why the fuk are people using pools, its been less than an hour. Solo mining is where its at.

Guys, thanks for the detailed response.  I've made a lot of progress on my parser, though my big outstanding issue is that it is going off the rails somewhere after block #240,000.  I will debug that tomorrow.  In a previous file I hit a case where after scanning a block and expecting the block-header for the next block, instead it found a big chunk of zero bytes.  I had to just scan the file until I hit the header which was some distance further along in the file.  I don't know how/why bitcoin-qt could do this, but on my machine it does.  I have a sneaky suspicion that if I deleted my blockchain and forced it to completely redownload it, this problem would go away.  However, I don't want to do that, because I want to figure out the source of the problem as it is now on my machine.

At any rate, I experimented with generating some 3d surface graphs of the blockchain evolving over time.  It's very early stuff, but it was kind of cool to see anyway.

codesuppository.blogspot.com/2013/12/work-in-progress.html

Multipool fucked over the majority of people launching in that pool by (at best) being completely incompetent in preparation such as not listing the port before launch let alone listing the fucking coin on their website and being apparently unprepared for an influx of miners.......

OR

Deliberately sowing some clusterfuk'ites so a chosen few could reap initial rewards while the rest of us scramble for what scraps are left.



Pardon my language but I find it real fucking hard to believe that the Dev and the Chosen Launch pool who were holding hands through pre-launch managed to fuck this all up by accident.  People need to realize that from the lowly solo miner all the way up to the guys running the major pools and exchanges are just as capable of being cheating fucks as any of the rest of us.  Don't think for a second that because someone runs a big time show in cryptos he's some kind of saint looking out for the little guy.  That's how you get burned.


Now that my frustration has been ranted.....  forgive the interruption.  The hostility might be uncalled for but this is what I believe has happened.  You get a few guys sitting around looking for ways to premine a new coin while making it look like they didn't and there you go.  Techie crypto gurus I'm sure can do this.

Premine - mine before launch
premine - mine after launch but before most others have a chance to jump in.  Same deceitful shit.

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