hey everyone, i have been learning and researching about making new alt coins and also about resurrecting old coins and one thing i have not yet been able to find info on is nodes, how does one make/run one? what if i want to bring a coin back that has no connections and so i cannot download the block chain or find a copy of the blockchain, do i just set up a node for it and get it that way or do i mine the coin to get the block chain how does this work?
ironsniper, if you have specific coin(s) that were abandoned, but you find interesting or important, we can look at those. The ones with innovative technology, and the source on Github, we can recompile and launch the blockchain from scratch.
There are also instances, where an active community exists, but the original dev had disappeared, and the rest of the users do not feel up to the task of running "full nodes" in the cloud or making small maintenance changes and keep going. They are likely to have wallets and the blockchain as it last existed on their computers, and we can choose to assist them with a relaunch.
If you are more into learning current and objective information about creating Altcoins, do join our community of like-minded developers and eager learners, at the Practice Coin project
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1850047 Tearo
i can compile most coins no problem for windows, and mac as long as it is the older source code and not the newer source code that uses qt5 and as for bringing a coin back from the dead if i wanted to try that just to see if i can i would rather try and learn how to do it than say pay someone to do it for me, i find it more fun that way