https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.msg27376679#msg27376679

Install wallet, install snapshot, then give it a couple hours to finish sync.

Go back a page or two to read about adding nodes to your config file if you continue to have issues.

Things seem to have picked up. My wallet has had 10 active connections for days now. When people were having problems, I'd have 2-3 connections.

*shrug* - No such problem here. All I did for the new wallet is copy my wallet.dat over, the bootstrap file, and let it rebuild for a day. I launch the wallet with "MintCoin-Qt.exe -datadir=D:\Apps\Wallets\MintCoin\DAT", to write the data to my larger SSD. This older machine has a small C-drive, and blockchains now days were eating up all of my available disk space.

If there are wallet issues though, that will definitely hurt the coin.

The 2GB only takes another couple hours to reach after the January bootstrap. No real need to update. I had some 10+ peers by that point.

Just let the wallet go. There may have been pauses, but mine finished fine without restarting. If looking at the file size on Windows, make sure to click on the block file and hit F5 on your keyboard. This will typically show the current size. Windows explorer may not continuously update the file size after a certain point, but it still grows.

My IP changes all the time, so I can't be a good static peer to add.

Depends on the speed of your computer. I can reload it from bootstrap in about 20-hours on my 5-year-old wallet-store PC. It takes a bit of time to process the 1.8GB of data. Total size is over 2GB today.



Give it time. A full sync will take a few days. There aren't a lot of peers out there right now, but I'm one of them.

I've been hoping this coin would make a comeback. I switched to mining only this coin for awhile since I saw its potential, but it was also difficult to tell what may be a pump and dump back then. This one gave people incentive to hold onto the coins, especially the first couple years with higher returns.

Still see a lot of potential in this coin, especially if we can get it distributed to a greater number of people.

I'd be curious to see how many coins the top wallets have.

Just want to say that I've been stalking this thread, and I assume there are many others actively monitoring its status also. After all, every coin is held by someone. This is one of the coins I've believed in since launch, but I think its popularity was harmed by the inability for miners to have quickly grabbed a large portion of coins at launch for a quick profit. That and it was launched around the time when people could get millions of other (pump'n'dump) coins for little work. Bigger numbers, you know.

I'm not sure how I can help get this coin back on track. I've stopped mining the last two days so I can mine others for dumping and start covering actual running costs of my systems, but will be back on cash shortly. I have purchased cash and sold none. Been mining nonstop since release and can afford a few thousand for bounties.

Other than marketing, the coin was near perfect at launch, and with the quick release of coin control in the second version of the wallet, really did become the perfect coin. All it needs is utilization. Everything has worked as intended from the start, which can't be said about many of the other coins.

Perhaps it is. Newer drivers are limited to 4 cards in Win7 and 5 cards in Win8. I don't care where the limitation currently resides - the driver has those limits on those environments. I have dedicated mining systems running each OS and have seen the issues firsthand. I'd use Linux if I didn't already have a custom setup for Windows that allows me to instantaneously update all my miners from my phone (send three characters and they respond to my new settings/new mining app files/etc). 

I'm sure you will agree with the information available online for the OP's motherboards, the limitation does not appear to be motherboard. He needs to use a different version. If he wants five cards working, he would need Windows 8 if he wants to run the latest stock drivers.

Then you didn't read the post. "Unless using older drivers or modified newer ones, ..." . Those limitations are based on the driver and Windows versions. Everything I can see points to the OP's issue as being driver related, not motherboard as you had initially mentioned. This may not be true if he is disabling driver signing verification so that modified drivers may be installed. He did not provide enough information.

Driver version?

Straight from AMD's release, driver versions after ~13.xx (it's a toss up for 12.8 and 13.1) will just throw a yellow exclamation mark in the device manager on videocards 5+ in Windows 7. Modified drivers take care of this issue. One of mine with that issue is running the same Asrock BTC mATX board using powered risers. 13.12 modified works fine though.

Not saying you're wrong, but I can't find enough details for that specific motherboard. It does share bandwidth between two of the x1 slots and the x4 slot (lower "x16" slot). When all three are populated, the "x16"/x4 slot runs at x1. So we have one x16 slot direct to the CPU, second x16 slot is running at x1, and two x1 slots are running at x1. Since PCIEX1_1 isn't mentioned in sharing bandwidth, it likely has its own lane. I think the Z68 motherboard should handle 5 videocards fine. I haven't looked into the other one. Therefore, I'd look at driver version.

So you're running Windows. Unless using older drivers or modified newer ones, Windows 7 is limited to 4 7900-series video cards and Windows 8 is limited to 5. I assume since you're disabling driver signature verification that you're already using modified drivers?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193695.0

Yeah, the wallet has been fine for me. Windows wallet with no config file - just the wallet itself which is connected to 8 peers. It connects up almost immediately on reboot just fine also. One thing I've always liked about this coin is that its wallet has always been incredibly fast - none other have compared.

Has your Work Utility gone down? Mine has remained the same and I'm receiving 2-3 times more payouts.

Exactly. People think they're receiving the amount of coins listed next to "Stake", but those are only the amount of coins that are currently mining for the PoS reward. With 20% reward over the first year, somewhere between one and two percent of the listed "Staking coins" will be rewarded per month. Everything is working as intended.

Aaaand, I've received eight PoS transactions within the last hour. Things are coming up to speed!

Not sure - most of my transactions were 10 coins. The first couple days of stake were quiet, but they started to come in quickly on day 3. 32 days before I started to see a bunch.

They're still not as rapid as the initial mining quantities. I have ~500 transactions over 30 days old but only 30 stake transactions so far. I've had 5 stake transactions in one hour, but average probably ~2.

http://www.masejoer.com/Images/Coins/CASH-PoS.png

I'm getting frequent PoS mined coins coming in now. A few transactions an hour.

I agree - everything is still speculation. In 50 years we'll have a good idea of how cryptocurrencies worked out. It still comes down to the fact that PoW coins can't survive without miners, and the miners need to have the expenses covered. What the market actually does is completely separate. As long as I break even in 10 years of dealing with these things, I couldn't care less what the coins do - it's all in fun and any profit is a bonus.

Yet for investors/speculators, PoW coins can make more sense. PoW need to be worth more because it must cover the expenses of mining. PoS won't have the overhead costs so its coins can get by with being valued much lower. In general PoW coins should be worth much more than PoS.

Edit:
Worth more per block/amount of coins that can be mined for a cost. Individual coin values are almost meaningless.

Received POS transaction #2

Stake: 10.25987
Transaction: 0.085148