(if you read the transcript, this fool didn't even enable it after the loss) 

Very much agreed.

The US Government does not acknowledge the presence of bitcoins... They would probably help you if someone robbed you in person or hacked you...

It's weird, but there is no option to keep any of those scammed and rescammedued coins for you. I vote for either splitting them up between parties, that show and can proof their claim or, even preferrable, donate the rest, that was not showing up/proved, publicly to  EFF or something else of your choice.

Best"
  wo0x

Tenebrix was premined, also the developer abandoned it along with the community.

Litecoin developers are still very much active- they are about to update the code to include all improvements up to Bitcoin v0.8.x

All the ALTs that copied off of Litecoin at its current state will be running Bitcoin v0.6.3 code. I hope these pump and dump developers are savvy enough to upgrade their coins like Litecoin is doing, otherwise eventually they will be left behind and forgotten (most of them are headed this way anyways.)

Also... create a better community? Bitcoin/Litecoin has a huge community, good luck trying to surpass all their development and services, etc. They are already ahead and have a bigger community to develop sites/services/updates to stay ahead in well into the future. There are also many more people invested into Bitcoin/Litecoin than any other crypto currency, so more people have incentive to make things and start projects because it increases value.

FWIW, I own my server farm (as made rather public on the first day or two of the coin launch), and definitely pay my own electricity.  And despite being one of the few that did implement GPU mining of YAC (just not necessarily one that performs as spectacularly as people seem to think every GPU implementation is going to achieve), I still CPU-mine YAC at this point.  Tons and tons of cheap Xeon-based IBM BladeCenter blade servers that people dump on eBay for pocket change just because they're a couple years old and not the latest-and-greatest blade servers on the market, reasonable power costs, and sensible and efficient design of data center cooling are key here.  Per unit of CPU performance, I pay less than half what someone would pay merely for a motherboard, a bit of RAM and an i7-2600k, to achieve the same level of performance, and end up with carrier-class hot-swappable hardware, with more redundancy than you can shake a stick at, that just doesn't fail except under unusual circumstances.  This was formerly IBM's hardware platform for building supercomputer clusters for NSA, who tend not to have a sense of humor about power supplies that fail when you look at them funny.  This just comes down to resourcefulness and ability to scrounge the right hardware (or even to know what to look for in the first place) to keep costs down.

You can bet I would've really cleaned up had I seen the delayed YAC announcement sooner than 8 hours after the coin finally launched..  I even had the entire server cluster all prepared to network-boot a YAC-specific Debian Linux image off one of my file servers, and it was all tested and ready to go prior to the originally scheduled YAC launch date/time, I just needed the final version of the client.  But alas, I was asleep (and/or in the wrong part of the world) at the time the coin finally launched.

You understand that the driver seat is inverted, right?

it's because we learnt it,
do it as well,
it's not difficult,
you just need to use 0.0005% of your active brain

Btw. just a post. someone said "6000 premine NO!' there was no premine. We helped the owner of elacoin last night mine the Genesis block. which he updated on the github and we all started mining at the same time.

Bad luck. At the end of the day.. All forms of hacking have to be due to some sort of fault by the victim. I guess this could be seen as a some what expensive lesson.

Well, we figured out what happened:

He erased/reinstalled Bitcoin (alongside other programs) on his computer, because he thought that the wallet/coins are safe on the USB stick (only the client is on the stick, not the blockchain or wallet data).
The wallet.dat is from a recovery program and couldn't be fully recovered.
There is still a (small :/) chance that the private key is intact in there.
Or is there maybe another backup option untried? some autobackup from windows maybe?

what film was it~?

Well if someone with 19 posts says so in REALLY BIG letters, I guess I might want to reconsider....