Quote from: JamesRussles on January 28, 2014, 08:07:39 PM

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Quote from: JamesRussles on January 28, 2014, 07:35:51 PM

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Quote from: Astrocoin on January 28, 2014, 01:35:21 PM

Quote from: coinking on January 28, 2014, 01:31:47 PM

What the heck is going on over at openex.pw? Huh

Astrocoin is gone off the market and so are my coins. What is this all about?

CoinKing, please contact them directly. They announced on twitter that they were removing ASR market because they refused to update to our new source code which fixed synchronizing problems. I'd suggest you that you demand your coins from them ASAP, they are running off with a lot of coins. In the future, I'd suggest you use http://coinedup.com/

The truth is, you've altered the genesis hash, making the chain invalid and no one should trust this coin we have cautiously reopened the market, but are encouraging users to cancel their buy orders for obvious reasons. this coin is basically a scam.

Can somebody please explain wtf this means?

nvm. i misspoke. if i am reading everything correctly, the dev's were patching a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to create coins out of thin air.

an example of such coin creation happened at openex unfortunately. the following is forged transactions by a single openex user, who i was very suspicious of, but according to the client all the transaction ids were valid.

http://pastebin.com/rtTTZ33p

this is all a bit bizarre really.its true that changing the genesis hash alters the chain history, removing trust of the previous chain, but as for what that means, its up to the community really. The strict cryptoanarchists will consider this coin tainted, the devs and their sock puppet army will say its fud, and the blind masses will eventually be swayed one way or another.

For proof/reference showing they have altered the genesis hash:

https://github.com/astrocoin-project/astrocoin/commit/c13aaec998cdcf9e06e277417180954e0dd2f1bc

ps: the real question is what was this vulnerability there for in the first place?

Any idea how many were created?

i have no idea. it could just be that there are multiple forks. i make an inquiry about it on twitter, but they ignore the questions. I give two shits about ASR or this dev team. what i do care about though, is my customers who would be investing their BTC into this coin. I cannot allow them to be swindled. That's why i'm here, it is only concern for the customers.