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[SlimePuppy]

If the "development team" has gone inactive, it may be time for us to build a new team. I have made a proposal for the board of directors for the coin to manage its future. To the "development team" in sleeping, speak up or forever hold your peace, or man up and officially transfer the reigns to the board of directors.
Thank you.
Etblvu1

And who, pray tell, is this mysterious "board of directors" of which you speak?

Eric - you voluntarily gave up any voice you might have had when you made clear that you were not part of any team.  As you are not part of any recognized team, you have no more and no less voice than any other member of the public.

IF there is to be a 'changing of the team' that decision will come from the dev team identified in the first post - and will be communicated to the community by the team lead, Maverick.

If anyone has any questions for the team, or wants to be part of CAT's next year, they're welcome to connect with us on IRC, PM us here, use email, or communicate with us via the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease Git system.

Thanks!

[SlimePuppy]

Mack25 - please visit with us in -dev or ping either me or blaksmith on IRC or via email/PM.

Thanks in advance.
Andy

[13:07] * mack25 (~mack25@...) has joined #catcoin-dev
[13:10] <mack25> do i need to renew catcoins.org?
[13:16] <@Blaksmith> hi mack25
[13:16] <mack25> sup
[13:17] <@Blaksmith> where is catcoins.org pointing at currently anyway?
[13:17] <@Blaksmith> who's server?
[13:20] <@Blaksmith> that page looks like the one that Johnny-non was working on a while back..
[13:21] <@Blaksmith> and per hozer's request a few months ago, were you going to transfer the founder of the chan to me?
[13:31] <SlimePuppy> We should renew it, mack25, as that's our main public page.  Search rankings still suck, but now that catcoins.biz is gone, that should change. 
[15:09] * Disconnected

[SlimePuppy]

The good news is that CAT has seen her first birthday and is very much alive.  The better news is that we haven't had to do any emergency releases or forks in a very long time.

We've gone through a lot in the past year.  The original dev team abandoning the project.  Members of the community stepped-up for a rescue and a wholesale effort to rebuild the infrastructure and fix broken code, and move the project forward.  Along the way we've had more than our share of pool crashes, fork-fests, divide by zeroes, and outright sabotage - and we have survived every damn one of them!

As far as I can tell, most CAT pools no longer exist.  Blaksmith's GeekHash and those of us on the dev team have been carrying the network on our backs with our servers and miners.  Look at Coinwarz - including electricity, NONE of the scrypt coins on the list are profitable - but CAT's still ON the list and were're still more profitable than DOGE - even with our bouncing algo.

And speaking of the bouncing algo:  We have very little hash rate.  My current 15MH/s is most of the network right now - my experimental pool found the last block and broke the 225 difficulty mountain.  Don't like a slow coin?  Mine it!  We already know that the coin works - and it works better with some miners on it!  The profit-switch pools come in when our diff drops below about 20.  More miners means the diff stays up and profit switchers don't visit.  How do we know?  Because for a time ZeroDrama's scrypt ASICs where the only miners on the network - and things smoothed right out.

For whatever reason, Mack didn't renew catcoins.org and our block explorer and main page are down.  We'll fix that.  There's an explorer available here:  http://altexplorer.info/chains/CAT/block_crawler.php  And I'm working on one that will be deployed on the network seed node I lease.  I'll post a link when it's running.  Our number one problem from the beginning is that not everyone that jumped in to help stuck around for the long haul.  We'll gather up the rest of the pieces and make them good, or we'll rebuild them from scratch.  In the mean time, the coin works, transactions work, mining works, trading works, and there's enough volatility for day traders to have fun.

Again - if you want to connect with us, the team's listed in the first post - PM us here, or hit IRC and chat with us there (me and blaksmith are on-line 24/7), or hit the git and message us from that platform.

Welcome to year number 2, wee Cat!

[SlimePuppy]

Mack25 renewed the catcoins.org domain - it should be back up shortly.  Thanks, mack.  (Hit me on IRC please - we have more to fix...)

We do not know who owns the catchain.info site or the block explorer - does anyone here know?

I'm working on a replacement block explorer and will link it here when available.

Folks - we must have access to the people controlling the coin's infrastructure - please - if you maintain a website, server, git, or social media site - please post or pm contact info.

[damm315er]

The good news is that CAT has seen her first birthday and is very much alive.  The better news is that we haven't had to do any emergency releases or forks in a very long time.

We've gone through a lot in the past year.  The original dev team abandoning the project.  Members of the community stepped-up for a rescue and a wholesale effort to rebuild the infrastructure and fix broken code, and move the project forward.  Along the way we've had more than our share of pool crashes, fork-fests, divide by zeroes, and outright sabotage - and we have survived every damn one of them!

As far as I can tell, most CAT pools no longer exist.  Blaksmith's GeekHash and those of us on the dev team have been carrying the network on our backs with our servers and miners.  Look at Coinwarz - including electricity, NONE of the scrypt coins on the list are profitable - but CAT's still ON the list and were're still more profitable than DOGE - even with our bouncing algo.

And speaking of the bouncing algo:  We have very little hash rate.  My current 15MH/s is most of the network right now - my experimental pool found the last block and broke the 225 difficulty mountain.  Don't like a slow coin?  Mine it!  We already know that the coin works - and it works better with some miners on it!  The profit-switch pools come in when our diff drops below about 20.  More miners means the diff stays up and profit switchers don't visit.  How do we know?  Because for a time ZeroDrama's scrypt ASICs where the only miners on the network - and things smoothed right out.

For whatever reason, Mack didn't renew catcoins.org and our block explorer and main page are down.  We'll fix that.  There's an explorer available here:  http://altexplorer.info/chains/CAT/block_crawler.php  And I'm working on one that will be deployed on the network seed node I lease.  I'll post a link when it's running.  Our number one problem from the beginning is that not everyone that jumped in to help stuck around for the long haul.  We'll gather up the rest of the pieces and make them good, or we'll rebuild them from scratch.  In the mean time, the coin works, transactions work, mining works, trading works, and there's enough volatility for day traders to have fun.

Again - if you want to connect with us, the team's listed in the first post - PM us here, or hit IRC and chat with us there (me and blaksmith are on-line 24/7), or hit the git and message us from that platform.

Welcome to year number 2, wee Cat!

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I suspect that the kluged wallet is at the core of that.  But don't expect a donation from me to fix it it, because after mining for 2 days, I still don't have any cat coin.

And digishield should be able to keep your blocks at somewhere near the specified time, seeing 26 hours block solve times is ridiculous to say the least.

Good luck.

[Blaksmith]

The good news is that CAT has seen her first birthday and is very much alive.  The better news is that we haven't had to do any emergency releases or forks in a very long time.

We've gone through a lot in the past year.  The original dev team abandoning the project.  Members of the community stepped-up for a rescue and a wholesale effort to rebuild the infrastructure and fix broken code, and move the project forward.  Along the way we've had more than our share of pool crashes, fork-fests, divide by zeroes, and outright sabotage - and we have survived every damn one of them!

As far as I can tell, most CAT pools no longer exist.  Blaksmith's GeekHash and those of us on the dev team have been carrying the network on our backs with our servers and miners.  Look at Coinwarz - including electricity, NONE of the scrypt coins on the list are profitable - but CAT's still ON the list and were're still more profitable than DOGE - even with our bouncing algo.

And speaking of the bouncing algo:  We have very little hash rate.  My current 15MH/s is most of the network right now - my experimental pool found the last block and broke the 225 difficulty mountain.  Don't like a slow coin?  Mine it!  We already know that the coin works - and it works better with some miners on it!  The profit-switch pools come in when our diff drops below about 20.  More miners means the diff stays up and profit switchers don't visit.  How do we know?  Because for a time ZeroDrama's scrypt ASICs where the only miners on the network - and things smoothed right out.

For whatever reason, Mack didn't renew catcoins.org and our block explorer and main page are down.  We'll fix that.  There's an explorer available here:  http://altexplorer.info/chains/CAT/block_crawler.php  And I'm working on one that will be deployed on the network seed node I lease.  I'll post a link when it's running.  Our number one problem from the beginning is that not everyone that jumped in to help stuck around for the long haul.  We'll gather up the rest of the pieces and make them good, or we'll rebuild them from scratch.  In the mean time, the coin works, transactions work, mining works, trading works, and there's enough volatility for day traders to have fun.

Again - if you want to connect with us, the team's listed in the first post - PM us here, or hit IRC and chat with us there (me and blaksmith are on-line 24/7), or hit the git and message us from that platform.

Welcome to year number 2, wee Cat!

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I suspect that the kluged wallet is at the core of that.  But don't expect a donation from me to fix it it, because after mining for 2 days, I still don't have any cat coin.

And digishield should be able to keep your blocks at somewhere near the specified time, seeing 26 hours block solve times is ridiculous to say the least.

Good luck.

What does your wallet say is the current block number? As there were forks in the past, make sure you are on the right one.  At the time of this post, the current block number is: 34215

You can see the current block number here: http://catstat.info/

I agree that a 26 hour block is rediculous, and there are changes happening, but due to time constraints of things outside of the *coin world, it is going very slowly.

[damm315er]

The good news is that CAT has seen her first birthday and is very much alive.  The better news is that we haven't had to do any emergency releases or forks in a very long time.

We've gone through a lot in the past year.  The original dev team abandoning the project.  Members of the community stepped-up for a rescue and a wholesale effort to rebuild the infrastructure and fix broken code, and move the project forward.  Along the way we've had more than our share of pool crashes, fork-fests, divide by zeroes, and outright sabotage - and we have survived every damn one of them!

As far as I can tell, most CAT pools no longer exist.  Blaksmith's GeekHash and those of us on the dev team have been carrying the network on our backs with our servers and miners.  Look at Coinwarz - including electricity, NONE of the scrypt coins on the list are profitable - but CAT's still ON the list and were're still more profitable than DOGE - even with our bouncing algo.

And speaking of the bouncing algo:  We have very little hash rate.  My current 15MH/s is most of the network right now - my experimental pool found the last block and broke the 225 difficulty mountain.  Don't like a slow coin?  Mine it!  We already know that the coin works - and it works better with some miners on it!  The profit-switch pools come in when our diff drops below about 20.  More miners means the diff stays up and profit switchers don't visit.  How do we know?  Because for a time ZeroDrama's scrypt ASICs where the only miners on the network - and things smoothed right out.

For whatever reason, Mack didn't renew catcoins.org and our block explorer and main page are down.  We'll fix that.  There's an explorer available here:  http://altexplorer.info/chains/CAT/block_crawler.php  And I'm working on one that will be deployed on the network seed node I lease.  I'll post a link when it's running.  Our number one problem from the beginning is that not everyone that jumped in to help stuck around for the long haul.  We'll gather up the rest of the pieces and make them good, or we'll rebuild them from scratch.  In the mean time, the coin works, transactions work, mining works, trading works, and there's enough volatility for day traders to have fun.

Again - if you want to connect with us, the team's listed in the first post - PM us here, or hit IRC and chat with us there (me and blaksmith are on-line 24/7), or hit the git and message us from that platform.

Welcome to year number 2, wee Cat!

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I suspect that the kluged wallet is at the core of that.  But don't expect a donation from me to fix it it, because after mining for 2 days, I still don't have any cat coin.

And digishield should be able to keep your blocks at somewhere near the specified time, seeing 26 hours block solve times is ridiculous to say the least.

Good luck.

What does your wallet say is the current block number? As there were forks in the past, make sure you are on the right one.  At the time of this post, the current block number is: 34215

You can see the current block number here: http://catstat.info/

I agree that a 26 hour block is rediculous, and there are changes happening, but due to time constraints of things outside of the *coin world, it is going very slowly.

I had wiped out the previous wallet, and all remnants in the app-data folder and installed the current, and let it sync from block 0.

The block & hashrate on the wallet was the same as shown on catstat, and the diff on the mining software was the same as catstat, so the software was talking to the wallet, and the wallet was on the correct chain.

Besides, if I was on my own fork, I'd be getting all of the blocks, not none..

At this point, I think you may be better off pulling a fresh copy of the litecoin or whatever wallet, and digishield, and starting over with the wallet to get rid of whatever kluged code is causing that issue, and the crazy block times..  Seriously, I watched the wallet handing out 5 to 7 blocks at a time, when it should have been handing out one, and 26 hours should never happened at all without a gigahash being on the coin and leaving 40 mh/s to solve it.  And catstat showed no such hashrate.

To be honest with you, my thought is that the custom code in the wallet, and only one dev knowing the code in the wallet, could be steering lots of blocks to his own pool.  But I can not prove so I will not accuse.

[BitcoinNational]

"At this point, I think you may be better off pulling a fresh copy of the litecoin or whatever wallet, and digishield, and starting over with the wallet to get rid of whatever kluged code is causing that issue, and the crazy block times..  Seriously"

Seriously, yes.  Pull one of the better up-to-date LTC flavors and make your life easier.

[hozer]

"At this point, I think you may be better off pulling a fresh copy of the litecoin or whatever wallet, and digishield, and starting over with the wallet to get rid of whatever kluged code is causing that issue, and the crazy block times..  Seriously"

Seriously, yes.  Pull one of the better up-to-date LTC flavors and make your life easier.

How about go right to the source and get the latest bitcoin-core instead?
I need some help with https://bitbucket.org/catcoin/catcoin to do the following

1) making gitian to build wallets work
2) fixing the windows build to use bdb5.3
3) miners to run catcoinds with a 3 to 5 minute minimum block time

(once that's all done I can port the catcoin block changes into the bitcoin-core codebase)

All the testing I've done shows the minimum block time should get us back to moderately usefull functionality, and *after* we do that, we can talk about other ways to fix difficulty adjustments once we have an automated regression tests running on all platforms with https://travis-ci.org/tmagik/catcoin

And until blaksmith has founder status on #catcoin-dev, you can join #catoshi-dev if you want to talk about development. I will not participate any further theoretical religious arguments that do not have a running regression test. If you want me to listen to you, write some code, otherwise the ultimate authority is whomever buys the most hashpower.

[hozer]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I suspect that the kluged wallet is at the core of that.  But don't expect a donation from me to fix it it, because after mining for 2 days, I still don't have any cat coin.

And digishield should be able to keep your blocks at somewhere near the specified time, seeing 26 hours block solve times is ridiculous to say the least.

Good luck.

I have tested code that partially solves the difficulty adjustment problem. What I need are some people who are willing to test and deploy it in production. Once we have some automated tests we can fine-tune how it works, and add the Heavycoin temporal retargeting which decreases the difficulty if there are really long blocks.

What's ridiculous is the amount of arguing over stupid shit we have done when we could have fixed this 6 months ago the first time I posted code that solves the problem.

[hozer]

development team smells like kitty litter, in house of a 1000 cats.

Cat lined ........................... (mack25 is the doctor of this massive fail?)
........................................................................... no pulse on a simple scrypt pow because one person won't hand over the keys?

means perma-stuck in cryptsy's wallets
means even if we fix the code they'll still refuse to 'update'
means craptsy is king of Cat

There's no keys. If you want to take over cat, all you need to do is rent or buy 50 to 100 mhash and it's yours. I can tell you what code to run (or change) if you want to have reasonable block times and limit swings caused by switchpools.

[SlimePuppy]

development team smells like kitty litter, in house of a 1000 cats.

Cat lined ........................... (mack25 is the doctor of this massive fail?)
........................................................................... no pulse on a simple scrypt pow because one person won't hand over the keys?

means perma-stuck in cryptsy's wallets
means even if we fix the code they'll still refuse to 'update'
means craptsy is king of Cat

There's no keys. If you want to take over cat, all you need to do is rent or buy 50 to 100 mhash and it's yours. I can tell you what code to run (or change) if you want to have reasonable block times and limit swings caused by switchpools.

Yeah Hozer - you sure can show people what code to run to take-over a coin - you did it to CAT while supposedly on the dev team.  That's why we fired you.

I realize this forum is the land of misfit trolls, but really - do you think people have already forgotten what you did to CAT?  Based on the PMs I've been getting, I'm thinking not...

[SlimePuppy]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I have 15 MH/s on my own experimental pool, and 15 on GeekHash - both are working fine.  My wallets are compiled straight from the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease git.  What wallet are you running?  Where did you download it from?  And what was in your catcoin.conf when you were solo mining?

I suspect that the kluged wallet is at the core of that.  But don't expect a donation from me to fix it it, because after mining for 2 days, I still don't have any cat coin.

There is no 'kluged wallet' - the wallet and the release code is fully functional.  In addition, the code is fully open - there is no 'private code' and no code known by only one dev.

And digishield should be able to keep your blocks at somewhere near the specified time, seeing 26 hours block solve times is ridiculous to say the least.

Digishield appears to be one option.  There are others that are being evaluated as well.

We already know that when we have a decent hash rate the algo smooths out and blocks approach the desired 10 minutes.  The largest problem we have right now with regards to miners is that we're too profitable for some to ignore.  I'm not entirely sure that's a real problem.   Make no mistake, however - the code IS being improved.

[SlimePuppy]

I need some help with <spam deleted> to do the following

1) making gitian to build wallets work
2) fixing the windows build to use bdb5.3

You're not 'fixing' anything by using Berkeley 5.3 for the Windows build.  We want to use the SAME database for all wallets so that databases are compatible.  The database proven to work for the MinGW Windows builds, as specified in the build instructions and used for the current wallet, is 6.0.20.  The Ubuntu repositories currently hold 5.1.4 for 12.04 and 5.3.21 for 14.04.  There is nothing wrong with the specified database - it works just fine.

3) miners to run catcoinds with a 3 to 5 minute minimum block time

NO NO NO.  You want to cheat miners out of legitimate blocks by using an arbitrary minimum time limit.  The community and entire dev team said "hell no" when you tried to muscle that through earlier.  That's when you put the hacked code on one of three network seed nodes and caused the fork-fest from hell.  You might also remember that's when you were kicked off the dev team and banned from the dev channel.  Troll somewhere else - you're still fired.

We are staying true to Satoshi's papers and to the intent of crypto.  We will NOT cheat miners, we will NOT introduce centralized control, we will NOT manipulate code to make charts "look nice".  Not Going To Happen.

[damm315er]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I have 15 MH/s on my own experimental pool, and 15 on GeekHash - both are working fine.  My wallets are compiled straight from the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease git.  What wallet are you running?  Where did you download it from?  And what was in your catcoin.conf when you were solo mining?

I'm using the current wallet, from the OP in this thread on 12/26.

Windows .zip file: http://www.catcoinwallets.com/win/catcoin090101.zip UPDATED
SHA256 hash: 7ABF4E133215C5857E312180420A274CFE914AF67DC57A191D2D3BE8BBADAB5D

You're talking apples and oranges with pool and solo mining..  You're pool mining in your own pool, and a pool elsewhere.

Solo mining requires the wallet to work, which it will not do for me.

And watching you guys bicker is hysterical.  

[SlimePuppy]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I have 15 MH/s on my own experimental pool, and 15 on GeekHash - both are working fine.  My wallets are compiled straight from the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease git.  What wallet are you running?  Where did you download it from?  And what was in your catcoin.conf when you were solo mining?

I'm using the current wallet, from the OP in this thread on 12/26.

Windows .zip file: http://www.catcoinwallets.com/win/catcoin090101.zip UPDATED
SHA256 hash: 7ABF4E133215C5857E312180420A274CFE914AF67DC57A191D2D3BE8BBADAB5D

You're talking apples and oranges with pool and solo mining..  You're pool mining in your own pool, and a pool elsewhere.

Solo mining requires the wallet to work, which it will not do for me.

Good - you have the current wallet.

I understand solo mining, and have done it on CAT.  That's why I asked you for info on what you were using and how you were configured - because I know for a fact the wallet works - if it did NOT work, I wouldn't have allowed it to be released.

The hash rate reported by the wallet is a very rough guess based on how long it took to solve blocks.  Nobody on the network knows how many miners are connected.  Individual pools can measure their hash rate if they choose, but most use a block time estimate as well.  Bottom line - nobody can say for sure that they are about 1/3 of the network.

Post your catcoin.conf please?  And share what device(s) you were using for mining and what mining software you were using as well.  We'll get you running.

Thanks in advance...

[hozer]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I have 15 MH/s on my own experimental pool, and 15 on GeekHash - both are working fine.  My wallets are compiled straight from the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease git.  What wallet are you running?  Where did you download it from?  And what was in your catcoin.conf when you were solo mining?

I'm using the current wallet, from the OP in this thread on 12/26.

Windows .zip file: http://www.catcoinwallets.com/win/catcoin090101.zip UPDATED
SHA256 hash: 7ABF4E133215C5857E312180420A274CFE914AF67DC57A191D2D3BE8BBADAB5D

You're talking apples and oranges with pool and solo mining..  You're pool mining in your own pool, and a pool elsewhere.

Solo mining requires the wallet to work, which it will not do for me.

And watching you guys bicker is hysterical.  

we need a reality show for this shit.

[damm315er]

Mining does not work...  I solo mined for 2 days with 15 mhs, which was roughly 1/3 of the net-hash according to the wallet and the cat explorer, and got 0 blocks.  Even though I was watching them get handed out in groups of 5 or 7 at a time, apparently to pools or something.

I have 15 MH/s on my own experimental pool, and 15 on GeekHash - both are working fine.  My wallets are compiled straight from the CatcoinOfficial/CatcoinRelease git.  What wallet are you running?  Where did you download it from?  And what was in your catcoin.conf when you were solo mining?

I'm using the current wallet, from the OP in this thread on 12/26.

Windows .zip file: http://www.catcoinwallets.com/win/catcoin090101.zip UPDATED
SHA256 hash: 7ABF4E133215C5857E312180420A274CFE914AF67DC57A191D2D3BE8BBADAB5D

You're talking apples and oranges with pool and solo mining..  You're pool mining in your own pool, and a pool elsewhere.

Solo mining requires the wallet to work, which it will not do for me.

Good - you have the current wallet.

I understand solo mining, and have done it on CAT.  That's why I asked you for info on what you were using and how you were configured - because I know for a fact the wallet works - if it did NOT work, I wouldn't have allowed it to be released.

The hash rate reported by the wallet is a very rough guess based on how long it took to solve blocks.  Nobody on the network knows how many miners are connected.  Individual pools can measure their hash rate if they choose, but most use a block time estimate as well.  Bottom line - nobody can say for sure that they are about 1/3 of the network.

Post your catcoin.conf please?  And share what device(s) you were using for mining and what mining software you were using as well.  We'll get you running.

Thanks in advance...

rpcuser= -gone-
rpcpassword=  -gone-
maxconnections=1000
rpcallowip=*
rpcport=7000
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=162.243.226.39:9933
addnode=213.136.68.97:9933
addnode=97.125.247.123:9933
addnode=107.170.40.107:9933

Anything else? 

[SlimePuppy]

Post your catcoin.conf please?  And share what device(s) you were using for mining and what mining software you were using as well.  We'll get you running.

Thanks in advance...

rpcuser= -gone-
rpcpassword=  -gone-
maxconnections=1000
rpcallowip=*
rpcport=7000
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=162.243.226.39:9933
addnode=213.136.68.97:9933
addnode=97.125.247.123:9933
addnode=107.170.40.107:9933

Anything else?  

Yes - I still need the miner and software.  Post the miner command line info or config file as well, please.

You can remove the addnodes.  Max connections is limited to 8 normally, so the 1000 is not going to do anything useful.

IF your miner is pointed at this computer's IP and port (assuming it's an ASIC and controlled by another box, or is something run by the same machine) then you'll still need to let it run for more than 2 days as hitting a block is still by chance, chance takes longer when blocks are slow, and there's a possibility that blocks will be orphaned if mega-hash comes in during our fast block phase.

On my personal/test pool, for example, mining with 15MH/s, I found 8 blocks, had 6 orphaned, and am waiting the 120 confirms for the two blocks that remain.

[damm315er]

Post your catcoin.conf please?  And share what device(s) you were using for mining and what mining software you were using as well.  We'll get you running.

Thanks in advance...

rpcuser= -gone-
rpcpassword=  -gone-
maxconnections=1000
rpcallowip=*
rpcport=7000
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0
testnet=0
listen=1
addnode=162.243.226.39:9933
addnode=213.136.68.97:9933
addnode=97.125.247.123:9933
addnode=107.170.40.107:9933

Anything else?  

Yes - I still need the miner and software.  Post the miner command line info or config file as well, please.

You can remove the addnodes.  Max connections is limited to 8 normally, so the 1000 is not going to do anything useful.

IF your miner is pointed at this computer's IP and port (assuming it's an ASIC and controlled by another box, or is something run by the same machine) then you'll still need to let it run for more than 2 days as hitting a block is still by chance, chance takes longer when blocks are slow, and there's a possibility that blocks will be orphaned if mega-hash comes in during our fast block phase.

On my personal/test pool, for example, mining with 15MH/s, I found 8 blocks, had 6 orphaned, and am waiting the 120 confirms for the two blocks that remain.

I use that .conf file for any solo mining, as it is pretty much plug and play, just change the user/pass/nodes and port. (which this is about the 30th coin I've used it on)

The mining software is multi-miner which is a gui interface for BFG miner.  This allows me to have a list of several coins to mine, and switch in literally 2 clicks, and has worked on everything else..  It's also more or less required since I have 6 asics and they require individual serial numbers to be called out with clock speed.  It's pointed at the wallet which is on another box, at the correct port evidenced by it getting a difficulty.

Again, you mention your test pool.  I DON'T HAVE A POOL, I AM SOLO MINING..

I point the finger back at the wallet.  I have not in my year plus of mining, mined something, with a large percentage of the hash, for 2 days, and never saw a block, unless the wallet is fucked up.

No rejects, no orphans, nothing.

The slow block/fast block phase is a complete bullshit, and needs to get fixed, along with the solo mining.

I mine other stuff that doesn't solo mine, but at least the dev's admit to a problem instead of trying to blame the miner when it is a wallet issue.