It's difficult to decipher what's happening to the pow being submitted, because it's always 64bits and out of whack with what p2pool expects, so i'm guessing that requires looking at what the miner is doing with the target and the provided getBlockTemplate...

SHA3 in p2pool is a good challenge but hard!

just cloned the GitHub repo and for sme reason you guys don't have src/obj directory, so compilation fails in the starting block...

I copied the directory from the Litecoin source tree over and compilation worked.

testing Cashcoin now...

i'm trying this with Python 2.7 on Linux and get a an error on line ~158 at

   
Python complains that nonce has not been defined - which is true since this call is made outside of the loop

        
which defines nonce

I added a class variable self._nonce in the __init__ function of class Miner and use this t keep track of the nonce value.

A question:
Is it expected behaviour for the hash rate to halve on each iteration of the work function?

Mt.Gox is online and operational.

I think there are some trolls taking advantage of the negative mood to try and generate panic selling. Not that it will work because Gox is no longer the only exchange and their volume is lower than most of the other exchanges by now - so in a way Gox matters if you have money there but if they vanish like a noodle, the price of BTC couldn't care...

Rumours of insolvency are also stupid - anyone who understands the exchange business model can tell you that - they make silly amounts of money by just existing - imagine with all the sell transactions happening in the past week - they can probably fund a small country with last week's profits alone!

The actual technical issues at Gox are described here by Bitcoin Dev, Greg Maxwell:

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/08/mt-gox-transaction-woes/


So Gox is having real issues that can be seen in the blockchain and have been acknowledged by core developers. The present dilemma is a slow shutdown to sort out an accounting mess - that's what the article implies anyway. However, the fact that Gox has terrible customer service and does not communicate quickly and transparently is a big shame. Unacceptable, and I hope their customers give them a thorough spanking for being bad, bad, bad!

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Too many perhaps, but in the spirit of Open Source Software this is good thing. People get to experiment with the Bitcoin source code and in the process dicoveries are made and lessons learnt. Just like with Linux a while back - when every Joe had a distro out for download - people soon realize what gives a software product value and only the fittest survive.

hi, I am interested and have just PM'd you.

You know, all of the memecoins are just gonna turn out to be early-adopter bonanzas and leave the late-comer sheeple holding the bag. But somehow I believe the Doge is gonna stand the test of time. It's fun and it's full of Good Luck!
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I've never tried to withdraw fiat from MtGox, but moving BTC in and out has been quick and pain free.

I've heard stories from people who witdrew fiat (USD) from MtGox 6 months ago and it never arrived and they keep getting a support ticket in reply to their angry queries. If you want fiat, probably best to move BTC out of MtGox to BTC-e or Coins-e or any other exchange and then convert.

In their defense: Of course, MtGox don't want these kind of stories going around but there are often banks in the payment chain that block or quarantine BTC related transactions due to the old day tales of Silk Road - this will soon change as Hollywood and Wall Street make Bitcoin the new superhero of kool!

It seems Bitcoin and Litecoin are here to stay. Ripple's XRP may not survive if the Ripple scam comes out. From my research and activity in the cryptocurrency field, I think some other coins that add code or practical benefits (e.g. Nextcoin, Peercoin) may stick around.

But as for the memecoins... man, Ponzi schemes always fall flat eventually and it's just a matter of time until the stories come out of all those late-coming sheeple left holding the bag passed down from the opportunistic early adopters...

One memecoin seems to have the lucky streak of Luck and that is Dogecoin!