I say do whatever - I'm done.

This coin's been dead for too long.

Good to see those logos I threw together finally get some use. Again thanks to Ambethia for the actual cat mascot itself.

Who's this 'we'? You certainly don't speak for me.

Agreed. I'm sick and tired of the bullshit they keep trying to pull. If they don't like the current situation with CAT they're welcome to start up their own coin rather than trying to take control of CAT while it still has a dev team. I also saw their antics on IRC ages back and I have little trust in them. They appeared to want what's best for the coin on the surface but to me it just appeared that they wanted the coin ran the way THEY wanted, everyone else be damned. I however do still have confidence in the current team.

For what it's worth I hold just under 10k CAT myself (and I've stayed in CAT ever since the first week after I started out with DOGE, which itself was my first foray into cryptocurrency) and I'm staying put. If CAT does fully die off (which I doubt) I'm probably done with cyptocurrency altogether.

That's my thoughts on the matter.

I would probably help to try and bump up the hashrate, but these days it's pretty much pointless without ASICs.

My new video card would have been useful back during the first few months but now that Scrypt ASICs exist.. eh. I just don't see the point in mining anymore.

So, CAT's birthday is in less than a week.

PLEASE tell me we have something positive to look forward to.

I think we need to see more updates here on BTCTalk. I don't particularly feel like having to return to IRC in the hope that I'll see updates instead of devs and other community figures flinging shit at each other and generally acting like children all over again.

I'm sitting on just over 1000 CAT myself at the moment (from way back when it was worth over 40k Satoshi BTC each).

Given that the coin is STILL in in a death spiral and nothing really seems to be happening, I regret holding my ground. Not much point exiting CAT now though, since my entire stash is now worth less than 0.01 BTC. I'd probably buy a heap instead if I had even the slightest amount of confidence that the coin will ever recover. That's probably what's stopping people from creating services and products that use the coin as well - lack of confidence in the coin itself.

Shit's depressing.


Man even I actually enough money at the moment to buy around 10% of the entire coin by myself going by marketcap. That's a scary thought.

So, it's been over 3 months since I've been around these parts.

It's downright depressing to see CAT in its current state. Is there actually anything going on behind the scenes or has the CAT finally used up all nine lives?

Really? Are we really doing this crap again? That goes for all parties involved.

Interested in seeing how the new difficulty algorithm performs, not at home though for the next week so I guess I'll be living vicariously through you lot lol

So wait they aren't even taking Dogecoin?

Oh boy.

At least it's now safe to say that he's officially bad news. He's even gone and deleted his twitter account and created a new one: @sexcoindev, so it seems that all the rumors surrounding him are true after all.

I can't see this helping Catcoin's reputation anytime soon.

EDIT: Seems he's also gone and deleted @sexcoindev.

[Reddit] Changing landscape for Scrypt



Something to keep an eye on. Keeping Catcoin as a pure Scrypt coin may be a bad idea if any of this holds weight.

I hope you're right.

Regarding this whole Oprah thing, I hope we aren't just relying on Coyote Wallstreet for that promotion. The more I hear about this guy the more I think we should be distancing ourselves from him. Seems that he fucked around with Potcoin recently as well, though I don't know the details. Did the Oprah network or the Diamond Collar show decide to promote CAT by themselves or did Coyote Wallstreet just jump in seeing an opportunity and declare himself the coordinator or something along those lines?

Just something to keep an eye on. I could just be worrying over nothing, though I'd hate to see Catcoin get caught up in some kind of scam because of him (if the rumors are true, that is).

Seems that you can now view Catcoin overall stats (e.g. Net Hashrate, current value in USD, etc.) on the CAT Information page on Cryptsy.

Now there's 20 companies/stores that accept CAT according to that. Last I checked there was only maybe 2-3, and we had to fight to even get accepted in the first place.

My wallet says we're on block 22490, but the pools seem to say block 22483. What the fuck is going on?

I also found a block by myself not too long ago. I swear, if I lose out on that block for whatever reason..

EDIT: Make that block 22505. The pools and a few people on IRC are still stuck on 22483 (it's been around 1.5 hours since they found a block last). Redownloading the blockchain changes nothing, I'm still on 22505 after that. What baffles me is that my node list is literally just the trusted pool list that we started using after this fork, yet those pools are lagging behind.

Geekhash and catstat.info are on the same chain as me, and the pools are STILL stuck on 22483, so I'm guessing the pools died a while back. We since figured out that a fork seems to have occurred at block 22438 or so (coincidentally the first block I found solo), back during a low-difficulty period. I think Team Catcoin may be responsible for it, though I'm no expert. Our own chain is going smoothly though.

EDIT2: So around 2.5 hours later, Team Catcoin and the other pools have finally hit 22484. Our chain is now on 22530.

EDIT3: Team Catcoin has found EVERY block from at least 22458, possibly earlier, with the exception of 22480, 22481 and 22482 (as of this post that chain is now on 22488). Coinium found 22480 and 22481, and I'm not sure who got 22482. Even now Team Catcoin is the only pool actually finding blocks on that chain. That doesn't sound right at all.

It's not just Cryptsy that seems to be on the wrong fork - none of my test transactions have shown up on CoinEX or CoinedUp either. On top of that, the blockchain explorer is also on the wrong fork or lagging hardcore. I have a small transaction I sent to Cryptsy a few days ago which should have shown up by now on the blockchain (around block 22014 or so) but of course it's stuck in limbo instead.

Honestly I don't see the exchanges caring too much about fixing their wallets at the moment. They're probably waiting for a more.. definitive fix. It's frustrating as hell mining away and not being able to even send them to an exchange so that I can use it to help increase my total funds - I'm stuck trading with the CAT I currently have on Cryptsy, unless I decide to move to another coin in the meantime (which I'd rather not have to).

Going off what the others have been saying on IRC, I believe we have to update the node(s) hardcoded into the coin itself. From memory the code currently points towards catcoin.pw as being pretty much the only trusted default node (which was shut down just before the fork because the owner couldn't be stuffed putting up with the coin's problems any longer, it seems). I'm pretty sure that's why the exchanges and block explorer are having so many problems syncing. The remaining pool operators came came up with the idea of linking their pools together to prevent any further forks during low difficulty periods, or something along those lines (of course the exchanges likely wouldn't know about this and them updating their node lists before the next hardfork would be a miracle in itself).

As far as I can tell, this is something that can only be fixed with another fork, so it likely won't be done until we have chosen a new difficulty algorithm (which shouldn't take too long hopefully, now that we have this new simulator to play around with) and are ready to implement that as well. I just hope we don't take another month to implement the fix like we did last time, I'm not sure even I have that much patience.

Transactions within the working section of the network (between the pools and user wallets) works well enough though, so we got that going for us, which is nice.