[ANN][WDC] Mac Worldcoin-Qt client

[maxpower]

Originally posted in the WDC thread; Worldcoin suggested starting a thread for visibility.

I've compiled a Mac version of the Worldcoin wallet. It works well on my Mac, and is way better than opening up Parallels to run the Windows wallet, so I'm sharing it in case anybody else finds it useful.

This build is from the latest Github sources as of this morning. I built the app on Mountain Lion, and I think it should work on Lion and above. I'm not so sure about Snow Leopard and below. Until a few other people try it out, I would treat it as beta software, and back up your wallet.dat early and often.

Give it a try, let me know how it works!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/958azh5o2lab3rg/Worldcoin-Qt-0.6.3.0-Mac.zip

For those who are interested, I compiled the client using the steps for compiling Mac Qt clients that we've been discussing in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205017.0 - So thanks to jrlepage and bushstar for their help.

[maxpower]

Bump. Anyone care to give this a try?

[Hydroponica]

Bit off topic, but, you can mine with a Mac?

[maxpower]

Bit off topic, but, you can mine with a Mac?

You can, but it's not very efficient. Apple's OpenCL implementation is somehow broken and you get about half the hashrate you should. You can always boot into Windows using Boot Camp and use the Windows drivers and tools.

Wallets work fine on a Mac, though.

[maxpower]

Small update: At ryanb's suggestion, I changed the wallet's icon from the default Litecoin icon to the WDC icon. The download link is the same. Thanks, ryanb!

[ryanb]

Small update: At ryanb's suggestion, I changed the wallet's icon from the default Litecoin icon to the WDC icon. The download link is the same. Thanks, ryanb!

Thank you for taking the time and doing it for us

Is it possible to make us a working GLD coin for mac?

[maxpower]

I can try! I might not be able to get to it today, though.

[occrest]

Hi there.   I am trying out your worldcoin wallet/miner and i can't seem to connect to any peers.  Not sure if you are monitoring this thread or not, but i could sure use some help.

I am on a macbook pro with snow leopard 10.6

(11-17-13)
It's connecting to peers now, updating very slow, but updating nonetheless.
(Now if i can only figure out how to mine with this thing)

[maxpower]

Usually this happens because you have cached peers that you can't connect to for one reason or another (wrong version, peer is no longer running, etc). If that's the case, the wallet will usually start trying new peers after it tries all the cached peers, so if you leave it running for a couple of hours, it might straighten itself out. You can speed this up by exiting the wallet, deleting your peers.dat file (located in ~/Library/Application Support/Worldcoin), and starting the wallet up again.

Also, if you're using a version prior to 0.6.4.6 (released yesterday), you'll need to upgrade.

[110110101]

Hey maxpower,

the client works fine on my setup, Mavericks. Big thanks for your effort!
The only issue I have is that syncing is very slow on the osx wallet. Have you seen this issue or know anything about how to speed up the syncing under osx?
Running windows in parallels on the same machine is in the range of 10x faster, when syncing the blockchain, vs osx natively.

[maxpower]

Hey maxpower,

the client works fine on my setup, Mavericks. Big thanks for your effort!
The only issue I have is that syncing is very slow on the osx wallet. Have you seen this issue or know anything about how to speed up the syncing under osx?
Running windows in parallels on the same machine is in the range of 10x faster, when syncing the blockchain, vs osx natively.

I'm not sure what would cause that. Both clients are compiled from the same source, so I think it's likely that it's something external to the wallet--maybe something to do with differences in Qt versions across platforms, or in the operating system. FWIW, the sync speed seems reasonable to me, but I'm still on Mountain Lion.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

[addi]

Is this client safe, has anybody checked it out? Sorry I didn't look at it properly yet.