[ANN][MOON] Mooncoin: You know where it's headed! KGW exploit FIXED 4/3/2014

[Wekkel]

Great work.

[peme]

MOONCOIN MAC WALLET IS BACK AGAIN !!!   

The mac wallet of the working wallet version 1.862.1 is online at http://mooncoin.rocks/wallet-download/

All the checksums of the Mooncoin-Qt-1.862.1-Mac.zip are the original ones.

[agswinner]

Windows wallet ok
Mac wallet ok
Blockexplorer ok
listing on the new exchange a good point ( it takes another 766 votes)
now we must strive to find a developer for mobile wallet. so it will be very simple to use this money and the price will go 'to the moon! 

[agswinner]

Very great! Secure (multi) Wallets send and recieve coins without fees....
https://www.coinspot.com.au

[agswinner]

Please Peme..add this web wallet on mooncoin.rocks!

[coinflow]

Windows wallet ok
Mac wallet ok
Blockexplorer ok
listing on the new exchange a good point ( it takes another 766 votes)
now we must strive to find a developer for mobile wallet. so it will be very simple to use this money and the price will go 'to the moon!  

While it's definitely a thing to strive for, it is more important to issue an updated standard-wallet with an optimized algorithm first. We need to solve the problem with some miners cheating because of the random block-rewards as soon as possible (edit: this can also lead to the problem, that blocks with low rewards are solved much later than those with high rewards, because only the honest (smaller) miners work on them, hence the transactions contained in those blocks need much longer to be confirmed, which is also unfair for the users).
I have already asked in a thread of a mobile-wallet-developer. See what he answered here: https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=336215.msg8576255#msg8576255
So first we need deaconboogie back, or another capable developer, to take us to the next level. With that new wallet and the dev being there for contacts, we can proceed and get a mobile-wallet-developer aboard, too.

[redjedievolution]

I just downloaded the windows wallet from www.mooncoin.rocks and it doesn't sync.

It shows a message like this "No one block source found"

What can i do? Thanks

[coinflow]

I just downloaded the windows wallet from www.mooncoin.rocks and it doesn't sync.

It shows a message like this "No one block source found"

What can i do? Thanks

If you have installed completely new, it has to find peers first, to download/update the blockchain from. So just be a little patient, if it doesn't sync immediately. As soon as the first peer is found, it will start to sync and find more and more peers to counter-check the blockchain.

Check these two posts, I have made in another thread, if it still doesn't work, or you're in a hurry:
https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=760083.msg8575636#msg8575636
https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=760083.msg8575815#msg8575815

My current peers are (replace or add those found in the linked post above, as peers can change daily, because they are only the IPs of other user's wallets, that don't necessarily have to be online constantly and their IPs may change regularly over time, when assigned dynamically by their providers. So it is just a snapshot from today.):

"addr" : "82.226.151.241:44664",
"addr" : "92.238.186.27:44664",
"addr" : "116.49.143.141:44664",
"addr" : "24.87.44.66:44664",
"addr" : "23.20.113.24:44664",
"addr" : "188.226.176.232:44664",
"addr" : "192.99.167.170:44664",
"addr" : "162.243.98.174:44664",

Since pools are online most of the time, you could try to add their IPs or domainnames, too, via addnode (see the links above for a how-to). For example:
addnode=multipool.us
addnode=moon.bitember.com

As soon as the first peer is found, they communicate with each other, sharing IPs of other wallets to connect with. So when your wallet has the first connection, it will find more (up to eight) and then redistribute/announce these IP-addresses to the other wallets connected to yours, to stabilize the network. Edit: By the way, this is the reason, why you should start up your MOON-wallet, as soon as your computer runs, even if you're not using the wallet to move Mooncoins around. Because it helps the Mooncoin-network to always have a minimum of peers communicating with each other, hence building up a strong network.

Keep in mind, that the wallets on http://mooncoin.rocks are no new ones. So if you've already got a working wallet, there is no need to redownload/reinstall at the moment.

[redjedievolution]

thanks a lot coinflow! i added this to mooncoin.conf
addnode=5.45.105.66
addnode=188.226.176.232
addnode=23.20.113.24
addnode=188.165.252.23
addnode=148.251.70.194
addnode=85.10.194.50
addnode=74.91.20.250:44664
addnode=76.14.186.38

and now is resyncing

 

[disclaimer201]

The absence of deaconboogie shows that MoonCoin was indeed designed as a Pump and Dump scam only. He gave up on the coin as soon as there was no more profit to be made and even the mooncoin.info site has been abandoned, and all this despite MoonCoin's young age of only 8 months!

MoonCoin urgently needs a new dev and the support of its community. Let's hope for the best. The community is still there.

[Bluestreet]

Guldencoin is the most impressive coin for me this year, if you not interesting in gambling on PnD and want something solid, you will never see a coin get updated faster.

[coinflow]

The absence of deaconboogie shows that MoonCoin was indeed designed as a Pump and Dump scam only. He gave up on the coin as soon as there was no more profit to be made and even the mooncoin.info site has been abandoned, and all this despite MoonCoin's young age of only 8 months!

MoonCoin urgently needs a new dev and the support of its community. Let's hope for the best. The community is still there.

Yes, you're right. We should set a deadline until deaconboogie should be back. If he doesn't reappear, we should look for a new dev.
Do you know, how to manage that? It seems as if you - as a legendary member - could know more? Maybe even have connections to a possible new capable long-time-developer?

Edit: But I would not go as far as declaring it a pump-and-dump-scam. Because if that was true, why would he have let MOON hang "back in the days", when the blockchain was stuck? A p'n'd-scammer probably could have made more money, if the KGW (or another solution) would have been implemented immediately, maybe pushing MOON to an even higher level. Keep in mind, that MOON was chasing DOGE then and ranked right behind it in terms of market capitalization.
I'd say, that deaconboogie just don't feels as commited and dedicated as he should, after launching (t)his coin (maybe also lacking skills to develop the coin further?). Which is not so nice, regarding investors and users believing in the coin and himself.

Edit2:
Maybe at the end he really "only" has serious family-based problems, as he posted on reddit. But at least he could give a short sign of life, sketching out a development-plan, so that we see a future direction of MOON. It's not that hard, to log in to bct and reddit and post about that. That is my opinion. And put mooncoin.info back online again, of course.

What do you all think?

[redjedievolution]

I think we need a new leader-devel asap.
Maybe not just one guy, even a group of people compromised on the project.

[peme]

The absence of deaconboogie shows that MoonCoin was indeed designed as a Pump and Dump scam only. He gave up on the coin as soon as there was no more profit to be made and even the mooncoin.info site has been abandoned, and all this despite MoonCoin's young age of only 8 months!

MoonCoin urgently needs a new dev and the support of its community. Let's hope for the best. The community is still there.

Yes, you're right. We should set a deadline until deaconboogie should be back. If he doesn't reappear, we should look for a new dev.
Do you know, how to manage that? It seems as if you - as a legendary member - could know more? Maybe even have connections to a possible new capable long-time-developer?

Edit: But I would not go as far as declaring it a pump-and-dump-scam. Because if that was true, why would he have let MOON hang "back in the days", when the blockchain was stuck? A p'n'd-scammer probably could have made more money, if the KGW (or another solution) would have been implemented immediately, maybe pushing MOON to an even higher level. Keep in mind, that MOON was chasing DOGE then and ranked right behind it in terms of market capitalization.
I'd say, that deaconboogie just don't feels as commited and dedicated as he should, after launching (t)his coin (maybe also lacking skills to develop the coin further?). Which is not so nice, regarding investors and users believing in the coin and himself.

Edit2:
Maybe at the end he really "only" has serious family-based problems, as he posted on reddit. But at least he could give a short sign of life, sketching out a development-plan, so that we see a future direction of MOON. It's not that hard, to log in to bct and reddit and post about that. That is my opinion. And put mooncoin.info back online again, of course.

What do you all think?

I think the reasons for the absence of deaconboogie are all speculation. If he is still interested in his coin than it should be ok for him that the community cares. His return would be great, but we should not wait endless. His last presence at bitcointalk was mid July. In my opinion setting a deadline is an idea.
Mooncoin works very well. The change from random to fixed block size is in my opinion the only change in code I would think about, perhaps in the future also staking (like hobonickel does) could be interesting.

At the weekend I installed the QT and MinGW development environment to compile mooncoind.exe from source. It was not so easy but I did it.  ...next days I will compile the mooncoin-qt.exe (GUI-version of the wallet) from source. At the moment there is a QT Library for QR-Codes missing, I have to install...then this should also be succesfull. In the past I 've been programming a lot with QT and it's easy for me to read all the source code. It needs more time for me to understand all the details and complexity of the wallet, but I am optimistic that I should be able to fix things like random to fixed block size also short-term, if needed and if you all wish this.

@agswinner: https://www.coinspot.com.au will be addet at mooncoin.rocks within the next hours.

[coinflow]

At the weekend I installed the QT and MinGW development environment to compile mooncoind.exe from source. It was not so easy but I did it.   ...next days I will compile the mooncoin-qt.exe (GUI-version of the wallet) from source. At the moment there is a QT Library for QR-Codes missing, I have to install...then this should also be succesfull. In the past I 've been programming a lot with QT and it's easy for me to read all the source code. It needs more time for me to understand all the details and complexity of the wallet, but I am optimistic that I should be able to fix things like random to fixed block size also short-term, if needed and if you all wish this.

That's a good idea, I'd subscribe to ...  
I was researching as well at the weekend and found this one, which gives a basic idea of how the wallet has to be tweaked, respectively where the relevant parameters can be found:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide

For me the hardest part seems to inform all relevant parties like pools, coinmarketcap-pages, online-wallets, exchanges etc. prior to a hardfork (don't know, if we simply can release an updated wallet and when enough supporters install them, then the fork takes place automatically? Or has something special to be changed in the code also, to make this happen? Maybe you or someone else here can enlighten me ...?). I could imagine that they are skeptical at first, if they are not contacted by the original dev ...


I'd do that part and try to communicate with all the involved, in order to make it an as glitch-free (hard-)fork as possible ...
But of course we need the entire community behind us first, for this to become a successful thing.

Edit:
Do you have a GitHub-account, so I can add you to https://github.com/mooncoin-project ?
There we would have a nice basis for the next wallet-version. According to gjhiggins, it is a ported version of Litecoin with the latest updates (OpenSSL-fix etc.). We would have to ask him for details. Btw: you can then change back the coin-icon to the original one immediately as you like, since the other one there is only a suggestion by Graham and he already stated, that he is out of the project, regarding active work on the code. He just wanted to provide a good new starting point for the community, after deaconboogie seemed to be so unreliable.

[gjhiggins]

According to gjhiggins, it is a ported version of Litecoin with the latest updates (OpenSSL-fix etc.). We would have to ask him for details. Btw: you can then change back the coin-icon to the original one immediately as you like, since the other one is only a suggestion by Graham and he already stated, that he is out of the project, regarding active work on the code. He just wanted to provide a good new starting point for the community, after deaconboogie seemed to be so unreliable.

Precisely so.

There has been an unfortunate tendency for (forked/cloned) altcoins to be released with a code repository that (for some unfathomable reason) discards all the prior commit history, i.e. all the sequential detailed changes made to the parent coin, back from its inception right up to the point when it is forked to create the new altcoin. One extremely important consequence of this decision to excise the commit history is that it effectively prevents the newly-forked code from benefiting from any enhancements or bug fixes made to the parent after it was forked.

With “normal” git (revision control) practice, you create a fork of the original repository code. The technically accurate term is “fork” but the actual command borrows misleadingly and uselessly from genetics:
git clone <repos_url>
You can then work completely separately on the forked code (say, making a few improvements or correcting a typo). At the end of the effort, you have a complete copy of the original, plus your changes. Assuming you have write access to the git repository from which you forked the code, you can simply commit the lot to the repos and that's the job done. Typically, unless you're a member of the development team, you won't have write access to a repository, instead you can submit a “pull request” to the repos admin, indicating that you have made specific changes. If your PR is acceptable, git allows the devs to integrate it very, very simply by merging your acceptably-changed copy of the code into the master.

But what happens if the original repos content is changed while you're still working? Your copy is now out of date and your PR will be rejected. The standard means of keeping your working copy up to date with changes to the master repository is to pull the changes from the repos and merge them into your copy with
git pull; git merge.

This is exactly how it could work with, say, Dogecoin and Mooncoin (the latter being a fork of the former). Bugs discovered and fixed in the parent Dogecoin repos could be merged into the Mooncoin code, enhancements and improvements to the Dogecoin code could be propagated to the Mooncoin code fairly simply (with thanks and due consideration) by merging. So, releasing a coin with a repos that cannot be used to merge bugfixes and improvements from the parent coin is a seriously retrograde step and will create a strong reliance on a capable dev who can migrate desirable changes in the Dogecoin code to the Mooncoin code.

I'll just vary the binding in the above para:

This is exactly how it could work with, say, Litecoin and Mooncoin (the latter being an indirect fork of the former). Bugs discovered and fixed in the parent Litecoin repos could be merged into the Mooncoin code, enhancements and improvements to the Litecoin code could be propagated to the Mooncoin code fairly simply (with thanks and due consideration) by merging. So, releasing a coin with a repos that cannot be used to merge bugfixes and improvements from the parent coin is a seriously retrograde step and will create a strong reliance on a capable dev who can migrate desirable changes in the Litecoin code to the Mooncoin code.

Mooncoin was launched as a fork of Litecoin 0.6.3 (as was Dogecoin). In late Feb, the extant Mooncoin 0.6.3 repos was overwritten completely with an upgrade of Mooncoin code to match code in the Litecoin 0.8.6 repos.

I took this code-dump and integrated it back in to a fork of Litecoin 0.8.6 with a full commit history:

https://github.com/mooncoin-project/mooncoin-landann/commits/mooncoin?page=2

The commit history now records in faithful detail, step-by-step, the process of going from recent Litecoin to latest Mooncoin and allows Litecoin upgrades (e.g. 0.8.6 -> 0.8.7) to be straightforwardly merged in to the Mooncoin code.

If Mooncoin follows Dogecoin to Bitcoin 0.9.2 (I strongly recommend this), then the above code is irrelevant, it all needs to be done again because there is no straightforward merge path from Litecoin 0.8.x to Bitcoin 0.9.X. However, the 0.8.6 commit history contains all the details of the path that was trodden previously.

I considered that to be the most effective contribution I could achieve without actually supplanting the official dev.

Cheers

Graham

[secbul]

There is a dev here : soopy452000

I saw that he RE-SURRECT GRW coin. (GRW coin was near dead)
As read the post, he/she knows what to do. This is an example of course.

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=469464.0

[coinflow]

There is a dev here : soopy452000

I saw that he RE-SURRECT GRW coin. (GRW coin was near dead)
As read the post, he/she knows what to do. This is an example of course.

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=469464.0

If I read it correctly, soopy452000 was the original dev who handed the coin over to unick. See their new thread here:
https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=641241.0

Something like that would be ideal. Deaconboogie should do the same, if he doesn't want or cannot care for MOON in a reasonable manner.
We could then include an information here in the first posting and on reddit, that a new developer or development-team took over, so everyone who is interested (and/or does not read the whole thread nor even the latest postings) immediately knows, what's going on and will be forwarded to the right place to get correct information, Edit: instead of being confronted with incorrect/outdated and or missing data, like it is now here in the first posting and on reddit.

[redjedievolution]

big buys on cryptsy, jumped to 5 litoshi 
and yes... im not... 

[peme]

big buys on cryptsy, jumped to 5 litoshi 
and yes... im not... 

  nice.

Secure Mooncoin web wallet, also for mobile devices at:
http://www.coinspot.com.au now added at mooncoin.rocks :  http://mooncoin.rocks/web-wallet/