Atari have become a joke in the gaming industry in the few years since they emerged from Chapter 11 in 2013. You should check out Jim Sterling's 2015 video "The Great Atari Ransack" which poses the question "who knows what the next victim of the Great Atari Ransack will be?" The answer was RollerCoaster Tycoon which they have been pumping out one crap version after another for the last few years (RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, RollerCoasterTycoon World, RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch) absolutely obliterating the value of their last remaining modern franchise and alienating it's fanbase. The only decent RCT entry was the port of the original two games by series creator Chris Sawyer and his partners at Origin8 which by all accounts he self funded and Atari merely got to publish because their license gives them exclusive publishing rights.

Then came Atari trying to chase the resurgence of mini consoles by announcing "Atari Box", a $250-$300 PC in a box which they intend to crowd fund. Then a couple of weeks back they started a new crowd funding campaign to create a Nintendo Switch version of RollerCoaster Tycoon because nobody there is likely aware how much they've utterly destroyed that franchise in recent years.

The coin may do well based upon nostalgia alone but I guarantee you the modern Atari won't do a thing with regards to any implementation of the coin, they're just in it to make a quick buck on brand name recognition, that's their entire business strategy these days.

The price is currently 11 x the ICO. You really think it'll hold the line when > 4 billion coins flood the market? 

Exactly, the main reason for trading alts is to increase your BTC holdings. The monetary value makes no real odds until such times as you're planning on liquidating your BTC into fiat.

ETN is being pumped because whales who own a lot of ICO coins want to build higher buy support to eventually dump into, it's as plain as day if you've seen this behaviour before. There will be many bag holders come ICO release day and the whales will be waiting to catch the cheap coins at the bottom (probably under the ICO price). I trade ETN primarily because it has volume and it's easy to make profits swing trading it but I for damn sure won't have any holdings or buy orders in any ETN market come mid-next week.

See you at the bottom.

You really need to take emotion out of the equation if you're going to day trade (that's exactly what you're doing when you buy into a pump). Don't put all your coins into a trade, hold a sizeable portion to allow you to average down as the price falls rather than selling at a loss and getting caught on the wrong side of a bear trap.

You're not actually trading coins directly between wallets on a coin exchange, once your deposit is credited to your account the balance exists as a database entry and is incremented/decremented based upon trading, deposits and withdrawals. Essentially your coins become virtual so the decimal point rules of the client itself become irrelevant at that point. An exchange could add as many decimal points as they want but most stick with 8 because that's the standard set by Bitcoin.

The only time the 2 decimal point limitation would be an issue would be at the time you come to withdraw as the client won't allow you to send transactions with more than 2 decimal points anything in the remaining 6 decimal spaces would be dust that you can't withdraw.

Wrong coin, BOAT is that way.


There's no ICO as the coin will not be starting fresh, it will be forking from the point at which 8 million coins (the original intended amount of coins) were generated leaving everyone's DBL balances in tact under the new entity with the changes I laid out above.

The initial 8 million coins are already out in the wild, either by people mining them over the last 4 years or purchasing them during the time it was listed on Cryptsy (2013-2015) so we can't do anything with them, they belong to their respective owners and will continue to do so when we fork.* That being said myself and kelsey are planning on donating a decent sum of our own personal coins for bounties and general giveaways once we relaunch.

As you can see from the post I quoted above people reuse names of other established coins so we don't want to make our planned rebranded name/ticker public just yet in case someone else comes along and copies it before we're ready to go. Once we have a client in place (this may take some time as rav3n_pl is planning on updating to a much newer codebase and is working around other commitments) we'll be more forthcoming with our plans for the future.

* Just in case you're thinking "why can't I just buy some coins off someone in a private transaction now?" you need to know that any transaction made on the old client at this point will simply not exist on the reboot because we've already passed the block number we're going to fork from. As such your transaction will not exist when we relaunch, you may get lucky and their client (should they update it) may attempt a resend at that time but it's not worth the risk. They could just as easily delete their block data, redownload and then create a new wallet and import the private key in which case there will be no record of the transaction ever taking place. We'd hate to see people getting scammed so please wait for the new wallet.

Hi guys, just booted up a secondary client and it seems some of you are still mining (currently over 500 mhash/s).

Please note that any mined blocks above 1,181,684 (reached two days ago) will end up being reversed when we move to the new forked coin so I'd advise you either shut down your GPUs or or point them at some other coin. You're only wasting money by continuing to mine beyond the aforementioned block.

Good morrow seadogs,

A little over 1 hour ago all pirate ships arrived safely back at port with 8 million Doubloons amongst their respective holds.

Due to errors in the original Doubloons client being at odds with what was originally defined in the first post (8 million coins or 5 years, whichever comes first) I can now announce that the future will lie not in a coin swap but a fork from the original client along with a rebrand to ensure no confusion with Doubloon [BOAT]. Although we had the name first we want to avoid confusion for when we take action to get this listed on exchanges in the future. We do have a suitable piratey replacement lined up so don't be afeared we'll be heading too far from our piratey roots.

Under the new fork will be honouring every block up until 1,181,684, this was the first past the post on this block and my client (which outputs to the block crawler) was set to shut down within 1 minute of reaching it. It is now rebooted but with "maxconnections" set to 0 so it will not connect to any other clients. The block crawler will remain online for reference.

What I can announce about the reboot is that the specs, as per rav3n_pl's hint above will produce further coins over it's lifetime, in order to push transactions and secure the network on the rebooted coin we cannot go feeless from the get go. The coin will start with block 1,181,684 and an opening balance of the 8,000,000.68 coins already mined. This block will be checkpointed and all old client versions will be blacklisted in the fork to ensure everyone is on the same track going forward.

We will be starting the fork with a reward 1/4 of what was achievable from Doubloons (1.6925 coins). This will then half every 1,181,684 blocks (approximately 2 years & 3 months) finally reaching a little under 12 million coins in total.

The new client will be worked on by our resident coder rav3n_pl but we can't give an estimate on the timeline just yet as he is planning on updating the client to be based upon Litecoin v0.14 but doing so in his spare time. This may take some time to complete so please be patient, the future for pirates hoarding their Doubloons will be bright I can assure you. We have lofty plans beyond a reboot & initial exchange listing which will be revealed in due course.

If you've not already stopped mining Doubloons I advise you do so now. There will be nothing further to gain from mining it at this point. We'll post further information when we're ready to proceed with the new forked coin.

Edit, almost forgot: Yarrrrr!

What makes you think your wholly premined token is worth $20.8m?

Yarrr!

'twould be a fine idea t' stop searchin' fer buried booty when 8 million Doubloons* be found. Unless ye enjoy diggin' fer fool's gold o' course. Thar's not much time remainin' t' grab th' last o' th' buried booty afore new booty huntin' rules need t' be applied.

* Approximately 4 days from now.

That really comes down to the percentages more than anything. Anyway just sent you a PM. I'd really like to discuss options with you in real time.

Yeah I noticed lots of transactions being reversed between September 24th and October 2nd. Some Pirates seem to have been digging loot mined by other pirates earlier, leaving behind only empty chests. I guess pirates will be pirates.


The pirate thing is just a fun theme so currently it's not that much different from most cryptocurrencies that came before it or in the several years since. The one thing it did have going for it was a low coin cap at 8m coins overall and a fair start. It was traded on Cryptsy for a couple of years but has not been listed on any other exchange since Cryptsy collapsed. People such as myself and kelsey who have been holding on to coins for years want to reboot the coin, get it listed on an (or several) exchange(s) and encourage people to create services for the coin in exchange for bounties giving it an actual purpose and real world value.

Discussions are still ongoing but the current favourite option is to start fresh with a new Proof Of Stake based wallet, premine the 8 million total coins that DBL was supposed to generate before becoming solely transaction fee based (a landmark which we're currently less than 2 weeks from reaching on the current client although a bug will mean the old client will continue paying in full past this point). The premined coins on the new client would then be swapped 1:1 with those generated on the old client up to and including block 1,181,684 (8m DBL generated).

We are aware that a number of coins were lost when Cryptsy stopped processing withdrawals and ultimately collapsed. This in addition to people who may have lost private keys etc. means there will inevitably be an excess from the 8 million premine after any swap is completed. What we would like to do is use these excess coins to pay bounties for services. This is something we would like to put to a vote as part of any coin swap so for every whole DBL you own you get one vote for what to do with any excess the two choices would be:

1. Hold them for bounties.
2. Send them to a burn address to make them forever unspendable.

Of course in the event of the former being the most popular option no one person should have the power to spend these coins so multisignature approval will be required to spend these coins and as such we'll be looking to create a foundation to work for the betterment of the coin and vote on how best to allocate any excess coins. Membership on the foundation will require a sizeable portion of the members own personal holdings to be locked up with assurances they won't be traded. (They will however be permitted to stake these coins and do as they choose with their PoS interest). In doing this in cooperation with the fact owners will be gaining interest on the coins they hold in their own wallet we hope to mitigate any subsequent dumpage when the coin actually does get relisted on an exchange as people should be more likely to want to retain possession of their own coins.

It may also be advisable to rebrand the replacement coin as although DBL was the first to carry the name Doubloons it has recently been recycled in the unaffiliated BOAT and two coins carrying the same name (albeit with different tickers) would lead to unnecessary confusion.

What it boils down to is we want to try and get this coin back on it's feet and build a sustainable future, not just dump our holdings and move on.

I've managed to get my old faucet & block crawler back up and running albeit at a different url so that's one step closer.

Anyone needing a good list of peers to sync up with can get a list here

Been a long time since I personally posted on this forum, I kinda drifted away from the scene a couple of years back. I was quite a fan of DBL back in 2013/2014 and always thought it had potential so traded it quite extensively on Cryptsy back then. Fortunately I wasn't caught up in the Cryptsy debacle as I had transferred my coins to personal wallets by August 2014. I did however think I'd lost my DBL passphrase in a hard drive failure though.

Anyway to bring it up to date a few days ago I found an old KeePass backup file stored on a thumb drive and it turns out it had amongst other passwords my main DBL wallet passphase.  

Thanks to this thread & the current peers I managed to get my client up to date and now have access to my coins I once thought lost. As there is no longer an exchange my coins don't have any value right now so I'm prepared to offer up 50K of my personal stash to any bounty fund to get this coin back on track and on an exchange.

One thing I have noticed since getting it back up to date is that the coin will be completely mined out in less than a month as we will soon reach 8m DBL mined, we're currently at 7,764,533 DBL mined as I type this so time is short to come up with a plan for what to do next to keep the network moving once we reach this milestone.

Anyway thought I'd chip in and say hi to the Pirates of Olde. Lets be gettin' this coin back on the seven seas. Yarr!



EDIT: Regarding the 8m limit I've been reading through some of the older posts on this thread (in particular this one from raven_pl) and it seems Shakezula made a mistake in the code and set the maximum transaction limit (not maximum minable coins) to 8 million DBL and the actual cutoff is block 10,519,200 (20 years assuming 1 block per minute since inception) making the actual minable total 71,166,240 coins. Confirmed this myself by reviewing the code.

@rav3n_pl as the resident guardian of the github repository do you have a plan for how to deal with this? As the entire network consists of a literal handful of people right now it shouldn't be too difficult to hard fork especially as the few currently mining probably won't want to see their own holdings devalued ninefold if we sit back and do nothing. Not sure what the best plan of action is myself as I haven't been following evolution of cryptocurrencies for the last 2 years. Based upon my knowledge a couple of years back I would have suggested POS (Proof Of Stake) post block 1,181,683 (8 million coins generated point) as it's very low effort mining and anyone staking will find their coins increase in line with the overall inflation just by holding on to them and unlocking their wallet to allow their coins to stake every so often. I'm not sure what other alternatives have come about in the last couple of years though.

Looks like http://explorer.doubloons.net died 3 days ago, my faucet is still sending out coins which are getting confirmations. I expect Cryptsy and http://explorer.doubloons.net both locked up at the same point.

My peers are listed here:

http://doubloons.kicks-ass.net/sync_help.php

I've updated the faucet and block crawler to use the 0.12.0.0 client and also updated the syncing help guide for the download links for the client and bootstrap.

Try creating a folder in %appdata% called Joincoin manually and then restart the client.

You could try changing this line in src/tor/config.c:
(It's on line 5858)

Not sure if there is any other reference to this port though.

Couple of months late to be responding to this but the 0.11.0.0 version that blazr2 released is here [source code]

Someone could probably do with creating a brand new topic with all the latest info.


The link I provided was merely a web based irc link, you simply need to choose a nickname and do the captcha test and it'll do the rest. I've checked through this thread and the first reference to that block explorer references diatonic as the owner. He's not logged in since January though.

There was never really anything aside from shakezula's coin creation page that used to reside at andarazoroflove.org, doubloons.net redirects to this thread so it's possible he owns it but he's not logged in here for close to a year. He used to hangout in #fridaynightunix If you want to discuss it with him.


If you get a site up and running I'll transfer the faucet code and wallet balance to you and you can run it directly. You can send me a PM for more specifics on how you want the faucet improved and I'll add the features you want free of charge. I already have a pretty decent personal DBL balance so anything you can do to improve the value of DBL is in my own best interests.