What renaissance are you speaking of? Not much going on here except stakeholders cheering up and getting excited about an upcoming 2/3 reduction of coins.
Congrats to have cast in concrete that DGC will now be just another massively pre-mined scamcoin just to save early miner's profits.
If you are willing to save the coin why not leave everyone who's just starting to mine with the same chance as you had? Anything is else is very shady, given that the overall amount was cut significantly once before in the last year. Why would anyone still mine DGC for a fraction of the coins from now on when there are 17 million coins out already?
I did say this when I held a large amount of DGC before and I still say so today. It's a shame, really.
Always had a lot of respect for you disclaimer201, and still do. For months, many folks have stuck with Digitalcoin, and have been working hard to transition past the baritus era, even though several have bailed as you did. I think your perspective is natural considering your dump had little effect on the price of DGC, and the fact that the price has doubled since then. Everyone wants to make the right decisions, but in this case you made a mistake.
Digitalcoin is coming back. There is a lot of development in progress, and serious initiatives being worked on. Like any good business, we will not hype until things are in place and solid, but take my word for it, Digitalcoin is no scam, and miners will mine because the 5 DGC reward will provide more value than 15 DGC today.
I miss your market cap posts and words of wisdom on the Digitalcoin forum, disclaimer201, and I think we'd all benifit from your support, so I for one would welcome renewed interest from the person I'm reminded of every time I look at the "referred by" area of my cryptsy dashboard.
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Lets not forget the price of Bitcoin has gone down by quite a bit since then.
In the three days following the 200k dump on Cryptsy over 800k DGC were 'bought up' on btc38.com followed by another large 'buy up' also on btc38 of around 400k on September the 22nd. A total of 1.2 million coins in just about 10 days - it was a frenzy. The price went up by some 50% on a temporary basis due to these huge buys.
This is a sure sign of someone accumulating coins and paying above the current market rate to get the quantity they want while the price is low.
The price on Sep 9-11th on the chinese market where all the action really happens was about the same as it is now - 0.06 CNY = about 1 US cent. It went up due to massive buys and has been leveling out at the 1 cent level since then.
I suspect someone with deep pockets and a trading bot on btc38 and probably Cryptsy has 'pegged it' at or around the 1 cent level ever since.