Well played!

Newbie restrictions.  It's an unmititgated pain in the ass, and really only screws with the newbies who are NOT trolls. Troll don't give a fuck. When you have a few more posts and move up to the "jr. member" category, it gives you less shit.

And no, it doesn't make sense. Like many things here in Mos Eisley.

I think your message needs therapy. These self destructive tendencies can't be a good thing! 

I almost took the third option, there.

But I figured if you don't like bacon, you're wrong anyway, so I just went with #1.

I too am interested in full disclosure, but other than an occasional gentle reminder, I'm not going to push it. In private, you told me you would do so at some point, so I'll wait.

Well put. Didn't realize I was coming across as apologetic until you posted this, but you're right.

So, to clarify. Shit happens, I ain't sorry, and I PERSONALLY like the choice.

Yop. Gotta have my bro's back, as long as he's right. I've been mining at central cavern since a bit before he took it live. No issues, and I've gotten a slightly better payout. I don't know if that's "luck", the lower fee, or a bit of both. But either way it's a damn fine pool. Come join us!

Oh, for those who don't know, I usually mine under the name JemHadar, so if you go looking for "Biomech" and don't see me, I'm not lying.

My expertise, such as it is, lies mostly with Tek. But from what presstab and Thundertoe have both told me, the mechanism is essentially the same. My advice on the little ones is to wait until they stake, even if you have to wait a few days for the majority of them, and then combine as many of them as are a bit far out as possible into larger blocks. Larger blocks gain higher staking priority. The little guys WILL stake, but they might take longer. Mainly the coin control is organizational.

I'm not certain what the custom change address is, so I'll leave that to others more knowledgeable. But what coin control does is allow you to choose which coins get sent, which coins get to stay, and organize them into blocks via send to self. And yes, that does unfortunately reset staking, but you'll know to a higher degree of accuracy when each block will stake and how much it will stake. I like the feature, but it's not actually necessary to the function of the coin. Just gives you a greater degree of control.

I'm agreeing. You got two things going on. One, it got really hard to get ANY tek about 30 days ago. Two, it's the beginning of the month, and everybody got bills. Three, BTC went nuts. I think we're just seeing some profit taking. The two stage dump was a bit of a surprise, though. the price had nearly recovered, and then dropped again. Hopefully next month the stakeholders will be a little wiser in their sells.

Wait, what am I saying? Dump that shit! I'll be ready for it next month!

I had basically the same problem solomining. Frankly, it's easier and more likely to succeed if you just set up your own pool and point your machine(s) at it. You can set up MPOS in about an hour or NOMP in half that time. You have to tweak your machine settings quite a bit to not overrun the daemon when solomining, especially if you are using asic devices.

I don't trust either one of them. Microsoft just tends to add in about a thousand things you don't need and slow down the system. They like form over function. I don't. Plus, I've been using linux exclusively for almost a month now, and it's FAST by comparison to Windows

For my part, I was unaware that there was a "grain coin". Not terribly surprised, but unaware. That being said, I think I was the only team member who actually liked "grain" as the winner The vote wasn't rigged, or it would have been something else. It just came down that way. I'm pretty sure nobody on the team knew about "graincoin" prior to the contest being posted, though I can't speak for them.

I go with what's done is done. There was no malice nor ill intent. If it has a negative impact in some way, the community can simply refuse to use it. One way or the other, one participant now has significantly more than  a grain of earthcoin

Google Docs is better. No microsoft stuff clogging up your system that way 

Can't speak for anyone but myself, but my intent was debate, not attack.

At any rate, what I said and what you said actually do not contradict. Yes, if you can afford BIG mining equipment, right now, you will probably realize a positive ROI on it in a few months, and yes, the hash you buy cloudmining does come with built in diminishing returns.

All I was saying is that there are more factors than what you have put out. If one were to buy the mining rig I currently possess at half the price it was selling for, they would NOT EVER break even if they did not have free electricity. And it's not that old. If they took that same money and put it into pbmining, they might break even, because of the extended time frame. If you can generate your own electricity, that also changes the game.

Anyway, I've said my bit. I'll leave it be, unless you wish to continue it.

I will point out the failure in your scenario. The one you cannot control for. Electicity cost. RIGHT NOW, as I understand it from my European friends, any exisiting 1st gen ASIC device is unprofitable due to power consumption. Yet here, in Idaho, that same machine would still be fine. That in itself militates against cloud mining being a scam. Some, yes, but pb has always been about on par with an Antminer running for a month. Except that the contract runs for 5 years...

If you want to make a profit INSTANTLY, or even fantastically like the early days of the Asic miners. yeah, you're fucked. Those days are done and probably forever. Want a decent income stream over five years, that's a different story. Even without referrals I would have broken even a month and a half ago, and I bought at significantly higher prices than current, and the diff rises had not leveled off yet.

There are just too many factors for you to make the blanket statements you are. At anything north of 20 cents/KWH, pbmining is a better deal than any hardware currently available to the average person. Yeah, if you got the money for the cannons, you can beat that. But for the rest of us, it's a small but nice payout every sunday.

Let me chime in on this:

What raskul did is actually good for the coin in the long run. If all it does is accumulate, sooner or later it will devalue. But when stakeholders sell some to buy stuff, this SUPPORTS the tek ecosystem, and not indirectly. There has not, as yet, been a lot of focus on mercantile acceptance of this coin. This in it's early stages is probably a good thing, as the coin was being developed and distributed. Now, it has value. Its one of the higher valued coins in the crypto world, and unlike a lot of much more hyped coins, it actually works as advertised.

Of course, its more profitable at this point to stake than mine, so that makes it MORE valuable in that we generally don't want to part with it, but eventually it must circulate or be worthless.

EDIT: I see Walkdev ninja'd me

Google the Emperor and the Pirate.

This isn't really the place for that discussion, but I stand by my words. One doesn't become an anarchist lightly in an age of nationalistic hubris.

Hello, Boys and Girls!

We seriously need more miners at http://hbn.centralcavern.uk. Spread the love, Spread the hash, and spread some nickels!

about 16 hours for me. It's dinner time!

The problem is that if they do that, without a court order, they are treading unsafe legal ground. My sentiments echo yours, but let's face it: Laws are mainly made by criminals, and if you aren't one yourself, it's very easy to get crosswise. I think they need to reach an agreement acceptable to all parties, and amend their TOS for future intervention if it ever happens again. Not ideal, by any means, but probably pbmining's best option at this time.

Pure Proof of Stake for some time now. Mining is done.