Breaking news: Cryptsy is gone. 13,000 BTC gone. 300,000 LTC gone.
They ain't comin' back.
It's gone. Make popcorn.
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They still have 7.5% of UNO in their wallet. If they file for bankruptcy those UNO might get dumped to recover BTC for creditors / users.
I disagree.
As far as we know, Uno was not stolen. It is part of the assets of Cryptsy: some of it belonging to clients, some of it belonging to Cryptsy, which they took in fees.
In an orderly bankruptcy, those assets will be liquidated by any number of measures. Simply dumping them on another illiquid exchange would not be in the interests of the bankruptcy administrators or the creditors owed BTC.
I think (and this thought is the seed of an opportunity some of us may consider pursuing) is that much like the Silk Road bitcoin, the various residual alts held by Cryptsy could be AUCTIONED OFF.
If this is the case, I can NOT imagine there would be many bidders who are--not us. Here. The core group.
So we have a choice at that point (and this is far away in time, so we actually have the luxury of time to think this through and organise it). We can:
1. Bid AGAINST EACH OTHER at any potential auction, raising the price to almost market value at that time. And if somebody evil got all those coins (me, for example), yes, those coins might eventually find themselves back out on the market in large chunks as long as there's a profit in it however slim.
2. The Real Idea: (AND THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO). We fund and form, finally, a "foundation". A foundation that will be funded with the UNO purchased collectively by the foundation. We don't bid against each other. We all chip in, and make a single offer for the UNO being auctioned. Pennies on the dollar at current market values at that time.
So, if option 2 gets any traction we'd need to think about:
--What total amount should we offer?
--How much should we chip in each? Equally? Proportionally?
--What would the foundation do?
--What do investors get for funding the foundation?
Well, I have a few ideas for the third question. First, the foundation would slowly, ever so slowly, start to liquidate that huge lump of UNO. And set priorities for the proceeds.
First priorities would be to ADVERTISE IT LIKE FUCKING COCA COLA on all the websites like that piece of shit NEU did. It didn't help them, but we've got something different going on.
Second priority would be to fund things like translations, efforts to get on other exchanges, and increase visibility and liquidity.
Third priority would be to get a reasonably compensated dev on board to perform specific tasks like enable some sort of voting ability into the blockchain (directly related to the management of the foundation).
If all those efforts go well, the price will rise again. The foundation should be flush enough to RETURN EVERYONE'S INITIAL INVESTMENT INTO THE FOUNDATION and get a bonus profit paid to them in UNO as a success fee. In other words. We put the money in. Slowly get funds by selling into the market that will directly increase the utility and value and popularity. As the price rises, all of us should be able to simply get our money back, with a UNO Bonus to be defined, and leaving behind a foundation that is well-capitalised enough to continue being a "slightly" centralised organisation to manage the marketing and development of the coin into perpetuity. Run by say a party of 3 elected officials: A marketing guy, a markets/trading guy and a dev/techie guy.
The Foundation at that point operates through voting on the block chain, to fill those seats, for example and undertake large projects. Foundation held UNO can't vote. All the others can vote. It's purpose is to fund marketing, promoting liquidity and the admission of the coin to markets, and keeping the coin and blockchain in good repair. The Foundation may make markets on new exchanges so that there is always buyers and sellers in all the markets for UNO with reasonable spreads.
OK. That's out there. It's a long way off before Cryptsy is liquidated. But the alternative to that, is bidding against me for 7.5% of UNO.