Here's my outake on the alt market including GLD: it's become too easy for cheap pump and dump or mine and dump coins to be made and every day the markets are getting flooded by profiteers, who don't care about the longevity of their coin.

I think that if GLD is to really succeed, and believe me I want it to, it should be re-inventing itself at the protocol level to differentiate itself from a clustered market full of 'the same thing' but with different names.

To save GLD my vote would be get inventive and reprogramming GLD, hard forking it if needed, so that the mining also returns some secondary properties such as namecoin and primecoin, thus giving it some extra merit.

I know it's not easy but in a myriad of coins that will keep drowning out other similar coins (all doing the same thing) you've got to get inventive at core level and offer something better.

That's a good idea, why not have a go yourself and let us know what the response was....

I'm not worried about Gold, it is a good long term investment.

As soon as Bitcoin situation is clarified. Up we go!

Goldcoin crashing because Bitcoin taking a battering:

This is the reason:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/business/international/china-bitcoin-exchange-ends-renminbi-deposits.html?_r=1&

Bitcoin has shown enormous resistance in the past and so has Goldcoin.

There is no reason why this isn't just another temporary blip, albeit a big one.

I asked them if they could add Goldcoin too but so far no response.

Cool! I'm just a VERY average player; but I still got allot of fun out of Battlefield 3 earlier this year.

Has anybody got any experience with BTER.com?

Can they be trusted?

Would be good if Goldcoin was listed there, they seem to have high volumes.