Edit: sorry, this should have been posted to announcements or discussion. What happens when you've been awake for 30 hours or so ...
Hello,
For all those frustrated and trying to get their altcoins going, and especially to my Strayan friends, OzCoin is up and running with a big thanks to shakezula's excellent guides on early Bitcoin and Litecoin work, and the scrypt guide which was essential along with the cloning Bitcoin guide.
So I have a node on a VPS and a GUI version on a laptop both mining and validating the chain and stuff. I started it with the story about the ACCC investigating Google and Facebook's impact on news media and put that in my pszTimestamp. Lots more Googling when it failed at first because the timestamp was too long initially
Here's a screenshot I took earlier on a laptop:
http://13.75.144.108/screenshot.png (going away soon if it gets too many hits...)
If you're trying to get up and running, or want the source to play with, I'll stick it on github. Note this is a research and educational project so please don't mine the hell out of it to begin with
Can't take it seriously with port number 1337... it will change later. And it's definitely not going out there as a real coin project. Gives me some time to wrap my head around it all and merge in security and feature patches and get binaries happening for different platforms, make it compile with MingW or Cygwin and get a simple Android wallet going, things like that, and a nifty block explorer.
So, if you like creating coins and want to get in touch with others who have struggled past the initial hurdles please get in touch. We could help each other out and keep documenting changes and merging in patches and running software tests and getting testnets up and humming.
Most of all have fun. This has been super frustrating but worth every effort
