If this coin is to succeed I think a few things must be done.
1. OP needs to be cleaned up and better organized with the new community selected coin logo for branding, you only get one chance at a first impression.
2. On the issue of the missing coins, I can't understand how "all efforts" as described by the OP were used to recover the data when the hard drive was said to have failed only that morning, exhausting all efforts to recover lost data is not a 2 hours and I'm done type of job. If there is a failed hard drive with this data on it then an effort, a real and exhaustive effort, should be explored to recover this data even up to paying a fee for a 3rd party to recover the data perhaps with funds raised by the community. If after truly exhausting all efforts to recover the data we find that the funds are indeed lost then there must be complete transparency as to how this situation will be remedied and ideally the decision will be put to a community vote before a final decision is made.
3. A donation pool should be raised to hire the DEV an official community secretary, DEV's organizational skills are wretched. The staking lists given that included both staked and non-staked with no designation between the two was just the tip of the iceberg on the things that were handled poorly on the clerical side and this has caused mass confusion in the thread and muddying the waters. This designated secretary's first order of business should be to put out a final "official" list of members who received stakes and the amount received, again transparency is badly needed for the coin to succeed. If we can't fill this secretary position or DEV is not in tune with the idea, can some one for the love of Pete please introduce the DEV to the concept of a spreadsheet?
In the end, the grief and in-fighting that has currently got this thread completely off track are almost completely due to mistakes made by DEV that were easily correctible or avoided completely, my opinion is he should step up his game if you will and do his very best to fix the most obvious faults and help the community get back on track.
This coin can still be saved I think but now it is on life support and that makes me sad.
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.
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