So is solo mining a wasted effort atm?

Hmm, well I have updated to v08.9.9 and the first attempt at synching the wallet had all my coins but it got stuck at block 60-odd thousand.  Tried again and it has (eventually) got to 104293 (and still goig) but I have lost c. 1200 V.

Looking in detail I'm not sure they are actually lost yet, as they were obviously there: I can see the deposit transactions, they seem to have gone somewhere, I assume for PoS?

I'm having a lot of issues with my wallet updating.  I tried following the steps suggested by the dev and nothing.  Finally I renamed my Version folder (to Version_BU) launched the new waller and it created a new directory for everything and I did connect node etc and I still get stuck at block 70000

At this point im stuck and confued cause I pretty much did a fresh/clean install

I apologize for not posting for that long, but I haven't talked to staycrypto since last update's release time.

From what I can understand from the endless debug logs I have created during that time, the problem is heavily connected with PoS blocks and how they are announced to and gets accepted by peers. I noticed that my wallet has many rejects to the PoS blocks announced by others. I believe the same happens to my wallet's PoS blocks announced to peers connected with me. This forces the wallet to keep relaying the transactions that created them until it get's banned by the connected pears. That's when wallet starts crawling to death, most probably because of the many reorganization and re-transmitting of those blocks.
That of course happens to wallets with many many blocks that have reached PoS maturity (either from mining or from transactions).

I'm posting this so I can share my suspicions and let anyone know that (at least I) still investigating and pinpointing the problem.

Thanks for the update.  Is there any info we can provide to help track this problem down?

When will pool mining start.I want to mine versions because from NXT market I have lost coins.Thanks

Difficulty has been rising ever since 0.8.9.9 was released.  So the problem where difficulty kept jumping to near zero is fixed (by removing KGW).  I don't think there are many chains anymore.  I think the chain forking happened when blocks were really fast and now there is one chain.  It was a normal insta-mine scenario like at coin launch.  Maybe you're right.  Maybe I'm right.  If everyone checked this blockhash, we could find out.  So how about it?


Make sure you move out your old config directory and use staycrypto's seed node when downloading the blockchain: "addnode=192.241.240.148"

I've updated the blockchain charts for version:
http://cryptometer.org/version_90_day_charts.html
You can see 4 empty days that were erased because of the KGW exploit followed by a couple days of blocks generated way above the target rate.  But it's levelling out now.  And difficulty won't go down anymore because the exploit is plugged.  The pools might even be able to handle the blockrate soon.

There are still some issues with the client:
1. It rejects blocks submitted by cgminer over RPC.
2. Mindfox says there is something wrong with PoS block transmission.
These could be fixed in an update that takes effect on a future block.

Also, canoe, I will give you my point of view, as a miner now. Not as zeuspool's admin team member, not as a member that tries to help out the coin.

I ceased all mining activity so I can help the developer of this coin revive it and make it stable. The reason I did it: I believe that this coin has potentials.
Is it fair for me, to have all those miners around me mining, while I'm just removing blocks, mining blocks, deleting wallet, so that I can help find the problem and probably a solution?

Then, why don't I just drop everything I do and start mining myself also?

Where is the community in that?

Also, the pools will not be able to handle the block rate. Not with this wallet... Period