A perfectly acceptable solution!  My sleepy, offhand, just prior to going to bed comment that the "max reward should be sufficient to prevent the creation of excessively large block sizes" was not based upon any real math.  Projections even if the current difficulty following the wallet upgrade holds, easily shows that allowing the max stake reward to be the only limiting factor in split/combine max thresholds would allow the value to be set way to high to support a healthy network and allowing the max persisted values that you have stated above will pretty much solve the issue for most people anyway.

Your statement regarding compiling your own settings answers another question I had about whether the max limitation was enforced at the individual wallet level or at the network protocol level and should be a perfectly acceptable option to anyone who would like to go down that route as well.

If the maximum you are attempting is not very big, then the settings you are describing work.  But at least at the time I tried it, the maximum values allowed using those settings did not allow any where near the amounts I am able to set the threshold(s) too after the wallet is running.

There was in fact a way to use command line and/or .conf settings to set a higher (but not much higher) value when I originally attempted to automate it,  The problem at the time was that the maximum acceptable values used at wallet startup were much lower than what a larger stakeholder was able to set the values to after the wallet was running.  It seems like the startup maximum was something like 200 HBN which is kind of like "why bother" raising it from the default value of 5 at all.  Larger stakeholder were able to set the value much higher than 200 (based upon total HBN in wallet) but only after the wallet was up and running. 

This may have changed in a subsequent wallet release and when I get a little time I will see if setting those values again allows for a more reasonable max threshold at startup.

I agree, the risk of going over max reward should be sufficient to prevent the creation of excessively large block sizes.  I would also like to have the set values persist through wallet restarts as it is a pain to have to repeatedly set these values whenever there is a need to restart the wallet.

Just looked up the address you stated above on the block explorer and found that there was no problem as your address is ranked #261 which means that you were not in the top 250 addresses.  Sorry, but being close to the top 250 was not part of the well defined parameters of what was required to receive bonus VRM.

The CoinInfo section at Cryptopia has a basic Explorer that shows which PhilosopherStone block it is on at any given moment.  This at least lets you know if you are on the same block as they are.  Since this is currently the only exchange where you can trade PHS I guess it should be the authority until a better Explorer has been re-established.

Note:  PHS is very weak now and unless more people begin actively staking this forking problem will occur again and again.  Please allow your PHS to split into a greater number of smaller sized blocks so that active staking can be in progress on a more consistent basis.

barabbas and altcoinUK (A.K.A. Hose-A and Hose-B)

Wow, just stumbled across this thread and it really warms my heart to see that you two lovebirds are still in here jerking each other off.  Your absolute devotion to the destruction of this coin is truly awe inspiring even though it is obviously not working.  There does reach a point however that one might wonder if you are not just wasting your lives trying to kill a coin instead of simply pursuing a coin that you do believe in.

Anyway this is the part where you call me stupid and/or cheerleader or whatever your current favorite tag is for someone who simply does not hate the coin with a white hot passion so I will leave you to it.   

You probably have a lot of payouts still waiting to process.  I mined at veripool for a few days a couple of weeks ago and gave up as it appeared that the payouts were a joke.  After I quit mining however,  I continued to get small payouts several times a day for the past two weeks and the sum of the payouts over all of that time is around what I would have expected.  If I had continued mining during those two weeks I am sure that the payouts would have become larger and/or more frequent during that same time period.

If you intend to point your miner at veripool and forget it as Scott is most likely doing you will probably begin to see more consistent payouts with amounts closer to your estimate after a few weeks.  I will probably not mine veripool any more myself since not having real time feedback as to how a mining operation is doing at any given moment is just not for me.
 

In reading through other threads, I have noticed that Vericoin is rapidly developing a reputation for having a very rude and obnoxious community.  After reading the past few pages it is not difficult to see why.

For those of you that claim to be supporters of the Vericoin, you do realize that most of the new investors you are trying to attract will visit this forum prior to making a buying decision.  Don't you?

I would like to challenge all of you to go back several pages and read them again from the perspective of a new investor investigating the merits of Vericoin.  Now be honest with yourselves and recognize that this potential new investor does not even know how incredibly brilliant you are.


Does this new investor see...

A: ...an active community (with a healthy amount of respectful disagreements) intelligently discussing the future of Vericoin and standing ready to perhaps "assist" the new investor with any questions they might have?

... or ...

B: ...a never ending amount of page filling quotes of quotes of still more quotes of quoted quotes of absolute drivel that has long ago strayed from the original topic and turned into nothing more than a contest to try to prove to the other(s) who has the biggest dick!?
 
If your answer is "A" please re-read the part about being honest with yourself.  If you answered "B" ask yourself (still from the perspective of a potential new investor) "Do I even want to be involved with this coin"?


Additionally, please be aware that you do not come across the way you might think you do in these slap fests to those of us who may be unaware of how special you are.  Instead, the reader can only conclude that...


1. You (that's right, YOU) are no where near as smart as you are attempting to portray yourself as being.
2. All participants most likely have to employ the use of special tweezers when using the restroom or you would not be so desperate to convince us that you are actually men.


Most of you know who you are but if you are not sure if you are included, there is an easy way to find out.  Are you angered by the above statements and/or are you attempting to find any spelling errors or improper sentence structure that can be used to "shut me up good" in a response to this post?  If so then yes,  I am asking you to grow up and learn to communicate like an adult.

Hello, Is anyone still doing anything with this coin?  This thread appears to have about one post a week and the website does not appear to have been updated for nearly two months.  The front page of the website states that "We are excited to share with you what we have been working on these past few weeks." but then proceeds to share absolutely nothing at all other than (with a lot of digging) a white paper dated May 27 vaguely hinting that a move to PoS may be planned.

So, just checking to see if there is a reason to check back in the future or if I should just write this one off. 

I am working with a new Raspberry Pi application and I do indeed need to setup a failover,  but thank you for your most helpful response.  You must be such a joy to the people you come into contact with.

Anyone who may have been mining at http://pool.vericoin.info/ should probably re-point their miners to a pool that is actually mining since this pool appears to have been brought down as well.  I may have missed the notice that the official Vericoin in-house mining operations that mine other coins and then trade for Vericoin was also going to be shutdown, but some sort of notice would have been nice.

While I understand that new Vericoin payouts from the selling of other mined coins would necessarily be delayed until the Vericoin markets were enabled again and the profits converted to Vericoin, that should not prevent the profitable mining of the non-Vericoin coins thus abandoning the miners using your pool and leaving them mining a big heaping helping of "Jack Squat".

Is MP going to compensate for lost mining time due to their lack of basic security protocols?

How about an official notification that the miners at this pool are currently sucking air!

A Launch Party sounds like a great way to spread the word!