Yea there seems to be a bunch of problems surrounding this project, the main developer AWOL and not much of a community. However, the technology does work pretty good, considering that it has been running for over a year and (with a bit of luck) one can have it up and running, fully synced, within half an hour. Impressive!
In comparison to the actual working concept, the bugs and problems appear pretty minor.
Yeah, I wish I knew enough of the code to understand how portable this is to bitcoin. I know the blockchain mechanisms were somewhat modified to an account-style system, but essentially how difficult would it be for bitcoin to integrate whats been done here? I mean, thats been the concern with alt coins built from bitcoin (well, speculative concern). But I don't know how much has been changed and if it would be possible to merge... upstream?
I dont think that would be possible, there are some pretty heavy changes from the original Bitcoin code. Not 100% sure though.
That finalize node thing sound like the 7-days behind problem. The best solution seems to be to delete all but the config and wallet file, and run it again. Try starting it with cryptonited, then close it, then run the cryptonite-qt instead.
The QT dependencies:
apt-get install libqt4-dev libqtgui4
thanks for the advice. I don't seem to have the cryptonite-qt binaries. I'm running headless, so there's that... qt is the GUI, right?