June-July 2017 was an even bigger rally for most alt-coins, the period holds more insights than the one you mention.
I expect more alt-coins to make a come-back, leading with value propositions as privacy and media circulation. Meanwhile ETH is overhyped.

No, I haven't yet. But I also did not read anywhere of a deadline for that.

Anyone has any news on what is happening to the OPair online platform?

Today all my investments have disappeared and the account is zeroed.

Thanks for all the updates here. I am an investor, I don't want any refund and I believe there are many like me out there.

I hope you are done with this painful process ASAP and let us know what is your plan for OPair development.

ciao

I am a 1st stage investor and believe in the OPair effort, also very interested to use it professionally as its value proposition in adopting functional languages can be well useful in my projects. I fully trust you guys, please don't loose focus and do your best, it all looks sane to me, also SJ's policy may be stiff but that's his job. You'll certainly come to an agreement and good plan.

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- Huge discussion for past 2 weeks whether Ethereum should bail-out
  the banks (see the R3 bank ethereum clusterfuck) right after Bit Novosti
  released "A Crypto-Decentralist Manifesto"
https://medium.com/@bit_novosti/a-crypto-decentralist-manifesto-6ba1fa0b9ede

- The Ethereum "community" voted what they call an "hard fork"
  basically a bail-out of the junkie banksters who invested on ETH
  rolling back the last history of DAO meltdown to give the financial
  stooges their money back, after having lost it on stuff they cannot
  understand (ask yourself, has anyone of them read the DAO code
  before putting money on it?? It's the language, stupid!)

- All sorts of G/Sachs and Thiel funded divas went announcing how
  "clean" was the fork, as in a painful chirurgical operation that
  went good, basically betraying their initial marketing point that
  Ethereum is decentralised (ideals? what are "ideals"?). With this
  operation they proved for the first time in blockchain buzz history
  that with a massive media campaign and having bought some leaders is
  possible to have your butt put on your face by crypto-surgery and
  still keep smiling.

- The REAL community of people behind Ethereum is now rejecting the
  bail-out, probably marking in history the first time in which there
  can be a bail-out rejection by grass-roots movements??
  Ethereum Classic is announced https://ethereumclassic.github.io

- All major ether exchanges around the world (Poloniex, Bitfinex, and
  Kraken) have stated they will support Ethereum Classic.
  Real decentralisation investors have a clear message on what is the
  reliable asset and what not. If you put your money on the buggy code
  you fail, and That's Life! (and the crypto market, likely)

- The banksters/spooks conglomerate sends a weak signal to the
  world by announcing that since yesterday Coinbase includes Ethereum
  (Coinbase is the FEDs friendly exchange which most likely handed
  over KAT torrents private account details to FBI for investigation)

To read more Aaron who seems really to get the grip of what
means journalism in the crypto-assets sphere,
his new article on all this is here:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rejecting-today-s-hard-fork-the-ethereum-classic-project-continues-on-the-original-chain-here-s-why-1469038808


More salty stuff and good reads here

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1606/msg00050.html


https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1607/msg00006.html


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Dudes we spent years without a real constituency coming out!
If Bitcoin is GOLD, Ethereum Classic is SILVER  

Good roundup.

But on Primecoin I disagree. Lets not understimate the advantages of a functional proof of work.

I works very well to talk about XPM to people outside of the community or even hostile to crypto currency.
It helped me to bring a number of conversations to good reason and out of prejudice for "cpu waste" arguments.

p.s. oh and Dogecoin... srsly.... ok... to the moooooon  

After a bit of fingering around Twister, reading parts of code and reasoning on its architecture, hereby my current impression:

1) The libtorrent-raster integration is very interesting. It can be interesting also for the mainline Bitcoind and other clients around.

2) Having a blockchain based messaging system is something I've been contemplating for a while now. There can be so many uses for it!

3) Twister will hardly take off as it is since there is no incentive for running it. There is simply no balance. No gain, just pain for cpus and routers.

I hope to see this or other similar projects being developed in future. Would definitely contribute to them if they go into a direction that I perceive as successful, unfortunately this is not yet the case for Twister, but lets see. It is certainly an inspiring project and the coder is a good one.

My suggestion: give rewards to seed-dns and miners, lets say twistercoins (TWC) and then make Twister messaging accounts cost something in TWC.

ciao

Just spotted this new project called Twister
http://twister.net.co/

Miguel forked Bitcoind in august, added libtorrent-raster to it for DHT and uses the blockchain to distribute microblogging but also private messages. Has a nifty html/jquery interface and even an Android app. All alpha.

Love it already :^) Finally something that fills the gap left by Witcoin and even better than I expected.

I'm setting up my home node now  :^P

Dear Bitcoiners,

Here is an academic article (humanities) I've recently published about Bitcoin as a historical phenomenon and about this community and my understanding of it. I'll be happy to read your criticism and integrate your suggestions in the next versions, or even elaborate more on aspects I've omitted. What follows is the abstract and a link for the PDF download (warning, its kind of long, suited for tablet reading or so).



Download from: http://www.dyndy.net/2013/04/bitcoin-ends-the-taboo-on-money

This article consists in a technoetic inquiry into the origins of this technology and its evolution. This inquiry will take in consideration the biopolitical dynamics that govern the Bitcoin community as well specific characteristics of the technical realization, aiming to provide insights on the future of this technology as well a post-humanist interpretation of its emergence.

Knowing about it in 2009 already and thinking it wasn't interesting enough to waste electricity and CPU on it.

Hi there, I thought it might be of interest to people here to read this article I've published about Bitcoin, is not about tech or economic details, but about its politics and philosophy behind. This was really meant to be posted in the politics section of this forum, but I've never used much my account here so hereby playing the n00b, y0

BITCOIN, THE END OF THE TABOO ON MONEY

http://www.dyndy.net/2013/04/bitcoin-ends-the-taboo-on-money/


Comments, suggestions, criticism welcome.

ciao

This post is worrying as it follows the arbitrary removal of Genjix from the list of developers, right after the /. interview you made with him.

Now you ask to normalize the public views which, on top of this events, implies you are fencing the bitcoin project from the people who don't have your same view. I understand your arguments, yet I believe that no matters how much one pushes him or herself to the fringes, everyone should be aloud to speak their point of view and share it, in primis people who have contributed to Bitcoin in the first place.

I just hope this doesn't go unnoticed, as it marks the passage of bitcoin from the *community* stage to the *project* lead.
To those whose attention on the topic will survive long enough the sentence whether it was really necessary or not for Bitcoin.

FWIW and if you are wondering I'm not genjix thug nor he ask me to write this 1st stupid post in what might soon become "your forum", this is my open agenda in all this http://DYNDY.net and not particularly interested in such turf wars, but feeling the need to highlight what is really happening in this thread.

ciao

Support us writing more 

 http://bitcoin.witcoin.com/p/1212/DYNDY---writing-more-philosophical-and-economical-considerations-about-bitcoin

re all,

i was introduced to this project by genjix

before hearing of Steve's effort i've also started hacking on this https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/162

the branch is in the shape i wanted to get it by now, just testing the build with WX on Linux while I'm writing, then will need to fill in the gaps testing build on OSX and Win, but should be fairly easy using the current autotools setup.

i think organizing the code according to GNU standards will help a lot more coders to get involved and maintainers to coordinate contributions, also usually coders that respect such standards are very good at what they write, at documenting it and testing it.

i also plan to contribute more autotools knowledge, debian packaging, python bindings, code separation in libraries (i'm using libtool since that facilitates the making of test units later) and in general its a pleasure to contribute to this project which i like and admire, being myself a C++ coder i find its code just a wee messy but all in all something good we can build more on.

please consider here i'm not advocating the pull of my branch as it is. if you wish i can rebase it differently, you can cherry-pick commits or i can correct bugs reported. ultimately i'd love to merge my proposal with that of Steve and move on to realize some more ideas (mostly connected to cleanup in this early phase)

ciao

p.s. Not sure about you, but I'd really prefer a development mailinglist.... do not expect me to be very responsive on this web forum, sry.