There is something wrong -- maybe with the explorer in the OP -- the last block in the explorer is 7083 from April 9 and today is 13th and my local daemon shows block #9622

I mean this explorer: http://explorer.nigeriacoin.org/chain/NigeriaCoin

Is there a problem in the chain now? I refreshed mine and I am again on 9622 (with new blocks appearing). Is there a fork???

A tooooo long weekend, I would say. And all my balances for other coins there are over the minimum payout for half a month with no payment. Nice, eh? Not a good crypto faucet at all. What, are they using these money on exchanges arbitrages for profit? Don't care, but when they promise it is a faucet, they should keep their word and transfer the money on time.

Otherwise it is a scam. Stealing money from donors and lying to users that tey "will" get paid. Scam faucet. Either scam or blatantly incompetent.

Anyway, I have almost finished a separate faucet for XDC, but I'm far behing any schedule -- with this and with the other things, the tipbots -- because... well, day job you know...

No source code?
Google download links to some binaries don't count

No block source.
Are there any nodes? Does anybody sync? Can you pls post node addresses?

edit: after a long wait, on the second day is synced, so it's ok now

Thanks, but the submission period was already over and it wouldn't be fair to the other contesters...

There will be more design contests for XDC soon, stay tuned!

There seems to be some problem with the earchcryptocoins faucet -- I've sent 500 XDC to the address for faucet donations

http://xedoscoin.com:2750/tx/0276f2bd62d3605f142205643bf180ca47b6a8a3baa710c84b01735d6a4cdbd5

And still, a day later, the faucet is not working. The 500 XDC should have kept it running for a long time, but they seem to be lost now. There is no contact info except an email and a notice that the site has been sold and there is a new owner.

The latest transaction, listed in the faucet itself, is http://xedoscoin.com:2750/tx/707dd17e17a6d6b27795f3ff34eb856755e684c9a91b66c98cfa555f090d09a9 -- it's for 1.64 XDC and it's from March 24 (TWO WEEKS AGO!!)

I've been using the site there for some other coins faucets and I had no payment for very long time now. Maybe 2 weeks or more!!

I'd say that this is suspicious. I don't recommend using earncryptocoins.com until this is resolved!!

Sounds fair, I updated the OP, voting until 15 April.
Tomorrow will post to reddit, twitter and will share on G+

Yes, nice logos here

the two faucets are now loaded again, they should be running again shortly

I promised in the OP here 800 also from me for the second place.

So the prizes are pretty good. I'll be happy if the designers stay around after this contest and help with other things -- promotional posters, paper wallet designs etc.

If we all help raise the price and the flow of XDC, we all benefit from this

I moved the bounty fund for the first China exchange that XDC lands on.

The new address is Wv8zibGQMkKZnMnneNvTLcNo13sGVX5fP5
All the money from the old address -- 17000 XDC -- are moved to the new one, as you can see here:

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

The reason to do this was that the old address was from my wallet and having it there effectively blocked my wallet. And I need my wallet to start distributing prizes for our logo contest. The amount collected in the old address was 17000 XDC and here they are in the new address, in a separate wallet. Ready to be taken from the one who gets us on a real China exchange. And until then -- ready to accept more new donations for the bounty.

I updated the Melange SPICE daemon to have networkhash per second:

spiced getmininginfo
{
    "blocks" : 39735,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 38.07908630,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "networkhashps" : 898891512,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}

The original daemon didn't have "networkhashps", maybe because it was forked from an older version ot bitcoin source. the patch is exactly the same as the one I made for Xedoscoin (https://github.com/xedoscoin/xedoscoin/pull/2). I didn't make a pull request for spice now, so if anyone wants this feature locally, just patch it.

Networkhashrate of the coins as of now is as follows:

Skein algo:

XDC: 0.21 GHs, diff 4, algo skein
SKC: 3.77 GHs, diff 101, algo skein
SPICE: 0.89 GHs, diff 35, algo skein
NGC: 1.6 MHs, diff 0.03, algo skein

This weekend is a good time to mine NGC and XDC -- both have low difficulty and low network hashrate. XDC retargets fast, each one and a half minute, that is why the diff falls that much during weekends. The same is with NGC, just a bit slower -- 2 minutes. Weekends are good for mining fast coins with a bit more exotic algos, because with the low diff you will easier get more coins before the diff rises again in the begining of the working week.

Spice had a burst in diff and hashrate recently, maybe spice.plasr.com and the users on it had an impact on that. Now it is at diff 35 which is higher, because the coin hasn't retargeted yet. At 4 minutes retargeting and almost a gigahash of power is may not go down too much.

SKC is going up and is keeping the hashrate and the diff. But also it is the oldest and most developed of these coins, is has more services and maybe it would be more profitable if you decide to sell what you've mined.

So all 4 skein coins are profitable to mine during these weekends.

X11 algo anf Scrypt algo:

Darkcoin and Dogecoin are well known coins and the power and difficulty there is high enough. If you decide to invest in mining them, you may want to keep an hold them, especially the Darkcoin, which is rising steadily recently.

Of course, it is better to hold all of these coins, because they are not going down. Spice and NGC these days have devs a bit harder to reach -- the Spice thread is locked and the NGC one is not updated several days. On the other hand, Spice is easy to mine and is on exchanges and as for the NGC -- the dev there has lots of ideas for local promotion and online-to-offline services, so it may be worth keeping an eye on that.

Long story short, these are not some random coins we got here for you.

http://xdc.plasr.com
http://skc.plasr.com
http://spice.plasr.com
http://ngc.plasr.com
http://drk.plasr.com
http://doge.plasr.com

Happy mining!

Nice idea with your live debian distro, I wish you all the luck with it! If you need some cooperation from my pools, please don't hesitate telling me.

We'll have the vote for new coin logo open until Monday 7th.

Vote!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=518066.0

I say we make this until Mon 7th -- it will be one week for voting.
After that we'll distribute the prizes and the dev will have all the graphic files to have them integrated where appropriate in the coin wallet.

It's just meaningless IMO. What should I have said -- "no, it's not dead" and wait another 4 days before he asks the same again and again? I don't get it why people ask such questions...

Anyway, I'm keeping myself busy with reddit and twitter tipbot and a difficulty chart.

These are things that anyone could do, the info is pulic anyway.

AFAIK the dev is busy with coin developments too.

There is an open discussion here in the thread and on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Xedoscoin/comments/21i0jx/services_for_xdc/ about new services for XDC. It would be far more interesting to discuss development ideas.

But anyway, one can't tell the people what to discuss in a forum thread. I'm not a mod, not a dev, I just try to contribute. Anyway

New pools to the list:

Melange Spice [SPICE] pool -- SPICE.PLASR.COM

Nigeriacoin [NGC] pool  -- NGC.PLASR.COM

Darkcoin [DRK] pool -- DRK.PLASR.COM


So now we have:
- 4 Skein algo based coins -- Xedoscoin, Skeincoin, MelangeSpice and Nigeriacoin,
- 1 X11 algo based coin -- Darkcoin,
- 1 Scrypt algo based coin -- Dogecoin.

Happy mining!

Everyone who expressed his preference here in the thread before -- please vote on the poll!

I thought I could add your votes in the posts to the poll, but I can't see the poll's votes by username, so the only way is to vote in one place, let's make this the poll itself. So if you previously said here in plain text which logo you prefer, please take a couple of seconds to vote in the poll at the top of the page.

The OP is updated with image previews of all the 16 new logo designs. Like a walk in the park... or in the gallery.

I posted on reddit and twitter.
I also edited the OP of the poll https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=518066.0 so that the logos are more visible now.