I totally support that.
I'm not quite a veteran or a business-oriented miner, yet even as a small, hobby-oriented miner I care and find wiz's efforts and attitude to be superlative.
Keep up the good work!

I don't think it's likely: first one wants the currency to get some value before trying to steal it... and discouraging users would not fit the strategy ;-)

I currently have "holes" in my GPU utilization while mining ("Waiting for new work from Pool 0").
Is it happening for me only? Is it normal?

https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=pplns
More general infos about profitability can be found here:
http://organofcorti.blogspot.it/2015/05/may-17th-2015-mining-pool-statistics.html

When you gamble you know who's statistically going to win: the gambling house. Now, probably the best side of the cryptocurrencies is that there is no central bank to play the gambling house's role (or to call the cards anyway) ...  that's why one wonders why many PPLNS pools average luck is so ofter quite below from 100%. As eleuthria pointed out, orphaned blocks can explain it partially. It doens't clarify (to me at least) how can big PPS pools stay alive...But I'm new to this world, and I have some naivety to wear off.

Thank you Sam for your reply and please forgive me if my post wasn't appropriate.
I know eleuthria by fame and I didn't want to point -directly or indirectly- any accusations at BTCguild (I actually avoided to cite it).  Moreover, that behavior may be common to other pools, so I'm interested in why the luck seems so low even in the long run; BTC Guild probably is just showing more stats.

Guys... these are the current luck stats of a big pool.
/ 75.645% / 91.791% / 88.821% / 93.131% /
 3D / 1W / 2W / 1M / 3M
C'mon... luck goin up and down and always rounding near 99% ? Do you have an idea of why this is happening, really?

Mine!  ;-)
It's time to take advantage of the low difficutly. As for now, an attack would make little sense and as soon as the coin will start to be more qoted, more people will join mining and the net hashrate will increase as well.
Mining to the wallet is a great option now.

nice to meet you here!
I'm usually running just one card I expressly bought for that purpose: an Asus r9 290  currently pushed with: --shaders 2560 --shaders-mul 12 --gpu-engine 1111 --gpu-memclock 1400  --cl-opt-disable. No overvolting (unavailable on my card, unless I flash the BIOS with an X version).  I also run a CPU miner for a pseudo-junk cryptocoin that actually slightly increases the performance of our cgminer! (using 2 threads on a core I5 4440 with hyperthreading enabled).
With this setup I can squeeze >330khps with <0.3% HW for an acknowledged WU of 1.1/m. Mem clock could go as far as 1600 with no probems, but the gain in performance would be small and I decided to stop here.
Having an open case and lots of system fans (2 - 2.5krpm) pointing to the card, I have its fans running at <50% while keeping temps <80° at 2PM in Italy. I suppose in summer I'll have to tone down a bit the settings in order to preserve this ideal status.

I work as a net admin, so I control the internet access in my company and occasionally have some free hardware to put to work (hey, you have to do some burn-in test before sending new PCs to the end users, don't you? ;-) ) Currently I have an R5 and an R6 GPUs that together provide 50Khps without overheating (with proper ventilation).

I also noted that Intel 4000 GPUs can run with cgminer, but they are just pathetic (<5khps) while newer 4600 are not recognized. Has anyone found a way to use them? what about the 5000 / 6000 series of Intel CPUs?

This coin really has a lot of potential! I'm putting all my gpu firepower into it!

With such small hashrate it makes little sense to spend time and attention on regions.
Let's kick thi coin of seriously, then we'll talk about that!

Hi all,
does anybody know if http://www.antminerdistribution.com/ is a reliable partner?

E9800 you have quite a huge hashrate! How do you get such a high value? I'm asking just out of curiosity ;-)

Thank wr104 you for the hint about deleting the .bin file! I now successfully disabled opencl optimization and my ASUS r9 290 bumped from 150Khps to the current 291Khps @ about 90C°/ 2200 RPM. I suppose I should "tweak down" the thing a little bit...

Oh, but did I dream or the walled briefly said it wanted an update? I'm running  v0.5.0.0-g0-beta (64-bit) . I went out to check a newer version and now the message has disappeared. MD5 of my install file is 87b1557e2d4cbf8c95616b48c34ff537 (as well as the latest I could find linked in the homepage)

Ok maybe it's my brain that can't sustain all that heat! :-D

The point is changing the connection port to
-o stratum+tcp://mine4.khc.nonce-pool.com:3390
Cheers

btw: anyone mining with an ASUS r9 290 ? (or 290x) how much do you get?