Topic: XCurrency (XC) BlockNet community thread - page 3. (Read 29212 times)

Yeah 

Funny to see that every coin that Shadow was accused of fudding is now dead ... 

Real innovation FTW !

Bahaha, scammers get what they deserve. Meanwhile legit coins slog on.

"This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest.  It may be removed on Aug. 28th unless the average daily trade volume for the last 7 days exceeds 0.2 BTC."

https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-XC

These stories are always interesting...

http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-152.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sec%2FlgHO+%28SEC.gov+Updates%3A+Press+Releases%29

This......if you don't have enough belief in your own project that every note of criticism has to be silenced/removed, there's obviously something wrong.

Price is getting cheap but is it a dead project?

Mutually assured destruction. The two of them continuing to educate the public about each others history would just result in more widespread knowledge about both of their practices. Neither of them had the higher ground morally, so I guess you're right. I never thought of it that way.

The people who ate up synchronist's 'deprecated thread because boo-hoo toxic community' BS deserve what they're getting.

Remember when the Darkcoin and XC camps made peace?

They both saw the other's fraud, and agreed to say nothing.  That makes both camps frauds.

There really were some interesting things surrounding XC.  For instance - Arlyn / Synchist defending Jasinlee (I've beat the shit out of that horse - no desire to go back).  But putting his & the coins credibility on line to defend a known scammer was weird.

Then the Promethus thing - that one was fun.  

The premine things was weird.  Seeing how blatantly wrong it was after comparing it to the original promise - but never once a "we screwed up" just a "we only intended to say we would let you know via blockchain"

Then in the early beginnings the coin release output & cap change to give Dan & company much bigger % of total coins than anticipated.

Not to mention the entire closed source thing.  And I think the coin was originally named X11coin (even though darkcoin invented the X11 Algo?)  XC started (I think) as a sort of copycat to Darkcoin with some added features (chat?).  Same pattern as Blocknet / SuperNET.

Dan has shown up to quite a few conferences and put his real face out there - I think he's genuinely interested in crypto but not competent enough to go about it via open source.  And not financially in a position to be able to work on it without using it as a means to a personal end.

It has been interesting how the crypto news ignores blatant scams - or questions like "Hey you blocknet of the future guys.  Why are the graphics no longer working on your original project and your thread locked?  Why's the blocknet website down?".  All dedicated crypto news (after seeing how this was reported) is just an extension of the "pumper" side of this forum.

tl;dr;  XC has always been weird.  Alryn / Synchis has been a slippery character always playing to his fanbase.  Dan I think got stuck in financial trouble & is tied to some shady people.  Don't trust crypto news.

I can't believe anyone still decides to involve themselves with anything Dan or synechist do.

Does anyone who was in to XC remember in the official thread how much synechist absolutely insisted that Blocknet would not slow down XC development at all? To the point of getting annoyed at people who questioned the idea at all?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9276122
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7017518
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9282400
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9283138
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9283690

I wonder if he believed that at the time or he was just doing his PR thing as he's paid to do.

I actually wonder if even he feels betrayed by Dan at this point. I don't think he knew that Dan was quietly selling off the XC premine or that Dan was building an alliance with Prometheus. I remember he wasn't happy at all learning about the premine thing, and that he didn't think Dan was one to have done that behind everyone's back.

And doesn't the fact that XC needed a full time PR person working and spinning things speak volumes about the project? He seemed to have done a good job at keeping a good amount of believers strung along for as long as he could despite all the bullshit that was clearly going on. There are probably a bunch of people even now who still believe in Dan and synechist as there's not much point in selling their XC at four figure satoshi prices. Wasn't XC worth a few dollars at one point too?

People really need to get over their cognitive biases and realize that where there's smoke there's fire in these crypto projects. Dismissing anything negative as FUD is almost childish.

http://blocknet.co

"Error establishing a database connection"

Is it just me or is theblocknet.com down?

Well XC certainly isn't using it.

Why don't you go back to complaining about Monero in the Dash thread?   

And now even the XC thread has become MONERO thread.

I own some Monero ( a few actually). I like the way the devs interact here.
But when I see Monero fanboys having to constantly hype the coin and troll threads about other coins I tend to think that the original cryptonote coin might be where it is at. https://bytecoin.org/cryptonote/

Monero is the most actively developed implementation of the Cryptonote whitepaper.

The cryptonote whitepaper did not come from Monero though. Cryptonote was not invented by the Monero team.
Here is the cryptonote whitepaper.
https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf

how could a Monero paper be the cryptonote whitepaper?

No there definitely was one as I joined it and had some discussion there. But my free hushmail account expired so I haven't gone in to check out the discussion.
Why did you think it was only a rumor?

There is no "XC slack forum."

They started a rumor there is one as a smokescreen.

Now the story is some blather about 'stealth mode' and relaunch.

Why not do it right the first time?

If they were wrong the first time, why would the second time be much different?

When the Cryptonote (Monero) whitepaper appeared, XC became obsolete.