I would say almost certainly that a main reason that the coin is desisted from cryptopia is that it is not updated by anyone to fix known vulnerabilities in bitcoin code like https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17144

It's a pity the code was not kept up to date.

I have been monitoring the outcomes of the Emercoin 1000 ideas contest too and have been saddened to see the damage the management of the rewards appears to have done to the team's reputation.

I honestly think it comes down to a communication failure rather than any ill intent on the part of the team.

As Fixx explained here, the contest was run on other forums simultaneously and not just here on Bitcointalk, and that the rewards were supposed to be only for contributions that were actually implemented. So I think in his mind, his team's obligations are filled.

However, these details may not have been overly clear at the onset of the contest and as such several people who contributed in good faith here on Bitcointalk feel that they have been mislead as to the rewards they should expect for their contributions, some of which were very good.

In light of the communication issue I hope the dev team, who now has access to very good English speaking abilities, will review the contest entries again and announce the remaining rewards for the contributors in an attempt to heal the damage done by any mis-communication.

The user @piebeyb outlined a summary of rewards received and expected rewards here, that may be a starting point. To me, the remaining ~4550 emc prize pool seems a small amount when compared to upholding the reputation of the otherwise excellent project.

In any case, I hope Emercoin Official will make a statement regarding the contest and expected rewards that finally resolves this issue in the best possible way.

Also, I hope the team will do another contest - with more clearly defined terms - in future. My suggestion would be for a monthly prize to the best demonstration of EMC technology being used, and not just rewards for ideas.

Best wishes!

Not really to do with AGAcoin directly, but if you happen to still own an Amiga500 you may want to check out the New Amiga 500 Cases Campaign. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-compatible-case-for-amiga-500-plus/x/18291379#/

I got one of their 1200 cases and it is great quality - everything they said it would be.

Can these kinds of changes be made without causing a fork? I assumed we need to collect all changes into a new "major release" then get everybody (including the wallets run by any exchanges) to move to the new version ahead of time. Shouldn't there be a built-in block height a few weeks/months in the future at which time the new code changes become live, so we can make sure everyone has upgraded before then? If that's the case then I think we should only choose the specs like block time and difficulty adjustment after some agreement as to what the changes should be.

Also - since @sonountaleban has stated they left the AGAcoin project, I suggest everyone submit code changes to https://github.com/AGAcoin/amigacoin where we have set up the new GitHub Organization (If you need commit access just ask).

Thanks for pointing these things out. It is important that AGAcoin clarifies its purpose. The original dev is no longer working on the project, so the purpose is whatever we decide to make of it.

Perhaps I should have said that https://agacoin.github.io/about is all that AGAcoin has for now in the way of answers to your question, and that you are (and anyone else in the AGA community) welcome to improve on AGAcoin's mission statement, via discussion and/or editing that page on GitHub.

I believe the suggestion that AGAcoin can not be used by Amigans because it does not run on Amiga hardware is incorrect. How many modern Amiga related websites are there? Lots. How many of them are running on actual Amiga hardware? Approximately zero. In the same way that modern Amigans can use modern Amiga related websites (to purchase or research Amiga), I think it's fair to say that AGAcoin can certainly be used by Amigans - even though it must be via a modern "mainstream OS" like windows/mac/linux for the moment.

Making a secure crypto-currency that runs on real Amigas would be a very noteworthy achievement, but also unlikely to have a large positive impact, as it would be a niche concept with no interoperability with broader cryptocurrency, crowdfunding, or online-retail.

New Amiga-based hardware/software/media projects are announced regularly by the Amiga community, and I believe AGAcoin should be aiming to support and promote these projects, rather than trying to come up with its own hardware as well as a coin. As exciting as it would be, I do not think that AGAcoin should develop new hardware itself. Rather, it should aim to act as an economic catalyst and supporter of such projects in the Amiga community.

I personally imagine the following purposes, and objectives for AGAcoin.

Purposes of AGAcoin:

* Raising general public awareness in modern Amiga community developments.
* Helping to promote and fund Amiga community related development (hardware, software, websites, podcasts, etc).
* Supporting the Amiga hardware/software economy (by providing a software-based currency that is held and managed by those with an interest in the Amiga community).

Objectives or "roadmap" to achieve said purpose (in order of implementation):

1. Update the code. For this I think we need to update to a modern codebase (e.g. latest litecoin with tweaks to mining specs and block times).
2. Establish a long-term distribution programme (by which AGAcoin community will offer to distribute a sizable amount of AGAcoin to active projects within the wider Amiga community over time).
3. Offer an online payment API, so that online retailers can get a reliable message when they are paid in AGA, so they can integrate it as a payment option in their web store.
4. Become an accepted form of payment/currency within the Amiga scene for online-retail, crowdfunding, and p2p payments.
5. If all that happens, then develop AGAcoin software for modern web-aware Amiga-based systems, so that AGAcoin can be used on modern Amiga-like systems (web wallet to start with).

For #1. I don't have the time or ability to upgrade and maintain the C++ code. But I can review it and help manage the GitHub repository. Thus, we need active developers.
For #2, I have slowly been acquiring AGA and I'm willing to donate it to a long-term AGA distribution programme for the wider Amiga community, once we have a codebase that isn't embarrasingly out of date.
For #3, I think it's important that AGAcoin help online-retailers to accept AGA for their products.
For #4, This can be combined with #2 by offering online-retailers a bonus portion of the distribution programme if they choose to accept AGAcoin for their products.
For #5, Well, obviously it would be nice for AGAcoin to run on an Amiga-based or Amiga-inspired OS eventually.

All just thoughts on which I encourage discussion.

This is currently covered at https://agacoin.github.io/about

"AGAcoin is intended to fill an upcoming need: a currency for the Amiga community and other related communities, to trade and exchange in a peer-to-peer manner."

I'm sure it can be improved, if you have any suggestions.

But really, it's sole-purpose now should be the development of an updated wallet, to bring the code up to modern litecoin or some other The AGA client is several years old... and for that we need a developer to work on it.

AGAcoin does not have a wallet for PowerPC-based computers. I think the original developer was hoping to (read thread). The reason would be because of MorphOS, which is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system that only runs on PowerPC. MorphOS is really great for Amiga commuity, but I don't think AGAcoin can make a wallet for it until MorphOS support ARM or x86/x64 CPU. I think the MorphOS team know that Power-PC is becoming a dead-end, and they may port to PC or Arm eventually.

EDIT: AmigaOS 4.x also runs on the PowerPC family of processors.

However, the top priority for AGAcoin should be to update the existing wallet. Unfortunately that's for Linux, Windows, Intel Mac, (not Amiga or PowerPC at this time).

I'm pretty sure that the odd timing is because people with ASIC come in and mines and leaves the difficulty way high? Maybe some other miners can make suggestions. Keeping it scrypt is obviously easiest, but sometimes it is taking days until the difficulty adjusts.

Deposit to cryptopia exchange requires 200 confirms with AGA, which is sometimes taking many many days - and I think we need to fix this before doing any promotion or future plans.

AGA needs to find a coder to update the wallet software to a new codebase and mining algorithm. The current mining algorithm and code is from Litecoin (scrypt algorithm), so now we see very random timing in the production of blocks because there are some very powerful scrypt miners now, and so the AGA blockchain stagnates when these miners raise the difficulty and stop mining (sometimes it is taking days to confirm transactions when this happens).

Possible options are:

   * Change to being "merge-mined" with Litecoin, like Dogecoin does. (but sadly, this excludes most mining pools).
   * Include hybrid Proof-of-Stake component, like Peercoin, etc.
   * Move to 100% Proof-of-Stake (but sadly, this completely excludes miners).
   * Choose a mining algorithm that can not be used by ASIC, like X11/X13 (I don't have that much experience in this area).

So I think Proof-of-Stake component and/or ASIC resistance is good. But which coin has the best codebase to fork?

Anyone have ideas on what codebase should we adopt? Keep in mind, we also need to find a developer to make the changes.

The Amiga following in Germany is huge. But, I don't think the AGAcoin is ready to approach the Amiga community until we find a new wallet developer, and release new wallet software. Please understand that the original developer has left this project, and we are here trying to resurrect it, if we can. That's why we have set up the new website at https://agacoin.github.io (which anyone can edit on GitHub).


That would be great but a wallet manager would be very limited if it did not have connection to the internet. For example, it would not know the coin balance of any address. But maybe some kind of offline transaction signing utility is possible, or a web-connected wallet (for Amigas that DO have access to the internet).

The original AGA developer had worked on aminer, single-threaded CPU miner for mining AGA in AROS (Amiga based OS), which is a nice idea but not a competitive way to mine coins when they can also be mined better by Windows/Linux.

The Amiga community is developing new things all the time, like new Amiga-based OS for Arm and X86, as well as accelerator for 68K Amigas, and things like this may allow more ideas for working with real and modern Amiga in future.


I can't guess when there may be an update. The latest windows software is not "supported" but it's all we have for now and the blockchain keeps going. We need to find a coder who can update the wallet software to a new codebase and mining alorithm.

Thank you, that works better now.

If we want to delete all addresses and start over, is there a database file to delete? Perhaps this could be added to the info or the option to start over could be added to the dropdown menu.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your reply!

The new import worked for me, although I have only imported one address

Just to let you know, when I go to the "Fork Balance Window" and click on "Update Txs" I get a crash: System.OverflowException: 'Value was either too large or too small for an Int32.'

(This seems to happen regardless of whether a specific fork has been chosen from the drop-down or a custom block height has been entered.)

Hi. As with the Bitcoin API, private keys can be imported into the main client using debug console command:

importprivkey

Unfortunately we are stuck with the last version of the wallet the original developer left us with until we find a new developer to work on a updating the wallet. The version linked to at http://agacoin.github.io is the same one the community has been using for several years. I think/hope the virus warnings are false positives, and are raised because the wallet contains the necessary code to mine (which is often a sign of a virus, but expected in this case). However, as with almost all software distributed in the coin space you should probably play it safe by running in a separate computer or virtual machine like virtualbox.

It is almost impossible that a full wallet could ever run on a 68K Amiga but maybe a light wallet or browser-based wallet will be possible. This is the kind of thing the community will need to work out once the question of a new modern wallet upgrade has been answered. Personally I don't think it's so important that the wallet run on vintage hardware, as that the coin can be put to work to benefit and use by the Amiga community.

Getting anywhere may take some patience. I think the main hope for now is to find a competent developer who is able to help release a new wallet, including a switch to a new mining algo (maybe combined with Proof-of-Stake). Once we have an updated wallet, I hope we can begin a distribution/giveaway program for the Amiga community and other initiatives that will help the future take shape.

ps: As it's just a few of us who have decided to keep the coin going when the original developer left, getting anywhere may take some patience. Thoughts are always welcome!

Where is it "released"? I do not see 3.0.0 at https://github.com/Coding-Enthusiast/Watch-Only-Bitcoin-Wallet/releases (I guess I should just download latest source)

Thanks for the help on my previous Q's - I'm looking forward to the bulk import option!

Thanks for getting this explorer up and running! Please make sure to put a donation address somewhere (on the explorer site itself perhaps?)

Do you know why the Coin Supply appears to be incorrect? Perhaps it has something to do with AGA's random block rewards. It would be great if that could be fixed if possible. At the moment it is showing Coin Supply (AGA) = 45,690,060... yet this is clearly not correct if we look at the "top 100".

If we can get an explorer showing the correct total Coin Supply then we can try to list on coinmarketcap.com, for what that's worth. Though maybe it will be better to know if we are going to find a new wallet developer before doing that

The Amiga was and is still very popular in New Zealand, which I think is the home of Cryptopia. I would not be surprised if the founder of that exchange has a fondness for the concept of AGA/Amigacoin

Lets hope that AGA can get some actual new developments, and eventually to serve as a benefit to the Amiga community.

I'm not seeing an explorer at that address. Please let us know if you get it up and running! A good explorer is needed

The download links are at https://agacoin.github.io and yes, for now they link to Wayback Machine, until such time the project can find a new dev and release an updated wallet.

Congratulations on your new custom mining pool. very slick interface, and I like that it doesn't even require creating an account I'm glad for your current and continued support of AGA!

Cool project! It's encouraged me to install Visual Studio to try it, and follow the progress.

When checking the balance of addresses, both in fork balances and main page,  I am receiving the error "Value was either too large or too small for an Int32." Any suggestions to fix this?

Also, is there any way to import bulk addresses (if not through gui then by editing a file)?

Thanks