I was mining UTC from Nov-Dec 2014 to Aug 2015 and never had any trouble with diff or pools back then. I stopped after the official pool started having trouble with payout & showing blocks mined. After than everything went downhill. I mined on NF14, NF15 & for sometime NF16. Everything worked very well back then until Steven & Kracko got greedy and thought reverting cutting block reward will pump the coin & give them a smooth exit while they leave everyone holding the bag. They must have seen the problems coming. Instead they should have asked the community to take over and leave gracefully.

I would also say that price will be hard to control until diff is fixed as miners exploiting this bug will keep dumping on each price rise. Good to see community effort here

I'm willing to head a project with a few volunteer developers including myself to ease development of UltraCoin based Apps...

I'll just need support of a few devs and the community

There's one big problem that makes this very hard, the bloating of the blockchain..

No, the bloating can't be fixed. Due to fast transactions, Ultracoin is very prone to bloating
Might either be a problem now, or a problem sooner or later. Not sure if there is a fix, but I think it will take a while for it
to be an actual big problem. For now we can still work with it.

@usukan --

I'm a web developer, so I'm accustomed to markup and scripting languages that don't compile.  I'm not really experienced with the build process, and I don't have experience with C++.  I can read the source and get an idea of what it's doing, but writing it is a different story.

For that reason, I don't really feel that I'm qualified to be in a full developer role, but I would be happy to help in any way I can.  I do feel like reverting the retargeting to V3 should be pretty trivial-- all the old code is still in the source, and it should just be a matter of reviewing and updating references.  I could even take a stab at it, but compiling and testing would be a learning process for me.  I would also be happy to take a look at the updated source once changes are made.

I mined UTC when it was Nf15 and Nf16 as well, and I don't remember any major retargeting issues.  Would love to see this coin make a comeback!

WOW... Wow... and wow !!!

Do you all see what is happening

ULTRACOIN FOR THE COMMUNITY  =  ULTRACOIN FROM THE COMMUNITY !

I am so happy to see what is going on .....

The UTC community wakes up and starts working together as (dev) partners.

This is very special to see.....a very first altcoin for the community and from the community !

I want to thank everybody.

Please don’t stop working and discussing together !

UTC can get back in the top 50 on CoinMarketCap if we keep working together.

Special thanks (at this moment) to.....

> Usukan (very special thanks for his outstanding coordinating and "leading" role)
> Alenevaa
> Beave162
> Uggle
> Valpe
> Whortonda
> Marnie1976
> Emerge
> Thispanda
> Bathrobehero
> Funsponge
> Roister01
> Grim
> Sambiohazard
> Bobdoergas
> Bret

If i forget someone to mention here please be not offended.

Warm greetings to all,
Paul.

Well - I leave for a few hours and come back to this!

So many positive developments in the community.

If I had to pick one thing to measure our progress and community support - it has to be the market support.  It has returned in strength.

Sure its early days - hell we have only been on this resurrection drive for a couple of days - but things are taking shape nicely.

To summarise the market situation:

6 weeks ago UTC was trading down at 166-250
1 week ago we were in the 350 range
Today we are in the 600 range

The % increase in prices is quite astounding!

The community deserves strong praise for the courage and risk taken to support UTC.

Shout out to all supporters and especially that large order at 566 which must have started at over 140k.

Dont let us get put off by some large sells - there are a lot of big bags out there held by some with minimal patience or genuine immediate needs. There will be some dumps (and it looks like there was just one for just over 60k UTC).

You might be saying to yourself that its already too expensive to buy UTC.  Yeah thats what the guy thought when he was buying at 350 and it had been 166-250 a few weeks before.  Whats he thinking now at 600?  Somebody bought up about 150k at 450 - that must have taken a bit of courage when the bids were probably 300-350?  I know what hes thinking now.

Supporting UTC by investing is high risk thats for sure - but with risk comes potential for quite handsome reward - OR loss.  Only invest what you can afford to lose but celebrate your gain when UTC pushes up.

If we all do our jobs well - there is a very good chance that 600 and even 1000 will be peanuts in the medium to long term.

I will restate some goals on price - this is really the only benchmark we have for overall progress (these are only arbitrary - but you will get the idea).

Target 1 - 0.00001/1000 (coin has been resuscitated)
Target 2 - 0.00005/5000 (UTC is back in business and we need to set in stone our vision and start work towards tailoring UTC to this)
Target 3 - 0.0001/10,000 (Time for some serious development and roll out UTC into our chosen real world use areas)
Target 4 - 0.001/100,000 (Its working - take your rewards for all your work and risk - then get ready for a new vision that we apply to expand)

We are sailing well towards the first mark of 1000

Over the next few days we will put some projects in place and with continued community support we will crack that 1000.

Put your drinks in the cooler.

The journey has begun.

EDIT - I see we have a few rats coming out of the woodwork and jumping ship on Bittrex - we'll sail faster without them.  Besides - where are the trolls - when they arrive here we know we are doing well.

thank you kindly bitmaster1x

Cheers - usukan

Thanks Uggle - time is coming to shine that miner up!

Thanks Paul - yes things are starting to fire up - but its early days yet.

Probably the two immediate needs are to update the website and the lead page on this forum.  We seem to have the available community skills to handle this.

How do you want to handle passing over the access User/PW for these resources?  Do you want to send via PM to me?

Cheers - usukan