@Vlad2Vlad - It's never been easy to be an early adopter & I know its hard to <not> look @ the price, but the volume is extraordinary, and you said yourself what that is a prelude too
This coin seems to have persevered for quite some time now. I'm keeping an eye on it, but what exactly does this coin have to offer that other coins don't?
@sgi02 - Yes it has persevered, and today we have 3 years and 26 weeks of blockchain to prove it.
Recently (Oct 2014) Ixcoin proved a core aspect of crypto currencies in general, and bitcoin in particular was valid. As I don't expect to live long enough to see this same thing happen for Bitcoin, it was a core reason I got involved in Ixcoin, and a big part of the crypto coin experiment. It passed the test with flying colors.
The question was: When all the coins have been mined, what is going to happen? Will the network survive? Will the software fail?
It did survive and the software did NOT fail. IXCOIN now has zero inflation.
Today we are seeing an ever growing community of supporters, in part because Ixcoin is Bitcoin without all the problems @ a fraction of the price, to Vlad's dismay. Bitcoin is having a really ruff time of it @ the moment, and learning how to cope with vast amounts of growth, I think it will succeed in that effort and I also think that Ixcoin will be right here leveraging that expertise, as well as exploring the world of zero inflation in crypto coin land. I'm pretty sure no other POW (Proof-Of-Work) coin has done this, certainly no other coin this old.
If your like me, and bought most of your BTC when it was $5 in the summer of 2012, you'll join us & we look forward to having you onboard.
@Kraizi - Thanks for that update & lots of good responses to the question we see most often. We get asked that allot.
I've been excited to see IXCo.in show up on the scene with an Asian based IXC exchange, and look forward to their release of an Electrum wallet. To see this volume on the exchange already, in such a short time, is....how do I say it. Extraordinary!
--------------------------------------
Ixcoin CORE 0.9.3 development update:
--------------------------------------
It's been awhile, so felt it important to give you all an informative update on what has been happening with Core code development.
Allot of work has been going on in the background for a complete release of the new Ixcoin Core 0.9.3 software. For those of you that don't regularly follow the Github commits, I've been making some final changes to our repository, primarily those changes were to correct a few minor problems with our code regarding testnet and regression testing modes of operation and is a prelude to the clients merged-mining code final test & release. This aspect of the software development is now in Ahmed capable hands & I expect he will be reporting here as Testnet progress unfolds, possibly a private mainnet fork will be operated for awhile to ensure everything is working 100% before final builds are made to everyone's favorite OS/platform.
In the interest of expediting future upgrades & in order to keep us current with Bitcoin Core code more easily, he's reverted allot of my work back to a bitcoin state. At the moment, I"m not sure how extensive that re-work will have to be, just found out about it in the last 24hrs & will try to post something after looking at the issues involved. As most of you know I'm committed to keeping Ixcoin code updated & this re-factoring shouldn't be a problem. My expectation is it can be done while the final merged-mining tests are going on. Shouldn't be to much longer before all of you can enjoy having a new fully functional Ixcoin node operating on the network or an Electrum wallet, which would also be way cool.
We do need more seed-nodes to place in the code, anyone able & willing to commit to maintaining 24/7 nodes @ a static IP, please PM me here, or post in the thread so we can get those entries created and into the final 0.9.3 builds. It would be greatly appreciated.
GR
ETA: So far a number of people have downloaded and are using my last build, v0.9.2.1, unless your a miner, it's fully functional and no problems have been reported:
You can find that Win32 Setup and a Bootstrap.dat archive for Ixcoin here:
https://github.com/GroundRod/IXCoin/releases