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

[Hoshimaru]

This coin is going to be de-listed soon: BTC VOL0.01997060 BTC
Once it's gone, it's hard to re-list on an exchange... An additional hurdle if we want to keep this alive.

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[cryptouser]

Okay guys

I've finally come to getting Insight sync the Minerals block chain ~1 MByte (4031 blocks) of it for testing
It's more work than I expected and I had to find required parameters at the core of the genesis block using the wallet daemon, base58.h and main.cpp from the source code.

Code:

 INSIGHT_NETWORK="livenet" node insight.js

    ____           _       __    __     ___          _
   /  _/___  _____(_)___ _/ /_  / /_   /   |  ____  (_)
   / // __ \/ ___/ / __ `/ __ \/ __/  / /| | / __ \/ /
 _/ // / / (__  ) / /_/ / / / / /_   / ___ |/ /_/ / /
/___/_/ /_/____/_/\__, /_/ /_/\__/  /_/  |_/ .___/_/
                 /____/                   /_/

                                                v0.2.7
 # Configuration:
                Network: livenet        INSIGHT_NETWORK
                Database Path:  /home/hoshi/.insight INSIGHT_DB
                Safe Confirmations:  6  INSIGHT_SAFE_CONFIRMATIONS
                Ignore Cache:  no       INSIGHT_IGNORE_CACHE
 # Bicoind Connection configuration:
                RPC Username: hoshi     BITCOIND_USER
                RPC Password: Yes(hidden)       BITCOIND_PASS
                RPC Protocol: http      BITCOIND_PROTO
                RPC Host: 127.0.0.1     BITCOIND_HOST
                RPC Port: 33441 BITCOIND_PORT
                P2P Port: 33442 BITCOIND_P2P_PORT
                Data Dir: /home/hoshi/.Minerals/     BITCOIND_DATADIR


Change setting by assigning the enviroment variables in the last column. Example:
 $ INSIGHT_NETWORK="testnet" BITCOIND_HOST="123.123.123.123" ./insight.js


info: starting...
insight server listening on port 3000 in development mode
info: Could not find block files at: /home/hoshi/.Minerals//blocks/blk*.dat. Disabling file sync.
info: Got 0 blocks in current DB, out of 4031 block at bitcoind
info: syncing from RPC (slow)
info: Starting from:  00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
info: status: [0%]
info: status: [0.025%]
...
info: status: [99.752%]
info: status: [100%]
Done Syncing { status: 'finished',
  blockChainHeight: 4031,
  syncPercentage: '100.000',
  height: 4031,
  syncTipHash: undefined,
  error: null,
  type: 'from RPC calls',
  startTs: 1410726207968,
  endTs: 1410726304465 }
info: status: [100%]

I hope to get the front-end up & running as well tonight
Front-end can't seem to connect to back-end for some reason. Some troubleshooting required. But first things first: a good night's rest.

Sent you 1800 MIN .   Thanks for all the effort

[shanecoins]

Devs please post something

lol

[jacklord]

Devs please post something

He is working on some important issue.Be patient.

Like, what important issue.

[qwbzerra]

we need to get the multipool up and running...

[Hoshimaru]

Thank you cryptouser

I've hit a wall with Insight. The API gets the blockchain loaded and synced, but the front-end doesn't. That's strange, because it is built on that API and it is even included in the front-end, so I just had to use the same settings. Couldn't find a solution, so I opened an issue on github, as there's no support forum of any other way to contact them other than github.

It's done

Next on the agenda:

• Load the live block chain
• Test different aspects
• Alter CSS and get it to show "MIN" iso "BTC", value for block reward, ...
• If everything's fine: host it on a VPS

Of course the coin would need revival, otherwise I don't see the point in paying for hosting

[hotwired007]

we need to get the multipool up and running...

You can't mine Minerals any more... Youc an only earn them through POS staking.

[shanecoins]

we need to get the multipool up and running...

You can't mine Minerals any more... Youc an only earn them through POS staking.

multipool would mine other coins to buy mins

[shahim]

Thank you cryptouser

I've hit a wall with Insight. The API gets the blockchain loaded and synced, but the front-end doesn't. That's strange, because it is built on that API and it is even included in the front-end, so I just had to use the same settings. Couldn't find a solution, so I opened an issue on github, as there's no support forum of any other way to contact them other than github.

It's done

Next on the agenda:

• Load the live block chain
• Test different aspects
• Alter CSS and get it to show "MIN" iso "BTC", value for block reward, ...
• If everything's fine: host it on a VPS

Of course the coin would need revival, otherwise I don't see the point in paying for hosting

can you list, what you need to change for this?

[Hoshimaru]

can you list, what you need to change for this?

I don't know yet shahim.
It also need as small fix to get the right locations for the blk*.dat files from the blockchain. It looks for blocks/blk*.dat from the error log I saw yesterday. It's not much of a problem, but loading the chain using rpc is way slower than the direct access to the files. I'll look into these things tonight when I'm back home.

[shahim]

can you list, what you need to change for this?

I don't know yet shahim.
It also need as small fix to get the right locations for the blk*.dat files from the blockchain. It looks for blocks/blk*.dat from the error log I saw yesterday. It's not much of a problem, but loading the chain using rpc is way slower than the direct access to the files. I'll look into these things tonight when I'm back home.

no problem. I have just seen your posts in abe tread and now I saw you are also investigating into insight right now like me. Seems we are working paralell. perhaps you are interested in exchanging experience to make this explorer happen. I also hold minerals and want this project to come furhter!

If you like you can pm me. Perhaps I can help with some stuff!

[Hoshimaru]

can you list, what you need to change for this?

I don't know yet shahim.
It also need as small fix to get the right locations for the blk*.dat files from the blockchain. It looks for blocks/blk*.dat from the error log I saw yesterday. It's not much of a problem, but loading the chain using rpc is way slower than the direct access to the files. I'll look into these things tonight when I'm back home.

no problem. I have just seen your posts in abe tread and now I saw you are also investigating into insight right now like me. Seems we are working paralell. perhaps you are interested in exchanging experience to make this explorer happen. I also hold minerals and want this project to come furhter!

If you like you can pm me. Perhaps I can help with some stuff!

Thanks for your offer
Are you working with ABE?

I've booked some progress with Insight. Two files needed to be modified in order to get it to load blocks from the .dat files

Code:

> insight-bitcore@0.2.4 start /home/hoshi/insight
> INSIGHT_PUBLIC_PATH=public node node_modules/.bin/insight-bitcore-api


    ____           _       __    __     ___          _ 
   /  _/___  _____(_)___ _/ /_  / /_   /   |  ____  (_)
   / // __ \/ ___/ / __ `/ __ \/ __/  / /| | / __ \/ / 
 _/ // / / (__  ) / /_/ / / / / /_   / ___ |/ /_/ / /  
/___/_/ /_/____/_/\__, /_/ /_/\__/  /_/  |_/ .___/_/   
                 /____/                   /_/           

                              v0.2.4

info: insight server listening on port 3000 in development mode
info: Seeking file to:00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
        FOUND Starting Block!
info: Got 0 blocks in current DB, out of 418260 block at bitcoind
info: bitcoind dataDir configured...importing blocks from .dat files
info: First file index: 0
info: Starting from:  00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
info: status: [0%]
Reading Blockfile /home/hoshi/.Minerals/blk0001.dat [236 MB]
{ '0': 'connecting to 127.0.0.1:33442' }
Finished all files
info: status: [0%]
{ '0': 'connected to 127.0.0.1:33442' }

Now it's figuring out how to get transactions visible for a specific address and such :+)
Lol... It's really step by step ...

Update: created a bootstrap.dat from the up-to-date wallet. It's at 25% of loading the block chain properly in the virtual machine.

Code:

-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  59M Sep 16 21:45 blk0001.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hoshi hoshi 237M Sep 16 20:57 bootstrap.dat
drwx------ 2 hoshi hoshi 4.0K Sep 16 21:03 database
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi    0 Sep 16 21:03 db.log
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  15M Sep 16 21:45 debug.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hoshi hoshi  197 Sep 16 18:55 Minerals.conf
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi    5 Sep 16 21:03 Mineralsd.pid
drwx------ 2 hoshi hoshi 4.0K Sep 16 21:45 txleveldb
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  80K Sep 16 21:00 wallet.dat

When it's done, I'll reload the Insight DB and hopefully get rid of these unparsed addresses.
Still having issues with it. Rebuild with the block chain version on my minipc is no good. It has no txindex=1 which seems to be a requirement :/
Insight loads the 87MB blk0001.dat (~140k blocks, up to a checkpoin?) in a blink (way too fast imo) and then returns shitty data in the explorer.

Back from scratch again...

You wouldn't want me as a crypto dev: it would take forever to get it done.

[shoozooo]

Minerals are dead or still alive ? oO

Dev is still in the project ? Nothing about anon features ?

[hotwired007]

Minerals are dead or still alive ? oO

Dev is still in the project ? Nothing about anon features ?

Minerals is alive - not so sure about the Dev - we have a guy working on getting a blockchain explorer up and running ATM.

Suspect the Devs have got bored and dropped it as minerals.pro site is down.

[shahim]

can you list, what you need to change for this?

I don't know yet shahim.
It also need as small fix to get the right locations for the blk*.dat files from the blockchain. It looks for blocks/blk*.dat from the error log I saw yesterday. It's not much of a problem, but loading the chain using rpc is way slower than the direct access to the files. I'll look into these things tonight when I'm back home.

no problem. I have just seen your posts in abe tread and now I saw you are also investigating into insight right now like me. Seems we are working paralell. perhaps you are interested in exchanging experience to make this explorer happen. I also hold minerals and want this project to come furhter!

If you like you can pm me. Perhaps I can help with some stuff!

Thanks for your offer
Are you working with ABE?

I've booked some progress with Insight. Two files needed to be modified in order to get it to load blocks from the .dat files

Code:

> insight-bitcore@0.2.4 start /home/hoshi/insight
> INSIGHT_PUBLIC_PATH=public node node_modules/.bin/insight-bitcore-api


    ____           _       __    __     ___          _ 
   /  _/___  _____(_)___ _/ /_  / /_   /   |  ____  (_)
   / // __ \/ ___/ / __ `/ __ \/ __/  / /| | / __ \/ / 
 _/ // / / (__  ) / /_/ / / / / /_   / ___ |/ /_/ / /  
/___/_/ /_/____/_/\__, /_/ /_/\__/  /_/  |_/ .___/_/   
                 /____/                   /_/           

                              v0.2.4

info: insight server listening on port 3000 in development mode
info: Seeking file to:00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
        FOUND Starting Block!
info: Got 0 blocks in current DB, out of 418260 block at bitcoind
info: bitcoind dataDir configured...importing blocks from .dat files
info: First file index: 0
info: Starting from:  00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
info: status: [0%]
Reading Blockfile /home/hoshi/.Minerals/blk0001.dat [236 MB]
{ '0': 'connecting to 127.0.0.1:33442' }
Finished all files
info: status: [0%]
{ '0': 'connected to 127.0.0.1:33442' }

Now it's figuring out how to get transactions visible for a specific address and such :+)
Lol... It's really step by step ...

Update: created a bootstrap.dat from the up-to-date wallet. It's at 25% of loading the block chain properly in the virtual machine.

Code:

-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  59M Sep 16 21:45 blk0001.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hoshi hoshi 237M Sep 16 20:57 bootstrap.dat
drwx------ 2 hoshi hoshi 4.0K Sep 16 21:03 database
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi    0 Sep 16 21:03 db.log
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  15M Sep 16 21:45 debug.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hoshi hoshi  197 Sep 16 18:55 Minerals.conf
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi    5 Sep 16 21:03 Mineralsd.pid
drwx------ 2 hoshi hoshi 4.0K Sep 16 21:45 txleveldb
-rw------- 1 hoshi hoshi  80K Sep 16 21:00 wallet.dat

When it's done, I'll reload the Insight DB and hopefully get rid of these unparsed addresses.
Still having issues with it. Rebuild with the block chain version on my minipc is no good. It has no txindex=1 which seems to be a requirement :/
Insight loads the 87MB blk0001.dat (~140k blocks, up to a checkpoin?) in a blink (way too fast imo) and then returns shitty data in the explorer.

Back from scratch again...

You wouldn't want me as a crypto dev: it would take forever to get it done.

Hi,

yes ABE is up and running without any problems. Now I am trying to get insight to run smooth. But I did not manage to read the blk0001.dat file. Insight is looking into a wrong folder, so I made a softlink. But then he starts loading the DB with RPC calls. But then after 4% of syncing it aborts....

He is saying the same thing:

info: status: [0%]
Reading Blockfile /home/hoshi/.Minerals/blk0001.dat [236 MB]
{ '0': 'connecting to 127.0.0.1:33442' }
Finished all files
info: status: [0%]

Looks like he is not loading anything from the dat file at all. Because of status 0%.... But nice to see, you managed to get the folder "blocks" away

I will try more.


EDIT: @HOSHIMARU  :  I have read something about insight and I came to the conclusion insight is not working for POW/POS or only POS coins. Insight only seem to support POW only coins!  I will be happy with my abe running. btw. abe is running really stable

[Hoshimaru]

Hi,

yes ABE is up and running without any problems. Now I am trying to get insight to run smooth. But I did not manage to read the blk0001.dat file. Insight is looking into a wrong folder, so I made a softlink. But then he starts loading the DB with RPC calls. But then after 4% of syncing it aborts....

He is saying the same thing:

info: status: [0%]
Reading Blockfile /home/hoshi/.Minerals/blk0001.dat [236 MB]
{ '0': 'connecting to 127.0.0.1:33442' }
Finished all files
info: status: [0%]

Looks like he is not loading anything from the dat file at all. Because of status 0%.... But nice to see, you managed to get the folder "blocks" away

I will try more.

EDIT: @HOSHIMARU  :  I have read something about insight and I came to the conclusion insight is not working for POW/POS or only POS coins. Insight only seem to support POW only coins!  I will be happy with my abe running. btw. abe is running really stable

That's very disappointing and indeed... Found something about it here: https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api/issues/18
ABE is nice but awfully slow

[shahim]

Hi,

yes ABE is up and running without any problems. Now I am trying to get insight to run smooth. But I did not manage to read the blk0001.dat file. Insight is looking into a wrong folder, so I made a softlink. But then he starts loading the DB with RPC calls. But then after 4% of syncing it aborts....

He is saying the same thing:

info: status: [0%]
Reading Blockfile /home/hoshi/.Minerals/blk0001.dat [236 MB]
{ '0': 'connecting to 127.0.0.1:33442' }
Finished all files
info: status: [0%]

Looks like he is not loading anything from the dat file at all. Because of status 0%.... But nice to see, you managed to get the folder "blocks" away

I will try more.

EDIT: @HOSHIMARU  :  I have read something about insight and I came to the conclusion insight is not working for POW/POS or only POS coins. Insight only seem to support POW only coins!  I will be happy with my abe running. btw. abe is running really stable

That's very disappointing and indeed... Found something about it here: https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api/issues/18
ABE is nice but awfully slow

Abe is not that slow. I think you Need to change your setup. I have installed it on my Server and it is ok.

You Need some mysql tuning! Do you still run it o your Thin Client?

[chinchs]

Good to see Shahim and Hoshimaru working this, I have something to propose for the rest of us. I was thinking about funding for takeover. If someone would like to dedicate time to this coin (Hoshimaru, I know you said you don't have time, but you may be part of the team, I don't know), should be compensated somehow. So i thought about:

* Create a funding address (may be a scrow Service)
* Donate as much as we can (I will donate 30.000 Mins if the rest gather 70.000)
* Designate a new DEV, PR, Etc
* Release funds based on predefined milestones
         * Anon Feature
         * Betting integration for new games (LOL, DOTA, etc)
         * Market cap (when we reach a predefined value per mineral)

I think this scheme could be great, if new dev delivers, he will get coins, and value will go up.

[Hoshimaru]

@Shahim: I ran it in a limited Virtualbox guest with 1GB RAM based on Ubuntu Server 14.04. Insight as well by the way, but in another snapshot.
@chinchs: 30000 MIN :p That's 3/4 of everything I have, but it's a good idea to work with milestones.

More important matters:

The Minerals network is crumbling and it might be best to find a way to avoid problems:
The dns-seeds, which are hard coded in the wallet on line 1141-1144 in src/net.cpp are down since little more than 85 hours according to my wallet's log file. The effect is not to be underestimated. Any new installation won't received a list of seeding nodes to start and thus cannot sync with the block chain. I first thought it was due to some network settings of my VM, but it's not. The desktop on which I'm writing this post, that didn't have Minerals installed, can't get them either.

Code:

static const char *strDNSSeed[][2] = {
        {"dnsseed1.minerals.pro", "dnsseed1.minerals.pro"},
        {"dnsseed2.minerals.pro", "dnsseed2.minerals.pro"}
};

Code:

$ ping dnsseed1.minerals.pro
PING dnsseed1.minerals.pro (5.45.123.57) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

$ ping dnsseed2.minerals.pro
PING dnsseed2.minerals.pro (5.45.122.48) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable

Code:

$ Wallets/Minerals/Mineralsd getinfo
{
    "version" : "v1.0.0.0",
    "protocolversion" : 60013,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "newmint" : 0.00000000,
    "stake" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 0,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "moneysupply" : 0.00000000,
    "connections" : 0,
    "proxy" : "",
    "ip" : "0.0.0.0",
    "difficulty" : {
        "proof-of-work" : 0.00024414,
        "proof-of-stake" : 0.00024414
    },
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1410627855,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00001000,
    "mininput" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

Peers I have a connection with atm are:

Code:

$ Wallets/Minerals/Mineralsd getpeerinfo
[
    {
        "addr" : "54.76.249.21:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981864,
        "conntime" : 1410892563,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418355,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "178.62.10.91:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892650,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418358,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "192.99.9.229:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981861,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892663,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418359,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "198.100.146.163:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981712,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892698,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418364,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "23.92.53.139:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892764,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418367,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "192.241.188.47:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981794,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981864,
        "conntime" : 1410892816,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418367,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "[2607:5300:100:100::b4]:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981862,
        "conntime" : 1410904327,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418877,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "178.221.235.61:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410952372,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 421302,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "77.120.190.129:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410954201,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 421372,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "94.180.58.239:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410980841,
        "conntime" : 1410969382,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 422209,
        "banscore" : 0
    }
]

Only after copying this in Minerals.conf, it started to sync:

Code:

addnode=54.76.249.21:33442
addnode=178.62.10.91:33442
addnode=192.99.9.229:33442
addnode=198.100.146.163:33442
addnode=23.92.53.139:33442
addnode=192.241.188.47:33442
addnode=[2607:5300:100:100::b4]:33442
addnode=178.221.235.61:33442
addnode=77.120.190.129:33442
addnode=94.180.58.239:33442

So... haven't work on the Explorer yet. But I'd start worrying about keeping the network alive
Anyone knows how to setup a dnsseed?

[shahim]

@Shahim: I ran it in a limited Virtualbox guest with 1GB RAM based on Ubuntu Server 14.04. Insight as well by the way, but in another snapshot.
@chinchs: 30000 MIN :p That's 3/4 of everything I have, but it's a good idea to work with milestones.

More important matters:

The Minerals network is crumbling and it might be best to find a way to avoid problems:
The dns-seeds, which are hard coded in the wallet on line 1141-1144 in src/net.cpp are down since little more than 85 hours according to my wallet's log file. The effect is not to be underestimated. Any new installation won't received a list of seeding nodes to start and thus cannot sync with the block chain. I first thought it was due to some network settings of my VM, but it's not. The desktop on which I'm writing this post, that didn't have Minerals installed, can't get them either.

Code:

static const char *strDNSSeed[][2] = {
        {"dnsseed1.minerals.pro", "dnsseed1.minerals.pro"},
        {"dnsseed2.minerals.pro", "dnsseed2.minerals.pro"}
};

Code:

$ ping dnsseed1.minerals.pro
PING dnsseed1.minerals.pro (5.45.123.57) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

$ ping dnsseed2.minerals.pro
PING dnsseed2.minerals.pro (5.45.122.48) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 178.103.106.194.sta.estpak.ee (194.106.103.178) icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable

Code:

$ Wallets/Minerals/Mineralsd getinfo
{
    "version" : "v1.0.0.0",
    "protocolversion" : 60013,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "newmint" : 0.00000000,
    "stake" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 0,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "moneysupply" : 0.00000000,
    "connections" : 0,
    "proxy" : "",
    "ip" : "0.0.0.0",
    "difficulty" : {
        "proof-of-work" : 0.00024414,
        "proof-of-stake" : 0.00024414
    },
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1410627855,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00001000,
    "mininput" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

Peers I have a connection with atm are:

Code:

$ Wallets/Minerals/Mineralsd getpeerinfo
[
    {
        "addr" : "54.76.249.21:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981864,
        "conntime" : 1410892563,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418355,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "178.62.10.91:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892650,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418358,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "192.99.9.229:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981861,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892663,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418359,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "198.100.146.163:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981712,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892698,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418364,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "23.92.53.139:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410892764,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418367,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "192.241.188.47:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981794,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981864,
        "conntime" : 1410892816,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418367,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "[2607:5300:100:100::b4]:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981862,
        "conntime" : 1410904327,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 418877,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "178.221.235.61:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410952372,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 421302,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "77.120.190.129:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410981861,
        "conntime" : 1410954201,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 421372,
        "banscore" : 0
    },
    {
        "addr" : "94.180.58.239:33442",
        "services" : "00000001",
        "lastsend" : 1410981862,
        "lastrecv" : 1410980841,
        "conntime" : 1410969382,
        "version" : 60013,
        "subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0/",
        "inbound" : false,
        "startingheight" : 422209,
        "banscore" : 0
    }
]

Only after copying this in Minerals.conf, it started to sync:

Code:

addnode=54.76.249.21:33442
addnode=178.62.10.91:33442
addnode=192.99.9.229:33442
addnode=198.100.146.163:33442
addnode=23.92.53.139:33442
addnode=192.241.188.47:33442
addnode=[2607:5300:100:100::b4]:33442
addnode=178.221.235.61:33442
addnode=77.120.190.129:33442
addnode=94.180.58.239:33442

So... haven't work on the Explorer yet. But I'd start worrying about keeping the network alive
Anyone knows how to setup a dnsseed?

Virtualbox uhhhahhh yeah that is the Problem i think.

I only have a few minerals. I bought very expensive. Bit I can try to find out how to make a dnsseed for this.
When you bring the explorer on an online server you will see a performance boost!

If you like we can test on mine server how the performance is there. The other explorer I am running for another coin is running quite well...

Give me a pm and we stay in contact for this.