Altcoin Development Questions (Getting stuck after connecting nodes)

Hey everyone,

I've been messing around in altcoin development lately, and I've tried to clone CredenceCoin (https://github.com/XYZ1345/CredenceCoin)

I've generated my own genesis block, and I've tried to follow this tutorial: https://github.com/Peershares/Peershares/wiki/Genesis-Block-%28Starting-a-New-Blockchain-Instance%29

However, when I run my main daemon, I keep getting these message in my first running instance with random IPs:

Code:

connection timeout
trying connection 54.185.94.219:47915 lastseen=308.7hrs

Also I get that the ThreadStakeMiner is started in the log as well, but there seems to be no mining being done.

I also launched a second instance of my altcoin, and connected it to my main daemon, but all it keeps doing is repeating this:

Code:

trying connection 127.0.0.1:47916 lastseen=0.0hrs
connected 127.0.0.1:47916
send version message: version 60015, blocks=0, us=0.0.0.0:0, them=0.0.0.0:0, peer=127.0.0.1:47916
socket no message in first 60 seconds, 0 1
disconnecting node 127.0.0.1:47916

Shouldn't both of these instances be mining coins?

Thank you for your help.