Sigh. Thank you for continuing to maintain Armory, hadn't realized the tribulations.

Sorry to hear your tale of woe, Mine is far simpler.

Life happens, been busy, haven't touched BTC in about 12 months. Consolidating coin. Forgot about Armory wallet with big pile of coin in it. Start Armory 0.91, too old, needs bitcoin/etc updates, Update, hangs/crashes repeatedly. Backup wallet (digital, unencrypted), remove all traces of Armory, install fresh, import wallet, have repeated troubles with 0.95.1 taking forever to start, like others in this thread. Failing to start at all, like others in the thread, but I've been trying for a week..

.. and here we are.


Been all over the client, in expert mode, can't find the "address chain length", either where to change it, or extend it.

I do see a decent amount of "-ERROR - 1480706621: (..\BitcoinP2P.cpp:865) caught BitcoinP2P_Exception in processDataStackThread: invalid header size" in the ArmoryDB console however. I'll work on getting you logs. Pastebin ok?

Block count in lower right corner is: {will update once we're not OFFLINE again from restarting the client to get to expert mode}

People providing data about about the same problem isn't a hijack, it's an attempt to help find a solution to a problem.


You are correct, I misread it.. it hammers the machine so hard it -acts- like it's completely out of ram and into swap.




True.

I hope you understand peoples frustration here...a product, free or not, they've been using, has become, for whatever reason, impossible to use, monopolizing their machines, and most importantly, holding their BTC hostage.

Speaking of which, after another over-night run, the client finally appears happy and caught up, except all the wallets have zero balance. Rescan gave zero change.

help?

Been having a hell of a time the last week trying to get Armory to start.. Same symptoms, taken the same steps as others, still haven't been able to get it ever "complete" so I could move coins around.

FWIW, even with the suggested command line switches, ArmoryDB still uses 100% of the system RAM within 60 seconds.

Running on a 8 core 32G machine, all SSD.. shouldn't be this bad.

Running Bitcoin-QT/BitcoinD on their own, just fine, current and up to date on the block count.
ArmoryDB.exe --db-type=DB_BARE --ram-usage=1 == ram flatlined, sits on Organizing Chain a *LONG* time.. have waited a couple times then it's building TX -- FOREVER.

Once I get my coins out, I'm not -ever- running Armory again. To have to dedicate 2x the blockchain size just to run the client is unreasonable. 200G of SSD, 8 cores 32G to run a wallet?

So many things wrong here... 

Sadly, it's very easy to buy card data. Turning stolen cards into cash is not easy, but people still try.. like buying amazon gift cards and selling them for bitcoin... or buying MSDN subscriptions and selling keys.

Honestly, I won't buy Amazon gift cards for BTC any more, without a 45 day escrow.. .Nobody else should either.

We've been burned too many times by Amazon removing the card value from my account 25-30-35 days later when the seller turned out to have used a stolen card to buy the Gift card he sold you.

Pity, because I loved getting 10%/20%/etc off..

So now I use purse.io and avoid the gift cards.

Realized I hadn't created a post here for them, so here goes..ebay auction found here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121660010613

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(Price Reduced, all miners must go! - Currently $99 buy-it-now)




We lost our lease, so it's time to sell.

It's been a good run, but our landlord is moving, and the power costs in his new location are 3x... So it's time to hand off these great miners to someone with cheaper power. Our loss, your gain.

These Bitmain Antminer S3's have been used in a temperature controlled, filtered-air environment, which means unlike some of the other miners for sale on Ebay, these have a lot of life left in them. They'll be packed in the original boxes, and as a bonus, will include PCI-E 8 Pin to Dual 8, adapters, which allow you to run each miner on (2) 8-pin power connectors, instead of 4. This is also a safer way to run the miners, than just connecting (2) of the (4) power connectors.

The official specs for the S3 are listed below, but anyone who has owned the S3's knows each individual miner is different. Because your environment may not match the 65' datacenter these S3's were run in, I can make no guarantees as to performance or overclocking. Each S3 has been restored to factory default settings, and latest firmware, and will work right out of the box. YMMV.

Please note: This auction does not include a power supply. You will need to supply your own. I've had tremendous luck with both the EVGA 1300W and the Silverstone 1350W, each powering (3) miners.

Shipping Costs: I'd love to offer free shipping, but shipping costs have gone up a lot in the last year, and these are odd-shaped, 5lb boxes. That means normal ground shipping will be around $15 per box for most US addresses.

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Feel free to use the buy-it-now off ebay, or send me an offer.. Happy to accept Bitcoin as well.

>20 available for purchase : http://www.ebay.com/itm/121660010613

Long time user of purse.io, love the site, but I don't understand the new discount/fee structure.

Example: A wishlist with a retail total of : $854.75

10% discount : Purse fee: $8.55 - Total Savings $75.93, USD $777.82 (true discount 9%)
20% discount : Purse fee: $16.65 - Total Savings $154.30 - USD $700.45 (true discount 18%)
30% discount : Purse fee: $32.43 - Total Savings $224.00 - USD $630.75 (true discount 26%)
40% discount : Purse fee: $63.16 - Total Savings $278.74 - USD $576.01 (true discount 33%)
50% discount : Purse fee: $123.01 - Total Savings $304.37 - USD $550.38 (true discount 36%)

Purse.io increases its fee, making the resultant discount not at all what it lists.. the 50% discount is actually a 36% discount... I'm all for them making a fee, but the ramp I don't understand...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

the only way you should buy amazon gift cards is with a 60-day escrow..

Site is effectively down at the moment.. app.purse.io not resolving in DNS.

There's really no other pool I trust.. Period.

Time for p2pool.

Interested, sent you PM.

Still interested in this trade?

I would. Immediately. Purse.io is not taking any active steps to prevent this fraud.


I absolutely agree. I've reached out to purse.io and encouraged them to block gift card sales, or escrow them for longer (30-60 days), and their response was "don't buy giftcards".

Couple of days of running under 4.6.0 now, and very happy. CPU load lower, and less hashrate variance.

BEFORE:


AFTER:



Thank you Con!

RMA

Pull the board, return it.

wait.

I've contacted Amazon several times, including today.. Their response is to "Contact the seller, or have them contact us so we can resolve the issue"

EDIT: Contacted Amazon again today. No progress.  They've named to me, both gift card buyers, but that doesn't help. They've indicated both accounts are suspended, pending requests for information from the account holders. Amazon will hold the funds as 'revoked' until they hear from the buyers.. which will likely never happen at this point.

We're still screwed. Everybody, including purse.io, gets their money, except us.

From : https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3122091


So we get left holding the bag.

........ and now I know Amazon can cancel them OVER 30 days out.. I logged into Amazon today to buy birthday presents, and .....  giftcard balance at $0. Turns out a card I bought even earlier, and thought was OK, got yanked as well.


Purse.io really needs to do something about canceled gift cards. Easy answer would be refuse to list gift-cards for sale.. harder answer would be to require 45 day hold (or more?) on Escrow for gift card sales.

...so steamed... and scrambling for upcoming birthdays now!!