Yeah, you would, because POS is hardcoded to end. That code would need to be changed and the block reward adjusted. If I understand correctly, we're talking maybe 5 lines of code that need altering, but those five lines mean that everyone who wishes to go forward would need the new client. As far as making it happen, you just need to add  a line to your .conf file, or edn247 could add in a mining module to the wallet. The command is already supported. Setgenerate in console, and gen or generate in the rpc commands.

that would be awesome, and with the diff low it would only take a few cpu's to maintain the blockchain?  lol last time I tried mining on my cpu I smelt smoke from my psu, so could I use my gpu in the wallet to help if it happens ?

There's no way to get blocks produced by PoS any quicker with such low network stake, and no way to change that quickly enough by moving coins to stake because of confirmations & maturity.  Looks like I produced a block after my coins hit the 60 (one hour, lol) block target.  Now all my coins are staked - we'll also reduce the maturity time in the next version too so that these staked coins can re-enter the workforce quicker.

I'm merging the changes for PoW re-start now, I was hoping the network weight would start to rise again with everyone updating but it seems to be slowly dropping despite giving it a good amount of time, so time to move ahead with the original plan of restarting PoW.

I have also been working on moving the block explorer to a different machine, and while doing so it seems to be working better.  Currently it is not using the X13 or X15 hash modules, and relies on RPC to talk to the coin server, but I tracked them down and it seems to be reading the PoW blocks better.  Trying to implement a nicer interface before switching it over...  might as well look improved too.

I sent a message to Allcoin - it is disappointing that they haven't updated the wallet and kept up, just shutting down transfers and then the market.  The completely dead coin HPY (happycoin) is still being traded even though is was an obvious scam and there is no blockchain, block explorer or dev at all!  It is not on the chopping block list yet it's far more dead than TECHcoin.

Testing the updated code now. 

I've also made a couple little improvements to the GUI for staking - if you hover over the staking icon it will always show the network weight and it will wait longer for a new block before saying it's out of sync.  Thanks to presstab and the hyperstake team for leading the way!

More wallet improvements to come in future updates.

what about just adding an s? TechCoins.com?

fingers crossed on the new update soon, has been over 24hrs since last block again

How about techco.in?

love the positive momentum demonstrated here!  I'll contribute where I can for the future of this special coin. So i'm trying the latest wallet and it seems to get stuck syncing at block 85, is this unusual at the moment?

The whole network is stuck at block 5085, is that what you meant?  If you are having trouble with block 85, just download the blockchain from github and drop it in the Techcoin appdata folder, it should sync up then.

We are about to release a new version that will hard fork the blockchain and re-start proof of work mining to get it moving again.  By the time PoW stops at block 6000 the PoS mining should be moving the blockchain on their own.

If you are on block 5085 and it says out of sync that is fine - no problem.  Next version will be partly fixing that problem (the GUI was very impatient waiting for a new block and declares that it's out of sync if it doesn't see a new block after an hour, even though it's not out of sync from the rest of the network's blockchain) along with a lot of changes to the code to allow the blocks to be produced regularly without creating more base currency.

The update is ready but since this will produce a hard fork we are trying to coordinate the publish with the exchanges' update so that everyone will be able to withdraw to the correct chain.  A good number of you will have coins staking right away when you update to this version because it reduces a lot of time that coins need to wait to re-stake.  After one more block of PoS the PoW phase 2 will begin and you can mine for network fees only like bitcoin will be eventually, although you won't have to mine because PoS will be running too.  I will also publish a new copy of the blockchain once we see PoW blocks to help with the fork.

[edit: no need to add nodes, we have DNS seeds built-in]

Cheers!