Psrsonally I think that the whole ICO topic has been everextended a bit in the last 12 months and after several frauds, investors luckily are a bit more careful. But I like the mining idea a lot, zcash is a good example, how this could be handled ... though their start ramp-up may have been a bit steep.
Problem is that Stealth already went from pow to pos one time and the stake rate is way too high. When this turns back to pow, it really has to stay there.

Another question is where the community should openly discuss about such topics. MR1 is still the mod. He knows that he will be cut off from fresh money influx for his special business model in January and lets the discussion roll hoping that he might profit from it. But he may delete any post at any time.

I  suggest to open up a new forum thread.

In the end it does not matter. The relevant information for anyone who wants to take over the project is that MR1 is absolutely right: the existing codebase can just be cloned to a new repository and the existing blockchain can be hardforked. Everyone in the Stealthcoin community will move over to the new fork, because there is absolutely no incentive to keep the edited: (old) forked BC alive. Do not wait fir the lead devs, just do it.

The only risk would be that Hondo jumps out of the next rose bush and claims his project back, but even that would be a kind of a project success, right? And currently this does not seem to be very probable.

Edit: the term 'old' was ambiguous. I wanted to suggest a hardfork that keeps the existing tokens and abandons the forked chain.

No, Hondo does or did exist, he wrote a software and his comments are all over the sourcecode.  

The more interesting question is if the slack channel really (still) exists and how our friend MR1 came into existance. This somehow reminds me of an old Star Trek episode, where killer satellites defend the destroyed home planet of a long extinct species  

Maybe I should change my cold medicine or reduce the dose.  

The point is that MR1 (the name fits somehow) manages the forum of a crypto project, that may be abandoned for quite some time already. At least there is no proof that the dev team still exists.

This is really funny in a very surreal way.  

Ah, that is interesting. Who besides you with access to this Slack channel has posted in this Bitcointalk forum in the last 3 months?

MR1, could you go just a bit more into the details here?

Sloooowly. It is ok if they lost interest, and they don't need to discuss that in public. But if new heads show interest, not everything would be lost. It is not so much to restore the token price in the short term, but to save the innovations made in the current product.

That said, complaints regarding the lack of dev support in Stealthcoin are valid critisism. Now everyone should be aware that there might be good reasons for that, e.g.:

- lack of capacity due to other projects: yes, independent developers have to generate a constant income stream to make a living and one single project may not always be able to provide that
- technical issues: there may be roadblockers showing up that a single dev cannot solve. No one is an expert for everything
- lost interest: the project might just have got boring for the dev, or he feels that he cannot reach his personal goals with it anymore. IMPORTANT: this is absolutely legit, it just needs to be handeled properly

The first and most obvious step to handle all of these issues is to bring new developers into the project, maybe with the objective to finally hand it over to a successor.

Hint: CryptoWiz420 showed some interest to wrap his head around the existing codebase, people like him could be helpful to reanimate this promising project.

There will always be FUD when innovation meets money, and that is what crypto is all about.

Censoring it does not provide a solution, but makes things worse, because in the end there will be more FUD the more posts are deleted, trust gets lost and the community gets anaemic. That is exactly what can be observed in this thread in the last year.

In fact most users (including the silent majority) is very well able to distinguish between FUD and constructive critisism. But where open discussions can take place, a strong community may thrive and have self-cleaning effects when it comes to FUD and doxing.

In some cases it might be necessary to block users, who want to attack/destroy a community by persistent trolling, but this should happen in a transparent manner, e.g. by posting a screenshot of the post that caused the ban, and giving a plausible reason for it.

Man, somehow this very interesting post from stealth.money glitched away. Bitcointalk is really buggy these days, but luckily I could save it:



The text of his message was:
"This is the time when we all investors hope the miracle could happen, where Hondo coming out and releasing a press new of what is the stage of StealthCoin. I've been with StealthCoin for many years and I don't think this never going to happen. I think all the ingredients for StealthCoin to succeed is all there but some how Hondo don't/can't do it."

It seems that this guy is in the Stealthcoin community for a long time, in fact very much longer than me, and he seems to loose faith, though he also states that he still believes in the potential of this coin.

Personally I also still believe in Hondo and Stealthcoin's potential, and I think that this is a perfect opportunity for the community managers and the dev team to shine and bring new hope to the community! Go ahead guys, this is your hour!  

PS: to make sure that this kind of glitch does not happen again, I will have an eye on the forum. Maybe I can set up an automated screenshot generator, I will keep you updated

Buy side on Bittrex looks deeper than on Polo right now. -> If you want to dump, I suggest not to dump on Polo but move your coins over to Bittrex.

It stakes like hell! I  still don't really understand the underlying rule set for staking in XST though, I just watch it like a landed flying saucer.

Cheap coins

On the first page of this thread.

Yes, it stakes. The behaviour was just a bit odd and did not fit to the description on the FAQ page. When you watch it,  it makes perfectly sense though.
BTW bitcorn is dumping, could someone please buy all the XST up to 10000 please? Thx!  

Same issue here. I am running an Nvidia GTX 1080 on Win10 x64. Driver version is 375.63. Normal miner seems to be a bit faster than the previous version though, nice!

I received my first paymout yesterday, I am a hobbyist miner with low hashrate. Because of technical issues with zcash z-addresses, I had to send my wallet file and my z- and t-addresses to extremal and received my first payment around 6 hrs. later.
Some things, like high payout limits, missing stratum support etc. may be disputable, and maybe other pools are better. But extremal is definitely not a scammer.

Not sure about the language part, I am German. The existing FAQ describes staking as an ongoing and continuous process, and gives no hint, that the staking indicator turns grey again, after the first block has been found.  I will watch the staking process in the next few days and if it works as described, I will write down a description zat you can putt in ze FAQ.  

Thanks guys and gals, screen does the job for me. 

Aaaahhh ... thanks for the info! Could you put this scheme on the front page? It could help to reduce the stress level of other new users 

I wanted to start the boolbd in daemon mode, like the "--detach" parameter of monerod does. My problem is that the daemon starts as a child process of sshd and gets terminated, when the ssh session is closed.