I downloaded it on to a VC earlier but ran out of time before work, I'll have a play with it later on

There has been a lack of communication from our lead technology and algorithm developer. We share the same frustrations as the community, and expected work to be completed at a quicker pace.

Before cutting off contact two weeks ago, the lead dev played around with various exploits and succeeded in fixing some and shared some of his findings with us. The AXIOM team was given compiled optimized wallets to test around the time we made the POS 3.0 announcements. We never received the source code to these optimized wallets.

For this reason, we have decided to release two of the optimized miners that were compiled by the lead developer. We hope to work with the incredibly motivated AXIOM community to continue building the project and harden the Proof of Stake protocol against such “optimizations” as these. We suspect the developer does not want to fix POS insecurities, and we invite the community to join us in our efforts to secure POS exploits in the #axiomcrypto channel on the Freenode IRC network.

The first manipulates a POS variable and a weight check in wallet.cpp to cause coins to split and stake more often than a normal wallet.


https://bitbucket.org/AxiomCryptocurrency/axiom/downloads/axiom-qt-optimized-staking.zip


The second was delivered to us with much less of an explanation. It contains the above edits and also skips a CPU intensive “check” phase in POS. We aren’t sure exactly what this wallet is doing, but it seems to stake more often.


https://bitbucket.org/AxiomCryptocurrency/axiom/downloads/axiom-qt-staketest-optimized-staking-test2.zip


We are NOT certain what these wallets will do the network. We expect the POS difficulty to raise. If there are any network or blockchain problems we are equipped to hardfork and resolve any issues. Whatever happens, it will be interesting.

We are looking for more community involvement to aid us in reaching our development goals. This isn’t the end of the line, and with the help of the community, we can finish the project and revolutionize the Proof of Stake system by patching all possible exploits. The next high POW/POS period begins in 6 weeks and we ask the GPU mining crowd to also share their code with the rest of the AXIOM community and keep our coin strong.




More news soon.

what's the payout with Nicehash?

In case you are not aware, you can add the --power-tune option in the conf file.  By setting a negative value, you can force the card to run at a lower voltage, so it won't run as hot.  The down side is, you won't come anywhere near hitting the 100% rating.  When I did it, and brought my card down to about 63C, I was only rating in barely above 50% on my r9 290.   This is using --power-tune -38.  With my normal setup, that gets me a stable >6 Mh/s (with x11), and no HW....24 hours a day.  It actually is a quite large power difference too.  Running hot, my 290 will draw a steady 200W.  Running the way I normally do, it stays around 113W.  May not seem like much, but multiply that 87W difference over 24 hours....and you have burned an extra 2.088kW.  Assuming $0.10/kW, I would be losing $0.21 right off the top.  So -0.000714 BTC from whatever I could mine.

Basically, I know my card is capable of running well above the 100% rating, but something is not set right with the dashminer software.  Honestly, as hot as it ran during my testing, and knowing what I get with my normal setup, I should have been pushing a 200% rating. 

A thought has occurred to me, though, which I have been considering for a couple days.  If the dashminer software actually is getting the speed it claims, maybe the miners aren't actually getting full credit for their hash rate.  Using my setup as a reference example, pushing it as hard as the software did, theoretically, I should have been ticking in right around 9 Mh/s.  The software said I was hitting ~92%.  The baseline reference for x11 was 4.84Mh/s.  Double that would be 9.68Mh/s.  Based on this info, my card was running at approximately 93% of that.  That puts a situation where everyone is mining, and only getting partial credit for their hashes. 

Granted, it is a reasonable business model, and it would also explain why the payout is so good.  When you are getting half of what everyone mines....you can afford to be generous in the payouts.  I am just not keen on the secrecy.  If that is what the business model is, I would rather know up front.  Yeah, there would be people who are all ticked off cause they aren't getting full credit.  But, if the payout is better, then it doesn't matter quite so much. 

My only real issue is, I know what I am getting with my normal setup.  I will not run my rig that hot.  It is more expensive because of the power consumption and inefficiency (due to heat).  Plus, it is VERY bad for the equipment.  Personally, I would rather have the option of having to setup a multi-address pool (similar to the way NiceHash does it), and use my own setup.  For people that don't want to deal with the technical stuff, they can use the plug-n-play software. 

Anyway, that is my two cents.

Personally, I would want them to hold that for now. Btctalk forum gets lot of traffic and that means more investors. Creating new forum can help once everything is set up and ready. Once they create new forum all the current investors will move there and this thread will turn into 100% fudfest which means new investors would become less attractive to it.

I hate going through Fud myself but BitBay gets more visibility here than it will get anywhere else.

You can sell them easily i guess