SFR Informational Post
Updated: 24 February 2016

SFR Healthcheck

Algorithms and pools

Sha		Healthy. Regularly generates blocks as per coin specs. Pool: http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=sfr
Blake		Healthy. Regularly generates blocks as per coin specs. Pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin
Groestl		Healthy. Regularly generates blocks as per coin specs. Pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin-groestl
x11		Not healthy. Blocks are occasionally mined by the new multipool, but only when profitable. No dedicated X11 pools available
Scrypt		Not healthy. Blocks are not being found due to high difficulty. Pool: http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8967/static/

Multipools
http://www.zpool.ca/
This multipool has added SFR recently, and is mining 3 algorithms on a profit switching basis (Sha, x11, Scrypt).

The great strength of multi-algo coins is that it is not dependent on only 1 hashing method. For instance, although 2 algorithms have been in poor health, 3 have been in continuous good health since the coin was launched, meaning blocks still generate, the blockchain keeps moving, and transactions get processed. Multi-algo coins are extremely resilient and have always been under appreciated. Saffroncoin is probably the best one out there, despite the lack of progress from the dev in recent months and a low price, it is still fundamentally a solid coin, designed by a skilled developer.

Reward Schedule

Current Block Reward:
21 SFR
Block Target Time:
450 seconds per algorithm (5 algorithms = 90 seconds)

Data as of 22:00 GMT 24 February 2016...
Blockchain Height:
591,990
Coins Minted:
24,441,206

Block		Reward		Date
1		216 SFR		28th April 2014
5,761		72 SFR		29th April 2014
171,781		32 SFR		5th August 2014
344,582		27 SFR		11th January 2015
430,983		21 SFR		12th April 2015
603,784		17 SFR		Approx: 16th March 2016
690,185		14 SFR		Approx: 17th August 2016
862,986		12 SFR
1,213,387		11 SFR
1,386,188		9 SFR
1,736,589		8 SFR
2,086,990		6 SFR
2,437,391		4 SFR
2,787,792		3 SFR
4,539,793		1 SFR
6,291,794		0.5 SFR
9,795,795		0.2 SFR
13,299,796		0.1 SFR
20,307,797		2 SFR

Nodes

If you are having trouble getting your wallet to sync, you can use the following nodes:

addnode=23.229.124.34:19717
addnode=23.95.112.227:19717
addnode=23.95.112.118:19717
addnode=23.95.112.228:19717
addnode=198.46.156.221:19717
addnode=23.95.112.219:19717
addnode=23.94.12.100:19717
addnode=172.245.56.167:19717
addnode=192.210.135.149:19717

Tools

Block Explorer
Standard block explorer (with rich list etc.)

Difficulty Chart
Shows difficulty of all 5 algos on 1 graph. Recommend changing view setting to only the most recent 10,000 blocks to make sense of it.

Mining Breakdown
Shows the % of blocks being mined by each algo over the past 500 blocks. Also shows you who is mining the coin.

Exchanges

Active:
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-SFR
Inactive:
https://bter.com/trade/sfr_btc
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/270