[ANN] [MINT] Mintcoin (POS / 5%) [NO ICO] [Fair distro, community maintained]

[coolbeans94]

Hi guys,

Can someone tell me how many coins were in existence on Block# 3153600?

I will put together some financial statistics and analysis for the community but I would like to have as accurate of information as possible. I know the money supply was close to around 23.9 billion coins but wondering if anyone has an exact figure.

This is really a great moment in our coin's history! Congratulations to all who have stuck with Mintcoin through the thick and the thin and put so much time effort towards making Mintcoin the "mint" coin that it is. 

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[mchrist152]

I'm running into the following error when I try to open my wallet:

Runaway Exception
A fatal error occurred. MintCoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.
Exception: St13runtime_error
CDB(): error opening database environment IO error...

I'm running Windows10.  Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

Do you have any more detail? Do you have a debug log? What wallet version are you running?

I started it up this morning and it seems to be working now even though I tried repeatedly last night with the same result.  That's a first.  Apparently it somehow healed itself.  Anyway, I'm running wallet version 2.0.2.0

Thanks for your response anyway.

[MintyAllDay]

54 alpha Mint Lotus cards exist in total. 
Some will be given away to reward mint contributors. 
Others will be sold or destroyed completely. 
Want a chance at this crypto rarity? 
mintymintcoin.com/MintCards.html

[Flyskyhigh]

54 alpha Mint Lotus cards exist in total. 
Some will be given away to reward mint contributors. 
Others will be sold or destroyed completely. 
Want a chance at this crypto rarity? 
mintymintcoin.com/MintCards.html

Wow. A Mintcoin collectable trading card, that doubles for a wallet? That's really neat. I'll be looking forward to the unboxing demo. Are you planning to make other Mintcoin related cards? What is your plan and vision for developing the gameplay?

Also, do you have a backstory behind this specific card? Why Mint Lotus instead of something else? Maybe if you develop a unique backstory for each card would make it more intreaging for people. Like include in the unboxing a nice leaflet that explains the backstory or something.

Why only exactly 54 cards, and why do you say some will be destroyed? Sorry if I have too many questions just curious to find out more! 

[keyboard warrior]

I'm running into the following error when I try to open my wallet:

Runaway Exception
A fatal error occurred. MintCoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.
Exception: St13runtime_error
CDB(): error opening database environment IO error...

I'm running Windows10.  Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

Do you have any more detail? Do you have a debug log? What wallet version are you running?

I started it up this morning and it seems to be working now even though I tried repeatedly last night with the same result.  That's a first.  Apparently it somehow healed itself.  Anyway, I'm running wallet version 2.0.2.0

Thanks for your response anyway.

Other coins including bitcoin give the same error. Peter Wuille (a bitcoin core developer) recommends restarting a wallet with the -reindex option to fix it in this stackexchange thread.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7640/bitcoind-corrupted-database

[MintyAllDay]

Wow. A Mintcoin collectable trading card, that doubles for a wallet? That's really neat. I'll be looking forward to the unboxing demo. Are you planning to make other Mintcoin related cards? What is your plan and vision for developing the gameplay?

Also, do you have a backstory behind this specific card? Why Mint Lotus instead of something else? Maybe if you develop a unique backstory for each card would make it more intreaging for people. Like include in the unboxing a nice leaflet that explains the backstory or something.

Why only exactly 54 cards, and why do you say some will be destroyed? Sorry if I have too many questions just curious to find out more!  

I do have other cards currently in development with plans for release.  Currently I plan to continue making limited test mint cards available with intention to develop the first playable mint deck.  I'm thinking the Mint Lotus already has a long back story built in which is already integrated into the bitcoin and gamer communities.  I'm guessing that many will see where the inspiration came from.  I used to play collectible card games like many others, I've used MTGOX unfortunately, the bottom of the card pays respects to the late Christopher Rush (maybe better pics tomorrow).  

The lotus card is considered a pretty epic and rare card.  Initial number of Mint Lotus cards printed is somewhat random and is based on perceived short term demand with consideration for rarity and epicness.  Why destroy cards?  Alpha card will have manufacturing issues and those cards can be destroyed.  Additionally, who wants anything less then a very rare lotus???  I want users to understand the scarcity and see the documentation of destroyed cards.  I hope to keep these destruction videos fairly entertaining as time permits.  

I can tell you that the second card has a very specific mintcoin history theme.

Thanks for your questions and suggestions!

I'm considering your leaflet idea or something similar like a certificate of authenticity.

[Buy$Polar]

MINT RIP 

[URSAY]

Buy$Polar, what's your motive?

You can have an opinion but your not providing any supporting data or adding to the conversation.

[kiklo]

Buy$Polar, what's your motive?

You can have an opinion but your not providing any supporting data or adding to the conversation.

Forget his motive,
the only thing I want to know is how is he Typing with his arms tied like that?    



 

FYI:
Makes you wonder if putting free wifi in the crazy house was a bad idea.

[CryptoJohn]

Buy$Polar, what's your motive?

You can have an opinion but your not providing any supporting data or adding to the conversation.

His motive is to primarily spread negative opinion. Check out his post history, all negative. Maybe a shill account used just for FUD.

good candidate for the ignore feature 

[coolbeans94]

Latest Mintcoin Statistics:

According to the best data I can find, Mintcoin's POS reward was at the 10% APR for a total of approximately 347 days, and produced 1.3 billion coins in that time. From approximately 22.6 billion coins on 12/21/2015 to 23.9 billion on 12/2/2016. This means the MINT network produced an average of 3.75 million new coins per day during that time. This works out to about a 6.1% APR increase in the money supply. If every Mintcoin in existence was consistently minting, then we would expect a 10% increase in the money supply during this time. But this is not the case, and from this we can see that only about 60.1% of the coins were actually actively minted (minting participation rate).

This demonstrates essentially why it pays to be a minter:
In the last year, minters received approximately 10% APR increase in their coins, while the inflation of the money supply was only 6.1%. So the minter outperforms the increase in the money supply (inflation effects) by approximately 64%.

Mintcoin's POS reward is now at 5% APR so all else equal, the money supply will increase by about 650 million coins or 3.05% over the coming year. Minters will receive 5% APR, thus still outperforming the increase in the money supply (inflation effects) by approximately 64%.

Keep in mind why it is good to be a minter:

• The minter, will always outperform the inflation rate because not all coins are minted.

The minter, will always outperform the inflation rate because not all coins are minted.
Many coins have been lost over the years and are out of circulation, but all coins that exist are still considered part of the money supply as there is no way to accurately account for them as some may be held on exchanges or offline or not minted for whatever reason. As long as you are consistent to mint at least once per year you will get the full 5% APR which will always be more than the inflation rate.

[keyboard warrior]

MINT RIP 

[presstab]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

[crzybilly]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

hello presstabs,

as you maybe aware, the mint team likes to keep a low profile on the changes until testing is completed... what i can say is CPU utilization is better then before but other changes are really being kept hush hush within the team... this prevents false hype and failed delivery promises.

we've run into a few bumps but nothing that is stone walling us from pressing forward (see what i did there lol). as some have noticed there were tests on the live chain with a specific client version. we look forward to provide a full run down of features and fixes once we deem the client stable.

[Fuzzbawls]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

My Uncompressed current version datadir size is ~3.5GB, the compressed blockchain dat is ~1.2GB. CPU usage was improved a bit as well. Memory usage still remains high, though over the past year's worth of blocks it hasn't increased much.

[Sincere_]

Does Mintcoin have any future plans in the works? I have a few thousand mints that I just found in an old wallet haven't sold wanna keep them and start minting them if there's any future for Mint

[Fuzzbawls]

Does Mintcoin have any future plans in the works? I have a few thousand mints that I just found in an old wallet haven't sold wanna keep them and start minting them if there's any future for Mint

We're working on a number of projects at the moment:
Proposed revisions/changes to the existing line of desktop wallets (https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/MintCoin-Docs/blob/master/Wallets/2.0-Proposed_Revisions.md).
Physical trading card game in which some cards act as paper wallets (http://mintymintcoin.com/MintCards.html)
Also the long project of overhauling desktop wallets completely (details forthcoming)

[presstab]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

My Uncompressed current version datadir size is ~3.5GB, the compressed blockchain dat is ~1.2GB. CPU usage was improved a bit as well. Memory usage still remains high, though over the past year's worth of blocks it hasn't increased much.

Interesting, I would have expected the load to have increased much more. Maybe some of the changes you folks have made have helped slow down the memory usage creep.

[Derek492]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

My Uncompressed current version datadir size is ~3.5GB, the compressed blockchain dat is ~1.2GB. CPU usage was improved a bit as well. Memory usage still remains high, though over the past year's worth of blocks it hasn't increased much.

Interesting, I would have expected the load to have increased much more. Maybe some of the changes you folks have made have helped slow down the memory usage creep.

Last I checked on my windows wallet, it was using about 1.2GB of RAM on my laptop . CPU usage is pretty much the same as it always has been about 20-40% of my quad core 1.40GHz AMD processor. Blockchain is only 2GB file.

[crzybilly]

Out of curiosity... how is MINT handling its age? Is the blockchain bloat causing any problems? How disk space does it consume? How much memory? CPU?

My Uncompressed current version datadir size is ~3.5GB, the compressed blockchain dat is ~1.2GB. CPU usage was improved a bit as well. Memory usage still remains high, though over the past year's worth of blocks it hasn't increased much.

Interesting, I would have expected the load to have increased much more. Maybe some of the changes you folks have made have helped slow down the memory usage creep.

Last I checked on my windows wallet, it was using about 1.2GB of RAM on my laptop . CPU usage is pretty much the same as it always has been about 20-40% of my quad core 1.40GHz AMD processor. Blockchain is only 2GB file.

Derek,

Presstab was talking about the new client currently in testing, well that's the results fuzzbawls provided them for anyways... there are some changes in the work that will lower the size for the blockchain so a lot of positive in the works, we just focusing on working through the bugs we find.