Forestearth:  I had the same problem.  Your issue I believe has been answered - you may be encountering a different issue because
I simply followed the "answer" to your problem which is listed here multiple times.  I seems to have worked.
navigate to the help - tab then choose debug window
then choose console
and in the text window at the bottom type the following lines one at a time followed by enter:
addnode 168.63.12.227:80 add
addnode 168.63.12.227:80 onetry
addnode 94.23.215.174 add
addnode 94.23.215.174 onetry
After that go to the mining option and choose your mining option.  The miner should now show up in color
and hovering over it will let you know the connections and collision rate.
cheers  (i still have to try multiple times to get through this site's captcha which is very difficult to read OR hear...)
thanks

Daniel Larimer isn't just making some assertions re:  Keyhotee in the sense we normally think of assertions.  The beauty is in the fact that the vision Keyhotee and DAC encompasses is really only the tip of the ice-berg of what the power of the Blockchain can actually mean for the future of basic freedoms for humans now tied completely to technology.  we can be empowered again and reclaim our ownership of our own identities.  He has simply more fully understood the Blockchain's true potential scope and the implications for taking back our basic liberties through the safeguarding of our personal lives.  The current state of affairs is because our technology was steps ahead of our understanding as a society of why and how we needed to safeguard such basic things as our identities, communications, commerce and trade.  Places like Amazon - in fact ALL companies globally will of necessity almost certainly be compelled to use such a simple yet elegant means to transact the business of the future - in terms of money, trade, communication and commerce.  Does anyone honestly think (in light of the ongoing constant revelations of of NSA spying etc) and the many other infractions of Plutocrats, Oligarchs or kleptocrats, Hackers and (fill in the blank)- that the internet will be able to continue business as usual indefinitely?  A new more foolproof system will have to eventually be adopted.  This is the best choice yet and there will likely be many others based on similar ideas.  But the complexity of the blockchain (mathematically speaking for humans without the benefit of large Cray computers at their disposal) make this very likely the new method of choice.  This would be my opinion.