For once, I wasn't being sarcastic. I tend to overanalyze practically everything and spew forth a great many words. Guys like you that can boil that down to a couple of sentences make me a bit jealous. And I just like this smiley To me it has always seemed more like "tongue hangin' out" than sticking out your tongue. I attribute this to being old.

Besides, if you're a serious trader, it's not that hard to set a floor. If you're ass is broke like me, then you set your price and hope...

This.
I admire and envy people like you that can sum up so well

I have. And what you see on the other side of that seething cauldron of hate, xenophobia, and wretchedness is ....
Nothing.

Let's face it. The people we call "extremists" are generally those who adhere the most closely to their religion. Any religion. If you have the ability to reason and access to history, then you KNOW that all religions are false.  But that flies in the face of WANT, so we continue to have religion. For the majority in the West, it's a comforting fairy tale that they don't really push that hard. That's fairly recent. And fairly local.

Religion is a deliberately divisive force, designed from the ground up to make people dance to the tune of some psychopath who "talks to god" and is charismatic enough to make some idiots believe him.

I mainly use the daemon, so I know the commands. Not sure if there are buttons in the GUI or not. But if you use the command walletpassphrase <passphrase> <time in seconds> to unlock the wallet from the debug console, it will automatically relock in x seconds (x being how many you told it). I don't recall the manual lock phrase, I think it's just walletlock in the debug console. But if you type "help" in the debug console it will list all available commands except command line startup options.

Yes, though I'm not sure to characterise it as a problem yet They are working with us, and are being very cautious to be sure all is copacetic. I don't have a time line, but they are working on it. My suspicion from our talks is that they want to observe the block chain for a little bit before going live to make sure we actually fixed it. A bit annoying in the short term, but it's good to know they take their duties serious, ne?

One thing I failed to note when I asked Shavers to add that The pool is not up at the moment. You'll get a dead link. I'll have it back up very soon. Had outside issues AND the chain going south to contend with.

You're correct, and also in regards the original question, POW difficulty is not related to POS difficulty. They are completely different functions.

Nope. I'm past the draftable age. About the only good thing about getting old

last time I did it, it took about three hours. Vs. nearly 15 from network. Long is relative

It's better to put them in your gamecredits.conf file. then if your peers get messed up, or whatever random event tries to ruin your day, the base nodes will just be there.

Maybe not that much force

That has been the question since the project started. I think the answer remains "it depends". I'm combining to 25K for my next few rounds, and see how it goes. Under 5K takes most of forever to stake, so you have to find the balance between your patience level and expected reward. Lower blocks take longer, but you won't always hit the cap. Bigger blocks hit the cap before you're eligible to stake. I suspect there are as many strategies as there are HYP holders.

A few notes on the changes to the new client, most minor, one major.

Overall, it's the same as before. Same code base with minor revisions to the protocol number and the way it connects to peers. That second one is because of the major one. We'll update the OP to reflect this shortly, but the difficulty adjustment is no longer Kimoto's Gravity Well. As near as we can determine, KGW is what caused the problem. Exactly why, I don't know. Noise23 did try to explain it to me, I'm just not savvy enough to get it, but it's apparently a potential problem with the algorithm. As some of you may know, I used to be involved in the Earthcoin development team (as a PR writer, primarily), and was a fan of the coin before it even launched. It has a very similar difficulty adjustment paradigm, but the code is completely different. Earthcoin has never had a problem with difficulty adjustment, so I suggested that we use that code to Noise23. It took a few attempts ( very few, the boy is good), but that's what we have now.

More details as I understand them well enough to write 'em or Noise23 chimes in. He saved our bacon.

Thanks, Richie. I will have the block explorer back up by morning. I got called away on urgent personal business right when we got the client working. I believe Shavers already gave you this info, but just in case, for the moment you can reference the pool at gmc.acidpool.com for the correct block height until the explorer is alive again.

We ran through half a dozen attempts to get the chain right before we were satisfied, so I pretty much have to completely reindex the block explorer. Not a big deal, but time consuming. I will also have the gmc.cryptocloudhosting.org pool up again either tomorrow or the next day as well.

EDIT: I hope you will reconsider delisting us. As you can see, this new team takes our duties seriously. This was a pretty bad problem, and we solved it. We're working just as hard if not harder on things to move the coin's adoption forward in the world of gaming.

We are trying to contact Bittrex. They usually get back to us, but we started the process on the weekend. I am hoping they will extend the deadline a bit so we can get properly synched up and everything moving. As for donations, I have no idea at this time I'll boot it upstairs.

I'm not one hundred percent on this with HYP, but for most satoshi based clients, you can force the issue. Start your daemon or QT with -bootstrap (eg /usr/local/bin/hyperstake-qt -bootstrap)

Most of them look for it anyway. And yes, always delete everything but the configuration file, bootstrap.dat, and (optionally) the wallet. I frequently do it with no wallet, and then copy my old wallet in when it's done. That way if something does go wrong, you only lose time.

It was more a general statement coin control isn't that important on non staking wallets. Even so, you can do it. It is a PITA, though.

I run a lot of wallets

Further update.

We are testing what we believe will be the release. So far, all has worked as intended. I will update and have github/download links as soon as we're certain. Ought to be tomorrow (Monday the first), but don't hold me to it. Things could still go south.

In the meantime...

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY NOISE23!!!

It's totally optional. But if you only have one or two blocks, you should only stake every ten days on average. Or a bit longer.

For HBN, I usually run about 200 coins to a block. But that's subjective. It gives me a stake in ~20 days.