Quote from: mocacinno on May 02, 2017, 12:28:09 PM

Quote from: AdolfinWolf on May 02, 2017, 12:10:28 PM

Is this the complete guide for setting up and cloning the coin aswell using gitian, or am i missing something? Do you have any walk throughs of that too?

AFAIK, all guides completely describing the clone process are long outdates, and TBH, i'm happy about this. If you see the sheer amount of clonecoins hitting the market, it might be a good thing if such guides aren't rewritten to use with more recent versions of sourcecode.

I cloned a coin for my personal education in the past (an old version of Litecoin IIRC), the cloning and compiling process wasn't that hard to figure out tbh... Basically boiled down to changing the name of the coin, the ports, removing the checkpoints, edit the nonce and timestamp parameters and generating a genesis block.
What is actually pretty hard is to start the chain. You have to start up nodes and connect them, then you have to start mining on one of them...

I lost my early cloning attempts a while back.

I actually re-tried to clone DASH a while ago in order to prove to anybody that cloning a coin is pretty easy, so they should not buy in to the newest ICO premine... However, i ran into problems getting my chain moving.
I started up 2 nodes pointing to eachother (so far so good) and added gen=1 to one of their config's... However, they did not start to mine, they just waited.
I guess the sollution would have been to start one of the nodes pointing eachother while accepting json-rpc connections, then fire up a stratum proxy, then connect an X11 cpu miner using this stratum proxy to start mining on one of the two nodes... However, i wasn't in a mood to do this, so i had succesfully cloned DASH, but i was unable to get my chain moving...

Interesting. That seems indeed like the biggest problem. Is there a walkthrough of these nodes, or is it pretty straightforward? Also with moving the chain you mean constant block updates right?

Is an X11 miner really necessary for that? Isn't there a way to lower the difficulty?