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PHP
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<h2>A few words to present the site and myself</h2>
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<p>Although i've been exposed by friends who are mining bitcoin or some other dogecoin
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for a little while already, i'm pretty new to the cryptocoin mining universe. I do like
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the concept of cryptocurrency for many reasons. One of them being certainly to lessen the
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monetary policy control from the few hands. Cryptocurrencies seem well suited to something
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that looks like a libertarianism political philosophy. That's probably going to be a very
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slow and long term shift, but i guess that's a step toward freedom and democracy. Numbers
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would normally eventually outweigh the few. Another reason is because it's fun.</p>
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<p>I must say that it's the maxcoin launch that really got my attention. Because mining
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early is good and because i feel Max Keiser is a relevant voice for cryptocurrencies. I
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got myself a decent GPU and started mining maxcoin. I've got a few by mining at 1gh.com
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for a week. It did the job very well. Then i've been aware of a possible 51% attack on
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cryptocurrency. I really don't think 1gh.com would mess with anything, but still, that's
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an issue. As there are already many other mining pools, it looks like anonymous mining is
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popular. Especially at maxcoin launch when they all got ddosed. I went from one to
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another before i got something working on 1gh.com. Then i agreed that anonymous mining
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is great and my password paper notebook had enough. </p>
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<p>I understand the only available implementation out there is not anonymous. Everyone has
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the same stratum-mining + MPOS implementation. Only 1gh.com and dwarfmining seem to have
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their own original modified implementation or i didn't find correctly. So i saw there an
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opportunity for another anonymous mining pool. For a whole day, i tried to refrain myself
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from this crazy idea of making another mining pool. I'm some kind of compulsive coder. I
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do it for a living and i do it for fun. And that's the kind of project i like.</p>
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<p>Crazy idea because there aren't much chances for success. I mean nobody is going to
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come to an empty mining site. The opportunity window is very early at the coin launch
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when low hashpower can still find blocks. Even though it was a few days late to start
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such a project for maxcoin, the next day, that was too strong, i had to do it. Else i
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was stuck from doing my other projects. In any way, if i'm going to be involved in the
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cryptocurrency world, it's going to be also as a programmer or at hacking here and there
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sooner or later. That was also an opportunity to jump in some python code.</p>
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<p>This server is online for at least one year. I do have other servers for other projects
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too. They are so cheap. So i'll continue to plug in my miner (and play a little less world
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of warcraft) and look forward to acquire more hashpower. But another thing i get from this
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last weekend journey is some knowledge of the technology so i can think about contributing
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to the programming effort whenever i can and be ready whenever there's another interesting
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coin launch.</p>
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<p>Now i can go back to work,</p>
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<p>Long life to maxcoin,</p>
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<p>neozon</p>
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<p>19/02/2014</p>
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