Appreciate you working on a site for this.. I've been dealing with a bunch of crap but if I remember correctly we were wanting a new logo for the wallet? Sorry, my memory is really bad right now, a lot going on irl, haven't been able to get any work done. Please forgive me if you've asked me to do something and I've plain forgotten. If you need me to do something with the wallet, send me another PM with the details.. My email has been just slammed but I've finally burned through most of my important stuff and emptied everything out so I'll definitely see messages.

Again, sorry for my lack of attentiveness lately, it's really just been all I can do to make sure my pools are running just kinda keep an eye on things. I'm still planning to support this coin in the long run so if you've anything to ask of me, I'm at your service.

Thanks man you have no idea how good your guys comments make me feel.. I won't quit life.. Who'd run the pool?

You guys may feel like quitting life if you made it through my entire life story head dump I just posted :b

Sorry for that, but I feel better now

EDIT: Don't forget, I need help naming our hi/lo game, 1000 reward! Also, I've made a few adjustments to the pool's settings, let me know if your hashrates don't seem correct, look under the "Pool" stats page as well as your dash. I may also have found the magic bullet for certain payout issues, but still need to get the old screwed up bookkeeping straightened out. A few nights out of the week I've spent a good few hours scouring the block explorer just verifying payouts, making sure nothing is -actually- missing. And then, a couple nights ago, TheSerapher tells me "oh, don't trust the validation script, it lies".. kill me now. But, payments are good. I can't think of any reasons why you shouldn't use my pool, so USE MY POOL! lol
Edric's always ready to help.

Would definitely love to chat sometime! I am constantly doing something on/around my computer so any questions you have feel free to bounce off me, I can either give you a good answer or at least point you in the right direction. Just some human interaction is a huge reward and I feel the same here in the Octo community, kinda like my second family. If you're interested in owning/running a pool I can teach you the basics and some more advanced stuff, to be perfectly honest with you, when I first started, it was out of curiosity and the thought that "I'm going to make a trillion gazillion dollerydoos" and was in a 4chan thread when amDOGE was giving him/herself (I think amdoge is a girl actually) the crash course in giving birth to a coin, so I dug around for a guide on how to set up a pool (which I had been wanting to do forever but stuff like pushpool and poolserverj and other crap was kinda daunting), using MPOS, but the guide was written for Maxcoin, though I'm pretty clever and good at just "kinda knowing" what's what so I had it running for PND in no time. That's the easy part.. For the most part it runs itself but then out of nowhere your email box is full of cronjob failure alerts, maybe you found 2 blocks 1 second apart and it couldn't write shares to the DB quick enough and you have an out of order share detection situation, or something goes wrong with findblock and there's no share ID for a block (which is a BIG PAIN IN THE ASS if you don't shut everything down and fix it quick, it snowballs), or dreaded payout errors which can be extremely confusing, and sometimes trick you into sending a manual payout which actually was sent by the system but flagged missing, thereby screwing yourself and your miners if you go too far in the negative that your balance doesn't cover payouts, your payout system shuts off completely. Lots of scenarios that will make you invent new swear words, or ruin the sheetrock near your computer, maybe even scare the kids by screaming at your monitor. But it's worth it, for every major breakdown, you get to pat yourself on the back when you fix it, and then you've learned something. But don't forget how you fixed it, because you'll do it again soon! lol.. Oh, that and share_ID rollover, that's a fun one. Open up the mySQL console, type in a query that affects EVERYTHING, sit there sweating and suffering tachycardia for a moment while debating pressing enter... Hit it and pray. Oh, everything works now? Awesome!! Oh, it didn't work? You just nuked your pool, your miners hate you, you're a scammer, you stole their coins, it was your plan all along, etc... J/K, but it's a bit tense manually digging around in the DB when things go south. Anyway, don't let that scare you, it's actually a lot of fun, depending on how big you go can be pretty profitable too..

 You hit the nail on the head about escaping the cookie cutter 9-5.. Shitty job after shitty job, I'm well qualified to make a pizza (and I make mouth orgasm pizza btw, many years in the pizza biz including working for albanians and italians, lol), I just have no "formal" education, dropped out of school as a teen, I got seriously ill with mono (how the hell do you get a case of mono that nearly kills you anyway???), and my dad passed, and I hated school anyway so I was glad. So then I did what lots of other dropouts did, partied my ass off, did a lot of drugs, played in some bands, and had a lot of premarital sex. I partly lost touch with the techie part of myself for a while there, though I did have some bad cars for a few years. Always had a thing for computers tho. I was barely 3 when we had a commodore 64, my 17 year old brother was trying to show off some game to his friend, but didn't know how to boot it... I'm like, "here bubba, it's like this" LOAD "*",8,1 <enter>  Yup, I was THAT kid. Making Hypercard stacks on the school Macs to annoy the crap out of the teachers. Did some extremely crazy stuff in a Pascal class I took my freshman year (and it's weird, I cannot remember a SINGLE line of pascal), me and some guys made a game called "Mortal Pongbat".. I can't remember what it did, though.. Anyway, jeez, I get lost quick and just start rambling, my head isn't together.
I swear, I am not high on anything, maybe later
But where was I.. Cookie cutter, yeah. Was working at Dollar General of all places when the shit hit the fan, I lost my wife and just left my house to rot, kept working there for a while but that store was only a couple blocks from where I lived, and ex mom in law was always showing up with my ex stepdaughter (and grandma is a damn thief, replacing $20 tag with $5 tag, she's banned now), but she'd show up and always have something snide or fly to say.. Caught me on a bad day, so It was pretty much the scene from the movie "Half Baked".. fck you, fck you, you're cool, fck you, I'm out! Walked away, and I swear, I will never, EVER, EVER work anywhere I have a "boss".. I don't care what happens. Besides, I'm working on building my empire, emperor Edric will be generous and bestow thee with octos. But I'm never working on anyone's schedule again, or by anyone's rules but mine. I take on lots of bounty jobs and little odd programming or testing jobs, but I get to do things my way, in the comfort of my own home. It's the best. A little way down my timetable is some big time expansion with lots of new pools but have a few projects going on, still some stuff to do around the new house (I built a fence today though yay), and maybe even see a shrink..  But anyway like I said, if you're looking to get into the pool business, just get with me and I'll show ya the ropes, or at least try, I suck at explaining things. Some people say I never make sense.

I'm gonna go off on another rant here since you guys don't seem to mind.. It's some pretty crazy stuff but is pretty much the story of my last relationship and how badly I let it ruin my life.. While I make her out to be the bad guy (which she is), she's also mentally ill, and besides, I stuck around, til the end, the last year or so knowing I NEED to get the hell out. So, read on if you want to know why I'm crazy now, or just like reading crazy shit. Up until this point, I've tried to keep my language as clean, articulate, and professional sounding as possible, but I have no more fcks to give anymore, and you love me anyway. lol

Aside from my close family (my mom and sister & her hubby), I don't have anyone to talk to.. I used to be a pretty popular guy and have lots of irl "friends" but the kind that come and go, as I was living the fast life years back, messing with drugs and being crazy. I only have one irl friend left that still lives around here but I never get to see or talk to him, so pretty much have no irl friends, nobody to hang with. I've been a loner most of my life anyway though, lol. I really do my best to try and stay cheerful and be optimistic about things, but things just have a way of eating at me until I snap, thus far I've managed not to snap in such a way that would cause horrible things to happen like death or incarceration, but I'm afraid if pushed hard enough it's possible. I'm sure most of you have had some bad experiences with relationships so can understand. The split with the mother of my sons took me many years, tears, and beers to cope with, and when I first laid eyes on my latest ex, everything magically healed. At first and for quite a while, neither of us had experienced love in such a way, I cannot even put into words what it was like, there's just no way.. When we met my alcoholism was horrible and I was so depressed and lonely, wanting to quit drinking but couldn't, was doing crazy things to punish myself for being a bad person, etc.. Instantly falling in love made my alcoholism just, like, disappear, and I was a 30-pack a day guy, lol. It was just so unreal. Over the next 3 years, though, her extreme opiate addiction (which she eventually pushed me into for a while) and her EXTREME mental illness (not joking, diagnosed bipolar, depression, schitzophrenia, etc.) just tore everything apart, my family, her family, everything. I had tons of stuff, like a home theater, bitcoin rigs, ipads and the kids each had sweet custom gaming PC's, had game systems ranging from PS3 down to atari, a nice car and a truck, a decent house with my mom and kids living with me. Lost it all, kids had to go live with their mom so we could bounce from apartment to apartment, getting evicted for non payment of rent. We were both working and making decent money but could barely keep gas in the car or food (but for the free pizza and salad everyday) because of the pills. It went on like this until we went and lived in my mom's garage for a year, got our taxes and found a really nice, though small, house for super super cheap.. Kept that for a while and kind of got a handle on the opiate thing (there's medication they give you to keep you from withdrawing and using), things were ok, but throughout our whole relationship after the honeymoon phase, the fighting was HORRIBLE.. I found out early on her whole family is bipolar but I figured I could live with that, after all you can't help what you're born with, except for the fact she didn't want treatment for it, and since she knew she's bipolar, it's OK to be as mean as you want to and do whatever you feel like doing. I told you guys before in another post about my PC getting smashed, when she did it, she cut her ankle on the heatsink (big ass Zalman heatsink, looks like a car turbo, lol), I got arrested for Assault FV with Bodily injury, though charges got dropped. Things only got worse after that, and near the end, screaming fights were DAILY, because I put my foot down and refused to spend my paycheck on methamphetamine. She would throw away her wellbutrin, take ALL her klonopin in 2-3 days, a complete zombie, setting shit on fire with cigarettes, falling asleep sitting there sewing a quilt, etc.. So when I'd try to talk to her about it, tell her that you're not supposed to take that much, and that you're like a zombie, burning stuff, can't understand a word you say, falling all over everything and your daughter is seeing EVERY BIT OF IT, I'm being abusive and mean, and insulting. When she'd finally run out of k-pins and couldn't get refills, she'd beg and plead, and scream and curse, threaten to leave me, blah blah, if I didn't get her some meth, because meth does the exact same thing her prescribed meds do, it makes her feel sane.....   You with me so far guys? lol.. I'm sorry but I gotta get this shit out, can usually not bear to think about it so it's now or never....... Anyway, so yeah, begging for meth, screaming, threatening to call the cops on me and tell them I hit her (which I WOULD be arrested for, because her daughter is cut from the exact same mold and knows EXACTLY what to say for her mom. God I miss that little girl, she was such a spoiled little shit, but so sweet too, and never had a real daddy), so I caved a few times and let her. Also, at some point mid 2013, CPS got involved, likely her aunt called, because of the drug use, the caseworker showed up right when she was coming down from a 3 day meth binge.. I lied and covered for her, talked her the hell out of my house(I hate CPS), stalled her for a while because she wanted drug tests (which I passed no prob), even a couple weeks later she failed the test for more meth, using behind my back, but she's so adept at lying she managed to convince the caseworker it's because of her antidepressants (I've actually studied medicine a lot as a hobby, because I used to be a druggie, in her case it was a load of bs).. Got rid of CPS only to have them come back again because of the "Domestic violence", they were about to make me move out of MY OWN HOUSE, she flipped her lid big time and I managed to give the CPS lady a picture of what's "really" going on (which was lies, all lies, to protect her, keep the kid, and all stay together). Just bullshit on top of bullshit, drugs, I lost everything, my kids, my house, she even took my cat, Angel.

Couple of weeks before we split, she got a ride from my mom to go out to her mom's house, when they got out there she caused such a scene, her mom's husband pulled a gun on her, (hand to god every word is true, I can give you links to arrest records lol), was gonna shoot her, my mom, who is the most awesome person alive and is one of those "at one with the universe" kinda people, stepped in front of her, dude almost shot my mom. He was arrested for felony agg assault with a deadly weapon, which got dropped because my ex ran off, never went to court to witness... Anyway, that incident was the last straw, things had been getting really bad, her sanity was completely gone, and we had this fucking WORM of a neighbor that would try to worm his way into any chick's pants, and he "wanted to be her friend". I straight up told her not to be naive, heck, a couple months before he was trying to worm his way into her cousin and an incident almost got started because my ex is pretty damn racist, and the guy is black.. After the nearly getting murdered by stepdad incident she had another psych appointment, and she begged and pleaded me to go with her, which I told her was no problem, I was happy to, because she just couldn't express herself, all she could do at any time is just cry and shake and have panic attacks and extremely angry and violent outbursts. The doctor was extremely concerned, I took her aside and told her about the abuse of the k-pin which just made things worse, so the doctor recommended IMMEDIATE hospitalization *(I'll back up for a whole second here to explain something, during our whole relationship, our roles were reversed quite a bit, I did the cooking and cleaning, took care of business, she usually worked more than me and made more money, which during her "bipolar" phases was a frequent reason to just dog the shit out of me, regardless of what I do. I waited on her hand and foot, dinner in bed, movie night every night, flowers and a ring delivered to her job on valentine's day, the whole 9, she could be an evil bitch but I loved her regardless and tried to treat her like a princess, lol)*

 Well right there at the end, she ended up running off with him.. When I tried to talk her out of it, telling her she didn't need to go anywhere but a hospital, she admitted "I don't know what I'm doing" telling me how she needs help and this and that, stayed the night at her sister's house, texting me all damn night telling me how she's going into the hospital for help, and that she wants to stay away from "him", which of course, I'm not an idiot, I knew they'd been talking and he was just trying to jump in her pants. She kept saying she'll get the help she needs and that we're still getting married and all this crap, then alternating to saying something completely contradicting, obviously completely out of it. I was at my house during this and she was at her sister's, I had come home from work and she was gone, when I'd left that morning she was all smiles and telling me she couldn't wait for me to get home. When I got home, all kinds of stuff was missing, clothes, blankets, pillows, the christmas tree... Well, until that night, there was no christmas lights in the neighbor's house, that night there was.. First fucking clue. She was talking all crazy all night texting me, then by morning she said "I'll always love you, I gotta go". I checked her sister's, she was gone.. I was like screw this, moved my computer to my mom's just in case, because my house kept getting ransacked every time I'd leave. Christmas morning I woke up super early because I hadn't heard from her, she wasn't at her sister's, and I knew in my fucking gut she was over at that dude's house. So I walk over there, his truck isn't there, but I walk up to the door anyway. She's in there acting happy as hell without a care in the world, and was like a deer in headlights when I pounded on the door. I won't even recount the brief conversation because I'm already shaking really bad right now, but honestly, I knew with all her problems it'd end somehow, likely with her dying from an overdose or me leaving because her behavior, but just jumping out like that without even the courtesy of telling me "i'm leaving you, fuck you, bye" or whatever, well that did it. I asked her a couple of questions through the door and upon hearing the answer, I smashed the door in, I was going to kill her. Then I stopped. And I said "merry christmas', and I turned around and walked back to my mother's house, threw my computer in the trunk and had her take me to my sister. And here I am. There's plenty more juicy details I could have thrown in but I don't have time to write a novel and this is really hard, i am shaking so bad. I'm sorry, this isn't the right place for something like this. I haven't been able to deal with it, all I have been able to do is sit here hacking and playing with cryptocoins, though extremely sharpening my computer skills in the process, but psychologically, I am a complete wreck. I've made a lot of mistakes too, and in a few cases I was quite the asshole, I'm not trying to play the whole innocent blameless victim here, in fact I slapped the woman once, not proud of it and I don't like to just say she deserved it, but it takes a lot of button pushing to get me to that point. I think some of the things that twisted my brain the most was the absolute pointlessness of some of the fighting that took place.... Say you go to the doctor and he tells you that you're psychopathic, does that give you a license to kill someone? If you suffer from bipolar disorder, does that make it OK to blatantly just go out of your way to be mean and abusive? Literally there's been times where I've said "please, PLEASE stop, you are being so mean, you're hurting my feelings, I love you, I don't want to fight".. "Well too bad, I'm bipolar, I can't help myself" then proceed to wreck shop. I just don't know what to do now, except just keep doing what I'm doing. I'm seriously losing it. I really loved my woman, I have her name tattooed on my arm, something I would NEVER have done. The weird thing is, I'm not pining over her, I don't want her back, I don't want to see her face, ever. I have tons of pictures of her in my computer, the icon shows up on the folder and I can't even go near it.. Need to delete them someday. My big truecrypt stash of wallet.dat backups, one of the keyfiles is a pic of her.. Stupid stuff.. Why am I saying all this crap?  I appreciate every nice thing you guys say to me, you're all been so good to me I feel like I can open up to you guys, maybe I'm opening up too much. There goes my "professional" appearance out the window, I hope you guys will still trust me, despite the fact that I am losing my mind completely has no bearing on my dedication to serving you guys with honesty, transparency, and as efficiently and professionally as possible. I hope you don't think I'm a complete nut job, I'm only about halfway there. Maybe I just need to get laid. You guys know any hookers that take Octos?

Right before I hit send I debated not hitting send... and a weird thought came inside my brain.. This new house we're living in, I feel different here.. At the apartment we were at, I was in a spare bedroom, with my pc on the floor and an air mattress, beside a gigantic pile of my sis's kids excess clothes.. It was crappy, kinda like living like a bum or something, idk, not somewhere I'd invite some girl or a friend and hang out in, but I felt good in there. I have a nice bedroom now, but I feel weird in here. It doesn't feel like home, though they want me around as long as I want to be around. Ok, that's enough out of me. I seriously don't feel normal. Any suggestions?

Oh, and I've been writing this on and off for hours, any thoughts on the game name? I'm sure there's been a few posts while I've been sitting here attention whoring and dumping all my crap on you guys, but thanks for reading. I wouldn't even dare post a snippet of anything I say here in any other thread, you guys are the coolest. I know alot of this post is just whining and bitching and moaning, I'd bet a lot of you have been through similar experiences, so I know my story is nothing special, I just wanted to share with you guys, because I feel like I can... That's why I love Octo, and that's why we're going to make it.

I've scrolled up editing crap about 50 times now, and I think I screwed up copy pasting something to another part of this post. I'm tired. If it doesn't make sense that's why.
Sincerely,
your probably clinically insane pool op
Edric.

Crap, and I forgot to mention the giveaway.. I'm surprised nobody's said anything like "edric, y u no gib moni"

I'll start doing it out of my own earnings, our bookkeeping is screwed so I don't even know what our 25% is without straining my poor mangled brain. After I mine a bit more up I'll pick some winners!

Sorry if I've sounded kind of manic in my posts the last couple of weeks.. I have been trying to hide it, but I've been having an extreme mental breakdown. Dunno why I'm telling you this, just wanted to tell someone. I don't have any rl friends.

Anyway, every day I've got all these damn grand plans, stuff I HAVE to get done, and ideas I want to work on after business is taken care of. Can't seem to get anything accomplished. It's so frustrating. I try to conduct myself around here as professionally as possible, though in real life I'm probably about as coarse as one can get, f this, f that. The things that have been happening over the last few years and that came to a boiling point and exploded christmas day have been gnawing on my sanity in an extreme manner, and I've just kinda been avoiding the issue by sitting here at my desk all the time hacking away, and trying to avoid my old ways and returning to heavy alcohol and drug consumption to stay sane. Just pretending there was never a problem and pretending to be happy and cheerful these last few months is making things way worse, I'm miserable inside, really want to die, and just hate planet earth in general, excluding you guys. But, I'll be here nonetheless, because I have an obligation to provide excellent service and support, and I really do appreciate everything all of you have done for me, every hash pointed to my pools, and the generous donations and will always do my best to do right by you guys.

Can't lie, though, my issues have been kicking the crap out of me in the motivation department, just can't get anything done, though at this point I've delivered more than the Octo devs have :b j/k
But all joking aside, I am struggling, to the point that I have to force myself to stay in my room and not go out and "do things", but I promise, I won't off myself, lol. Jeez, I'm debating not even posting this, I'm not trying to attention whore or anything, but I seriously have no friends and no outlet. If I were suddenly banned from the internet, I would wither and die of boredom and loneliness.

I've got a few obligations to attend to but high on the list is getting octo hi/lo working and ready for you guys to play and invest, but I need a NAME for it. The test case was for denarius, just simply named denariuschance, and that sucks. Need a cool name, so a 1000 888 bounty for the best name for the game! Remember, it's a high/lo and investment game. It's ready for deployment, but there's still upcoming additions to it when the dev gets back from vacation. So yeah, 1000 888 for the best name, we'll do it all democratic like, you guys suggest names and we pick a winner by general consensus.

tl;dr edric is going completely nuts but is still working on stuff so name my hi/lo 888 casino for me and win 1000 888 and a special place in octo history, and my heart. Anyone got a prozac?

The really stupid part is that their email difficulties could be fixed in 5 minutes. Don't really know their setup but MPOS is pretty particular, and email gateways are particular about how you set your stuff up.

When I first started in the pool business I was impatient and really nervous, but being patient is key to this, apparently.. Heck, another coin I've been supporting for months and even helped on a relaunch JUST now started actually selling, so patience does pay off in the end. I don't think 888 is going away anytime soon, and after talking with the Octo spokesperson here, I get a pretty good sense that their intentions are to follow through with what they say, but having full time jobs and lives ruins even the most cautious timeline, for sure. I've never really had doubts on this coin, not to say I believe it's going to blow up like BTC one day but who knows, but I will admit I'm guilty as hell of dumping coins when I should be hanging on to them, and I feel like a @$$ for it, but gotta pay the server bills and stay alive while I work on building my empire! Whatever could be said about the devs or the Fusion Hash admins, I would hope you don't feel the same about me.. I may be, umm, eccentric and strange at times, but I'm doing my best to provide excellent services and support for everyone, find ways to contribute to the community, and do my best to not give pool admins a bad name. Plus, this is way better than a college education, alot more fun, and I sometimes even have a few extra bucks for junk food and beer.

I'm really just hoping and praying that when the wallet update comes (if it makes it out before the superblock cutoff rofl), the devs will seriously look into the matters I've been moaning about on here and github and get something done about it. It's likely the reason Jagged is missing those coins from FusionHash, they run MPOS as well so they likely had transactions bail out too. I keep a close eye on mine.

And on that note, a few minutes before starting this post I made several small changes to the pool's configuration, to see if earnings estimations even out a little bit. It shouldn't affect share numbers too much, just averages a bigger sample of blocks, maybe that'll help. I also enabled the sendmany payout option for the wallet, I want to see how it handles payouts with that. I'll be keeping an eye out, but if you're missing any payouts, please contact me, I'll take care of you.

I hope none of you guys are put off by what I was talking about in previous posts, about starting with a fresh pool. Regardless of sounding like a broken record, the reason for possibly doing this (we may, may not) just has to do with internal bookkeeping problems caused by the wallet sending errors during payout runs, but payouts succeeding anyway. It'd take days to fix it by hand, but a new pool would be a lot easier. All your shares and coins are and will be perfectly safe, and you'll be able to withdraw them from the old pool, and log into and mine in the new pool as if nothing happened, no re-registering or anything. Just wanted to put that out there so you guys know exactly what's up. I don't like being kept in the dark so I won't do that to you.

I owe all of you quite a bit of gratitude (and then some) for sticking around my pool and giving the "small guy" a fighting chance. I may not be raking in the big bucks, but I manage. The mining gear shellbunner sent me is a huge help, though! I really love it, got it pretty much tweaked to max speed, though I need to go dumpster diving or something to scavenge some fans to help cool the main rig off, I can only turn it up to max at certain times. Brings in a couple bucks a day though, depending on how I push it, and what I mine.. Usually octos though.

Anyway, I guess that's it, just stuff bouncing around in my head, been a weird few days.. I'm gonna get back to work on the 888 casino, hopefully start giving it some test runs later tonight! When it's ready, I'll be sure to let you guys know, you guys invest some octos in it, we spread the word to get people playing, and all share in profits! Means we need to get more people interested in octo.

You don't live in abilene tx by any chance do ya? lol..
If so I'd fix your poor miner. I'm pretty damn good at breathing new life into dead electronics. If it was just the power adapter, find out what voltage and how many amps (important on amps), and find something that's around the same.. Even if the voltage is a bit higher it'll be ok, your rig will have a vrm onboard to deal with that. If the plug doesn't fit, splice it, but but make damn sure you get the polarity correct!

It was just a "putting my eggs into one basket" kinda thing, because resources were tight at the time and I was expecting a rough launch for octo. Didn't see Pandacoin going anywhere, boy was I wrong.. I haven't opened up new pools for a while, but after I get some of my projects taken care of and clean house (my servers are all just a huge MESS), I'm looking at a couple things to open pools for and may indeed jump back on the PND train. Tesla has been fun but there just doesn't seem to be interest or support anymore and I'm not sure if the time investment of fixing it up will pay off. I could be wrong though, I was instrumental in the re-release of birdcoin and it's doing well now.

I guess I should add: If you're going to play Denarius Chance, take the time to set up a username and password for your account, especially if you're going to invest! :cough: swankington :b

If you don't set up an account, it uses a cookie, and if you clear your cookies, well, you're screwed!

I'll try to figure out how to get you back without screwing up bookkeeping.

Well, the game seems to be working perfectly now, investments are working and someone's invested a good deal and turning a profit!

Come play today, you can adjust your odds and payout where you're always a winner, or invest and profit off other players!

http://denariuschance.fedaykin.us

It's been a long road but we're finally there. And, if you're interested in setting up your own game for another coin, click the image at the bottom for the source code on GitHub! It's completely open source, and the dev is a great guy who'll help you with any issues, though he is out on vacation for the week. I'm well versed in getting it setup and running so feel free to shoot me questions.

I'm kinda with you guys but I'm in it for the long haul.. Another coin I've been supporting is basically back from the dead, so it's really up to us whether it succeeds or not. Worse comes to worse, there's always options to keep things going. I have left a detailed issue on github about the wallet not being nice with MPOS. If/when the wallet update comes we probably will be swapping pools, I've got it worked out though, it'll be painless. The only thing the users will have to do is log into the old pool to pull out their balances. Wallet just caused too many payout issues that have left our DB in a bad state. I know people are having doubts, but please, have NO doubt that good ol Edric is on top of things, everyone gets paid for every KH. I hate to badmouth anyone at all but with FH owing someone coins and they don't respond to support, this is a good reason to swap to my pool. We usually are seeing pretty good hashrates but today is damn dismal. Maybe because of the posts I made causing doubts, but rest assured, everyone's getting paid, I personally attend to anyone who has doubts, issues, or concerns about payouts. My advice to those having doubts about the coin itself, just stick around, hold what ya got or sell and keep mining, I don't think Octo is gonna die.

On a side note, it's looking GOOD for the investable gambling platform, seems that the bugs are worked out finally so I'm about ready to fire it up for you guys. It's awesome in that the profits won't solely be just for me, anyone can invest and profit. We're testing it out on another coin called Denarius (sorry for mentioning another coin in this thread XD) and so far so good. I think it's really going to be good for octo! I may end up straight up replacing the grids game with it though, so WITHDRAW if you have anything in there. Best thing about the new game is you can create an actual account with a password so no losing coins because you closed the page and cleared cookies.

Pretty much got everything worked out, just need to set it up for 888 now. May set it up for a couple of others, who knows! lol..

I'm concerned about the upcoming update, though.. hoping that we don't have problems with it, the pool is running a huge negative balance because of it not properly wiping off what it thinks its supposed to have.. I slightly changed some pool settings and see if it behaves more sanely? I hope.

Edit: going exhaustively through payout logs, I find that everyone's payouts are accounted for, but, the system has flagged a TON of payouts, i mean a TON, as "unpaid" via the validation script (meaning it's not finding txid), but if I pull up the address in my admin panel, there's the transaction, with TXID, and checks out in the block explorer. I talked to the MPOS dev a bit about it but the ticket got closed fast, according to him the first thing it does is removes the "lock" on those funds from the system when attempting to pay. Something with that is NOT working, because my system thinks it's holding on to payments that have been paid out. It's the wallet, though, not behaving itself on payout runs, so I think I'm going to have to find a solution to that by maybe slowing down payout runs quite a bit, and if the new wallet complains because we're "-50000" short (we're not, we're actually way over what we should be but I only have a rough estimate so I was being conservative when I moved some coins away).. This is likely to turn into a huge damned headache for me and is will most likely be COMPLETELY impossible to get the pool's accounting absolutely perfect, so sometime down the road, provided the new wallet behaves itself and processes payouts properly, we may transition the pool to a brand new "fresh" one. If that happens I will do my best to make it painless and see if there's a way I can port over everyone's users and workers, just without the balances, and mining can resume as normal. Ideally the only intervention required would be for users to jump into the old pool to withdraw their balances. I hate pointing fingers and blaming, I think MPOS and OctoCoin both are just not working well together. The first 2 weeks we had payout issue after payout issue and I believe that's why my numbers aren't lining up. It's frustrating because that extra coin that's "locked" by the system is intended to keep our system running and help support development for my side projects. Anyway, that's just a few thoughts off the top of my head, I just hate glitches like that. Please take note that this as of now does not affect users, and you're getting fully credited as always, it's just making headaches for me.. After the wallet update we'll see how it acts, if it gets pissed off about the "negative" liquid assets balance and continually halts crons, either database surgery is necessary (manually removing a few hundred of these "conflicted" transactions from my DB to even it out), or a fresh start (which I hate to do unless I can auto-port users and workers, then auto switch everyone over, where nobody notices a thing). Anyone got some input, or any other pool ops had the same type of experiences? All my pools are running the exact same version of MPOS but this is the only one acting up like this, and I am pretty certain it just boils down to "conflicted" transactions. So much fun! Anyone want my job for a week so I can do something, like get drunk and sleep?

Yeah, I can work on a new wallet for you guys, when I get my head right. I'm going through some things right now.

I'm going to try and say this as nicely as I can because I've asked a few times before. For the LOVE OF GOD, people, PLEASE, set up autopayouts in the pool, my pool, any other pool, because the birdcoin wallet does NOT process large transactions reliably. Anything over a few million will randomly fail (anything over 20m near impossible) depending on how many transactions the block has and other factors unknown as of yet, but doing a huge manual payout will fail, kill the crons, then the pool is screwed until I intervene. Please do your part to prevent this, it's getting old.

Bugfix.. We're on 0.3.4 now. Had a problem with a crash on large investment. Try now.

It's the number of grains in the individual layers of powder I'm loading the bullet I'm going to eat with.

I don't really like to abandon stuff I've been supporting for a while, until officially DEAD.. like dead dead, lol..
You never know.. I jumped off the PND train for octocoin, had a good pool going on and everything, but shut it all down to get my servers setup for octo.. Mistake.

I'm supporting Birdcoin, which was dead as hell for the longest and is making a strong comeback.. Someone should pick this project up and breathe some more life into it.. I'll be behind it 100%

Just wanted to make a quick announcement. Official launch of the 888 High/Lo casino is likely tomorrow! I'm pretty much certain the bugs are worked out now.

Another note, weird goings on with the pool. It's working fine and paying everyone out like it's supposed to, but my "locked for users" amounts aren't getting properly released after payout runs go through, so, when the mandatory update comes, if we start having problems with payout crons shutting themselves off, this is going to be the reason.

I added up everyone's balances, VERIFIED and validated payouts and checked those flagged missing against the block explorer just to be safe, accounted for unconfirmed, and still am coming up with a big number of coin that hadn't been released (fees, donations, etc). I withdrew this excess from the pool's wallet and it's going into next month's server bills and a small beer bounty for a helper I've got on board a couple of projects (some good stuff). If this causes any crap when we update to the hard fork wallet, I'll be doing a bit of database surgery to fix it. Still not convinced that the Octo wallet plays nice with MPOS. I'm seeing problems with the current unconfirmed just EATING the pool's liquid assets, come back an hour later and everything is fine. Strange stuff. First thing I did though is to make sure that nobody has gotten shafted, so hopefully all is well.

I'll try to get something together for the giveaway very soon.. I'm sorry, it's just projects on top of projects on top of LIFE SUCKS and kittens and an idiot dog tearing up and crapping all over the house, keeping me from focusing on any ONE thing at once.

Cross your fingers on the gaming, should be ready tomorrow. It's a high/lo game, but it's ENTIRELY ran on investments. You don't just throw coins into the daemon and open a user account and start betting. You open a user account, deposit coins, choose how much you invest (optional, though the game does not work at all if nobody has invested). For instance, if I were to log in and invest 10k, I would control 100% of the house, all losers money goes to me, but I solely pay the winners (and the game has mechanics to deal with your wagers, odds, max bets and winnings based on how much is in the investment pool, very well thought through). If I were to invest 10k and shellbunner were to invest 10k, then the losers bets would be split 50/50 to us, and so on and so forth, it even shows you the percentage of your investments, it has a panel that lets you verify the fairness of your rolls, everything. It's damn nice. And, the coolest thing is, (maybe not for some) it's OPEN SOURCE. Take that you lousy backdoored dice script writing bastids! I hope you guys are excited! BTW, probably shutting down the grids game, seems to be no activity. May boot her up again in the future though!

http://denariuschance.fedaykin.us is finally up and running, and actually betting. It takes 2 confirmations for your account to be credited, so be patient. You also have the option to formally create an account on there and then invest. The more invested, the bigger the bets the system will allow, and you can earn. Not bad for open source, eh? All the major issues seem to be ironed out, so please give it a whirl! I've already did some test betting and it IS working

Does that break anything? I've noticed problems with the wallets just getting stuck from time to time..

Otherwise it's still chugging along but buy orders at 1 satoshi, ugh. Not mining much these days, I'll hit a few blocks a day just for fun and to keep the chain alive, though.