Syscoin Team Notes November 15th, 2015
Syscoin 1.6 "Shade" Wallet Release and Hard Fork
- Shade Beta 3 is still in public testing - beta program has not uncovered any major bugs
- Escrow design has been completed using an arbitration pattern whereby a third party ensures that buyer and seller fulfill their sides of the deal while minimizing fees to both parties
- Looking into using encryption currently in place for private certificate data and buyer note data for a dedicated encrypted messaging service
- Added ability to have "private offers" which do not show up in search
- Above mentioned features will be available in a beta 4 following internal testing
- Keyare learning QT design stuff to help improve QT wallet aesthetics
- Beta 4 will feature an update to the pegging mechanism which will allow for simplified and longer-term maintenance
- Twitter bot 80% complete, should be running on cakenet beta 3 later this week - will tweet each new offer once and link using syscoin URIs so that clicking the link will auto-open the wallet to the "Buy" tab and lookup item being clicked
Marketing/Communication
- Andy working on OpenBazaar v Syscoin comparison matrix, will help clarify the differences/advantages of SYS v OpenBazaar
- Sebastien working on additional FAQ articles, one article per topic. Several of these have been completed already
- Marketing lining up PR newswire release sources for mainnet release
- Marketing also working on blogger/journalist outreach in addition to the interviews planned running up to mainnet release
- All marketing push activity is focused on mainnet public release to draw the widest audience and make the best initial impression after all beta testing rounds are completed
- Moved website again to dedicated VPS for increased performance; data move will be completed by Monday evening- website will experience zero downtime
- Working on "Syscoin Encryption Challenge" which will be described further in a blog post and challenge the security community to crack Shade Beta 3's native encryption for a hefty BTC bounty
- Team will be updating Syscoin website with complete design overhaul for better information flow in regards to the Syscoin offering in general and the variety of new services soon to be available on the network with the Shade release; including everything from descriptions, to use cases, how-to's, video demonstrations, and more on each individual service.