It takes time. But is worth it once it syncs. There is almost 3,000,000 blocks to confirm, and a new block in every 30 seconds but it makes transfers fast. That's probably a good reason why the payoff reward for minting is good. Incentive to maintain network connections. Pays good but not unreasonable. I haven't logged on in like a year, but I just realized looking at my old posts, MINT was worth about $0.000015-0.000020 in May of last year, right now it's about doubled in $ value compared to then, even with the recent sell off. Mintcoin is basically up %100 in a year and all think about that.  That's even if you didn't mint anything. Those coins you minted if you owned some last year have also doubled in value. I think this coin is onto something here, so I stay with it. Not sure what it is but there is something right about it and yet hardly gets the attention it deserves. Maybe it's just the catchy name. Makes me want Minting coins. Sort of surprised Poloniex delisted it. It's been around forever and been a lasting contender vs so many other coins. This is one of the oldest coins. Basically made history as the first PoS coin launched with a mineable initial distribution and with the fastest transfer speed. It is still one of the fastest coins over 2 years later! Not sure what coin out there is faster??? There have been several coins that have come and gone that could not last that tried to be faster than Mintcoin. I don't keep up on all the new coins so I don't know if there is one that is faster, but I think Mintcoin is the fastest surviving coin for its age.