It's necessary though because if not then everyone will eventually switch over to the cloud and the coin dies due to over centralization.

./primecoind getmininginfo
{
    "blocks" : 1046,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "primespersec" : 0,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}

And primecoind (both the download from sourceforge and the compiled source) are maxing out all my cores at 100%

Works fine on Linux with me.

Found one block during the night. Why is primespersec this inconsistent?


"blocks" : 1083,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 40,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

found 6 blocks since starting.

mining with semprons. i think that is ok.

Found 3 blocks, between 6 - 35 pps using - core 2 duo 2.13ghz

If http://www2.crypto-expert.com/primecoin/ is to be trusted, a little while ago there were 44 connections mining and 20500 XPM already released.
If most of us are getting 1 or 2 rewards at 20XPM per reward... we can estimate we have mined 2640 XPM (estimate based on 3 rewards per connection).

so... Where did all the other rewards go? Pre-Mining by the creator(s)?

24207.8

Track this number and determine the hourly/daily inflation rate.

If the average person on this thread gets 20/40 XPM a day then we could estimate a total amount of coins that could exist after 24 hours of mining.

24207.8 coins would be impossible if only the known people who posted in this thread are mining. They would have to be insta-mining with cloud instances, Amazon E2, etc. I highly doubt SunnyKing would pre-mine but if 24,207 is correct then it's possible that at least 1000 people received 24 coins making the number very possible over 24 hours.

It would mean around 1000 coins are generated per hour. This fits with the block size. But I don't know, let's give it a few days.

Btw is anyone is concerned about people using virtual machine instances. The easiest way SunnyKing could disable that possibility would be to exploit what virtual CPU's cannot do. They cannot create truly random numbers and cannot do entropy or encryption very well because of this. Maybe coins can use the Trusted Platform Module/Trusted Computing?


That is to keep people from dumping the coins. Effectively it's impossible to pump and dump XPM. I hope other coins do similar.

All it would take to make any coin pump and dump proof is to randomize the time people receive their rewards. If everyone gets their rewards at the same time everyone dumps at once. So by making it where anyone can receive the reward at any random time makes this less likely. That is just my speculation for why it could be done but SunnyKing has to go into a bit more detail because this coin is a bit esoteric rather than exoteric.