[ANN]Donationcoin (DON) | Revival | Cryptopia | Scrypt PoW

[Jamil.Kamil]

Donationcoin sound supper cool.....

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[CryptoCanary]

I'm looking to set up a donationcoin node, but I can't get any connections.  Could someone list some active nodes?

I have three connections:

{
"addr" : "188.165.2.147:11060",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1426957883,
"lastrecv" : 1426957884,
"bytessent" : 3021239,
"bytesrecv" : 6712213,
"blocksrequested" : 910,
"conntime" : 1426542429,
"version" : 70006,
"subver" : "/Donationcoin Digital Wallet:1.3.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 433148,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "85.236.188.213:11060",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1426957847,
"lastrecv" : 1426957883,
"bytessent" : 555631,
"bytesrecv" : 268748,
"blocksrequested" : 753,
"conntime" : 1426868183,
"version" : 70006,
"subver" : "/Donationcoin Digital Wallet:1.3.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 437429,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "86.8.191.123:11060",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1426957884,
"lastrecv" : 1426957080,
"bytessent" : 40492,
"bytesrecv" : 95819,
"blocksrequested" : 0,
"conntime" : 1426937374,
"version" : 70006,
"subver" : "/Donationcoin Digital Wallet:1.3.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 439345,
"banscore" : 0
}

I hope that helps!

[CryptoCanary]

As Graham said, this is a p2p community and I think it's on us members of the DON community who think its a project worth keeping to step up and do something about the situation. DON is effectively dead and has been for months. The website has been down for more than a month. The FB tipping app was a small handful of people passing around the same few coins. The whole "donation" aspect of this coin has been forgotten and literally nothing at all has been done since DEV abandoned us for his shiny new project which is also dying.

Even with the massive pre-mine this coin held promise but the lack of support from DEV and community killed it. I would be willing to take over hosting the website and block explorer on my own existing servers. I will also see what can be done about adding new pools and exchanges so we can get something going on here again. I will make contact with Spencer and Steven so we can work out the remaining issues and see if DON can either be revived or properly put to rest.

Is anyone still mining DON somewhere?

Thank you kindly for the offer on hosting affordableweb. That might be a game changer for Donationcoin's livelihood.

Judging by the difficulty, I do not think any pools are in. Some days lately, like today, I solo mine some (7 so far) blocks with only a CPU (~5 kh/s).

I will talk more with you and Spencer privately but, I did want to publicly thank you for stepping up! Very kind of you and I can see the "donation" aspect is alive in you and I commend you for that!

[Chris Sokolowski]

I have three connections:

I hope that helps!

Thank you so much!  I'm connected now.   

[reftop123]

Forked? 

[CryptoCanary]

Forked?  

No, there has been no fork. Are you having an issue?

[reftop123]

Forked?  

No, there has been no fork. Are you having an issue?

I have different amount in same wallet at home and at work.

[CryptoCanary]

Forked?  

No, there has been no fork. Are you having an issue?

I have different amount in same wallet at home and at work.

If they are both synced, you might try redownloading the blockchain. Perhaps on the wallet you think has the wrong balance.

[reftop123]

I was thinking about this.

[CryptoCanary]

I was thinking about this.

Any luck? Glad to try and assist, if there are any further problems!

[reftop123]

I was thinking about this.

Any luck? Glad to try and assist, if there are any further problems!

I copied chain from work (with more coins) to home computer, and this works until i shutdown home pc. Wallet accepted new solo mined coins (mined at work to wallet running at work). Next day home wallet synced and miss all "night" coins.

Now no sync at all. Peers from this page not helping.

[gjhiggins]

Now no sync at all. Peers from this page not helping.

It took a while but I finally managed to track down a sync node:

Code:

{
"addr" : "188.165.2.147:11060",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1428762813,
"lastrecv" : 1428762813,
"bytessent" : 1268,
"bytesrecv" : 6643,
"blocksrequested" : 0,
"conntime" : 1428762813,
"version" : 70006,
"subver" : "/Donationcoin Digital Wallet:1.3.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 463090,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
}

Donationcoin is still listed on Bleutrade: https://bleutrade.com/exchange/DON/BTC but, judging by the trading history, they're stuck at 463090 (23:16:04 10-04-2015) along with everyone else.

I have “successfully” (i.e. synced up to 463090) a couple of nodes, I've set one to CPU mining but it's unlikely to make much difference.

addnode=85.10.194.50
addnode=5.9.56.229

Looks like there are now 10 nodes forming the network, getpeerinfo returns the following nodes and block heights:

Code:

"addr" : "188.165.2.147:11060",
"startingheight" : 463090,
"syncnode" : true

"addr" : "85.10.194.50:11060",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "94.209.33.80:56698",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "71.175.81.45:11060",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "74.5.145.156:59211",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "37.145.59.106:61328",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "213.107.69.133:59465",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "115.78.129.91:50091",
"startingheight" : 296683,

"addr" : "5.9.56.229:41040",
"startingheight" : 463090,

"addr" : "83.104.61.47:35493",
"startingheight" : 463090,

In another window, Abe is reading DON blocks into the db. I'll advise when the block explorer is accessible. It might throw some light on the hiatus.

Block explorer now accessible: https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/Donationcoin


Cheers

Graham

[reftop123]

Resyncing now from zero. 4 nodes connected.

UPD. Done. Stuck at 463090.

[reftop123]

Full sync now.

[reftop123]

Today we even have some volume on bleutrade! 

[gjhiggins]

I'm very disappointed to discover that the level of support that this coin is receiving from the devs is now zero.

The coin logistics have deteriorated to the extent that the community's collective ownership of the coin and the functioning of the blockchain is now actively hindered.

http://donation-coin.org

This Domain Name Has Expired

Our DNS Seeds are triple mirrored and have full DDoS Protection

Code:

dnsseed.donation-coin.org
dnsseed2.donation-coin.org
dnsseed3.donation-coin.org

This Domain Name Has Expired

4,500,000 Donationcoins (25% of Premine) will be used for further development of Donationcoin.

http://explorer.donation-coin.org:81/address/LcG9Vr4WyeyfQVEq8zPLQBDxW1kWvVU6mF

This Domain Name Has Expired

Click to Download the Donationcoin International Press Release

Code:

The file you are trying to download is no longer available.

“We are on Swisscex, Bleutrade & CoinNext”

Actually: “We are on Swisscex, Bleutrade & CoinNext”

http://pool.donation-coin.org/

This Domain Name Has Expired

http://don.multicoinpool.net/
http://don.maxpool.in
http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=don

None of the listed mining pools offer mining of DonationCoin

FB

Donationcoin
4 September 2014 ·
The Donationcoin Block Explorer will be back up. We have been moving IP addresses about and DNS settings have been altered. It will be back soon.

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Donate a cent, Develop the next Revolutionary social network (fundanything.com)
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Donationcoin Cryptocurrency
Shared publicly  -  24 Jun 2014
 
Donationcoin Digital Wallet Version 1.3 Released

THIS IS A MANDATORY UPDATE

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Donationcoin (DON)
The Official Cryptocurrency of International Charities
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Sterlingcoin @SterlingcoinSLG  ·  Feb 10
A new #Cystum is coming.....

SterlingCoin is also languishing somewhat, so it's difficult to come to any conclusion other than the devs have effectively abandoned DonationCoin, pretty much exactly as I expected.

Is there anyone subscribed to this thread and connected to the original launch or devs who would care to comment on the future of the 25%  premine?

I note several commentators have criticized the amount of the premine, it's been a millstone around the coin's neck for some time. To continue to simply sit on the premine and allow the coin to languish seems rather truculently counterproductive.

In consequence, it's also difficult to find a rationale for continuing to devote resources to a coin where the devs maintain a dog-in-the-manger deathgrip on the resources, effectively undermining any community-based development of the coin.

All three devs clearly had the best of intentions, PoD, doxed, etc. and I fully sympathise with the stresses caused by other demands but it is long past time to grasp the nettle and for the community to be allowed to take over the coin in its entirety, including the premine.

In the absence of a (reasonable) resolution, I shall probably shut down our node and remove DON from Minkiz block explorer https://minkiz.co/abe/address/LcG9Vr4WyeyfQVEq8zPLQBDxW1kWvVU6mF. (I dunno why exchanges insist on a block explorer, the information can be obtained from RPC.)


Cheers

Graham

[gjhiggins]

Bump.

[gjhiggins]

[ANN] Donationcoin escapes the stigma of its coingen origins.

I got a bit narked with the default datadir setting that DON inherited from its coingen origins, so I re-integrated the Donationcoin codebase back into the Litecoin 0.8.6.2 commit history:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/donationcoin

Full commit details (i.e. difference from Litecoin 0.8.6.2) listed here:

https://github.com/gjhiggins/donationcoin/commits/donationcoin

Optional next steps are to merge-upgrade the 0.8.6.2 codebase to the latest Litecoin master and then add some (by now, fairly standard) features such as in-wallet IRC (to facilitate support for those who find bitcointalk just too poisonous an environment), a plot of difficulty and networkhashps, an intro splash that offers the user some support for choosing a custom datadir. etc. None of these features requires a hard fork, they can just be used. The Qt presentation and the UX could also be improved by adapting an “improved GUI” from one of the more recent altcoin launches.

Why?

Because the writing is on the FinCEN wall (http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html) ...

A final type of convertible virtual currency activity involves a de-centralized convertible virtual currency (1) that has no central repository and no single administrator, and (2) that persons may obtain by their own computing or manufacturing effort.

We need to work out a means by which the premine (currently held by Spencer, AIUI) can be owned and controlled by the community, ditto for the private component of the keypair that is used to authorise the sending of broadcast CAlert messages. Same problem, could be the same solution.

The implications for a more determined approach to de-centralisation tend to play out in terms of ownership and control, it's not that a “Foundation” is ruled out, it's just that it can't be allowed to take decisions about the coin, merely provide support and possibly a contact point.

My sense is that all this orients around wallet-based services, that's the only safe place to be in terms of a supportable approach to maintaining full decentralisation and avoiding being asphyxiated by regulation (stregulated?).

I'm prepared to spend a fair amount of time thrashing round for solutions, it's a fundamental issue (IMO) and will be worth the effort. And it would be nice to actually see a charitable ethos emerging. I'll rephrase that: it would be useful (in terms of adoption and publicity) to see a charitable ethos emerging, one can only hope it'll be strong enough for the (bone idle) media to habitually turn to it as a counter-example to the avalanche of scam.

Perhaps we might consider a long running jump and grab to a Bitcoin Core 0.1X series implementation?

fwiw, there's a block explorer for Donationcoin on: https://minkiz.co/abe/chain/Donationcoin.

Cheers

Graham

Edit: added Abe URL

[CryptoCanary]

It seems we were stuck on block 598618 for a long time. My rig is only operating at about 40% but, I finally got it! 

Also, so the community is aware, I have been trying to contact the owners of the donationcoin.org domain to no avail. Personally, I don't like the "-" in donation-coin.org but perhaps the donation-coin.org domain should be retained just for historic sake and to avoid having to contact numerous sites to update. Any thoughts?

I do aim to resurrect Donationcoin. I have been in contact with Spencer about the premine. It has not changed hands as of now. I would of course inform the community when this happens.

I do have immediate plans to get a website back up and reestablish the presence of Donationcoin. I am trying to rally the troops and see who is still in support of Donationcoin. I know it has been deathly silent here and I do apologize for that. Let us change that, and the destiny of Donationcoin, for the better. Who is with me?

[gjhiggins]

It seems we were stuck on block 598618 for a long time. My rig is only operating at about 40% but, I finally got it!  

Also, so the community is aware, I have been trying to contact the owners of the donationcoin.org domain to no avail. Personally, I don't like the "-" in donation-coin.org but perhaps the donation-coin.org domain should be retained just for historic sake and to avoid having to contact numerous sites to update. Any thoughts?

“Having to contact numerous sites to update” offers a valuable opportunity to advertise to site-owners that Donationcoin is alive and kicking.

I do aim to resurrect Donationcoin. I have been in contact with Spencer about the premine. It has not changed hands as of now. I would of course inform the community when this happens.

Given that the usual complaint about a premine is that the owner could potentially destabilise the market, I'm wondering whether the best policy for an unspent premine for a coin of this maturity and illiquidity might be simply to burn the lot.

I do have immediate plans to get a website back up and reestablish the presence of Donationcoin. I am trying to rally the troops and see who is still in support of Donationcoin. I know it has been deathly silent here and I do apologize for that. Let us change that, and the destiny of Donationcoin, for the better. Who is with me?

It's also been deathly silent because no-one else has spoken up, either. Let's not lose sight of the fact that this is a p2p app and no peers == no app.

I have a lightweight RPC-based explorer (Acme *), which is also configured to track Donationcoin, it reports that there are 8 active nodes.

In addition to Acme, I also host an instance of Abe (reads the blockfile directly so can't be faked out by hacked RPC code)

I'd only just disabled Donationcoin under Abe yesterday, having concluded (prematurely, it would seem) that there was no interest in developing the coin further.

I've turned it back on again: https://minkiz.co/abe/chains *

Thanks for posting this and for your efforts in revitalising the app.


Cheers

Graham

* self-signed SSL cert, CA cert, DYR: archive.org