[ANN][XCN] Cryptonite - NEW Thread | 1st mini-blockchain coin | Bounties!

[e.nexus]

pallas
It's strange. Finally my wallet became synced (it took 4-5 hours to sync 4000-5000 blocks)
So I wanted to experiment and deleted whole blockchain. After that wallet synced from scratch in 5-10 minutes. Very strange.
Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

When you do that the number of confirmations is forgotten but your balance is fine.

[muf18]

pallas
It's strange. Finally my wallet became synced (it took 4-5 hours to sync 4000-5000 blocks)
So I wanted to experiment and deleted whole blockchain. After that wallet synced from scratch in 5-10 minutes. Very strange.
Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

It's like this strange I know, but it looks like there is burden with re-sync after downloading blockchain.

[pallas]

pallas
It's strange. Finally my wallet became synced (it took 4-5 hours to sync 4000-5000 blocks)
So I wanted to experiment and deleted whole blockchain. After that wallet synced from scratch in 5-10 minutes. Very strange.
Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

It's like this strange I know, but it looks like there is burden with re-sync after downloading blockchain.

it takes more time because it downloads more full blocks.

[d5000]

I don't know if it's true posts, because I have seen a lot of such posts as @factomask posting almost the same message, about "this is really good project, and I look forward to blablabla.." Almost like a bots...

I think almost surely they are bots I've already reported a post in the Slimcoin thread where a bot simply copied one of your earlier posts. Posts of mine were also already copied-and-pasted.

The "problem" is that ANN threads of altcoin projects "benefit" from these bot posts because they bump their threads, so the incentive to report them is low, and then they don't get banned ... I think the bot operators know about that "dilemma". But what one can do is to simply report them after another reply was written in the thread.

BTW: Any news about the "transaction spam bot"?

[gnasirator]

pallas
It's strange. Finally my wallet became synced (it took 4-5 hours to sync 4000-5000 blocks)
So I wanted to experiment and deleted whole blockchain. After that wallet synced from scratch in 5-10 minutes. Very strange.
Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

It's like this strange I know, but it looks like there is burden with re-sync after downloading blockchain.

it takes more time because it downloads more full blocks.

The way it works at the moment is:
- a fresh wallet only downloads ~ the last week of blocks for the most relevant tx history
- if there already is a block in the local blockchain, the wallet continues syncing from that block onwards which can take some time depending on network availability of the block and the number of blocks required to catch up. So if you wanted to get a local copy of the full chain, you'd need the first block and the wallet would do a complete sync.

Both variations give you the same security and wallet balance though. That's the greatness about the mini-blockchain. You don't need to know all details about old transactions. It's enough to know they exist (as they're still referenced in the proof-chain header) and your current balance from the account tree which is interlinked with that proof chain. Although even the existence is not necessary to get your account balance and can be forgotten.


While writing this, it gave me an idea:
@pallas: do you think it'd be possible for a wallet to sync ONLY blocks that contain my own transactions? So I could get at least a complete tx history for my own wallet? I think that'd be a nice feature to have
I'm thinking about a switch in the wallet options to enable this.

[pallas]

While writing this, it gave me an idea:
@pallas: do you think it'd be possible for a wallet to sync ONLY blocks that contain my own transactions? So I could get at least a complete tx history for my own wallet? I think that'd be a nice feature to have
I'm thinking about a switch in the wallet options to enable this.

I like the idea, but I can see at least one problem: to know which blocks you need to download, you'd need to download them all, then keep only the information you need. It is a bit against the original mini blockchain concept of not needing to keep all the past blocks. But, we've seen that there is at least a use case for full blockchain: the block explorer :-)

[gnasirator]

While writing this, it gave me an idea:
@pallas: do you think it'd be possible for a wallet to sync ONLY blocks that contain my own transactions? So I could get at least a complete tx history for my own wallet? I think that'd be a nice feature to have
I'm thinking about a switch in the wallet options to enable this.

I like the idea, but I can see at least one problem: to know which blocks you need to download, you'd need to download them all, then keep only the information you need. It is a bit against the original mini blockchain concept of not needing to keep all the past blocks. But, we've seen that there is at least a use case for full blockchain: the block explorer :-)

Ah, so how does my wallet know about old transactions then without having the full blockchain?
I mean, somehow the wallet at least knows that there have been transactions to me in the past:

Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

So can't we derive the block ids from that source to then download those blocks only?

I know that the proof-chain only contains the headers which consist of just the hashes of the previous block and the root of the account tree, isn't that so? So I wonder how does the wallet know about my old transactions without downloading the full chain? It doesn't know the contents but it seems to know when they were.

This is what I mean:

I've just re-started syncing from scratch and right after opening my wallet, it knew about all my past transactions. It must be possible to salvage the block ids from that?

[gawlea]

Hey gents!

Wanted to make a full resync but is seems that the wallet is stuck at block 5548 since yesterday, any fix for this?

Thanks!

[pallas]

While writing this, it gave me an idea:
@pallas: do you think it'd be possible for a wallet to sync ONLY blocks that contain my own transactions? So I could get at least a complete tx history for my own wallet? I think that'd be a nice feature to have
I'm thinking about a switch in the wallet options to enable this.

I like the idea, but I can see at least one problem: to know which blocks you need to download, you'd need to download them all, then keep only the information you need. It is a bit against the original mini blockchain concept of not needing to keep all the past blocks. But, we've seen that there is at least a use case for full blockchain: the block explorer :-)

Ah, so how does my wallet know about old transactions then without having the full blockchain?
I mean, somehow the wallet at least knows that there have been transactions to me in the past:

Now it shows my ammount of coins but in transactions - all are gray and with red flag telling "Unknown". Is it ok?

So can't we derive the block ids from that source to then download those blocks only?

I know that the proof-chain only contains the headers which consist of just the hashes of the previous block and the root of the account tree, isn't that so? So I wonder how does the wallet know about my old transactions without downloading the full chain? It doesn't know the contents but it seems to know when they were.

This is what I mean:

I've just re-started syncing from scratch and right after opening my wallet, it knew about all my past transactions. It must be possible to salvage the block ids from that?

the transaction info you see is in wallet.dat, not sure what's in there but if there are block ids, then we could indeed try your solution :-)

[pallas]

Hey gents!

Wanted to make a full resync but is seems that the wallet is stuck at block 5548 since yesterday, any fix for this?

Thanks!

use the blockchain snapshot ;-)

[gawlea]

Hey gents!

Wanted to make a full resync but is seems that the wallet is stuck at block 5548 since yesterday, any fix for this?

Thanks!

use the blockchain snapshot ;-)

I'll give it a try, thanks!

[gnasirator]

the transaction info you see is in wallet.dat, not sure what's in there but if there are block ids, then we could indeed try your solution :-)

yay

Alternatively, I thought it might be possible to add an API call to list all block ids that contain transactions to/from a certain wallet address. Then a wallet could "ask around" for which blocks it should sync - might also be possible to have this as a feature for the block explorer. To reduce p2p traffic?!

[hoop]

Hey gents!

Wanted to make a full resync but is seems that the wallet is stuck at block 5548 since yesterday, any fix for this?

Thanks!

use the blockchain snapshot ;-)

I'll give it a try, thanks!

Maybe it's better to try bootstrap method if there is a bootstrap available for XCN.

[ManiacMiner]

It's good to see the rebirth of the coin

[pallas]

New blockchain snapshot:

https://mega.nz/#!wdgzUSKQ!pCB7Ak8HcZcBw4O3FO8MeiqW9PRI_YBoazPd2f984GE

[y6uBaKa]

Pallas, how I can trade with xcn??? I'm not thai

[gawlea]

New blockchain snapshot:

https://mega.nz/#!wdgzUSKQ!pCB7Ak8HcZcBw4O3FO8MeiqW9PRI_YBoazPd2f984GE

It seems that the wallet is moving.
Thank you!

[pallas]

Pallas, how I can trade with xcn??? I'm not thai

use freiexchange

[pallas]

NEW XCN telegram channel: https://t.me/xcnCryptonite

[pallas]

What about removing slack channel? Everyone uses discord, it seems. I also prefer it over slack.

Is anyone familiar with discord bots? I think we can have a couple, like github and tipbot.