Quote from: veremit on May 11, 2014, 08:14:18 PM

Ok I see a flurry of activity on here, so I will state my case & position.

I have taken a clone of the source code, in an attempt to fix the "Checkpoint is too old" error. This arises because the last checkpoint in the wallet code is, indeed, too far back in the blockchain history for the wallet to deem it 'secure'. However, no need to panic, since there has been no forks, there is only the one blockchain for people mining/trading. With the assistance of some other coin devs (I have little crypto coding experience to date, although have coding experience, and learn quick!) I believe I have added some new checkpoints, but at present I haven't fully tested these updates, and last time I checked the wallet was still complaining. This could be just because I have neglected some nuance of crypto wallets & coding, but I don't want to make any premature announcements until the testing is fully and independently verified.

I'm currently fairly heavily involved in the reorganisation of another coin, and my spare time is already quite precious (job, sleep, other projects) so I can't presently offer to take on the StarCoin dev or lead the project. My intention was simply to offer some remedial maintenance to keep the coin going until someone came forward.

I will try to complete this fix, and when the time is right, I will publish my 'version' .. I don't think at this time it represents a 'fork' from the original code. At that time, you will be able to see in the source repository that the changes are relatively minor. This was intended chiefly as an introduction for me into crypto coding, and hopefully it will prove a successful one, which also benefits a worthy coin in the process!

If anyone can come forward with Windows Qt building experience, please contact me via pm, I don't presently have a windows Qt setup, or equally .. if anyone knows how to cross-compile with mingw32/etc in linux, please also contact me via pm. Thanks.

don't forget probably want to update the nodes IP addresses in the source also before considering anything done. Another very simple fix