I'll have an exchange up, yes. It'll be i0exchange.bitparking.com. Unfortunately 'release' time for i0coin is in the early hours of the morning for me so it'll be up a few hours later than release. I'll also want to monitor i0coin for an hour or two to get an idea of the block solve rate and number of orphans so I can set a reasonable deposit confirmation period.

This seems risky since I don't think it has gone through any release candidate testing on bitcoin yet. Useful if you want to be the test bed for if it works or not. It'll also delay services based on ixcoin since they'll need to use the mechanisms for accessing/unlocking the wallet.

That issue has already been raised and discussed in this thread and the ixcoin developer has responded.

Will this potentially cause problems due to time differences in nodes? If at the two week time period two blocks are found close together, and one node says it as being less than two weeks, but the other sees it as being more, then they will have a different difficulty calculation. Could result in a chain split?

It says "Now!" for me. I live in the future it seems!

Faster mining usually means more orphans for miners.

Do you want an exchange?

I agree with you that it's a bug and I'd really like to see it fixed. Namecoin originally got this flaw because it used bitcoin style addresses originally. Then the client was update for namecoin style addresses and the bitcoin support was kept for backwards compatibility. I think both namecoin and ixcoin should be fixed to only send to the correct addresses.

Get your friend to PM me, or email me at the email address in the whois of the bitparking domain, with all the details and I can recover them.

You almost did. Remember that ixcoin blocks have 96 coins in them vs bitcoins 50.

It's more to do with the fact that blocks are solved every few seconds due to the high network power vs the low difficulty, resulting in many blocks being solved by miners at approximately the same time and only one winning.

It's a pool statistics bug. When the pool finds a block it cleans out the information it uses the calculate the hash rate, so it drops until there's enough to compute it again.

They may or may not get picked up depending on your timing. Send me a PM if it doesn't and I can fix it up. It might take a day or two though.

"Thomas Nasakioto <== Nice anagram btw

and bounty received, thanks!

IXCoin mining pool (Not that it's really needed at the moment, but hey): http://ixpool.bitparking.com/pool

Satoshi announced the bitcoin chain when it was brand spanking new, only the genesis block around.

I have mined many orphan blocks sadly, no real ones.

Want to try an exchange? I forked my namecoin exchange to work with ixcoins. Needs testing https://ixchange.bitparking.com/main

I've removed the 'for testing' from the thread title since it's the oldest namecoin mining pool and has been running fine since moving to the new server 6 weeks ago. The pool has survived some of the crazy highs and lows during the profitable difficulty periods, peaking at 350 Ghash/s during the last one.