Myriadcoin (XMY); which uses SHA256d, Scrypt, Groestl ("Myriad-Groestl"), Yescrypt, and Argon2d algos; just had its regular halving, which you noted by reducing the block reward by half, as is usual. If you're getting that from your node, please update the node from https://github.com/myriadteam/myriadcoin/releases  The block reward is still 250 xmy. The economic halving was done by leaving reward as it was and doubling the block time. That saves on the non-useful chainindex growth. As currently set, the next two "halvings" (still at nominally two-year intervals) will be done the same way.

New figures:  250.0 block reward and a two-minute overall target blocktime, meaning a ten-minute nominal block time for each algo.

https://discord.gg/gGATpw6
We'll get that propagated over the next few days. Thank you very much for mentioning it.

Please say where you got this misinformation.
Myriadcoin's Skein mining will be disabled after consensus lock-in, and Argon2d-4096 added. Yescrypt remains.
Read the release notice https://github.com/myriadteam/myriadcoin/releases

If MPH wants to disable its Myriad yescrypt pool, that's your business. But please remove the incorrect announcement from your site. We're answering this question four times a day now.

Argon2d-4096 is Argon2d with 1 iteration, 4MB memory cost, 1 thread, 2 lanes. Like UIS and ARG; not like DYN.

To be clear, skein will be deactivated and argon2d added. Sha256d, scrypt, myr-groestl, and yescrypt will remain.

Promotion towards that is being set up, even before any algo change is finalized. https://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/abzrhx/bounty_for_improved_opensource_yescrypt_amd_gpu/

The yescrypt we have is now a fairly strong algo for somewhat recent Nvidia GPU's. AMD will require improved mining software to be competitive; we hope to encourage development of that. Presently, there's some agreement about bringing in Argon2d4096 (as in UIS and ARG) for CPU, and deactivating skein.

The discussion continues on the subreddit, and more participation is encouraged.             
https://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/a8hjwj/please_discuss_use_yescrypt_for_gpu_add_argon2d/                 
               
Any discussion of the change here on bitcointalk probably won't be as well followed.

It's time to refresh your view of the OP and the links in it, if you haven't in a while. Most haven't.               
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483515.0                   

Your reported block time for Myriad (XMY) has been incorrect since forever, resulting in wildly incorrect calculations. It's a five-algo coin. Either you'll need to get reporting for each algo separately, multiply by five, or use a fixed figure.

Separate reporting would be best; no idea how that would be retrieved. Mutliplying would be inaccurate because of natural block-rate differences, but vastly closer than what you're using now. Close enough, maybe. The fixed figure would be 300 seconds, the per-algo target, five times the overall target.

Note that the previously scheduled reward-halving coming in  ~May has been replaced with a doubling of the target time. Then target will be 600 seconds per algo.

Equihash as implemented by ZCash has been ASIC'd, so using Equihash-as-it-is is unlikely. But the ASIC advantage wasn't nearly as drastic as it has been for other algos. Perhaps tweaks of some sort. Needs investigation.

After being inaccessible to this user for some days, the pool is back up.

I rented some more powerful Yescrypt hash and brought it over. Now this being a rented rig, of course it was unprofitable -- knew that going in.

It did show that with just a few more miners on pokemongomongo, my regular units would be more profitable at your pool, hands down. Just have to be patient about the payouts. Far fewer blocks; far greater reward per block. And the first-block payout won't be very good. It's the ones coming after that I want. Way worth it! I'll see if I can get a few friends to join in. Wouldn't take much.

As for Skein, really appreciate you considering it. The picture has changed. Most Skein pools have now upgraded to the new wallet, so that couldn't be a draw for you. All effort on your part, and no reward. Thanks just the same.

My mistake. Was mistaking you for another pool. You have upgraded, in fact I think you had already upgraded when I posted the above.

Thanks for being on top of things. I'm bringing you my hash, such as it is 

Until we get enough miners and pools on board there's a thread on https://reddit.com/r/myriadcoin that's tracking upgrade status of pools. You're already mentioned favorably there, but there'd be no harm in posting your own welcome in a fresh thread.

Again, thanks for your steady support of Myriad.

Please upgrade to Myriad core 0.14.2.3 and announce on the Myriad reddit sub that you've done so. Signing your blocks would help you advertise that you've changed, too.

The community is overwhelmingly in favor of SegWit, and the signalling period starts shortly. You'd probably gain some hash.

For the same reason, any chance of the Skein pool returning for a while?

An improvement in the short term would be good, but can you give just a little more info on just how the difficulty calculations would change? Me, I'm not looking for anything detailed, just a quick gloss.

Network difficulty approaches 8M, and total network hashrate is close to 100 KH/s. Democats' share of nethash is very approximately 1/8th; when whatever the overly capable rig is visited Democats a bit ago, that share was very much higher for a short while.

Don't know what hardware you're using, but is it possible that accumulating the minimum send of half a Bitcoal is way more challenge than it's worth?

"Mining for the Masses"? Anymore, I think not.

Nice try, though. Worth revision if enough people have the energy to improve it beyond what a Bitcoin or CryptoNote basis can accomplish.

My daemon said "Switching to Alternative Blockchain".

Was there a fork at 215439?

First, be sure you are using at least version 2.0.4 from the Forknote repo.    
    https://github.com/forknote/forknote
2.0.6 is probably a better idea, but I haven't made the switch myself yet so I can't say.
After posting this, slb replied with the below, and has a great deal of knowledge about Forknote, while I have practically none. So I've edited.

In your bitcoal data directory, delete the file p2pstate.bin. The file will be replaced with a fresh copy when you restart forknote.  

If you've started sync at all, your config file is probably ok as it is. If you want a fresh one, get it from
    https://github.com/forknote/configs
The two seed nodes there should get you on your way, maybe after deleting p2pstate.bin again.

If you still think you have need of further seed nodes, you can try adding these to your bitcoal.conf

Leave the two already there in place.

If you'll scroll up a very few posts, you'll see that you should be looking at ZoinPro/zoin, and you're not.


Zoin team:
      Is editing of this ANN's OP still available to you? If not, you may be forced to think about a new thread.

Hi, torig.

There's a pull request on the repo (both of them) that I think will fix your initial build problem. I don't care to publish the repo the pull request is from, mainly because I don't think I'll be maintaining it. But you're quite welcome to locate it (easy to do) and try the fix.


Zoin team:

Which is the active repo?

Rather than syncing a Dash blockchain, I'd like to withdraw from Cryptopia straight to the donation address. Cryptopia insists on having a payment ID to do so. Do you care to post one, slb?
Cryptopia does not require a payment ID for Cryptonote/Forknote withdrawals, but space for one is provided if the reciever wants it. My problem was a mistyped, thus invalid, address. Withdrew bitcoal to my own wallet without payment ID successfully. Both times an invalid address was used for the DSH, the funds were returned after a wait approaching a day, which I think is appropriate.

Retried mypool.name today. Still a no-go. I like Democats just fine, but agree with slb about decentralization. Are there other publicly-available pools running?