Hi all!

My boss and I were chatting about BTC and mining (we use solar power so the extra power isn't of concern to my boss as the grid pays us a pittance for our overproduction), and we are interested in giving it a go on the CAD stations we have here, but we only want  to use idle time.

I tried out the puddinpop RPC screensavers, but they are over a year old and just crash when trying to submit work. cgminer and commandsaver half works, but cgminer doesn't handle console redirection well at all and rarely exits cleanly.

Any other suggestions? If I wanted to offer a bounty on developing a solution, what's a reasonable offer? Anyone else looking for a screensaver miner who'd be willing to chip in?

outsidefactor

I like the idea of BitCoin. I've liked it since the day I first started researching it, though I started off with the mind set that it was likely a scam, but it became rapidly obvious that it was an actual attempt to make a useful, open source, decentralised online currency. One I immediately recocnised as geo-politically independent and a real solution to some of today's most gruesome ills. So I put on my miner's hat and got to work.

I have been watching the rise of Litecoin and Solidcoin with some trepidation: so many good projects have been destroyed by forking source code and a divided community. At the same time, Solidcoin make some VERY strong suggestions and accusations about recent changes in the BitCoin team, even to the point of accusing Gavin Andreson of supporting efforts for the Banks to take over the operation of BitCoin and of colluding with the FBI and CIA to undermine the privacy of the system. They also accuse the development team in general of allowing the code to stagnate, something I have to agree with as it seems the protocol isn't been evolved to keep up with the needs of the network (the focus seems to be on developing the API for e-commerce), especially in regards to security, though I am no code monkey so I could be wrong.

So, my question is this: what does everyone think? Are SolidCoin just a bunch of dirty splitters or are their concerns legitimate? Is solidCoin the scam I though BitCoin was? And WTF is LiteCoin and why do we need it when the main currency has mBTC and uBTC?

Thoughts?

outsidefactor