gpupool offers only CPU mining for RIC.  I don't claim to understand the naming.

As with all "CPU-only" coins, someone(s) is either botnet mining, or GPU mining, but it's very hard to say which.  Because of the DDoS situation, I'd be willing to bet that there's a botnet involved somewhere, though.

Took a bit to figure out the answer because of the experiment below.

The primary two are Poloniex and BTC38.

But someone mentioned a few posts back that Poloniex seems to be broken right now.  I just checked and they have a note on the wallet that says RIC is "Temporarily Disabled."  I've filed a ticket with them (and others probably should too).

(If anyone from Polo is reading this and you need help with the wallet, please feel free to reach out to this thread!)

Also verified that BTC38 *is* working.  But because they're China-based, they have a hold on BTC withdrawals.  If you want to buy or sell RIC there, you need to pick another alt-coin to use as an intermediary.  I just tried sending some BTS there (it confirms really fast), selling it for CNY, buying RIC, withdrawing the RIC to my wallet, sending the RIC back to BTC38, and selling the RIC back to BTS, withdrawing the BTS back to Bittrex, and selling it there.  That all worked.

Ich hatte auch mal sehr sehr viele bitcoins, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336289.msg17022688#msg17022688 und wenns keine Betrüger gäbe, und ich die noch hätte würde ich JETZT trotzdem keine verkaufen, wenn ich das FIAT nicht benötige!

It seems the lower the orphan rate, the more you complain .

Every coin will have some miners withholding broadcast of blocks, this is why good hashrate distribution is so important, to prevent selfish mining.

All of the Riecoin pools are 0% fee currently, if your users aren't donating enough for your liking then add a fee to your pool and stop complaining.

uBlock.it is interested in the scientific function of Riecoin, and is looking forward to more world records  

ok.  I'm out of time for now, but as a start, I've:
(a)  Merged the pull request for stratum support from the riecoin github account into mine, in branch "stratum".
(b)  Started a little bit of code cleanup as I try to remember my way around the code.  As a starting point, I
ripped out a little code in favor of using the primesieve library, fixed a bug with the choice of the number of
workers doing the sieve, and started moving the code a bit more to more-standard c++11.

this is all in github/dave-andersen/fastrie on branch "stratum".

is there any reason to keep the old ypool/xpt protocol version around, or should we just go all-stratum?

I'd be curious if anyone sees a performance difference or regression from that bugfix, but it won't
be more than a percent or three.  Right now, my focus is on getting the code into a slightly
better place for further optimization.  (Please don't expect miracles or be annoyed if they don't
manifest.

A performance boost for the open source miner would certainly help promote better hashrate distribution.

And yet, this is what doesn't make sense.

Pools or not, miners get block rewards in proportion to their share of the total hash rate.

That's it.  Pools have benefits for smaller miners, and it's good to have pools around to make it easier for everyone to participate.  But pools are bad for larger miners, because they charge fees that would otherwise go in their own pockets.  And, as anyone who's played the game knows, mining is a very low-margin activity, particularly for CPU coins like this where botnets often get involved.

But as long as there are some ways for small miners to play, then it doesn't matter if pools get 5% of the hash or 100% of the hash.

Cryptocurrencies are generally viewed as secure as long as no entity or colluding group of entities has more than 50% (or 33%, if you favor the selfish mining interpretation) of the hash rate.  In that regard, any pool having more than 50% is a *potential* problem, because the operator of that pool could choose to discard the work done by others, or prevent certain transactions from going through.

What's the argument that all users need to use pools?

Having a strong *community* is important, and pools can be a part of that, or they can not -- but that very much depends on the pool operator.  Operators who just run a pool aren't very important.  Operators who contribute code back, help publicize the coin, and support users and miners, etc., are great.  People who DDoS nodes attempting to join the network, however, are actively harmful to the health of the coin, because they make it harder for people to use it and join the community.

am i missing something here? ...

how is ANY of this destroying the coin? ... i dont get it ...

and dont think im a green newbie to mining - especially some of the more difficult coins ... i am really at a loss as to why ANYONE would claim that solomining - pool mining - or ANY mining is destroying the coin ...

on the algo front though - this is such an interesting concept that its almost too difficult to look away when it comes to hashing / algo ...

very unique in every sense of the word ...

dev - lets chat some ...

#crysx

I think that RockAndPool are you! Same offensive language! And exactly like him I point to moderators.

Bye Bye Baby

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Im pretty sure he is the solominer

Sometimes They Come Back  

... also RockAndPool

Also Sometimes They Come Back  

You only have to read the blockchain to understand the movements of the coins and find out who is "THE ONE" that go Solo..... But you know that already!


P.S. But you two said that Solo mining? ahahahhaha

I want to congratulate with "the one" who SOLO mining because it's destroying this coin!

Clap clap

Let me get this straight... Are not you the one who always told us not to let a pool either more than 50% of the mining power?

And now you tell me that would like to invest in computational power for a pool that SHOULD have most of the mining power?

It's not a contradiction ??

Then... who guarantees that you can actually get more than half of the miners for a third pool?

Maybe you're the one who solo mine and do 40-45% of the blocks?

Also I remind xptMiner2.........

I conclude by saying that RiePool is perfectly stable and it seems that the attacks are ending.

Thanks for support

25-50% of all mined blocks are orphans - riecoin network is on the brink of complete collapse.

How to prevent that: maybe to add much more confirmations ~ 100 for block to be valid and/or to change difficulty adjustments to every 1 hour(24 blocks) to prevent massive jumping in to network after 12h high difficulty period is off.

Second measure - change how network operates - to make nodes auto-rejects of orphan blocks solutions,so every block will be mined until we get a valid block solution on network.

7 nodes in the network..
price goes down day by day...
Still lot of orphans everyday and nobody can solomine cause the riepool fork.

There are 2 solutions. Stop mining riepool or Simone (Simba84) stops forking the chain.

If not, this coin is going to disappear.

Just for your interest:

RiePOO is destroying the network. He's making his own network disconnected from the principal network (a fork) then he connects his daemons to the network twice a day to orphan all the users blocks.

NO ONE CAN SOLOMINING IF RIEPOOSHIT IS HAVING HIGH HASHRATES
NOBODY CAN MINE IN ANOTHER POOL
TRANSACTIONS ARE DELAYED TO TWICE TIMES A DAY

get out of this fucking shitty pool and go solomining or another pools: gpupool xpoolx minipool.

This is not what is happening. The blocks orphaned arw blocks discovered hours ago. Like 5 or 6 hours, then riepool webpage goes down and when its up all the blocks discovered are orphaned. Looks like riepool have its own network, like a fork or something. I tried to connect nodes to riepool.ovh but ita not available to connect

The blocks of solomining and the other pools appear at the chain and suddenly are orphaned and changed to riepool. I have 29 peers connected and my blocks are orpganed all the time

Can someone explain this? Or please tell me what to do to fix this?

Thanks

Something weird is happening to the riecoin network.

Any clues?