And I likewise remember when BlackCoin dropped from 3k to 500. It seemed like a dead coin.

Is it possible that the PoW phase is going faster because PoS is constantly generating blocks?
If so, there will only be around half as many (depending on how the coin is set up) coins generated from PoW as you were expecting.

We all know that the Multipool's going to do great things for BlackCoin, once it's released. However, I don't think everyone realizes how much of a difference it's going to make.

The numbers thrown out for yesterday's (March 19, 2014) mining ranged from 10GH/s to nearly 400GH/s. It's quite safe to assume that the massive dropoff near the end was caused by the frontend issues the site was having (for those that weren't there, the miner pages were entirely inaccessible for the latter portion of the "launch"). Because of that, I'm going to make a somewhat conservative (depending on how you look at it) estimation of 200GH/s if the pool was as polished as the new version is reported to be.

If that 200GH/s was maintained for a solid 24 hour period, that would net somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of altcoins, according to http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency. Let that sink in for a second. BlackCoin's current market cap is roughly $1,300,000. That's a ton of buy orders.

In most cases it should've been, but this is one man doing all the work.

I like this idea, but it would take far more work and investment to set up than a mutlipool site, so it'd have to wait until after that is fully established.

I'm personally mining Zeit for this purpose. It has much less potential than POT, but it's more profitable at the current difficulties.

iGotSpots, it's been quite a while since anybody cared about Spots, based on this thread. It's your responsibility to try to bring it back to life.

Are you even going to try?

Isn't it possible that, as someone said previously in this thread, the top few are just the exchanges?

Have you ever mined Ruby? Each coin takes quite a bit of mining to get, to the point that having over 100 is equiv to having thousands of Blackcoins. Ruby is absolutely worthless in comparison to Blackcoin.

Quick question:

Does the 8 hour requirement on PoS mining refer to the time that a wallet's been continuously open, or does it mean that a wallet has to have had coins in it for 8 hours to start mining?

I feel like at least a few people have already asked and answered this question in the past few dozen pages, but this is something I'd really like to figure out:

With an annual stake interest of 1%, if I start out the year with 1000 BC, will I have 1010 BC by the end of the year?

I don't think that I have the whole picture, but I get the feeling that the failure of the pump to 5000 was caused more by the "rat" Desten has been referring to than any problems with the market.
Perhaps it's been a combination of both effects.

Here's the problem... the difficulty jumps are mostly keeping the Multipools away, but they're also slowing down the block rate to around 100 per day, rather than the intended 1234.
Even CoinWarz's measly estimation of $2 per Mh/s per day is more than one would actually get.

We've seen values above 20,000 satoshis before.
I'm not saying that I expect it to hit that point again, but that just illustrates how badly undervalued Spots are currently.

It's odd, that... it was obviously happening before the fork too, but in that case, it was running on the same code which had previously hit the 70 sec time quite consistently.

I'm using ckoeber's pool, http://spotspool.chriskoeber.com/ . It's up to date and works quite well.

OK, it's awesome that we've officially hit the hardfork, but I'm having the same problem as djmuk.

On a separate topic, how is it that the difficulty of block 78992 went up by a factor of four (to 13.53539526) after the previous block, 78991 (diff 3.38384881) , took fourteen hours to find?

EDIT: Removing the bad addnodes and adding in
resulted in the error going away and the block sync bar appearing, but it's stuck at 12 blocks left (79902 downloaded)

Eh... I was just repeating a possibly inaccurate piece of information from back in mid January.

Believe me, I haven't sold since Spots were worth 18579, and I've bought back nearly ten times the total amount I've ever sold. I understand the potential value of the coin. However, I can not understand who your post was aimed at, or what you were trying to demonstrate by alluding to them as a character rather than as a real person.

The new site's supposedly going up this month. At the very least, that should make the coin easier to find and more appealing.

With any luck, the difficulty algorithm will see how long it took to find 79992 and set the diff super low. We just have to hope that multipools won't jump on at that point.