Cryptsy Sucks!   Can't login, doesn't take username nor password, and the Captcha text
is unreadable.  They say on their own site that they are doing it purposely to keep the
volume down while they are trying to fix problems with the site.  There are hundreds of
others complaining about it in the forums.
  Doesn't that just give you the warm fuzzies knowing they decieve you instead of just
putting up a closed for maintenance page and an e.t.a.
  CoinedUp at least put a notice on facebook and twitter, which didn't do squat for those
of us that don't support the NSA spying on us. They too should have put up an info page.

 OK, Stupid question here, (be gentile here I'm a newbie to all this) are there any coins you can
mine with a basic home computer? Please reply when you stop laughing.

Completely true.

Start with lottocoin if you want, i'm currently mining it: difficulty is still low, is already on a little exchange (coinedup), and it will get on cryptsy after christmas holydays!

Oh my, it's increasing faster than the US national debt! 

Also, could we consider replacing the entire block generation method with 0% proof-of-stake (and no proof-of-work)? It would be an interesting development.

Penis launched... total crap...

17,374.79 billion    =  17.374 trillion    <-- it's correct

Ok so we're at 17 trillion now, right?  That means in 9 days we'll be at about 170 trillion? 

This is crazy, that's more coins than ShitCoin which was the biggest joke ever, and quite funny but this is not that funny when one has real money invested.

Somebody tell me this ain't so.  How could Shakezula let this thing run to over 100 trillion coins?  How could any dev let their coin run past the yardstick of ShitCoins which is why the vlad guy chose a mind boggling 100 trillion coins for ShitCoin.

I really hope I'm wrong about this but the ridiculous POS doesn't lie.

uhm can anyone tell me what will actually happen after that 8th january? and what will be the effect of it?
I have about 4 500 000 000 Of them, should I sell them now for close to nothing or what?

I suspect that coin dev specially laid a mistake in pos.
Two confirmation of this:
1. All coins are mined very fast. There was no time to think/relax.
2. Crazy pump then dump after first pos rewards.

After finding error dev can say "Oops, there is error in code, sorry guys.. i don't know what to do with this. Or no, i know what to do. Play about 2-3-4-5 weeks, then i will fix this".
But only dev has exact view at what will be with coin after end of pow-mining. He has enough time to buy/mine enough coins for minimal price (this leads to little pump), then send coins to wallets exactly before pow-mining end, then after first pos-rewards send first chunk(s) of pos-rewards, pump a little and sell with huge profit. Other coins in wallets doing final pos-mining before buyers understands that this was a good f.ck of their money.
That was a good plan. Maybe the best after/with doge. Doge huge marketcap was planned too. It's easy to calc. We have minimal price of 0.00000001 (btc/ltc/xpm). What we need to do to make good price for coins? Big block reward, so even minimal price of 0.00000001 will make a good income. But doge price was much more than 0.00000001. LOL

Additional question: can someone please post a good node to synchronize the block chain? addnode=andarazoroflove.org as mentioned previously in this thread ain't working...