[ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net

[LionOfNarnia]

Now I have time to sign up to BlakeTrader

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.

Cheers! 

Just one so far -

How the hell do I register?

No link for that,

[electron-coin]

Now I have time to sign up to BlakeTrader

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.

Cheers! 

Just one so far -

How the hell do I register?

No link for that,

Oh, ok.  The links are on the http://www.blaketrader.com home page on the right side.  Here are some direct links:
To trade:
BLC to ELT: http://www.blaketrader.com/blcelt1.php
BLC to PHO: http://www.blaketrader.com/blcpho1.php
BLC to BBTC: http://www.blaketrader.com/blcbbtc1.php
BLC to UMO: http://www.blaketrader.com/blcumo1.php

For the promotional giveaway, register either your BLC or PHO address at:
ELT to BLC: http://www.blaketrader.com/eltblc1.php
ELT to PHO: http://www.blaketrader.com/eltpho1.php

[LionOfNarnia]

Think I got it now.

Eventually.

I'll know for sure in the morning - It's a LONG time after beer'o'clock here

[electron-coin]

Think I got it now.

Eventually.

I'll know for sure in the morning - It's a LONG time after beer'o'clock here

You got it.  I sent 750ELT to your BlakeTrader ELT address, and approx 1.7e6 PHO was sent to your PHO address.  Enjoy the coins!

[BlueDragon747]

One Year on and still kicking ass 

[bzyzny]

Whoo hoo, Happy birthday Blakecoin! A lot has happened in one year. Who remembers mining with cpu, or when reaper GPU support was added? The first exchange openex, the first pool? I remember network hash rate @ ~50ghs.

Anyways, the future Blakecoinoin is even more exciting!

[Zeke_Vermillion]

Indeed, I remember first reading a mention of BLC whilst browsing a list of clones at http://com-http.us/
Stumbled on this oddly-named gem in the midst of all the crapcoins. Blake? What the heck is that?! I've been impressed by your technical achievements over the past year.

[BlueDragon747]

I appreciate everyone's help and support since Blakecoin was released its been good fun so far  

Plenty of stuff to still work on but very happy with all the goals achieved for Blakecoin  

Thanks Everyone

[LionOfNarnia]

Congrats from me too, Blue.

I was late to the party, and took the summer off, but still think the blake ecosystem is the coolest concept I've found since I started mining.

Here's to the next year, CHEERS (and don''t ask what I'm drinking!)

[cinnamon_carter]

Thank you Bluedragon747 for bringing us blake coin , the blake 256 system and the merge pools, many many great things to come !!

I appreciate everyone's help and support since Blakecoin was released its been good fun so far  

Plenty of stuff to still work on but very happy with all the goals achieved for Blakecoin  

Thanks Everyone

[Phantas]

Happy birthday Blakecoin.
I was there at the beginning, then I have a small break but I'm back again .

[BlueDragon747]

Happy birthday Blakecoin.
I was there at the beginning, then I have a small break but I'm back again .

always welcome back 

[bzyzny]

Indeed, I remember first reading a mention of BLC whilst browsing a list of clones at http://com-http.us/
Stumbled on this oddly-named gem in the midst of all the crapcoins. Blake? What the heck is that?! I've been impressed by your technical achievements over the past year.

i also found blakecoin on that site. i was tired of the pointless scrypt clones so i was wading thru the sea of alt coins to try to find something different. at first i thought, this looks really low key, but after researching a bit i realized i had found a gem. one thing i always loved about blakecoin is that its not about the hype, but about quality technology. projects that rely on hype are almost always short lived, but blakecoin is for the long haul. there have been fluctuations of course, but the blakecoin network has been very consistent and stable compared to most alt coins. will certainly be interesting to see where we are in a year or two

A friend and I are working on a wiki site for blakecoin. I was hoping to have this ready by now, but time has been a constraint. however it is far enough along that I am ready to accept a few "beta testers". PM me if you would like to help flesh out the wiki by writing articles, or by consulting on server configuration.

[Zeke_Vermillion]

i also found blakecoin on that site. i was tired of the pointless scrypt clones so i was wading thru the sea of alt coins to try to find something different. at first i thought, this looks really low key, but after researching a bit i realized i had found a gem. one thing i always loved about blakecoin is that its not about the hype, but about quality technology. projects that rely on hype are almost always short lived, but blakecoin is for the long haul. there have been fluctuations of course, but the blakecoin network has been very consistent and stable compared to most alt coins. will certainly be interesting to see where we are in a year or two

A friend and I are working on a wiki site for blakecoin. I was hoping to have this ready by now, but time has been a constraint. however it is far enough along that I am ready to accept a few "beta testers". PM me if you would like to help flesh out the wiki by writing articles, or by consulting on server configuration.

Happy to help in any way I can. Sadly I wasted my education on lawyer skills and do not have a lot of engineering skills. I can talk about business structuring, finance matters. I do own a healthy single digit percentage of all BLC that I bought for a song, so I'm happy to contribute to bounties. I would not be of much use in doing the real work of BLC coding, or even brochure site maintenance, however.

[Mek]

When I use one of my wallet.dat files, the wallet displays error "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed" on start. But yesterday it worked. There are some BLCs in it, what can I do to save them?

[BlueDragon747]

When I use one of my wallet.dat files, the wallet displays error "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed" on start. But yesterday it worked. There are some BLCs in it, what can I do to save them?

run the client with the "-salvagewallet" command option (easy way is to edit your shortcut and add it to end of command then remove it after its done)

[Mek]

I did that but then the wallet only displayed a splashscreen shortly and renamed my wallet.dat to wallet.<timestamp>.bak and exited quickly.
If I run wallet without the -salvagewallet option, it does the same but does not close and also creates a new wallet.dat. What is this option supposed to do anyway? (the error states that salvage failed so probably there is no reason to force it manually?)

[Calhil]

It will take some time to salvage your wallet. Afaik blc client has to scan the whole blockchain from the beginning and calculate all your transactions.

[BlueDragon747]

-salvagewallet option

this will move any existing wallet.dat to wallet.[timestamp].dat and then attempts to salvage public/private keys and master encryption keys (if the wallet is encrypted) into a new wallet.dat. Once you have your keys in place you can import them into a fresh copy of blakecoin and recover your balance e.g backup the data folder and put the new wallet.dat into it and rescan/download the whole blockchain from scratch

had same issue with other coin wallets it does not salvage the wallet unless you force it even though it says salvage failed

you should only need to run the -salvagewallet option once to get a new working wallet.dat with your keys!

edit:
you can rename the old data folder or backup to another location once done you should have an almost empty data folder just wallet.dat and blakecoin.conf delete all the chain data as it will need to rescan like Calhil pointed out

[bzyzny]

is your wallet.dat encrypted? that might prevent the salvage option from working (not sure). if BD's suggestion doesnt work, try this: make sure you backup the wallet.dat, and then delete everything else in your blakecoin data directory (its in ~/.blakecoin/ on linux, not sure of windows). doing this will cause the wallet to re-download the blockchain, so your balance will fluctuate until it reaches the current block.