Responsiveness is done by the web designer, not the host. Unless I read that wrong.

WTF? HOW CAN YOU VERIFY THAT POSTER WAS SCAMMED?? ask for a smaller transation to new coins btc support address? but how will you prevent the scammer to take his part in that case (he obviously made fake transactions to himself)?

Cause every person can post like: I was scammed for 20 btc, I'd like 2/7 of the new coin premine. Idea is ok, but there's no way to make it right. It's just a very expensive lesson for some ppl!

I'm looking to purchase a PS4 or XBOX ONE with XCP.

The Counterparty team would like to show its appreciation for how professionally busoni has handled everything in the past few days. Accordingly, we’ll be donating the 12 BTC that we set aside to give to the attacker instead to Poloniex, to help busoni recoup the funds that users have lost because of this vulnerability in the code, which he was indeed the first to report to us. We encourage the rest of the Counterparty community to help support this exchange---the first centralised exchange to support trading XCP and BTC. Again, all donations should be directed to <15buRLRW47AY9Md3mpFj17Yp6w4BtfMRjc>.

Okay, people seem to think donations are the best way to go. I agree. I think taxing Poloniex balances or everyone's XCP balances would be disastrous.

I have created a thread on the Counterparty forums for donations: https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,127.0.html

The total missing is actually about 6100 XCP instead of 7000, as some people had not yet withdrawn and I was able to deduct balances.

Your donations are greatly appreciated, and as soon as the missing XCP is covered, I will open up withdrawals so people can get at their XCP.

Good explanation cityglut! We're all behind you!  

Thanks for your great leadership!  

Lets donate guys - we all want to put this behind us as quickly as possible!  

as already answered (ok there are quite some pages now, do not want to blame you) you will have to release the funds one day before the official LAUNCH. so you can participate in an open beta before. You will see within the whitepaper that there are some technical details that do not match the bitcoin protocol at all. Please wait for the whitepaper (23rd february). Of course you can invest after the release if it is too suspicious for you now. It is up to you.

hang on a moment, you can calculate exactly how much to give on launch day. The Escrow, Anon, has the exact figures  for what he has collected and from whom. You can calculate exactly on this basis. given this information

Then you can send the coins exo coins to either Anon or the people directly, as Anon can verify their contacts, and then the LTC / BTC can be released to you.

Even then if a person does not chose to have anon release the coins, he can send the portion back to you (minus his fee) and if exo is that good you will have no problem selling them at nice profit.

You have loudly stated on your first page you can use escrow, and escrow means at the very least the escrow holds both parts. There is no way an escrow can give BT/LTC out to you before you give out you coins. THATS NOT ESCROW. Look at it this way. Would you give your proportion away to people who simply pledge to give you coins after you give them exo....? Because thats what your asking people to do.

PS I deal in large complex Escrows for big $$$ and this is how it works and what it means. I also hold a Degree in Law.

Your "definition" of escrow is asymmetric in your favour. Don't absue the words Escrow in this way. Also don't blame it on poor language as you clearly understand how to construct the deal in your favour.

The Escrow must hold both parts from both parties or control of both parts, or it's not an escrow.

And don't tarnish ANON136's rep of service with pejorative comments, to the effect thats a nice add on if you listen to your customer. You in RED loudly declared you could escrow and repeated it, then as soon as you got a real Escrow you attacked him, his clients and his service, when you realised you got what you asked for and you didn't like it

If you can do the maths and logic well enough to write new code in c++11, then you can easily work out proportions or stake from Anon136 information, he is even setting up a spread sheet.

Of course no coins will be released to you for a "beta" as in test net coins or similar  but only once the live working system is released with real exo coins that can not be voided by you or anyone else.

See even after escrow, the risk is you protocol fails and everyone loses their exo's, but we know the LTC and BTC protocols mean that they can't be clawed back

Valid issue. Way to counter this?

Hi prophetx, just like you I am extremely skeptical of central bankers, inflation, and bailouts.  And for the record I also believe strongly in the concept of "sanctity of protocol", i.e., the idea that the protocol should be sacred and for all intents and purposes untouchable or off limits to devs and community.

Nevertheless, there is an important distinction here.

The world's central banks operate in a totally non-transparent fashion and they make decisions to inflate our currency without our knowledge or consent.  Over the past 50 years since we left the gold standard (which had previously been in existence for more than 1000 years) this pattern of central bank corruption has become pervasive and systemic, with centralized governments accruing massive fiscal deficits,  then running the printing presses to fund the bailout, at the same time constantly "cooking" the methodologies for calculating inflation to fix the optics.  I have traveled to more than 100 countries over the past decade and I would say that more than, say, 25% of the 206 countries in the world are in total economic shambles as a consequence of this (and other associated and interrelated) macro-economic mismanagement.  It is absolutely disgusting, it is immoral, and it leads to massive poverty, inequality, violence, etc.  

I personally believe that it is a basic human right that we should have a "non-corruptible currency" for use in our everyday lives, kind of like our right to water and oxygen.  =)

Notwithstanding, at this stage in the Counterparty project, where the project is still in alpha and we have encountered a technical glitch that has damaged many members of this community, and the community still being relatively small, I can also justify in my mind the situation of holding a community vote.  If we were to hold a community vote and if there was a majority or supermajority consensus that every XCP holder should give-up a tiny fraction of ownership in order to cover the costs of this unintended technical glitch, then, I think this would be possibly the fairest outcome, and it would add credibility to the community.  This would not be an non-transparent and centrally imposed inflation like we are faced with every day by the evil central bankers.  It would be community driven!  See the difference?

In summary, while I deeply and fundamentally agree with everyone arguing for "sanctity of protocol", and while I believe it is a very fine line and potentially a dangerous and slippery slope to introduce any inflation at all, I also see the possibility for an educated and intelligent community rallying together under the  exceptional circumstances of a "force majeur" event such as the security breech that has just occurred to hold a vote and make a collective decision to self-tax ourselves in the spirit of helping Busoni cover the loss.

Finally, my apologies for the long and passionate message, and I will refrain from any further posts on this topic until after we hear the result of Busoni and xnova's earnest efforts to reach a resolution with the greyhat.

That's completely defeating the purpose of PoB.

Not Going to Happen.

Busoni is still working a solution, wait for a proposal and then we'll start discussing for a compensation if someone is in the red.

It's in alpha, it is written in red in the first post, these kind of things were going to happen, and might happen again (with a lower probability now)

Personally I've traded a tiny part of my XCP on poloniex, because trading more than 2-3% of your holdings at this stage is foolish. If I lose them because of a bug in the alpha, a hack on an exchange, of whatever, I wouldn't complain.

IPO date will be announced after coin.

As far as I understand it, all the XCP the white hat withdrew from Poloniex will be returned via the current Patch 0.61, only the BTC he withdrew remain in his honest (?) hands. Lets make that bounty worth his while. Also holding on to the XCP wouldnt make too much sense right now because the price will probably dive in the short-medium term.

Those 35K coins, were the XCP deposits in Poloniex central account. The white hat hacker, withdrew these coins from the central address and deposited it back to Poloniex and sold then on the exchange for a low price.
The order depth in Poloniex was around 100 BTC. So, the hacker took these BTC, but left some of them in the exchange.

Cityglut, I know you have a lot on your plate, but when you have some time perhaps you can send out a wallet address for a security bounty fund?  

If it turns out the "roll back" is 100% retroactive (and I get all of my XCP back on Poloniex), I will happily contribute 100 XCP to the bounty fund to get it started.

As a proposal for the community, perhaps we could send the first, say, [1000] XCP raised to the whitehat who exposed this exploit?

Will anyone else make a pledge to contribute alongside me?