Guys this is like watching amateur hour, please take the testing of a temp fix outside the main BCT thread and please don't lose my coins in the process. You have already lost most of their value through the DEVs general incompetence getting us to this point.
Over the long run these 200 million coins must be destroyed or they will forever be an albatross around the coin's neck, a temp fix like you are attempting now is simply not an acceptable long term solution. If it requires a hard fork so be it. If you can't do it find someone who can.
Blocking these coins is the one and only way to fix. there is no another way to destroy coins unless you have private key.
Then recover the data off the failed hard drive or find someone who has the coding aptitude to solve this in an elegant manner, this is a joke and the ppl attempting to solve the issue do not have the needed skills.
Leaving 20% of existing coins forever weighing down the future prospects of COMM will never allow it to rise, only fall and fail.
I already proposed HDD recovering. LOL, we are offering this service in our company in Russia ;-)
And the Dev's response to your offer? I'm guessing silence, yes?
GatorJMT: Is blocking it not enough? The wallet is public any way and you can always see if it's being spent. Your comments have shown how little you understand about how cryptocurrencies work. If software recovery worked I'm pretty sure they'd have tried it already, the only option they have yet to try is hardware recovery and frankly if it's blocked I don't see what your issue is.
I don't fully agree with what the dev is doing (sending some people 1M coins twice, missing out on a couple of good contributors that I've seen do actual work instead of just posting), but a certain amount of trust is needed, especially for this coin. If the dev wanted to just dump the lost coins he could've done it quietly without posting about it. And then there's going to be people who're going to say it's all a huge scam. If you think that's what it is, don't buy COMM, and don't do anything about it. No one here owes you an explanation.
Normally I'd refrain from commenting but the amount of greedy people who expect nothing but profits and the price of COMM to go nowhere but up actually pisses me off more than the trolls. If you know of an investment that only goes up, let me know. Thanks.