...reality inbetween and they are by far worse, than I even thought off.

However - I managed to get my little money out of gox, before it imploded - just because I took my uncomfortable feeling seriously.

Beyond that - the gox-experience emphasizes, how vitally cryptocoins depend on secure exchange mechanisms. I think it should be one major goal for future development / design of coins to introduce some integral exchange-functionality.
As the 1st Generation of cryptocoins took over functionalities formely performed by bank institutions, now a 2nd Generation might be needed, which at least provide some safeguard for thier vital exchange functionalities.

Of course it's almost impossible to prove these "fake deals" i'm talking about, as an observer cannot retrieve information about current trading parties.
However - fake-deals might expose some specific phenomena in observable exchange data, which could be detected by an observer.

A possible benefit from such a hypothetical "fake-alarm": if alerted ppl stop trading for some time for instance - manipulating parties
could experience less profit or even some loss, whereas others prevent losses by avoiding their traps.

Since a couple of months now, I observe the BitCoin-rate at Mt.Gox quite close - together with Bid- and Ask-Volume and so on.
My conclusion growing in the recent 2 Month is: Somebody (who ever?) performs a considerable part of Mt.Gox-Volume obviously
as fake-deals - as it seems almost impossible to make profits proceeding in this way.

A Fake-Deal in my eyes is for example, if the SAME person or organization is selling und buying BTC at the same time. It seems simply
impossible to me to believe, that there are "normal investors" selling 5 or 10% of an usual Mt.Gox-per-Day-Volume in 3 Minutes for prices
far below the current rating (or sometimes of course: above also...).

According to my individual tracks of some - usuallly quite decisive - parameter for "normal" market-behaviour, there's left just one
conclusion, if phenomena against any imaginable constellation of desire to make profit occur.

I' appreciate to read what other *real* BitCoiners think about that?

Well ppl, if some of you feel urged to carry out posting-battles on such a level, they should consider to start a separate thread for that - perhaps charging fees for those who like to follow it.
Afaik this here is the main thread to DGC and i think ppl interested in DGC would like to read more substantial about DGC than personal tainted lamentations  .

I read a lot here about that "Diff Problem" - and i tend to agree to those who ask for quicker diff-adjustments in order to limit negative side-effects of pool-jumping on constant miners.

However I don't believe that is the only or even the predominant problem DGC experiences - currently exposing something like an all-time-low.

Of course many other coins are going down currently as well - but that can never serve as an argument to refuse an analysis of or the debate about possible causes for the "own" coin and appropiate means addressing that phenomenon.
Perhaps the community can find back to an objective debate in a more constructive atmosphere... 




 

Well...  looking at the fate of some coins (even if flawlessly functioning) at cryptsy, one lesson seems:
ppl supporting a coin must do something to increase/hold its value...

I'm considerung to support EMD for a couple of time.
Are there any features, plans or projects about EMD, which may encourage further promotion of it?

If you recommend to use 1.3 client, it would be mandatory to offer the according download at the main website of emeard.... 

...doesn't really look like. Can't find a sign of elacoin-life anywhere.
But it is still traded on exchanges. That should be changed...

Hmmm.... what going on with elacoin? I've a transaction sticked at 1 confirmation   since three days ?
Perhaps somebody here knows something...
Regards
JK

Hi Folks,
i used to be an enthusiastic bagholder of that shiny doubloons.
Very much to my regret i had to notice that this coin recently dissappeared at cryptsy...
Any Infos here?
JK

I could imagine, one day there might occur a demand to create Coin-Algorithms which do not depend so much on hardware-power.

For example: some sort of smart algorithm-switching could perhaps be an approach to prevent any motivation to design, build and deal cost-intensive dedicated hardware.
It might be especially optimized for usual mainstream-hardware in order to get distributed to greatest possible extent.

Bitcoin like most other Cryptos promotes an idea of "Indendancy" - but as we now see with ASICs all current systems are vulnerable via the hardware-side.
(For the scrypt-fans - look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=231185.0 )

It should not be forgotten: Big Money could afford almost any material equipment which allows for technical prevalence. 

Could you post more info about that equipment ordered? I can't find it in the current BFL-Product. Have you got images of the obviously former BFL Offer?

Could you explain, why?

 ... just got two! However - i now managed to catch up 50% ...

WOW.... that's a lot of captcha solving ... ...  1EhZb9JLnqexvvL9YcfNJVSmezgyQWrDZh

Well - after a couple of days as "read-only"    ... i'd like to say Hello! to everybody...