch with the OpalTeam to verify he has keys to the original v1 wallet, and OpalTeam transfers the stolen coins from v1 (from the v2 premine) to his Opal v2 passphrase protected wallet.

Something like that..  Using bitcointalk forum names to prove identity could help this.. I don't know.