I'm mostly out of Zcoin so I don't take too much interest these days, might have lost somewhere in the region of $200, but overall feel very lucky not to have lost substantially more. I said months ago to devs to focus on working wallet over and above MTP, I suppose the failure of MTP wasn't foreseeable then, but nonetheless it made no sense to me to spend dev time on MTP when people were losing lots of Zcoin because of the wallet.
In my case, with the old wallet I lost one or two coins. I was facing losing 50 which made me nervous, but somehow the transaction went through and it ended up on Bittrex - but there was lots of luck in that, the 2 I lost never returned. That was the old wallet, and it was the first time I went WTF with Zcoin.
Read the last 50 pages of this forum. People certainly HAVE had lots of problems with the "new" wallet. Certainly not safe in my opinion. I haven't heard anyone whose had a problem with Coinomi mobile wallet though - so if you're sure you want to be in Zcoin, and don't want it on Bittrex, Coinomi might be the only safe option (but test if first, with a coin or two). Personally, I see risk of wallet failure much higher than risk of Bittrex defulcating and stealing our Zcoin. I personally couldn't be bothered to hold off exchange for my small holding.
Just to reiterate, in case my previous posts were not seen by the reader, I had a problem with zcoin the other day. I was testing mint zero coin function from the GUI wallet, I minted two 50 coin increments of zerocoins. One of the the procedures worked fine. I have included the data from both of the mint zerocoin transactions because I am not entirely sure which one was received and which one was not. It is all a bit confusing.. However, I am no idiot and actually I was in the moment of doing testing for software that I am devleloping that was to include zcoin support.
I wrote a post on this forum explaining my problem and instead of receiving any help I was simply directed to private communications and then re-directed to "slack" to talk to "the developer". I did create an account there but now I am having problems logging into it which is also quite infuriating. Did I mention that over the course of loading and reloading and reloading and reloading the blockchain from a non corrupt and working-just-fine wallet I have used well over 30 hours of my personal time. Time which I could have been working on my own projects implementing coins that function as promised. This wallet is nothing more than a piece of beta test software that was unleashed on the public so we could be "guinea pigs". After having a problem logging into slack I have become quite infuriated about this whole situation. I have wasted so much of my time on it now without any consulting with "the developer", that my time is more valuable to me than the stupid 50 zcoins that were lost. That doesnt amount to much more than $300 while if I was being paid even a pathetic low wage for my applied efforts regarding this particular problem it would be well over $1000. (at an insultingly low / hr wage btw).
I am not getting paid to develop zcoin, nor am I getting paid to lose my money and help the "developer" (who is claiming a founders fee of 20%) to make his code better. The facts are simple, I compiled this software from the source code myself as I do with all of the other wallets that I have been testing. The result was a _horrendous_ amount of "warnings" I am surprised it even compiled! They were warnings from broken libzerocoin not my fault. the other daemons I have compiled since was zero warnings. It is no surprise the coin disappeared, I should have realized the score when I compiled.
Why am I writing this text now? There are a few reasons I am wasting even more of my time and haven't quite written this off as a loss yet. One is in hopes somebody can provide me some INFORMATION as to how to GET MY COINS BACK because nobody has bother to do so. I have not had a single question answered, only a redirect to another confounded situation. I believe the answer to my statement of "not agreeing to move the conversation behind close doors" was something along the lines of "we may require your private keys" . And just what makes you think that I trust you, "the developer", or SLACKs unsecured messaging system with my PRIVATE KEYS? Are you all insane or do you think we are all just so stupid we will use software that has 50% FAIL when minting zero coins. Yes, I minted 4 parcels of zero coins two of them were 50xzc parcels and the other two were 1xzc portion. 2/4 (50%) mintings were lost. This is not my fault the wallet is bullsh*t.
I would like to take a moment right now to publically apologize to PLAYING POODLES because I publically talked rudely to him when he was simply expressing the dissent of the slipshod modality being applied by these "developers" and using our loss as their gain. That software never should have been released on the public and there is NO WAY it should have a version number as high as it is. That is EXTREME BETA software AT BEST. It should show up with WARNINGS THAT YOUR COIN MAY VAPORIZE and if so YOU WONT RECEIVE HELP WHEN YOU ASK DIRECTLY FOR IT.
Prove me wrong by answering my questions. WHERE THE F*CK ARE MY ZCOINS? This is more of a public service at this point than an expectation of getting my coins back. I refuse to transmit private keys over unsecured systems and I refuse to trasmit same to parties I DO NOT know OR TRUST.
I was all about Zcoin and I sold all of the bytecoin and every coin that I had to stock up on Zcoin exclusively. I started writing software for zcoins implementation to real world function. I wont mention what I am selling all of my zcoin right now to trade so nobody thinks I am here for the selfish interest. After seeing the code (I am now using) for the daemon compile without any warnings, code that is far more complex, I have much more faith that that software will not lose my coins. AND THEY WARN YOU WHEN THE WALLET IS BETA.
so this is a word to the wise. I hope if you plan on investing in zcoin you try MULTIPLE MINT ZERO COIN TRANSACTIONS because the developers DID NOT SUFFICIENTLY TEST THE MOST IMPERATIVE FUNCTION OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM !!!!
Yes that is severe and all capitals but if you think I am watching clowns throw away my money because they wrote sh*tty code and not complaining about it, that is just crazy.
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---wallet info:
Status: 1401 confirmations
Date: 7/20/17 13:42
Debit: -50.00 XZC
Transaction fee: -0.01 XZC
Net amount: -50.01 XZC
Transaction ID: fe49fc5a9dd8595b4ed92722ab1e5a98e2b00b0198c17831e863eb96b6e74d63
---cryptoid.info:
Details for Transaction
Hash fe49fc5a9dd8595b4ed92722ab1e5a98e2b00b0198c17831e863eb96b6e74d63
Block Height 44089 (1401 confirmations)
Block Date/Time 2017-07-20 20:48:47
Total Output 56.51026806 XZC
Fees 0.01 XZC
Inputs
Index Previous output Address Amount
0 ec55d5424a451705...:1 a6ye1FUJAeXjVuF5E6gLq5yzuR7ENxw2D3 6.54026806 XZC
1 cf662a5d8a63e5b2...:1 aJHDQJqCEEAN9Yj7XrYFKVznu5MFzpviCm 49.98 XZC
Outputs
Index Redeemed in Address Amount
0 Anonymous MARKER19fc0192548d1b4d71ec456c3fbdf7bf90fd9c6f884bcc74633741e7ba8392cfdd2fb6c80 924e9f1bfcafdf7dd118c283f3c35ce9f36f8ab171d55df8d0394aa988e5cca333e8849dc5a0103 503c6a4fea181a3abd5bd940bf41be14998136f2d7834182b3dbd500e180d59b837ee047e14305a 2f4addc02704c40c4dbebdb29 50.0 XZC
1 Not yet redeemed a5ELK3GdkEFuzwsrnAfQYKzHUSbEQaTaes 6.51026806 XZC
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---wallet info:
Status: 1391 confirmations
Date: 7/20/17 16:59
Debit: -50.00 XZC
Transaction fee: -0.01 XZC
Net amount: -50.01 XZC
Transaction ID: 1e285701633d76afd1f0167332b7ade372ecf71e1cdfa1e27345d3e19df6fc9b
---cryptoid.info:
Details for Transaction
Hash 1e285701633d76afd1f0167332b7ade372ecf71e1cdfa1e27345d3e19df6fc9b
Block Height 44099 (1391 confirmations)
Block Date/Time 2017-07-21 00:24:26
Total Output 57.9754676 XZC
Fees 0.01 XZC
Inputs
Index Previous output Address Amount
0 ecec6376b7dc4553...:1 aJHDQJqCEEAN9Yj7XrYFKVznu5MFzpviCm 57.9854676 XZC
Outputs
Index Redeemed in Address Amount
0 f1359b7446538a6a... a8NsNQRox1fa3cEs8pKePq9nRNbTps5sP6 7.9754676 XZC
1 Anonymous MARKER4b7ae75aafd08f3409576e92f6b69cb32e5365484a25156d8833b242b315c3d0bb6b980bf b482dd07ab958786ddc698e2f48c5fe7ca4c7be12aa058003e41c563e3c545cd5d47602b297b680 cb546115220e300d3d1081ae70759375426feb5b3b4d9b71ce70215ac036263a3e4fd61421fdec7 1d1afe1182235817a0372268800 50.0 XZC
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Address of supposed zcoin receive, present in my wallet, generated as a result of mintzerocoin function. never received anything:
aAXQzvBL56EzkGngZgeQxcBGv9bowY2P5k
wallet info for the address of supposed transaction:
Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 7/20/17 16:45
Source: Generated
Credit: 50.00 XZC
Net amount: +50.00 XZC
Transaction ID: b70404e9d07a13f1816e7ad723c31b04d810c998ff3d6571f737909ab25d7281
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By the way all of these texts were copied out of my wallet and block explorer today, the 30th of July. As you can see the above address aAXQzvBL56EzkGngZgeQxcBGv9bowY2P5k never received ANYTHING although the wallet claims the coins were sent there it was never verified by the network.
So yes expect to be criticized publically when your wallet is eating peoples coins for breakfast. I am deeply insulted by this event. Not because of my measly loss but because of the potential loss for any and all customers who I would encourage to use the software that was being written who may lose an infinity amount of coins minting zcoin with only 50% success. What possible justification can you have to release a product like that on the public other than blatant lies and promises that it "does work" ?
I expect any data to be presented about this subject to be presented publically. THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW WHY THOSE COINS WERE VAPORIZED AND IF YOU FIX THE PROBLEM OR NOT.
No, I will not give my private keys to any address. If you have advice for troubleshooting (WHICH I ALREADY REQUESTED), you may provide it in knowing that I am a highly skilled and technically oriented person more than capable of troubleshooting this problem if you have any information that I do not currently have such as where the f* is my money.