Your welcome ofc.

The Bad-Behavior script is quite good for preventing 'abuse' issues: http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/about/ when combined with a php http:BL API Key.

EDIT: Blockscript - http://blocked.com - is actually free for a certain number of user requests per. month and blocks numerous open proxies. Your server requires the ioncube loaders for Blockscript.

You can also find updated proxy lists here: https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php - and a list of Tor exit nodes from the Organizations tab. I do not really approve of any website blocking Tor exit nodes, although if you were to only block the space drop page for the initial giveaway, then I guess its not so bad. It would help to ensure a fair distribution.

Non-collection and/or minimal collection of users data, where possible, is certainly the best option.

On top of our proxy filtering and protection in place already we have also implemented the following on the Spacedrop and Faucet:

$ips = explode("\n", file_get_contents('/Tor-ip_list_ALL.csv');
if (in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $ips)) {
 echo 'Sterlingcoin Spacedrop cannot be accessed via Tor.'; die;
}

Basically this bit of code says if the IP address matches one in Tor-ip_list_ALL.csv to tell users "Sterlingcoin Spacedrop cannot be accessed via Tor".

$ips = explode("\n", file_get_contents('/Tor-ip_list_ALL.csv');
if (in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $ips)) {
 echo 'Sterlingcoin Faucet cannot be accessed via Tor.'; die;
}

This bit of code says if the IP address matches one in Tor-ip_list_ALL.csv to tell users "Sterlingcoin Faucet cannot be accessed via Tor".

The rest of the website is Tor friendly.

Good luck with your launch but be wary of Bittrex. They will abruptly drop a coin even when there are coin/BTC on offer to trade.

I've seen both little and no trade in a coin for a very short period of time which prompted Bittrex to remove the coins from their books. (and they make no bones about low/no volume coins being flagged for deletion)

Unless they have smartphones on a data contract More likely to hit issues with workplaces, Universities, etc, I'd have thought...

 20th of September 2014 at 10PM GMT/UTC +0:00

great.

I am planning to bring Merchants to use Sterling coin as I believe this is a great project, however I am concerned that my efforts will be used to boost other coins on litepaid. I don't mind if good coins also get business from the merchants I bring in but I think it would be best if Sterling has it's own API for merchants and fees could be used to develop the coin further.

I sent litepaid a mail this morning listing the coins that aren't even in the top 100 marketcap on there coin list and it would be unfair for shitcoins to ride on the work of others.

So perhaps having litepaid and another option to bring merchants too?