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

[dooglus]

The resulting signed tx can be broadcast with https://just-dice.com/pushtx, correct? Because, with a first attempt, I just got "Error: TX rejected" as reply. I think it should be possible to try broadcasting a tx with made-up data; the network would then sort them out (I used the signed tx from the example here in this thread.

Oh, and before I try with live data: The amount value is given in fractions, like 3.5 and not in the Satoshi-equivalent of 350000000 right? Not that I create a big fee

https://just-dice.com/pushtx can be used to broadcast transactions, yes.

You can use 'decoderawtransaction' to check that you have everything correct.

Values are in CLAMs not satoshis.

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[dooglus]

I am working on a simple website where people can check their bitcoin address for an altcoin balance. I currently have it working for Bitcoin cash, Gold, Bitcore and Byteball.

Is there any way to find out if a bitcoin address contains Clams? I guess I could check the bitcoin blockchain if an address contained bitcoin at block 300377, but I haven't found a way to confirm that the claims have not been claimed. Any suggestions?

The website is at btcdiv.com

To convert from BTC address to CLAM address, base58 decode the address, replace the initial 0x00 version byte with 0x89, and base58 encode the result.

The first 10k blocks of the CLAM blockchain funds all the addresses so you can make a list of them all. Then you can use "validateoutputs" RPC to check whether individual outputs have been spent or not.

[Thirdspace]

To convert from BTC address to CLAM address, base58 decode the address, replace the initial 0x00 version byte with 0x89, and base58 encode the result.

I think he already figured it out, I checked his site a few days ago and clams share shown correctly.

https://just-dice.com/pushtx can be used to broadcast transactions, yes.

I was wondering... can I create raw tx by handmade manually and use unsynced clams client to sign it?
what I mean by handmade is by using 'createrawtransaction' and supplying parameter based on data I get from explorer
would the wallet qt accepts and create the hex even if the inputs are not seen locally in my wallet?
and then use just-dice pushtx to broadcast it to the network? or can I broadcast it myself with my unsynced wallet?
next step... I might even try to create/fork coinb.in for clams if it is possible 
thanks in advance for your answers

[cryptoross]

There many exchanges where CLAM wallets not works for long time (few weeks)! It is Polonex, Cryptopia, YoBit.
As well, CLAM delisted from integrated in coinomi exchange and You Can't exchange on ShapeShift CLAM anymore! No any comments from support.
Not any explanation I can found anywhere!
All of this is really scary signs!!
I am Experienced crypto  investor and trader and can tell you, that CLAM developers, have to do something ASAP!
Because it is close to critical time average investor patience . SOON people will lost they trust and start too DUMP CLAM! Only this year Same signs was
with: VPN coin, Shadow cach ,Club,IXCoin,Pkb, so I dump them after few weeks of unstable works, just to save my money. I have to dump BEFORE price  is dramatically down!
I really like CLAM and hold it since it start, but I can't afford to lose money!
So, I hope the  CLAM team will do something about situation and post here some updates about progress with exchanges.

[DGulari]

There many exchanges where CLAM wallets not works for long time (few weeks)! It is Polonex, Cryptopia, YoBit.
As well, CLAM delisted from integrated in coinomi exchange and You Can't exchange on ShapeShift CLAM anymore! No any comments from support.
Not any explanation I can found anywhere!
All of this is really scary signs!!
I am Experienced crypto  investor and trader and can tell you, that CLAM developers, have to do something ASAP!
Because it is close to critical time average investor patience . SOON people will lost they trust and start too DUMP CLAM! Only this year Same signs was
with: VPN coin, Shadow cach ,Club,IXCoin,Pkb, so I dump them after few weeks of unstable works, just to save my money. I have to dump BEFORE price  is dramatically down!
I really like CLAM and hold it since it start, but I can't afford to lose money!
So, I hope the  CLAM team will do something about situation and post here some updates about progress with exchanges.

I would agree with almost of your post. I'm also one of clam investors. Dooglus has said this before

I tried contacting Poloniex a year or so ago when they were showing that message. They never replied. I think it's just a generic canned text message and doesn't mean they really want anyone's help.

[BayAreaCoins]

You must do something with this, Clam dev.

  CLAM is currently under maintenance or experiencing wallet/network issues. Deposits and withdrawals will remain disabled until a solution is found, which may require an update from the CLAM team. Any updates must be tested and audited before enabling.

Source :  Poloniex.

I tried contacting Poloniex a year or so ago when they were showing that message. They never replied. I think it's just a generic canned text message and doesn't mean they really want anyone's help.

I've contacted them... thus far no response.

I contacted them before they put the message up.

[BayAreaCoins]

There many exchanges where CLAM wallets not works for long time (few weeks)! It is Polonex, Cryptopia, YoBit.
As well, CLAM delisted from integrated in coinomi exchange and You Can't exchange on ShapeShift CLAM anymore! No any comments from support.
Not any explanation I can found anywhere!
All of this is really scary signs!!
I am Experienced crypto  investor and trader and can tell you

You know that Shapeshift plugs into Poloniex and Poloniex fucking sucks.

Not sure what the deal is with the Coinomi shit... I've not followed their stuff at all even though they get a fair bit of CLAM traffic from FreeBitcoins.com

YoBit is scammers.

Not sure about Cryptopia either... only found them not long ago.

[gjhiggins]

There many exchanges where CLAM wallets not works for long time (few weeks)! It is Polonex, Cryptopia, YoBit.

I'll ask the obvious question ... are any subscribers to this thread experiencing issues with the CLAMs wallet?

Cheers

Graham

[jflowers]

Signing / Verify an address to claim my clams.

I have some old paperwallets that are still in use, so I'd rather not expose any information outside of a signed message, using an offline computer running brainwallet software.

However, I open the software, change the network to CLAM, and then sign a very basic message - it is during the verification process on my QT client that I get a verification failure error.

I have even performed this in 'reverse'.  Basically signing a message on the QT client, just to be sure that the data elements that I'm using are in fact correct.  Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Running The CLAM Client v.1.4.17 (aka QT client).

[jackjackfly]

Are they still giving free CLAMs?

[BayAreaCoins]

Are they still giving free CLAMs?

yes, forever.

[Yanakitu Tenatako]

Maybe it is obvious, but not to me...

How can I encrypt my wallet with clams.
I am considering security issues.

Tnx

[BayAreaCoins]

Maybe it is obvious, but not to me...

How can I encrypt my wallet with clams.
I am considering security issues.

Tnx

You can't stake with an encrypted wallet FYI.

[Yanakitu Tenatako]

TY BayAreaCoins.

Still I am concerned about open wallet issues.

[BayAreaCoins]

TY BayAreaCoins.

Still I am concerned about open wallet issues.

Then encrypt it

[dooglus]

I was wondering... can I create raw tx by handmade manually and use unsynced clams client to sign it?

I believe so.

what I mean by handmade is by using 'createrawtransaction' and supplying parameter based on data I get from explorer
would the wallet qt accepts and create the hex even if the inputs are not seen locally in my wallet?

Yes. You can supply information about unknown transactions in the 2nd argument to 'signrawtransaction'.

and then use just-dice pushtx to broadcast it to the network? or can I broadcast it myself with my unsynced wallet?

I tried doing this earlier today with the dogecoin client. Someone had converted their Just-Dice CLAM deposit address to a DOGE address and sent some DOGE there, thinking for some reason that the site would convert it to CLAMs. What happened was nothing, and the DOGE just sat there. He made a ticket asking for them back, and I was able to create and sign a raw transaction in my out-of-date DOGE client using just information from a DOGE block explorer (and, of course, the private key). When I tried to broadcast the transaction using my unsynced DOGE client it told me:

Code:

error: {"code":-25,"message":"Missing inputs"}

so I had to use an online transaction broadcasting site - and that worked.

So I would guess that using your unsynced CLAM client also won't work for broadcasting the tx, but using the just-dice pushtx page will work.

next step... I might even try to create/fork coinb.in for clams if it is possible 
thanks in advance for your answers

Here's how I did the DOGE thing:

1. on the Just-Dice hot wallet, I extracted the private key of the user's CLAM deposit address:

p=$(clamd dumpprivkey $depost_address)

2. on my laptop I used a script to convert the CLAM private key to a DOGE private key. You won't need to do this, since the CLAM client accepts BTC private keys natively I think:

d=$(~/Source/Python/clampriv.py $p | grep DOGE | awk '{print $2}')

3. Create and sign a raw transaction:

dogecoind signrawtransaction $(dogecoind createrawtransaction '[{"txid":"b9e37a2fd9403fe4c893fd414757dcf5d85d9a22066895d5931ea13b2b774ca2","vout":1}]' '{"XXX":554.77419355}') '[{"txid":"b9e37a2fd9403fe4c893fd414757dcf5d85d9a22066895d5931ea13b2b774ca2","vout":1,"scriptPubKey":"76a91459646c4f28260793d958b9c46c5cb78aa9a4616388ac"}]' '["'$d'"]'

[dooglus]

There many exchanges where CLAM wallets not works for long time (few weeks)! It is Polonex, Cryptopia, YoBit.
As well, CLAM delisted from integrated in coinomi exchange and You Can't exchange on ShapeShift CLAM anymore! No any comments from support.
Not any explanation I can found anywhere
[...]
So, I hope the  CLAM team will do something about situation and post here some updates about progress with exchanges.

So exchanges are having problems with the CLAM wallet but won't tell anyone what problems they are having.

What do you want the CLAM team to do about that? I have tried talking to poloniex about their issues but they won't reply to me.

I hear that xploited has a new version of the CLAM client almost ready to go. It's based on a much newer version of Bitcoin Core, so should be better at syncing the chain.

I suspect that a lot of the problems the exchanges are having is due to receiving tens of thousands of dust payments from a faucet. The wallet software really doesn't deal well with receiving so many deposits. At Just-Dice I configured the wallet to simply ignore any deposit less than 0.001 CLAMs, simply by putting

  mininput=0.001

in the clam.conf configuration file. That entirely solved the problem. I would recommend that the exchanges do the same (if they would listen to me).

[dooglus]

Signing / Verify an address to claim my clams.

That's not how it works.

To claim your CLAMs you need to sign a transaction using your BTC private keys. There's no mechanism to claim your CLAMs simply by signing a message.

Your CLAM private keys are *the same* as your BTC private keys. You claim your CLAMs in exactly the same way as you spend your BTC - by signing a transaction using your BTC private key.

I have some old paperwallets that are still in use, so I'd rather not expose any information outside of a signed message, using an offline computer running brainwallet software.

Signed messages aren't going to help you.

What you could do:

1. download the CLAM client on your online machine
2. run it, and let it sync up to at least block 10,000
3. shut it down, and copy the client and the whole CLAM data directory onto your offline machine
4. on the offline machine, import your BTC private keys; let it rescan the first 10k blocks
5. on the offline machine, create a transaction that spends your CLAMs; maybe to your exchange deposit address
6. on the offline machine, 'getrawtransaction <txid>' to get the raw transaction data
7. copy the raw transaction information to the online machine
8. on the online machine, 'sendrawtransaction <raw hex>' to broadcast it to the network

That way you've not exposed your private keys to anything other than the offline machine.

[dooglus]

Are they still giving free CLAMs?

The CLAMs were given out years ago. You can claim them whenever you like.

[dooglus]

How can I encrypt my wallet with clams.
I am considering security issues.

Command line:

  clamd encryptwallet <passphrase>

GUI:

  Misc -> Encrypt Wallet