Its unfortunate that he died because it was a pretty smart idea what he created. Most of the hashes on all coins don't really serve a function except just to go meet a certain minimum difficulty but gap coin actually served a purpose and searched for prime numbers.
I think the reason why the attention for gapcoin is low is probably because it was removed from Poloniex. Whenever a large exchange delists a coin it usually means the coin is dead.
Right now many alts especially the small or medium ones are suffering and most people are just focusing on the large caps or BTC. I think what could help is maybe try and get that "free" Binance listing since you never had a premine and your idea is unique. If you get a listing it would get alot of attention and some developers might pop-up.
Good luck with this project.
Indeed ...
Poloniex only likely delisted Gapcoin due to not being able to contact the developer and due to the lack of updates.
They are of course a business in the market for making money and not for finding world record breaking prime gaps !
The Gapcoin project needs a refresh and continuing development before we might be re/listed on major exchanges such as Binance.
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I assert that John Allen Frey was the original developer of Gapcoin
Your assertion may has been proven wrong since j0nn9 (Jonny Frey) has been active on bitcointalk on March 23, 2018! Also he (or his script) has updated
http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php on September 10, 2019!
At this 5th year milestone, I would like to thank Jonny and all the supporters of the GapCoin project. New record prime gaps await us ahead!
It's all rather odd indeed, I agree.
Despite my attempts to contact those potentially involved, no one has come forward, yet !
The gapcoin.org website remains hosted and clearly someone still has access to update it, perhaps it's Dr. Thomas R. Nicely ?
Clearly whoever is updating the site has more interest in the prime gaps over markets and value etc., Notice that the market links on the homepage have not been updated, for example.
Assuming that John Allen Frey was j0nn9 (Jonny Frey), we can only determine that as he clearly became unwell he might of passed certain aspects of the project to one of his peers, colleagues, academic faculty, an associate or perhaps a family member ?
No one in the gapcoin community here on bitcointalk has been able to determine otherwise. The record and bounty were certainly published from j0nn9's account, being the last post to date from that account.
It's certainly not me and I don't know who it is at present.
I am the sole owner and contributor to the
https://gapcoin.club website though.
EDIT: This doesn't hinder Gapcoin moving forward, if anything it's a good thing !
Not only was the gapcoin.org -
Gapcoin's new first known occurrence prime gaps page edited (as above), but also ...
Gapcoin's highest found merits as of 2019 September 10 (Top 30)-
http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-merits.phpCrazy mathematicians !
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4chan Just Solved A Decades-Old Mathematical Mystery ...
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/an-anonymous-online-anime-fan-just-solved-a-problem-thats-been-eluding-mathematicians-for-decades/...
In other news ...
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https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-creating-altcoins-more-attractive-than-building-on-bitcoin“In the history of altcoins, it seemed like there was a period where there were a huge number of them that had no features. [...] And that played out. And then people started to need a new way to market them, so they added features. Some of them were real features, and some of them were stories to market [their altcoins].” - Adam Back.
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"Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?" ...-
https://youtu.be/yndq8jeSPc8...
Back to the board / thread topic then ...
Developers, developers, developers ... anyone ?
