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

[drakoin]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

1) bootstrap.dat (1,851,231 KB)

the resulting blk0001.dat is 968,000 KB now, but only because I started it already 14 hours ago. So does this really take almost 2 days, even with a bootstrap offline block repository?

Depends on the speed of your computer. I can reload it from bootstrap in about 20-hours on my 5-year-old wallet-store PC. It takes a bit of time to process the 1.8GB of data. Total size is over 2GB today.

Over 2 GB ... So shouldn't I rather go for a newer bootstrap than the 1,851,231 KB one ? 

Who would be willing to do a newer one?

2) syncing from scratch, on a 2nd machine.
First there were no peers, but then I added many dozens of them from https://www.coinexchange.io/network/peers/MINT and finally got ... "6 active connections".
But now it is stuck at block 500.  2830755 to go?

Give it time. A full sync will take a few days.

Alright.

After quitting, and restarting, I could now get it to 5372 blocks.
But now it is stuck there.

Plus, it is assuming 3695262 blocks now, not 2.8 million.

quit. restart ... 5872 blocks now, but assuming 2100001 blocks now. This is confusing. Are there bad nodes perhaps, with wrong blocks?


And: Do I have to always kill and restart the wallet, to get it syncing continuously?

There aren't a lot of peers out there right now, but I'm one of them.

Good to know. Is your IP among the list I got from coinexchange?

[drakoin]

...

2) syncing from scratch, on a 2nd machine.
First there were no peers, but then I added many dozens of them from https://www.coinexchange.io/network/peers/MINT and finally got ... "6 active connections".
But now it is stuck at block 500.  2830755 to go?

Give it time. A full sync will take a few days.

Alright.

After quitting, and restarting, I could now get it to 5372 blocks.
But now it is stuck there.

Plus, it is assuming 3695262 blocks now, not 2.8 million.

quit. restart ... 5872 blocks now, but assuming 2100001 blocks now. This is confusing. Are there bad nodes perhaps, with wrong blocks?


And: Do I have to always kill and restart the wallet, to get it syncing continuously?

Just wanted to tell that after a couple of restarts ... it is finally syncing fine ... block 91203 ... 2.47% done

[Masejoer]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

The 2GB only takes another couple hours to reach after the January bootstrap. No real need to update. I had some 10+ peers by that point.

Just let the wallet go. There may have been pauses, but mine finished fine without restarting. If looking at the file size on Windows, make sure to click on the block file and hit F5 on your keyboard. This will typically show the current size. Windows explorer may not continuously update the file size after a certain point, but it still grows.

My IP changes all the time, so I can't be a good static peer to add.

[drakoin]

thx

... Just let the wallet go. ...

so you mean just simple syncing? I am already at 4.04% with that, and on my slower machine, and HD.
 
On the other machine the blk0001.dat is at 1,008,665 KB ... but it has slowed down so much that it needs one second per KB now.
For another 1 million KB that would mean 10^6 / 60 /60 / 24 = 11 days from now
the bootstrap.dat --> blk0001.dat procedure would be ready. Plus my SSD wrecked I guess.

What if someone publishes his blk0001.dat + /database/ + /txleveldb/ (instead of the bootstrap.dat)?  That would save us 12 days, right?

[Imro]

What if someone publishes his blk0001.dat + /database/ + /txleveldb/ (instead of the bootstrap.dat)?  That would save us 12 days, right?

Exactly.
I'm trying to sync for 10 days now, I'm only past the middle and computer running 24/7..

[drakoin]

This is insane:

To get blk0001.dat from 1,010,000 to now 1,039,183 ... took all evening. And it has to go over 2,000,0000 KB - right?

At this speed the bootstrap.dat reading would take until the end of the month. Or the end of the summer.

I'm trying to sync for 10 days now, I'm only past the middle and computer running 24/7..

There must be another solution.

Idea: Is there a MINT light wallet, into which I can import my secret keys, to be able to send my MINT ?

What if someone publishes his blk0001.dat + /database/ + /txleveldb/ (instead of the bootstrap.dat)?  

[Masejoer]

This is insane:

To get blk0001.dat from 1,010,000 to now 1,039,183 ... took all evening. And it has to go over 2,000,0000 KB - right?

At this speed the bootstrap.dat reading would take until the end of the month. Or the end of the summer.

*shrug* - No such problem here. All I did for the new wallet is copy my wallet.dat over, the bootstrap file, and let it rebuild for a day. I launch the wallet with "MintCoin-Qt.exe -datadir=D:\Apps\Wallets\MintCoin\DAT", to write the data to my larger SSD. This older machine has a small C-drive, and blockchains now days were eating up all of my available disk space.

If there are wallet issues though, that will definitely hurt the coin.

[bittercoinist]

The problem I see is: we need to get data from each other. But at this time, a lot of us needing data and very few of us has data to give. There are two ways to get pass this status:  (1) keep the MINT price stable so people with recent data (and with static IP) will start their wallet again.  (2) Just hang in there and soldier on. As the ratio of synced wallet to "empty" wallet go up, situation will improve.

[drakoin]

Thanks for your post that you do not have any problems, I am happy for you.
We others however, are in this situation:

I'm trying to sync for 10 days now, I'm only past the middle and computer running 24/7..

This is insane:
To get blk0001.dat from 1,010,000 to now 1,039,183 ... took all evening.

That post about the 1,039,183 KB was at 10:13:53 PM

I stopped the insanity at 1,074,848 KB at 2:12 AM

Because that was only 35,665 KB in 4 hours.

If that bootstrap.dat goes into a blk0001.dat that is > 2,000,000 KB large, then this tells me that I would have to wait another

(1,000,000 KB / 35,665 KB) * 4 hours = 112 hours = 5 days

during which (a) my computer has to be on 24/7, (b) the SSD will get unnecessarily f***ed, and (c) my patience will evaporate.



Idea / Solution / Let's try this:

Can anyone please zip, and upload (e.g. mega.co.nz) the    blk0001.dat + /database/ + /txleveldb/    (instead of the bootstrap.dat)?  Or are there any bitcoin-technical reasons which speak against that?

I would really like to revive this wallet, and as you can see in my posts, I am trying hard, but to wait a week for a bootstrap to unravel ... is too much IMHO.

[R-J-F]

Is the latest wallet revision 2.0.2.0?  I thought I saw a 2.0.2.1 somewhere?

Also, my MINT wallet looks like it's synced, I have 21 active connections to the network but, I get the "out of sync" message. Is there a known problem?  If not, is there a known good list of peers? Does it need to be "repaired"?

[MintyAllDay]

Is the latest wallet revision 2.0.2.0?  I thought I saw a 2.0.2.1 somewhere?

Also, my MINT wallet looks like it's synced, I have 21 active connections to the network but, I get the "out of sync" message. Is there a known problem?  If not, is there a known good list of peers? Does it need to be "repaired"?

Latest wallet:

https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/Mintcoin-Desktop-Wallet/releases

You will know that your mint software is sync'ed once you see a green check mark on the bottom right of your wallet.

[R-J-F]

Is the latest wallet revision 2.0.2.0?  I thought I saw a 2.0.2.1 somewhere?

Also, my MINT wallet looks like it's synced, I have 21 active connections to the network but, I get the "out of sync" message. Is there a known problem?  If not, is there a known good list of peers? Does it need to be "repaired"?

Latest wallet:

https://github.com/MintcoinCommunity/Mintcoin-Desktop-Wallet/releases

You will know that your mint software is sync'ed once you see a green check mark on the bottom right of your wallet.

Thanks. it finally finished syncing after a restart. Apparently stuck on the last 20k entries somewhere. The confusing thing was that it showed the "(out of sync)" error yet I could send and receive. Noticed it was going forward a few blocks then retracing and doing it again. I suspect some corruption in the blk database. All good now!

[fzh20085]

anyone one can tell me does this MintCoin-2.0.2-win32-setup.exe work in my win64 windows system ??  which folder could i put my old wallet file on ? thanks

[fzh20085]

All good!!! new download wallet has not problem at all !!

[fzh20085]

mintcoin to the moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[R-J-F]

anyone one can tell me does this MintCoin-2.0.2-win32-setup.exe work in my win64 windows system ??  which folder could i put my old wallet file on ? thanks

Yes, it will work. If your not using the install version than the executable files go in "C:\Program Files (x86)\MintCoin" All other files like wallet.dat, databases, etc can be found in C:\Users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\mintcoin\" Save your "wallet.dat" before you do anything just to be safe.

[Imro]

mintcoin to the moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If 1 second of updating the blockchain would be equal to 1 second of travelling to the moon, it would take 21 days to get there.
No chance Mintcoin will ever get there mate.

[R-J-F]

mintcoin to the moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If 1 second of updating the blockchain would be equal to 1 second of travelling to the moon, it would take 21 days to get there.
No chance Mintcoin will ever get there mate.

Well, it took Apollo 3 days to do it, just have to wait a little longer, certainly not impossible. 

[MintyAllDay]

The new official mintcoin donation address to support mint infrastructure is at...

MXei5F9RQSBoiUAGV8ayQfwTtnF3dQ2o1P

I hold the current wallet currently but this will be offloaded to a multi-sig system once available to assure improved decentralization.

The wallet is on a dedicated drive/OS/machine which comes online occasionally to mint but otherwise stays offline.  This is a base system with limited online exposure.  Wallet is encrypted with a strong password.  CD-R backup available.

How and when the funds will be spent is up to the donators and community members.  Dedicated web page to document the details of community held funds is coming.

My current assumption is that the community will prioritize further wallet development and optimizations.

Mint on my friends.

[manasd]

can anyone help? can't run the wallet

http://imgur.com/a/G30eB

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