Do you need your ERC20 token airdropped?

 I can provide a smart contract that airdrops any amount of coins to any amount of addresses.

 Here is an example of my smart contract where I send different amounts to over 100 people: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5d375be899a63dfe9cac45cc0d4a562d20f31623deb297712e6ba20a99879dd0

Let me know if this is a service you need!

This is a good idea, unfortunately it is still fairly easy to overcome, users simply open tabs with proxies. Leaving 20 tabs open in this way would allow them to 20x their mining returns compared to someone who just has 1 open. The button that only appears at the top of the hour means you have to physically act to get the coin and it's very difficult to scale that action to cheat the system. It is a little slower to earn this way but the payout rate will go up if usage is a lot lower.

I've never seen the blockchain as clogged as it has been the last 2 days, but once it drops again payouts and airdrops will make their way out.

The HowlCoin miner has been upgraded to become further in line with the goal of Howlcoin and to prevent fraudulent attempts at mining more coins than is possible.

 The goal of HowlCoin is for the mining to be evenly accessible to everyone- that having the money to buy processors would not give you an advantage of someone who couldn't.

 The idea behind "Proof of time" is simply that both a millionaire and a broke person have the same amount of time. So if time is what you trade for the coin instead of processing power, all users are on a level playing field.

 The miner originally ran on the website and you could leave it running in the background. Unfortunately the system would get flagged with users trying to run the miner on many tabs at the same time and using other automated methods to try to multiply their coins.

 Mining now works in a different way.

 At the top of every hour, a button appears on the miner. If you click the button, you earn 1.25 HWL.

 The button only appears for 10 seconds, at the top of every hour (So at Midday exactly, at 1pm, at 2pm etc). Those are your 10 second windows to collect HowlCoins. This means you no longer need to leave the miner running on your PC. All you have to do is offer your 'time' by being there at the top of the hour to collect your coin. This means a millionaire and a broke person have no advantage over each other- if they are there running the miner at the top of the hour they will get their coin when the button appears and they click it.

This is also a much more secure way to distribute coins. Depending on what happens, we may eventually introduce a Captcha style puzzle to solve instead of it just being a button.

There have been a lot of complaints about mining withdrawal times. While there were many factors contributing to this, one was low gas fees. We use a low gas fee for transactions, however recently these transactions have not been totally reliable and take a long time go through. To make this better, we have made it so that the miner will remember how many coins you have earned, and once you have earned 20 HWL, you can withdraw. This means many users will use the app to hold the HWL temporarily and the withdrawal requests will be less, which means they will go through more efficiently.

If anyone is using the old miner, they should hit "Withdraw" and if you do so soon, that withdrawal will be processed soon. But over the next day the old miner will be disconnected and withdrawal requests will no longer be processed.

Other questions:


 They have been going out slowly and will continue to do so. Before Jan 1 all legitimate airdrops will have been processed.


We have a working app, windows and mac version of the miner, but we have been holding back until the miner is refined (So we don't have to update all of them each time). Depending on how the new miner goes, the others will be released shortly.


I will create a walkthrough video for the new miner, showing it in action and posting that here in the thread soon.

PM me if you have any questions! Keep an eye on the blockchain if you are missing mining coins from recently- they have slowed down as the blockchain got mega congested this weekend, worst it has been in months.

Some mining payouts were sent however the network is massively clogged and they are not being confirmed.

 There is a new mining system coming shortly that will help with this. Previous suggestions have been taken into account.

All mining withdrawals for the last 24-30 hours are on deck, just have to wait until the network calms down so they can be confirmed, the blockchain is overloaded right now.

Some new payouts went out, message me your ETH address so I can make sure you get those tokens.

 One issues I have identified is related to gas. We pay the gas fee of delivering the coins, so we choose a low gas price, however sometimes when sending a large amount of transactions in a short amount of time, due to a nonce issue some of the transactions never arrived.

 I have worked out a solution and I have been working on the full mining overhaul, it will be done very soon. The current miner will stay up until then. If you ever think you missed out on coins just send me a message here, let me know your eth wallet address and how many coins you think it was and I will follow up on it asap.

Also, the new miner will fix the issue of the coins not being saved if you restart the miner. Coming very soon (tommorow), I'll post again here when it is live!

 There is another project called HowlToken, it seems both projects used the name coincidentally. HowlCoin.com was registered before HowlToken ANN began soon after, but we both just coincidentally used the name Howl. The projects are different, theirs is based on a social media app (it's a cool project, worth checking out), HowlCoin is a coin based on the idea of seeing what happens when a Crypto lowers barrier to entry for mining. The minimum is 0.2 HWL at this time.

Thank you and yes that is correct, it will be that way again shortly

Hrm let me test this again and see if I can correct that problem, as well as making it resumable again. These updates will not affect the miner so it will stay up while I work on it.

The Howl Miner is live again, with some internal changes. The ticker updates slower but adds more HWL with each update.

Every 10 seconds that it runs it will add some HWL.

You can earn ~20 HWL per day currently. There may be slight inconsistencies across devices but it should be much less now. The reason it happens is because even if the timer is +0.1% lagged on a different device, it adds up every time new HWL is added. To combat this I changed the timer to 10 seconds. Every time the miner is open for 10 seconds, more HWL is added.

In the future HowlCoin mining may require an action (Similar to a captcha) which would make for a more secure Proof of time.

One main goal of the internal changes is to prevent users from just running the miner in multiple tabs. For a while now the miner has flagged withdrawals that came from the same device. Some users would try to just run many instances of the miner, but this defeats the purpose of PoT because almost unlimited coins could be mined. When that happens, the system flags the withdrawals and they are not processed, only 1 per device. What might have to happen in a future update is that withdrawals will be restricted to 1 IP address at a time, meaning you can't mine on multiple devices under the same IP. As for now though, that is still enabled, so you can mine from multiple devices with the same IP at the moment.


The goal of distributing HWL through Proof of time is simply that mining would be equally accessible to to both the poorest and richest person, allowing for hopefully a very widespread distribution of the coin. Any hardware-intensive based mining solutions, or proof of stake, mean that users with more cash can mine more. That may work for other Cryptos but the point of Howlcoin is to see what happens if the mining playing field is truly equal. Both a poor person and a rich person only have 86400 seconds in a day. Already people have tried to use work arounds to get a ton of Howlcoins but we are constantly working on the miner to prevent this from happening and for the most part it's working great. The only reason mining cannot be 100% automated yet is simply needing to make 100% certain that no work around is possible as any vulnerability in that scenario would be severe.


Cool, they will be put through over the next 24 hours now that the miner has been updated and released. Also, we will begin distributing more Airdrops at the same time. The airdrop sign up has closed but anyone who got their address onto the list successfully will be airdropped 100 HWL.

Over the course of next month a bunch of things will be rolled out.


No, I have been in contact with EtherDelta about officially listing the ticker on there, I am just waiting to send the info to time it for on or close to Jan 1st.

 With EtherDelta, it is at the admin's discretion to list a ticker in their drop down box, however anyone can trade any ERC20 coins without needing approval. Some people have bought and sold HWL coins on there already, so you are able to sell them if you want or buy more without mining.

 I am going to start a small paid ad campaign on January 1 for HowlCoin, so there may be more buy orders that appear on EtherDelta around that date, which gives you early users the chance to offload your coins/airdrops for ETH if you want to do that. The period leading up to Jan 1 allows things to be refined and improved upon (The miner, website etc) so that it's in good shape for the new year. Hopefully by running ads there will be new users to mine, buy and sell Howlcoin.

It will be back up in around 48 hours. There will be a video walk through as well, explaining changes. Mining payouts that happened in the days after the miner went down will go out at that time also.

Hey I recommend just hitting withdraw now because the miner is being changed in a big way and the old one will not work anymore. As it is being changed it's under maintenance and so a withdrawal request might not process correctly.

This weekend there will be a big update with the new miner. I took a lot of the advice from users and incorporated it in. I'll also create a new video walkthrough for the miner and give a general update on the coin as well.

It should run the same on every computer as it is measuring your time on the computer. The miner is being overhauled and will look very different when it is released this week. I will check across many devices to see if I can replicate what you said.

 It's recommended for anyone who kept the miner open to hit withdraw and close it until it relaunches.

There is a subreddit for now, more will be coming before Jan 1 which is the big date we are moving towards at the moment.

Hey,

 You do not have to pay for any withdrawals, we cover all gas costs.


All bounty payments were sent out, so if yours did not go through you may want to resubmit. There were a couple who failed to provide a wallet address and instead wrote "Bounty" in the field that was meant for wallet address. Just go ahead and resubmit with your link and wallet address and it will go through.


LOL Eddie the eagle is still here. In fact I posted in this thread today 5 posts above yours. You can also see the coin's activity on the blockchain- you can see on the blockchain that mining withdrawals and bounties were being processed today.

As stated earlier, all bounties and mining payouts have been sent and usually arrive within 24 hours. Airdrops are a little different, they are delayed as we have a multi thousand long list, many of which were fake (50 entries in a row with emails like jake@gmail.com john@gmail.com beck@gmail.com etc). We turned on Email verification after this and we have sent out many airdrops so far. We are still sorting the list and sending them out over time.

 Also, anyone can PM me their wallet address if they don't want to wait and I make sure theirs are sent in the next batch.
 

The airdrop has ended or now and is no longer taking addresses. I will let everyone know where the airdrops have all been sent out. You can see on the blockchain as they go out over time.

The miner will be down for an upgrade over the next few days also. It's been working much better over the last 8 day but there are improvements to be made.

The airdrops are delayed but are going out in waves.

Mined coins and bounties will arrive within ~24 hours of earning them.

Hey, yes, someone linked me to this thread. You are correct that "Howl" was just a coincidence, we registered the name HowlCoin.com about a month before this thread was launched. This token looks great, wish you guys the best with it.

Auction ended may lower the price and relist later

Hey, all bounties were delivered- did you submit through the form on the site? I will check again to see if any were missed.


If it was in the last 24 hours then they will arrive tonight.

Sometimes users have claimed to have mined more than is actually possible (Even an "I was mining for weeks and didn't get any coins" only a couple of days after the miner went live, so the system just makes sure the amount of coins being withdrawn correlates to the amount of time spent actually mining. If it detects you somehow attempted to withdraw a ton of coins after only a few minutes or seconds mining, it won't actually submit that transaction in the end.

Also there were about 40 transactions that ran out of gas but they are all getting reset right now, you can see them going through on the blockchain.


Hey, this is not present on any exchanges at the moment, but it will be right before January 1st. It's still possible to trade coins privately if you like with anyone (They are your coins, you can do whatever you like with them) however because we are just getting started there may not be a market for them. The coin is getting it's peripherals in order and before Jan 1 and by that point there will be a live mobile miner app, the current miner will be more refined based on feedback and current tests on automating it, and a few other cool things.


Can't promise a miracle but I can promise to try to make it the most fairly and easily distributed coin out there.

Yes, the system will disregard requests that come from a different tab/browser on the same computer now, but it will still process the highest single result.

 You can mine with multiple devices though and the same IP.


It's manual at the moment, there is an automated system that is being tested- it just has to be 100% solid before being released as any glitches could be catastrophic to the coin and allow someone to drain the reserves too quickly.


At the moment it's ~24 hours.

 There will be more airdrops being sent within 24 hours also.