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[geokilla]

CAT goes down, multipool switches to CAT. CAT goes up, multipool leaves and cat dies because of the insanely high difficulty which takes forever to break.

I guess you weren't around two weeks ago when we really DID stick at 120 diffs for days with very low supporting hash.  

We're moving - we're no longer stuck.  That's step one.  Long-term stability in any environment is step two.  We did step one.  Now we're working on 2.

As for the switching pools - neither hashcows nor multipool hop to CAT.  Don't know yet about Middlecoin.  Can't speak to any others as I don't know who they are.

Yes, the mining is too fast during the low-diff times - but we've got mining, we've got transactions that clear, we can easily send and receive money, we've got block averages slightly below our 10 minute target, and we've got more average hash rate than we've had since CAT launched.  We have a usable, tradeable, CAT today, and we'll soon have a long-term stable CAT as well.

I was around when I still believed in CAT. You can even check my activity on Coinium from back then. But right now I have no faith for this coin especially with all this come and go mining, pushing difficulty up and then miners ditching because it's horribly designed and unprofitable. When the network and pool hash rates fluctuate by 300m Gh/s (or whatever the Coinium graphs are presenting), that's a problem. This announcement from Coinium certainly doesn't help either:

We are now again accepting new registrations to our pool and mining services are all up. Note: Note that block-chain fork issues are happening within the catcoin network but we are trying out best to stay within the correct chain.

By the way, no one trades CAT. At least not on CoinedUp. Can you back up with statistics saying people are still trading CAT?

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[SlimePuppy]

Everyone -

What do you like about the new wallet?

What do you not like about the new wallet?

If you could add a feature or capability into the wallet, what would it be?

Thanks!

[SlimePuppy]

I was around when I still believed in CAT. You can even check my activity on Coinium from back then. But right now I have no faith for this coin especially with all this come and go mining, pushing difficulty up and then miners ditching because it's horribly designed and unprofitable. When the network and pool hash rates fluctuate by 300m Gh/s (or whatever the Coinium graphs are presenting), that's a problem. This announcement from Coinium certainly doesn't help either:

We are now again accepting new registrations to our pool and mining services are all up. Note: Note that block-chain fork issues are happening within the catcoin network but we are trying out best to stay within the correct chain.

Why are you still here, then, geokilla?  You've dumped a lot on CAT from the beginning - I frankly don't recall you EVER liking CAT.

As for the Coinium notice - this is not new!  It's in my DEV notes from yesterday, it's in my reply to kalus from yesterday, and it's in my update post from today - somehow you're able to read and post the problem, but you missed FOUR messages that report that the problem was fixed YESTERDAY in the dev IRC channel. LOL

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441402.msg4962070#msg4962070
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441402.msg4963409#msg4963409
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441402.msg4979241#msg4979241
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441402.msg4984364#msg4984364

In the capture from IRC yesterday, you can see part of a multi-hour work session that took place between raistlinthewiz (from Coinium), vekexasia (from ultimatecoinpool), and Blaksmith (from geekhash).  They were tracking down and solving a problem that kept pools  - including teamcatcoin - from synchronizing during our very fast periods.  This is the work that resulted in better linking the major pools to prevent forks.

TL:DR  We knew about the problem.  We told you about the problem.  We fixed the problem.  We told you it was fixed three times.

Seriously man, I know this thread's moving fast, but if you'll take a minute or three and read before posting you might like what you find.

Andy

[vondi1122]

Is catcoin dead? Will it up again? What is going on with it?

It's not the price, stupid.

Is catcoin dead? Will it up again? What is going on with it?

Dead.

Thanks for trolling the troll. Here's your ><((((*>.

[crazy987]

is cryptsy on the correct fork or not?
Deposit doesnt seem to arrive.

[skillface]

is cryptsy on the correct fork or not?
Deposit doesnt seem to arrive.

It's probably on the same fork as catcoins.biz. I'm also waiting on another deposit, though I can't even look it up in the blockchain at the moment since it's behind.

[SlimePuppy]

Calling all Cats, I'm taking donations for Keno's animal rescue, soon to be featured on The Diamond Collar Television show airing on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)
it's time for the community to step up and pitch in 100% of the donations will be passed along. Please show your support.

9iyKS8KVBHap3PYBzKYaUrJxRR7q5mqaSu

http://thediamondcollar.com/keno-s-rescue

I want to say thank you to our first donor of 1000Ç That's a good start. Let's keep it up!

johnny - just sent 20% of my catstash.  Thanks for being our PR chief!

Andy

[ozzymax]

Need help please.
I have downloaded and installed the new mandatory wallet for the second time running and it's still not syncing it is stuck on block 21906 for me. it says 14 hours behind, earlier it was only 11 hours behind.
I have also deleted everything in the %appdata% folder and restarted wallet, waited for it to sync the last 6 weeks worth of blocks and every time it gets stuck on Block 21906.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated.

[SlimePuppy]

Need help please.
I have downloaded and installed the new mandatory wallet for the second time running and it's still not syncing it is stuck on block 21906 for me. it says 14 hours behind, earlier it was only 11 hours behind.
I have also deleted everything in the %appdata% folder and restarted wallet, waited for it to sync the last 6 weeks worth of blocks and every time it gets stuck on Block 21906.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated.

Hey ozzymax,

  Check your %appdata%/Roaming/catcoin/ folder for a file called catcoin.conf  If you don't have one, right-click in the file manager and create a new text file then past this in:

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=userpassword
server=1
daemon=1
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=cat.geekhash.org
addnode=ultimatecoinpool.org
addnode=eu.coinium.org
addnode=us.coinium.org
addnode=teamcatcoin.com
rpcport=7000
rpcallowip=192.168.*.*

Then save the file.  Once it's saved, rename it to catcoin.conf  and say yes to the nag screen about changing the filename/extension.

If you do have a catcoin.conf, replace all the addnode lines with the addnodes above.

Once you have the catcoin.conf saved, shut down and restart your wallet - it should sync all the way this time.  There are better step-by-step instructions in the readme.txt file in the wallet package you downloaded.

Andy

[ozzymax]

Need help please.
I have downloaded and installed the new mandatory wallet for the second time running and it's still not syncing it is stuck on block 21906 for me. it says 14 hours behind, earlier it was only 11 hours behind.
I have also deleted everything in the %appdata% folder and restarted wallet, waited for it to sync the last 6 weeks worth of blocks and every time it gets stuck on Block 21906.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated.

Hey ozzymax,

  Check your %appdata%/Roaming/catcoin/ folder for a file called catcoin.conf  If you don't have one, right-click in the file manager and create a new text file then past this in:

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=userpassword
server=1
daemon=1
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=cat.geekhash.org
addnode=ultimatecoinpool.org
addnode=eu.coinium.org
addnode=us.coinium.org
addnode=teamcatcoin.com
rpcport=7000
rpcallowip=192.168.*.*

Then save the file.  Once it's saved, rename it to catcoin.conf  and say yes to the nag screen about changing the filename/extension.

If you do have a catcoin.conf, replace all the addnode lines with the addnodes above.

Once you have the catcoin.conf saved, shut down and restart your wallet - it should sync all the way this time.  There are better step-by-step instructions in the readme.txt file in the wallet package you downloaded.

Andy

Thanks Andy
I have tried this and it's still stuck on the same block as before. I have deleted my wallet.dat file to see if this is holding the sync back, will give it an hour or so see if that helps. I'm now 16 hours behind. lol

[SlimePuppy]

Thanks Andy
I have tried this and it's still stuck on the same block as before. I have deleted my wallet.dat file to see if this is holding the sync back, will give it an hour or so see if that helps. I'm now 16 hours behind. lol

Careful - wallet.dat is where your coins are stored - that's the one file you want to keep!

If you have any trouble getting up to date, yell and I'll zip my block file.

[serje]

I think his problem is because of peers.dat file ... if the size is around 2KB then that's the problem ... you need a bigger peers.dat file from someone who is synced!

mine has 483KB

[ozzymax]

Thanks Andy
I have tried this and it's still stuck on the same block as before. I have deleted my wallet.dat file to see if this is holding the sync back, will give it an hour or so see if that helps. I'm now 16 hours behind. lol

Careful - wallet.dat is where your coins are stored - that's the one file you want to keep!

If you have any trouble getting up to date, yell and I'll zip my block file.

I saved it no worries there. I may have found the problem, I went into program files and saw that the old Catcoin folder was still there. I uninstalled it and I am running the new Qt. see if it sync this time.

I'll let you know and thanks for the help.

[maxidoge]

yeah, its time to buy some CATs 

[ssjohnson1990]

having the same problem as ozzymax over here, at block 21907. Just updated my config file as per Andy's suggestion. We'll see 

[SlimePuppy]

having the same problem as ozzymax over here, at block 21907. Just updated my config file as per Andy's suggestion. We'll see 

Check your control panel/programs and make sure you uninstall the old wallet if you had one of the earlier versions.  Make a copy of your wallet.dat first.

There are full step-by-step instructions for both a new install and an upgrade install in the Readme.

[etblvu1]

The difficulty algorithm simulator is undergoing active development. Check it out - visit www.catcoin-algo.org and visit the Freenode IRC channel #catcoin-algo.

The goal is to implement every proposed difficulty adjustment algorithm and incorporate it into this simulation, so the community can play with each algorithm and its personality/characteristics and then we will at least be on the same page what we are talking about when we talk about favoring one algorithm over another. It is the hope that by giving people a kinesthetic feel for what each algorithm is like, people will come together in a true consensus on how to move forward, and our Coin will emerge stronger than ever.

This is a new, independent effort, so you can feel safe leaving behind any bad feelings from having had your ideas dismissed before - any algorithm idea that can be converted to code and show any tendency to keep the difficulty level in line with hashrate can be incorporated into the simulation.

Thank you for your time.

Etblvu1

[Percy520]

The price is so low, just bought another 1k of cat. I am sure it will rise in the near future.

[gadado]

Food for you KGW phobias here is your chance: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg5005478#msg5005478

[SlimePuppy]

Food for you KGW phobias here is your chance: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg5005478#msg5005478

Thanks for the second bit of proof that shows that KGW isn't the only game in town.  I've already provided the first.

Let's be accurate with our language, however - nobody is afraid of KGW.  We're just not willing to accept ANY bit of code that has not been PROVEN to work with our 10 minute per block coin.  Some of our 'solution candidates' have already been proven ineffective - we'll keep coding and testing.  Soon you'll be able to evaluate ALL of the proposals and see them work or fail with your own eyes.

Until then, thanks for the link..