btc38 is all right with us and xcn, they opened their wallet some days ago because I'm in contact with them and provided the new wallet.
trading is closed, along with other coins, because they are closing ALL trading, like all the other chinese exchanges.
it is not related to any xcn issue.

"this coin wasn't well looked after" - "just marketing plans"
Me and bitfreak have been working on the code for months, during our free time (I have a full time job) and with nothing in return. This coin is not developed by full time professionals. Again I think that, despite the issues, it's a very successful coin, considering how long it survived and all the new technology that it contains. Just compare it to the 90% of coins out there: they are just copy and paste from another coin with minimal differences, abandoned by the devs after few months.

"continue to improve the stability"
That's what we've been doing the last few months, after I took the coin development and bitfreak came back.

"reliability is the first priority"
Hence why we focused on stability and fixes in general, instead of adding new features.

"people were still saying sync issue"
Since the last sync fixes, I don't recall any such issue been reported.

Maybe people will think that xcn is in a bad moment now.
But if you look from a different perspective you will see that this is probably not the case: the coin recently got many stability fixes and speedups, bitfreak is back to help me with coin development, we had external contributions to the code and new services, etc.
As soon as we sort out the exchanges situation together, things will look much better.
We value code and honesty of the people who work on the coin more than the current price. And, besides, price will go down and will go up again.
I think that the current price is not that much important: what really matters is the potential of the coin, what price it will be able to reach in the future.

Sorry for your choice, you will miss the price increase which will inevitably happen when we get back into a bigger exchange like poloniex or bittrex.

I don't agree. XCN has unique features and is now more stable than ever. Plus, I find that the long history of the coin (almost 4 years) is a big plus, not a deficiency.
If you like pump and dump coins, which are abandoned after a couple months, then yes, you are better with another coin.

That's btc38 address. We can't block it because it contains funds of honest users as well.

We provided the exchanges with the offending addresses. What they do I don't know nor can force them to do anything.

1) as we said, that's the ceiling and we don't know how much of those funds are really accessible by the hacker, the real amount may be much less.
2) it's obvious when you know what it is :-) bitfreak had to create a blockchain analysis tool from scratch to detect the problematic blocks, then we had to find which bug in the code permitted such wrong blocks/transactions, then we had to fix it, then we had to make a tool to create raw transactions on testnet to see if the hole was in fact closed, etc. etc.

Most of the hacked funds should be locked now, but a little part of them got into circulation and we can't do anything about them, because we would risk harming honest users.
The final effect is a higher current supply: about 260M more, but it depends if the hacker will move those funds and if part of them got locked on the exchanges; probably accessible surplus is less.

effect of the new chinese regulation.
we will just move to another exchange.
you can already use novaexchange or you can wait for bittrex and/or poloniex (or any other that will come).

I don't know how this chinese thing will end up, but I can say we are in contact with bittrex and poloniex to have the coin listed there. Unfortunately they are both very busy, at least that's what they use to say.

"The P106-100 is based on the Nvidia GP106 GPU (GeForce GTX 1060). It is basically the same card with a couple of modifications:

– The Mining P106-100 features no display outputs whatsoever and it has no backplate."

same for the other brands.

While I tend to agree with you, the gpu board brands are making mining cards with 1060, not 1070 or bigger.
That means the big gpu farms are using 1060s.

I don't think so: btc38 updated their wallet and opened withdrawals.
I think they will open deposits soon.

XCN Cryptonite URGENT Wallet update

Due to the recent discovery of a security hole in the wallet code, we kindly request everyone to update their XCN wallet urgently.

Please find the sources here, as usual:

https://github.com/pallas1/Cryptonite

Windows binaries here:

http://cryptonite.info/?page=download

Further details will be posted as soon as possible.

Quickly updating your wallet will help making the network safe. Thank you for your understanding.

The Cryptonite developers (Bitfreak and Pallas).

Since it went up to over 3000 SAT in june, I see no reason why it can't easily reach 1000 SAT in the near future ;-)

no, it's much quicker to base the work on current 512 bit kernels.
I did such digest size changes in the past and I know what I'm talking about.
writing from scratch doesn't make any sense, it's waisting time.

xcn coin had issues, but the technology rules! that's why I really want it to survive and, better, be successful.

it's not close to death and, well, let's say it was very satisfactory :-)

well, it's just a matter of extending the x17 algos to 1024 bits, which in most cases is just repeating a call and setting the padding.
the most boring part is looking for info on how to set the padding correctly (or looking at the cpu code to guess it).
I think it should take max one day for a decent cuda programmer.
I thought of doing it a lot of times, but I always had something more fun and more profitable to do.