Are you actually trying to compare an altcoin to a behemoth like Apple that actually makes products that work and are used by millions of people everyday?  Darkcoin is just another cryptocurrency that could fade away tomorrow and the world would never know or care.

I was a big supporter of Darkcoin until it turned into a cult like following.  People need to keep their expectations realistic.  Darkcoin peaked and is unlikely to hit the level it was at anytime soon.  Also, to those that keep talking "hold for long term", how long are you going to hold?  And regarding the common saying used in this thread "shaking out the weak hands", the weak hands have been getting shaken out for months.  What is weak about selling for a profit and using that btc to make more profit on other coins.  It's not weak it's smart.

There is a lot of competition these days.  Darkcoins value has always been based off of it anonymity feature and that has not been delivered.  You can only push things back for so long before people start doubting everything and move on.  On top of that there are new coins using the cryptonote protocol that offers anonymity without the need for a complicated masternode network.  Once the GUI is out for those coins and they have addressed bloating on the blockchain, all of the major arguments against cryptonote coins will be gone.  

I dumped all the DRK I had above .002 and plan on buying back at the bottom which isn't even close yet.  But I guess I'm those weak hands getting shaken out.  I would rather be weak and rich in BTC than a bagholder.

      

So are other people.  I'm starting to think that Poloniex was on the wrong fork when some of us withdrew coins.

They finally made it to my wallet.

I know.

I found block at Height 17717

The name is fine.  And I would like to apologize to the Dev for my criticism.  It's just that some of us have money invested in these endeavors

Because this is a new thread there is no history of the two previous SOLO mined blocks that I got.

Bummer

But we are still finding blocks

SOLO

Another solo mined block.  This was a quad core.  And solo.  That's three pretty quick

Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.000000355763
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.000007000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.000050000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.000100000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.004000000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.090000000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 0.100000000000
Height 18595, transaction <876d87e4ef69368a4e6e6af0f8a8f1118ba3170c14e64a7dcfa12b9080068f99>, received 2.000000000000

Well I'm out.  This coin looks done. 

I agree.

These guys are not ready for prime time.

Great technology, poor delivery.

Lets help them out.  That goes for all the Cryptonote coins.

I still want to know what is with this new thread?  END OF STORY.

You want people to support your coin then you start communicating.

This coin is for all intents and purposes already dead.  One pool has all the hashrate, dev out to lunch for now, What's the point?

What's with the new thread?  Why did you move from the other one?

I'm  just using    start_mining  <Address>  2            on an I3   In the Daemon

I just found another one

Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.000000577378
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.000003000000
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.000090000000
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.000900000000
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.020000000000
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 0.200000000000
Height 17717, transaction <7bbc949f3d403593c68cc4d94d8685fd5f8d4c0a5d831908a47ca3fdc577a4a9>, received 2.000000000000

Refresh done, blocks received: 118

I'm damn lucky I guess.

Solo min ing is definitely paying off.  Looks like the orphan issue is getting better.  That means people should start solo mining ASAP.

I found a block solo mining.  I3 machine.


Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.000000603928
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.000007000000
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.000400000000
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.004000000000
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.090000000000
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 0.100000000000
Height 17632, transaction <75868df0f6aa494a720bfadd5698b9d69d34910fb60aa79558e19d9f4ecf5b29>, received 2.000000000000

I can verify found block and successful payout from  http://mnt.ext-pool.net/ 

Send some hashrate their way to help even out the network.

I tried to mine on your pool but Apparently I have to register an alias?

Well, I did that but never received the email I was supposed to.  So I am unable to mine on your pool.  And yes I checked the spam filter.  Help me mine on your pool and I will.

I sent some hash to http://mnt.ext-pool.net/ and it looks like they have found block while I've been mining.  Haven't verified payout yet. 

I am also going to keep some hash pointed at http://mcn.extremepool.org 

If people using multiple instances/computers to mine would divide those between the various pools or solo mine, that would really help things out.  But http://mcn.extremepool.org  is a great pool and people should continue to use it.  Just spread the hash around if you can.   

You are absolutely correct.  You are going above and beyond what most pool operators would do. 

I hope you didn't take my post the wrong way.  It's not your fault that everyone chose to mine on your pool.  The fact that you are taking steps to try and spread the hashrate around is commendable.

I think it would be more important to get the hashrate spread around.  One pool is getting 99.9% of the blocks.  I pulled my miners off and will give it a try solo mining for a day or two.  If I don't find any blocks then I'll just quit mining this coin.  As it is right now it has no future when all the hashrate is centralized on one pool.  No offense to the pool operator as it's not under their control.  But it would be a good idea for people to either switch to the other pool or start solo mining.

  

Update:
Solo mining might be pointless.  I just found a block but it was orphaned.  I also looked at the other pool and all their finding is orphans.  As long as the one pool has all the hash nobody else will be able to find any blocks that are not orphaned.  This coin is not healthy this way.  I will just stop mining.  

I think the payouts are stuck on your pool.  

Thanks.

Amazon EC2 bills are due.  That could be the cause of the dumps.  People needing to pay for their cloud instances.  Just a possibility.