Ha ha , oh you know , we all do what we can ...

Its a fluid and diverse situation , innovative and forward looking. 

We also should rename nimble to return to castle wolfenstein(rcw) ) so we are even )

Democracy and freedom isn't the same thing so you can't give both. You could try duke nukem with X at the end if you feel more comfortable.

ha ha - yeah , you could have a point , these things move in all manners and directions.

pity about your decision.

i don't like to rush these things you know .

 :' (

The last couple thousand blocks have taken far longer than expected, because all the miners jump on when diff drops low then off when it drops high, leaving it stuck at a high difficulty for a while.

Moving forward from the reward drop, something still needs to be done about the difficulty adjustment.   It shouldn't take 7 hours to get a single block, because this means money transfers are stuck in limbo for a long time.  It may be a side effect of people trying to mine the last few coins, but when difficulty jumps to 99 then all the hash jumps off it just gets stuck.  Long term it needs to be able to handle increases in difficulty without becoming stuck.  Something like SSDRA where if the block takes too long past the target time, it drops the difficulty to zero for that block, so it keeps on track for 2 minute blocks.

Your ideas are great and after the reward drop, the difficulty adjustment will have to be revamped to take into consideration the drop in global mining power that might happen.

We do have to realise though that a lot of coins have been mined by some users with powerful rigs and I am sure they are going to want to profit from their hoard of coins, so stopping mining after the reward drop would only hinder them when trying to get their coins on exchanges to set up their tactical buy and sell orders.

Mincoin is still going fine and with only a reward of 2 and they had 500 block rewards for only three days or something, so I cannot see why Extremecoin cannot continue on.

If we, the supporters of EXC can come to an agreement of what would be the best difficulty adjustment code for a 1 coin block reward, then I can implement it and inform people of a mandatory client update after a certain block, as well as add some check points.

I think once service providers see that EXC can survive the reward drop, they might start picking it up.

I'm throwing in the towel on this coin. Sorry for grammer in the upcoming paragraphs.

I've been mining this coin since 2 hours after it came out. I've given up on this coin and sold my share of 54,000 coins while I still could before the price tanks. This coin had a great idea (good foresight captain) and was a great experiment, but it has run its course.

 Just a few reasons why I've given up:

1. Cryptsy won't take this coin (and they take all sorts of junk coins). IMO, cryptsy is the backbone of ALT coins. The future of this coin's evolution apparently (according to captain) relys on cryptsy adoption.
2. No services....None.....and none in sight. I've heard promises of escrow, but still haven't seen anything, and escrow is the best service this coin has to offer right now.
3. (see number 2) No goods or services, whats the benefit of this coin. ex. CPR offered physical copper bars for their coins and the coin took off blasting WAY past litecoin for a while.
4. Developer's lack of experience, sorry captain but your lack of knowledge shows.
5. The Dishonest Pool that shut down the 100,000(+ or -) coins that are "lost" that could be dumped on the market at any time and crash the market.
6. Hoarders, too many hoarders holding. Hoping and wishing this coin makes something of itself just to make their money back in the amount of electricity they used.
7. Noone's going to mine it after the reward drop with such a lack of current value.

There's just a few reasons off the top of my head. DOOMCOIN is a proper name. Captain your idea of this coin was great, the lack of development, services, adoption, honest pool operators, are the main killers of this coin.

I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for my observations of this coin, but I'm out.

People will keep mining or else they will not be able to move any of their coin hoards.

I have emailed Crypty many times and they just ignore me and the large request thread.

Why is my experience lacking?

I got BBQcoin on three exchanges and this coin on two.

I would like to think that's not bad going.

And the escrow service is still in development.

I don't want to rush and half finished services just for the sake of showing EXC has some. I want them to work flawlessly.