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

[Jeff Jefferson]

Excellent initiative, BitcoinFX!

Our coding team could probably compile a wallet for the raspberry. This would be a great way to advertise mintcoin, especially if can secure some advertisement. Could the marketing team handle this?
(if anyone wants to join the marketing team, contact me)

there is already a raspberry pi wallet for NXT which runs on solar energy. it is a nice gimmick but i don't think it will be used by a lot of people. it takes some time to get it to work properly and most people will not invest that amount of time. further isn't there already a linux wallet for MINT? isn't it possible to put this on a raspberry pi? maybe someone can try?

i think the android wallet is the best opportunity. you can always run a low spec android device with a solar adapter. great for people in warm countries  

[TookDk]

Excellent initiative, BitcoinFX!

Our coding team could probably compile a wallet for the raspberry. This would be a great way to advertise mintcoin, especially if can secure some advertisement. Could the marketing team handle this?
(if anyone wants to join the marketing team, contact me)

there is already a raspberry pi wallet for NXT which runs on solar energy. it is a nice gimmick but i don't think it will be used by a lot of people. it takes some time to get it to work properly and most people will not invest that amount of time. further isn't there already a linux wallet for MINT? isn't it possible to put this on a raspberry pi? maybe someone can try?

i think the android wallet is the best opportunity. you can always run a low spec android device with a solar adapter. great for people in warm countries  

I agree with that, I see the largest potential with the Andriod application.

The solarpowered ras-pi is nice for show and promotion to give mint an "edge" over bitcoin.

[Jeff Jefferson]

Android wallet update 2:

Oh, OK.

Actually I'm thinking on this. Probably minted POS blocks on android will not include broadcasted transactions as they cannot actually prove the transactions are valid (It won't be good to include non verifiable transactions in a block, the network would reject the block and all work to generate that POS block will be wasted). Although this would mean android wallets would be selfish, not helping to include transactions in the blockchain, it also means that they won't receive the transaction fees, leaving them to other clients to collect. So I guess it's fair.

thanks for the detailed explanation. is it correct that the selfish android wallet would still get some coins minted without the transactions included in blocks? if so how much fees are there? how many coins would such a wallet "lose"? i haven't fully grasped the minting process. if the android wallet would still mint but receive a bit less coins than the actually verifying standard client while being safe from scammers it's totally fine by me. and i think the others will also agree to that.

another (but maybe same) idea. is it possible that the android wallet just verifies that it is on the main chain by using the public blockchain by waiting a bit? so maybe the transaction is a bit delayed but the android client knows the main chain which is being secured by the normal clients? and it doesn't need to check all the other possible chains. just wait for the others to decide which way to go. you know what I mean?

and another idea. maybe it is possible to use some kind of a random function for the wallet to download only random 10 000 historical blocks from the blockchain. any 10000 blocks. and keep them stored in the wallet. that way it isn't necessary to download the whole blockchain while the possible attacker still doesn't know which blocks the android wallet knows for sure to be correct and included in the main chain. is it sensible?

i hope my questions/ideas give you something   maybe a more experienced person like Kergecoin or one of the developers could comment?

[Invisible Hands]

Can someone tell me what is wrong with the wallet?  

I suspect some of the nodes in the conf file need to be deleted/banned
Can someone tell me which ones?

Current number of blocks:  254061
Estimated total blocks:  265643  <-----------------------

from console

11581 blocks remaining

The incorrect nodes need to be banned.

Then suddenly it says it is synced again:

Current number of blocks:  254079
Estimated total blocks:  254071  <--------------------------


"wallet check passed" : true

Hi, you don't have to do anything, your wallet notices that some node tries to feed it an invalid blockchain and bans its IP for 24 hours automatically (you can track the banning process from debug.log file).

It's actually just a display issue (rogue client's advertised blockchain height keeps showing in the UI after it's banned&disconnected, until a few new connections are made to overwrite it), check my post below.

Rogue clients are expected on a P2P network, and mintcoin wallet already has tools to protect itself from them. For the display issue, it'll be fixed in next release -- I already submitted a patch for it and devs merged it. It's not critical, so not urgent, just confusing.

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Hello,
If you're using 1.8 wallet, you can safely ignore sync problems. Just hover your mouse on the "syncing" text, if it says last generated block is generated just a few seconds/minutes ago, then you're fine.


There are some rogue clients on the network that announce wrong block heights (they are people who did not upgrade to 1.7 or upgraded late, and still haven't noticed), when such a client connects to you, it confuses your client. Your client disconnects them, but the estimate on UI stays there. So it's really a display issue.

Thanks

[ficklepickle]

Is there code for wallets to autoupgrade or be prompted to upgrade? 

[coolbeans94]

Does anyone have a working block explorer? http://mint.blockx.info/get/chain/MintCoin is not updating.

[David Latapie]

Does anyone have a working block explorer? http://mint.blockx.info/get/chain/MintCoin is not updating.

I think paspi (or unek?) is working on it. It was mentioned around 50 pages ago, I don't remember the link.

[dogechode]

Do we know why the block explorer stopped working to begin with? Was it something related to the update, or to the people who haven't updated yet which are causing us all to get occasional blips that our wallet is trying to synch ~8-10k blocks?

[deadmanwalking]

Do we know why the block explorer stopped working to begin with? Was it something related to the update, or to the people who haven't updated yet which are causing us all to get occasional blips that our wallet is trying to synch ~8-10k blocks?

Block explorer has only been down for a day. It says no connection on the page, my wallet runs fine so I'm assuming the site operator lost internet for one reason or another.

[coolbeans94]

Block explorer is working again now. http://mint.blockx.info/get/chain/MintCoin

[verymintcards]

Found a non-profit organization based in the US that helps parents with seriously ill or critically injured children called Spare Key. And they accept Mintcoin donations through the Moolah system! It would be fantastic to show Spare Key that they have the support of one of the most innovative coins out there where they could gain interest on the donations.  If they get enough support from our community I'm sure other non-profits will take notice as well as great exposure to the general public for Mintcoin.

Non-Profit Site: http://www.sparekey.org/

Donation Link: https://moolah.io/donate/357/mintcoin

[Jacobinge]

Looks very interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

[supervine]

This coin can be monitored and send alert of price changes in android app Crypto Coins Manager, as like all other coins. Use it for free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=halfprice.coinmanager

[dragonseer]

Block explorer is working again now. http://mint.blockx.info/get/chain/MintCoin

Hey, I'm #469 on the rich list!

[HEISENAIR]

Seems to have gone a little quiet with the marketing side of things.

Anyone care to update how things are traveling with Merchants, plans etc?

It's hard watching others fly, when MINT has so much to offer. I realise long term is the big goal, but would be nice to see some action.

[voephilis]

hey there!

Wallet is mining coins out of POS. but they don`t get confirmed. what to do?

[Kergekoin]

hey there!

Wallet is mining coins out of POS. but they don`t get confirmed. what to do?

If you are sitting on latest wallet then just sit and wait They will get confirmed soon enough.

[David Latapie]

Seems to have gone a little quiet with the marketing side of things.

Anyone care to update how things are traveling with Merchants, plans etc?

It's hard watching others fly, when MINT has so much to offer. I realise long term is the big goal, but would be nice to see some action.

I set up some plans regarding Mintcoin Fund, Sonoa County and merchant adoption yesterday. I'll let the minters responsible for these to announce them in due time.

[whoshero]

Seems to have gone a little quiet with the marketing side of things.

Anyone care to update how things are traveling with Merchants, plans etc?

It's hard watching others fly, when MINT has so much to offer. I realise long term is the big goal, but would be nice to see some action.

I set up some plans regarding Mintcoin Fund, Sonoa County and merchant adoption yesterday. I'll let the minters responsible for these to announce them in due time.

Hi, David.
The progress of the Mintcoin Fund ?

[HEISENAIR]

Seems to have gone a little quiet with the marketing side of things.

Anyone care to update how things are traveling with Merchants, plans etc?

It's hard watching others fly, when MINT has so much to offer. I realise long term is the big goal, but would be nice to see some action.

I set up some plans regarding Mintcoin Fund, Sonoa County and merchant adoption yesterday. I'll let the minters responsible for these to announce them in due time.

Thanks for the heads up David. Great work!