Thanks guys. It worked and I got my balance back.
I used the importprivkey option in a new wallet AFTER i checked which address held my balance and dumped the corresponding privkey. I dumped my privkey a long time ago, but the staking and new balance turned out to be on a new address with a different key.

Thanks for the support and excellent suggestions.

ScubaFuz

I have several backups. The oldest surviving one is from February, apparently after the chain got wild. That one gives an error and starts a rescan but ends with an zero balance and no transactions.
My other backup from early June does a rescan without error and shows my transactions, including the minted dope, which are the last transactions. The balance is still zero though. Bit odd that the last 4 transaction are dope comming in and the balance is zero.
I don't remember what version I was using before, but it may have been 4.0.0.5 from the dopecoin.com site.

The option repairwallet doesn't seem to exist. I typed help and got a long list of commands, but not that one.
Can I start with a blank wallet and recreate it with my private key? Or maybe create a new wallet and transfer the balance there? I assume I can get to my dope using the private key, even without the wallet?

Thanks for the help.

ScubaFuz

Hi,

I have been staking like crazy since january and just found out that that is a bad thing  Apparently I was the last one on this particular chain, when it stopped
I have upgraded my client to 4.1 and re-synced. The client says I'm up to date, but my balance is zero. If I use my address on dopecoin explorer I see a balance there, that looks about right with 4 stakes coming in in january.
How can I (force)update my balance?

Thanks in advance,
ScubaFuz

I've got two clam clients running now, both with a few hundred clam in them. One for me and one for my son.
Would it be better to stake them seperately or to put the coins together and share the spoils? Would it make any difference in the long run?

Regards,
ScubaFuz

Thanks.
I also got a picture of a golden weed leaf to go with that. There is a "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow, afterall.

Regards,
ScubaFuz

That's odd, that was the first thing I tried and it didn't work. Tried it again now and it works like a charm.

Thanks, Graham. It probably just needed a magic kickstart from a legendary...

Regards,
ScubaFuz

I want to set up a second clam client on a different machine but syncing takes forever. I'd like to create a bootstrap file from the first client and import into the second one but I need some assistence.
After fixing the error messages about folder does not exist (datadir was set) and rpcpassword (told to me by clamd when clam-qt is not running) I'm left with the message "cannot connect to server".
Can someone tell me what the correct setup and command is for a bootstrap dump on the windows clam(-qt) client?

I have to correct myself. The move was buying the buy-wall, leaving the trader with a huge amounts of Clam that halved in price while he bought it. You can't buy back what you've already bought.
Anyway, I will be able to buy back what I sold on the way up, leaving me with more clam than I had before without investing any (extra) money. Me happy.

It's never a good time to panic. That causes you to buy high and sell low. Have faith and keep buying on the way down. The price will go up again and my first guess would be that 40 sat is not too far away. You'll still make a good deal.

The price has been dropping ever since. Maybe he wants to buy back at the bottem? It would be a daring move, and you're right, a retarded one. You can never predict this.

This is excellent news. The more use cases for potcoin, the bigger it will grow (pun intended)

That would mean the price will go up again after the fork. That would be nice. This might even coincide with the release of the Smoke exchange. That would speed things up.

I sold more than half of my clams on the way up. Now it's time to buy them back. I was waiting for this to happen and now I am glad.
Time to buy buy back everything I sold and wait for the price to rise again.

I have a wallet with 3000 coins that says staking will take approx 11 days. So roughly you need 11x3000=33000 coins for a daily stake, on avarage. 60,000 may give you a stake twice a day according to this calculation but maybe it doesn't quite work this way.

Playing games is the best way to lose your coins.
Other than that there seem to be 3 camps out there. One that says the coin is dead and one that says it will soar to incredible heights. Both these sides seem to want this to happen, but I cannot understand why you would want a coin to die.
The third camp seems to be the realistic camp that simply looks at the history and tries to make accurate predictions. This is my preferred camp because those people can actually give some advice that's worth something.

I have bought some extra Doge at 20 sat and hope for the best.

I don't know how to read the presstab site but the current weight accoring to my Clam client is around 900,000. That means you would need 625 CLAM (=900,000 / 1440) to succesfully stake once a day (on avarage).

I don't see any number on Presstab that nears 900,000 but that's maybe because they don't take into account the number of Clams that are actually being staked. Lots of Clam is just laying on a (virtual) shelf and doing nothing. maybe someone can explain this better?

From 0.00210 to 0.00250 in one day is more than a little pump. Back to 0.00230 now. Since I am done selling and want to buy back the price may fall back down again. The buyers chart on Poloniex makes a fall below 0.00220 quite unlikely though. We'll see what happens. So far the pumpers are doing an excellent job.

Didn't the price drop because the chinese started dumping their Doge? If that's the case the price will go up again when they re-enter the market. Doge is becoming a mainstream coin to be used everywhere, so there is a good use case. Bitcoin is also just a coin with no other functionality but that doesn't seem to be a problem. The statement that all cryptocoins need to fullfill some other purpose as well may be true for new coins but not for the old ones that have existed since the beginning.

You are right tonbit1239, many of us feel that way.


I do not fully agree with this analisys. I don't need CLAM (or any altcoin) to survive and I am certaninly not rich. I have a small amount, which I love, and would like to get more. I hope to achieve this by selling Clam high and buying more back low. To do this the price needs to fluctuate and shouldn't get too high.
If there are many investors like myself the price will not go up quickly because we try to sell at every peak and hope the price will drop again. This may be one of the reasons the price is so stable.

Personally I don't care much if Clam is worth $10 or $100 at this time, I just want as much clam as I can get my (virtual) hands on. When I have reached my goal, the price may soar but until then I'd rather it stays low.

No matter which coin you have, you should always make a backup of the private key and store that in a safe place. That way you can never really lose your coins.