That is true.  Zetacoin is indeed a 'rare' resource.  160 million Zetacoins.  That's only like 1 ZET each for 2% of the world's population.  With a yearly inflation rate of 0.7% per each of those.

No need to compile, Zetacoin has a Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~zetacoin

Is a block explorer going to be made available?

Suddenly I can no longer connect to nicehash or westhash on any port.

I assume you are on Windows since your using a '.exe'.  Does 'netstat -na' show the zetacoin server in the list of listening sockets?
Does bfgminer have the same issue?

You can't use the S3's with the zetacoin-qt RPC server directly.  The S3's only support the stratum protocol (from what I understand).
You need a stratum proxy server running in between.

People still use Bittrex?? 

In theory, you can use this with Electrum without modifications to the MultiFaucet script. 
The only requirement being that you will need to use the cold wallet option.  Then write a new RPC client that is compatible with the Electrum wallet to perform the payouts.

Excellent point, but what does the developer have to do with creating something 'special'?  Isn't that the responsibility of the users and supporters?
I don't mean to single you out, it's just that I hear the same story over and over for several coins where the 'developer' has disappeared.  My point is, the developer can't be expected to do everything.

BTW, in the case of SUNCoin, I would hardly call the OP a developer.

Why not come up with some ideas on how we can make SUNCoin useful?  Anyone here good at designing games? Programming in JavaScript, PHP, HTML5?

Why would this need an active developer?

• Source code is still available
• Blockchain is working fine
• No current issues with the wallet

The variable difficulty algorithm is causing all kinds of issue.  Delaying stats when a whale hops on,  weird re-adjustments from time to time, and small miners taking too long to find a share.  It's a known problem and I am moving towards removing vardiff and setting up a static difficulty that can be adjusted from the web front end.  The code has already been merged into the stratum server.  I just need to finish the web front end to manage these settings.

Offline meaning you can't connect to it? or the website showing as offline?
There is a check than runs every 6 minutes that probes each stratum port for an alive pool.  Occasionally it gets a false negative, but if your client is connected you will be okay.  If you get disconnected often, that's a different problem and I'd like to know more about what you are experiencing.

The statistics are not real time.  It's more of a 'push' rather than 'pull' mechanism for data collection.  It's usually a few minutes between recalculations.  This is done to allow for better scalability.  On occasion the replicated slave falls behind and will exhibit a delay in stats.  That always resolves it's self in a few minutes to an hour.  It has zero effect on your rewards.  See: http://mining.securepayment.cc/help.php for common issues.

Coins with short block times (less than a few minutes) and low difficulties will always generate lots of 'orphans' (stale blocks) before you factor in latency issues.  There is a lot that needs to be done in a short time with these very fast coins:

• Pool receives work from Coin network
• Pool sends work to miner
• Miner sends work to hardware
• Hardware find solution
• Hardware reports back to miner
• Miner verifies solution
• Miner reports back to pool
• Pool checks solution
• Pool submits solution to coin daemon
• Coin daemon checks solution
• Coin daemon submits to coin network
• Propagation

Between all that you have even more low level logic that adds additional time (TCP/IP handshake, disk access, string parsing, etc..).  It's amazing how much happens in a short period of time.

Just checked, and for peercoin there isn't any difference at all.  Seems to be a constant 0.01 fee.  For other coins, it makes a huge difference when you let them sit for a while longer.  So I may lower peercoin even further to 550 or something.


Peercoin block are always different in reward.  For example:

https://bkchain.org/ppc/block/000000000000000b6e8917201617bfe4fbd23a67abf86d28a496ca1a12ddf742
https://bkchain.org/ppc/block/00000000000000033121483719800bfc50f6062f4c59fedc5c706440a7ddf2e0

81.14 PPC vs 77.49 PPC

I'm not familiar with the way Peercoin determines the amount.

I'll try and lower it a bit.  It was originally st high to avoid transaction fees.

TekCoin needs 900 confirms.  I know it's very high, but this is to protect the pool from any additional block chain issues.  TekCoin as you recall has been problematic.   I will lower the confirms in a few weeks.

I see that some of your payments have begun processing.

That sounds interesting 

The Zetacoin community and developer are quite active, and I believe the community has already decided that hard forking the Zetacoin block chain is not in the best overall interest at the moment.

However since it is open source you are more than welcome to take the Zetacoin source code, fork it into a new coin, just like Teacoin, JouleCoin, MazaCoin did, and add AuX PoW to that new coin.  Just ensure that the new coin name does not cause confusion with the 'Zetacoin' name/brand.

You can set both miners with the same wallet address & password, or create a unique wallet address for each miner.
Multiple worker support and custom difficultly settings are currently under development.

Your coins are not lost, they are yours:
http://tek.blockchain.lt/address/BnP7MHFkeCp4JLLpoe4oapaiLc5mkq56GV

You should post on the tekcoin thread for assistance.  There is a bootstrap.dat file that you need to download to ensure that your wallet starts off on the correct chain.

The Bytecoin network looks alive and well to me.  12 connections, 6 people mining on the pool.