Quote from: drays on September 10, 2016, 04:10:36 PM

Quote from: 8-bit-Party on September 10, 2016, 06:55:54 AM

Quote from: drays on September 08, 2016, 11:54:37 PM

Did the chain indeed stop? According to http://8bitcoin.netspecto.com/explorer.php the last block is 636889 and it was generated 9 days ago.
The wallet on my Linux box is struggling to sync from bootstrap - it is so slow and CPU hungry. I think it will sync in one week.. if not, looks like more powerful VPS is needed

In any case, a new chain seems to be the only viable solution to those sync issues.

Make sure you have set maxorphanblocks=99999999 in your 8bit.conf. Otherwise sync might take many weeks.

Ok, thanks a lot. So the bootstrap.dat we have is not a clean one, it also contains info on orphan blocks? I have read somewhere there are two ways to create a bootstrap.dat - one way is just by copying the blk00xx.dat (the dirty way, where the bootstrap could contain a lot of extra garbage), and another way, more complex (don't remember the details), where the bootstrap.dat is clean and contains only the healthy blocks info..

Thanks for the hint. I did not know about creation of orphan-free bootstraps. We will update bootstrap soon.