When will F2Pool signal for MWEB support on Litecoin?  It's a big upgrade years in the making, signaling has begun. 

https://litecoin-foundation.org/litecoins-pivotal-mweb-upgrade/

Craptopia used to provide Litecoin and Dogecoin base pairs.  One of very places to do so.  There's an opportunity, especially for a less centralized exchange, to grab those disaffected users with ltc and doge base pairs.

Not sure if you're still open to making more base pairs, but I loved swing trading litecoin in particular directly against other alts.  Would love to be able to again.

Block explorer has been down for a month now.  Hope to see it return. 

You gotta at least keep the block explorer alive.  It was one of the last nodes available to connect to.  It's been down for at least a week.  Might be helpful if you'd check your PMs as well.

You also need to start thinking about how to protect skl against 51% attack.  If you ever achieve any success, one POW will not protect you, especially on scrypt.  It's now sport to attack vulnerable chains.  You need hybrid pos, or btc checkpointing a la kmd dpow, or hybrid hivemining a la lcc or something.  Do you understand how vulnerable skl is and even will be with much greater hashrate?  Do you realize how much easier it would be to upgrade now when you don't have to coordinate with many users or any exchanges than later?  Trying to get exchanges to cooperate with upgrades can be like pulling teeth.  And waiting until after you're attacked to implement protection and lose more exchanges will devastate any credibility the chain builds.

This is kind of what I imagined when I first heard of emc2.  One thing I hope can happen is that, via lightning and atomic swaps, donating directly with bitcoin could be very simple for people interested but who don't want to hunt down exchange support for emc2.  I think lightning's best use is for accessibility, not scaling.  And a crowdfund like this that could easily support donors with btc or ltc or vtc, as well as generally being able to accumulate emc2 via lightning within an emc2 wallet would be really stand out and help the crowdfund platform find its feet.

Exchanges suck.  Lightning could do a lot to reduce dependence on them and make emc2 accessible to more people.

@PhilsCurrency Lots of announcements all at once.  Very impressive.

Have you considered lightning network's atomic swaps as an alternative to playing exchange roulette?  If sufficiently integrated, lightning would allow a employer to pay a freelancer using bitcoin, the atomic swap could happen pretty much seamlessly and arrive as digiwage.  A freelancer, when so inclined could use the same swap to move to fiat more quickly and securely than using two exchanges to first go btc/ltc/eth to fiat.

Lightning has been talked about as a scaling solution, but the atomic swap ability being tied deeply into all bitcoin infrastructure is the real killer app.  We see decentralized exchanges using atomic swaps via a 3rd intermediate coin, but while that does negate some exchange risk, it's far, far from seamless and has the same adoption/liquidity/manipulation issues any small exchange has.  Lightning will probably someday give every bitcoin user frictionless accessibility to any altcoin that supports lightning.

Yup.  I scratched together as much as I could, but at these levels, nothing is ever enough.  People are crazy.  The people selling in december had their heads on straight.  The people selling in August are going to be kicking themselves.  Even modestly successful coins have so much room to run.  Forget trying to beat bitcoin.  If a coin can corner a niche and capture a local market (could be geographically local, but could also be localized to interest, use etc), it doesn't need to beat anything, particularly with lightning atomic swaps in tow for easy cross chain interaction.

I'd love to see Einsteinium not as a general purpose currency first (though it could still function that way too), but as a platform for science crowdfunding (a la indiegogo) and edutainment (blockchain based games and other dapps focusing on scientific themes).  Lightning is a great start, both to make it easy for other cryptocurrency users to support science/have fun on our chain, but also to allow easy scaling of smart contracts that would otherwise easily bring congestion.  If the right smart contract platform got attached, it could really be a big deal. 

Additionally, PoS might be better than attempting to outrace the asic manufacturers who always catch up to any algorithm that becomes popular enough, and might pair better with smart contracts anyway.  But with lightning, it might not matter.  I do hate to see energy devoted to asic resistance when it appears to be a futile endeavour.

Everything not only falling with BTC, but almost everything I'm looking at is plunging in ratios too.  Wage's ratio bottomed out and bounced more than a month ago and has held steady while also generating block rewards for actual value growth.  Nice to have one bright spot to hold onto with all the carnage out there.

Lightning is, IMO, the best way to get atomic swaps.  And if you'll read a few posts up, you'll know that smart contracts can lead to even more congestion than everyday currency transactions and that too could be alleviated by lightning.

I've never understood why people see lightning in such narrow terms.  It's a versatile tool, not a super-specific feature.  It can be used in more ways than anyone has yet imagined.

If Einsteinium releases regular updates that could benefit us when the tide changes and new altcoin investors are looking for coins capable of surviving, that have dedicated and capable teams.  If there is a good, regular history of updates when alts get another look, that might be more valuable than a super short term news pump of the kind lots of alts saw in november/december.

I suspect Lightning, still in its infancy, could be a good catalyst for development, not necessarily all to emc2 or lighting itself, but also to the wallet and infrastructure so the tech can actually be used and not have merely theoretical use cases.  TBH, I'm not sure what smart contract features, if any, EMC2 has at the moment, but I think there are games and dapps in general that would do well on Einsteinium and help support the pro-science branding.  Cryptokitties itself is a genetics game, and those can be quite fun and have an obvious tie-in to science.  Some could even aid funding separately.  If you remember, cryptokitties caused a lot of congestion on ETH, by using lightning off chain, we could reduce on chain game transaction traffic and avoid the same problems and keep unnecessary costs low for all.

I've also always thought that crypto could make a great crowdfunding platform, a la igg, kickstarter, gofundme, not just paid for with crypto, but set up with dapps.  For our branding, I think it would be great if a crowdfund platform focused on scientists, universities et al to set up funding requests through a platform on the emc2 blockchain for specific studies.  To boot, if we supported lightning and atomic swaps, that platform needn't require people to acquire EMC2, they could pay through a lightning channel in bitcoin and having it 'magically' come out and settle on the emc2 blockchain.  It would enable far more people to participate and lower barriers to entry.

If lightning is just a scaling solution for EMC2, it doesn't seem very necessary.  If it's added for atomic swaps, that's more useful if properly supported in the emc2 wallet, but it's not very on point for what emc2 is, it doesn't support the branding or answer the question of why have emc2.  If, on the other hand, it's being built to enable infrastructure like smart contracts, it could be amazing.  That could help construct 5 years of development roadmap along the lines of things discussed above that sort of naturally follow.

Most of the posts here that seem odd or random or worse have a stipend signature at the bottom. 

Not trying to start anything, but I'm pretty sure Litecoin beat even Bitcoin to the punch: https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockstream-sends-first-litecoin-lightning-microtransaction  I suspect there might be others.

Still, early implementation is good.  And if you're able to build lightning support into weeee cash and make it easy to use and ultimately easy to swap across chains (the real killer feature of lightning) without relying on exchanges that could be very big.  Lightning could also be the basis of non-financial transactions (related to games, messaging etc) without spamming up the blockchain.

Congrats and good luck

Growth of masternodes was flat and even shrinking while the cost plummeted.  It's more expensive now than at our flattest level of masternode nongrowth.  The above reasoning sounds like availability bias. 

But the 'why' in a varied market that can't be effectively polled is rarely ascertainable with any certainty.  So I'm just focused on noticing when changes happen.  I detect a noticeable shift in digiwage masternode demand.  I'm more interested in the consequences of that than the reasons for it.

Almost 100 new masternodes added over the past two weeks after the number topped off and stagnated for a while.  Feel like something is happening.

I'll leave aside the coin's central purpose, read the thread for that, look at the platform.  In addition to that, a coin that generates staking and/or masternode rewards, as Digiwage does, can help you offset losses in a down or sideways market.  Looking back to spring, I'd have been much better off putting a lot more in.  While my other holdings took a long slide in value, my total digiwage value nearly doubled.

Should you hodl it?  I don't know.  Market is crazy.  For me though, Digiwage has been one of my only bright spots in a dark market.

With block rewards, I've nearly doubled both btc and fiat value of what I put in since spring, even with the slide in btc ratio.  Not a bad little play in a down/sideways market.

If the SEC rejects the van eck btc etf, Digiwage might be a pretty good place to preserve/grow value until the next runup.  I didn't want to risk too much or get into a masternode alt that was already overbought.  Digiwage seems cheap, underexposed and has active development.  Combine that with a clear branding and there's a lot of up side.

I've been watching shekel since January and I've never seen some of the diffs I've seen today.  Definitely not about the price.  Anyone know why the sudden miner interest?

http://174.138.22.6:7001/block/70ffbce264f12febab353e2f9fd307924736ddba5acac0a5c8bdc019717be868

Looking forward to the release of news.  Is there anywhere besides bitcointalk where you make announcements?

None taken.  It was a quick write up, no charge.  I save the good stuff for paying customers

I've gotten a lot of good advice here, almost none of it was in well written posts.  Just wanted to leave a little something behind in appreciation for that for anyone willing to mine the wall of text for nuggets.

TL;DR: The moonlander 2 can be profitable if you're creative, and trying to make it profitable is a lot more fun and educational than doing something conventional.