The State of NIM-Nation

Well folks, it’s time for an update. It’s been about 2 weeks since the launch of mainnet and boy is the megahash flying.

Coming out the gates, we hit a combined rate of about 400–500 MH/s — well exceeding the team’s expectations. Mining interest is growing. As a result, the global hash-rate has boomed to nearly double its initial rate after only 2 weeks and continues to steadily grow.

At launch, only one public pool was available: Skypool. This resulted in a single entity controlling over 60% of the global hashrate. However, this did not last for more than a week. The team has worked night and day to build out the public pooling functionality, to make it easy for users to set up their own pool. With the launch of the pool source code, Nimiq has seen an explosion in the number of public pool and the distribution of hash power is gradually beginning to even out.

What’s Coming

The team, hard at work.

Users have called for faster, more streamlined wallet creation — in reference to making a wallet with NimiqSafe. The team has been listening to all the feedback and has responded:

“The safe is intended for holding big amounts of NIM so security is the priority. A wallet for day-to-day payments is in the works.” — Richy

Richy has also notified me that:

A user-friendly Windows client is on the way

is on the way Mobile mining apps are being discussed by the team

Edit: Browser pool mining just got added! So mining with any device, no matter the hashrate, is now feasible.

As mentioned earlier by the team in a video:

Exchange listing is a priority and already in process

The Ledger support process has already been submitted and waiting for approval. You can vote for Nimiq to be added next here.

Robin Linus (Creator of Nimiq) has reasserted the priority of exchange listing: