[ANN][INK] INKcoin - Launched! SHAvite-3 Hash, NO PRE-M! CPU minable

[coolisbad]

Ok, I found a way to get rid of the 0/unconfirmed transactions and recover the stuck funds using a python script: pywallet fork by jackjack (original pywallet by Joric)

How to recover the inkcoins stuck in 0/unconfirmed transactions

First, you need to install python 2.7 (if you don't have it) and add a few extensions (instructions below are reproduced from pywallet git readme by jackjack)

Debian-based Linux (not tested by me, best of luck to you)

 aptitude install build-essential python-dev python-twisted python-bsddb3

Mac OS X (not tested by me, best of luck to you)[/b]

 1. Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/
 2. sudo port install python27 py27-twisted py27-pip py-bsddb python_select
 3. sudo port select --set python python27
 4. sudo easy_install ecdsa

Windows (tested by me and confirmed)

 1. Install Python 2.7

 2. Install Twisted for Py2.7 from here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads

 3. Install Zope.Interface for Py2.7 like this

(either) 3.1 The easy way (tested by me and confirmed) proposed by TeaRex on github: install Zope.Interface from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs

(or) 3.2 The hard way: If this (3.1) doesn't work, you will have to install the egg file (not tested by me, best of luck to you)
   

• Go to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows to download ez_setup.py
• Run ez_setup.py
• Go to C:\Python27\Scripts
• Run easy_install.py zope.interface-3.6.4-py2.7-win-amd64.egg

 4. Then follow these instructions by the good fellow jackjack:

Ultimate way to delete your forever unconfirmed transactions

• Backup your wallet just in case
• Download Pywallet
• Run './pywallet.py --web'
• Go to http://localhost:8989 in your browser
• Fill the Delete form like this:
  
  
  • Wallet Directory: /your/wallet/directory
  • Wallet Filename: yourwalletfilename
  • Key: all
  • Type: leave 'Transaction'
  
  
• Click the Delete button
• Run 'inkcoin-qt -rescan' (quote edited by coolisbad for inkcoin)
• Done, no more unconfirmed tx's

Word of warning: Be careful if the wallet asks you for a transaction fee, this might be the sign for a transaction that will get stuck on 0/unconfirmed forever. The only transaction that got stuck for me was this one, and it asked me for a transaction fee of 0.0001 due to the amount. This is _not_ normal behavior for this inkcoin wallet, since the other txes didn't need a tx fee. I retried the tx now and it didn't asked for a tx fee plus it got confirmations from the network.

Well, good luck everyone.  

If you manage to save your stuck coin and you feel overwhelmed with gratitude, my INK address is 19bejcmxqexAhpDmBmHCK7vGeFCAi7azq5
But mostly send the gratitude to jackjack and joric. Gratitude is always appreciated.

[tabnk]

Any news developer would like to let know about INK adoption and future usage ? .

[kaene]

Anyone with the 0/unconfirmed problem, just start ur wallet with -salvagewallet parameter.

Happened to me too, but with 15300 INK. I tried various things: restarting wallet, exporting and importing private key (usually worked for me in such cases, but not here), -salvagewallet (2/3 of my remaining money disappeared, fortunately I had a backup), but couldn't get the INKs back. Finally after a while I solo-mined a block and then this transaction got included in this block and sent to the network. Hope you get a happy ending as well.

[coolisbad]

Anyone with the 0/unconfirmed problem, just start ur wallet with -salvagewallet parameter.

@kaene: Did you not read what was posted before?

Happened to me too, but with 15300 INK. I tried various things: restarting wallet, exporting and importing private key (usually worked for me in such cases, but not here), -salvagewallet (2/3 of my remaining money disappeared, fortunately I had a backup), but couldn't get the INKs back. Finally after a while I solo-mined a block and then this transaction got included in this block and sent to the network. Hope you get a happy ending as well.

[cryptobuddy]

Speaking of the wallet.

I just sent 3800 INK 7 hours ago, and the wallet show this:

Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 2/26/2014 14:47
To: [private]
Debit: -3800.00 INK
Transaction fee: -0.0001 INK
Net amount: -3800.0001 INK
Transaction ID: fc653b2bbe859c01b5393406587da0aab92b6a26b6ad6547d35ee6ec53c1c1c8

And that TX ID doesn't show in the blockchain.

Did the wallet just robbed me of 3800 INK? That would be fun...

I just wonder whether in this case, the INK coins in this transaction are generated from a wrong (forked) blockchain. Because InkCoin can be minted quickly, we can easily generate a separate (forked) blockchain if a wallet has not been fully synchronized, especially for those starting up a new wallet with gen=1 in the conf file.
If these early "wrong blockchain" coins are sent out, one will never get any confirmation from the real "correct" blockchain network.  

[tabnk]

INK INK all the way .

[BChydro]

@coolisbad
Same here, I did a test transaction for 50 INK and it's unconfirmed since few days already. This is the 1st bug.
2nd bug is mining with the official windows wallet - I've lost ~50k INK (first hours of INK), because the fresh mined coins had Immature status and never been confirmed. Once I've restarted machines - they disappeared forever...
3rd bug is the official windows wallet likes to freeze after hours of working, I mean it looks it works, but sending "getinfo" command (in console) shows wallet is stopped on some block and won't download/synchronize, even if there's ~120 connections.
Good news is... I've compiled the linux version and it doesn't have these problems.

Wait, you seriously think your 50k INK disappearing was a bug? When this coin launched it was a frenzy, you were obviously mining your own orphan chain. Happened to a couple of my rigs on launch night.

[turint]

Don't you get it -- when the difficulty skyrockets like this, more and more unconfirmed transactions will appear. Confirmation in the network is partially based on finding new blocks. When nobody finds new blocks (or just several are found in a day... or a week) the transactions will take ages to finish. Dif 4096 is already insanely high, now the average time new coin in mined in the network is 660 minutes (11 hours). Just imagine wat will happen when the diffculty suddenly jumps to 16384 just after some 200 blocks...

And after that even if we get diff down readjustment (not just up like now) it's all lost because we have to wait another 10080 blocks to hope for 4096 again... and if the diff goes up again, it will be 65536... which is totally sick.

Unless the dev does something co correct this, this coin is doomed. And I mean not only it will be impossible to mine, but also will have no value -- because who would want to use a coin that has transaction confirmation period of... let's say several weeks... for at least 6 transaction confirmations.

[miningcrew]

Dif 4096 is already insanely high, now the average time new coin in mined in the network is 660 minutes (11 hours). Just imagine wat will happen when the diffculty suddenly jumps to 16384 just after some 200 blocks...

It is rather around 7 minutes at the moment:

82452 date=2014-02-27 07:46:43
82453 date=2014-02-27 07:53:58

[turint]

It is rather around 7 minutes at the moment:

82452 date=2014-02-27 07:46:43
82453 date=2014-02-27 07:53:58

Ok, my mistake. But still the trend is visible.

[tabnk]

Let's see what happen when it reach next exchange !!!

[tabnk]

{
"blocks" : 82534,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 4096.00000000,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[tabnk]

We need more miner !!!!!!

[kekaocc]

Why today coins do not send out
0 confirmation, sending several times like this

[turint]

Why today coins do not send out
0 confirmation, sending several times like this

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=481516.msg5401106#msg5401106

[turint]

Let's see what happen when it reach next exchange !!!

And what do you expect to happen? Excanges are not the problem here...

[coolisbad]

Why today coins do not send out
0 confirmation, sending several times like this

First, recover your coin stuck in 0/unconfirmed transactions (see above https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=481516.msg5394412#msg5394412)

Then try sending in chunks, without completly emptying the wallet

[kekaocc]

Finally put my coins successfully sent   

[Little_boo]

why difficulty fix on 4096?

[phm]

If there are people interested in reanimating this coin I could share a GPU miner for a small bounty. I have 44 MH/s on R9 290, so beating 4096 difficulty should not be a problem.