Pretty sure they're fan made vectors, so it shouldn't be an issue.

Update on Cryptsy stuff

I finally got in contact with my friend at cryptsy, he confirmed that they are indeed still running the v0.10.0.0-beta client and this is clearly the cause of all the issues.
He has made sure to let paul know he needs to update their client, so those issues should be fixed within a couple days.

Also, as far as I know, there's been no serious consideration or even a thought about setting up a fourth market with pennies. That's just a suggestion some people were making earlier in this thread that seems to have spread as a rumor. I agree that it may be a good idea to have an even lower valued coin then XPM as a market but a Proof of Stake coin is not the one for that job, much to unstable in both value and functionality.

Frankly I think they should redesign the entire exchange to remove "markets" and just let people trade directly on any currency pair, but that would be hell to setup with all these coins.

Yes, I'd given up trying to get in sync with cryptsy as they seem to be blocking direct client connections and refused to respond to any of my inquiries.
It's their responsibility to make sure they're in sync with the proper chain, not mine. If they refuse to actually do their job they can deal with the mess on their end.

I wouldn't call that innovative, other coins already have that.
It would also require setting up an announcement server, which I have no desire of doing. At least not anytime soon.
I may set something up with twitter at some point if i can figure that out though.

Yeah, I'm working on it. Probably have something done  by the end of the week.

The stake issues have already been fixed though?

Sorry, forgot to push it last night. It'll be in the 'stakefixfix' branch.

Pennies v0.10.2.1-abe released!
Download (Alt)

Changes:
 - Properly built as release instead of debug (doesn't need those ridiculously large files anymore)
 - New checkpoints
 - Minor splash screen modification (now you can read the bright yellow text at the bottom)
 - Released on MediaFire as well for those who can't access google (hopefully you can access this, I have no idea)

Let me know if this fixes your crashes for those who had that problem when it tries to connect. Don't forget to try wiping the blockchain first.

Yes, accidentally, i forgot to specify the makefile so it defaulted to debug. All i knew is that it wouldn't launch without those files, i didn't know why. I don't compile on windows often so I'm not really familiar with it.

Also, I completely missed that comment, there's a lot of stuff to read through on here. Probably woulda helped if I noticed that earlier.

I found out why the extra dlls were required, I somehow accidentally compiled the debug version, woops

I'm unsure if that's related to the issues people are having with it crashing when it gets connections as I have not had this issue.

I'm recompiling with some small changes and checkpoints as a release version, we'll see how that works out for you people having issues

Question to the chinese people: Can you access mediafire? I can upload the new wallet there as well.

Yeah, -unk is just added when somebody compiles from source and the compiler can't find the origin. In other words, the compiler couldn't find the git metadata.


Probably almost everyone, the blockchain is huge so it takes to long to boot and the network is a mess so it eats up all your cpu. Can't do anything about that right now.


Ahahah, that's hardly rapid growth. That's crawling compared to what it was previously.


I couldn't really give a damn about your "investments", you were a fool to invest in pennies and I feel no obligation to assist any of you in that regards.

The future of pennies is simple, as it was always intended it will be a play money. Something for parents/teachers to use to teach their children about cryptocurrencies and economics. Perhaps also for use as a tipping currency when you give someone your "two cents" or a "penny for their thoughts". That's it, that's all. The value should stay exactly how it is, at most it could be allowed to reach 1satoshi LTC again, nothing more.


Why the fuck would you ever think a broken, worthless cryptocurrency could ever be used as a base trading currency? How could you even ask a question this fucking idiotic? It's clunky, slow, broken, worthless, and for fucks sake it uses proof of stake. No one who even thinks about running an exchange would even try to consider that that might be a good idea.


@Everyone: The blockchain's still forked up. It's gonna take awhile (and probably a few more checkpoints) to get it all sorted out. And by "awhile" I mean awhile, not 5 minutes. This shit's gonna take time, lots of it.

I've been ignoring him but he's getting exceedingly aggressive and i'm entirely clueless as to why he even cares at all, which kinda bothers me.

TO EVERYONE EXPERIENCING PENNIES CRASHES

I can't do anything to help you unless you pastebin me your debug.log files contents. First make sure you've updated to v0.10.2.0-abe and wiped your blockchain. If you happen to be running Windows XP, try not using a deprecated OS.

If it's displaying "(Out of Sync)" but you think you are synced you're probably fine, that's normal when a currency has recently gone through some blockchain issues. It will sort itself out eventually.

@Vlad: What exactly are you getting out of spamming my thread with your shit? I've already told these people that pennies are worthless, they're supposed to be, and everyone knows that. Is this just how you get your jollies or does this harassment somehow magically benefit you in some way?

Pastebin your debug.log file for me.

Try reading the post.

The source is already updated (under the branch 'stakefixfix'). The pennies-qt repo has been removed for now because I can't push the new dll's to it, they're too big. Once i sort out what's up with that I might use that repo again, though it's really bad form to be using github for binaries in the first place.

Pennies v0.10.2.0-abe will be uploaded here shortly: Google Drive

Changes:
-Fixed issue where old blocks where invalidated by stake changes
-Checkpoints to get everyone back on the same fork (synced with Cryptsy up to block 250000, hopefully)
-New stake values are significantly reduced (as was intended via the previous update)
-Small cleanup of superfluous files (folder: qt-copy)

Notes:
-You may have to remove your current blockchain from your appdata and resync from scratch
-You will likely end up with a lot of dead transactions from a bad fork
-You may still have a few lost transaction between you and cryptsy, you will have to talk with them about it, i can't help you.
-There's two more, noticeably large, Qt*.dll files included in the wallet. I have no idea why but the latest build requires them. We'll figure this out soon.

I think he's hoping the attacker feels guilty. He/she probably doesn't.

I coulda sworn it used to, but I never ignore anyone anyway, at least not through forum mechanics.


Anyway, i'm rebuilding the client with new checkpoints and whatnot, I seem to be synced up with cryptsy so all should be good. I'll be providing instructions for some common issues that might arise when it's ready. (v0.10.2.0-abe)

Yeah, that's what happens when a PoS coin is forked to hell and back. Lots of orphans, loss of profits.
I might have to give up trying to get synced with cryptsy's chain and just set checkpoints for my own and let cryptsy deal with the aftermath of lost transactions.
They should have enough stake to cover their ass anyway.

Also keep in mind Jakal, that stake values are supposed to be decreasing, that was the whole point of the update.

Yeah, the compiled version, as I've already said, is not complete. This is my debugging testing build with all the important fixes and nothing else (such as the version numbering). Soon as I get some checkpoints squared away I'll release the pretty version.