Luckily mint isn't a pure PoS. I'm glad to see you are into mint again, welcome back   based on your posts on this forum you are clearly a very critical thinker and that is great because we need people who are willing and able to scrutinize the coin in a constructive manner.

Likewise, I am thankful for anonymousg64's efforts to pin down any possible security flaws in the PoS system- I'm just not sure I like how he is broadcasting it to the public as though it is fact before there is any certainty to it. I still think any security flaws that do arise should be brought up to the devs of the coins directly and privately so that they can deal with them before they become a problem (telling the general public only informs people how to exploit a security flaw if it does exist, and if it doesn't actually exist then it just spreads fear and uncertainty).

"this flaw was addressed by the author of PoS, Sunny King, earlier this year:

Official release build is now available http://www.ppcoin.org/ (via sourceforge)

What's in 0.3.0 release:

Stake generation protocol upgrade (protocol switch March 20th)
Qt UI support
Fix compatibility with vanitygen (note: private keys dumped in v0.2 is no longer importable into v0.3.0, must dump again from v0.3.0 client)
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

The protocol upgrade in 0.3.0 includes a new algorithm to derive proof-of-stake hash modifier, the entity that scrambles computation for stake owners, which replaces the current proof-of-stake difficulty used as modifier in 0.2 protocol. The design was started late September last year, when I first began to realize the issues with using difficulty as modifier. Honorary mention also goes to Jutarul, who independently discovered and verified an issue with using difficulty as modifier and published on bitcointalk in December last year, while successfully executed a demo attack on the block chain. Other changes in the protocol include starting hash weight from 0 at the 30-day mininum age, and requirement that coinstake timestamp must equal block timestamp. Overall 0.3 protocol should significantly strengthen the proof-of-stake protection and resolve the current known vulnerabilities.

My sincere appreciation to co-contributors of 0.3.0 release:

Robert VanHazinga of Hartland PC (dreamwatcher) for the vanitygen compatibility fix
Jutarul for demonstrating stake generation vulnerability
EskimoBob for reporting issue fixed in 0.3.0"

As you can see here, the PoW blocks have a different and independent difficulty algorithm than PoS blocks. If you start getting a lot of PoS blocks in a row, the chance of PoW block generation increases in order to achieve the PoW target; so after each PoS block is generated the likely-hood of generating a PoW block as the next block goes up, and after every PoW block, the chance of generating a PoS block goes up. They are both integrated with block targets and difficulties that are independent of one another; so one cannot perpetually overpower the other. This is why PoS/PoW hybrid is more secure vs just PoS only. And, it is also worth noting that over time, the Mintcoin networks actually will get more secure with age, whereas a PoW only coin has the potential to get less secure due to centralized mining processes. Mintcoin is protected from PoW overpowering, as well as PoS overpowering. You cannot know for certain the future of the Mintcion blockchain (at least very far). With Pure PoS, you know the future will always be a PoS block next, and with PoW you know that the future will always be PoW blocks next, but you cannot know the future with hybrid PoW/PoS like Mintcoin.

As more and more folks who are involved in altcoins start to take this attitude coins like MINT are going to start gaining fundamental value and the "pump and dump" scams will fall by the way side.

This is a wise course of action, one that I am following myself. I too have taken the long position on MINT.

Sounds like a blackcoin problem.

Yeah, I agree. The build pressure built up so quickly. Something is brewing or there is a lot of interest now.

Current state at Mintpal. Check out that buy pressure!

anything I can do?

Yes, I have many unconfirmed minting transactions. I wonder what happens to that coinage. Does it get re-minted or does it just disappear?
I still don't get it and I have read the explanations.

That might rape your battery and data usage though. I'd be curious to see how much data it would use while you're out and about, ie using 3G or 4G not on Wi-Fi.

when i open the mintcoin wallet, it is so slow.

and  I have saw the memory and cpu,  I think the mintcoin wallet occupied so much.

i think the dev should solve it

Thanks for the info.   So the app is called Mint?  

What are your thoughts?

People reading this: Contact www.cavirtex.com and email them. Ask them to trade Mintcoin.

VirtEx is the largest BTC and LTC for fiat ($CAD) exchange in Canada. This will be big if they accept Mintcoin.

Canada is the most tolerant country of cryptocurrencies and altcoins and this will be a good environment for Mintcoin to grow and for fresh money to enter.

Afterwards, we can all start emailing Canadian charities and nonprofits and ask them to accept Mintcoin donations. We will then donate to them. We can start emailing charities in Canada once Vault of Satoshi trades Mintcoin. Then we can bother VirtEx again. We can start with smaller charities and lesser known organizations and causes and use that as a stepping stone for larger and more well known charities. We need them to put our logos on their site to advertise for us in exchange for getting people to donate.

Then we will email businesses and ask them to accept Mintcoin. We will try to get larger businesses and corporations to accept Mintcoin. We will use the charities as a stepping stone (You see, such and such charity loves Mintcoin, so you should have Mintcoin too for your business). You can tell businesses that they can get money in fiat back immediately through an exchange such as Vault of Satoshi.

There is plenty of other alts falling a lot faster than mint!

Aaw i just broke my miner!!
Added a new gpu and it ran for two hours before the psu gave up..
And since i live in north sweden in the middle of nowhere i cant just go out and buy a new one... have to order from the net.. now i cant mine until some time next week!!!

But the good thing is i will have 1.2mh/s then