Nice work radium team.  When I first tried staking this coin a year ago, the sych time was probably half a day.  Now new users up and running in 15 minutes, that's great. 

You guys consider for future updates having a minimum stake to run a POS node, sort of like masternode concept employed by dash and now PIVX?  1000 rads to stake a node seems to make sense as it probably wouldn't be very profitable at this point to run a node if you owned less. 

There are rumors, and I emphasize just rumors at this point, that radium foundation will be opening an exchange where you can trade RADS for raw chicken.  Imagine first crypto currency backed by something as tangible and usable as raw chicken on demand!  I can only hope that this, and other innovative surprises lie in ahead in the near future. 

Most undervalued coin on polo.  Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!!

Abvhiael, when we were talking about trying to get listed again I purchased a paid weebly account setup for hosting at www.cryptosoil.com. It is already prepaid for a year.  There are no ads since it's paid and it has a blog page built in.  I could provide credentials to our developers and we could use that for a year, then consider switching over to a new domain name when renewal runs next February.  You can build out however you want if that would work.  

As for Nova exchange, I read you get one free vote a day then you can buy votes by purchasing NPOINTS.  They are cheaper than purchasing .4 btc line skip feature.  We should rally as much support as possible then close out missing votes with NPOINTS.  

Also, I don't know if technically feasible, but can we split block rewards like DASH and have a percentage that goes into a community fund and a percentage that goes to coinholders of a certain minimum threshold who are running nodes to keep the network stable?  This would also act as a protection against project abandonment if mining farm attacks continue because all the rewards wouldn't be tied to mining and our nodes would still have an incentive to keep network running. it's likely the nodes and community miners will be the same group in the beginning anyway, so this may actually protect community miners against having their block rewards shut down completely by mining farm attacks.

Abvhiael, good to see you post, hope you're feeling better and getting back on your feet.  Please post SOIL wallet address.  

Sorry haven't followed up in a bit.  Work has been crazy.  I still have the basic website for soil up www.cryptosoil.com, but was having trouble building out some of the links.  I used Weebly to save time, but some simple features seem glitchy and having trouble making direct edits to the code as a work around. I think all we need at this point is to have clean links to the ANN OP, the latest wallets, the BE, and maybe to link to an updated BE bootstrap so new users can get synched faster. I will try fix this week.  If anyone is interested in trying to work on website, PM me.    

I'm also in for trying to get community reserve built up again.  Looking forward, could we fork the code so that 5-10% of new blocks goes into a development fund?  This seems to be working really well for DASH.  Their block rewards are mined with a distribution that goes 45% to miners, 45% to masternodes (holders of 1000+ dash can run a masternode) and 10% into community fund.  Masternodes then vote on community projects.  They are able to do a heavy marketing push because they are well funded and able to mobilize with this system of governance.  I think SOIL should transition to a similar approach if possible.  No eth-based coin is doing this yet to my knowledge.  

Listing on exchange should definitely be the priority. Once up, I'll buy some and donate.   It's kind of crazy SOIL isn't listed.  More work to do, but further along then a lot of other coins that are listed.  

Bought some XBC recently -- nice effort all around to gain market presence. 

I'm interested in staking this coin, but I'm having a little difficulty getting the windows wallet to sync after downloading.  Any tips or links to tutorials for running the wallet for the first time would be much appreciated. 

Also, it would be great if the blockchain bootstrap could be updated for 2017 and would probably save a lot of time for new users downloading and trying the XBC wallet for the first time. Thanks, and nice work on coin. 
     

WTB 100k @ 40 sats

Thanks Altsheets -- I'll try your fix tonight.  I sent SOIL your way -- should hit soon. 

Just signed up for a cheap VPS service but order still pending.  hope to have a dedicated node set up by tomorrow night.  Will post once set up. 

Static nodes seem like good idea if agreed it will enhance connection stability;

Maybe an increase in the block reward size or reduction in block time is in order to incentivize greater mining participation, but bigger issue in past seemed to be with difficulty spikes caused by periodic attacks by large mining pools, which caused extreme volatility in block time and made mining unprofitable for hours to days at a time.  I don't think there was ever a fix or if there is one now that the community would know how to implement.  Any change that could quickly return difficulty to baseline levels after an attack by a large mining operation would be a big improvement.  When eth rolls out POS, maybe that provides permanent solution?



  

Altsheets, please keep the block explorer going for now.  I'll send some sats your way as a contribution to your efforts.

I think the community could get the coin listed again and bring it back to life if it focuses on meeting the basic goals first.  Cryptopia requires the following for listing:

Coin Submission
Cryptopia is always looking to add new cryptocurrencies, the voting page is where the community can show their support for the coins they want to see on Cryptopia.

In order for a cryptocurrency to be hosted on Cryptopia it needs to satisfy the following requirements:
1.Open Source & listed on GitHub
2.No pre-mine, or justified pre-mine prior to launch.
3.Official Website.
4.Compiled wallets for Windows and Linux
5.An established community
 initial

How far off would we be from getting a basic working website up that links to the block explorer, functional Windows and Linux Wallets, github source code, and the OP with supporting user manuals? 

If we could accomplish that we'd just need members of the existing community to login and lobby for the coin on cryptopia and all the conditions for listing would be met. 

Also, additional premine should be avoided for re-launch.  I'd donate a substantial amount of my Soil to a development fund and perhaps others would do the same.  Without minimal ongoing development the coin is dead anyway, so why not try to fund it's revival instead?  The fund could be treated like a kickstarter campaign -- no new work undertaken until it reaches a minimum initial reserve?

Just throwing it out there to drum up some ideas or get a sense if enough are even interested in keeping the coin alive . . .

Address: 0x82e6fac28f2c0d89b442f4b7c0d72fa47c54efa7

TxId: 0x77491b6c7d85c7479dbe209e8c04b405e37fcdf63037fae9baef8424ecd7bef8

Lost a lot on this one too.  They can't all be winners.  But really thought this had potential.  The developer meant well, but like with many things the demands of life often get in the way of big ideas. 

This was an ambitious project. What work needs to be done to get this coin relisted or listed elsewhere?  Sending 10k your way Andreas. 

Sent 2500.  My best to your daughter and family.  My wife and I went through the same over the summer and tears your heart out like nothing else.  Hang in there bud.

 TxId: 0x0a881dfcd4a010dc389f707294c7a0dbaa2efc63810da687c319bb34230e1a1d