Quote from: clockuniverse on February 17, 2016, 02:48:15 AM

Recently I was under the impression that merge mining made it look like the coin had already failed, what do you think?

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Some of the oldest coins in crypto are merge mined: NMC, IXC (mining completed), I0C, DVC, CLC, GRP, XGG to name a few, plus more recently UNO, MYR, CRW, HUC, RICHX, WLC etc have all adopted merge mining. With BTC diff going through the roof, miners are looking for ways of providing much needed income & merge mining not only provides this, but also introduces them to other altcoins as well as providing those coins with the security of large hash rates. I'm not aware of a single altcoin that has failed due to merge mining, in fact the opposite is true - it provides stability & a firm user base to build on.

As far as POS is concerned, POS coins come & go every other day for a reason.

Quote from: clockuniverse on February 17, 2016, 02:48:15 AM

These are supposed to be p2pool nodes:

http://miner-control.de:8000/getting_started - Pooled Mining and P2Pool Node (German)
http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8932/static/ - P2Pool Node

Tell me if they work and if not I will remove them from the OP and Reddit sidebar immediately.

Miner control doesn't mine TRC & I'm unable to connect my node to e-pool. I noticed they are using an old version of p2pool for their node, so tried using the same version but to no avail. I've also tried using the latest p2pool version as well as the rav fork, but still am unable to connect to any nodes to download the sharechain. Maybe a PM to forrestv (p2pool dev) would provide more info - but I fear it's a wallet issue, not a p2pool one.