[DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated

[wiser]

That is great news! I just finally got my own wallet working again after three or four attempts to delete and then redownload the block chain. What finally did it was manually adding receiver files 69 and 70 to the receiver folder. The wallet seemed to get hung up in at least one spot, but I let it run and after being out for a few hours the wallet was completely synced when I returned.

Devcoin wasn't delisted on CoinGather. Here is an update from the chatbox.

Looks like they'll put the wallet back online once the network gets fixed.

Maybe I'm missing some key detail on how Devcoin's wallet and blockchain function vs Bitcoin and other currencies, but why does having these receiver_XX files missing cause block sync to stall/fail? Aren't the files supposed to download and mirror automatically?

They are manually mirrored (I run one of them). As to why they're not downloading, though, I'm unsure. The mirrors are all up as far as I can tell, and this is something that never happened prior to Receiver_69

That's never happened before. Normally the receiver files get added to the right folder automatically.

Any news on if CoinGather got its wallet fixed?

[aatheus]

That is great news! I just finally got my own wallet working again after three or four attempts to delete and then redownload the block chain. What finally did it was manually adding receiver files 69 and 70 to the receiver folder. The wallet seemed to get hung up in at least one spot, but I let it run and after being out for a few hours the wallet was completely synced when I returned.

Devcoin wasn't delisted on CoinGather. Here is an update from the chatbox.

http://puu.sh/vUxnQ/1f9f97298f.png

Looks like they'll put the wallet back online once the network gets fixed.

Maybe I'm missing some key detail on how Devcoin's wallet and blockchain function vs Bitcoin and other currencies, but why does having these receiver_XX files missing cause block sync to stall/fail? Aren't the files supposed to download and mirror automatically?

They are manually mirrored (I run one of them). As to why they're not downloading, though, I'm unsure. The mirrors are all up as far as I can tell, and this is something that never happened prior to Receiver_69

That's never happened before. Normally the receiver files get added to the right folder automatically.

Any news on if CoinGather got its wallet fixed?

receiver_0 through receiver_ 68 auto-downloaded successfully and got added to .devcoin/receiver. The specific error that devcoin-qt output was along the lines of 'error in receiver.h: refused to write receiver_69.csv because it was blank'. Blockchain syncing stalled at that point. Manually fetching receiver_69 and receiver_70 from Github allowed the blockchain sync to finish, after restarting the wallet.

[weisoq]

By all means, if you have the time and inclination to restore devcoin then do it. When I took over from Unthinkingbit, capital was fleeing devcoin through devtome, which wasn’t even close to paying itself off. With a sinking price I didn’t act quickly enough (nor really had the power) to stem it before the bottom fell out and exchanges starting dying or delisting dvc. Without exchange support, there was no price support, and without price support the shares were worthless as an incentive, so no one wanted to do anything to help fix it. There was basically a hyperinflation of devcoin going on due to capital flight - devtome was a money sink that never paid itself off. I think in two years it amassed something like 0.5btc in advertising revenue.

Since then, I’ve tried a handful of restart attempts but it’s obvious that I’m not cut out for the job. If you or anyone else would like to take over that’s fine with me. Unthinkingbit is in charge of accounting, everyone else is apparently in charge of whatever he left them in charge of when he resigned as leader. He’s the only one we have to inform. Who’d like to do it? Just say so.

Devcoin is a great cause and if people have the interest in redefining it, I would never stand in the way. Whoever takes over should focus on getting exchange support again. To get that you need to get someone to update the code to the latest bitcoin branch. Either kill, or clean up devtome so advertisers that actually pay will touch it...

Hunterbunter

It wasn't your doing or fault HB; cheers for the efforts.
As jackjack said the waste of a good idea is appaling, but there you go.

[wiser]

Anyone who does take over and attempt to make something of Devcoin would need to have a realistic view of the current competition. There have been a lot of innovations in coins and block chain technology since Devcoin was launched. The way it looks to me now, any cryptocoin that is *just* a coin is not going to last long (unless it already has name recognition). Look at Steemit, NEM, and VIVA, not to mention Ripple and Ethereum. Those aren't just coins. They are entire ecosystems that have other things built on top of them. Devcoin (or any coin) would have to rise to that level in order to compete. On a technical level, I suppose Devcoin could get there, but it would probably take more than one hard fork.

[K1773R]

Devcoin client shows last block number 276375, dated April 20.
No blocks beyond this date.
Devcoin have died?

This is what I get in console:

Code:

Warning, writeFileText in receiver.h won't write the file:
.devcoin/receiver/receiver_69.csv
because the text is blank.
No coin addresses were found, there may be something wrong with the receiver_x.csv files.
Warning, no coin lists were found for the file: receiver.csv
ERROR: ConnectBlock() : Share to beneficiary is insufficient

In short, file receiver_69.csv can't be found, all mirrors are down, we need a new mirror and to add it to devcoind source code, then recompile and cross fingers.

hey

i came here due to the same thing. my mirror surely isnt down, i just had to manually download it :S

[IconFirm]

Regarding an exchange, getting listed on Bitsquare should be easy enough & would avoid all the inherent problems that most centralised exchanges seem to ne having lately.

[rapta]

In short, file receiver_69.csv can't be found, all mirrors are down, we need a new mirror and to add it to devcoind source code, then recompile and cross fingers.

My mirror isn't down: http://faucets.cryptoplace.net/receivers/receiver_69.csv

I've been keeping up with it. Not sure how it works but it's not properly pulling from mirrors I assume.

http://devcoin.darkgamex.ch/ is also available
And https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity too
develCuy, do you think that this is not enough?

Thanks @sawa and @ranlo! I manually downloaded the receiver_69.csv into .devcoin/receiver/ then started devcoind, now we got the explorer back online:

http://explorer.devcoin.info/

I had this issue before, somehow devcoind marked receiver_69.csv as downloaded but the file was missing, it is not downloading the file again so the program just ends with an error.

Now we have to get back into an exchange because Coingather delisted Devcoin

I wasn't aware CG was removing DVC, . I had around 25 million coins there to help with market-making.

We have not delisted DVC.  We are trying to get our wallet back online.  I am working on it as we speak.

[rapta]

We are trying to sync our wallet manually to just 82.200.205.39:52333 for the moment.

[rapta]

There is definitely some wonkiness with some of the mirrored copies of the receiver_xx.csv files. receiver_69.csv seems to be blank from at least one mirror. I originally created a new .devcoin directory and put all 71 files from Github in .devcoin/receiver

for ((i=0; i <= 70; i++)); do wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/receiver_${i}.csv; done


Sync kept getting stuck around block 192900. However, deleting everything except wallet.dat and devcoin.conf (with UPnP enabled in the QT client) results in the sync completing up to April 2017. Stopping the wallet, manually fetching receiver_69.csv and receiver_70.csv from Github, then restarting the wallet, results in the sync completing. I finally have a wallet balance!

Everyone should follow this post.  I was able to get our wallet to sync by manually pulling files 69 and 70 down.

[aatheus]

I was able to create a new wallet address and send 2000 DVC to Coingather today. Let's see how long Coingather takes to acknowledge my deposit. It was made about 10 minutes ago.

[rapta]

I was able to create a new wallet address and send 2000 DVC to Coingather today. Let's see how long Coingather takes to acknowledge my deposit. It was made about 10 minutes ago.

This depends on how quickly blocks are found on the network.  I've changed it to two blocks, but I believe the chain has been moving pretty slowly recently.

[Wekkel]

1. downloaded receiver_69.csv andreceiver_70.csv manually. Wallet (Windows) is now synced 

2. Bitsquare does not have Devcoin support yet. This needs a formal request by the right person(s)

[Qtera]

Any news on if CoinGather got its wallet fixed?

Apparently the DVC wallet in CoinGather is back online! I received a tech support e-mail from them.

[Wekkel]

Any news on if CoinGather got its wallet fixed?

Apparently the DVC wallet in CoinGather is back online! I received a tech support e-mail from them.

Also mentioned in the chatbox of CoinGather that the wallet is up.

Dat Spread in the LTC market

[MicroGuy]

I've just sent Fairglu a message and hopefully we'll have a CryptoID block explorer rolling soon. It includes:



Once the explorer goes live I'll contact Gliss and see about getting the link added to Coinmarketcap.

[Shattienator]

I was able to create a new wallet address and send 2000 DVC to Coingather today. Let's see how long Coingather takes to acknowledge my deposit. It was made about 10 minutes ago.

Yes, Coingather fixed the problem with DVC wallet.

[Judge-Dredd]

Anyone have a guesstimate on total supply?

[rapta]

Anyone have a guesstimate on total supply?

Doesn't appear to be returned in the API like newer coins.

I found this on a random site:

"Devcoin technical specification:
SHA-256 Algorithm
Merged mined with Bitcoin
Retarget every 1 day
50,000 coins per block which 90% go to developers
21 billion total coins"

[wiser]

My wallet is not syncing. I thought I'd fixed the problems. It's stuck at 17 hours behind with two active connections to the Devcoin network. I had sent some over to CoinGather and when that deposit didn't show up in my account the next morning I tried to run my Devcoin wallet again to see if the send had confirmed and that's where it's stuck hours and hours later.

Am I going to need to download the entire block chain every time I want to open my wallet? I'd rather not have to leave the wallet always on either.

Any ideas?

[MicroGuy]

My wallet is not syncing. I thought I'd fixed the problems. It's stuck at 17 hours behind with two active connections to the Devcoin network. I had sent some over to CoinGather and when that deposit didn't show up in my account the next morning I tried to run my Devcoin wallet again to see if the send had confirmed and that's where it's stuck hours and hours later.

Am I going to need to download the entire block chain every time I want to open my wallet? I'd rather not have to leave the wallet always on either.

Any ideas?

Did you download the 2 receiver files as outlined above?

http://faucets.cryptoplace.net/receivers/receiver_69.csv
http://faucets.cryptoplace.net/receivers/receiver_70.csv

Once the wallet gets stuck at around 4 weeks behind, close it and add these 2 files to /roaming/devcoin/receiver/