Solo mining is very dependant on luck. One can find 10 blocks in a row or none for 10 days. Beside luck there is also a variance
that is almost synewave like, if you are at the top of wave you are very likely to get block(s) but if you are at the bottom than
even luck seem not to help. At the bottom, even getting diff 1 shares becomes slow. At top of wave it can go really crazy. While
mining on Bitcoin TestNet I had situations when, at the top of wave, I was almost orphaning my own blocks, LOL!

One could argue that variance with mining (a synewave) is actualy graphical representation of luck. A sort of like Biorhythm works
but I'm not sure if there is any connection there.

It seems that helped, thanks! Not sure how I had it all working correctly without that file for weeks until today, though.


I'm running just normal computer and normal NXT node. You know, download NXT, install, run. Just 1 node. Balance is 501 NXT.
TCP port was not forwarded so I added port forwarding with http://sourceforge.net/projects/upnp-portmapper but D:U ratio still
goes 1:50+ almost immidiately after I ran NXT. When looking at current blocks tab as well as peers tab, it becomes obvious that
my node uploads a lot of data to all other nodes as soon as it receives a new block.

Easier method to solve the issue is to just edit runmcproxy.bat (right-click > Edit) that comes with installation. Since Win7
is not so smart to find location of Java, one needs to point to it over mentioned .bat file, like this:


Or if your Java is installed to Program Files folder:

Yes I have upgraded but issue remains.

I've done that 2 times in last few hours but OK, I'll do it third time just to make sure it is up to NXT and not my imagination, LOL!

Dude, STFU because you are not helping. I'm with NXT from the day 1 so I know what is normal and abnormal operation. I've just
redownloaded complete blockchain 2nd time in few hours, everything looked correct for a while but then NXT just went crazy with
orphans (check the orphan value on screenshoot) and corrupted my .nxt files beyond repair.

It still makes no sense because neither I'm running public node nor it takes a lot of time for me to stay online for D:U ratio to
reach 1:50 or so. It starts happening as soon as I run NXT.

Well, RETARDS, I'm gonna quote my and others issues until you finaly STFU about irrelevant shits and move your very unimportant
debate elsewhere. For weeks now I was tolerant way beyond my usual levels but now you have pushed me into red zone. Fuck off!

But then it went crazy again, what is happening?

I had even worse issue, namely first my Firefox started freezing because orphans.html or something like that (script) was taking
too long to execute. I let it continue few times but than all coins on my account vanished. No incoming or outgoing transactions
at all! OK, restart everything, no change. Restart computer, no change. So I installed 0.5.1 and deleted everything in NXT folder,
so far everything works correctly.

Windows 0.5.1 client:

https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2041.0.html

"Before upgrading your client, please backup the files blocks.nxt and transactions.nxt!!" IGNORE, I had to delete those files else
there was no change, e.g. I was missing all my coins!

Could someone please answer our questions? Is it merely a bug somewhere or it is normal D:U ratio is 1:50+ ?

Same for me. Also, value for "Total Transactions" says 100 but that is not right, I registered more than 600 aliases by now.

Ermm why is my node uploading way more data than downloading? It is like that constantly.

Would it be hard or time consuming to temporaly add your peers.dat file to install archive and point MED wallet to check for that
file at wallet's root?

1. Check if file exists at datadir, if yes use it, if not
2. check if file exists at wallet's root, if yes use it (and eventually copy to datadir), if not
3. create new file at datadir.

Also, what always interested me but I never actualy asked or checked myself is if it would be possible to make freshly installed
wallet ask for location of datadir, if user wants to run it as server and similar stuff? The whole .conf, .bat and command line idea,
where user must have advanced knowledge of computers to perform some trivial actions, is so outdated and in many cases barrier
to wallet usage and thus adoption. From dozens of persons I know that use computers like 1 person would know all it takes to
have server running or datadir at for example drive D:

The most probable way to end up scammed at the moment. I could bet on none of those altcoins ever come into existence.
It is one thing to have geniuine developer with not so good idea for IPO and it is another thing to be nothing but scammer,
which is what all those new "developers" are most likely, stealing money from greedy and dumb with "Next of Next" deals.

NXT will leave LTC in dust, maybe even BTC. Just wait and enjoy the show.

Agreed and, just like majority around here, waiting for someone else to do it? The most newcomers to cryptos are missing the
point of Open Source projects. They just want to get in for cheap and make a shitload of money doing nothing, preferably in a
week or so. Only a few will get that, everyone else will most likely whine about investing money and losing it all because of all
sort of reasons but not their own lazyness.

I agree. I have invested a lot into aliases. That feature alone is absolutely fantastic and might make me way more rich than any
of big stakeholders will ever be (asuming they did not invested in aliases, at least not in "killer" ones). NXT is Bitcoin + DotCom
thing in one package. Double bubble? Maybe, but definitely interesting to be a part of the deal, for very cheap (alias registration
costs a mere 1 NXT, a bargain).

I'm no longer looking at and whinning (much) about richess early adopters got with NXT or something else. It is counterproductive.
Either wait for the next train or get the most out of the ones currently running.

Probably not because one needs a lot of CPU and RAM for Scrypt part of hashing. I'm mining with 5 USB Erupters and CPU usage
is around 35% with 40 MB used, if I switch much more ASICs to MED my notebook would not be usable for other stuff anymore.
Using THashes on MED would surely require a high spec server or something similar. How many big miners will go for that? None
of them is mining right now so ...

When it comes to network security and distribution of coins, it is much better to have 1000 individual miners using 1 GHash and
mining solo than 10 individual miners using 100 GHash and mining in 1 or 2 pools. It relates to number of full nodes on network
(more is better) and number of coins each individual miner gets (less is better). Miner with a lot of coins is permanent threat to
exchange rate. At any time he might be in a need for a lot of cash and thus sell massive bag of coins, starting the panic sell that
might easily end in less people mining, "MED is dead" media and public craze and so on.

That girl looks totally ready for some techno party at the beach (Goa?) so extra 3.03808909 ecstasy ... I mean MED sent!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQbfSCZBcg