Topic: [ANN] [MINT] Mintcoin (POS / 5%) [NO ICO] [Fair distro, community maintained] - page 573. (Read 1369778 times)

hold in there, we will be at 30 sat at no time

damn im sad,  withheld from selling my 85mil mints at 60 satoshi ... now price is just going lower n lower 8(

what do u call the opposite of a troll??

Hey give him the benefit of the doubt...he's probably illiterate. 

I sold most of mine at 60 satoshi... kinda sad now, like the new design! and the community seems to be getting stronger. Gonna put in a buy now while the price is still low.

Your attitude is an attempt to seed fear/doubt and cause additional dumping. Or you're being seriously foolish   There's really no reason to believe the price will drop further unless whales decide to continue their assault.

When somebody is trying to spread fud out of nowhere , they don't check the forum for that kind of stuff.

Is that a joke? Within the same day that you said this the devs got the coin on two more merchants and released a new wallet... did you even read the forum before you decided to troll?

Exactly why this coin is in the doldrums....where is the dev/dev team?....great coin lacking any direction from the start.

Exactly why this coin is in the doldrums....where is the dev/dev team?....great coin lacking any direction from the start.

ok everybody, thank you all, i guess it worked!
and to celebrate that i just bought some more mintcoins!!

Can someone please make a tutorial and FAQ on everything about minting these coins.. The reason i haven't started doing it yet is because i do not know enough about it to be confident to take my coins off the exchange... I'm trying work it all out now and I'm sure there are others that have the same problem.

Some questions I have:

What exactly does unlocking the wallet do and what is the difference between say unlocking it after 10 days, 22 days or 35 days.. Will the interest earned still be proportional to 20% ?

What happens if I leave the wallet unlocked all the time?

The devs/community need to make it as easy as possible for everyone to know exactly what they are doing.

Can someone please make a tutorial and FAQ on everything about minting these coins.. The reason i haven't started doing it yet is because i do not know enough about it to be confident to take my coins off the exchange... I'm trying work it all out now and I'm sure there are others that have the same problem.

Some questions I have:

What exactly does unlocking the wallet do and what is the difference between say unlocking it after 10 days, 22 days or 35 days.. Will the interest earned still be proportional to 20% ?

What happens if I leave the wallet unlocked all the time?

The devs/community need to make it as easy as possible for everyone to know exactly what they are doing.

I don't know the fine details of how the POS mining works behind the scenes but it uses daaaamnnnn little CPU power (you can open task manager and see) so I suspect faster CPUs aren't gaining much if any advantage. And again remember that there is a prioritization in effect so MAYBE if someone had a much faster CPU and your coins were the exact same age, they might go first... but I can't imagine it would make a huge difference, and coin age should quickly trump this if it is set up correctly.

That helps thanks. So basically the wallet needs to be running/mining to generate the interest is that what you're saying. If it's still searching for blocks, wouldn't that mean that faster CPUs will be at an advantage here? How much processing power does it use to 'mint'?

I'm a pow miner too , both gpu and sha asics.
Trust me I don't have those kind of problems. Electricity bills are nothing compared to the mined coins and I've never had in one year not a broken gpu  , let alone exploding one.

And keeping a damn wallet open 20 days is just as annoying.

Let me try to help you. I have a fair amount of experience with POS minting using hobonickels (and I wrote an article about it which was well received.) The principal is the same for Mintcoin, with a few different variables and features.

Until you have coins that are at least 20 days old, there is no value (for you) in leaving you wallet open, locked or unlocked. Once you have coins that are at least 20 days old, you should leave the wallet OPEN AND UNLOCKED 24x7x365 if possible. Keep in mind your coins are going to be split up into different ages, so once you mint your first reward, you gotta keep the wallet open all the time. If you do not do that, you will not get the full amount you could have. As you mint more and more coins, they will all have different ages, so different chunks of your wallet will be attempting to mint at different times.

What happens is basically once the wallet detects coins that are at least 20 days old, it begins mining in the background using your CPU only. Your wallet is essentially competing to find the first block, just like with normal mining, only no one can hook up GPUs or ASICs or do anything to really gain an advantage, so there is no computer arms race at play.

There is a factor that gives you some kind of advantage which I do not yet fully understand, based on how old your coins are. In other words, if you are trying to POS and you have some coins that are 25 days old, and the only other person trying to mint has coins that are 20 days old, you should get yours first.

If you wallet is not unlocked, it does not attempt to do POS minting at all, so you simply won't get anything.

Does that help?

I can imagine all the fools hit by summer heat waves, being all sad and teary eyed that they can't do their silly PoW'ing (not without massive electric bills from AC and/or exploding GPUs). While all the smart Minters are still making coins without heating their homes to unbearable levels.