Gekko: I value your input & your influence, let's break this down as a community and objectively analyze each characteristic of UNO as it stands now, both positive and negative.
Preferably, each bold question will be addressed by someone with the knowledge to address it properly.
1) Gekko's Mac wallet will not sync and he does not want to bother with learning how to find a recently hidden folder and paste a .conf file. He doesn't want to do this because he doesn't think he should have to, we should have a dev who can say within a month, "There, I found the issue and fixed it, re-download the wallet Gekko." That is a fair point, but two things
need to be addressed here.
If 100 Mac users download the wallet, how many of them will find their clients to sync fully and properly from the first attempt? A few users have responded just in the last day stating that their Mac wallets work fine, even on a virtual machine. On that note, I personally have had 0 problems with Windows wallet or Android. I have always found connections within seconds of starting the wallet, the blockchain syncs at a very impressive rate, I am able to import private keys from brain wallets, backup procedures and sending/receiving funds is flawless, transactions confirm quickly and reliably. For me it meets no criteria of the word 'broken', but I suppose it's the reliability of the Mac .conf directories that are in question?
Why do .conf node directories become insufficient in the first place, and how can that be prevented? Does this ever happen with bitcoin, dogecoin, NXT or any of the other top clients? 2) Liquidity (Gekko addressed this in a recent reddit comment). It is not an issue right now that $200 moves the price, that is 0.1% of the market cap, $3,000,000 also moves the bitcoin price. Sure it wouldn't move the price +60%, but you just can't compare altcoin markets to that of bitcoin due to sheer scale differences. The markets are healthy and if people want to acquire UNO or leave the market they can. Put 1% of UNO for sale at 0.006 and it will be gone in a day or two. Put a buy order for 1% of UNO at 0.007 or 0.008 and it may be filled in a day. We are operating on more exchanges and have more trade pairs than probably 90 or 95% of cryptocurrencies. We consistently have very respectable volume, as I detailed in a recent reddit post about 5.5% of all coins have traded hands in the last month alone. (link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unobtanium/comments/3ja8xb/exchange_volume_totals_past_30_days_accumulation/)
If anyone can compile data of how UNO has ranked of all 600+ cryptocurrencies in volume over the last 1 year and 1 month, that would be fantastic. That may be very difficult though, sites like coinmarketcap only seem to allow you to sort by 24h volume, which fluctuates for all currencies significantly.
3) Strength of Network & hashrate.
Unobtanium currently has the second-highest hashrate of all 600+ cryptos. That is incredible!
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency?sort=hashrate&dir=desc 4) Developer. We payed for Android wallets recently, Cryptapus has given us many great features at cryptap.us, LearnMiner runs a great looking website (although I messaged him 2-4 weeks ago about removing Comkort from the website, I got to no response and it is still listed there.) It appears to me that stuff just gets done when people want it, with UNO valued at $280,000 people have incentive to expand the features and maintain progress (albeit gradual) so they either pay for it or do it themselves. However,
do we have someone who's responsible for core development and keeping things running smoothly? Who got merged mining working properly earlier this year? Who published the mac and windows clients?5) (edited in after original post): The recent dumping. It seems to be an active effort to dump the price. Gekko has stated in several exchange chatbox statements and reddit comments that himself and several others are behind this. He has also claimed that he plans to dump more, he says it in a threatening way. As FallingKnife has stated, if someone truly wanted to cash out they would have placed sell orders around 0.01 and gotten them filled slowly. I know it may seem cliche by now when people attribute price changes with any coin to manipulation, but often that is he case & in this instance Gekko wants people to think that's the case. Whether he is speaking the truth or using the price drop to spread believable lies, I do not know. What is certain is the he is trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in the most literal meaning.
