True, but since we're talking about an alt-coin, why bother? Why reinvent the wheel, when there is an existing codebase you can work off of and improve?

Well that really puts us all at ease - thanks for clearing that up user-that-nobody-has-ever-heard-of-and-only-has-23-posts!

It says 10 hours, 20 minutes, till the next draw...?

It took him 4 seconds to open this thread and write his post...which, coincidentally, is the same block time as CRAPcoinGAScoin.

There are no significant vulnerabilities in Bitcoin/Litecoin and their clones, so knowing the port would provide little advantage. The RPC port is, by default, only bound to 127.0.0.1, so any vulnerabilities that exist there wouldn't be directly externally accessible.

Stock Debian/Ubuntu (and other distros) are not terribly insecure out the box. In fact, more often than not, it is the incorrect configuration of software that opens holes on a machine. I would hazard that a box with a poorly configured FTP service is a much softer target than a stock Ubuntu box that is only really exposing SSH to the Internet.

Day 0?

I think you mean 0day exploits, and I don't think that word means what you think it means. Here's some light reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0day

Other than that you raise an interesting point, but as far as attack vectors go it's no different to scanning Digital Ocean's IP range(s) for vulnerable boxes.

It's 2013. Who still uses Flash on a website?

Do you not know how your caps lock works?

*sigh*

Just because it crashes doesn't mean the process ends.

Megacoin, for example, has a tendency to freeze under certain conditions. The process is still running, and it will even accept RPC requests, but it never responds. A watchdog would have a tough time realising that the daemon needs to be restarted.

Similarly, how would a watchdog know that the local chain is a fork and not the correct blockchain? These issues require manual intervention.

Finally, no sysadmin in their right mind would "write a cron script" (whatever that is, you're mixing technical terms that have nothing to do with each other) to poll ps and restart a process when all of the major init systems already support this functionality. The vast majority of major Linux distros nowadays use Upstart as their init system, and Upstart bakes in auto restart functionality, respawn limits, etc. A sysadmin may write a custom watchdog to poll RPC calls, or he may choose to write this functionality into an Upstart script.

You're right - ignorance *is* a two-way street.

I've seen it on a thread here, and I think I even made a "SHAWty got low" comment. People speak out of ignorance without bothering to do even basic research.

This has happened on Cryptsy to me - they end up on a fork and have to reload the blockchain, or the daemon crashes and they have to restart it. To say that it's dodgy because of this relatively common issue is just silly, and shows a gross ignorance as to the fact that these situations are easily resolved. Scam warnings where scams are due, not where your own ignorance causes you to misread a situation.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like the whining of someone that doesn't know how to use site:bitcointalk.org in Google. This is a technical forum for technically minded individuals that are interested in Bitcoin. Non-technical users have other places they will be - they won't be interested in altcoins or mining. If you are a technically minded individual with an interest in mining, I'm pretty sure you're able to Google for info on the altcoin of choice and stumble across it. Newbs don't need to see new scamcoin announcements as they come in, they need to familiarise themselves with the landscape before they get caught up in this fast-moving space.

Sure, but the moderators have stated on numerous occasions that they won't change the way this subforum is run. There are plenty of coins announced on Cryptocointalk that gain traction before being announced here days later, so it's possible that this subforum will eventually be closed and will have a sticky redirecting people to alternate forums for this sort of chat.

Why? This is Bitcointalk, not Clonesofbitcointalk. If you want structure, go to Cryptocointalk.com or Altcointalk.co.uk.

But that would be "no one", two words. Noone sounds like he's speaking about lunchtime in ye olde English.

Very clever satire!

Noone? Who on earth is noone?

I'm not sure why you think Primecoin is a "scam" just because people were solving blocks really fast initially? I downloaded the first client and was mining within maybe 30 minutes of the announcement on a few of my dedicated servers, and I was powering through blocks. That's the nature of a difficulty adjustment - even a progressive one - it brings the difficulty up (or down) so that block times match what is expected.

Why not?

root@mstat:~# anoncoind getmininginfo
{
    "blocks" : 58646,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 0.50539442,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "networkhashps" : 173652200,
    "pooledtx" : 3,
    "testnet" : false
}

If you need to ask that question you're the wrong person to start a coin (no offense intended).