Please list community coin (COMM) in the poll. It is a new proof of stake coin that is currently being fairly distributed among 500 bitcointalk members. The distribution is almost complete and a big community has already grown around the coin who would like to actively vote for it to be listed on bter.

Thanks for all your hard work dev. CommunityCoin is on a thread listing coins that have responded to the Heartbleed bug. It shows these coins have active and attentive developers. There are 200+ coins on coinmarketcap and only 17 currently in the list that have updated! It's really nice to see CommunityCoin in there.

This dev is trying to revive both astrocoin and beecoin. They are both dirt cheap right now and I was wondering whether to invest in them in the hope the dev's work will raise their value.

However, androids tokens was revived by a new dev team and it has gone down in value since then. The devs did a great job but maybe the falling price of bitcoin drove androids tokens price down.

All the alts seem to be falling in value and I'm just not sure if astrocoin and beecoin stand a chance of rising in value.

I'm a newbie so I'm not a technical expert at using bitcoin wallets. Could you provide a dummies guide on how to sign an æther address under your control with a bitcoin private key?

I know this is very basic stuff to an expert but if you want mass adoption you need to explain a technical step like this in a way that even technophobes can understand.

A month ago I would have said I had a lot invested in mint. However, since the price of bitcoin and mint have both dropped my investment is not worth much money. I think it's currently about $30 and about a month ago it must have been $150+

I'm in it for the long run, but it's a bit depressing thinking I had a fair bit of money invested in something that's worth about 5 times less than it was. I suppose almost everyone is in the same boat at the moment.

I had a few really generous giveaways from a few people on here and it really makes a difference to how I see people. There are plenty of scammers but also plenty of really nice, decent people who go out of their way to help others. It's nice to know not everyone is out to rip you off.

The best time to buy the next big thing is when it has just been listed on an exchange. Once it starts shooting up in price it is usually too late to buy at really low prices. I regret not buying doge when it was newly listed on coinedup and dirt cheap. It might well survive the current downturn and shoot up in price in the future.

Some of the new PoS coins seem popular and you can get the newly listed ones at really low prices. They might be really big later in 2014.

I just tried

https://www.allcoin.com/trade/bee_btc

and it said the market does not exist and I was redirected to the site home page. Like you said there is still a BEE/litecoin market there. They must have recently removed the BEE/bitcoin market because BEE was trading below 1 sat.

They fixed the OpenSSL bug quickly though. The top of the site currently says

We've solved the OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug and passed the safety test

I have not been keeping up to date on fair coin recently. Does the new multipool intend to raise the price of fair coin up to a certain level, then maintain it at a fixed price, or is the idea to continually raise the price as much as possible? Multipools are a new concept for me that I do not fully understand yet.

The bug can affect the exchanges COMM is traded on. COMM itself is using OpenSSL 1.0.1e and is therefore vulnerable, as BitcoinFX just pointed out.

I cannot find anything on the mintpal website about them having to upgrade to fix the OpenSSL vulnerability, but it is sure to be fixed by the time COMM is listed there, if it needs fixing .

The only exchange currently trading COMM, AllCrypt.com, upgraded the SSL of the server as soon as they heard about it

https://www.allcrypt.com/blog/2014/04/allcrypt-com-safe-from-ssl-heartbleed-bug/

Even the really big exchanges are affected. Bitstamp decided to temporally deactivate: -account registration -account login -and all virtual currency withdrawal functions while fixing the OpenSSL vulnerability.

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/statement-regarding-opensll-vulnerability/

Later, Bitstamp Support made a post stating Bitstamp is now secure from the reported OpenSSL vulnerability. Account registration and login functionality have been restored. All API keys have been reset. Finally, withdrawals will be restored by 8:00 GMT tomorrow.

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/update-regarding-openssl-vulnerability/

I just found this post on the CGA thread about their fix for the new OpenSSL vulnerability. Apparently it is called the Heartbleed bug and allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. It looks like most coin's Qt wallets will need updating to the latest OpenSSL version because of this, including bitcoin's Qt wallet.

On April 07 the dev said we need about 100 members more


Early today the dev said you will have to wait extra 24 hours after he finishes processing the final applications in his list


Later today the dev said he had just cleaned up his backlogs and no new application were waiting his review

The original thread said that some exchanges use OpenSSL, and any using older versions are vulnerable to being hacked. I know COMM is already being traded on allcrypt and we are voting to be listed on mintpal. Perhaps someone with expertise in this field knows how to check if these exchanges use OpenSSL and if so, what version they are using.

If either exchange has not upgraded then it risks getting hacked. I would not like anyone in the COMM community to lose coins while trading on a vulnerable exchange. It would be great if someone could check and tell us if allcrypt or mintpal is vulnerable to this attack.

Maybe if bitcoin falls further in value there will be less and less shit coins released. I heard that before bitcoin zoomed up in value there were very few alts, perhaps because people thought there would be no money in them. By last christmas people were talking about bitcoin hitting $1 million, and the dollar signs obviously lit up in plenty of unscrupulous devs eyes.

Someone just started a thread about a new security flaw affecting OpenSSL and all wallets using anything but the latest version.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=561464.0

He says "although the vulnerability has been addressed in OpenSSL's version 1.0.1g, it is present in prior versions up to 1.0.1f."

He goes on to say he checked the current Vertcoin wallet and it is vulnerable because it is using version 1.0.1'c'.

Apparently CGA and YACC will be updated soon.

The thread also says any exchanges using OpenSSL are vulnerable too.

I just checked the latest community coin wallet but could not find the OpenSSL version it uses.

All I could find in the Qt help was "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project".

They are a new exchange and I assume they opened in recently 2014 judging by the copyright at the bottom of their page. It takes time to build trust and so many exchanges outright scam people or get hacked nowadays that an exchange has to demonstrate it is reliable for a long period of time before people really start trusting it in big numbers.

I considered trading fair coin there but as you say, the volume is very low. Since the 4th of this month the biggest fair coin trade has been for 2100 coins which is nothing compared to mintpal. I guess it must have opened later than mintpal.

The black coin multipool certainly seems to be working at present. I heard mint tried a multipool but it went wrong and nobody seems sure what the reason was. Will it affect black coin if other coins adopt the same idea and start running multipools for their coins?

I think the mint team is still considering reviving theirs.

Great, I like the whole PoS concept, but I hate the idea of being forced to leave an open wallet connected to the network for extended periods of time. If someone invents a way to let an encrypted wallet stake it should encourage a lot more people to adopt PoS coins.

Who is developing this new feature?

I'm new and only recently heard Solidcoin even existed. Recently I found one really small exchange still trading it. I never even heard of tenebrix/fairbrix until, now. None of these coins are even on coinmarketcap and there are some really shit coins right at the bottom of it.

If there were only a few alt coins back in Solidcoin's day and quite a few seem to be dead, how many of today's shit coins will go the same way? I bet that in a year's time newcomers will never even know half of the coins on coinmarketcap today even existed.

I read an article that said zeta coin sky rocketed because of some unknown development due to be announced. It said some people on here were saying it is a pump and dump, but others were saying something big is in the pipeline for zeta.

Has anyone any idea what the unknown development due to be announced actually is?

Is it just another pump and dump fueled by rumors?