I got a stake today. I just followed Spots' instruction to the letter and combined everything into one input. I would recommend that you do the same - make one large input and wait it out. Your stake will come eventually. I find the battle of the stakes entertaining.

It is just taking time while the chain builds up momentum.

The block explorer seems accurate now.

If your address has been hard coded there will be no fees but if not then you will have to wait for a new wallet where your address has been programmed into additionalfee.cpp. (as far as I understand). You can check if your address appear in that file in the source code.

I don't know if it is an error or by design, but the current difficulty to stake will for sure be an incentive not to move coins which will reset coinage if you do.

If you put the two blk files down from scratch and open the wallet, the local chain is current instantly. (havent tested the latest wallet though)

Mark, I think you are a bit hasty with your assessment. Lets first wait and see what spices Spots put in the pot and how things play out for the next few thousand blocks and once the chain is up to speed on auto-pilot. I somehow get the feeling that the main purpose of the premine is to make the chain move when needed because a low supply coin has a big risk of the chain getting stuck and then you can do nothing. I don't think that the premine stakes are a big deal at this point. This is the scenario I am betting on. I could be wrong, but I am taking the chance since in crypto you don't put in that you are not willing to lose.

Besides, I like off-beat, dark horse and different stuff and that is why I am intrigued to see how this will play out and what happens next.

The blocks are moving, just slow. I presume the coins are building weight and as time goes on the blocks will come quicker.

POS is moving as well.

What miner do you have?

1. Wipe everything in your COINZ folder except wallet.dat and COINZ.conf
2. Remove all addnodes in COINZ.conf except 70.92.184.203
3. Download the latest wallet and bootstrap files posted by Spots a few posts back
4. UnRAR the bootstrap files and put the two files (blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat) in the folder where your wallet.dat is
5. Run the wallet. It will jump to the last block in the bootstrap and will sync with the nodes from there.

100% thanks

LoL it is almost more difficult to get a block at a difficulty of 1 than at a high difficulty. Sounds like a paradox.

Can you post a new bootstrap please? After loading the posted bootstrap getcheckpoint remains at 13903 even if it syncs to whatever chain it finds.

Is 15653 recent enough at this point?

addnode = 45.63.1.27

Runtime error or is it just me?