Stealth addresses are now live on MON mainnet. VTC release will follow once further beta testing has taken place in MON, so please help to test.

http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/298wpl/monocle_stealth_address_release_candidate_1/

Just a quick message to all of you to say the inflation is still under active discussion - we've spent a number of hours today talking about it, and we'll bring you all a further update soon.

Buy fear, sell greed

Yes, it is being discussed

Would those "suggestions" be suggestions for work _other people_ could do?

Also, you certainly didn't send me any emails, and I haven't heard about you emailing anyone else in the dev team.

If that's how you feel, why don't YOU do some unpaid work on VTC, instead of whining like a bitch?

Just a reminder to please participate in the alpha testing of stealth addresses in MON:

http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/27rfhk/stealth_address_alpha_testing_testnet/

Once testing and validation has taken place, and further fixes and development has been done, SX addresses will be coming to VTC

BBrisow - thanks.

iGoodw1n - yes, a big PR initiative is on the way shortly.

I don't think now is any more crucial than any other time (ie. I'm not really that interested in the price, and I don't think that's what the devs should be interested in).

We certainly do show up! A casual read back through the thread will show the extent to which we're all active here, but more importantly we're working on actually implementing new stuff, rather than tending a bitcointalk thread - again, it's a matter of perception, and I understand people want to see us here, but we are plenty active in the thread, and much more active actually doing stuff!

Hurrah. Someone who gets it. Have a cigar.

We are ready! We do care!

Yes, there's a bounty at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=629161.20 for pool software

My test deposit worked, then my real one has got lost.

Hold your bools 

I'll add 20 BBR to make this a 500 BBR bounty.

Exactly. But I'd also like to point out (again) that the price hasn't fallen - continual investment into VTC has ensured the price has remained stable - people measuring against BTC might as well be measuring VTC price in terms of Lean Hog contracts.

Changing the economics of the system is completely out of the question. You don't change the rules of the game once people have started playing - it's a scam. In addition, it upsets the equilibrium that the market finds, and makes it impossible for price discovery to happen - a blockchain can protect as much money as it has the hashrate to secure, that's one of the reasons that I believe VTC is cheap at $1, and it's also a reason to keep miners well incentivised to secure the blockchain.

+1

BTC isn't a very suitable yardstick to measure value against. For all you can say against fiat money (which is rather a lot) it does tend, in the short term, to buy a similar amount of real-world value, so it's much more appropriate to measure the value of VTC against a somewhat stable reference like fiat - when you do this, you'll find the purchasing power of VTC hasn't really budged in this "downtrend". Given the large amount of ongoing investment that implies (which other people in the last few posts have put in terms of specific numbers), it's a very positive sign for VTC.