Bitcoin Forum

http://coinyewest.com


I have nothing to do with the coin. Interesting though.

nice site at least they trying

a gayfish coin  ???

https://i.imgur.com/4efu5Pe.jpg

I wont fu** with it. Its named after an idiot.

protip dont preannounce a coin for 10 days if you dont wanna get ddosed and have all kind of problems  ::)
just release coin without a pre announce.

so what's it about?

Whats next HitlerCoin(HTC)? sounds good though lol

created by minepool.us?

HAHA!! we gonna mine a gayfish!!!

Very nice website... This coin has potential. ;D

When will this crap stop being newsworthy? So people just name a stupid coin after someone and it's worth talking about?

Like we need anything else to feed Kanye Pest's ego.

Has kanye west approved this? does kanye even know cryptocurrency even exist? Why would someone name a coin after a celebrity just to gain publicity?

The only thing that guy likes more than the spotlight is haters, and there are many here.

No, he hasn't approved it. Read the vice article.

http://bitcoinboard.net/kanye-west-cryptocurrency-coinye-west-set-to-release-january-11th/

Does the wallet get followed everywhere by cameras and play shit music every time a block is mined?

lol looks awesome

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/02/coinye-west-is-your-newest-bitcoin-inspired-cryptocurrency/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/kanye-west-inspired-bitcoin-alternative-coinye-west-launch-next-week-1430845

   :D  :D got media attention even before its released

Great, another get rich quick pump and dump coin. Are we gonna have another 'smooth' launch?

I shit you not, we've been talking about doing this, but we wanted to call it, "YEEZUS COIN"

Kanye is going to release a song about it on the day of launch, thus bringing in an overwhelming wave of kids into cryptos.  I am sure it's market cap will surpass bitcoin within a few weeks.  You better be ready to get in on the ground floor!!

Lamest coin ever!  ???

This time we are going to to the sky!

Touch the sky?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Kanyewest_touchthesky.jpg

I thought we already had a Crackhead Coin.

Done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDMfTkxvHsY  8)

Interesting that the dev didn't make a post about it here, what could that mean? Trying to distance themselves from the community in an attempt to make it look like there aren't already 100 other coins just like it?

Haha, someone with a big Litecoin Mining Rig, please fuck them over and nuke the difficulty to infinity for the boons to learn their lesson.

Its all over the news. Only a complete idiot wouldn't point all of their mining power at this. Join in the pump and dump. Its all over mainstream media. Its going to be 10x bigger than doge if not more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25588883

How are these shitcoins actually newsworthy? Seriously.

featured in the guardian  now,  crazy   http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/03/kanye-coinye-west-bitcoin-coinye-cryptocurrency

When one news site posts it, they all follow to ' not miss out '

So are the media going to cover every meme and shitcoin that comes out now? They're gonna have a busy year.

worse thing is i'm going to have to mine this stupid coin  now just in case  it really does  take off .

Ha, I'm sure many people will feel this internal conflict and hate themselves for it.

I WTB, let me know when the intro price is!  ;D ;D ;D

BWahahahaHahaha  ;D

Hmmmm with the hype it only makes sense to have all KH/s pointing to Coinye's Pool.. Bwahahaha!

Just another scrypt botnet-friendly coin :)

Most people here are anarchists or have anarchistic ways of thinking. Why do you think we are interested in a dumb mtv gay popartist coin?

not heard of him, then again don't have a tv since it's 99.9999999999% rubbish.

want to buy 1bil for 1 sat 

.......everyone mined them, because they thought they would increase in value....BUT

NOBODY BOUGHT THEM!!!

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

This ^

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gf0VKXk5Q‎

Who is kanye west?

One of my best friends:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEKWtgJQAU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEKWtgJQAU)   8)

Looks dope, going to mine this on launch.

Also reserved

reserved ;D

 

No thanks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0637GjJDvk

What would Kim say?

http://i40.tinypic.com/2du9y55.jpg

 ;D

Why the maximum supply of coin changed from 66,666,666,666 to 133,333,333,333?  :o             

https://twitter.com/cryptotipz/status/419190213861068800 (https://twitter.com/cryptotipz/status/419190213861068800)

Never mind what kim would say, Kayne would say she aint no hobbit !

MEPH

Bound to be a scam (Uh-huh, honey)

 ;D

you all should be excited by this coin, imagine how many idiots are going to mine this,  making it much easier to mine the other actual, profitable coins.   coinye west i thank you



j

This could be even more important... imagine if Kayne himself just tweeted a "yes" or something similar.. just 1 tweet... the publicity it would get would be mental

MEPH

+1

At least this would have a built in demographic (neo-nazis) who'd be happy to have their own "pure" coin incompetently copy and pasted by aryans (with doge icons in the Qt until the dev figured out how to replaced them). They could also do fuhrercoin (FUC) for the name. The funny thing is that miners of all races would jump on the chance to mine it if they thought they could make a buck.

Would also have  a video if it ever decreased in value (See downfall hitler reaction vid :p)

MEPH

max fish sticks coins on the site states: 133,333,333,333  :o

Taking pump and dump mainstream. Love it.  :D

Coinye West Coin "Pumped & Dumped So HARD It Should Called KimCoin"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397914.msg4297869#msg4297869 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397914.msg4297869#msg4297869)

http://i44.tinypic.com/2mwbgna.jpg

DO NOT TOUCH THIS WITH A TEN FOOT POLE!

It is a total and utter scam coin designed for PR purposes and likely pump and dumps.

It is run by a music related company which means that it goes against everything there is regarding de-central crypto and more importantly they admit flat out that it is pre-mined!

Its a complete joke, no security developed by PR and Marketing people who have no idea what they are doing.

See here where they even admit most of it http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/kanye-west-gets-his-own-virtual-currencythe-coinye-west-9038055.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/kanye-west-gets-his-own-virtual-currencythe-coinye-west-9038055.html)

But if you mine Crackcoin, I hear you can trade 1 Crackcoin for 100,000 Coinye West coins

As a matter of fact, I think anyone who owns Crackcoins can do pretty much anything they want with those who own Coinye West coins.
 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I think this will be the biggest pump and dump one we have seen yet. It is everywhere in the news, and its owned by a centralised music company, and it is clearly pre-mined.

When it launches I might try and mine and instantly dump (to people who can't mine and buy into the hype). This may last a few weeks and you never know, could make a few $100!

It's a coin for the normies out there....  8)
If this is what it takes to get everyone on the cryptobandwagon I say lets do it... Plus who knows, it may actually be profitable and viable. But also I think it has too many possible coins and we don't know anything else besides the vague description the devs have given us...

https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=coinye&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=a9HHUpDdHunUigfNiIDADA

WOW

It's just as likely to harm the legitimacy of crypto currency in the minds of normal people as it is to help it. This is introducing people to the ugly underbelly of crypto before they're familiar with the real stuff.

Where does it say it's run by a music-related company?

All these shitcoins are pump and dumps or at the very least get rich quick schemes.

Yup they certainly are: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397914.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397914.0)
 ;D

It will make the developers lots as they will mine and then sell as soon as it hits an exchange. Pump n Dump !

lol at those tweets. The only way we can kill these alts is to not bother with them. There's going to be so many this year.

I agree but the problem is 'hype' brings 'rewards' and this coin will be hyped mega-style. It will definitely hit all the exchanges as the publicity will increase as time gets nearer to launch.

Very hard to not bother when in the end it will probably bring in lots of BTC at exchanges. No doubt it will also collapse and dwindle like Doge once the public move on to another FAD.

The plan behind this coin is as follows:

Crazy mutherf*cking enormous PUMP:
http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss318/kirashimu/lol-guy-1.jpg

Then insane mad dump:
http://cdn2.gamefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fus-ro-dah.jpg

Hi Guys,

I checked your site FAQ section and I can see:


I am glad you are using doge to promote your coin :) 

CoinYe West will be a total joke, it will never be worth anything.  Angela's one-eyed cat could create a better crypto currency with it's good eye shut.

I wouldn't trust Kanye to be a celery farmer.

Doge was a total joke and look what happened.

The multipools are STILL mining it.

I totally agree. DOGE is indeed a good example of a coin that was in the beginning promising but was laughed with and make a very nice progress
The media attention for Coinye can also not be misunderstood.

I have my mining system ready for Coinye.

Wut, mining starts today at 7 pm pacific time???
http://coinyeco.in/
isnt this thing going kinda weird last time? change logo to some fucking fish, change domain, now change launch date.. I see.. never more fucked up launch and they are just doing the same!
what do you think about it?

Maybe they were not allowed to use his face for the logo or something? Is that a possibility? Anyway.. the miner and wallet were supposed to be available 2 days before the launch. It's not even there yet.

Yup, they raped his trademark, god huge attention for nothing, and now probably Kayne and his army of lawyers want their share :D
So devs had to change logo to some idiotic fish and are trying to launch it ASAP, so they can MAYBEEE do it on some shitty exchange, dupm their premine and instamine there and then vanqish..
nice fail coin

worst failcoin EVER!

You sure? What trademarks were these exactly?

They had to scrap their plans to release the wallet/miner days early because legal pressure forced them to move up the launch. According to them on IRC, it will be made available in time. At least the wallet. The specialty miner may have to wait a few days but it doesn't really matter. Just use the miner programs you've always used.

lol, idiotic fish? It's just an homage to South Park! Who loves fishsticks?

With the press this coin is getting and legal action Conye West is (attempting) to take, I doubt any of the exchanges will touch this coin.

This is a BAD thing and I warned about it with the RonPaulCoin - naming a coin after a public figure is just asking for a lawsuit.

Sure, the coin creators have some anonymity and may be difficult to physically track down.  But the owners of the exchanges and this forum may be much easier to find.  What happens when Cryptsy, CoinedUp, or bitcointalk.org are sent cease & desist letters from Conye's lawyers?  What happens if they are subpoena'd for all server logs and other information they have related to the coin's creators and/or users?

These things hurt the cryptocurrency world as a whole, and just make it look a joke or "shady hacker stuff" to the outside world.

You are not looking at the big picture. Media attention, no matter what it is, can only be a good thing for crypto-currency. If the Coinye guys are smart the will put it out, exchanges will put it up. People will trade it and I really hope that Konye gets pissed and makes all kinds of noise about it. The more noise he makes the more our coins will be worth. All of them, including the shit coins.

I understand the "there's no such thing as bad press" idea.  Short-term yes, this *may* cause an increase of value in the CoinyeWest coin.  Long-term, this has potential to hurt the community in general.  Crypto-currency will never be taken seriously if the only media attention we get is about law suits, black markets like Silk Road and silly "joke" coins like DOGE.

Whilst i agree with what your saying on the whole, and would never go near this coin in the first place (its a piece of shit cmon) i cant understand why theyve had to change anything!? What trademark have they infringed?
Kanye != Coinye.
The image is a cartoon, which unless breachess copyright of the original author posses no problem.
The code is open source.
What possible reasons do this tallentless fucks lawyers have to go chasing after this? Id never heard of RonPaul til that coin came out, but if he was to sue thats a different story - because thats actually his name!

What legal pressure did they have exactly?

This has been pretty interesting to watch. Perhaps his trying to stop it and their launching early will cause The Streisand Effect. I'm fine with some pump and dump.

Anyone else getting errors connecting to pools :P?

Yeah , cant eveny connect ...

Step 1. Create self-inflicted DDos attack with all the hype.
Step 2. Mine when everyone else can't.
Step 3. Profit.

where is the wallet and block chain? link broken. can't mine without it.!!!

Not Found

The requested URL /Coinye-LAUNCH-Wallet-and-Source-Encrypted.zip was not found on this server.

4 blocks orphan out of 5 :D

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20140107-WSJ-coinye.pdf

Indeed this is a test for crypto.

Here's something interesting from the Cease & Desist letter:

page 2.

1. cease and desist from any and all use of the mark COINYE WEST and any versions of that mark including COINYE;

And then there's this part.

page 3.

If you fail to comply with these demands, we will notify the cryptocurrency community at large of your infringing actions and pursue all legal remedies against any business that accepts the purported COINYE WEST currency.  Specifically, Mr. West will pursue claims of contributory trademark infringement and contributory unfair competition, among others, against any entity that accepts or exchanges the COINYE WEST currency.

My question now is this: are mining pools "exchanging" the coins when they transfer them to a miners wallet?

An opinion from someone familiar with laws governing these types of issues would be great because the term "exchange" may not carry the same meaning in Trademark infringement suits that the average person might think that it means.

A quick example is New York States Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance 5th Degree a Felony (NYS P.L. 220.31)

S 220.31 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
fifth degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells a controlled

So if Bob hands his friend Joe a dime bag of coke and didn't accept any money or any thing else at all, did Bob "SELL" Joe cocaine?
YES!

Because the definition of sell in the New York State Penal Law states this.
substance. 220.00 Controlled substances; definitions.
  1. "Sell" means to sell, exchange, give or dispose of to another, or
to offer or agree to do the same.

So this what I mean by "EXCHANGE" -- what's the exact definition of it when it comes to Trademark Infringement?

I wish COINYE Devs the best of luck. 

I hope this coin fails - don't mine such a disgrace to the whole crypto world  >:(

Fuck Kanye and his corporate lizard overlords. mine and trade this coin, we are free men and women.!  ;D

This coin rocks fishy head ;D so much hype

http://d.coinyecoin.org/coinyecoin-qt-win32.zip
http://d.coinyecoin.org/coinyecoin.tar.gz
http://d.coinyecoin.org/coinyecoin-qt-macosx.zip

can anyone connect to the wallet though?

You need this password for windows ZIP file: 9G{;'RZK~<qMS+qX6)~o.LvCK|8Ey7t%6Y!#)SBT]/n)fyw1v;xBEu
Didnt tried the other files though!!!

The Wallet is not syncing I get no connections. I've put the Conf in the %appdata% still not syncing any one can help?

Addnodes:


Mine sync'd almost immediately...

I've closed and reopened mine about 20 times for the last hour and a half. Still haven't been able to sync.

Thanks just added the nodes, but still not sync-ing.
I downloaded the windows-qt and extracted it and ran it as normal. did I miss something during installation? what's the password mentioend above and where and how do I put it?
thanks in advance.

where do you put this password?  please.

I have proof that COYE is a scamcoin. I work support for an exchange and this was sent via email about an hour ago to our support system.

So, because someone put a stupid comment out, the COYE coin is a scam?
I would be surprised if no exchange would add the coin within days to their exchange. Time will tell who's right!

The URL of the COINYE blockchain: http://coinyechain.info

How much are Coinye going for?

What are 1M Coinye worth?

LOL...

http://www.contactmusic.com/article/coinye-west-kanye-west-lawyers_4014082

Kanye says "Cut that shit out"...

This can't be real. How can you sue for this shit?

Kanye can never take a joke. Can they even sue over this? It's not even using his name.

Yeah, Kanye definitely has no sense of humor... I'm sure he can sue for it because simply because he has the financial ability to pursue it as far as it needs to go.

Use of name,
Use of image,
Claiming support from Kanye,
TELLING PPL THEY CAN BUY CONCERT TICKETS WITH IT. <--- Pure Fraud.

Bad attempt at pump and dump scheme over the back of a "popicon" by a little music company.
Dev deserves to be sued with this coin in it's current state.

+1

I hate anything having to do with Kanye West, lol...

It's called Coinye West, not Kanye West and uses a caricature image of him. Did he sue South Park as well?

It's clearly a parody, which is also protected under the American Constitution.

And I like his music, but he's one of the biggest tools and ego maniacs on the planet and needs to get over himself and learn to take a joke.

This  coin really protected under the american constitution under parody ?

without a disclaimer? No it's not.
Remember SouthPark?
http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/shared/about/show-disclaimer.jpg

Also the direct "buy-off" for Kanye would not make it a parody.

So many lessons to be learned over this coin....i dont know which one to choose

here's the thing... you don'T see Ron Paul suing people over his coin, do you? LOL

Bitch's being a brat asshole... like the cryptocurrency is so main stream that this could ever affect his shitty reputation more then the stupid shit he already does to himself.

Honestly, the truth is, even if at the end of the day it isn't a copyright infringement, will any business want to take the chance and go into a lengthy legal battle over the adoption of a cryptocurrency with a gayfish on the front of the logo?

Think about the children! What is the mother going to say when their kid ask what that *points at gayfish* is? I can't wait to see the sign that says "We accept Coinye"

Who is Kanye West anyway?? :) I prefer Coinye West at least it has a value. :)

Parodies are, you can even sometimes get away with copyright infringement under educational purposes sometimes. This coin isn't even using his name, but a parody of it, so it should be fine. Kanye is just being a twat as usual and throwing his toys out of the pram. I hope the coinmakers resist legal pressure and I doubt he has a legal ground to stand on in court. Hope he loses millions because of this.

I might start rapping under the name Kanye Pest and see if he sues me.

I support this.

I would think controversy is what we want? Its hilarious, and I hope Kanye pulls an OJ and spends his entire fortune on legal fees.

Anyone Selling Coinyecoins on ebay prepare to have them removed in voilation of some sort of policy I have never heard of before.
just got this and had all my listings removed.

From ebay:

Hello XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
After reviewing your eBay account, it appears that you have violated eBay's Brand Name Misuse policy. As a result, we've taken the following action on your account:
- Violating listings have been removed. A list of removed items is available further down in this email.
- We have credited all associated fees except for the final value fee for your listing(s).

Adding brand, celebrity, or manufacturer names to a listing that was not made by that company, person, or manufacturer isn't allowed.

Making comparisons or including unrelated terms in your listing may confuse buyers who may not be clear about what is actually being offered. This can result in an unsuccessful transaction and may also lead to a buyer claim being filed.

To avoid any problems in the future, please use only terms that describe your item accurately.

For more information on our search and browse manipulation policy, go to:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/search-manipulation.html

If you have more questions, contact our policy experts:
http://ocsnext.ebay.co.uk/ocs/cusr?query=1387&domain=email1254

Please be sure your future listings follow these guidelines. If they don't, they may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including restrictions of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.

Here are the listings that were removed:
151206107042 - 10,000 CoinyeCoin - Crypto Currency like Bitcoin, lightcoin,dogecoin,coinyewest
151206184495 - 1,000 CoinyeCoin - Crypto Currency like Bitcoin, lightcoin,dogecoin

What? that's crazy.

honestly, can anyone really be that stupid AND that successful?
I think he does this shit on purpose, to bring himself attention and sell CDs. pretty ingenious if you ask me.

the coinye west makers are anonymous, how do we know he didn't set all this up himself?

Hahahaha. Kanye is the biggest douchetool in the Universe. How is that a misuse of brand names? Coinye West - Don't f**k with this coin indeed.

+1.
So even worse.

BTW: Where I can check how much coins are mined so far and to track difficulty increase, network power, etc...?

Yea doge is doing awesome...
http://s21.postimg.org/dmsss59hz/dogecoin.jpg

man, just reading this thread wants me to delibratley mine coinye just to piss him off! ;D

rename it to gayfish coin to get it on the exchanges.