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I am particularly dismayed at the poor state of the alt-coins forking and ancestry tracking.  Using git, it is possible to have created a full forking tree of all of the clients back to bitcoin.  However, too many alt coin authors (out of ignorance perhaps) failed to fork a repo and instead worked off  of static sources which they just created a fresh (history-less) repo from it once they got it "working".  This cuts off those coins from upstream features being readily mergable into the alt-coins, leaving their client, protocol and development very much cut-off.  

I am primarily joining to post in threads related to building Mac OS X versions of various alt-coin clients and miners.  I have done so and can answer open questions and help point others in the correct direction.  

Also I <3 Lebowskis Coin because it has such a low difficulty that I quickly mined a block using only CPU mining.  Very gratifying.  Also very sad because I ignored the bitcoin crowd when I saw it developer via ./

I spent 11 years on enterprise toolchain development teams, have professional Qt experience and whatnot so I know my way around in that land.  About 9 of those 11 years were spent on Mac development.  I am here to help.

Credentials:
Github: https://github.com/CaptEmulation (https://github.com/CaptEmulation)

Contributed to:
https://github.com/lebowskis/coins
https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin
https://github.com/microcoinsource/microcoin
https://github.com/picoind/pi

did u use only ur computers cpu? could u post a link here where could i learn how to do it on my mac. Btw which osx version are u using?

Cheers!

I'm new here too. Best of luck.

I 'm worrying most about bitcoin clients that look like software from the 80's.  ::)

Use an online wallet. But beware, the website can shut down without any notice.

He said about clients THAT look like software from the 80's , not about all the clients :).

Mac X 10.8.  Using only my laptop CPU, at half speed, over two days, I solo mined over 2,000 LBW using self-built sources.  I also built Dogecoin from sources but could not even get a share accepted at a pool due to insta-mine block speed.  Also 'getnetworkhashps' reports Dogecoin is currently about 10,000x more mined than Lebowski coin o.O.  You just can't solo mine effectively any popular coin.  I picked Lebowskis because it is not heavily mined, I love the movie, and I love the PoS system.

I used pooler-cpuminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0) to mine.  You need to add the correct .conf file to your wallet folder (e.g. ~/Library/Application\ Support/Lebowskis/lebowskis.conf)  including listen, server, daemon, rpcort, rpcuser, rpcpassword and rpcallowip.  Then you cd to cpuminer and run:

./minerd -a scrypt -o http://127.0.01:{rpcport} -u {rpcuser} -p {rpcpassword} -t {numOfThreads}

Fill in the values between {} for your system.

I do suppose you will need a Mac wallet.  Currently all I have to share is sources: https://github.com/CaptEmulation/coins/tree/mac.  The build I have would only run on my machine.  I would need to make a release build and package the libraries with it.  I should get around to that soon.  I've been pulling in upstream bitcoin sources and updating Lebwoskis because I think that is fun.

Any prediction for Dogecoin's future value? Currently I have around 400,000 of them.