ANN: [OPAL] | POS | Secure Messaging |NO ICO

[Truther]

NXT "Haiku" Challange

NXT has been sent to the winners of the challage or have been contacted for a alternate address.

Since there was a tie for first place the prize 3000 and 300 NXT were combined and divided between them.

So each receives 1650 NXT.

Thank you so much for participating.

Here is one last look at our winning  enteries:

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oldnbold
Opal coin, what's next?
Our escape from tyranny,
You will digitize!
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mamansuherman


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xupxup
Next breath of air
among pine trees and rocks
Opal grows.

[Nemanja]

We're losing it. Going below 1200, and I'm afraid we will not be able to recover .

[souljah1h]

We're losing it. Going below 1200, and I'm afraid we will not be able to recover .

Not without a dev.

[HCLivess]

We're losing it. Going below 1200, and I'm afraid we will not be able to recover .

Not without a dev.

Yeah, some things could get an update. Looks like whitj is gone.

[coolcash]

Good Morning,

I know that many of you have been wondering what has been going on with Opal. I/we apologize for the lack of updates. I (coolcash) am still dedicated to this coin, I have been involved since the very beginning and have no reason to leave. To give everyone some updates, it is correct, whitj/bassguitarman left our development team a few months ago. We will be looking for a new developer to assist us in future updates and features, if anyone wants to join and help support our team please PM me, Truther, or the OpalTeam account.

Current goals for Opal:

1. Continue adoption of opal though merchants and other services to accept opal.
2. Opal drive, its still a concept, but has promising potential.
3. Listen to our users and be more active.

Wallet updates:

1. Windows Basic Wallet has been tested with Windows 10. Its on our website. Please let me know if there are any issues.
2. A bootstrap.dat file is available for import, this will save a lot of time on the sync.

We have a new blockchain service http://chainz.cryptoid.info/opal/

Thanks for your patience and support. I am here to stay.

Final note. Please stake, it helps our network and you get free opal by doing it.

Thanks,

CoolCash and the Opal Team.

[Truther]

Good Morning,

I know that many of you have been wondering what has been going on with Opal. I/we apologize for the lack of updates. I (coolcash) am still dedicated to this coin, I have been involved since the very beginning and have no reason to leave. To give everyone some updates, it is correct, whitj/bassguitarman left our development team a few months ago. We will be looking for a new developer to assist us in future updates and features, if anyone wants to join and help support our team please PM me, Truther, or the OpalTeam account.

Current goals for Opal:

1. Continue adoption of opal though merchants and other services to accept opal.
2. Opal drive, its still a concept, but has promising potential.
3. Listen to our users and be more active.

Wallet updates:

1. Windows Basic Wallet has been tested with Windows 10. Its on our website. Please let me know if there are any issues.
2. A bootstrap.dat file is available for import, this will save a lot of time on the sync.

We have a new blockchain service http://chainz.cryptoid.info/opal/

Thanks for your patience and support. I am here to stay.

Final note. Please stake, it helps our network and you get free opal by doing it.

Thanks,

CoolCash and the Opal Team.

I had spoken with Bass a number of times, he says he'll still work on Opal Drive,
but he tied up with in his other project at the moment.

and their is an Alpha of Opal Drive, but its is unstable.

[Truther]

I want to remind people Opal never had a "developer",
 It had members of the community who stepped up
to take on the challenges of developing the coin.

Has it been easy?
"No, it's never been easy"

Have there been day where you just wanna give-up and just walk away?
"Yes, but I take breaks to make time for the import things in life
and not let the toxicity get to me"

Has it felt that the only thing people want from Opal is money?
"That seems to be the nature of Crypto now."

Haven't you made ton's of money as a developer?
 "No, in fact I'd say I've lost more then I've broke even,
services aren't free and someone has to pay for them."

I know this is making it sound shitty to be a Dev and  I can tell you personally it is
definitely not all sunshine and rainbows.

So, Why keep developing?
"I believe in this coin, I believe in the community behind it,
We have come up from literally nothing and have
done have more than 99% of the coin out there.
I continue to develop because in the trust-less world of crypto,
I trust myself and those I work with and in so I trust Opal."

Where do you see Opal in the future?
"I think hardware fueled by Opal is a very promising direction,
but my ultimate goal is to get Opal to the moon, literally,
put an Opal node on a rocket and land it on the Moon."

So those are some of my thoughts, feel free to share yours.

If you feel you can contribute to Opal's development, contact me.

The only way we succeed is together.

[CryptoNick]

Great Post! This is why I love Opal! I wish I could code and help. All I have are ideas. If you want to revisit some of them I can hash them out again. My main concern for all crypto is to make it so that people can always get out what they put in. This is why coins with Functionality will be the most stable. If you can always get a service or drive space with the coin it will never go to Nil and the coin can trade at the service price forever.

Thanks for all your hard work and thankless hours put in!

-CryptoNick

[KLONE]

Is OPAL still associated with SuperNET?

[cryptospout]

Hi I have been having an issue with opal daemon shutting down without any information being printed in the debug log to help trouble shoot it. Does opalcoin have some debug level launch flags?

[Truther]

Is OPAL still associated with SuperNET?

Yes, Opal is still a core coin of SuperNet.

[Truther]

Hi I have been having an issue with opal daemon shutting down without any information being printed in the debug log to help trouble shoot it. Does opalcoin have some debug level launch flags?

Coolcash can answer that better then I can, but let me ask some questions quick..

What system are you running?

What version of Opal are you using?

Have you downloaded the newest wallet from the opal-coin.com or compiled from github?

[tyz]

Yeap, it is still part of Supernet. See here http://www.supernet.org/coins.php

Also, you get information about coin changes on the supernet blog http://www.supernet.org/blog/

Is OPAL still associated with SuperNET?

[coolcash]

Hi I have been having an issue with opal daemon shutting down without any information being printed in the debug log to help trouble shoot it. Does opalcoin have some debug level launch flags?

cryptospout. Join us in #opalcoin @freenode irc. We can help you out with your daemon issues there.

CoolCash

[HCLivess]

I like how OPAL haspossibly the youngest community out there, while HBN has possibly the most senior community of all

[HCLivess]

my linux node is also constantly crashing. ah. I wish at least whitj came back and started fuddling with this

[Lightsplasher]

my linux node is also constantly crashing. ah. I wish at least whitj came back and started fuddling with this

The code on the main branch was crashing for me on Linux too. I used the basic branch and that has been working fine.

Code:

git clone -b basic https://github.com/OpalCoin/OpalCoin.git

[coolcash]

my linux node is also constantly crashing. ah. I wish at least whitj came back and started fuddling with this

The code on the main branch was crashing for me on Linux too. I used the basic branch and that has been working fine.

Code:

git clone -b basic https://github.com/OpalCoin/OpalCoin.git

Use the basic wallet code. We removed some of the addons which were causing some issues. Please let me know if you are having issues and if you can send me your debug logs. I will look at these issues as they are bought up.

Thanks,

CoolCash

[CryptoNick]

The wallet seemed to stop staking even though my weight reported 1 minute. I would restart and it seemed to pick up again and after a while it would stall out my stakes. Not staking now in case my wallet was causing a problem or a fork or something.

[HCLivess]