I am catching up on this, please be patient.

Otakusama, can you please check your pool? something is wrong.

lol. Pure PoS, how to do initially distribute the coins? Only by premine?

You need to have some PoW blocks so people can mine them initially, then by holding the mined coins they will generate the PoS blocks. Without initial distribution, the PoS can not be generated from the thin air.

Do you understand what proof of stake means? You need the stake 1st

nice pool, thanks!

Maconi, these are all PoS orphan blocks which can be due to the fact the a new chain is used because the old chain is jammed on PoW.

The orphan blocks display there should not affect anything. However, if it bothers you, you can always create a new wallet and transfer the balance over. New pos blocks will be generated when the "coin-day" on the coins you hold meet certain requirements.

Excellent perfectsquare. CAn I request two enhancements:
1). Put "Grain" in all the titles, like "Grain Block Crawler", "Grain Block Chain Viewer".
2). Can you support viewing multiple blocks at the same time? Like this http://coinblockchain.com/grain/? (this was our old blockexplorer which is on a wrong chain, dev has not fix it yet).

Please PM me your wallet address, I'll send you some bounty.

Excellent, thanks!

Twitter? Facebook? can you point me to the links, I'll send you a bounty.

Thanks Jollyburner.

Regarding premine: 1% is a very reasonable amount. There are so many so called "zero-premine" coins, where I am sure still instamined by the devs (some released with a few thousands blocks mined), got no support after they are released. They don't have funding for giveaways, bounties, promotions, etc.

If you prefer this kind of coins, go ahead and mine them. On the the hand, the Grain team took some coins as their incentives, also distributed and will continue to distribute a lot to the community, as we all should have incentives and make the coin better, that's the purpose of giveaways/bounties. If a coin goes nowhere then it doesn't matter how much you have it. Some people just want to get more, and don't want to work, there's no such things there.

Honeypot has very good suggestions on the promotion. I agree with him. The Grain Team is trying to do the best they can, but we need you to help and do promotions. I will distribute bounties to those who are willing to promote at twitter, facebook, reddit etc. We are the same community, and please take your initiatives and help to let people understand what is the Grain.

Yes this block explorer is on the old blockchain. I have asked the owner to fix it, but I did not get a reply, possibly because it is the holiday season.

We need another block explorer. I put a bounty of 200K GRAs for a new block explorer. Anyone expert on the block explorer please help us!

giveaways sent to all the above.

Some people said the client does not sync after they switched to 1.2. If you have similar problems, you can try to sync from scratch, several people did it, all work fine.

To sync from scratch, follow the steps below:
(1). Stop QT client
(2). Go to config dir (usually at c:/users/**yourcomputername**/AppData/Roaming/Grain)
(3). Make a backup of wallet.dat
(4). DO NOT delete wallet.dat, and the grain.conf file if you have one, remove all the rest files including "database" dir. After this, you should see only wallet.dat and grain.conf in the directory.
(5). Now start the qt client again. The client will sync the blockchain.

Let me know if anyone has issues.

then involve more with the community 

I'd suggest you to wait for it to be added to an exchange. Otherwise you can always post a message at the main thread, maybe someone is willing to sell. But be very careful about trading without an exchange.

Thanks bee7, I added the link to the OP of the main thread.

depends on how long you hold the coins in your wallet. Usually you need to hold at least 10-15 days before the pos block will be generated.

You can use any of the following addnodes, they are some of my peers:

I started a new giveaway thread, please claim your giveaways 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=389595.0

* Closed now, thanks for all who participated. *

This is the 2nd giveaway thread for Grain.

Grain - GRA, is a PoW/PoS coin launched 3 weeks ago. Its main thread is:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361503.0

Grain has a great community support as seen in the above main thread. Grain team is committed to support the coin. It has a great future!

The minimum conditions to receive the coin is (a) at least activity is 10 (b) posted at least 3 meaningful messages in the forum, in last month (any simple 1-2 words messages and request giveaway messages are not counted as meaningful).

Normal giveaway is 5000 GRAs. If you posted at Grain main thread, you get 10000 GRAs. If you posted frequently (say more than 3 times) in Grain thread, then you are an active member of Grain community and you receive 20000 GRAs for giveaway.

So post at our main thread to get more giveaways
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361503.0

Let's start

Yes great suggestions!