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It has been a wild week at KitthCoinHQ, location: internet. We "relaunched" 2/3 as promised (well, 30min late but hey) and the reception has been fantastic. At time of launch we were on a single exchange and had reached out to many exchanges but hadn't gotten any response. Now we're just getting added to exchanges organically! The community is growing by leaps and bounds everyday and the team has some awesome new work to share with the larger community.

If you've followed KittehCoin you know there was no premine, and this team kind of "inherited" it from the creator. Please keep that in mind when you contact us asking for free coins, this isn't that kind of coin.

If you are a pool operator and have not upgraded to the 0.6.4.1 client you MUST UPGRADE. If you do not the blocks from your pool will be orphaned, and your miners will be working in vain. We now have >51% network saturation. The hard fork block (131913) should be reached in 4-7days depending on the rate of block generation. We will be the first to admit we underestimated the time to reach the fork-block, and will be tightening up those calculations for the next hard-fork (foreshadowing!).

First things first- where can you buy MEOW these days?

• Cryptx.io (https://cryptx.io/) - we love these guys
• Cryptsy (https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/149) - solid exchange, although there have been major delays on MEOW deposits
• CoinedUp (https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=MEOW&base=BTC)
• Poloniex (https://poloniex.com/market?currencyPair=BTC_MEOW)
• PMtoCoins (http://pmtocoins.com/index.php?page=trade&market=8)

We have also explored CryptoRush.in, but they are asking for 0.25BTC to be listed. We feel exchanges (who profit from listing coins in most cases) should list a coin because it has a critical mass, a strong community, or the exchange operators value the coin and see potential in it. The ability to buy your way onto an exchange has us avoiding this exchange for now. We have been listed on several directories including CoinWarz, and several others.

There have also been a number of new games popping up which support MEOW such a meow.coinwheel.me (http://meow.coinwheel.me) and others, we will be listing these on our site later today.

We have been working on an online wallet service for KittehCoin wallets. This type of thing requires extra security auditing to make sure everyone's MEOW is safe so the timeline for releasing that service is a bit further out. BUT- we already have an iOS wallet app ready that uses that service as its backbone. As you know Apple has been kinda of waffling on the approval of cryptocoin apps, so we're waiting for approval right now, but here are some teasers:

We hope to have this rolled out soon! These images do NOT convey final design, but its close ;)

Another item we have been working on is a way to help support our miners. We know the KittehCoin difficulty is a roller coaster the way we have been getting attacked by multipools combined with DDoS attacks on our pools. To help mitigate this we have taken immediate action and have implemented the Kimoto Gravity Well difficulty algorithm (KGW) into the next release of KittehCoin. We are using the adaptive N-Factor implementation that VertCoin uses (hattip to them!) but we're feeding our 60s blocktime into that algo rather then the VertCoin block time.

Now fixing the difficulty issues are awesome but we are working on a lot more than that, we're working on three things in parallel in terms of the coin itself, all of which require waiting for the hard-fork block to be reached before we can release, and this will require another hard-fork (this 2nd hard fork will occur much more quickly than the first one, we learned!).
      

• Upgrade KittehCoin codebase to 0.8.6.2 - completed, in final testing, waiting for hardfork
• Implement KGW diff. algo in KittehCoin - completed, in final testing, waiting for hardfork
• HUGE new features in 0.8.6.2 - final phases of testing

You read that right, we're going after 3 major updates in parallel. Why? Well because 2 of the 3 would require hard-forks, and so we feel it best to incorporate all of them into one release, one fork, and then KittehCoin will be solid for the foreseeable future. As you can see by our quick response with the implementation of KGW- we listen to our community, and if the need for additional changes arise after the 0.8.6.2 release, we will respond accordingly. The alpha for this release is already on github.

So you're probably wondering what #3 is in the feature list... its something new, novel, beneficial to miners and users, and has never been done by any other altcoin. For this reason we a) need to make sure we test it thoroughly prior to release; b) make sure we market it right, since it really is a big deal for cypto/altcoins in general; c) we had to get a private github repo so people didn't steal our work before release. We will make this public when its ready for release.


Things we could use the communities help with:

• Putting together a proper marketing/PR team to dress and announce these new features and releases in the best way possible. We'll admit- we're coders. We aren't the best at marketing, but we have a killer community and are dedicated to making this coin better and better. If you have marketing experience please reach out to us if you haven't already, you can make a difference for this coin! Also, it takes a lot of time to write up these updates, time I could be using to code, while a marketer does a better job in general crafting these updates ;)
• Locating a payment processor. We have requests in with a number of 3rd party processors but if you run a payment processor or can give us an inside track we and our community would be greatly appreciate that. This also ties into being able to leverage MEOW for donations and fundraisers in a more effective way as well as enabling the standard purchase of goods and services.

The timeline on the 0.8.6.2 release is TBD- we first need to get past block 131913. After that its just a matter of making sure it is solid in testing before rolling it out to the full community.

KittehCoin is here to stay! We listen to our community and try to help other altcoins too. We feel like "altcoins" in general are one big community and we are happy to help any altcoin that isn't a sleazecoin. We're actively working with the awesome devs from GOATcoin and AmK to help with some mac wallets for them. KittehCoin comes first- but as we have the ability to help and knowledge share, we're all about that.

Want to thank everyone in the community for their massive support. Our team works very hard to make sure the users can connect to peers, miners don't have problems, wallets are working, etc etc. We know there is a minor issue with the zip file on our paperwallet, I will be fixing that today. Please keep up the support and join us on our forums (http://forums.kittehcoin.info) or on reddit (http://reddit.com/r/KittehCoin)!! More news to comes soon, hopefully Apple gets its act together!

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TL;DR:

• We're on a bunch of new exchanges, organically! Go buy your MEOW!
• We have an online wallet service on the way and an iOS wallet app powered by it waiting for Apple approval
• We have a huge client release in alpha testing that has 3 major upgrades wrapped into one- 0.8.6.2 codebase, KGW diff impl, and another big new feature that we'll announce more on in a future status update.
• We're looking for marketing team members, give us a shout!
• We're working on a payment processor(s) - know someone? pls contact us

I predict kittehcoin will be 100 satoshi by Friday next week ;D

This is great. Its hard to not believe in this coin with the dedicated dev team it has.

Thanks for adding www.pmtocoins.com on your thread. We are giving away some free coins on our website

good job dev team, you are doing very good work here!  :D
im supporting every way i can

Amazing!

Fantastic news and update team MEOW! Thanks for your extremely hard work. I just sent some MEOWS to the official meow-donation-address!!

http://kittehcoin.info/forums/general-%28non-client%29-meow-talk/%28official%29-meow-donation-address-help-support-kittehcoin-growth!/

Thank you for that! This is a legit no-premine coin so anything we award in contests/bounties/promotions comes out of donations or our own pockets. Had to pay out 1.5M out of my own pocket for a bounty earlier today, my hard earned MEOW goes to building this community into something bigger and better!

Very exciting news, can't wait  :) Got to love a Dev team that delivers. You should all be nominated for some altcoin award  ;D
100000 sent to Donation address
Keep up the good work
 

Fantastic news.. Keep it coming! Love this coin! :)

omg i will sell all my alt coins and will go ALL IN in kitten grabbing all meow i can its real cheap in cryptsy 40 to 50 sat.

Kitteh is still surprisingly cheap considering dev team, community, total coins etc. Absolute no brainer to be heavily invested in this coin.

I think we will be seeing a lot more of this.

Agree. This was my first Alt to heavily invest a large part of my Bitcoins into. After studying the volume traded/interest and seeing the size of the market cap (plenty of room to move to the upside) plus awesome community and devs, it was as you say..a no brainer :p

same here. until MEOW i only have had BTC, LTC, FTC, XPM. this community and dev support is amazing! just hoping we hit block 131XXX relatively soon. not making many MEOW's mining right now :(

Great great great news!  Well done guy's!

You guys definitely need to do some good marketing. From what I understand you guys have not done any marketing at all and yet this coin is still getting good recognition. I try to spread some awareness here and there when I can and when it's relevant,  but yall should form an official team for it too.

Best Devs Ever!

Thanks yeah we definitely recognize the need for this, we're going to organize a team dedicated to this ahead of the next release. If we can get this much recognition organically I'm sure i proper marketing/social media team could blow it up. Thus far its just been me on twitter, and these status update posts and a sprinkling of posts from the team but that'll change ;)

Having a marketing team in place will also free me up to do more forward moving progress work- organizing/formatting/writing announcements takes a surprisingly long amount of time! Thanks again for all the support  ;D

hehe will be nice :) why next friday?  8)

good dev  ;D

For me, its the most promosing project in the Altcoin scene right now!! You got my support!
thx for ur great commitment...

Yes This coin needs better Marketing, Once strong players dump their kittecoin and stop promoting on twitter, this coin will be dead .

Look all the Sell walls on Cryptsy, even there is buy support, nobody is willing to buy anymore.

Lets do this!

great job! great devs! exciting news! :)

Kittehcoin is on my list...long term !!!

It seems the right time to buy some Kittehs is now before the fork happens in the next couple of days, right?

Time to start jumping in

definitely. we just need some consistent miners to stay mining during these multi pool attacks.

Will the update / hard fork affect those who store a balance on an exchange?  I had actually sold all my coins but bought back in on the strength of the KGW announcement alone.  Thanks for the awesome dev work!

your coins will all be safe. :)

Excellent, thank you!

Not much mining going on, only multipools jumping in as soon as the Diff goes down  :( Even trading seems to be halted with the price so low. Is this because of the weekend? At this rate I dont think we will hit the hardfork block this week. We really need to push this coin, get more miners and people interested in Kitteh. I have faith in this coin and its the only coin I'll be sticking with  :) We just have to be patient, once we hit this hardfork block and the next one with the nice features coming Kitteh will be fine and stable again  :)

Yeah trade is kinda stuck on same price...jsut multicoins dumping thought.

ya multipools keep dumping and fulfilling the buy orders. the price will rebound fairly quickly once they are out of the picture.

Once we hit the hard fork, multi-pools will be less inclined to hit KittehCoin as they are. The massive hashrate spikes we're seeing have driven some core miners away, the hard fork reduced block times and then we're looking at KGW which should solidify things quite a bit. Patience Kittehs

This and this! We are working hard to fight off the multipools, we are even spinning up cloud AWS instances to keep on mining when the multipools leave so we can get to that damn FORKBLOCK!!! Some reddit news:

http://www.reddit.com/r/kittehcoin/comments/1xjart/testing_kgw_now_we_are_aware_of_the_problem/

http://www.reddit.com/r/kittehcoin/comments/1xja1f/kittehcoin_marketing_team_is_coming_together/


+1


I want to thank everyone for the continued support. We know the price is being manipulated + raped by multipools. We are actively working on defenses to thrwart these attacks (a highly improved KGW implementation for KittehCoin) as well as possibly moving up the blockfork if we need to. All this will be done in tight coordination with pool operators. Right now we are making sure KGW will solve our problems :).

We are in this for the long haul. We'll get the multipool assholes out of the picture, we are already talking with a payment processor. We are also working on a twitter tipbot.

So what exactly does forking early involve? A new client? I am just curious if the multipools would update or not, if they didn't would that cause them to miss the fork and keep the current version going?

Yes, just a client update.
& we don't care if MP update or not. In case they don't update; Only they will be on the wrong chain, but Everyone else [Kitteh Pool owners + Major Exchanges + Community] will be on the right chain, enjoying life while MPs waste their hash on the wrong fork.

~ pEace

looks like good news!!

https://twitter.com/KittehCoinTeam/status/433092669582356480

Yuppies  ;D

Working on this with the team on IRC right now, determining new forkheight, we're moving it up.

Official fork height: 126,250. Pushing out to pool operators very shortly and updating github. QT Wallets and official announcement to follow this weekend (Saturday ish, USA-EASTERN time) with more news as well as the wallets themselves. The fork should happen around saturday just after teh announcement if we time this right, its hard to predict given the sways in difficulty (soon to be gone!).

by the power of kitteh we banish the multi pools!

nice work everyone  8)

This is solid!
Will strengthen coin for the long term

Looking forward to this. Well done dev!

Less than 300 blocks away!?!

yes around 250 now. if everyone keeps mining we should hit the fork soon!