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I believe this is the best way to strengthen the community and counter the speculative whales. We can select the best coins and work together to let them grow!

I added a poll

Yes. A lot of shitcoin(such as ipo coins ) made by the devs, when they got money ,they left away.
I think the community should work togather , let the real good coins and devs get supports.
 

:)

Any suggestions for coins already?

please don't resurrect coin with blockchains which takes a week to update...

graphene, it could be a good coin, scrypt-jane/PoS (instamined...  ;D, that's the bad part).
The idea was good big hashrate for a few day, until everybody realized the dev wasn't really around.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527890.280

It's a good criterium the length of the blockchain. :)

Graphene looks interesting. Certainly a possible coin. How big a % is mined?

From the wallet, I get 45 millions over a total of 1billion so 4.5%

Means it still has got a lot of potential. :) WOuld be nice if you could spread the word about this topic by posting it in that thread. Gets you extra supporters as well.:)

Quarkbar!! This coin has very good attributes. Very rare, only 15,482, 880 coins will ever be mined. Its a quark based coin, so makes it very secure, and is still very young. Was only launched march 2, 2014. I do not understand why DEV walked away from this coin. If we can spark more interest in this coin, quarkbar has huge potential!

I'm helping out QubitCoin (Q2C) by building a new wallet.

Orginal thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411065.0

My update:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576815.0

Thanks for the input!

That's  exactly the kind of thing we're looking for! :) If you would do that with a foundation behind you, it would be much easier to get people on the new chain.

I hope everyone concern the coin : Particle Coin
Orginal thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0
What is the key of the Particle Coin ? The creative and amazing wallet !
Particle Coin is not just a copy cat like other coins .It's special.
There is a good chance for you , because not so many people pay close attention to this coin , But we will change that soon.
Want to know more :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0

Thanks for your input! I will start adding coins of interest to the OP :)

sCoin would be nice.

Please tell us what makes it special :)

Flappycoin lol

Hehe :)

Dev's a bit too active, I'm afraid ;)

That's it, I'm qubitcoin from the outset.

After disappearing devs. We had many messiah talked, talked and that was ended.

willowrose has balls of steel. These coins need.

Glory him for it!

Glory :)

I'll add a +2 behind Qubit, because you're they second person supporting it

Sounds like a good idea. Good luck!

Cleanwatercoin and other coins like that could use it. But honestly, if something dies, leave it be. I wouldn't like to see projects like CWC or SC revive.

I'm talking about good coins with lazy devs. It is wrong to let coins die just because the dev is unreliable. CWC is indeed not one we should revive. Better to let it drown :)

Thanks! :)

I see you're quite senior on the forum. Any tips on how not to do it? :)

Technically, Qubit is very clean, very fast. It has no dev now, and a low level of activity, but good distribution.


Also Thor is inactive. Fast function, well conceived and a PoS coin.

May I also suggest radioactive coin, scrypt-jane, 3 min block times, client available in 10 languages and a total cap of 25,000,000
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405481.0

+1 for the idea/foundation

They are not worth rescuing.

+1 q2c - clean, good coin

can you explain what coins you are talking about?

agree, Q2C is a clean coin. Also the community is supporting quite well while the dev's gone.

Qubitcoin, pls, help anyone who can. Buy, mine, own q2c. Dev just dissapeared, nobody knows why, but he lives in Crimea. There could be many reasons.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411065.0

may-be another interesting (almost) dead coin with a not so active dev
fuguecoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=519138.0

Interesting.

Anybody knows where to store our rapidcoins?
I still have a little hope with rapidcoin if someone may rebuilt it.
Therefore, I want to find out a way to to withdraw my rapidcoins from coinmarket.io to a wallet?
Or at least the cold wallet.

Any ideas?

Hey everybody!

Thansk for the suggestions! I'll add them to the OP later.

Anybody interested in getting involved and becoming part of the foundation?

Here a conversation of this in another thread of the fund:


Thanks for your input :)

Wouldn't it make sense to combine your team with other teams in an organization and spread the workload? For expertise knowledge you can simply get somebody from the fund instead of wasting many hours looking for somebody.

From a money point of view, we could also have a combined fund that invests in these upcoming coins and uses the profits to pay for the costs and give all the contributors compensation for their effort. Next to this, the best thing is to keep it non-profit, to avoid legal problems.

Would you guys be interested in contributing a bit to the foundation? I will add this conversation to the main topic,https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576714.msg6319111#msg6319111 , so it would be nice if you could respond there :)

BoschiCoin - BCC
wasted 2 weeks of mining and a lot of electricity
need KGW fix
community seems dead too
it was traded in cryptorush and also cryptoaltex but was removed from cryptoaltex

Karma and LEAF should be in the list.

Added a +1 and Thor :)

Added to the list :)

Added it :)

Added it :)

Added them as well!

q2c will be great coin. but it needs dev.

Hopefully the foundation can help.

Your vote will be added :)

+1 to Q2C, This coin is totally underestimated. It need dev and support. This coin have a great community!

GPUcoin

I believe this is the best way to strengthen the community and counter the speculative whales. We can select the best coins and work together to let them grow! ;D

Please consider adding 66 coin, not really dead but I've been trying to revive the comunity for the past 6 weeks, we have been screwed by cryptorush twice (we were listed there), price was on the rise and so was network hashrate, now some of us have coins stuck there, we'll see if they get restored! Interest is already on the rise and hashrate is slowly getting restored, development active (I have taken development over a while ago, after seeing that the coin was abandoned), we're running polls, giveaways, had a new forum (http://coinstack.org/index.php?board=23.0) and a new exchange (https://rockytrade.net/index.php?page=trade&market=112) added in just the past week!
What we need help with is marketing, advertising and getting accepted as a payment method somewhere!

have faith in 66coin, its not dead!!!

That's an interesting coin, indeed. Would you be willing to contribute to the foundation in general with your revival skills? Your coin might be one of the upcoming coins selected. Do you have ownership of the github?

That one still has an active def or did he bounce?

Exactly! Would you like to contribute to it?

I will add it :)

The idea is great! Forum bookmarked  ;)

The only thing is, that 66coin hasn't a lazy devs! :o

:) I will see that as a +1 for 66. Their new dev posted on this topic, so maybe efforts can be combined :)

Count me in to help out on the Technical board :)

It is pretty clear that I've struck on a sentiment here :)

The poll came up with these results:

Do you think we need an independent foundation for this?
Yes   - 25 (71.4%)
No   - 4 (11.4%)
Maybe   - 6 (17.1%)
Total Voters: 35

New coin to revive the market?
I also posted this in another part of the forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576602.new#new) and got the response that it would be better to use a combined effort to create a new coin with the best of all coins.

As we've seen, the only way to succeed is to have a coin that continually updates (to counter SSL heartbleed and KGW leak for example), is asicproof and does not have one central owner. The Coin Revival foundation will revive the coin market in general by having a reliable altcoin that is run by several people and is controlled by the people.

Maybe we could use this topic to start to get the best kinds of people together and create something truly great!

Old coins
Next to this, we could use the knowledge of the foundation to select certain coins to fix them and patch them up. These coins should be chosen by the community and an independent team should continue with the coin further on.

I will create a new poll, so we can see if we should have a foundation that solely focuses on repairing altcoins, create one innovative coin or both.

I would suggest voltcoin.

Thanks man! I will add you to the OP!

I think that one still has a dedicated dev, right?

One guy named soopy45200 @bitcointalk is considering it.May be you can give him a helping hand. @Jonesd https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514790

I would like to see a revival of stories STY.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=451343.0
Very nice concept. But Dev wasn't seen for more than a month.

Great idea!

Obfuscode.net's team will gladly support you!

We're in ingoing contact with jonesd and will always provide a fast, stable and reliable pool for the 'revived' coins!
The entire development-team will help out where possible!

+1 ! :)

I am not sure about even the word foundation, it looks more like a Corporation everyday and is heavily linked to monetary investment.

The community as a whole, as in everyone on the planet, should be able to not only freely voice their opinion on any coin, even Bitcoin SHA256, not have their constructive posts either deleted without a thought or even to the extreme of bans; those kind of actions are the main reason we don't trust our own governments.

What we cannot do is decide on if a Crypto-Currency can me made, anyone can now make a coin and nobody should or be able to stop them, however it depends on the situation and Bitcoin Scrypt is a good example.

I knew that when I released Bitcoin Scrypt that the negativity for it would be overwhelming, it got so bad that any post regarding Bitcoin Scrypt got banned on this forum but after adult discussions were made, it was officially unbanned and can now be freely spoken about.

Bitcoin Scrypt has a huge following, the financial backing from not just myself but investors from Russia and China, it's global hash hovers around 1 billion, it has a new client release coming out making it easier to mine, the Dev team is actually the whole community, not an actual team or person. BTCS core principles are for it to always remain decentralized and in the hands of the people and not being manipulated by corporations, money and greed.

This is the big point that needs to be addressed:

Website Currency Equality, some example:

http://www.coindesk.com -It has the sub heading "The Voice of Digital Currency" so this should be a great website to find out about ALL digital currencies or at least digital currencies that show some innovation or might be of interest to the public?

Try and find one single article about Bitcoin Scrypt, if anyone can find a post on that website that mentions "Bitcoin Scrypt" which is referencing the Crypto-Currency directly then I will send the first user to PM me the link for the post 100 BTCS, it would take a long time to mine that many at the current difficulty of 132.

On the same website hover over the NEWS menu link, notice that its says Altcoins, Litecoin, Dogecoin. What does that mean? So suddenly Litecoin and Dogecoin are no longer Alternative Currencies?

This brings up the most important question of all, what is an Alternative Currency?

One meaning of the word Alternative - "(of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice"

Choice being the word many community members are concerned about and the whole reason I created Bitcoin Scrypt in the first place, to give the community another choice when it comes to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the item, the substance, the recipe - Bitcoin SHA256 and Bitcoin Scrypt are just two different brands, just like Pepsi and Coke, OSX and Linux, if you go back in history long enough all these things will have come from the same thing.

This is just one example, of one website deciding for itself which Crypto-Currencies should be popular and which should not, to increase popularity of something, the knowledge of that something existing needs to be shared and this sharing of knowledge is one of the main problems holding many fantastic innovations back.

The above is my opinion and this post can be treated only as such.

Great to have your team on board! :)

Thanks for your lengthy post, but I'm afraid people will not read it whilst it is very interesting. From this I get a couple of important principles:
- Freedom of speech (no censorship)
- Community-driven like Bitcoin
- Altcoin is maybe a temporary name (might become just currency)
- Current platforms should have less power.

I will add it :)

Thanks for the tip! I will notify them and see if we can get them involved. :)

If something is interesting then people will read it.

Just wanted to make sure they got the gist :)

Sorry for late reply, was a busy day yesterday for me, yes I have ownership of the new github (most people already know to get it from there). I also got shared privileges on facebook from a member of the community and the password to their twitter, but the website is out of my control and has not been updated in months. I also have moderator privileges on new forum and cryptocointalk!
I would help with other coins especially if someone else took some of the burden of me, it's a lot to maintain all those forums and twitter and facebook and to send a mail/private message to every service we have everytime I make an update to the wallet! I'd prefer to be on the code writing part of things and let the social stuff to be handled by someone else!

I don't understand exactly what you do, but GPU coin is a scrypt-N coin (so the asics won't kill it and multipools wont rape it),
and the dev has been AWOL. It has a huge following over 400 pages, maybe 500 pages of people wanting this coin
to be promoted.

It would be great if we could have a network to let things like that run much smoother indeed. Also things like github and coin websites would be much easier if we would work together. :)

What are your specific skills?

SOunds like an interesting candidate. I will add it. :)

I said as an idea for 66 - implementing it in route 66, so we need American who would be interested to help people on the road like donation etc.

I would like to participate in 66 coin revitalisation as an member...but need transparent premine!

Interesting :)

I will add your +1 to 66Coin, but the aim of the foundation is to not just revive one coin, but several. Maybe you can be involved when 66Coin becomes a candidate.

66 coin has good perspective as its on mintpal on 8th place with 41k votes. It has small diff now so people could mine it as well. We nned just marketing on here!

isn't this like dumping your shit again?

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C/C++, I know some php but totally hate working with it, I can fix coins, update wallets and implement new features. But the social side of things is killing me.
I also have a server rented where I run my pool and may get additional ones if needed to host websites, but I will not administer the sites, don't have the time for it and I'm really slow on that part!

Nice! I'll add it :)

Can I also add some of your skills? What would you prefer to do?

Hello my friend, I'm from Brazil, like this? I saw on your currency 66coin like to help with the project, of course, if the interest of you, the first suggestion would be a site for your coin because it does not exist, a page with information and everything else about the coin, and put in Brazil because we have a considerable concentration of miners and entusuastas the following

See you next time

Well, yes, in one way. However there is a much more worthy function.

It might sort out the worthwhile coins from the ones that cannot be saved. I believe this process is important now, so that the CryptoCommunities can be less fragmented, and can come together on the better coins. This won't happen overnight, but this thread is a useful step.

Its not about dump, its about having good price for coins which are good but has holes in marketing, devs etc.

Exactly

http://66coin.org/

My vote for Qubitcoin!!!

Hi,

I'm the dev of Logicoin, I recently compiled the Frycoin wallet for windows as it appeared they had been unable to do so for quite some time. Obviously the majority of my time will be spent on Logicoin but I am happy to contribute where I can to this project be it compiling Windows QT's or offering advice. I doubt I can be of much assistance with the coding of new features as my day job often gets the best of me. I currently have a dedicated build enviroment set up via way of VM that should allow me to compile most QT's without too much of an issue. The dependencies will be statically compiled and wallets released through a single .exe file.

Regards,
Logicoin

I will add it :)


You would be able to help with the Marketing of the coins then?


Great! i will add you to the team! :) Windows QT wallets are a b#tch :)

Thanks for adding StoriesCoin (STY)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=451343.0

One of the most underrated coins i think.

Duck Coin Please :)

Quarkbar. I lost a bunch at cryptorush but have started trading some at allcoin. I like this coin  but dont have a wallet. Thats why I lost my coins. Quarkbar is a great coin. Just needs some help right now.

Added :)


Added :)


+1 Added

I think this concept is an excellent idea! I will admit, however, to being a bit unclear about the details. I have an opinion on that as well as using future success (hopefully) to bring about a new coin altogether, but that is for later discussion.

I do think that the first coin chosen is very important though. That first selection should really be the most spectacular flame-out failure that can possibly be found. In addition, an interested and, at one point, fairly large community would be helpful. I have two suggestions that are sort of on different ends of the scale.

1.) DuckDuck Coin. This was an IPO that was almost comical in its ineptitude. The Devs took everyone's money and then (proudly!) announced investments in two scam coins that immediately got killed (I believe they were PANDA and MAX). They erased that announcement from the front page and promptly disappeared. This was a coin that started off great and had a very fun vibe to it. The Duck puns were "quacktastic" and it looked like a possible winner. The Devs were very clever until they became stupid. Everyone with DuckDuck Coins has invested hard-earned money into the venture and would almost certainly be an enthusiastic community to begin a revival. Additionally, the Dev has recently popped up and asked for people to take over the coin. They say that they will pay in Duck also. This could be a great way to start as you (the Developers here) could take that bounty to help jumpstart this thread and community of "coin revival". Total max amount of coins is really low: 121. So, any revival will really show a high per-coin number as well. To summarize: Fun concept, a bounty to start the ball rolling and a serious community in place (actual investors) could make this one a real winner to begin your concept.

2.) PANDA Coin. Maybe the most infamous screw job in the history of crypto-currency. I doubt that I have to explain what happened here as it is so well known. I had never even heard of the coin until it became so famous as a disaster. But to give a truncated explanation, this coin sold itself almost exclusively on having Wolong on board and its logo even said "in Wolong We Trust". As soon as it saw any sign of success, Wolong sold it down to zero and took off. The message board turned into an acrimonious storm and after initially trying to defend themselves, the Devs (not Wolong -- the Devs just paid him PANDA to use his name) just quietly left. It was a huge community though and had every sign of being successful before the massive dump. The advantages would be a community dying for a lifeline and probably willing to donate PANDAs to the cause (obviously, I am speculating on that assertion). The max number of coins is almost the polar opposite of DuckDuck, with 100 billion. The upside here is that your "coin revival" group would really get attention by taking on such a spectacular failure. It's trading at about 6 litoshis last I looked (which was a bit ago), so there is almost nowhere to go but up.  


Now, I am not familiar with every coin on the list, so please don't take the previous suggestions to be a disparagement of any of those. My point is that your first coin choice should have a great story behind it. The two coins I suggested would both be fairly easy stories to tell and could be great to get started with. But, as I say, I am not familiar with every coin and would definitely be open to similar "story" coins as well. I didn't mean to make this post so long (hope someone reads it!). Anyway, good luck to the "Coin Revival" group -- I think it's a great idea!

I read it :) Good reasons. I will add both to coins of interest.

We (Logicoin.info specifically) actually finally compiled the new DuckDuckCoin wallet, so we're already making progress on this coin. :) It would be a good coin to take over, because a lot of people invested heavily. So that's a plus one from you, I assume. :) You can find more info here: http://duck.multi-pool.eu/index.php?page=statistics&action=round&height=151676

You want to contribute with skills to the foundation?

Yes, I guess it would be a +1 on those coins. I wasn't sure where those plusses on the first page came from -- I thought you were putting up a vote or something. (Although, as I implied, I think a good "story" coin for the first one is more important than votes). Anyway, yes I will +1 DuckDuck and PANDA.

I would be happy to contribute to the "foundation", although I am afraid that I don't have enough programming skills (or, any programming skills might be a more accurate way to put it  :D), to be of much help. I do write for a living (partially) if that would be of any use to you. That is write words, not code, of course! And I may be able to help in other ways as well, I suppose. Let me know what you have in mind (or need of) and maybe I can be of help.

Good Luck!

We already have some technical people, but we actually need more marketing and comms people (I am communications guy myself). Shall I add you to the potential members of that part of the team?

Oh, ok, sounds good! Sure, add me onto the list. Let me know what you are looking for, the game plan for whatever the task decided, time commitment etc. and I will do my best to be of help. Of course, you can PM me when the time comes or if you have any questions. You're a good recruiter -- you should work for the Marines or something -- I hardly knew what hit me!

Good Luck on the project!

I will help where I can and when I can on marketing and promotions. Send me some details about what you need and I will see what I can do.

Hey

So as Jonesd said on the last page I went through and fixed up the DuckDuckCoin source code. The windows QT is compiled and my source is currently upto date and fixed. Meaning it should compile on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. I've requested a merge with the official repo  but I'm not sure how active the DuckDuckCoin dev team actually are. It maybe worth considering staging a takeover (friendly of course!) and officially launching DuckDuckCoin as our first project until such time as the official dev's want to takeover.

We (the logicoin team) are way too dedicated to our own project to be lead dev's on another but if someone else is willing to step upto the plate we are more than happy to offer what services we can. Obviously it's best to wait a few more days to see if the original dev team is willing to run with the tools the Coin Rivival Foundation has given them.

My updated and fixed souce code can be found at http://github.com/logicoin/duckduckcoin
If you have any questions about the changes I've made to the source code please feel free to PM me or email admin@logicoin.info and we will reply to you as soon as possible.

Regards,
Logicoin

That was great (fixing another team's wallet!), but I don't understand completely. When Jonesd said "we" he seemed to be including you -- or at least heavily implying it. Plus, I am confused about your statement the you are too busy but, "if someone else is willing to step up to the plate" you would be happy to help out.

Isn't that the whole purpose of this thread, The Coin Revival Foundation? As I mentioned in my post on page 5, I think that the DuckDuck team wants someone to take over as they said just that in a post. I am probably just misunderstanding your post, because at first you seem to be suggesting DuckDuck as a good project for this group. Anyway, I guess that all I am asking is for some further clarification of your thoughts for stupid people like me!

As I have stated before, I think that good disaster story coin is the best way to start the ball rolling for the Coin Revival group. And DuckDuck would certainly qualify in that department! (Although I am sure that there plenty of others too). Thanks.

This fix of the DuckDuckcoin was something that clearly had to happen. The same counts for a couple of other coins. It's more like patching up the coin, because otherwise it dies before we can save it. :)

The foundation should do more than this. It would be great if we could overtake, fix, promote and find uses for coins. :)

Haha! :) Interesting career path I will keep in the back of my mind. :D

I will add you to the general team, so we can find out later what you can help specifically with. :)


Nice :)

I will add you to the mark & comms team. :)

agreed 66 deserves a chance to proove its worth something :) it has a lot of potential

I'm eagerly awaiting for a decision which coin should we focus our efforts on first!
I think that should be the next step of this foundation, to successfully revive 1 coin proving that we're worth our name!
Than people will take us much more seriously and we can easier succeed later!

It is time for the next step indeed!

People have voted and clearly, everybody want to focus on reviving old coins!


I will create a  new poll so we can pick a coin. I propose that we take the top three from these coins and support them in the following order:

#1: Focus coin: We will take over this coin, enhance the code, release new wallets and actively promote it
#2: Runner up: We will take over this coin and patch it up.
#3: Aid: We will help to fix problems with this coin.

I will create a new poll, so everybody can vote for the coin they want. Spread the word about this vote to get people to support your coin and feel free to discuss your coin in this topic!

The voting will end May 5, 6PM EST.

VOTE!!!

Obfuscode has helped to create new source for Quarkbar  and implemented DGW V2 and I released a new topic  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587457.0)for it.

This was just a short term fix and does not mean it is elected as a focus coin yet.

VOTE! :)

Pretty cool initiative, wish the foundation the best of success.

Although there's one thing I'll like to point out - reviving PANDA would be an inefficient usage of resources and time for the foundation, since you would be competing against another Pandacoin (PND), practically identical besides that they currently have an active dev team with ongoing developments (implementing either POS or merged mining with doge this week), 0% premine and does not have the negative historical association of 'Wolong' attached to it.

Also, that coin was made by 4chan to kill off PANDA, if it gets revived, it'll be round 2 war for sure. Why? Wolong still has 1.2 billion pandas. Proof: http://192.159.66.51/address/PfmkZAVw1Z9iktfFYwP7rLpK9XGy5LEnnC

So why would you want to revive a coin, disregarding all my prior points, when he is ready to dump the f**k out of it rendering all the foundation's efforts to revive it useless?

That was a historical clusterf... Indeed. Thanks for the info!

I edited my prior post with more information that I had left out. But no problem and best wishes to the foundation's efforts. I voted for quarkbar!

Interesting stuff and thanks for voting!

If I can throw my opinion in here:

This is a cool effort and I hope it has some success, as there obviously were way too much coins that had good premises/communities but were inable survive because reasons.
Full disclosure: I'm an active member of the PND community and am developing a neat PND exclusive service (check the signature).

I personally hold a (small) amount of GPUC, because I was really hoping in that project, but the dev was really really inept at making it work (don't know if there were any recent news, i just dropped interest now)

Having said this, I can't even comprehend why would you consider PANDA.
If the aim of the project is to revive coins that had GOOD premises, well PANDA was a scam, it had IPO, it had premine, it had wolong, it had it all. I even remember reading a chatlog between one of the devs and a person with a project similar to this one (I've found it! http://pastebin.com/Vr34eE8W, it's located on the official PANDA thread, page 280 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=460037.5580) The devs have NO interest in this.

That problem has already been taken care of, please don't waste your efforts into such a scam, because:
1. Your premises are not met
2. It was a plain scam
3. Should you succeed the devs would dump again.

Just my 0.02 PND

Hmm, with this new info I think PANDA should be crossed off the list as it does not even come close to meeting the criteria for the foundation!

It was only proposed by one person, so I will add that it's unlikely (otherwise I have to reset the whole vote)

Or you could just announce that it's disqualified without resetting the vote... anyway I agree that it's unlikely it will be in the first 3.although it currently kind of is...

disqualified it is :)

Jonesd added: "It was only proposed by one person, so..."

Yes, I am that one person. But, I think everyone is missing my point. But, first off I would like to say that I was not an investor or a miner or anything else associated with that coin and had never even heard of it until it made the news as the biggest screw job in crypto-coin history. You can even check my posts on the matter (it was  awhile ago so you may have to go far back) to see that I was warning people to get out (there were still true believers even after the debacle) after the news hit and no comments beforehand (as I had never heard of it).

I would also like to say, that no one, and I mean no one should listen to a PND investor when it comes to PANDA. The entire reason for existing of PND was to poke a stick in the eye of PANDA holders. They were merciless on the PANDA boards making fun of the people that had believed in the coin. Meanwhile, their coin went to zero as well as apparently hate was not enough to fuel buyers. I have nothing against PND as I know little about it, but theirs is no more a "real" coin than PANDA is. In fact, if I remember correctly it was an exact clone of PANDA. And, let's face it the developers were right about Wolong (who I also had never heard of before the disaster). But to listen to this guy is just plain idiotic as hating on PANDA is what they live for.

The criteria says nothing about "good" coins. PANDA had a huge following and has lots of screwed over investors. The developers were not necessarily lazy (as the front page mentions) so much as they were crooks.

But my whole point was that this group should take on a good "story" coin for its first venture. No story is more infamous than PANDA coin. The bigger the disaster the better for the first couple of coins. Some coin that is solid but a little slow is boring and even if the foundation manages to "revive" it, what's the big deal? Reviving a coin like PANDA, however, would be an epic success and put this foundation on the map.

Now, having said all of that I did NOT vote for PANDA. That would be a very big project and I think that maybe a bit more experience might be needed to take on that debacle. I do not know the people running this thread, so maybe I am underestimating them, but I think that a good medium-sized disaster coin ;D might be the way to start things off.   

I will add that as an option, so you can vote as well ;)

We have quite a strong technical team, but Panda probably requires massive marketing and PR to work. Maybe with more experience, indeed :)

It's been disqualified for good reasons. I agree with your opinion with making a good story by reviving a, quote you - "good medium-sized" disaster coin, not the freaking Chernobyl or Hiroshima equivalent in terms of effort and risk, which Wolong's PANDA clearly is.

Why would the foundation bother spending that much time on a coin when there's the following factors to weigh in that clearly affects the effort to reward ratio?

- Wolong's past and current association to the coin
          o People will never let go that he stole hundreds of thousands from the community
          o The coin had not only an IPO (a mega no no) but also a disgusting 3% premine (a super duper mega no no)
          o He has over a billion coins left over to dump the crap out of it and hurt more traders and will give the foundation a bad rep

- Already a direct (superior) competitor with Pandacoin (PND)  
          o Started off as a clone yes, but with an active development team, PND is rapidly evolving to rebrand and incorporate new technologies and development to ensure its survival and usage. It has a leg up on Wolong's scum coin already by far with a consistently 400+ mhs and ever growing multipool and upcoming developments this week by inplementing either POS or merged mining with DOGE to remain asic resistant. Market price and volume reflects this superiority very clearly.
          o You call it a clone when it started off, but it was a damn superior clone when it started off with 0 IPO and 0% premine
          o Has the backing of 4chan as the foundations of a growing community.

In the end it was a wise move for the foundation head to disqualify PANDA, as you've said yourself, they should take on a 'medium-sized' disaster coin project to drum up a good story instead of trying to climb bloody Mount Everest solo without any gear or supplies.

I actually agree with every word in the quoted part, except "holders".
You shouldn't trust a PND comunity member with regards to PANDA, that's why I stated a full disclosure. But do your own research!
But PND wasn't made to poke a stick int the eye of PANDA "holders". It was made to screw the devs, yes. Because the devs were/are scammers and had already scammed people. Some of those are actually capable people.
I am sorry that people invested in PANDA nontheless. I got scammed myself on a (different) occasion, and it serves me well, for the future.

But I can't agree on the second part of your post. You see, in the beginning PND was made to screw wolong, jacobux and co., and it succeded.
The interest was getting low, and it was delisted from the BTC markets. I've come around the PND comunity around that time.
That's when something magical happened. People started asking what was the future for PND, should we just let it go? PoS and merged mining was being discussed. A multipool was made for PND, and come on, how many coins can take pride in their own multipool? The dev made 3 tipbots. I started 1#, some other anon made dice and stuff.
Right now, the value is rising steadily. A comunity has formed, determined to made something more of PND.
Maybe a month ago it would seem that it would make a good candidate for this thread's pool. But we're making it on ourselves. And it's a great experience.

tl;dr:
1. PANDA is a scam, revive good coins not scams
2. PND has become much more since the initial release, check out the recent trends.

yeah, I agree with you. too many shitcoins have been made. >:(

Agree, we're not even close to having that much power

Agree with the last part, but even though PND may have come as a replacement for PANDA it is essentially a different coin with possibly a huge part of different users, I don't think you should be using that as an argument against it! As for the pre-mine, you can lock the remaining funds out or send them into oblivion with the first wallet update you release, by making an exception for 1 transaction in the block you fork the chain at! Alternatively you could re-launch with a new genesis block containing all older public keys and balances except the pre-mine ... and whatever wolong stole!

Do you see what I mean? PND is not even on the list of coins for revival and the defenders are all over this board. Why in the world would they be here? Well, it is because they only have one mission in life and that is to beat PANDA. It is why they formed, it is why they still exist. It is like listening to a Red Sox fan describe a typical Yankees fan. It will not be filled with compliments!

Again, I did NOT vote for PANDA, nor do I think it should be the first coin chosen. But, I am interested in hearing about other disaster story coins. What I am not interested in hearing about is the revival of some coin that is not on the list. It is just oh so nice that PND is working on reviving their disaster of a coin, but I am unsure why I should care. Wait...check that...I don't care.  

You care enough to display that you are discontent. But I only see you whining, but not even attempting to counter my clear objective arguments why it would not be wise for the this foundation to revive 1 of the 2 coins that you've suggested.

The guys involved with the foundation clearly get it why it's a bad idea. Only you don't. What's missing buddy? Say it so I can paint the picture clearly for you and others that are reading this thread.

It does not matter if I have any vested interest in either coin or not. I'm just laying down facts. Cold. Hard. Hitting.  Facts.

 >:( i think PRT(particle coin) is a good coin. but few people know about it

Take it easy, guys. :)

All in all, it sounds like a risky ordeal, but there are things pro and con. For now, it will be disqualified, because is sounds really dubious, so I don't want to risk malicious people upvoting it.

This is your time and the perfect place to tell us exactly why people should consider it! :)

I like this coin too, the wallet is very beautiful ;)

Ummm... I don't think you actually read my post. I see that you "quoted" it though. If you look at the very words you quoted you will see right there where I say that I do not think that PANDA should be chosen as the first coin. I even said that I did not vote for it -- I even put the word "not" in all caps so that people like you would see it.

So, I don't know why you are asking me "what's missing buddy" and am equally unsure of what you want me to "say" so that you "can paint the picture clearly" for me.

You may be laying down the "facts" as you say, but what in the world does PND have to do with anything? I didn't bring them up, they are not on the list of potential revival coins, and I am unsure how the supposedly wonderful team at PND has relevance to this thread.

As far as countering your "clear objective arguments", I thought that pikiminga did an excellent job of that just a few posts above this one.

Now, if you have a story to tell that involves a coin that is actually on the list, I will eagerly read your post. I think that it would be in the best interests of everyone involved in this thread to have fans of a particular coin tell their "story". It would be interesting and could help with enthusiasm and voter education. I made the case for a couple of the ones that I am familiar with and would definitely have an interest in hearing about those that I am not familiar with. But, I do not care about PND -- I don't understand why you are having so much trouble comprehending that.  

Can we add PND to the poll?

Its KARMA guys, not Karmacoin anymore, but "Karma", the first PoC coin, sharing a company shares for holding coins.
Great Devteam (Unfortunately the original dev gave up), Great community, Greate Spirit and ambitious.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=579973.0

I voted for GPUCoin. Why? No ASICs yet, idea was great, store was running, product was in stock. Only so called CEO James fucked things up. Sooo sad... :( I'm still waiting for my GPUC bounty :D

Qubitcoin is not dead and doesn't have to be revived.   ::)

Spots is dead and nearly buried, it's a shame as the original concept to use them to buy precious metals was great.
So i vote Spots.

I wouldn't consider GPUcoin dead as such. It has active dev's it just needs a marketing push. I'd suggest thats its a LARGE project and requires almost full time dedication. Maybe not the sort of coin you guys are looking for.

It would work if that dedicated team would cooperate with the foundation. I will post in their thread to ask if they really need a takeover.

If they have active dev they only need some help on other parts, not development, like 66Coin otherwise! And we're #2 on the voting list!
Anyway totally agree with talking with their developer directly!

GPUcoin good coin

What do you mean pikimunga? Are you saying that 66coin is a better fit? (I'm sorry, but I am not sure I understand your first sentence).

What is it that you like about 66coin? I have never heard of it before -- why do you think it would be a good fit? Maybe you can get some converts to your cause if you tell us all why it is so good!

I agree with you (if I understand correctly) and Jonesd on GPU Coin about talking with the developer. If the coin has an active team, then I don't really understand why they would be on the list. Every coin needs a "marketing push", as esotericism put it. It is entirely possible that I may be missing the exact goals of the Coin Revival Foundation, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but that doesn't seem to be a perfect fit. It can be nuanced, but there is a danger that a coin with an active developer could use this group as a source for dumping their coins on a new crop of people. I realize that, depending on the situation, that is true with all "dead" coins as every holder has been stuck for a long time. But, it seems to me a coin that has been abandoned would have a much more enthusiastic crowd of coin holders, than one that is still being actively attended to by developers. The latter holders, I would think, will just use any upside to get out as their belief in the coin has soured. An abandoned coin tends to have holders that are more bitter about the developers than the coin itself.

Of course, as I mentioned, there are nuances involved and each situation is different. It sounds like Jonesd is handling it correctly by contacting the developers directly.

But, regardless of how that works out, I would certainly like to hear more about all the candidates, including GPU and 66 Coin. Let the best coin win!

wow... gpucoin a non dead coin, is winning the vote...
This is a bit deceiving to say the least. This coin isn't dying because of lack of manpower, but essentially because it doesn't interest anybody except those who hold large bag of gpuc.
I thought the foundation would concentrate on more special coin (meaning other than scrypt and scrypt-n)

After voting we will still have to see if the people from GPUcoin really want this takeover and cooperate with us. If not, it will logically fall of the list.

I have to say, that our foundation is about patching up deserted coins, so if there is nothing to patch up with GPUcoin, we will move on to the number 2 coin quickly anyway :)

I didn't say any is a better fit than another one! I just said they may be in the same situation as 66 Coin (which has a developer but that is not enough, we have miners, pools and even are on 3 exchanges at the moment, used to be cryptorush as well but... oh, well...). At any rate without something useful to do with the coin interest in it dies in time and the value will continuously drop, as soon as there is something to use them for (other than selling for BTC) they start to circulate both ways and should be able to self-sustain!
Reviving a coin means more than just patching the wallet, if it were just patching the wallet there would not be need for a foundation for this.
You have to get new members involved and increase interest in the coin to the point it can start having it's own life (like getting it accepted at a shop). This way the price will vary in time in both directions thus giving the coin an oscillating value or "pulse" if you will. If the only thing you can do with a coin is sell it for BTC than it's a dead coin the way I see it because the price will only go 1 way and that's down... and it needs reviving (a pulse).
No amount of wallet patching will get a coin a reason for existing, once a coin has a shop which accepts I think it can go on with it's own life and we can move to the next one... if it dies again maybe that the coin was not good all along.
This is the way I see things, I may be wrong though, but I stand by my vision that fixing the wallet alone is not enough to call a coin revived!

Edit: Oh, and if you think patching is enough, you are wrong, I tried just patching with 66 Coin... so here's a bit of history...
66 Coin used to be just fine and going pretty well... difficulty was going up and down, prices were around 15 BTC/66 and things were fine, than, I think it got added to a multipool and the difficulty spiked hugely (tens of times) up to a point nobody wanted to mine it anymore, Somebody still did... once I saw block were being found I joined the effort and dropped the difficulty lower... but at this point the network was almost dead... 2 pools dropped out, the other one was not mining, I think we were just 2, maybe 3 people in the whole network solo-mining each. Prices also dropped because I guess the multipoolers sold the coins they mined!
I patched the wallet and put up the update because the original developers abandoned it... I added KGW to it so this would not happen anymore, I also continued to patch the coin and add stuff to it but prices are continuing to drop because although there were hundreds, possibly thousands of miners originally for this coin after such a long period of inactivity nobody wanted to trust it anymore.
I think this is very likely to happen with other coins as well, so as long as there's no real purpose for the coin just patching it will not revive it, will just make it's coma stage last longer!

Dont want to be offensive but 66 coin has best future here because it has most votes on mintpal. As we know here mintpal is one of the best exchanges for now. Also, it needs good implementation on market (like games etc.).

Think that these things like position on mintpal needs to be "take on account" in this voting.

Also good community, as you can see 42k votes with 1.77 btc invested and rest is just votes!

I will repeat, everybody could mine it as it has small diff now!

Any chance we can get a revival of Benjamins? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444543.0)

Dev bailed on us after discovering he goofed the code and couldn't fix it. There has been some talk of a takeover in the thread, but we can't seem to get it together.

I guess you guys never heard of bitquark, the next leader in bitcoin

The "CEO" of GPUcoin has stopped responding for a while now, not even to devs. Devs are willing to continue working on the coin if a takeover happens, a takeover has been discussed previously. So I believe that GPUcoin is suited for what you are trying to do.

Perfect:-) who are the New people?

I think there are a few people here that are misunderstanding what this foundation was formed for. It is not about comparing coins and saying my coin is better than your coin. It was created to find coins with good charactoristics that have been abandoned by the DEV and possibly giving the coin a fighting chance. There are coins out there that were created just for pumping and dumping and there are other coins that were created with some very good charactoristics but for some reason the DEV walked away. There are some coins that are on the voting list that have DEV still active or maybe have a fairly strong community behind it already. If I understand the idea of this foundation correctly, these coins should not be here. The coins of focus should be the coins that have been dumped prematurely for no real reason, before they had a fighting chance. The coins  we try to help should have merit with strong charactoristics but have been abandoned for no good reason.

This is true. I think the coins in the election all adhere to this to a certain degree. The only way to get support for something like this is to have a strong community, so that's why I went a vote.

Thanks Platorin <3

Ok so we need to map that characteristics and transparently promote them on OP here! So we all now what does certainly coin need to be first on the list. Is that votes, is that innovation, is that good dev...etc.

Hope to help here

We really need more comms people, so PM me if you want to help me out. Maybe we can make a nice overview :)

hello all!

I've not been active on this forum, but have been following the bitcoin and altcoin community for a while!
I really like the idea of patching up abandoned alt coins, so like to be part of the foundation.

I've experience in IRC, ubuntu and some c, c++, c# and python.
I'm also a good writer and understand what people like.


Thanks,
zro

Welcome!

I will add you to the foundation! Which  part would be most interesting to you?

Thanks! Prefer to do the IRC and other comm.
Maybe set up some infrastructure if needed..?

That would be perfect!

Purchased the domain and hosting+SSL for cryptocoinrevival.com today, so we can have a website to host wallets, explorers, etc. the site and the hosting cost about 0.11 BTC, so hopefully I can retrieve this later via the donations.

Because of this, I will rename the foundation to Cryptocoin Revival Foundation! :)

Exciting!

Really good job.

 Radioactivecoin

Hi, you're all welcome at our IRC.

irc.obfuscode.net 6697 (SSL) 6667 (NonSSL)

It's running anyhow ;)

Thanks a lot! We might need it to discuss what we will do with the coin vote! :)

Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely pay a visit to your server!
I'm away for the weekend, but will get in touch after that!

very good plan , i am in

Welcome :)

Is there a way you would like to help?

decent idea :) curious to see to what extnet this will work

When the voting for the first coin end?
EDIT: Sorry found the answer
May 5th
What is the go with revival of GPUcoin, if it ends up winning the voting.

For the three coins that are selected (#1 gets the most focus), we will approach each respective community to find out if they're actually looking for help and find out what they need.
1. In this process coins can still drop off, if we find out that respective community is against it, the dev is still active, or if it is simply dead.
2. We will start a new thread for the coin to be able to change the main post
3. Our technical team will index technical fixes.
4. Our comms team will communicate the takeover and keep the communities alive.

I am just writing the quick history of GPUcoin so you guys can get an idea of what is happening with the community and the coin itself and try to make a decision if you plan on doing something with it.
The "CEO" name is Jaymes Reilly who has registered the business as an LLC and he raised an IPO in order to buy GPUs and sell them on https://gpucoinstore.com/ for GPUcoins. With the IPO he managed to buy 2 batches of GPUs and because he didn't take advice from the community and his team some people took advantage of the way the site figured out the GPUcoin price for the GPUs and bought GPUs at lower costs. He continuously did not take advice from a lot of people with interesting ideas and marketing background. He was also not active at all and did not reply to even his own team. After being away for 3 weeks he finally replied recently saying that he has used all the IPO money to buy GPUs and that he now holds GPUcoins with no way of selling them to buy more GPUs and has no idea on how to fix the business model and is asking for advice. Pretty much everyones opinion is that he should step down and let someone else take charge as he has proved to be incompetent to run a business plus he always complains of not having enough time.
People have suggested him giving ownership of the site and gpucoins he owns for a bargained price and let someone else to re-brand the business and try to make it succeed.
If you guys are interested in trying to revive the coin, try to contact micryon and the web dev hendr1x and of course Jaymes (hopefully you will get an answer from him)

Keep up the good work guys !!

support QUARKBAR!!  :)

Quarkbar has received an emergency patch this morning because it contained parts of malicious code. These were luckily only traces and the actual harmful code was not there. :)

We were able to act quickly, so this shows the power of our collective!

Thanks to logicoin.info and Obfuscode! :)

Read all about it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=595056.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=595056.0)

Last day of voting!

+1 brother, +1

done voting on the poll. go GPU

Looks like GPUCoin is going to make it! :)

Once decision is final, Obfuscode.Net will ofc provide a pool for everyone at 0% Fees and aggressive vardiff

Looking forward to the results!

That is great news!

Hi jonesd,
Please consider to push Stories. It's a coin with a very nice concept to help artists by rewarding them with coins for their good work.
Here's a Blogpost about it, which tells more.

http://wonderloops.weebly.com/stories-sty.html

The Dev was active only for the first month and is MIA since almost two months now.
The Coin is on bittrex since some weeks but there's no volume.
What we need is a competent new dev to bring back the life to this coin so it will live happily ever after ;-)

We don't push coins, but let the community decide to fix coins. We do however support people that want to take over responsibility of specific coins and need technical help. Then possibly later on, it can be elected by the community. The first step toward a future of the coin is dedicated people, so I recommend you to start a new topic that copies the first post of the original topic. Does your coin need technical assistance?

Where is FoxCoin? It seems to be dying but this is not just. FOX is awesome.  :)

Maybe we can add it to the next election :)

Because I'm living in Europe, it will be easier for me to let the poll go till the end of May 6, 11:59:59 PM EST. Then I can close the poll when it's early morning, May 6, for me :)

Voting for another 9 hours!

Website looks good! :)

Thanks :)

We've gotten 269 votes, so I think we have quite the community going on here :)

And the results are:

GPUCoin   - 46 (17.1%)
KarmaCoin   - 29 (10.8%)
Leafcoin   - 27 (10%)
QubitCoin   - 25 (9.3%)
Quarkbar   - 21 (7.8%)
66Coin   - 19 (7.1%)
Let them die   - 16 (5.9%)
Thorcoin   - 13 (4.8%)
DuckDuckC  - 12 (4.5%)
Stories   - 12 (4.5%)
ParticleCoin   - 11 (4.1%)
Pandacoin (disqualified)   - 10 (3.7%)
A coin not in the list   - 8 (3%)
Graphene   - 6 (2.2%)
BoschiCoin   - 5 (1.9%)
Rapidcoin   - 5 (1.9%)
They took er jerbs!   - 3 (1.1%)
Radioactivecoin   - 1 (0.4%)

This means:

#1: Focus coin: We will take over this coin, enhance the code, release new wallets and actively promote it
GPUcoin
#2: Runner up: We will take over this coin and patch it up.
Karmacoin
#3: Aid: We will help to fix problems with this coin.
Leafcoin

Today, I will create new topics for these coins to find out what their communities think about this initiative. The upcoming week will be used to index the coins. If a community does not like it or a developer does not accept it, we will move on to the next coin on the list.

yay! :D

Great news!!

It turns out Leafcoin still has a developer, so it's not eligible. We will replace it with Qubitcoin and the #3 coin will be Quarkbar.

That is an awesome coin, my second choice.

Also datacoin could be to cloud storage what bitcoin is to money, Apparently storj are going to build their platform on top of it initially. Their dev has been missing for a while and talk of a community takeover is beginning to stir in the forums.

Interesting for the next election

Re: Karmacoin

It looks like they have active devs at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=579973.new

Karmacoin disqualified now?

Are we going with GPUCoin, Qubitcoin and QuarkBar now?

I seems so, indeed. :)

We will move down the list :)

It turns out Leafcoin and Karmacoin still have a developer, so are not not eligible. We will replace it with Qubitcoin and the #3 coin will be Quarkbar.

We're adding them to our pool today. Feel free to register!

Stratums will start after coind-development is done :)

Proper announcement will follow later on with URLs, Stratum-ports, Specs, etc

Let me start by saying, I think holding an election was a mistake of me. It was a good way to get an idea of which coins need help, but the winners actually don't seem to need help.

Most of the coins end up being upvoted by people that are just impatient for their developer to handle things. With the top 3 (probably also GPUcoin) it turns out people actually get agitated, because somebody was already reviving it or the dev is still active.

I think it is better to first  just go for revivals of neglected coins that truly need help instead of coins just looking for some extra marketing. We should probably just discuss each coin and offer help where we can.

In my opinion, these are coins like 66coin (no pool up at the moment), DuckDuckcoin (no developer active on the code), and Qubitcoin.

Quarkbar is an example of such a takeover that made a lot of people happy.

With these coins it is best to do the following things:
1. Create new bitcointalk topic like we did with Quarkbar to announce it is a community takeover (preferably controlled by somebody that leads the community, like pikimunga from 66coin)
2. Get access to source or release new repository on Github
3. Create pools and nodes for the coin to support the mining
4. Release updated code and wallets
5. Notify important pools and exchanges
6. Create website (subsection on coinrevival.com in meantime)

What do you guys think?

The poll was a decent idea but needed some research before adding coins. I think most of the community would be happy to have their dead coins revived but we need to make sure we aren't stepping on any toes.

Apart from what I'm already contributing I have a few spare servers laying around that I'd be happy to put to use as mining pools if Obfuscode hasn't already got it handled.

Advertisment is also pretty important. You may consider getting some social media profiles up for the Foundation. Maybe make contact with the crypto blogs?

Stepping on the toes would be unfortunate, indeed. :)

The social profiles is a good idea :) I will work on that the end of this week.

can we have a vote for coins that made the list which we DONT want to help? some real crap on there and seems silly to offer help to them all whn there are much better coins out there. Coins like 66coin and duckduckcoin are just jokes and the idea that resources will be offered and then poured into them if they accept before other much more deserving coins (like datacoin) is not good management imho  :-\

I think we should just get people proposing coins here and we try to see how we can help. From there we can see how it develops.

I think that's a better idea than trying to taking over another Dev's coin, even if it appears dead. You may still get the coin in the end but I can think of a few that seem to just need some help and not necessarily a hostile take over.

I browsed through my wallets and loaded up a few to see where they stand. Good, bad or otherwise here's a few that I have sitting idle waiting on help...

OneMillionCoin
Original thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=558262.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=558262.0)
Attempted Takeover Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=572515.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=572515.0)
Status : Last block shows as yesterday (05/07) but wallet now shows out of sync with three active connections. Dev was actively seeking help from the community in takeover thread.

8Coin
Relaunch Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=506301.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=506301.0)
Status : Never knew of the original one but I picked up on the relaunch. Interesting concept similar to 42. Wallet syncs up and everything seems to work but it appears to just lack attention/marketing.

BitGold
Original Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=524648.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=524648.0)
Status : Wallet no longer syncs up and those interested seem to have pulled their miners. Has a pool still mining to support the blockchain so apparently it's a Windows wallet issue only. Dev apparently didn't get the initial support needed to really give this coin a chance but there still seems to be a loyal following that think it has potential.

Those are just a few I have sitting here that look like they could use some help and maybe have potential. For the record, I have no large stash of any one of these but saw some potential so I pointed my miner at them for a while.

A prime example right there, 8coin, well there are 8 billion people in the world now which means shared equally you would need 9 decimal places, and it only goes to 8.
Pure garbage  :-[

the difference with gpuc is that the founder is one person and the coders (what you would call devs) are a different group of people.
the founder is why the coin failed due to the lack of communication, shipping not having any sort of tracking, and people not knowing what was going on since even the devs of the software couldnt get any replies back.

considering the coders are willing to help out, i think that it would take some pressure off you guys and permit a much quicker revival of the coin.
its already got a lot of people wishing it was doing better, great logo, asic resistant, and some pretty nice sites built around it that are already paid for. with going full rebrand like you're talking about, that's going to take a lot more effort as where gpuc just needs some CPR and TLC.

While I understand what you are saying, I must vehemently disagree. I am unfamiliar with 66coin, but I do know (at least a little) about DuckDuckcoin. That was a fun coin (ok, even silly as you put it) that seemed to have a very interested community.

But far more importantly, they are practically begging to be taken over. At one point they were even offering coins to anyone willing to do it. I won't go over the history in detail, but this was one of those IPO coins. So, not only was the community interested (a while ago) but they paid for the privilege.

And as I've stated before, I really think that a success on the first coin of the Coin Revival Foundation is of absolute paramount importance. That success can build momentum for the next coin and help build the community faster than any other thing that they can do. Fighting with some current "developers" (no matter how incompetent) on some random coin is just asking for trouble. 

DuckDuck Coin is practically a shell company at this point. There are only 121 coins in its universe and at one point were willing to pay for the privilege of being taken over. Success is not guaranteed, of course, but the road sure is paved.

Now, it does not have to be Duck. Any coin that seems the easiest should be the one chosen first. I sure wouldn't be surprised if a lot of developers would offer up some of their own coins for a chance at revival.

Yes, I agree with you Jonesd. The idea of a vote was a good instinct, but it quickly became clear that the "community" was only attracting people who wanted their coin chosen because it sucks, not because they thought it would be best for your foundation.

And what is best for the foundation is success. It really doesn't matter if the coin chosen is a "fun" type of coin or a coin that has something "new" or even something "innovative". All that matters is that you succeed in reviving the coin. Being a dictator on the first couple of coins is ok if it results in an actual revival. 

In addition to all of the fine suggestions you mentioned, I really think that you can sort of reverse the process. In other words, have the old developers almost bid for your foundation's services. I mentioned how DuckDuckcoin (at one point) was offering coins for a takeover. They can't be the only one who would be more than willing to give some coins away in exchange for the hope of a revival. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers even offered up Bitcoins to be taken over.

Obviously , that becomes more realistic, and far easier after the first one or two coins are "revived". Which brings us back to your main point. Yes, I say throw out the vote and let your foundation choose the most promising candidate. I am sure that the community will rally behind whatever coin is chosen as it would help everyone involved for the coin to succeed. I have a few more thoughts, but this post is already too long, and you get the idea. Good luck!

BitGold is a real problem-coin at the moment.
The chain can't sync because PoS is now more lucrative than mining.
We're the only ppl that tries to rescue the coin by wasting one of our miners (aprox 400 kH/s) on it to try to get transactions still going.
However difficulty is extremely high so even with this effort we're taking a lot of time for to find the block..

It's a hard challenge...

- f0o

Great input everybody! I think it would be good to have an IRC discussion tomorrow. I will create a coin revival foundation channel for this. I will post the link tomorrow.

Topics:
- how to select coins
- gpucoin
- qubitcoin
- quarkbar
- duckduckcoin

Time: 1630 GMT (1230 EST, 1830 BERLIN)
LINK: irc://freenode/crf (http://irc://freenode/crf)

The chat will be at irc://freenode/crf (http://irc://freenode/crf) tonight!

Channel will be irc://freenode/coinrevival (http://irc://freenode/coinrevival)

Meeting is about to start at irc://freenode/coinrevival (http://irc://freenode/coinrevival)

We had a good discussion online and decided to focus on Quarkbar right now.

We will do the following things:
1. Fix the problem with DarkGravityWave v2, by patching it to version 3  in progress
2. Promote Quarkbar on Twitter  (https://twitter.com/NewQuarkbar)and Facebook   (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Quarkbar/)Done
3. Create a website  (http://www.quarkbar.net)(Shursight arranged hosting and URL)   Done
4. Use site and social media for more attention and giveaways  in progress
5. Create site for Cryptocoin Revival Foundation (http://www.cryptocoinrevival.com)

If you want to help the community, you should be actively promoting the devs leaving these coins and letting them die.

We are spreading ourselves too thin, there is not enough money or hashing power to prop up the price of all these copycoins.

If we can reduce the number of these coins, that would be beneficial to the entire community.

What you are doing is only beneficial in the short term, but harmful in the long term.
If a coin is going no where, then its going no where and it needs to be put down.
Reviving it is just going to let the bagholders sell out, making a new group of people bagholders when the coin eventually flops again.

The aim is to put focus on specific coins that are promising, but the developer is MIA. This is the case with Quarkbar. With a coin like that, you already have:
1. A strong coin
2. A strong community
3. A foundation that can patch it up and make it better

This is a step to make it a community effort instead of handing it to a single developer. We hope we can create a group of community coins in this way. Decentralized power.

Although I agree that there are some coins that should be given a death sentence, there are other coins that have a very sound and stable foundation and could flourish if given a chance. That is what this foundation is about.

If a coin has been created that has strong charactoristics but the dev walked away for no reason at all, why should it have to die if there is a community willing to step up and give it a fighting chance. That is what this foundation is all about.

This foundation isnt about pumping up the price. Its about finding promising coins that have been abandoned for no good reason  and giving support where needed. Then if the coin flourishes, awesome!

If a coin has a community behind it that wants to see it succeed then great, there will always be bag holders but if the community behind the coin is large enough, the coin will survive even if they dump. 

Plus Im  tired of hearing the term "copycoin"!

In the crypto currency world its not all about bitcoin. In a few years there is going to be many changes, bitcoin may stay on top but probably not. The first always paves the way but the strongest always follows. Crypto currency is still in its infancy. We are still a small community over all. Whats going to happen in the next few years is going to blow our minds. We are fortunate to be involved so early. In a way we are creating a revolution.





 

Quarkbar needed an emergency fix last night and also got upgraded to DarkgravityWave v3! F0o from Obfuscode did some remarkable things to fix it!

We finally have twitter! :)

66coin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4!!4444!!!!4

A lot of people rooting for that coin. :) I would be a good candidate once Quarkbar is strong enough.

What's the current status?

Reviving old coins is a great idea and it's good to see someone organizing it. Most of them are already on exchanges, which is a hurdle all new coins have to get past.

Very good point!

Why did the coins die?
Lack of a community , merchants , developers...
Why bring a coin that wasn't able to attract those back to life and not invest your energy in a new coin with more features at more attractive

Just so people can sell it at 2 litoshi instead of 1 litoshi?

I agree. In some cases a coin just needs to die. In some cases though, a coin may just need some support to really take off.

In some cases this is true, but the coin we're helping now is really starting to take off.

Well , it's your time and your project but I still believe you're just injecting a new hype for a few days/weeks after which it will turn back to hibernation.
But , time will tell which of us is wrong.

You have every right to be skeptical. :) We will do our best to prove to you we're in this for the long run. Our diverse team consists of respectable pool owners and even the creator of Logicoin, so I know we're up for the challenge.

You invested in a gimmick coin and it bit you on the ass, go and sulk in the corner with the people who bought aurora  :'(

DATACOIN:
Just sayin'...  ::)

Interesting

leafcoin to da moon!!

How about ADTv2?

What about it?;)

Elaborate and have a link?

I think personally 66coin is great candidate. Has good position on MintPal, which may spark further interest.
66Coin as of 17/05/2014 is on 10 position on MintPal with more than 9000 votes.If you compare it with the QuarkBar which has 41 vote and is on 309 position that a lot more interest. I know what are the advantages of QB but people already invested time and money to take 66 to such a opportunistic position. We need to start looking in progression. We need to start looking more than just a week or a month ahead even more than 1 year ahead. It doesn't matter what kind of coin encryption is going to be invented or what was premined or what kind of distribution method we are about to see CryptoCurrencies are becoming power. I believe there will be market and interest in for all of them.
  Me for instance how did I choose the first coin to mine, which was BitCoin, because is the most popular. I didn't know many details about Crypto  or that there was so many Alts out there.Of course with my tiny hashing power I gave it up quite quickly. Second choice most popular coin of the day it was DogeCoin at the time. Same problem not enough hashing power. Third coin Diamond (DMD). Why did I choose it the name mainly I wasn't thinking about premine, Algorithms, current price or strong community. I was influenced by my knowledge and experience of the current markets  and everyone knows what diamonds stand for. Than start noticing more thing like  community, premined, instamined, current mining difficulty, coin numbers, future interest.
   We need to make sure we popularize as many coins as possible to as many people as possible. Only than we can see this market flourish.
When people interested in certain thing will look for a coin or coins that stands for the thing they are looking for. For instance If you are interested in trains, traveling with trains, train models and so on and there is TrainCoin( Maybe there is one already who knows or they will see this and create one) and they can buy ticket or anything else that's in the area of trains. People will love this coin and use it. It's not going to be just in our imagination that we are in the digital currency business.
  Support as many as possible and stop being so hateful about someone's success.Stick with what you like and eventually you will see same thing happen to you.
  Currently I'm involved  in more than 10 different coin to certain extend. I hope one will be super successful so I can get involve in more.
It's really fascinating what is happening today. I've missed BitCoin expansion. I knew about since 2011. I believed that we are going to see digital currency which will substituted conventional ones. The one thing I wasn't sure was timescale. It blew me away how fast everything happened.
I know I missed the birth but I'm here now.We are still at the beginning of this journey. So many opportunities, so many exciting technologies will emerge from this small community.
 Change is coming. Powerful people with a lot of money will stand in its way. Don't help them in their work.

Interesting :)

We've talked about 66Coin and our concern is the premine of almost 5%. Do you know what happened to this?

Have no idea what happen with the premine. I don't really thing that is the most important thing. 5% is not that much really anyone can acquire 5% even 51% of any coin depending on value of certain coin. We yet have to find way to battle 51% attacks on digital currencies. I  think the most important thing is how many people will own the other 95% the more the better.Maybe people that are interested in the coin and going to hold it in for long term instead of dump them on first chance coming. 
 I started mining QuarkBar but I don't think that is the only coin that has potential. There isn't that many mining it not yet anyway.

51% attacks on bitcoin-like networks and owning 51% of the coins aren't the same thing, what makes a coin valuable are newly implemented features like the Quark and Q2C algos, POS from peercoin, random n-factor, distributed data storage etc.
If you put your hard earned cash into yet another litecoin clone because the homepage had a music video and used the number '6' a lot then that's just too bad for you I'm afraid.

I think effort is better spent elsewhere.

I will add it to the OP :)

Seems the source (https://github.com/CryptoRepairCrew/Android-Token-V2) was updated this Wednesday. Somebody still working on it?

The poll shows some people were happy about the Quarkbar focus, but other people obviously would like other coins to succeed. At the moment we decided to focus on one coin, but might get more soon.

Results:

Happy about the focus on Quarkbar?

Yes   - 9 (26.5%)
No   - 12 (35.3%)
Maybe   - 2 (5.9%)
Don't know   - 1 (2.9%)
Hoped for other coin   - 10 (29.4%)
I rather have half man, half bear, half pig!   - 0 (0%)

It would be good to know why people did or did not like the focus on Quarkbar.

Next to this, we started a new poll to find out how many coins we should support.

Thanks for taking the effort JonesD! I like the focus on QuarkBar and I think it was good to have only the focus on one coin.
The foundation needs to get used to adapting new coins and this way of working, when focussing on more coins this is getting harder.

I think it's good to have a small process support the foundation's coin lifecycle.
I'd propose the following process steps:

• 1. Prepare a list of coins to focus on, make sure coins have the possibility to be adapted by the foundation (dev is ok, source is available, etc.)
• 2. Have a vote on which coin to focus on
• 3. Prepare to do list to get the coin patched up
• 4. Work on to do list
• 5. Assess if work on to do list is good enough to 'get things going'
      if yes --> step 1
      if no --> step 3

With this process, which is just a draft and open to suggestions, I think we can have a solid way of working without loosing focus.
I think we also need a process when 'things get going' for a coin, that'll describe what's next.
This could also be items on the to do list.

With this kind of structure and organization we get more predictable and people know what to expect from the foundation.

Let me know your opinions!

Sounds like a very good workflow :) Would you be willing to set that up?

Yes, I'll work out a more structured process flow and will post this for feedback.
We can then hook QB in to this process (as it would already be on step 3 and 4).

I was thinking about how to measure when a coin 'get things going':

• Finished to do list (to do list actions have to be measureable!)
• Approval on code quality from CRF dev's (important one :))
• Trade volume > x.xx BTC on one exchange
• Available on X exchanges
• Price atleast 0.00xxxxx BTC
• .... (your input please)

If you've any ideas, feel free to post!

Takcoin seems a gonner after a promising start, dev team just went awol.

iCoin has the name, but that's about all that's left.

We have successfully passed block 262,500 for Quarkbar, so we will disclose the information about the security problem today at 13:00 (1PM) UTC here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=621906.new#new

The statement was just released.

Long story short:
1. We finished the block explorer and discovered a premine of 15,482,256 Quarkbar
2. We traced the premine and found 97,7% still in a small amount of wallets
3. We updated the source and excluded those wallets
4. The scam owner will get the following message when he tries to open his wallet :)
https://i.imgur.com/XefdS8w.jpg
5. With help of an exchange we could freeze one of the trading accounts of the scammer with about 0.4 BTC in it
6. We published a statement to provide full disclosure here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=621906.new#new

Forexminute wrote an article about our coin: http://www.forexminute.com/cryptocurrency-news/breaking-news-crf-eliminates-scam-quarkbar-coins-32833

Myriad Please!

https://i.imgur.com/zRxhZG4.png

Lacking developers, that coin?

no i saw u wanted coins to add to something and the coins looked meh so i put myr there. my mistake if this is for something different than i thought

:)

How many coins should CRF support the next six months?
1   - 2 (18.2%)
2   - 4 (36.4%)
3   - 0 (0%)
4   - 0 (0%)
5   - 1 (9.1%)
As many as possible   - 4 (36.4%)
I need about $2,50...   - 0 (0%)
Total Voters: 11

People apparently want us to adopt somewhere in between of 2 to as many as possible amount of coins :)

We are very happy on the progress of Quarkbar and would like to try out some new coin concepts. For this, we believe Quarkbar is too mature, so we would like to take a coin that has not been mined that much yet and has such a low value it can only go up! :)

We were thinking about taking on the technical development of Frycoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449648.0) to see if we can come up with coin mining solutions that will ensure the future of altcoins. Once we have proof of concept, we will also implement this in our other coins. This way we can make mistakes, without doing much harm.

Please go to their page (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449648.0) to vote if you want them to become this. I will also add a vote option above to see if you like the idea.

We managed to find back many of the premine coins in Quarkbar  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587457.0)and also traced this back to the trading account of the scammer. It turns out he was also connected to the scam of Beecoin and Shacoin. Allcoin has decided to divide the 0.45BTC in frozen assets among the Beecoin, Shacoin and Quarkbar community

Read it all here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=621906.msg6948724#msg6948724

Potentially a stupid question but how comes ~50% of our CRF members arent on IRC?

- f0o


//EDIT:

Also guys, We have a MAILINGLIST! :O
Feel free to join!
http://cryptocoinrevival.com/mailman/listinfo/announcements_cryptocoinrevival.com (http://cryptocoinrevival.com/mailman/listinfo/announcements_cryptocoinrevival.com)

I am officially asking the CRF to take over WAS coin we are satoshi. I will donate a few million WAS coin to give incentive to the the CRF to help with this coin. These profits will be able to allow the foundation to help other coins. There is a max of 40 billion coins so I think 50-100SAT is very reasonable.

Good Evening Cryptocoin Revival Foundation,

I am on the team that has Re-Launched Birdcoin

Old Thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=496363.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=496363.0)

Re-Launch Thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588212.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588212.0)

We have great support from the community and within 2 weeks of Re-Launch we were able to achieve what original devs did in the first 2 months before dropping the coin all together. Exchanges, Faucets, Explorers, Website, Sub-Reddit, and a future plan with community interaction. We have received help from the Pandacoin dev who was kind enough to compile a OSX wallet which the coin has never had.

We are a small but growing community that seems to be held back by the technical aspect of things. We would love nothing more but to continue to support this coin but need some serious help. If at all possible any time and expertise that can be spared would be most helpful. I and ciocgun have been doing the best we can with promoting and planning. There are a few things I would list that the community has asked us about, I will list them below.

• Pre-Mine Coin Removal
• KGW Update
• POS*
• More Exchanges

*I was told this is an easy addition to the coin, but I am lost when I look at the commit changes from other coins on GitHub

We will accept anything you guys can do to assist.

I appreciate the time and if there is anything you need please send myself or ciocgun a message or post in our thread.

Thank You from the Birdcoin Community

So it looks like the developer of SYNC coin has to leave and is looking for someone to take it over. If you guys want a big coin here it is. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=607919.msg7029012#msg7029012

thanks from me too

We're getting a lot of request from different coins to take over development, but we cannot accept too many coins of course. For now we want to focus on Quarkbar.

Our main goal is to help coins with strong communities, so we will help other coins in the meantime, but need somebody from the community to take over the responsibility of the management of the coin.

It is easier if I describe what we prefer in a coin (we might deter from this, but it does not help)

COIN REQUIREMENTS
1. NO IPO coins
2. No premine above 1%
3. No scam coins, unless we can scam the scammer out of his scam money :)
4. Coin must have an active community
5. Coin has more than 1 person that wants to take over responsibility (a team)
6. Coin has special qualities like an innovative algorithm --> scrypt is usually not distinctive enough.

COMMUNITY REQUIREMENTS
1. Get a team together of people that wants to help. If nobody is willing to volunteer, your community is likely just you. :)
2. Start a community takeover bitcointalk topic (with the account of the main responsible person) where you place all the relevant information about the coin
3. Place a poll on this topic where you ask the community if they accept your takeover --> more than 20 people have to vote and 2/3 has to approve
4. Gather the source code of the coin and create a new github repository for this. (you can add us to the team lateron for coding help)
5. Start a Twitter account and actively promote your coin.

Once you have these two requirements settled we will consider you coin for full adoption. Hopefully it will not even be necessary. :)

You can always join our IRC if you have any questions:     irc.freenode.net/coinrevival

This afternoon at 4PM UTC (10AM EST, 6PM Paris/Berlin) the Cryptocoin Revival Foundation will have a meeting at  irc.freenode.net/coinrevival to discuss the following things:

1. 66Coin technical support
2. Quarkbar promotion
3. Quarkbar next steps
4. Frycoin next steps
5. Support of other coins.

Feel free to join!

This afternoon at 4PM UTC (10AM EST, 6PM Paris/Berlin) the Cryptocoin Revival Foundation had a meeting at  irc.freenode.net/coinrevival to discuss the following things:

1. 66Coin technical support
- 66Coin has large premine of 4.5% (only 13% mined)
- 66coin can only go ahead if premine is traced and blocked
- 66coin needs an explorer to trace it
- 66coin community must find someone to create an explorer to find out if the premine wallet can be traced and blocked
- CRF will help when explorer is ready.

2. Quarkbar promotion
- JonesD is promoting via Twitter and arranging a lot of giveaways. Support is growing.
- Shursight is arranging some PR articles on Quarkbar
- Saintfrantic discussed finding ways to buy goods and services with QB. f0o is already setting up a website.
- Saintfrantic would like a better looking wallet. f0o might know someone that can do it
- f0o proposes to do an aidrop where random wallets get free QB.

3. Quarkbar next steps
- We discussed ways to keep mining interesting
- POS might be a good solution, but not with the stake based on amount of coins,  but based on a fixed amount of coins for keeping wallet synched. This way people get rewarded a certain amount of coins regardless of their wallet balance.
We call it Proof of Wallet Stake (POWS)

4. Frycoin next steps
- f0o would like to implement TX-Merge to make transactions easier and solve the " transactions too long" error
- POWS will be tried out on Frycoin first if it is possible.
- Airdrop will be used for Frycoin first
- JonesD would like to have a tipping bot for Frycoin

5. Support of other coins.
- Requirements have been posted in OP.
- Coins that are trying to get their coin going will receive help
- No new coins accepted for now.

The best way for CRF to cover its costs is to offer certain services to coins that are not accepted now. These can cover the costs of the coins we're focusing on.

Abe explorer + 1yr hosting on explorer.cryptocoinrevival.com  - 0.1 BTC
linux-wallets & linux-QT-wallets in .deb format - 0.05 BTC

ONLY MINE?

I don't understand your question.

We also accept donations! We just received our first 0.1 BTC from Frank123m!

If you want to help out, you can send your donations to this address: 17UFcoBRWXQnsqXUSTQwB4D9AFJ9FU11mR

PM me as well and I will add you to the donation hall of fame :)

The cointelegraph wrote an article about us getting the scammer!  :)

http://cointelegraph.com/news/111631/cryptocoin_revival_foundation_thwarts_quarkbar_creator_s_plan_to_scam

They even made a nice image:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo9hU-mIMAEVHi7.png:large

Hi! I dont know if i'm late to join this foundation. Building a community of skilled, honesty, open is super awesome! I had BA in marketing and I dig social network! Where could i fit in here?

We can sure use that! Can you pm me your qualifications so we can arrange a chat? :)

We recieved a donation of 0.2 BTC from the 66coin community! We will create an explorer for them and finally have some funds to get decent hosting going. :)

i like the Quarkbar coin,it has an awesome attributes actually,kip it up .... :)

i just dont know why the Developer of this coin was all of a sudden walked away... ???

The developer was a scammer, so tried to make some extra coins for himself. We blocked his wallets, so we left him with nothing :D

good day! do you think so??and what kind of coins do you think tha can strengthen the community? ;)

We will release the white paper tonight at 7PM GMT!

Hello Coin revivalists. I just wanted to inform you i have put up a good bounty for revival of Corgicoin. If someone wants to do it you possibly can.
It has website, is traded on two exchanges, good image but devs are inactive for long time now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444700.msg7696782#msg7696782

(if you have enough other things on your plate right now keep an eye on it and put it on the waiting-list to take it up later if nobody else did in the meantime. )

I'd like to see BATCOIN come back.

We're currently focusing on Quarkbar and Frycoin, but we can help if there is immediate help needed.

I would like to suggest "Heisenberg" (HEX) as a possible candidate for your services.

Thank you for considering...

Sure are!

Hi guys :)
Don't hestitate to pm me or visit our IRC channel for questions!

Hey zro,
i have a coin suggestion for revival
TWECOIN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=553593.0)

it's one the good rare coins out there
very unique algorithm with an up running wallet and strong network
it has it's own algorithm (first and only of it's kind)
no premine at all
no instamine

but unfortunately it hasn't an active developer or community right now
you guys may just want to take a look at this great abandoned coin
i believe it worth for revival

Thanks for the recommendation Sinohe88.
We'll take it in to account when we're back with the full team.

Will keep you posted!

Hi,

I'm member of the small community of KimDotCoin miners.
I don't know if this is the right place for my question, because DotCoin is "just another scrypt clone".
But the problem is we need a working blockchainexplorer and the dev seems to be gone.
We deceided to raise a bounty of 500k DotCoin for building a blockchainexplorer.
The bounty is complete and in my wallet. If someone here is able to solve our problem pls post a link in

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=550851.260

and you'll get the bounty.


 

thank you

Great initiative and idea, this can only be good for the reputation & future of Alts.

I'm back!

Anyone here privy to the state of Fugue coin. The chain is still functioning and small trades ( listed a 3 exchanges )

What happened to this? I was even able to solo mine it and confirm transactions...but nothing at forum.

It's suffering the same fate as is likely to befall all the other algo-themed coins eventually, interest has dwindled to near zero.

Time and technology moves on; what was algorithmically hot in early 2014 is simply tepid four months later. At some point in the future, there may be a renaissance but I can't see a compelling reason for that happening any time soon, even with the current high level of dissatisfaction with new coin launches.

3 exchanges? I can only find it on one.

But, I'd be grateful for a copy of getpeerinfo results, I can't find anything to sync to.

For comparison, Grøstlcoin made a much better job of the marketing and what we're seeing here are basically the consequences of that crucial difference.

Nevertheless, one of the stronger points of this particular altcoin is that it is a “single malt” coin amidst a raft of “blended” (multi-algo) offerings (e.g. sifcoin, quark, qubit, nist5, twe, x11/12/13/14).

I need to explain my analogy ...

One source of my enlightenment (on the topic of “single vs blended”) is the SiFcoin dev's rationale (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240884.msg2553217#msg2553217) for the design decision to adopt a multi-algo approach (google translated): “Complication chain to the length of 6 different hash functions and increase bit depth to intermediate 512 - attempt to protect from further development of extremely efficient Mh / s gpu-algorithms and theory, "simple" Gh / s devices”.  No mention of security, just a possibility of limiting GPU advantage.

The other source of my enlightenment is the posts made to the stackexchange discussion Guarding against cryptanalytic breakthroughs: combining multiple hash functions (http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/270/guarding-against-cryptanalytic-breakthroughs-combining-multiple-hash-functions). Zooko's and Thomas' posts in particular bring a realistic appreciation of the issues.

Somehow, a simple and straightforward tactic to limit GPU advantage has mutated into security theatre: “super secure hashing” (Quark (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.0)), “X15 adds 2 extra layers of hashing to the popular and already very secure X13 hashing Algorithm” (Maiacoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667250.0)).

When it's boiled down to the essence: for an altcoin, a tactic of chaining hash algos can't be proven to increase security nor can the tactic be proven not to reduce security, the latter weakness being a default FAIL according to accepted best cryptographic practice.

This fact will be appreciated by altcoin engineering connoisseurs in a fashion I can only feebly analogise to the “single malt” vs “blended” dimension, hence my description of Fuguecoin as a “single malt” altcoin.

Cheers

Graham

Is there an "official" way of suggesting a coin?

Is there any other information you might require for consideration?

We will provide whatever is needed if we can.

Thank you!

Currently we're working on Quarkbar, but we are always open to helping out. Anything you need help with?

Ultimately, bringing the coin back from the edge. There are some very good ideas floating around but we lack the talent to implement them at this time. Let me go back and discuss with the remaining community before I answer, I wish to be sure I am conveying their wishes.

Be back shortly, thank you!

Coin downfall?
Without a market it is really hard to judge the value of a coin. I would say it is likely at half a Satoshi right now as people where not even buying up this coin anymore on C-Cex.

Final Revival Effort
I would still like to see it succeed, so I would like to make a big pot of the coins and use this to have a gigantic lottery where we redistribute a large part of the coins to new users. I talked with Frycoin and he will give me access to the Twitter account to run a Giveaway.

Currently there are over 61M created coins and with Pulse the creation has slowed down a lot. I think it would make sense to try to gather around 5M coins and redistribute these over a large group of users. These will try to get the coin on new markets again, helping the coin to get back up on its feet.

As a longtime miner, I have mined around 5M coins myself and I am willing to donate a large chunk of this --> 2.5 Million Fry

If we are able to reach 5M coins as a community, I am willing to spearhead this campaign and will try to revive it by getting more people involved.

DONATE TO MAKE IT SUCCEED!
With the current value of the coin it makes sense to donate a large chunk for this final revival effort. The coins are on the verge of being forgotten.

GOAL
We should reach at least 5M Fry with this revival effort for me to start. (hopefully we will get much more) I will not charge a fee for this, but want our first PULSE coin to succeed! :)

Donation Address:
Donate to FHEfCBpXF8LznLYHYKUSuyTAYbsHGYCgJ5. Send me a PM with the amount and your name and I will include you in this topic as a supporter. If we do not reach the goal, you will get your Fry back!
You can follow the transactions here: http://explorer.cryptocoinrevival.com/address/FHEfCBpXF8LznLYHYKUSuyTAYbsHGYCgJ5

Supporters:
1. JonesD - 2,500,000

Here are the main items I got back for HEX: 

1. We need a programmer that can spend some time making improvements.
2. We need a community that will pitch in and help. **
3. We need to convert over to PoS.
4. We need an anon solution.

That's what everyone wants.  ** Number 2 is actually still there but, they don't know how to assist or what to do to turn the coin around. Number 4 I'm not sure on. I think it might be helpful but feel the change to POS would be the biggest help aside from community support and advertising/getting the word out/etc.

How is the mining currently. Does the network still have power?

The main pool fry.bitember.com seems to be down, so we need you to help solomining the coin! With the low difficulty, it is really easy to mine yourself some FRY!

If you help Frycoin out, you will get your mining gains tripled by us! You can share your results by sharing a screenshot like this one:

https://i.imgur.com/iu6xmzF.png

HOW to SOLOMINE

1. You need to open the Frycoin Wallet which can be downloaded here: https://github.com/CryptocoinRevival/FryCoin/tree/binaries

2. Go to Help> debug window

3. Go to the console and type


(3b. You can also specify to use a limited amount of cores, by typing the number of cores you want to use. When you want to use two, it would be like this:


https://i.imgur.com/FSvw60k.png

4. When you want to stop mining, you can type

Dev wasn't seen for more than a month.  :(

Hello Everybody,

It has been a while since anything has happened here. We have put a lot of work into Quarkbar and Frycoin and they're still going. The hosting for the explorers and the website will run out in a couple of weeks. Are there still people here that want us to continue and are perhaps willing to contribute something to keep things online?

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