Unable to verify if I won or lost the auction

[Detoo]

Hi all, I tried to bid the TLD “detoo” in the testnet but ended up in limbo: I could not tell if I won or lost the auction. More specifically, I could not update the domain (assuming I won), nor could I redeem the lost bids (assuming I lost).

Here are the actions done:

• Opened an auction at height 4380:

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": 4380,
  "value": 0,
  "address": "ts1qxc98du0yyw2nm7twqu7jxrp8wapu4vdf0f9w0p",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 2,
    "action": "OPEN",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "00000000",
      "6465746f6f"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "12686799a04328f84f3436a33ffce9123a8c0c6e216842aa60fbca72340722fe",
  "index": 0
}

• First bid from my wallet README tweaks #1:

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": 4546,
  "value": 10000000,
  "address": "ts1qux0u2ufxss6r23eu3clsd49aptqal868fr0ue8",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 3,
    "action": "BID",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "6465746f6f",
      "74f4412e9597b133b89f43cae23ca52e6438b67243e48167f669a91ace6203f8"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "aefdae7e9b3e819348703adabbff06048b52e34f2241f094a9868f8f1ca1f231",
  "index": 0
}

• Second bid from my wallet Latest commit causes ERR_SOCKET_BAD_TYPE #2:

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": 4575,
  "value": 8000000,
  "address": "ts1qcwjav2cxs03kmqw3rruwnuhnlkezkyz8gszr7v",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 3,
    "action": "BID",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "6465746f6f",
      "0da9a35a6cce738c89bdcc015d3ca0992f35ad94c9dc1680fb55daaf96b097eb"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "03c7c646bd68831f89be005aee7753d6b2f0d6772f66d62d24d7e73ff3512b53",
  "index": 0
}

• Revealed the second bid from my wallet Latest commit causes ERR_SOCKET_BAD_TYPE #2:

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": 4744,
  "value": 4000000,
  "address": "ts1qcwjav2cxs03kmqw3rruwnuhnlkezkyz8gszr7v",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 4,
    "action": "REVEAL",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "a0917e698f710aa416a6c32d1f8845180f3a6ddb75d19743ee096163862d0588"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "e27ae33f7539b55543641b4581940c72b327bf86e4072b2c13aecbd344da3cdd",
  "index": 0
}

• Revealed the first bid from my wallet README tweaks #1:

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": 4746,
  "value": 5000000,
  "address": "ts1qux0u2ufxss6r23eu3clsd49aptqal868fr0ue8",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 4,
    "action": "REVEAL",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "615cd11f85fc01ef9ea99d7d69bd7513a701c6c154c1a25102ea4d4ef7d9a32a"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "3071ac33bc04b1077d8b965aa0fde8734db8992043bdecbb6d41dac8f2d86be6",
  "index": 0
}

• Wait for reveal stage over

• Failed to register from my wallet README tweaks #1 (the tx never gone through):

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": -1,
  "value": 0,
  "address": "ts1qux0u2ufxss6r23eu3clsd49aptqal868fr0ue8",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 6,
    "action": "REGISTER",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "000019000906036e7331076578616d706c6503636f6d00010203040000000000000000000000000000000000",
      "b1ef2d9b7ffeecb1a8e539bfd1bee8f21f4c2ce0a24ed27a62ff1bfe319b3cc2"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "c3394db57a9c97cbc43dbf86577c214afd73e1aeb856c27af78da1d1b75a1efd",
  "index": 0
}

• Failed to register from my wallet Latest commit causes ERR_SOCKET_BAD_TYPE #2 (the tx never gone through either):

{
  "version": 0,
  "height": -1,
  "value": 0,
  "address": "ts1qcwjav2cxs03kmqw3rruwnuhnlkezkyz8gszr7v",
  "covenant": {
    "type": 6,
    "action": "REGISTER",
    "items": [
      "ab0c9758d97cde4d5051e6149922f9163771347093144749516eac5317e224d6",
      "1c110000",
      "000019000906036e7331076578616d706c6503636f6d00010203040000000000000000000000000000000000",
      "619108b1ae8c8f6ebcad7cca15826c2d323e5806244ca531e5ab98bdec47718f"
    ]
  },
  "coinbase": false,
  "hash": "e67eba42314a234d4cc4b49016bfd0e89a3f293f23b15eb3364ad2d3e6fdc767",
  "index": 0
}

At this point I assumed maybe I have lost both bids, but I couldn’t redeem any of the wallets, either. I would get an error message “No reveals to redeem”. Did I miss something in the process?

[chjj]

It looks like both wallets missed the others' bids and can't calculate the second-highest bid correctly. Investigating.

[wi-ski]

Hi - while encountering a similar issue, I was trying to determine a would-be canonical way to determine if a bid won or lost. Is there a "prescribed" way of doing that?

Currently, getting a Could not resolve preferred inputs. error when an account with a losing bid tries to post a sendupdate call

[pinheadmz]

@wi-ski I wonder if this is related to #231
and that the patch at #233 should be extended to check for conflicting accounts when sendupdate is called. I thought it wouldn't be an issue because there is only one name "owner" at the end of the auction, but maybe the losing account is trying to send the update... Did you you get this problem after running on the #233 branch?

[wi-ski]

Yes sir, I was running the #233 branch. I took a stab with: pinheadmz#1

I don't understand all the ins-and-outs of how covenants work - so I may be missing something downstream, but I believe the issue is just a misleading error.

[pinheadmz]

@Detoo Any chance we could get an update on this? There's been lots of code improvements since the issue was open, and a possible solution in this discussion.

[pinheadmz]

Closing this due to inactivity.
The current best way to determine if you won an auction is to examine the OWNER of a name, and then query the wallet for that coin. If your waller owns the OWNER coin, the name is yours.

You can see how this is computed in Bob wallet:

https://github.com/kyokan/bob-wallet/blob/f06b015c346585ccc560c146800059d7e53649d2/app/ducks/names.js#L71-L73