The first seednode that is hardcoded into the wallet is online. Because it is hardcoded into the wallet, you should not even need the sterlingcoin.conf file or any addnodes to discover peers. Of course, I thank Rols for trying to help regardless.

Being that your wallet is unresponsive and you cannot apparently connect to any peers, I suspect something else is the culprit. If the Sterlingcoin wallet can't communicate with the seednode and other peers, something must be stopping it. I just now tested a Lite version on Windows and it already has 16 peers. You may benefit from looking into your network and firewall settings as it sounds like something is standing in the way of communication.

EDIT: On the seednode topic, the second seednode that is hardcoded into the existing wallets (seed2.sterlingcoin.org.uk, which seed2.sterlingcoin.org will resolve to also) will be online within days.

Hey sorry I think my last response came across incorrectly. My SterlingCoin is synced and working fine. But very frequently throughout the day it will take 20% of my CPU and if I look at the client settings it will frequently freeze but if i wait a while it will work again

I am surprised no one else is experiencing this on Windows OS

You might be witnessing your wallet submitting or trying to submit PoS blocks. If this is interfering with your computing or being a nuisance too often, you could stake less frequently. At a bare minimum, you must stake for 12 hours every month to ensure your PoS reward meets annual expectations, though more often is recommended. You could lock your wallet so it is not staking and only unlock it to stake occasionally. Also, Sterlincoin does support the "staking=0" option in the sterlingcoin.conf file to disable staking. This option is probably less desirable because one would need to restart the wallet with "staking=1" or "staking=0" removed as staking will default to true, to start staking again. Forgetting to undo the change in the future might be a problem. I only mention it so people know the option exists.

Another thought, if your wallet consists of many small inputs, many faucet payments for example, dealing with the many inputs might be impeding performance. You might benefit from cleaning up those inputs into larger inputs. To do this and retain your existing addresses follow these steps. It might seem like a lot of steps but, walk it through first and I think you will see the logic is fairly simple... 1) close the wallet. 2) rename your 'real' wallet.dat file. I will use 'walletREAL.dat' for example. 3) launch the wallet. A new wallet.dat file will be created. 4) copy the receiving address in this 'temporary' wallet. 5) close the wallet again. 6) rename the 'temporary' wallet.dat to 'walletTEMP.dat' 7) rename 'walletREAL.dat' back to wallet.dat   8 ) launch the wallet again 9) send your balance to that temporary wallet address you copied in step 4. 10) wait for those transactions to confirm and while doing so, make a new receiving address and copy it. 11) close the wallet yet again. 12) rename the real wallet back to 'walletREAL.dat' and rename the temporary wallet to wallet.dat 13) launch the wallet yet again and now send the balance, in about 5k 'chunks' if you have a large balance, back to your real wallet using the new address you created in step 10. 14) close the wallet 15) rename the wallet.dat back to 'walletTEMP.dat' 16) rename walletREAL.dat back to wallet.dat 17) Finally, launch the wallet.

You could, if you have no problem switching to a new wallet with new addresses, follow a similar logic with fewer steps to move your coins to a completely new wallet. You could, though I would not recommend, use an exchange wallet as a temporary wallet but again, not recommended. Of course, retain your old wallet.dat file and any temporary wallet usued to be safe.

When doing either of these methods and moving your coins, you will reset the coin age of your coins. What this means is your coins will have less weight and that will translate to staking reward installments being received less frequently. But installments will be of a larger amount and still equal 5.5 % annual.

This is quite the peculiar situation you have explained, westloin. I am sorry it is giving you these difficulties and sorry if I misunderstood the problem.

With 16 connections, syncing should certainly not be difficult. Let's do this if you agree, I will PM you and arrange to get a copy of your debug.log file. I will investigate it to see if I can find an indication of the problem.

Again, sorry your wallet is giving you problems. It does sound like something very odd is going on. I will gladly help you get to the bottom of it. Of course, we will resolve the Bittrex transaction issue as well.

Happy Holidays, Sterlingcoiners! Please do enjoy your time with your loved ones this holiday season.

Merry Christmas!!

Happy New Year!!

Hi westloin.

I am waiting on an upgrade to a VPS for the block explorer. The holidays caused a 'corporate' delay with that upgrade, but I expect that very soon, today hopefullly. I am eagerly awaiting the upgrade and will have the explorer online promptly after. I have already started on the custom styling to be used.

In regards to the wallet rebase, I am exploring the option of rebasing against upstream, namely boostcoin. I am in communication with other developers that may be able to help me get that done in a more timely fashion.

Also on my agenda is updating the website and OP to showcase currently available Sterlingcoin solutions, such as PoSWallet.com and Coin To Pay.

In regards to ChainWorks Industries, I will work with Crysx and get more seednodes operational. These will be doployed and hard coded into forthcoming wallets in a manner that, yes, CWI staff will have access to the seednodes but I will have exclusive access to the DNS zonefile that will cause wallets to resolve and point to them.

Also on the ChainWorks Industries front, I am pleased to announce, CWI staff has been and is in development of a multi-pool. This will be a fully-fledged exchange buying multi pool that will allow users to PoW mine other coins and get paid in Sterlingcoin. While I fully understand the Sterlingcoin community has been promised this in the past, and that promise failed, I have confirmed this will be completed mid-2017.

I am making every effort to ensure 2017 will be for Sterlingcoin and Sterlingcoiners, a happy new year.

With dedicated people, and people that are ready to make the personal sacrifices needed, Time Square will be the only place to see a ball drop.

Glad to hear your wallet issue has been resolved. I was glad to help!

My apologies for the prolonged delay on the block explorer. The failure of the VPS provider to upgrade in a timely manner has forced me to find services elsewhere. The block explorer will be up after I secure a VPS meeting my requirements and budget. I certainly hope that will be completed and the block explorer will be live this week.