Please don't zero out any Kiwicoin balances yet - there's a problem with the wallet not synchronising that makes it impossible to withdraw at the moment.

By all means use BCT for the interaction, but please announce when significant updates are being made on the site too - I had no idea DRM was scheduled for de-listing until I happened upon this thread by chance a couple of days ago.

Yup, I'll bet you did!  With 3% premine that would make you 24,000 BTC. or $10.9M at today's prices.

Twat - oh, you were joking...

I only ever put in 0.06 BTC, not much at all, but last night I sent them this support ticket:


and this morning, it did indeed arrive back, and my account is showing 0 BTC.  There's an empty reply to my ticket, but nothing else.

If anyone would like to try and follow the money, the incoming TXID was 9e0c01a097837c00359007e7ec056ada16ee45c1dccfc1bd08673d0dcd50f41f

Whilst this server might just be port forwarding / proxying to a bunch of internal (secured) servers, the presence of an open rpcinfo port (port 111) absolutely indicates negligence and incompetence on the part of the server administrator.  There is zero reason for this port to be open on a public facing server.  This very strongly suggests that this server is not a proxy, but is directly running all of these services.

FWIW, the server response string of "OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips" does not necessarily indicate a HeartBleed vulnerable version of OpenSSL.  Some Linux distributions (especially RedHat and derivatives) ship with particular version numbers for packages, but back-port essential patches without bumping the version number.

Hmm, I've only mined about 37k at nicemining since my earlier post, and almost none of those are confirmed.  Perhaps their wallet needs updating?

I'm surprised your hashrate is that high for Keccak - I had been lead to believe that for SHA3 there wasn't that much difference between AMD and NVidia cards, but you're getting 5x the hashrate per card that I am, for 25x in total.  Does 80 MH/s sound about right for a 2GB GTX 760?

I'd still be interested to hear your actual costs and hashrates.  I'm mystified how your 5x R280x rig which I reckon probably gives ~10x the SHA3 hashrate of my single GTX 760 is generating something like 160x the return of my rig, which last time I tried mining SLOTH was running about 80 MH/s and only generating about 50k - 100k SLOTH per day.

What's your operating cost for that rig, and your hashrates?  I'm only running a single GTX 760 but I haven't found any coin that even covers my running costs, let along the capital cost of kit (which in my case was free as this is my gaming system, not a dedicated rig).

IMHO having SLOTH selling for litoshi instead of satoshi just makes the problem worse.

I've made more from arbitrage of altcoins between different exchanges than I have from actual mining.

p.s. Keccak running at half the power isn't a good thing, it just means that the code isn't utilising the GPU as well as it could be.

Sloths are on the BBC!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26734289

Ah, OK.  So it's not zero, it's a rounding error 

I hope this coin doesn't die - I've minted just shy of 500k coins, having rented some capacity last night to take advantage of the two bonus blocks that came up.

390k here, hoping some day they'll be worth (a lot) more than 1 sat each!

Where do you see zero?  It's at 60 MH/s at the moment!

I managed those two blocks on a GTX 760 running about 280 kH/s.

Something's up, though - we're now on block 4520 and cryptopool doesn't appear to have found any blocks since 4501.  The overall hash rate is much the same as it was before.  Weird.

EDIT ah, never mind, it looks like the stats were running slow for some reason.  All appears well now.

Well, unless a really high rate solo miner comes along, chances are cryptopool.eu will get that block - it's managed to get ~70% of the recent blocks.

I've been playing with solo mining for the last few hours and scored a couple of blocks, but it's bed time now and I figure I might as well take my chance in the pool for a small share than leave my little rig mining with a miniscule chance at the big blocks.

The Stratum server still appears to be handling blocks.

I've got a Win7 x64 i7 4770K gaming rig with a GTX 760, and an iMac 2012 (3.4 GHz i7) desktop that came with a GTX 680 MX.

I've been playing with one of the newer SHA3 (Keccak) Altcoins using the CPU from the iMac and the GPU from the Win7 box, but the coin I'm trying seems to be dominated by people with 100x - 500x the mining rate I can muster.

Is there any coin out there that's actually worth mining with this setup, i.e. generating more than say US$3 per day?  I'm capable of running up EC2 instances to scale up if needed, so long as they pay their way.

Thanks!