What happened? I was watching this one quite closely and was even planning to buy into the ico. So glad I didn't cuz they just deleted their twitter account and their website is now offline. Scam or hack or ..?

Sorry, I have to ask. How did you send your phils to the wrong address by mistake? Did you manually type the address and make a typo or did you copy/paste someone else's address? You should always copy/paste the wallet address when sending or receiving coins to prevent mistakes. I always double and even triple check my addresses to make sure the first 3 and last 3 characters match up so I know that I didn't accidentally copy/paste and miss a letter or 2 on the front or end of the address.

You must be new to crypto and I hate to tell you but most likely your money is gone. If you typed the address by hand and made a mistake then it's very possible the address you sent to has not even been activated and maybe never will be so therefore can never be retrieved. If you sent the money to someone else's address and you know who the address belongs to, you can reach out to them and explain the situation and cross your fingers that they will be nice and return your money. My guess is that you don't know who the address belongs to and it looks like it was never used before so most likely it belongs to nobody and the coins are gone.

A very expensive, difficult lesson to learn for sure. REMEMBER KIDS. ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO COPY/PASTE WALLET ADDRESSES AND DOUBLE-CHECK BEFORE SENDING. 

Loving this project already. Can't wait to see where it goes in the future.

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Nav coin recently released an updated roadmap for this years development and soon they will be introducing valenodes which are masternodes running on their new Valence platform: https://navcoin.org/project-roadmap/

However, it does not state exactly when to expect those to be ready and it also does not specify how many coins you will need to create a valenode. My best guess is that it will be 10,000 NAV per valenode which even at the current price will be a lot, but I feel that Nav is a sleeping giant already and these guys will most likely be around for the long term.

Still waiting for exchange news. These guys don't even have a working website yet. One step at a time.

https://saros.network/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2706182.0

1500 Saros needed to seed a masternode

No exchanges yet. It's hard to say what will happen with this one.

http://cerberuscoin.com/

I didn't see this one posted. No exchange to buy from yet but apparently that is priority #1 right now

I've already invested in Envion and I feel that is easily the best ICO mentioned in this list so far. I suppose everyone has their own opinion but I just took some time to comb through the rest of the ICO suggestions here and the only other one that is even remotely interesting to me is beetoken but I doubt I'll even throw $100 at it. To be fair, I'm only basing my decisions on how much profit I feel could be made from these ICOs and most of the mentions here are absolute shitcoins imo. It seems that many of the "good" ideas have already come and gone. I'm sure there will be a gem ICO that pops up here or there in the next year or 2 but I don't see it being anything like last year where so many good ideas were introduced with little to no competition in many cases.

That being said, here's a couple more ICOs that are more-or-less just copies of other cryptos which are already doing well:

https://coinloan.io/ --> SALT clone. ICO already started. Coins selling for $2 USD each
https://kwhcoin.com/ --> Power Ledger clone. ICO starts January 25

I'm not yet invested in either coin but I've been following both and Filecoin hasn't been released publicly yet since they finished the ICO. It's unclear if the Filecoin being sold on the Gate.io and LBank exchanges is genuine or not as Filecoin recently tweeted that anyone claiming to be selling their coin at this time is most likely fraudulent. I believe that being first out of the gate for a particular idea gives you a certain advantage for sure but time will tell what will happen once some of these ideas mature and they can be compared directly. STORJ looks nice too. Lots of options for storage coins.

I believe siacoin will do well short and long term but I also believe that filecoin seems to be the superior competitor in this game because of their use of IPFS

Based on the current price, market cap, # of coins and what I know about the project, my guess is Siacoin will be valued at around $1.00 by this time next year. But I'm way more bullish on Filecoin than Siacoin because of the tie-in with IPFS!

I doubt many were concerned about my ability to get the blockchain synced but I'm happy to announce I was able to get everything working. I believe I had some corruption going on as I ended up just nuking out the whole .magnet directory and re-setting up with the bootstrap from the beginning and I was up and running in a few minutes. Thanks guys for all the help!

Thank you very much for this! But I am still having issues... I first tried your suggestion of adding maxconnections=50 to the config file and restarting the wallet but it never connects to more than 20-some nodes and is still unbearably slow to sync. I have all the nodes added to the config from the main magnetwork.io instructions so unless there are more to add from elsewhere I should be good here. I then put the bootstrap file into my ~/.magnet directory and restarted the wallet. The bootstrap.dat file immediately changed to bootstrap.dat.old and after waiting a full hour it is no further along in the sync process than before. Very very slow. I've used bootstrap files for a number of other wallets without issues but typically they were on windows. I am in the process of setting up a temporary ubuntu box today to test this locally to see if I get the same results and if not, hopefully I can just copy over the .magnet directory and get this working. Thanks again for your suggestions and help thus far. I am determined to get this to work and I hope to have success today.

Are there any plans to host bootstrap files so that we can get the blockchain sync done faster? My wallet says I have 23 connections but I've been waiting for 3 days for my blocks to download. Nothing wrong with my connection as it speed tests at 29Mbps. This is the only wallet I've had with this problem as most wallets sync super fast. 

Privacy coins are all the rage these days. Look into and get some ONION before you miss the < $10 price tag