Indeed. Whenever a dev disappears for "vacation", "hospital emergency illness", or other abrupt reasons within the first week or two of launching a coin, it spells disaster 99% of the time.

Bots are a part of every market in the world - NASDAQ, NYSE, etc. all have algorithmic trading, at much higher frequency.

Rules are rules.. complaining about them while you evade bans to post isn't going to do you any good.

I mean an external one with some more enhanced features like displaying the number of PoS blocks vs. PoW blocks

Are the devs planning on doing something about the increase in the premine percentage? As it stands, the premine percentage is now 33% higher than the claimed 2% because of the reduction in coins generated from the PoW period because of the inclusion of PoS blocks...

I would guess there will be a bit less than that, given the specs, but without a block explorer it isn't easy to track.

"Proof of Reserve" sounds like an interesting idea. Do you actually have an algorithmic implementation mechanism, or is this just a pure-PoS coin with a manual initial distribution? When do you anticipate publishing wallet source code? What sort of plans do you have to make it actually useful - vendors, commercial adoption, services, etc?

As both BTC and LTC are currently falling, most altcoins will likely follow the same path for now unfortunately. The ones with real utility will rebound. If we're all lucky, the useless scams will die.

Moderation powers can be removed if abused, so I don't see any reason why BCX couldn't be added since so few others are willing to step in and mod the alt currencies board.

Adding mods for alt currencies would definitely help, especially with the new rules on spam/advertising.

"Prophet" at 1566 isn't a bad idea. As a middle step between Legendary and that, activity 1337 could be Elite.

The real problem here isn't "mintpal", but all the bagholders that were just waiting for the coin to get listed on Mintpal so they could try to sell at a high price. This coin has been around since April, after all.

Definitely! Even better than a guide would be a video demo.. don't forget the beets though.  

Logo contests won't help the price of the coin, but a new logo is a necessity. The biggest thing altcoins can do to be successful is to get real world PR coverage. Are there any plans to do that?

You can build FPGAs for almost all existing altcoin algorithms. NIST5 and X11 both have had fully published chip/board designs for FPGAs for years, but there's zero real evidence that there are any commercially viable (aka cost effective) FPGAs actually mining. Whether it is worth the time or money to build them depends on the prevalence of an algorithm, and whether they are cost effective vs. GPUs.

The rise in network hashrates for X11 is primarily due to two factors: 1) GPU mining farms have moved from scrypt to X11, and 2) X11 GPU hashrates are becoming more optimized by the week (and are now ~5-6x scrypt hashrates.. so keep in mind that 6Gh X11 is really just 1Gh of scrypt GPU hashpower).

I'm bearish on Litecoin generally, but the serious recent drops are surprising even to me.

Do you have plans to release a whitepaper detailing the anonymous system you've created "from scratch"?

Cinni was a great coin a few months ago, but development seems to have stagnated now especially with the loss of Rynomster and the features he was working on. What else is planned on the development roadmap to keep everyone interested?

Or maybe a contest? Competition is always a good way to get the creative juices flowing!

Limiting workers or hashrates will inevitably fail because people will just create multiple users. Especially with the coin already being X15, what's the purpose in that anyway?

Thanks to the mods for finally enacting a rule about advertising on threads. Hopefully we will see some of the other needed changes that have been discussed around here as well.