Shadow-qt that's 736k in size? That doesn't seem right. My exe is > 11M in size, not to mention all the other files that come with it in the zip.

http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html

Seems like they view it like fiat. IMO it's just a matter of time before IDs will be required to even trade in crypto.

I'm referring to the wallet.dat file (the actual "wallet"), and not the client which most people refer to as the wallet. I'm using the latest and greatest client so it should be on the correct fork.

FYI, libwinpthread-1.dll should be packaged into the zip daemon directory. You can't run spreadcoind without that file.

Are there any known issues when using an "old" wallet? I have a wallet from late last year and am trying to get the new client to get sync'd. It runs for a little bit and then throws an error saying something about not being able to open the wallet. It opened it fine at the start obviously as it's showing a balance but while it's syncing I end up with this and have to restart. I noticed that my old wallet is 88k in size and the default one it generated when I first started it, is 96k.

Also, is there a way to export my private keys and then reimport them? Can't seem to find that anywhere.

I had exactly the same thought lol

That seemed to happen damn fast. Most likely so they don't have to deal with mass outrage. I suspect it's probably just the first step though to requiring ids as well.

The thing is, the project will never really be done. Going back and reading stuff shortly after the ShadowSend2 release, it appears that it's not the final version and that there will be a ShadowSend3 and maybe even 4. There will always be things that can be added and updated. Taking a "if we build it they will come" approach rarely works and I've been involved in a number of projects outside this realm that have proved that time and time again. At it's core, SDC is a currency meant to buy and sell things. That's "done" and so there's no reason for there not to be an effort for more adoption and real world use. Adoption is a slow process and should be constantly ongoing.

As for waiting for the marketplace, NXT has a marketplace. I haven't got myself back up to speed on that project but it seems to have had little effect on that coins adoption. Maybe it's too limited or something, as I said I haven't got back up to speed on that coin. At least from a price standpoint, it's around 3700 now and late last year when I was trading it, it was around the 5000-6000 mark. So really, thinking that the market will somehow change the coins adoption/popularity appears to be just based in wishful thinking.

Been catching up on the thread since about the September time frame and this post seems out of character for you. You appeared to be one of the more reasonable people in here lol

I do agree though. Was going to ask what happened to the review as it's been somewhere around 3 months now I think.

Also disappointed that the devs never clearly addressed the question as to how similar ShadowSend2 is to cryptonote in terms of the underlying method. There was some reference to things like the libraries, the curve etc used but that's just the implementation, not the fundamental cryptography. There was also a question about blockchain bloat (although I find the whole bloat thing as not really an issue) similar to cryptonote coins that I didn't see answered.

That's not what I said. Reread it.

You guys are hillarious. I was here before ShadowSend 2 was done. Had some PMs with rynomster back then about whether or not the project should be part of XBridge etc when that all came up. I just haven't been around for a few months as life kept me too busy to do much more than read.

But it's nice to see how friendly you all are. Seriously, some of you should step away from the forum and the net and then come back and create a more "friendly" atmosphere. Perhaps not assuming someone is attacking the coin like you've done would be a start. I was speaking in general about all coins and not specifically about SDC. But simply stating a coin will be around for a long time won't make it so. It just comes across as disingenuous and like the community has their head in some non reality universe. lol

How does what I've done, am doing or will do change in any way what I pointed out? Are we having a whose cock is bigger competition or something? lol

Why? Why would adding things like the market make one bit of difference to a CURRENCY's long term prospects. Right now, the coin is "done" and anything else is just "stuff" built on top of it. It's an anonymous currency that can be used by the masses. Things like the market are only going to create a bump in the price and will simply be home for mostly things like SilkRoad. The masses won't care about those things, they're going to want a coin they can use to buy real things with simply and fast. The coin is ready to do that now without any "fluff". 99% of the coins out now will always be "failures" because they have no plan or effort for adoption. How many faucets are there for SDC right now? How many gambling sites and/or games can you use SDC on? That's just basic crypto stuff and SDC has pretty much none of that. Until people stop waiting for more "stuff" and actually start getting it adopted, it's never going to be more than just another coin to trade on exchanges. The coin doesn't need investors, it needs adoption.

Can someone tell me what happened mid march that brought about the sharp rise in the price of SDC?

That's something new that's cropped up lately. But if they're giving coins in return then it's not real crowdfunding, just an IPO/ICO/Presale.

spreadcoin had a decent start although most people overlooked it. So not sure how many coins the original dev got at the start but he's disappeared so it doesn't really matter. The new guys are doing a pretty good job.

Used to be easy to see how much volume there was for any particular candle along with the high/low open/close etc. Now it's a lot harder to do.

Can't open up the complete list of buy/sell orders or history either. So now you have to scroll through them and I don't think they're showing all of them.

Less usability than there was before.

Yeah they did... Went from being what I felt was the best interface to being crap. At least in terms of the graph. It's like they hired someone who doesn't actually trade to design and implement it. I'm able to login.

Not sure how you came up with that number. It's 0.2BTC in trading volume a week to remain listed, so roughly $50/week in trades. Not a hell of a lot really.

I guess what you mean is if a person were to buy and sell $50/week for a zero sum profit/loss then he's only out the fees which would be what $0.125/week?

Might want to update the OP. It appears the only exchange that has SPR now is Bittrex. Not a good thing IMO.