Unobtanium has been added to Give-Me-Coins.com merge pool, our 4th confirmed pool!

They are finding blocks...
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/uno/address.dws?uMMpGeLg4t34HHNjHxHQiHvkhWLPsxUBnD.htm

That explains the most recent sustained jump in hash.  Uno is steady at 1.4 to 1.8 phs.

Fairglu replied back about the Chainz explorer extraction report:

"Hi, these are based on tagging mining pools, either by the address they mine to or by coinbase messages.
So the mining pools need to be known and publish some minimal information so they can be tagged.
The information also has to be updated if/when the pools change address. Major pools usually expose that info, or even notify me about it, but usually just for the more "visible" coins."

If you know some pools, let me know their URL and a block they mined and I can tag them!"

I'd be the last person to know. I assumed the pools were inserting something into the coinbase, since it can contain any arbitrary data.  Do you have any idea how https://blockchain.info/pools  has mmpool pegged at 1% of bitcoin hash?  Do they just grab the published data from your site and divide it out?  Or do they go by who relayed it first?  IP?  I may be under the false assumption that there is a consensus way for pools to self-identify in the blocks they find.

Here's a great extraction chart example for Dash https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!extraction
I'll PM Fairglu at Chainz and see if he'll explain how he builds these charts.

What is the status of the security audit? Is it complete yet?

Nice. You will be rewarded for that soon.

None of the pools identify, so they are all tagged "unknown."  

About all we can do is visit the current known pools and subtract their stated hash from the estimated network hash rate, and make some guesses. Network hashrates are only estimates based on block times, difficulty.  It's not an exact science.

mmpool is probably 30% to 40% of Uno's hash right now, if not more. The other pools,  ispace.co.uk and xpool.ca (if xpool is still with us, they were having some problems) might make up another 20%. 5% might be solo miners or Uno-only pools. I have no knowledge of the other 40-35%.   It's possible that some bitcoin pools have implemented it for their miners, but have not told us yet.  Also quite possible that some bitcoin pools have quietly implemented it and are retaining the earnings to defray pool fees.

I set my goal too low. They already found another block! What a week for mmpool and Uno-loving miners.
mmpool's hash is now up to .82 phs.    

Today Uno hit a difficulty of 75 million in block 609473, and is currently at 1.7 phs.

mmpool is now hashing at 500 ths, more than 1/3 of Uno's total hash.  Success is contagious. Blueman must have signed on.

You are welcome. Those of us with hash at mmpool are very excited to have tapped into this run of luck.

The Ui is very straight forward, and withdrawals and payments are very fast. We are looking forward to supporting mmpool long term with our hash, and with active Uno markets contributing to your miners overall profitability.

Lets find another block! There is still time to make it 4 in one week.

Thanks for your support of Uno.

Uno has a lot of very good, honest, long time people active in it's community who have worked very hard to make it successful. Bryce is one of 3 developers; some people don't like Bryce. Fine. He did not launch Uno, but he likes it enough to contribute his time.

Uno is an open source project, fairly launched, no-premine, no-instamine, no-hidden blocks, with unique supply characteristics that make it an interesting cryptocurrency experiment. You won't find a more honest coin. As an open source project, and there isn't a personality test for contributing to Uno; if there were, it would be a closed source project.  If Cinnamon Carter is unhappy with the direction Uno is headed, we would honestly welcome her to join in, as she is a talented dev in her own right.

I have my own opinion of Bryce's off field antics. But his work on Unobtanium has been clearly in the right direction, in the best interest of the community, and so we have adopted his client. Hate Bryce if you want to, but there's absolutely no reason to dislike Unobtanium.

Thanks, mmpool, for adding Unobtanium. There are many of us, including myself, who have collectively moved THs's in your direction.
Tonight we are celebrating your 3rd block in a week! The Unobtanium community is very happy to be part of mmpool and to bring you our long term support.

Sweet!! Go mmpool! It's their 3rd block in a week. Give these guys a try.

Lovin' the Uno dust, and also the Btc which I put right back into Uno.

Unobtanium.uno is has a datacenter issue, but should be back shortly.

"We are currently facing an unresolved issue with one of our network switches.

Due to this issue your site is unavailable at this point.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience and assume to have it back online within the next 2 hours. "

mmpool found their second btc block in 4 days. Excellent luck!  I'm keeping the merged mining Uno dust. Selling the other mm coins & btc nets me more Uno than I earned prior merge mining, nearly 5x more.

Hash was over 1.5 phs today.  Better than the 20 ths we had before, and room for it to run.

Bleutrade is good. I like them. There should be more trading there.

I do miss the alternate pairings Bleutrade used to offer. It was cool when they let us build interesting pairs like DASH/UNO, or whatever pair you wanted.  Few people probably did it, but I liked the possibilities it held. That really set Bleu apart from other exchanges.

I'll add a little Btc on the Uno buy side over at Bleu.

Anyway, I'm continuing my 7.5 daily Uno buys, mostly on bittrex. Maybe I can score some at Bleu, but it hasn't been easy the past few weeks.

Just for discussion, below is a list of Un's top markets and lightly traded markets, and the fees for trading at each

Most Active
Cryptsy            .33%
Bittrex             .25
Bleutrade         .25
Cryptopia         .2

Lightly traded
Comkort         .25
Coins-e          .15
Coinbroker.io  .1

Un-ex is in a special category.  0%

I have an indestructible Uno metal wallet from Bitkee.com



I like it!  

What other coins have you guys found interesting, besides Uno? What's on your radar today?

Name the top 3 coins I should know about, but probably don't.

I love stout. Can't wait for the weekend.

I have it on my list to acquire some Unobtanium beer. I'd like to know what that tastes like.

Some of this low price is artificial as Cryptsy still hasn't enabled withdrawals; people can't transfer out Uno so they sell it.  I've opened 3 tickets at Cryptsy about it. Last night I reached out to BitJohn to see if he would help.

But you're right -- this price is way too low imo. I'll continue my slow daily 7.5 Uno anti-gravity pump.

Last week I was talking with Bryce, and he suggested it would be in the long term interest of Unobtanium if the development load could be distributed across additional developers. Since then I have been reaching out and having discussions with different developers who have solid experience and coding skills, educating them on Unobtanium, and trying to help them understand if Uno and it's community have intersecting goals.

I'm very happy today to introduce you today to CaptChadd, a hero member on BCT.  His involvement in cryptocurrency development goes way back to 2011.  He has honed his skills over the years by supporting different crypocurrency projects. He is currently the developer for ExtremeCoin (traded on Bter and Cryptopia).  CaptChadd is setup for development on Windows/Mac/Linux.   I think you'll enjoy having him in the Unoverse.  


Please give a big UNO welcome to CaptChadd as a core member of the Unobtanium development team!!  We look forward to working with you CaptChadd, and doing great things with Uno together.