[ANN] AMERICAN COIN - AMC - Now About To Start - pool available already..

[mark132]

Unbelievable! I found AMC! The wallet synchronizes!
I lost all my coins in Cryptsy with Vernon trumpet.
I had AMC in value of 1Btc.
I am very happy to find this small community again.

nobody knows what the current value of AMC/BTC might be. it could well be 0.

but I'm trying to understand cross-chain atomic swaps well enough to try it between AMC and another coin. if that can be done, to hell with the exchanges, we can maybe get AmericanCoin viable again.

Or create a gateway in dex platform EOS and WAVES...

[QQ6693606]

dead coin?

[jcomeau_ictx]

dead coin?

not really dead, but on life support. only a few of us mining, although the difficulty shot way up a few months ago so somebody's going at it hard. no exchanges have listed it since mtgox went tits-up, and my attempt to use it for atomic swaps failed, as the software's support for p2sh transactions is apparently insufficient. I haven't yet dedicated the time to investigating further to see what needs to be done.

[collapse]

Too much time without blocks,...,

Hard fork at block 361724?

https://github.com/americancoin-project/americancoin/

[jcomeau_ictx]

Too much time without blocks,...,

Hard fork at block 361724?

https://github.com/collapsedev/AmericanCoinNew_Linux_Daemon

I notice it's at 361725, did you fork? will I still be able to run the old software?

[collapse]

I notice it's at 361725

Correct, new block yesterday, now at 361726.

did you fork?

Not at the moment, waiting for opinions/suggestions.

will I still be able to run the old software?

What about the commit?
Other diff adjust algo?
Do you want to make some changes in the commit?

[jcomeau_ictx]

What about the commit?
Other diff adjust algo?
Do you want to make some changes in the commit?

too many changes, it won't be AmericanCoin any more. but I can't stop you.

[collapse]

Americancoin, a Litecoin pegged clone.
Hard fork at 361800

New wallet source code:
https://github.com/americancoin-project/americancoin2013

New wallet windows binaries:
https://github.com/americancoin-project/americancoin2013/releases

Webpage (old version):
https://americancoin-project.github.io/americancoin/



New wallet (70015) is not compatible with old wallet (60004), upgrade required.


Historical purposes source code:
https://github.com/americancoin-project/americancoin


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Install of new wallet:
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1- Backup old datadir.
2- Open the new wallet (allow "Public networks access" in Windows OS).
3- Wait full sync.
4- Import your private keys with "importprivkey".


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History of forks
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Diff504: block 14000
DGW: block 361800
BIP34: block 370000.
BIP65: block 371000
BIP66: block 372000
CSV: block 380000
Segwit: block 381000
LWMA: block 382000

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Last wallet
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If your wallet does not sync, download last wallet.
Last wallet: 25-August-2019 (Required update)

[jcomeau_ictx]

for what it's worth, I reached out to Steven Steiner, CEO of freebitcoins.com, and asked him to list AmericanCoin on the exchange. he's open to the idea! -- jc

[BayAreaCoins]

for what it's worth, I reached out to Steven Steiner, CEO of freebitcoins.com, and asked him to list AmericanCoin on the exchange. he's open to the idea! -- jc

(Just confirming that I, Steven Steiner, was reached out too and we are reviewing AmericanCoin to be listed on our XChange.)

Things move kind of slow on our end because there are so few of us working at FreeBitcoins.com for obvious reasons, but after our front end update and we add a few privacy coins.... we are going to most likely add American Coin after it passes our review!

If she gets approved... I'd expect we have a market running for it around Feb-April 2020!

[We may or may not add Americancoin, but I will for sure look deeper into it.]

[mark132]

not sync

[mark132]

why sync?

[jcomeau_ictx]

not sync

I'm seeing this too. I could only get it to sync by using a "-connect=" option. troubleshooting it.

[mark132]

not sync

I'm seeing this too. I could only get it to sync by using a "-connect=" option. troubleshooting it.

How to use it?

[jcomeau_ictx]

not sync

I'm seeing this too. I could only get it to sync by using a "-connect=" option. troubleshooting it.

How to use it?

I'll let you know as soon as I have a fix for it. meanwhile you can *maybe* sync to ns004.unternet.net with a `connect=ns004.unternet.net` directive in ~/.americancoin/americancoin.conf. let me know if it doesn't work.

update: `addnode=ns004.unternet.net` also worked for me.

[mark132]

not sync

I'm seeing this too. I could only get it to sync by using a "-connect=" option. troubleshooting it.

How to use it?

I'll let you know as soon as I have a fix for it. meanwhile you can *maybe* sync to ns004.unternet.net with a `connect=ns004.unternet.net` directive in ~/.americancoin/americancoin.conf. let me know if it doesn't work.

update: `addnode=ns004.unternet.net` also worked for me.

start sync, thanks! the old wallet is dead?

[jcomeau_ictx]

not sync

I'm seeing this too. I could only get it to sync by using a "-connect=" option. troubleshooting it.

How to use it?

I'll let you know as soon as I have a fix for it. meanwhile you can *maybe* sync to ns004.unternet.net with a `connect=ns004.unternet.net` directive in ~/.americancoin/americancoin.conf. let me know if it doesn't work.

update: `addnode=ns004.unternet.net` also worked for me.

start sync, thanks! the old wallet is dead?

no, your old wallet should be just fine. you backed it up I hope!

[jcomeau_ictx]

commit 606a7aee08 from https://github.com/jcomeauictx/AmericanCoin *should* fix the syncing problem without having to use -addnode or -connect. check out the new wheezy.mk and buster.mk files and the possibly-outdated instructions in the new README.

NOTE: [added later]...

BACK UP your wallet before running! in fact, I'd recommend renaming your $HOME/.americancoin directory, making a new one, and *copying* the saved wallet.dat and americancoin.conf into that new directory. once the blockchain has been downloaded fresh, you should see your balance restored, but *it will be zero* right after starting the rebuilt daemon.

if you don't want to do the above, at least remove or rename your current $HOME/.americancoin/peers.dat file, because as long as the old addresses with a port of 9057 are in there, it's unlikely you're going to be able to connect.

I'd also recommend removing or commenting out the `addnode=` and `connect=` lines in your americancoin.conf file, just to make sure the discovery mechanism is working as it should.

WARNING: [added still later]: if you're using a non-default listen port, *WAIT* for next bugfix. I used GetDefaultPort() instead of GetListenPort().

UPDATE 2020-01-24T07:50PST

revision 9a1b9c3 seems to be good. I submitted a pull request to AMCCoin, in case the original coder is still alive...

[jcomeau_ictx]

looks like I lost all the blocks I mined since 2018-12-10. they're showing up as orphaned in ns004.unternet.net's `listtransactions`. ah well, c'est la vie. I still don't see any nodes to peer with on irc, where are you guys?

[UPDATE] just verified and corrected the quickstart instructions at https://github.com/jcomeauictx/AmericanCoin. I'm hoping I can let this go for a while, I've got other projects to work on!

[jcomeau_ictx]

tonight I finally found and fixed the root cause of the wrong port numbers, with revision 4b557e22b. I notice @collapse also has the correction, but I found it independently.