SFR Update
Updated: 09 September 2016

SFR the coin which just won't die for some reason. It's been 5 months since my last update, nothings happened at all, all but 1 remaining Blake pool has been taken offline, but the coin still works for some reason! Amazing.

Anyway, here we go with the latest update...

SFR Healthcheck

Algorithms and pools

Sha		Healthy-ish.. Regularly generates blocks, however the last pool is now gone so it's solo mine only. No Sha pools avaliable
Blake		Healthy-ish.. Regularly generates blocks, still has a pool! Pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin
Groestl		Not healthy. No one is mining, last working pool is now gone. Rarely mined, but diff is low. No groestl pools avaliable
x11		Not healthy. Blocks are not being found due to high difficulty. No X11 pools available
Scrypt		Not healthy. Blocks are not being found due to high difficulty. No Script pools avaliable

The great strength of multi-algo coins is that they are not dependent on only 1 hashing method. For instance, although 3 algorithms are in poor health and not mined, 2 have been in continuous good ok 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 years and a low price, it is still fundamentally a solid coin, designed by a skilled developer, and therefore doesn't die when it should have long ago.

Reward Schedule

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

Data as of 13:15 GMT 09 September 2016...
Blockchain Height:
663,863
Coins Minted:
25,710,223

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		20th March 2016
690,185		14 SFR		Current estimate: December 2016/January 2017
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, most of which are amazingly supplied by kid_brook for some reason he doesn't even seem sure of himself:

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.

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

Bagholders

Sku: 520,000SFR
100,000 bought at 800-1000sat in 2014 as an investment
420,000 bought at 40-70sat in 2016 for fun and to support a coin I'm fond of

Anyone else want to join this list with me?  

Have fun out their in Crypto land guys. Don't invest in junk coins unless you have money you can afford to lose, and a sense of humor.