I have just returned from two day forum that took place in Riga. It was broadly about electronic money with some accents on crypto currencies.
It was actually very good with majority of audience and speakers being CEOs of mainstream companies like Visa and MasterCard Europe, yandex.money, Neteller,  (former) Head of Bitcoin Foundation, lawyers etc. It basically covered the full spectrum of the topic and has been a fantastic platform for networking.
However, I’m a little surprised that the technologies based on Bitcoin protocol haven’t been more endorsed by the mainstream players. It wasn’t a question of technological inability to do so, but rather lack of trust. It made me realised how small and insignificant bitcoin really is when comparing to other means of payments. Heads of financial services were very disapproving of this technology, which reminded me of Kodak which dismissed the idea of digital camera which later on proved to be the thing that killed their business.  
What one could really learn from this conference was that there is a wave of new laws designed to make bitcoin less barbaric. I’ve spoken with leaders in their respective fields and they are really keen on accepting bitcoin and altcoins but lack of regulation simply prevents them from doing it.
Another thing that one could learn is that even the hard-core sceptics could not dismiss that the strength of bitcoin is based on its sheer size of a hashing power and the utility that it serves.  It was great to talk to Jon Matonis and the head of Gigahash, this gave me great insight into things to come. At the same time showed how long road Diamond has to travel before becoming a real success.
The whole event left me with the sense of urgency that in order to move forward Diamond has to be bold in its actions, progressive and if necessary abandon some of the ideas it thought were right, for the sake of the greater good. In order to make any impact on anything we need to get to the top area of the market capitalisation list. We need to involve more people in the production of Diamond’s success, but we would not compromise on the general plan that has been set in stone a long time ago. All we need to do (this sounds like ‘just’ but hell it’s not) is to change our way of thinking, change our methods and create a community of creative people who will make all the difference. We are already heavily analysing possible outcomes  and to be honest with you, there will be changes and there is no way around it if we don’t want to stay just some small scale project on the peripheries of the altcoin scene – and the scene itself might not have much time left anyway.  

this is a big mistake taking dmd community off of this board. Many of the older coins made that same mistake DMD is a great coin, great name but needs new interest. I would bring it back on here asap.

One of the most undervalued coins right now. Good design, good dev , good name, fair release no scams. I like it.

I don't think you are doing anything wrong, just sometimes you get unlucky and get a rejected Block. What are your CGMiner settings and Diamond.conf?

diamond is missing here: http://coinchoose.com/

Could http://tompool.org please be added to the pool list?

i emailed coinpayments today requesting them to add DMD and they replied very quickly, great customer service!!

Hello Jim,

It will if there is enough public support, the best way to get it listed
right now is to participate in the public vote going on now at
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397540.0

Thanks,
CoinPayments.net

so everyone who has not yet voted should get over there and vote for it to be added.

Friends, be aware of scam here

http://dmd.minar.cc/

they locked my account with out any reason
yesterday and I can't login back. Any of my mined
cash that supposed to be transferred to cryptsy
by auto cash out didn't get there.

can someone recommend a good and stable pool for DMD? I have been mining on http://dmd.minar.cc/ since this morning and my hashrate jumps from 250kh/s to 1200kh/s  (cgminer shows stable 1000kh/s with no HW) and I've got like 0.9DMD confirmed?

if you do the script, i will pay for it, it will cost a few k but i will get it done

Only 2 pool and I can't connect to either one!!!!

It's NOT my CMD. my line and cgminer work for many other coins..
So is there a problem of too much traffic or flaw or do you just not want people mining..YEP that will make very rare indeed...
I have one outstanding Diamond coin I have yet to receive after a request for a payout several days ago.
Pity as I agree this coin because if it's name alone will do well.

A video is a great idea. I think it should be a little bit sexy/flashy as opposed to just a dry "Alice pays Bob" video. It should point out the technical advantages of course, but also  shouldn't shy away from using the inherent marketability/appeal in owning "diamonds". I don't think it's really necessary to directly promote DMD as "the next BTC" - many people will already have that feeling without it being said, and it would probably if as few people thought of it as just another "copycoin" as possible. Just my opinion anyways.

The main DMD site's listed features:

- DMD is an ASIC-resistant scrypt coin.
- It combines proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, providing excellent resistance to 51% attacks.
- No pre-mining or instamining! 100% fair currency!
- It is super scarce: only 4.38 million DMD will be created in eight years (starting from launch in July 2013).
- Linear creation means early users do not have an unfair advantage (no block reward halving ever).
- Block time is one minute and each block contains 1 DMD.
- Every day, 10 random blocks contain 2 DMD (bonus blocks), 3 blocks contain 8 DMD (super blocks), and one block contains 30 DMD (super + block)!
- Difficulty re-targets at every block.

These are good, I'd also highlight:

- The environmental benefits of being scrypt (no ridiculous and wasteful ASIC arms race). Also, no Blood Diamonds!
- The speed/low transaction fees.
- How PoS and scarcity makes it a "saving" currency.
- Diamonds are a girls best friend?
- dmdpool.net has a great line on their site: "If BTC is gold, and LTC is silver, DMD is well, DIAMOND!"

I wish someone would tell the price.

Hey Tripmode.
How about taking the "too many records to display" limit off the explorer. Or at least give a range of blocks to search for a particular ID.
I'm trying to figure out why most of the "random multi-coin" blocks are solved by one user.
I have to manually look through all the blocks and click on all the blocks that have more than a 2 coin payout to look for one ID.
That ID is dDqcXpWdhakptyocwV4JQ4WGyne24RXQMP