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

[Beaverslayer]

Everyone please help support the Mintcoin Thunderclap campaign.  Mintcoin on Earthday  support https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/10998-sonoma-county-redwood-reforest

Done!

Is there a way to make the embed for the Thunderclap work on the forum?

Done as well, and I can't seem to get the embed scrypt to work on the forum, I don't think it's possible.

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[David Latapie]

Mintcoin Fund:  How is something that dumps Mintcoins onto the market supposed to increase the price of Mint?  Awareness? People already know of Mint.

Mintcoin Fund is not about raising Mint price. It is about accomplishing a goal. Increasing mint price is just a consequence. That's why it works, because, as I said before here and on another community thread, a coin without a cause can only go that far.

"Mintcoin Fund is not about raising Mint price"

I knew you would focus on this part Please reread my text.
For all of you: I am also working on something unrelated to crypto, longevity (see http://longevityalliance.org if you are interested - heard of Google's Calico?). There is one motto there: we are not working on making people live longer. We are working on making them live healthier. Longevity is just the natural consequence.
Same thing here for mintcoin. If you want the consequences, work on the causes.

Various Updates:  What does this even mean?  Fixing grammar and spelling mistakes are consider updates.

It meant "too much things I don't feel like detailling once, because anyway, they will show up by themselves. A dev rarely mention every debugging he did or every optimization he made. He just said "I was working on this". Same here.

Just detail 1 or 2 big things, we don't need the details of everything.

Alright but later, once I have catched up work and IF I am not too tired (I' is almost 1AM for me and I am working tomorrow). I promise I will, I just can't promise for tonight. Deal?

Android Wallet:  Something that actually has some merit.  But if it's closed source, you're going to get burned by the alt community, if it's open everyone is just going to copy it and you have nothing again.

Please read above. Condition for the bounty was that it would be open-source so it will be open-source. Yes, it will be copied by anyone and this is a good thing - as long as we accept the fact that it will be and we try to capitalise on this. We are about transparency and bringing something more than satoshi to the crypto-world. And we deliver.

Great news, while you're all about transparency can you show us a ledger for the 700 million premine?

This I cannot because I am not the dev - the dev has it, not me and there won't be 700 since some had been donated already. What I can show you is the amount of money on the several donations I am hosting.

For those of you that don't know, whales move the altcoin markets, and I can't see them pushing through all the sell walls and all the whales circling to unload.  About 50% is being held by the top 50 wallets, mintcoins are so concentrated at the top, that I don't see any pumping group risking going too high on this coin.

This is real issue for every crypto. The Gini index for crypto is catastropic. I am thinking of some ideas to reduce this but nothing clear for the moment. At least, not clear enough that I feel confident to say out loud in the open.

A better distribution of coins would help.

I agree wholeheartedly. We can't force people to share their wealth, but we have other way to convince them - this is the "secret" part that I am not ready to talk about

[David Latapie]

Done as well, and I can't seem to get the embed scrypt to work on the forum, I don't think it's possible.

Could be something to add on the MintCoin Fund website. I'll ask our webmistress.

[Beaverslayer]

Done as well, and I can't seem to get the embed scrypt to work on the forum, I don't think it's possible.

Could be something to add on the MintCoin Fund website. I'll ask our webmistress.

There should also be a way to embed it into the Reddit pages as well.

[David Latapie]

There should also be a way to embed it into the Reddit pages as well.

Good idea, I think we have some people conversant in reddit here, no?

[Beaverslayer]

There should also be a way to embed it into the Reddit pages as well.

Good idea, I think we have some people conversant in reddit here, no?

I just sent a email to the developer to see if he can embed it.

[pristontale]

Hey everybody. I seem to have a problem with my wallet. I upgraded to the latest version (1. and when I opened it, I saw that I zero coins. I have 350k mintcoins and I don't know what happened to them. Anyone know the solution to this? Thank you very much.

Which version did you upgrade from, 1.6 or 1.7? First backup your wallet.dat just in case.

Please open debug console (Help -> Debug Window -> Console), and run "checkwallet" to see what it returns. It may be related to that if your previous wallet was on a wrong fork. If it reports missing/extra coins, you can run "repairwallet" there and it will resync your wallet with the downloaded blockchain.

I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.8. I'm back to 1.5 again because i was hoping that I'd get my coins back if I returned to the old version. I ran "checkwallet" and got this response: {
"wallet check passed" : true
}. Kinda sucks that I lost all my coins for some unknown reason >.<

1.5 and 1.6 are following a wrong chain. 1.7 update was mandatory.

Now, you have a few options;

If you received your coins while on 1.5 ; the transaction should be confirmed on both chains. So your coins should still be available. To be sure you can check your address with the block explorer. But; if the person that sent you the coins was also on the wrong chain, and his transaction contained invalid coins, then that transaction was not included in the main chain, because the main chain would reject it as it is invalid in the first place. You should contact your payer, and request he updates his client, and pays you again. Because the coins were not sent in the first place (Even if he's using old client that follows a wrong chain; when he switches to the new version, he will see that the transaction was not accepted and his coins are still in his wallet)

If your received coins are there, but your minted coins are lost : This is normal as your client announced the transactions to the wrong chain. But your coinage is not lost in this case (because your stake was just denied, nothing changes in your accounts). Just wait until it creates coinstake again, and you will receive the same amount.

Welp. I don't have any of my coins anymore. Even at 1.5 I don't have the same address as before. I lost all my transaction history too. I have 0 coins now  I only got my coins from mintpal and poloniex. I don't know if they'll give me coins again. Sigh. Such misfortune.

[stormia]

Hey everybody. I seem to have a problem with my wallet. I upgraded to the latest version (1. and when I opened it, I saw that I zero coins. I have 350k mintcoins and I don't know what happened to them. Anyone know the solution to this? Thank you very much.

Which version did you upgrade from, 1.6 or 1.7? First backup your wallet.dat just in case.

Please open debug console (Help -> Debug Window -> Console), and run "checkwallet" to see what it returns. It may be related to that if your previous wallet was on a wrong fork. If it reports missing/extra coins, you can run "repairwallet" there and it will resync your wallet with the downloaded blockchain.

I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.8. I'm back to 1.5 again because i was hoping that I'd get my coins back if I returned to the old version. I ran "checkwallet" and got this response: {
"wallet check passed" : true
}. Kinda sucks that I lost all my coins for some unknown reason >.<

1.5 and 1.6 are following a wrong chain. 1.7 update was mandatory.

Now, you have a few options;

If you received your coins while on 1.5 ; the transaction should be confirmed on both chains. So your coins should still be available. To be sure you can check your address with the block explorer. But; if the person that sent you the coins was also on the wrong chain, and his transaction contained invalid coins, then that transaction was not included in the main chain, because the main chain would reject it as it is invalid in the first place. You should contact your payer, and request he updates his client, and pays you again. Because the coins were not sent in the first place (Even if he's using old client that follows a wrong chain; when he switches to the new version, he will see that the transaction was not accepted and his coins are still in his wallet)

If your received coins are there, but your minted coins are lost : This is normal as your client announced the transactions to the wrong chain. But your coinage is not lost in this case (because your stake was just denied, nothing changes in your accounts). Just wait until it creates coinstake again, and you will receive the same amount.

Welp. I don't have any of my coins anymore. Even at 1.5 I don't have the same address as before. I lost all my transaction history too. I have 0 coins now   I only got my coins from mintpal and poloniex. I don't know if they'll give me coins again. Sigh. Such misfortune.

Do they show up at your address(es) on the blockchain? http://mint.blockx.info/get/chain/MintCoin

[litemaster]

Hey everybody. I seem to have a problem with my wallet. I upgraded to the latest version (1. and when I opened it, I saw that I zero coins. I have 350k mintcoins and I don't know what happened to them. Anyone know the solution to this? Thank you very much.

Which version did you upgrade from, 1.6 or 1.7? First backup your wallet.dat just in case.

Please open debug console (Help -> Debug Window -> Console), and run "checkwallet" to see what it returns. It may be related to that if your previous wallet was on a wrong fork. If it reports missing/extra coins, you can run "repairwallet" there and it will resync your wallet with the downloaded blockchain.

I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.8. I'm back to 1.5 again because i was hoping that I'd get my coins back if I returned to the old version. I ran "checkwallet" and got this response: {
"wallet check passed" : true
}. Kinda sucks that I lost all my coins for some unknown reason >.<

1.5 and 1.6 are following a wrong chain. 1.7 update was mandatory.

Now, you have a few options;

If you received your coins while on 1.5 ; the transaction should be confirmed on both chains. So your coins should still be available. To be sure you can check your address with the block explorer. But; if the person that sent you the coins was also on the wrong chain, and his transaction contained invalid coins, then that transaction was not included in the main chain, because the main chain would reject it as it is invalid in the first place. You should contact your payer, and request he updates his client, and pays you again. Because the coins were not sent in the first place (Even if he's using old client that follows a wrong chain; when he switches to the new version, he will see that the transaction was not accepted and his coins are still in his wallet)

If your received coins are there, but your minted coins are lost : This is normal as your client announced the transactions to the wrong chain. But your coinage is not lost in this case (because your stake was just denied, nothing changes in your accounts). Just wait until it creates coinstake again, and you will receive the same amount.

Welp. I don't have any of my coins anymore. Even at 1.5 I don't have the same address as before. I lost all my transaction history too. I have 0 coins now  I only got my coins from mintpal and poloniex. I don't know if they'll give me coins again. Sigh. Such misfortune.

It really sounds like your wallet.dat file got deleted or overwritten.  You did back up before you upgraded your wallet right? I sure hope so.... BACKUP ALWAYS!!!
Restore the backed up wallet.dat to C:\Users\"YOURUSERNAME"\AppData\Roaming\MintCoin\

If you don't have the same address it means that the wallet.dat file is not the same one you sent the coins to. IMHO.

[Beaverslayer]

Hey everybody. I seem to have a problem with my wallet. I upgraded to the latest version (1. and when I opened it, I saw that I zero coins. I have 350k mintcoins and I don't know what happened to them. Anyone know the solution to this? Thank you very much.

Which version did you upgrade from, 1.6 or 1.7? First backup your wallet.dat just in case.

Please open debug console (Help -> Debug Window -> Console), and run "checkwallet" to see what it returns. It may be related to that if your previous wallet was on a wrong fork. If it reports missing/extra coins, you can run "repairwallet" there and it will resync your wallet with the downloaded blockchain.

I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.8. I'm back to 1.5 again because i was hoping that I'd get my coins back if I returned to the old version. I ran "checkwallet" and got this response: {
"wallet check passed" : true
}. Kinda sucks that I lost all my coins for some unknown reason >.<

1.5 and 1.6 are following a wrong chain. 1.7 update was mandatory.

Now, you have a few options;

If you received your coins while on 1.5 ; the transaction should be confirmed on both chains. So your coins should still be available. To be sure you can check your address with the block explorer. But; if the person that sent you the coins was also on the wrong chain, and his transaction contained invalid coins, then that transaction was not included in the main chain, because the main chain would reject it as it is invalid in the first place. You should contact your payer, and request he updates his client, and pays you again. Because the coins were not sent in the first place (Even if he's using old client that follows a wrong chain; when he switches to the new version, he will see that the transaction was not accepted and his coins are still in his wallet)

If your received coins are there, but your minted coins are lost : This is normal as your client announced the transactions to the wrong chain. But your coinage is not lost in this case (because your stake was just denied, nothing changes in your accounts). Just wait until it creates coinstake again, and you will receive the same amount.

Welp. I don't have any of my coins anymore. Even at 1.5 I don't have the same address as before. I lost all my transaction history too. I have 0 coins now  I only got my coins from mintpal and poloniex. I don't know if they'll give me coins again. Sigh. Such misfortune.

Do you have an old wallet.dat file saved on a USB ir something? One that you had previously to upgrading your wallet?

If you do have this file, and have not used it yet to try and find your coins, then you are still able to get them back.

Save a copy of the wallet.dat file to your desktop, be sure it is one that you have not used before.

Then, click the Windows Start Button (lower left on screen) and in the text box type %appdata% just above where you typed this, a folder called Roaming will appear. Double click this folder and scroll down until you see the Mintcoin folder. Open this folder and delete everything in the folder, then close out and return to your desktop.

Now, click on the Mintcoin-QT.exe file be sure it is the newest version of the wallet 1.8 DO NOT USE 1.5
Once the wallet is opened and you can see that it is syncing with the network, close the wallet.

Now, go back and click the Windows Start button again, type %appdata% open the Roaming file, scroll to the Mintcoin file open it, then delete the wallet.dat file. Only this file needs to be deleted. Once you have deleted it, copy the wallet.dat file from your desktop and paste it into the Mintcoin folder. Restart the wallet and allow it to completely sync with the network, this will take a few hours.

If the wallet.dat file you used from a USB flash drive was not corrupted from trying to use it before, then your coins will be added back to your wallet once the wallet syncs completely.

[WALKEN-COIN]

It appears someone is pushing the price down on Mintpal. They use a 10 BTC chunk to push it downward. They hit the next lowest, then suddenly 10 BTC gets moved down 1 sat to fill the new spot. This implies they expect the price to rise enough to make buying that many worth while. I believe it may have to do with the rumors of a PoS android wallet incoming.

This also implies a pump&dump will be incoming as well. Could be low as 18-20 sats if they can't get a bigger pump going.

Edit: A pump and dump could actually be GOOD for everyone, as price will rise again and coins will then be spread out more. What the new holders do with the coins matters too.

[DougB62]

Well, I did my small part for the evening. Bought ~920,000 to push my small bag over 3M. It was a steal @12! 

[Kergekoin]

I like this MINT price at the moment. Gives newcomers fair change to buy.

[luuupooo]

Vote for Mintcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=572705.40

i think it is still open
voted

[makemebeat]

Guys, coins stayed in wallet already 40 days, but minting doesn't start, nothing hold and nothing "mined". WTF

What version wallet do you have?
How many coins do you have in the wallet?
How long do you leave the wallet open for each day?

1.7. It's not really neccessary to upgrade to 1.8.
I've got 3,5M.
How long it is open? What for I should leave it open? Coins were for months there and I didn't open wallet. Three days ago open, download blockchain, unlock it....and nothing.

[paspi]

Guys, coins stayed in wallet already 40 days, but minting doesn't start, nothing hold and nothing "mined". WTF

What version wallet do you have?
How many coins do you have in the wallet?
How long do you leave the wallet open for each day?

1.7. It's not really neccessary to upgrade to 1.8.
I've got 3,5M.
How long it is open? What for I should leave it open? Coins were for months there and I didn't open wallet. Three days ago open, download blockchain, unlock it....and nothing.

Keep your wallet unlocked and open for some time, it will eventually happen. It has to compete with the network to generate a stake

[paspi]

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Welp. I don't have any of my coins anymore. Even at 1.5 I don't have the same address as before. I lost all my transaction history too. I have 0 coins now  I only got my coins from mintpal and poloniex. I don't know if they'll give me coins again. Sigh. Such misfortune.

It sounded to me like you didn't backup your wallet.dat while upgrading (or didn't put the backed up file into the %appdata% folder before starting mint). If you have your wallet.dat anywhere on your computer (even if it's very old), you will be able to recover your coins. Close your wallet, copy your old wallet.dat into mintcoin's appdata folder, open mint, if you see your addresses but not coins, try "checkwallet".


If you got your coins from mintpal or poloniex, those exchanges are guaranteed to be on the correct chain, so you should have your coins in your address no matter what (even if you were on the incorrect chain while at 1.5, as sender was on the correct chain, the transactions would have been accepted in both chains). Still if you don't have your old wallet.dat, you cannot claim them

[Kergekoin]

Can you open your coin control features and sort by list and highest conformations?
Whats the amount of conformations on top entires and amounts in coins?
If you have over 60 000 conformations on top inputs and amount in coins is decent, then you will have your interest coins soon.

Minting icon is already implemented in pull request. We are waiting for merge from mintcointeam. This will provide more info when minting is active and estimated time for getting interest.

[David Latapie]

Is anyone using Pinterest? It will be extremely helpful to our campaign if we open a Pinterest board and follow the campaigns with the images as well. Please contact me either on this forum or by PM.

[5flags]

Just for information - I'm working on a Metro style (what we now have to call "Modern", sigh) app for the Windows desktop. It runs in client only mode (SPV). Although it will naturally target Bitcoin first, Mint and NXT are planned to follow.

I will need to enlist Minters for dogfooding when we are ready.