I finally took the time to look at a chart of BTCD in USD and actually has been trending upwards since the dip at the beginning of August. But the price is actually the highest it has been since October of 2014...so a 27 month high.
https://imgur.com/a/bia4uI think I'm buying some more.
it does look like quite a bullish pattern in terms of USD.
considering BTC is up to $1000+ from a low below $200 and BTCD price in BTC is still close to historical average is quite a strong sign.
While we all (myself included) patiently wait for the snapshot, elections, swap to begin, the komodod has reached a point of feature complete and in the validation stage. With the dPoW, assetchains, pax and DEX features it is quite a list to complete, but I am optimistic it will be achieved before the end of elections.
I am now coding LP node features, which are not a komodod hardfork even if it needs to be changed, so out of the territory that would incur delays for mainnet.
Which means I seem to be out of the critical path and am able to reduce my hours from the 16 hours per day * 7 days per week marathon in 2017. It has been a long stretch of nonstop coding and there is still work to be done, but the overall solution is in place and further work is about enhancing the basic system.
This reduction of reliance on me is a good thing, both for me and for komodo and SuperNET. After mainnet release, I might even take a short vacation.
If you want to track our usage of ICO funds, just follow the ICO BTC address. So far we have withdrawn a bit more than 60 BTC for monthly expenses. Our monthly expenses will be higher at first due to the development costs that are frontloaded and also without a KMD market, we need to spend the BTC instead of using KMD or pax fiat. As we get a KMD market, the pressure on our BTC expenditures will lessen as most of our expenses are denominated in fiat and if we can use pax fiat for that, it wont consume BTC.
make sure Komodo coin i a Great success...
1. Make sure the platform easy to use and as a professional look.
i personnaly think front-end is important as much as the technical part of the coding...
Really for cryptocoins it is
really important !!!
2. it's not only about coding, most of people don't even know what bitcoin is...
3. Even for people that invest in bitcoin Crypto universe...
most of people still don't know how to mine coins...
4. Make sure it work in all the languages... so use website tool like google translator a currency is really an international thing...
5. do a great wallet page like ethereum. myetherwallet
6. fix all the glitches and bugs before the launch
after all the stresstest...
7 make it easy to mine... for anyone who is new to Crypto also release a video how to mine even if it look like it easy show your really deploy
When Done...it will make a
strong currency,fast and efficient.
8.try to release 3 videos:
Promotions video with main Features for new crypto newbie,educationnal,and also one with technical with statistics...for Crypto enthusiast
a all the advantage of Komodo coin.
b how to mine the komodo coins
c how tu use the coins properly:backup wallet,security features etc.
when all this checklist is done...
9.One final thing
hire independant company and consult imminent cryptographs to test and give bounty to people that can find Bugs
10.
Finally to show ur really a Big competitor to Zcash launch the coin with 10 days countdown like they did on Poloniex.
Launch on many exchanges at the same time like Poloniex,Bittrex,a chinese exchange and 1 major exchange like bitfinex or gemini or coinbase
Martin B.