Here's the transcript to last Friday's global press conference with Dan Larimer.
A brief sample follows:
BitShares Dev Hangout – Bytemaster : Cryptonomex and Brownie.PTS
Dan Larimer of Cryptonomex talking with BitShares community members regarding BitShares 2.0 updates along with the introduction of BROWNIE.PTS and what they’re all about.
[00:01:31] fuzzy: Welcome everyone. today we’re joined by bytemaster for his weekly hangout. bytemaster is the CEO of Cryptonomex. which is a company that is going to be working on the BitShares blockchain, as well as others. As we move from BitShares being a one team show, into a more decentralized chain, the community is very important.
[00:02:20] fuzzy: The format is we’ll let bytemaster give his updates for the week. then we’ll open it up to community questions. feel free to type your questions into the chat box and I will try to ask them for you.
[00:03:14] bytemaster: It’s been a busy past 2 weeks. we have been working long hours, trying to make sure that everything is ready for the testnet. We have started doing our own internal test network over the internet. This week our goal is to work out as many bugs as possible with the testnet before we turn it over for wider community testing.
[00:03:57] bytemaster: The reasoning behind this approach is, if we can still find issues, and it’s real easy for us to find things, then it’s more efficient for us to fix it, than to open it up for the entire communities input.
[00:04:22] bytemaster: That said, we believe we’ve completed the basic protocol and things are really starting to solidify. One of the things that we have done is we’ve postponed the bond market features. Not because they’re not implemented, but simply because we don’t have the resources to thoroughly test them as much as we would like before we could release it. And because there is no user interface for it. It’s such a niche feature, we figured we’d rather release all of the stuff that is compatible with BitShares 1.0 first, then follow it with a 2.1 release that includes the bond market feature.
[00:05:12] bytemaster: That will give the community some extra time to review the proposed changes and it will also be the first hardfork voted in by the community. We’re really happy with the progress. we appreciate the patience everyone has. software development always takes longer than we would like.
[00:05:40] bytemaster: At this point I will open it up to any questions.
[00:05:45] CryptoPrometheus: I know there’s going to be a 30 day window before the snapshot day, are you going to do the same thing for DevShares?