Hey Steven, I'm having trouble again. I had my wallet closed for a few days and when I start it again it won't sync. It's trying hard to stake or sync, it goes forward a few blocks and at some point remaining blocks seem to increase.
The bootstrap you provided, just to be sure, is for replacing the blk0001.dat file, right? I tried it with a clean installation but it doesn't work, starts from block ~700k.
I also tried a clean install, let it sync and only replaced the wallet.dat file afterward but only a quarter of my coins show up.
How do I prevent it from staking when I start the wallet, I'd like to try it, see if it helps. You mentioned putting in the config file 'staking=0'. Is that file config.ini because I've already tried it but nothing.
 I can't figure it out .

Hello Sterlingcoiners,

A situation of sorts has been on-going below the surface that does now need the community's knowledge. I did intentionally keep this below the surface in hopes of it not needing what is now evident it does need. Please understand this was not done to mislead or misinform the community, but to avoid any unneeded alarm or confusion until I knew it to be a fact.

As we all know, there has been some 'torch-passing' among the ranks of the Sterlingcoin dev team. I have made every effort to make these transitions as seamless as possible for the Sterlingcoin community. It is now evident some of this transition must not be as seamless as I had hoped.

The problems: I sincerely regret having to inform the Sterlingcoin community, we do not have the checkpoint server private key. I feared this was the case for a long time, but only received confirmation via Skype today. I did not avoid divulging any truth, only hoped it was not the truth. We do not have the alert private key as well.

The causes: I venture to guess, the information was lost during the initial outage of our seednodes. The information was never passed to Matt and therefore never passed to me but, in Spencer's defense, any one of us could have suggested the backup of such irreplaceable information. It is now evident no backup exists. With complete respect to my friends and colleagues Spencer and Matt, poor communication undoubtedly stemming from emersion in other projects, caused delay in getting information and subsequently my reporting of it. I by no means am trying to divert blame from myself, only explaining the delay of it being known by the community. Without question, the entire Sterlingcoin dev team deserves the blame.

The symptoms: No seednode is serving up sync checkpoints when they are requested by wallets because no seednode, nor no person regrettably, has the checkpoint server private key. This could explain many of the problems community members have had syncing or maintaining sync. The alert private key being lost means we will not be able to urge the upgrade to the new version I am suggesting below by ways of an in-wallet alert being raised. This is a much less devastating blow than not having the sync checkpoint server private key, but needs to be resolved also.

The resolution: Replacing the sync checkpoint server private key and the alert private key in the code with new private keys and releasing new wallets. Of course, backing up this vital information. I will provide Matt and Spencer with copies of this information as well, so the community will have some reassurance and options in any future event.

So the uncertainty of this, what was prior to this post, a below the surface issue had me in uncertainty about a roadmap. I was reluctant to pin-down milestones not knowing the urgency of this matter. But now that the uncertainty is removed, I do feel very confident to do so and can get the community a roadmap and new wallets promptly. If you can imagine my situation, that comes as a great relief to me. I do apologise for the secrecy of this matter up until now. Please do know it was only kept secret because I hoped it would not be true. I only today learned for certain it was true.

Respectfully,
Steven Saxton

Glad to hear it, westloin!

Please stand-by for an ETA on the new wallet. I am working on the roadmap presently and I hope to post it tonight before I sleep. The graphics artist I previously mentioned and I had hoped would be available to help me with the roadmap is unfortunately unavailable. But I am learning fast. It is looking nice, if I do say so myself.

Seems fair!

Keep on going, glad that you want to escalated this project to a new level.

Hi ASICrefugee,

Here you go: https://github.com/Sterlingcoin/Sterlingcoin-1.5.1.1-Lite-Edition-Linux-Source/releases/download/32bit/Sterlingcoin.exe

Let me know if you have any issue. I would be glad to help.

You're very welcome and thanks for holding Sterlingcoin!

Cool roadmap guys!

great road map!!

Sterlingcoiners,

I am very pleased to announce, the Sterlingcoin v1.6.0.0 source code has been committed and can be found at our repo, https://github.com/Sterlingcoin/Sterlingcoin-1.6.0.0-Release

Here is the applicable sections of the changlog, https://github.com/CryptoCanary/Sterlingcoin-1.6-WIP/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L1-L12

The seednodes have been upgraded to Sterlingcoin version 1.6.0.0.

Windows and Mac binaries will be built ASAP. Please allow 24 - 48 hours for that, but we hope to have them available sooner.

In the meantime here is a glimpse for you,




Linux users, please upgrade at your earliest convenience. Windows and Mac users, thank you in advance for your, hopefully brief, continued patience for the binaries.

Thank you, Sterlingcoiners!

LIBS += -ldl required somewhere in the .pro file (I edited the Makefile, hardly worth submitting a PR, otherwise I would).

Cheers

Graham