Topic: [ANN] [SFR] SaffronCoin | Latest Version - 1.4.2/2.6.2 | Mandatory Wallet Update - page 21. (Read 437865 times)

In my previous post the pool at hamsterpool is working on the scrypt algorithm. Unfortunately the activity is a little on/off and no one is mining there at this exact moment, but it has found several hundred blocks in recent days since my post, as miners have come and gone.

At the moment each algo can produce 4000 coins a day for 20000 total. Blake, Sha and groestl are consistently producing 4000 coin a day. The 4000 coins a day are up for grabs on x11 and Scrypt though if someone can devote the appropriate mining rig...  Scrypt needs to be kept above about 6 difficulty before the profit multipool jumps in, and jacks the diff up way too high again. X11 needs a sufficient rig to try and bring the difficulty back down, or a new pool of miners.

Wait, is that what that means? If so, great news!

Can anyone verify?

One good news is that SFR is listed under the "Verified Markets" tab on Bittrex.
So I guess there is no danger of de-listing anymore ?!

I was mining as long as http://pool.saffroncoin.com/ was alive.
Once that died, I was forced to stop my rig, as it was also getting warmer here.

If there is an active scrypt pool again, I might start mining again.
Still waiting for a 1.4.2/2.6.2 wallet for Linux or Mac

I am quite a positive person and always like to give people the benefit of the doubt, even when they have let us down, let us try that for a moment. The fact is, working on a coin like this is extremely time consuming, and when the price of the coin takes a dive, the miners start to drop off, and the community starts to shrink away, it would take a really devoted dev to stick around, since he essentially donates his time for free. He probably doesn't hold much SFR, and does this for free. It must be very challenging to put up with all the trolls, all the whinging, and all the entitled holders making demands, for any dev of any coin.

I agree that this has moved far beyond money for me, and I actually just think it's a good coin, with good tech, a good wallet, and still offers a lot. If anything SFR just suffered from lack of PR, with the features it was pumping out last year, it should have got far more attention than it did.

And so I have come back into this thread, because I think the first stage to recovery is accepting we have hit rock bottom, and from that perspective, things can only improve. If we show that we are still interested in this coin, can start mining on all 5 algorithms again, and bring this thread back to life, we will likely get the attention of Rosh (who has posted in recent weeks saying he hasn't abandoned the coin), who might start switching things up a gear when he sees the interest in the coin is still here. If we can mine on all 5 algorithms, just to support the coin, rather than in terms of profit, and support it as a community venture, I think we can take large steps in getting Rosh to come back to work on the coin again.

I feel like I got trolled, honestly. Why keep giving specific release dates and not only fail to release anything but also keep quiet about it? Are the other devs, besides Roshan, even part of this coin anymore? Did UnoCoin take precedent over SFR development, Roshan? These are genuine questions, and I'm not trying to vilify you even if it seems that way. We need the old Rosh and SFR dev team back.

I have updated my above post with new information

It seems my post about pools has helped out! Since I posted it 12 hours ago, we managed to get new miners on the Scrypt pool, and have successfully found several blocks this afternoon for the first time in almost a month!

This had bought the difficulty back down, but it is still not generating as many blocks as the other 3 healthy algos. The difficulty still needs to adjust lower, or ideally, we need more Scrypt miners!

This means we now have 3 healthy algos, and 1 recovering algo. Now we just need a new X11 pool, so we can ensure all algos are generating blocks again!

Edit: Updated 26 May 2015

I decided to compile a list of pools still in operation for the 5 algorithms, and on the correct blockchain, as the OP is a mess of dead links, and bad pools.

SFR Algo Healthcheck
Groestl, Sha and Blake are regularly generating blocks and in good health as they have active regular miners.
Scrypt had generated barely any blocks since the 26 April 2015, due to high difficulty and not enough miners. Effort was made as of 20 May 2015 to start mining Scrypt again, and several blocks were found bringing the difficulty back down. Now the profit switcher at Hamsterpool occasionally mines SFR when the difficulty goes too low, which is creating a volatile difficulty level. Below about difficulty level 6, about 20-30 miners on the profit switching pool start mining on Scrypt, and push the difficulty up way high, before all leaving again. Generally though Scrypt is looking better now, as at least we are finding blocks on an irregular schedule, rather than none at all.
x11 has no working pools that I can find, and therefore apparently no miners, and the difficulty is probably too high to solo mine. We need a new X11 pool so we can start mining again and bring the difficulty down to a more appropriate level. No new X11 blocks are being generated at present.

The great strength of multi-algo coins, is that that despite 2 algorithms being in poor health, 3 have been in continuous good health, meaning the coin still functions perfectly. Multi-algo coins have always been under appreciated, and Saffroncoin is probably the best one out there, despite the lack of progress from the dev in recent months and a low price, it is still fundamentally a solid, well developed coin.

Working Pools

X11
No known pools!
Please try solomining or create a pool!

SCRYPT
Semi-active pool: https://hamsterpool.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool&coin=sfr_scrypt
This is a profit switching pool, and therefore doesn't always have miners. You can still use it as a dedicated SFR pool by pointing to port 3052. Solo miners also compete with this pool.

GROESTL
Inactive pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin-groestl
No one uses the Groestl pool very often, but it is working if you want to give it a go. The difficulty is low, and the algo is being supported by solo miners even when the pool is dead.

SHA-256D
Active pool: http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=sfr
Active pool: https://hamsterpool.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool&coin=sfr_sha256
Two competing pools, both finding blocks. Also competing with solo miners.

BLAKE256
Active pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin
This pool finds all the Blake blocks at the moment.

Mining Rewards
The current block reward is 21 SFR. Each algo is targeted to generate a block every 450 seconds. Each algo therefore can produce 4032 coins per day, for 20160 total new coins a day across all 5 algos. The actual amount of new coins a day is less than this, as not all algos, particularly X11, are being mined. The true number of new coins a day is between 12-16k a day, depending on Scrypt blocks found.

I keep this coin as well, still Mining. Matter of fact I still have maybe 12 nodes running saffroncoin daemon, just to keep the coin afloat and synch fast.

I discovered I have 195000 SFR I had forgotten about.  It's not worth much at this price but I have started mining again to get to a nice round 200k. It's a shame the Dev has gone quiet as it was a good coin with a lot of promise. The fact the block chain is still working fine and it's still listed on exchanges shows how strong a coin it was. Hope the Dev wakes up soon.

Would be good to have an update to the OP as it's full of broken links and dead pools. Also the blockexplorer on the official website is broken.

so Roshan disappeared 

I'm right here with ya brother :/ But for better or for worse im not going anywhere

7 days after............ still hoping....................

Lets keep this coin alive till Saffroncoin wakes up from hibernation

or should I say Roshan

LOL i do the same thing every so often

 
just did it.

 Volume: 0.23036875

I move around a lot of them yesterday. see the result at Bittrex.
I'm still doing it as of today. Never mind losing some coins, just want it keep afloat.