Can I mine this or only POS now?

Some progress there... It needs accounts, as opposed to UTXOs.
But there's a difficult question: UTXOs and accounts, or only accounts?

After reading about the issue of address reuse I think it wouldn't be that bad if accounts were used more (with different addresses). If you mean the same type of accounts here. But then it also has to have some kind of usability, so having that - what ever - running in the background would probably preferrable.

Btw great seeing you active and alife!

is it this?
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Design-Rationale#accounts-and-not-utxos

Yeah that's what I thought, so you'd need to have to generate new accounts frequently to prevent address reuse. Maybe an approach for PoS v5 that's more "under the hood" and doesn't bother users too much (because users will do mistakes) is the better way

What is the expected date of LN activation?

LN for Blackcoin Ive not heard that, its already fast and has capacity still.  Shame if that idea is not feasible anyhow, a quick skim of that article I guess the very uneven coin distribution is true and a problem if its p2p which relys on equality of a common asset shared?

I was trying to set Lore on a vista install.   Ideally I would nuke this particular machine from orbit anyhow but I didnt get it working, is anyone on vista with lore just wondered


Its been stake only for more then a few years.   What you can do is mine these other alt coins and swap them to blackcoin on an exchange.  Just recently the price came back a bit, that should be quite reasonable strategy to build up a holding if you want and hopefully you can choose what ever protocol is more profit for your hardware brand.
    If you want I can direct you to an auto switching pool site, been open for a very long time and seems to be pretty good management and they just put you onto the best coin while you are afk.  

29.05.2016 ;P

here it is.. https://github.com/janko33bd/thunder/tree/black-lightning

and as other said, it's not needed, but as you see above possible..

I like the UTXO system but am not familiar with accounts system.