Quote from: phatkiller on February 17, 2016, 04:27:06 AM

I also like the idea of incorporating POS that would bring back all those large wallet holders into the community more nodes, faster transaction processing time, not depending on POW.

I like POS coins as well, but there are a lot of HUGE wallets out there which would benefit way more then smaller wallets. Let's push that discussion off for a while. I feel like we could get side tracked just discussion that option and never get anything accomplished. It is on the list of late tasks in the OP so we won't forget about it!

Quote from: p3yot33at3r on February 17, 2016, 01:41:44 PM

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.

I was reading random bitcointalk threads to see what other coins were doing and I probably just came to an ill-informed conclusion. PhatKiller and you seem to be in agreement here. From what I understand merge mining does cause a kind of symbiotic relationship with the other coin. What coin were you guys thinking about? BTC? If say, we decided to merge mine with a coin and it failed would we have to hard fork again to switch to another merge mined coin?

Quote from: p3yot33at3r on February 17, 2016, 01:41:44 PM

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.

I removed those pools from the OP and Reddit. Thanks for checking it out. Even more reason to update this wallet!