[ANN][ARG] Argentum || A New Begining || UPDATE YOUR WALLET ||

[cryptmebro]

It's good to see more nodes coming online. Still have a loner on the old version though :\. The IP appears to be from Netherlands. If that's you, please upgrade!

[cryptmebro]

Argentum is going Dual Algo

We will be both SCRYPT and SHA256D.

We are also going to become merge minable, so all you Pools out there get ready.

The other changes are BlockReward will be fixed at 3 removing the random reward and BlockTime will be increased to 45 seconds.

To top it all we are bringing the Codebase up to date.

Please Donate a little to the cause!
ARG Donation Address: AakDQNZm1GDbtEaAvJFG2MzZGKFSqUSFPg
BTC Donation Address: 1LxXw9CRunb5mJfa99aTWQMCqmbroVBUxi

What about wallets? Should we move to new or our .dat files and blockchain will work?

Coolindark, your pool is paying out individual blocks at a time.

[cryptmebro]

Free votes, get it done!


https://c-cex.com/?id=vote

The fork is almost here!

[snatchmonkey]

Also added to the cryptomic voting list here:
https://www.cryptomic.com/voting

[cryptcollector]

I'll be amending the main post soon.

We have the new source for the upgraded wallet up on my github.

Could all Pools and Exchanges listing Arg please update?

ARG v2.0 Source: https://github.com/Cryptcollector/ARG2.0.git
Blockchain Bootstrap File: http://argcurrency.org/download/bootstrapARG.tar.gz

Blockchain is set to Fork at 1800000

This update brings us up to date code, Dual Scrypt and SHA256D Algo plus adds AUXPOW for merge mining capabilities.
Block time has been increased to 1 minute and block rewards are now fixed at 3.

Windows Wallets and Mac Wallets will be coming soon.

[IconFirm]

Hi,

Is there any way to compile argentum daemon using BDB 4.8? All my merge mined coins use 4.8, so installing BDB 5.1 will break compatibility.

Thanks.

Edit: OK - I just noticed the issue on git hub & your reply. Shame your dev used the wrong BDB - it won't be merge minable with other coins using the 5.1 version - unless it's possible to install both BDB's in seperate locations & point the daemon to that particular BDB?

[Chris Sokolowski]

Hi,

Is there any way to compile argentum daemon using BDB 4.8? All my merge mined coins use 4.8, so installing BDB 5.1 will break compatibility.

Thanks.

I just use ./configure --with-incompatible-bdb  Yeah, my wallet may not be portable, but it runs flawlessly on Debian 8.4.

[cryptcollector]

Hi,

Is there any way to compile argentum daemon using BDB 4.8? All my merge mined coins use 4.8, so installing BDB 5.1 will break compatibility.

Thanks.

Edit: OK - I just noticed the issue on git hub & your reply. Shame your dev used the wrong BDB - it won't be merge minable with other coins using the 5.1 version - unless it's possible to install both BDB's in seperate locations & point the daemon to that particular BDB?

I've investigated and heres my new reply to the GitHub issue your referring to.

Okay, you need to use 5.1 for the wallet db, this will not hamper the AUXPOW functionality of the daemon, as it only effects the wallet.dat portability.

You can install with libdb5.1 while not breaking the compatibility of of your existing libdb4.8 wallets.
Just follow the instructions within https://github.com/Cryptcollector/ARG2.0/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md there is a section in there on how to do this, Look at the Berkely DB section, there is a script there to do this.

Incidentally, DogeCoin has the same problem, it also is 5.1 dependant and gives the exact same error, just worded a little diferently.

SO, follow the instructions on compiling with Berkeley 5.1 DB in that build-unix.md and you can have 5.1 in Argentum while still retaining your system compatibility for all 4.8 wallets.

Regards
Crypt

[techbytes]

I'm getting this error compiling v2.0:  libdb_cxx headers missing

What is the fix for this?


-tb-

[cryptcollector]

I'm getting this error compiling v2.0:  libdb_cxx headers missing

What is the fix for this?


-tb-

The code wants to use libdb5.1.

You can either upgrade your libdb to 5.1 or if this will cause you problems with other coins on your system, then take a look at the build-unix.md https://github.com/Cryptcollector/ARG2.0/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md
In there under Berkeley DB section is a way to compile Argentum. I suppose the same method could be used to compile with 4.8, but I have not tried this.

I have libdb4.8 installed on my system and and have successfully compiled Argentum with libdb5.1 using the method. both ARG and litecoin for instance are running without problems, even though they use different libdb versions.

[cryptcollector]

We just realised that there was a problem with privkeyimport.

Now fixed

Sorry for this, but you may want to do a git pull and recompile.

Will remove the windows client temporarily until its recompiled too.

Crypt

[cryptcollector]

Just to make things a little easier for those who need to have Berkeley DB v4.8 in their nix systems, here is a script that will compile Argentum v2.0 with libdb5.1 on your systems.

Do the following:

git clone https://github.com/Cryptcollector/ARG2.0.git

cd in to the ARG2.0 folder

create a file called compile.sh with the contents below and execute it with: bash compile.sh

Code:

BITCOIN_ROOT=$(pwd)

# Pick some path to install BDB to, here we create a directory within the argentum directory
BDB_PREFIX="${BITCOIN_ROOT}/db5"
mkdir -p $BDB_PREFIX

# Fetch the source and verify that it is not tampered with
wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz'
echo '08238e59736d1aacdd47cfb8e68684c695516c37f4fbe1b8267dde58dc3a576c  db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz' | sha256sum -c
# -> db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz: OK
tar -xzvf db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz

# Build the library and install to our prefix
cd db-5.1.29.NC/build_unix/
#  Note: Do a static build so that it can be embedded into the exectuable, instead of having to find a .so at runtime
../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=$BDB_PREFIX
make install

# Configure Argentum Core to use our own-built instance of BDB
cd $BITCOIN_ROOT
./autogen.sh
./configure LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"
make

When its done you should be compiled with libdb5.1 without having to put your libdv4.8 wallets in jeopardy

[techbytes]

Just to make things a little easier for those who need to have Berkeley DB v4.8 in their nix systems, here is a script that will compile Argentum v2.0 with libdb5.1 on your systems.

Do the following:

git clone https://github.com/Cryptcollector/ARG2.0.git

cd in to the ARG2.0 folder

create a file called compile.sh with the contents below and execute it with: bash compile.sh

Code:

BITCOIN_ROOT=$(pwd)

# Pick some path to install BDB to, here we create a directory within the argentum directory
BDB_PREFIX="${BITCOIN_ROOT}/db5"
mkdir -p $BDB_PREFIX

# Fetch the source and verify that it is not tampered with
wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz'
echo '08238e59736d1aacdd47cfb8e68684c695516c37f4fbe1b8267dde58dc3a576c  db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz' | sha256sum -c
# -> db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz: OK
tar -xzvf db-5.1.29.NC.tar.gz

# Build the library and install to our prefix
cd db-5.1.29.NC/build_unix/
#  Note: Do a static build so that it can be embedded into the exectuable, instead of having to find a .so at runtime
../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=$BDB_PREFIX
make install

# Configure Argentum Core to use our own-built instance of BDB
cd $BITCOIN_ROOT
./autogen.sh
./configure LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/"
make

When its done you should be compiled with libdb5.1 without having to put your libdv4.8 wallets in jeopardy

Thanks for this.  Cryptopools is syncing the blockchain now.


-tb-

[IconFirm]

Anyone else stuck at block 1572674?

Edit: Fixed 

[cryptmebro]

Anyone else stuck at block 1572674?

It occasionally will get stuck. Add 2.0 nodes listed here hopefully it will help https://chainz.cryptoid.info/arg/#!network

[IconFirm]

Anyone else stuck at block 1572674?

It occasionally will get stuck. Add 2.0 nodes listed here hopefully it will help https://chainz.cryptoid.info/arg/#!network

Added & fixed, thanks.

[cryptcollector]

Windows Wallet now available here: http://argcurrency.org/download/argentum-qt-win-v2.0.zip

Mac still in progress, Apologies to all Mac users out there.

[cryptcollector]

I have created a Bootstrap.dat file to help with BlockChain syncing.

Simply extract it and put it into the wallet folder, and the wallet will sync fom the file until it reaches its last block entry, then the wallet will revert to normal operation.

http://argcurrency.org/download/bootstrap.zip

For QT versions of the wallet you may have to use the -loadblock=<file.> switch when starting the wallet.

Also if you have trouble with syncing remove the existing blockchain data prior to doing this.

[protonn]

Litecoinpool.org is ready for merged mining at block 1,800,000!

Spread the word and get your votes in for ARG on Slushpool at https://slushpool.com/proposal/detail/572/

Multipool.us, please come be our friend.

Prohashing.com is up-to-date

Still waiting on word from Cryptopia on when the wallet will be back online.

I believe CryptoID still needs to upgrade. Please reach out to them on twitter

Coinexchange.io has upgraded

Cryptopools, hash-to-coins, ispace - still in  maintenance mode.

bitcoinpool.us - i have no idea


Cheers

[cryptcollector]

If anyone is experiancing being stuck at a block height here are some nodes that are up to date.

Code:

addnode=52.58.50.77
addnode=162.251.173.208
addnode=82.29.4.122
addnode=92.3.38.174
addnode=149.210.234.234

AND WHOEVER IS USING THE ORIGINAL WALLET ON IP 178.237.35.34 (resolves to DNS of srcseed001.com) PLEASE UPGRADE TO ARGV2.0