Unbreakablecoin (UNB) (Dead now)
Disclaimer: Their isn't really anything important to read here.. Just a rant..
Yes.. Are you surprised that an ancient Bitcoin clone coin is dead?
Ironically
Unbreakablecoin was basically
broken by CoinWarz, or whatever coin profitability switching pools, when UNB pumped and became the most profitable coin in the world to mine...
All of the miners switched to it and just started flying through blocks, through a couple difficulty retargets (long retarget spacing), then leaving an absolutely insane difficulty for the chain to keep going on.. We are talking like maybe a few blocks a week after the big miners got done raping it, which I don't really blame them for..
I lived that pump, there with Jim, one of the most exciting times in my crypto career, it even included drama with the infamous DCGirl, and some of the best paid trolls FUDding I have ever seen..
Actually, I think the UNB pump is what made me my first full Bitcoin (daytrader)..
Jim said he would not sell into the pump, and he did not, but in hindsight he probably should have just dumped his hoard of UNB on it..
This was directly after the big XPY scam, I lived that pump too, I witnessed the famous "$20 wall", and traded the massive volatility that it created.. Got some good trades in for sure.. I wasn't holding any XPY when the wall went up, unluckily because I probably bought and sold it 10 times already that day, but as soon as the $20 wall fell I flipped the spread VERY good a few times, I will never forget..
Directly after that XPY huge scam everyone was really fed up with lying cheating scamming DEVs which led to the massive
UNB pumps basically for "honest DEV, honest coin" as an opposite reaction to what just happened to XPY.. Here in hindsight
I was probably just a naive shill, but I was a UNBeliever as it was called..
But the pumps and resulting mining profitability basically broke UNB after that..
I think you can still get the wallet at
http://unbreakablecoin.com/ and blocks still might be moving ever so slowly, because I don't think Jim ever took all of his personal hash off of it.. My name, eddie13, was even on that website for some time as a "supporter" because I helped with reddit and the unbreakable auctions sites n stuff..
Soon after these times, shitcoins were flooding in faster than you could count them, and I lost most of my interest in any "new" coins, because they were 99.999% scams or plain shit.. A lot of incredibly high inflation POS coins and such..
Cryptsy then crashed..
I don't know a lot about whatever other coins Jim has been involved with sense then, because I became uninterested, but I basically think that after this he mostly just created altcoins for customers, DEVd coins/blockchains for projects, some of which may not be 100% clean, but I don't think Jim would have intended anything bad.. When you work with a lot of different higher profile people in the crypto world for years you are bound to pick up some fleas.. I know Bruno was on his ass about something but I don't know all of it..
If you think I tagged that account to hurt Jim, you are wrong.. I really miss hanging out in the trollbox with Jim and wish he was still around..
I don't think crypto will ever be the same, and for me that was the "golden era" of crypto, or atleast my crypto career..
These days
I am just a washed up daytrader yearning for old times, when I could and did trade almost every exchange I heard about, but their has never been anything like the Cryptsy trollbox.. Tried polo, trollbox was shit.. Never even heard of KYC back then.. I basically came to Bitcointalk as a refugee, read my oldest posts if you haven't already..
Had high hopes for TUXexchange but they threw in the towel because honest guys can't get ahead in crypto anymore it seems..
So there is some backstory I enjoyed reminiscing about just now..
