All right, 3846 now in the fund for China exchange bounty and I'm adding 250 more to make it a round number

So we have 4096 XDC now. It's a good start. Is anyone up to the work already?

http://xedoscoin.com:2750/address/Wv8zibGQMkKZnMnneNvTLcNo13sGVX5fP5

Just a quick heads-up for the pool skc.plasr.com -- it is down at the moment, I'm transfering it to a faster datacenter, it should be up shortly afterwards. I'm mentioning this just in case someone tries to check it out now. Sorry for not announcing this downtime. The pool should be up again in a couple of hours max.

Ok I'll try to move the image to another datacenter. So it will be offline for a while.

I see it too, yes. It is not MPOS, it's from the daemon itself

It was 10-12 blocks behind and then as I've been writing this it synced.

I'm watching them on adjacent terminals now, with `watch -n 3 inkcoind getinfo`  and they are the same

I see what you mean, I meant that people obviously expect (and that's normal, I expected it also) to solomine it easily since it is just how much, two days old? Three days old?

I know the reason is in the design and the current diff is sth you expected. It's just that most of us didn't. and if we don't gather up in pools, it's useless to continue. I took a look at the graphs of the other pool and AFAICT there has been also only one block of 50 INK that has been paid. I might be wrong, p2pool stats are always hard for me to get, but I see only one block. In my pool has been also only one. All the others, are they from solomining? 1.5 GH/s network rate, where does this come from?

I'm not asking, really and not blaming anyone for solomining. It is just that it looks strange -- the coin was easy to mine and it was logical to attract smaller miners in the beginning. Instead it seems to had attracted bigger miners. Once again, it may be pretty normal etc... but it is just strange

I'll think of and announce later today (hopefully today when I find time) prizes for the first ones to join the pool and catch a block.
There is no offical statement about pools, no bounties for such, so I guess the dev is OK with solomining at the moment. Anyway I'll think of some way to attract more miners to the pool -- otherwise, like I said, it's useless to have a pool that doesn't have the power to hit a block when diff is 1024 and rising...

Well, we seem to be on the same chain. I received locally, sent to the pool and received there too.

So the reason should be the extreme high (for a new coin) difficulty.

OK rescaned it all and looks ok...

{
    "blocks" : 76769,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 1024.00000000,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "networkhashps" : 1492842693,
    "pooledtx" : 1,
    "testnet" : false
}

If you like, send me ink to 1LXwfTDQXt7P9eYQ6cvgiPGthwkq5GDe4j -- I'll rescan there locally too, then send it to the pool and from the pool back to you. Hope it will show all is ok...

Hm... you got me thinking... that is really strange. OK, I'll do a rescan now.

I'm not arguing, but the pool ink.plasr.com was not operational almost the whole day yesterday, I was fixing things. Before that for a short period of time lot of people came, but there was no miner available so no real job was done and I shut the pool of (and I wrote here it won't work until there is a fix).

After the downtime, yesterday late afternoon GMT the pool was up and I wrote here. One miner hit a block, but the diff was already high and he had lots of power. So I guess it is normal. In fact, if there is no interest and people with more hashrate don't come soon to the pool, it's useless and just a waster of energy to mine. I'll stop myself. you have a higher chance of hiting a block now, but unless people join in, soon mining this coin (or more like trying to mine it) will be really useless.

P.S.: I just checked and the pool is synced, the last block as of this writing is 76397 and it's easy to check here: http://ink.plasr.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool

The diff is way too high and there are just 2 users active on the pool right now. I'm mining also, but I don't even have a chance for a share, so I'm not even it the stats... Either all the power is on the other pool (unlikely) or there are some very powerful solominer(s) that are taking almost every block

the user that hit the block 17 hrs ago had 10 times your hashpower... that is why I said we need users on the pools. It is PPLNS (ink.plasr.com is, I think cryptowins.com was also) so when one hits a block everyone that had shares will get "a share" of the reward.

But the diff is way too high unless we're together. 1024 on just a couple of days... insane I'd say...

Not that I'm advocating the dev, but lots of new coins miss the networkhashps, because they cloned bitcoin code long before it.

I patched my version so in http://ink.plasr.com we have a network hashrate dial and stats.

If there is interest, I'll submit a pull request to include this in inkcoin repo, but it's not a big deal anyway. More important is to have a block chain explorer available than to be able to see the networkhash per second, because the later is just an estimation anyway...

You have 2 pools, how much more do you want?!? You don't need "more" pools, what we all need is more hashrate on the 2 existing pools, because the difficulty is already very very high... So just go to http://ink.plasr.com or the other pool and contribute hashrate to get reward.

Looking at the stats in the pool now, the global inkcoin network hashrate is around 1.5 Gigahash/sec which is really a lot. The plasr pool has just 0.6MH/s right now and maybe the other pool is not very far from that. This means that there are lots of people tahat are solomining. some of them surely have rigs and enough power to get a coin now and then. But when the diff goes up even more soon, just a few will be able to continue solo.

Hello, I'm offering the Skeincoin community the pool http://skc.plasr.com/
MPOS, stratum with skein on port 6666, PPLNS, 1% fee
The server is 100% uptime, I'll add monitoring stats soon.
Happy mining!

https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/inkcoin-cpuminer that is the one I'm using

http://ink.plasr.com/  INKcoin pool, PPLNS, use inkcoin-cpuminer with algo "-a ink", stratum on port 5555

That sucks.. Everybody, refrain from using the pool for now... we need support for the algo otherwise we're not doing much...

The pool hasn't hit a block and it should have at least one by now already...

with scrypt, like I said... the devs, is there a miner ready for the algo?

http://ink.plasr.com -- pool with PPLNS for INK

currently stratum working with Scrypt -- I'm still investigating the support for SHAvite and will update when there are news

happy mining