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Bytemaster's Weekly Global Press Conference TranscriptSample:July 31, 2015
Bytemaster talks Ethereum, BitShares, the crypto landscape and where they will likely end up. Project updates are not talked about other than to say that the GitHub repository can show the work done in the past week – and bytemaster is now learning to code the front end. Plenty more inside everyone. Sit down with the beyond bitcoin community and stay awhile.
Transcript Summary
[00:00:00] bytemaster: There is only one difference, and I’d say this summarizes the difference between Ethereum and BitShares, and that is you have to have stakeholder approval to enable your smart contract in BitShares, whereas [with] Ethereum you can do any contract you want at any time without asking anyone’s permission.
[00:00:22] bytemaster: So the analogy I have thrown around is, BitShares is like the Apple app store where we add new features to it over time, but they’re all curated and of a relatively high quality. And Ethereum is the Android app store where high quality and low quality exist at the same time, but all kinds of variations of things out there.
[00:02:01] fuzzy: Introduction.
[00:02:32] bytemaster: First of all I’d like to apologize for not getting the testnet out this week. We had several of our guys out sick Monday & Tuesday, and that kind of set us back. But all of the blockchain level things that were preventing us from launching a testnet have been resolved. We will be launching a testnet, I’ve said this every week for the past few weeks but this time I mean it, that will allow Witnesses to get on board.
[00:03:09] bytemaster: Xeroc has been publishing How-To’s to walk Witnesses through the process of importing their stake and getting voted in and starting producing blocks. Now that we have instructions available we can start doing test at that level. So this will be a testnet for Witnesses only. This will not be a testnet for regular users because the web interface is still not at a level that I’m comfortable with the public testing.
[00:03:52] bytemaster: A lot of people have said that I needed to stop focusing on the back-end and start focusing on the front-end. This week I decided to dig into ReactJS and start learning how all of the web interface stuff works and that’s been very productive. So I am now working full time, more or less, on the web interface and making sure that all of that works well with the back-end.
[00:04:26] bytemaster: This has been relatively productive because I know both sides and [it enables me to] fix things and/or improve things to make front-end development easier. That’s what I’m doing and the other guys are preparing for the testnet. ...
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