My two cents - I wouldn't change a thing, and would prefer that any new developer not change the basics of the coin either.  This coin perfectly fills a gap other coins don't have covered.  It's profitable enough to be worth while to mine, but not so profitable/popular that it gets pounded by multipools.  It's easy enough to mine to make collecting several thousand easily attainable for anyone, but low enough reward that a couple thousand still have value.

An argument could be made that maybe POS could be added to it to increase it's value a little, but it's a great coin to mine as-is, so going with a high POS reward, or switching to 100% POS like Philosopherstone is contemplating would make mining it worthless.  Why mine 100 or 200 Emeralds a day when you can just buy a mess of them and sit back and collect minting rewards?  Is anyone still mining ZEIT?  No, because it's pointless.  But I'm not selling mine, because just leaving it in my wallet collects far more per month than I could mine in a year.

Maybe adding a small POS component, like 10% per year, would be a good idea to prevent a 51% attack, but more than that would change the coin too much.

I would argue that if people want to see more activity in the community, they should get involved and promote it.  Making more people aware of the coin would be a great thing and probably drive the price up naturally.  I've seen one or two posts about people accepting Emerald for goods or services - a commiserative coin about Mt. Gox for example.  Bottlecaps has one or more vendors that accept CAPs for seasoning and sauces.  These examples can drive demand.  Getting a good website up would almost certainly drive demand - what exists right now is not going to get people interested.  Promoting in other posts can drive demand.  Hell, even someone pumping the coin in forums and chat rooms to dump their load of Emeralds can drive demand by making more people aware it exists, but switching the algorithm is not going to drive demand for the coin, and may drive people away. 

As an example, I used to mine Diamond every day, and I'd get 10 to 15 per day.  They switched to Groestl and now I can't effectively mine Diamond any more.  I get 1 a day.  One lucky day last week I got 3.  Yesterday I got none.  I'm done.  I'll probably hold what I have to collect POS rewards, but I'm done mining it.  And the current price reflects the coin's demand.  It went from over 100k satoshi to 80k, and if they don't fix pool mining, I think it's going to go lower.  Damn shame, Diamond was awesome.  Now, if you don't have a rig with 6 GPUs, it's a waste of hash to mine it, because you aren't getting any.

Another example is Galaxycoin.  That was a good one too, as it was.  It used to cost 500 to 700 satoshi and it was easy to mine.  A new developer took over the coin, changed it too much, and now it's worth 125.  that was months ago and it hasn't recovered.

Emerald was all but dead a couple times, but it survives because it's good the way it is.  Changing it too much in my opinion would be a bad idea, and if it goes as poorly as Diamond is going right now, the change could kill the coin.

That's my thoughts.

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Noted. I find it ironic that it's you who is answering some questions that should be answered by the admins of DMD. Anyways, once again thanks.

es the DMD Dev team have anyone in charge of "External Relations". Could be a position to manage the contact with (meaning slightly harassing) Exchanges, Comparision websites (whattomine, CoinWarz) and bloggers/crypto-websites. And not to forget that there should be a good contact with the devs of Groestl coin so that any issue is adressed swiftly and accurately.
 

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@kyma, do you have any new information or updates on your issue? As you know, I have almost exactly the same issue  ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=580725.msg6752105#msg6752105 ) and mine is still "Being Processed" and they refuse to give out any information at all - refuse to respond is really more accurate.




@danbi, do you have any suggestions about how to further pressure Cryptsy?

I think you're forgetting to add the interest rates in your math.

Btw your calculations are ok and the original post were saying well with the total PoW coins: you need also to calculate the 1% of premined coins to add there. Don't think should be any bug.

Hey Guys

Your Guro UtpianFuture will play with you another few months
Do you find it normal?
as long as you want you can hold out for?

Launch is never or, when all have fled or died.

So another couple of months NEM auction stakes, I laugh my limp.

congratulates your guru for his great performance

Guru you are kidding king of people

Devs. Any update on PoS?

Hi
When reappear information about Diamond Online http://www.coinwarz.com ?

I'm trying to move my existing scrypt DMD pool over to groestl but can't get block submissions working. I'm using nodejs and keep seeing:

"We thought a block was found but it was rejected by the daemon"

I'm using the coin settings:

{
    "name": "Diamondcoin",
    "symbol": "DMD",
    "algorithm": "groestl"
}

Tried enabling TX messaging as well, same problems. Does DMD work with node? I have a Groestlcoin pool that works fine on node, am I missing something? Do I need some groestl algo setting in my wallet config? Checked my wallets debug log and can't find anything there, can't even see a submitblock at the same time as node attempts to submit.

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Thanks for the reply cryptonit.  Looking forward to the new update.  I know English is not your first language but you've done pretty well so far except for the use of the word "coinage" and I think it confuses people.

In English, coinage means the total amount of a coin issued.  For example: "The 1930 Australian Penny had a total coinage of 1500" (a very rare and valuable coin).  You are using it to describe how long since the coins were mined as in coin + age.  English doesn't work like that (yes it is a funny language).  "30 days from the date of mining" is much clearer than "30 days coinage".

You are using it to describe how long since the coins were mined as in coin + age

Would someone from the dev team like to answer the question?  It's not really all that difficult to clarify I would imagine.  The 400,000th coin should be minted in about a week.  I'm guessing that blocks are ahead of money supply due to a fork earlier in the coins life when some blocks got skipped.  I've seen it happen before.

Hello
I'm trying to mine (dmdpool) with sph sgminer and -k groestlcoin doesn't work.
What is the secret ?