Last I heard the goal was for a Verium network difficulty of 0.3 before implementing AuxPOW (Binary Chain). It's been on a nice uptrend the past few months, once the Devs finish the P2Pool project (decentralized mining pool) within the Verium wallet, and also finish the mobile wallet/miner it won't be long until we hit that difficulty. Good things coming!

I'd really recommend joining a pool like https://vrm.mining-pool.ovh/index.php with your hashrate. Difficulty has been rising high recently. Pretty soon they're adding an in-wallet P2Pool so you can get incremental payments right out of the wallet, releasing Q1 2018.

You might be better off asking the mining channel in the Vericoin slack. There's a few big time VRM miners around them parts. http://slack.vericoin.info

What's your memory usage look like? I've got a feeling 32GB of RAM for 48 threads may not suffice. Verium is extremely memory hungry which is what makes it so ASIC resistant. I've got 6 threads running and I'm using roughly 5GB of RAM.

File -> Reload Blockchain -> Check the box to download the vericoin.conf file. That should resolve that!

Staking with VeriCoin on a Macbook Pro would be fine. I would be a little nervous to mine Verium though, Macbooks get pretty hot as is and if the heat sink is clogged (dust & hair) you can damage the CPU in the long run. If the Macbook stays cool with good ventilation you'll probably be fine.

That's interesting, I've never had to open any ports on any wallet I've ever used. Is your network double NAT'ed? Behind two firewall/routers by chance? One other thing you can verify is that you have the most update .conf file which has the most updated nodes. You can find that here: http://resources.vericoin.info/category/technical-support-files/

I may not know for sure, but I think Verium is mined using the SSE instruction set, not AVX/2. I would just compile with default options, should take care of the issue assuming there aren't any package dependency issues.

Go to the "File" menu, click on "Reload Blockchain". Select the checkbox next to "Install new vericoin.conf file?" then click Next (or Download if you haven't bootstrapped yet, this will speed up sync time). After it's done restart the wallet, then you should get connections.

VRM and VRC are on many different exchanges. The most popular one's are Bittrex (VRM & VRC), and Poloniex (only VRC). You can find others in the separate VRM & VRC threads.

Love the new announce! Greatly looking forward to development updates. 

Turning off staking does not immediately free up coins, that will just prevent future coins from being staked (until you turn it back on). The coins in question will free up after the new interest received has 510 confirmations. You can check in the history how many confirms the new interest has, once it hits 510, your coins will be freed up once again.

Good lord, chill TF out people, you ain't gonna get rich mining Verium within 24 hours, especially when no-one can mine in this case. These are some of the best devs out there, they've explained the issue, and have a fix coming. Go grab some coffee, go outside and get some sun, think about your lives for a day or two while the fix is being released. It's not the end of the world. Don't demand anything when you have no place to demand anything. The blockchain will be back up and running normally soon. Breathe.

P.S. There will ALWAYS be bugs, not matter how much testing is done, don't blame the devs for this. You sound like assholes.

Thanks for the update! Good luck squashing the bug.

Is it live now? All good to send coins?

Eh... trollish account name, trollish registered date, unfounded statement (until there's a reply explaining the opinion) that looks pretty trollish. The world can be harsh, because of this it has taught me that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, well, it's probably a duck.

Troll aside, not sure what can be said to back up that statement with a pioneer coin that has one of the most stable dev teams out there. I mean... this thread is 866 pages long. I'd say it has more of a future than 90%+ of all the other coins out there especially with its already proven development history, not to mention many exciting additions to come! But alas, 'tis just my humble opinion.

I didn't quite get/understand Verium at first, but the more I'm reading about it, the more I'm liking it! Seems like a great way to bridge the crypto/commodity gap. Is there a whitepaper already released for it? VRC holder since mining/release, glad I HODL'ed all this time!