@Transcoder Is there anything I can help you with getting the difficulty adjustment fixed? I earn the butter on my bread as a qt/C++ programmer. I'm not sure if that's of any use here. I don't do java, C# etc.

I am deeply concerned about the swings, especially the extremely low hash-rate when the multipools are gone. This puts the coin at risk and I am in fact very surprised it hasn't been forked yet.

Anyway. Let me know if there's anything I can help (besides wasting hash power in a futile attempt to stabilize the network).

K0M4R, my hat is off for your designs! Very professional!

Is it just me or are some things broken on the new casinocoin.org website?
The wallet download seems to go nowhere and the main website goes to an empty page.
The images are all stretched out. All in all, this does not look good for PR.

Dear coin1234,

In defense of hash.so: I am not related with this pool but I have been mining there since day one. This pool is an excellent pool and I can assure you that it is not a scam! I chatted a few times with the admin and he is really top notch!

The reason, why you didn't get paid a doge during your three hours is that the round time for this coin on that pool is currently ~5 hours. Please understand first how pplns pools work before you go around and accusing people. Of course, nobody's perfect and mistakes happen, but hash.so is definitely not a scam!

Best,
Haku

btw: you will eventually get your doge's once the next block has been found.

@transcoder: I think both changes would help, i.e. 120 blocks instead of 720 and an extra damping as suggested earlier.

Given that there were practically no responses to my suggestion to bring in professional casino operators I will not pursue this further.

Would it be possible to adjust the difficulty only by a small enough amount each time? I mean, instead of jumping from 0.8 to 2.7 (i.e. a factor 3.4) limit the change to something like "times 1.5" up and "Times 0.67" down. --> 0.8 can only go to 1.2 in the next step, or likewise, 2.7 can only go as low as 1.8 etc. Or would that cause another problem I'm not seeing, besides a less strict 30-second turnaround. On average, this would still yield the 30 seconds though.

One last attempt from me to get some professional casino operators interested: Is there any type of code we could share with them so that they would not have to start the wallet from scratch? Is the code on github the only resource?

ajochems: I very much agree with your assessment. Network hash rate drops too far when multipools switch out. Seems there's even a risk of being forked during these phases. At times it drops to ~50MH/s or lower. Multipools also hurt the stability of the value as many probably hash directly to cryptsy with auto-sell active, so the market gets flooded with unwanted and undervalued coins.

Update on whitelabelcasino:
I got an answer from winningstreak (aka. whitelabelcasino). The answer is cautiously positive:
"Yes, basically we can do that."
I'm planning to follow up on this with a phone conversation later this week unless someone here disagrees. What I would need to know is how much code is available to implement CSC into their back office. What would I have to give them so they would be able to incorporate CSC? (This will not be an opensource project but rather a purely for profit thing.)

About the future value of CSC: $1/CSC seems hard unless we really go "full blown commercial grade" (i.e. with companies, whose business it is to operate at this scale). One cannot/should not try to have a successful $10M casino on a little VPS. Stability and trust (i.e. redundancy, security etc.) are extremely important in this business. When a server fails players shall not notice anything, or we quickly loose them for good.

Casinos are all about $$$ - lots of it! That's pretty much the reason you don't get a real profit making, turn-key open source casino solution. So I don't think it is realistic to assume that whitelabelcasino (or any other commercial entity in this line of business) would 'sponsor' CSC and give up on their profits. Keep in mind that for them it actually does costs time and money to host and support any casino through them and it might be pretty expensive to incorporate cryptos to their payment system. So it might well be that I never hear back from them - but I'm still hopeful!

But think about it: if it doesn't cost much upfront (some commercial operators offer their intro packages without any upfront costs), it still seems a good way to get started even if we have to give away half or more of the casino profit down the road. Still better than no casino, no profit and no CasinoCoin, because people might loose faith in it over time. Some of us actually use a similar model: in daily life: we might have a mortgage on a house or a lease on the car, or we might use a credit card etc. Same model: low or no upfront cost, but you over-pay over time. Yet we still love to by stuff on credit

Of course, even if we would focus our efforts towards an initial launch through a commercial provider, we still have the option to make our own, private casino solution later. For me it seems a bit unlikely to really succeed against products that have seven or eight figures of investments in their software packages.

One last remark: We should also keep in mind that  in may countries gambling for profit requires a gambling license. It probably doesn't matter where you live. As soon as you try to pull money out of it onto your bank account you might get bitten. This would be another reason to start with a commercial provider as many of them deal with that tricky aspect.

Great dev and great pool! I have been mining here for a couple of weeks now (in fact it might have been the day the pool opened!). Everything is rock solid and the dev continuously incorporates a lot of neat and new ideas. hash.so: keep up the excellent work!

I have been mining CSCs for the last couple of weeks with pretty much all I had. I believe that crypto currency would be a fantastic thing to gamble with. (Isn't that what we all do on cryptsy, btc-e, MtGox etc.? Initially I thought that the devs would try to push the coin onto existing casinos, but I don't seem to see much discussion about this these days. In my opinion, if the devs are understaffed, it seems inefficient to try creating a successful casino from scratch. I'm just wondering if http://www.cubeia.org/ (open source versions available) could be used as a starting point in case you really want to go this path. It seems to offer a nice framework and a very solid base for user management and a game api etc.

But for a much quicker launch something like http://whitelabelcasino.com/ seems a possibility to me. You can try their framework and games for free, you can even make some money from that free version. (They want to keep ~65% of the profit in that case, but that's still better for starters than to let the coin and all the investments go to waste.) I don't know if they would allow crypto currency (I contacted them to ask today. I'll report back if I get an answer), but the pro version allows you to write your own back-office stuff. So it seems possible. Their business model seems to be based on a large profit share but small upfront cost. Since they provide most of the heavy lifting for you a ~50:50 profit split seems quite fair to me. However, what they really expect is that you can show existing casino traffic. Is anyone here in the business of actually running a casino (virtual or B&M)?

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with cubeia or with whitelabelcasino. I'm actually not even much of a gambler (besides trading/investing.)

Hi,

I have actually quite good success with two very cheap Powercolor 7990s. They have a design power of <400W (specs, not measured by myself) and they consistently deliver 1300kH/s each in an open-bench setup. If you go this route, make sure you have a 750W PSU (that's enough to run one 7990 card).

I picked these up at Newegg for ~$600 each. I feel I got a good deal.

Another thing you might want to consider is the power efficiency of your PSU. It's quite often overlooked as these cost more, but gold or platinum rated PSUs do really have a higher efficiencies

If you run more than one of these cards, you might need to use PCI risers to get the cards further apart. Otherwise one card will 'breath' the hot air from the other one. The hashing speed on these is on the one end limited by the heat, but also (if cooled really well) by the on-card voltage regulators. They limit the clock rate to about 1GHz GPU and ~1575 GHz on the memory. For short times it seems you can exceed these (I reached up to 1100MHz on the GPU and ~1750 MHz on the memory without damage).

Cheers,
Haku