Quote from: westloin on March 26, 2017, 05:25:29 PM

Quote from: Sterlingcoin on March 24, 2017, 10:26:28 PM

Hi Sterlingcoiners,

Sorry for the delay in getting a roadmap out. Some personal matters have allowed very little time to focus on it this past week. Please know it will be presented to the community as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

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 Sad

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Hi westloin.

Sorry you are having difficulties and I do hope to help remove them. The bootstrap should be renamed, if it is not already, 'bootstrap.dat' and placed in the Sterlingcoin data directory (the same place you find blk0001.dat). Delete blk0001.dat and the database and txleveldb directories entirely. Use caution to not delete your wallet.dat file. Then launch the wallet and it will see the bootstrap.dat file and begin the process of importing blocks from the bootstrap.dat file.

'staking=0' should be an added line to the sterlingcoin.conf file. Sorry if I failed to explain that previously. If that file does not exist in the same mentioned above Sterlingcoin data directory, please create it with any text editor and add that one line, 'staking=0'.

Unfortunately, I do suspect yours and others' issues syncing are stemming from a bigger problem. Please allow me to elaborate that problem in another post following this one. The gravity of it does deem a separate post on the topic worthy. I will compose that post immediately after posting this one. Please allow me some time to word it clearly and properly, explain my proposed resolution, explain how and why this has happened, explain why the community is just learning of it today, and the timeline ramifications it has had and will have for Sterlingcoin development. This will also explain the delay on the requested roadmap more. After reading it, I think you will understand it is the only way forward and the reasons it has impeded much of what the community has been waiting for. I also hope my decision making during these events will be understood as done in the best interest of Sterlingcoin, because they certainly were.

Again, please allow me some time to compose the mentioned follow-up post. Thank you in advance.