BTCD is no more

[jl777]

Ah, yeah that work out, it would just be nice to have something when to people are transferring a large sum to rule out accidentally sending to an old but active address that could accept payment. Send one payment to an address, go to send another, accidentally send second to the last. Heck I derped on an NOMP pool shortly for the BTCD mining after switching pools and making new bat files a few times. That was because for some reason my Synergy that links two of my systems was only sharing clipboard in one direction. I cut, repasted to make sure it copied correctly, switched the mouse over to the other system and pasted into the bat file. Bit later looking at pool stats, wait what? That's not the right address... I had to completely kill and restart all the synergy processes to get two way clipboard sharing working again. That was just weird, but that's exactly how freak accidents happen..

with teleport you are not sending to an address, but rather to a node, which happens to have a specific public address. They can make a new public address, but it would end up on the same destination computer.

I hope that makes sense. teleport is connecting node to node (via privacyServers) and I assign each node a public address based on what the user puts in the config file. You can send to BTCD or BTC or NXT address, all go to the same node. Also, if a person is running their privacyServer on the same computer, you could even send to the privacyServer's public address and it would also end up on that computer

So if you are sending to a pubaddr and it exists and it is responding, it is very hard for it to not be your intended destination. I prevent spoofing by requiring all packets to be signed by the linked NXT address, so some random person cant just claim a pubaddr for themselves.

[jd1959]

I did it this way as the old file was huge and kept timing out uploading

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/355c90994f02f8f73d9d

had a similar problem with another wallet ages ago.....the problem there was someone / people running old wallet that kept requesting data but couldn't use the data, so request again

Also noticed balance of data usage about 60/40   send receive....any ideas ?

it seems that you are connected to a node that is sending many of these messages. the new release will fix this.
actually we might be able to make a test version for you to run and then you can verify if it fixes the problem
hopefully it will be available soon

James

That would be awesome.....Thank you once again......you are seriously the most active dev I've every seen......I've followed you from NXT, BBR and now here.....there is no escape LOL  

[Langly]

Ah, yeah that work out, it would just be nice to have something when to people are transferring a large sum to rule out accidentally sending to an old but active address that could accept payment. Send one payment to an address, go to send another, accidentally send second to the last. Heck I derped on an NOMP pool shortly for the BTCD mining after switching pools and making new bat files a few times. That was because for some reason my Synergy that links two of my systems was only sharing clipboard in one direction. I cut, repasted to make sure it copied correctly, switched the mouse over to the other system and pasted into the bat file. Bit later looking at pool stats, wait what? That's not the right address... I had to completely kill and restart all the synergy processes to get two way clipboard sharing working again. That was just weird, but that's exactly how freak accidents happen..

with teleport you are not sending to an address, but rather to a node, which happens to have a specific public address. They can make a new public address, but it would end up on the same destination computer.

I hope that makes sense. teleport is connecting node to node (via privacyServers) and I assign each node a public address based on what the user puts in the config file. You can send to BTCD or BTC or NXT address, all go to the same node. Also, if a person is running their privacyServer on the same computer, you could even send to the privacyServer's public address and it would also end up on that computer

So if you are sending to a pubaddr and it exists and it is responding, it is very hard for it to not be your intended destination. I prevent spoofing by requiring all packets to be signed by the linked NXT address, so some random person cant just claim a pubaddr for themselves.

Yeah, it makes sense. As I mentioned though, some people accidentally send to an address they sent to in the past instead of the one they meant to sent to, like the guy sending to the MtGox addy. People do screw up and send coin to a recently used address instead of the one they mean to, and a recently used address can very well still be alive and active. But it's all up to you, if I were ever able to send a large value teleport it would make me feel better even with checking 20 times that I have the right address in the field it won't accept if it's incorrect but a live node.

I once had a strange bug in the eBay shipping applet caused my current shipping label to print with the address the previous one should have. One person wound up getting two items, 3 the wrong item and I was very confused as I only ever box one item at a time, print the label, attach to box, close the window, box the next item open the shipping for that, print label, attach to box, close. The labels even matched the onscreen info. You would think that would leave no way to have a wrong label, but I guess not. I would really DREAD having something happen like that while if I were sending out a bunch of large payments in a row from what ever source I was getting addresses from. All good live addresses, but the system feeding me them had choked on itself.

[jl777]

Ah, yeah that work out, it would just be nice to have something when to people are transferring a large sum to rule out accidentally sending to an old but active address that could accept payment. Send one payment to an address, go to send another, accidentally send second to the last. Heck I derped on an NOMP pool shortly for the BTCD mining after switching pools and making new bat files a few times. That was because for some reason my Synergy that links two of my systems was only sharing clipboard in one direction. I cut, repasted to make sure it copied correctly, switched the mouse over to the other system and pasted into the bat file. Bit later looking at pool stats, wait what? That's not the right address... I had to completely kill and restart all the synergy processes to get two way clipboard sharing working again. That was just weird, but that's exactly how freak accidents happen..

with teleport you are not sending to an address, but rather to a node, which happens to have a specific public address. They can make a new public address, but it would end up on the same destination computer.

I hope that makes sense. teleport is connecting node to node (via privacyServers) and I assign each node a public address based on what the user puts in the config file. You can send to BTCD or BTC or NXT address, all go to the same node. Also, if a person is running their privacyServer on the same computer, you could even send to the privacyServer's public address and it would also end up on that computer

So if you are sending to a pubaddr and it exists and it is responding, it is very hard for it to not be your intended destination. I prevent spoofing by requiring all packets to be signed by the linked NXT address, so some random person cant just claim a pubaddr for themselves.

Yeah, it makes sense. As I mentioned though, some people accidentally send to an address they sent to in the past instead of the one they meant to sent to, like the guy sending to the MtGox addy. People do screw up and send coin to a recently used address instead of the one they mean to, and a recently used address can very well still be alive and active. But it's all up to you, if I were ever able to send a large value teleport it would make me feel better even with checking 20 times that I have the right address in the field it won't accept if it's incorrect but a live node.

I once had a strange bug in the eBay shipping applet caused my current shipping label to print with the address the previous one should have. One person wound up getting two items, 3 the wrong item and I was very confused as I only ever box one item at a time, print the label, attach to box, close the window, box the next item open the shipping for that, print label, attach to box, close. The labels even matched the onscreen info. You would think that would leave no way to have a wrong label, but I guess not. I would really DREAD having something happen like that while if I were sending out a bunch of large payments in a row from what ever source I was getting addresses from. All good live addresses, but the system feeding me them had choked on itself.

Wouldnt having a password that the destination had to put in protect against your scenario above?

[Langly]

Ah, yeah that work out, it would just be nice to have something when to people are transferring a large sum to rule out accidentally sending to an old but active address that could accept payment. Send one payment to an address, go to send another, accidentally send second to the last. Heck I derped on an NOMP pool shortly for the BTCD mining after switching pools and making new bat files a few times. That was because for some reason my Synergy that links two of my systems was only sharing clipboard in one direction. I cut, repasted to make sure it copied correctly, switched the mouse over to the other system and pasted into the bat file. Bit later looking at pool stats, wait what? That's not the right address... I had to completely kill and restart all the synergy processes to get two way clipboard sharing working again. That was just weird, but that's exactly how freak accidents happen..

with teleport you are not sending to an address, but rather to a node, which happens to have a specific public address. They can make a new public address, but it would end up on the same destination computer.

I hope that makes sense. teleport is connecting node to node (via privacyServers) and I assign each node a public address based on what the user puts in the config file. You can send to BTCD or BTC or NXT address, all go to the same node. Also, if a person is running their privacyServer on the same computer, you could even send to the privacyServer's public address and it would also end up on that computer

So if you are sending to a pubaddr and it exists and it is responding, it is very hard for it to not be your intended destination. I prevent spoofing by requiring all packets to be signed by the linked NXT address, so some random person cant just claim a pubaddr for themselves.

Yeah, it makes sense. As I mentioned though, some people accidentally send to an address they sent to in the past instead of the one they meant to sent to, like the guy sending to the MtGox addy. People do screw up and send coin to a recently used address instead of the one they mean to, and a recently used address can very well still be alive and active. But it's all up to you, if I were ever able to send a large value teleport it would make me feel better even with checking 20 times that I have the right address in the field it won't accept if it's incorrect but a live node.

I once had a strange bug in the eBay shipping applet caused my current shipping label to print with the address the previous one should have. One person wound up getting two items, 3 the wrong item and I was very confused as I only ever box one item at a time, print the label, attach to box, close the window, box the next item open the shipping for that, print label, attach to box, close. The labels even matched the onscreen info. You would think that would leave no way to have a wrong label, but I guess not. I would really DREAD having something happen like that while if I were sending out a bunch of large payments in a row from what ever source I was getting addresses from. All good live addresses, but the system feeding me them had choked on itself.

Wouldnt having a password that the destination had to put in protect against your scenario above?

Yeah, my only side point had been, if it can be preentered the person getting paid could enter it when requesting payment so the person paying doesn't need wait for them to get around to entering it and can just pay promptly when they get the message to pay. At that point it would be more about time efficiency for the person getting paid to preenter for the payment. You mentioned the lack of need for it in that order as it's being sent to a node which has a specific public address. It technically wouldn't add more than the initial idea to do, it was just an additional use of it. If a person being paid can preenter the pass a person paying them gives them. It also means the inverse is completely possible, even if not necessary, without additional effort.

Edit: people can be clumsy, if someone owed me a large payment, I'd like to be sure there was no way they could fat finger it and send it to the last person they paid by accident. I may be more sure of my ability, but others, one little safeguard and they can't accidentally send it off to the address they paid 5 minutes before instead. I've watched someone walk up to an ATM with an OUT OF ORDER sign OVER the screen, tear it off and try and use it, then get mad it didnt work. Also heard of people losing their cards that way then getting mad. Spoofing may be prevented, but idiotproofing is nice as well.

[Fern]

While on this topic, will there be an indicator for ‘teleport system status’ in the client, such as number of privacy servers currently running? Just to give users peace of mind that everything they need is ready.

[jl777]

While on this topic, will there be an indicator for ‘teleport system status’ in the client, such as number of privacy servers currently running? Just to give users peace of mind that everything they need is ready.

I can provide the raw data to the GUI. As to all the fancy graphics, etc. that is not me

[Jimmy2011]

BitcoinDark Block Explorer: http://stakexplorer.com:1234

Enjoy it.

Donations to R9kZxVTw2hk4oU8cKbSPcjFxnE7wBf1rWr are appreciated.

[SHossain]

Interesting thing I found that, on Windows 8 there is more active connection to BitcoinDark network (found 67+) rather than Windows 7. I used to get only 16 active connections from Win7 but getting 27 today morning. Don't know anything about Mac or Linux. Just for the clarification, used 2 different laptops on different networks.

[Fern]

While on this topic, will there be an indicator for ‘teleport system status’ in the client, such as number of privacy servers currently running? Just to give users peace of mind that everything they need is ready.

I can provide the raw data to the GUI. As to all the fancy graphics, etc. that is not me

Even if it was just a number to glance at before sending. Because we are relying on something outside of the clients, I think to see something physical would be good. Not a crucial issue at this stage. Thanks.

[bitcoinpaul]

btcd is 15th on coinmarketcap with 4,000,000$. u know what that means.

[leathan]

Is there any way I can help? I can code in most languages? I think this is the crypto that I most like... I think.. I have some ideas but am nervous to just throw them out there .. and im noob to the group.

Does BTCD have an irc?

do you know C?
any examples of your code, eg. on github?

Alternatively can you get stuff to compile on Windows or Mac?

Not for 11 years :/ but I think I can.. and yes i can compile or cross compile. Not much on github since the last 5-6 yrs ive mainly just read documentations. I can help in any way however doesnt have to be code or code related. I have spent the better half of the last month reading and I feel you guys are on the right track. so any help i can give id be happy. My specialty is regular expressions and scripting languages like php/perl/js.

[jeezy]

btcd is 15th on coinmarketcap with 4,000,000$. u know what that means.

What does it mean? 

[leathan]

Maybe we should also translate to some other major languages?

Shall I get some price quotes from professional high quality translation services or is it not necessary to translate into more languages atm?

I think we are OK for now, though if we have volunteer translators that would be great

I really doubt that we will find people who do it for free as it is a lot of work and requires someone at least semi professional. I think we dont need it right now, english and chinese should be enough for a while.

I am a native spanish & english speaker... dont know if that will help but Id translate it for free.

[4emily]

BitcoinDark Block Explorer: http://stakexplorer.com:1234

Enjoy it.

Donations to R9kZxVTw2hk4oU8cKbSPcjFxnE7wBf1rWr are appreciated.

just checked my a/c using the Explorer and got a nasty surprise - the balance showing was approx half what it should have been. Reasoning (or more like fervently hoping) I hadn't been hacked - why would any hacker leave half the balance? - I opened my wallet, waited 5 mins for it to sync (seemed longer somehow) to find the entire balance showing correctly.

Unless it's my wallet that's wrong, it must be the Explorer - they can't both be right

These sort of shocks I can do without 

[SpringfieldM1A]

BitcoinDark Block Explorer: http://stakexplorer.com:1234

Enjoy it.

Donations to R9kZxVTw2hk4oU8cKbSPcjFxnE7wBf1rWr are appreciated.

just checked my a/c using the Explorer and got a nasty surprise - the balance showing was approx half what it should have been. Reasoning (or more like fervently hoping) I hadn't been hacked - why would any hacker leave half the balance? - I opened my wallet, waited 5 mins for it to sync (seemed longer somehow) to find the entire balance showing correctly.

Unless it's my wallet that's wrong, it must be the Explorer - they can't both be right

These sort of shocks I can do without 

The balance will only be correct on a fully synched wallet.

[EcoChavCrypto]

Not wishing to interfere with the current debate it's been interesting to say the least...and congrates to dev team......love your work 

However my wallet is still chewing way too much data to leave it open for staking.....I know I've only got open it and sync a couple of times a day to increase weight.

That being said it does not help maintain the network doing it like that......I would really like to be told how to block nodes in wallet, I can't find any add/remove nodes command

I know I'm far from the smartest guy......If they ever release a coin with proof of stupidity it'll have my picture on it. So if anybody can tell me how to go about it I will be very grateful

Jon   

do you have access to a different machine? our tests are not seeing any such massive bandwidth usage, so we are thinking maybe it is some other program? so if a different computer does same thing, we can narrow problem down

Have installed every thing on a different computer after monitoring for 20 minutes 9.27 Megabytes of data times 72 = 667.24 megs in 24 hours, it still seems too much to me

Jon 

You have raised an interesting point.  I am currently out in the country staking via my laptop and using my phone as a hotspot.  I think I have 2 GB left on my plan.  How long do you estimate that 2 GB to be swallowed?

[EcoChavCrypto]

Maybe we should also translate to some other major languages?

Shall I get some price quotes from professional high quality translation services or is it not necessary to translate into more languages atm?

You can get translations done for pretty much every language on fiverr.com very reasonably priced.  I have used them in the past with great results.

[Jimmy2011]

BitcoinDark Block Explorer: http://stakexplorer.com:1234

Enjoy it.

Donations to R9kZxVTw2hk4oU8cKbSPcjFxnE7wBf1rWr are appreciated.

just checked my a/c using the Explorer and got a nasty surprise - the balance showing was approx half what it should have been. Reasoning (or more like fervently hoping) I hadn't been hacked - why would any hacker leave half the balance? - I opened my wallet, waited 5 mins for it to sync (seemed longer somehow) to find the entire balance showing correctly.

Unless it's my wallet that's wrong, it must be the Explorer - they can't both be right

These sort of shocks I can do without 

The block chain is updated to the latest block. I'm sorry I can't tell what mistakes because I have no BTCD at hand and I can't confirm it.

[Jimmy2011]

Question: Why did BTCD set the max coin days unlimited?

Code:

unsigned int nStakeMaxAge = -1; // BitcoinDark - unlimited