[ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin"

[ryanb]

Well my question is where can I buy CLAM and withdraw with no problems?

I've used poloniex with good success (I didn't have to wait upon withdrawal).  I was only selling though, I didn't try to buy there.

Bought all my CLAM from poloniex and I had no issues.

[dooglus]

SuperClam recently pointed me at a program called bitcoin-seeder. It spiders the Bitcoin p2p network to collect a list of peers that accept incoming connections, and it runs as a DNS server which produces a list of Bitcoin peer IPs. People run it on various servers, and the domain names of those servers are hard-coded into the Bitcoin client so that the client can find peers to connect to the first time it is run.

Until now the CLAM client has taken a simpler route - it has a hardcoded list of CLAM client IP addresses which it attempts to connect to. The problem with that is that clients go on and offline, change IP addresses, get full up, etc. and so it would be better to use the Bitcoin approach.

I modified bitcoin-seeder to spider the CLAM network. My changes are on the clam branch in my fork on github.

So now we need a few people to build and run that code on servers with high availability.

Code:

# grab a copy of the code
git clone https://github.com/dooglus/bitcoin-seeder.git

# change directory to where the code is
cd bitcoin-seeder

# switch to the CLAM version
git checkout clam

# build the program
make

# run the program
./dnsseed -h seed.DOMAIN -n DOMAIN

# enable the program to listen on port 53
sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' dnsseed

where DOMAIN is the domain name for the server.

Then add a subdomain DNS record, type NS, for subdomain 'seed', pointing back to your domain.

Then looking up seed.DOMAIN should return a list of IP addresses for CLAM nodes.

If you get it up and running please tell me the domain name it's at and I'll add it to the CLAM client's list of seed nodes.

[dooglus]

Well my question is where can I buy CLAM and withdraw with no problems?

I always use poloniex. That's where the vast majority of on-exchange CLAM trading happens.

See http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/clams/#markets for a list of the exchange markets and their sizes.

[jd1959]

Just gonna keep on posting that my "pending withdraw" from Cryptsy is about 24 hours old and still a no show. Not even a reply from support about the ticket that is open. Cryptsy is so unprofessional.

You do not trade any POS coin on Craptsy they are too busy staking your coins for you to withdraw them.... I just will not trade there at all, having said that each to there own

Jon

[stoner19]

Updated bootstrap for anyone who needs it: http://www.filedropper.com/clam-bootstrap. Should sync you to block 573350.

[Splatters]

my wallet is stuck 51 weeks left. any working node?

[chilly2k]

my wallet is stuck 51 weeks left. any working node?

 http://blocktree.io/peers/CLAM/
  
   Shows currently active nodes.  Also the op lists some nodes.  Also there is a bootstrap file mentioned a page back by Dooglus.  That will get you up to speed quicker. 

[Edkemper]

my wallet is stuck 51 weeks left. any working node?

you have to wait longer and it will sync, I had same problem 2 weeks ago

[dooglus]

my wallet is stuck 51 weeks left. any working node?

 http://blocktree.io/peers/CLAM/
  
   Shows currently active nodes.  Also the op lists some nodes.  Also there is a bootstrap file mentioned a page back by Dooglus.  That will get you up to speed quicker. 

Look up the IP address of seed.clams.xyz and clam.just-dice.com. They should both resolve to a list of IP addresses that are currently running CLAM nodes that are accepting incoming connections:

On Windows:



On Linux:

[almightyruler]

my wallet is stuck 51 weeks left. any working node?

 http://blocktree.io/peers/CLAM/
  
   Shows currently active nodes.  Also the op lists some nodes.  Also there is a bootstrap file mentioned a page back by Dooglus.  That will get you up to speed quicker. 

Look up the IP address of seed.clams.xyz and clam.just-dice.com. They should both resolve to a list of IP addresses that are currently running CLAM nodes that are accepting incoming connections:

Why not just do this? From a quick look at the source it seems the client will properly handle a DNS lookup with multiple A records in the reply.

addnode=seed.clams.xyz
addnode=clam.just-dice.com

[SebastianJu]

Uggghhh I can't get my address off the phone,  I can't see it.

The wallet keeps saying "Dogecoin wallet has stopped working" when I try to edit to see the whole address

Maybe I should just forget trying to get clams from that.

Thats a problem with many wallets, especially for smartphones. They try to make it simple for the average user but make it annoying for experienced ones.

I dont like the mindset behind. At least it should have a pro checkbox.

[Guns1inger]

Uggghhh I can't get my address off the phone,  I can't see it.

The wallet keeps saying "Dogecoin wallet has stopped working" when I try to edit to see the whole address

Maybe I should just forget trying to get clams from that.

Thats a problem with many wallets, especially for smartphones. They try to make it simple for the average user but make it annoying for experienced ones.

I dont like the mindset behind. At least it should have a pro checkbox.

Well I finally was able to view one address and I "dug" it in JustDice.. turns out I do have clams!
So I might have more than I think from other change addresses..

Now I just have to figure out how to get or "backup" the file off the phone,  what a pain. 

[Splatters]

thanks, it's syncing very slowly 20 weeks left now, I was soooooo back

[SuperClam]

Uggghhh I can't get my address off the phone,  I can't see it.
The wallet keeps saying "Dogecoin wallet has stopped working" when I try to edit to see the whole address
Maybe I should just forget trying to get clams from that.

Thats a problem with many wallets, especially for smartphones. They try to make it simple for the average user but make it annoying for experienced ones.
I dont like the mindset behind. At least it should have a pro checkbox.

Well I finally was able to view one address and I "dug" it in JustDice.. turns out I do have clams!
So I might have more than I think from other change addresses..
Now I just have to figure out how to get or "backup" the file off the phone,  what a pain.  

It can indeed be a pain; especially for certain wallet software which doesn't provide easy access to keys.

Thankfully, there is a ~12$ USD incentive per distribution eligible address to help motivate you

[bfisher1968]

I just downloaded the 1.4.13 windows 64bit wallet and its syncing pretty fast, but its only connected to 1 active connection. This is after filling the clam.conf with a list of active nodes. What am I doing wrong?

[tspacepilot]

Uggghhh I can't get my address off the phone,  I can't see it.

The wallet keeps saying "Dogecoin wallet has stopped working" when I try to edit to see the whole address

Maybe I should just forget trying to get clams from that.

Thats a problem with many wallets, especially for smartphones. They try to make it simple for the average user but make it annoying for experienced ones.

I dont like the mindset behind. At least it should have a pro checkbox.

Well I finally was able to view one address and I "dug" it in JustDice.. turns out I do have clams!
So I might have more than I think from other change addresses..

Now I just have to figure out how to get or "backup" the file off the phone,  what a pain. 

That's good news.  Also, keep in mind that many of the mobile wallets (especially from a few years ago) tended to use the sending address as the change address so you may not have many in there (or you may, IDK).  If your phone is rooted then it shouldn't be too hard to at least get the data files from the app pulled.  Then you'll have to see what format they're in.  I've played around quite a bit on android phones so send me a PM if you need advice.

Good luck!

[dooglus]

Why not just do this? From a quick look at the source it seems the client will properly handle a DNS lookup with multiple A records in the reply.

addnode=seed.clams.xyz
addnode=clam.just-dice.com

What does it do with the multiple records? I guessed it would only use one of them for each addnode, but I could be wrong.

[almightyruler]

Why not just do this? From a quick look at the source it seems the client will properly handle a DNS lookup with multiple A records in the reply.

addnode=seed.clams.xyz
addnode=clam.just-dice.com

What does it do with the multiple records? I guessed it would only use one of them for each addnode, but I could be wrong.

This is the bit that stuck out in net.cpp (particularly the second line about multiple IPs if DNS is enabled)

        // Attempt to connect to each IP for each addnode entry until at least one is successful per addnode entry
        // (keeping in mind that addnode entries can have many IPs if fNameLookup)

I get a bit lost in C++ code full of classes, vectors and BOOST_*, so I cannot confirm if the code actually does as I have presumed, however, even if it only uses the first IP, most DNS servers rotate multiple records in their reply, so the client would still use at least one random IP for each addnode.

[dooglus]

        // Attempt to connect to each IP for each addnode entry until at least one is successful per addnode entry
        // (keeping in mind that addnode entries can have many IPs if fNameLookup)

I get a bit lost in C++ code full of classes, vectors and BOOST_*, so I cannot confirm if the code actually does as I have presumed, however, even if it only uses the first IP, most DNS servers rotate multiple records in their reply, so the client would still use at least one random IP for each addnode.

It looks to me as if the code does what the comment says it will do: only connect to one IP address from each addnode entry. That should be enough though.

[bfisher1968]

Still only have 1 active connection. If this is the norm, CLAM looks more centralized then decentralized.

I just downloaded the 1.4.13 windows 64bit wallet and its syncing pretty fast, but its only connected to 1 active connection. This is after filling the clam.conf with a list of active nodes. What am I doing wrong?