I mine a lot of Marscoins myself..   want to be the first mars millionaire!  lol (dont we all?)

Given they hope to use it as a research credit/mars rover renting/internal colony currency I am hoping the value goes up a lot as the missions start to launch.  

I actually contributed to the earlier marscoin giveaway trivia night on poloniex.  I might have another one in a while; depending on my free time, since the marscoin faucets are pretty rubbish.

I too want to set up a shopping site like @coreinternals  how is his project coming along? Anyone?

I also chat to one of the marscoin founders, he and several of them are MarsOne candidates, which is why he launched it.

@Buy - unless you use the official marscoin explorer or one of the crypto mining pools ones i would treat any 3rd party explorer for ANY coin with suspicion, even the faucet/explorer one posted earlier I dont recommend using simply as it looks very suspicous. (gambling referrals)

Here is two safe explorers I have found.
    http://explore.marscoin.org/address/MMarsonebnQkxsNQxewhadjjFWix4DXTau    (MarsOne's address!)
    https://prohashing.com/explorer/Marscoin/

I also have my own reference pool for marscoin mining here where I work, although I recommend most people use the official one, mine is in Australia, and has limited bandwidth.

@bradfrogger2 The blockchain did get slow a while back - apparently there was an issue with a cron dying on the default wallet peers. Bug was related to mPos mining software,  It was fixed shortly after. (i noticed it myself and let the marscoin admins know)

I suggest adding extra peers as backups prohashing has one ( 98.115.147.74:8338 i think), and poloniex (not sure exact port, i see it pop up on my wallet occaisionally)

Edit: here is my full connected (addnode= these in conf) peer list as of this post:
ec2-54-214-255-50.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8338
107.170.70.121:8338
c-174-58-20-231.hsd1.fl.comcast.net:8338
prohashing-1.prohashing.com:8338  (98.115.147.74:8338)
89-178-192-25.broadband.corbina.ru:8338
adsl-89-217-2-100.adslplus.ch:8338
182.88.37.81:8338
54.214.255.50:8338
130.39.190.22:8338
174.58.20.231:8338


These are also connecting in (but not sure if their wallets are exposed for syncing off their wallets (use port 8338 or leave port blank):
c-50-149-31-242.hsd1.pa.comcast.net  ESTABLISHED    
host81-132-131-2.range81-132.btcentralplus.com  ESTABLISHED  
524B935F.cm-4-4c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ESTABLISHED    
h-169-215.a192.priv.bahnhof.se  ESTABLISHED    
p57A1FE4A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de  ESTABLISHED    
95-190-108-34-bbc-dynamic.kuzbass.net  ESTABLISHED    
104.219.250.234  ESTABLISHED    
162.255.117.105  ESTABLISHED    
188.134.72.213   ESTABLISHED    
vpn.flightcentre.co.za  ESTABLISHED    



My pool shouldn't be too far behind either given its 24/7 but the hostname of that will change shortly so no point posting it yet.

(PS is fanbitcoin.com this same website as bitcointalk.org or a site illegally mirroring this one to sniff passwords?)