[ANN] [PXC] Phoenixcoin v0.6.6.2 ~ NeoScrypt Original ~ 10 Years Old

[ghostlander]

Any chance for PXC wallet to get some upgrades? Build date is Jul 26. 2014. I mean there were at least few hundred upgrades added to Bitcoin code since then, it can't be all of them are garbage.

There are a few maintenance commits on GitHub. I have hard fork plans for v0.7 rebased over Bitcoin, not Litecoin, possibly with an intermediate release of v0.6.6.1 to make sure the network is up to date. BTC went a long way from this point including fixes for bugs which are simply not present in v0.6. I have patched v0.6 to add features like the Coin Control which was developed for v0.8 originally. I doubt you can find another v0.6 based coin with this feature, but who really cares?

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[SISAR]

Well at least critical upgrades to DDoS protection, OpenSSL and such stuff should be added to PXC, you can skip the cosmetics. As for CC, I absolutely love it and use it so thanks for that! As a sidenote, it seems to me it is about the right time to withdraw all PXC from Cryptsy and to start working on PXC addition to some Chinese exchange.

http://www.coindesk.com/digital-currency-exchange-cryptsys-problems-partners/

[ghostlander]

Well at least critical upgrades to DDoS protection, OpenSSL and such stuff should be added to PXC, you can skip the cosmetics. As for CC, I absolutely love it and use it so thanks for that! As a sidenote, it seems to me it is about the right time to withdraw all PXC from Cryptsy and to start working on PXC addition to some Chinese exchange.

http://www.coindesk.com/digital-currency-exchange-cryptsys-problems-partners/

Absolutely. Cryptsy is deep in trouble, their cold wallets are empty or inaccessible. However they run PXC with a hot wallet only and there are still about 3 million coins left. Withdrawals are quick and easy.

https://coinplorer.com/PXC/Addresses/PsBEHsv1vV5Fi9SZvrszeU8SRYsZWR8Ukn

The Chinese are easy to get in touch if you speak their language. I don't unfortunately. If anyone could do this on our behalf, it could be great.

[yaamp]

PXC added to our exchange

https://safecex.com/market?q=PXC/BTC

[ghostlander]

PXC added to our exchange

https://safecex.com/market?q=PXC/BTC

Thank you.

[SISAR]

Well at least critical upgrades to DDoS protection, OpenSSL and such stuff should be added to PXC, you can skip the cosmetics. As for CC, I absolutely love it and use it so thanks for that! As a sidenote, it seems to me it is about the right time to withdraw all PXC from Cryptsy and to start working on PXC addition to some Chinese exchange.

http://www.coindesk.com/digital-currency-exchange-cryptsys-problems-partners/

Absolutely. Cryptsy is deep in trouble, their cold wallets are empty or inaccessible. However they run PXC with a hot wallet only and there are still about 3 million coins left. Withdrawals are quick and easy.

https://coinplorer.com/PXC/Addresses/PsBEHsv1vV5Fi9SZvrszeU8SRYsZWR8Ukn

The Chinese are easy to get in touch if you speak their language. I don't unfortunately. If anyone could do this on our behalf, it could be great.

Cryptsy was using much more than one address. I myself have sent coins to at least 10 different deposit addresses there and when withdrawing coins I received them from up to 10 different Cryptsy addresses. With Cryptsy now gonne (for good) I wonder how many PXC are actualy available and how many might be lost forever. As for chinese exchange, maybe you (as developer hence authority) should create a thread at chinese section of this forum and ask for some help? We can gather some coins and pay them to whoever manages to add PXC to some chinese exchange, I'll donate 50,000 PXC for the cause.

http://phoenixcoin.org should get some attention as well, starting with Copyright © 2013 – 2015 Phoenixcoin Developers. Resources section seems to me outdated as well and About section would sound much better if the whole UNOCS part is removed.

On speculation matters, just yesterday I've stumbled upon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl6NxH65mGU and now I'm thinking to add a some info about PXC to comments, to spice things up.

[ghostlander]

Yes, Cryptsy used many addresses, however they put most of their balance under this one. I don't think all those coins have been lost. Not much BTC value there at the current prices. We'll see how this drama gets played out.

I'll take care of the web site update. The UNOCS is an ancient history now. Let it stay in our wiki page and free site space for something more optimistic.

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NSGminer v0.9.1 released with my NeoScrypt OpenCL kernel v6. Should be compatible with the latest AMD Catalyst drivers. Also delivers a little performance improvement over the previous release.

[SISAR]

I think Cryptsy is finished. Not sure if you have checked their latest blog entry at http://blog.cryptsy.com/ but it is quite revealing. So far, none of exchanges that were badly hacked realy managed to recover, besides MtGox and MintPal that never recovered there are still running but almost abandoned Vircurex and Bter. I'm not seeing why should Cryptsy end up any better. I for sure won't be trading there anymore.

[ghostlander]

I don't buy the story put in their blog. These coins could be stolen only with an insider help. I've heard many times Vernon is the only person with access to their cold wallets. I also know they run every wallet in a separate VM. There were just a few people at Cryptsy with appropriate access level. I'm sure all of them will be questioned by the federal authorities. After all, Cryptsy was a FinCEN registered business.

[SISAR]

I will gradualy increase liquidity at https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=PXC_BTC so move your "high-volume" trading there, it is decent exchange with many altcoins and great security.

[ghostlander]

If you have any PXC stuck at Cryptsy, withdraw them now!

[SISAR]

Explorer at http://explorer.phoenixcoin.org/chains is stucked for more than 6 days and no changes were made to official PXC website.  

Does PXC wallet uses automatic checkpointing? If not, at what blockheight is the latest checkpoint?

[ghostlander]

Explorer at http://explorer.phoenixcoin.org/chains is stucked for more than 6 days and no changes were made to official PXC website.  

Does PXC wallet uses automatic checkpointing? If not, at what blockheight is the latest checkpoint?

Fixed. The SQL back-end ran out of memory. A web site update is in the queue.

RPC getcheckpoint shows the latest checkpoint.

[SISAR]

RPC getcheckpoint shows the latest checkpoint.

It shows that checkpoint is at the last mined block or I am interpreting data wrong. I mean, if checkpoint is at the last mined block than how come blockchain reorg in case of forking (orphans)?

10:56:01

{
"synccheckpoint" : "c49cf89579d60f3093794dad7096e025a2f491b086d2241e9969069abe958d3d",
"height" : 915827,
"timestamp" : 1453888427,
"subscribemode" : "enforce"
}

What I was thinking with "checkpoint" is hard-coded (or automatic) blockheight below which no reorg can ever be done, regardless of how much hashpower attacker has or whatever else. For example, with Bitcoin checkpoints were added by developers at certain blockheights, usualy few thousand blocks behind the latest block. Such approach is considered centralized (requires trust) so many altcoins switched to automatic checkpointing, done by each and all nodes on their own (trustless).

Unrelated, getmininginfo reveals that current PXC hashrate is only a few million hashes per second so how many GPUs would that be? A dozen, or less? What is NeoScrypt hashrate of a top GPU used this days anyways? I'm thinking to start solo-mining PXC but can't find any decent mining calculator.


{
"blocks" : 915843,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"powdifficulty" : 0.05016857,
"powreward" : 50.00000000,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 2544949,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[ghostlander]

RPC getcheckpoint shows the latest checkpoint.

It shows that checkpoint is at the last mined block or I am interpreting data wrong. I mean, if checkpoint is at the last mined block than how come blockchain reorg in case of forking (orphans)?

If it is set to the last block like in our case, there is no forking or reorgs in general. It's there to protect the network. I plan to remove advanced checkpoints in the next major release. The whole network hash rate is an equivalent of 8 R9 280X or 4 GTX 980, more or less.

[SISAR]

I will gradualy increase liquidity at https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=PXC_BTC so move your "high-volume" trading there, it is decent exchange with many altcoins and great security.

I'm moving my trading to SafeCex, some people behind Cryptopia are way too arogant and stupid for my taste and the whole place stinks even though they seemingly have good exchange security.

[ghostlander]

I will gradualy increase liquidity at https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=PXC_BTC so move your "high-volume" trading there, it is decent exchange with many altcoins and great security.

I'm moving my trading to SafeCex, some people behind Cryptopia are way too arogant and stupid for my taste and the whole place stinks even though they seemingly have good exchange security.

Any exchange is just what it is, an exchange. A place to buy/sell and deposit/withdraw coins. I don't understand why people are comfortable to hold large balance there if they're not into active day trading.

[SISAR]

SafeCex also offers instant PXC exchange to BTC or any other coin traded on that exchange, no need to create account. You can also buy PXC or any other coin using the same feature, try it!

https://safecex.com/instant?q=PXC/BTC
https://safecex.com/instant?q=BTC/PXC

[cryptosolar]

I will gradualy increase liquidity at https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=PXC_BTC so move your "high-volume" trading there, it is decent exchange with many altcoins and great security.

I'm moving my trading to SafeCex, some people behind Cryptopia are way too arogant and stupid for my taste and the whole place stinks even though they seemingly have good exchange security.

lol, i guess it is all about Hex


Glad to see PXC online again , i was able to move my PXC out of Cryptsy and to transfer it to my wallet and Cryptopia  

I will take a look now at this SafeCex  

thx for the info

[SISAR]

Upon attempting to withdraw coins from Safecex I'm often getting "Transaction creation failed" errors. Probable cause is wallet attempting to pick too many unspent inputs and ending up with too big transaction, unable to recover from problem. Such things should not happen, wallet should not insist on unspent inputs which are oldest or are highest priority but try to use all unspent inputs before finaly giving up. So it should try with oldest or highest priority ones, if unable to create transaction try with newer or high priority ones and then if still unable to create transaction use whatever it takes to eventualy create it. If nothing works only then give up and post "Unable to create transaction, please withdraw less coins". Could such fix be added to PXC?

First attempt was failure.
Second attempt was failure.
Third attempt worked.

The same amount of coins was used with all three attempts which means wallet can actualy create transaction but it is plain stupid and requires human interventions, not good enough for year 2016.