#vvxx

VVXX – DRIFTER FRV [Prod. by TREETIME]

Listen to this song release from Boston, MA artist VVXX. This track titled “DRIFTER FRV’ is produced by TREETIME production and is strikingly similar in feels/vibes to the Peep/GothBoy movement which we saw a sharp increase in terms of influence over the last year or two. Nevertheless this artist delivers a harmonic, tuneful song that any listener can sing along to. Stream the full track below.  …

TL; DR: There's a Transaction List for VTX but blockchain problems are preventing the deployment of other services. 

Building new software on a broken foundation is hard. 

Last week I attempted to set up a blockchain explorer for VvXx / Vortex using both Bitcoin Abe and Insight.  Each of these explorers was having different problems in providing a complete tool which would verify individual transactions, show the contents of a wallet, and allow a user to browse the block / tx history in a linear manner.  

I couldn't get Insight to correctly recognize the Genesis Block of the blockchain, so it was unable to retrive blockchain data.  Abe could retrieve the blockchain data, but considered every block beyond the first to be orphaned, so these couldn't be browsed through the web frontend. 

I tried setting up my own PHP script to make JSON-RPC calls directly to vvxxd.  I was able to get transaction details for individual transactions, but the block hashes returned by JSON-RPC didn't match the block hashes of the blocks that were read directly off the blockchain, so there was no way to match a TX back to the block in which it originated.  

Wallet addresses are also still coming up as "not on the network" even though RPC calls return valid-looking wallet addresses. 

I was asked to look into VvXx and see if as Earlz discovered, the dev had in fact inserted a large hidden premine of coins into circulation.  This appears to be the case, with block 29 containing a mining reward of 600,000 coins.  

My initial investigations were done through Abe, which doesn't fully support X13 algorithm blockchains, so while I could load the block record into a database, there web frontend only works sporadically. 

A database query summing up all of the mining rewards for existing blocks puts the total amount of Vvxx in circulation at 887,900 coins.