You understand multipool isn't the only way to go about it right? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172121.0

I agree, it's far from an ideal situation, it is preferable to a situation like CNC however.

Somehow the base hashrate needs to be pushed up. There are just too many coins and not enough miners. Slowly coins will die off, my bet is on ARG being around a lot longer than most of the other coins due to its careful selection of parameters.

I can confirm seeing at least 150MH or so on epools when diff is low. There are definitely other large entities mining ARG, stopping multipoool really won't do much except in the low beats you'll get your coins twice as fast which will still be very unprofitable. It's not enough of a difference to sway anyone's decision.

Not sure why ARG has been the "example" coin out of all of this. I would re-iterate, if anything the fact that ARG can withstand such large diff swings is a real testament to the design of the coin!

Flound is just doing his pool justice, that is his JOB, he's not trying to destroy any coin in the process. If anything, slowing the rate of mining as he's done is making the current share of ARG worth more. Nobody is using ARG in time sensitive transactions so there's no real harm, and from what we've seen so far the block chain will never stall like CNC.

I would suggest though, Flound, maybe you would open up ARG and charge a mandatory fee instead of trying to get a bounty. Most of the premine has been accounted for and i think any remainder would just stand to top up the digibank of baritus.

This might work, but with the base hash rate only at 12MH probably not. Diff will be slower to go up, but MUCH MUCH slower to go down. FTC got stuck with a very high diff and even after the fork, i remember it was still stuck for another 2-3weeks. FTC was also heavily instamined, with those stakeholders coming together to buy their way out of that hole with rewards. I don't think anyone will come to the rescue of ARG.

It is a good suggestion though, which does even out some of the shock of a diff change. The final solution might need a combination of factors in the end. I think we all agree that ARG needs to exist. The real shame here is the timing of the launch to coincide with the 20 or so other coins which were released for instant profits. And yes i have sampled most.

The best contribution so far has been the careful balance of block time and diff re-target. It is the selection of those parameters that make this coin so great. A technical change to me is one like changing mining algo or something a bit more extreme. The future proofing is nice, but can be added in later to any other coin. Some of those were suggestions taken from the bitcoin wishlist i believe.

I think the random block reward was intended to solve some of the issues with flash mining going on right now, but doesn't really work. Increasing the randomness (somewhat like LKY) probably won't work either as it will all average over time through successive future flash mining periods.

Not much to weigh in here that hasn't already been said. I do agree ARG hasn't added anything technical to the crypto-currency realm, however, i do believe it has its place due to these points mainly.

1) Most, if not all of the premine has been accounted for.
2) Fair distribution from start, fast difficulty retargets mean flash mining is not or ever will be a problem (the coin will not be destroyed like CNC).
3) Very low Orphan rate, the block time DOES work given the mining circumstances it was designed for. Along with jbmiller10, I would argue no currency (including bitcoin) can take a 5000% increase in hashrate and produce 0 orphans.

The currency fits in between the faster block times of WDC and DGC and the slower of LTC, it has its place. Unfortunately it was launched at a time when the market was completely saturated, to find miners that aren't already committed elsewhere is difficult.

Flash mining of this currency was taking place before multipool, so multipool isn't to blame. I'm surprised multipool orphan rate is only 5%, epools looks to be around 30%. Not sure if there is a quick fix in this situation. The best outcome would be for multipool to only allocate a certain percentage of its hashing power over. This would reduce orphans and increase profitability for multipool, whilst not totally obliterating the currency for everyday miners. This would also reduce the time of the next retarget so multipool would have more opportunities to mine the coin as well.

I thought the extension was .config, not .conf.

Bought the rest from yoshiyoshi. Very quick and painless transaction

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Looks like it's working to me for your host machine. That long polling message isn't a problem.

Are you sure your host is 192.168.1.1?? You can check by typing ipconfig into cmd. Look for address that starts with 192.168.1.?? and enter that one in.

Yeah, i had a second round of going without payouts. Mine stopped from 15172, are you receiving payouts now?

Payments working again, Hoorah! I wonder what the issue was.

Same for me as well. Was working great and then payments stopped about 35 minutes ago.

For 79XX you should at least have 500KHash+ https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison
From your post, you haven't submitted a share (the number of A's is 0). The pool calculates your expected hash rate through how many shares you submit. Sometimes cgminer is buggy and you just need to restart your machine.

I had some problems syncing too. I deleted peers.dat, worldcoin.conf and in settings->options->network checked "Map port using UPnP". I restarted the wallet and have now got 8 connections in the last minute. Not sure if this was just random luck or if any of what i did helped.

I would love to and i think i could get the team to assemble it all together. I just get the feeling that by the time the chips arrive it will be too late and the difficulty will be too high. You may break even.

If you do order, i would add about 1 year to the delivery time.

A mere 3.5Mhash

BBQ coin has been going for about 6 months now yeah? It started as a joke but became somewhat a serious alternative to the mass of altcoins currently out there. It is a predecessor in a way to the current flood of alts.

BTCe has been good to me as well.

Do you have any HW errors?