Instead we received a hostile takeover, successful 51% attack and no trading volume.
No hostile takeover, just a larger community effort having to constantly deal with the efforts of a single(?) individual sabotaging any and all initiatives that he wasn't in control of.
I looked through this forum and some of your other social media posts and I've seen your opposition to the security fork along with your schizophrenic praise of the devs one minute and attacks against them the next. Why would anyone lobby so hard against such an obviously necessary update? It seems to me if you hadn't of fought so hard against the security fork, the devs wouldn't have had to spend so much time lobbying the community and advertising the reasons why the security holes needed fixing. Many believe the devs should have just quietly fixed the flaws that had already been exploited (possibly by the party that was most vocal in opposing the fixes?) and kept the conversation limited to the pools and exchanges. Instead the reason for the fork was spread far and wide and before the security measures could kick in, NYC was 51% attacked ... for the last time, I might add. All this may have happened regardless as many believe the 51% attack was performed by insiders, regardless, the attackers knew the game was up and decided to get as much as they could in the remaining days before the security fork and other security measures took effect.
As a result NewYorkCoin lost its top 3 exchanges by volume (though it was likely fake volume and wash trading anyway). Doesn't really matter, they were all shitty exchanges and if NewYorkCoin is to fulfill its promise of becoming a viable merchant solution, the changes needed to be made.
To be honest, only thing NewYorkCoin ever had going for it was a great brand and a great community, that hasn't changed. All the things you keep promoting are useless features that are available in scores of coins and that any could add with almost no effort if it made sense to do so:
- 30 second blocktimes? There are dozens and dozens with even faster blocktimes.
- No fees? Not exactly true, but does it really matter when all the smaller altcoins fees are so small that you can send thousands of transactions for a penny.
- Real world adoption? As others have pointed out, the fact that there hasn't been a single complaint by a merchant in this forum or any other venue AFAICT, even when the shit hit the fan, is telling.
I get it, you had a fine little scam running, making promises that you lacked any ability to fulfill and selling into the pump. With billions of coins you could play the long game, pushing the coin in any direction you wanted to simply by wash-trading.
Those days are gone, I think. I'm guessing you lost 70% or more of your holdings during the 51% attack, that was not smart. Now you have to settle for pumping fake coins on Yobit and hoping you can lure enough newbies in to turn a tidy profit.
"It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good." In other words the silver lining here is that during the 51% attack many community members were taking advantage of the ridiculously low prices and managed to get coins off the exchanges before they went insolvent. Those community members thank you for your generous 7 billion NYC donation!
Prices are still historically low so anyone wanting to take advantage see
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/newyorkcoin/trading_exchanges#panel for pairings.