Marscoin State of the network
Comments from a Mars Enthusiast like you.

State: Good

Official Contact Points
Website: http://www.marscoin.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CkuPngx
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marscoinorg
Facebook: https://facebook.com/marscoin/
Telegram: https://t.me/marscoinofficial
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/marscoin/

Web-based wallet: https://wallet.marscoin.org

Mars related news.
Elon Musk is looking to land a rocket on Mars within the next year or three. Several incremental tech prototypes have already been tested, and he plans to land within this decade..

There is quite a lot of discussion within the Mars Society groups about the best way to colonise Mars, arguments range from Terraforming, which generally seems unfeasable, to construction of modular or large scale habitats.    A number of very stylish designs for residential modules have been posted, and NASA even has a working mock up prototype of a mobile laboratory/Rover they exhibit at conventions sometimes.

Marscoin News:
Elon Musk when asked about a Mars Economy replied that he planned to use a Cryptocurrency, and draft their own colonial constitution.  When someone suggested "marscoin", he replied, yes.  This caused quite a stir in the Crypto/Altcoin community, as now the Marscoin community has become rather busy again with active miners and speculation.

The Marscoins pools and explorer are currently working after some issues last year caused some hiccups.

Security / Trader Warning
Bitforex  has added a premined "Network token"   called the "Mars Network Token"  using the Marscoin currency code "MARS" which as far as we can tell does nothing useful, has a generic altcoin website and has nothing to do with Mars, Marscoin or SpaceX.  This may cause chaos on coin market cap websites that monitor Marscoin performance.   Trader / buyer beware if you use BitForex.  Trade stats, prices and volumes listed on coin market websites may be wrong due to this coin.     We hope forex relabel their token as MNT or MARN or similar to avoid confusion.

Exchange listings
Marscoin is also again now available to trade on the Folgory trade platform: https://folgory.com/trade-crypto/MARS_BTC
Individuals can also trade directly with other Marscoin users by posting offers on the Marscoin Discord in the OTC trades channel.

Edit: Also now available at the following trade platforms    :
https://www.xt.com/tradePro/mars_btc
https://www.finexbox.com/market/pair/MARS-BTC.html


Quick Hot Node list
138.197.100.187:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:38:07    0.868 MB
89.217.109.21:50429    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:38:12    152.824 MB
54.38.18.241:41004    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:38:22    2.036 MB
159.203.79.101:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:38:28    0.899 MB
174.138.44.177:40952    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:38:55    2.976 MB
107.170.27.222:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:39:04    2.854 MB
134.209.160.91:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:39:11    0.840 MB
119.17.128.237:52030    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:40:53    6.035 MB
14.11.162.225:47663    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/10/2021 16:57:59    81.835 MB
119.17.149.228:55571    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/11/2021 14:01:56    89.226 MB
175.177.40.53:50728    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/11/2021 15:38:19    0.518 MB
91.206.16.214:52996    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/11/2021 15:41:01    0.380 MB
107.170.70.121:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    01/11/2021 15:42:03    0.063 MB

No relation I am aware of unless its internal devs only - they do have a collab platform I dont use. 

AFAIK The official telegram is t.me/marscoinofficial

Marscoin state of the network

Official Contact Points
Website: http://www.marscoin.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CkuPngx
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marscoinorg
Facebook: https://facebook.com/marscoin/
Telegram: https://t.me/marscoinofficial
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/marscoin/
Gitter: gitte[Suspicious link removed]/marscoin-dev

Misc -
Web-based wallet: https://wallet.marscoin.org
Computer based wallets: https://github.com/marscoin/marscoin/blob/master-1.5/Releases/v1.5/

Mars News
SpaceX has progressed quite a lot in its mars colonial transport, and is likely to launch in a year or so.


Marscoin related news
Something odd has been occuring to the Marscoin mining pools.  The official pool has been getting knocked offline to the point it is almost perminently offline now.

My own pool, "the Other Marscoin pool"  was also knocked out a few weeks ago shortly after a heavy round of mining followed by someone dumping RDP connect attempts into the mining port.   Whatever it did prevented it from being able to assign shareID to the miners mining it anymore, generating null shareIDs which MPOS cannot work around.   I have been actively attempting to resolve it - have made some progress but there seems to be something else interferring with the network as a  whole complicating matters.

Mining dutch, another Marscoin mining pool also seems to have decided to throw in the towel as well.    Their backend seems to have dropped as well.

 
Quick hot node list
I've had to restart the node a few times so my list is a bit short at the moment -

213.32.6.132:22162    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.002 MB
46.101.235.143:57830    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.001 MB
174.138.44.177:45040    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    16/05/2020 18:06:27    0.001 MB
189.4.67.32:34784    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    16/05/2020 18:06:28    0.001 MB
213.32.6.132:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    19/05/2020 09:54:59    0.185 MB
119.17.128.237:8338    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    19/05/2020 10:52:41    0.023 MB
165.227.84.200:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    19/05/2020 11:30:04    0.062 MB
213.32.6.132:22162    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.249 MB
46.101.235.143:57830    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.246 MB
107.170.27.222:35181    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.246 MB
165.227.84.200:46920    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/05/2020 17:59:25    0.247 MB
107.170.70.121:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    16/05/2020 17:59:44    0.297 MB
174.138.44.177:45040    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    16/05/2020 18:06:27    0.377 MB
119.17.128.237:39076    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    19/05/2020 10:52:41    0.023 MB
175.177.40.52:50209    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    19/05/2020 15:27:07    0.007 MB
192.168.1.108:60822    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    19/05/2020 15:57:36    0.005 MB
175.177.40.52:44546    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.4    19/05/2020 16:29:10    0.002 MB

Time for another quick state of network post

 

Marscoin related news
Marscoin is forging stronger ties with the Mars Society this year, and the DEVs are currently discussing ways to add to the functionality of marscoin.
They also have a discord now.   Follow MarsCoin on facebook (or your preferred platform) or check their website out periodically to keep up to date.
The network is very active at the moment reported hashrate at the moment is 3,874,509.96 KH/s (yowzers!)

Mars related news
Too much Mars news to summarise,   suggest googling "Missions to mars"  there is hundreds of them now!
Join the Mars Society group on facebook for news as it happens.

Other Crypto News (or perhaps speculative gossip would be more accurate)
Perhaps not surprisingly Cryptopia called in receivers a year or so after a banking group purchased a majority chunk of their shares and started interferring with its operation (such interferences like delisting altcoins (including marscoin), shutting down the marketplace, closing the mining pools, deleting the popular dotto lotto etc)  and shortly after several million dollars in supernet (eth xmr ripple etc) altcoins were mysteriously stolen from their cold wallets ultimately forcing Cryptopia to file.   The Mysterious part is the cold wallets in question could theoretically only have been accessed by those high placed in the organisation..  such as the above mentioned banking group..  funds continued to disappear even after all the cryptopia equipment had been siezed by federal police and trading suspended - which suggests someone got a hold of the private keys.     Those same missing coins then began slowly appearing on foreign crypto exchanges.  The Plot thickens.   No word yet what has become of the roughly 200 million dollars of non-supernet alt coin and bitcoin that was NOT stolen, and was still held for traders.      Best guess is all trades will be cancelled, and they will allow traders at some point to login briefly to withdrawal their funds.. (what funds are left after the recievers decide to help themselves to it too) but given the court system does not understand crypto, the funds could just as easily be lost - they will probably not be very obvious WHEN traders can log in to withdraw, and many may miss out.

Hot Node List:
Address / v/version / time connected since / traffic(how active this node is)
176.9.25.79:37070    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    15/07/2019 10:43:39    25.528 MB
95.217.40.186:57228    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    01/08/2019 06:35:53    21.029 MB
213.32.6.132:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    03/08/2019 16:44:08    9.336 MB
107.170.70.121:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2019 15:10:47    6.136 MB
208.113.128.20:38584    70028    Marscoin Node:1.5.3    06/08/2019 15:15:24    13.177 MB
167.99.200.71:51408    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    06/08/2019 15:45:25    7.796 MB
85.2.237.110:42776    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    06/08/2019 23:33:01    8.364 MB
89.185.100.225:61218    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    07/08/2019 21:22:54    15.898 MB
165.227.84.200:58560    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    10/08/2019 05:46:16    8.204 MB
83.41.128.63:49194    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    12/08/2019 09:33:04    7.586 MB
107.170.27.222:44557    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    13/08/2019 03:31:50    3.534 MB
149.56.155.28:28493    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    16/08/2019 03:19:35    4.095 MB
80.30.211.28:64181    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    24/08/2019 00:04:01    1.940 MB
157.161.128.59:46334    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    24/08/2019 22:58:38    1.179 MB
46.101.126.142:32802    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    25/08/2019 18:50:02    0.534 MB
83.40.150.150:63303    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    25/08/2019 19:22:10    0.597 MB
66.220.238.254:32761    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    26/08/2019 06:49:43    0.209 MB
68.175.100.66:55005    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    26/08/2019 11:29:38    0.059 MB

Current Status of Marscoin network.
Note: I am simply an enthusiast trying to support Marscoin.

Marscoin News:
Another enthusiast has created a new mining pool -
theminingpoolstratum.selfip.com/marscoin/public/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool

In addition to:
pool.marscoin.org
mars.our-game.net
(and a number of multipools I dont have details for eg prohashing)

Official Website Updated
It appears the official website had a redesign.  It now has a newer look and some new content.

Fake marscoin page and website Warning
There appears to be another fake marscoin facebook page and website; from the logo its likely related to the previous scam. Although the fake website has been taken down, annoyingly the facebook page has more likes than the official page - which suggests it caused a lot of confusion and bad publicity for many people.

Delisting notice:
It is not all good news however -
Cryptopia seems to have gone the way of other medium exchanges and started deleting all but the top 10 cryptocoins, including Marscoin.  I guess it's to become just another poloniex clone now.   

I've asked for clarification over which particular area of concern has it delisting.   But I expect it is for one of the following reasons - either bad publicity/confusion with the fake marscoin (mentioned above), not enough sales volume, not enough engagment from the developers, or issues on the official pool.    The network itself seems healthy enough with plenty of nodes (hot node list to follow below) and plenty of hash rate (over 500,000,000H last i checked) and plenty of pools available to mine it (although with cryptopia delisting I expect the multipools may drop if from their rotation)

Nova exchange still lists Marscoin, but I dont have an account there so I cant say if it is usable or not.
https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_MARS/

Mars related news.
Insight landed sucessfully on Mars this week!  That is awesome!  Another step closer to colonisation.   Google "Insight" for current news.


Hot Node list:
Address / v/version / time connected since / traffic
107.170.70.121:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    22/11/2018 01:56:34    0.359 MB
157.161.128.59:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    22/11/2018 01:56:39    0.810 MB
165.227.84.200:40296    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 01:56:49    0.426 MB
142.93.100.247:41706    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 01:57:21    0.440 MB
217.175.119.125:43334    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 01:59:19    0.792 MB
188.165.245.13:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:00:06    0.856 MB
91.121.136.87:39510    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:05:19    0.885 MB
37.59.53.125:32804    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:09:32    0.891 MB
50.225.198.67:49604    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    22/11/2018 02:10:30    0.561 MB
46.105.127.109:35652    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:11:32    1.039 MB
83.40.41.65:49354    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    22/11/2018 02:12:26    0.918 MB
94.23.220.166:52748    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:12:46    0.943 MB
37.59.47.131:41048    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:14:05    0.889 MB
37.59.52.197:59064    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:18:28    0.860 MB
46.105.122.114:47286    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:22:27    0.888 MB
94.23.253.69:52478    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:22:33    0.894 MB
46.105.122.128:50426    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:25:21    0.863 MB
192.99.19.157:54940    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    22/11/2018 02:27:37    0.661 MB
94.23.255.91:43878    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:29:57    0.936 MB
188.165.194.181:49228    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 02:57:24    0.873 MB
188.165.200.106:38330    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 05:18:00    0.896 MB
91.121.159.37:34164    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 05:47:47    0.911 MB
188.165.217.216:47970    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 06:02:22    0.922 MB
94.23.59.109:49046    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 06:12:50    0.873 MB
188.165.196.91:53244    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 06:31:45    0.890 MB
167.99.200.71:46082    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 08:42:35    0.766 MB
173.249.47.165:59848    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    22/11/2018 10:56:12    0.720 MB
46.105.99.166:55182    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    23/11/2018 04:08:38    0.863 MB
37.233.16.183:17336    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    24/11/2018 01:01:44    0.613 MB
188.165.252.153:53450    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    24/11/2018 02:46:58    0.743 MB
176.9.25.79:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    24/11/2018 11:46:31    0.704 MB
83.40.146.145:60512    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    26/11/2018 09:54:54    0.673 MB
176.31.115.63:50356    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    26/11/2018 11:51:59    0.480 MB
108.170.1.134:1256    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    26/11/2018 15:14:36    0.393 MB
109.103.136.82:49574    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/11/2018 01:03:41    0.319 MB
159.69.200.191:48728    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/11/2018 01:35:06    0.169 MB
71.203.208.153:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    28/11/2018 05:28:38    1.461 MB
85.236.188.28:59010    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    28/11/2018 10:27:55    0.050 MB
67.84.132.53:58349    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    28/11/2018 15:40:30    0.048 MB
213.32.6.132:35196    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    28/11/2018 15:54:33    0.048 MB
93.211.148.88:62394    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    28/11/2018 17:43:39    0.091 MB

Whats this about some suspicous wallet that claims to offer 100k ??    This isnt that marsbux scam fooling people again is it?

I suggest only install the official one from http://www.marscoin.org/buy-hold/   (it links to the marscoin github release)

As far as I can tell the Web based marscoin wallet is still curently working: 
https://wallet.marscoin.org


I've not logged in for 3 years, but my login still works. I noticed it was playing up a while back but its going at the moment.


Looks like the marscoin.org block explorer ( explore.marscoin.org ) has a crashed coin daemon from the error it shows at the moment, i'll try to nag them on the marscoin facebook page to restart it.   The prohashing marscoin explorer still seems to work fine.  https://prohashing.com/explorer/Marscoin/

If anyone knows a good litecoin based block explorer that supports ubuntu link me and ill try to add it to the Australian marscoin pool.   Keep in mind however I only check this forum occaisionally so I might not see it right away.

State of the Marscoin network report 2018.

Background:
I am just an enthusiast running the Australian mining pool.  mars.our-game.net

Mining seems a bit hit or miss this year, over the weekend the network hash rate dropped a bit, so i fired up my own miners and scored a few blocks. Most likely explanation one of the other larger mining pools or pipe networks went down for scheduled maintenance.

Current Hash rate (approx):  2.2 million khash
Peak hash rate: 2.8 million khash
Worst hash rate: 40-50,000 khash


Trade price variation 2018:
Worst Price: 0.00000079
Best price: 0.00000490
Rough Price Average 0.00000110 to 0.00000150
Typical Price volitility:  Approx +/- 0.00000010 in a given week
Peak Price Volitilty(size of change not price): 0.00000100 to 0.00000300
Sensitivity to Bitcoin/USD price changes: Low

Current hot node list:
107.170.70.121:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 11:45:41    1.231 MB
91.121.159.37:8338    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:46:16    1.611 MB
107.170.124.219:50492 70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 11:46:17    1.220 MB
52.14.92.197:59586    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:46:39    1.779 MB
192.99.19.157:40942    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 11:46:55    1.351 MB
107.170.108.177:56739 70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 11:47:00    1.271 MB
18.191.153.61:36528    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:47:36    1.571 MB
37.59.34.200:43478    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:49:29    1.992 MB
37.97.227.182:34576    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:49:38    1.268 MB
108.170.1.134:43184    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 11:50:17    1.511 MB
165.227.84.200:35018    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 11:53:07    1.269 MB
94.23.220.166:59562    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:01:21    2.026 MB
188.165.210.221:44042 70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:03:42    2.173 MB
188.40.78.31:54798    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:05:41    0.903 MB
158.69.246.121:39420    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:17:49    2.417 MB
81.44.17.148:62199    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    27/07/2018 12:23:26    2.331 MB
195.201.10.19:48548    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:30:02    1.630 MB
81.20.204.12:54798    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:30:43    1.921 MB
45.33.2.213:57862    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 12:35:00    1.932 MB
217.175.119.125:6545    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 13:03:40    2.581 MB
95.216.36.90:56276    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    27/07/2018 21:18:45    1.692 MB
188.165.208.16:60956    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    29/07/2018 01:48:49    8.017 MB
46.105.122.114:32790    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    29/07/2018 07:58:56    1.946 MB
73.62.37.189:56041    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    31/07/2018 04:01:34    0.548 MB
47.153.171.16:39532    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    01/08/2018 19:42:57    0.922 MB
47.153.171.16:54624    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    01/08/2018 19:43:51    0.701 MB
213.32.6.132:51016    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    02/08/2018 05:57:45    0.627 MB
157.161.128.59:40428    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    05/08/2018 06:43:13    0.324 MB
35.185.109.17:36722    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    05/08/2018 09:03:17    0.275 MB
46.23.35.70:52732    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.4    06/08/2018 01:32:33    0.146 MB
119.17.149.228:52396    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2018 07:37:45    0.112 MB
88.1.156.100:49441    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2018 08:37:10    0.112 MB
50.225.198.67:60302    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2018 09:34:49    0.049 MB
112.197.35.9:65211    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2018 10:09:26    0.046 MB
112.197.35.9:49790    70020    MarsCoin:1.0.3    06/08/2018 10:27:41    0.046 MB

I am just a Marscoin enthusiast (I am very interested in Mars Colonisation etc) and I run a mining pool.

But Marscoin had donated 500,000 coins to the Mars Society, and another 500k to the Mars One initiatve.   Not sure if these organisations still have their private keys.. but at the time I wrote this message those donations would be worth up to $35000 USD.

Best way to help is to simply use the coin for something.   Keep it active.  The more its value goes up, the more those donations to Mars One and the Mars Society count for.   You could also donate to the coin addresses for mars one or Mars Society.
Cryptopia has a market place where you can list goods/services in any altcoin you like.. maybe sell some spacey stuff in Marscoin ?

I personally hope to build a shopping website working entirely in Marscoin eventually.. but that is slow progress when I have other jobs to complete.

Lennart Lopin; one of the Marscoin foundation creators  and one of the Mars one Finalists, has a twitter if you want to hit him up with some questions.  Marscoin also has a facebook although are a little slower answering.

As far as roadmaps go - not sure - it was created for use as a currency for the Mars Colonies.   The final Mars One crew were going to setup a node on Mars.   The general idea was use as a research credit system.    Eg, a university on Earth could rent an hour on a Mars rover built and remotely operated on Mars..  or colonists could use it to buy/sell items or experiments to be added to supply missions to Mars or specimen return missions etc..

It was always going to be a long haul coin as Mars exploration is on a timetable of years not days.

State Of the network report
Here is where the world of Marscoin is - from the perspective of a Marscoin enthusiast. 

Interesting Mars news:

• Spacex is planning a lander mission to Mars by 2020 give or take, to be followed shortly by a crewed mission. Elon Musk plans to put one of his Tesla Roadsters in orbit around Mars just to proove he can.
• China has announced it plans a manned mission in the mid 2020's as well
• Arab Emerates has committed to create a major colony on Mars by the end of 2099, and has started building a prototype habitat dome here on earth for testing
• NASA has commited to at least think about going to Mars probably between 2030 and 2050 depending on the progress of the planned Moon missions, and planed lunar station

Other Marscoin news

• NovaExchange is now under new ownership and has added Marscoin.  The sell price there is a little less than Cryptopia so small traders may be able to get some cross / exchange trading profits.  The buy price book is looking a little empty too so posting a few low buy prices might net further profits again.
• The main official marscoin mining pool has been back up and running for a while now at pool.marscoin.org after mpos was updated by the admin.
• The official marscoin block explorer has been fixed as well.
• Marsbux is still causing problems on marketcap websites by pretending to be Marscoin, but given its average price is 1 sat dust, and some of the websites listing it have started using mars2 as its symbol, or delisting it entirely hopefully this problem will fix itself as Marsbux natually dies.

Exchanges Trading in Marscoin:
Cryptopia - www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_BTC

NovaExchange -  www.novaexchange.com/market/BTC_MARS/

Known Active pools:
pool.marscoin.org
marscoin.our-game.net
mars.coincave.nl

Explorers:
explore.marscoin.org
italyiimp.com/explorer/MARS
prohashing.com/explorer/Marscoin

Blockchain health report:
423,094.54 KH/s

Current hot node list:

Guys, your symbol is being listed using the same one as the Marscoin (MARS) symbol - can you get the exchanges to list the correct symbol for your coin (MARS2 or MAR2 or MRB or something along those lines), its causing some annoying issues with the Marscoin traders.    Some of the market cap sites are tracking mars coin but linking your website etc.. its a real headache.

Marscoin still crusing along, my pool is still up also, although MPOS has its quirks so I sometimes need to manually do a payout.  Bit of a worry we have a counterfeit crypto called marsbux using the same Symbol tho.. :/

Good to see other pools are still up.   Frustrating that our coin isn't on some exchanges yet they are happy to add a fake knock off..

Is there an ANN thread we can complain on ?

Edit:
aha https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1958655.msg24205535#msg24205535

Looks like its just a generic "plug and play.. make-your-own-coin-in-a-minute"  from cryptolife whos only interesting quirks is trying to steal the MARS symbol and some claim at one point they swapped silver coins for 500k of their coin..   so they also look to be trying to rip off the silver tether based coins too..

Still keeping that light burning.   Lots of Mars missions planned this year and next few years..  gotta keep the dream alive!

Quick "state of the union" summary:

Wesbites listing marscoin:
http://[Suspicious link removed]/index.php?Currency=MRS  (cryptoguru dot tk if it gives sus link error there is a post about it a few posts back)
http://crypto-trade.net  (i think - I dont have an account)

Exchanges/Trade pairs:
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_BTC
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_DOGE
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_DOT
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_FTC
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_LTC
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_UNO
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=MARS_XMR
https://wallet.marscoin.org/  (can buy marcoin from within at http://wallet.marscoin.org/wallet/dashboard/buy )

Places you can buy and sell goods in marscoin:
Ebay style market: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/MarketPlace
Marscoin traders group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1586283961614439/?ref=br_rs 
( Actually i found a few others but cant find the links!)


Pools:
http://mars.our-game.net/
https://prohashing.com/
https://p2pool.neocities.org/coin_mrs.html
https://www.scryptpool.com/pool/MARS  (may be about to be removed however)

Explorers:
https://prohashing.com/explorer/Marscoin/

Wallets:
Web based: https://wallet.marscoin.org/    Or within any exchange with marscoin.
OS based:  http://www.marscoin.org/plans.html
Paper wallets:
 walletgenerator.net/?currency=Marscoin
 marsaddress.org/

Source code:
github.com/marscoin/marscoin


Some active nodes as of 19/1/2017:
144.76.237.39:8338
87.161.254.74:8338
207.134.48.247:8338
157.161.128.59:8338
98.115.147.74:54759
46.254.11.158:43331
130.211.166.6:46662
86.145.34.1:53532
77.103.172.254:49174
88.206.141.110:26624
158.69.117.137:56063
85.236.188.28:52334
203.123.90.144:8338

Quick guide to create your own mining pool:
http://cybernexus.proboards.com/thread/783/setup-crypto-mining-marscoin-litecoin

I am still supporting Marscoin where I can..  I have a dedicated miner and pool running on it 24/7.
I was also one of the regular traders on Poloniex and Coins-e (before it vanished off the planet)
I also participated in some of the giveaways.

The incentive to make that 500,000mrs donation to Mars One and the Mars Society count for something one day is too strong for me ;o) as I am an Space Pioneering Enthusiast.   One guy I know designs simulated ROV mars rovers (which hopefully can be linked to rentals from a Marscoin payment gateway one day) which he lets people remotely operate over the internet sometimes and he wants to form an asteroid mining company.

Not sure if helpful to anyone but my pool is here: http://mars.our-game.net  and I have a forum for marscoin here: http://cybernexus.proboards.com/board/30/marscoin (for discussions about the pool or marscoin in general)

If you need active nodes my pool was setup as a crude sort of "supernode"  with a cache of the entire marscoin blockchain when I set it up originally.. so it usually has a few active up or downstream connections linked to it.

I've tried to keep any info i know about Marscoin posted on the pool (and now the forum sticky I added) up to date.

Besides which I still hope to get an online store trading in Marscoin working at some point too one day.  Be it selling Marsbars or in-game purchases.  I am hoping limecart (a coin deamon based php option)  can be adapted to marscoin..  as i really dont like the idea of going through corporate front ends like cointopay or the paypal crypto SDK.

If anyone knows of any current mining pools, or exchanges or online stores or just wants some coins to play with for that matter..  shoot me a message over at my marscoin forum. I'll add what I can to the sticky.

Also POS software that works in Marscoin would be nice too, the only ones I found required API access using your exchange trading logins at several exchanges, and that really sounded unsafe to me..

Cheers

I mine a lot of Marscoins myself..   want to be the first mars millionaire!  lol (dont we all?)

Given they hope to use it as a research credit/mars rover renting/internal colony currency I am hoping the value goes up a lot as the missions start to launch.  

I actually contributed to the earlier marscoin giveaway trivia night on poloniex.  I might have another one in a while; depending on my free time, since the marscoin faucets are pretty rubbish.

I too want to set up a shopping site like @coreinternals  how is his project coming along? Anyone?

I also chat to one of the marscoin founders, he and several of them are MarsOne candidates, which is why he launched it.

@Buy - unless you use the official marscoin explorer or one of the crypto mining pools ones i would treat any 3rd party explorer for ANY coin with suspicion, even the faucet/explorer one posted earlier I dont recommend using simply as it looks very suspicous. (gambling referrals)

Here is two safe explorers I have found.
    http://explore.marscoin.org/address/MMarsonebnQkxsNQxewhadjjFWix4DXTau    (MarsOne's address!)
    https://prohashing.com/explorer/Marscoin/

I also have my own reference pool for marscoin mining here where I work, although I recommend most people use the official one, mine is in Australia, and has limited bandwidth.

@bradfrogger2 The blockchain did get slow a while back - apparently there was an issue with a cron dying on the default wallet peers. Bug was related to mPos mining software,  It was fixed shortly after. (i noticed it myself and let the marscoin admins know)

I suggest adding extra peers as backups prohashing has one ( 98.115.147.74:8338 i think), and poloniex (not sure exact port, i see it pop up on my wallet occaisionally)

Edit: here is my full connected (addnode= these in conf) peer list as of this post:
ec2-54-214-255-50.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8338
107.170.70.121:8338
c-174-58-20-231.hsd1.fl.comcast.net:8338
prohashing-1.prohashing.com:8338  (98.115.147.74:8338)
89-178-192-25.broadband.corbina.ru:8338
adsl-89-217-2-100.adslplus.ch:8338
182.88.37.81:8338
54.214.255.50:8338
130.39.190.22:8338
174.58.20.231:8338


These are also connecting in (but not sure if their wallets are exposed for syncing off their wallets (use port 8338 or leave port blank):
c-50-149-31-242.hsd1.pa.comcast.net  ESTABLISHED    
host81-132-131-2.range81-132.btcentralplus.com  ESTABLISHED  
524B935F.cm-4-4c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ESTABLISHED    
h-169-215.a192.priv.bahnhof.se  ESTABLISHED    
p57A1FE4A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de  ESTABLISHED    
95-190-108-34-bbc-dynamic.kuzbass.net  ESTABLISHED    
104.219.250.234  ESTABLISHED    
162.255.117.105  ESTABLISHED    
188.134.72.213   ESTABLISHED    
vpn.flightcentre.co.za  ESTABLISHED    



My pool shouldn't be too far behind either given its 24/7 but the hostname of that will change shortly so no point posting it yet.

(PS is fanbitcoin.com this same website as bitcointalk.org or a site illegally mirroring this one to sniff passwords?)