Oh my goodness did I get lucky! 

I decided to try solo mining a little while ago... just to give it a try.  Since my computer is running around a couple hundred Kh/s, I wasn't expecting to see anything for hours... I didn't even know if I had my miner set up correctly.  I think my account over at otakasamaaa's Graincoin Pool must have been deleted or something; even though I had an account over there, I couldn't log in.  Turns out that reregistering with the same user name and password worked.

So while I was registering at the pool over there... I found a block!  I had to have been mining for only about 10-15 minutes or so.  I think I got more GRA in 15 minutes than I have in the rest of the time that I spent mining... other than giveaways, LOL.

Anyhow... regarding earlier discussions here... I don't mind that GRA isn't on an exchange yet... the longer that this train keeps chugging along at low difficulty, the more of a chance that us little miners have to get some.  I would have very little chance finding a block in one of the highly hyped up coins like MOON or DOGE.  If this coin slowly grows and gains interest, perhaps there is less of a chance of this coin being pumped and dumped.

Yeah
Ingathering in progress. The train is approaching 'wooohooo'. Harvest as much as you can. NOW. wohoohoooo.

Guys! I did not get any POS blocks since 2013 12 31. Do you? It still can be normal, but  ... please give a feedack.

Solo'ing is a waste of time. Join a pool and get paid for all your work.

I really like this coin. There's something very down to earth about it. Maybe it's the name or that it's just quietly pacing along, but I like the small PoS stake that should provide much needed stability when it hits an exchange.

Feel like I'm a bit late to the game, though. I don't have a great mining rig, so anyone who also deals in other altcoins, I have a trading thread here if you are willing to trade a few grains.

I pool mined for about 12 hours. Now I'm going to solo mine for the same amount of time and see where that gets me.

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I like the slow organic growth model.  Careful, deliberate  and cooperative development are the only novel ideas I've heard in crypto for a while.  I think this could be a good coin to bring together the elements of crypto currency that don't care for meme coins and pump and dumps.  We "others" could rally behind this and go somewhere.  Do things right, like concentrate on charitable works that could use GRA.  If we could make a GRA food bank how amazing would that be?

Sounds really weird. Mine uses 3-4% of CPU.