Anyone feel like making a cloudmining guide for this? I'd point some cloudmining at it, to give it a try.... if I could figure out how to set it up.

Apologies in advance if these questions seem very newbie-ish...

I've been experimenting with cloudmining a little bit, and figured I'd give the Azure trial a shot. I picked Darkcoin to go after, got three setups going (8/8/4) and put two to work in the main pool, one in the lottery pool. What I am wondering about is the rate listed vs the actual rate earned.

What I mean by that is, in the pool info, it may say something like User (me) DRK/Day 9.5  and the bitcoin equivalent afterwards. Yet after close to a day, the actual DRK I've earned is probably closer to 1-2 coins. Why is there such a disparity? Or is the approx. just a guess over a longer time period, or if I hit a block, or something like that? Or am I misunderstanding what the info means?

It does seem to have an active community, and a decent logo, although it does still need a better 'goal', for lack of a better word.

Thanks. And any other freebie cloud companies we can try? I am aware of HP and Joyent, but not sure of any others. It could be worth setting them all up, point to the Max pool ... and see how it does.

Although I had issues signing up for HP and Joyent had login issues when I tried it.

Any issues setting this up on an Azure trial instead of DigitalOcean?

You want someone like this to accept mooncoins for conversion:
https://www.coinpayments.net/

A number of megacoin merchants use them -- http://megacoin.in/services

Much nicer answer, thanks. I do admit I don't see the same appeal in a name as others, but I may be underestimating that from a general public perspective. The space camp is real good idea; I hope that works out. I do think that down the road, linking mooncoin to an astronomy marketplace, online astronomy sites, or something similar, would be of benefit too. There are a lot more astronomy people than crypto people out there.  Anyway, thanks again for a full answer. It's much better than simply being told 'buy it'.

I don't want to be rude, but that's exactly the sort of answer I was hoping not to get. So many of these types of threads (like 99% it seems) is simply people pushing coins on someone else, without giving a good reason, hoping the coin will then go up. I was hoping for an actual answer as to what makes mooncoin better than any other coin.

I can certainly agree in regard to Doge. It amazes me that coin became popular simply because of the meme. I guess it appeals to a certain age group... or something... but still.

As for Moon, the space angle would make sense. But again, was hoping for someone to say the developer is lining up projects that would help the coin. Link the coin to an astronomy marketplace? Maybe make a proper website for the coin? Right now, the name is all it has to work with, and that isn't enough in my opinion.

Does it though? I mean, why not Earth Coin then? And if it hasn't been made already, I'd expect a Sun Coin to go on about how it's the hottest alt coin out there...

Am I overlooking something about the name that would appeal to new people?

I do have some moon coin  (a baby-sized amount), but again, I just started with this stuff like 2 weeks ago, so I don't have much of anything yet (unless you count colossus, but that's just because it's so cheap it's almost free). I was just wondering what its niche may be. Some coins go the altruistic route with helping causes, some go the meme route... some tweak the code a bit more than others. Just saying the name 'moon' will appeal to newcomers doesn't seem very logical to me. It's the same reasoning goldcoin is using too, and to me, that's just sort of nonsense.

I'm somewhat new to cryptos and have a general question for the moon people here.

Besides the name, of 'moon', what makes mooncoin better than any other coin? And of course the name itself, or the phrase 'to the moon' isn't exactly a highly valued commodity really.

The first wallet evidently had a virus. There are people now saying that coins get stolen from their wallets. There isn't much of a large community, like doge, or those who can use mooncoin for anything. I'm not aware of a large userbase/forum/developers making a good foundation for the coin, planning markets, or ways to use the coin. So... umm... not to be overly negative, I'm just curious why anyone would say it's undervalued, or why anyone should buy it at all?

I realize the same arguments can be used against a million other alt coins too. But at least in some cases, they have good development teams/good forums/or at least something to differentiate them amongst the million other alt coins.

Tried HP, twice... and for some odd reason they can't validate my phone number. They say it's not a real number?

Tried Jolent, got Putty set up, but it couldn't connect to my IP address. Logged out of Jolent, thinking maybe something needed to get reset, and then couldn't log back in. It couldn't find my username or email...  thankfully I used a prepaid card for Jolent, or I'd be concerned they'd run the account forever, eating up my money, without a way for me to even log back in.

So, not so good so far for me, with these free trials.

I see no point to cloudmining doge at all. Testing a 8 CPU drop for 24 hrs (which resulted in a higher hash than 18kh/s) I was on pace for maybe 3-4K doge/month (and that was very optimistic). If you are going to do this, pick a cpu coin (although not quark, it's not profitable either).

Do you happen to know of any easy to use guides (meaning step by step) for memory coin and the cloud, similar to the others on doge/prime/etc? Do we need to do anything special to get memorycoin mining working, or can we just point minerd at a pool (if we are lazy) and it'll work?

I'm new to cryptos, and am a cloud mining newbie, so don't know every step to get this working. So far, all I've done is play around with the doge/quark guides for cloud mining ... and neither of those are very profitable.

Is this still worth doing? Excuse the newbie-ness, but I just started looking into cryptos like a week or two ago. And my PCs are too much of a weakling to mine on their own.

I assume we need an unused promo code, which I am not entirely sure how to get either.

If we set this up on the 2 cpu plan, around how many dogecoins can we expect to get out of it? And will difficulty on Doge be changing soon? Thanks.

Logically a giveaway subforum here would make sense. No idea why they simply didn't do that. I expect much less activity here though without any giveaways ... I don't mean the entire site, just the alt subsection.

I'll also add, as someone brand new to cryptocurrencies, I only found this forum because of a linked giveaway somewhere else. And as someone who just starts out, the giveaways help a lot, as far as learning how all the exchanges work.

Or they could just use satoshis. Or litecoins. I'd think the normal consumer wouldn't exactly feel great using a crytpo coin with a stupid dog cartoon as its main differentiating point. Or a coin called 'dogecoin' either, to be honest.

I can see dogecoin reaching a couple of cents, maybe, as its max. The dollar range would seem to be very, very unlikely, unless bitcoin reaches like 20-50K+/coin.

I'm new to cryptocurrencies, but based on the limited knowledge I have so far, I think the two posters above who mentioned Mega coin and Ethereum are right -- they may have the best chance. At least those coins seem to be going about things in a professional way (so far, at least). Many other coins have a hastily thrown together website, no community, and simply seem to be skating by on some made up 'valuation'.

My best guess would actually be "none currently". There doesn't seem to be enough of a differentiating factor between most of the coins.

And I expect a lot of this thread to devolve into spam talk for whatever coins people want to promote.

I'm also new to cryptocurrency, and just started playing with them a week ago. I don't have a PC good enough to mine with yet, and have simply been playing with freebie coins on the markets... sort of like a stock market game, to see how it all works.

From a newbie perspective, it does appear that almost all altcoins are close to worthless in regard to an actual chance of becoming even a semi-used currency for transactions. I don't see any differentiation between most coins, and the majority look like simple money grabs by the developers, with their 'selling' point being a catchy name for the coin itself. Although in many cases even that can be argued, as they often go with names no respectable business would ever want to deal with. I'd think 90% of the alt coins work against cryptocurrency being taken seriously by the mainstream.

Anyway, just wondering if I am looking at it the wrong way or not. I do wonder what will happen with the exchanges as time goes on, as every other day there seems to be yet another new coin out there.... the next big thing... with 100s of billions of coins and basically using the same script + premining as everyone else. And they can't (or I'd think they can't) have pages upon pages of coins on an exchange, as it sort of muddles things even worse.

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Thanks