[ANN] Tomorrow morning BlockTrades will temporarily shutdown Steem wallet to upgrade for hardfork
BlockTrades (https://blocktrades.us) will be upgrading its steem wallet to 0.16 hardfork client tomorrow morning (approximately 9am Eastern Standard Time). Because of the significant nature of the changes made to the new client with regard to the way blocks are stored in shared memory and resulting changes in performance on virtual machines plus the need for a full resync of the blockchain, BlockTrades may not be able to process Steem transactions for several days until we've successfully synced the new wallet.
Therefore, if you wish to buy or sell Steem or Steem-backed dollars via our service, it's recommended that you place your orders prior to the beginning of the upgrade tomorrow morning.
wow, pressure :)
Thanks for letting us know....
shit just got
I really think the wallet buy functionality built into the site should have been updated/removed during this upgrade for those that are unaware.
@blocktrades I unfortunately just found this after trying to buy some steem about an hour ago and my wallet says unknown error sending output. Am I screwed for a few days now?
Sorry for your loss.
Probably not, I just recently figured out the problem was caused by the protocol change and fixed that, so now I just need to get the wallet synched. I also made some other changes to reduce the time I think it will take it too sync, so I think we will be operational again in the morning. Now let's just hope the hardfork goes smoothly. Even if I get the site up tomorrow morning, I'll probably take it down briefly just before the hardfork, in case of issues during the transition.
I let you know if it works:)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cardboard/steem-deposit-unknown-error-s
Thanks for letting us know and keeping us updated!
Thanks for the notice!
Upvoted.
Excellent, glad you are upgrading. Thanks for keeping everyone posted!
Are the wallets running now?
Yes, we won't start upgrade till tomorrow. Quick tip: you can check if wallets are running by seeing if you see transfers out of our account here: https://steemit.com/@blocktrades/transfers . If you see transfers out, you can safely assume the wallet is synched up.
It will be great if you announce whenever it's working again. Cheers :)
Yep, we'll do that :-)