not syncing - no block source available.
I looked for solutions, but it's not like there is much up-to-date support for this thing.
Same problem here. I eventually closed the application to get a message that ROI coin was closing down (do not turn off the computer until it is closed). After waiting all night, I eventually had to force the application to abort. This isn't worth the hassle.
In any case, an application that requires you to download the entire blockchain is going to have the same problems as bitcoin. We really need a Ripple style setup with ledgers instead of a continuous chain of blocks.
Oh. Do update us here on whether and how this gets sorted.
I can see how getting one's hands dirty is the best way to understand how these things work, and I appreciate
ChrisBFRPKY's going to a great deal of trouble to actually facilitate this. But there's no question of doing this on my work desktop or laptop, obviously; and of late my home (desktop) computer, which incidentally is fairly old, also has plenty of sensitive and ongoing work stuff.
Point being, if there's any risk at all to any of this being compromised, I'm not doing this. But if one's assured that one's machine, with all one's ongoing work stuff, won't crash down in protest, or, worse, get hacked away by some "rogue", well then this is a great opportunity for some free and probably fun learning, that I wouldn't want to pass up.
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Incidentally, and quite apart from this learning/teaching effort, ChrisBFRPKY (and/or anyone else who's familiar with these things) :
As far as this rogue developer, who's apparently made off with millions of his coins, what occurs to one is, if cryptocurrencies are susceptible to this kind of thing -- and, hey, you'd get to know that this has happened only after it has already happened, as this ROI story demonstrates -- then isn't that one glaring and probably insurmountable glitch to the very concept of cryptos? For whatever reason speculators may have not worried about this aspect too much in case of BTC, but that doesn't make that possibility go away!
And what also occurs to me is, why on earth would this rogue go rogue at all? I mean, that's the surest way to ensure all his coins become entirely worthless, and he'd be a fool to do this, surely? Yet do this he has. I'd think a better way for developers to try to get rich would be to quietly keep mining away honestly, while the coins are still low-effort, so that if their project takes off then they'll get rich. Going rogue like this seems a pretty stupid thing to do. What am I missing?
-- but I don't really know all that much about the innards of computers, and, given that the people who developed this thing have already sprung one surprise on you, might they not have others worked into their product, that you might not be aware of?
