I remember the website freebitcoins.com from a long time ago, perhaps I am mis-remembering.  Did you always own the domain? I don't use Poloniex and rarely use bittrex for trading/buying but they have some coins I can't access on my regular exchange.  so I've never had to send out bitcoins from bittrex, and was honestly unaware of their withdrawal fee. so in terms of the withdrawal fee, I guess I was wrong. My bad.  However, I did withdraw them doge's i traded for that 25 doge withdrawal fee but xfer fees on the network are only 1 doge.  I usually hodl so im not used to withdrawal fees and thought they were high, but I guess you are cheaper than the average. I'm just not used to seeing a minimum withdraw fee.

I wasn't implying you were faking volume, but some of the prices in the order books are super inflated.  I guess it's because the exchange is new. In terms of withdrawal fees, I at least appreciate some of the coins allow for a cheap one in terms of usd, but doge was the only one I saw that was as close to normal price.  Some of them were double the price as bittrex

If I implied that freebitcoins.com/xchange was bad I didn't want to, just that it was a ghost town but I also didn't realize how new the exchange was.  I was not trying to flame anyone just the coin itself but I will admit I was annoyed about the withdrawal fee and over reacted.  I even had to quickly edit cause I realized I was mad for the wrong reasons, hopefully you didn't see my full rant XD.  As someone who doesn't use poloniex at all, and rarely/prefer not to use bittrex, I can almost say any exchange is better than those 2, so yours is most definitely better.  Hopefully you have plans to list more coins.

Your information has given me a slight change of heart for your exchange so I will keep it in mind and keep an eye out for new listings.  I did have higher hopes for clam at one point, so maybe that's why I hate it but I feel at best it's a casino token, and I'm also pissed about what happened with clams, then it got delisted and it was just all downhill from there.  So many other great tokens and altcoins that clams are just getting buried and forgotten about.  So my anger stems from its failure.  It was supposed to be like $100 per coin! :| 

I have to admit though, I was reluctant to trust the exchange.  "Freebitcoins.com/xchange" doesn't seem legit at first impression.  Like a faucet trying to go mt gox lol (not trying to say anything bad about you here).  So yeah, I was able to at least deposit, make a trade and withdraw with zero problems and I didn't get robbed so that's a plus. 

Grats on the clam volume though, like I said I didn't realize you were a newer exchange and hope you exceed poloniex and bittrex in trade volume on day cause i don't like either one of them.  You're a ghost town.  Bittrex and poloniex are absolute shit.  Cesspools.  So you already got'em beat even with low traffic. 

The prices for some of the coins I checked out are off by a lot though.  Some asks are double of what bittrex and coinmarketcap.com are listing so I hope it somehow balances out so people are more inclined to trade on your site.  Would be hard these days to run a proper exchange without that KYC crap, as much as I hate it, but I don't know much about it.  That and DEx is taking a big leap forward. Big risk you're taking and I do wish you luck and success, and again, I am still thankful I was able to trade out my clams.  Im sorry to say it but I have given up on this coin, never had enough to stake and too scared to buy it lol

After getting help from someone I believe is on the Clamcoin dev team, and he has recommended freebitcoins.com's "xchange" because that's the exchange owned by the clamcoin dev, I would like to say a few things about CLAMS and freebitcoins.com/xchange.

Let's start with CLAMS - A basically now worthless coin that in my opinion, has absolutely zero real world application.  I have always hated the name, too.  Also the logo, and I wish I had cashed out when my 74 clams were worth over 1 grand, back when they were listed on a REAL exchange, and I regret not dumping this coin, and ultimately will net me 10k satoshi, at best, which is like 5 bucks right now, or $100 if bitcoin ever hits $1 million dollars.  This coin should honestly never be looked at by anyone, and I am not trying to be mean about it, it's just the truth.  Back then, any poop coin would take off.

So as I spent a long time synchronizing my wallet so that I can finally dump this coin, I was met with a reality check of how absolutely worthless they were, and that neither bittrex nor any *real* exchanges listed the coin anymore and I'd like to elaborate by talking about the only exchange that does trade clams, which is freebitcoins.com/xchange, which I guess is owned by the developer of clamcoins.

First, I want to apologize if I offend you Mr. Dev, but in all fairness, you also offended me, and pretty much anyone that goes to your exchange.  I'm not mad though.  With such a poop coin, I never expected to get 1 penny out of them, and here we are.

Freebitcoins.com/xchange is the fakest, most horrendous ghost town of an exchange in the crypto world today (and I've been in it since 2014).  The fact that this exchange is so unbelievably bad *and* is the also owned by the same person who developed clamcoins is not surprising to me at all.  A Mickey Mouse exchange for a Mickey Mouse coin. 

So this exchange is a ghost town.  Total trade volume for *any* of the coins listed are practically non-existant, minues a handful of clams, which is at a bare minimum and why coinmarketcap lists a $0.00 trade volume because even coinmarketcap knows that this exchange is bunkier than bunk is on a bunk day.  On top of that, the coins listed are basically all mickey mouse coins. 

Depositing and withdrawing:
You can generate a wallet for each coin listed, so you can deposit and trade your heart away with no one. Some of the prices seem jacked.  It's almost like the clams dev found himself hodling the wrong coins so he uses his mickey mouse exchange to hopefully trade his mickey mouse coins the good coins dont really have sell orders.

Here's the kicker: You can *only* withdraw using bitcoins.  I was like whatever, bitcoins are better than any of these coins anyway, excluding the good eth/ltc/bch listed with 1 to zero sell orders anyways, I went a head and converted my shitclams to about 59,000 satoshi's.  About $22.  Then I go to cash out right?  I figured no problem.  I *have* to withdraw using bitcoins on this mickeymouse exchange, lets go ahead and get my satoshi's the hell outta here.

Should I be surprised that Mickey Mouse exchange has a withdrawal fee of 0.0004 BTC?  15 fucking dollars to withdraw my btc, but you assholes are claiming you are hoping to build momentum for your shitcoin?  Recommending your mickey mouse exchang cause you own it and you know you be raping with that fee, knowing damn well you have a retarded withdrawal fee lol, what an absolute joke.  So my 74 clams listed on coinmarketcap @ $1.63 (completely false, this coin is worth at best 1 satoshi so I was lucky to trade it for 900) with a whopping 24 hour trade volume of $0.00017270 USD is going to net me $7 after mickey mouse exchange withdrawal fees, which is certainly more than 7 satoshi's so I may as well do it and call it a donation to the greediest, fakest, most mickey mouse exchange on planet earth.

What a shitshow guys, you've done a wonderful job.

I'm just glad that I can finally delete my clamcoin wallet, and all info pertaining to it.  Someone want the private key? I think there's 0.0001 clam left in it. 

I wondered what happened to clamcoins, bummer that happened.  I want to assume that there's only like 2 exchanges listing clams.  I'd like to suggest updating the website to reflect what exchanges actually list it, although I feel like there's no recovering for this coin.  I got 74 of them originally back when it launched but I never got around to getting more.  Now I'm super late to the staking party it seems, lol.  It wasn't convenient for me to stake back then.

I care too much about my coins but I feel that the end is near for me and clams. Specifically cause I can't really wait 20 days for a stake reward but it fluctuates so I want to assume that 74 clams is just not enough so I am curious what it would take to generate one a day?  I read something like 500 but that seems inaccurate.

Also, coinmarket cap lists Clams at around $1 (with a total trade volume of $0.00 - a bit expected) but they are listed for 1500 sat (46 cents) on freebitcoins so im not sure I want to sell at this point.  Would be nice to see them go back up but it seems to have zero interest and zero trade volume how can it jump start?

And, on a side note, I realize this is probably a really dumb and bold question, but if any clam whale was willing to lend me some to stake I'd be grateful, would definitely return them and I want to assume I'd only be helping the coin survive maybe hopefully.  Just curious about how often one can generate a coin.  Is it still just one coin reward where the staked coins act like raffle tickets? I want to assume that staking a large amount and returning them when I have enough of my own would still take a long time and wouldn't be worth it though.  Hopefully clams can make a comeback one day but there's so much focus on ethereum tokens and defi.

Thanks for the updates, yes I am on windows and I assumed windows was having a rough time reading the file.  I thought it was somehow just a segment of blocks  at first so I would do 10 to 100k blocks and retry but the full bootstrap never worked again, so I moved to appending 100k files at a time and determined it's a windows thing. (Windows 10)  The last 2 days I had work, so I've moved up to 200k blocks at a time and am currently 35 weeks behind.

The 10k block files were definitely useful and I would not have known to append them had you not mentioned it in your post, although 100k files may be more than enough if you're finding doing 10k at a time is tedious. (It seems tedious). 

Since I had problems around 1.9 million blocks, windows users may need that bootstrap file broken into 2 or 3 parts to avoid this happening to them.

Seeing that dooglus also posted a file for every 10,000 blocks, I counted up to

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dooglus/bootstrap-199.dat is blocks 1,990,000 through 1,999,999

which is where my problem was happening so i renamed bootstrap-199.dat to bootstrap.dat, ran it and it imported those blocks just fine.  Once it was done I reinserted the full bootstrap.dat file and opened clam wallet again and it is importing blocks again.  So for anyone else that may run into this problem, the file is not corrupt, something is happening with a block on your end.  Find the file that is within the range of blocks you're stuck on, sync it and try the full one again.  This will let you avoid having to sync 10k files at a time or append them.  Any time you get stuck, find the 10k block file you're on, sync that (hopefully it works) and then back to the full bootstrap.

I would also like to assume that if the 10k file gives the same problem, then synching with the network until the next set of 10k blocks and trying that file instead or rerunning the full bootstrap could still be a viable fix but still too lengthy.

Long week prevented me from getting back to this sooner, but I appreciate you uploading a new file.  However; it didn't work.  The same thing happened, so I want to assume that it's not the file but something on my end.  The only thing I can think of right now is to try to synchronize on a different machine, cause I am out of ideas so any advice would be appreciated.

I put the file in, I open clam wallet, it says importing blocks, and after a short while it switches to synchronizing with network and the bootstrap file has been renamed to .old, however I was still 2 years and 40+ weeks behind.  While I have advanced a couple of weeks, it certainly isn't worth it without getting the bootstrap to work properly.

Hi all, not my first post but my original account seems to have been stolen :p 

So I have been trying to sync my clam wallet but having little luck.  After the bootstrap process I am still 3 years and 43 weeks behind and it looks like I have only processed up to block 1,885,047.

A couple of previous posters had the same problem and their solution was to just keep restarting the clam client until it finally catches up.  Problem is, my bootstrap ends and renames to .old, while they don't exactly specify if they went in and renamed it back to .dat and continued importing blocks.  Is the advice now to just restart the claimclient when it stops downloading and just p2p it til it's up to date? (assuming their bootstrap renamed to .old and they just synched the rest with network).  Would it make more sense for me to find the proper #.dat files that i am missing and just append them to create a new bootstrap that starts where the last one ended?

According to the post, the bootstrap.dat file linked goes up to block 3,089,200 while mine stopped at 1,885,047.

I closed clam client, renamed the bootstrap.dat.old back to bootstrap.dat and launched it again.  It started importing blocks, but after a short time it switched back to synchronizing with network, renamed to .old again and is now at block 1,889,433. 

I want to assume that the 4,000 +/- additional blocks I got were downloaded and not from the bootstrap.dat file that is supposed to run all the way up to block 3,089,200.  Is the bootstrap.dat file linked in this thread corrupt?  any help would be appreciated.