If you are having problems getting your miner to sync:  DO NOT DOWNLOAD the blockchain from the link on the first page.  I have no idea why, but that file is causing problems and I can't imagine why a user supplied download link from a couple years ago has not been removed after reports of problems.  (*I see that it has been removed, thank you!
 

I had to delete every file that even looked like a hodl file except the wallet.dat (major mistake to delete that file since I haven't found a way to recover it and lost the first coins I mined).  I had to move that to my desktop, delete the entire hodlcoin folder in the appdata file and the original location you put the exe file.  That wallet fix thingy did not work no matter how many ways I tried or how angry I got at it.    The only thing that worked was deleting absolutely everything, downloading the Hodlcoin 3.0.0 zip file all over again and writing a new bat file (probably not necessary but who knows).  Lastly, put the wallet.bat file back where it belongs and launch.  

It took HOURS to download the blockchain (as expected) and during that time the cmd window showed errors and block problems...that is NORMAL, its shutting down stale/closed nodes and looking for others.. .DO NOT close the window until your wallet shows fully synced and when you put your mouse over the little icon at the bottom right, the block number matches the block the network is on (from the block explorer website).

It would be immensely helpful to have someone around to answer newcomer questions.  I'm sure there were/are plenty of new guys who didn't bother bitching on this forum and just moved on.