[ANN][XCN] Cryptonite | 1st mini-blockchain coin | M7 PoW | No Premine

[duboisi]

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

[George5]

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

Same for me - didn't work.

But the one that pallas posted, worked great and my wallet is finally synced! Yaaaay!

[dextronomous]

someone should stop the xcn, supernva miners them creating to many blocks to fast,

wallets cant keep it up,, should be d forked

[AhmedMSedeek]

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

Same for me - didn't work.

But the one that pallas posted, worked great and my wallet is finally synced! Yaaaay!

I don't know where the problem is!
.
I have cleaned the blockchain of my wallet and used the one I created earlier to see whether it will sync correctly and it worked just fine.

May be because I'm on windows or what?

[pallas]

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

Same for me - didn't work.

But the one that pallas posted, worked great and my wallet is finally synced! Yaaaay!

I don't know where the problem is!
.
I have cleaned the blockchain of my wallet and used the one I created earlier to see whether it will sync correctly and it worked just fine.

May be because I'm on windows or what?

Could be incompatible bdb versions.

[AhmedMSedeek]

Done. TQ.
(BTW, also tested AhmedMSedeek's latest uploaded block chain, still same problem. )

Same for me - didn't work.

But the one that pallas posted, worked great and my wallet is finally synced! Yaaaay!

I don't know where the problem is!
.
I have cleaned the blockchain of my wallet and used the one I created earlier to see whether it will sync correctly and it worked just fine.

May be because I'm on windows or what?

Could be incompatible bdb versions.

I don't know what is "bdb versions", but does that mean what I'm doing (frequently creating a torrent file for the blockchain) is pointless and won't help anybody?

[Blockchain Mechanic]

BDB == wallet
LevelDB == blocks

In normal implementations. however libmldb is used here.

[AhmedMSedeek]

BDB == wallet
LevelDB == blocks

In normal implementations. however libmldb is used here.

alright
Thanks for clarification

[bitfreak!]

Well I guess there's no better time than Christmas to let you guys know I'm still alive. I am truly sorry for being absent for so long, I've just had so many other projects that have consumed my time and honestly there's not much I can do in terms of core development. Like I said before, since there was no premine it's very hard to create an incentive for people to work on Cryptonite. However I am really amazed how well XCN has managed to chug along without absolutely any development and without me being around. It's still ranked #143 on coinmarketcap.com despite all the bugs and lack of development. That tells me people think the technology behind Cryptonite has value and I think developers should see that instead of focusing all their effort of complex scripting applications. Some times people just want to send some coins to each other and they want fast micro-transactions to be possible without needing to hear about how it bloats the blockchain.

Anyways, after new years I will make myself more active in this community again. I've finished most of the stuff I wanted to work on now and I have done quite a lot of C++ development in the process. So I'm probably at the point where I would feel confident modifying the Cryptonite code base but it's still a very complex task especially since it works very differently to most coins. As for the block explorer, the chain is now so large that I will need to recode the existing explorer so that it reads block files directly from disk instead of using the RPC API. However I could also design it to only show transactions from the last week so that anyone could create their own explorer without needing a complete copy of the blockchain. I feel like that's ultimately a better approach because it wouldn't have the sort of scaling problems that a normal block explorer would have.

Of course it would still show the correct balance because that information is stored in the account tree. I don't think people would really care if they couldn't see transactions made more than a week ago. However I've come to the decision that I cannot run the explorer myself unless I think the explorer can be kept alive by donations. The type of server required to run a coin daemon is not very cheap and I already paid to keep the explorer alive for over a year. I don't make anything from Cryptonite and I'm not going to keep spending money to keep it alive. I also decided not to run a XCN web wallet myself for the same reason, and also because I don't want to be responsible for all that money if something were to go wrong with the web wallet. I can share all the javascript code I wrote for creating valid XCN transactions, but I don't want to run a web wallet myself.

I also don't think it's a good idea to have XCN services so centralized, it shouldn't be up to me to build and run all these services. I will see what I can do in terms of core development, but I cannot do everything myself. One of the reasons I haven't been around here for a while is because I felt overwhelmed having so much to do myself. Obviously I care a lot about Cryptonite since I played a large role in developing the concepts behind it, so I don't want to see it fail. But I cannot do everything myself and I cannot keep spending my own money to get things done. I am thankful to you guys who have been helping others solve problems while I was absent, once again I'm glad to see so many people still showing interest in this coin. Hopefully in 2017 we will be able to make a bit of progress and get things happening again.

[enerbyte]

@bitfreak! It's good that you're back

PS: Happy Holidays!

[pallas]

Hi bitfreak glad to hear that you are back! I'm ready to donate for Cryptonite development and also will help with my programming skills. Just ask :-)
Have you seen my little patch to fix the compilation issue?  Is it good for you?

[dextronomous]

we really need a solo miner for amd guys, come on link us please.

hook us up.. what the hell, only non compiled miners, or strange slow working ones right, am i wrong,

and or miners to be sold, have been,

now in doubt, so only when the time comes i think you need some moments to think if you have enough money,
and if not = sell to me, some others, till again enough money,

Hi there, mr bitfreak himself, nice, long time ago, wow. welcome back, was in doubt if anyone alive could help this community, but yes there is.. one,
you have secret miners sir?

bitfreak.

[bitfreak!]

@enerbyte: thanks man, good to see you still around.

@pallas: I've been trying to catch up on all the posts I missed in this thread but I haven't seen that patch, can you link me to it please. I appreciate what you've done to keep XCN alive and of course I'll take any coding help I can get. I do have a roadmap for Cryptonite development, but the most important thing right now is getting people who can work on the core code and iron out some of these annoying bugs. I'm currently visiting relatives for xmas so I cannot do much right now but I'll be back at home after new years.

@dextronomous: well it just happens that one of the projects I've been working on is a ray tracing engine which uses OpenCL. So I could probably write some code for mining XCN with an AMD GPU, especially since I imagine most of the code I will need is already out there in open source miners. The most difficult part will probably be making it run fast enough to be remotely competitive with the CUDA miners, and also the networking code, but I imagine most of that code has already been written for me as well.

[duboisi]

Solving Poloniex's wallet problem would be a solid action needed immediately. If Poloniex really de-list XCN, it will be a blow to XCN.

[pallas]

@bitfreak: https://github.com/pallas1/Cryptonite

[pallas]

Solving Poloniex's wallet problem would be a solid action needed immediately. If Poloniex really de-list XCN, it will be a blow to XCN.

Btc38 has wallet issues as well. I tried hard to help both of them without success.

[bitfreak!]

What issues are they having exactly? I'm guessing the cause of the issue is one of these old bugs Cryptonite has always had, so solving those problems should solve a lot of other problems.

[dextronomous]

you guys should addnode=178.84.34.124:8253

and wallets got 15 connections, can see em on http://xcn.miners-zone.net

thanks please keep up the responses mr. bitfreak. you're abscence nearly destroyed the coins existence,

omg. unbelievable. but true. anyway if you could give a pm for a faster miner then pallas's miner,

merry christmas guys, hohoo hooo

[logictense]

Lemme see whats gonna come out of this one. Nothing. Cryptonote coinzzz aint movers. XCN seems to follow this general notion.

[bitfreak!]

Cryptonite is not a Cryptonote coin, they have no relation.