Topic: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread - page 70. (Read 1276936 times)

I was a guest on Robert's Counterparty radio show where I covered the current technical progress we're making on the core Counterparty software: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/xcp-weekly-update-18-robby-dermody-and-jop-hartog

To that end, we released 9.51.4 a few weeks back: https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib/releases/tag/v9.51.4
It has major performance updates.

Just today, we pushed the "undolog" changes to the "develop" branch (https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib/commits/develop), which will make reorg processing almost instantaneous (where before, it could take 15-45 minutes in some cases). This is another major improvement for the core counterparty software, and should be released to "master" within a few weeks, pending some additional testing.

We also made some significant improvements to counterblock, on the "fixes1" branch (https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterblock/commits/fixes1). Those are undergoing testing and will be pushed to master once ready. Counterblock is used by Counterwallet.

And, we are testing counterparty-server against bitcoind 0.11.1, which has been looking good.

Most of this is the unsexy behind-the-scenes work, but they are major strides in helping Counterparty to be a stable and solid option for building a service on, or using in general. For example, Counterwallet stability is much improved over what it was (still not 100% of the way there, but moving in that direction), and the "undolog" updates are very useful for several industry players, like Tokenly.

We have some initial conversations going to possibly identify more long term help that could work on other services, Counterwallet enhancements, etc. This is all very preliminary at this point however, but worth bringing up.

It would be nice to have some announcements or information on any of this though. Panic selling perpetuates too quickly in silence.

Don't worry guys. The work on XCP is going on behind the scene.

Watch Counterparty Github updates here:
https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP

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Actually it is only good if devs are busy with Symbiont and that help someway Counterparty. If there need wait Ethereum anyway...


Today we have go to new bottom with price, all buy support is gone.

Okay, thanks! So NXT for instance is still superior to Colu if I got you right. Does not seem to be a big competitor for counterparty at all.

According to their introduction, it's based on colored coin. Yes, it is based on Bitcoin blockchain. However, colored coin based solution only supports issuing, transferring, and verification. Itself does not support decentralized exchange (DEX), so it still needs a centralized exchange to help match sell/buy orders.

Read the first time of Colu. Does it use the Bitcoin blockchain, too, or does it have its own blockchain?

Wondering if there is a big company behind the firm since there is Deloitte listed on the website.

Thank you so much, bitcoinrocks.

Thanks, this answer is about what I have think about Counterparty situation atm. I think biggest question is now that can Counterparty deliver smart contracts before than other platforms... But what I have read about all others are in same "standby"-mode and any project not really go forward fast now, but I don't know are there building any bigger projects yet for any platforms or everyone are waiting what platform will be best.

BitThink, I for one appreciate your comments and analysis which I see as fair and objective.

I will try my best to give my answers of your questions. Matt later may give you his. Hope more answers will be better than only one.

1) yes Symbiont still supports counterparty, but in my opinion mostly on the low level library, cause it is also used by their private ledgers. This explains why they spent months to refactorized it to be more modulized. Now they don't have enough energy and time to spend on the application level, let alone marketing.

2) you can check the assets tab of coinmarketcp to see the assets from various platforms. A few of them are on counterparty but none of them are really popular enough. Most of them were built long ago. Wish there could be more.

3) last year, a desktop version wallet was promised by the devs, but later it was postponed and seems no progress anymore, or I missed the release.

4) smart contracts are in testnet long ago, but now is waiting for Etherium to be mature and thoroughly tested. So no schedule to be on mainnet at all. As we know, etherium has faced their own problems now.

I have tried my best to be as objective as I can. Please correct me if I made any mistake.

Looks like we really need some good news

As far I understand devs still support XCP protocol but are full day busy with Symbiont what not really give any value for XCP, right?

There is few project what have sell their shares/cards/what ever through counterparty but there is not really anything what use XCP in any other way than possibility to trade assets/shares?

Everything what happen around XCP, new wallets example mobile btw looking nice, but not have tested are running by community but there are not really anything else than wallets now?

Then if smart contracts are coming to Counterparty that are using XCP for gas or there are not really any fact about this?


Thanks if someone can give some comment about this questions.

Btw I said again and again I am not disparage any project and blame any dev. What I said is just counterparty is a great project and devs are great too. Unfortunately because core devs had their own company and own project, they don't have enough time to spend on counterparty any more. They don't own anybody anything, so it is completely fair.

As for " may be on the same exchange". There's only one de facto exchange for XCP, poloniex, which counts more than 85% percent of daily volume, and the daily volume is 1 or 2 BTC most of time. Matt, I believe you are a true holder, since you seems not familiar with these facts at all.

Finally I am not "so nice". I've got enough profit from XCP, and when my asks there could be sold does not matter so much already. Moreover, even I warn here now, I don't think my word will change anything. There most likely will be another pump and eat up my litter ask orders there.

Is that really so weird?

I bought friedcat stock at more than 2 BTC, and most people shout there below 2.5 was always bargain, but still someone warned that the profit of mining could not be sustentable. I was grateful to those guys later although I was not wise enough to follow their warning then.

For XCP, think about those bought around 0.02 after the claim ETH had been ported to Counterparty. They thought overstock would support XCP. Then when Symbiont got invested, another pump to around 0.009.  I sold part of my holdings in both pumps, cause I follow the method to sell 10% after every doubling of price. I did not realized that was just ugly pump and dump. Now the situation here become More clear  and I kind of  feel the pain of who bought at the peak of pumping. That's the reason I decide to leave but meanwhile try to be the guy who warn the new comers, just like those guys I feel grateful in friedcat thread.

Sorry if I offend true believers here. Still wish the project the best. Anyway that's good to me too since I still keep some as the memorium.

Hey guys, look, here is the only person on Bitcointalk that wants to make sure buyers are informed if they buy his coins off an exchange... He's so nice he's willing to disparage the project as he tries to liquidate his position in order to make sure all's fair for the strangers that may be on the same exchange he is.

Yeah, seems likely.

You can disagree with me and I am not trying to persuade you anyway. But calling others troll in my opinion is not so polite.

Troll confirmed. Have a good one.

You can look at the volume and the market depth to see whether your way to buy 0.5% works. Moreover, this thread is so quiet and you can count the posters with just one hand. I doubt the number of regular readers are much higher. Then Why I troll here? Nobody watching. I post here just to warn the newcomers don't be hurt by the next pump caused by some good news of Symbiont getting more investment. Disclaimer: I have more than 1000 XCP on the ask wall. I feel much better if they bought by someone really know the risks.

Considering someone could buy 0.5% of the total currency for less than 15k, it would not take much for a person to buy enough XCP for the success of the project to matter to them. They can also work on it for both fun and recognition as well. I'm not sure if you're trolling with your posts or if you really believe this stuff at this point.