Regarding the name I thought 'hobonickels' wasn't very good at first. But then I read about the real hobonickels, of which I wasn't aware of, and now I like it.

I'd agree though that it may put people off.  Not many people have ever heard of hobonickels (the historical ones) before.

Bitcoin

Hobonickels  (PoS interest is great, awesome wallet and other features) + good developer
Novacoin (Strongest PoS coin with decent return [used to be better but difficulty went really high last 2 months)  + good developer
Darkcoin  (at least some anonymity is a precious thing to have in our NSA-spied upon world) + good developer

Then two coins which haven't been released yet which I'm going to dive head first into.

It's actually pretty awesome how many great coins came out this year. For every 30 crap copy coin there has been a good new coin.

Coins I'm not big on:

NXT  don't think it'll live up to its promises, don't see it happening at all.
Dogecoin   happy for you guys who are into it but I don't see it succeeding as it doesn't have great fundamentals  (but ya, never underestimate a cute logo though I guess?)
Copy coins and scam coins #1 through #300

You are correct. Poor comparison. Ukyo is worse than BFL and while BFL was grossly incompetent and dishonest, they were not criminal, like Ukyo.

No Hobonickel?    I ask, 'cuz your avatar looks like it is, in fact, a hobonickel.

I'd sue the criminal Jon Montroll for taking my 1 btc deposits and fucking off with it.  That'd be really satisfying.  I hate to see scammers steal millions and then their be no recourse for them, it is really disheartening.

...but nothing is happening.  Ukyo has shown 0 progress in the last 2 months or so and there are no positive indicators that you are going to get your money back.

Denial can be a strong force.  I mean, what could Ukyo even possibly be 'working on' that could get us our deposits back. There are just no feasible 'problems' that he is 'working on' that he 'can't talk about' having to do with our coins 'being gone'.  I don't necessarily suggest getting angry, but you should either move on to (by now) that all your coins have all been lost or do something about it, if ever.  

Really. Really. Be honest with yourself.  Do you REALLY think that all of sudden Ukyo is going to come back to the forums and be like 'oh hai guys, ya i 'solved' the issue you can now rightfully have back all the deposits you made.'   ....  lol, I just have to laugh at that, despite myself.


I said it month ago.  And I'll guess I'll come back in a month from now and say it again.  Ukyo is only buying time, saving his own ass, he did something illegal to lose all of our deposits, he is a criminal, and so far his BFL-type 'wait and promise while taking money' strategy is working really well.

Congrats man, that's awesome!

Woke up today to see it at .00025 now....woohoo! 

Whew big day for hobonickel; huge week altogether!

I bought a couple hundred coins to play with.  WishI bought it last week now when I first heard about it's rate of return (pos).

I like the wallet too; hope this coin does well in the future (but its tough with over 200+ coins now).

I don't think anyone would consider it for less than $2500 USD.  It reality, probably would cost waaaaaay more.

100 hobonickels ? LOLOLOLLOL.  

Don't get me wrong, I love hobonickels.  But that's a bit of a joke to offer 100.  You obviously have no idea at  all about A:) how much time that takes someone to do   B:) what kind of wage someone who has those skills makes an hour.

you can't even register the domain for what your asking heheh.

Lottocoin prediction?

It will just be like a real life lotto. 1 person out million will win big, the rest of the people will lose.

Re the malleability issue ,  with Gox publishing it so ...publicly, I bet these kind of attacks went up....oh maybe 10,000% ?

Thanks for your work S.F.L.

Was wondering this, seems a simple question, wondering if anyone could answer it for me.

In the summer set up some pools but never launched them because of all pools already available.

Was wondering, what is the point of having a 0% fee pool? I don't get it. It costs money to run the pool even, so why operate at a loss? Is the thinking that most pool operators have 0% fee to attract the users, then if they get large, they boost the fee? Can't really understand why anyone would want to run a 0% fee pool, but there must be reasons I'm not seeing.

Thanks.

Those are pretty big questions. I'd recommend doing some Googling of your own, to save someone spending a lot of time writing it all out again for you.

Huh, what. OP's premise is flawed.  Or at least, will need some proof.

If coins are cheaper I'd imagine more people would get into bitcoin, not less.

You know what I really, really, really hope happens?

People stop using Gox and don't go back.

I mean wow, how many crashes have Gox caused now?  And I also gotta admit it is bad marketing / pr for bitcoin when the biggest exchange (for the longest period) used to be a Magic The Gathering card exchange.

I really think the management there, or their technical staff, are [edit!] NOT up to the challenges of being a premier exchange, I wish they'd just graciously bow out, instead of taking so much of the market with them.  Mt Crash.

I doubt this is what happened (a problem do to do with transaction malleability). It's possible, but doesn't add up for me. Mainly because I don't see why Ukyo would keep this such a secret for months. (And then seemingly disappear).  If the coins were stolen he would be less legally liable at best, and at worst, he'd at least get some understanding from the community.

If you look at his behaviour, when the crisis occurred, how he dealt with it, how he accepted deposits knowing he couldn't pay them back, what's going on with his loans, and the threads showing him using some users' deposits to pay for others, and now most recently, disappearing incognito, I believe the most likely thing that happened was that he was treating peoples' deposits as his own personal investment wallet, gambled, and lost.

Of course this all guesswork.

If you are going to pursue legal action I just suggest you do it sooner, rather than later. I don't think anyone will get their money back from this, but at least it would be good to know what happened, and if Ukyo did something criminal, he should be punished. At the least it'd be nice to see him have to go bankrupt.

I would bet though that if there is no prosecution or lawsuit, he'll never tell any of us what happened. He's given no indication that he intends to. Unless he's sued all we'll ever probably know is that 'the coins are gone'. We've made no progress at all in what, the last 45-60 days? In fact, we are hearing progressively less.

My sincere condolences to those owed more than 10 btc. I'm royally pissed at losing 1 btc, I can't imagine what state I'd be in if I had a significant amount of money on the line.

Sell at a loss. That ain't hodling.

I am hodling.

Well here's hoping this is the final Gox-caused market crash. 

I really hope people will stay away from them even if they manage to get back on their feet.

What happened?