again anyone who is building an FPGA or ASIC miner for scrpyt mining is delusional.  LTC liquidity is not there on any exchange so it will drop the price on LTC prices which will make future purchases of ASICs worthless.  Look at what is happening to Avalon and BFL device valuations.  As BTC dif skyrockets the ASIC devices are collapsing in price.  Avalon had to hurry and sell off their remaining chips before no one wanted them.

If you factor the cost of developing an ASIC for scrypt the manufacture would not have enough of a window to get a return on their investment of the manufacturing cost to get a return in 60-90 days.  But as we see with BTC and ASIC that is too long of a window.  They would need to get a return within 30 days because the price on LTC would collapse quickly as people sell off their LTC to recoup the purchases.

So basically there are 2 routes for ASIC developers is the get front loaded a bunch of money and delay shipment as much as possible while they mine or pretend you have a device or are in development of a device to get donations from the community which is anonymous enough that it would make it difficult to get legal action against the scammers.

lol

it's greed, I'm sure that the developers or the few insiders that hold FTC don't want the chain fixed.

You know what else is very damaging to the coin?  Not rolling back.  FTC's reputation is on the line

You see if you allow the attacking chain to persist then the attack wins.  It also sends a message to all other potential attackers that your coin network condones this behavior.  Which means FTC will get attacked again.  FTC will lose hashing power in the future and will be ripe for another attack based on this attack and response I refuse to mine FTC and I'm sure there are others.  Coinchoose has already delisted FTC and I expect that other services will do the same in time.

FTC is broken if you don't fix it then the block chain will have this attack in its history and FTCs future as a potential currency will forever be tarnished.

you can add BigVerns fcpoool to that list too.

I mean the attackers can get their FTC onto Btc-e just fine.

for sure, the block chain is considered valid.  So they can get the ftc on to btc-e just fine.  once they have the ftc on btc-e and have their transactions confirmed (by their won miners of course) they sell their ftc for btc and then there is no reason to keep the chain going they can just drop it.

but the majority is not made up of miners alone.  it is made up of participants, traders,   people who transact the coins.  how does this benefit them.  in this case they are dependent on a healthy network developed to protect against these attacks.

except that the new chain has several fake blocks added to the chain that make it win out.  That is why people had such a hard time getting confirmations and then all of a sudden several blocks appeared in seconds.  What that means is that anyone can come in and add their own blocks claiming all the rewards.  those are fake blocks so they will supersede real transactions so those transactions will be lost.

the majority of real miners will drop out because they don't want to risk getting all their rewards orphaned.  so the only miner will be the fake miner and a bunch of idiots who don't know better.

Well depends on what the devs do.  They can try to replace the fake chain and that will orphan all FTC transactions from the point they fix the chain until the present.  That will probably require distributing the chain to dedicated miners and making it long enough that it beats out the current chain.  But that means they will wipe out legitimate as well as fake transactions a second time.  Basically the chain is hijacked and the coin is now worthless.  Someone is making a killing on the fake chain

someone probably built their own block chain and mined it.  since it is longer they used a ton of hashing power when the network hashing power was low and replaced the original block chain.  The result is a ton of orphans as all the good transactions were wiped out.  Now the new fake chain is in place someone who injected it has a ton of coins to sell into the market.

FTC is broken.  You can't mine it.  I was on Big Verns pool and all his blocks are orphaned.  It shows he has 90% of the network as well.

bitcoin and asicminer is a good example.  "since when is it normal"  not sure that equates to cryptocurrencies but it happens alot in regular life.  securities markets are a good example.  company issues a press release and millions or billions of dollars flow into the stock.  are you trying to support an idea to make markets resistance to buying and selling type mechanisms?  Again nonsense thread.

+1  keep developers invested in their project.

an unskilled worker blames his tools.  not sure what you mean by "coinchoose resistant"  seems like you don't understand economics or programming.  another nonsense thread on bitcointalk.

you are fighting against the inevitable.  celebrate the idiocracy.

coca cola used to be one of those snake oils.

nothing really new  just a few variable changes.

what about pegging to a basket of currencies.  Base it on total exchange conversion.  Well maybe not because it might look like a dollar peg as cryptos are dominated by USD right now.