[ANN][MIN] Minerals - POS | Developing own anon solution |

[ShoeOnHead]

Smart to mine a dead coin to implement some stuff.

[hotwired007]

Yes, there will be a new thread later. We can't modify the OP as it's not ours.

That being said, concerning the block explorer:
- still have to figure out why minerals-abe/bitcoin-abe does not connect to a remote DB. That's the only problem I have, but it's a crucial part
So far no reaction from the developer about the issue.
- loading the bootstrap.dat on a VM to test with "Insight"

By the way, 4 people have downloaded the bootstrap.dat
Can you give me some feedback on how long it took to load it into your wallet?

took about 3 days on the two machines i ran it on - i don't think disk speed has anything to do with it - one was on a 3TB SATA3 drive, the other was a virtual disk hosted on a 16x 3TB SAN over 4x1GB iSCSI link.

 i gave up trying to sync over p2p (took about 4 days to get to 50% - I'm maintaining at least 1x 24/7 minerals client atm but planning on getting a second up ASAP.

[Hoshimaru]

Yes, there will be a new thread later. We can't modify the OP as it's not ours.

That being said, concerning the block explorer:
- still have to figure out why minerals-abe/bitcoin-abe does not connect to a remote DB. That's the only problem I have, but it's a crucial part
So far no reaction from the developer about the issue.
- loading the bootstrap.dat on a VM to test with "Insight"

By the way, 4 people have downloaded the bootstrap.dat
Can you give me some feedback on how long it took to load it into your wallet?

took about 3 days on the two machines i ran it on - i don't think disk speed has anything to do with it - one was on a 3TB SATA3 drive, the other was a virtual disk hosted on a 16x 3TB SAN over 4x1GB iSCSI link.

 i gave up trying to sync over p2p (took about 4 days to get to 50% - I'm maintaining at least 1x 24/7 minerals client atm but planning on getting a second up ASAP.

Thank you for the feedback hotwired007
Yeah, it takes a long time. I used the bootstrap.dat to populate a linux VM and it took also about 36 hours. It might have been faster if I prioritized the process, but I did:
ps -Aj | grep Mineralsd
and
sudo renice 19 -g 7765
to lower the priority. The PGID is the number in the second column of the first command. I wouldn't do a -19, but -5 or so could increase processing speed.

Minerals-abe and a remote database is a little problem. It want to connect to a local mysql db no matter what you configure. This might be something the bitcoin-abe dev will have to look at.

In the meantime, I am experimenting with Insight again and succesfully loaded the 1.434.234 blocks from the bootstrap.dat into its DB. Loading using blockchain files didn't work, but using RPC, it took only 3 hours to populate it, which is way more efficient than abe. When you query old addresses, it can take several minutes before you get a result though. The one in my sig below for example had 166686 transactions by April 25, the data bootstrap.dat was generated.

hotwired007, if you are planning on running a second, you can simply copy the blockchain files. I've done this several times and the wallet accepts it. The bootstrap is still the preferred method in my opinion, as it's the best version of the blockchain you can get.

The blockchain files are:

Code:

-rw------- 1 akira akira 826M Mai 12 23:55 blk0001.dat
drwx------ 2 akira akira 4,0K Mai 14 17:12 database
drwx------ 2 akira akira  84K Mai 13 14:40 txleveldb

Another thing now. May I also urge you all to take a regular backup of your wallet.dat? (Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with the client.)

This file grows over time and can become quite a heavy one if you stake 24/7 like I do. Mine for example was 187MB.

Due to a system reboot without shutting down the wallet correctly, the wallet.dat file got damaged and db.log logged lots of leveldb errors. My wallet.dat became corrupted and apart from the private keys for safe keeping, I only had a copy of the file when it was only 900kb.
Using this very early backup, the wallet will find every single transaction you ever made (POS included) and add it to the file. Mine is still being reconstructed and grew from 900KB to 121MB since yesterday afternoon.

[Hoshimaru]

Update little concerning the block explorer:

• Bitcoin Abe: now working with an offloaded SQL database. We have 20GB to store block chain data. I am currently pre-loading the database, but 1.5 million block will take some time. It's gentle on system resources.
• Bitpay Insight: I got 0 replies on my ticket on Labs & Github. They are probably very busy. Worst case is that they don't give a damn about altcoin users, but they should say so in that case. The problem is the connection to the back-end which gets dropped every 10 minutes, followed by a runaway process and memory leak.

[Hoshimaru]

The block explorer is back
It's still the one based on Bitcoin-abe as I'm struggling to get any kind of help/tip/reply from Insight...

[Hoshimaru]

Hello o/
I've written a small progress report, so you know what's happening while everything is quiet.

[Skatebird]

Hello o/
I've written a small progress report, so you know what's happening while everything is quiet.

Great !! Thank you for the little update

[Hoshimaru]

So now they're sending virusses...
I'd gladly infect a isolated VM for 97 BTC, but alas, it's not a private key ;-)

[Hoshimaru]

Here come the +560k Minerals again from last time
Shuffle 'm around!

[Hoshimaru]

Little update: Lookin' into a new kind of block explorer with some more functionality than Minerals-abe we're currently using. If succesfully implemented, we will have means to check the distribution of our crypto and have a rich list

Insight is still on hold due to the Node memory leak disconnection & crash problem which Bitpay didn't react on yet.

Another movement of the 500k Minerals...


Udpate:

While loading the DB ...

About 100k blocks loaded in a test VM.
I'm using a text based browser Lynx as I can only connect via localhost for now.

[Hoshimaru]

WARNING

The Mineralscoin blockchain is blocked since yesterday evening.
Please do NOT make any transaction until further notice. We try to figure out what happened.

Last block: 1776992 - http://explorer.morningminerals.com/block/fffe678d275b9f0d92e7ec831ae5205f32156674ec91a328fd0f173b269e5e54

[Hoshimaru]

Problem Solved

Dear Mineral users

The synchronization problem was solved. We're further investigation today's issue in order to confirm what we think might have caused it.
I will keep your informed.

Update: an explanation of what happened in case you were affected today (click the image)

[DogeBuffet]

Hey Hoshimaru, any update on when the next step for minerals will be coming? Has be quite some time of silence now

[Hoshimaru]

Hey Hoshimaru, any update on when the next step for minerals will be coming? Has be quite some time of silence now

It's true that's there has been a long moment of silence. Myself, I kinda took slowed down a little because of other RL stuff that's going on and needs solving as well.
Don't be worried. We're working on increasing the available super nodes on the network and offer alternatives to explorer.morningminerals.com

The one worked on a while ago, with this text-based browser screenshot, is operational, but we are looking to add a few features to it to increase its usability and value of information about several aspects of the coin.

[Hoshimaru]

_Today, we proudly present the new Mineralscoin Wallet v1.1.1.0

After several months of studying paper, doing research and digging through thousands of lines of code to gain a fair understanding about the inner workings of crypto currency, we started working on updating the wallet in order to revive our beloved crypto currency.

You were already acquainted with the new face of Mineralscoin. Today, you can get acquainted with a new wallet, that definitively breaks with its past and is geared towards the future.

In order to prepare the path for Mineralscoin, the following aspects have been modified and certain required features added in order to secure the network from mending by 3rd parties:

General Features
Graphics	Updating Mineralscoin logo and graphics
Seed Nodes	Introducing (DNS) Seed Nodes to the network
Fallback Nodes	Adding a set of fallback nodes
Checkpoints	Introducing a set of checkpoint to the blockchain
Alerts	Introducing the ability for us to broadcast alerts
Livenet-specific Features
Checkpoint Keys	Checkpoint keys to validate checkpoints on the network
Alert Keys	Replacing the keys by a new key pair allowing us to broadcast alerts
Bootstrap	Accelerating the importing of the blockchain for new clients
Testnet-specific Features
Genesis Block	Creation of a new genesis block to launch "Testnet-1"
Checkpoints	Testing and creation of checkpoints
Checkpoint Keys	Testing checkpoint validation by Checkpoint Nodes
Alert Keys	Testing Alert broadcasting on a network
Bootstrap	Testing creation and loading for a bootstrap file

Downloading Mineralscoin v1.1.1.0

Pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Ubuntu 14.02 and OpenSUSE 13.2 as well as the source code can be downloaded from our Github release page located at https://github.com/AkiraTakizawa/Mineralscoin/releases/tag/v1.1.1.0-R1 or by selecting one of the wallets directly below:

• Windows (11.4MB)
• Ubuntu 14.02 (1.95MB)
• OpenSUSE 13.2 (1.96MB)
• Source Code (zip)
• Source Code (tar.gz)

Important Note!
Please note that some technical aspects have changed as well. This is important if you wish to continue using your existing data located in your current "Minerals" directory!

P2P and RPC ports

Port	v1.1.0.0	v1.1.1.0
Livenet P2P Port	33442	33555
Livenet RPC Port	33441	33557
Testnet P2P Port	33444	33556
Tetnet RPC Port	33443	33558

Unless you wish to custom port number which you can specify in your configuration files, nothing special should be done.

Working Directories

Mineralscoin v1.1.1.0 uses a new directory to store its wallet and blockchain data.
It is highly recommended that you rename your directory from Minerals to Mineralscoin as shown in the table below.

Attention: If you don't rename, the wallet will crash on first run. Your previous Minerals v1.1.0.0 wallet and blockchain will be unaffected. However, the required Mineralscoin directory and a new wallet.dat will be created. On second launch, it uses this newly created files and will start downloading the whole blockchain again from scratch.

OS	v1.1.0.0	v1.1.1.0
Windows XP	%userprofile%\Application Data\Minerals	%userprofile%\Application Data\Mineralscoin
Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10	%userprofile%\Appdata\Roaming\Minerals	%userprofile%\Appdata\Roaming\Mineralscoin
Linux	~/.Minerals	~/.Mineralscoin
OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Minerals	~/Library/Application Support/Mineralscoin

Please note that the name of this directory is case-sensitive!

Configuration File

Mineralscoin v1.1.1.0 also introduces a new configuration file Mineralscoin.conf. Please rename your old Minerals.conf to Mineralscoin.conf if you wish to keep your existing configuration settings.

v1.1.0.0	v1.1.1.0
Minerals.conf	Mineralscoin.conf

Please note that the name of this file is case-sensitive!

*pout* I don't want to change all this stuff!

Although we strongly advise against using the old Minerals directory and files, it is possible to keep using the old files and directories.
You can force the new wallet to use the old directory by adding the datadir= and conf= directives to your configuration file or by launching it from the command line, for example by issuing the command

Code:

Mineralscoin-qt.exe -datadir=C:\Users\Stubborn User\AppData\Roaming\Minerals -conf=C:\Users\Stubborn User\AppData\Roaming\Minerals\Minerals.conf

on a Windows 8 machine.

Help! Help!

We are positive that the transition to this new wallet won't be too complicated. Should you still experience problems, please ask for help on Bitcointalk or Twitter. If you have a Github account, you can also submit an issue on our Mineralscoin repository. The Q&A pages on Morning Minerals can also be used if you prefer.

[Hoshimaru]

Updated bootstrap.dat

We have updated out bootstrap.dat to include more recent blocks: http://www.morningminerals.com/?page_id=764
This will load blocks 0 to 1,788,514.

New! Blockchain snapshot

For those of you who cannot wait for bootstrap.dat to be loaded, we have created a snapshot of the blockchain using the datadir of one of our nodes: http://www.morningminerals.com/?page_id=862
This will speed load blocks 0 to 1,788,584.

Please read the instructions for the method you wish to use and don't forget to update Mineralscoin.conf when required.

Status: all green!

[Hoshimaru]

The new logo, name & wallet has been picked up by CoinGecko -> https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mineralscoin

There's still work work to be done for a proper official website (and forum?), or a subreddit and a twitter account, but no need to rush things, right.
We're slowly gaining some visibility again. In the meantime, we're hoping that Cryptsy and Coins-e will notice the change as well...

[DogeBuffet]

The new logo, name & wallet has been picked up by CoinGecko -> https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mineralscoin

There's still work work to be done for a proper official website (and forum?), or a subreddit and a twitter account, but no need to rush things, right.
We're slowly gaining some visibility again. In the meantime, we're hoping that Cryptsy and Coins-e will notice the change as well...

slow and steady wins the race!

[Hoshimaru]

Good afternoon!

Today we'd like to introduce a more fancy block explorer hosted by CryptoID
It's has a lot of interesting features which may appeal to most of you.

Check out the small introduction here or head over directly to the explorer here.



For your convenience, the link was added to Morning Minerals' services menu.

[marcetin]

Minerals crowd funded nodes and block explorer are up!

Nodes:
104.255.33.202
194.135.88.18
23.227.190.155

Status:
https://bitnodes.net/status/

Explorer:
http://min.explorer.bitnodes.net/