Action on Bittrex looks ripe for pump in next day or two. Someone bought a lot of dumped coins this last two days, and they are going to want to profit from that.

If you are selling, I suggest raising your sell orders past 50 sats and staggering them out up the ladder. I am even gonna stick one hail mary at 150 sats and leave it there. =)

(Edit: Going out of town to have a baby. Be back in a few days. Hope to see some good news about this coin when I get back!)

 recently spent a lot of time in the Clean Water Coin IRC chat room while testing their wallet for fixes. It sounds like you could have one of several possible problems.



This helped me tremendously with issues I was having with the wallet. It was a temporary fix to bypass issues with bad code.

BACK UP WALLET.DAT

We are going to be re-naming your Mintcoin -qt.exe file

1. Close your wallet if it is open.
2.. Go to your MINTCOIN wallet folder and right click on "Mintcoin -qt.exe", and rename it to "Mintcoin -qt -salvagewallet -repairwallet -connect=0.exe"
3. Start Wallet and see if it helps.

If not:

1. Your Mintcoin.conf file needs to be updated to all known GOOD nodes. If it has nodes (IP addresses) that are the wrong block height, your wallet will not be able to synch right. One thing I also noticed is that a lot of people aren't keeping their .conf file in the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder, and are instead keeping it in the wallet folder. Move it over to the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder if this is the case.

These are my current .conf file settings, and my wallet just minted on time successfully yesterday, so they are working just fine. You can open your .conf file and see if your values are different. If they are, try pasting mine in and restarting wallet.


testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=82.73.249.168
addnode=173.69.49.106
addnode=82.131.33.87
addnode=96.244.241.62
addnode=79.103.60.211
addnode=115.187.228.119
addnode=93.103.143.167
addnode=71.204.235.217
addnode=50.171.251.116
addnode=65.25.244.83
addnode=76.91.118.4
addnode=91.61.40.108
addnode=98.177.158.203
addnode=98.207.109.245
addnode=75.174.4.1
addnode=99.245.184.159
addnode=78.83.27.181
addnode=96.18.173.160
addnode=118.123.116.219
addnode=173.26.106.194
addnode=82.233.163.250
addnode=177.140.202.7
addnode=97.81.64.44
addnode=79.166.77.203
addnode=68.145.81.59
addnode=181.165.200.142
addnode=144.76.220.169
maxconnections=100
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=yourser
rpcpassword=yourpw
rpcport=12789
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1


Hope that helps!

Time to see PoW devs. What's the plan? This coin will be P&D fodder without your community backing it, and they won't do that without reason to.

What would be awesome is to start a coin with all the guys who were helping even though they didn't have to. That was tight and I can see some good things coming from such collaboration, especially if there was larger motive to succeed. If that ever happens, PM me!

I recently spent a lot of time in the Clean Water Coin IRC chat room while testing their wallet for fixes. It sounds like you could have one of several possible problems.



This helped me tremendously with issues I was having with the wallet. It was a temporary fix to bypass issues with bad code.

BACK UP WALLET.DAT

We are going to be re-naming your Mintcoin -qt.exe file

1. Close your wallet if it is open.
2.. Go to your MINTCOIN wallet folder and right click on "Mintcoin -qt.exe", and change it to "Mintcoin -qt -salvagewallet -repairwallet -connect=0.exe"
3. Start Wallet and see if it helps.

If not:

1. Your conf. file needs to be updated to all known GOOD nodes. If it has nodes (IP addresses) that are the wrong block height, your wallet will not be able to synch right. One thing I also noticed is that a lot of people aren't keeping their .conf file in the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder, and are instead keeping it in the wallet folder. Move it over to the %appdata%\Mintcoin folder if this is the case.

These are my current .conf file settings, and my wallet just minted on time successfully yesterday, so they are working just fine. You can open your .conf file and see if your values are different. If they are, try pasting mine in and restarting wallet.


testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=82.73.249.168
addnode=173.69.49.106
addnode=82.131.33.87
addnode=96.244.241.62
addnode=79.103.60.211
addnode=115.187.228.119
addnode=93.103.143.167
addnode=71.204.235.217
addnode=50.171.251.116
addnode=65.25.244.83
addnode=76.91.118.4
addnode=91.61.40.108
addnode=98.177.158.203
addnode=98.207.109.245
addnode=75.174.4.1
addnode=99.245.184.159
addnode=78.83.27.181
addnode=96.18.173.160
addnode=118.123.116.219
addnode=173.26.106.194
addnode=82.233.163.250
addnode=177.140.202.7
addnode=97.81.64.44
addnode=79.166.77.203
addnode=68.145.81.59
addnode=181.165.200.142
addnode=144.76.220.169
maxconnections=100
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=yourser
rpcpassword=yourpw
rpcport=12789
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1


Hope that helps!

Peng, your solution worked flawlessly. My wallet immediately showed it was synching to the 9000 blocks when I started it up.

GREAT work. That will make a lot of people happy.

A lot of people have worked a lot on this set of issues in the last few days, pretty much non-stop. It was a pleasure watching everyone work together.


edit: and it is synching FAST!

Excellent. I will delete my solution post for now, and see if this one works for everyone. If it does, we simply need to release a conf file or new wallet with correct file in it.

Yay!

If the above works for you, AWESOME.

As far as I understand, you do not need a conf file unless you are using solo mining. I deleted my conf and used the method I posted above your post to synch it and it is working good.

So yeah, the conf file contained instructions to operate on bad nodes and seems to have messed with some stuff if you used it that way. The re-scan checkblock=0 seemed to fix that without a conf file in the folder.

Solo miners apparently need a conf file, so Peng's fix would be their bread and butter.

-Thanks peng for finding those bad nodes! I had asked about nodes in IRC but nobody was sure which ones could be the culprit. They did mention seeing the dreaded 8786 number in there though. Great job!

Yes and thanks for all your help in IRC Vox, you have been awesome.

Just want to add, these are workarounds, not fixes. The fixes are coming, but coders are coding when off work and have time at night.

I am stuck as well, after it worked last night. Not sure what is going on, but when it was synching last time I wiped and re-installed, I saw that it was telling me that "xxxx of 8687" was downloaded. When it reached the 7000 block, the message changed to it was downloading "xxxx of 8786.  So basically it reversed the 687 and made it a 786.

So is there some weird loop at the 8687/8786? Are they mixed up with each other?

Wallet is synched and working.

Looking forward to.....

They rushed the coin before testing. That was a mistake, and either you can live with that mistake and move on, or you can't.

They decided not to reset and orphan 400 million coins that had already been spread around, leaving buyers and everyone else holding bags, when they could do other things and still make the coin work.

Yes, people lost value on IPO big time. But if you were there in IRC, you realized you could get your IPO value back by buying small amount of BTC worth of inflation coins and holding. A lot of people did that I think, because price went from 3 to 5 sats up to around 15-20 sats. People are still holding. This coin has high potential for price increase.

Devs are still discussing what to do with IPO after fixes are done and everything is back on track. I do not know if they plan on compensating IPO investors with anything or not. They are discussing it though.

IPO is usually bad idea. This coin ended up with a second, indirect IPO for anyone who was shopping on Bittrex after the coin issues due to very cheap prices, that offered a way to make up losses from PLC.

Now that the coin issues are being fixed, the value should rise again, making early investment at the basement prices a good investment. The POS and limited/1billion coin total will keep miners interested, especially after prices rise from media/new exchanges.

I am going to have to copy and paste one of these posts so I can just spam it everytime a pissed off dude hits the forum.

So yeah, sucks for IPO investors and miners who weren't paying attention. No reason to fill the forum with blue ink like a child throwing a tantrum and accuse people of masterminding ludicrous, Robin-Hood-like scams that allow you to get coins at low prices before they go up in value.

Just sayin'....

Maybe we should fork more often!   

Np. Yeah, they are stressed. Hopefully they will have more time on the weekend to be present and motivated. I know they are wiped out and regrouping. Lucky they have such good support!

I would not be surprised if they had stuff to say on the forums later tonight after work/dinner/ etc. That is just a guess, based on my knowing that if this stuff happened to me, it would be driving me nuts in the back of my mind until I got it "fixed". I imagine they lost some sleep over this and have been thinking non-stop about it as they go about their daily life.  

I wish Bittrex had the % increase in nice clear numbers on their page like this.

UPDATE:

Devs were in IRC last night and night before most of the night trying to put out the fire and discuss plans for after fixes are in.

Around 12:30-1am PST, everyone was waiting to see if the fork would go smoothly at block 8500 before deciding anything for sure. The fork went smoothly for pools who had updated with us and linux users, and miners are now mining away and getting the right rewards.

The windows wallet issue of getting  stuck at block 8499. The issue was not solvable without a re-compile, and since it was very late here, nobody wanted to start that project in the wee hours and went to bed. That was only 7 hours ago or so.

I have been in the IRC room chatting with them for the last two days and this is the state of the union as it stands:

1. The coin is alive and well despite birthing pains, and price went up from 3-5 sats to 20 to 21 sats in 24 hours, despite issues. With ~400 Mil coins in circulation, there is plenty of room for growth. Take a look at some other coins for examples. Plenty of demand is available out there to eat up the supply, we just need time to develop the coin, just like any other coin. If you build it, they will come.  

2. The development team was hit very hard by seeing their baby go off the tracks. They have been recovering from the stress/shock of the meltdown and have been actively in IRC trying to get issues solved. This has been extremely stressful for them, just like it would be for you if your business/project suddenly had major issues. They want to correct the issues at hand, but do not want to come on the forum and make hasty statements when they don't have a full outline for plan of action yet. People have made a lot of good suggestions, and those are being discussed. I assume the train can pick up steam once the tracks are solid. You can ask them questions in IRC if you are interested in doing so!

3. If you were in IRC, you got to witness the coin community, and even those from competing coins, come together to help get the train back on the right track. It was nice to see the communal effort. This shows that the coin has backers and supporters even in the worst of times.

4. What to do next is being discussed, and suggestions from this thread were being reviewed and discussed both on IRC and between the devs in RL. They need time between jobs and family to take care of all this. They are aware of people's disappointment, and are doing what they can to correct the mistakes.

5. Once the windows wallet is finalized and fixed, there is nothing stopping the coin from doing exactly what is was going to do anyway. We can move forward and see how high this ship can fly.

I was an early investor, and I totally get the issues with the IPO value going down. I already knew IPO were extremely high risk when I sent my BTC. I knew I was taking a risk when I bought more WATER after the bug. Luckily, I have seen other coins go through similar issues at start up, and I also know they can rise in value exponentially after some time and effort is put in by the community to get the coin to big exchanges, press, etc. I still think that is what is in store for this coin. I hope the Dev team comes up with a good plan to make IPO investors feel better about their initial decision.

I am holding my coins and letting them mature and age. The price is STILL undervalued, and is really only on one exchange right now, so that gives exclusive access to early adopters. This is the time where the largest opportunity to buy shares cheaply is, before a rise in price happens. At least that is my analysis and prediction. People were buying coins soon as they knew the miners could mine, so that is a good sign.

I hope the devs can find time to post more on here to keep the worried users/investors calm. In the meantime, keep it positive and keep voting on Mintpal! If you have invested in this coin, you can do nothing better than give positive support and encouragement to the people actively trying to fix the issues and move forward.

Cheers!

Glad I bought some at 3-6!