scryptenthusiast,
First of all Charlie I'm not a developer, nor do I claim to be a developer. Want the block explorers and stat site fixed? How about you do something as simple as contacting those that are in charge of keeping them up and running like I've done, or are you really that deep in the dark and have no clue what's going on and who runs what? Why would you even reference Hobbyist? He hasn't been seen or heard from in months, and is a pool operator, not a guy tasked with pushing a bunch of important commits to the Git or running the day to day dev operations. It's no secret, the development team is currently in a state of dishevelment, it's not really a team at this point, and we can't even get bites on the development bounties while offering several hundred million NYC for their completion, and since it's also no secret that everyone on the "Community" team, devs included, are here on a voluntary basis, it's no surprise that these types of things don't get completed in a blazing fast manner since none of the devs are actually paid for their time, where's the motivation? Last time they touched the code to improve it, the coin was attacked (which can still be done to this day to this coin and others) and they were wrongly blamed for it, why would they want to volunteer any more of their time when the same attack could happen today, tomorrow, or next week? You say that community leadership has their interests vested in keeping the price low, are you out of your mind? Just like you fundraised and paid out of pocket for Yobit listing initially, and for Coinomi initially, I fundraised and was one of many to pay out out of pocket to help keep Coinomi integration, I paid out of pocket to make CoinToPay integration happen, and the rest of the "Community" team chips in and pays out of pocket every time we need to raise funds. The block explorers and stat page take out of pocket funding and donated time to maintain, both the time and the funding is donated by guess who? Members of the "Community" team. Knowing the amount of free time we dedicate and funding we provide to make sure this coin stays up and running, to say that our interests are vested in keeping the price low is unconscionable. If you think for one second that I would't fly to your house and buy you and your family a damn cake if NYC hit 1/100th of a cent this week, you're out of your mind. I agree with you in that I hope that talent floods in, because this coin can use some serious help in a serious way, but NewYorkCoin doesn't survive because the code is open source, it's just a clone of Dogecoin, and Dogecoin and is just a clone of Litecoin, and Litecoin is just a Bitcoin clone, they're all open source man, why do you think that is the one thing that keeps the coin alive? It survives today mostly because it's traded on a small handful of exchanges listed on CMC, CoinGecko, and CoinPaprika and there is price data to reported. NewYorkCoin at it's core is just Bitcoin with way faster block times, no fees, a different hashing algorithm, a better name and ticker, and no max supply. Those things with the addition of inflation reduction, make the NewYorkCoin code stand apart in it's class from the likes of Dogecoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin, and few other POW coins, but that's about it. However, it's less likely to survive if the few that have been around and care about the coin can't come together and achieve a few common goals for the sake of this blockchain.
This coin is destined to be a retail usage cryptocurrency, and should be on POS devices and in businesses around the world. Blazing fast with no fees is the only reason I batted an eye at this coin, and will likely be the same for every business owner who ends up accepting it. The most important thing for this coin is to get it on new exchanges, specifically, exchanges that are supported by the one other thing keeping the coin alive, Prohashing. There is a small list of exchanges that are supported by Prohashing - Bittrex, Bluetrade, Livecoin, Binance, EXX, STEX, and SouthXchange. We are live for voting on SouthXchange, and were approved by STEX with a listing fee of 1 BTC, good luck fundraising that. Getting NYC listed on one of those exchanges supported by Prohashing will not only provide a popular source of liquidity and new markets, but also ensures we can keep the hashrate going to keep the network at least somewhat secure from an attack in the case of Graviex going into maintenance and hashrate subsequently dropping. This leads to the other most important thing for this coin right now, we need to get it on more multi pools to get the hash rate way up, I mean way up. This makes it much more expensive to launch a 51% attack, but nothing makes it impossible unfortunately, sorry Charlie. Dogecoin averages roughly 150-200 TH/s of hashing power on their network, NewYorkCoin averages less than 1 TH/s, so here is a small list of multi pools that we need to try to get NewYorkCoin on at least one of - poolin.com, pool.btc.com, litcoinpool.org, f2pool.org, viabtc.com, or antpool.com. Each of those pools dedicate more than 10 TH/s for merged mining Dogecoin and Litecoin. No reason those pools can't merged mine NewYorkCoin as well so that we can better decentralize hash rate on the network. The two goals go hand in hand because the reason that these multi pools mine Dogecoin and not NewYorkCoin is because NewYorkCoin is not listed on sufficient exchanges, we need to figure out what the requirements for the higher hash rate providing multi pools are and do our best to get NewYorkCoin ready for the next big rocket. Our Roadmap for 2020 should simply be More Exchanges - More Multi Pools
Also, as nice as it would be to have Yobit open, I don't think "attacking" their support is a good idea as some on here have mentioned doing, and actually doing so on behalf of NewYorkCoin is quite disrespectful. With the likely hundreds of messages their support has already received regarding NewYorkCoin, they get the picture, they don't need continued "attacking" or badgering from enraged traders. If they want to open withdrawals, they will. And in regards to the 1st sentence in the 3rd paragraph on my blog post, the possibility of Yobit not updating was a serious concern since they were the only exchange out them all that never responded to us regarding the code updates, every other exchange responded and said they were prepared for the fork, except Yobit, that's not us getting the coin booted, that's Yobit failing to keep up with the technology and not having adequate customer support like the other 6-7 exchanges provided the "Community" team in the months leading up to the fork. How is that admitting that we were trying to get NYC booted from Yobit when we were using the fact that Yobit was the only non responsive exchange out of all of them to warn and protect users on the network that Yobit might not follow the code update?!?! You have it twisted Charlie, it's not our fault people don't listen when they are warned, and it's not our fault that people stupidly store their cryptocurrencies on exchanges long term. This is what happens when you deal with foreign unregulated exchanges that have questionable customer service and blockchain support.