You can prolly mine a somewhat decent amount of x11-based and/or SHA3-based coins using just the CPU power of those servers. I can't give you a good estimate of how much you can mine, but it should be good enough for casual mining, especially if you back a coin with a potentially upward trend. You wouldn't be able to mine Scrypt-based coins effectively with those though. You can if you really wanted to, but you wouldn't get an acceptable RoI for the electricity that you're paying for and the wear and tear on those shiny pieces of hardware. SHA256 coins are out of the question as well -- all of those have been ASIC fodder for months now.

You are right. There are multiple send and receive transactions on the same day that the thread was created and on subsequent days. The OP might have simply made up that story and posted a random address in order to scam other members. I believe we should err on the side of caution and have this thread reflect on his Trust rating. If he was being honest and the issue simply resolved itself on its own, then he could always post back on this thread with a message digitally signed with the posted address. Frankly speaking though, the OP's account looks like a shill account.

^ This.

MCXNow does not have your WC -- you sent it to a WC address that (most likely) no one currently has immediate access to. However, if the WC address that you sent it to and the WDC address that your MCXNow account is linked to share the same private key, then you may recover your coins if MCXNow accesses that WC address and sends it back to you. Alternatively, they can cut off the middleman and just tell you that private key, but relinquishing one of their private keys would be going beyond what they are responsible for business-wise, which, based on your account of the story, is absolutely nothing.

Truth be told, I don't expect you to recover your coins if Cryptsy has already sent them to the new address. However, since Cryptsy is painfully slow at processing withdrawals, then assuming that your withdrawal is still pending, I would highly suggest asking Cryptsy support to cancel it if possible. That might be your best shot at recovering your funds.

Your Bitcoin wallet will generate one for you upon opening it for the first time. So all you really have to do is download a secure wallet from a legitimate source and install/run it. There are other ways to generate a personal Bitcoin address, as mentioned by others, but you will most likely want to download a Bitcoin wallet in some form sooner or later if you intend to become part of the Bitcoin community for a very long time.

Mining Bitcoins with less than 10 Ghs of hashing power is not recommended, especially if you're a newbie to mining. You will never reach the payout threshold at any of the mining pools for at least a few months if you try. As some have suggested, try mining with one of the more popular altcoins first. Also, try to hold off from buying ASICs or any new hardware until you've had some hands-on experience with mining with your current hardware. Navigate to the Getting Started or Help page of any mining pool website to get step-by-step instructions on how to mine.

I have posted my username and Energycoin address on Energycoin's Facebook page. The coin seems to be getting lots of attention, so it will hopefully fare well enough. Good luck at launch!

I would like to apply for this campaign.

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Is a paper wallet available for this coin?

Note how he didn't even say which wallet infected his system with the supposed rootkit. Even if he was telling the truth, which I highly doubt at this point in time, he is still undeniably reprehensible for not sharing information regarding a malware-infected wallet with the general public.

You need to disable PoS on the one address which will hold the premine. 51 million coins generating stake every 8 hours starting from the day of the launch does not inspire much confidence on a new fork. It might be a good idea to scale down the maximum number of coins generated by PoW by at least a factor of three as well.

It makes me grimace whenever I read comments like this regarding another clone of the latest coin fad that is to be launched without any proposed plans for promotion and/or further development. Oh well. The world has all types of people, I suppose.

That is actually not a good alternative. It's been said so many times before -- if you don't own the private key to the address holding your coins, then you don't own those coins.

Since Bitcoin is a currency that was designed to change hands often, there is always a chance of receiving stolen Bitcoins. That shouldn't be a problem though, provided that you didn't steal them yourself. Bitcoin is money in digital form -- that's all it is. As for "fake Bitcoins," that's not even a real thing. An unconfirmed transaction doesn't make a Bitcoin fake. Just wait until the transaction is confirmed, and barring the possibility of a double spend attack resulting from a forked blockchain, then those Bitcoins should be yours until you spend them. The general rule of thumb is to wait for 6 confirmations (roughly 60 minutes) before considering the transaction as fully confirmed.

I was about to upgrade my wallet, but I guess I'll wait until after the dev checks into the issue of that purported bug.

The problem with a cryptotrader-based market is that cryptotraders tend to look at coins exclusively as property and almost never as currency. A lot of people would be glad to spend their GPUcoins to buy old yet still functional mining hardware from other people (on the cheap, of course), but cryptotraders are so focused on playing the market that they fail to see the benefit and potential profitability of offering merchant support to the coin themselves.

Grainers.net's RPC server seems to be offline. If you attempt to change your Graincoin withdrawal address, you'll get the following error:

A coin cannot be a national cryptocurrency if the dev has to distribute a premined amount of it at a much later date. If a cryptocurrency is to be adopted by a nation, then the people of that nation would have to be able to secure the blockchain on their own and protect it against external attacks (including pump and dumps). As such, a true national cryptocurrency would not be premined and simply be promoted to and mined primarily by the people of that country. Its equivalence rate with Bitcoin and fiat must be irrelevant until the coin is firmly established as a currency, since the people of that country should be trading it amongst themselves first before any external entity considers it a real currency.

Yes, a lot of coins are Scrypt clones. But being an x11 clone is no different than being a Scrypt clone. Unless your coin is the first coin to implement the x11 hashing algorithm, then it's no better than those Scrypt coins that you're comparing it against. After a couple of months, there will be over twenty x11 clones floating in the market and this coin's claim to fame will simply be being one of the first clones. Surely, you can see why a lot of people are rallying against this coin.

It will start at around 1700 EST, as indicated on the last edit of the OP since at least last weekend. That is roughly 6 hours from now.

An Antminer U2 costs around the same, but can provide over 2 Gh/s. Anyway, I wouldn't really recommend Bitcoin mining for newcomers to crypto. Get your feet wet with mining altcoins first. Quark is indeed a good coin to mine if you're still learning how mining works. There are only a few miners left still hashing for Quark so you're guaranteed to get at least a couple of coins while you're trying to figure out the basics. Quark's subsidy has dropped down to the minimum of 1 coin per block though, so you would still be getting much less than if you mined for another coin. You could also try mining Litecoin or Dogecoin for a while just to test your GPU's capabilities.