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TurtleCoind / zedwallet Issues

Q: I’m seeing an error in TurtleCoind Proof of work too weak for block... and the syncing stopped.

This occurs because of the blockchain branching, by and large when one mining pool has a very big hashrate .
This can be fixed by re-syncing the discipline blockchain from scratch. See here .

Q: I’m getting a “corrupted blockchain” error like this?

2018-May-07 15:52:19.877323 INFO    initializing core
2018-May-07 15:52:19.908530 INFO    Importing blocks from blockchain storage
2018-May-07 15:52:19.908530 ERROR   Corrupted blockchain. Block with index 428973 and hash aafa7fd33d476535188bdd9e86ba51bb5e058be8e52367b78e9c0c03e74299c5 has previous block hash 2c0cf6c07612b9e1ea19c6922a56746b83cb42c7b11edfc4b185572225bb0f20, but parent has hash 26189359b64d4bb357a04b102a42a01d2771a3f3d80db3ca1b7395a2aeaede4a. Resynchronize your daemon please.
2018-May-07 15:52:19.924135 INFO    Closing DB.

Re-sync your daemon from abrasion ( see below question )

Q: How can I re-sync the blockchain?

finale any TurtleCoin-related software, then go to %APPDATA%, and delete the TurtleCoin folder.
Reopen TurtleCoind/the GUI wallet and let it re-sync.

alternatively, check this guide for instructions on how to use checkpoints for a quick synchronize, or try a remote control node

Q: When I open TurtleCoind on a Mac, I get an error Illegal instruction: 4. How can I fix it?

This is a sleep together issue with older macintosh or un-updated macintosh .
Try entering this into a terminal –

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/turtlecoin/turtlecoin/master/multi_installer.sh" | bash

This automated handwriting should compile the software itself, and place the binaries in ./src once done .

Q: I’ve opened the wallet, and I’m getting lots of red messages like “It looks like TurtleCoind isn’t open!”…

It looks like TurtleCoind isn't open!

Ensure TurtleCoind is open and has finished initializing.
If it's still not working, try restarting TurtleCoind. The daemon sometimes gets
stuck.
Alternatively, perhaps TurtleCoind can't communicate with any peers.

The wallet can't function until it can communicate with the network.

You need to besides open up TurtleCoind.exe and let it sync. TurtleCoind is your joining to the network, and needs to be open and synced whenever you want to use your wallet .

Q: I’ve opened the wallet, and I’m getting lots of messages like “Your TurtleCoind isn’t fully synced yet!”..

Until you are fully synced, you won't be able to send transactions, and your balance may be missing or incorrect!

Your daemon has n’t finished syncing however. Keep zedwallet afford, and wait until you are 0 days behind the current engine block, and for the daemon to print out a green message saying Successfully synchronized with the TurtleCoin Network.
You can besides type status in the devil and compress record to see the current altitude it ‘s at .

Q: I think I should have more money in my balance than it is showing, what should I do?

Re-sync your devil from scratch ( see here ), synchronize using checkpoints or use a distant node ) if you ‘re using the GUI wallet. If it still does n’t work, then update

• Then, close and reopen zedwallet and TurtleCoind.
• Type reset in zedwallet after reopening your wallet file.
• It should start resetting your wallet, but the progress might not be immediately obvious – wait a while, and it should start counting up the blocks and printing out your transactions as it gets to them.

Q: How do I backup my wallet?

exposed zedwallet and type export_keys.
Save the view and spend key somewhere safe, and you can use them to reimport your wallet if you lose it .

Q: My transactions are very slow

Try attemping a fusion transaction :

• Open up zedwallet, and type optimize, then press enter.
• It will confirm if you want to optimize your wallet; it will take a bit. If you’re fine with that, type Y and press enter again.

Your wallet is now being optimized. When it finishes, your transaction should be able to send

Q: How do I send TRTL?

You can check this out for steps on how to send TRTL to person .

Q: How do I send money to exchanges / use payment ID?

You can check this out for steps on how to send TRTL with the payment ID .

Q: What is mixin?

Mixin is how many times your transaction is “ mix ” with others for bewilderment and privacy.
Mixin is locked by the network to 7 as of barricade 620,000 and is not adjustable by the drug user ; this is done to ensure that no one can send a non-private transaction ( 0 mixin ) or be a victim of the “ Tall Poppy Syndrome ” by using a eminent mixin compared to everyone else on the network .

Q: How can I view my balance?

If TurtleCoind.exe is fully synced, in zedwallet, simply character balance .

Q: How long does it take to sync TurtleCoind.exe?

presently it takes a match of hours. This number will increase as more people use TRTL and the blockchain gets larger. If you ‘d like to speed up the process, check out the question below .

Q: Can I speed up the syncing of the blockchain?

You can sync with checkpoints ( only with zedwallet ) or use a outside node

Q: Can I skip the syncing?

Yes, you can presently use a outback node with zedwallet, Nest wallet and WalletShell. The keys stay on your personal computer, so it ‘s procure. Check this steer for more information. Checkpoints are besides an option if you ‘re using zedwallet .

Q: What does it mean if my balance is locked?

This is a transfer which has n’t been confirmed by the network however. It will move into your independent balance curtly, by and large after 3 minutes .

Q: In zedwallet.exe, I get an error Error: failed to save new wallet: boost::filesystem::unique__path: Keyset as registered is invalid. How can I fix it?

This is caused by some bankrupt Windows crypto keys. In the address bar in Windows Explorer, type %AppData%/Microsoft/Crypto/RSA/ .
There should be a booklet in there, with a long name, like S-1-5-21-1416222650-108526586-4052533318-1000 .
Go into this booklet and delete the files in there. then boot, and try again .

Mining

General mining questions

Q: How do I get started mining?

You can check this steer

Q: I’m using a Mac, can I still mine?

Yes, of run ! We ‘re working on a template .

Q: I’ve started mining, how can I view my stats?

Visit your pool ‘s home page. There should be a position for you to put in your TRTL address, and you can then view your hashrate, pending proportion, payouts, and more .

Q: Why is the hashrate on the pool website different to what is shown in my miner?

The values will always be slenderly unlike as it is an calculate, but if there is a big difference, it is likely you have good started mine .
Your hashrate is calculated over time, and so it will lento go up to the correct level .

Q: I’ve been mining for a while, but my pending balance hasn’t gone up?

On your pool web site, check the time that the last block was found on your pond, and the average clock to find a block .
Your stats will lone update when your consortium finds a auction block and it matures, so if your pond does n’t find blockage identical often, you will have slower updating stats .

Q: I’ve been mining, but the balance in my wallet hasn’t gone up?

To save money on fees, the pools send payouts in chunks. Check your consortium web site for your pending proportion .

Q: Why are my results being rejected from the pool?

You ‘re using a incorrect algorithm. You should be using chukwa .

Q: I got banned from my mining pool. Why?

If you submit lots of invalid shares, a pool might ban you. possible reasons for invalid shares can be

• your hardware getting overworked ,
• high ping to the consortium ,
• or your difficulty being set excessively low .

Try lowering any overclocks, choosing a pool close to you or setting a higher difficulty interface .
You should get unbanned after approximately 20 minutes. This is a good clock to setup some backup pools !

Q: Should I set up multiple pools?

Yes, in casing you get banned, or a pool goes down for some time, you can keep mining. A estimable amount to have would be at least three .

Q: Where can I find a list of pools?

here is a list. It besides has early bang-up stats like the pool ‘s tip, minimum payout and server location.

Q: What pool should I choose?

There are a few factors to consider when choosing a pool .

• One is your ping, you can find this out by pinging the server in a command prompt by typing ping example.org, where example.org is the pool address .
• Another is the hashrate of the pool. If you go on the pool ‘s web site, you can see how frequently they find blocks .
  If the pool takes a long time to find a jam, your stats will take a long time to update .
• last, the minimal payouts can be significant if you ‘re a small miner .
  This is the measure you need to mine before you get paid. Most pools will list this under the “ Payments ” pill .
  You can check this list of pools. It specifies each pool ‘s minimum payout adenine well as server localization .

Q: How many hashes per second is good for my hardware?

hypertext transfer protocol : //monerobenchmarks.info/ is a commodity source for this. You can look up your CPU and GPU .

Q: I can’t get the miner working, is there an easier way to mine?

You can try the network miner here. You will get a lower hashrate than native mining, and it does n’t have GPU support, however it ‘s identical easy to setup .
alternatively, you can hop onto the Discord if you ‘re having issues and we ‘ll help you out .

Q: What is the miner executable / why isn’t it working?

This is a alone miner, which is CPU only. This means to gain any TRTL, you have to find a block by yourself, which unless you have many powerful CPUs, is identical unlikely .
We strongly recommend using a pool, and a miner such as NinjaRig .
however, if you want to try it out, open a command prompt in the like directory, and run

./miner --address TRTL...

replacing TRTL... with your full TRTL address .
You need to have TurtleCoind open and synced to use this miner, unlike conventional miners, where the pool hosts the daemon .

Q: Is there a calculator to see how much TRTL I’ll mine per day?

Your pool ‘s home page should have one – embark your hashrate and it ‘ll give an estimate of how much TRTL you ‘ll mine per day.
If there is n’t, you can check one hera .

Paper Wallet / Cold Storage?

Q: Wait, what’s Cold Storage?

The term “ cold storehouse ” refers to a wallet that has been created via an offline means .
The prefer way to do this is via a calculator than has never ever been connected to the internet, normally referred to as an air travel gapped device .
Why is this a thing ? If done properly it means it is near impossible for the keys to be secretly intercepted since the data is never viewable by other calculate devices .
You see above/elsewhere wallet files are being created via the wallet software, these files might be stored unencrypted, if unencrypted then the keys can be read by malicious software and balances of those wallets, transferred .
thus to protect against that scenario you could transfer any TRTL symmetry to one of these cold storehouse addresses. Please remember to keep secure/secret backups of your keys. If you lose the key you lose any balance that was transferred to that wallet .

Q: Can I make a paper wallet?

Yes, you can view the usher here

Q: I made a paper wallet, how do I use it?

You can check out this template for steps on how to import your paper wallet into a wallet of your choice ( choose a wallet and import the keys ) .

Q: Can I view the balance of my wallet online?

A : due to TurtleCoin being a cryptonote-based coin ( private ), this is not possible .
It should be possible in the future to allow users to give away precisely their private View Key to view transactions, but this has n’t been implemented by anyone so far, and would allow that web site to see every transaction that you make .

Other

Q: Why does TRTL have such a high amount of tokens/small amount of decimal places?

Read a great post about the justification for it hera .

Q: How can I get some TRTL?

There are multiple ways to acquire TRTL, for exercise :

• Mining – see here
• Bounties – Bounties for developing TRTL software, spreading the word of TRTL, and many other things are frequently posted in the # bounties channel on Discord. Check the pin messages for current bounties .
• Tips – Turtles with frequently point each other, particularly if you make piquant memes in the #trtl-memes channel
• Faucet – head over to the faucets-
  • polar-it’s faucet – 20 TRTL, every 120 minutes
  • fipsi’s faucet – 100 TRTL, after every 500 turtles use it

  and enter your TRTL address.
  The amount you can receive is limited to share the TRTL for all. Thanks to @ madk, @ polar-it and @ fipsi for creating them .

Q: Is there a web wallet?

Yes, we have a few. You can learn more about them in the wallet intro .

Q: Are there any light wallets / mobile wallets?

none are ready for use right now, but they are being worked on. Check the exploitation channels in Discord to see how people are getting on, and feel barren to join in if you ‘re a programmer !

Q: What happend to RainBorg/Raindance?

A : They were both discontinued due to them being gamed and exploited. RIP .

Q: How do I register my wallet on Discord?

A : You can check out this guide here .

Q: Where is the blockchain stored?

On Windows, it is in %APPDATA%/turtlecoin. On Mac and Linux, it is in ~/.turtlecoin .

Q: Is there a block explorer?

Yes, the offical one is

although there are presently a few other unique ones-

Q: How do I make sure a pool isn’t forked?

You can type in /forked in the #bots channel in the Discord waiter, which will return with a list of pools which are possibly forked .

Q: I have a question which wasn’t answered here, what should I do?

Join the Discord server, and come to the #help distribution channel, we ‘ll try and fix any issues .