Who's mining now? I thought I just hadn't got it set up right but the problem seems widespread of the forums. For the moment the only way to get a modest return (not an unreasonable ambition) seems to be the exchanges. I'm not 'investing' in greedseeds, so I'm out of mining now, apart from POS. Then the biggest temptation is robbing the piggy bank to play the markets.

What's needed is a true second generation coin that abandons the QT and all the archaic Bitcoin standards. The blockchain's bloated, the wallet belongs to the 1970s, and there's no convenient way of spending. You can't even run multiple wallets off one copy of the blockchain without swapping out. But it was never intended to go global in that form. The developers are just more concerned with huge profits than R&D. In the end the whole e-currency market could fail through lack of simple accessibility. Doge is a classic example of huge potential with nowhere to go. Now it's lying in state... and the wheel's getting reinvented almost on a daily basis.