Looks like Sprouts has got two active threads going: the old; and the new. This one; and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1103868.0

Let's stay focused and choose one, or the other. So, which should we post on? Maybe there should be  regular reminders pointing to the official page. Thank you.   

@ Kiklo

I agree with you. There is much manipulation going on in the markets and skullduggery going on elsewhere. With Zeitcoin, all the technicals are there and Zeitcoin has a great community, including your good self. But maybe there are a lot of clueless people out there who don't know about Zeitcoin.

If that is so, the question becomes: how do we get the Zeit message through to them?

Aw c'mon Lion. Lighten up!

How could you say that about EbolaShare? If accepting Crypto became universal can you imagine paying people who are chasing you for money with EbolaShare?  "Here have some Ebola, now **** off."  Puts a whole new meaning to 'toxic debt'.

I'd love to buy a small amount just for the fun of it, but the Dev seems to have disappeared. The website is still maintained  https://ebolashare.github.io/ and the forum is still up-and-running https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=853242.880, but I suppose you are right ... who in their right mind would possibly buy into EbolaShare?

Now I know you won't believe this, and I checked this a minute ago, the EbolaShare Buy wall on C-cex has this Buy order for 26,971 Ebolas:

Price per EBS          EBS amount             BTC amount
0.00000345            26971.96521739       0.09305328

345 Satoshis for just one EbolaShare and Zeitcoin struggling to keep its head above one Satoshi. ¿Dónde está la justicia? Makes you wonder whether Ray and all the community are doing something wrong. Maybe he should do a runner and not be so precious about the Zeit and Time connection, ... and change the spelling a little.

Seriously though, I wonder what the way forward for Zeitcoin is? Do we have one more last try to sell it to The Zeitgeist Movement again, ... or some similar organisation?

And then there are the cosmetics: Is it possible to graft Zeitcoin onto an entirely new Zeitcoin Blockchain, where 10,000,000 Old Zeitcoins are worth 1 New Zeitcoin? Or, just transfer all Zeitcoin onto a new Blockchain on a one-to-one basis? That would keep the freshness and do away with any excessive Blockchain bloat that could materialise over the next couple of years.

I wonder where the future lies?

Personally, I like the price. Let it bleed!

All I'd like to see is a definite announcement on applying a gradual inflation break, starting early next year.

In the previous Sprouts thread some people using Windows XP have reported the "Error: Couldn't open socket for incoming connections (socket returned error 10047)" pop-up when opening the Sprouts wallet. This is because the "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" protocol is not generally pre-installed in XP (it is with Windows 7 and higher). While this is a common error and you can just ignore it, it is dead easy to correct. What you have to do is find your Network Connections Folder and add the listed "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" protocol. Here's how to do it:

From your [DESKTOP] screen,
click on the [START] button in the bottom left hand corner. Then
click on [CONTROL PANEL]. Then
double click on [NETWORK CONNECTIONS]. Then
double click on the active [LOCAL AREA CONNECTION] icon, or the active [WIRELESS NETWORK] icon for a wireless connection. Then
in the General Tab click on the [PROPERTIES] button. Then
click on the [INSTALL] button. Then
click on the [PROTOCOL] icon so that it is highlighted. Then
click on the [ADD] button. Then
click on the listed ["Microsoft TCP/IP version 6"] protocol so that it is highlighted. Then
click on the [OK] button.
Wait for it to install. The [GENERAL] tab window will reappear.
Close all the open windows and you are done. No more 10047 error pop-ps!

This solution will also work on the wallets of other altcoins, running on Windows XP, showing the same, annoying "Error: Couldn't open socket for incoming connections (socket returned error 10047)" pop-up.

Sprouts tip cap:   Sf4Kv6W8AoR8v2RDpM3gU4hqw7JxdRAMjr
BTC (I should be so lucky!):  18fPSVMfCk41yQCdAwx4m5g8KPU5qNggi3      

You might be right, but I think that the general price rise has come about by a mass exodus of people panic-buying altcoins to get their BTC out of Cryptsy. I've made many Support requests in the past - as we all have had to do with Cryptsy - but I've never had an option given to me that Cryptsy could cancel my withdrawal request internally, because of problems with BTC.

Bitcoin suffered malleabilty attacks in early October that were of such a magnitude that they were reported in the mainstream media worldwide. The Ddos attacks and Cryptsy going offline happened from November 22nd onwards. Now the problems with BTC at Cryptsy. I wonder if they are connected and whether Cryptsy have acquired a mountain-load of duff BTC?

Cryptsy have told me that they are having problems in processing withdrawal requests for BTC, LTC and BTCD. If anyone has those coins stranded on Cryptsy, and want to get out, convert into other coins. Other crypto withdrawal requests are being processed quickly.

Sobering. I tried to withdraw some Bitcoin from Cryptsy a short while ago. My request was pending for over 12 hours despite issuing Support Tickets. I was eventually told that I had the option of cancelling my BTC request for withdrawal, so I did. Giving me that option made me think I'd better take it and head for the hills. I was also told that Cryptsy are having problems with three coins. Here is what they said:

"We are experiencing a delay when it comes to processing BTC LTC and BTCD withdrawal transactions." (my emphasis).

If anyone has those coins stranded on Cryptsy, the other altcoins are being processed quickly. I converted my BTC into two altcoins and withdrew straight away. The only problem is that prices on Cryptsy are coming out at around 20% higher than Bittrex and other exchanges.

I don't want to repeat the rumours, but this doesn't look good.

Getting on still more exchanges is good, but getting the message out there that this is a fun coin to have is even better. We should then see the Sprouts profile rise as a serious contender. So how do we get the word out?!
Word of mouth? Articles? Chat on altcoin exchanges? Blogs? Human interest stories? Interviews? Social media?
Let's do it!

In my opinion, the POS reward is too great to sustain in the long term. I'm not complaining! However, the promised inflation proofing in the New Year will be a good move. It should ensure the longevity of Sprouts as a powerful, POS interest generator. In the meantime, let's make hay while the sun shines! At the moment the Sprouts coin supply is not that bad and compares favourably with lots of other altcoins e.g:

Coin             Current Coin Supply
Dogecoin ......... 102,049,640,523
Colossuscoin ..... 312,889,440,517
Mooncoin .......... 208,346,208,861
Dimecoin ........... 299,580,260,352
Bytecoin ........... 177,741,863,259
Ripple ................. 33,537,439,933
Mintcoin .............. 22,481,226,706
DigiByte ................ 5,462,260,642
Stellar .................. 4,837,356,606
BitShares .............. 2,534,241,958
Nxt ......................... 999,997,096
MazaCoin ................. 850,250,100
HyperStake .............. 382,562,326
Sprouts ................... 154,195,779

Your coins 'mature' for POS staking after 30 days. If you open your wallet for POS minting after this maturation period, your coins will compete with others to mint. As it stands today, your payout on minting will depend upon the difficulty at the time. See the difficulty payout chart on page 1 of this thread.

Maybe he's trying engineer himself into a bargain price for Tek, with some plain, old, decent, common garden-variety FUD. Give the lad a break - after all it is Black Friday!

Cursing myself that I didn't see this Black Friday Sale earlier. Just took out all Sprouts on Bittrex between 81 and 87 Sats; a bite out of Cryptopia at 90 Sats with some loose change; and 37,000 Sprouts on Cryptsy, taking out all Sprouts between 104 Sats and 110 Sats.

I know what you're thinking - I should have transferred my BTC over from Cryptsy to Bittrex to munch on the 87 Sats and higher sell wall, but that would have taken too long, the price was rising, and I couldn't let the blighters get away. Thanks to all those who sold me their Sprouts!  

I still have a buy order lurking on Cryptsy. If anyone wants to sell any more, you know where to look.

Absolute bargain!  

Thanks Tranz. It's good to know that all won't be lost if my machine kicks the bucket. I consider Hobonickels to be the best POS coin on the market, especially when you take into account the innovation, reliability, inflation control being linked to the coin supply, the reasonable, but capped POS return % of interest on coins held, the fairness and ease in staking, ... etc. ... etc. ...and last, but not least, the community and yourself.

The Bitcoin blockchain is currently 48 Gb in size and accellerating away into the Tb zone soon. When Bitcoin becomes far too expensive for ordinary miners to mine, and becomes centralised, as it inevitably will be, I think people will look at the POS coins as being the way forward in providing an efficient and resource-friendly cryptocoin environment. I don't think any other POS coin out there can hold a candle to Hobonickels - and there are still more improvements on the cards. I can see investors heading here in their droves in the not too distant future. I can tell real quality when I see it - and others will too. Yes, I'm certainly in the right place!

@Gribgo

Peace back to you! My comment was based on the general drift of the posts  . I agree with you, but if Cryptsy went down, that would be a big blow to take. Other posts in this and other threads are giving the impression that Cryptsy is dead and buried. I suspect that just the opposite is the case.

Just a question about saved wallet.dat files in general:

Say for example the computer, which your wallet is on, conked out, or was stolen, could you transplant your wallet, fully intact, onto a fresh wallet installation and a new computer by simply replacing the new wallet.dat file with your saved wallet.dat file?

I know this is a very basic question, but I've never had to do it and I can't remember seeing anything specific on this.

Is it really that bad? Some of my best deals have been on Cryptsy. They have been around for a long time. It could be that they are targetted by rivals, or anti-cryptocoin elements. To have suffered so many Ddos attacks shows that they are a threat to someone. One thing though: After every attack so far, they have bounced back.

I certainly have never lost any money using Cryptsy.

Andreas Antonopoulos, world-renowned Bitcoin expert, has said that cryptocoin infrastructures need security attacks, just like the body needs germs and viruses to build immunity. Cryptsy must be bullet-proof by now.

Maybe that was just a blip due to taking wallets offline. There were definitely TEK buy orders there.


Cryptsy seems to be OK now, although I've not tried withdrawing anything yet. Just over 12 hours ago I sold 2,785 TEK @ 847 Sats ... eat-your-hearts-out!  

From my trade history:
2015-11-25 08:34:31       Sell  TEK/BTC   0.00000847 BTC   2785.66667355 TEK   0.000000000 BTC   0.02359460 BTC

I had a buy order lurking in the sub 400 Sat zone, over the last couple of days, but nobody bit. Now I really must complain. The standard of FUD in this Tek thread is distinctly lacking.  

Have Cryptsy gone bust? The Cryptsy Buy/Sell trades seem to be operating normally, but I've not tried to withdraw anything yet. I have some coins still in play. The trades might be just cosmetic. Is there a withdrawal problem?

I did see the shutdown a couple of days ago when they suffered a Ddos attack. But Cryptsy are used to this though and normally shake it off like water off a duck's back. Anyone know anything more?

Hey Glorytime! Throw another 100K at the buy wall will ya? I missed out on the 300 Sat dip and the price has now doubled.

Glad you got your coins back. I think you were lucky! Let's hope they stay there. If not, try Ray's advice to -rescan.