To mine with the client you need to type "setgenerate true* -1" into the command bar in debug. That's the simplest method of mining.

Managed to mine 80 XPM before difficulty exploded yesterday. Gonna hold them at least until they hit an exchange. I think .01BTC is pretty darned cheap for them right now considering they are hard as heck to mine and take forever to mature. I'm thinking it won't take long at all for them to hit .1BTC or higher once they hit an exchange.

They're only CPU mine-able right now and with difficulty at 7+...well...they are just really hard to get. I'm feeling fairly confident they will quickly skyrocket past .01BTC when an exchange eventually picks them up.

Just started mining before bed and already found my first block! Yippee!

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I just wish they would get girlfriends.

You must been logged in already. I get nothing @ Cryptsy.com

Any info?

Really? Do you really find that interesting?

Personally, it's not something I find at all interesting.

LOL...JK

I too have had terrible luck with my payments from that pool. I'm not sure what system they are using or how they're setup to payout. The first time I mined there was soon after it opened. I spent a full day mining and never did see any payment for blocks found while I was actively mining. I've tried it a few times since then and though some payments were made, it just never seems like I'm being paid my full share. Of course, it's impossible to know if payments are accurate or not, with the lack of stats provided on the pool's site.

I've mostly been mining @ http://mega.minepool.net. I will say that the amount of user stats posted on this pool is even more disappointing but at least the payouts are more in-line with expectations. A warning though...it takes several hours of mining before payments start posting. The first time mining here I was a bit nervous after 5-6 hours had passed and nothing but my hashrate was displayed. Once the blocks started confirming though, payouts were steady, frequent and accurate (as far as I could tell).

I will admit that today mining on http://megacoin.miningpool.co, I have been receiving payouts. This is the first time I've mined there in about a week and this experience has been much better than previous ones. Although I have now switched to another mining method/pool, for unrelated reasons.

Personally I don't really think the amount of FB "Likes" has any relation to the amount of people using Bitcoin nor is it any sort of gauge for public knowledge/understanding of Bitcoin. I agree with the statement that there are 2 types of people...those who FB and those who BTC. Each product targets a completely different client base.

I will also say that I believe those of us getting into Bitcoin now are absolutely "early-adopters". Maybe not to the extent of miners in 2010, but Bitcoin has hardly reached the point of widespread acceptance. I'm 41 years old and doubt I will live long enough to see a Bitcoin (or it's predecessor) world currency. I'm mining and buying now with the hope that my children or grandchildren might one day reap the rewards of my efforts once I'm gone.

I do have a FB account but don't really do the whole FB thing. I don't much worry about the privacy issue with it so much, it's just not my kind of thing. To me, FB feels a whole lot like the small-town gossip chain on world-wide scale...nothing about it excites me.

As far as the personal privacy issue, some people seem concerned with...welcome to the new age of technology! Facebook is just the first to be blatantly obvious about it. We can't put this Genie back in the bottle, it's only a matter of time before your privacy becomes public knowledge anyway...there's just no getting around it.

Unless you have somehow managed to completely avoid all manner of digital correspondence, someone out there has more info on you than you would like for any oppressive govt type entity to gain. Remember...someone is listening to and possibly recording all of your cellphone calls and texts, all of your emails, all of your forum posts...everything that you transmit over airwaves or through a modem can and (probably is) be monitored and recorded. It's just the world we live in from now on (+ the past 2 decades)...it's evolution and you can adapt and survive or fight it and die.

Is this the same as http://coinworld.us:7777/static?

Because this is the one I've been mostly mining on for P2pool (though not right this minute).

I think that pool was down most of last night. I was moving around a bit to check out some of the new pools going up and got an "unable to connect" message all night with the IP.

My apologies for the confusion.

What I meant was, it seems like a waste of hashing power to jump from coin to coin depending on what coinwarz.com (or any other site) says is the most profitable to mine.

The "most profitable" coin seems to change by the minute. I would think that jumping from one to the next - as the tide turns - would eliminate much of the potential profitability of all coins. Though I haven't done the math to support this belief.

To each his own. It wasn't my intention to debate the best method or strategy of mining. Was only offering a possible explanation to your query, "where did everyone go?".

I think people jump from one coin to the next depending on what's profitable that minute.

Waste of hashing power if you ask me

If you're getting rejects when solo mining I'm thinking you have something wrong in the miner configuration. The only time I get high rejects when solo mining is if I try to push -I too high.

Lots of people I've heard from try to push Intensity settings as high as possible because it gives higher hashrate. The trade-off for getting that high hashrate is getting excess rejects.

I don't know for certain that this is the case in your situation, but as I said, when my Intensity is too high (>18) the miner will start throwing rejects.

In my experience with Scrypt mining:

• HW errors = bad GPU settings (ie. Bad OC, incorrect Thread Concurrency, etc.)
• High Rejects/Stales = too high Intensity

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So far...my best experience with MEC mining has been while solo mining. Most troubles I've had is when trying to mine in the pools listed in this thread. If difficulty wouldn't have shot up so high recently I wouldn't even consider pool mining.

I'm planning to mine the various pools listed over the next few days. Give them each 12 hours of mining to see which one proves to be the most profitable and stack those figures against solo mining. Hopefully there isn't too much fluctuation in difficulty over that time, which would upset results.

Yes, I know confirms take a long time and I understand that. However, The estimated earnings should display within a few confirms after a block is found...not hours later when all confirms are in. And the way earnings are labeled on the site makes all the more confusing, no way to know if the numbers you see are blocks to be paid or coins to be paid.

Payments are rolling in now, but I've switched pools. Just not too happy when I don't know how much coin I'm making until hours/days later. The whole pool is just a mess, IMO.

What's going on with this pool? My numbers don't make any sense. After mining 8+ hours it's reporting my earnings @ +/- 7 MEC. I'm confused to what that means. Is it coins earned or blocks earned? I don't know...none of the reported numbers make sense at all. If 8+ hours of mining in the top 4 hashrate spot on this pool only earns 7 MEC coins...well, what a waste of my hashing power.

According to the pool stats, I've been mining in pool while the last 34 blocks were discovered by the pool and I found 4 of them myself...yet my earned amount is reported as only 7 MEC. Either this is the number of complete blocks I've earned and will be paid, or it's a huge mistake and the pool is reporting seriously wrong stats and info....not sure which.

Can anyone help make some sense of the stats being displayed/reported by this pool?

So...is it updated yet? If/when it's updated, is it necessary to download a new client or what?

I been having all kinds of troubles with MEC the past 2 days or so. Every block I've mined in the past 24-36 hours has either been orphan or hit the client as an accepted block, but then later on it gets deducted from the wallet and disappears as if nothing ever happened...no record of the event at all. I hate getting excited to see another 500 MEC en route and 30 minutes later it completely vanishes.

Would really be nice to have a developer who communicates with everyone a little bit better. How can anyone expect their product to gain acceptance if they don't even bother taking the time to communicate with  "customers" on the progress/problems? Difficult to put faith into a coin when the developer is infinitely MIA or hiding in his secret underground bunker when people are in need of answers to their issues.

I'm really not being impatient at all...I was born well before the current ADHD or "Immediate Gratification Generation" and I've come to understand that the things requiring patience often pay off best in the end. I'm 100% willing to happily wait another decade or more for work to be complete, if that's what's necessary to deliver near-perfection. However, I see no positive result from ignoring your product's main client base. Would it really kill anyone to schedule a 10-15 minute Q&A for reassurance? In the very least, take 3 minutes to type out one single paragraph of text to relieve anxiety.

If there exists a better channel in which to interact with or obtain info from the MEC community, developer(s), miners, supporters, promoters, etc. please enlighten me. So far, this is the only area in which I've found any info at all on this coin. Of course, a few of the good mods and community members over at Cryptsy have been of some assistance these past few days and I am very grateful for that. However, the chatbox at a currency exchange is not exactly the best place to set up a support or community base....neither is a single announcement thread in a sub-section of another coin's forum.

Any idea why I'm only getting payments of +/- 0.001 while mining P2pool?

The graph says I should be paid 5.0 DGC, yet the only time I'm getting that much payment is when I'm the one who finds the block.

Guess I'll switch to solo mining and see if it pays better. 50 DGC in 24+ hours of mining doesn't seem very worthwhile IMO.

Ah...thank you for the info.

This is the first time I ever really looked into the coin at all. Not much info readily available and I hate sifting through forum posts for tidbits of info scattered everywhere.

Might mine this one a bit once it's paying out. Most of the mining I do is for fun anyway...not enough hashing power to profit much.

Thanks again for all the info