Hi all,
New to Solarcoin, introduced to the coin since SMA announced a simple way to register for SLR and I have to say I like every aspect of it!
I have Staking enabled and got the following message:
Status: conflicted
Date: xx/xx/2019 xx:xx
Source: Generated
Credit: 0.0xxxxxxx SLR
Net amount: +0.0xxxxxxx SLR
Transaction ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Generated coins must mature 500 blocks before they can be spent. When you generated this block, it was broadcast to the network to be added to the block chain. If it fails to get into the chain, its state will change to "not accepted" and it won't be spendable. This may occasionally happen if another node generates a block within a few seconds of yours.
Whereby 'x' represents a value.
A few questions:
1 - What exactly does this 'status: conflicted' mean?
2 - Is it normal that this happens?
3 - When does this conflict happens?
4 - Am I waiting for an interest or not?
5 - I added recently a list of new 'addnode=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' addresses to the SolarCoin.conf, originally the file only contain one entry. Has this error any relationship to the reported conflict error?
I hope someone can explain in detail? Thanks in advance!
1 - So imagine there are hundreds of people all running wallets trying to make the next block in the blockchain, its a competitive process and the exact time when a new block will occur is unknown. Lets say you and I make a block at almost exactly the same time, I send my block "A" to my network peers, you send your block "B" to your network peers. Somehow we all as a network have to agree on which block A or B is the real block and which is the one we will all discard - if you talk to blockchain people this is the "consensus mechanism" they refer to; how to reach consesnsus between anonymous peers with no leader to make descisions? The descision is made by whichever block gets the next block made on it first, if A gets block A+1 before B gets a new block, A is the victor and your B block is discarded; the idea here is that on average the more peers receive a block and work on it, the more consensus it has - if my block reached 100 people and your block reached only 50 people, mine is twice as likley to make a new block as yours.
2 - Yes its normal, as I said its a natural part of the consensus mechanism that allow blockchains to operate with no central control.
3 - As I said, it happens regularly, its just a part of the uncoordinated nature of block-chain.
4 - When your block B was discarded, its as if it never existed, so all the interest you were owed in that block, is still owed, plus the additional interest since then; you didnt lose anything.
5 - Addnodes just help you get connections to other peers so that has had no impact on this. The speed of your up (outbound) internet connection and the total number of connections you have might have a slight impact. If you only have 8 connections, set your node up for listening, it might help a tiny bit.
P.S. Welcome to SolarCoin!
First of all thanks so much for the explanations, it is much clearer now. I have a few additional questions:
a) With regards to your answer in point 4: In the History tab in SolarCoin (windows) wallet there in the entry with the entry with type 'interest'. Status is still stuck at Status : conflicted".
The interest (supposed to?) be earned is listed here in the History tab, but the value is not added to the Windows SolarCoin wallet main page's Spendable / Staked / Unconfirmed / Total balance / Transaction list. Does this mean that the interest value will be discarded / not added to my balance?
Looks to me (but this can be an incorrect assumption) that the earnings from this staking attempt will remain zero or does the earning get added to my balance when the status changes from 'conflict" to "not accepted"?
b) With regards to your answers in point 4: The Transaction ID listed in the earned interest does not get any info back when searched in the Blockchain? How can that be explained?
c) With regards point 5: Yes I do have only have 8 connections. How do I set up my node for listening? Could you please explain how to do this?
d) Will the status change of the failed staking attempt in the near future or will it remain as "Status: Conflicted" in the History tab?
Thanks in advance for the effort to take to answer my questions.