The block explorer is up again. There has been updates done to it. Sorry for the delay.

http://creditchain.org

This sounds like a corrupted blockchain. I'll try to post an updated torrent soon.

If you where running a version that is never than .60 it should be no problem. But don't start with -reindex. That will cause problems if your blockchain is trimmed.

Are you still having problems finding peers?

Version 0.9.2.0 of Credits client released. Release includes among a lot of other things a hard fork at block 50000

A new release of the Credits client is out now. This is a long overdue version that focuses on pulling updates from bitcoin into the client, and on updates to be able to add new features further on.

Updates in this release:
0.9.2.1 is a major release. However, no updates to the working directory are neccessary when installing.
- NOTE!! Hard fork will occur at block 50000.
- Version number bumped to .80 to indicate hard fork version
- Deposit transactions will be allowed to have more than one input. This will enable the wallet (in the release after this one) to automatically create deposits from any content that you have in a wallet.
- The number of deposit transactions in a block will be allowed up to a maximum of 1000, updated from previously 10. This will make it easier to enable pooled mining, with externally provided deposits.
- Changed difficulty adjustment algorithm at block 50 000. The new diff adjustment algorithm will be much faster. It will update every 252 blocks with a max adjustment factor of 2 up or down. Adjustment speed will be 64 times higher than current diff adjustment. The reason for this is twofold:
   1. To prevent block generation from being stuck if a sudden drop in mining power occurs.
   2. In the future when deposit mining will be more and more important, preventing the block generation from being stuck if deposits are being withheld.
- Several updates from bitcoin main branch included into release, to bump version to 0.9.2.x
- Among the updates from bitcoin main branch is estimatefee/estimatepriority functionality

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How to Upgrade
If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely
shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the
installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Credits-Qt (on Mac) or
creditsd/credits-qt (on Linux).

!!!BEFORE YOU START THE WALLET, MAKE SURE TO MAKE BACKUP COPIES OF THE FILES CREDITS_WALLET.DAT
AND BITCOIN_WALLET.DAT, IF YOU HAVE A PREVIOUS INSTALLATION.!!!

The syncing process can be quite long, depending on your computer and your network. Between one and two days is not uncommon, if you are not initialising from a prebuilt working directory, distributed with a torrent.

Start credits-qt with the command:
credits-qt.exe -reindex -checklevel=2

or start creditsd with the command:
creditsd.exe -reindex -checklevel=2

Once installation is done, we highly recommend you to bootstrap the blockchain download and sync by downloading an up to date working directory:
Quick initialisation from torrent file

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Downloads can be found at:
http://credits-currency.org/viewforum.php?f=5

Getting started instructions can be found at:
http://credits-currency.org/viewforum.php?f=18

There where startup problems when starting from empty directory. Problem has now been solved.

Unfortunately a bug in the Linux build has been discovered that has delayed the next release. This bug has been reported here in this thread previously and I wasn't aware of the severity of it until now. Work is ongoing and more info will come soon.

So KLYE, welcome back. No official "link up" yet, no. Will you be online from now on?

I wouldn't mind setting up a Slack channel. Good idea!

I just added the new version to the repo. The reason the release took some longer time than what I wrote is that we are skipping directly to version 0.9.2.0. This version has started incorporating updates from the Bitcoin code base. I am validating the pre-built binaries right now and will publish them tomorrow!

New version can be found here:
https://github.com/credits-currency/credits/tree/release-version-0.9.2.0

Upcoming preparation release, HARD FORK AT BLOCK 50 000 in two months!!

A release is upcoming in the coming days. It will contain preparations for coming features. The release will be a drop in replacement if you are running version 0.9.1.7x.

However, this release will create a HARD FORK at block 50 000. Block 50 000 will be created in approximately two months.

The following updates are included in the release:
- Deposit transactions will be allowed to have more than one input. This will enable the wallet (in the release after this one) to automatically create deposits from any content that you have in a wallet.
- The number of deposit transactions in a block will be allowed up to a maximum of 1000, updated from previously 10. This will make it easier to enable pooled mining, with externally provided deposits.
- Changed difficulty adjustment algorithm at block 50 000. The new diff adjustment algorithm will be much faster. It will update every 252 blocks with a max adjustment factor of 2 up or down. Adjustment speed will be 64 times higher than current diff adjustment. The reason for this is twofold:
   1. To prevent block generation from being stuck if a sudden drop in mining power occurs.
   2. In the future when deposit mining will be more and more important, preventing the block generation from being stuck if deposits are being withheld.

Updates and new release branch will be created on Thursday.

Thanks for the kind words.

Due to that development is extremely time consuming and I'm the sole developer, development has slowed down the last month and a half.

I will correct this in the coming days and weeks to revitalise development and the coin effort.

A release that will be preparing for simplified deposit usage will be done in the coming days. Watch this space for more info.

As Greydon says, the punishment isn't that large yet so miners probably hasn't bothered with it that much.

Simplifications (checkbox enablement from the wallet) to the deposit process is coming. That will probably make more people provide extra deposits.

No, nothing after that will be thrown into deposit. However, by not providing a "full" deposit, you had a difficulty punishment on that particular block by approximately 20%. (Your difficulty will rise by diff * required deposit / added deposit).

There are a few nodes listed in the source. Have you tried with them?

You should be able to upgrade to 0.9.1.75 from 0.9.1.74 without any problems. If you want to be really sure, make a security backup of the whole working directory beforehand (just copy the whole Credits dir and name the copy Credits_backup).

My deepest apologies for being absent as of recently.

I'm now back and will answer all questions that have piled up here in this thread, I'll get through them one by one as soon as I can.

I'll also try to broaden the promotion for the coin, to try to widen the awareness. Our main problem has of course been that it is difficult to reach out. I will really try to change that in the coming time.

Aha, thanks for the input. Will look into that.