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!