If $ETH forks, it's because of  a vulnerability in the code. Why would 'unmodified' be a good thing?

Last major change 'broke the GUI wallet?'. You seemed to have dumped this to the bottom of the 'ta doo' list.  Isn't "no working GUI wallet" a non starter for miners or Poloniex?  I understand you have big things going, but if you can't take care of the basics, won't your following (miners/Poloniex and others) go elsewhere?
You don't think a working GUI wallet is a minimum requirement for Poloniex and/or miners?
It's great to introduce new and better, but if you can't hold you base, does it do any good?

Please excuse the beginner, are you an independant coin (fuzzy definition), or a sidechain of ETH. Please don't try to confuse me, start your answer with YES or NO. Any (or no answer) without this means YES (not as if that would be a good/bad thing), just trying to understand.

I'm a bit confused on the open/don't open port stuff. I'm running windoze 10. Wallet is increasing with solo mining. I have a router so I can plug my laptop in. Am I helping the network with solo? I can spare some Mbytes to and from the net. Pros/cons/helpful/not helpful. Can someone give a newbie a clue?

Polylogic... If you can translate from Windoze to Linux, Here's what I use to solo mine:

gshift-windows-amd64.exe --rpc --rpcaddr "127.0.0.1" --rpcport 53901 console (This is the batchfile that gets the blockchain)
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To mine the blockchain, I run this batchfile after the blockchain has synced:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
@echo
"ethminer.exe" -G -F http://127.0.0.1:53901 --opencl-platform 1 --cl-local-work 128 --cl-global-work 16384 --farm-recheck 500
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I believe it port 53901 that has to be open (not totally sure). I don't use 8545, I want to keep all this seperate from eth.

Hope this helps
 

Yesterday (from my time zone, it was yesterday) for a while, according to whattomine.com, SHIFT was acually more profitable to mine than ETH.  I find it interesting that the price of ETH jumped shortly after that and regained the top spot on mining profitability.

Either way, my little solo mining of SHIFT is still chugging on with wallet contents growing. Another jump in SHIFT price and it will be back on top.

By the way, my solo mining connection works great!

I am getting a stable connection and if I read correctly, my connection will help the network. That's a win for both of us.

Thanks for your help.

Reading back my comment, it sounded a little negative.  Let me say a couple of more things... I like the concept of the coin. Thats why I've read over 50 pages in this forum. Dev's are actually communicating here.  User posts made it very easy to setup mining.

I'm just concerned about nodes. I think the only connection I can get it half way around the world.

It's been there for a few days, that's how I found this coin.  I've been reading through the posts, tried to solo mine for a few hours yesterday.  Found a serious lack of nodes ( I could only connect to one) and didn't want to pay the 'pools' (overlords, taxmen, miner overseers) the blood money for them to dictate terms.

I'll watch for a bit to see if this coin develops the node structure that seems to be very low on the list of things to do.

lets look at cleverming for a moment. I was mining, unexchanged was building quite large, compared to 'ready for payout'. I went elsewhere when the status page became unreachable.. The ghost of clever (to my knowledge) never speaks about anything... anywhere. After many days (of the unexplained disappearance of the stat page), it suddenly reappears.  My unexchanged is 16x the supposed ready to pay. Still not hearing from the ghost of clever.
Don't think for a second that I am coming back. I moved to a pool that actually communicates with pool participants, anyone with questions, or the world in general.
I suppose I could 'trash talk' them all day long.  It's not likely they will ever respond (only unconnected uninformed minions).
Anyone from the so called cleverming, some people would like to hear from you. I'm not expecting a response, pie in the sky people might look for a response.