A quick update on development: As mentioned in earlier posts, some of the exchanges we're in talks with require off-line signing functionality in order for Boolberry to be listed. Zoidberg is working on this feature on the offlinesig branch.
https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commits/offlinesigAfter this is done, he'll be moving towards the DB migration for the project.
Some talks have surfaced about ongoing funding for the project. IMO, the only real way to ensure funding for this project is to raise the mining tax from 1% to something a bit more reasonable that can cover research, development, bounties, listing fees etc. Some have suggested in PMs upwards of 30% some as low as 5%. My view is that since this project had no pre-mine and no funding outside of myself and a few others, I believe something like 20% or so is reasonable given that the project is now at 60% emission. Zcash is using a 10% mining tax but that has been in place since inception so it's not an accurate metric.
https://blog.z.cash/funding/Clintar did a trial run where he boosted his mining fee to 20%. Instead of supporting his pool, miners just moved to other pools.. This is another reason why I believe the mining tax should be enforced at the protocol level.
It should be noted that Zoidberg is completely against raising the tax as he thinks it will tarnish the project. I believe he is wrong in his assessment, Zcash is working fine with their mining tax. A mining tax only costs electricity whereas someone like myself has to buy Boolberry from miners only to turn around and donate them to the project.. It doesn't really make sense when there is a mechanism in place to resolve this issue. At the moment there are 5000 coins being emitted per day, the majority of those are being dumped onto the exchanges for BTC. A higher mining tax would mitigate dumping and the funds would be used to directly improve the project thus making it more valuable.
Hashappliance is spearheading a more formal proposal for funding that he'll be sharing with everyone soon. In the meantime, if you have any positive or negative feedback with regards to using the mining tax to fund the project, feel free to leave them here.