Best answer in this thread.  Thanks for offering concrete info and links to further information.

Coinmarketcap is not a filter to defend against scams.  It is a simple listing/information service.  They list thousands of coins/tokens, some of which are outright scams and many of which will fail over time.

Can someone clarify the transition from Ethereum to Cosmos for me?  I didn't find the info in the latest white paper to be entirely clear.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentinel-official/docs/master/whitepaper/whitepaper.pdf

Cosmos is all about creating interoperability between different block-chains based on different technologies.  Is Sentinel actually being:

• recoded from ERC20 to Cosmos based-code?
• being adapted to interact with the Cosmos hub and will remain ERC20?
• something else?

Thanks.

Username: coliva

Being optimistic is perfectly fine, but here is a bit of history to help keep things grounded.

Hey shogun47.  I've seen some references to the new anonymous feature with the updated wallet.  What technology is being implemented for this feature?  Is there any documentation/white paper?  Thanks.

Hey r-ando.  Welcome back from hibernation. Very nice contribution.  I'm not much for video editing, but I think the following two links might be useful:

Same video minus the Bitcoin parts at the front/back: http://youtu.be/j2mdYX1nF_Y

The full interview that this is pulled from (11:41-15:35).  There are some additional parts that might be useful in a remix, such as some comments by the interviewer at the beginning about the predicted rise of the regulatory state:  http://youtu.be/mlwxdyLnMXM.  I'd recommend a note in any remix pointing to this video so that people can see the resulting new video was not taken out of context.

Ding, ding, ding!  Thank you!  Having a good technical solution is very important and I'm hoping the new leadership group can get us there, but it is also very important to move the coin into daily use and not just a toy for day trading.  Libertycoin needs both solid technical quality and promotion towards public usage to survive long term.

You get 'em TS.  Gotta love it.  We have our first DRK programmer groupie....  

Nice summary of today's problem and excellent news about the new developer support.  Thanks!

The hard fork update went in today and ran into a hickup.  They had to put in a quick update and disable masternode payments again.  The DRK prices that were rising over the last 24 hours or so dropped.  You should update your wallet to version x.2.  Notes here: https://darkcointalk.org/threads/reverting-rc3-masternode-payments-fork.1458/

Doesn't matter.  The market has spoken!  

Looks like someone dumped 3000+ in a single sale.

You read too much into my comment.  I never claimed edufield was Satoshi.  Just commenting that implementing new technologies can be difficult and it is impressive that Satoshi got so much right.

Days like this make me appreciate all the more what Satoshi was able to accomplish.  His software wasn't perfect and was tweaked numerous times before people started to pay attention, but he was able to implement some important new technologies successfully.  He did have the big advantage that he had a very small audience looking over his shoulder as he got it working right and they were generally supportive.

It is a real coin, but it is in a lot of trouble right now.  The original developer has not been able to deliver key promised functionality and has been very poor at communicating.  The community has lost confidence that he will be able to deliver and a new group is trying to take control and lead this coin forward in a better direction.  It remains to be seen if they succeed, but I believe they are sincere.  Right now, Libertycoin is a very speculative investment, so I'd be hesitant to invest a lot of new money in it.  If you want to invest a small amount on the chance that things improve, go right ahead.  You can get a lot of coins cheap right now.

It would appear so.  Most of the posts offering feedback asked for the anonymity feature to be implemented.  He just announced that it will not be implemented.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=600322.msg7413019#msg7413019

It doesn't need hype.  It needs delivery of promised features, promotion, integration into payment systems, etc, etc.  In other words, real progress.

I sympathize with your frustration and it is obvious that many others do as well.  The faster-moving conversation is going on at IRC rather than here.  Feel free to join in at https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net?channel=#libertycoin and see what other people are trying to do and see what you can do to help get XLB moving forward.  It seems like most of the chat is going on in the afternoon/evening, but you can check in any time.

1- What is your perception of Libertycoin?
* I bought into Libertycoin during that short window while IconicExpert was actively promoting it.  The biggest attraction was the promised anonymity feature.  When things blew up with IE, I was rather confused who the players were.  The promoted "big announcement" turned out to be an attack on XLB.  Was IE a developer as claimed?  Who were the developers and why wasn't I hearing from them at the time?
* Because of the info above, I was confused for several days who the primary players were for XLB and who I should pay the most attention to.  There was a lot of negativity and FUD going on in the main Libertycoin discussion thread, which left me dispirited and I'm sure turned off people that were reading about Libertycoin for the first time.
* At this point, I hope Libertycoin does well and have no intention of selling as I'm holding in the hopes that it actually delivers on it's promise.  However, I'm not very enthusiastic and want to see some evidence of progress.

2- What do you think we can do to improve?
* You have the first couple of posts in the main Libertycoin discussion thread and therefore control it.  When you look at them, the first user name mentioned in IconicExpert in post #2 and an explanation of the blow-up around him.  Please insert a short section listing the primary players and their roles in post #1 so that people know who speaks "with authority" for Libertycoin.  This should include the developers and the new marketing people.
* Libertycoin needs better communications with the community.  I understand you tried to do that with IE, but it went badly.  Hopefully, the new people will work out much better.  Please try to keep us in the loop on technical and promotional progress.  I understand that there are limits, but it still is helpful to be aware of what the current development directions are and a rough gauge of progress.  Hard dates aren't necessary and it is more important that the updates be done well than quickly.
* The Libertycoin name is an excellent point in our favor, but I really want the technology that supports the name to work.  Please get anonymity working!

I'm not interested in taking any of your coins and wish you and this project well.  I hope you are able to deliver the anonymity features which would be the biggest differentiator from the large quantity of altcoins out there.

Just over $0.02 at the moment.  You can easily check the current value in USD/BTC/EUR/etc of all major crypto-currencies at http://coinmarketcap.com/

Did you recently just install the wallet?  If so, this is normal. Out of sync means that you don't have all of the transaction data downloaded yet.  There is a lot of info there, so it takes a while.  You should see a status line at the bottom indicating progress on downloading that data.  Once you are caught up, then you will be "in sync".

This is "Liberty"coin, right?  That means people are free to buy and sell whenever they feel like.  They are free to make a profit or loss.  As long as Libertycoin and associated services looks like it is moving in a positive direction, the general price trend will be upwards.