Cryptopoolmining seems down? I can't access the site... so I switched my NiceHash contract to Mining Pool Hub. I figured I'd point this out and see if anybody knows what's going on with it. I did tweet them but haven't gotten a response.
Yes Nice/West Hash have been down for a while now. I have gone back to solo mining for the last 3 days of SLR mining. With difficulties down in the 10's that is practical; and I do not expect any great hash numbers appearing with the reward at 6 SLR.
It gave me an opportunity to get the new wallet (1.5) sorted out on my little solar powered rig, so that it can then stay open 24/7 - even when I shut down the gridseeds, because they don't earn their lunch in practical terms anymore.
I can recycle the heatsinks and fans....
Mining will continue until the new wallet gets released. We don't know yet at which block the proof of stake hard fork will take place.
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Re: [ANN][SLR] SolarCoin | PoW to PoS v. 2.0 | Solar Proof of Generation
QT builds for linux are completed and tested, everything is syncing to the network as expected and I've managed to download the full blockchain already. I will post more news when I hear word back on Mac/Windows builds which should be in the next day or so. I will also provide a change log and list of new functionality tomorrow when I get some rest... for now I need to get some sleep
-Solarcoin price have to double/triple immediately? -Mass miners left and solarcoin will die?
Nowadays with 1 mah/s and currently difficulty at 8, withdrawl is about 180 per day. Then will be 90 per day, resulting solarcoin as "rare crypto" if price will triple. If price remain the same, 99% miners go away and let it die.
We will see.
Mining isn't the only way to get Solarcoins
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The Mining Pool: 105 Million SolarCoins (0.1%) to be publicly mined over the next 40 years. All publicly mined SolarCoins represent historically generated and unclaimed solar electricity. The Generator Pool: 97.5 Billion SolarCoins (99.4%) are currently stored in the OCA non-circulating generation pool account. These will be exchanged for proof of work claims of solar electricity generation submitted over the next 40 years at the rate of 1 SLR per MWh of solar energy. The Genesis Pool: 500 Million SolarCoins (0.5%) are stored in the genesis pool account for environmental charities, early volunteers, advisers, builders and maintainers of SolarCoin infrastructure. Genesis pool circulation is capped so that it will never represent more than 5% of total SolarCoin in circulation.
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Re: [ANN][SLR] SolarCoin - PoW reward for solar energy | the GREEN KING of Crypto
Need to know when the block reward will be cut in half calendar or block 525,600? If solarcoin block rates climb to 50k-60k+/month with ASICs, and it's block based, we'll be there well before the end of the year.
From main.cpp: nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / 525600);
The block reward will be cut in half on block 525'600.
The block time looks fucked up. Some blocks take 10 minutes to find.
I'm aware of that. I'm working on a block explorer to analyse the block times and adjust the difficulty retargeting algorithm, but a modification will require a hard fork of Yolocoin.