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Good post 24Kilo. We need experienced people. We will solve this networkissue with you guys!

We will come stronger out of this and good things to come, don't forget.

What I can't understand is why the advice of experienced community members whose expertise is in mining and network security is being ignored, and instead the dev team and community keeps running simulations and chasing some elusive solution.

The Criptoe group is a mining group, between the 5 of us, we have nearly 10 years of mining experience using CPU's, GPU's, and ASIC's across a broad range of coins. We have been involved behind the scenes with a number of coins to test and implement code. I have successfully executed time warp, double spends, and 51% attacks against several coin networks to better learn how to keep a coin network secure and healthy. Criptoe is not a loud and flashy outfit, but we all have real life experience with mining crypto-currency.

This is not a 'told-you-so' or a 'we-are-so-good' post, but the dev team did approach Criptoe to set-up a NLG pool shortly after the launch of NLG. I have been mining NLG since it was a difficulty of 2 or so. I have sold less than 10% of all the NLG I have mined. I am most likely the largest stakeholder of NLG in the world. I am still mining and buying NLG. I have a very vested interest in seeing NLG succeed. And I believe that NLG will succeed for all the same reasons each of you do.

I am not active on the Gulden Forum nor have I joined the 1680 Club, because I don't have time to visit another forum. Just like I don't have time for Twitter, Facebook or any other social media.

Review the posts of Criptoe members, Fuse, JohnDec2, and myself in particular, and you find that our advice was not heeded and we were quite confident in the current outcome.

The problem is being over complicated and confused. Give those of us with experience the opportunity to help and I am pretty confident that a solution can be found with minimal pain and delay.

EDIT - the difficulty on the network just jumped from the high 200's to 699... the network will be unusable for a few hours now... meaning that no transactions will be able to be executed or confirmed outside of LitePaid...

Good one Mike! Some of us are looking into that as well. I also purchased a couple of the new Zeus Miners, expect LTEX on top of the pools again soon ;-)

Maybe we could setup a dedicated 1680-pool for NLG. "Fearless miners ONLY!" 

I rented 210MHs for 3 days.

Exactly the same issue I have with this as well. I started renting hashing power again (~2GH/s now) to combat this. It worked before my "forced" leave, it will work again (check price ramp up from 28 sept to 5 Oct). If more people would do it this, the whole switched mining issue would be non-existent. My last batch of mined NLGs via this way would sell for 630 sat to break even... that is not so much (especially when clevermining isn't dumping so much anymore).

Proof of Dutch eh? Haha. I hear what you are saying. Mining is an important aspect of the network though, but your points are also valid. We're at some sort of crossroads. More users outside of cryptocurrency is what's needed in my opinion. And getting NLG used in NL as currency is still going on, Bitcointalk forums aren't really the place to follow Guldencoin's progress all too much. If you go to guldencoinforum.com (also have an English section) you'll see there is more done than just the DGW3.

To let everyone know. I've been contacting a lot of merchants and there will be a few new ones installing NLG and BTC in their checkout system in the next following days. Some also signed up for the official forums. Official big announcements will follow of course

One more thing:
Litepaid has a referral system that pays out a percentage of each transaction fee and total purchase amount from merchants you bring on. The best part is. They pay out in Bitcoin, Litecoin and you guessed it Guldencoin! Even more incentive to get merchants now

Not yet, and I mailed him to his direct address, but this might draw his attention ;-)

work is in progress my friend, but at present time attention needs to be devided. But in case you have forgotten....:





Sometimes, when following a coin with a long term vision, one has to practice patience 

Sorry, but I am getting the feeling Guldencoin's planning and decision making is influenced a lot by the (foreign) Mining pools.

Is that really what the Guldencoin team wants?

What happened to the primary goal of Guldencoin to become the new digital currency for the Dutch people to be used in daily life in stores in The Netherlands?

The foreign pools and their miners are in for trading and making a buck, -and that is fine-, but is not really helping the Guldencoin goal mentioned above.

Maybe Guldencoin could work out a way to have more NLG distributed among the Dutch.
There are already a lot of merchants but far too little Dutch consumers having a wallet or even using NLG.

If we can increase the number of Guldencoin users in The Netherlands, it will boost the coin and also the value for the current big holders and miners that might not like this domestic focus.

How about starting a free distribution model among open wallets with IP's coming from The Netherlands? (like the new MCL coin is doing rather sucesfully at this time with over 5000 wallets in less than 2 weeks; every hour 5000 coins are divided by the number of opened wallets) If we would start such a campaign through social media informing the people to download and keep the the Guldencoin wallet open from i.e. 1 nov to 1 dec. to receive a percentage of coins [x coins every hour/divided by the number of open wallets] that could become a big hype and boost for Guldencoin.

Or maybe change to a cpu-mining algo like M7M (see XMG) to make mining more fair.

Did you hear something from nite yet?

Time to put our Guldens where our mouth is 

Apologies for the short reply... but any retarget method that rejects blocks based on time(example - reject a block that is found less than 60(or whatever number you choose) seconds after the previous block... is a huge exploit and leaves the network wide open for a fatal attack... both time warp and double spend.

Here is my recommendation...

Bring Terk and Clevermining on board, so we can real world test the algo and either tweak DGW3 or implement Digishield which has been successfull in POT.

I am opposed to IP banning, but if that is what needs to be done to protect the network and is the voice of the community, then so be it.

NLG has become virtually unusable... more damage is being done by doing nothing than by openly admitting that we are looking for a solution and announcing that there will be a period weeks or months of code and wallet updates to find a solution... being proactive and vocal will let the wider community know that NLG is adapting and maturing, if there are some growing pains.

This. If he's nice, we'll ne nicer, he wants to play hard? We'll play harder, find some way and cut this shit, cut the multipools somehow and get it done, stay on target, finish the mission, allways.

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Can I give some pointers to look into before looking at POS.

1. Look at POW coins with similar marketcap to guldencoin.
2. Once you have that list, see which coins have similar block times around 150 seconds.
3. Then check how their blocktimes fluctuate compared to Guldencoin.

I know most basic scrypt coins use digishield but maybe those are all coins with 60 second and under blocktimes.

I dont like pos as this will make rich only richer at this point there to little distribution. If pow works more people have a fair chance of minting coins  Just my opinion.

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A lot of good coins are in the process of going POS, even Noble because of the same problems they have. Is this a possible solution for the team? I know the miners will most likely not support the coin anymore because it hurts there own pockets but POS should be a backup plan if there isn't going to be a solution on the mining front.