Yes I know, but this one shows different warnings like IRC.bot. It is even included in Kaspersky, which normally does not show false positives. Kaspersky blocks it completely (installed on Virtual Machine). Strange that nobody mentioned anything.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/85d6843c67ce2a36ebe10adec4fab1766412e2e5c46d247fce0f1215b21dd94c/analysis/1400648899/

SHA256:    85d6843c67ce2a36ebe10adec4fab1766412e2e5c46d247fce0f1215b21dd94c
File name:    GroestlCoinWin_v2_0_0_5.zip
Detection ratio:    7 / 53
Analysis date:    2014-05-21 05:08:19 UTC

Baidu-International    Backdoor.Win32.IRCbot.AePB    20140520
ESET-NOD32    a variant of Win32/BitCoinMiner.BJ    20140521
Fortinet    W32/IRCBot.BJ!tr    20140521
Kaspersky    Trojan.Win32.IRCbot.cwn    20140520
Qihoo-360    Win32/Trojan.BO.d1e    20140521
Symantec    WS.Reputation.1    20140521
ViRobot    Trojan.Win32.A.IRCbot.18068992    20140521

I know that I am slightly late, but nobody mentions the problems with antivirus since the latest wallet update. Virustotal finds 7/53 - and Kaspersky blocks the wallet completely. Any insight?

To which coins are you referring?

What is emeraldd.exe file with 48MB in your upload?

Besides that, your files come out almost clean:

SHA256:    e7f0e787f100161b3c7f2d4aa8d2a2498fca78237849814e48a43273357a6d51
File name:    Emerald13.zip
Detection ratio:    0 / 49
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:42:34 UTC

SHA256:    c32776810892d6e463604129a1cc1b06097e66b533bdcd5004d91a1e94ca3b3e
File name:    emerald-qt.exe
Detection ratio:    0 / 52
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:44:58 UTC

SHA256:    ff2d099934f7b95b3ff197f16ba825f6e54589cef23832f1fc852314eb9cccff
File name:    emeraldd.exe
Detection ratio:    1 / 51
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:50:01 UTC

For the last weeks a s*itload of new PoS copy coins have been released - some came in "colorful" names... When is it finally enough and you will come up with something more original? Don't you realize that you just dilute the value of all coins.

Please future coin developers, think more before you release your coins. It is not enough to call a coin Green, Purple or Yellow - have a concept that will be unique to your coin only.

And by the way, great PoS coins were already released in 2013. Some of them have PoS up to 100% (or more): Hobonickels (100%), PhilosopherStone (50%),... If you are thinking of investing into a PoS coin, go with those older ones or with the early ones from 2014 (February: Mint - 20%, March: ZEIT - 25%).

This coin has nothing new to offer. Somebody wants to make some bucks with nothing, then disappear and repeat.

I updated the wallet, but it still shows the low difficulty and all my previous earnings stayed the same.

I think there might be a fork. I sent coins to an exchange, yet they never arrived. Anybody else experiencing the same?

Be careful downloading the wallet posted on that site, as it has strong indications to be compromised! Virustotal finds 17/52 - which is considerably high, as most wallets show no signs of viruses at all.
It seems the author deleted all traces of the old wallet (perhaps no viruses) from all sites about Emeraldcoin. The only wallet I could find was on the above mentioned site.


https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/67ef20bd5b557ff1719503858f5ff77f74ff6fefacbab0875252d7902ba57278/analysis/1399011240/

SHA256:    67ef20bd5b557ff1719503858f5ff77f74ff6fefacbab0875252d7902ba57278
File name:    Emerald13.rar
Detection ratio:    17 / 52
Analysis date:    2014-05-02 06:14:00 UTC

You should do a --recover of your damaged partition. I also accidentally formatted my only backup with wallets. Once the wallets are recovered with recover software like Recuva,... they seem to get damaged in some way. I am still not finished recovering them completely, but --recover is the first step.

What I used is:

pywallet.py --recover --recov_size 931Gio --recov_device f: --recov_outputdir d:\recovered


It will ask you then to put in a new password (for the finished encrypted wallet.dat). That is where I found a bug. Whatever password I chose, at the end I am able to get my coins to show up, but I cannot send them because the password I chose when starting the --recover does not get accepted. First I thought I misspelled something and started the whole process again. Each time it takes about 6 hours... But even when I was absolutely correct with my password, it still would not accept the password at the specific wallet for decryption.

Is there another step I can do?

I also tried the --dumpwallet command with the recovered wallet, but I am not able to find the correct address that was used on the wallet I am trying to recover.

pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir d:\recovered --wallet wallet.dat --otherversion=34 > dump.txt

(I have tried otherversions 34 - 37)


That lists all key pairs, but none of them is the correct one I am looking for. What am I doing wrong? Obviously the right keys must be in the recovered wallet, as I am able to see the correct balance once I am doing the -rescan command. But when I am specifically looking for the address and it's private key, I am unsuccessful.


Can somebody point me to the right path?

Antivirus just alerted that genesiscoin-qt.exe is a virus of the variant Trojan.Win32.ircbot.cpo. Originally it did not detect it - not even during scheduled anti virus checks that I periodically do. Somebody else experienced something?

People with just a few GPUS did find blocks as well. For the future, keep your rig pointed at solo mining for a little while longer...

All together maybe one hour+ was wasted for pool miners. Not a big deal. How often do some of your miners die during the night and you wasted like 6 hours of mining?

Same here, to be honest, that was one of the only launches that was fair to solo miners.

The basic .bat command is:

./sgminer -k darkcoin -o localhost:11111 -u username -p password -I 19 ....


After you added the summercoin.conf, you need to close and reopen the wallet. The wallet has to be fully synched, and needs to stay open during solo mining.

Well, that is your opinion. You should try it ... I had lots of conversations with earthcoin miners back in the day... But in the end, they all thanked me for pointing them to solo mining...
And I would only try pools that are well known. Seems like you never heard of it that pools are skimming off the top. Look it up... I am not saying all of them do, but how do you think 0% fee pools are financing their pool servers???

I personally wouldn't solo mine LTC, but all other coins up to difficulty 150 or so I would try... And as I said, most of the time, you get 30% more than on a pool.

Look up the basics of solo mining, and implement it on all coins.

The basic conf is:

listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
gen=0
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=192.168.1.* (your router ip)
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=11111
maxconnections=100

Yes, why not. You can solo mine everything. To tell you the truth, I mine most coins solo. You might need to wait a few hours depending on the difficulty, but in the end, you always get about 30% or so more than pool mining (as pools skim off the top and you won't even know about it...). For LTC, you might need to wait a few weeks depending on your rig, but absolutely you can solo mine it.

Solo mining is the same process for all coins. You can set up everything ahead of time, no information needed from the dev beforehand. Just look it up on how to do it once, and implement it on all future coins...