Due to popular request I would start posting weekly updates to a separate thread with links in the main thread.
Thanks!

I posted this in the Newbie forum but going to post here too so Sunny King can see.

I like the idea behind PPCoins and it seems like POS is a promising and energy efficient way to secure the block chain long term.

However, I really wish the name were different. PPCoins looks ok when written down, but the way it's spoken (pee pee coins) sounds ridiculous. PCoin, PeerCoin, GreenCoin (to highlight its energy efficiency, people love green stuff) all would sound much better in my opinion, as just a few examples.

I also wish the website were easier to navigate and understand. Just something clean and simple would work. As it is I think it probably confuses a lot of people, especially if they don't already know what PPCoins are.

I only intend for this to be constructive criticism as I'd like to see PPCoins succeed.

Thanks for responding. I can see the problem w/ finding free domains. If you somehow do get the opportunity to change the name, I for one would recommend you do. The sooner the better, while it still has low adoption and awareness levels. It would just be a superficial change really, but maybe there are difficulties that I'm not seeing. Or maybe people can just informally refer to them as PCoins when spoken, since that sounds better and is easier to say, in my opinion.

I still think PPCoin is innovative and promising, I'd just be a lot more bullish about its prospects with a different name and better website.

Good luck!

I'lll drink to that, for Satoshi's sake 

Nice update

Regarding the proof of stake, can someone explain to me exactly how it works? I understand that blocks are signed by a means of how many coins you have multiplied by how long you have them, but how does it work in practice? For example:

1) Who decides when a proof of stake block is "mined"?
2) Can you only "mine" such blocks when you have ppcoind running?
3) What happens when a block is mined? I understand the traditional mining process but I am completely lost how this should work. Coins are passive right? How can they sign anything?

So can someone give me a heads up? The FAQ (https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/wiki/FAQ) is really lacking

1 question say you have a lot of coins in a wallet say 1 million would it be safer to encrypt the wallet so you don't get hacked or put into cold storage .. but if you do this will you miss out on minting the coins POS or is it safe to leave it unencrypted ?

sorry for my ignorance still learning 

Sunny King like Sunny K from BFL !!  the same person ?  (like others ask, did'nt saw any answer) !

I might start a wiki and gather up as much information as I can find around these threads, quite a lot of the tech-stuff has been posted, just yes, very hard to find

But the difficulty is a running average, correct? IMHO, that may explain the large oscillations we've seen: Someone with huge hashing power hashes for 3-4 days and waits for a few days, for the difficulty to cool down, rinse and repeat. It's rational: In the beginning the huge hashing power is more effective since the difficulty weighting takes into account prior times for lower diff. These leads to a situation where the baseline of miners effectively pays for the efficiency gain in mining of the large entity miner...