Wohooo, new website at https://espers.io/ by Arsonic!  

Retweet: https://twitter.com/EspersCoin/status/949665947987709952

I am currently syncing to make use of the new wallet updates, let's hope that the previous mining/staking problems will be fixed now! Everything here seems to be progressing step by step. I really like that.

Yes it is! 

Hi, the ANN is still a bit sparse on information, please look at the CoinWiki article linked there: http://coinwiki.info/en/SpectreCoin

1 GB should be enough for staking one wallet. Raspbian is basically Debian, it is also mentioned in the Github readme. Raspbian is basically Debian optimized for ARM.

It's in a quite early stage yet. But yeah it is truly decentralized, it's just a platform where two people can (virtually) meet to make a trade with each other, peer to peer.

You experienced the "zero balance bug" https://github.com/bitcoinx2/spectre/wiki/FAQ#6-my-balance-disappeared-from-my-wallet

It's one reason why jbg has built a new GUI for version 1.4.

You can find all technical information here: http://coinwiki.info/en/SpectreCoin#Specifications

I hope it will get added to the ANN soon.

Look 4 posts above. 

If your wallet is not syncing then replacing the binaries will not help.    You can come to Slack where we have a dedicated #support_client channel.

Also make sure to check out the FAQ if you are lacking connections to other nodes: https://github.com/bitcoinx2/spectre/wiki/FAQ#7-i-have-zero-connections

You can take a look at this guide to fix your Espers wallet problems: https://github.com/bitcoinx2/Espers/wiki/Solving-wallet-issues

Thanks EleanorZ for explaining a lot of things here. A few additions:

I have written a little more detailed guide on calculating the staking rewards here: https://github.com/bitcoinx2/spectre/wiki/FAQ#8-how-can-i-stake

You can use the "dumpprivkey <Address>" command (sorry - I think I wrote that quote with exportprivkey earlier) to export your private key. Note that when you spend coins from that address, then most probably a change address will be generated, which will be different from your original address! Your private key will not change from staking alone, but you should be aware that every time you send coins, some remaining part will be stored on a different address afterwards.  That's why making backups of your wallet.dat is usually more important. There are 100 change addresses in our wallet.dat, so at least after every 100 sent transactions you should make a new backup of it.

Sorry man, I'm currently not synced, either. I'm waiting for a fix as much as everyone else, I don't like using bootstrap files. The one provided on the Espers homepage should work.

Windows is not a Unix-based OS, so you probably don't have to worry about permissions (well - unless you unpacked the files as an Administrator, and then tried to run the wallet as a user). Hmm I'm not sure what else you could try.

Hmm, could be a permission problem? Maybe try extracting the bootstrap files using a different method, and look at the file permissions in case you are using a Unix-based OS.



Sorry I don't understand the question.

For everybody confused here, I would like to explain what is the difference between an ICO and a coin swap / chain swap.

ICO:

• A new developer starts a new project and wants/needs to acquire funds.
• The dev will premine a certain amount, and sell the premined coins to the new users.
• Users pay with an existing currency or coin (a different project), and receive coins from the new project.
• The dev keeps the money and will cash it out later.
• The currency users paid with, continues to exist (otherwise there would be no point in wanting to "cash out").

Swap:

• A developer of an existing project wants/needs to base his coin on a different chain.
• The dev will premine a certain amount, and instructs every user of the current chain to take the swap procedure.
• Users send in their coins from the current chain (same project), and receive coins from the new chain.
• The dev abandons the previous chain, mining stops, the swapped and unswapped tokens of the old chain become worthless.
• Dev does not gain any money, it's just done for the purpose of switching the chain.

Now we look at this project:

• New project, new vision.
• New developers.
• The money users pay with comes from a different project.
• The other project (Espers) does not get abandoned and continues to exist.
• Dev keeps the money with the goal of cashing out later.

Ergo, this is an ICO. So you shouldn't call yourself a swap, this has no characteristics of a swap at all.

So I guess the relevant question here is: Why do you only accept ESP? And btw., how much ESP does the entire dev team hold together? This would be similar to a premine, so it should be made public.

Zombie state I would say. It's dead but alive at the same time, and might start moving fast if the zombie master Cryptocoderz appears on the scene with some wallet fixes.

I like that this price surge is happening even before the release of 1.4. Who knows what will happen when we get a completely new and awesome wallet? 

You should try to find the reason for that and understand it. If your balance is wrong, it either means that you are on the wrong chain, or you need to rescan your local copy of the chain, or that your balance is right and you are wrong. All cases are covered in this guide. In order to solve the problem, you need to find out what is the problem.

Also make sure to always have a backup of your wallet.dat.