Seems like a nice coin.
It is easy to mine and the pool that I use ("mine2gether" or something like that...) is very efficent.
Payments come in regularly, every 20 minutes or so.
I am using the Nest wallet and once it is synchronized, it works quite well.
I moved some few 100k TURTLE to Tradeogre without any issues.
Also the exchange allows to trade the Turtles for bitcoins at will.
All this sound smooth and indeed it is.
Although, at the moment, and correct me if I am wrong, the Turtle is practically pegged to Bitcoin and any valuation in USD is only virtual, since you cannot exchange it to USD or USDT directly.
So for what I could see, you can exchange the Turtle for a fixed price (0.00000001) to BTC, it does not really change over time and then you can eventually change BTC to FIAT at the value of BTC relative to the FIAT you want in exchange.
So the 11 USD per 100.000 Turtle that appears sometimes in the mining calculators, actually never happens.
It is more like price of 1 BTX divided by 1000. So at current BTC prices is more in the 6 to 8 dollars range.
Which makes TURTLE as not as profitable as it is claimed, it is more in line of mining to NiceHash, yet with NiceHash you get your bitcoins directly to your wallet.
If someone has a better way of doing all the iteration to convert to FIAT, is very welcome to explain!
I do not mind to hold some turtles at all, it seems an efficent project that has good chances of success, but converting them to FIAT efficently and profitably is key. Since I am mining them, there is a cost involved that need to be covered and can only be paid in FIAT.
Cheers.