some news regarding Mintpal.
http://www.pressat.co.uk/releases/moopay-to-take-over-management-and-operation-of-mintpal-trading-exchange-1dd1fa210bae35f9d9f6355a6cf9d172/

there has been something in the works that ive had to keep quiet about but perhaps not for much longer, though no promises.

Regarding what I am doing, this has had a set back in time planning due to the learning curve getting a VPS server with plesk while not familiar with all the differences between windows and this VPS:( I might need to decide what to do also due to real time constraints:(
*it should have been beta-live 2 weeks ago..... as my test environment is now already up and running for 6weeks+ it is annoying to have this setback. I'll post more details when got it running properly.

Maybe, but given the time NobleCoin is live already, those investors bought or mined it as no other was doing so. So either they are in for a quick buck, or they have other ideas behind their investments. To me it is very simple, they bought the coins and kept the price to its level. If the price rises, they will release a certain amount of their coins to make sure that the coin is distributed. The more distributed a coin is, the more stable a price gets.
But that does not go for the whale type of investor btw. That is more the type of investor you are referring to. Unfortunately these guys won't show on the rich list as they need to respond as their bot needs to respond. Meaning that their coins most likely are stored on an exchange.

@Rofo, Do you want any involvement in noble-charts.com?

I hope no one from the Noble team got this problem:
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/government-snatches-idle-accounts/story-e6frfku9-1226949007917

Ow and maybe for some lucky guys:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/12/silk-road-bitcoin-on-the-move-as-government-prepares-to-auction-off-18-million-worth/

You might find out that these groups cooperate with specific exchanges as well. I wonder how SNCX will do in the coming few hours.

And I am also very annoyed with the new trend to rename coins. Like CAI went to CAIX. This looks too much as being a smokescreen.

But than again, what do I know:)

But on a side note, I wonder how Rofo and the team is doing. I can only imagine that they carry a burden to get something good and wonderfull while we "sit by and wait".
it would be nice if we could do something in return.

Hehe, sorry am making dinner for myself:)
And yes, your point is true. The only alternative would be if a mass of people would decide to mine. But we all know that the current situation is that people rather gamble to get a quick ROI than to build and extend a coin.

Well theoratically an attack can also be done with 1% of the hashrate. But as it is scaled logorithicallly, the chances of success at 1% are near to zero. So the higher the hashrate, the more likely the attack will be succesfull. As for being practical, once above 51% it is more likely to have a 6 deep confirmation.

From what I have read, an attack to the network does not need to be 51%. The likely hood to be succesfull with above 51% is higher. So it really depends on how you want to look at a secure network.

added link: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_computing_power

I fail to see the reasoning behind that logic. Anyone having that much hashing power (= money) can do the same thing using any algo. And there are other ways to get that amount of hashing power to work for you if you were to put bounties on a coin. Like join me: i'll pay you and if we get a succesfull fork you get a bonus. If they are after you, you can not hide.
Besides that, think of the amount of people requiring to update thair wallets and such. I doubt the community will grow if they need to change a lot to keep up.

But I do share your concerns though although I do not have an answer besides that we should go more commercial maybe.

Maybe they are. I just wish they were more conservative on the amount of coins they add and the time frame they use for that. I know they are an exchange are are looking for money to poor in. But with coins not being a week old and than being pumped on Bittrex and than eventually to go to Poloniex where it is either pumped further or dumped, it feels not good to me. So I can't say I have a neutral standing regarding Bittrex.

I assume you checked the chain explorer with your wallet address to see if they are actually sent?

There are 2 ways at how to look at the current market. And the main thing i currently see is that the P&D's are trying to diversify the people (and succesfully to btw).
So when we were back in januari this year, it took weeks to get on to an exchange and we were all cheering. In the current environment I have seen coins being brought on exchanges within 5 days of their announcement (Kiwi coin is the latest example) and the way that the coins are than being promoted is just sick. VRC for example had a PoW period of 2 weeks releasing 26,751,452 coins in that very short period, PinkCoin did 7 days of PoW releasing 500,000,000 coins. Both are or have been hyping and there are more recent examples. (try to imagine the impact a few large miners have on these coins or even imagine the dev group renting such a large miner)
Now my point on the 1st way of looking: All these coins do is release news and have the currently hyped Anon technology. But what people seem to forget is that releasing a coin with new technology does not mean it will be adapted and therefore used. The unfortunate part though is that a lot of attention and money flow is just constantly heading in that direction. This makes that some holders see the gains they could have had and will eventually cave in and run for the "easy money".

The 2nd way of looking at the market is looking at coins which are building on solid grounds. These coins suffer a lot by the current mass run on new coins. And I think that will continue for a few months still to come as the hypers will not gain that much from long term holding.

So I appreciate Noble to be different and true to its cause and not trying to hype something new just to get the investors to stick around. An investor should know what a coin is about, look at its future and decide whether it is a healthy or non-healthy future.
So if you were to sum up the facts we know about NobleCoin, I think we can tell that any of the strong assets required are there. The only thing we do not have is the race for a new engine which would hype the price (for a while).

What i would like to know from the current traders/holders is how they came to the conclusion NobleCoin has its value. My guess is that most of the current traders are not aware or know about these values we hold dear.

And I would also like to know what type of investors we would want to have. For me, i would like to see the type of investor who will hold the coin until the economy of a coin is at a stage where it can be used/spend and basically start to have a normal life cycle.

But I guess I am just weird:)

In my opinion it is best to announce something when it is actually done. For example, if I were to say that I am building a website and it will be available soon, that would just create a hype or price speculation. I'd rather go for the "here is the website" and let everything else takes its own path. So on behalf of communication I hope that something will be announced when it is done and not at a possibly maybe go live stage where the risk of not delivering on time will do more damage in this crypto world.
So from my perspective, it is done when it is done and i'll just wait patiently to see what will be announced.

I guess mainly because those that are selling are occupied with making money via mining or day trading and will not dig into any coin they touch.

Yeah, it is really quiet. everytime I press refresh the page looks exactly like it was before the refresh 9 out of 10 times:(

Btw, it seems that a new bug was found in OpenSSL. Not sure what will be the impact of this one considering the Heartbleed issue we saw before.
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt

Not sure, I thing he might also be rerferring to New Bitcoin which was announced 30th august 2013 and as it seems died after.... Maybe he is a bag holder or something.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=284007.0

if that is true:  DCM, X13C, BCAT => Bittrex and NUMC = SharexCoin. So if ttrue, we know what lies ahead now:)