Catcoin Uncensored

[hozer]

cross-posted from the 'new new 9.2' catcoin thread:

It's been a fun day of node attacks, fake blocks, and amateurish DoS attempts.  Yet CAT blocks just keep flowing towards 46331.  Life is Good!

It's best, as a developer, to generally assume poor configuration or outdated clients rather than assume you are under attack.
This is *probably* the result of 9.1.1 nodes that got restarted and are trying to download the blockchain. I'm seeing the same problem, so it seems the best solution would be that both forks release new versions.

I can make the problem go away (for me) if I change the PCHmessage after some block (like maybe 46331), but you will still have problems with old 9.1.1 clients (that for all we know are still mining). If you can also change the 'new 9.1.1' catcoin thread to point to **new** binaries you'd also have a better chance at fixing this problem.

[hozer]

This is an interesting read...

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/273

[Buy]

My last post on the phony moderated thread.

Goodbye catcoin.

Violate forum rules and posts will be deleted.

Goodbye, Hozer.

I have deleted the latest BS from Hozer.  I will continue to delete posts from him and all of his sockpuppet aliases unless/until he posts something that doesn't violate the rules of this forum that have been linked to the OP since the start of this thread.  He's been warned multiple times and has violated forum rules sufficiently to result in being banned.  Next post will be forwarded to the forum mods for proper handling.

(Please note that 'vampirus's posts about the status of his wallet and his conscious decision to promote an orphaned fork remain in this thread and have not been edited or deleted, in spite of this being a known alias.)

I am not "hozer" nor "vampiris" and have not posted anything about catcoin ever on any thread anywhere except what I posted here in the last few days.

I was strongly supporting this coin and thought it had potential until you showed what the coin is really about.

You are some kind of napoleanic cunt trying to pretend you have some power by making a moderated thread then deleting all the posts you disagree with and pretending the "enemy" is just one "disgruntled" guy. Now it is clear why this coin is so cheap.

[vampirus]

Cryptsy accepted crap 9.2.0 version 

[Buy]

Cryptsy accepted crap 9.2.0 version 

Regardless what version is used, it is more important that the coin not be monopolized by someone who prevents others from even voicing an opinion. I initially bought a bunch of them but have been slowly dumping since I saw what slimepuppy was doing.

If slimepuppy changes the thread to unmoderated, or if this unmoderated thread becomes the primary thread, I may start buying again. But until then this is a monopoly coin with a fake community managed by one person.

[hozer]

Cryptsy accepted crap 9.2.0 version 

Regardless what version is used, it is more important that the coin not be monopolized by someone who prevents others from even voicing an opinion. I initially bought a bunch of them but have been slowly dumping since I saw what slimepuppy was doing.

If slimepuppy changes the thread to unmoderated, or if this unmoderated thread becomes the primary thread, I may start buying again. But until then this is a monopoly coin with a fake community managed by one person.

My suggestion is try and transfer everything you hold on cryptsy to a 9.2.0 wallet, and extract all the coins that still work on the 9.1.1 fork, and leave crytpsy holding the bag with all the coins mined on a botched fork with an exploitable difficulty adjustment.

There are more exchanges than cryptsy in the world, and all it really takes to make catcoin valuable is selling cat food for catcoins. If someone is willing to do that then it would be worth my time to release a new version that integrates the latest bitcoin-core code with a 3 minute minimum block time, and escalating reward after 15 minutes.

[hozer]

So what if we add a catcoin 'payment processor' to https://www.coinffeine.com/

Heck, we could have both 9.1.1 and 9.2.0 forks with active trading..

[vampirus]

Another deleted post (positive, but still deleted 3 times)

Epic difficulty dances!
Glory forever wise coder Blaksmith!!
Long live and prosper the Great and Powerful moderator SlimePuppy!!!
CAT coin4ever!!!!

[hozer]

As much as it's fun to poke fun at the tightly controlled message on the censored thread, it doesn't really do a lot of good (unless maybe you feel better afterwards).

The problem is there's apparently some sort of market demand for exploitable coins, and that it must be profitable to create and control a message on a traded coin. It's probably a lot like penny stocks, where you have obvious 'pump and dump' stock promoters that (sometimes) make a lot of money by controlling a message about a stock with low or no obvious value. The promotion creates 'value' out of thin air, because people believe it, and then, just as soon as it came, it goes away.

So that being said, if we have a read of http://tradetheticker.blogspot.com/2014/02/question-how-do-you-find-and-track.html, then the question is how would you trade to take advantage of both the exploitable difficulty adjustment, and the tightly controlled messaging?

[vampirus]

It's wonderful when developers pay for their faults out of own pocket. (try solve high diff. blocks, by renting rigs)
Glory forever wise coder Blaksmith!!
Long live and prosper the Great and Powerful moderator SlimePuppy!!!
 

[krile]

So what is up with this coin, is ti still alive?

[Blawpaw]

Let's be straight, I don't understand what's the utility for this copy cat coin.
just one more meaningless coin among thousands of them.
Just buy Bitcoin.

[hozer]

Let's be straight, I don't understand what's the utility for this copy cat coin.
just one more meaningless coin among thousands of them.
Just buy Bitcoin.

Which of the three bitcoin forks do you think I should be buying?

bitcoin-keccak
bitcoin-classic
bitcoin-xt

Looks like Forktacular February is coming to Bitcoin too!

[Thepuj]

Oh what a pity. Are there still different catcoins? Maybe I should look into MEOW.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Well I can contribute some serious ignorance to this thread because I've never heard of this shitcoin.  Can't slam it because I have no clue what it is. Is it even still alive?  There are so many shitcoins being traded that I wonder what the death rate is among them all.

[Thepuj]

I would love this "shitcoin", because

1) I love cats.
2) Shitcoins are perfect to get mining experience with shithardware.

Catcoins seems to be operational. There is this exchange in NZ. But support is really bad. Only people calling it shitcoin respond.

PS: Got 1.19 Catcoins from Poolmining! Yeah! My first mined coins! A 0.1 LTC payout from a mining pool would have taken one or two years for me.

[hozer]

I would love this "shitcoin", because

1) I love cats.
2) Shitcoins are perfect to get mining experience with shithardware.

Catcoins seems to be operational. There is this exchange in NZ. But support is really bad. Only people calling it shitcoin respond.

PS: Got 1.19 Catcoins from Poolmining! Yeah! My first mined coins! A 0.1 LTC payout from a mining pool would have taken one or two years for me.

Indeed. Low market cap & poorly supported coins are a great way to teach yourself financial cryptography, and get an idea of what some of the scams, hustles, and outright frauds that go on with pretty much anything involving money. The only difference between shitcoins, bitcoins, and dollars are the sophistication of the scams.

[psionin]

St. Petersburg based cat cafe, Cat Republic, mints their own Catcoin for purchasing souvenirs.

Street cats from the Hermitage Museum are sent there for adoption (video in Russian).

[paramind22]

Pretty high price for an abandoned coin.  Would be great if someone could take it over.   Or, am in the wrong thread?

[CryptoBrokerIO]

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