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[MEGAman]

Just to do it right. 
I just have to download the new wallet and add the nodes, that's all? 

Far from a newb when it comes to mining and technology in general but I've never done a conf file. I thought I did it right but get a run time error. Care to lend a hand?

Close you OctoCoin wallet

Go to %AppData%/Roaming/OctoCoin and:

1 - backup your wallet.dat
2 - Delete everything except wallet.dat
3 - Create your octocoin.conf file and add

listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=xxx
rpcport=22888
addnode=162.243.144.135
addnode=162.243.149.125
addnode=162.243.207.204
addnode=162.243.141.242

4 - Save the octocoin.conf to %AppData%/Roaming/OctoCoin

Relaunch the wallet. If you get in an error, close it out and make sure the process is closed, then relaunch it.

haha beat me to it!

[frameLAlife]

my mining rig just paged down on my cell. it appears FusionHash is down. it shows zero workers.

[joshycoin]

@Jester and Megaman

Thank you, if you leave me your octo addresses I'd be happy to give you both some.

[shellbunner]

my mining rig just paged down on my cell. it appears FusionHash is down. it shows zero workers.

Looks like the whole network is down. Early fork?

[cryptoxx]

my mining rig just paged down on my cell. it appears FusionHash is down. it shows zero workers.

Looks like the whole network is down. Early fork?

What makes you think that's the explanation?

[frameLAlife]

the net hashrate is still showing as 156.97 MH/s.

hmmmm.

[sterlingcapital]

my mining rig just paged down on my cell. it appears FusionHash is down. it shows zero workers.

Looks like the whole network is down. Early fork?

only fusionhash is down i think.

[GWCalvert]

Edric's pool is still up. Its showing someone mining at 168MH! 

[frameLAlife]

my mining rig just paged down on my cell. it appears FusionHash is down. it shows zero workers.

Looks like the whole network is down. Early fork?

only fusionhash is down i think.

yeah and it looks like it's just octo... i checked anoncoin on fusion and you could still mine it. i'm sure murraycoin and megacoin are prolly good as well.

i'm at edric's octo.

[sterlingcapital]

what happens to the existing coins after the fork.  will price go up or down?

[GWCalvert]

And FusionHash is back online...

[djslick]

heh, edric's pool is finding bonus blocks ^_^

i'm gonna stay here for a little while, gotta give all the proper pools my love

moved my 6MH there, just had a 280x die on me, not sure the deal, RMA won't be back until the bonus blocks are long gone, err the 188 blocks. booo.

had another 280x gigabyte windforce's 3rd fan seize up too, wondering if i can just swap it out with any generic 75mm fan, aslong as it's pwm...

[FusionHash]

And FusionHash is back online...

Correct - our OctoCoin pool is back online. The issue was stratum-related and surprisingly early data appears to show it had nothing to do with the new 1.8 client. It seems a bit coincidental considering our OctoCoin pool has had 100% uptime over the past 50 days. In any case we will keep our eye on things while we continue to investigate. We plan to upgrade our stratum servers in the near future regardless so perhaps we will have to move the goal posts closer on that. Apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully everybody had a backup pool set! So feel free to hop back in and thank you again for mining at FusionHash!

[shellbunner]

And FusionHash is back online...

Correct - our OctoCoin pool is back online. The issue was stratum-related and surprisingly early data appears to show it had nothing to do with the new 1.8 client. It seems a bit coincidental considering our OctoCoin pool has had 100% uptime over the past 50 days. In any case we will keep our eye on things while we continue to investigate. We plan to upgrade our stratum servers in the near future regardless so perhaps we will have to move the goal posts closer on that. Apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully everybody had a backup pool set! So feel free to hop back in and thank you again for mining at FusionHash!

Good to see things running again. 

And we just passed Rambocoin for voting on Mintpal. We're slowly moving on up!

[MEGAman]

And FusionHash is back online...

Correct - our OctoCoin pool is back online. The issue was stratum-related and surprisingly early data appears to show it had nothing to do with the new 1.8 client. It seems a bit coincidental considering our OctoCoin pool has had 100% uptime over the past 50 days. In any case we will keep our eye on things while we continue to investigate. We plan to upgrade our stratum servers in the near future regardless so perhaps we will have to move the goal posts closer on that. Apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully everybody had a backup pool set! So feel free to hop back in and thank you again for mining at FusionHash!

Good to see things running again.  

And we just passed Rambocoin for voting on Mintpal. We're slowly moving on up!

While I'm not proud of our company on the MintPal voting list it's nice to know we are at least passing them up! Slow and steady wins the race every time. Hey Octo dev(s), question: any reason you guys would prefer to be listed on MintPal before Cryptsy? I understand preferring to be listed on MintPal but 888 will surely be trading at both eventually anyway. It would be pretty easy to get picked up at Cryptsy. I mean we're doing fine on voting - nice and steady - but we're still 1,000 votes behind BeeCoin for Christ's sake. Then you have cowboys like "Stability Shares" shooting up the list with purchased votes. I'm not looking to unload or anything in fact I've been buying since the new client hit but it would be nice to get a bit more exposure and trade somewhere with higher volume. I dunno just curious. Seems you guys always have a reason for everything so I'm sure there is a good reason but if there isn't I'd be willing to buy a few votes with my Cryptsy Points.

[shellbunner]

And FusionHash is back online...

Correct - our OctoCoin pool is back online. The issue was stratum-related and surprisingly early data appears to show it had nothing to do with the new 1.8 client. It seems a bit coincidental considering our OctoCoin pool has had 100% uptime over the past 50 days. In any case we will keep our eye on things while we continue to investigate. We plan to upgrade our stratum servers in the near future regardless so perhaps we will have to move the goal posts closer on that. Apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully everybody had a backup pool set! So feel free to hop back in and thank you again for mining at FusionHash!

Good to see things running again. 

And we just passed Rambocoin for voting on Mintpal. We're slowly moving on up!

Seems you guys always have a reason for everything so I'm sure there is a good reason but if there isn't I'd be willing to buy a few votes with my Cryptsy Points.

Ha! I went on a voting spree a week ago and got carried away with my Cryptsy points voting for 888. And then Cryptsty points doubled in value.  Terrible timing, but maybe someday we'll get listed there. Although I must say, I am liking Bittrex more and more everyday. Site is pretty slick and the support is great. Plus it's based in Seattle, so I'm biased.

[peterw]

cowboys like "Stability Shares"

Doubt anyone's ever described that coin that way. Funny. Also curious about the actual question of cryptsy v. Mintpal.

[djslick]

IMO craptsy needs to die. I've been personally burned by them 3 times, and after every time i say "never again", and i never seem to learn. so a cursory google search for terms like: "cryptsy, terrible, awful, horrible, scam, etc."

in short, i'm %99 sure that after all my own experiences and the stories i've heard from several personal friends, and well, everyone else on the internet, is that cryptsy operate on a factional reserve system, aka how mt gox was doing things. they trade volumes of coins that they don't actually posess. and when you deposit to their wallets, often you're literally just making up for their own gambled losses.

3 times i've deposited a coin to have it just dissapear, well not dissapear, it's still "there" but i can't withdraw it. i try for over a week, all support says is "sorry". they "aren't sure how this happened" I know goddamn well how it happened, fractional reserve bullshit banking is how.

the only thing i could "do" with my coins is trade them on cryptsy for BTC, which i was still able to withdraw. even though cryptsy was giving me the shittiest exchange rate for that particular coin at the time. i've lost thousands of dollars through that site. never again. never again.

and for the record i have no vested interest in seeing a different site become the main exchange for octo, i just do not wanna see this coin screwed by the liquidity issues that go hand-in-hand with cryptsy. it often takes 24-48 hours for your deposits to even show up, this is "normal". octo's plans said that for them to deploy their masterplans, they require "liquidity". cryptsy provedies the exact opposite. frustration, frozen assets, and lost revenue.

<--- infinity coin, digitalcoin, and leafcoin. all frozen at crucial trading times. 2 of those 3 were frozen for over a week before i just buckled and traded for BTC, after losing potential thousands on the "ACTUAL" free market.

never again.

[MEGAman]

Just to do it right.  
I just have to download the new wallet and add the nodes, that's all?  

Far from a newb when it comes to mining and technology in general but I've never done a conf file. I thought I did it right but get a run time error. Care to lend a hand?

If you are on Windows you just open notepad and toss this in there off OctoCoin post 1:

Code:

listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=xxx
rpcport=22888
addnode=162.243.144.135
addnode=162.243.149.125
addnode=162.243.207.204
addnode=162.243.141.242

You don't even need the usr/pass but whatever - defaults are fine. Then you save the file as OctoCoin.conf in /Users/(your username)/AppData/Roaming/OctoCoin

Or if you chose a different folder when you ran Octo for the first time you can save it in there. If you don't see AppData in Windows Explorer you might have to go to View >> Options >>  Change Folder and Search Options >> View >> Show hidden files and system files and save. If you are on Linux I think you go to /home/(your username)/.octocoin and toss it in there.

Sounds more complicated than it is if you've never done a conf - should be no prob. Then close the client and re-open. Odds are you won't even need to add the nodes actually but the devs are probably just playing it safe. I did it just in case!

ALWAYS change rpcuser and rpcpassword unless you are 100% confident that access to the rpcport is blocked.  Failing that, always encrypt your wallets.  Otherwise, if the rpcport is accessible for an un-encrypted wallet and you download or copy/paste a .conf file with server=1 set or enabled by default then you can lose your coins.  If somebody has access through the RPC port all they need is;

Code:

getaddressesbyaccount ""
dumpprivkey "oneofyouraddresses"

private key(s) can then be imported into another wallet and once there, funds can be transferred elsewhere, you just lost all your coins.

My bad! I always encrypt my wallets and only allow LAN IPs but still good points. No sense half-assing an important password. On most of my wallets I don't even have an rpcuser/pass since I never solomine.

[Stormbringer]

    https://fusionhash.com √
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        DDoS Protection
        1% Pool Fee

I mined here, received only half of what it should be according to current difficulty and my hashrate. So the fee is actually 51%.