I don´t think bluemeanie is a sockpuppet, silvermetal. In case of the other ones it is pretty obvious, though.

Btw. if you wonder why Kolin was gone for some days: I reported some of his posts who clearly violated Board Regulations. Some of his posts were deleted and since he didn´t stop spamming they eventually banned him. No big currency, only a person who isn´t capable to respect basic agreements on a board.

I can provide you with his contact but I think you can still reach out to him via team@quarkfoundation.cc (everyone on the list will receive a mail though).

Poor digitalindustry/spoetnik, I have to disappoint you. There is no conspiracy that attempts to silence your revolutionary ideas and insights: I (and most likely other annoyed forum users) reported posts of yours to the moderators because you were repeatedly violating forum rules. I know you haven´t read them or think they don´t apply to you, but since you are passing basically your whole life time here, I can only recommend them to you as literature.

Why have your posts been deleted? Because YOU REPEATEDLY POSTED 2, 3 OR EVEN MORE POSTS AFTER ANOTHER INSTEAD OF SIMPLY EDITING ONE. So, no, mods don´t care for you and your baloney - they just care for readable threads (like me).

The message is easy, so I guess you might understand it: Comply with the forum rules you agreed to when you joined the forum and your posts won´t get deleted. If you don´t agree with the forum rules, you are free to leave and discuss with yourself on your premium subreddit/echo chamber that didn´t even manage to unite a decent numbers of sockpuppets. Unless you don´t quite catch the difference between freedom of speech and intentionally violating community guidelines your spamming posts will (fortunately) be deleted. I think mprep is doing a good job here and I´ll be happy to report more posts if you don´t understand what a forum is (a place where people discuss, not flood others to death as you regularly do).

Maybe we explain it like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=781954.0

None of those "predictions" are dated as you suggested. Do you know the meaning of "dated"? No? Then look it up.

Oops, i did it again. (click for more insane posts of Digitalindustry)

Sure, in your mind everything drives interest, even a ddos attack turns out to be good in your brain (btw. i wasn´t talking about ddos, but you won´t understand it anyway)

Oh and "predictions"... You never made any prediction since you carefully avoided linking any of your fortune telling to a timeframe. You actually staged yourself as excactly that: a fortune teller in this thread. People who are engaged in pumping&dumping do the same: attempting to place a self-fulfilling prophecy (of course they bought the junk before to sell to people who fall for them).

I recently saw you predicting Bitcoin to be at 30$, at 50$, at 100$ at 150$ (never saw 300 though) - obviously you never called a date, so I guess you refer to them whenever you like - sharlatan style as usual. You predicted Quarks bottom at 50K, now it is at 2K. You predicted Quark to slowly rise in December, the opposite happened. You claimed huge numbers of investors to buy into Quark and since then daily volume has been low as 4000$-400$ with few exceptions, one of them a pump on September 13 - since then Quarks value declined and today it reached a new low. So even though you never called a specific date which would allow to easily prove you a sharlatan (or a real genius) you were wrong, wrong and wrong again.

So: put your money were your mouth is and give your "predictions" a time frame that allows to track them. Everything else is baloney.

P.S.: Yeah, funny you name Quark as number 1 of the non monopoly crypto and then place it on #5. Oops. I am sure you will another fishy excuse for that inconsistency.

@fiatpete


It´s easy to grasp actually. One pool controls lot more than 50% of the hashrate and that allows the pool provider to potentially(!) mess up with Quark in the blink of an eye. That issue was discussed for Bitcoin with ghash.io and it was less dramatic than Quark. While digitalindustry loves to talk "attack vectors" on other coins (particularly mining monopoly), with Quark he prefers to say that a big mess that exists for at least 9 months is "something to monitor into the future". The difference between "single miner monopoly" and "pool monopoly" is of any relevance (because noone could ever know if the users on the pool are different entities) and "security measures" like checkpointing won´t prevent a potential(!) attack.
 
You are certainly also interested that digitalindustry was involved in staging a coin launch that was meant to become a Quark merge mining coin later on particularly to cope with the low hashrate + monopoly issue that Quark (Mimiccoin) If you missed it, you should also read this thread that documents acitivities of manipulation by digitalindustry.

Anyway, if you hold Quark I can comfort you: The pool owners wouldn´t attack Quark, because it is worth close to nothing and the userbase has shrunk essentially if you look at all existing Quark forums. They would kill the coin, but more important they would kill their reputation = their daily income.  

Just a short add to the story:

The plan that Kolin outlined was indeed attempted to be carried out. In June there was a chat between some members of the core group - James, Adam, Julie, Vic and Max, Alphanuma probably someone else, this are the names that I remember. (Btw. in this chat Kolin claimed to own 1,000,000 QRK when he talked to James - while I don´t know if that is true, he certainly lied about his holdings, since he recently stated that he only owns 400,000 QRK. It could be more, it could be less, it doesn´t matter. He lies - that´s what matters).

The chat was meant to discuss merge mining. In the end of the meeting, people agreed on the following (summarized by Kolin):


The reasons for this were presented to core members by Julie (the following parts are quoted from a mail on this issue by Julie):


At this point a merge mining coin sounded like a good solution to some prevailing problems and people were all in all positive. I was more or less agnostic in the mid of June because I had to deal with more important personal issues and didn´t even follow all email threads that were hammering in at that time. In the meantime Vic, Adam and Kolin were planning to launch a coin. Vic later argued that he wanted to push things forward, so things wouldn´t get cought in buerocracy. He and Kolin contacted me to design a logo for the coin. Kolin contacted me the 10th of June, the comment included a note that all Quark members would be filled in eventually:


I received a mail from Vic later:


I thought that this was public record, so when I finished the logo I pushed it to Vic and Julie who only then found out that the launch was plotted silently. In fact the coin launch was botched. Few days later I had time to reread a discussion between Vic, Adam and Kolin. It turned out that they already launched a coin, however there was a misunderstanding: Vic announced publicly the involvement of Max and Adam (probably because he saw no reason to stay silent about that). The thread was named "B9 - The New Fairer-er Quark Preannounce -Release June13, 2014, 12:00am EST". Vic linked the thread on June 12 at 7:21 PM. From 9:48 AM on Kolin send the following mails:


one minute later


again two minutes later


again one minute later


then at 1:52 AM:


After this reactions Vic deleted the thread at about 8:00 PM and Max stated: "Phew. Ok cool. Don't think anyone noticed."

The whole thing was reviewed by other core members. The approach was criticized heavily, particularly by Julie because it looked like a scam (even though it was told to be well intended). Why was there a silent plan: Kolin and Vic feared that if an official merge mining coin for Quark would be announced people would "rape mine" it and dump it as soon as possible. Kolin told Vic it would be better to either find a Quark algo coin where he and other involved individuals would control a large share of the coins (I remember they talked about BitQuark and rejected the idea because the developer who was interested had only comparatively small share) or create a new coin, announce it publicly so it would look like a legit start but create it in a way so that it would appear worthless and noone would mine it (you can see that already in Vics comment, that the Logo doesn´t  have to be something special. You can also see it in the way Mimiccoin was later carried out). In the latter case they would have only small competition in the early mining phase. After about 6 weeks they would announce that this coins would be merge mined with Quark. They expected that then many people would mine the coin. However, as a large initial share of several week of mining would be in control of them, they would be able to control the exchange rate for a while. It´s therefore funny that Kolin later stated that it would be ridiculous to attempt to control the price because 1st halving would only happen after 4 years. While this is true, it is also true that 4-6 week of mining this coin would have given all those who knew about the plan an unequal advantage and allow them to manipulate the price for at least some time. This was part of the plan.

It would be to hard to summarize all discussions that happened afterwards. In the end the merge mining idea wasn´t rejected but planned to be discussed with the community. In fact at the same time there was a discussion on bitcointalk about this very issue without anyone from the core group to have sparked this. However, even though there were serious criticism on a(nother) silent launch, Vic and Kolin launched the same coin branded as Mimiccoin and staged the whole thing as if there was a developer who talks like Hello Kitty (or rather like Kolin) & who agrees on merge mining with Quark.

I hope this outlines the shadyness of Kolin. I still believe in the integrity of Vic, even though I have no understanding of how he proceeded and I explained this in long mails to him. Vic had his own issues with Kolin and thought he was dumb - but he believed him to be an important link to Max. We found out later that Max knows very well that Kolin is a weirdo who is rather bugging Quark than helping, he simply doesn´t care (check the log of the last chat with Max, he states it explicitely). So I guess Vic fell as well for the image that Kolin had established over month and showed him as a somewhat important personality in the community. Nothing could be more far from truth.

If you have further questions on this issue, go ahead. I left the community and won´t come back but I still hope that it will succeed in a way given the hundreds of hours I invested in Quark.

Keep asking him that, Orm. Maybe you´ll eventually force him into another public demonstration of multiple personality disorder From the last pages I can see that you are seriously becoming DIs personal therapist. Don´t forget to charge him.

Guess you are laughing about your own idiocy that you just have proved

Lol....no, that´s not right. This thread is not self-moderated so whoever is the OP he/she can´t delete posts even if he/she would like to. Your post is completely idiotic since you have no authority whatsoever to moderate or censor . You´re only what you are: a person that would like to be important.

A pleasure to see that the community gathers again after endless pages of manic nonsense.

Man, must suck big time if you believed yourself to be a somewhat important person and then it turns out that the only ones who care for you are a handful of sockpuppets.



Greetings to Monika!

 



I think even Sergey Lavrov commented on the blog. Only in Kolin´s head, but still.

I think you should change that crappy photo for this nice premium portrait

http://imgur.com/PhtlW64

I opened this thread to quote posts that spread FAC (faith, assurance and trust), even though the horse appears to be dead already. As you know nothing in Crypto is for sure - still, there are some people who answer to FUD in a mirror image manner. Whenever you stumble upon this kind of fortune telling feel free to dump it into this thread.

Ohje, hab den THread irgendwie vergessen

Danke für die Ideen. Restgeld in Bitcoin ausgeben ist, denke ich, zu umständlich (abgesehen davon gibt es auf Flohmärkten oft kein Rückgeld: Leute zahlen oft passend oder handeln so dass es passt

Bitcoin accepted ist eine gute Idee, aber da erwarte ich keine Käufe. Ich schau mal, ob ich mich mit einem Coin-Stand hinstelle und berichte dann.

Hallo ihr,

ich hab mal eine eher juristische Frage. Ich verkaufe demnächst mal wieder etwas auf dem Flohmarkt und hatte überlegt gleichzeitig auch den Verkauf von Bitcoin und anderen Kryptowährungen anzubieten. Weniger um Geld zu machen, denn um die Leute darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass es Kryptowährungen gibt. Die folgenden Fragen beschäftigen mich:

- Gibt es irgendwelche juristische Einwände Kryptowährungen auf dem Flohmarkt zu verkaufen? Briefmarken und Münzen dürften dort schließlich auch verkauft werden und als Geld zählt es ja offiziell nicht.
- Denkt ihr dass mich juristische Probleme erwarten könnten? Auf dem Flohmarkt ja vermutlich eher nicht, aber ich überlege was passieren würde, wenn eine Person sich beschwert, dass die Bitcoin nicht angekommen wären. Sollte ich zu Sicherheit eine weitere Person dabei haben, die bestätigen kann, dass ich die Überweisung an die Nummer getätigt habe?
- Ich hatte ursprünglich gedacht den Leuten Bitcoin auf das Handy zu überweisen, aber das geht vermutlich nicht, weil niemand die Blockchain mal eben runterladen kann. Wäre es daher sinnvoll Paper Wallets zu verkaufen? Es ist schon klar, dass das für die Käufer ein gehöriges Risiko darstellt, aber mir fällt gerade keine bessere Lösung ein.
- Überhaupt: Gibt es Werbemedien, die ich anfordern und dort auslegen könnte?

I already wrote this in different places: this is not about Kolin. Kolin has some serious mental issues and his delusional attitude and insults are certainly reasons why people leave the community or will never take Quark serious. However, I was mostly pissed off by Vics reaction when I confronted him with the staged Mimiccoin launch as Vic was one of the person that really made be believe in the success of Quark - and I am obviously pissed by people like georgem (whoever he is) who tell me that I should better do something productive for Quark than working on an exit option. I don´t have to work for Quark and I certainly won´t if I don´t feel it´s valuable. The reason why I worked on an exit option was based on a lack of trust in Quark to recover from the status quo. I don´t mind if others believe in the full success, really, but I don´t.

As you can read from the moment when I came up with the proposal, I said that if that is not going to be feasible then I will sell off. Not because I don´t like the project, but because I don´t see no reason why the issues that we are dealing with should magically disappear. Some people seem to dream of 2$ prices coming from nothing (and then you buy a new car, holiday, whathaveyou...), I prefer to look at what we´ve got:
 
- Quark has a hashrate issue - that was the main reason why people proposed a merge mining coin  (and the reason why Kolin and Vic started Mimiccoin)
- The question of on-top services is entirely open since Quarks lead developer said that he will only take care of the core code  
- The community is small and has no serious funds to get things moving

Sticking together as maok says helps, but it doesn´t get things done. The only way I see is that you find a major investor who gets BTC/fiat into Quark so there are funds to do things. As long as this doesn´t happpen I think Quark will disappear slowly. You may have luck getting some attention with Shaq Fu and I hope for everyone of you that you´ll do, but this needs a lot of preparation from the community side and also a payment processor that BigDeez can rely on (Moolah? I don´t think so). I sort-a feel worned out to do that. I can only recomment you focus on things you can really achieve and don´t trust on fantasy delusions that those people have, who bought in high and are just interested in others to pay them all the luxury that they didn´t manage to achieve.

Good luck to all of you