Everyone has started to shout against this ICO. What happened? I think technical developments don't need to showcase visually. It has to be discovered technically by performance and analysis not by visual presentation.
There is some strange theory that without a GUI there is no value to a project.
I think this means that unix for the longest of times was totally worthless and there have been many coins that for a long time was command line only, you know, something called bitcoin.
docs.supernet.org is a list of iguana API
anybody can submit bugs and issues
we have people paid to test and find bugs and they are finding a few, which I fix as they are found.
Now I am a C dev that does low level core API and I have. Projects like MGW have been done and running for over a year, maybe its 2 years now. iguana is working well enough for fully functional GUI to be made and there are two different GUI in various stages of development, along with installers for unix, osx, win32, win64 and chrome app. SuperNET has created the SN lite GUI for NXT, but that seems to get no credit toward completion of projects.
I will be using iguana to implement the bitcoin interfacing required in komodo. komodo is a usecase of iguana tech. iguana is the platform level codebase and so now the time is come to build things on top of that platform. dPoW is a relatively small and well defined module to complete and I will add that into a zcash fork.
Before anybody puts in money, please make sure you are comfortable that I will achieve this. Either because you trust in my tech skills or you see it working on testnet.
Most of the shouting is from people who wanted a quick pump and are disappointed it isnt going to be quick. I have explained our rationale and wont get into it again. I have yet to hear a single proposal that would have solved all the constraints, the biggest being price pumping out of self-interest of BTCD holders. I had to make a judgement call on behalf of everyone and it is what it is.
The only credible criticism I have heard so far is the lack of project completion. There have been reasons given for the delays, but iguana is about as done as any large scale project can be done. So it is time to package it up into nice GUI with installers and that process has begun.
For people that want to evaluate at the command line level on your own you can via my github.com/jl777/SuperNET repo. You might get a head start on the others that wait. I am constantly updating the repo but I do try to stabilize it as quickly as possible. production versions are made from a snapshot during stable times and go through a test procedure.
By necessity I am not personally involved in this testing, as the coder cant be the production tester of his own work. At this point I am still working in the iguana codebase, but at the higher levels of abstraction and rarely making any changes to the lower level code.
I took a few days off to code up a steemit liquidity awards bot, which worked and earned ~$10K in rewards in the week that it ran before the awards were stopped. To my knowledge my bot was the first one other than the insider's bots that earned the liquidity reward multiple times. My experiences about this are well documented. What does it mean? It shows that in one week I created a real money handling bot that competed against all the existing bots and managed to win awards. Something that few if any other outsider's bots did.
Does that count as a finished release? I did it on personal time one weekend.
Anyway, the question you need to answer is if I can actually code or not. I have my opinion, others have their opinion. If you are not a coder, ask around to find out how much work it is to write an entire bitcoin protocol from network wire protocol, script processing, secp signatures to RPC layer, from scratch without using external libraries. And if 9 months is a horribly long time to achieve this.