Seriously guys, the wallet is not in good shape. I usually open it every couple of days and for hours there's just no active connection. I've already all the nodes posted in these threads.
I am just using the nodes listed on the announce page, it takes a while sometimes, but it always syncs for me. But yes, it will sit there for 10 minutes looking like it is doing nothing before it does sometimes. I don't know, been hearing a lot of complaints of this though so if there is a legit problem hopefully the dev is on it.
I'm not mining mint, but I am following it closely. I should say that there is something wrong. It's probably not the wallet because the p2p code is the same as for most other coins (although I haven't looked at Mint's code yet). But when I give the client the full list of nodes in MintCoin.conf, it can't connect to any. It finally connects to a pool in China and can sink from there.
I think that this set of symptoms can only come from two sources:
1. DDOS attack, where the conf nodes listed in the topic post are specifically targeted.
2. Everyone has the same conf file copied from the topic post and all of the nodes in the list are maxed out (i.e. maxconnections=100). It then takes the client some time to stumble on working peers.
In my experience, Mint's behavior in syncing is just barely better than dying coins, so it might be a good idea to address this problem sooner rather than later.
Well It does take slower then most wallets to sync, but when i leave the wallet on for a long time, i get more and more connections.
I have 12 active connections now, and just decided i would leave the wallet open for the time im behind the pc, so i dont loose any connections.
The dev's said they are working really hard behind the scenes, and the coin is only 10 days old.
So we will just have to wait with what the dev will come up with in the next week.
But the community has shown it has great potential, Alot of people want to help and the logo's that has been made look really nice.
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