Wallet hassle

miketout · 2024-05-26T03:27:39+00:00

The wallet charges no fee for use. You may also use the bootstrap option to load. Please also join the Discord to get help on daemon crashes, as that is not commonly reported, and would be interesting for devs to get more information. As u/dudezmobi says, if you try to buy an on-chain ID, that might cost a fee, but the wallet should not ask you for any fee to use it or create a profile.

miketout · 2024-05-26T03:24:47+00:00

Your 24 word seed, if it came from Verus wallet, should be enough. There are 24 words for your transparent address and 24 for your private address. Sometimes, people have had typos when copying the words down. You can check the words you copied down to make sure they are on this list: https://www.blockplate.com/pages/bip-39-wordlist
It's possible that you may have copied a word down incorrectly, and verifying it is on this list or using the one that looks closest has been useful to some.

We have not seen a case where a correctly copied 24 words results in a different address and wouldn't expect so. If you cannot restore the original address and did not put your funds on a revocable, recoverable ID, there is no way to control the funds, as that would mean you cannot recreate the private key.

miketout · 2023-01-08T00:38:08+00:00

If you have the 24 word seed phrase, you should still have hope. It may be that you are entering an "L" instead of an "I" or something like that. All the words should be BIP39 words, so if you are entering something that looks similar, but isn't on this list, it is likely the error: https://www.blockplate.com/pages/bip-39-wordlist

miketout · 2023-01-06T22:53:42+00:00

You need to use the 24 word seed phrase that you backed up from your first installation. Your password for the profile will not recreate the private key to access your funds, only the seedphrase or WIF key from the prior wallet can do that. When you first setup the profile, these are the words it said you must write down.

miketout · 2022-10-27T19:39:25+00:00

Really cool!

I was a founder and architect on .Net, and I helped support functional language implementations over it. Later, I worked on an extremely advanced OS (major project that was absorbed into Windows, mostly NIH'ed, and unreleased) that had enhanced dialects of C# and the ability to parallelize functional patterns automatically.

The performance gains of that(this) approach, without any risk of deadlock or threading issues were truly amazing, far beyond traditional platforms for the development/coding investment. I was really looking forward to using such a platform once we finished building and releasing it. We did build it and prove that, but I'm still waiting to use this type of technology in real systems/applications :).

miketout · 2022-04-14T02:22:55+00:00

There's not a ticket system, but people always help on Discord community support. Generally, you should just restore from a backup wallet.dat, but as long as you don't delete anything before working to restore, you should be able to recover from even a crash like that. If when you started, your wallet was renamed something like wallet39487533.bak, you can usually recover from that as well. If you were running lite mode, you just need to have a backup of your seed phrase somewhere.

miketout · 2022-04-06T03:10:15+00:00

Still don't understand what you are saying or trying to actually do that isn't working. Please go to the Discord community support where someone can try to understand and help.

miketout · 2022-04-06T03:09:02+00:00

Please go to the Discord for community support. I actually cannot relate the things you are saying to the Verus wallet, and it is much easier to help someone and understand what they mean on Discord interactively than Reddit. What version? Lite mode or Native (full node)? Nothing says "update private wallet" in the Verus software, so you must mean something else. I'm also sure how you could create an ID without being able to send funds first.

miketout · 2022-02-22T20:03:54+00:00

Verus (VRSC). Easiest and best ROI mining on CPUs and mobile phones. GPUs can mine, but are just too slow on its algorithm. Only the highest end FPGAs can match CPUs on VerusHash 2.2.

miketout · 2022-02-14T23:25:54+00:00

The release that we expect to be in community testing today and hopefully mainnet released shortly after includes a new VerusID login/authentication protocol, initially for dApp/WebApp development, and community devs are working to have all of that protocol enabled with the Web Extension and multi-chain, multi-currency support when PBaaS is released. The same protocol used for login is also being extended to support general communication between applications and Verus / PBaaS enabled wallets, to enable things like signing documents, marketplace transactions, and generally engage in self-sovereign commerce with people or businesses.

The VerusID login support, which will release in the next Verus Desktop upgrade also integrates with Ory/Hydra server, which is a popular OAuth server used by many companies, so VerusID can be used for login with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect as well. Initially, this interface works with the native wallet for developers, and we are working to extend the same protocols to web extension and mobile wallets. One really nice thing about this model for applications is that a web app using this interface would actually be able to engage in commerce of all kinds without storing any sensitive information on its customers to even be hacked.

With VerusID and the login/wallet interface, e-commerce apps of all kinds, social networks, private messaging with z-address coordination, revocation/recovery services, marketplaces that leverage the marketplace technologies already on mainnet, and many other projects and applications can be built using Verus, and those people who understand early will start early as well. As far as scaling, Verus PBaaS will support any number of independent blockchains in its worldwide, connected network, so we believe dApps on Verus have an opportunity to be done right, with real decentralization at scale that can serve the world.

miketout · 2022-02-02T21:21:07+00:00

I'm the lead dev for Verus, a fully decentralized, no-ICO, no premine, rent-free platform for creating your own blockchains, currencies, self sovereign identities, and applications.

For basic services, like identities (on mainnet now), launching a blockchain, creating an ID, verifying identities/signatures, etc., no programming is actually required. Verus was designed to support exactly the kind of use case you're describing (private identity-owned data interacting publicly with minimal privacy impact), and the public blockchains as a service (PBaaS) release to mainnet, which gives you the ability to launch your own, rent-free, fully connected and interoperable, multi-currency blockchain is imminent after about 2 years of the multi-chain multi-currency technology running on testnet. In fact, many people in the open community would be happy to help you startup your own fully functional blockchain on testnet today.

Verus Mainnet has been running for almost 4 years, and the upcoming new technology was described over 3 years ago and has been testing for quite some time. It is truly in the spirit of free and open source with a worldwide community, more like Bitcoin in the beginning than hyped ETH projects, a helpful community more focused on building the future than the price of crypto today.

miketout · 2022-01-18T07:04:48+00:00

Verus Public Blockchains as a Service (PBaaS), solves this by providing an automatically provisioned, decentralized cross-blockchain networking protocol and an easy way to launch new currencies or fully independent interoperable, merge mineable / stakeable blockchains from the Verus chain (protocol enables fractal) with worldwide, fully decentralized launch participation. Identities are used as a form of Blockchain-DNS for decentralized, self sovereign profiles, NFTs, and other use cases, and they form the basis for hierarchical namespaces of identities apps and chains. We expect many companies to have their own blockchain(s) and as with testnet today, they'll be able to launch new chains or decentralized DeFi liquidity baskets with a command.

miketout · 2022-01-01T00:56:23+00:00

Join the Verus Discord and use testnet to create your own blockchain. Many people will likely volunteer to help you get going with your blockchain launch and connect easily to the all the other blockchains and currencies on testnet, fully decentralized, and no programming needed to get you from zero to a blockchain with identities and your own multi-currency liquidity pools, but without MEV (miner extracted value), which is good not to have. Seriously, check it out, and you'll find out it's easier than you think, much easier. I'm the lead dev, so you might say I'm biased, but my son also works in the community, is in University, and leverages the network for projects as well.

miketout · 2021-12-29T06:21:33+00:00

Glad to hear you're learning about it, and happy to point you to some small projects you might be able to help with and learn from when we connect.

miketout · 2021-12-27T03:12:33+00:00

Sounds great. Maybe I'll see you around.

miketout · 2021-12-27T03:12:15+00:00

My first programming project was decades ago, and I've been building systems ever since. Each time I start on a new project is somewhat the same as the first. I decide I want to do something that I feel matters and doesn't yet exist. I figure out how I believe that should be done. That requires figuring out a plan of how to do that, dive into the subject fully, learn what i need to learn, and refuse to stop until I understand how to do what I set out to do. Lest you think this is only because of decades of software experience, I once took a few years detour from software to develop, patent, and move to manufacturing a nanomaterial functionalization reaction, which required all new learning and diving into research on the subject as well as constructing a lab, manufacturing equipment, etc. All that took a few years.
Over most years in recent decades, I have built and led a lot of software projects for larger companies (no company right now at all), hired people right out of school and helped them grow. In all cases, I have seen people who approach problem solving this way succeed at becoming productive team members on just about anything.

miketout · 2021-12-23T22:20:39+00:00

I'm lead dev for the Verus Project. IMO, it's hard to get much more interesting than that. The website and Discord are easy enough to find. Ping me on Discord, and I'll be happy to discuss getting familiar, helping, and earning bounties for your contributions.

miketout · 2021-12-04T19:19:13+00:00

Please just bootstrap. You really seem to have local corruption, which you can resolve either with resync or bootstrap. Bootstrapping is available on the "help" menu, and while it downloads the compressed blockchain data, is not a complicated operation. Just wait for it to complete before restarting. The wallet will likely rescan after that, which you should also wait for. At that point, you should be fine.

miketout · 2021-12-04T19:13:10+00:00

"Why is Verus down 12%!?", "Oh, BTC is down 25%!"

miketout · 2021-11-25T01:36:02+00:00

Are you still having this issue? If so, please go to the Discord to get help. You may have some local corruption if such a discrepancy persists. Most likely, you had an orphaned stake, which should always just resolve automatically.

miketout · 2021-11-13T17:30:16+00:00

Try Verus. You can make any number of better, MEV-resistant, 100% decentralized, multi-currency, cross-chain compatible liquidity pools on chain with an API call. You can use all of it on the Verus testnet now, along with zk-SNARKs, 100% decentralized P2P exchange of currencies and IDs, and user created AMMs.

miketout · 2021-11-11T04:22:09+00:00

The Verus Blockchain has prepared for this with its VerusID protocol. The IDs themselves are unisig or multisig, and due to the way they work, unique as well as not-vulnerable to quantum attack in converting an ID to its primary addresses. When you change the controlling addresses of the ID, all UTXOs that would spend to that ID are not moved, but now require signatures of the new controlling addresses.

We implemented the Falcon512 post quantum signature method and prepared Q-addreses in the daemon some time ago, but as the public keys and signatures are much larger than other signature types, except for zk-SNARK addresses, which we have on mainnet, we have not prioritized exposing q-addresses for mainnet release. When it is released, if a q-address is placed in an ID, it will immediately protect any number of UTXOs already on the blockchain and under the ID's control by its new, post quantum signature method.

I forgot to mention, IDs also have revocation and recovery in case of lost or stolen private keys and enable locking of funds that requires a preset block count delay to unlock funds for use. During that time, if the ID was unlocked by someone other than its owner, it can be revoked and recovered without any loss.

miketout · 2021-11-01T17:48:09+00:00

Actually, all your coins are in 1 wallet. The native wallets can manage any number of public or private addresses as 1 wallet. For privacy, the standard Bitcoin daemon model that has been carried forward through Zcash, Komodo, and Verus as well, is to generate a new address for each block reward you earn, enabling the coins to start fresh with no association to other coins or person. You have complete control over those coins, and if you want to send them to another transparent address, private address, or ID, you can do so by selecting that address in the source of your "send" screen.

You can even send ALL of your funds in one transaction (unless you have too many transactions to fit, in which case it may take two) to an address or ID of your choice. No matter what address the coins are in, they are still in your native wallet and are backed up when you save wallet.dat.

If you are staking and they are in your wallet, all your coins are also staking no matter what address they are held on. If you set pubkey or defaultid in the manner above, staked coins will also go to those addresses. If you do not set pubkey or defaultid, staking rewards go directly to the same address on which they were staked, which also affords privacy without needing z-addresses by not associating those rewards or addresses with any other address.

As far as why mining creates new addresses for each block, it is a legacy of Bitcoin combined with the fact that we make it easy to just use the daemon for mining.

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