Someone once told me that in his opinion 99% of people are great, but you always get 1 out of 100 who is a total pain. When you get a community this big with hundreds of thousands of people then that 1% of people is a pretty big group. The trolls comments stand out more than the rest so you notice them more.

I have been helped by some really nice people on here. The trolls try to ruin things but the decent people make this forum worthwhile.

I read somewhere that uncle sam is the biggest bitcoin holder out there since the FBI confiscated all the silk road bitcoins. I cannot remember the exact figures but it would not surprise me if the account with over 100k BTC was the FBI one. Someone on here said the FBI sold them, but I never heard about anything like that on the news, so I'm not sure what they did with them.

I remember a thread started around christmas time by a "dev" who said he just cut and paste a new name into a coin's code and compiled it. He was complaining about not being able to answer any technical questions from miners because he had not got a clue about crypto currencies. Some people said he was a troll and some wondered if he was for real. I'm still wondering, but judging by some of the shit coins release it would not surprise me if he was for real.

I joined about the same time and it reached the point where the giveaway threads got bumped so fast that a thread could go from the top of the page to the bottom in a few seconds. It was just getting faster every day and would have been impossible to moderate. Anything apart from a giveaway thread was unlikely to stay on the first page for more than a few seconds. Nowadays it can sometimes take an entire evening for a thread to go from the top of the page to the bottom. It's running a lot more slowly than it used to before they banned the giveaways.

The BC multipool seems to have made a big difference to BC in the short term. Whether it keeps making a difference remains to be seen. You can have a look at the fair coin multipool at

http://fair-coin.info/multipool

COMM has not even finished the distribution stage yet, so there is plenty of time to keep an eye on the fair coin and BC multipools. Maybe if they do really well then it's worth considering the same idea for COMM, but it's too early to say how well they will do.

You can use colors and bigger sized letters in signatures to make them stand out more. However, I think the mods changed the signature rules a while ago. I'm not certain but I think newbie signatures cannot change letter size or color, jt members get slightly bigger letters, and each member grade up gets allowed progressively bigger letters and more color in their sig.

This sounds interesting. Their website says they hate latency, but also that smart phones will be able to power its grid. Smart phone data reception is notoriously bad when it's raining. In fact someone designed a program that can predict how heavily it's raining by using attenuation of signal strengths from cell phone towers. There is often no signal at all during really heavy rain. How will high fidelity get around this if it is to use smart phones as part of the computing power for its grid?

Thanks, so I should be alright if I have a backup from before creating the address. The problem is I'm not 100% certain I made backups of the wallet before creating the address. There is a chance I'm stuck with a copy of the wallet after deleting the address. If that's right then I assume I lost the coins, but I'm not certain. Maybe pywallet could get them back,or maybe they are gone.

I was wondering about trying pywallet but have never used it. If anyone with loads of experience could tell me if it's worth bothering then that would be great. I think I made backups of the wallet before I created then deleted the address. I know there should be a pool of 100 addresses when the wallet file was created. I'm just not sure what happens when you delete an address. Does it stay in the wallet without being displayed in the Qt, or is it just deleted?

I feel your pain because I sent coins tothe wrong address once. In my case I was sending them from an exchange to my own wallet. However, I had deleted the address I was sending to from my wallet. I can see mu coins have been sent to the address in the block explorer, but I think I lost them forever because I deleted the address from my wallet.

The first thing you need to do is back up your wallet.dat file. This has all your coins stored in it and it is important to make regular copies onto thumb drives and cd's in case your hard drive breaks down or you get a virus infection.

It is stored in a folder that is normally hidden. To find it you type %appdata% into the search box and press search or enter on the windows start menu as shown.



Your hidden appdata folder should open and you can find a community coin folder inside that. You can find your wallet.dat file in the community coin folder. Back it up in a few different places, then delete the whole community coin folder inside appdata.

Next, delete another community coin folder that will be in your program files folder or where ever you chose to install to. After that you can install the new version of community coin.

Before you start it for the first time you have to find the new wallet.dat file in appdata, delete it, then replace it with the old wallet.dat file containing your coins.

Finally, you can start community coin and let it sync.

The name could be better but everyone knows it as a brand name now. If you change it then there will always be people who do not know the name has changed. Also everyone knows what dark send is, and if you also change that name then there will always be people who do not know another name has changed. Once dark send it out of beta I doubt the name will put people off buying the coin.

Fedora coin is not currently considered a promising coin but someone did some research and found out that one pool is dumping 75% of all fedora coins generated each day. The pool just dumps them at rock bottom prices as soon as it gets them. Just like you say, it's really keeping the prices down in the dumps.

Are you sure about this?

How are they going to get around the anti money laundering regulations? Is it by requiring a copy of a current bill or tax return like other exchanges?

I have not used cryptsy for a while. I will have to have a look at them again soon.

The only time I had a go on an amiga it was to play super space invaders. That was years ago and it was ancient technology then. I never dreamed someone would use an amiga to mine on. The difficulty must be really low because I bet a modern smart phone has more computing power than an amiga.

It's not worth you applying because you have to meet all the rules to stand a chance. Besides the fact your account was created after the 20 march, there is another rule that your posts cannot all be in the last few days. 23 of your posts were made today, and you are still at least 8 posts below what you need.

I'm not very good at doing investigations through block explorers but I agree if the community as a whole accepts there has been a massive dark coin premine then it could finish it.

If it's true its a pity because dark coin has introduced so much new technology to the alt coin scene. There are loads of other coins copying dark coin features already

Sorry, I just checked cryptorush and 888 actually seems to have way more than 888 coins. I just assumed it had that number because of it's similarity to 42. It's official name is octocoin so I can see where they get the 888 from now. I never heard of it before I looked on cryptorush.

FUD is an acronym which is short for fear, uncertainty, doubt. Sometimes competitors want to stop other people using some new software, so they start posts to get people worried it might damage their system if they try it. Anything new can have FUD spread about it to put people off it and keep them buying well known established stuff.

42 was one of the first with the idea, but there are loads of similar coins like 888 coin on cryptorush. I cannot remember the names of the others. I'm sure you would find loads more if looking through a few crap exchanges. Cryptorush seems pretty crap nowadays and its got 888 coin.