I observed a small difficulty drop today. I suppose some miners dropped out because of the difficulty.

Is ppcoin ready for bitcoins collapse? 

Might want to hurry
I was planning on setting one up once I got the pool a bit more stable.

If this change is beneficial can it be implemented in the v0.1 chain without a reboot ?

To clarify, there will be no block chain restart for v0.2 release. All your wallet/coins remain valid.
v0.2 upgrade would require redownload of block chain though. This operation requires a backup of current wallet (ppcoind backupwallet <destination_backup_filename>), shutting down ppcoind and removing all files in wallet directory except for the wallet.dat and ppcoin.conf files. After upgrade all your coins and transactions should remain valid and just the same as before the upgrade.

As we promised before, we will do our best to avoid block chain restart. If severe flaws are discovered and such actions are considered, we would notify and consult with the community first. Generally speaking, if a block chain impacting issue is found and some existing blocks must be declared invalid, a partial block chain rollback is always preferred over full block chain restart to reduce damage to our users. But in any case, we will try to avoid these type of scenario to the best of our abilities.

Best Regards,

Perhaps I'm looking at this wrong, but it seems as if Proof-Of-Stake combined with Proof-Of-Work will do some very interesting things for big pools, allowing big pools to give over 100% PPS based on stake earnings too, or earnings based on the coins left in a person's account until they withdraw, or something of the like. From what I understand, when proof-of-stake begins to be implemented, people with many coins will get more coins based off of their stake or holding, which would seem to have an adverse (not necessarily good or bad, just big) effect on the functioning of pools and payout schemes.

Very interested...

Awesome Yeah, I see a lot of potential pool competition for the best or coolest reward schemes for using the Proof-of-Stake coins.

This coin unfortunately doesn't have a GUI, but you can use the Console.

How is it that it does not have a GUI? I see a bitcoin-qt.pro file in the toplevel directory, did they do something to break the ability to compile the -qt version? Normally if the daemon works the GUI does too as its mostly just a pretty front end onto the same code...

-MarkM-

I've built the qt and it works fine.