Quote from: alyssa85 on March 29, 2014, 06:10:46 PM

Quote from: MegaHertz on March 29, 2014, 05:48:23 PM

I am an Icelander. I have been watching all night because I KNEW that there was a HARD FORK coming.

Whether or not there was some hacking, which maybe there was, it seems that the coin is still operating.

Here is the thing, Icelanders have really gotten hit by the 2008 crash. People lost homes and have seen mortgages go UP and principal down (in effect, because mortgages are tied to inflation) and have had some reality biting them in the ass.

But it wasnt their fault, it was the banking system and some bankers that let them down.

That is why there was a 50% pre-mine. To give the coins to Icelanders. Just because they didnt know about protecting block-chains, this was a poor excuse (if true) for a hacker to try to mess up a valid idea, a grand experiment, to try to offer some help to fellow Icelanders.

Everyone on the entire planet got screwed over by the banking crisis! Even goatherders in Africa felt it's effects. And many depositors in Britain and the Netherlands got screwed over by Icelandic banks essentially stealing their money and then they got screwed over again by the Icelandic govt refusing to honor the guarantee that they'd freely given for those deposits!

So the idea that Icelanders are poor things, worse victims than everywhere else is quite wrong. And the idea that they are a special case and should be given free money and it's not their fault for being too lazy to do some mining on an old computer... words fail. This is not like mining bitcoin, there was so little difficulty that anyone could have done it if they wanted to.

Look - if you don't want to trust your government to defend your currency, and want to create an alternative, you have to do the defending yourself. Just being passive and expecting everything to be done for you, foreign people to mine it for you, foreign people to develop it, foreign people to secure the blockchain, people in panama to do airdrops ... come on! This is not how the world works.

Also - auroracoin wasn't hacked, it was attacked. This is the crypto version of attacks that go on in the forex markets eg the attacks on the euro, the currrent forex attacks on the rouble and the brazilian real. This is how the world works, how it will always work. But you can defend yourself, if you can be bothered...

All good points. Thanks. Unfortunately we only had a hundred people or so that were interested early on. There is much more awareness now and some level of understanding.

I can tell you understand Crypto's quite well, and well, that is good for you... please be patient with us new comers.

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