Hi,
I'm working on the website and documentation/write-ups for the coin this weekend.  The main focus on Midnight is around the Midnight Reserve Fund and what I'm calling Midnight Drawing Rights (MDR's).  I'm still working the specifics/mechanics of how the program will work but the concept is that MDT will be backed by MDR's, similar to how NAUT is buying gold, or the Sync Fund.  Similar to SDR's from the IMF, the MDR will be made up of a basket of crypto currencies that are determined quarterly (instead of annually in the case of SDRs).  The MDT in the MRF will be used to make a market and build up the holdings of the MRF behind the MDR's (ok, that's a lot of acronyms ).  So the value of the MRF will set a par or reference value of MDT with some multiple.  What I am thinking through now is how we can maybe have some kind of redemption program, and what happens then if we allow redemptions to MDR swaps, perhaps the swapped MDT is burned?  I need to think through that a little more but once its been finalized I'll build a web app and an in-wallet interface to support it.  I think this program will be something a little unique as its a different twist on a couple of concepts that have been tried before, and it will put real value backing MDT.

Apart from that the next thing coming is a wallet rebrand and optimized staking wallet.

If I build a multipool for Midnight will anybody use it?

You can put this in your .conf file:

externalip=1.2.3.4

Replace 1.2.3.4 with your ip.  Then you don't have to wait for it to try to auto-detect it from peers.

Thank You!  Added to the 1st post.

32-bit Windows QT wallet added to the wallets list in the 1st post.

Added a Twitter:  @midnightmdt

The 1 click masternode code I grabbed from bananabits and manually integrated it.

This is not a fork of bananabits.  It was forked from latest Blackcoin and then modified.

I put it up because it gets us 90% of the way there, so that there is miner code with the algo switch already integrated and all someone has to do is tweak the midnight.cl kernel file to get it properly hashing with OpenCL on the gpu's, which doesn't require recompiling the executable, so someone can take it and work with it by modifying the .cl file and re-running the miner.  I have been trying to adapt it to bmw-256 but have not been able to get it to work myself yet.

Because it is 33% that goes to the masternodes.  33% of 100 is 33.  The block rewards vary so the net amounts will vary to match.

You don't know what is eh?  Well that much is certainly clear.  You are grossly misrepresenting the issue without fully understanding how masternodes and proof of stake coins work.  Please FUD somewhere else.

djm the issue has been addressed.  I'm monitoring the situation and will adjust again as needed.

I made some adjustments to the seed nodes to help with keeping everyone sync'd up with the masternode list which should help keep the masternode payments consistent.

I really feel there is no flaw with the distribution but thanks for your input.  There are several periods of high rewards through to next week, and you have the opportunity to get some of those high rewards via POS2 staking and not just POW mining.  Also keep in mind that after the rewards drop to a normalized level there are still several 100 coin high reward blocks every day that you can win via both POW and POS mining.  It was designed to try to give everybody an opportunity regardless of gpu miner or not or having a ton of money to sink into cloud mining or being quick on the draw with the launch (which a lot of people were).  It seems that a lot of people were able to get their hands on some coins so I think the strategy is working so far.  There is still plenty of time to participate and get some coins, you can grab the cpu miner and rent some amazon instances and point them at suprnova for instance.

djm34 for someone who is trying to sell me a gpu miner for 3btc, don't you think the excessive trolling perhaps isn't the best sales pitch?

No, that is earlz's experiment coin.

I put it on wikisend until I get the website up...:

midnight-qt-1.1.1.zip

sgminermdt-windows-upd.zip

Ok I got a build that successfully compiles the kernel for the gpu on both my NVidia and my ATI machines:

sgminermdt-windows-upd.zip

The only problem I'm having with it now is that it just spews hardware errors.  So that is down to either tweaking the midnight.cl kernel file or adjusting settings, but somebody can do that without having to recompile the miner itself.

Made a Windows build with Mingw64 of sgminer.  It runs, doesn't like my NVidia card... I haven't tested this on my rig with an ATI card yet, about to do that, but if anyone wants to try it:

https://mega.co.nz/#!JBdmEAyS!PSsB1-XqLFGDn3MXBH3r-FRAR7JYFXShdkuO35ubLwc

runs with --algorithm midnight

I added a fork of sgminer to the repo:

https://github.com/midnightmdt/sgminer

I made the changes I think are needed but need to get some dependencies installed to compile it and try it out.  If anyone else wants to try compiling it and test it out feel free.  You should be able to specify "midnight" as the algo.