At one stage I was VERY serious about taking over iCoin but now it looks to be a lost cause, it's become clear what was keeping this coin alive aslong as it was and that was the efforts of the iCoin team. I am also sad this coin did not make it, however if it makes anyone feel any better 90% of the coins have less use then iCoin, at least it's still on coinpayments.

Because the new dev team isn't as good at fake pumps and trades

Honestly man if I knew the exchange owner was Estonian I would never have risked putting money into the exchange, I would never touch that new Comkort exchange either. That is a disaster waiting to happen. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, no Estonian fucker is going to scam me again.

Great to see the premine is in more hands now! I hope the btc will be used to help grow the coin more and the IPO investors have plans to help captainhook promote the coin. I didn't take the IPO because I have enough iCoins and it needed to get into more hands for it to have a future. You guys got the iCoin for a absolute steal compared to what others including myself did.

Recently I have been hearing a lot of complaints about high profile exchanges that only add the latest scam pump and dump coins and not honest coins with a bright future, while this may be the case at the end of the day most exchanges only care about making btc through high trade volumes.
A lot of people were surprised when mintpal added whitecoin, infact there was plenty jokes going around about whitecoin being created after blackcoin on btc-e and poloniex troll boxes because we knew it would start the color coin revolution and today we have a lot of colors to choose from.

None of these coins will add any value besides the enjoyment of playing the pump and dump game. Most of these coins won't add real value outside the crypto world and most certainly won't contribute to growing the industry. We all know for a fact 99% of these colour coins will be a distant memory in 1 year from now.

Why Mintpal is smart is because they ride the high trade volumes for new coins added and then will remove them when volumes dip under a certain amount, hell at the end of the day exchanges don't give a shit about crypto currencies that will have a use but low trade volumes, it's just business. Scam coins have matured and need a lot of btc to get listed onto exchanges now, also scam coins need to show some form of "innovation" to make some btc. This is a good thing because it kills off shitcoins and scam coins with no btc behind it.

Honestly if I knew the exchange was being run by a Estonian I would never have transferred btc to it, 1 btc worth is like retirement package for most Estonians so really it was just way too much temptation for this guy to steal our bitcoins and now use the funds to move to a decent country.
We got no hope of catching Kiur Koster and he knows it, the police force are still 20 years behind most first world countries and would never catch this guy in a million years even if he admits to the crime
they won't know what the fuck he is talking about.

If it is indeed Kenneth B then he played us well because the Norway Police would actually catch him.

I would rather give Captainhook another month to see if he is not too busy with his other scam alts, if he starts taking this coin seriously and do something with the premine then we can look at things.
After looking at things again, there is no ways in hell this is captainhooks only coin because no creator would be so lazy with such a high potential coin.

There is 3 options the community has.

1. I take over iCoin and actually do work on it like noble/pot/digibyte devs but captainhook will still have premine.
2. Create a completely new iCoin from start but as POS/POW with X11 algorithm, this will be the most fair option but everyone will lose money and time.
3. Create a completely new iCoin from start but with Premine to replace current community coins. This will require A LOT of work.

The best way fwd for everyone is captainhook spending the premine, my guess though we won't hear much from him , maybe a update once a month with him hoping someone takes over while he has the premine.

Seen this happen with many coins in the past.

This is a blessing in disguise, ever since iCoin has been on poloniex it has gone downhill with price like a lot of other coins that get listed on there. Bittrex has more volume overall then poloniex now and it will be easier to establish a better price for iCoin on less exchanges.

That is good to know! I take it a lot of the users behind iCoin don't actually post on this ANN.

I have had my doubts in the past but the team has always delivered, I don't think I have seen one complaint from the community where something wasn't given.

The web designer didn't even post on the forums much, only teamicoin, viperbass and sometimes bigridg7.
Yet I would rather have captainhook posting then any of the above because he is the one that gets to decide how the premine gets spent and until that premine is spent he does have all the power and it doesn't matter what any support person says.

This plan is a good one.

Can the community come up with ideas to spend the premine? It needs to go!

Only article i can find on the convention, will the speaker be updating this ann about the convention?

http://coinchomp.com/2014/04/11/cryptocurrency-convention-2014-offering-proof/

I have to say this is a great way to make passive income for coinmarket.io, just leave the site open and collect btc

Has the presentation been released, would like to hear from the speaker at the event to see how iCoin was received.

I am surprised Cryptsy has not added ISRA, they always add scam coins first.

Your btc has been stolen, you can spam this chat a million times and it will not appear in your wallet. Please read Bitari's post and lets take this to the Police, if we don't we deserve to have our bitcoins stolen for not having a fucking backbone.

Thanks Bitari, I will be doing up a mail later today so these scamming fucknuts are brought to justice, if it wasn't for Holzer who captured Kenneths details this site would be long gone.

Even though my personal btc was deposited before the exploits it's clear that this is a scam because of the btc deposits that users did after the exploits have not been given back. So everyone lets get together and give these scamming keyboard warriors a reality check.

Poloniex lowest sell order is slightly over 1500 as I am writing up this post, so the IPO for mintpal vote is a great option right now.

Any possible way I can trade my bitcoins for some of these shitcoins as it seems the only way I will get something out?