TL;DR Many services on nastyfans.org not working correctly. I am alive. I will fix everything. No distributions will be lost. I ask for patience.
And now full story...
In middle March I had privilege of traveling to meet OgNasty again. There was long talks of current mining situation and the fanclub and current to-do items and the future of Nasty. It was sometimes difficult discussions because some things like P2Pool situation is not good. But in the end we traded many interesting ideas that I hope someday come to be reality. I look forward to discussing these ideas with the fanclub. Some ideas I see OgNasty already presenting: NastyPool mining and nastyfans policy.
During my travels the Bitcoin-Core on our transaction server died. Hard. This was the reason the 2016-03-18 distribution did not happen. After I return home I see many LevelDB errors. I spend some days trying to recover LevelDB database but it was a mess.
I decide that once LevelDB is corrupted there is not much to do except redownload the full blockchain. So I do that but it takes 5 days. This was the reason the 2016-03-25 distribution did not happen.
Unfortunately after successful download of full blockchain LevelDB corruption happens again. It is not hardware errors. Instead the problem is not enough RAM on transaction server. Bitcoin-Core is C++ and this is bad when out of memory errors happen. Things just start crapping themselves. So I move wallet to a fatter server so I can push out 2 missed distributions. After download of full blockchain again I think I am ready. But I make a mistake in moving over transaction server software. This resulted in
accidental partial payout. More verification is necessary to be sure all missed and future distributions are 100% correct. This was the reason the 2016-04-01 distribution did not happen.
This week I rethink how the transaction server works. I do not like reliance on Bitcoin-Core because it is a house of cards and a memory pig. I am looking now at creating raw transactions on a server with no blockchain and only keys. I think this makes more sense. Since still there is no transaction server running this is the reason the distribution for today will not happen.
Many nastyfans services are based on transaction server. The JSON services. The auction. The account balance tracking. The distributions. None of these services work since about 4 weeks. I try to get these online again soon but as life has it I am very busy these days. So I find little time for it. I hope this post relieves some questions about what is going on. I look forward to reducing depedency on Bitcoin-Core but it is not a quick change. I ask members for patience and trust that things will return to normal so we can move forward (like bring new online shop online that I mostly programmed in airplane to OgNasty). Luckily we have a public ledger so no Bitcoin can be lost.
