Interested in why you're using poolofD32th, from what I can tell bsod pools seems to be working again (although was annoying me for quite a while there!), and only has 0.5 per cent fee, while poolofD32th has 2 per cent fee.

Are they particularly reliable or have good pool managers? Over 1000 people mining at that pool so they must have something going for them!

Predicting the next Ethereum is always going to be very difficult! I doubt the people who had Eth when it was $10 would be that confident it would hit close to $500 in a relatively short period of time.

Stratis is great, and I only have a handful, but would be thrilled if it jumped higher - I think it is a great product.

Still not sure why this thread is kept alive - Sigt 2.0 is Straks, just go over to the Straks announcement thread. All the questions about the swap process are highlighted in the Straks thread. It is essentially a step by step send and receive process that can be done through the Straks team discord. Instructions on github (again, available through Straks thread!)

I think trade.io has a good bounty as you get actual tokens rather than 'stakes', so you know exactly how many tokens you'll get. There are still a couple weeks left in this campaign.

I think altcommunity coin is doing a good bounty as again, you get actual tokens per post not stakes. Depending on your membership level, it could be the equivalent of a dollar to a few dollars for each post (depending on the going price, which fluctuates quite a bit at the moment).

Has anyone successfully set up a secure node, on Windows 10, using their Mining rig system? Any troubleshooting tips?

I'm interested in if this is practicable, or if it is more difficult to set up a node than that. I have a mining rig that is on pretty much 24/7 anyway, so if I can run a secure node through it, then of course I'd be happy to.

I already do similar things with staking other coins by leaving those relevant wallets open on the staking option while still pow mining. Running a node through it as well would really make that system work hard!

Crypto kitty could struggle when other similar games come in (given how successful this game is) and perhaps with less issues in terms of transaction fees. I recall reading an article that the Steemit blockchain is only at like 1 per cent capacity so could likely take on a game like crypto kitty and still work fine. Not sure exactly how Steemit operates, but there was some discussion of games using Steemit as a platform.

Crypto kitty has first mover advantage in the 'digital blockchain collectable' space (if you want to call it that) so we'll see how it all pans out.

I think having some knowledge of who the team is can be pretty important - might be one of the reasons that substratum is doing well since you know who is on the team, they do interviews and are generally trying to be seen.

I remember seeing a poll recently on this forum about what people consider when investing in an ico, and over half selected 'strength of team' as the main thing in choosing where to invest.

Might not work for all coins, particularly ones focused on privacy, but it can still put people in the community off from investing.

Congratulations on a successful signature bounty campaign! Looks like with the recent increases in bitcoin price has attracted a lot of people to this bounty, to the point where you're only accepting legendary members!

Anyway, the project looks great and I hope the ico is a success. I got across the ico from clicking through someones signature blog so the campaign obviously worked

If you re-read my post it clearly says I am not sure of the reliability of the source article.

Regardless, you are wrong to think it is just a made up laugh for kids. You would see that if you did ANY research that the Monaco Government has been trying for years to trademark its name, taking the matter to the EU courts, and companies like 'Monaco Card' would fall under those legal issues IF the Monaco Government was successful. Fortunately for Monaco Card company, the Monaco Government has been unsuccessful to date.

To say it is just FUD or some kindergarten stuff is a bit silly. It is an issue Monaco Card the company has actually responded to in Q&A sessions, and is a well known trademark issue the Monaco Government has been pushing for years.

Also if you look back at my post - I was responding to a question about whether Monaco the country has anything to do with Monaco Card. Nothing to do with randomly starting FUD, just sharing research.

Personally, I don't think Monaco Card the company will have any issues, since there are so many other companies that would be in the same position if the Monaco Government was successful in trademarking 'Monaco'.

Have a read if you'd like to learn about it:

Here for example on Monaco Government court proceedings:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/monaco-government-fails-in-attempt-to-trademark-its-own-name-at-eus-general-court-9981181.html

And it the issue was raised in Slack and responded to by Monaco Card, you can read some of it through reddit in the comments field here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MonacoCard/comments/7idvfk/taking_questions_for_next_qa_on_tuesday_1212_10pm/

I've just done the sigt/straks swap. Pretty straightforward. Only thing is you have to join straks Discord. I hadn't use discord and had no wish to really use discord on a frequent basis, but overall it is pretty easy. Essentially you join discord, type !swap and then do what the swap robot says. You can then add your straks address by typing !straks (address).

Took maybe 15 minutes including joining/loading discord. Might take a bit longer if you still need to download straks wallet.

Yeah I had issues couldn't connect to stratum or some error like that. Then refreshed the pool and it was up to 4000 miners, up from less than 2000 - don't know if the upswing has something to do with it.

Mining something else as I had to quickly go to work but there have been pool issues with various pools for a while now (umine issues for example). Hope the reliability of pools improves.

No actually. However, I read somewhere that they are in some strife over using the name 'Monaco' as supposedly the country (jurisdiction?) doesn't like companies using their name. They've already started legal proceedings - although I'm not sure how reliable the article is as a source. If it is true, I'm not sure what the outcome will be. It's not like they can call themselves MonacoIN, since that is already taken by a useless coin with a catface on it.

So you're saying that even if you only have a handful of signatum (like a few hundred), it will be split out over a monthly payment schedule, rather than be paid out all at once? Based on github, it looks like they have an amount that is willing to be paid in Straks every month, but doesn't say anything about it being split evenly between each address over a 12 month period from what I can see, just that it will be in parallel to mining.

Yeah numbers on bsod starting to plummet, was up around 1200 miners now down to about 800. Still have some payouts unpaid. Disappointing if it doesn't come through I really hope these pools get sorted out, just want a reliable pool might try block sucker nation pool now

It's not too late! You can wait for a pull back if you like to try but if you expect Stratis to increase overall in the longer term (as in, more than just a few weeks!) then of course, buy in at any reasonable price.

I think some people try to be too clever with their trading strategies, thinking they can buy dips and sell tops consistently. I did similar things with NEO, and while it worked pretty well, I ended up missing out on a huge run to high $30usd.

I think the challenge for Straks, pitched essentially as a transparent community coin, will be to take all the best bits out of the community that have come over from Sigt, while trying to leave the baggage at the door.

Having a ready made group in Sigt come over to this project looks to be a blessing and a curse based on over 50 pages on this thread. It means you have a group of people ready to contribute, but if they are still holding onto the ups and downs, and general weirdness of things that happened with Sigt, then it will be difficult to get positive engagement.

I personally like the Sigt/Straks swap. It is a better outcome than the developers pretending they weren't involved in some way in the Sigt project. Also the way they've done the swap where coins are released steadily over time in parallel with mining rewards (instead of just 'dumped' into peoples wallets) is the right way to go about it.

Just a heads up. You might want to correct the spelling on the first page of this bounty thread, and if appropriate, the announcement page to change it to EtheREUM, instead of what you current have as EtheRIUM.

I'm not usually a stickler for spelling, but things like that really jump out at me, and it probably does for a lot of other people, particularly if you're thinking of getting involved in the ico

Wish I'd taken my own advice and sold some around $16-17, particularly with bitcoin rising like some pumped up altcoin!

Still, the current price of $10 is much higher than the $5.50 range it was a few weeks back. So really can't complain! Hopefully the other two exchanges getting listed will make a difference, particularly if they have some random trading tesla contest.

Thanks heratys, yes exactly, this was the reason for my confusion. On a closer look, particularly on the website I can see under the Faq that it was one year PoW. Also in the table with the quarterly year by year breakdown there isn't anything that jumps out that highlights PoW is in year one, and all the other years PoS.

I would guess a few people will automatically jump to figures, tables etc so the short sentence that PoW is one year could easily be missed. Could be worth making the one year PoW more apparent or doing something similar to what heratys suggests.

Also under the Faq menu under whitepaper, nothing comes up. When the whitepaper is uploaded I'm guessing that will help clarify the roadmap.

So according to cryptopia, bulwark is getting around 0.0002 btc (so that's around $2.5usd per coin, unless my maths is wrong). How much can you get with an NVidia gtx 1070 and 1060. For whatever reason can't seem to find the algo on whattomine? Unless Nist is shorthand for one of the other algos already up there.