Hello everyone,

I've been away from this forum and MarginBot for a bit, and am finally available to come back and start working on the project again.  Looks like things were busy here while I was gone!

1. First, let me get this out of the way.  I am HowardF, the original creator of MarginBot.  While I was away from this forum, it apparently got hacked, and they locked down all the accounts and sent out a change password thing.  Well, that change password thing isn't working, I can't request a new password from my old account, and I can't figure out any way around it.  So, I created this new account to use from now on.  If there's any concern whether its really me or not, I'm happy to prove it by changing either the old website at fuckedgox.com or I can make a little change in the Github repo or whatever (just tell me what you guys want, and I'll do it).  Also, if anyone has a better contact for an admin here that could reset the HowardF account for me so I can get back in, that would be awesome as well.  I'd love to get access back to that account, would save some trouble.

2. Why have I been gone for so long?  Basically, I got hired to build some software for a company, and as part of the deal I couldn't really work on any competing crypto based applications.  The company was really cool, and I probably could have gotten around this to work on MarginBot a bit, but honestly it was just easier to focus there at the time.  That project is done now though, and I'm ready to get back into working on MarginBot.  Plus that project gave me a ton of ideas for improvements / new features for MarginBot.

3. What's the future for MarginBot?  Well, in the current environment, MarginBot has been performing exceedingly well, and this seems like a particularly good time to come back to work on it.  Honestly, MarginBot has always been a simple tool, and it always will be.  So to that end, there's not really all that much that needs to be added to the tool.  But there are a ton of small bug fixes, performance improvements, minor features, enhancements, etc. that I would really like to make.  Plus, I've been running MarginBot for more than 3 years now, so I have a LOT of data that I've been able to run things against to see what is working well and what isn't.  Hopefully I'll be able to use some of that information to make some minor tweaks to the overall algorithms I use (while still keeping things simple, it is after all primarily a tool to beat FRR).

4. I have questions, need support, or want something custom.  Get in touch with me at marginbot@fuckedgox.com, or send me a message here.  I'll try to check in a lot more often.  Also, I'm on reddit a lot: https://www.reddit.com/user/FuckedGox/