Discussion on Legacy SilkCoin wallet to help late swappers to New Silk (SLK)

[ttoroie]

MCDev
should we add :16666 to the conf file after the nodes as well?
You seem to know these things better

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[Bitcoinasourus]

suddenly this thread and the work we are doing seems extra important.

McDev, i can't run an instance on my main box but i'd be willing to get some thing setup to be a dedicated node. I'll pm you when i get a min.

Still no movement from my wallets. I am closing the one for 24 hours to see how that helps the coins mature. Though i feel like the maturity issues will suss out once we get blocks moving regularly.

I have more to post but have to run. i'll get back in here tomorrow.

cheers fellas.

[ttoroie]

It's a bit of mess in the main thread for now
lots of silent investors till now, just surfaced and want mooooney back

[MCDev]

It's a bit of mess in the main thread for now
lots of silent investors till now, just surfaced and want mooooney back

I wish we knew how much they have in and calling themselves investors.  I wanted sooooooo badly to say something like "it takes 5+ BTC value to call yourself and investor" in the post I made a few minutes ago.

I was about 75% sure they wouldn't release on the 5th.  It doesn't matter to me.  I only wish they would have made an announcement early in the week,  It wouldn't have stopped the "I want my money back" crap but it would have squashed the claims for lack of communication.

[MCDev]

MCDev
should we add :16666 to the conf file after the nodes as well?
You seem to know these things better

To be honest with you, I always remove the port in my conf files.  I know that in a few of my posts I did have the port included which was an oversight.  I honestly don't know if it makes a difference.  I know that on my daemon vms, I only open the firewall to the single port number to coin is using for p2p, in this case 16666

[MCDev]

I think I may have broken my daemon to the point that I may need to reboot the vm after I shutdown the daemon, so it may appear to be offline for a bit, hopefully not more than 15 minutes.  What happened is this;

I went back to the original ann for Silkcoin to get the specs;

Specifications
Block time: 1 minute
Maximum POW supply: ~45 million
Difficulty retarget: every block
Stake interest: 2% annually
Min transaction fee: 0.0001 SC
Fees are paid to miners
Confirmations: 10, maturity: 350
Minimum stake age: 12 hours - No max age
P2P port: 16666, RPC port: 16667

I should have looked at the original thread when we first started this.
Because a transaction takes 10 confirmations and then 350 confirmations before mature for staking

Based on that, I created 25 addresses in the daemon wallet and started sending 2 Silkcoins to each address
The first round of 25 worked pretty well, but I got carried away and ran it 2, 3, or 4 more times so I have 75 to 125 transactions processing through the daemon.
Needless to say after finally going to bed and now waking up, the vm is and has been at 100% CPU, more than likely all night long since around 3am

I just stopped the daemon and am waiting for the process to end, then I'll reboot.
I'll post when it's back online

[MCDev]

Ok, it's back up, but I may have to bring it down a couple of time throughout the day.
CPU usage goes to 100% when I do a silkcoind getinfo
I did manage to do a silkcoind getconnectioncoun an I'm showing 14 connections after the restart.
I added txindex to my conf file and that seems to be helping as long as I am patient and don't try a getinfo for a while
These are the entries in my conf file, less of course username, password, and all the addnodes

port=16666
rpcport=16667
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1
txindex=1
maxconnections=128
staking=0
stakegen=0
reservebalance=99999999

[Pondi]

I turned off my firewall and now I have 15 connections but still unable to sync

[MCDev]

I turned off my firewall and now I have 15 connections but still unable to sync

Did you turn off you inbound firewall or the firewall on the machine running the wallet / daemon?
If you're saying you turned off your internet firewall, I wouldn't do that, I would just allow port 16666 in, out should already be open
What block are you showing?  I still show  1758735 and the explorer is showing the same, and that block is from Friday 11/4

I'm afraid to run a getinfo still but right now I have 13 connections and block 1758735 ( see below )
Also, I've seen some wallets where they show being out of sync it the time of the last block in the daemon or wallet is more than x Hours past.  Most of the ones I've seen are 4 hours
That may be why we think we are out of sync
The issue is that we really don't have an official current block #
We are going with what we think is the current block with what our wallets show when synced and the explorer at https://silkexplorer.silknetwork.org/

Man I wish I had kept my explorer vm running.


masterop@SC-001:~/SilkCoin$ ./silkcoind getconnectioncount
13
masterop@SC-001:~/SilkCoin$ ./silkcoind getblockcount
1758735

[ttoroie]

I think I may have broken my daemon to the point that I may need to reboot the vm after I shutdown the daemon, so it may appear to be offline for a bit, hopefully not more than 15 minutes.  What happened is this;

I went back to the original ann for Silkcoin to get the specs;

Specifications
Block time: 1 minute
Maximum POW supply: ~45 million
Difficulty retarget: every block
Stake interest: 2% annually
Min transaction fee: 0.0001 SC
Fees are paid to miners
Confirmations: 10, maturity: 350
Minimum stake age: 12 hours - No max age
P2P port: 16666, RPC port: 16667

I should have looked at the original thread when we first started this.
Because a transaction takes 10 confirmations and then 350 confirmations before mature for staking

Based on that, I created 25 addresses in the daemon wallet and started sending 2 Silkcoins to each address
The first round of 25 worked pretty well, but I got carried away and ran it 2, 3, or 4 more times so I have 75 to 125 transactions processing through the daemon.
Needless to say after finally going to bed and now waking up, the vm is and has been at 100% CPU, more than likely all night long since around 3am

I just stopped the daemon and am waiting for the process to end, then I'll reboot.
I'll post when it's back online

Yeah mate
the old Silkcoin wallet is a resource eater
if I run another one on my PC it just overloads everything and the CPU get's too hot because my thermal paste is gone and the cooling sucks right now
I envy you running 25
so what do we need basically?
more coins, more wallets, more time....

[ttoroie]

I turned off my firewall and now I have 15 connections but still unable to sync

Did you turn off you inbound firewall or the firewall on the machine running the wallet / daemon?
If you're saying you turned off your internet firewall, I wouldn't do that, I would just allow port 16666 in, out should already be open

MCDev is right
don't disable your firewall for this
you just publicly posted your IP here and you could get in trouble
we want to help you, not to make you a target
especially now with so many angry people around

[Bitcoinasourus]

I think I may have broken my daemon to the point that I may need to reboot the vm after I shutdown the daemon, so it may appear to be offline for a bit, hopefully not more than 15 minutes.  What happened is this;

I went back to the original ann for Silkcoin to get the specs;

Specifications
Block time: 1 minute
Maximum POW supply: ~45 million
Difficulty retarget: every block
Stake interest: 2% annually
Min transaction fee: 0.0001 SC
Fees are paid to miners
Confirmations: 10, maturity: 350
Minimum stake age: 12 hours - No max age
P2P port: 16666, RPC port: 16667

I should have looked at the original thread when we first started this.
Because a transaction takes 10 confirmations and then 350 confirmations before mature for staking

Based on that, I created 25 addresses in the daemon wallet and started sending 2 Silkcoins to each address
The first round of 25 worked pretty well, but I got carried away and ran it 2, 3, or 4 more times so I have 75 to 125 transactions processing through the daemon.
Needless to say after finally going to bed and now waking up, the vm is and has been at 100% CPU, more than likely all night long since around 3am

I just stopped the daemon and am waiting for the process to end, then I'll reboot.
I'll post when it's back online

Yeah mate
the old Silkcoin wallet is a resource eater
if I run another one on my PC it just overloads everything and the CPU get's too hot because my thermal paste is gone and the cooling sucks right now
I envy you running 25
so what do we need basically?
more coins, more wallets, more time....

We need coins to mature so that we can stake them. The problem is the 360 confirms to mature. We aren't making allot of blocks right now. So getting 360 confirms is taking for ever.

We need an old bag holder to stake their wallet to move some blocks.

If i send coins to another wallet they will take an additional 360 confirms. So i'm torn. I know more wallets staking will move blocks but we need to move blocks now. So i don't want to move a bunch of silkcoin around.

Sucks man, all the dev team needs to do it stake some coins before they get burnt. Or if they changed the confirms to some thing lower for us, we could at least get the chain moving faster. even 100 or 50 confirms would get us going faster.
They are busy though so i dunno. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The chain might literally be dead. If we don't have old coins to move the chain, ours' stuck staking won't change until they get the 360 confirms.

We will be waiting for some one with a huge wallet to come on and stake..

You guys see what i'm saying? It might need more than just community support to make an "indefinite" swap possible. You can't even really relaunch under legacy silk because there is no one to do things that need to be done.

How else to breath life into the blockchain?

[ttoroie]

I was afraid of this answer man
That's why I was trying to find out how to send messages through the wallet
I found a lot of staking addresses with loads of coins in them but I only had the public keys from two of them
and you cannot send a message unless you have those keys
No answer though from them yet

[ttoroie]

Unfortunately I know why they won't contact us
Because those addresses I found they all have coins from this one

Next few days I have to trace back more of them in explorer

Funny thing is one of them was staking up to 28th Oct 2016 and did a big confirmed transfer 3 days ago

[Bitcoinasourus]

Unfortunately I know why they won't contact us
Because those addresses I found they all have coins from this one

Next few days I have to trace back more of them in explorer

Funny thing is one of them was staking up to 28th Oct 2016 and did a big confirmed transfer 3 days ago

Was it one of the ones I sent you? Do we know how many coins were lost to the mintpal hack? Looks like close to 9 million coins to me?

Some are still sitting here.

https://silkexplorer.silknetwork.org/address/BMj96YHgh8LysV5HFTjaDGF8CD2eJbsfcS

[ttoroie]

Yep
I traced few of them back to the address you sent me
I only traced those with activity like staking and transfers
they moved a lot of coins
we need to check every one that shows up later
I'll talk to the team tomorrow once the mess is over and ask them about that
Maybe someone there can help with a wallet just to stake a bit
gotta go
Take care man!

[MCDev]

Don't envy me for the 25, those are 25 addresses in the same wallet.  Although most of my host servers run between 15 and 25 daemons for other coins.
I need to do some checking but somewhere I remember reading / hearing that if the coins move to addresses within the same wallet they do not loose their maturity.
The daemon is still at 1758735 with 15 connections

masterop@SC-001:~/SilkCoin$ ./silkcoind getconnectioncount
15
masterop@SC-001:~/SilkCoin$ ./silkcoind getblockcount
1758735

I need to think on it more today and if I come up with something, I'll drop a line.

[HORT]

I have my coins split into about 10 inputs. They are still waiting on confirmations so until they get the 360 confirms they will not stake. Sending coins to other people does not help move the chain along. We need more stakes to get the chain moving again. Once mine are confirmed then they will move it along nicely. Just have to wait on others staking for now.

[Crypt0Keeper]

It's a bit of mess in the main thread for now
lots of silent investors till now, just surfaced and want mooooney back

I wish we knew how much they have in and calling themselves investors.  I wanted sooooooo badly to say something like "it takes 5+ BTC value to call yourself and investor" in the post I made a few minutes ago.

I was about 75% sure they wouldn't release on the 5th.  It doesn't matter to me.  I only wish they would have made an announcement early in the week,  It wouldn't have stopped the "I want my money back" crap but it would have squashed the claims for lack of communication.

Yeah the delay doesn't bother me one bit since my coins are stuck, ha!  I agree though, just take 5 minutes to type up a message and be done with it but whatever.  Any FUD that shakes out some weak hands will only help in the long run.

[Crypt0Keeper]

Unfortunately I know why they won't contact us
Because those addresses I found they all have coins from this one

Next few days I have to trace back more of them in explorer

Funny thing is one of them was staking up to 28th Oct 2016 and did a big confirmed transfer 3 days ago

For the record, this one is mine: BGR6gHRqRQr4vM6oCN6eJ7mFryHxBh7Xav

Was able to get a send out for 17k Silkcoin last week but no confirms so far.  The rest is still stuck staking and it's a double-edged sword because we need staking to move the network.  Damn.