Does anyone have theories or informed opinions about who the buyer is?  Jokes or wild speculation are also welcomed.

I agree about yobit, in my original post I said something too mean about them so I deleted it and just removed them from the list.

Also, breaking news - Novaexchange will close its doors on March 31, 2018.  The closure of Nova is probably unrelated to the critiques in this thread.

I've been involved in a couple of projects now and the question always comes up - "where should we try to get listed?"

Recently, popular alt-coin exchanges like cryptopia and novaexchange have raised their prices by thousands of dollars  (you know you are getting quality coins when only the rich can list their coins, right? lol.)

So... lets figure out which altcoin exchanges are good for new coins, or at least which of them are less sucky. In this thread, if we do it right, we will have:

Love Letters
Horror Stories
Name Dropping
Flames about how the exchanges have betrayed specific coins (e.g. Ctopia refusing to list PIEX a few months after the community paid to get PIE listed)
An evolving, useful list of exchanges that new coins should approach and exhanges to avoid

I'll start out.

Exchange: coinsmarkets.com - I know folks that really dislike this site, but I think they are pretty great.
PROS:
- Their interface is weird looking but strangely effective at getting things done w/ minimal clicking
- they stake POS coins
- they add new coins in a HURRY
- They respond to support emails
- They care about not listing coins from scammers (one email I got was "we don't want to list it because it's just like the other 10 projects from that dev" )
CONS:
- ridiculously low volume
- boring trolls
How to get listed:
email "support@coinsmarkets.com" with coin specs



Here's a list of exchanges sorted by number of coins, which may not be the best indicator for friendliness to altcoins but it's a start.

I didn't list bittrex because it's apparently "invite only" now?
I didn't list poloniex because they haven't bothered to respond to my support ticket opened on Tue, 8 Aug at 5:19 PM. (#369572).
I didn't list cryptopia or novaexchange because they are doing the "pay to play" game which (imo) rewards rich scammers and stifles innovation.
 
If any altcoiners have experience with these exchanges please contribute a pros and cons for them or a "personal story about what it was like to work with them" or whatever info you think people would benefit from. I'd like to focus on info that is useful for new coins that are trying to get listed but anything you can contribute is useful if we get enough data I'll make a spreadsheet on google docs for us.

C-Cex
Livecoin
CoinExchange
HitBTC
Liqui
Bter
Bleutrade
Tidex
Kraken
Gate.io
Binance
Bitfinex
BTC38
EXMO
Gatecoin
Bittylicious
BTC-e / WEX
Quoine
CEX.IO
Allcoin
Abucoins
Yunbi
Vircurex
Bisq
Bitstamp
Bithumb

So what actually happened with c-cex.com? I heard that they have millions of piex of questionable provenance and are dumping it? I hope i am misinformed - would someone with the real story pls post and tell us what is going on with them?

I am not bothered by infinite supply as long as it isn't concentrated infinite supply. Big supply can help significantly with adoption - coins are useless unless people use them, right? See: doge

Here's a detailed guide on how to build YUP coin on xubuntu 16.04 lts:

- You need the prerequisites. Specifically, you'll need to run these commands:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libminiupnpc-dev

... this gets you everything you need to make a daemon server. If you want to see the nice UI you will also need:

$ sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev


Once the prereqs are installed, run these commands in the /yup directory:

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb
make
make install # optional


Note that if you use the bitcoin repository to install bdb4.8, do not pass the "--with-incompatible-bdb" flag to ./configure. If you want to use a modern bdb release like the rest of the cool kids, pass the "--with-incompatible-bdb" flag to ./configure.

This looks good and I'm compiling the wallet right now so I can participate in the randomness.

Note: The build-unix.md documentation is inaccurate and should list that autoconf is a prerequisite. Ubuntu users will need to install autoconf with the following command before the build will work:

sudo apt-get install autoconf

Out of curiousity, how are you randomly selecting people? Do you draw from a hat? I'd recommend a 10-sided dice, it gives me pretty good randomness. Or you could do this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46259991_Random_Number_Generators_in_Secure_Disk_Drives

The code refers to a missing file and won't compile (this is on ubuntu lts).
I had to chmod +x a couple of files to get it to start compiling:
 chmod +x src/secp256k1/autogen.sh
 chmod +x leveldb/build_detect_platform


but then this happens:
/bin/sh: 0: Can't open share/genbuild.sh
Makefile:941: recipe for target '/home/mrok/bitcurrencypro/build/build.h' failed
make: *** [/home/mrok/bitcurrencypro/build/build.h] Error 127

looks like you are missing the share directory from the repo?

I really liked 1337, then I went to the casino, now 1337 is my favorite altcoin of all the coins I hold. Great work, dev(s)! Bravo.

I like the name 1337, but if the exchanges really can't handle numbers in coin names, how about LEET and we leave the logo w leetspeak? 1 D0n7 7H1NK 1337 5p33K 12 1R0n1C.

I've been really impressed with the wallet for the week or two I've been using it. The PIEX dev team has their act together. When I withdraw from c-cex, it's showing up in my wallet before the "confirm withdrawl" page loads in chrome.

The wallet is less than 24 hrs old so there are going to be a few bugs. Dev is sleeping and has an exam tomorrow so don't expect a fix tonight.

The workaround for loading issues is simple: restart the wallet.

IFF that fails, you can resolve loading issues by copying the data directory files (included with the windows wallet download) into your .cheese dir on Linux, or on windows the data directory is at "%appdata/cheese/" (<- type that into the location on win explorer and hit enter to see the contents of the cheesy data directory.)




                    ___ _____
                   /\ (_)       \
                  /  \          (_,
                 _)  _\   _       \
                /   (_)\_( )____\
                \_     /    _      _/
                  ) /\/  _ (o)  (
                  \ \_) (o)       /
                   \/________/        

Per the ANN, there will be bounties... but we need to wait and see how much of the pre-mine is consumed by the swap before we know what is available for bounties.

Pls be patient with us as the cheese team has to do a lot of manual labor to make the swap go smoothly. Right now we are focused on getting the MICE holders their cheese.

If you are having trouble with your mousecoin wallet, here are addnodes for MOUSECOIN (not cheesecoin)
addnode=107.150.7.122:10092
addnode=134.255.220.128:10092
addnode=134.255.227.243:10092
addnode=134.255.227.59:10092
addnode=149.56.154.75:10092
addnode=163.172.189.215:10092
addnode=172.111.200.54:10092
addnode=176.212.245.226:10092
addnode=185.2.100.251:10092
addnode=198.187.28.18:10092
addnode=31.214.149.227:10092
addnode=31.214.149.228:10092
addnode=5.164.7.163:10092


addnodes for cheesecoin:

addnode=94.177.216.164:33253
addnode=37.134.24.236:33253
addnode=51.15.211.40:33253
addnode=73.144.147.54:33253
addnode=36.55.235.149:33253
addnode=75.108.104.115:33253
addnode=185.183.157.114:33253

The "workaround" if you are having trouble getting the wallet to startup: restart it. Seriously, it worked fine after a restart.

If that doesnt work for you, you can copy the blockchain files from the download link for the win wallet into your data dir. The win wallet download includes a blockchain folder.

Win wallet and blockchain are here (copy and paste, the link wont work)
https://mega.nz/#!JeJ21a6Y!hDHJr5V6-BLKl0YS08te-OX2A5Ko4so0KcsHffmBvs8


also, "getmininginfo" :



13:35:05

getmininginfo


13:35:05

{
"blocks" : 1656,
"currentblocksize" : 3022,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : {
"proof-of-work" : 481.65365181,
"proof-of-stake" : 0.00024414,
"search-interval" : 1
},
"blockvalue" : 1500000000,
"netmhashps" : 68956.22275140,
"netstakeweight" : 278.45943868,
"errors" : "",
"pooledtx" : 1,
"stakeweight" : {
"minimum" : 0,
"maximum" : 0,
"combined" : 0
},
"stakeinterest" : 1000000000,
"testnet" : false
}


.... just wow that is a big number for a sunday launch. I guess the miners aren't as hungover as I thought they would be.

This will be so cool, I'm very supportive of cheese in all of it's campy forms, great work cheesedevs. FYI if you compile the wallet for linux, you will see the same problem at first boot. The workaround worked for me.

Nova isn't nefarious, they are just stretched really thin.

The "manual" withdrawals happen because they keep most of the tokens in cold storage to prevent theft, not because they are running nodes or staking.

I think we can get DAS listed on other smaller exchanges with nothing more than a community email campaign. I emailed coinsmarkets.com and they were interested in listing - if others email them, I bet they will follow up and list it.  If several community members message coinsexchange I bet they would list it. The exchanges want trading volume, so if they see a crowd of DAS holders asking to trade, thats good for them.

So: email support@coinsmarkets.com and coinsexchange? If we get another exchange it will also pressure Nova to resolve the wallet.

Noob question, but - the 12.2 wallet is probably not syncing because of no recent blocks, correct? I recall it was syncing when blocks were getting found.

Kindly post the source so we can compile our own wallet?

The source code is here: https://github.com/Amistad88/GPA-COIN

Ok you are allowed to be angry.

How much do you want for your 24 masternodes?

Noobs telling devs to do thier job. lol.

Software development is hard, folks, and devs aren't on call 24/7.

Don't like the new release? OK run the old one. Or better yet, dump your DAS on me. Don't flame here.

Link to the "old" source:  https://github.com/hexpool/DAS-source/releases/tag/DAS-v0.12.2

I vote for coinsexchange as our next exchange, has anyone tried to contact them about costs?

"ASIC resistant" is meaningless as long as investors are willing to pay 3x the market value of the hashrate to speculate on sub satoshi coins... and rent massive hash from nicehash to dominate the mining of new coins that they like.

Hopefully the market will correct as people realize that spending .5 btc to mine every new altcoin isn't a great investment strategy?