Good point.


I don't see why.  If the pool has 40% of the weight, it should get 40% of the blocks, and so 40% of the lotto wins. It's linear.

If the pool modifies the code to withhold min-reward blocks, that gives pool members and advantage, but non-pool members can make the same modification and level the playing field without joining the pool.

I don't see the "no choice" argument.

If the pool gets 51% of the weight then they own the network, but that's the same with PoW pools as well.

True, but only once per output.

If you "dig" for clams now and find that you have one 4.6 pile, that 4.6 pile is around 3 months old and will have an expected time-to-stake of about 1 hour. Once it has staked, however, it is immature, just like any other recently staked coin.

It seems a little unfair to me that early adopters (before the lotto came into effect) "wasted" our mature initial distribution coin age getting tiny (0.0001) stakes and killing the age in the process. New adopters dig up mature coins and get a free lotto entry almost immediately.

I noticed that.

Last I checked we were averaging 1 block per 3.5 minutes.

We're stuck on the minimum difficulty.

I guess we need to reduce the minimum difficulty to allow more frequent staking with reduced network weight.

I wonder if the weight dropped because someone is withholding non-lotto blocks.

Maybe the lotto payout structure needs to be analysed to ensure that it isn't game-able.

Or maybe half the network weight went offline because it's held by a single player who has technical trouble.

Stop overclocking? Your overclock obviously isn't stable, and the client is unlikely to blame.

http://khashier.com:2750/block/29ac715925a3e3643e6fd7ede472d93e7ce17a13584def97abddc3e9f311fe6a

571.24572027

Congratz

There's some sell activity, but it's hardly a large dump.  Only 215 CLAM volume for the last 24 hours...

A fair number of people bought in around or below .0018, so it makes sense we're seeing some orders filled back down to those levels.

Overall the market looks pretty solid, considering the low volume.

CLAMs represent one of the extremely rare times that I'm happy people are selling for BTC without care.

Thanks for the cheap CLAMs!  Quite happy to be stocking up and improving my chances at hitting those lotto blocks!

I've broken my pile up into 32 equal stacks now - quite interested to see how staking goes over the next few days.

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It is going to be big for CLAMs when Poloniex releases their CLAMs to account holders, I think.  We'll see dumpers that only care about fractions of BTC, sure, but a coin so widely distributed and in the hands of so many crypto-invested individuals is bound to create some significant interest and curiosity.  Hopefully we will have an improved wallet out by then (with a few hard-fork changes that will really help the CLAM network).

"Poloniex releasing their Clams to Account Holders?"

It happened to one of my mining rigs also. Windows 7 crashed and restarted while wallet was staking and now it hangs/crash at open. No even deleting everything and re-installing works. Any one knows whats causing this? I get this error every time I open it.

Description:
  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   AppHangB1
  Application Name:   clam-qt.exe
  Application Version:   1.4.2.0
  Application Timestamp:   4d44aa00
  Hang Signature:   f651
  Hang Type:   0
  OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Hang Signature 1:   f651dae909a6f55fbff1657b14800280
  Additional Hang Signature 2:   40fd
  Additional Hang Signature 3:   40fd2af9d902d42e23e9aac756a4be35
  Additional Hang Signature 4:   f651
  Additional Hang Signature 5:   f651dae909a6f55fbff1657b14800280
  Additional Hang Signature 6:   40fd
  Additional Hang Signature 7:   40fd2af9d902d42e23e9aac756a4be35