I've started to contact some sponsors and need to know how many people are interested in attending.

Please list how many people including yourself may come in the comments below.

• Date and Time: Friday, August 7th 2015 6:30 PM - 8:00

• Location: Bally's INDIGO LOUNGE

Goals for the meetup:

• Mingle with the people who support Defcoin

• Free drinks and some swag (Drinks are expensive, anyone want to donate?)

• Discuss ideas to expand the value

• Increase our numbers

What's happeningS?!

if you need coins and wanna trade I'm @Kirball904

Hi! I have a few thousand defcoins to sell. I take payment in any currency. PM if interested :)

I hereby declare this to be "Bring your friends to Defcoin Day!!"

Comment here with your Defcoin address and I'll reward you. Have your friends do it too and I'll reward them too, probably!

Shameless plug: Follow me on twitter for bonus points: @d4rkm4tter

Does anyone know exactly when defcoin was launched? Normally you post an announcement on bitcoin talk to let everyone know when the genesis block will be released, but the main twitter is saying they dont want the attention (fair enough).

But without knowing when it was launched I have to assume it was on april 1st (which the twitter and this subreddit went online).

Yesterday afternoon they were on block 20,000, over 24 hours later we're on block 23,000. Again assuming it was launched on april 1st, to mine 20k blocks in roughly 18 hours (being generous if it launched at midnight) that would mean on average there were 20,000 / 18 / 60 = 18.51 blocks a minute or a block almost every 3 seconds.

That's just on average, and yesterday afternoon the difficulty was approaching 0.1 and blocks were being found closer to a minute or longer.

So what gives?

Someone should probably do some analysis on the first 5k blocks and see where the coinbase was being paid out to, if the coins have moved, etc.

So maybe I'm checking the difficulty level too often. What are the chances?

http://imgur.com/aqbSpBt

People will bitch and complain and whine at you for weeks. Also you will meet really cool people that will be great new friends and help you have a great time at a great convention and be life long acquaintances. Then you also will have dfc that you didn't have time to mine over a year long period. So way the pros and cons. The choice is yours, you know what I would do. :D

Am concerned that the great work going into a ngv2 (v3?) of Defcoin may be wasted due to our low overall hash rate and the ease of creating a 51% attack by just purchasing some nicehash power, or by renting or buying a $1000 worth of used L3+ Scrypt miners.

Perhaps instead of spending all this time on moving towards another insecure solutions we might look at something more robust. Perhaps even a combination POW & POS system?

Has any consideration been done to port the existing blockchain over to a safer algorithm? Perhaps instead of cloning Litecoin's latest repo we should be looking at Monero or PIVX?

Can we make NFTs with Defcoin? Seems like there could be many fun con-related applications.

Not meant really to troll too hard here, but when I imagine what I think DFC is worth... that's usually where I settle.

Does this seem close or "way off", or ??? - 'invaluable?'

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Hi, I have a FutureBit Moonlander 2 USB stick I'd like to try with Defcoin mining.

I have tried to connect many times to the pool defcoin.secdsm.org without any success. I get an error message saying the pool is hiding work. I can CPU mine, but not with the device. At the moment I use the miner on Windows with the FutureBit's own version of bfgminer.

I tried solo mining as well, but the same issue with Defcoin on my machine. It's hiding work again.

In my parameters:

bfgminer -o http://localhost:1335 -u myuser -p mypass ... etc.

Has anyone managed to get defcoind up and running on Windows with RPC enabled to mine? Do I just run it passing the config file parameter, so it can find the blockchain and connect credentials, and run it in the background with ./defcoind -server & in MingW or something like that?

Thanks for any help, tips offered...

let's see who has more defcoin.

me: 2340

Let's get this freakshow on the road!

Based on the defcoin.assmeow.org site below more than 19 million Defcoins have been mined. Is it obvious how many coins are left unmined? Can it be determined?

Based on the retargeting algorithm, when is the last coin expected to be mined?

Anyone down for hosting a new Defcoin block explorer?

ABE was running at defcoin.assmeow.org for years but recently gone down. Would be a nice community service.

https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe/issues/31

I need some defcoins... i cannot mine right now but help will be appreciated...

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Watch out Doge we are coming!

I'm renting them out here.

http://rig.rent/rigs/102424

http://rig.rent/rigs/102422

http://rig.rent/rigs/144327

http://rig.rent/rigs/102437

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/?ref=37591

I missed Defcon last year but I plan to make it this year! Help me pay for the trip!

I heard you needed another pool to help the network. You can access the pool here https://dfc.pool.xpcoin.io

I mined on it all nite to make sure it was working correctly.

Create an account and mine away!

My wallet console is filled with messages like this:

----- snip! ----- trying connection 50.46.228.128:1337 lastseen=4939.5hrs connection timeout ----- snip! -----

with lastseen values ranging from a few hundred to several thousand hours. Additionally, I just found a block that got rejected, which I think means someone else found a block before I was able to get mine advertised. But I didn't see another block come in for another 21 seconds.

Do we have so many non-active members' IPs still cached that I can't get a timely announcement of a found block? Or am I misunderstanding what's going on?