Although i've been exposed by friends who are mining bitcoin or some other dogecoin for a little while already, i'm pretty new to the cryptocoin mining universe. I do like the concept of cryptocurrency for many reasons. One of them being certainly to lessen the monetary policy control from the few hands. Cryptocurrencies seem well suited to something that looks like a libertarianism political philosophy. That's probably going to be a very slow and long term shift, but i guess that's a step toward freedom and democracy. Numbers would normally eventually outweigh the few. Another reason is because it's fun.

I must say that it's the maxcoin launch that really got my attention. Because mining early is good and because i feel Max Keiser is a relevant voice for cryptocurrencies. I got myself a decent GPU and started mining maxcoin. I've got a few by mining at 1gh.com for a week. It did the job very well. Then i've been aware of a possible 51% attack on cryptocurrency. I really don't think 1gh.com would mess with anything, but still, that's an issue. As there are already many other mining pools, it looks like anonymous mining is popular. Especially at maxcoin launch when they all got ddosed. I went from one to another before i got something working on 1gh.com. Then i agreed that anonymous mining is great and my password paper notebook had enough.

I understand the only available implementation out there is not anonymous. Everyone has the same stratum-mining + MPOS implementation. Only 1gh.com and dwarfmining seem to have their own original modified implementation or i didn't find correctly. So i saw there an opportunity for another anonymous mining pool. For a whole day, i tried to refrain myself from this crazy idea of making another mining pool. I'm some kind of compulsive coder. I do it for a living and i do it for fun. And that's the kind of project i like.

Crazy idea because there aren't much chances for success. I mean nobody is going to come to an empty mining site. The opportunity window is very early at the coin launch when low hashpower can still find blocks. Even though it was a few days late to start such a project for maxcoin, the next day, that was too strong, i had to do it. Else i was stuck from doing my other projects. In any way, if i'm going to be involved in the cryptocurrency world, it's going to be also as a programmer or at hacking here and there sooner or later. That was also an opportunity to jump in some python code.

This server is online for at least one year. I do have other servers for other projects too. They are so cheap. So i'll continue to plug in my miner (and play a little less world of warcraft) and look forward to acquire more hashpower. But another thing i get from this last weekend journey is some knowledge of the technology so i can think about contributing to the programming effort whenever i can and be ready whenever there's another interesting coin launch.

Now i can go back to work,

Long life to maxcoin,

neozon

19/02/2014