Quote from: johnnystjohn on February 25, 2015, 02:43:51 AM

Quote from: 3r197 on February 24, 2015, 07:36:15 PM

Quote from: johnnystjohn on February 24, 2015, 04:23:23 PM

Quote from: rafikichi on February 24, 2015, 04:39:17 AM

Here's a peer.dat that should connect you right up: http://1337n00b.com/peers.dat

BOOOOOYAHHH!

Uploaded peers.dat file and looks like she's lubed up and synching!

Thanks a million!

Noob here... what does the peer.dat file do exactly?

How is it related to a node?

Trying to figure out the same. Here is what i found quickly:

Peers.dat is used to store the peer to peer connections needed to pass the blockchain information, of what transactions have occured, around the Feathercoin network.

Peers.dat used to be plain text, so you could see who was attached, but is now is not human readable directly. You can still see the peers that are attached by starting the debug console in Feathercoin help, and typing getpeerinfo. It shows the IP addresses and version number of clients attached to your wallet. Maybe the same for CraigsCoin

found this too on the https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Directory_Contents

.lock
BDB lock file

bitcoin.conf [optional]
Contains configuration options.

blkxxxx.dat [Versions prior to v0.8.0]
Contains concatenated raw blocks. Stored are actual Bitcoin blocks, in network format, dumped to disk raw.

blkindex.dat [Versions prior to v0.8.0]
Indexing information used with blkxxxx.dat

__db.xxx
Used by BDB

db.log
debug.log
Bitcoin's verbose log file. Automatically trimmed from time to time.

wallet.dat
Storage for keys, transactions, metadata, and options. Please be sure to make backups of this file. It contains the keys necessary for spending your bitcoins.

addr.dat [Versions prior to v0.7.0]
Storage for ip addresses to make a reconnect easier

peers.dat [Versions v0.7.0 and later]
Storage for peer information to make a reconnect easier. This file uses a bitcoin-specific file format, unrelated to any database system[1].

The data, index and log files are used by Oracle Berkeley DB, the embedded key/value data store that Bitcoin uses.

So my understanding is that peers.dat is modified each time the wallet is launched.

"peers.dat [Versions v0.7.0 and later]
Storage for peer information to make a reconnect easier. This file uses a bitcoin-specific file format, unrelated to any database system[1]."

Thanks Johnny!
So it can potentially help one to download the blockchain faster when a new wallet is created? - as compared to simply downloading and installing the QT program?

It would be nice if there was a way it could also help strengthen (increase) the network weight (in terms of staking). Some people here are having issues with their wallet weight being higher than the network weight, therefore they don't receive the correct stake interest percentage (2%).
I wish there was a way where peer.dat, addr.dat, and addnodes could get the network weight issue resolved. And I'm still wondering if potential bugs in the Mac wallets are causing an issue with the network weight not adjusting correctly.

Anyways...

Thanks again for the response.