Even professional HYIPers (those who make money by bailing out of ponzi schemes in time) are blogging about it. That should be another warning sign. For example:

http://ex-admin.com/btc-arbs-com-review/

You're right, unfortunately. Russia will occupy the Crimea indefinitely.

I was using Putin's words. Don't you see the contradiction here? How do you think Putin would have reacted if Albania would have occupied Kosovo to "protect the Albanians in Serbia"?

Well, Russia is already occupying part of Ukraine. The only reason why there's no bloodshed yet is because Ukraine hasn't exercised their right to defend themselves.

Yeah, and Stalin was Georgian. So, essentially Russians took no part in the Soviet Union. That the Soviet Union was run from Moscow and and everyone in the Soviet Union was forced to to study Russian was just because the bolshevik Jews felt it was a good way to control the population. And now all Ukrainians are neo-Nazis. Because it was Jews who led the genocide of 6 million Ukrainians 1932-33. Right.

So, Ukraine wouldn't let Crimea vote for even more autonomy than they already have. How does that constitute an attack?

Seriously, Putin says Czechnya and Dagestan are internal Russian affairs and no foreign country should interfere in that. He also said that foreign countries should stay out of Kosovo. Even if the majority in Kosovo aren't Serbs, they are still part of Serbia. Fair enough. I say this, Crimea is an internal Ukrainian affair and no foreign country should interfere in that. Even if the majority in Crimea aren't Ukrainians, they are still part of Ukraine. But what do you know, the only attack on the Crimea has been done by Russia... Putin is a serious hypocrite!

What are you trying to say with that map? That all of the coloured areas are more or less Russian? I could show you Mongol, Swedish or German maps where most of these territories belong to other nations. Would that make the Mongols European or St Petersburg Swedish?

First, let get the facts straight. Crimea was controlled by the Crimean Khanate until 1783, when Russia annexed it. It was then part of Russia for 138 years until 1921. Then it was part of the Russian SFSR from 1921-1954, when it was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR. So, it has been part of Russia for 171 years and after that Ukraine for 60 years.

Let's not forget the time before Russian annexation. The Crimean Khanate existed between 1441-1783 and even during most of the period of Russian control the majority of the population consisted of Crimean Tatars. It was due to Soviet policies that the Crimean Tatars either perished in famine or were deported to remote areas of the Soviet Union, thus opening up for Russian immigration. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Crimean Tatars were allowed to move back to their motherland, but they're still a minority.

So, yes, the majority in the Crimea are Russians, but they certainly cannot claim centuries' old right to it. That only the Crimean Tatars can do, who were robbed of their homeland by the bolsheviks. However, they want their homeland to stay part of Ukraine, as they have been oppressed by Czar Russia and then Soviet Union for a very long time.

About the claims of Nazis now controlling Kyiv. Well, yes, there are neo-Nazis in Kyiv. There are also neo-Nazis in Moscow... and in Berlin for that matter. In neither city they are in control. The Nazis committed horrible crimes in most countries of Europe and people remember that. Claiming that Nazis are now controlling any country is ridiculous, to be honest. If you believe that, you are falling for propaganda. I myself was once very close to get beaten up by skinheads in Moscow (in Izmaylovskiy Park) a couple of years ago (I had long hair and apparently Russian skinheads don't like people with long hair, I learnt afterwards), but I don't go around saying that Nazis are controlling Moscow... I'm sure you can film some neo-Nazis in either Kyiv or Moscow. The question is what you do with it. If it's only the neo-Nazis you're showing in media and not much else, then it's propaganda...

Now, my take on the situation; Janukovich is a corrupt politician who has stolen millions, if not billions, of hryvnias from the Ukrainian people. They were fed up with him and got rid of him. Probably the new leaders are also corrupt, but that's another story. Yes, the revolution was led by people from Western Ukraine and they are more friendly towards the EU than towards Russia, but that doesn't mean they will start oppressing Russian-speaking people. I was actually hoping that the new Ukrainian government would be more inclusive than Janukovich and be the government for all Ukrainian citizens, not just one part. Anway, my impression is that Putin ceased this opportunity to spread propaganda, which created fear in the Russians on the Crimea. Thus Putin could use the protection of his countrymen abroad as an excuse to take control of the Crimea. This is a very useful excuse and has been used many times before. By the Americans in 1846 (Texas) and by the Germans 1938 (Sudetenland), for example.

"Peace in our time"

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Well, the pooler cpuminer also gets 29 hits. Since source from cpuminer has been incorporated in trojans you always get these hits I'm afraid.

That said, you have a point about not trusting executables without source. I'm switching back to the one linked to in the first post. At least for a while... I still get 630+ from that one anyway.

The fastest win64 executable I've found is the one linked here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.msg4324059#msg4324059

With that I'm getting 640kh/s on my i5 @ 3,4GHz. Since the i5 only has 4 threads it means I'd get twice that if I had an i7 with 8 threads...

Mathematics. All the necessary input is in the first post of this thread. Due to large blocks and short block time soon all blocks will have been mined.

Just a few minutes ago I calculated when all coins will have been mined. It will be end of February. What then? With no miners all particles will be stuck in our wallets awaiting confirmations that will never happen?

Who wouldn't...? Actually, I'll double that and offer 100 YUM for 9000 BTC. Now, that's a good deal if I ever saw one!

Thanks, the fastest miner I've tried for Particle!

The pool is working, just that the front-end is down so you can't register and set up workers. You can still solo-mine though (it started to get slow, so I had switched to another coin, but before writing this post I switched back to LPC and found a block in 30s, nice).

I solo-mined with 730 kh/s throughout the night and found 13 blocks + 4 orphans. It seems the net hashrate is going up though, since it was more than an hour each between the last four blocks I got.

WTS 696k CAGE for 0.05 BTC or 120k DOGE. PM me.

No, it's quite new, so there's no exchange where you can trade Particles yet.

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I'm using the i3i5i7_Improved version since I have an i5-3570K and I get 640kh/s (stock clock freq) when mining Particle. Yields me around 20k Particles per day.