Latest issue:

I'm staking constantly since the beginning of the year and today is the first day that the wallet is using more than 30% of my cpu.
It has never happened before.

I'm using the latest wallet on Win 8.1 64

Let me response briefly to the giveaway of DNotes brought up by TeeGee, RJF, and Chase. I agree that a fixed value of $20 or even $10 sounds much more appealing than a number of DNotes, such as 1,000 or 2,000. The truth of the matter is that with the anticipated large number of participants involving our family of 6 CR.I.S.Ps, we are not in the position to send even $10 or 1,000 DNotes to everyone who signed up. For all practical purposes, the amount of DNotes for general giveaway will drop to 100 DNotes or $1 based on today value sooner or later. One could argue that, given this consideration, 100 DNotes sounds more appealing than $1.

Bear in mind that all giveaways must be a limited time offer, possibly along with other qualifying factors.

Having said that, we may want to consider offering a limited time promotion for CR.I.S.P. for Retirement, expiring on Dec. 31, 2015.  Perhaps we can offer an automatic deposit of 100 DNotes for each qualified (we will have do define "qualified") plus 50 DNotes for every 1,000 DNotes saved, up 10,000 or a maximum of 500 DNotes. This could encourage participants to save a larger amount early when DNotes is relatively undervalued.

Those are some of the details we need to iron out. My suggestions should not be construed as final. We always value your suggestions and give them serious consideration.

Im not totally sure... But I think we may have an exchange https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/FIRE_BTC/

Nope! I am so glad I am out of alt coins and this mess.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, mafort1469. This is indeed news to me. However, a $500,000 dump with daily trading volume as high as $100 million may not be the only reason why Bitcoin lost over 30% in the first two weeks of the year.

Read more:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-ponzi-cryptodouble-disappears-least-2233-bitcoins/


CryptoDouble, a website founded on the promise of doubling its users’ deposits within 100 hours, ceased all its operations. At least 2233 BTC (about $500,000) have been cashed out on BTC-E, leaving thousands of customers out of pocket.

The service gained a significant popularity on Bitcointalk, where customers first testified about the service and its supposed effectiveness.

Despite several warnings from advanced Bitcoin users and previous Bitcoin Ponzi scams, a significant number of users have been attracted by the website’s promises and its investment possibilities. More than 200 different altcoins were featured in the investment opportunity list. Customers simply had to pick up an altcoin and then blindly send their funds to CryptoDouble wallets’ addresses, hoping for ulterior interest.

Unfortunately for these users, today the website went offline without any notice. The total prejudice is still unknown at the time of writing – several different crypto-currencies and blockchains were used in this swindle.

However, as indicated by the address a cryptodouble customer used to send funds to, the scammer stole at least 2233 bitcoins, and then sent the whole amount on BTC-e’s hot wallet to probably dump them.

While we don’t know yet the final scope of the disaster, the subsequent Bitcoin dumps are very likely to increase the current Bitcoin price plunge, in view of the significant sums involved.

The last two tweets sent from CryptoDouble, both on January 8, say:

There is highly coordinated and massive DDOS attack on CryptoDouble taking place right now. Our engineer handle it. Please allow some time. – Service is recovering now. We are still monitoring and analyzing the issue. All payouts will be processed shortly.

14/01/15 Update: A member of hashtalk is planning to launch a class-action lawsuit against CryptoDouble’s owner.

CCN will regularly update this story once additional information will be made available.

there is payout before closed

but i think it is fake payout from their own investment

I'd love to see one too, but i think it may take a little longer. I see it falling a little with all the large buy orders for 600 and 700 sat range. I see it changing but it's screaming Don't wanna go over 800 sat right now. That is still really good for now.

Reddit was created by someone else I believe.

Tom14Cat14 has granted access to the Twitter page, now the community has another way to keep updated with rebuilding/improving FIRE. It would have been tough to get back all the followers from the launch, it will be granted to anyone who wants to rebuild/improve FIRE I will also create a new ANN when I get a chance too, which will go with the Twitter page.

P.S. I'm just making sure FIRE doesn't fully break, it will still need a dedicated team to get it going again

I also noticed recently that the diff was down to 3 to 4 for a short while recently, I believe a couple of days ago.

Is the diff history recorded somewhere? 

I'm not really familiar with the VIA code so I can't say one is better than the other. Glanced at the source and it is different (code-wise) in many areas from Doge core. Maybe someone has some experience with it and can enlighten us with some of its features...

I mentioned Doge core, because that is what Octo is based on and it would be fairly simple to follow their updates and implement them into 888,if we wanted to go the merged-mining route...