Okay -

Here is the news I was talking about a few days ago...

Megacoin is getting added to its first fiat-to-Megacoin exchange!!!  

It is a Chinese exchange which allows users to buy coins with Chinese Yuan. They only have 6 currencies on the exchange already and they decided Megacoin would make the best 7th.

I was contacted by the exchange operator who told me they were going to add Megacoin and I offered a donation of 4000 MEC if they did indeed go ahead and add Megacoin. I have now been informed 3000 MEC Will be distributed to users (faucet style) - The other 1000 MEC they will sell on the exchange.

I also said I would get a link added to their exchange from the main Megacoin website - so Kimoto if you are reading...

It is being added by their dev team over the next day or two. I will post links when it is all done.

The more users that have access to Megacoin the better, so I think this is a great step for Megacoin.

Anyone having problems with their fastcoin client?

I have 2 servers now where fastcoin has become unresponsive. fastcoind getinfo just hangs forever and does not return any results. If I delete the blockchain and all other data in .fastcoin (except for wallet and conf) it takes hours and hours to download block chain and does not solve the problem. While downloading the block chain fastcoind getinfo works until a certain point - near current block height where client becomes unresponsive...

Any suggestions - it is now affecting fastcoin mining on miningpool.co?

 

Yes, setup a local stratum proxy - on a spare unused pc or raspberry pi for example. It is easier than it sounds to do.

You will get much much better efficiency than trying to mine via a remote pushpool server.

Not to mention cost you more in electricity than you would make.

Yes, that is correct..

Just received my refund 

Thank you!!!!!

Good idea - http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Looks like it has stabilised - network hashrate and difficulty have risen...

Yes, a little bit concerning.. Want to see that network hashrate and difficulty stabilise pretty soon.

But in the meantime the blocks are coming in thick and fast 

Could be after effect / lag from when mining was temporarily stopped - there was something like 6 blocks mined in 6 hours before the new client was released..

Thanks for the good work once again Kimoto  

www.miningpool.co stratum servers have been updated and seem to be working fine.

Phew...  

Difficulty just dropped to 4.0841

Thanks - all good now

anyone got a node list?

not getting any connections. hmm..

Kimoto got an ETA on the fix..?

All www.miningpool.co Megacoin stratum servers have been switched off until further notice...

Anyone??

Should I stop the pool until further notice??

Should I turn off the pool? 

Nice looking site!

There is potentially some good news coming for Megacoin (not related to the hard fork) - will wait until it is confirmed to announce..  

Wow - got an encouraging response today from Paypal. Impressed... Still no refund yet but at least someone is on the case.

Thanks...