Bid is thin cuz it gets done. I had to push it through .0007 to buy more than a fraction. People want this coin, and those that have don't let it go easily. I'm with 'em on that, but it makes it expensive to build up I need a few thousand more to make my goal, so hopefully somebody panics next time I have some BTC

Thanks! For some reason I just couldn't seem to find that link. My google fu is in need of revision.

I don't have an official answer, but I would guess that you don't have coins in long enough. It takes a bit over 30 days. As far as I know, there's no "secret" method nor anything that requires the QT wallet, but if you don't see it as a security risk, you might try running QT instead of the daemon, just set up as a server. It's coin control features will allow you to set the priority on coins and only spend the newest mined or minted coins. This is probably doable from the command line as well, but I have no idea how I know the coin control is either the same or very similar to hobonickels, so you might check their wiki. Also, if I understand it correctly, the wallet has to be unlocked for it to stake. Which might pose a problem for a pool.

In a far less dynamic environment, I have gotten stakes from both the older wallet prior to presstab and Tranz becoming involved, and the new one. QT in both cases, so I don't know if that applies or not. I do know that the staking algorithms work.

won't = will not.
wont = a predilection or a habit.

raskul is not a little kid, though I do accuse him of being a youngster from time to time just because I'm five years older

Thanks! I'm not a programmer, though I'm slowly learning. Didn't have a clue where to look.

I've a technical question as well. On the stake arrow, right after a stake is finished, it says I have some ridiculous amount of time to wait till the next stake. It's obviously not the case, so I'm just wondering how it derives the number? Once it gets down to where it's close, it's fairly accurate, but before that it shows like a few thousand years


Also, what is the actual staking time supposed to be? I don't recall, and I don't know if it got altered with the recent changes. Just curious, here, not trying to throw any trouble out. My wallet is working very well.

Always nice to have a bit of good news in your day, eh?

I have a technical question. Is stake based off of the date, or the number of blocks above when the coins were taken out of circulation?

Not worried in the least. I currently hold no sync, and I do think it was badly mishandled during the transition to POS. There's a difference between criticism and stupidity, though, and the stupid should be hammered.


...and here we go again.

raskul is a journalist. He can spell, form complete sentences, and think. Yes, he likes to be provocative. Sometimes even trolls, by his own admission. But his points have been cogent and valid. Besides that, he's a proud man. Why use a sock puppet other than cowardice?

After SHAcoin, which amazingly seems to be recovering, both of us were more than a little burned on new coins. He threw a lot into this one, I did not. I'm less bitter

384 pages tend to belie that. And you posted.

'tis better to be thought an ass than open one's mouth and prove it. There were a lot of missteps. Enough for me to bail. But to say no one is interested, that's just silly.

Pretty much followed the docs. However, if you try to take the shortcut with NOMP (how to setup NOMP for MPOS) in the Wiki, it leaves out some steps. You have to go to the readme on the main source page, follow that EXACTLY, then follow the doc for the MPOS integration. Once you have your .json files edited, run "screen node init.js", then detach from the screen <ctrl-a> <d>.  Tek is actually preconfigured in NOMP, so you really only have to modify the file in pool_configs (copy litecoin_example.json to tekcoin.json for this instance). Edit it to match your MPOS setup, and it should be good to go.


Since doing that, I've had no issues with NOMP as a stratum layer. MPOS has given me some trouble, but I got that mostly figured out. 90 percent fat fingers and ten percent cryptic documentation

PM me if you have troubles. I bashed at it for quite a while before I got it all working.

I unfortunately don't know jack about abe.

But a while back you had asked if I got NOMP working with MPOS for Tek. I have, if you still need help. If not, cool.

Fixed that for ya! I'd buy cheap, but only fractions were available cheap. Pumped it a little to get all I could. As far as I'm concerned, TEK is gold.

Paid again Thanks pbmining, great service as usual!

Well, I guess I should chime in. I'm a one time customer of Zoomhash. About a month ago, I bought a single 5 chip gridseed.

Zoomhash sent me an email confirming my order and saying it had been shipped, with a tracking number.

USPS had no record of the tracking number. So, I contacted Zoomhash to see what the deal was. They confirmed that I had indeed been shipped my order, and the tracking was correct, and indeed it was not showing in the system.

The next morning, it showed in the system as scanned, but not yet picked up. Later that afternoon it showed up at my house, though the postal service apparently was unaware that they had shipped it.

I took the risk of paying by bitcoin. I could have been screwed over.

Instead, I got polite and friendly service from a gentleman with a sense of humour, delivery ahead of schedule, and a nice little miner that has been absolutely rock steady.

So why am I a one time customer?

Because I'm broke and in debt. When I have money for hardware again, Zoomhash will be my first choice, and it's unlikely there will be a second choice. Especially if they can become resellers for Spondoolies  

Thank you guys! Finally somebody gets it. I've been saying this for two years now!!!

If you invest in bananas, and the bottom drops out but you trade them for papayas and that market rises, the profit is STILL valid, regardless of the form it takes. If you invested USD into a mining device when BTC was at 20 dollars and caught the rise to 1200, and then cashed out your difference, you made a profit. Currently, the only mining I'm not even or profitable on is my gridseed, cuz I've only had it a couple weeks. At this time, electricity is not yet a killer for me, and my equipment has broken even, even though it's small. In one case it was free, in the others I have made my investment back. In some cases it was in BTC and others it was in Fiat, and others it was other cryptos. Currently, most of my BTC earnings and all of my alt earnings are going into TEK for it's staking and IMAO, it's long term value.

Profit is gain. It's form is only relevant statistically. If you have gained over your investment, you have profited.

The only argument on this that I've seen that I agree with is that in the long term, holding BTC *might* be a higher profit. But you never know, given the volaltility of the market.

No shit! I was gonna buy a bunch this weekend :p Still will, once I get my piggyback mining payout. But damn! Ah well, be a good deal once I get my pile and get it staking...


Which could be why the volume is up. With a bit over a million coins now in circulation, there has to be some good staking going on.

Early on, they oversold. I wasn't a customer then, but it caused them a lot of grief. Since then they have been pretty careful. Usually, they have more available in a day or two. Longest I saw it go was, I think, four days. Don't hold me to that, I'm going off of an aging brain's memory

I don't know what equipment they run, but judging by their turnaround time, I'd guess a combination of ants and dragons. If they smart, they are also buying Spondoolies.

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Anyway, I remain very happy with pbmining. Like all of you who bought, I made ROI within a few hours. Despite rumours to the contrary. It took me a bit longer to break even. Yes, it's a pet peeve, but this is a very technical community. Use the term you mean. ROI is return ON investment, not return OF investment. ROI can be positive or negative, but if you made an investment and it returns you anything at all, you made an ROI. The term y'all should be using is breakeven. The point at which your ROI becomes positive.

Happens about twice a day. Then the difficulty adjustment drives the multipools away again. I've been watching it for months.

On the bickering: I've spoken at length with both men. As it turns out, without revealing details, they aren't angry with each other, there was no fight, just some fear of things that might happen.

No bad things for TEK. Also presstab has graciously allowed me to make the source available as he had it, with the caveat that some portions of it are untested. I'm not going to do so right this minute, but I'll put a link to it up for later.

It is my hope that he will return to us and continue some of the development. He's a good guy, and so is Thundertoe. This was basically a big misunderstanding.

So, let's get on with the business of making TEK outperform bitcoin 

presstab and thundertoe have both contacted me via pm. I'm not in the fight, but for the time being, I will respect presstab's wishes to not have the sources available. Should this get resolved, or the gentlemen in question release me, I'll put that offer back up. But for now, I guess we all wait and see. I HOPE that presstab will change his mind, cuz I like what he's done with it. I also don't see thundertoe as any sort of ogre. I like both men, at least so far as I've dealt with them. But my only real care about it is TEK.

Let's make it happen, and the sources that were put up should be adequate. There was no major problems with the old wallet, but the new one is a hell of a lot sexier