I don't know the full background history of Monero, but I did join early on. I will give you and tactotime props for stepping in to save a project.

However, on the basis of what you have said about Darkcoin, you should offer up to coinmarketcap a similar desire to have Monero listed as premined / instamined because it was forked from BCN and the code contained depotimisation to rig the mining game, apparently.

You may not have known that, but its a fact that Monero miners were being ripped off. You took over the project because you suspected the dev was a scammer but you didn't relaunch.

Then you just discovered an issue post fact.

The issue may have been resolved, but it still stands. Monero was instamined for the best part of two months, or more.

"Bitmonero was a fork of Bytecoin designed to not have the 80% premine.  But its initial developer either didn't know, didn't care, or wanted to profit from the de-optimized hashing.  That initial developer was pretty quickly given the boot by the community, and in came an unrelated group of developers who took it over---who were, as far as I can tell, completely unaware of the deoptimization.  So things sat there for a few weeks in the same state as Bytecoin."

http://da-data.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.html

You as one of the devs should have worked out there was a problem and not have been told about it but some kid who needed to get permission from his parents to keep spewing out hundreds of thousands of coins and dumping them for a profit.  Wait no, devs don't make mistakes.

Now you suspect a botnet attack, which could easily be more of the above.

You should offer this information up to coinmarketcap to demonstrate you are not just trying to attack the competition, but you genuinely want fair play.

Seems easier for them (hi smooth) to try to kill the competition than to come up with some innovations.

bump with edit to monero devs campaign for the change

Big R are you sampling your stock and beating on the trolls again?

*edit Says me halfway through a surprisingly good Rioja

Big R are you sampling your stock and beating on the trolls again?

How weak and pathetic.   Re-read my post....absorb.

I believe in a welfare state...

I've contacted cryptsy..so we will see what they say. 

The file came from an nzb file.

I wasn't looking carefully and it looked like a folder, and I clicked on it.  It was removed pretty quickly, but I think the damage was done.  I started getting coinbase/ bitfinex reset emails, but I have 2FA on those...so it must have gotten to my gmail data..which I didn't have 2FA on.  Now i do...

Any help you guys are willing to offer, that would be awesome.  My life savings were in those 2 MNs, and this hurts more than you can think.  This may kill the whole crypto thing for me, that's how much it hurts.  I don't really know what to do with myself anymore.

What's odd is that I had 2 wallet.dat files with the same pw, and in 2 different data dirs.  The one that was stolen was the non standard dir (I put it in c:\drk2\) but the regular one (in app data) wasn't stolen..maybe I got it out quick enough (5 minutes after the first). 

Shit, sounds like a targeted hacking  
Hope the other one is ok.
(I did the same for a small bitcoin wallet that was not encrypted thats why I asked, never could work out for sure what caused it so deleted loads of sgminer exes and ended up formating in the end anyway just to make sure)

This is exactly right, I want to comment on something that you have been trying to convey the last few days.  It is dangerous to try to comply with existing dogma in an ever changing environment, it can quickly lead to outdated and forced solutions that no longer apply to the current reality, this is the problem with most altcoins. In Dash we should not try to replicate Bitcoin or be "satoshi pure" or any other nonsense. We should simply analyze the environment as it is, identify weak areas and pain points in crypto and come up with solutions that solve those issues and add value to users, that's it.

 It should be a pure rational exercise deprived of any emotional baggage and that in itself would help more to shape the future set of beliefs than trying to perpetuate existing dogma. Just my 2 duffs.

I also see the history of DASH and the future of DASH in completely different lights. The history of DASH is unfortunate however the technology that is being developed now is very good and we have a strong community, and despite the initial emission curve for DASH the distribution of DASH is still relatively good. Learn to live more in the present then in the past. Do not forget the past, history is important, but it is also important to seize the moment. DASH today has some of the best tech and its principles and goals are still in line with decentralization and financial privacy, as long as these things are true I will continue to support this great currency.