Quote from: trustlessgold on October 20, 2014, 04:54:43 AM

Wow. Pandas are defensive. Didn't answer my questions though. I investigate before I buy and I found this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=460037.0 for Pandacoin. Is that out of date or it was the wrong article? Did the coin reboot or something? Blackcoin seems fairly distributed and I got in late but still got lots. They post their distribution on their reddit. http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-blackcoin-addresses.html. I bought into blackcoin because a friend who mined in the POW phase told me about it. For BC their goal is mainstream adoption and now I use it to sell gold using halo smart contracts on Blackauctions. No one else has usable smart contracts right now as far as I know. Sniping at me wont make me a Panda but I might buy anyway if it looks distinctive. At least you sound civil cadexn and yes the page I found is different from what everyone is telling me here.

Pandas are defensive because of 2 main things:

1) We are against all scams: ICO/IPO/instamine/fastmine/premine. We've done a lot of efforts putting scams out of business and refunding people who lost coins in scams. Our topic once get banned for 30 days because we offered to pay a compensation to all people who lost coins in a particular scam. (bitcointalk saw this as a giveaway and banned our topic). We have a very long and rich history and we managed to "kill" 2 competing scamcoins (one of the topic you mentioned) with the same name. We are the only one that survived (and stronger than ever Wink

). So our community is very strong and loyal and always try people to do their own research when they want to invest in coins. You will very rarely see someone pushing to buy PND, yes we are amazing but we're not some coin with kiddies that just say "buy buy! moon! moon!".

2) We've come a very long way, we were down to 3 litoshi at one point but we (the devs and the community) didn't give up. We (the devs) kept working very hard and have at this point already accomplished some things that makes us very different from other coins. We're creating the first coin that is easy to use, easy to mine, easy to buy and easy to understand. Because we've come from such a long way, the community is very close-knit. We support eachother, mess with one of us and you mess with all of us Wink

Feel free to read up on a post I created last friday: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=568529.msg9232641#msg9232641

My personal opinion: Blackcoin is doing some things right and some things not. I'm not going into details on this. Also distribution is a bit strange and the richlist is not that well distributed actually. Top 5 owning more than 16% of coins is not ideal.
That being said: you should only invest in coins that you think are right for you: do your research and my advice is to only invest in coins that have been around a while and that still have active devs. Chances are too high that new coins are scams.