You should know that like 99% of the legit developers SUCKS @ marketing and communications. I am telling you this from my personal experience with 30+ coders. Those who are posting often in their threads (and in most cases are using sock puppet accounts) are 99% scammers. They may stay for a month, 6 months or a year, but they will definitely one day disappear.

I would agree that VTR dev should do more about it, but from my experience, I have learned to accept such actions (i.e. - I find it normal). Maybe you should make some proposals, but actions always speaks louder than words.

P.S. I don't want this to sound like advertising, but I am part of a cryptocurrency with a 12 people team from 10 different countries around the world. I am also something like a Project leader. Do you know that our members are currently forbidden to post in our thread, tweet or... whatever? That's because of a one simple truth - as of now, we have nothing to say.

You guys still can't connect the dots.

PoS is much better than PoW, but it has problems with centralization and inflation (if PoS % is high).

P.S. EDIT: Though I wouldn't say that centralization is a real problem, because decentralization is a dream.

The issue is not with the profile settings on the forum. Something is definitely wrong since several people are having the problem.

P.S. For instance, I should have received an e-mail notification about your reply, but I didn't. My e-mail is configured to check for e-mails on every 60 seconds.

Not sure about PM's, but just checked and noticed that I haven't received notifications on 3 replies in 3 different threads (this one is one of them). Today I did received notification from 1 of these threads, but after that... nothing.

No, the only "problem" here is your blindness. Go back and see that the main VTR dev answered to Richie from Bittrex in 6 minutes. And do you know what else? pnoch is in fact the guy who worked on 2FA with VTR's dev, so you can't say that people behind VTR's tech are not working or following the thread. They are not babysitters!

ALL of you are doing nothing for this coin! Trading it and holding is not enough!

But, hey, don't take my comment too seriously... I'm not a legendary member. 

Recently I had problems with receiving e-mail notifications on the new thread replies and theymos admitted he had disabled (or something) that function when dealing with the recent DDoS attack. Now I am sometimes receiving notifications, but it seems it is random. I have deleted all the threads from my watchlist, and I have clicked the notify button on all of them - nothing. Anyone else with the same problem?

Nope, you're not "connecting the dots".

Nope, look at QORA.

Oh, wait... it's already happening.

Of course! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1598094.0


Ask Kim Dotcom.


I am more worried about the current situation. They could patent something that is already "invented". For example - the blockchain tech.

I knew it will happen months ago. Another pump is coming, but (for several reasons) it would be unfair to call out names. People should be smart enough to "connect the dots".

Like I said, decentralization is a dream. What may happen with Bitcoin, altcoins and exchanges in near future? What about our "privacy"? Companies like Goldman Sachs could tell us: "Monero (or whatever) is illegal and our privacy is better". End of story.   


"Trading currencies is costly and slow for traders at major financial institutions—transactions need to go through a bunch of middle men, each of which take a slight fee. A new patent application from Goldman Sachs hints at how the blockchain technology that is behind bitcoin could revolutionize that process.
The patent application, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Sept. 8, 2016, was originally filed in March 2015. It outlines a distributed ledger (essentially an accounting ledger shared by a number of different parties, also known as a blockchain) that can process financial transactions in the foreign exchange market. It’s Goldman Sachs’ first blockchain-related patent (though another patent application published in Nov. 2015 showed the investment bank was looking at a bitcoin-esque digital currency for traders).
Foreign exchange markets are risky—a party sends their funds to an intermediary, like the CLS, a foreign exchange settlement service. The CLS holds on to the first party’s funds while they’re waiting on the counterparty on the trade to provides their funds. The problem? The first party’s capital gets tied up in that specific trade until it’s settled, which can take up to a day. That makes trading in foreign exchange markets a slow process. The hope is that blockchain could provide “near-real-time” transactions to speed up the foreign exchange market.
Banks have been experimenting with blockchain technology to make transactions faster and cheaper for the past year or so, but most projects are still nascent. There are some fairly robust systems, like bitcoin and Ripple (a blockchain startup); bitcoin processes over 180,000 transactions a day, and banks like UBS and Santander have been partnering with Ripple. But those systems have their drawbacks, according to the Goldman patent filing, especially in the highly regulated industry of financial services.
“[T]hese systems suffer from significant disadvantages in terms of privacy,” according to the patent, because anyone can see any transactions made on the bitcoin blockchain.
If a bank blockchain was fully transparent, it would allow competitors to place opposing trades against a certain transaction and greatly reduce the competitive nature of foreign exchange trading. Bitcoin and Ripple also “lack designed-in identity checks that aid regulators with policing anti-money laundering,” the patent says.
Essentially, Goldman wants to merge the benefits of blockchain technology—speed and efficiency—with other technologies that offer privacy, security, and compliance with regulatory guidelines. For example, Goldman’s version of the blockchain would allow for private transactions only visible on a need-t0-know basis; permit regulators to access the database; and adhere to anti-money laundering regulation and Know Your Customer laws, which require that banks confirm the identity of their customers.
As blockchain technology starts to permeate Wall Street, banks have begun collecting intellectual property over its potential uses. Bank of America has been filing for patents for quite some time and now has approximately 50 blockchain-related patents in its pipeline, the bank’s CTO David Reilly told Quartz. Of course, just because companies file for patents doesn’t necessarily mean they’re using them now or in the future—and the USPTO can still deny any of these applications."

Source: http://qz.com/779660/goldman-sachs-wants-to-put-foreign-exchange-trades-on-the-blockchain/

Yeah,

Looks like theymos fixed it, but now I have another issue. I haven't received PM's to confirm, but I am now receiving only 1 notification if someone replies in a thread I follow (i.e. I read the thread, John replies, I receive notification, Bob replies after that, but no new notifications).

?

Maybe on a later time, but still... thanks for you being the only one who is open to trade.

That's hilarious...

It was a big hit, because it was the first  "country's cryptocurrency". But their model of "mass adoption" was far from perfect (or to be given as an example).

I can somehow agree with that, but maybe is a guessing and the fiasco which followed the DAO attack was a fact. Bottom line is that I am more concerned about our common good rather than my potential $5 profit.   

A big hit to who? To those who created them? You do realize that AUR was the first $1Bn market cap (since you are often referring to market caps) and lost like 5000% of its value in a month?

What's there to like about Auroracoin? Haven't watched the entire video, because it sounds like 20+ minutes of your personal thoughts and (no offense) I feel no need to watch it all.