To make a closer analogy, if we had a nasty fight, and she went away for 1.5 weeks and counting without replying to messages ... well, I would be concerned.

In a way, you are kind of right, insofar as reassurance to the community would be less important during most weeks, if we had no particular reason to be worried.  But this is a special time, coming right on the heels of the developer split.

Pure_Vidz experienced substantial unpleasantness: his fellow coder leaving, the tone of the community in this thread seemingly turning hostile (though really just some posters), and even someone trying to reset his password and dox him.  I would hope it would not make him decide to permanently leave this job, but I don't know him personally, making predicting a reaction difficult.  Some people are relatively emotionally sensitive, others not.  My hope remains that there was just a temporary time out and break, before future return.

Certainly one would hope that the financial potential of further development of this project would be a sufficient motive, and I have noticed that he has not seemed to dump his own shares.

Pure_Vidz, if you are back, as the moderator activity post would imply if true:

I can't overstate the value of even a single one-liner post from you once a week.  You could ignore most of the recent posts in this thread (mostly just several spammy posters anyway), but the success of this project will be aided if the community has hope you have not abandoned it entirely: Even 2 minutes could deliver that hope.

You make a very interesting post.  I lack the technical study at this time to directly confirm it myself, but all your logic sounds plausible.

A big question then might be just how fast confirmation time could a coin have by relatively readily doable adjustments?  20 seconds?  10 seconds?  Less?

The other big question would be, if so, why hasn't someone done so already?  Out of hundreds of coins, being able to (uniquely?) stand out by having confirmations in a few seconds would seem something quite helpful for relative interest and success if well-advertised.

Of course, the answer might be just that nobody has really tried, because only a few people create coins more sophisticated than generic clones, and those few people have not realized the potential or have been focused on other goals.

Kiklo and Equator, thanks for the examples.  I hadn't known of such before.

I am no technical expert, but it appears there might be three identified routes to such as <= 10 second confirmation times -- as not absolutely required but as sure would be a nice competitive advantage:

a) Using a DAG instead of a blockchain, as done by Byteball ... presently with several-minute confirmation times but with a developer comment suggesting 10 to 100 times faster is possible once later getting around to seriously trying to improve speed.

b) Using the lightning network, though no coin has implemented it yet, and, IIRC, it has tradeoffs in centralization.

c) Maybe, maybe such super fast confirmations might be possible with a blockchain-based coin -- not that I know.

I plan to check some coins advertising themselves as "instant."

I would donate once there is a bitcoin address to do so.

What altcoins (if any) other than Byteball presently have confirmation times under 5 minutes in your experience?

Many coins have nearly instant unconfirmed transactions, but I mean the time to when a transaction receives one or more confirmations.

This may also be relevant to what could happen if Segwit and the Lightning Network forever flounder without implementation on Bitcoin, due to uncooperative miners (a tragedy of the commons situation where they don't have the personal incentive in miner fee gain to bother).  While nominally bad, it might set the stage for a rise of some altcoin with technical advantages, not instantly but over a period of years.

You can tell that Devilsadvokat is not an alt of Pure_Vidz by differences in writing styles.  Look in post history.

For instance, in his initial posts, the former used to sign a lot of his messages with "Regards" at the end, whereas the latter never did.

It would be technically possible to deliberately practice different writing styles long in advance, but nearly nobody is that good.

Admittedly, at quick glance, I am not able to conclusively tell that Asphyxia and PV are separate people (though I think so), but Devilsadvokat is practically certainly an independent person.

Sadly, that is fake.  Pure_Vidz does not randomly or otherwise incorrectly capitalize a multitude of words which should not be capitalized.  You personally, however, do.

A glance at Pure_Vidz's post history proves the preceding:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=911110;sa=showPosts

He might be coming back, especially as all behavior could be explained by just feeling like taking a break for a few days after a torrent of abuse from some posters.  Yet please don't post fakes which are obvious to a native speaker.

The sheer volume of coins dumped on Yobit is impressive, looking like tens of millions since the developer-split crash, including more than ten million in the past week alone.  Despite, or in a way because of that, though, it is probably going to bottom out soon.

The Vidz block explorer indirectly implies that quite a lot of the total 125 million (minus 7.6 million burnt) supply is in developer wallets and other wallets showing no activity in a number of days (thus not suggestive of any tendency to participate in the recent dumping).  Outside of those, there just aren't that many tens of millions of further Vidz left in dumper inventories, it seems.

Dumpers are liable to simply run out of ammo (coins) soon, possibly before the additional 10 million or so Vidz of dumping which would be required to break through remaining buy walls to delve much deeper.

After all, presumably those tending to buy the dumps at this time tend to be people with more trust in the Vidz developer coming back.

Yobit would be the perfect exchange for Trollcoin.  On a number of altcoins, it is second only to Poloniex in trading volume (e.g. coinmarketcap list).

Yobit is like a party every day of pumps and dumps, with interest as much determined by a coin's name as anything else.  Unlike Trollcoin, Putin Coin has no particular technical features existent or planned (and a long-vanished developer), but nevertheless Yobit denizens put countless bitcoins into it because they liked the name.

The local trolls would appreciate a coin called Trollcoin.

The dev definitely isn't a scammer.  I'm an original ICO investor, and I've made money off this.

The ICO price was something like under 40 satoshi.  (I forget the exact figure, but that is close enough).  Over the weeks, I have sold a lot of coins at around 100 satoshi.  Overall, the price trend is up over time, though it does lean towards a wide spread for buy versus sell offers.

It is averaging multiple temporary buy surges a month, some days to weeks apart, whether due to purchases for coin creation services or whatever other reason.

Okay, after doing a search for a fragment of the above quote in Discord, I was able to find a clearer statement of yours:


I suppose that means, if others burn under 10 million of Vidz, then 0 of your burnt Vidz would be swapped for Atmos.


Many developers like Discord and Slack for whatever reason.  However, please keep in mind that really those reduce visibility to the public, compared to Bitcointalk threads.  So please keep posting here too.  Many of us have many other coins we follow, and Bitcointalk nicely has threads for each, all in the same place, without going to countless individual sites.

Aside from how I haven't checked how it may vary if having a smaller font, Discord seems to waste most screen real estate on other than the main feed.  Also, page up/down scrolling feels lagging and clunky.

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With that said, mild annoyance with Discord aside:

Thank you for your reply, and you do seem to indeed be fair in coin distribution.  (I may wait a few days before pulling some funds from elsewhere but will invest, with both bitcoin and vidz).

He is right not to answer that, as an answer on permanent record would only open up potential regulatory/legal risks, for no gain.

Whether this project succeeds or not is going to be determined by how hard and well he works in the future, not whether or not he is anonymous.

Some of the best crypto projects have anonymous developers, following in the tradition of Satoshi Nakamoto.

For instance, given what I know of FINCEN regulation, if I ever developed a cryptocurrency myself, I would do so anonymously and most especially without anyone knowing I am an American technically under their jurisdiction.

By the way, I doubt he is Russian, since, if he was, he wouldn't need to pay for a Russian translation.  He might be European, though, but it doesn't matter.

Presumably this means that, if the sum of both rounds of the crowdfund obtains under $100,000, swapping (burning) Vidz would then be a mistake for an investor, insofar as there is no way to refund burnt Vidz.

I am planning to donate some bitcoin, which does not have the disadvantage of an inability to refund.  However, I still had the following question on the Vidz swap, since I might want to do a mixture of both:

To know how much Atmos is gained from burning Vidz, one has to know how much Vidz is counted as burnt, but, right now, there are two drastically different numbers for relevant Vidz burnt.

It utterly depends on whether looking at http://novusphere.io/ (0.3 million so far) or the following with 7.5 million instead:

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vidz/address.dws?VidzBurnAddrForTheNovusphereZEZyCQ.htm

Scenario 1: You don't give yourself any atmos from the 7 million vidz you burnt.

Scenario 2: You do give yourself atmos from the 7 million vidz you burnt.

Which scenario is true?

How much atmos I gain by burning vidz myself varies vastly depending on the answer, so please clarify.  As an investor, naturally I prefer not to have quite so huge superfluous uncertainty, though you answering this post would resolve that.

Because everyone rewards nasty harassment?  Wrong.  I would respond to you with profanity and be tempted to with far more illegal actions.

Seriously, stop it.  Your behavior is despicable.

The amount of toxicity in this thread recently is enough that up to most people would be annoyed enough to take a temporary break -- not because of being a scammer but just from not being inclined to handle it ... and busy on actual development.

I saw a top developer on a billion-dollar game (totally unrelated to crypto) take a break from community interaction after less abuse than this.

Too many of you guys keep bashing on Pure_Vidz when he isn't the developer who left.  He is who stayed, working on salvaging the situation.



Thank you for your continuing efforts.  Quick periodic update posts per couple weeks could help to remind worrywarts that you are still around, even if not having a new product version complete yet.  But the worst posters do not represent the rest of us.

For both you and any others encountering it, here might be a solution for the Electrum "no inputs found" error, hopefully anyway:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1480406.msg14925130#msg14925130

While from 5 months ago, the following is relevant:

https://www.reddit.com/r/XEL/comments/50t5yh/some_useful_information/

... including a whitepaper:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic-project/whitepaper/master/whitepaper.pdf

The presently incomplete website will be expanded later.  Currently, one of its most informative parts is:

http://www.elastic-project.com/comparison_with_other_solutions

I am no expert, but the following would be my first quick attempt at a summary:

Sorry to hear that.

Perhaps the following might help as an interim measure, while awaiting a fancier arrangement:

A partial example could be taken from the opening poster of this thread: Lannister has "I'm blocking all private messages" displayed under his forum name.

You could have: "Messages to me must be posted in the XEL thread, not sent directly."

If messages are posted here, then nearly all could be replied to by other people, leaving about none left unreplied for you.  (Besides, then even the most minor queries would have some benefit at least: bumping the thread so more people hear about Elastic).

I'm no communications manager, but I can occasionally help with an easy in-thread query.  So might probably a dozen others.  Most of us can't help you code, which indeed is precisely why we don't want your valuable time diverted for what others actually can handle.

I helped out with my one free vote.  However, that brings the total at this time only to 2 votes, which means even most of the developers themselves have not voted yet.

It is apparent that the equivalent of around 500 to 900 votes is needed to get the coin added.  To get that number, most of them are going to need to be paid votes costing 1 mBtc each, so the total cost would be moderately under 0.5 to 0.9 Btc.

Obtaining that may take getting the ball rolling in a concerted effort.  For instance, I considered donating up to 0.1 Btc myself, but I am hesitant to do so with present uncertainty over whether it would do any good.  On the other hand, if vote attainment does start seriously taking off, myself and perhaps others will be more likely to donate.