[ANN] FedoraCoin (TiPS) - New Dev team: Fedoracoin Foundation

[psycodad]

After checking with ShortBlade via PM I concluded that we do not have enough public nodes to synch from.
I found a great deal at hostmybytes for a speedy VPS in London and have setup another TIPS seed node on it. This should speed up synching noteably, especially for users in Europe but also for the rest of the world, as the datacenter of hostmybytes seems to have very good and low latency links.

Judging from the number of connections the new seed node gets, I am pretty sure this improves the synch situation massively.

I also tested to synch a new client behind a broadband connection from scratch and while it started with a promising speed, it suddenly got stuck with tons of

...ProcessBlock() ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK 751...

messages in debug.log and the client stopped getting new blocks until I restarted it. It turns out if the download is now getting too fast too many blocks out of order and the default of received blocks to keep in memory is set to 750 by default.
This can easily be increased to something like 2500-5000 which speeds up the synching extremly. With my test client I got ~200'000 blocks in 10 minutes, which gives an estimate of less than 2 hours for the complete synching.

I would like to ask those that have troubles synching to add the following line to their fedoracoin.conf, stopping and restarting the client and checking if that eases their synching pains:

Code:

maxorphanblocks=2500

(you can go up to 10000 if your pc has 8GB or more memory - at least with TIPS where we do not have full blocks all so often)

If nobody notices any silly side effects, I'd vote to make this permanent in the client with the following change in src/main.h from:

Code:

src/main.h:static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_ORPHAN_BLOCKS = 750;

to

Code:

src/main.h:static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_ORPHAN_BLOCKS = 2500;

Let us know what you experience with the maxorphanblock increased.

Cheers - psycodad

[Bitcoinguru99]

Its incredible hash rate has 20fold during the last 10days! We are already at half nova hash rate and rising. It look like a huge come back as every year and i am really confident that this time its back to szay successful.

[Bitcoinguru99]

With nova closing all the cheap litoshis tips will change hands and will be gone forever. We will focus trading in btcsantoshis in the future on other big exchanges. For now buy em cheap on coinexchange.io for 1 santoshi. I believe we can soon see 10 santoshis.. btw transfers are near realtime and trsnsfer cost is zero. I just love the coin...

[Bitcoinguru99]

Does anyone know if the devs are in switzerland? It says switzerland wjen you google them. Hmmmm is someone mining and hoddling them for The Big Thing? Wouldn surprise me as Zug is the new mekka and cryptovally...

[Shortblade]

Some guy has pumped up his hashrate from 20ghs to 40ghs on poolto. This is almost the whole network hashrate.

[Delphinus]

Some guy has pumped up his hashrate from 20ghs to 40ghs on poolto. This is almost the whole network hashrate.

So for my understanding,what is the advantage of having a very high hashrate for the coin? Just faster transactions?

[kurbeks]

Some guy has pumped up his hashrate from 20ghs to 40ghs on poolto. This is almost the whole network hashrate.

So for my understanding,what is the advantage of having a very high hashrate for the coin? Just faster transactions?

More interst into coin. If more people mine, price usually increase, not with one bag holder getting all.

[psycodad]

Some guy has pumped up his hashrate from 20ghs to 40ghs on poolto. This is almost the whole network hashrate.

So for my understanding,what is the advantage of having a very high hashrate for the coin? Just faster transactions?

What kurbeks said.
But the higher hashrate also is a good insurance against 51% attacks and selfish mining (you now need 40 Antminers or more to attack TIPS with a slight chance of success). Makes the chain more secure and respected.

Though transactions do not get faster in any way at all by higher hashrate, the block time should always be around 1minute and we have max. 1MB blocks, though most pools/miners use the default of 250kB max blocksize.

[erm1n]

I´ve also downloaded the bootstrap from the website. But i become the error message "Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?"
How to fix? Please help or i´ve to wait for the 4 years synch..

[robotsoutofcontrol]

Update on the website progress:
We have rented a domain and webserver. The blockexplorer is as far as i know synced and i will be working on getting all the required informations to the website.
We will upload the wallet to the webserver and we might also be adding a blockchain download/bootstrap so new people can sync the blockchain much faster.

After the website is finished i will rework the ANN, changeing all the informations needed.

Does anybody know about active pools? I am hosting pools myself and i would like to also host a pool for TIPS for helping to stabilize the network. The pools wallet will then serve as a permanent node, like the blockexplorer.

As far as i know, TIPS is currently only tradeable on novaexchange, as bter is still refuseing to switch to the new, correct and working blockchain. As soon as the above steps are finished, i will get in contact with bter and ask them, if there would be the possibility to switch over to the correct chain.

If you have any questions, feel free to message me here.

Hi Testbug,
Are you still interested in continuing your work on Fedora?  The new community is getting fairly active now, with a lot of work focus on updating the wallet and also thinking about future tech enhancements.  We really want some of the original Fedora hero members involved and part of it.  We are talking with psycodad who has been fantastic, but we want a seat for everybody at the table!  Sorry if you are not interested.
Thanks,
Robotsoutofcontrol.

[RobbieRich]

I think coinexchange.io is also trading TIPS ....

Update on the website progress:
We have rented a domain and webserver. The blockexplorer is as far as i know synced and i will be working on getting all the required informations to the website.
We will upload the wallet to the webserver and we might also be adding a blockchain download/bootstrap so new people can sync the blockchain much faster.

After the website is finished i will rework the ANN, changeing all the informations needed.

Does anybody know about active pools? I am hosting pools myself and i would like to also host a pool for TIPS for helping to stabilize the network. The pools wallet will then serve as a permanent node, like the blockexplorer.

As far as i know, TIPS is currently only tradeable on novaexchange, as bter is still refuseing to switch to the new, correct and working blockchain. As soon as the above steps are finished, i will get in contact with bter and ask them, if there would be the possibility to switch over to the correct chain.

If you have any questions, feel free to message me here.

Hi Testbug,
Are you still interested in continuing your work on Fedora?  The new community is getting fairly active now, with a lot of work focus on updating the wallet and also thinking about future tech enhancements.  We really want some of the original Fedora hero members involved and part of it.  We are talking with psycodad who has been fantastic, but we want a seat for everybody at the table!  Sorry if you are not interested.
Thanks,
Robotsoutofcontrol.

[le6levo]

I think coinexchange.io is also trading TIPS ....

Update on the website progress:
We have rented a domain and webserver. The blockexplorer is as far as i know synced and i will be working on getting all the required informations to the website.
We will upload the wallet to the webserver and we might also be adding a blockchain download/bootstrap so new people can sync the blockchain much faster.

After the website is finished i will rework the ANN, changeing all the informations needed.

Does anybody know about active pools? I am hosting pools myself and i would like to also host a pool for TIPS for helping to stabilize the network. The pools wallet will then serve as a permanent node, like the blockexplorer.

As far as i know, TIPS is currently only tradeable on novaexchange, as bter is still refuseing to switch to the new, correct and working blockchain. As soon as the above steps are finished, i will get in contact with bter and ask them, if there would be the possibility to switch over to the correct chain.

If you have any questions, feel free to message me here.

Hi Testbug,
Are you still interested in continuing your work on Fedora?  The new community is getting fairly active now, with a lot of work focus on updating the wallet and also thinking about future tech enhancements.  We really want some of the original Fedora hero members involved and part of it.  We are talking with psycodad who has been fantastic, but we want a seat for everybody at the table!  Sorry if you are not interested.
Thanks,
Robotsoutofcontrol.

coinexchange.io

Typing in TrollBox and keep TIPS alive ..

to psycodad: really 1MB blocks TIPS? Why not 2 or 3? Nearest my transaction BTC (1MB too) within 5 min. And how adv and disadv when compare  with larger ones?

[psycodad]

to psycodad: really 1MB blocks TIPS? Why not 2 or 3? Nearest my transaction BTC (1MB too) within 5 min. And how adv and disadv when compare  with larger ones?

To the best of my knowledge we haven't seen a single block yet that was full. I am not objecting a block size increase but I just want to point out that currently there is no need for it.

[Bitcoinguru99]

Holys... i am loving the mining action on tips. We are passing 60gh! I say 100gh is coming.... tips will be back soon. 

[ljglug]

Where to download the latest wallet

[ride22]

Serious question, why are you mining this coin?  It doesn't even look like you can give them away on Nova Exchange.


Also, just downloaded the new wallet, and I have a question.  I put my wallet.dat file into the roaming folder and nothing is showing up.  Did I read correctly, that if I have older coins that they are now no longer usable?  Is that correct?

Because we like it and have history with it. nothing more at this moment. Sometimes mining is a hobby too 

If you have balance BEFORE block fork (block 1299878) than you can have your Old wallet balance in new wallet.
All balance (tx send/receive) after fork block will not shown since its already in diff chain (old blockchain)

I honestly have no idea what block these are from.  I used to mine Fedora in 2013/2014. 

If you familiar with current bitcoin's fork event, like BCH, BTG ect, than it will easier to explain
TIPS have hardfork at block 1299878 (30th Jun 2016 15:17:38) so every wallet balance in that block will get snapshot and move to new chainblock

Old TIPS wallet still function until block 1664000 (14th Mar 2017 14:54:51) before it stuck and *out of sync* or dead

Hey,
Wanted to follow up on this topic again.  So what should my next steps be?  Are my old Tips no longer useable, or can they be placed into the new wallet (or are they just a completely different coin now with the same name?)

[psycodad]

Serious question, why are you mining this coin?  It doesn't even look like you can give them away on Nova Exchange.


Also, just downloaded the new wallet, and I have a question.  I put my wallet.dat file into the roaming folder and nothing is showing up.  Did I read correctly, that if I have older coins that they are now no longer usable?  Is that correct?

Because we like it and have history with it. nothing more at this moment. Sometimes mining is a hobby too 

If you have balance BEFORE block fork (block 1299878) than you can have your Old wallet balance in new wallet.
All balance (tx send/receive) after fork block will not shown since its already in diff chain (old blockchain)

I honestly have no idea what block these are from.  I used to mine Fedora in 2013/2014. 

If you familiar with current bitcoin's fork event, like BCH, BTG ect, than it will easier to explain
TIPS have hardfork at block 1299878 (30th Jun 2016 15:17:38) so every wallet balance in that block will get snapshot and move to new chainblock

Old TIPS wallet still function until block 1664000 (14th Mar 2017 14:54:51) before it stuck and *out of sync* or dead

Hey,
Wanted to follow up on this topic again.  So what should my next steps be?  Are my old Tips no longer useable, or can they be placed into the new wallet (or are they just a completely different coin now with the same name?)

The procedure to regain the TIPS you had before the hard fork is:

• Download a win wallet from the OP or compile the linux wallet from github
• Place your old wallet.dat into the fedoracoin folder (~/.fedoracoin on Linux)
• Let the wallet synch up and see your old TIPS re-appearing
• Enjoy your TIPS

HTH

[ljglug]

Unable to compile wallet
ubuntu16.04

../../src/main.h:123:20: warning: ‘OPENNAME_NAME_RENEWAL’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
 static const char* OPENNAME_NAME_RENEWAL="e";
                    ^
  CXX      libbitcoinqt_a-walletview.o
In file included from sendcoinsdialog.h:8:0,
                 from walletview.cpp:16:
walletmodel.h:11:0: warning: ignoring #pragma warning  [-Wunknown-pragmas]
 #pragma warning(disable:4717)  //bogus warning from MS
 ^
walletview.cpp: In member function ‘void WalletView::importWallet(QString)’:
walletview.cpp:351:10: warning: unused variable ‘b’ [-Wunused-variable]
     bool b =walletModel->importPrivateKey(privateKey);   
          ^
  CXX      libbitcoinqt_a-reportview.o
In file included from reportview.cpp:13:0:
walletmodel.h:11:0: warning: ignoring #pragma warning  [-Wunknown-pragmas]
 #pragma warning(disable:4717)  //bogus warning from MS
 ^
  CXX      libbitcoinqt_a-snapwidget.o
snapwidget.cpp:10:51: fatal error: zxing/common/GlobalHistogramBinarizer.h: 没有那个文件或目录
compilation terminated.
Makefile:2056: recipe for target 'libbitcoinqt_a-snapwidget.o' failed
make[5]: *** [libbitcoinqt_a-snapwidget.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/l/桌面/fedoracoin-master-0.9/src/qt'
Makefile:2926: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/l/桌面/fedoracoin-master-0.9/src/qt'
Makefile:1109: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/l/桌面/fedoracoin-master-0.9/src/qt'
Makefile:921: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/l/桌面/fedoracoin-master-0.9/src'
Makefile:675: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/l/桌面/fedoracoin-master-0.9/src'
Makefile:511: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[Delphinus]

Setting up a new server so syncing goes faster is appreciated, thanks for the effort you're putting into this!

[Bitcoinguru99]

This is the comeback of tips :-)
Mining is surpsssing 100gh sooon...
Price is moving on coinexch.
10 santoshis is possible
Thanks guys & new devs