All IPs attepmting to mine with the HTTP protocol have and will be automatically blocked from MoneroPool.org. They were flooding the server and causing the connection between the pool software and daemon to break. In a few days the IPs will be unblocked to see if they are using stratum yet. Be sure to use only cpuminer with stratum+tcp://. Please contact support@moneropool.org (or PM me) if you wish to have any specific IPs unblocked.

This should fix the periodic outages we were having. 

LTC adds no value at all.

If anyone still hasn't received the Monero they tried to withdraw from Poloniex during the necessary wallet update, just go to support and explain your situation. Support was able to cancel my withdraw and allow me to re-withdraw my Monero. It was very quick to resolve once I messaged them.

On another note, I hope everyone is happy with the rising value 

Or it was "lol, LTC is going to Huobi" thing.

Download link for Linux binaries doesn't work. 

The bigger point is that MRO can do everything LTC does, and more.

The best reason I've seen for LTC to have any value is that people want alternatives, someplace else to go if BTC runs aground. MRO does that better  because LTC shares too much in common with BTC, a big monoculture problem that MRO does not share.

This ignores the added appeal of enhanced privacy. Even without those MRO has the potential to easily surpass LTC.

I agree with you for the most part except that I'd consider LTC to be one of the biggest scam coins of them all. Just because it got big does not mean it wasn't a scam.

But since it isn't on your list (or mine), I guess it doesn't much matter any more.

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- updated by fluffypony

Oh, I forgot that the internet only has 4 players. It must be the "network effect".

This is no longer a serious discussion...
When Google, Amazon, Apple, the banks start to play Crypto Currency for real...
Nothing coming out of BitcoinTalk will matter.

So would there be a way to create a checkpoint within the daemon that splits the blockchain into multiple files at a certain heights. The splits would be catelogued and organized and sit in limbo waiting to be called for if needed. Lowering the need for high memory due to increased blockchain size over time.