Hey guys, Coinye's main guy here. I've never actually come here and posted, I was letting someone else run this account, as I was incredibly busy.
We made a mistake by spreading out the work too thin. Also, I think the 0.37% percent split premine between the devs was too much. I thought because of the hype, that it'd be okay.
I'd like to clarify something, though - I didn't even get a chance to mine my own coin at launch. I ordered a couple 7970s from tigerdirect in preparation, and they didn't get the motherboard to me in time. So about 15 mins before launch i powered down my desktop and tried to stick one of the new cards in there to replace my r270, but it wouldnt fit. I'm not sure who mined those 2b coins in the first few minutes (
http://coinyechain.info/chain/Coinyecoin), but it was probably one of the pools we gave the source to a few mins early.
We put the download link up and within 3-5 seconds the entire site and the mirrors we had going all been hammered out of existence. I resized all the secondard cloud instances to 4 times their size. Because of that, I shut down the official pool. I mined on yepool.pw for a few minutes, and when I checked it again, it was dead. I kept switching pools and they all kept going down. I think I mined about 12,000 coins overnight, with my single midrange card.
Anyway. So far we have the crazy media hype, a list of 6,000 email subscribers I haven't had time to contact, and two casino games at:
http://coinyecasino.comand
http://coinye-dice.org/I'm personally working on some Texas Hold Em and I'll try and get this up soon.
We also have a guy from the IRC doing in person interviews at BBC radio saturday, and I have some more email interviews this weekend.
We're still working on the coinyeminer thing - we couldnt get it done in time. When that hits, I can email all the subscribers and hopefully get a lot of new people on board.
So, my reason for this post is, I want to give out like half of what I have, and I'm going to ask the other devs to consider doing the same.
I want to give away 50 million COYE to improve this coin. I'd like to do bounties, lotteries, drawings, promotions, and give some to the general public. I hope we will get on an exchange.
Can you guys help with ideas, perhaps offer some work for bounties, or any other general advice?
Thank you!