Block chain height is currently 18161

It appears you have the correct nodes.

I have not tried bluedragons pool , i only solo mine.

Have never had any issue with the miner.

What operating system are you using ?
What gpu?
Are your drivers up to date ?


(updated just got home , network looks to be working well for me here is a photo of a block I hit earlier)

https://twitter.com/PhotonCoin/status/450398876747718656

good luck , you are going to need it, 

you speak of too many coins and want to launch an entire line of them ........

oh my

looks like it might be 'parked out' wtih high difficulty in the near future.......

i saw no premine if the source on github is the real source (which it probably is) of course we all know there are ways to 'hide' premines...i doubt that here

this is the key point.....

int64 static GetBlockValue(int nHeight, int64 nFees)
{
    int64 nSubsidy = 50 * COIN;

    // Subsidy is cut in half every 800000 blocks, which will occur approximately every 4 years
    nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / 800000);

    return nSubsidy + nFees;
}

static const int64 nTargetTimespan = 14 * 24 * 60 * 60; // two weeks
static const int64 nTargetSpacing = 10 * 60;
static const int64 nInterval = nTargetTimespan / nTargetSpacing;

forgve, me, 100% premine, you have download links to wallets, under what circumstances would someone be able to hold this 'coin' if it is not being mined ? 

No the difficulty retargeting system has not been changed !!

First I want to say I think this project has been well done adding support for many coins.

I noticed you have support for Quark.

Is it possible future development could add support for Simple Inflation Coin which is the father of Quark, secure and all similar clones

Simple Inflation Coin is slightly different in that it has just the 6 algo's rounds thus the quark miner will not just work out of the box for obvious reasons.

Here is the original launch thread of SIF  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=fhfogsq68mludm4ip82ar2c8c0&topic=240894.0;all

ocminer has another thread here he put up for his pool and cloud mining https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404215.0


A little harder to follow since I don't speak/read Russian is the original launch thread of the coin here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240884.0


The english thread was not well 'organized' and originally did not contain the source code which is here

http://sourceforge.net/p/sifcoin/code/ci/master/tree/

and on github here https://github.com/sifcoin/sifcoin

Finally here is the source code to the most efficient cpu miner currently available to my knowledge

https://github.com/ig0tik3d/sifcoin-miner


SIC is not traded on any exchanges yet it has been running since last summer and everytime I check it there are always lots of nodes availalbe.

Difficulty goes up and down a little peaking most last October when there was a rumor it was to be added to BTCE for trading

and an even larger peak in difficulty a few months back when the optimized miner became available.

I hope you will consider it.

I hope others in the 'small' community of supporters of the coin would join me in a donation to you for your efforts if you ever have time.

Regards.....

Defer to bluedragon747

He knows a lot more about writing custom code than i do and is by far a more experienced c++ coder

I know a few things, and am learning quickly, my advantage is a strong understanding of cryptography and mathematics.

I did not think of the attack method he brought up, there are so many ways to attack or disrupt a coin network that most people do not really know about, and Blue brings up a good point, it takes literally a few seconds to change the magic numbers as you put your source code together, begore you build your testnet clients ect......


Since it is easy to do why not take that step,  excellent point that it is easier than adding a checkpoint to an updated client.

Not directly unrelated to this but on the topic of new clones coming out.........


I have to wonder what the hell some pepole are thinking when I see so many new coins launched every day most scrypt 1024 based ?

Even more amazing is some of them get hundreds of megahash thrown at them and are abandoned or dead within a few days , no connections,
no working blockchain ect......??

I think some people have just gone mad or crazy or don't know 'what to mine'.

I guess about a year ago when there were still only a few litecoin style clones some people would clone a coin hoping to get it listed at cryptsy as a way to make a few btc.


Those days are gone forever.....people who are 'mining for profit' as they say are complaining now that their big rigs are getting them .02 btc a day on middlecoin or similar switching pools


See for yourself and look at the payouts here on middlecoin they are all public since users use your btc address

http://www.middlecoin.com/allusers.html

note the paid out btc amount is the amount that person has had paid to them 'lifetime' from middlecoin, It is currently running at7.6 gigahash scrypt 1024 mining is pretty dam fast , a lot of people sloshing it up for less than the cost of electricity to run their equipment which may or may not be paid for. 

Photon (and the other projectrs I am involved in) were started by me with the intention of long term support.

I have never designed anything that was aimed at giving either myself or anyone else an opportunity to cash in big just because they started early.

Also I will state that for me the reason my projects like Photon were 'Ninja' launched (without pre ANN and wallets in zip files ect.... ahead of time ) is because it is just not necessary.  Yes it is true some people got some 'easy' mining of Photon in the initial hours it was launched however when you look at the total money supply even now, never mind what it will be a few years from now this little advantage is really none at all. 


The only other step one can take to fairly launch a coin is to make a certain number of initial blocks have a zero or 1 coin block award until everyone hears about it and has a chance to get in and join the party. 

I did not see that necessary here. 


I got a little off topic for Blake Coin here , so my apology to everyone.........

I saw Blake Coin as a standout early on after it's release, you can see my old posts here and at cryptocoin talk.

When gpu mining first came out I worked many hours tweaking different settings for my gpu on both reaper then the cg miner build.

I do not think bitcoin needs to be replaced but there is no harm in a competitive market.

I am honored that BlueDragon gave me his permission to make Photon as a child of Blake Coin and provided his guiding hand.

As the network continues to run and build a following I have many ideas to make Photon (and Blake Coin) more than just 'other coins' on the lists.

i would not be concerned with 'that'

let's see if it arrives on time or if ever

also how many people are going to shell out that kind of investment even if it actually exists (which I doubt until I see them in circulation)

if they do they will be mining litecoin , maybe feathercoin

i know nothing about this company but unless they have years of experience in building custom chips and tens of millions of dollars invested in development of application specific integrated circuits they are not going to pull it off

fpga boards are normally prototypes for asic's

here is a post on github of some work done on scrypt 1024 with fpga

https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Litecoin-Miner

read the bottom and the hash rates he is getting

also note the heat problems

read this pdf by Colin Percival for more technical information on how scrypt 1024 works

https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf

what is the main purpose the development team is considering switching the algo ?

actually proof of work blocks are still coming up , difficulty not very high either,

its there

also here

http://www.mediafire.com/download/684hf76zz97ak45/Photon+cgminer-blake256.7z

i can answer that

the magic numbers are not as important as some people think they are

to properly clone/ build a coin they should be changed

if they are not the changes the networks communicate is unlikely unless the person making this 'coin' does not have the brains to change the communication ports around........


you may remember about a year ago a few lite coin clones had the network warning mesg appearing......


these coins were not mining on the litecoin network but just left a window open and the wrong bird flew in


take a look at the magic numbers of most scrypt clones,  you will find them the same as in the classic guide by shak3zula

Quite alive , BlueDragon747 has a pool working for Photon, thanks for the offer though.

The blake 256 algo has proven difficult for setting up pools , p2pool will not work, our goal is to merge mine the coins......

yes

Blake 256 is a strong choice for speed but if your concern is to avoid fpga or asic mining blake 256
is mined now on fpga & although they do not exist (to my knowledge) asic for blake 256 would not be as expensive as scrypt 1024.

If your goal is to switch the coins algorithm to something else after the coin has had some success and that goal is driven by 'fear' of asic technology consider a few things.

1) Any algorithm can be mined with custom hardware that is designed to mine it.
2) The cost of the development of this hardware is the barrier.
3) It costs millions of dollars to design , develop & build asic technology.

I doubt that scrypt 1024 asic technology will be available for a while since the costs of development are so high
you would need to see the price of litecoin close to or above the current price of bitcoin.

I am not an engineer but I have read many things written on this subject by qualified people.
 
The speed/efficiency of a prototype circuit on an fpga board is a good baseline for what you would expect from asic technology.

If I were running the coin I would not switch the algorithm out of 'fear' of new technology design.

That being said the design of Memory Coin 2 is the 'most' asic resistant I am aware of at this time.

for 7970 diamond saphire -g 1 -I 20 --gpu-engine 1190 --gpu-memclock 950 -s 1 -E 15

provided quite a boost but as i have only a single card solomining was still possible earlier in the week

seems impossible now , difficulty higher many are mining ,

I really need to mine my own coins but good to see new algorithms.

Interesting the variety now that is available of coins & algos.

This is one of the better ones imo.

I agree , Simple Inflation Coin does not get the attention it deserves.
No exchanges have it listed.
Personally I mine coins to hold but most want to exchange them for btc.
I have tried to follow the original Russian thread.
The client has never been updated with checkpoints and really should be since launched last summer.
Hopefully these things will happen.
You and I appear to be the only people who really support the coin based on posts but there are always lots of nodes & people mining. Kind of weird.

quote author=ocminer link=topic=404215.msg5907645#msg5907645 date=1395822507]

It will surely work, we need to write to the author of sghminer, he'll surely implemented it.

The bigger problem is, Sifcoin must go on an exchange !
[/quote]

This is one of the few coins I will not support.
It is poorly designed, has forked many times since release and if you think this is anything other than a well financially backed operation to make an entire joke out of the alt coin scene I feel sorry for you.

If I were hired by someone powerful and given a large bankroll of bitcoin say a few thousand to damage the credability of litecoin & other established scrypt 1024 coins any way possible I would have designed a coin EXACTLY like this garbage.

The hash power was rented, twitter bot army prepared and after a few exchanges were paid off to list it so the creators could pump the price way beyond reason other exchanges listed the coin and here we are.

I only own one gpu but I cannot wait for the day this coin is just stopped , no matter how it will be a positive for the entire scene. Hopefully some major players figure out what is really going on and 51% this
waste product out of existance.

I hope I live to see the day it dies.

I think the work done on this miner is excellent.

I hate to make requests but it would probably be an easy tweak and i may try to do it myself this weekend.

Can someone please add Simple Inflation Coin (the father of all Quark coins)

Its ANN for the coin is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=fhfogsq68mludm4ip82ar2c8c0&topic=240894.0;all

Here is the source code to the SIF miner !! https://github.com/ig0tik3d/sifcoin-miner

to me this coin belongs in the hall of fame,


the father of quark and all most other clones

the original multi hash coin

I mine some every week !!

And yes difficulty does go up and down !!