Here are some excerpts from my chat with the developer,
Regarding pricing,
He has agreed to create a new coin with an updated code source for the price of 0.4 BTC. He would like to receive 0.2 BTC before starting and the remaining 0.2 BTC once it is finished. As collateral he has offered to provide me with the source code for his crosschain swap tool mentioned below.
i have the remainder of today and also tomorrow to get the major work done and out of the way; past that im not sure when i'll be free again.
again - up to you, i most probably wouldnt make it a priority unless there was an upfront component. i received 50% upfront for moon and had it migrated from 0.8 to 0.10 in the space of 2 weeks (give or take half the hair on my head).
What would be the cost for a new coin and this?
i wasn't too keen on releasing the crosschain code (when i offered it for use in supercoin+); purely due to the fact that it is quite unique in that all exchanges still do a manual swap, meaning once it is on github - everyone will then clone it. however if its part of a package i'm happy to release it (at the end of the day, its just code - i will gpl it, just as long as my name gets passed on).
happy to stand up a 0.9 series pos codebase; either faircoin/navcoin looks pretty good for this, can reuse graphics as i go?
Regarding a chain swap tool,
it works by encoding a base58 address (of any type, 34 bytes), into two addresses of the source cryptocurrency:
it then uses a custom blockexplorer type script i wrote, to detect the send from one currency to another.
so for example, currently the hyper wallet uses H as a prefix for its addresses (Hrge94ut034t etc).
we would probably change it to h, so it remains recognisable - but so that users can't accidentally send to an address on the old chain.
people would load the new hyper wallet up (using h addresses).
people would load the old wallet, and using a special tool i wrote:
they would paste the new hyper wallets address in, and how much they intend to send from old wallet to new.
it would then come up with a special send statement that the user needs to paste into their debug window.
once this is done, they can send from the existing hyper wallet to the new.
Estimated time for completion is around 2 weeks but could be longer if problems arise as they usually do when coding things unfortunately.
What do you guys think? We have currently met our halfway point for our 0.4 BTC donation goal, we just need to get the rest in order to move forward.
We can move forward now but I would prefer waiting until the fund has been supplied so I don't get stuck footing the rest of the bill.