Lol no it isn't. And you can see exactly how people are doing it. Just watch the replays.

To get a level like that means pressing f6  a hell of a lot of times unless you are extremely lucky. I think things are working perfectly.

Cool. Thanks!
Was surprised to see my balance update with 25 SC and it happened at about the same time I staked as well!

Lol Judgecrypto I read your blog on how to know you are a bagholder......
The shoe fits. Uncomfortably.

Silkcoin feels like it is getting ready to pounce.
Looking at the website, the wallet and the dev posts I can't help but feel that there is potential here that a lot of the bitcoin community is not noticing yet
or... I'm missing something.

The only thing I can't decide is if the "silk" association will work in favor or against.

Everything seems to work as advertised and I can't help but support this.

Silkcoin.
Luxurious, comfortable, absorbent, colorful, capable of the greatest lustre and smooth, frictionless.

4875 was quite good.

I'm a bit confused though I got 4870 2h ago and we are only at 4875 now? Is there a way to see how many ppl are playing and what the average block time find is?

I think with shorter time you need more luck. You have to get a map that is possible to finish and that depends on luck. With more time you would be more reliant on skill. The race would be to finish your map the fastest rather than hope for a map that kind of finishes itself.

Look at replay 4871 for example.. basically a straight road to the coin. The only skill there is not completely messing up the lucky map you got.

The block time target is 5min at the moment. To try and get the games hard enough so ppl only solve it every 5 min the game is shortening the time available to play. At the moment 26 secs. This is working and blocks are found slower now than 2 days ago when they were found every minute or so.
At block 8000 we are now changing to a shorter expected block time 1 min likely instead of 5 min. This means the game won't keep shrinking the clock to try and retard players. This emans that people will have more time to solve, making it easier and so blocks will be found every minute. I expect that the clock will hover around 30 secs.

If you think it is easy now then you are one of the lucky ones. Ride and make coins!

What the hell are you talking about? You mine by playing the game.. there was the tiniest of premines to pay the dev. If you are good at the game and spend as much time playing as dev did programming I'm sure you will get the same amount of coins as dev has.

What I mean is the target block time which determines difficulty. Now it is 5min which means the game time is 26 secs to make it more difficult and still blocks are found in less than 5 min. If the target is 1 min then the game time will likely still be between 20 and 30 secs.

It seems that 26.468 secs is 0.5 secs too quick for me every time!
This has been happening so many times.

nice.

Are we going for 1 min blocks or something shorter?

I convinced some friends that Bitcoin is a good idea. One bought some at the worst possible time and then couldn't get it out of Mtgox.
I felt so bad that I bought them from him and lost a lot of money in the process.
 
Now I am a bit more wary. I will tell ppl about it if they ask. I also tell them there is a lot of fraud and that it seems that most people in Bitcoin don't actually see the larger picture at all.
They don't see how we all live better than kings would have 100 y ago and how advancement of humanity through technology has helped all of us. They don't see the possibilities of what the world could look like 100 years from now with the help of technologies like bitcoin. The way I see it humanity is one organism of which we are all part. The internet is a new nervous system that is being developed and cryptocurrency is a part and function of that organ. People believe in conspiracy theories because they can't zoom out their perspective to see that all of this is happening very organically and on a scale that is beyond any single or group of individuals.
Fraud and lies is like a cancer on all of us and the small minded who live in fear and inferiority cheat and steal.

That is why we should treasure the people who design and build like Satoshi Nakamoto.

Without the coinbank, HOC is just a fraud and scam perpetrated by BitOffer. In your reply to him please mention to him that he has now joined the ranks of all the people who make the world a crappier place rather than a better place to live in. Good riddance. For a moment I was thinking that my initial assessment of Bitoffer as someone with vision and integrity might be right after all.

Now I am ashamed of my support of BitOffer and would like to apologize to everyone for the initial excitement that I shared about this project, especially if it influenced anyone into joining.

The crux of the matter is the coinbank. What has he done with the BTC that everyone invested. This was never supposed to be his for the taking. If he will transfer the BTC to someone else or put it in escrow then I am sure interest in HOC will return immediately and we could continue where we left off.

The system will regulate itself.
With 20 coins reward and shorter block time more people will already play than now. How many people do we need playing the game to make it work? 100 ?1000 ?10 000 ?100 000
People will need to sleep and eat and will stop playing of it gets too frustrating which means the number of players will keep fluctuating and self regulating.

If 1000 ppl are all playing the game and a block is found every minute then only a max of 60 of those will get a coin/hour.
Which means that the people who have anger issues will smash their PC screen.
Now we only have 200 ppl playing. Which means that maybe everyone can find a coin every 3 hours. But this is in the future where the coins are worth $100 each. So then I decide this is not worth my time, I can go back to being a prostitute because I was making more money and it was also less frustrating, I need less coordination. This leaves only 50 or so people playing and they are all happy because the game just got easier and less competitive! Then the sun rises over China and suddenly 1 mil players get on their PC's with super fast reflexes and nerves of steel. Now the rest of the world gives up and goes to bed. Tomorrow we will try again.

Yes: you practice more and get better at the game and then you wait until you get a bit of luck and there you go you get a coin! Congratulations.
Or post your address in sig and I will send you one.

Why does anyone want to make a pool for this? Why are we even discussing this?

The way it works at the moment I think WilliamLie's solution will get more people into the game which is a good thing.
After a time this will get saturated and those who feel it is worth their time will play and those who can spend their time doing something else (like making hamburgers, or being a doctor, building a house) will do that and earn money and buy the coins instead.
The players in the end won't do it because its "fair" or fun, they will do it because it is an income and protects the coin. Don't forget the purpose of the game in the end is to act as the crypto for this cryptocurrency.

Thanks for Motocoin WilliamLie2, it has been great watching the launch and how things developed.
I think  it's a good idea to change the reward since it will make more people play for now. We will inevitably get to a stage where the "normal" person won't invest the time to play the game due to too much competition and difficulty, but that can not be avoided.

Effectively this is a massive multiplayer competitive online game with real life rewards. It is a weird thought that everytime I nab a coin there are people all around the world gnashing their teeth and kicking their chairs (just like I do when I am about to get a coin and the level changes!)
What frustration! What elation when you get one!

Great work.