Let's set the record straight. CK (myself) discovered a scrypt based altcoin named NewYorkCoin (NYC) while mining cryptocurrency in March 2014 (before scrypt ASIC's). I found NYC from a website called Coinwarz that listed mining profitability and being a Native New Yorker, almost fell out of my chair. I immediately knew NYC was a WINNER! I knew in my heart that *IF* this thing called Bitcoin, that ALL crypto miners were indirectly supporting, were to someday realize it's full potential - a fast block time would enable NYC to be used for daily consumer purchases. No transaction fees simply meant there would be no charge to consumer or merchant for usage/acceptance. And it could someday enable free worldwide money transfer. Able to do EVERYTHING Bitcoin could, just much faster and for no cost. I immediately decided to support the NYC Blockchain which could have so easily faded away into history. Upon digging further, I realized the developer had disappeared. No updates to website or social. And no response to my inquiries. So I quickly stepped up and took the reigns. New website with updated coin info, publication and easy access to core wallets, up to date mining pools, block explorers, etc. Social as well. I supported the NYC network for the next 6 months, during it's infancy, and ensured this altcoin with amazing, usable specs would someday take its rightful place in the crypto arena. I got NewYorkCoin added to CoinMarketCap (which in itself made NYC permanent). After 6 months or so, I had given all I could to ensure NYC's longevity. A few worldwide supporters (miners) had found NYC and I was able to let it go on it's journey. Jason9908/9, hobbyist and Coinsprofit kept the network alive from that point on. I had a family to support and needed to get back to "real work".
In the early summer of 2017 I had a little free time and decided to get back to my beloved NewYorkCoin. I showed my eldest son the current market cap which was a paltry $450k on CMC. I registered nycoin.net (original developer website) and grabbed the reigns, again. I started reaching out to every poster on bitcointalk forum that had expressed any interest since March 2014 to get block explorers synced and mining pools re-opened. I knew Coingather exchange was playing shenanigans (due to price action) and I warned users here to STAY AWAY. Coinsprofit suggested I contact Yobit! and get NYC listed there. The fee was minimal (0.1 BTC). Which I quickly paid and got NYC another option to shady Coingather which was mining and dumping, keeping NYC price depressed. Within days of my warning (posted on bitcointalk), Coingather VANISHED. Many NYC were lost forever. Trading volume at Yobit started to slowly pick up. From a few hundred dollars a day, to a few thousand. Price started to slowly climb as well. I knew New Yorker's needed to see NewYorkCoin. I booked a trip with my eldest son, had some body buttons designed and we headed out to The Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Nov 2017. Walking the streets of New York City for an entire week, riding the subway, standing in front of the New York Stock Exchange and frequenting Washington Square Park (next to NYU) and the Village. Wearing our LARGE BITCOIN & NewYorkCoin BODY SHIELDS/BUTTONS which covered our entire torso's and backs, freezing our asses off, talking to anyone and everyone that expressed any interest (or had heard of "Bitcoin"). We posted stickers EVERYWHERE we went. Subway entrances, street signs, light poles, newspaper boxes, EVERYWHERE - even a few businesses too. During NYC's 1st meetup at Washington Square Park, me and my eldest son had the pleasure of meeting James Burrell II, standing in a large crowd of 3 listening to me speak about the amazing specs and usability of my beloved NewYorkCoin. He must have just stumbled upon our meetup that chilly November day.
The price of NYC continued to rise upon our return home. The next major milestone for NYC was to enable mobile payments/acceptance. After months of negotiations with Coinomi, I paid their 1 BTC fee (and a handsome sum of NYC) and NYC was scheduled to be integrated onto the #1 rated mobile wallet for altcoins. I negotiated handsome sums of NYC for James Burrell and the owner of KEATS/EPIC to become the 1st real-world acceptance for NewYorkCoin. Volume and price at Yobit continued to climb. Now around 10X the level it was just a few short months earlier. Then it happened...on Christmas day of 2017, NYC daily trading volume exceeded $50,000!!! The 1st time ever in it's history that NYC had over $15,000 daily volume. Then in the early days of January 2018 the volume and price of NYC started to explode. Over $100,000 daily, then $500,000, then $1,000,000 and within about a week or so, NYC daily volume peaked at over $4,000,000 on Yobit!!! NYC's market cap had risen from $450,000 in June 2017 to
$120,000,000!!! NYC's "mighty sell wall" at 1 satoshi was finally DESTROYED and NYC's price quickly rose all the way up to
6 satoshi's. This is the price that ALL "Community" members first discovered NYC and were the original buyers at NYC's all-time price highs.
Within days of becoming today's "bag holder's" I started getting requests from various "Community" leaders to please update the NewYorkCoin website. This was their grand solution to restoring value to their quickly diminished investment. I paid "Alex" (no longer active in "Community") to update the NYC website at their communal request. At which time they requested, then demanded control over the NYC website - which gave me a good chuckle. Upon finally realizing that I would NEVER hand over control of NYC's message to ANYONE, especially a bunch of jump-on-the-bandwagon bozo's, the "Community" of bag-holder's was formed.
Nearly 2 years later, NYC volume and price are hovering right around June 2017 levels. During this time of "Community" control and leadership, NYC experienced it's 1st and ONLY successful 51% attack in it's 5 1/2 year history, lost the exchange (Yobit!) that accounted for 99% of NYC trading volume pre-attack and banned/defamed NYC's pioneer and earliest supporter. Code has had minor updates to enable merge mining. Core wallets now take longer to sync and you need a Computer Science degree to install. But "Community" has a very nice website! And a discord channel too. In the end, NYC survives. Continues on it's journey in the murky swamp of next generation cryptocurrency. Still completely free to use. Still lightning-fast to send/receive/confirm. Always and forever OPEN-SOURCE CODE. Someday to claim it's rightful place on the FIRST PAGE of CoinMarketCap. With or without the assistance of the current "Community" of bag-holder's.
P.S. Moral of this story: If you aggravate me too much, one random Sunday morning, I might just decide to bitch slap your silly ass across the fucking universe.