there is ICO for NYAN ?
No, they want you to know NYAN is quite alive and kicking after all this years.
Right, but also that there's an updated client. We deliberately didn't make a new thread until we had a new release.
What is so special about a coin based off a gif with the gif creators permission? Not like Dogecoin had an issue.
Nothing particularly. I do rather like the skin.
But when I started with NYAN, well, at first I was just writing a series called "coin-a-day" (thus the username), and it was going to be my example of a "deadcoin", based on mockery of americanpegasus I'd seen for his crazy enthusiastic post about it back in the day, and the subreddit seeming dead.
Once I saw that the chain was still running and Cryptsy (since obviously gone) was still trading it, I decided to buy a bit of it. And pretty quickly I got hooked on it and decided to make it a living experiment on what it would take to revive the coin from near-death to a powerhouse. It's my first example of the art I'm creating of "coin rehabbing". I figured rather than create a new coin, why not take a coin which had a brief heyday and work to build it up again?
For those purposes, I actually consider it an advantage that it doesn't have any particular advantage and is what I call a "clonecoin": basically just a skin on another coin. The tech is plug-and-play and as easy as possible. This makes us relatively easy to support for pools and exchanges and easy to understand for newcomers. At the same time, it makes any success a demonstration that what matters is the community rather than the technology. While technology is obviously important for a cryptocurrency, I think there's an over-emphasis on chasing after shiny tech and an under-emphasis on the people involved.
With that said, I do think prguitarman's endorsement is important, but on that subject, it should be clearly noted that we don't have his support (yet, hopefully) for the revival. He got burned in the original crash in 2014 and is understandably reluctant to get reinvolved. But I think it's important for us to respect him and when we get more financial strength and whenever he's interested, I'm certainly planning on endowing him with significant NYAN.
As far as DOGE, I absolutely love their community and am hoping to build a stronger and formal alliance with them ultimately. They are an inspiration for what I hope to build with our community, albeit with a stronger technical emphasis. I would like to see DOGE become the leading cryptocurrency.
out of sheer excitement here's a mac wallet built from current source
Nyancoin-Qt-OSX-v1300
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5j8d4FSc7drR1Z0MkY4TWlfUUk.
i have to admit it's built with qt4 as using qt5 made the dock icon not work proper.
i hope to look at it later and see what the problem was
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and the OP mentions having two links to 32-bit windows, but one is actually 64 bit o_O
Bumba! I remember you from Cryptopia! You were around when I was active on their trollbox campaigning for us to get listed. It's great to see you still active. I've admired your spirit and friendliness. I'm hoping you will be interested in the cryptocurrency alliance idea I'm working on. Right now we're forming a NYAN Parlement in large part so we will have a formal endorsement for that concept, but the basic concept will be sort of an industry working group which will produce ethical standards as well as promote mutual cooperation as well as just embracing the fun of cryptocurrency with like-minded communities.
And thank you for the Mac build; that's awesome! I'll link on the subreddit for greater visibility. Do you use Reddit at all? If so, please stop by and say hi! If not, post or PM me a NYAN address. ;-)
Thanks for the note on the windows builds; typo I'm sure.
Cheers y'all! It's fun to see the increased activity here!
And I still say the title and label of the release should be 2.0. ;-p Security update and first release in more than a year! This is a big deal! I know the code itself is still saying 1.3 at this point, but for "marketing" purposes really should consider it a major release and I think that should be in the builds ultimately too.
