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[3worlduser]

About 20 to 30 seconds.  It appears when using the coin server pool and my miners finds a block, I get the "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted" error.  Maybe the pool is taking the block for itself.

about a week ago I set-up an explorer and a pool on my test-network and the block were 30 minutes aprox. my blockcount is 958164, it is weird because the coin is from 2013 at 30 seconds blocks there would be a lot more than 958164, maybe I'm in a fork 

[psycodad]

Here are the commands to start CGMiner from a batch file:

cd c:\Users\User\Desktop\CryptoCoins\CGMiner 4_3_5
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:17501 -u <username> -p <password>

Contents of Stablecoin.conf file:

rpcuser=<username>
rpcpassword=<password>
server=1
daemon=1
rpcallowip=*
rpcport=17501

addnode=108.186.237.29
addnode=109.121.82.231
addnode=184.171.221.204
addnode=109.80.94.251
addnode=93.138.167.14
addnode=31.207.20.162
addnode=188.126.8.14
addnode=151.80.140.87
addnode=198.143.188.42
addnode=113.162.188.201
addnode=203.59.132.204
addnode=86.22.130.144
addnode=59.167.189.49
addnode=72.84.189.238
addnode=85.217.147.117
addnode=72.78.100.8

I am mining from a laptop on a home network and starting the wallet with the -server directive.  Also, when mining on a pool, I get the error "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted", after every new block.  All mining parameters look OK.  It showing about 255 Kh/s.

That all looks good to me so far. Maybe you can find any hint in the debug.log in the same folder as your StableCoin.conf.
Also make sure no personal firewall blocks you from accessing the rpcport of the wallet. And maybe check with netstat if the wallet is really listening on that rpcport 17501.

[Commentator]

The current block count is 958233.  The blocks should generate in about 10 minute intervals.  I finally got the solo mining setup working.  Its hashing the current block.  Will watch it to find out how much time there is between blocks.

After checking the ports with netstat -a, I found that Prohashing has established a port on my system through the wallet's port 17500.  Not sure why that is.  I am mining using port 17501.

[psycodad]

Blockheight is the same here, but at ~0.9 diff it can take some time to pop a block with 250kh/s. Give it at least a few hours before you give up.

[Commentator]

I had bought the gridseed to prevent the wallet from going out of sync because the current pools don't seem to be mining empty blocks.  Since it only runs at 7 or 8 watts I will try to keep it running most of the time.

[psycodad]

I had bought the gridseed to prevent the wallet from going out of sync because the current pools don't seem to be mining empty blocks.  Since it only runs at 7 or 8 watts I will try to keep it running most of the time.

Its not the empty blocks, its the market-price/diff/reward ratio. At a diff of ~0.9 your 250kh/s need ~4hrs to pop a block when the chain is stuck. In StableCoin the block target is 40s and the diff adjusts every 90 blocks. That is after 90 blocks with a diff of ~0.9 have been mined slower than 40s per block in average, diff will decrease to reach its target with the hash it sees. So expect a good drop in diff once the 90 blocks are over (and expect a lot of multipools to join for the next 90 low-diff blocks)

Now once the diff falls a bit, the above equation of market-price/diff/reward gives a better result (which you also can trigger by giving insanely high fees, that has the same effect on the mentioned ratio as a diff that is lower or a higher market-price). At this time multipools monitoring SBC join in and harvest a few cheap blocks (difficulty-wise cheap) with much more hash than the current diff is adjusted for. This again blows up diff and now the chain is again stuck for 90 blocks

With what you do, you actually keep the chain moving, but it is a very ungrateful task for you, as whenever you worked diff down to a level that you could mine a few blocks with your gear, others come in stealing your fruity blocks.

Adjusting diff only every x blocks is fine for chains/coins with a very high and stable hashrate (i.e. BTC or LTC). For smaller chains, I believe that it is a much better strategy to adjust diff on every or every few blocks.

[Commentator]

Haven't mined a block as of now after running the gridseed for a day.  The network hashrate is over 100 Mh/s, which is ok.  The important thing from my standpoint is to keep the chain moving.  Stablecoin should have 1 million blocks mined, soon.

[Velvet78]

just saw that SBC is also listed here https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_SBC/

ive found someone to setup a blockexplorer, faucet and miningpool for SBC. will post here when its done

Great news  , there also is a pool at http://coin-server.com/

thnx, added to the OP

[Commentator]

I have been mining for about a week with my little gridseed, mining about 18 blocks and getting bored. The wallet goes out of sync if there is a long pause between block finds.

You are correct about the pools coming in when the diff gets below 1, then abandoning mining Stablecoin waiting for the next opportunity to grab a few cheap blocks when the diff drops again.  Prohashing is the only pool mining this coin from what I can see.  Also, it appears I am the only solo miner on the network.

With the no interest from the dev for this coin and no interest in solo mining, when the blockchain stalls again in the near future, it won't be me to come in and lower the diff for the benefit of a few pools mining this coin.

After starting the wallet a few times I have discovered that the Stablecoin-qt is a clone of Royalcoin-qt because it briefly displays a Royalcoin wallet before changing to a Stablecoin wallet.  This shows careless coding on the devs part.  He didn't clean up all the residuals from the Royalcoin code before releasing the Stablecoin wallet.

Stablecoin is destined for the deadcoin bin.

[3worlduser]

Sorry the delay guys I set-up a pool and block explorer for Stablecoin.
The Faucet and the web wallet will be ready in the next days
if you have any trouble send me a message here or in the contact form in my page

https://www.block-genesis.com

enjoy

[MilkandPie4U]

Sorry the delay guys I set-up a pool and block explorer for Stablecoin.
The Faucet and the web wallet will be ready in the next days
if you have any trouble send me a message here or in the contact form in my page

https://www.block-genesis.com

enjoy

Nice work, I have contacted topia and asked them to update the coin info and rating with this new explorer.

Thank you !

[Velvet78]

Sorry the delay guys I set-up a pool and block explorer for Stablecoin.
The Faucet and the web wallet will be ready in the next days
if you have any trouble send me a message here or in the contact form in my page

https://www.block-genesis.com

enjoy

wow you did an awesome job! looks very good. thanks a bunch

[Commentator]

Nice work.  Now all that's needed is trading volume.

[Velvet78]

Nice work.  Now all that's needed is trading volume.

hmm we should be able to trigger the multipool to mine some more haha

[Commentator]

I have a Stablecoin block reward program running that randomly gives a 5 Stablecoin reward every 10 seconds to a little over an hour.  I might be making that the reward more frequent in the near future but as of now its as I previously stated.

[3worlduser]

Hi there, I need to do some maintenance/upgrade on the server, the explorer and the pool will be offline for two days, sorry for the inconvenience. The good news is that now the pool will be 0% fee, I have been doing some test about the problem of the blockchain getting stuck, trying with different hashrates and configurations.
In all the test, with different hashrates in the pool (10M - 20M - 30M) and network difficulty between 0.8 - 1.2 the blocks pop up in a normal way between a minute approx. but after ten block mined the wallet receive 10 block in just two minutes (I guess that is the multipool) and the cycle repeats, over and over. The only way I could get a stable block emission and no 10 "flash block" was with 80M and 1.5 - 1.7 difficult on the network. I couldn't run more test (run out of BTC to rent more hashrate) but that is the main idea, at least in the current scene (diff/hashrate/price), that is why I will set the pool with 0% fee, maybe that can help to improve this situation. If there is something else I can do or a specific request for ports difficult, just let me know.

[Commentator]

From what I have read, Prohashing is maintaining a temporary blockchain for each coin that it mines and releases the coins to the real blockchain before a fork occurs.  This is why clusters of blocks suddenly appear.  Not sure what their premise is behind this activity.

[Commentator]

From my experience of the few blocks I am able to mine, the blocks I mine don't appear on the block chain until I broadcast a transaction on the network and the next block is mined grabbing the transaction fee.  This usually occurs within 5 to 10 minutes after I have broadcast the transaction fee.  As I stated in a previous post, I am broadcasting transaction at random times.

[Commentator]

3Worlduser, so that was you that caused the Stablecoin hashrate to go up to over 100 Mh/s?

Also, the program I wrote that broadcasts a 5 Stablecoin transaction fee is to prevent a stall in the blockchain.  Not sure how long I will run it.

[Commentator]

A network without transactions is a dead network.