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Made for the all cryptohobo's .


a history of the Hobo Nickel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_nickel


based on bottlecaps. uses the proven amazingly stable CAP algo. Proof of Stake  scrypt  
5 coin blocks
30 secs
120 million minted
quick transactions 30 seconds is pushing the speed barrier

SUPER STAKE!!
2% stake every 10 days!(100%) in a year holding your Nickels in your wallet.

windows VERSION 1.1
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/446338/HoboNickels-1-1-0-rar.html
source files
https://github.com/ahmedbodi/HoboNickels

BLOCK EXPLORER
 !~~THANK YOU
Donated by Poolminer who outsourced this job to Petr1fied. He delivered, here it is:
http://hobo.gets-it.net/

and also http://hbn.webboise.com:2765/chain/HoboNickels



Linux QT




POOLS

pool 1:
1.5% pool fee with proportional payments.
http://hbn.zabmail.ru
stratum on same host port 3337

Pool 2:
http://75.156.208.65:8340/HBN/  down atm

Pool 3
 http://hbn.theblocksfactory.com/
URL : stratum+tcp://hbn.theblocksfactory.com:3336
25 confirmations to payout !!!
0.02 HBN extra block reward

SOLO
sample .conf
listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=*your hobo name*
rpcpassword=*Your hobo  quote*
port=7372
rpcport=7373
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=69.85.86.195
addnode=74.196.48.62


SERVICES

http://jaysjerkyandgoodies.com takes HBN

www.mtyimport.com now takes HBN

Play blackjack with your HBN at http://cryptoblackjack.kicks-ass.net/

Mining some HoboNickels with my CPU, woohoo!

source files?

Any addnodes yet?

Yep need some addnodes

Cool, a new coin


I'm selling hobonickels, pm with offers. :)

Cheers

Not Found

Error 404

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Ahhhh, so it's you who has been squatting all over this :D

Ok some background there is a well known member of the crypto community who calls himself the cryptohobo.   http://hobo.majesti.co/hobodamus.html  crypsty chat got together started throwing ideas around decided to pay tribute to the hobo.. hes is not online yet and doesn't know this coin is out.. i wanted to have this coin done and give it over to CryptoHobo to run with. Big thanks out to shakezula for running with this.

Ill report back in after hobo learns hes got his own coin.

can haz free Nickels?

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thanks

"difficulty" : 0.10775114

hashespersec varies quickly . It can drop to zero?
Why?

yes we are getting blocks. its diff is rising steady it uses bottlecaps algo thats been proven to be very very stable.

difficulty" : 0.11909262
blocks" : 1676,
"moneysupply" : 8379.98500000,

only windows bin ????

what is your config file?

thanks

have not got any yet

only windows bin Huh?

sorry man this is hobo development... going to have to panhandle that up, see what we can do


i just hit a block its taking awhile even with a few mhash thrown at it. algo working as intended this wont be a instamine.


Status: 3/unconfirmed, broadcast through 11 nodes
Date: 7/24/2013 00:06
Source: Generated
Credit: 5.00 HBN (matures in 22 more blocks)
Net amount: 0.00 HBN
Transaction ID: e9fe4927681ba3f0ea79ea93e077867e16179b6d5b0040bf335081aef97812f9


if you have problems make sureto check conf on front page the layout was bad and somebody may have missed the port=7372 line

I mined nothing for 3 hrs.
Why?
"moneysupply" : 9469.98400000,
 
"difficulty" : 0.15889468

same here :)

Anyone want to buy 50 hobo's?  :)

No source, no thanks.

What name does the .conf file need?

hobonickels.conf

It's his coin... Where the hell is jd?    :P

No luck with Solo Mining, from few hours.

Any Donations please: En7xsCb7gM9Ef2Uc6Nrr9hX7vsMPGSeYtL

Releasing a coin, without the source. People are not going to be happy about that man. Poor little Linux and Mac users :P

There is more too releasing sources than just Linux/Mac, How do you know there isn't code in there to steal your wallets, a massive premine or turn your clients into a botnet?

Because I know the devs of this particular coin, I'm not worried about that. And, fyi, just because the sourcecode is clean, that doesn't mean the released QT wallet is clean, it could have easily been compiled from different source code.

+1

Hobonickles! Finally! ;D

http://hobo.majesti.co/hobo.png

The CryptoHobo (http://hobo.majesti.co)

I'm a hobo let me get some nickles

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:D

Hey buddy .. gotta a nickle for a cuppa joe?

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That was my point, you just dont know whats in a binary.

Wonderful launch

The source is here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B49exKIsGBn5aGVrSVlNZnA1ME0/edit?usp=sharing

and it was posted in Cryptsy chat before the Windows-Qt too. Thundertoe just chose not to link it. Big deal. This wasn't a "REAL" announcment, it was a coin for fun for the Hobo. Don't like it, don't mine it--no one's making you ALL HAVE to download/install/mine    ;D

addnode=74.196.48.62

coin of the  year.

I'm giving it a go...

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Great concept. Thanks to the guys that put this together.

Where's JD? Can't wait to see his reaction.

I'm too lazy to switch my miner over. I'll trade some hobos for lebowskis. EnVmK9Up512t6snZkbH7ZN9wb44fVrDCX4

no source published?

5 posts up.

thanks, look like a great coin

No prob, thundertoe oughta link that source in the OP i'd reckon.

i thought i should add a link to the cryptohobos website,... hes is still missing and has no idea he has a coin waiting for him http://hobo.majesti.co/

arrived to late, tried mining but not getting anything, is there gonna be a pool for this?  I'd like to own some hobos!

:)

this looks interesting, i like the fact that it's based on CAP.

Keeping this on my watch list :)

I like this one, not like some other coins, a pure copy and paste...

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Up and running?

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any chance to get a block With 150Mh/s?

you might get one in an hour or 2 with 150khash alot of luck involved give it a shot.. hope to see a pool soon

So far 9 rejected blocks, zero accepted

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I'd love me some nickels ;D

getting an error msg that says pool communication slowdown every time I solve a block, any suggestions?

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Send a hobo a nickel so I can see if my wallets a workin plz

getting an error msg that says pool communication slowdown every time I solve a block, any suggestions?



you just just ran out of work and its waiting for more.. are your settings defualt.. or que 0? 30 try lower scan time expiry and que of at least 1

So far I've gotten 70 (350 HBN) blocks in less than 24 hours with 730kh/s. I'm using scantime = 1 and expiry = 40.

About 10 minutes ago
https://i.imgur.com/vGpL5gv.jpg?1

ok lets get some homeless coins and give them a nice home  ;D

thanks for posting your stats that worked well. 30 sec blocks are fast pushing network pretty hard settings become a issue as default miner settings are based on ltc/btc

Made a Hobo Nickel sale for 0.0004 today!

Have more for sale if anyone is keen, price negotiable.  ;)

Am well known at mcxnow.com if trust is an issue.

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"difficulty" : 0.23744135,
"blocks" : 6542,
"moneysupply" : 32709.86400000,

Looks like that Bottlecaps algo is working great.

Countdown to earning 2% stake is on!

addnode=69.85.86.195
addnode=74.196.48.62

blocks : 6853,

the conf i use looks like this

rpcuser=Hobo
rpcpassword=Nickel
rpcallowip=xx.xxx.
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=192.168.xx.x
Port=7372
RPCPort=7373
addnode=69.85.86.195
addnode=74.196.48.62
server=1
gen=0

Where there is trading sites

No official trading up atm.. would be great to have a google docs at least(puts out the hobo coffee mug panhandles up a google doc xchange!). you know you want to run it.. think of all the good hobo karma

I've got 515 HBN for sale if anyone is interested in trading

sent you a block  ;D


Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast through 9 nodes
Date: 26/07/2013 15:59
To: ErKRgKMSsNQtTtFmhccSMKSr2bsq2v6gTy
Debit: -5.00 HBN
Transaction fee: -0.001 HBN
Net amount: -5.001 HBN
Transaction ID: 75a702117d5fd8ce1e4795f0aef7c6d17fd96e072d7015c3a22187bab62e1838

i've been mining for 8 hours, still nothing..... is this working for anyone still?

{
"blocks" : 7855,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.22129138,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

at this diificulty i should have at least a block an hour with +1mh right?

If anyone wants to help out a fellow hobo

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Whats the current LTC rate?

I want to know
Which website can trade

Make sure scantime and expiry with cgminer (or whatever client you are mining with) are set lower than default. I use scantime 1 and expiry 30 to 40 (For some reason I feel lowering this as difficulty goes up helps) Im getting roughly a block every 30~40 minutes with 730kh/s at current difficulty. Luck changes all the time tho. Sometimes I get 3 blocks in a row, other times I wait for a couple of hours to get the next block.

my scan time is 1 and expiry is 20, i solo mine a lot so i don't think it's my settings, i finally got a block but it seems people with lower hash rates are getting ore. i'll keep trying a few more hours, if nothing works out, i'll consider just buying.

Try with a higher expiry, the blocks have an average of 30 seconds and you have more than enough h/s to set it more than 30 seconds.

Lower than 30 expiry = easier to catch quick blocks (those that take less than 30s to find)
Higher than 30 expiry = easier to catch slower blocks (those that take less than 30s to find)

Quick blocks = blocks with less than network difficulty.
Slow blocks = blocks with more than network difficulty.

Cant download the qt walett for windows there is a 404 error!

I just tried downloading it, worked as it did two days ago.

the link to download the windows wallet is not working, could you upload else where please ?

the link to download the windows wallet is not working, could you upload else where please ?


sorry link was correct just not formated to click on.. had to copy paste it onto browser.


all fixed good catch

Threw up a node, on my VPS, incase anyone has issues with the wallet syncing. If this helps you, send some hobolove my way, and, if there's a bounty, yes please!!
lol
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last sale i know of was 600HBN at .0004.. anyone else know of any trades?

Someone is a little bit insolent... :)

each think he bought up over 1000 in 2 days .. last 600 i saw go for .0004 so almost a nickel for each HoboNickel

So far I've seen them in the 0.00035 to 0.0004 range. They should be worth a lot more though, if they ever do get a good launch.


Some meaningless estimations versus other coins:

OOPS! Give or take 2% decrease in value every 10 days, this is just theoretical launch prices though, so I didn't bother with it.

Compared to for example Fastcoin it should be worth:
FST: 0.00008 BTC worth, 12sec blocks, 32fst per block
HBN: unknown BTC worth, 30sec blocks, 5hbn per block

12sec block / 30sec block = 0.4 speed of fst vs hbn block
32fst / 5hbn = 6.4 FST/HBN coin ratio per block

0.00008 BTC * 6.4 (FST/HBN coin ratio per block) / 0.4 (FST vs HBN block speed = 0.00128 BTC

So if it has as good a launch as FST, that's quite possibly the value it'll have when it's as old as FST is now.

Example with DGC:
DGC: 0.000325 BTC worth, 20sec blocks, 20dgc per block

20sec block / 30sec block = 0.667
20dgc / 5hbn = 4 ratio

0.000325 * 4 / 0.667 = 0.00195 BTC

I don't think it'll get the same value as DGC, but as you can see, 0.00128 BTC is NOT a bad lowest estimate.

Example with BTG, never saw this "go off" like many other coins:
BTG: 0.009 BTC worth, 600sec blocks, 3btg per block

600sec block / 30sec block = 20
3btg / 5hbn = 0.6

0.009 * 0.6 / 20 = 0.00027 BTC

Let's hope it doesn't come to this D:

Example with LTC:
LTC: 0.03 BTC worth, 150sec blocks (2.5min), 50ltc per block

150sec block / 30sec block = 5
50ltc / 5hbn = 10

0.03 * 10 / 5 = 0.06 BTC

Now this is a value it'll never get to, but this shows the unrealistic potential of growth!

Average value of DGC/BTG/FST = 0.001167 BTC per HBN (Basically price if launched on Cryptsy and smaller exchanges)

Include LTC and the average becomes : 0.015875 BTC per HBN (If for some awesome, strange reason it gets on BTC-e)

Update! pool now supports stratum on port 3333

http://75.156.208.65:8340/HBN/

1HBN= 0.015875 BTC？？

i want 10k HBN, make your offers,i'll take them all if the price is agreeable.

It's worth about 0.0004 atm, it'll probably be worth 3-5 times asmuch as that when launched. If it became half as popular as LTC, it'd be worth ~0.016. It'll never get that popular though.

Well... I never really said that... I'm horrible at speculating prices :D

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Error 404

Still have this on any browser when i try to download the windows qt walett!

not sure the issue ? works ok with chrome

This has transactional site?

not yet although within 48 hours of launch it had climbed into a top 5 slot on the cryptsy list.  

http://forum.litebonk.com/index.php?topic=691.0

 

This coin is the hottest shit since BOT.

http://www.coinworld.com/Articles/ViewArticle/hobo-nickel-brings-13-750

cool article about fiat Hobo Nickels one sold for 13k+
a large collector community

I'll buy some HBN 1k+ PM me offers.

Pool isnt working.

pool's up stratum goes down sometimes for unknown reasons but pushpool has been up the whole time

So how's everyone feeling with their newly filled wallets of HBN? And could someone explain for a dummy how the stakes work?

Saw a sale on the Cryptsy chat where the oh-great cryptohobo sold 250 HBN for 0.25 BTC (0.001 BTC per HBN).

And as well-mannered as he is, the hobo sent him an extra 10HBN for a nice trade.
Charity~!

mine on the pool?

Now how much the price,HBN

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263910.0

google doc exchange there. ive seen trades for .0004 btc in chat

the Price too low

anyone selling for less that 10LTC per 1k hobo?

there is linux sources on github : https://github.com/maxxine/HoboNickels.git
are the sources correct ? thundertoe, are those sources yours ?

edit: the sources are not compilling and also this sources are suspicious

i am back o using provided in first topic sources

This has transactional site?

Mine pool does not work

it works for me

Is the HBN can exchange on cryptsy within a week

Why i can`t login to the pool website (http://www.hobonickle.com)? Write user and pass, and returned to the front page, i have an account and mine in it.

This coin could one day be the most valubalbe altcoin.

So it'd be the poor man's BTC. Ah, what a befitting title that'd be.

I hope so

Support the HBN,He'll be   hot when can transaction on cryptsy

some logo mods. oh and if you have missed it check out this great charity fundraiser working to support hobonickel!




https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=265190.0

Any guide on how to generate stake coins?

Any guide on how to generate stake coins?

Why am I seeing double here?

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What the price of HBN now

by any chance is there a github link??

Does not connect to the pool.
"No servers were found that could be used to get work".

post your mining .bat file contents. 

cgminer --scrypt --worksize 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-threads 2 --intensity 13 --gpu-fan 90 --gpu-engine 1075 --gpu-memclock 1250 --shaders 1024 -o http://75.156.208.65:8340 -u **** -p ****
 pause
Work with this: stratum+tcp://75.156.208.65:3333

you're connecting to the wrong port.  Replace "-o http://75.156.208.65:8340" with "-o http://75.156.208.65:8337"

Isn't difficulty low enough to solo and not worry about a pool right now?

Work with this: stratum+tcp://75.156.208.65:3333

you're right, it is 3333 for the port now.  But your cgminer .bat file has the 8340 port not the 3333.  You will need to change that for it to connect when starting the miner.

"Warning: Checkpoint too old. Re-download the blockchain. If error persists please contact the development team."

What is this?

Anyone?

My debug file says something about CPU miner started for PoS and soon afterwards another block is found and then the error begins. Do I really need to re-download the blockchain? What's the thing about PoS starting?

I'm at a loss here....

EDIT:

OK...re-downloaded blockchain and still getting the error. Anyone know what's the deal with this?

Basically you get interest for staking your coins up to mine a block.  2% every 10 days.  Since this is the 10th day from the coins launch this is likely why you are seeing the POS and checkpoint notification.  We will probably get a client update soon enough which will fix the checkpoint error.

So then...should I just ignore the error and continue mining? Apologies for my ignorance here, but I've never experienced this issue before with any coin client.

yup, all will be good for now. 

Oh go on then...

If your HoboNickel wallet in not encrypted with a pass phrase then any balance older than 10 days can mint PoS blocks.

If your HoboNickel wallet is encrypted the padlock text will show 'wallet is encrypted and currently locked'. You can unlock your wallet for PoS minting in the qt client by going to Help > Debug Window > Console and typing the following:

> walletpassphrase yourpasspharse 99999999 true

'yourpassphrase' is your pass phrase and the 99999999 number is just a long time to leave the wallet unlocked.

If you did this correctly the padlock text hover over will show 'wallet is encrypted and currently unlocked', if you have an eligible PoS balance you should see some of you balance move to stake (probably within a few hours, if not its worth restarting the client every 4 hours or so, if your really keen to get your first PoS block). When the PoS block is fully confirmed your balance will be re-credited with the stake and the PoS.

Your eligible PoS balance (coin age) resets when it has been staked i.e. it will take another 10 days to generate more stake from the same balance.

If you don't want to stake all or any of your coins then you can add reservebalance=100 (example) to your hobonickels.conf i.e. if you have a 1000 balance eligible for PoS minting (more than 10 days coin age) if you set reservebalance=100 then only a maximum of 900 of your balance will be staked.

Some PoS coins require a .bat to unlock an encrypted wallet when using 'bitcoind'. Hope that helps.

P.S. If only I could of told my future self in 2009 that in 2013 I'd be mining BottleCaps and HoboNickles... lol  ;)

CryptoHobo FTW !!!  8)

Wondering if any of 'The Original Hobo Nickel Society' modern carvers might be interested in carving a batch of physical CryptoHobo Nickles for digital HoboNickels ?

See: http://www.hobonickels.org/modern_carvers.html (some amazing artwork and carvings)

Lets not all email them at once now though!

Thanks :)


My wallet is unencrypted. So all I have to do is wait for the 10 days to have passed.

Coolio. Its worth considering that PoS will be generated from the first eligible block that you mined. Therefore you might want to wait until a good number of mined blocks are eligible for PoS minting.

want to sell 500HBN

Why is my wallet appear：
WARNING:Checkpoint is too old .Redownload blockchain .If warning persist contact the Development Team

A cool HoboNickel!
http://i43.tinypic.com/10395yr.jpg

and the checkpoint message is ok nothing is broke, its a dev reminder to add some new checkpoints soon, and they will be.

Nothing is broken in regards to checkpoints.

HBN is a open group project.

There is a very strong HoboNickels group of devs and supporters behind it.

Anyone is welcome to help or contribute.

The spirit of this whole project was everyone pitching in to help others.

I have same error: WARNING:Checkpoint is too old .Redownload blockchain .If warning persist contact the Development Team
And if I delete roaming files (exept conf file) There is no connestion to the network anymore.
I have two nodes:
addnode=69.85.86.195
addnode=74.196.48.62

Same thing I am experiecing.. I already deleted and downloaded the blockchain but still the same error.

Any correction for this?

dev need to change the checkpoint checking date in the code, or to provide more recent checkpoints.

anyone can solve it？

Going to be a update incoming tonight. Checkpoint error fix and also a fix for the stake.  All is well in Hobo land, behind the scenes there is a group top notch players pitching in. Going to be some custom T-shirts going out as thank you's  pics and props to follow.

you may want to keep wallets off when not using them for transfers to stop using up an coinage until after update rolls out.



A block explorer would be awesome, we can try to raise a bounty .. everything is donated.

How much longer until client update is available?

Block explorer found here: http://hobo.gets-it.net/


Thanks Petr1fied!!!!

Any donations or bounty should go to him, I am only the middleman.

joined the pool, let's go hobonickel!

https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/80

is it really that confusing to use github?  I really have a huge lack of trust for people who can't use a public version control system

No github???? How do you source control your project? And how do you expect us to keep updated if you roll out a new version? No, guy. Not impressed.

Follow up: when you untar the source you get the Github address in the .git

They also left git logs and other assorted crap in that tarball. HAVE FUN.


https://github.com/maxxine/HoboNickels

Edit: as has been pointed out previously in this thread, it looks like someone forgot to commit to that github. Seriously amateur.

people dumping HBN : start upping your sell prices to 0.0003 and higher, they'll still sell

Better yet don't sell

LOL you guys calm down about that git...

There is a reason that ones not posted... its broken pre release with no merkel or Genesis block..  lol.


the real git is now posted on the front page. I missed checking forums im multitasking my butt off atm.



sorry for delay  https://github.com/ahmedbodi/HoboNickels

Can someone compile a windows version?

Thanks,
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pool currently isnt updating balances, it will be fixed soon automatically

just wait for an updated client, which will fix it, its just a notification to update not a bug. BTW pool is fixed and fully functional

Pool is not fixed, Can't connect

New pool is up thanks to the franko collective and DencoinPools.

http://hbn.dencoinpools.com/  no stratum atm


thank you guys!

stratum is working now. same port should be no stales problems at hbn.dencoinpools.com any longer

my pool will be up again in a few days, just going to be moving the server locations around a bit, also a pointer to dencoins, your going to have the same problem i had with the pool, you have to increase the timestamp window on the pool or youre going to run into payment errors as what happened on my pool. Ask Theserapher if u need help with it

Thanks ahmed_bodi  and thundertoe, you guys are doing great!

Will the POS fix be in with Checkpoint warning fix?

whatever fixes thundertoe releases will be commited together to github at once yes

I put up an Abe based block explorer at http://hbn.webboise.com:2765/chain/HoboNickels

You can send donations or bounty to ExpDZZnhJTH6hccdmFPxQhMf5T7h6sbQK9.

Thanks!

Deleting and re-downloading the block chain for the third time now. Maybe it will work this time around...

My hobonickels experience is leaving something to be desired.

wait for an update its coming tonight :D

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Can I has HoboNickels? :)

Why do you keep doing this? What problem are you having? If you are worried about the Warning message, don't be. The network and wallet are fine.

I guess I was worried about the warning message because it was a warning message. If the warning message is to be ignored, why have a warning message?

At any rate, it appears to be working.

Its a warning not an error. The devs are working on it and it will be addressed soon.

Now sip some wine from a paper bag, and enjoy the hobo experience.

     Sorry to say that after putting my head into the code today, and having Mullick(awesome caps dev) look at the changes and add a few more.
The update is going to have too much rolled into it for a quick release. Everyone will need time for a mandatory update.


     We have made the most of coding changes and its ready to go on the git. We will post the link for the update soon. All clients will need to be updated for it to take effect.

The updated code will go live 8-20-13.
This will give everyone enough time to update clients.

The updated links will be posted when ready. I will also make a ann thread for the mandatory update.

please do not redownload blockchain it wont fix the warning. If you are worried you will not get the stake you are due you can keep wallet shut or set reservebalance=100000 in your .conf

its a reminder to the dev to add checkpoints. the wording is bad. "dev needs to add checkpoints soon" would be more accurate.

Arrgh! Hodor doesnt understand this, do you mean that PoS is not working yet?

Kinda working, you need more then 1 block to get staked to get a reward. Rounding error problem. You can send a batch of mined hbn to another wallet and it will stake.

Fix for singe mined blocks coming soon.

I had mined 4 blocks on 7/28 and more on subsequent dates. I am still not seeing any balance moving to stake.

If you send a block to another wallet do you have to wait for 10 days before the PoS kicks in? If so I will wait for the update, if not I will shuffle coins.

Thanks for the update, I appreciate it.  I miss mining HoboNickels, so I will console myself with some Wild Irish Rose until the hobonickel.com mining pool is back.

i know, im jumping on with my new card as soon as my pool is back online, seeing the demand of the coin, im working on a bug fix that me and dencoin experienced due to the  block time of the coin, increasing the security then opening the pool for public use, the expected date for opening may be a while longer as i have some more improvements to the pool that id like to add while the pool is down now rather than having to take the pool down again a few days after its up

EDIT: could you guys give me an idea as to where youre from? im setting up a few stratum servers worldwide to reduce stales and currently have one in america, canada and hopefully UK

This hobo resides in Austin, TX. Gotta love a town where you can spange on almost any corner, and buy tacos on the corners where you can't. The problem is that people tell you that it isn't the heat that's bad here, but the humidity. Those people are liars.

EnUN3HMpXdM8bKaDbvS6SMPe2RmLFNDGje

This thing is broke. I would have atleast 15 blocks which should have been staked by now. Instead I just got 2 mined messages with 0 coins and nothing in stake  ???

The fix is being set in motion 20th August. Those are stake blocks. Once confirmed, the stake blocks goes into your wallet (At a value of 5 HBN). The stake does not work at the moment, that is why the fix is being released.

Thank you for sharing your .DS_Store files with the rest of the world :D

hey guys, working on setting up my first pool, so super green, but on the hobonickel compile make -f makefile.unix USE_PNP=- like the instructions say I get to a spot in the compile and it errors out with

g++ -c -O2 -msse2 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -g -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -I/home/ubuntu/HoboNickels/src -I/home/ubuntu/HoboNickels/src/obj -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -MMD -MF obj/net.d -o obj/net.o net.cpp

net.cpp:19:32: fatal error: miniupnpc/miniwget.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/net.o] Error 1


"-" is supposed to work without needing the miniupnpc loaded...anyone know a workaround other than installing the UPNP libraries?

Above in the make, i see DUSE_PNP=0 but I have verified numerous times it's -, not sure here...

Any help appreciated.
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started new pool for HBN
1.5% pool fee with proportional payments.
http://hbn.zabmail.ru
stratum on same host port 3337

Play some blackjack now with your HBN at

http://cryptoblackjack.kicks-ass.net/

i got it, it was USE_UPNP=- !!!

got my miners on it, see how it works out, thanks for the pool!

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Autopay disabled or just not working?

Hello, I have setup a HBN pool,

Give it a try :

http://hbn.theblocksfactory.com/

stratum,
fee 1 %

nice! id definitly recommend theblocksfactory pool, ive got something coming for you guys so keep a watch on this space

JR member, Russian site, I'd be careful.  Remember never use same username or password on these pool sites.

Pool is working perfectly. Autopayments are enabled and working aswell now. Not alot of stales and, personally, I have NEVER had trouble with russian pools. They are perfect for me considering I live in Norway.

+1 For Tranz's tip tho, that just goes for everything ever on the interwebz.

Autopay were disabled for inital testing. Right now all should work fine.

PS: You right about passwords, never use same on more  then one pool.
I thought all knows that without you kiddy prompting.....

No offense to you, and thank you for supporting HBN! I'm sure you pool is fine, I just want to make sure people continue to be smart. 

Interested in mining this coin but I've had the qt running for over 20 minutes and still don't have any connections. Am I missing something here?

My wallet doesn't sync...

I am connected fine. I will PM a few IPs, try and add them

Anychance you can PM those as well please. Just installed Qt and with the two addnodes given I am unable to sync? thank yoU!

sent, please help pass on the hobo love..

addnode 94.23.31.223

Hi - with latest git source and brand new download of blockchain, I get this error - "WARNING: Checkpoint is too old. Redownload Blockchain. If warning persist contact the Development Team"

This is normal with POS coins. This will be addressed by the dev team at some point. All is working fine, just a warning message, not and error.

not bad, The coin is second on coinchoose

Better than that, sort by avg profitability for last 7 days. The diff actually came down a tad yesterday, the algo is kicking butt.


also we have a new pool up-

 http://hbn.theblocksfactory.com/

Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Edit:  Nothing says hobo like cpu mining.

Strange...never saw this/such messages with NVC wallet, may be this is because they all are just an unprofessionally modified copypastes of NVC?)

Btw, when the hell hobostakes will even work, 20 aug?

Can someone tell me when the stake will start working? Right now it is 0% interest as the transactions all show up but have 0 value. Not real good incentive to keep the wallet open.  :(

any fix yet ?

The answers to your questions have already been posted.

ok thanks got to many things going on sometimes i don't have enough time to catch up on all the post

You are welcome! Hobo love to everyone <3

Thanks from me also. To many things going on I guess.  Have a good one!

If you send all your coins to another address and wait 10 days you will get stake. Must be 50 coins or more to generate the stake.

But this is going to be fixed by the 20th ?? so no point in sending coins or what ?

We'll see, for the sure thing you only could lose 2 days on a maybe right now.  So......

Already wasted 15 so ....

Do we have a problem? I just had 7 blocks that had between 15 and 3 confirms go bad. I am on the same chain as http://hbn.webboise.com:2765/chain/HoboNickels, or at least I am now. Not sure what is going on. Diff has been going down also.

Do I smell a fork??

Maybe bad node. all my HBNs are fine.

I probably just got a bad node or two. Looks like I'm back on track less a few coins. Better open up the port and get some more connections I guess.

you can add my pool as a node, its still online even though mining isnt enabled

If you would like to spend you HBN, here is one spot.   ;)

https://www.bitmit.net/en/item/50306-spend-hbn-here-50-amazon-with-redbox-bonus

www.mtyimport.com (http://www.mtyimport.com)


Accepts now HBN.

Market is still under dev, so check it now and than for updates!

Thx all

That will go from 3000-4000 HBN, if you are interested PM me. Right at this exact moment it is 3500.  Which is about 5 days of mining at current difficulty with 3mh/s

Thx mate,

This coin, i fllw for a while now.. And see a good supportive thread here, with all reasonable projects.
So thats why i will accept it, hf

Found the original Hobo code of conduct:  enjoy


An ethical code was created by Tourist Union #63 during its 1889 National Hobo Convention in St. Louis Missouri. This code was voted upon as a concrete set of laws to govern the Nation-wide Hobo Body; it reads this way:

1 Decide your own life, don't let another person run or rule you.
2 When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
3 Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.
4 Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
5 When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
6 Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.
7 When jungling in town, respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.
8 Always respect nature, do not leave garbage where you are jungling.
9 If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.
10 Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.
11 When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.
12 Do not cause problems in a train yard, another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.
13 Do not allow other hobos to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.
14 Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
15 Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.
16 If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!

Great find. #1 and #8 and #13 are very good rules!

I'm sure we've all violated number 6  :P

Look like on the 20th it is due to arrive.

One question to devs.
Where are transaction fees come for now.
As i see on my pool wallet and blockchain explorer, every "generate" block are extactly 5.00 HBN, even if block not empty and included some transations with fees.
These fees simply disappears somewhere. On other coins transaction fees is included into generate transaction.
Its by design or there are some bug in the code?

Very good question.

Yes I too would like to know this.

alright, where is my transaction fees!?

This is a legitimate question... blundertoe, shakezula and maybe mullick... this deserves an answer.

transaction fees are destroyed


" The proof-of-stake minting introduces at most 1% annual inflation. Meanwhile, PPCoin's transaction fees are destroyed to counterbalance these inflationary forces."

https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/wiki/FAQ

Yep will all PoS implementations currently fees are destroyed to slightly counteract inflation. Since fees are not required as a incentive when the PoW reward diminishes their only purpose is to prevent transaction spam. Hence the small fees compared to litecoin ect.

Pos will still generate more coins then transaction fees so it will not cause the total supply to diminish

Thanks for the answer guys. I like this coin more each day  :D

Ehm, are stakes working now, or is it just me buying coins that are staking ^^ ?

No stake on my mined coins. Updated client has not been released yet as far as I know. It was scheduledbfor the 20th. Not sure if that is still a valid date or not.

OK time for a update:

The HBN patch has been getting pushed back as we waited to see how the CAP situation played out. Many of the same fixes getting applied to CAP will also be used on HBN, so it made no sense to rush out he HBN changes before CAP had stabilized its issues.

CAP now seems to be secure at this point, Mullick would like a chance to double check everything one final time tonight on CAPS side before finalizing the HBN fixes.

So.. hopefully new client rolls out on time. It will include checkpoints and stake fixes.

However when the stake code change takes place it will be on a set block in the future not changed right when the new client is used, yes the code is in there but wont activate for a set number of blocks (stake changes have to be pushed back enough to make sure everyone is on new client.)

Will update with any new info as soon as i can.

Thanks for the update. I agree wholeheartedly that the release should make sure that CAP is running ok before putting it in the wild. I have had enough fun with CAP, prefer not to have any of that type of fun with my HBN.

Yes agree wholeheartedly, better to take time with the fixes. Would rather a later release that works with no forks, then a quick one that has issues.

So far the only thing that HBN is not doing 100% correct is stake. But simply waiting for 10 blocks to be solved and moving 50 coins to another wallet works great!  I have been getting a few very nice stakes lately.

You just need a block of 50 coins or more to gen stake. If you are mining, simply wait for 50 coins and move them to another wallet, that is up all the time. It will get staked. Been working great for me.

When you move them do you have to wait the 10 days again? What if you do a send to self, have you tried that?

I figured I would just wait for the new client. In hindsight I should have been transferring them all as I went.

Yes 10 days, plus stake diff comes into place.  I can say 100% from one wallet to the next it works perfect. I have only just tested from self to self. Been 9 days.  I assume it should work.

This has been broke for a while. I really like it, who runs it?

I like that style block explorer also. Especially for "exploring" the chain, just easier than one block at a time. Not sure who runs them.

This is going to fork in two days. 

All CAP-clones are doomed unless the developers are actively changing the code.

If you are smart you will sell for any amount you can get.  De-listing will follow and then death.

Bottlecaps didnt fork per-se, it was going from the old to new version that screwed up the stakes. Getting stakes from the non-updated chain with the updated client.

I don't really know anything about what caused the fork... just taking a guess seeing as how LBW has never had an update and it forked after exactly a month.

It was also a CAP-clone.

I don't know what happened with Lebowskies, but it seems like the devs made their own errors as it does not seem like the same issue cap is having. HBN is atm fork-free and the devs know exactly what they have to do to prevent forks as best as possible. Meaning we will have to suffer with a broken original wallet staking until the CAP issue is fixed. I would be rather surprised to see HBN forked by any conventional means, as I know people who hold the coin, holds lots of it and are trustworthy hobos.

As a sidenote, Bitcoin forked three years ago due to faults in the protocol. Forks doesn't mean a coin is doomed :)

Sometimes I get drunk and like to ramble like I know what I'm talking about, when I really don't!  :D

Plus stakes have been running for sometime here, and seem to be working well. So the 30 day mark will not be due to stakes, most likely, but rather something else in the code. We shall see.

From what I can tell there is no available link for the Windows client? The Google Drive link has been dead for quite some time. Can't be good for popularity.

Not sure thundertoe realized this. I have uploaded the rar file for now, if anyone wants it.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/443734/HoboNickels-1-0-0-rar.html

hobos unite!

nice catch thanks, updated front page.

CAP fix was confirmed good testnet last night.  Good sign at least. I will update when i learn more.

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Thanks :)

Ya! It is working again. I sent a BTC tip. Thanks!

damn, got this problem twice.
http://hbn.zabmail.ru

i wanted to login again, and it says my account is locked contact site support, but there is no damn support email or ticket system!!!!!!! argh!!!

anybody has the same. It happens when i follow the registration link, before it works. After i opened the account is locked.

you can try this pool : http://hbn.theblocksfactory.com/

hello,

thank you for the info.

Sadly this isnt profitable for me, i make minus. I get approx 200 HBN per day with my  overclocked 7970 at 710Khash.
It takes 0,365kw per hour (8,76 kwh per day @ 0,249€). for the HBN i get approx 0.02293100 BTC 0 2,06€ but my Powercosts are 2,18€.
So i will search for something else.

Does anyone make Profit here? i mean the 7970 is the newest card atm (exept 7990 which is hard to get)

At your price per kw you will be very hard pressed to make money on any coin.

Not to mention the 7970 is nowhere near as power efficient as the 7950. On the other hand, I usually only mine coins that I believe will be more profitable by holding them long term. I think the POS interest on this coin makes it a possible long term winner. Those who only mine to sell and buy Bitcoin are not helping the altcoin scene.

I had calculated the efficency from the official TDP Value on wikipedia and the max. Hashing  values of the Litecoin wiki.
The 7970 and the 7950 are identical efficent in theory.Why do you rate the difference as "nowhere near"?
Any examples or experiences? (So far i tested 7970, 5970 and 6870)

I recognised that some manufatures are better than others.
so i gett only 710khash out of the possible 800khash.

With your power costs, you need to get a cheap asci, like the AM BE. Then mine and dump a SHA256 coin. ZET is hot right now. But I would dump it and buy and hold HBN for the SUPER efficient stake.

If you would like to take a gamble on an ASCI miner and help your fellow man out, see my sign.

When comes the fix for the broken stakesystem?
I have some stack blocks with zero coins. After the fix, the coins come in my wallet? Or will it stay at zero?

I don't  think you will have anything from these blocks

Thats a shame. I have kept my wallet open hoping my balance will suddenly increase once I update the client :(

Btw, HBN is traded on PhenixEx (https://phenixex.com?r=5219C5AFE561-7FD0). Please use my referral link to sign up (https://phenixex.com?r=5219C5AFE561-7FD0) - you will get a discount on trading fees while I will get a cut too :)

that hurt  :'(

Ok i stoped today. It makes no sense in my case.
I tried everything. The card has good Asic Quality (87%) but i cant go under 1.000V.
I cant get better than 1,95 Mhash per Watt with my 7970 from Powercolor,
which is not enough.

I will sell the 2 cards on ebay, and buy the coins directly.
I already daytraded (or weekly) some coins in the past (1-2 BTC per coin,  2k€ atm). That works for me.

Unless i get free solar power i will not mine again.
(Solar investment ROI from mining, maybe i will test it :-)

thanks for the Help.

Guys I know the staking is not perfect right now.   But it does work.

You can solve it easy in 1 of 2 ways. I think method 1 is the best.

1) On one computer you solo mine, then when you get 50 coins ship them to another HBN wallet on another computer. It will stake.  Or if you are using a pool just set the min payout to 50.

2) You can do it with 1 wallet. Just again wait till you have 50 coins then ship them to a new address from the same wallet. After 10 days it will stake.  Problem is you will have to do this many times as the new minted coins will get in the way of the 50 block.

Its not perfect, but it works for now. Remember it is ONLY 10 days! You get 2% in 10 days for a super small amount of work.

I can tell you this will get fixed, but it needs to be fully tested before being rolled out.

I can confirm from the same wallet you can send coins from 1 address to another and it will stake if >=50

The 7950 costs about $210, draws 200w, and mines at about 660 Kh/s.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125414R

The 7970 costs about $280, draws 250w, and mines at maybe 700 kh/s if you are lucky.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131468

I've built a few dozen mining systems, and have never liked the 7970 for mining. It creates a lot more heat, and in my experience isn't any faster than a 7950 for mining. Most of my friends that have 7970's paid around $400, and don't use them for mining anymore.

160w for 7950 and 220w 7970 are more accurate. and they both can go down to 160w~ with the correct clocks and mine @ +/- 650kh/s. 7970 @ 220w are able to do 730-750++

This is from cryptsy.

mullick: New HBN client ready
mullick: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0V-7FME2rcyUXV2R1FoVXdPaW8&usp=sharing

I believe it is a stake fix, and maybe warning fix. But either way we have a great dev here. Send him thanks with a donation!

My new stake blocks from today has still zero coins. Think fix is not working.  :-[
really sad...  :'(

Not sure if this is necessary. But I was told to delete everything but wallet.dat and re-download the block chain. I am just getting to it myself this morning so I have nothing to say for sure yet.

I try this... thanks for this information...
Hope the fix will work after this...

stake fix is in the code it activates after the block count hits a certain number. I think it will be about 9 days have to check the code.

Ah, ok. Thanks!  ;)

Fix kicks in 9-9-2013 00:00:00 GMT :)

the linux source are not uptodate

Thundertoe. I have packaged up the 1.1 version and put it here. If you want to update the thread.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/446338/HoboNickels-1-1-0-rar.html

Lucazane. The source should be available soon. mullick will post as soon as the git pull and merge is complete.

I have 1.1 running on test computer. So far no checkpoint warning after removing and redownloading the block chain.

Thank you Trans.. and a bump.


Everyone update now its a mandatory.

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/446338/HoboNickels-1-1-0-rar.html

go into %appdata% hobonickels and delete all the files EXCEPT wallet.dat and hobonickels.conf

then install the update

http://hbn.theblocksfactory.com/ UPDATED !

I am having issues getting synced. I have tried redownloading the entire chain multiple times but it always stops around block 110,400 to 110,600, different each time. Tried using connect only and still the same issue. Left it for a few hours thinking it would mayeb work itself out, no luck. If I stop the client and restart I gain 1-10 blocks each time.

It comes up and says it is Minting suspended due to locked wallet. When I enter the the password using walletpassphrase *passhere* 86400 it kills the program with an exception.

Any ideas?

Just a guess. Try backing up your wallet.dat then deleting everything. See if it sycns up to current, then copy your original wallet.dat back.

That sounds strange... Prob. just a problem with the qt build

Would you be able to send me a copy of your debug.log to bottlecapsfoundation@gmail.com ?

Log has been sent.

Bump for mandatory update.

Hey Hobo's. :)

You guys could head over to this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=285906.20 to make a case for your coin.

It's already there my friend. And there is at least some liquidity.

altcoin crypto tech news blog

http://cryptokid.blogspot.com/

I updated the client, but I'm getting the follow error: "WARNING: Checkpoint is too old. Redownload Blockcharin. If warning persist contact the Development Team."

When a coin constantly gets "checkpoint too old" it means to ME that the "developers" (term used loosely nowadays) are not doing their job or keeping up on their coin(s).  If you want people to have faith in your coin.. then this should never happen.  Just an opinion.  I also got the "checkpoint too old" when I "updated" this coin. 

I think you have to delete all but your wallet.dat from user >appdata >  roaming >  hobo and re-download the block chain.
I updated few days ago and the message has gone.

I was thinking that, maybe it kept the old blockchain some how from the previous version. I'll try it out later today.

the update works perfect try again

Yep you need to redownload the chain as it has to catch the checkpoint when downloading to recognize it. To clear up the issues Ill try to help blunder setup broadcast checkpoints

I did get a moment to look it over. It seems you were generating a LOT of stake.

Ill look it over again but the issue isn't related to the caps dilemma at all :)

Good, thanks for checking it. All is working well now after I got it synced up as mentioned in the PM.

HBN wallet gui getting a  makeover today.

a HBN gui mod i knocked out, new splash mining and transaction icons, and diff hobonickel pic on the about page

http://i39.tinypic.com/32zm8sg.jpg

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/growing/categorychanges/coins.html
HoboNickels get their own ebay category

PhenixEX is really great exchange where we can trade HBN! and their affiliate system is working smothly.
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If you haven't updated please do so. I think CoinChoose has not updated...

I brought up an old 1.0 wallet and indeed it is at the wrong diff.

If you are mining with the old wallet you are on the WRONG chain. Turn it off, remove everything but wallet.dat out of app/roaming and get the correct one.

If you don't do this you could lose your HBN if you transfer them, and your mined HBN will NOT be useable.

BUMP

Hello,
Could someone please explain when I run the Wallet Client for this coin this address:
guta-dedykd.home.net.pl
and another one I didn't log.
Take all my Upload bandwidth?
Untill I kill their connection or quit the client?
Even if I kill their connection they reconnect in a matter of minutes and it starts again.

Is the stake working?

I redownloaded the block and it gave me a Mined income of .44 HBN.
I've got about 200-300 HBN that is at least 10-20 days old.

Nothing is in the staked balance, just the normal balance.

The wallet doesn't have to be open/running for the whole 10 day period does it?

.44 on 200 for 10 days is correct.

It will come in and out of stake balance fairly quickly.

That's .2% not 2%.

2% of 200 should be 4.

Hmm Ya, true. Which makes it only 7% a year.   

First time looking at HBNs(or any crypto currency for that matter) cpp code, but this seems odd.

in main.ccp and .h

...

    static const int64 MAX_MINT_PROOF_OF_STAKE = 10 * CENT;
...

...
        CBigNum bnRewardCoinYearLimit = MAX_MINT_PROOF_OF_STAKE; // Base stake mint rate, 100% year interest
...
       CBigNum bnLowerBound = 10 * CENT; // Lower interest bound is 1% per year
       CBigNum bnUpperBound = bnRewardCoinYearLimit;


I think MAX_MINT_PROOF_OF_STAKE should be 100 * CENT

or not like I said first time looking..

So, it is an error in the OP (2% stake every 10 days!(100%) in a year holding your Nickels in your wallet.), or an error in the code?
Sad.

That seems about right, unfortunately, based on the stake I've generated the last few weeks. I was thinking it was a bit less than it should have been...

Talked with mullick a bit. Seems my idea for a fix should work. I'll try to work it out with the developers so we can issue a fix here in the near future. I'd also expect a checkpoint update as well.

So hold tight for now. If you want out, feel free to dump at cryptys, or PM me. I'll give you bits on the dollar, but at least you will have something.. :)

Working on a fix. Still more coding to be done, and testing. Any help from more experienced cryptocurrency coders is of course welcomed.

https://github.com/Tranz5/HoboNickel

OK, I am soloing this with 2MH's, I have gotten 1 block in an hour. I should by luck be getting around a block per 10 mins , I also have 1 reject. Any ideas?

Hmm not sure off hand.

Post your .conf and your miner setting. Maybe something odd in those.

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=blank
rpcpassword=blank
port=7372
rpcport=7373
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=69.85.86.195
addnode=74.196.48.62

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o localhost:7373 -u  -p  --intensity 13 -s 1 --worksize 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 - AMD 7970

edit out your user name and pass from your cgminer settings. I do assume they match otherwise you get a credential error .

Try adding these settings to cgminer.

--expiry 2 --scan-time 2 --queue 0

The client is not even getting past the splash screen now lol.

Those were switches for cgminer not hobonickels-qt