This is my issue as well, I'm still trying to run a cold/hot setup with separate wallets: one on the server or VPS and the control wallet on my desktop.

I'll give it a few more days and if it still doesn't work, I'm going to try something on my home server (where I retain full control of the VM / VPS) and see if that works.

For all of those running masternodes and sending the coins to the wallet address that is on the VPS itself, I advice you to export the private key and back it up. If the VPS ever goes down for any reason, if you forget to pay the bill, if the provider does not keep backups, and the instance is wiped or destroyed, there goes your coins.

Recommended additions in your batfiles using zjazz miner. Otherwise you won't be able to mine with your GPU:

(for 4gb GPU) ---cuckoo-intensity 16
(for 6gb GPU) -g 2 --cuckoo-intensity 16
(for 8gb GPU) -g 2 --cuckoo-intensity 22
(for 11gb GPU) -g 2 --cuckoo-intensity 30

Right now it's Nvidia GTX cards only!

Your invitecode could be: sonnyblack
https://wallet.merit.me/?invite=sonnyblack
Please contact me on merit discord @alexis#6139 or merit telegram @alexiscrypto to accept your request

Unfortunately we don't have the pool software, otherwise we would have opened it long ago.
There's a bounty for that. Also you can ask suprnova to release his software (if he closes, then he doesn't need it any longer, and there is no competition problem).

I tried today mining, and it only shows me stratum identification failed on suprnova pool.

Max pool don't work, and I tried everything, but still no success.

I've been contacting countless exchanges. Most of them don't even reply, some of them want >4 BTC for listing. This is the current situation with exchanges.
Still we are in novaexchange and they should open deposits soon, but I can't tell for sure as it's up to them.
Meanwhile, I'm searching for new exchanges every day, but at the same time I don't want to get listed on a shady one, as I don't want people to risk loosing their money.
About development, I understand it may look like we just "dump version", but again I'm working every day on xcn with my little free time; we can't count on any premine, ico or part of the block reward.
Still, we have made important changes and fixes since I started working on this project 1.5 years ago.
The XCN community is made of honest guys that believe in the technology, not the pump and dump kind of users, and this is also a result of the serious and honest approach to coin development we are used to.

It's your choice, but I would like to buy some too, if anyone is willing to sell lol.