PIVx team should really ask us the community for help in testing the next release before releasing.
I will be willing to run tests on all my machines, PIVx has given me enough and I would like to give back and help at least with just testing. I'm sure many of us here feel the same way.
It was the case for 3.0.0 wallet. We had closed beta testing first, then we opened it up to the community and had open beta testing of zPIV wallet.
We tweeted it afaik and also made it known on slack that anyone can join the beta testing by downloading the RC wallet and provide feedback...
Congrats on having your account back.
The tests were kind of useless considering we have major issues like up to 30-40% autominting instead of 10% and everyone forking left and right and just an overall unusable network for days.
I don't think pushing multiple, such mistakes is acceptable anymore for a ~$180mil marketcap coin. I know PIVX had major issues with forks in the past and it always took a long time to fix them but it's not a small garage project anymore.
With all due respect, when you have to advise all wallets and nodes to be shut down until further notice it indicates an amateurish lack of foresight and poor planning that should be below the PIVX dev team by now.I have to admit his opinion is totally valid for me. Back in august 2016 when darknet was a pair of devs working from home and a lot of enthusiast helping here, the forks, problems and else when passing from POW to POS were something that could happen and watched from now, almost funny. But now PIVx is an established crypto with huge resources and a big dev team. If it's necessary to pay a testnet and work in it for months, do it. Launch a proposal and have a financed testnet running 24/7/365 to be very sure of the good shape of any update. I know this is a big leap trying to integrate zerocoinlib in a POS wallet, but IMHO the team have tried to launch the wallet in Q4 maybe a bit prematurely and well, shit happens.
OTHO, I continue being confident about PIVx team, and I will try to rebuy some in the price drop I'm sure we are going to see next days. But guys, if future needs more time, let's give it the next time.
And q327K091, all of us that have been following DNET from the beginning know that st3venh4cks and the rest of the group have made a fantastic work, and I am and will be full of thanks to them forever (and my Miata too). But educated critic is necessary for the correct development of any project. This time unfortunately the update has been a mess, let's try to get some lessons learned an go ahead, because I'm sure the problem itself will be solved in few days.
Salute