[ARI][₳] Aricoin

[miniliano]

I bought almost half btc in ari, Dev take the control do ur job and make me midly rich 

[Aricoin]

We are actively looking for developers & community leaders going forward into 2018.

Please message this account with ideas on how you can help Aricoin in 2018 - bounties available.

Dev, so you guys are active? Would that be the justification for Aricoin's recent recentens? Why were you absent for a long time? What jobs have been delivered so far? Aricoin posusi some type of application? Are you planning to take ARI to other exchanges?

Since you asked:

Yes - we have always planned to come back to Aricoin - sadly a series of bad events hit the development team - there is no excuse for such silence but we were waiting for a time in our lives were we could devote more time to the project - that's why there has been no update in so long as it would be wrong to promise something when we don't have the time to commit to the project.

To give you some context if you were not around in 2013/2014. Aricoin was originally launched as OlympicCoin at the start of 2014 - see this launch thread. The team created the coin for fun originally but because we were one of the first altcoins to gain a lot of traction and community support (with the addition of some team members specialising in marketing) we decided to take the project more seriously. We saw huge potential in cryptocurrency but at that time there were no coins making cryptocurrency accessible to everyone - a 'mass market' coin as it were. So we took this idea and developed AricoinPay around our coin to differentiate ourselves but at the same time do something that was sorely needed, bridge the gap between the cryptocurrency community and the public. Making cryptocurrency accessible. We have some marketing guys on the team and they created a waiting list feature for the launch of Aricoin pay that had over 100,000 people signup - we verified around 10,000 as real people. You can see the history of that on twitter.

So now you have a bit of context, what were these bad events? AricoinPay functions exactly like PayPal. It uses real world transaction price data from exchanges, for it to work consistently without easy market manipulation we have to select one exchange for everyone to trade with so it can get an accurate live price from there - we were on a few exchanges, but the trade volume on MintPal was well into the 1000s of BTCs in 2014 so we selected this exchange as our primary exchange and included it in all our marketing material.

Then this happened to MintPal in 2014, shortly after our rebranding. Our community and developers made huge losses.

We quickly redirected everyone and relaunched on Cryptsy. Exchange volumes started slow but then got even higher here because the exchange was so large. It had a very public image and we foolishly didn't learn from our previous mistake. This happened to Crypsty shortly after.

The AricoinPay system relies on exchange data to bridge that gap and displays prices to people in their local currency.  After the downfall of Mintpal & Cryptsy in such a short time frame - given their huge respect in the community at the time - we were lost for words - that was then followed by a countrywide ban on cryptocurrency which has since been relaxed. We moved to a series of other exchanges that were much less known than Mintpal & Cryptsy and our thoughts were to wait until a time when the cryptocurrency environment was more transparent - so when we could find a more reliable exchange for the long run - with everything being so heavily regulated now it leaves less room for people to do things like our previous two selected exchanges and we are seeing a future again. We will be taking the next few months to plan our next steps.

We would love to have as many people on board as possible to help with coding / community support / outreach. You can see a list of jobs we require below the first post on this thread, so message this account if interested.


Extra note for community members who have been with us from the start:
We had 6 encrypted backup disks within our team, 3 of these have failed - causing more problems over the last couple of years. If you have historic versions/code for Aricoin or OlympicCoin please send it to this account for our records. In addition to this - we still have all the code for AricoinPay and database records if you had small amounts there you would like to recover - don't worry we haven't forgotten about you!

[Bit Gobblin]

I bought almost half btc in ari, Dev take the control do ur job and make me midly rich 

  Best wishes miniliano. Hang in there. Hope this works out for you and everyone else.. Should do mysteriously well.

[suspiciously square]

Then this happened to MintPal in 2014, shortly after our rebranding. Our community and developers made huge losses.

We quickly redirected everyone and relaunched on Cryptsy. Exchange volumes started slow but then got even higher here because the exchange was so large. It had a very public image and we foolishly didn't learn from our previous mistake. This happened to Crypsty shortly after.

Did you get given any of the cryptsy coins by the cryptsy receiver?

The cryptsy receiver gave the low value coins he couldn't sell back to the devs of each coin.

[wiser]

We are actively looking for developers & community leaders going forward into 2018.

Please message this account with ideas on how you can help Aricoin in 2018 - bounties available.

Dev, so you guys are active? Would that be the justification for Aricoin's recent recentens? Why were you absent for a long time? What jobs have been delivered so far? Aricoin posusi some type of application? Are you planning to take ARI to other exchanges?

Since you asked:

Yes - we have always planned to come back to Aricoin - sadly a series of bad events hit the development team - there is no excuse for such silence but we were waiting for a time in our lives were we could devote more time to the project - that's why there has been no update in so long as it would be wrong to promise something when we don't have the time to commit to the project.

To give you some context if you were not around in 2013/2014. Aricoin was originally launched as OlympicCoin at the start of 2014 - see this launch thread. The team created the coin for fun originally but because we were one of the first altcoins to gain a lot of traction and community support (with the addition of some team members specialising in marketing) we decided to take the project more seriously. We saw huge potential in cryptocurrency but at that time there were no coins making cryptocurrency accessible to everyone - a 'mass market' coin as it were. So we took this idea and developed AricoinPay around our coin to differentiate ourselves but at the same time do something that was sorely needed, bridge the gap between the cryptocurrency community and the public. Making cryptocurrency accessible. We have some marketing guys on the team and they created a waiting list feature for the launch of Aricoin pay that had over 100,000 people signup - we verified around 10,000 as real people. You can see the history of that on twitter.

So now you have a bit of context, what were these bad events? AricoinPay functions exactly like PayPal. It uses real world transaction price data from exchanges, for it to work consistently without easy market manipulation we have to select one exchange for everyone to trade with so it can get an accurate live price from there - we were on a few exchanges, but the trade volume on MintPal was well into the 1000s of BTCs in 2014 so we selected this exchange as our primary exchange and included it in all our marketing material.

Then this happened to MintPal in 2014, shortly after our rebranding. Our community and developers made huge losses.

We quickly redirected everyone and relaunched on Cryptsy. Exchange volumes started slow but then got even higher here because the exchange was so large. It had a very public image and we foolishly didn't learn from our previous mistake. This happened to Crypsty shortly after.

The AricoinPay system relies on exchange data to bridge that gap and displays prices to people in their local currency.  After the downfall of Mintpal & Cryptsy in such a short time frame - given their huge respect in the community at the time - we were lost for words - that was then followed by a countrywide ban on cryptocurrency which has since been relaxed. We moved to a series of other exchanges that were much less known than Mintpal & Cryptsy and our thoughts were to wait until a time when the cryptocurrency environment was more transparent - so when we could find a more reliable exchange for the long run - with everything being so heavily regulated now it leaves less room for people to do things like our previous two selected exchanges and we are seeing a future again. We will be taking the next few months to plan our next steps.

We would love to have as many people on board as possible to help with coding / community support / outreach. You can see a list of jobs we require below the first post on this thread, so message this account if interested.


Extra note for community members who have been with us from the start:
We had 6 encrypted backup disks within our team, 3 of these have failed - causing more problems over the last couple of years. If you have historic versions/code for Aricoin or OlympicCoin please send it to this account for our records. In addition to this - we still have all the code for AricoinPay and database records if you had small amounts there you would like to recover - don't worry we haven't forgotten about you!

This is awesome to hear that you guys are making a comeback! I lost a large amount of ARI a few years ago. I bought it on Cryptopia and sent it off to my Aricoin Pay wallet. Back then I was able to log into the site. The coins never showed up in my wallet. When I asked about why, I was told that the coin had forked and the old wallet addresses no longer worked. But there had been no indication on the website that this was going on. I was told that someone would just send me the same amount of ARI to make up for the loss, but then I never heard anything again. I kind of figured it was a loss. If ARI is going to be developed now and actually go somewhere, is there any chance I might get back what I lost? I could send more specific info if someone from the dev team messages me. It would be best if the actual coin I lost could be recovered as opposed to merely replaced. That way no one is having to take a loss for my sake.

In the mean time I will keep following this thread. If ARI is going to make a comeback, I might want to pick some up...

[Aricoin]

Development,...Thank You for your statements here and efforts. Much appreciated.

You are very welcome. We will be doing everything in our power to move Aricoin forward this year!

Did you get given any of the cryptsy coins by the cryptsy receiver?

The cryptsy receiver gave the low value coins he couldn't sell back to the devs of each coin.

We requested the Aricoin wallet from Cryptsy multiple times with no reply around the time of the events. Last month we discovered that Greggory Matthews was in possession of the Cryptsy Aricoin wallet from the receivership in 2017 as can be seen by his redistribution efforts here: https://www.goldcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3789.0 - we are trying to contact him to get details of who is holding the wallet but we are yet to receive a reply. If the stolen community coins are returned they will be used to help Aricoin grow. During the Cryptsy meltdown (to our knowledge) all user balance records were wiped, sadly there is no way to prove who had what in the Aricoin wallet. Due to this fact, the only way we see forward is to give the coins back to the community on a large scale by building a fund redistribution website that will allow people to claim 1 Aricoin for every unique data point we can gather about that user (Twitter / Facebook / IP linked) and reward users with more for referring a friend to Aricoin - much like our waiting list that had over 100k users waiting - without giving away any coins!. If anyone has a lead on who may have the wallet, please urge them to return it so Aricoin can grow. With that said we will be building a redistribution website regardless of the Cryptsy wallet being returned that will rely on donations from the community. It's important that holders of Aricoin know that for a coin to grow it needs to have wide use which means we need a wider distribution plan to bring Aricoin to the masses.

 
NOTE: If you did lose coins on Cryptsy send this account a message so we have records of it for reference.

This is awesome to hear that you guys are making a comeback! I lost a large amount of ARI a few years ago. I bought it on Cryptopia and sent it off to my Aricoin Pay wallet. Back then I was able to log into the site. The coins never showed up in my wallet. When I asked about why, I was told that the coin had forked and the old wallet addresses no longer worked. But there had been no indication on the website that this was going on. I was told that someone would just send me the same amount of ARI to make up for the loss, but then I never heard anything again. I kind of figured it was a loss. If ARI is going to be developed now and actually go somewhere, is there any chance I might get back what I lost? I could send more specific info if someone from the dev team messages me. It would be best if the actual coin I lost could be recovered as opposed to merely replaced. That way no one is having to take a loss for my sake.

In the mean time I will keep following this thread. If ARI is going to make a comeback, I might want to pick some up...

Sorry this happened to you wiser, unfortunately there is nothing we can do to recover these coins. We had alerts in place on AricoinPay to inform users of the network changes but sadly the exchanges didn't follow suit and alert people on their side which caused some confusion. 

Aricoin certainly will be making a comeback - Thank you for your continued support!

[wiser]

There were no alerts on my Aricoin Pay side. I know this because I had to open it up to find the address to send the coins to. It gave me the address just like it always had before and there was no indication that anything was amiss. I only found out about the fork after I reached out here and asked why my coins weren't showing up in my wallet. At least that is what I remember. I sent from Cryptopia.

Development,...Thank You for your statements here and efforts. Much appreciated.

You are very welcome. We will be doing everything in our power to move Aricoin forward this year!

Did you get given any of the cryptsy coins by the cryptsy receiver?

The cryptsy receiver gave the low value coins he couldn't sell back to the devs of each coin.

We requested the Aricoin wallet from Cryptsy multiple times with no reply around the time of the events. Last month we discovered that Greggory Matthews was in possession of the Cryptsy Aricoin wallet from the receivership in 2017 as can be seen by his redistribution efforts here: https://www.goldcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3789.0 - we are trying to contact him to get details of who is holding the wallet but we are yet to receive a reply. If the stolen community coins are returned they will be used to help Aricoin grow. During the Cryptsy meltdown (to our knowledge) all user balance records were wiped, sadly there is no way to prove who had what in the Aricoin wallet. Due to this fact, the only way we see forward is to give the coins back to the community on a large scale by building a fund redistribution website that will allow people to claim 1 Aricoin for every unique data point we can gather about that user (Twitter / Facebook / IP linked) and reward users with more for referring a friend to Aricoin - much like our waiting list that had over 100k users waiting - without giving away any coins!. If anyone has a lead on who may have the wallet, please urge them to return it so Aricoin can grow. With that said we will be building a redistribution website regardless of the Cryptsy wallet being returned that will rely on donations from the community. It's important that holders of Aricoin know that for a coin to grow it needs to have wide use which means we need a wider distribution plan to bring Aricoin to the masses.

 
NOTE: If you did lose coins on Cryptsy send this account a message so we have records of it for reference.

This is awesome to hear that you guys are making a comeback! I lost a large amount of ARI a few years ago. I bought it on Cryptopia and sent it off to my Aricoin Pay wallet. Back then I was able to log into the site. The coins never showed up in my wallet. When I asked about why, I was told that the coin had forked and the old wallet addresses no longer worked. But there had been no indication on the website that this was going on. I was told that someone would just send me the same amount of ARI to make up for the loss, but then I never heard anything again. I kind of figured it was a loss. If ARI is going to be developed now and actually go somewhere, is there any chance I might get back what I lost? I could send more specific info if someone from the dev team messages me. It would be best if the actual coin I lost could be recovered as opposed to merely replaced. That way no one is having to take a loss for my sake.

In the mean time I will keep following this thread. If ARI is going to make a comeback, I might want to pick some up...

Sorry this happened to you wiser, unfortunately there is nothing we can do to recover these coins. We had alerts in place on AricoinPay to inform users of the network changes but sadly the exchanges didn't follow suit and alert people on their side which caused some confusion. 

Aricoin certainly will be making a comeback - Thank you for your continued support!

[jsarce]

We are actively looking for developers & community leaders going forward into 2018.

Please message this account with ideas on how you can help Aricoin in 2018 - bounties available.

aricoin website NOT WORKING
aricoin wallet 1.8 NOT WORKING
no sync 3 connection
wallet 2.0 NOT WORKING
explporer..... NOT WORKING

almost forgot: NOONE ANSWER IN THE SKYPE GROUP, EVEN U

I think than should fix the ARI ZOMBIE COIN as first

If devs going to revive this then they should post proper announcement, not like this.

[Aricoin]

There were no alerts on my Aricoin Pay side. I know this because I had to open it up to find the address to send the coins to. It gave me the address just like it always had before and there was no indication that anything was amiss. I only found out about the fork after I reached out here and asked why my coins weren't showing up in my wallet. At least that is what I remember. I sent from Cryptopia.

Perhaps the message wasn't clear enough at the time - the development team wrongly assumed everyone active on AricoinPay was providing feedback on the aricoin.org forums - everyone there would have been well aware of the changes and development progress. Needless to say, we will take extra steps to ensure this never happens again.

If devs going to revive this then they should post proper announcement, not like this.

I understand where you are coming from. To explain; we removed old source links while we work on a more stable version of Aricoin for distribution. We owe it to the community to explain the absence. It's important to know we are still behind the Aricoin vision. It's too early for an announcement as the team is still in the planning stage and we are looking to bring the original community back together. To be clear, we do have developers on board who are currently working on builds but we want to compete with the best - so we are doing our best to bring in more specialist devs to realise our vision and that requires community support.

[Exalt84]

We are actively looking for developers & community leaders going forward into 2018.

Please message this account with ideas on how you can help Aricoin in 2018 - bounties available.

Till aricoin will mining this coin will live. First need win wallet, paper wallet and working website.

[risky_one]

http://aricoin.org & Wallet are alive!
Waiting for roadmap and more active nodes!

[dimon1214]

NEW POOL ADDED!!!

http://hotmining.info/getting_started

[Hesam.Masoumi]

hotmining  is good

Explorer: https://prohashing.com/explorer/Aricoin/

Pool: prohashing.com:3333 ->  follow the site and register to get the panel

also I requested and applied for qryptos and tradeogre exchanges to add Ari,   good luck

[Ncognit0]

Is there a discord group or any other communication channel?

[Patriot872]

this dev replying with very close details and incite to past issues is a bit refreshing.
a far cry from the numerous old projects that simply vanish with no input or responses at all.
watching this project and look forward to what may be in the future.
Dev - Thanks for being Genuine !

[mrachtung]

was this coin related to olympcoin before its rename?

[Aricoin]

was this coin related to olympcoin before its rename?

No - We have no association with 'olympcoin' - our previous name was OlympicCoin. The development team started work on the coin in 2013 and we launched under the name OlympicCoin in 2014 to celebrate the spirit of the Winter Olympics that year. Our first block rewards paid tribute to the Olympic games actually. The first reward to miners was a random amount between  1894 - 2014. For those who don't know the IOC formed in 1894 so that's why this start date was chosen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee

You can read about the full coin history on the first page of this thread!

this dev replying with very close details and incite to past issues is a bit refreshing.
a far cry from the numerous old projects that simply vanish with no input or responses at all.
watching this project and look forward to what may be in the future.
Dev - Thanks for being Genuine !

We appreciate the support Robert - Aricoin has a bright future and members like you will help us get there faster!

[mrachtung]

Thanks for the reply!
The reason i asked is because i bought a ton of olympcoin on yobit 2 days ago, transferred to my wallet, but its not syncing.
Im beginning to think that ive been caught out. Can you clarify if olympcoin is to do with you chaps or not?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1581757.0

[Aricoin]

Thanks for the reply!
The reason i asked is because i bought a ton of olympcoin on yobit 2 days ago, transferred to my wallet, but its not syncing.
Im beginning to think that ive been caught out. Can you clarify if olympcoin is to do with you chaps or not?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1581757.0

We have no association with the 'olympcoin' project.

The only exchange we currently recommend is Cryptopia: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=ARI_BTC
 

[Matthaggie]

Ari lookin good, any new exchanges?