Well folks, I've had a good nights rest and have had some time to reflect on the situation.

So last nights launch, was a failure.
I'm not going to sit here and make excuses and ultimately any failure or success of this project lies sqaurely on my shoulders.

We have several issues....

The diff retarget was broken and set too high
Website got hammered with so much traffic the download link was hard to access
Massive DDOS attacks and volume took out all of the pools, website and database within 5 seconds of launch

I apologize publicly to the community for this outcome. I wish I could change what has happened.
What I would like to do is try to help people perhaps understand.

I myself, am a front end developer. My strengths lie in bringing products to market and I specialize in branding, marketing and product management. I really worked harder than most will ever realize to ensure that any variable I had any kind of control over was managed to the best of my ability.

In order for DopeCoin to work, it was important that I found the right people to handle the aspects of the business that I am unable to accomplish. I can't write a line of code, and I do not have server administration experience.

So I hired a server guy, and I hired a coin developer.

The coin developer named Otakusama was paid to develop the coin over a month ago. 5 days ago Otakusama deleted all of his contact information on the forums, stole the DopeCoin development money I had put up and disappeared completely.
There was a forum full of people, thousands of Twitter followers, Facebook fans and others patiently waiting for DopeCoin's release.

I knew at this point that my project was in serious trouble.

I discreetly reached out to certain members of the community and scrambled desperately to find a new coin developer to save the launch.
After only being able to find one person who was willing to help but who had never created a coin before (thanks Johnny, I appreciate that bud) I reached out to my top php coder from my main business and asked if he would take on the project.

His knowledge with crypto was 0%. But he is one of the best coders I have ever seen and was my only hope at this point.
He put in a tremendous effort and we finally uploaded the src and wallets onto github about 4 hours before launch after working for over 40 hours straight.

We were afraid that something may of been overlooked, and something had been. We had cloned the coin specifications from Otakusamas recommended parameters during our rush and the diff retarget was set at 16 hours. An impossible parameter for the coin to ever work at from what I understand now.

A couple of members of the community warned me about this, I in turn relayed those warning back to Otakusama and his team to which I was told "that's a just a forum troll, he doesn't even know what hes talking about" (looking at you on this Jolly).

The project has experienced a major setback, not unlike the setback it experienced 5 days ago when the development money was stolen.
I take full responsibility for everything that has happened.

What I can promise, is that I tried as hard as I possibly could of to pull it out of the hat and save the launch.
I will learn from each of these mistakes and ultimately will grow from the experience.
What I hope that has been proven through this whole mess is my dedication to this project and willingness to push through major obstacles to get the job done.

DopeCoin is not over, this is just the beginning!
I'm putting together a plan for relaunch and will be using all new third party providers. LiveChains will no longer be hosting the website, wallet download or the mining pools and I will be looking for a more powerful solution. Additionally I am reaching out to the community for a lead developer to help get us back on track.

I have made alot of enemies it appears because of this situation (some of you forum guys said some pretty rude and unnecessary things, shame on you) but alot of support has also come through and many new friends have been made.
 
For those of you that stand by DopeCoin I promise I will do everything in my power to get the project back on track. For those of you that don't, I wish you luck with your other adventures.

Sincerely,

Dopey

One thing I would like to do prior to releasing the updated CasinoCoin wallet is to properly coordinate with the websites and apps that currently use CasinoCoin (ie. pools, exchanges, games, etc). I want to avoid the mistake of other alt-coins that didn't properly coordinate a hard-fork release, causing 2 separate blockchains and resulting in orphans and other issues.

I need to properly identify the sites that currently run the CasinoCoin wallet so I can contact them in advance about the upcoming hard fork. I could use your help to double check my list to see if I'm missing any.

Pools:
- all of the pools listed on the first post of this thread

Block chain sites:
- http://casinocoin.mooo.com/
- http://altexplorer.net/chain/CasinoCoin

Exchanges:
- Cryptsy
- Coins-E

Stats:
- http://www.coinwarz.com
- http://www.cryptocoincharts.info
- http://coinmarketcap.com
- http://wheretomine.com

Games:
- http://www.casinocoincity.com
- http://lotto.coinworld.us/CSC/

Let me know if I've missed anything.

I just finish the 2 first prototype of a Physical Wallet for CSC
I choose the size of a credit card

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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/Komar_Dlty/cscphysicalwallet_1_zpsecabfedb.jpg

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2.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/Komar_Dlty/cscphysicalwallet_2_zps4f0eb2dc.jpg

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I hope you like it.
Give me your feedback.

While I was bored I saw that the CasinoCoin logo was getting a bit fuzzy, so I have recreated it in high definition for you.



And here for a large high definition version for use in other projects (to be scaled down to your desired size).

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/Zen00/casinocoinlarge_zps1f6da5c9.png

Hey guys just working on the new casinocoin.org website and was looking for 3 testimonials about the coin or the devs that we could feature on the homepage. Things that will not only help the overall thought on the coin, but the dedication that is involved around it etc. 100CSC for each one i choose that's 300 CSC total for this little giveaway.

Is CasinoCoin on Twitter? If not, I think it is important that someone makes a Twitter account for it and is active on Twitter. It is also a good place to build some hype for CasinoCoinCity.

In order to get some users for CasinoCoinCity that is not only from the current community there needs to be some hype, attention and excitement about the "new big thing", CasinoCoinCity

If anyone has a blog or something that would also be a great place to spread the word. Or doing some blog comments.

I believe one of the most important thing for CasinoCoin currently is to spread the word or we will continue to see the price going down.

Answers to these questions are actually already given if you read attentively the previous messages. Or you not understand something in my posts?
Well again briefly:

- No, you can not transfer fresh mined coins to cryptsy right now. You can transfer them only to those who also uses this version. Accordingly transfer to the exchanges will be possible only when (if) it upgrade to the new version too - then coins mined now can be transfered and traded. For now only p2p trade is possible.
I have already sent such the request to both exchanges where ORB traded. But i need to be supported by other users to show there they want to use at exchange new updated client instead of the broken official too, and it is not just only my wish.
So send a message (via tickets or email) with such a request on own behalf.
You can refer to my ticket #62004 on criptsy (where I gave a detailed account of the situation to administration) or to this thread in you message to shorten your request
  
- YES and NO simultaneously.
Formally as now the blockchain is also forked yes - the difficulty in each chain is different. But in fact from the end of last year, PoW mining is working only in my version, so that there is only one difficulty in practice. It floats as usual depending on the amount and activity of miners in the range about from 400 to 2000 (0.006 to 0.03)
And the difficulty of the official version it makes no any sense - what is shown as the difficulty in official client and the different monitoing sites(as they use official ver too) is just frozen value(= 4137) from December 30/31, which has not changed because no one could obtain a single PoW block since.

- Yes it what i say last 2 weeks.
And as block #41700 was already reached today you can check this yourself. Or read posts in this threads:
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/2736-looks-like-orbitcoin-will-resume-at-block-417000-in-the-meantime-do-not-use-unofficial-fork/page-6
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/3464-its-nearly-block-417000-please-update-to-orb-version-13-once-reached/page-2
where many users of the official version wrote they do not see any positive changes after 417000 as i pedicted long ago (it was relative easy - i just test and debug official code so can forecast how it will be working after patch activation). Although exist possibility that the original developer(RedMist) has already prepared another working version, which he will now begin to use for himself and/or friends. But the version that is laid out in public access by them as official "fix" - does still not work with the PoW even after target block.

- Not really. Rather are 2 versions of the same coin. Which may merge back into one later. Or one wins and the other die. Or continue to exist both in parallel. Time (and your actions including too) will show.