Unfortunately, H2O has been delisted from Bittrex.  

We weren't able to talk to Richie to plead our cause and could even have a LTC pairing. It's the team's fault because we weren't able to be fast enough to provide the coins new features. We're working on them and the next phase is the donation fee implementation on which we had technical difficulties to implement but on our way to a solve the issues.

Holding your coins is the only advice I can give to you at the moment. I just hope we'll be able to provide you with new wallets soon which will finally set us back on tracks  

EDIT : That doesn't mean the the coin is dead, just that trading is more difficult now though there are still other available exchanges. We'll try to come back with new features quick in order to generate interest.

Can you got the IRC channel (#h2ocoin on Freenode) for the dev team to solve it ? Thanks.

Xhash chose to terminate H2O mining, unfortunately. I don't know why but that's how it is... You can mine on other pools without any problems though.

Thanks for that. I thought the message for the new thread would be more visible, it's more readable with your post.

This pool was supposed to be updated with the new wallets, it's weird. We'll get on this and help them solve the problem. Thanks for warning us about that.

Good that things are being solved then.

Now we can focus on proper innovations then 

XFranz, if you pass in that thread, please update your wallet to version 8.7.2, as it seems you're on the wrong fork. Thanks.

Fork happened but it seems that not everybody updated their wallets.
We need everybody to be on the right wallets to avoid forked and orphaned coins. Pools, first and foremost.

Thanks for the proposition. I'll talk about it to the dev team and will keep you updated. 

Platorin, this is not a new coin, don't worry.
This coin has been created in march (old thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494229.0) but the owner (@ThisWeeksCoin) didn't have enough time any more to manage the coin because he had to take care of urgent problems IRL. The community then decided to take over the coin with his agreement in order to rebuild it. I created this thread in order to have the ability to edit the OP because of the fork that happened a few days ago.

There is a new management team and new dev team. We didn't change the logo, we updated it with a new color scheme which will the same for every elements of the coin and for its image to be more efficient. We have ideas which will soon to be implemented and we want to give back some life to the coin. We hope people will recognize the work that is done behind the scenes to bring it back and therefore will be assured of our legitimacy.

I can understand people disagreeing with the community trying to keep this coin alive. There are a few hundreds coins existing and there are more created each day. But we didn't choose the easy route (by creating a new X11-anon coin to surf the hype, for example), we are trying to rebuild an existing coin because we believe in its purpose. So I can only ask you all simply to give us at least some time to convince you before doubting us.

There is a new team, and we are bringing new features to the coin. This has been going on in the other thread but we needed a new one to be able to edit the OP.

Last important News :
14-06-06 : Fork happened at block 98000 : XHash updated their wallets but will cut the pool in 5 days... Mine in another one then...
14-06-05 : Fork will happen at block 98000 : Do not solo mine until that block
14-06-03 : New wallet, mandatory update (DGW3 implementation) : LINKS UNDER WALLETS

Next up :
- Implementing the donation fee


First of all, thanks to ThisWeeksCoin for giving birth to the idea of a coin aimed at water charities as access to water is still a problem in the world in 2014 and shouldn't objectively be.

Second, this thread is not a relaunch, it's just a new beginning, the premises of the coin stay the same but the management has changed and therefore we need a fresh thread to be able to communicate better with the supporters

OLD THREAD : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494229.0

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In 2014, access to water shouldn't be a problem but it is because a big percent of (-us-) the world's population don't have clean water in their houses, in their villages, in their cities.  ThisWeeksCoin found that http://thewaterproject.org/ accepted Bitcoin(s) as donations and decided to help them. H2O will then focus on their organization and help them as much as we can.  Each month, some of our pools (official pool will contribute) all the fees it collects, it will go towards www.thewaterproject.org  In the long-term, we're aiming to find non-profit organizations and help them to bring clean water to the people who need it.  Be a part of the small percent who actually gives a damn about people's lives outside of the box.  - Number of coins : 2.000.000.000 H2O drops in total ( 2 Billion coins )  - Algorithm : Scrypt Adaptive with -N factor  - Difficulty readjustment algorithm :  Dark Gravity Wave 3  - Pre-mine 2.5% for IPO shares and giveaway/bounty purposes  (From 50 millions in total of premine, 1 million was kept for bounties/giveaways)  - Time per blocks : 1 minute  - Reward per blocks : First month : 2000 H2O (43000 blocks) 11 following months : 1600 H2O (525960 blocks) Year 2 : 800 H2O Year 3 : 800 H2O Year 4 : 800 H2O Year 5 and so on : 100 H2O Explorer : http://explorer.embargocoin.com:2750/chain/H2Ocoin  The Water Project www.thewaterproject.org  - donate : https://thewaterproject.org/donate-start  - about them : http://thewaterproject.org/contact-us  - H2O fundraiser : https://thewaterproject.org/donate-pfp?fundraiserid=wp_26987&type=Personal+Fundraising+Page&pageName=H2O+Coin%5C%27s+Fundraising+Page  - 2014-04-08/2014 : 17.5 BTC donation sent to www.thewaterproject.org (50% of the total IPO, as promised).  --- Proof : Statement from the official thewaterproject's twitter : https://twitter.com/TheWaterProject/status/453555910896812032  Dev side  - owlhooter (c++ abilities, knowledge in qt, security, protocol, algos)  - tsohG aka Ghostie aka Ghostbackwards (c++ abilities, knowledge in qt, security, protocol, algos)  - drewdrew (c++ abilities, wallets compiling(mac, win, linux, project overseer))  - CoinTweak (c#, php, java, mysql : block explorer, richlists, websites)  Community side  - Black Tongue (me:p) (knowledge in design and websites, management of the ANN, the twitter and the reddit)  - Jake Shake (manage giveaways)  - Gatt13 (benevolent donator to the cause !)  And all the supporters !  The team is ever expanding, if you feel like you can help, feel free to come, you'll be welcome).

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Version 8.7.2.  - Source :  https://github.com/H2Ocoin-Project/H2Ocoin  - Windows : https://www.dropbox.com/s/yx1qac1hp4ewgw4/H2Ocoin-qt.zip  - MacOSX :  https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8o4g1xz70z0509/H2Ocoin-Qt-v8.7.2.dmg  Official pool  https://mining.theminingpools.com/  All fees go towards the chosen charity | Donate with your hash power  - CryptoADHD : http://h2o.cryptoadhd.com (updated with new wallet)  - Dedicatedpool : http://h2o.dedicatedpool.com (updated with new wallet)  - XHAsh : www.xhash.net (terminated)  - Coinspool : http://h2o.coinspool.org (informed, waiting for reply)  There are no preferred and less preferred pools. I advise everyone to spread across all the pools!  Scrypt-N mining tutorial by https://twitter.com/zisef (ThisWeeksCoin's forum moderator)  http://thisweekscoin.com/forum/index.php/topic,1196.0.html <= HowTo mine H2O + Scrypt-N coins!  - Bittrex : https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-H2O  (delisted)  - Allcrypt : https://www.allcrypt.com/market.php?id=389  - Comkort : https://comkort.com/market/trade/h2o_btc (DOGE and LTC pairing available)  - IRC : Freenode #H2OCoin  - Website : http://H2Ocoin.net (NOT UP TO DATE ! New one coming)  - Twitter : http://twitter.com/H2Ocoin (new one coming)  - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/H2Ocoin (new one coming)  - Reddit : http://www.reddit.com/r/H2Ocoin/ (new one coming)  - The Water Project H2OCoin page : https://thewaterproject.org/donate-pfp?fundraiserid=wp_26987&type=Personal+Fundraising+Page&pageName=H2O+Coin%5C%27s+Fundraising+Page   Special fund managed by Black Tongue  - Address : HTAKTQYJBq6XNpHCo5GjJkzGj5ZADfWpry  - Explorer : http://explorer.embargocoin.com:2750/address/HTAKTQYJBq6XNpHCo5GjJkzGj5ZADfWpry (buggy because of the fork)  LINKS :  - http://thisweekscoin.com/forum/index.php/topic,1179.0.html  - http://altcoingiveaways.com/index.php/topic,1584.0.html?PHPSESSID=18a29db5394a0ed859393cfb5f7ff0fd (ended)  1. Android wallet  2. Games  - Reuters : http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/17/idUSnGNX8w8PDv+1c6+GNW20140417  - Yahoo! Finance : http://finance.yahoo.com/news/h2o-coin-first-crypto-coin-124657597.html  - Cryptoarticles : http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/2014/3/17/h2ocoin-because-every-drop-counts  - Bitcoinnews : http://thebitcoinnews.co.uk/2014/03/18/h2ocoin/  - Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1857220  - Virtual-Strategy: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/04/17/h2o-coin-first-crypto-coin-made-water-charity-purposes-donated-175-bitcoins-thewaterproje

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Everybody come claim your bonuses from the Mining Marathon.
- 175K sent to Gatt13 after his 7 days of mining.

The team also find the number of coins a little too much. Cutting the supply is in talks but not for the moment as we're focused on fixing the fork issue.

When it's done, the real rebuild plan will be on 

After some more inquiries, looks like you were right : this morning drewdrew (part of the team) who I talked to during the last hour found the blockchain being very slow. He didn't think of a problem until a few supporters reported the solo-mining bug. With the help of owlhooter we found the problem :

WHAT HAPPENED
 - there has been a temp fork this morning but the blockchain resynced well in later blocks.
 - the submitted blocks from solo miners were most likely to a pool with an outdated wallet and caused their blocks to disappear therefore their coins too. We hope that by fixing the issue, they will get them back.
 - we asked bittrex to stop the trade in order to fix the blockchain issue.

WHAT TO DO
 - do not make any transactions with H2O until we fix the issue, just in case ;
 - check your block height (hover the little tick on the bottom right of your wallet) and compare it to the one of the network here : http://cryptexplorer.com/chain/H2Ocoin ;
 - mine on pools until issue is solved because only solo miners were affected by the issue ;

WHAT WE'LL DO
 - owlhooter will help us from now on as our dev.
We hope his presence will not be temporary but he seems to be interested and found our project to be "ambitious"  
 - he will put a hard fork in the blockchain issue by implementing DarkGravityWave3 at a future block (not determined yet) in order to fix the issue because H2O is currently using the 1st version. It will be tested on the testnet to be sure then released.
 - if ok, we'll ask the solo miners, pools and everybody to upgrade their wallet (and backing their wallet.dat before doing so  )
 - none of your coins will be lost because the fork will be on a future block.

Supporters,

A bug with solo mining has been detected today. The problem is the following :
 - input address is null
 - output address are generated randomly
 - transaction id has a suffix at the end, for example "-000" which prevent them to be visible in the blockchain.
 - transactions in transactions history have a question mark

This is not a fork as pools are operating nicely and we recommend you to stop soloing if you're doing it a the moment and switch to pool mining until the issue is resolved. First hint of what could cause that would be a dysfunctional node in the network.

Some supporters have unfortunately lost some coins because of that. If it's your case, I engage myself to personally refund you the lost amount.


I discussed and investigated with Ghost about it and it doesn't seem to be a fork.
Block height on our wallet was right (93231 as I speak), same as the blockchain's.

Could you explain why you thought of a fork ? I'm not knowledgeable enough myself so maybe there are hints I didn't see.

I'm investigating your claim at the moment with the help of Ghost. I'll update the situation later.
Thanks for finding this possible issue.

Thanks a lot !
I've looked everywhere I could but I don't have the connects to find one...

Hey guys, we're alive even though I wish we were moving faster.  

The current obstacle is that after TWC's and the dev's departures, we are left without a dev. Brainstorming is done, the rebuild plan is set but we need a dev who would be able to patch things up. We're looking actively but we're not finding. We have Ghost in the team (he did the linux wallet) but he doesn't have much time unfortunately and would only be able to supervise, and Winevirus who was the dev is MIA and we can't contact him. Therefore, we are currently in the process of hiring a new dev. If anybody knows one, feel free to contact me, a reward will be given.

The current situation is a little frustrating because everything is set (the team has agreed about how to rebuild the coin) but we're only missing a dev to make things happen. And that's why I'm currently quiet because I don't want to make any announcement which would then only be wind.

By the way, don't forget to claim your bonus after the mining marathon, PM me with :
 - the total number of coins mined during the seven days
 - the total number of mining days
 - your average hashrate
 - and a screenshot.

Thanks for the support.

Anybody ? 

Hi there,

Following H2Ocoin's owner (too busy IRL) and dev (finished work) departures, a few supporters (me included) decided to keep the journey going by taking over the coin. There is plenty of work to do : nearly dead hashrate, value next to none, site not up to date, cadaverous reddit and so on... This alt's current state is bad and we have to roll up our sleeves because we want to rebuild it believing in this coin's purpose (as a charity one).

Finding the charity aspect slightly under-valued and the current "anon - x11" hype a little too much, we would like to rebuild this alt because there is a true potential in this segment. Many alts have foundations, donate to NGOs or create charitable events but I'd like a coin with a donation process to its core and not as a side event. I think the previous owner had a great idea with this coin but I believe he didn't fully went with his idea because there's more to be done, IMO.

Otherwise and to be more complete, there is another existing altcoin in the "water charity" segment which name is Clean Water Coin (WATER) which surfed the h2o's wave a few weeks after the PRE-ANN early march, but thanks to a more dedicated and conscientious owner is nowadays best known (better value, bigger community) and more solid than H2O.

I appreciate what they are doing because they overcame some setbacks which could have been bad for them but managed to get back really well and are now at cruising speed. On top of that, they have a good marketing image ! But to me, as H2O was the first on that segment I decided to support H2O (principles I guess  ) and that's why I'm looking for one or few devs to get the coin back on tracks. I also need to state that there is no beef between the two camps and that we can coexist.

New community dev team has plenty of ideas and already has a plan to reorient H2O as a charity coin to its core and not just it being a gimmick. But none of us know how to code in c++ (well at least, not wallet, blockchain and security stuff) and that's why we need devs to complete our team.

What we wish is at least one dev which will be interested in the project first (details and plan by PM), able to code, compile and having knowledge and skills to implement algos and security protocols. We'll wish to build something long-term, therefore we'll need somebody who will be dedicated and who won't quit once paid (which happened already). I don't know the specifics and it's possible that I'm not accurate enough in my description of the job but wholly, we need somebody able to build a coin. 
Obviously, the dev will be paid as the job is difficult (it will up to him to decide whether he will be paid in H2O or BTC).

About myself, I can code html, css and some php and I'm not bad in Cgraphic design and CAD but I have no knowledge in other CS langagues...
If needed, you can check my post history and see that I mostly posted in the H2O ANN and that I tried to push the coin towards the charity side above since early may when I started being a little worried about the coin's future (even if there had been a 17.5 BTC donation to thewaterproject which convinced me of the coin's potential). I'm not interested by creating a new coin to surf whatever hype and that's why we want to rebuild the coin instead of creating a new one.

If interested or more details needed (about me, the team, the pay, the alt's history or our plan), you can join me by PM where I could be able to give you more infos (which I don't want public atm obviously, competition we know that :p). You can also join the H2O IRC (#h2ocoin on Freenode) where you would be able to directly discuss with the team and introduce yourself.

Thanks a lot 

Peut-être que je n'ai pas toutes les infos possibles, mais je ne vois pas en quoi le modèle n'est pas importable. On peut déjà acheter avec un bon paquet de marchandises avec pléthores de cryptos donc je ne saisi pas pourquoi il est impossible pour plusieurs cryptos d'exister. Tu as le droit de penser que le Bitcoin sera la monnaie virtuelle unique, mais actuellement, les faits ne me paraissent pas corroborer cette hypothèse.


Je ne vois pas en quoi tenter de développer une alt prouve que l'on a un "standard de morale" bas. D'ailleurs, je ne vois pas du tout ce que la morale a à faire dans le débat ! 

Bref, je saisis que tu n'aimes pas les altcoins, c'est ton droit.
Moi, je continue à chercher des devs pour m'aider dans mon entreprise.

Nous souhaitons garder l'image et le nom que l'on trouve bien, mais c'est vrai qu'il y aura une grosse refonte. On choisit pas forcément l'alternative la plus facile, mais bon, c'est aussi par respect pour les gens qui ont miné l'alt et qu'ils l'auraient fait pour rien surtout qu'ils étaient séduits par le concept à la base.

Et de toute façon, même si nous faisions tout ex-nihilo... il me faudrait tout de même un dev ! 

Je ne pense pas que cela soit une perte de temps, car ça permet au minimum de se faire la main et éventuellement travailler par la suite sur le Bitcoin si nécessaire.

Cependant, avec la centralisation de plus en plus grande du minage BTC qui est un peu contraire à l'esprit originel du projet, je pense que les alternatives sont crédibles que ce soit grâce à un protocole différent (POS par exemple) ou un algo ASIC-résistant (pour le moment évidemment, comme les X11, scrypt-n et autres, on verra dans le future) qui selon moi permettent une meilleure démocratisation du processus.

Le monde des altcoins est intéressant et les idées sont souvent créatives bien que nombreux sont ceux qui ne souhaitent qu'un enrichissement facile.

Au final, je ne pense pas qu'il y aura qu'une seule crypto bien que le Bitcoin a un taux de pénétration bien plus avancé que les autres sur les marchés et qu'il est actuellement la référence. Que le Bitcoin devienne une sorte de Dollar (ou d'or) référence est une vrai possibilité, mais je ne pense pas que cela empêchera des Euro, des Yen ou des Livres d'être des "alternatives" 

Bonjour,

Suite à la défaillance de "propriétaire" (owner ?) de H2Ocoin et au départ du dev, quelques supporteurs (dont moi) ont décidé de continuer l'aventure en reprenant la machine. Il y a beaucoup de travail car le hashrate est quasi-mort, la valeur est proche du néant, le site est pas à jour, le reddit est silencieux etc... Bref, l'état de l'alt est des plus mauvais et donc il faut se retrousser les manches car nous souhaitons tout reconstruire puisque nous trouvons le principe de "charity coin" intéressant.

Trouvant que l'aspect charité des altcoins est légèrement sous-exploité et que la hype "x11 + anonymat" actuelle est peut-être trop importante, on aimerait réussir à reconstruire cette alt car je pense qu'il y a un vrai potentiel de ce coté là. Beaucoup d'alts ont des fondations, font des donations à des organismes de charité ou organisent des événements charitables mais j'aimerais que le coté donation soit au cœur de la chose. Je trouve que le proprio précédent n'est pas allé au bout de son idée et que c'est vraiment dommage car il y a là un bon potentiel, selon moi.

Autrement, pour être plus complet, il existe un autre altcoin sur le créneau du nom de "Clean Water Coin" (WATER) qui avait surfé sur l'idée de H2O quelques semaines après la PRE-ANN début mars mais qui grâce un proprio plus concerné et plus consciencieux est désormais mieux connue (valeur plus importante et véritable communauté) et plus solide que H2O.

J'apprécie leur travail car ils ont surmonté quelques difficultés qui auraient pu leur être fatales mais ils ont réussi à remonter la pente de belle manière et sont désormais en vitesse de croisière. En plus, ils ont une belle image marketing ! Cependant comme le fait que H2O avait été la première sur le créneau, j'ai décidé de soutenir cet alt (par principe :p) et c'est la raison pour laquelle je recherche un ou plusieurs devs pour remettre le bateau à flot. Je tiens aussi à dire tout de suite que nous ne sommes pas en guerre contre eux et que nous pouvons aisément coexister.

Nous avons plein d'idées pour réorienter le coin comme un véritable "charity coin" (et pas juste un gimmick) mais les supporteurs avec lesquels je suis ne savent pas coder en c++ (ou du moins pas pour ce qui concerne la wallet) et c'est pour cela que je recherche un ou plusieurs devs pour compléter notre équipe (3 américains, 1 anglais et 1 français (moi) actuellement).

Ce que je souhaite, c'est un (ou des) devs intéressé(s) par le projet (que je détaillerai plus en MP) capable de coder une wallet et la compiler et qui ait des connaissances pour l'implémentation des algorithmes et de protocoles de sécurité (POW, POS etc.). Je ne connais pas les détails techniques et il est possible que je présente mal les choses mais globalement qui soit compétent pour le développement d'un crypto  

A mon sujet, je sais coder en html et css, j'ai quelques notions de php, je suis pas trop mauvais en CAO et PAO mais malheureusement j'ai zéro connaissance dans les autres langages infos. Vous pouvez voir dans mon historique de posts que j'ai majoritairement posté dans l'ANN de H2O et vous pouvez même voir par ailleurs que j'ai toujours poussé le coin vers un coté plus charitable surtout depuis début mai où j'ai commencé à m'inquiéter du bon-vouloir du proprio malgré la donation avérée de 17.5 BTC à thewaterproject. Je ne suis pas intéressé par la création d'un nouveau coin pour surfer sur une quelconque hype et c'est pour ça que je ne crée rien de nouveau mais que je veux remettre sur les rails le coin actuel.

Pour plus de détails (sur moi, sur l'équipe, sur la rémunération, sur l'histoire de l'alt, sur notre projet), vous pouvez me joindre par MP, je pourrais vous transmettre plus d'infos (que je ne souhaite pas forcément publiques, avec la concurrence, on ne sait jamais :p). Vous pouvez aussi rejoindre le chan #h2ocoin sur Freenode où l'on pourra se parler directement avec les autres membres de la team.

Merci beaucoup