Hi BTCspoon,

Yep, I definitely understand, appreciate, and even share some of your concerns...no offense taken.  

Regarding why I don't just join the actual team...I have.  Like I mentioned earlier, I was loosely involved with the Maxcoin team shortly after its initial launch 3 years ago.  Today, the original developers are no longer involved (though I've contacted Luke here and there recently) and I'm working directly with maxcoin.org.uk and a few others on rebooting this project, so please let me confirm that I am not taking over this coin.  All my recent efforts to get 0.9.4 released are captured on the Maxcoin Github project (github.com/Max-Coin), not on some other fork or anything like that.  The 0.9.4 download is available on the main Maxcoin github project at github.com/Max-Coin/maxcoin/releases/tag/v0.9.4.0.

Regarding who I am...I've been a professional developer for 25 years.  The vast majority of my experience is with Microsoft platforms, both pre-.NET using C/C++ and post-.NET using C#.  I've also done a bit of Java development and work on other platforms, including Linux.  Though I've done plenty of desktop development, the bulk of my work has been with web development.

Being that I'm full-time employed and have a family, I don't have a great deal of time to dedicate to Maxcoin, but I try to allocate nights and weekends as much as I can.  As such, we will need other developers to join in if we hope to succeed.  To that end, there are a few options that I'm currently exploring but would welcome more if anyone on this thread is interested or knows someone that would be.

As for my vision/plans...my first goal is just to get the Maxcoin codebase updated and build-able, deliver some needed fixes, and get some supporting infrastructure and tools in place so that we can then move on to more exciting things.  To that end, I've done (or am doing, or need help doing) the following:

• Put a node online (dnsseed.maxcoinhub.io) and am coordinating to put a few others online (including dnsseed.maxcoin.org.uk) to serve as seed nodes for new wallet installations to sync easily.  The lack of a well-defined and reliable set of seed nodes has been an ongoing issue, and this is intended to remedy that issue.
• Developed and deployed a REST API for querying the blockchain.  This is available at api.maxcoinhub.io  The source code will be open sourced on the Github project (it was written in C# / .NET Core).  I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
• Developed and deployed a mining stats page that provides a hashrate and difficulty chart along with up-to-the-minute stats.  This is available at node.maxcoinhub.io.
• Updated the codebase on Github to make it build-able again.
• Updated, expanded, and verified the documentation for building the source code on Windows and Ubuntu.  These are available at github.com/Max-Coin/maxcoin/blob/master/doc/build-msw.md and github.com/Max-Coin/maxcoin/blob/master/doc/build-linux.md, respectively.
• Updated the code in 0.9.4 to use the new seed nodes created above.
• Updated the maxcoin branding and logos in 0.9.4 to match with maxcoin.org.uk (again, we're working together as a team).
• Deployed a development blog at blog.maxcoinhub.io that I'm planning to use to share this kind of information.  In fact, I think my next post will include what I've provided here.  
• Working to get the Maxcoin DNS seeder daemon up and running on multiple seed nodes to further remedy the node availability and discoverability issue.
• Provide a blockchain bootstrap torrent so that new wallet users can get the blockchain loaded on to their machines more quickly.  Sync times for new Maxcoin installations is pretty slow (on the order of days), so providing a torrent of a periodically updated snapshot of the blockchain should hopefully provide some near-term relief.
• Optimize the Maxcoin blockchain syncing code so that the above bootstrap torrent is eventually no longer necessary.
• Investigate and address as appropriate the current list of issues captured Github.
• Build, deploy, and open source a new blockchain explorer that leverages the blockchain API built above.

Again, these are all part of an initial first step of "rebooting and refreshing".  After this initial first step, then I believe we'll be well-positioned to move on to bigger and better things, which hopefully the community will help define and drive between now and then.

From this point forward, I will switch over to posting from the maxcoinproject account in order to reduce confusion or concern.

Thanks for the feedback and please continue to provide any further feedback regarding questions, concerns, or suggestions!

I took over because I've always believed that Maxcoin has fantastic potential, has a great community, and was started by a couple of young developers who I think had the right idea and had their hearts in the right place, but fell short of seeing it through.  I even helped a bit three years ago, not with wallet development, but with building and hosting a Maxcoin chat room and coordinating and planning with Luke (the primary Maxcoin developer at that time).

At no point along the way did Keiser ask me to get involved.  Obviously, he's always been interested in Maxcoin but I've never seen any signs that he commissioned Maxcoin or dictated how it was managed.  He's asked questions and expressed support, but in my experience, there's never been anything more than that.  This is true even today.  My involvement with Maxcoin has been totally my own initiative, and honestly, we'll need more people to get involved to turn Maxcoin's potential into reality, but hopefully this is the first step down that path.

I have access to the maxcoinproject account on here, but wanted to at least get started by using my personal account first because I want it to be clear that we're more or less starting from scratch from a resources standpoint.

Please post questions, suggestions, and feedback so that we can help Maxcoin live up to its potential!

New v0.9.4 wallet is now available for download!  Find out more at https://blog.maxcoinhub.io.  Reboot and Refresh!

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0.9.3.1 release notes available: http://maxcoinnews.net/maxcoin-v0-9-3-1-release-notes

Amen, brother!

You need to launch with the -reindex param.  This will (eventually) sync up.  However, as mentioned elsewhere, you must keep the wallet open at that point.  Otherwise, the next time you open the wallet you'll get stuck again and will have reindex again.

Obviously, this isn't the final solution, but it works until the final solution is sorted out and implemented.

In the config file, the setting is: "checkpointenforce=false".  In the console, it's "enforcecheckpoint false".

See http://maxcoinnews.net/maxcoin-0-9-2-checkpointing-troubleshooting/

http://maxcoinnews.net/maxcoin-0-9-2-checkpointing-troubleshooting/

After you make the change, it may take a few minutes before synching resumes.

Also, come to maxchat.info if you're still having problems.  We'll help you out there.

And please spare us from your concerned citizen routine.  You've been trolling max for months.  You're either angry that you're missing out on the long-term potential of max or you're shilling for someone else.  Either way, you're trolling.

Luke has more integrity that any crypto developer I've ever met.  If you have evidence to the contrary (which I know you don't), then bring it forward.

MaxChat.info has a countdown.  The new mining rewards kick into effect on Friday.

See http://maxcoinnews.net/maxcoin-0-9-2-checkpointing-troubleshooting/

Also, you should be able to verify against http://max.cryptoexplore.com/

Looks like http://max.cryptoexplore.com/ is working again.

Right on, Luke!

Haters may have more time and therefore be more vocal, but as you mentioned the lovers of maxcoin are here as well and doing their part to keep growing this community while defending against the trolls.  We can't wait to see how maxcoin develops in the coming weeks/months/years.  Big thanks to you and the other devs for your tireless efforts!

Workin' for the Man by day, workin' for the Max by night!

Right, because the truth is conditional based on my activity count?  Fact is, the Windows wallet was there from the beginning and has worked fine from the beginning.  If you can dispute that, please do.

I've been using the Windows wallet since day 1 with no problems.  Try again.

Given your 100% certainty, we can therefore assume that under no circumstances will you buy maxcoin at any point in the future then.  Are you willing to stand by that commitment?  Just wanna keep you honest...or were just slinging baseless bullshit?

The thing about trolls is that facts don't matter to them.  Their purpose in life is to spread piss and vinegar.  Most of these haters are blind followers of the "oh, it's cool to hate Max" movement.  They have no original thoughts or facts to support their negative claims.  Indeed, from watching the self-congratulatory zombie trolls on mcxnow, it's quite clear that most of these guys are probably in their early 20s, have no meaningful source of steady income, and choose instead to live in their parents' basements, sitting in front of a troll box 22 hours of each day and tending to their group masturbation hate efforts.  They can't be bothered to actually watch/listen to Keiser to understand his credentials because that would require disconnecting from the hive mind for 30 minutes, which might lead to their sudden death.

The great thing about trolls, though, is that because they can't have an independent thought, they will quickly change their position on maxcoin when (or to be more conservative, if) it turns the tide.  As m_murfy eloquently pointed out before, many of the fundamentals of maxcoin are sound: good supply, currently very cheap, fair mining, great security and difficulty smoothing, support from a individual with credentials and a huge audience, and extremely fast confirmations.  The speed of confirmations are a HUGE advantage of maxcoin.  Widespread adoption of maxcoin for use in commerce is probably the biggest factor giving it enormous long-term, sustained value, and those that are investing heavily in it know that.  Long-term value is a concept not understood by the vast majority of crypto traders as many of them think they can avoid having real jobs by day trading one scam-coin after another.  They don't understand the notion of buy and hold.  Of course, the history of bitcoin prices over the years should have taught those people a lesson, but the crypto space is full of new entrants that don't know much about that history.

In fairness, we can't say with certainty that maxcoin will succeed.  Keiser has many enemies among the banksters who I'm sure are playing a role in leading the zombie haters.  But if you look at history, game-changing people (like Keiser) and ideas (like bitcoin) often receive the most resistance early on because they're on the right track against the current power systems that stand to lose their throne.

For the record, yes, I own a lot of max, and am buying more every day.  I don't worry about the current price.  Instead, I use it as a buying opportunity.  However, I can do that because I have a long-term strategy in mind here, which again, is a foreign idea to many in the crypto space.  Obviously, people like Max Keiser, Karl Gray (who many troll "experts" have never even heard of) and a few of us DO understand long-term value, and those are the individuals who stand to gain the most as (the very, very, young) maxcoin grows.

Trolls, have at it.  We know you have more time to post on forums and toll boxes than those of us with jobs, families, responsibilities, and worthwhile lives.