!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE !!!Firstly, I would like to apologise for the confusion and lack of communication over the last few days. I unfortunately needed treatment for health issues last year and whilst I was not able to focus on Spectrecoin, the community and @jbg took control and pushed forward and they were able to sustain the project and assemble a strong following. Although, no fault of anyone involved this lack of clear leadership has caused the decision making process and the oversight to be somewhat lacking and at times the progress of the coding and the communication has rested solely on the shoulders of @jbg, @beachguy, @RKh and others. This has lead to unfounded FUD and stress on the team and in particular on @jbg who therefore at times has found it difficult to focus full time on development.
I have resolved my health issues and I have been back full time for the last few weeks and I spoken to @jbg and @beachguy and I have seen that the project I started with passion is being attacked and was lacking both steady funding, clear direction and leadership.
I passionately believe in the right to privacy and I believe that we can make Spectrecoin a leading privacy focused cryptocurrency. Therefore, after discussions with @jbg, @beachguy and @RKh I have resumed the role of project manager and I am in the process of taking control over the resources that were managed by @jbg in my absence and we have agreed an interim roadmap to get Spectrecoin back on track, secure funding and continue to develop what we believe will become a leading anonymous crypto currency and thereby sticking to our ideals and our original philosophy and create value for our investors and supporters.
We will strive for professionalism, accountability and transparency.
We will strive to be innovative, consistent and progressive in our approach.
This is what we set out to do in the short term pending the release of XSPEC 1.4
1.The new official Spectrecoin core team consists of the following:
- @mandica - “project manager”
- @jbg - “lead developer”
- @Brycel - “cryptographer”
- @mammix2 - “blockchain consultant”
- @beachguy - “community manager”
- @RKh - “marketing manager”The core team will make decisions at this stage and work together to achieve the aim of the project until the release of XSPEC 1.4 and further until we can finalise a future governance structure and organisation. This is not done to exclude any community members who have supported the project and we hope that this will become apparent in the next few weeks. We all want the same outcome so stick with us.
That also means that only the above are official spokes persons for XSPEC.2. The official website at
https://spectreproject.io/ will be hosted and updated by @mandica until we can find a permanent “web manager” that will be part of the core team.
3. Donation addresses have been updated and will be managed by @mandica. We will ensure accountability and transparency be publishing weekly reports on funding and expenses.
4. We will release updated wallets with a change in the development fund scheme in the next 1-2 weeks. We will allocate a min of 5% of the stake reward (1 in 20 stake reward) for a development fund to be able to ensure stability and steady funding and be able to hire further team members. There will be a protocol change to exclude older wallets past a pre-determined block to be set. We will calculate this to be 30 days from the release of the updated wallet. The exchanges will also be asked to update to the new wallet. That means this will be a MANDATORY update and wallets that have not been updated after the cut off block number will not be able to access the network.
5. The official GitHub repo is back at
https://github.com/spectrecoin/XSPEC and all the releases will be published here. We will also bring all the unfinished code to the repo but will work on private repos until we are ready to release. Myself and @mammix2 will be able to oversee the work being done by @jbg and @Brycel and make sure that we set realistic deadlines and pay for work done.
6. I will be meeting a new programmer that will act as a blockchain / code consultant and oversee all the code work. @mandica (based in London, UK) will meet with the programmer in person and discuss details of the future for the XSPEC code base and ideas. This will be published shortly after the meeting. This is expected to take place during the first half of April 2018. On the back of that meeting we have a better idea of what we need to do and who we need to hire. I will also meet with @jbg and @Brycel when there is an opportunity to do this.
7. The team will endeavour to produce a new updated roadmap with realistic dates for 2018 and into 2019. There will be a focus on useful realistic features and improved privacy and anonymity.
8. Once we have implemented the initial changes in funding and management we will discuss technical issues and marketing strategies in more depth.
9. There will be a weekly meeting of the core team and an update the following day with updated details on funding and expenses.
10. The overall focus of the Spectrecoin project will be to produce a superior anonymous cryptocurrency and all of the above are means to achieve this goal. The above changes are necessary to ensure that we can achieve our goals and increase transparency around funding and expenses.
Min 5% of stake reward for a dev fund for the following reasons:⁃ Predictable funding, budgets and projections
⁃ Core staff compensated for time worked and the “community branch”, “marketing branch”, “web branch” and “code development” will have budgets and resources to meet their respective needs.
⁃ Ability to hire specialists such as further cryptographers and programmers to meet deadlines and implement new features.
⁃ We will be able to meet the fees to get listed on further exchanges if that is deemed beneficial, such as Crypto-Bridge and Bittrex.
Updated donation addresses:Bitcoin (BTC) Donation Address:
3NHocmigV22FKmpupS2rvFo8XfdTnmDvFi
Litecoin (LTC) Donation Address:
MUVATA3Rpuwq3L2u8wAxYgW8LXXbwrCoxs
XSPEC Donation Address:
SdrdWNtjD7V6BSt3EyQZKCnZDkeE28cZhr
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) donation address:
188NniMchAoSTiXhXnb4BqfRSjmiDxoBm5
Ether (ETH) donation address:
0x1c259e9f4F213f8B574359432018166DeC6e3934
DASH Donation address:
XiN5kkm3MN7nDQCMniDd17AUqfazuCagze
We will no longer use anonymous donation addresses in the interest of transparency. If you wish to make a donation in any other currency contact @mandica.
Professionalising development does not detract from the core philosophy of Spectrecoin but in fact it makes it possible to achieve this and we hope you all will see the benefits of this in the near future.