From the start this was advertised as Luckycoin restarted at block XXXXX because the chain had essentially been mined by one person for the majority of the last decade, correct? So why after someone on twitter discovered they were able to sync the longer chain did all exchanges freeze deposits and blame some replay attack? The exchanges are older than the fork, there is no risk to them. They just stopped deposits, crashed the market and are killing this coin because they didn't research what they were listing?
There doesn't even seem to be a replay attack just a few transactions that coins be rebroadcast from old wallets. From our perspective, there is some coordination to only let certain people sell this coin.
If we look at charts, the chain was pretty active after the block 81'743 (Nov 25, 2013) chosen for "restarting":
https://web.archive.org/web/20160413155222/http://www.multifaucet.tk/index.php?blockexplorer=LKY&chartsMax 7'193 transactions on Dec, 22, 2013, up to 3'224 transactions per day in 2014, more than 1'000 (average per day) in 2015-2016.
In May, 2014 Luckycoin was mentioned by CNN (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=568287.msg6678487#msg6678487).
LKY was listed on exchanges and people were buying it in 2014-2018:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141030230840/https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/LKY_BTChttps://web.archive.org/web/20150908014821/https://www.coingather.com/exchange/LKY/BTChttps://web.archive.org/web/20150323145721/https://comkort.com/trade/lky_btchttps://web.archive.org/web/20150319003658/https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/LKY_BTChttps://web.archive.org/web/20160309020416/http://btcpool.exchange/Market?pair=LKY/BTC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=568287.msg41528390#msg41528390If you make all these people have zero balance of their wallets (all coins that were accumulated since November, 25, 2013 by miners and by investors - disappeared in a new chain), why do you expect that exchanges have to be happy with this "revival"?
Agree that they had to do their research before listing.
It is dishonest - if someone tries to erase all these years, no matter, replay attacks happened, or not, no matter, the original wallet synchs, or not.