It seems Omar would have left Hiro to join GRS (or some other coin team) regardless of the voting results. He's been silent here, not responding to PM's either.

Notice "Poloniex" is spelled incorrectly in the email address. If ever in doubt about the veracity of an offer from an exchange, contact the exchange directly. There are so many scammers pretending to be Poloniex and Busoni out there. Sorry to hear you were cheated - that sucks.

I was suggesting you take over *permanently.*

Omar - you are quality. I think the community can see you have good intentions. I think most (if not all) Hiro holders have lost faith in Hiro. I'd be more open to having you take over completely. Hiro's absence and holier than thou behavior has me seeing him more as a liability rather than an asset.

Has this issue been addressed? The Hiro market continues to freeze on Poloniex, and when I asked them why this continues to happen, they are saying the issue is something that needs to be fixed by Hirocoin. Mintpal seems to be trading hiro still (well, dumping, but I digress) so not sure what's going on here.

Much thanks, Omar. Any word from Hiro on the July timing?

The end of the anon craze may be at our doorstep. Hiro/Omar--are you seeing this? The need for greater transparency is becoming more and more evident. Darksend ideal for terrorist groups, worthwhile read: http://www.coindesk.com/isis-bitcoin-donations-fund-jihadist-movements/

Thanks, Omar. Would love to hear from Hiro on both the reduced block reward and the optional prefix identifier, in addition to everything else you guys have on the roadmap. Hirocoin needs some strong differentiators soon to do an about-face in the market.

Possible to get an ETA from Hiro on the dynamic block reward? Things are looking bleaker by the day, so an update on progress would go a long way right about now. Thanks!

Can the team give us an update on how much progress has been made since we last heard from you guys?

Wholeheartedly agree. Going anti-anon is necessary for mainstream adoption. And it also makes a hell of a story. Implementing a feature like this is not only highly marketable, it also addresses a known problem with cryptocurrency (i.e. it's not a fad that'll go away anytime soon). It's good for merchants, investors, and users who simply want to use a coin for everyday needs. And that's the larger race we're in.

LOL - come on, exchange insiders? That's flattering, but I've been buying Hirocoin since back in March and have continued to buy. I'm an integral part of the .5 BTC of daily hiro buys Omar is referring to. You could call me many things, even a fool for buying so many hiros these last 3 months, but don't call me a dumper. I still hold over 95% of my Hirocoins, both mined and purchased. I can't speak for anyone else, but dumping is for people who can't see the long view.

If by "they" you're referring to Tempestb and me, I only started chatting with him since about a week ago because I thought his idea about Hiro transactions becoming more transparent was a fantastic idea. Still do, and it still is. I hope hiro adopts this anti-anon strategy, and if/when this occurs, I look forward to helping the hiro team market the heck out of it. But for now and something far more urgent, the idea about choking the coin supply to let the coin gain some traction is just smart. People are free to equate 'smart' with 'manipulation,' but keep this in mind: even if hiro grew to 5x what it's trading now, selling the sheer volume of coins I have would greatly damage this coin. I'm not even sure there would be enough buy offers to sell my coins at break-even cost. I would imagine exchange insiders wouldn't care about small details like this, but I do.

I also don't buy BTC then dump it the moment it recovers from a low simply because I believe in the future of the coin itself. I'll have far greater strength with them than without them. This is my hope for hiro. At some point in the future, I hope my very large bag will provide me with choices, not a few hundred dollars over what I bought them for.

It's everyone's right to be suspicious of other people's intentions, but my intention is to have as many hiros as I do *and* have it be a stable, desirable, and a widely usable coin.

We're at a point where extreme ideas should be considered especially if they address a known issue. To tempestb's point, investors like us (those who hold a whole lot of hirocoins) need a reason to hang onto our coins. In the absence of one, we're talking about millions of these coins being flooded into the market, in addition to the 115,200 HIRO produced per day from mining...what would that end up doing to the coin's value?

I've seen tempestb's buy walls across the exchanges, and it's pretty clear without these, the price of hiro would easily be in the 60-70 sat by now; possibly even lower as there have been days when buy pressure was severely lacking (his walls have actually brought on additional buyers).

How about a reward model that is broken up into phases with milestones attached to each? The first phase introduces a substantial scarcity of hirocoin. During this time, we give the coin a chance to recover, and if it hits a target we set as a community, that's a trigger to go into Phase 2 where the production of hirocoins is allowed to increase. Then phase 3 and so on. The rewards can remain dynamic per phase, but the swings are tighter and far lower at the start.

Thanks, Omar.

Thanks for this. One small thing - accommodate is spelled incorrectly on the roadmap.

There are several worthwhile items here, but I worry that not enough has been done to flesh out the possible ways this coin can move forward toward innovation. Have there been PMs with certain members of the community that drew you guys to establish the 2014 roadmap as it stands now, and if so, would you consider making the proposed ideas public? You have some really intelligent and experienced people staying true to this coin - might it be worthwhile to have a bit of a Hirocoin summit over IRC before locking down on the 2014 features, maybe even get into 2015 goals and strategies/tactics?

It seems to me that if all this work is being planned for the remainder of this year, it should be on features that people both in and outside of the Hiro community can rally around, offer solutions that we believe the mass market will want and need (even if they don't quite know it yet) or opportunities that no one else is taking but should. No, I'm not talking about flavor of the month ideas like anon or some scheme to pump this coin only to destroy it down the line. I loved the idea Tempestb had about becoming even more transparent. Now that's going against the grain with this whole anon craze, but it's not just for the sake of being different. In order for massive and mainstream adoption, we need greater transparency, not less. People aren't grasping that yet but I believe the market will move in this direction soon. Why not lead this movement and be ahead of the curve?

Tempestb also had an idea about having the hirocoin trading value influence the reward logic. He can explain it far better than I can, but what's refreshing about this idea is that it folds in investor behavior into the availability and profitability of the coin. To my knowledge, no coin is doing anything like this. Now, is this because there's some inherent flaw in this approach or that it's too much work? Don't know, but it would be nice to discuss innovative ideas like this openly with the Hiro team.

EDIT: Solutions that solve widely known problems are key at this time. Not always, but in order to be relevant after months of being somewhat unpopular or even ignored, this is a strategy I can't recommend enough. Going anonymous was a solution for a very small sliver of the cryptocommunity. Its recent popularity isn't due to meeting a massive need, it's due to the cool factor of being secretive and giving hypers something to hype (and of course, the success of dark). People can use it to say the government can't trace the movement of these coins, yadda yadda. The fact is, in order to be widely adopted by the mainstream, transparency is unavoidable./EDIT

I, too, have been putting up buy walls to try and keep the prices from falling. Psychologically, keeping it in the 3 digits is important enough to put my btcs toward this goal. But like others, I can't do this for very long. Perhaps I'm naive, but I still don't think it's too late to turn Hiro into a premiere coin widely adopted around the globe. We have a smart and dedicated dev team that's stuck with this for several months as the value and reputation of the coin has turned awfully quiet. That says a lot about you guys right there, but it also says a lot about the community members that's stuck by you and remain invested in a whole lot of Hirocoins. Please be open to our ideas. Even if you don't like them or believe they cannot be implemented in any sort of realistic way, or even if it's beyond the scope of what you're willing to do time/effort wise, it seems like a good time to have this discussion now.

Thanks for your offer to help Axis, man!

Strange that you would spend your time reading the threads of coins you refer to as 'shitcoins.'

Dev - what's going on with this coin? Last I heard you canceled the Monday meeting due to illness and wanted to reschedule to tomorrow, 6/19. Is the meeting still happening tomorrow, and if so, can you give us the details? I hope you are feeling better, but days of silence makes any investor very very nervous.

According to the above statement, CallMeAXIS is *not* the dev.

You're right. I didn't go back and read all your posts and I probably should have before commenting. The few I did read (the more recent ones) felt like you were on the attack when people were trying to figure out some stuff. And even your response to me is so full of venom, it sucks that I've caused you to get so annoyed from one misinformed comment. I hold a sizable sum of axis as well, so we're kinda in the same boat. Regardless, I do owe you an apology for inaccurately interpreting your statements.

Trolls suck, but my only guess at why they say the things they say is cuz they're confused or angry. I'd rather help them see the light and try to win them over than to embarrass or attack them. But that's me, and I get that not everyone is worth helping. I've been on some threads where trolls are truly unworthy of help.