I took a day off on Thursday December 12th and drove up to Tallahassee to the Florida AG's Office. After about an hour lecture and introduction to Crypto for two Investigators and Assistant AG, I then showed them several exchanges and Cryptsy, who was operating inside the State of Florida. Excited wasn't the word, you would have thought it was Christmas in addition to their jaw's dropping when they saw the volume and the amount of unregulated $$$ flowing through Mr. Vernon's site. They were extremely concerned at the potential fraud that was happening and the theory of a possible multimillion dollar ponzi scheme just seemed to materialize out of thin air. While she said they couldn't determine "if anything was indeed amiss, they were certainly going to be talking to Mr. Vernon as well as contacting their Federal counterparts"

Yeah I see that it has a lot of interest from China and it has since the beginning pretty much. I mined a metric fuckload of APC during the start and sold them off very easily for what I thought was a hilariously over-valued price, but now I'm kicking myself for having not held onto them, I'd be rolling in BTC right now.

I just didn't see anything special about it at all, so I mined until like the second N-factor change and stopped assuming that the coin would just die since it has no redeeming qualities. And yet for some reason the Chinese are going apeshit over it. I really just don't get it. 

What's even more irritating is that the N-factor calculation rate isn't even publicly posted anywhere, so we have no idea when the next GPU efficiency decreases will be, just when the block reward decreases will be. Additionally, the listed block rewards don't even hold true, as I solo mined several blocks with <100 APC reward during the first 10,000 blocks, which should not even be possible. The documentation for this coin is lacking as well as incorrect in places. It's irritating to me that random coins like this one get so much attention and price pumping for no reason while coins that actually have innovative qualities are shunted to the side.

This coin uses another miner, look in the first post. Also today a stratum-compatible cpuminer was released:
http://applecoin.org/index.php?topic=373.msg2522#msg2522
win32: http://applecoin.org/index.php?topic=373.msg2544#msg2544

Gotcha... I was starting to assume that's what it was after researching a bit more. First time mining a scrypt-jane coin, so I didn't quite understand how it worked at first.

can't open applecoin.org. is site down?

I sent 3.1B to Cryptsy in multiple transactions but they never showed up.

Status: 24398 confirmations
Date: 20-11-2013 08:19
To: uzwiH8PMv5S9eTY8z976X3tBQDvwTi5cc
Debit: -99999999.00 COL
Transaction fee: -0.001 COL
Net amount: -99999999.001 COL
Transaction ID: e34f375d882bd188b05414d2b71e8c7a54b71e47e589e65c58e7f53f53da2341

What do you read from this people? Should they have come trough? The address is my deposit address at Cryptsy, is still valid.