If the deposit is confirmed by the block chain, and if I am left to suck my thumb for five days without any response after sending repeated emails to the help and support, I suppose your definition of "deposit taking a bit longer than expected" is not applicable, is it?

I have made a deposit of the PPL I mined to coin-swap exchange, I can see the deposit getting through to the deposit address from the blockchain explorer, but the exchange isn't showing the coins I have deposited! I mailed their support and I don't seem to be getting any response, is coin-swap a scam exchange?

Could you update your CPU miner to work with OEC?

Doesn't work with OEC, any fix on this soon?

Does this miner still have the Dev fee?

CPU mining may not be profitable when compared to GPU mining assuming the coin you are mining can be mined using both CPU & GPU, but to say that CPU mining generates a lot of heat and shortens the lifespan of a rig is insane! Unless the cooler on your CPU is faulty, or the thermal paste is dry, the CPU shouldn't overheat in the first place. That is a misconception.

Maybe the Dev has been abducted by aliens, so that he doesn't get to launch the coin of the century

If Linear stands for nothing different, then this coins has definitely lived up to it's name.

Mined at http://boost.pool.mn/ for three days straight, these guys were having a payout issue, and they even put up a message in the home page saying that our shares are there, and they are sorting the issue, now they have run away with it. I sometimes wonder how many other pools are made daily to scam people like this?

I mined at this https://xc.suprnova.cc/ pool and I wasn't paying attention to it for awhile, only to find that the pool has closed, and I never got any email notification from it, rather than a silly message in the homepage to withdraw all balances, which happened to have come to my notice after the date for the closure of the pool. From now on I am going to avoid coins with dodgy pools, specially coins that lists pools as officials, but the listed pools won't allow people to sign up saying their quotas are full.

I was mining at http://kore.0feepool.com/ and I noticed after a few hours of mining that there weren't any payouts being made, nothing in the transactions, zip. Then it all of a sudden said that the pool is not functioning, and now I see that the pool is gone, so what I would like to know is, what happens to the hours of work I put in? Is this freepool a scam or what?

Try the card on a different machine, or connecting it to a different slot, take out one of the cards and swap it with the card you suspect to be faulty, and see how it behaves. It could be faulty, yes.

I have updated my post. And here's the thing. With the old miner, both my cards used to use up about 260 Megabytes of video memory on average, but now the video memory usage on my HD 7950 is 2.7 GB. The more threads you will add, the more video memory it will require, and if the number of threads are too high (I used to run 8 threads on my HD 7950, now I am running 5) the miner will not work at all. If you are facing inconsistant hash rates, simply start lowering the thread count till you reach to a point where the hash rate isn't jumpy anymore. And yes, the pool dashboard isn't real time, so there will be a variance.

The miner seems to be reporting higher hash rates, however, from the pool's side, I see no improvements.

Edit: Oddly enough, now it's reporting higher than what I used to get with the older miner over time from the pool's side,

What I noticed is that the video memory usage of the cards have skyrocketed, the miner is now using eight to ten times more video memory than it used to.

Those of you who are facing inconsistent hash rates, try lowering the number of threads. The inconsistent hash rate occurs when the card starts hitting it's video memory limit. Be sure to leave 200 Mb of free memory at least (you can view the vram usage using Gpu-Z)

And for those of you who are still using Intensity, I think it's about time you people learn to use the Experimental intensity, and use more than two threads. It provides much better results while putting less stress on your hardware.

My settings for my Sapphire HD 7950 3GB Dual-X OC:

sgminer.exe -k x11mod -o stratum+tcp://your.pool.address:port -u username -p password --thread-concurrency 16384 --no-submit-stale -g 5 -X 6 --gpu-powertune 15 --lookup-gap 0 --gpu-engine 1100--queue 0 --scan-time 1 --expiry 30

This gets me 2.442 Mh/s (previously I used to get only 2 Mh/s with the old miner, and my clocks are pretty conservative. If you can push the core and memory more, you will yield better results)

And the settings I have for my Sapphire HD 7850 Dual-X OC 2GB:

sgminer.exe -k x11mod -o stratum+tcp://your.pool.address:port -u username -p password --thread-concurrency 4096 --lookup-gap 0 --no-submit-stale -g 2 -X 6 --gpu-engine 1100 --queue 0 --scan-time 7 --expiry 28

This gets me about 1.4 Mh/s, previously I used to get about 1.120 Mh/s at best.

I hope this helps.

If I buy Wolfenstein:The New Order, will I get the DooM beta key with it? And also, how about adding some classics like Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D, DooM and stuff? And is it possible for you to get Duke Nukem Forever with the DLCs? If so, how much would it cost?

I mined for over two hours at stablehash, got zero payment, just a heads up for people for people who are looking to join there.