In my opinion, the useful thing to do is not to write them and just ask that they leave it there, but rather (or also) to improve on what is the primary cause.

It seems almost all discussions about primecoin are about mining, and the technical aspects of it not even the mathematical implications behind. A lot of "I get X blocks with a xeon XYZ", "I did not get any block since 2 days, is it working?", "I finally got a block, I can confirm there is a lot of variance", "how do you compile on ubuntu XYZ?", over and over again.

I am convinced that it would be beneficial for the coin that there would be somehow a community of users behind, not only a community of miners. Some more services need to be set up, primecoin-specific (even better) or not, but the total lack of widening in discussions is a bit worrying for the future of the coin. At least as price is concerned, if these aspects do not improve, I'm not seeing the coin going anywhere.

Disregard the troll...

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Two options.

With great difficulty.

Or not at all.

I think this thing got a bit out of hand for mtlmr, though. I'm doubtful he'll be able to handle delivering it to so many people, unless if he PM'd the donators some private URL to which the miner will be uploaded when the time comes, or something.

The new reward system that comes with the experimental miner pays a little bit more than the other miners as an initiative for people to switch and for developers to implement it in their miners. It's also decoupled from shares and instead uses the estimated chance to find a block within a given timespan to reward the miner. It effectively removes the luck factor of finding good shares or blocks.

Previously, if two users with the exact same hardware configuration and the same miner version mined for 5 hours, their reward was vastly different. Just because one was luckier than the other. This is exactly the opposite of what pool mining is about. With pooled mining we try to decrease the spikes in the payout and make it more even for all. If someone finds no blocks he will still get paid for trying, if someone finds a lot of blocks he still gets paid the same amount.
If someone wants the full reward for being lucky then go for solo. In the end you should get about same amount of XPM from solo mining and pooled mining (minus pool fee)

Edit: I just checked the stats and it's kind of strange. The mentioned user has doubled his share value but still has not found a block. I will look into it.
Edit2: All fine, he just added a lot of machines and he found already enough blocks.

I vote Extremecoin.

Can you add it to the poll please.

Thanks.

Wow, I'm surprised, you seemed like you had a vendetta against him. Good job on taking responsibility and apologizing

On another note it looks like Mtrlt is playing the donation card. I tried to get mine back because I no longer have any significant gpu power and his response was "So you want a donation back?". I think that's lame, it's obvious that the vast majority of the "donaters" were actually paying for early access. I know I know, it was a risk I took but that doesn't mean refusing to give back what for all intents and purposes was a payment isn't lame. It would be nice if he would man up and just send me the BTC back.

They are that out of touch? Wow.

implementation of stop betting after certain number of profits in automated bet yes pls!

+1 don't know why people even bother with windows when it comes to rack mounted servers.  Shows a true level of ignorance of what a server actually does.  "oh well i use windows on my desktop, so i better use windows on my server". lol.

Thanks for the clear instructions, worked easily on 12.04 w/updates. I have one chugging away on pretty old hardware, was rewarded finally with 1.

Can anyone give examples for proxy use? I have .bashrc environment variables set up already, but does not seem to be used. I see the setting as null whille watching.