About the Moon coin release: My miners were connected from the beginning to multipool and I saw hundreds of blocks found by my GPUs and 'getting new work' messages in cgminer. That continued literally for 2 - 3 munutes. My hashrate is 18 MH/s. All I got in the account is 400K MOON. Hundreds of blocks found (because of the low diff) at 1 mil average payout even with many users connected,my account should have tens of millions (whether such a low diff and multi hour difficulty retarget is the right way to release a coin is a different question
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Shame on this scheme by the moon guy/s and multipool.us
One thing is to have technical issues with a coin release, other is purposely to lie (my modem was DDOSed), cheat (not providing compiled clients or even coin sources), cover evidence (blocks missing)
The reason you saw "hundreds of blocks found" is because the difficulty was so low that every share you submitted was a block.
There was about 1GH submitting "blocks" all at the same time which crashed the mooncoin wallet several times.
As far as "missing" blocks, I believe you can look at all the pools out there and see which blocks each one found. You can also find Multipool's wallet address in the explorer. (2DkNHNQh38ZyMsMraPMvvkbtSP5rKefVdA) We found blocks 1-49 and then the pool was down for a few minutes right after the source went out, and other pools/solo miners found over 1,000 additional blocks in that time at the starting difficulty. By the time we got back online, the chain was at block 1000+.
Just because your miner shows you finding a block doesn't mean that it was a submitted, valid block. It just means that you found a share that was under the network target. All of the blocks found in the first few minutes were 99+% stales because blocks were being found so fast. Here's a sample from the log file:
2013-12-30 10:18:12,406 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000012e1815f5bdfdee489bf2a62cdc33b4c273771d5c3d74af6833818d3066
2013-12-30 10:18:12,406 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,407 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000004826222b66d7b74af7a3bb19a56bd3eb01cb32adc932c4c7efad8945f4
2013-12-30 10:18:12,407 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,408 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000002db1a6f32cd2fc1d5e8aab27c9c0bf2ef22747c2d7d4d3589148e98886d
2013-12-30 10:18:12,409 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,410 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000048ad19a09235abf8b935e609dc151f2d7b77bf24a80e67e56bcc94db536
2013-12-30 10:18:12,410 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,411 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000077631095c9dd84caa87632320715d35edc74b7e53e7013b413da634c7b1
2013-12-30 10:18:12,411 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,412 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000000698da8c8462b56d369b8b25439dbad9883ad48d3c847851efa881a54c0
2013-12-30 10:18:12,412 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,413 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 00000097e5577dd0e8ee498159f2537e1387df4b36caa0e002ae55573e272915
2013-12-30 10:18:12,413 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,414 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000007f4821f1451f090e6625510ee0996cdbffe1855f539cd9b7e32f1fe56c
2013-12-30 10:18:12,414 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,415 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000004c2340db00b8205db8c1ed7a968f15afe372776d45b50d4b46c1ad9c6fe
2013-12-30 10:18:12,415 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,416 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000003197e237391529bbc217e748b7ea3a78df4a40a93a915d39f345551c5c1
2013-12-30 10:18:12,417 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,418 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000001a700ccccefa9e80254e5247da95f0fead4fd564e66c9b9920bd6fc2026
2013-12-30 10:18:12,418 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,418 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000003848b2ff0143eef58b293cdbce624c869eccd886ab3f5a79649c68a64a9
2013-12-30 10:18:12,419 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,419 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 00000015b7d82133fa6a2b25c0cca800f4212303fc1fb23c3a1c33b37de2861a
2013-12-30 10:18:12,420 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,420 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000011f355c4438d4d715dbc26ccfbb942ab7e35c903f74d2443370d6f71d35
2013-12-30 10:18:12,421 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,421 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 00000053015a2bf53c5649f601ec6420ed28e0f4848361e82cb065f487d09de2
2013-12-30 10:18:12,422 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,422 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000011482700ac3a613fb93fc106937bc4dac82590555d15db36e6a8eec89cb
2013-12-30 10:18:12,423 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,423 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000001881a89cda839e0ce0f7b8c36581f6d6c0c0c33a4909380ad51c34ab384
2013-12-30 10:18:12,424 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,424 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000003330d64fabaa20c6044d0b25b96c7da87d5c6fcbe38687ab1c49c1a931f
2013-12-30 10:18:12,425 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,425 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000001fcde01c3feeb5931ba81ef910e238edc2e99d49b365cb898982725ac06
2013-12-30 10:18:12,426 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,426 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000001f86de979606b59be9f524d0ecc0066c26e15363ccfdcc68005dba54765
2013-12-30 10:18:12,426 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,427 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000002744e742c953e6e650a466c4e67f66ce6d1b1140a097ccf4ffc59c27e05
2013-12-30 10:18:12,427 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,428 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000007ad91ca785568959c184eede266223bac35a1be2abac48febb0d4cd8c71
2013-12-30 10:18:12,428 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,429 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 0000026b10cb61bd91f3c1cba07b3a36b7e83760bf6f61b9a7da6bee1abcf297
2013-12-30 10:18:12,429 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,430 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000006a50e4faba86a88e5f0deffd37fa9ed7d88743656069f76ec1ff8eff81c
2013-12-30 10:18:12,430 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,431 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 00000097a63cf8a3bebae877a8ea517c560a642ee907847392602b42d6790bd3
2013-12-30 10:18:12,431 INFO mining # Submitting block 32
2013-12-30 10:18:12,432 INFO template_registry # BLOCK: We found a block candidate! 000000314fbcb03910f2cc4ff32374556e380aed90e4c52f4309bf03946c3886
2013-12-30 10:18:12,432 INFO mining # Submitting block 32