Two years after new coin generation stopped and the prediction of immanent doom for iXcoin still hasn't happened!

 

Cryptoblox faucet is not working.  It's the one where I just lost 50 IXC, which is why I recommended a new one.

http://www.cryptoblox.com/faucets/iXcoin/

The 100 IXC you sent never appeared in the balance either.

They don't respond to emails.

Their iXcoin wallet is not synced with the block chain so any payouts will go nowhere, and donations won't make it to them.

They should be able to get it up and running again by simply restarting the client, but since they don't answer emails I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Just sent some BTC to deadsea for Cryptoguru's monthly fee (about 10 months worth).  Maybe we can use a couple hundred of our donated IXC to initially fill the faucet.  That will get us up and running.

There are pros and cons to having your own site.  Right now we don't have someone who can build and host an iXcoin faucet, so we don't have many choices.  A community faucet with many coins already has clients, so we'll get cross pollination from other coins and a quicker influx of new users.

Regarding security, well, we're giving away the coins on the faucet anyway.  So it's not like we'd be loosing anything if someone hacks the site.

My main concern with any faucet is how do we know how many different people are actually downloading coins.  If there are 50 drips per day, is that 50 different people or one person with 50 addresses.  But these are just the risks we take to increase our clientele.  Even if it's one guy, that's still one more user than we had before.

$7 per month is the way I read it.
Go for it.  I'll send you some btc.

Looks like our faucet is dead.  I tried to add a few IXC and they never showed up.  
http://www.cryptoblox.com/faucets/iXcoin/


We should look into getting another faucet going.  That will put the block chain to use and hopefully get more people involved with iXcoin.

This one looks good, but I haven't had time to contact them.  Maybe deadsea could look into it.

http://cryptoguru.tk

I'm sad too, cause hash is going to drop 90%.  Just saying there is a positive side to this and it's definitely not the end of iXcoin, maybe a new beginning.

Are they really offering the foundation iXcoin for free?  Why not take it to use for bounties?  Isn't that what we've wanted to do with Nasakioto's original bounty stash we can't get our hands on?

Above is another PM I'll share.  This one was from mmpool.  

On the surface Cex.io ceasing mining sounds bad, but it may be a blessing in disguise.   mmpool is a much smaller pool but it will still maintain iXcoin's hash rate higher than 95% of the other altcoins.  So no problem with security.

More importantly, mmpool mines using version 0.8.x.  When Cex.io shuts down we should FINALLY be able to get the mining upgraded and off the ancient version 0.3.24 client!!!  F2Pool, Cryptsy and Cex.io were literally holding up this upgrade for years.  This could be a huge move forward, because new functionality can be added with newer mining clients that are impossible with the older client.

This is what Cex.io told me about why they extended mining past last December. 

Bitcoin still has the most development, vendors and add-ons.  So I expect it to continue to be very strong for years to come, even if it drops out of the number 1 market cap position.

Cex.io scaling back their mining isn't new news.  They were supposed to stop mining iXcoin last December.

mmpool  ( http://mmpool.org/register ) is still mining iXcoin, and maybe other pools too.

Yes, and eventually Bitcoin will become too big, cumbersome and expensive.  It's block chain is already pushing 80 GB.  And how much more can devs increase the transaction rates? 

So where is a good place to turn if you don't want to loose all the Bitcoin plugins... the Bitcoin clone.

I know iXcoin hasn't exactly had great public reception to date, but I think its day will come.  

I would describe events to date like so...

Since the altcoin creation boom began we've been in an era of 'crypto innovation'.  At this time many people look only for very innovative new coins.  Those with unique algorithms, more anonymity, smart contracts, or that ether stuff.  These are the enthusiasts who are investing at this time.

Eventually, probably within 1-2 years, I think we will see a different breed of investors, more from the general masses, not the enthusiasts.  Those who want safety.  Those who are escaping their fiat currencies, and they will come in much larger numbers.  As world economies grow shakier the altcoin world will serve as a great refuge for personal savings.  We've already seen countries like Cyprus, Greece, Puerto Rico and others on the brink of bankruptcy.  I'm expecting more in the future, and with fewer bail outs.  Our time is actually unique because there exists these crypto life boats that people can escape to.  Past citizens were doomed to sink with their own country's currency and economic plight.  

When investors start looking more toward safety than innovation the likes of iXcoin will become more popular.  iXcoin isn't experimenting with risky new ideas.  It uses a time tested design.

At least that's my theory and I'm sticking with it  

I'm actually not too kraizi about dropping the 'coin' from iXcoin.  I see it as causing confusion, especially since older posts are going to reference iXcoin and many in the community may keep the full name.  Will the exchanges change?  Plus we may get blow back from people thinking we're posing as a new coin.  But the biggest reason to keep the name the same is to show consistency.

Wow I didn't realize I was on the board.  I may have to add a picture to my profile now.   

Thanks Ahmed!

Please elaborate.  Did someone have a problem with yobit or coinexchange.io?
I was referring to coinexchange.io since they added us with no apparant requests from the ixcoin community, but I don't have any experience yet with them. 

For a new exchange to choose ixcoin as one of their first 25 coins shows they must really believe in it.  As far as I know the ixcoin community never asked them to add it.  Let's not let them down.  We need to use the exchange.

...and ixcoin continues to have one of the highest hash rates of any crypto.  Most cryptos would only dream of such a hash rate.  ixcoin is still going strong.