There are still alot of orphans because the diff is not high enough for the current network hashrate.  Normally, orphans would show up in your transaction history with a question mark next to them (generated but not accepted) but for some reason the ETC wallet doesn't display them at all, or they will show up for a second or two and then disappear.

This coin is likely to have tremendous problems very soon.

Another clone of Litecoin, using the Litecoin diff algo - which means max diff adjustment of 400% upwards, and uses expected versus actual block height to determine next difficulty

As of this post, we are at block 2601 right now.  With 1-minute block times, we shouldn't be hitting block 2601 until 43.5 hours after the coin launch.  We are over 10x ahead of schedule right now in terms of block height.

This means at the next diff adjustment, regardless of the current network hashrate, it will go up the max 400% of current diff, which would be 4.0, even though the net hashrate demands roughly 2.8 for the next diff.

Depending on how far ahead of schedule we are after that diff adjustment, it may go up even higher - even as the net hashrate continues to drop.  Within a day or two, network block times will be measured in hours, not minutes.

http://air.pitythepool.com has been running since launch day, I have been mining there practically from the start.

No worries mate, I'm tired too

see above - VALID BLOCKS

Network is still a little wacky -- but we are finding valid blocks about every 3-4 minutes on http://etc.pitythepool.com

We are anxiously waiting at http://etc.pitythepool.com -- wallet password not released yet

I was worried about this as well, but there are a few ways to mitigate duplicate trade-ins for new AIR.

The import method mentioned above by mudshark79 is one way.

Another way would be for TeamAIRcoin to just collect old wallet addresses (do not check balances) during the 72-hour verification window.  At the end of the verification period, simply record the balance of each wallet at the moment the verification period ends, this is the amount of new AIR each wallet holder will receive.  Basically, you get new AIR equal to whatever your old wallet balance is at XX:XX exact time. 

This would prevent people from submitting one wallet with 1,000 AIR, then transferring to another wallet and submitting a second time.

When the coin is released, old AIR holders will need to submit their old wallet address, plus new wallet address.  TeamAIR would then need to match these addresses to wallets submitted during the verification period, and send coins to their new address.

<sigh>  Cryptoaltex BTC/SHA market closed again

This is fantastic.  So great to hear some GOOD news about a coin for once

I am guessing that they are running the Windows wallet on V2.  My pool is using the Windows V1 wallet (http://hex.pitythepool.com), I used the Windows wallet rather than Linux simply because it was available faster at launch so I could get the pool running ASAP.

When the new wallet came out I did not upgrade, I had no idea it even existed until I started reading this thread.  Shame on the OP for not notifying the pool owners, which should *always* be done when a mandatory upgrade/fork comes out - for the pools listed in the OP, at least.

v1 has to be the current wallet everyone uses.

To my knowledge there is no GitHub source for the v2 wallet.  I just downloaded and compiled from here (https://github.com/HeisenbergCoin/HeisenbergHex) and it is the v1 wallet.

Without compilable source, most pools and exchanges will not be able to upgrade to v2.  There are some exceptions, but most cannot because they don't have a Windows box available to run the wallet on.  Besides that, Windows wallets don't work well with pools; the UI starts getting all glitchy when your Transactions tab gets too large (reaching 50,000 transactions takes no time at all on a busy pool or exchange)

Just my BTC0.02

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, all the AIR Beta I submit during the verification window will be honored 1:1 with the new AIRcoin.

My AIR Beta is not destroyed or exchanged, I get to keep it?  For every AIR Beta that I own right now, I get a matching "new" AIRcoin?

If that's the case, why on earth isn't everyone buying assloads of AIR right now?  If the rewards structure is the same, 3.72 coins per block, it would a long time to mine 1,000 coins, especially on Scrypt-N.  This many coins can be had for a mere 0.1-0.2 BTC at current prices.

^^THIS^^

Your post above is unclear on whether this is actually happening or not - will we be able to convert our existing AIRcoin into the new AIRcoin?  "Giveaway" implies you're just doing a random promotion to give away an amount of AIR equal to the amount verified during the verification period.  We are going to be compensated for the existing AIRcoin we have in our wallets, correct?

First of all, thanks for your work!

In the screenshot above, it still shows a "Current # of blocks" higher than the "Estimated total blocks" -- shouldn't these be the other way around?  Current blocks should always be lower than or equal to the total blocks, right?