http://transactions.sterlingcoin.org/ as mentioned in the OP.
There was a brief downtime within the past 6 hours. Sorry if this inturpution occurred while you were trying to use it. It was unexpected and could not be scheduled.
Thanks. Now Cryptopia is delisting SLG:
"Due to ongoing wallet issues SLG has been scheduled for delist on the 20/09/2017, please close all open orders and withdraw before this date."Any comments on this? Did Cryptopia try to solve these issues with the devs first?
No they did not. I will contact Cryptopia promptly.
Yes please contact asap. We need cryptopia
Yes and of course I did. Here is the response I received:
Sterlingcoin is being delisted due to a combination of low connections and the network not being secure. We have had to increase the confirmation requirement for many of our coins to 200 confirmations following an ongoing series of 51% attacks on these less secure networks and unfortunately SLG is among the list.
It is unfeasible to keep this high level of confirmations and as the attacks are ongoing, the resources being spent to protect against this, as well as the support load from users complaining because their deposits are taking too long to confirm is the main reason these coins are now being delisted.
I appreciate you reaching out and offering assistance, however we have no issue with the wallet and it is online and operational for users to withdrawal their coins.
My immediate reaction to this was contacting Crysx of CWI to expedite the promised 25 seednodes. While myself and others of the SLG community have filled the void of 5 of these (to add to the 2 preexisting), the long absence is now obviously detrimental to Sterlingcoin and certainly could have helped prevent this.
A fellow miner, learning of this situation just now, is bootstrapping a node now. I will ask others to do so also. Of course, regardless of Crysx's response and possible action, I do plan a strong rebuttal to Cryptopia's delisting. Every effort is being made to make that argument stronger.
Note: the block explorer outage of a few hours being quoted here is unrelated other than it was one less node on the network for that short time. This outage of the block explorer did not come from Sterlingcoin nor it's blockchain. It was a hardware issue on the VPS itself.
The only mitigation to any 51% attack is more 'honest' wallets mining, more specifically and in our case, staking. Of course, all my SLG is staking 24/7 and is the faucet wallet. But its balance is only several thousand and having little weight. I ask any supporter of Sterlingcoin to please stake your Sterlingcoin as often as possible.
If we can demonstrate a stronger network to Cryptopia, I may be able to prevent the delisting. Every effort is being made on my part to do so. Any help fortifying the network is greatly appreciated. I will make the community aware of Crysx's response as soon as I receive one.
EDIT (~10 hours later): 7 CWI seednodes will be online within the next 24 hours or sooner. These 7 will start at cwi-seed06.sterlingcoin.org to continue leveraging the 5 voids that have already been filled by myself and other community members.
