good point -- only it's the other way round, as I think Yahoo was first and is significantly older than Google.

I used Yahoo along with AltaVista, Excite & many more back in the day when USENET was still popular! And I did have to market and list my Newsgroups-posts, fax numbers, and later on my websites, somewhere, didn't I... (No trace of any Googles then, AFAIK. I did check around back then, and nobody had even heard about them in 1992-6 or so.)

Just saying -- but yeah, you're right that piggy-backing on name-popularity or other proven ideas doesn't mean somethin's necessarily a "bad" project. On top, they're not only copying from the original DASH here (remember that ALL coins using masternodes, and staking, are forks of DASH, and originally of Sunny King's Peercoin)!

If you're familiar with MN coins, you'll realize that this particular DASH-Platinum (DASHP) coin here much more seems to copy Dash-Diamond (DASHD), rather than "old, big" DASH.

the fact alone they posted this stupid Certificate of Incorporation here as some "Streamit-Coin license", which it clearly is NOT, is a MAJOR RED FLAG fot this project and ANY OTHERS ATTEMPTING THE SAME FRAUDULENT PRACTICES !!

The ultimate stupid-trick of this "dev" (or rather CON-ARTIST and SCAM OPERATOR) here is his f***ing audacity of announcing some great new "advisor appointment" at a point in time when his bloody LTD company had already been dissolved for about six months. It can hardly get any dumber than that!

So there's a lesson here for the future: anyone attempting something along these lines is running a scam coin, it's actually pretty easy to spot. Strangely enough, this was one of the few coins that did not even have those usual naysayers and wolf-criers that are so common here on Bitcointalk. Hilarious how these know-nothings were all of a sudden fully silent and just not there" altogether when something really is fake -- but they've been accusing PAC Protocol, Smartcash, PiVX and everything all the way up to Mazacoin or Peercoin as "another scam" back in the day (or actually all the time)...

I hope nobody has been burnt too bad by this fraudster -- provided all is well on that one, it's actually quite funny to browse through this thread retrospectively and really savour the idiocies and shenanigans posted here

IMHO, what's much more hilarious is seeing all these guys who consider themselves "strong hands" and know-it-alls, sporting all those (very impressive) "senior member" and "guru"-level profiles in here, permanently warning of next to ANY coin being a "scam coin"

Apart from spending a lot of their time in this forum here, to gain that oh-so impressive status, is there really anything these guys actually know -- or are they just giving "advice" regardless? I am seeing this for years now, it is not helpful, guys!

DIVI and a good number of other well-selected masternode coins do not strike me as being scams. Contnuously bad-mouthing absolutely everything means wasting your ammo. This is dumb. That said, doing one's homework before investing in any coin, including masternode coins, and making any significant commitment (to anything in real life, actually) is imperative and any advice in that regard would only be reasonable -- but that's not what most of those "experts" do here. So thank you, but no thank you.

DIVI in particular has proven to obviously be doing something right, look at its track record and latest price increase alone, making the continuous masternode payouts even more profitable. Unlike speculative gains from only capital appreciation, regular income from masternodes is the way to go. The former are suckers' profits. The latter option is for the financially more savvy, you can structure an entire legit and much more tax-efficient business around this! Just saying.

It seems that DIVI, Dash, AXEL, Smartcash, Polispay and PiVX -- among others -- are very good choices for this.

IMO, it's a great way for everyone to participate in censorship-resistant file storage and sharing. So, yes, looks great -- and also has some sort of track record by now.

I only wish they'd also finally come up with a Linux version of their desktop application program (you cannot do just Windoze and Mac OS X alone these days)!

please make sure to ALSO support your Bitcointalk presence because this simply is where info like this belongs! No one in their right mind gives a sh!t about, for example, Twitter anyomre, so kindly go with the time while complying with Crypto coin "tradition" at the same time.

agreed, Dropbox definitely IS shitty, but why would MEGA be shitty again?! They are like big-time alt-Tech in today's world -- kindly do your homework, man.

While I do get your point of desiring the nitty-gritty just with the rest of the info, there's no point of bad-mouthing what little is left of services that do not belong to the big-tech mafia. And if they would have used their own NextCloud box for providing the info, I'd sure be okay with that too (even if it means I have to do a click more to view it).

Not much in this post as to whether or not this coin is worth a go either. That's what I would have hoped for doing my due diligence here though.

This looks like pretty high-grade stuff to me, well done!

Any revival of the classic Namecoin project and NMC features -- now mostly abandoned, it seems -- are greatly appreciated here!

BTW -- you might want to tell that Blockchain-Insider writer of this http://www.blockchain-insider.de/documentchain-setzt-auf-flits-wallet-a-993055/ article to familiarize himself with *DAS wallet*, *DAS Portemonnaie* (nicht "die"!!), on the other hand *DIE coin*/*DIE Muenze* (nicht "der Muenze*) etc-yada-yada. (This really sucks, especially when a "writer" like that guy doesn't know any better in his native language...) There are very easy-to-follow Ho-tos for this in the first section of Duden's Vol 1 -- Rechtschreibung. It might help if you told him, thank you.

Having sifted through all the info over on flits.app, I am now trying to figure out which (other) Cryptos flits.app supports beyond Flits and DMS tokens. Any info would be appreciated. Also, an easy-to-follow manual on the setup process for the Flitswallet integration with DMS would be great.

Please could you also let me know what the DMS acronym stands for in the first place? (No mention yet in the docs I saw, incl OP, ANN post here or that dude's article I referenced above.)

These would sure help marketing DMS and making your coin accessible to potential users (more adoption, higher success rate for your project). But, as I said earlier, great work so far!

for more info on masternode coins, which POLIS is among, you might want to check out either http://masternodes.online or http://masternodes.buzz. You'll usually find that a legit project is on there. Only if it isn't, then it could be a red flag. Polis and Polispay have been gaining some traction in recent months it seems.

So it's not really that "searching the whole internet" ) appears to be THAT reliable for everyone having a connection. Just saying.

good points -- kicking myself over here to have "discovered" it )or rather given it more serious thought) only pretty recently. Still, thinking of getting in now. Advantage would be to have dodged a few of the growing-pain era setback that way...

Great ot be able and read up really quickly on here -- for a tardy like myself, just what you need ) So thanks for posting and sharing to everyone on here!

Hi all,

have been following this, also eyeing to set  up a masternode for DASHD. By 'following' I mean on HERE, and not just on Discord which I do not find intuitive nor particularly like bc/ those infamously obscure features that simply aren't good UX and use-case modeling over there.

So I sure DO hope that everything will continue to also be shared here on Bitcointalk where Crypto coin news belongs!

that entirely depends on where original-BTC is going: if it continues deviating from EVERYTHING it originally stood for, not much "real value" nor any "long-term value" will be left in it -- as it is based on user appreciation only (no real 'intrinsic value' in the classical sense, so it rises based on scarcity only=if demand is larger than supply, which is limited to 21m as we all know). With BTC's politics influenced by AXA insurance group and similar interests, its failure (as BTC-the-coin) would not be much of a loss to this world. (Bitcoin-the-technology will continue in the form of BCH, LTC ETH, PPC, XBC, DASH -- and likely even DOGE -- and everything deservedly representing a true, decentralized, peer-to-peer i e REAL crypto coin!)

On top, BTC's latency/mempool/congestion/high-fees problem is currently back to pre-August levels. So, no, original-BTC's problems are far from solved. (Satoshi-Lite and others similarly in the know told us so all the time. Turns out, they were right.)

If other coins seem to fulfill Bitcoin's original promises better or in a more appropriate way, demand will move to such other coins. It's a free market, plain and simple, and that's what free markets would (should, will!) do... Yes, exactly BECAUSE it really IS about where the most money is made.

you're spot on @nam-shub -- that is exactly what it is, and how that game is played.

Do we really have to re-invent the wheel all over again and again all the time: I mean, seriously, we have mail order and all sorts of not-so-different businesses for decades now, but still nearly everyone in the Miners business is so full of shit that you can hardly believe it.

And this goes beyond the original scam artists there; seems there are aiding and abetting parties out there as well:

Reading the notes on Xircomm and Lifeforcepools with interest. Will investigate those "connections" a little further. The start looking quite "interesting". Very strange (and telling, too)... Will post updates as soon as I have new finding there.

Dogecoin
Earthcoin
Mintcoin
Namecoin
Peercoin

are my absolute favs. These have IMHO good concepts, acceptance, support, and a great community behind them.

exactly -- and this is a breach of duty on their part which they'll be liable for. It's a fraudulent one at that, making the owner PERSONALLY liable (including his Blockchain-based holdings which can be traced and will be) for the return of OUR (users) monies held in his train wreck that he deceptively and fraudulently concealed up to the last minute.

Not more than yet another variation of what's actually a textbook case of bankruptcy fraud and ensuing liability of Paul Vernon himself. Bad luck for him (stupidity rather). I would have thought he was smarter than that.

they may have for quite some time -- but don't forget that PRICE isn't the thing about what Bitcoin means and Crypto coins mean, in general!

Also Earthcoin hasn't failed at all when it comes to continuity and reliability, and the fact that they're still around speaks for itself.

Besides, it is the very same Earthcoin that started taking off in 2015 -- with its popularity in China, this always happens when Chinese stock markets are under pressure and the Chinese jump in to other investments incl Crypto coins!! --, and in November 2015 the coin hit 29 satoshis (sure enough, I missed that one and initially kicked myself but then planned on using my earthcoins for another Crypto-related project altogether). Continued watching though.

Earthcoin was at 48 satoshis yesterday -- that's 24-fold that 2014 price you were complaining about. Not too bad for a "worst ever" one, I'd say...

Indeed, this smells a lot of a Phishing attempt, the link in the msg harvests your e-mail address (or rather tries to "confirm", b/c they seem to already have that) for the presumed attackers in Australia (or wherever in fact they turn out to really be).

And yes, nothing to cause any "good feeling" about the current Cryptsy situation right now, though I'd still like to think that BigVern may be as much of a victim as any of us users: you guys may say what you want -- but to me, BigVern appears to be a good guy trying to get this properly resolved rather than "taking the money and run". Why wouldn't he much rather keep his business going after all the work he put into building Cryptsy; you don't want to end up hunted down like Karpeles. I also think, BigVern is far too smart to attempt any MtGox-style schemes. Everyone knows they get caught sooner or later just like Karpeles, and that's simply not "worth it". Also, I must say I'd hate to be in his shoes right now -- but maybe these Aussie whackos are digging their own graves and blow their entire attack this way now.

So let us wait and see how this thing really plays out before jumping to those all-too-common "Scam alerts" this forum and similar ones are so infamous for...

beyond market capitalisation, there are other factors for a Crypto coin to be "a success". I am on record all over the place for saying that REAL-LIFE USE of a Crypto coin is the most important factor (look what the U. S. did after severing the gold-link of the dollar in 1971: they invented petrodollars to safeguard "usefulness" and "velocity of money" and keep the show going, let eurodollars be the biggest market in the world (at the time, now it's the over-inflated U. S. bond market, but that's a different part of the story). From what I read about Earthcoin and the EAC web pages, there are people imn this group who understand the history of the U. S. Fed & Co and will know how paper currency works and what I am talking about here. For Crypto coins, it is the same thing, i e ACTUAL USE of coins other than gambling, Silk Road, online gaming -- but I mean REAL EVERY-DAY acceptance of Crypto coins.

There are first baby step in this direction, mainly for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, but we need to get there with other coins as well! Imagine just for a moment what happened if just a few hundred eBay or Shopify/Facebook sellers offered REAL PRODUCTS (ideally both used AND new) for Earthcoin, and maybe some VoIP provider like Diamondcard.us started accepting Earthcoin as well (diamondcard.use already are doing Bitcoin, BTW)! Shopify/Facebook are very real prospects as they already have BTC, LTC, and DOGE built-in and 100% ready-to-go -- all that's missing is the real life persons, apparently...

So THIS is what we need in order to make (any) coins a success. I mean, we are still in the very early stages of the overall phenomenon, but for this to gather momentum it needs to happen sooner or later!

you're spot on -- but, strangely, almost nobody seems to really catch on to this :(  It's all cloud mining centers -- which sucks for the very reasons you mentioned!

Feels like 1993 when the AOL idiots were unleashed and fucked up "our good ole internet" (and trampled Netiquette and gave rise to all kinds of cons and bamboozles because they were so dumb that online crime started to pay).

I am glad that you actively support some counter-measures against this re-happening. Crypto coins are about DECENTRALIZATION, so let us not fall for "centralization through the back-door" -- again...

+1

I really appreciate the information clean-up here, too -- and it's great to see that the devs are among the (few) people who really got it when it comes to long-term implementation of a Crypto coin by (slowly and diligently) b-u-i-l-d-i-n-g a marketplace and every-day acceptance for it. This is exactly why I have a lot of confidence in this coin!

The entire idea of the airdrop -- but more so the business-airdrop portion of it! -- is what sets this coin apart (and as for copycats, yes, it is really a bit surprising that others seem to be so far away from even getting this that they even fail to copy these measures for their own stuff; guess this tells you right there)!

I am also keen to see that bit of news to be released when the situation seems fit for that. I regret this is influenced by "outside factors" that got nothing to do with Crypto coins, and I hope people will learn to distinguish between a country "brand name" (particularly one that was apparently hijacked during the 1917-1948 period or so by the London-centred powers that be who BTW were also material in messing up Europe for at least 70 years, and give the whole thing a bad name) and the PEOPLE and all groups of society living inside its borders. The idea of ISR, on the other hand, very clearly, is one of the 95% good people in the streets attempting to break free from the corrupt top 5%.

Bitcoin itself may turn out to be a tool for reclaiming financial freedom in a wider sense. Both Bitcoin and viable Alt coins like ISR (and a select few others) will similarly have to develop along the ideas outlined by the ISR devs here in order to continue spreading to everyday-users and ultimately result in mass-adoption. Continuing to watch eagerly...