Myriadcoin still having bugs with difficulty adjustments:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483515.msg6896681#msg6896681

Next heavycoin? Sure hope not.

The guide doesn't explain how to solo mine.

Cheers!.

Dude - thank you

I'm reading at the moment, and if you don't mind I may have some questions for you.

On the twitter front, I agree, @bufbvr's re-tweets were a... problem...

To present this to journalists, the more information we can give them up front is going to make their life easier = more likely to get covered. So we've got to do the leg work to provide them with information so they can vet it themselves and, if accurate, report on it as they see fit.


Please feel free to share:

- any technical info I should be reading to back up this story

- Miners out there - any quotes or personal anecdotes you could share about how mining heavycoin vs other alts has been for you?

- are there any GPU mining equipment suggestions anyone would like to recommend (brand X is better then brand Y etc)

- what's the best HVC GPU mining guide out there for new miners?

- any other arguments that should be included?


I don't want to do anything as vulgar as a press release, just a detailed summary to cut down on their leg work so they can ask questions and verify information, but not have to dig up the entire story themselves.


Next question is: who should we be sending this information to - what are the best mining blogs/podcasts/sites?

My personal goal is to reach out to John @ the Sovereign Bitcoin Podcast (http://www.sovereignbtc.com/) - I enjoy his podcast and he's started a mining segment over the last few episodes that might be a good fit for this story.


Item 2
Heavycoin twitter feed - I'd love to get everyone's thoughts here.

I'd like to make sure that the @Heavycoin and @Heavycoinnews feeds are both useful and have their own task that they solve, I would like to suggest:

@Heavycoin = Important information the heavycoin community needs to know (software updates, major developments)

@HeavycoinNews = for the more engaged members of the community (interesting posts, when TheRealSteve posts updated stats, market movements, re-tweet interesting commentary from the wider crypto community)

What do you guys think?

Coins that focus just on the mining algorithm are dead from the start.

It's not the miners that dictate the price anymore.

It's the hype , the traders , the actual use of a coin.

this whole struggle on finding new algos is a waste of time.

Here's a tip.  I'm in the same boat as you all. Lots of wasted time and lots of wasted opportunity where we all could have been generating better revenue mining other ALTs.

Keep your ears open for Maxwell Coin.  Not much talk about it yet but I know the development team personally. Interesting ideas coming together. Will be based around NVIDIAs new Maxwell Architecture, but also mineable by CPU at modest profit/block rewards. Not much else I can say, just keep a look out. Follow my twitter below I'll announce more when I know more and am allowed to.

Good luck till then friends.

yip, that's what i thought, thanks for confirming. Didn't follow the development of CPU scrypt recently, but (being professional coder myself) i do not see too much potential for improvement there. Algorythmn must be designed for "CPU only" to make sense...

Multipool with e.g. MemoryCoin could make sense, that is said to be still profitable with CPU mining iirc.

I totally understand that you are disappointed right now...  but please try to find the patience AT LEAST until the next update...  we already know that the devs are working on an update of the client...  hopefully they had time to work on other things too.

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I would argue that in this current climate of tumbling coin prices that their multipool, by creating buy support, has essentially made their coin stand out as one which is bucking the downward trend, this in turn has attracted investors and those who feel its a safe store of value while everything else decreases.

blackcoins multipool helps a lot, that's one of the reasons their price is doing so well.

Not saying i support a multipool right now but I see no more risk than what will be presented in the sustain phase, in fact less risk now than later.


Agreed. But....

The current concern is that sustain phase is coming very quickly and in the current design sustain is very open to network attack if people bail during said phase (granted speculation). But for people not to bail HVC has to increase in value considerable to keep miners mining (securing the network). It is naive to think miners will mine at a loss just to support the coin during the sustain phase. Im not suggesting things be changed immediately but I do think a plan has to be made and ready to be implemented if the scenario plays out as such. Who will invest jump on board (merchants) with HVC if there is a logical foreseeable security issue with the final stage?

BTW a multipool would be good if HVC went POS for sustain phase.  

For people looking to create a multipool (which, for the record, I do not agree with) here's what Faircoin is doing: http://fair-coin.info/multipool

They seem to be working with WafflePool to create a multipool system and then buying FC with the profits, distributing the profits to the faircoin addresses. Not sure what needs to be done for HVC to get that sort of deal. Might need to work something out with the Wafflepool admins.

Your "exhausted supplu" will be with 90% off coins mined just 4-5 months since lunch..i dont see who is that exhausted supplu ..you missing biggest oportunitu for alt coin and that is when great army of GPY miners redirect from litecoin..coin that atract that miners will be biggest alt coin...there are now gpy worth tens of milions of $ that are mining..coin that will have them will have huge invesments ..but this coin even it ahs most gpy friendly alg going for "we dont need miners" and security will be 0