Syscoin 4 Conversion from Syscoin 3
TO USE THIS GUIDE YOU MUST HAVE ALREADY CONVERTED TO SYS3 IF YOU HAVE NOT USE THIS GUIDE TO GO FROM SYS2 TO SYS4 https://medium.com/@bittyjohn1954/syscoin-4-conversion-from-syscoin-2-c32757812602.
DO NOT RESPOND TO ANYONE OFFERING TO HELP IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE USE THE PUBLIC DISCORD HELP CHANNEL THEY WILL TRY AND STEAL YOUR COINS.
ANY TRANSFERS/REWARDS RECEIVED ON THE SYS3 CHAIN AFTER THE SYS4 FORK (4TH JUNE 2019) ARE INVALID AND WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED)
Once you have finished the conversion the MasterNode Setup guide is linked at the end of this page
FOR A SIMPLE GUIDE SEE
DETAILED GUIDE IS AS FOLLOWS
YOU WILL NEED EITHER A COPY OF QT3 OR BM3
If you have not already done so make a backup of your wallet.dat
Location of your wallet.dat.
MAC
/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/SyscoinCore/Note*: the Library directory is hidden by default, you can quickly access this directory by pressing:
CMD + Shift + Gin Finder then typing:
~/Library/Application Support/SyscoinCoreWINDOWS
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SyscoinCore\This procedure will ‘Dump’ your existing Syscoin 3 wallet via BM 3 or QT 3 into your public folder, and ‘import’ this wallet into QT4 from the same folder.
Open either BM or QT and unlock the wallet, you do NOT need to sync.
Procedure for BM
Unlock wallet if encrypted
Go to Wallet and select ‘Dump wallet’ (Top left) and in the ‘filename’ enter path to save the file
Windows
C:\Users\Public\sys3dump.bmwalletdumpMAC
/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys3dump.bmwalletdumpxxxxx is your username.
Press Save
Procedure for QT 3
Open QT 3
Unlock your wallet if encrypted go to Settings-Unlock wallet
Open the console, Go to Tools-debug console
To Dump your wallet type
Windows
dumpwallet "C:\Users\Public\sys3dump.bmwalletdump"MAC
dumpwallet "/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys3dump.bmwalletdump"xxxxx is your username.
And press enter.
On some versions of QT you will get ‘null’ this means it has worked.
ALL
Windows
Navigate to
C:\Users\Publicand you will see the ‘sys3dump.bmwalletdump’ there.
Mac
Navigate to
/Users/xxxxx/Public/and you will see the ‘sys3dump.bmwalletdump’ there.
xxxxx is your username.
You can now close BM3 or QT3
SYS4 INSTALLS INTO THE SYSCOIN FOLDER AND YOU NEED TO ENSURE THAT IF YOU STILL HAVE ONE (FROM SYS2) YOU RENAME IT TO SYSCOIN2
MAC
/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Syscoin/Note*: the Library directory is hidden by default, you can quickly access this directory by pressing:
CMD + Shift + Gin Finder then typing:
~/Library/Application Support/SyscoinWINDOWS
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SyscoinRENAME THE FOLDER TO SYSCOIN2
IMPORT ROUTINE
Always download the latest.
QT4 (Syscoin and Masternodes)
https://syscoincore.org/en/download/
IMPORTING INTO QT4
Run the latest QT4
If you get this error you probably have not renamed the existing syscoin folder as described earlier.
You will need to create a new wallet (File-Create) , make sure ‘Descriptor Wallet’ is UNTICKED
Allow it to fully sync.
Open the console, Go to Window-console
Type
Windows
importwallet "C:\Users\Public\sys3dump.bmwalletdump"Mac
importwallet "/Users/xxxxx/Public/sys3dump.bmwalletdump"xxxxx is your username.
Add press enter
Or the location you saved the dump file earlier.
This import will take a while (can be 10 minutes or so)and you will see ‘null’ in the console when finished.
PLEASE NOW CHECK YOUR SYS4 BALANCE IS CORRECT
YOU SHOULD NOW CREATE A NEW ADDRESS AND SEND YOUR ENTIRE BALANCE TO THIS ADDRESS TO ENSURE YOUR HD SEED IS UP TO DATE.
THIS ALSO ENSURES THAT IF SOMEONE SHOULD GET HOLD OF YOUR DUMPFILE THEY WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS.
ALL VERSIONS
Ensure you encrypt your wallet first then back it up.
QT
Go to Settings-Encrypt Wallet and then File-Backup Wallet.
PLEASE NOW CHECK YOUR SYS4 BALANCE IS CORRECT
YOU SHOULD NOW CREATE A NEW ADDRESS AND SEND YOUR ENTIRE BALANCE TO THIS ADDRESS TO ENSURE YOUR HD SEED IS UP TO DATE. THIS ALSO ENSURES THAT IF SOMEONE SHOULD GET HOLD OF YOUR DUMPFILE THEY WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR FUNDS.