ok, got the new wallet, it came up no problem, but I tried to load the saved blockchain from the op, and it keeps giving me a "runaway exception", cannot open blkindex.dat, error 22.

WTF am I doing wrong here?

Due to the nature of this coin, I would suggest a couple of things. One for the Dev team, and one for the miners.
On the mining side, I highly recommend using the balance option in your mining software. If the majority of us set it at a 1/3 balance, whilst mining something of more immediate profit with the other two thirds, the difficulty wouldn't get so crazy.

For the devs, consider making the coin merge minable. This would fit well with the long block times and overall goals.

yeah, me too. I wanted to be home, so when I inevitably guessed wrong as to which pools would be live, I could DO something about it.

my guess is something to do with a spondoolies-tech SP10....

now what has crypto to do with the real world? :B

l would gladly try were I not 50 miles from my rig. I have it set for cryptopools and hardcore. Always bet different from Biomech...

Now, where is cryptopools? I'm still mining bitcoin....

Yeah, no doubt. I think I've seen exactly one coin launch on time. And half it's pools didn't work out the gate :p

I'm currently mining bitcoin. But when I'm not, it's usually TEK.

Heh. One of the reasons I initially liked TEK was that it wasn't spammed on every page, and I could actually read the whole thread

Yes, I can tell you for certain that you can use the same miners to mine TEK that you do BTC. I mine both, with the same rig as the mood strikes me. To my knowledge, it is not merge minable, which I think would be an interesting twist, but it would drive the difficulty to the moon. Good for the coin, in some ways, but bad for guys like me with little rigs.

I wasn't in on the beginning of TEK, but I've been mining it off and on for about three months. It's not a troublesome coin, it's trade value is good, and I like the POS concept to some extent. The low block reward seems to keep it stable more than most coins.

It seems to be getting a bit more popular, as I am unable to mine as much as before due to difficulty, and it frequently tops the Coinwarz charts, until the diff adjusts.

Nah.

I know Raskul quite well. We're friends. He won't sneak a premine in.

I know they mined at Eligius for a time. Not sure if they still do, nor would I reveal any info they gave me in private. I believe they hash at more than one place.

Now, this from here out is speculation on my part, but they have indicated to me that I'm on the right track. It's based on what I would do if I had the money to kickstart something like this.

One. Buy twice the hashpower you sell.

Two, reinvest every penny into more hash as it comes in.

Three, repeat one and two.

Doing it that way, for a while to build a large farm, guarantees the ability to pay out (mining twice as much in hashpower gives a fair margin to cover power, expansion, etc) Now, over time, you'd probably want to scale back the purchases to some extent, but they have likely not got there yet. Also, bear in mind that five years from the beginning of any contract, the hash reverts to PBmining, regardless of whether my model is correct. Given this, unless difficulty skyrockets, they would at the end of the five years, have a substantial farm going on, or a bunch of equipment to sell that was already paid for. Obsolete equipment at low cost is not a bad bargain for the second market anyway.

Is this sustainable? It depends on how well they buy equipment and how badly difficulty skyrockets. But we're already seeing equipment prices come down, and the vertical growth of the network has slowed substantially. It would take a HUGE amount of new equipment to even approach the 40 percent increases of a few months back, as the network is now so large! Basically, barring a breakthrough in either technology or programming, the network isn't going to go ballistic again for quite some time, if ever. If they were only aiming for the short term, I'd be more suspect of the whole thing. As it stands, I'm already in the black (due to referrals), and they have never done me any wrong. My only gripe, and it's so minor that it don't matter, is they are inconsistent about what time they pay out. Not what day, just what time. Makes calculation a bit difficult, but not so much that it matters. Frankly, since that's the only gripe I can really come up with now that they've added a text box to the order page, I don't think it's worth more than a quibble. These guys have been good to me, and the other piggies as well. If they screw up in the future, well that happens. I don't see them as a scam, and I do think they are trying to be the best cloud option there is. Give them time, they are new. I've yet to see a single complaint from actual customers, other than little quibbles like mine. Which they've addressed.

Now, some more of you click on my link, willya???

CryptoAltex is actually a decent exchange. If they had more exposure, they'd be an outstanding exchange.

Hear that Chiznitz? You need some advertising!!!

Well, that and you really should carry every coin that Cryptsy and Mintpal do. Make 'em work for it. Bittrex and CryptoAltex are often the first to adopt a new coin, and they both have responsive and helpful staff. I've never traded on Mintpal, so have little opinion other than not liking their page layout. Cryptsy is a cast iron bitch to navigate, and has it's BTC withdrawal set way too high. All things considered, I'd rather trade at the more hungry less arrogant exchanges. Of the bigger guys, the only one I really like is Poloniex, and that has more to do with Busoni than his exchange. He's good people.

did all of the above, two machines, two versions of windows (7 and , and one VM under VMware player, also running 7. Tried copying the blockchain to the point that it was at, tried synching from zero. Hell, I even tried starting over with a fresh wallet. The machine I'm typing on is less than a month old, and has a completely fresh install of 8 on it. I got sick of it. As I said in my last post, I burned it. Deleted the whole mess.

I'm stressed enough without my hobbies biting me. I do apologize for the snark, it was uncalled for and not my usual style. I play with a fair number of cryptos, and only SHA gave me this much trouble previously. Generally, the wallets work whether the coin has any merit or not.

I suppose I should learn Linux. It's an interesting system, but it's vastly different from Windows, and I don't learn new things as easily as I did in my youth

You're right.

Proper credit. Having now upgraded, and watched the fucking thing crash again and again and AGAIN and still not be up to the current block, or even close.

Thanks. Thanks a lot. I don't know why or how this coin trades. Perhaps it requires running linux, or a cloud service, or OSX, but it is fucking BROKEN for windows. I'll not ever get the few coins I've supposedly got in the pipeline, and your welcoming attitude has made the desire fade below zero. I just made your coin more valuable, as I've destroyed the private keys.

You're welcome.

I can't get any connections at all. Raskul was in sync a couple days ago, but last I heard from him, he's out now too.

+1

Despite the asinine comments, I did upgrade the wallet. Now it's synching at an acceptable rate. We'll see where it goes. Thanks to The Real Steve for being nice, and trying to be helpful

Sure, I like free money I'll take a shot at it.

5,000,123

Why? because I said so

Considering that the official website doesn't load and that I had to run searches allover the internet to find ANY working wallet, let alone a git listing, I think perhaps you overstate your case. A lot.

After managing to get the ONE wallet I could find, it doesn't work right. NOW you yell at me, but the devs don't keep their site operational... I'm to know it has changed by what, telepathy?