I'm a customer, after the hack, and while I think the interface is ugly, I've had no problems. After the hack, he was warned in this thread about some of his practices and (lack of) knowledge. While I do not think he publicly stated one way or the other if he was hiring programmers, I doubt that he ignored the people who spoke with him on the issue. I don't see it as a huge issue, as long as he HAS implemented better security. That being said, I never leave much in an exchange unless I'm actively trading. It just seems unwise.

I had the same problem yesterday. I deleted everything but wallet.dat and the .conf file, and it synch'd up fine the second go.

I've interacted with him for quite some time. I doubt he's deliberately scamming. He does tend to have "instant result syndrome", though. As soon as it gets fixed, on his end or yours, he'll be all smiles again.

I'm not vouching for him, just speaking from observation and experience.

I mined at 1GH. Tried several others. I was using a rental. I generated an address with the client for payout. I shut it off after about 9 hours of it jacking up my bandwidth to download something like 100 blocks.

If there isn't a blockchain download, then I'm just out 27 coins. If the client is this slow to sync, after just a few months, then I can't see any reason why I would mine it again. It's profitablity is highly variable. It could easily become valueless before the client syncs. I should have known when the official website was not available, and I had to search the internet like crazy to find a viable download.

Lesson learned.

Before I gave up and just decided that I lost the day's mining, it was synching. About a block every five minutes, from a fresh install. Only one pool is finding blocks, and the wallet moves slower than a glacier.

Great job on this one, Max.

Is there a download of the blockchain someplace?

does this thing EVER synch? It's been at 10 weeks behind for seven hours. It's slowly loading a block here and there... 10 connections, too.

What about a gun? 

I'm very confused. I know raskul, and I'm sure he's not got the coding expertise to hack a blockchain. I certainly don't, so I won't even speculate as to how it's done. So how is it that y'all are getting different results?

Sorry for the delay. I"ve had to deal with a number of personal emergencies and a computer crash over the last few days. I've barely had time to think, let alone write. I haven't forgotten, but I did forget to update everyone as to the delay.

In the meanwhile, TamB has been taking up a lot of my slack. Thanks!
I will be much more active shortly, and yes, I'm still working on the article.

I probably just missed it, but how does the compounding period work? Is it every thirty days, or is it thirty days initially, then a different timeframe after the coins are mature?

Also, I still could really use a step by step guide to compiling linux wallets. Not just this one Linux is a bit confusing for the newbie. Ok, a lot confusing. But still, I've about had it with the "improvements" to Windows.

Sounds like "Washington Math" to me. 1+1=<insert current FED bullshit>

His argument might have made sense if the base of the whole thing wasn't already a mathematical equation. Or if he'd been lucid.

I'm going to keep my coins. Gonna try to withdraw the few hundred I have in exchanges, and hold on to them. The wallet appears to be working correctly, now, and I figure in time the premine will be diluted to the point that it don't matter. Or matters little at least. So I figure, what the hell? At worst it's taking up a bit of hard drive space at this point. Let's see where it's at in six months.

Meanwhile, someone suggested a hard fork that would invalidate the coins mined in the genesis block. I think that is worthy of consideration, at least. I don't know that it's possible. Not good enough at code But if it is, why not? Then CryptoGir's work would not have been in vain.

Meanwhile, I'll follow his coins, see what's up with them. If nothing else, we got an interesting, entertaining, and apparently quite competent developer out of this debacle. Could be worse.

I dunno. I'd like to try this. But I don't think it will work on the PoS side for me. Sorry, but the music has to be heavy metal. Can't do smooth Jazz!

Humour aside. What the hell, I'll probably have a go. Looking forward for your more serious endeavor.

well that sucks donkey balls. Oh well... I'll see what CG has cooking

Working great on my side!

Now, about that donation link...?

A few minutes usually. They say up to 12 hours. I don't know how automated it is

Here we go.

New wallet just finished synching. Since this is the first POS coin I've messed with, other than TEK which to date I've only mined and traded (holding some now ), I don't know if what I'm about to describe is proper behaviour.

First, the things that definitely worked right. Synch was a bit slow, but never hung and went up just fine all the way to parity. No trouble at all, and the slow is probably because this computer is on a wifi connection while my main machine is being fixed. The wallet is much cleaner than the old one, and the little "stake" indicator at the bottom right is very cool.

Now, the part I'm not sure of. I think it's all good, but due to lack of experience I'm throwin' it up to the crowd

As everything synched, I got a few "mining" payouts that were clearly stake. the little staking arrow thing turned silver again, and all my coins went into stake except for the few unconfirmed from staking. It now says "not stakeing because you do not have mature coins" and every bit is in stake. To my inexperienced eyes this looks like victory. To those who know: Is the above the proper function? If it is, I say we have a coin again

Got the link from raskul. Synching now. One thing right off the bat, and yes I'm aware it's a beta, the logo is bigger than my screen. Kind of impressive, actually. But probably should be revised for the final release

I like the new staking features in the wallet. Nice clean layout. Now to see if it works

Nah. Ebonics "speakers" can't even understand each other.