I've been mining with a pool (pool.sexy) and have also mined with miningspeed. Transactions I've recieved from pools are processed quickly and same for those I've sent. Was almost tempted to stop mining after some downtime and some hiccups with miningspeed, glad I continued mining.
Quite excited for what is yet to come, great community over on discord and I'm even tempted to see if I can contribute with my rusty coding skills, though the developers sound like they won't need me
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The wallet loads quite quickly on Windows, for other coins I've had some wallets take in excess of 5 minutes to load before even syncing new blocks. The wallet is snappy and looks the part.
Looking forward to seeing these two exchanges too.