Anyone else able to navigate to any thread on https://nextcoin.org? Specifically one about the Windows client? Is the site under ddos too? Supposed to be on CloudFlare but it's still not working for me.

WTF has happened to http://dogehouse.org/? Site is live but Stratum connection fails and the pool looks down.

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Happy holidays everyone!

Anyone on http://dogehouse.org? Mining, getting shares, but account balance is not updating at all.

Wallet refuses to sync. Download links on official sites are 404. http://dogehouse.org not paying out anything.

Working well!

Thank you for your kind replies folks, I understand the maths concept now. Stickies for these things is a fantastic idea btw. One of those READ THIS BEFORE POSTING YOUR STUPID QUESTION threads would be most useful with perhaps the top 10 most often asked questions answered. It wouldn't stop all the dumb questions but it might help.

I have used the search feature and I've read the wiki and either I didn't find the answer (as is the case with the thread you've linked to) or didn't understand what I read. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked. Some of you are being elitist assholes. This community WILL be inundated with n00bs as it gets more and more press coverage and becomes more popular. Some of the concepts involved are way beyond what the average person is even remotely capable of grasping.

Thanks for your help!

All around the world there are thousands or millions of CPUs/GPUs grinding away on math equations in the hopes that they will "solve" one of them and reap the reward of 50 bitcoins. One thing that troubles me (and Ive yet to find the answer); who is this math being done for? I can't imagine all the CPU cycles and kilowatt hours of electricity are being wasted "just because", otherwise that would be an enormous waste of resources. This reminds me of the SETI project where you would install and app on your machine and it would utilize unused CPU cycles when your machine was idle to listed for alien communications. Who or what is the math behind the bitcoin being done for?