With gatra becoming a ghost and no trace from past developers, this project is becoming chaotic and stagnating. In order to advance, we need to be well organized, and to find and choose active and consistent people supporting the project.
So, I propose that we compose a new Riecoin team. Here is a suggestion of some important roles to assume:
- Leader(s): this role will simply replace gatra. Someone taking this responsibility will ensure that Riecoin goes in a good direction, that all other team member are doing well, and will take important decisions, like making Riecoin Core official or deciding if a fork should happen. These persons will represent Riecoin and for example be in charge of contacting exchanges for listing Riecoin. Also, they decide who are part of the team;
- Developers: we need people for maintaining Riecoin Core, rieMiner and any other important Riecoin software. There should be more than one developer working on Riecoin Core, and they should be able to catch up important Bitcoin Core updates quickly. Everyone here has to ensure that the code never becomes outdated. Motivated pool owners are also welcome to be part of the team;
- Community Manager(s): for advertising Riecoin and spread its use. Someone assuming this role should be continuously searching for new communities to reach and be active in the Riecoin related forums (answer to questions, reply to people asking why Riecoin is a good altcoin,...).
We also need a new official website, and at least one person of the Community Managers has to maintain it. The website would contain explanations, links to important websites (community, exchanges,...) and softwares, official downloads, a news section, etc. We have riecoin-community.com, though I am not sure if IGJ is willing to create and maintain a new official website.
Also discuss/debate about this idea in
this topic. I hope that there will be motivated people willing to be a lot active for Riecoin.
Also, I remind this clo1 post:
The softforks haven't been tested yet but I don't expect any problems here. The older BIPS are coded to become active at a specific block. I have currently set them to become active at block 1000000 but this can be changed to a block that will be reached shortly after the code is released. Once this block is reached any block mined with an old miner (using an old block version number) will be rejected even if the block is otherwise perfectly valid.
The newer BIPS become active if a super-majority of blocks are mined using a miner indicating support. I believe it is 95% within a 288 block window. This must occur within a specific time window which we will need to set before releasing code.
For people currently using 0.16.3, we need to agree about these softforks or change the 1000000 value for a later decision. There is less than 5000 blocks remaining!
Thanks for posting this. I agree and was going to post something similar. In the short term, I think a new official website and releasing official 0.16.3 code are most important.
For those who want to continue running 0.16.3 after block 1000000, lines 85 and 86 in chainparams.cpp need to be changed. Just make it something really big like 2000000 for now. I thought 1000000 would be enough when I first wrote it. I can update this in the riecointeam repository as well.
I did a quick check of BIP66 on testnet and it worked fine. Is anyone familiar with CLTV (BIP65) or CSV (BIP68, 112, 113)? Can you help me create a couple tests to show that these are working? I think BIP65 was one of the requirements for Barter Dex. We still need to decide if we want to activate segwit.
Also, I submitted riecoin's largest primes to the record list. Riecoin currently has spots 3-11 on the biggest 6-tuples.
