[ANN] 'foo' and 'bar' coins--a "how-to" guide for cut+paste cryptocurrency

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I followed the steps, but got stuck in the end.
When starting the demons to connect to the other computer, I keep getting "could not connect to server" and it errors out.

These are two VM's with their own distinct IP addresses.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

Dude I'm stuck on the same thing!

Can the OP help out with this part?

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[boredbash]

Hi shakezula
I can't find the github foocoin repository.
https://github.com/foocoin/foocoin

What should we use instead, or where can we find it?

Brain gears turning slowly - I'm guessing we just use barcoin. Could somebody confirm the obvious for me..... and for others just as slow.

 

Hey dude try https://github.com/bfroemel/smallchange‎.

It follows the structure of foo closely.

gl

[PowerLemons]

Hey dude try https://github.com/bfroemel/smallchange‎.

It follows the structure of foo closely.

gl

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[hashtagcoin]

Hey dude try https://github.com/bfroemel/smallchange‎.

It follows the structure of foo closely.

gl

"Page Not Found"
 

try this https://github.com/bfroemel/smallchange

[NurMasdar]

Im a little confused here (no complaints though, really thank you for the guide!). It appears that the guide basically shows you how to re-brand litecoin or any other scrypt based coin, not create changes to the coin on top of that (amount of coins, difficulty, etc.). Is this right or am i missing somthing? Thanks again for the guide!

Coins per block, ports, block retarget time, and max coins ever are in there too, check the "Cut and Paste" section.

Otherwise, yes, I've just made it easier (with the changes to the foocoin makefiles and qt.pro file) to compile, and laid it all out in black and white.

Hi guys,

First of all Shakezula, thanks a lot for such good explanation and guide.

I followed all steps in the guide, however I am loosing the main point, thus I am unable to connect machines to start mining. As I read this forum some people also do not understanding this.
Can you please be so kind and explain what I am doing incorrectly. I am struggling with this and really looking forward to understand.


What I do not understand port forwarding:
" Side note: because I use a VPS for this, I don't really need to worry about port forwarding at that end. On the home PC, you will want to forward the port you chose for P2Pport in the cut and paste section to the PC you're using. For this example, that is port 55884. "
What does it mean?  Does it mean that I should add this port in .conf file of the machines? Please explain me.

My case:
1. I am trying to connect compiled coins on two VM machines: VM1 with ip 192.168.122.121 & VM2 with ip 192.168.122.158 (they are able to ping each other).
2. In my conf files I only put rpc username/password.
3. On VM1 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.158 &
On VM2 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.121 &
4. In .barcoin/testnet3/debug.log i get following:

ThreadSocketHandler started
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
Flushed 0 addresses to peers.dat 42ms
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused


I added this port 55884 to conf file of one of the machines and getting the same error.
Then I added command connect=192.168.122.121:55884 to one of the conf files and started getting this:

trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused

Please help me with this one.
Thank you very much!

[esmadja]

Im a little confused here (no complaints though, really thank you for the guide!). It appears that the guide basically shows you how to re-brand litecoin or any other scrypt based coin, not create changes to the coin on top of that (amount of coins, difficulty, etc.). Is this right or am i missing somthing? Thanks again for the guide!

Coins per block, ports, block retarget time, and max coins ever are in there too, check the "Cut and Paste" section.

Otherwise, yes, I've just made it easier (with the changes to the foocoin makefiles and qt.pro file) to compile, and laid it all out in black and white.

Hi guys,

First of all Shakezula, thanks a lot for such good explanation and guide.

I followed all steps in the guide, however I am loosing the main point, thus I am unable to connect machines to start mining. As I read this forum some people also do not understanding this.
Can you please be so kind and explain what I am doing incorrectly. I am struggling with this and really looking forward to understand.


What I do not understand port forwarding:
" Side note: because I use a VPS for this, I don't really need to worry about port forwarding at that end. On the home PC, you will want to forward the port you chose for P2Pport in the cut and paste section to the PC you're using. For this example, that is port 55884. "
What does it mean?  Does it mean that I should add this port in .conf file of the machines? Please explain me.

My case:
1. I am trying to connect compiled coins on two VM machines: VM1 with ip 192.168.122.121 & VM2 with ip 192.168.122.158 (they are able to ping each other).
2. In my conf files I only put rpc username/password.
3. On VM1 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.158 &
On VM2 I do ./barcoin -testnet -connect=192.168.122.121 &
4. In .barcoin/testnet3/debug.log i get following:

ThreadSocketHandler started
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
Flushed 0 addresses to peers.dat 42ms
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs
connect() failed after select(): Connection refused


I added this port 55884 to conf file of one of the machines and getting the same error.
Then I added command connect=192.168.122.121:55884 to one of the conf files and started getting this:

trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121:55884 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
trying connection 192.168.122.121 lastseen=0.0hrs connect() failed after select(): Connection refused

Please help me with this one.
Thank you very much!

I have the same problem.  I am using VMware to host each instance.  I can http from machine A to machine B but and vis versa but when I try to ./barcond -test -connect=x.x.x.x it fails to connect there is nothing in the log of the remote machine so I don't even think the connection is attempted.