I have some bad news, I have confirmed with a miner that used to use CM until end of last week that ROI was down when CM was not hitting Guldencoin. So Guldencoin is what make or break CM now.
Maybe suggestion of reducing block time might work but CM will always be there to get easy blocks. I don't think much can be done unless we become next Doge or litecoin so more efforts to keep going mainstream. Then a lot of dedicated miners. Another option is merged mining like Dogecoin has?
Terks CM is the matriarch of switch pool despite what he says when his pool was not hitting the chain for 2 days the other switch pools had lot less effect. This morning is back to 50% and needs NLG to survive for his business. It quite a sad situation.
@ny2cafuse - What do you think about Guldencoin getting listed on coinwarz and even cryptsy? Have more multipools in compeition with CM? Would that make things worse off as bigger spikes in hash rate or would it also maybe make it less profitable for some of these jump pools to carry on hitting our chain because there is more competiion for the easy blocks.
We might be Terks cash cow because he literally has no competition with other multipools but I also worry that too many jump pools coming in at one time to get the easy blocks might spike the difficulty.
What do you and other miners think about giving CM some competition?
I personally think it's a bad idea to get listed on coinwarz or cryptsy! That will only make things worse!
Better yet, I would like it even more if we got delisted from all exchanges (bittrex too). Let me explain why. If we are not listed on an automated exchange, multipools like CM have nowhere to dump their coins anymore. This creates an opportunity to get a real exchange going that is dedicated to fair trade of NLG. Lets not forget, we want NLG to be used for payments, not for speculation, we have the other Gulden for that...
I agree with the above. No more btc based exchanges, cryptsy isn't known as the place coins go to die for nothing.
I have to agree with LTEX on this one. Cut the ties with BTC trading, especially bittrex and exchanges that allow autotrading and API access. This sounds counterproductive, but it serves two purposes.
First, it cuts CM's, and other MP's, feet out from under them. Without a autotrading exchange, MPs can't function. Second, it brings trading focus back to the Euro, and unties NLG from BTC. NLG did a good job of not fluctuating with BTC's and LTC's swings... that was a huge selling point for my team when we first got involved.
Now I know a lot of people would be like "but what about a main exchange for BTC trading". Well, you make one. An official BTC/NLG exchange with no bells and whistles. Like exchange.guldencoin.com. No autotrading, no APIs, nothing. Just a place where dedicated NLG users could trade some coin. Community built and community run. Trading fees go to the dev team, and the community gets an official exchange.
I know that's a lot of crazy thinking right there, but it makes sense when you start thinking about it. I don't expect everyone to agree. It's just my $0.02.
-Fuse