In that case, you are right of course!

SSD? I am still running a magnetic hdd.

I stopped the XMR mining and got ~45 seconds.



Edit: yeah, I checked the specs - your Macbook has "all flash storage."

I will get a(n) SSD soon and report back.

I'm pretty sure that most of these scam ICOs, if not all of them, involve the scammers running their own BTC through the ICO and ending up with both the BTC and the coin. So a disguised premine, with some extra BTC (but a much smaller unknowable amount) from idiots as a bonus.

Regarding the Blockchain-write-to-disk racing competition, late 2014 season: Depends upon 4Gb ram vs. 8 Gb ram it seems.
New database powered sport cars will set new records during 2015 season, I have a penchant for foresight.

Happy about mining directly into mymonero webwallet, this is now "confirmed to work^[tm]" However I would really like to import the webwallet adress into a locally stored wallet. Is this possible? I can fetch many details like heuristic words, viewkey, spendkey but found no way to import that, resulting into a new wallet.bin .
Have that feeling I am missing some inner mechanic working details on that spot.

The other question, since I've just seen that pool administrator Artides inside thread: How to flush a mined to adress onto 0,- ballance? Leaving mining dust today might get shrugged of, but I have to consider that 0,0xy XMR left behind could one day end up valued like "other coins" had been, then could be like $99 you just forgot inside a pant's pocket.

The current blockchain file is 3.2 gb. Writing that out in 60 seconds is 53 mb per second which isn't even breaking a sweat for an old HDD. Most HDDs can handle 100-200 mb/sec easy. Even a slow external drive over USB (where USB itself is the bottleneck) can pull off 30 mb/sec or a bit more. That saves the blockchain in 100 seconds. Anything slower than that is not the disk speed.

On a particular machine, sure. For example, if you are swapping lot, that will indeed happen on lot faster on a SSD, so it will speed up, but the underlying cause of the bigger slow down is the lack of RAM. People were talking about many minutes to an hour for a save. That is not pushing the limits of any HDD sequential speed, at all.

Yes I have only 4GB RAM which seems to be an issue but when saving the blockchain my task manager says my HDD is maxed @ 100% which is 8 MB/s.  No I did't forget a digit.

This is what I get for buying the second cheapest Dell comp in April.

In theory this is supposed to work. There was a bug which I'm not sure whether or not has been fixed. If not then you will have to restore using an older version of simplewallet then you can use the wallet with the current version.

I'm getting a 'server error' when I try and log into mymonero.com

To all who asked EDIT function, please correct your offers.