State of 'the' BiblePay (Development-wise) and Otherwise:
- J Guan merged in Chinese Translations
- Anton G merged in the "Hand of God" wallet theme <- This is a huge contribution. I spent last night tinting a few broken (non Hand of God, but general) icons that kept breaking the build, build is rebuilding now for testnet, so we should be able to take a look at this later today.
- MIP has created Biblepay Mobile for Android, and btw, we gave him an exchange e-mail for support (it will be in the Android play store). I would help test this but I dont have an Android. (I might be picking one up asap to help out). This is a huge contribution bringing us closer to unbanked services and cancer mining without any home PC for setup. And of course this allows the unbanked to transfer in and out of BTC without a PC.
- Licht has been working on biblepay-central proposals and making purepool honor the core wallet rules, and on the api. And working on the new mining guides.
- I've been working on Stratis blockchain sync. I've ported our version of Groestl into Stratis, and successfully hashed one block so far using X11 + biblepay.c in c#. This still needs a lot of work, as next I have to port the entire KJV bible into Stratis. Im also working on the Stratis UI.
- Nox enhancing our whitepaper.
- 616West is starting youtoube show.
- Luke and Togo going on Canary Cry radio
- T-Mike creating PODC forum
- Bhavani is creating Proposals in the core wallet. He is adding a QT5 Grid to show a list of active Proposals (ie those that need voted). He is going to make it so you can vote on a proposal in the wallet by right clicking the row, and seeing: Vote for, vote against, Chart proposal, View Proposal, etc. The Chart Proposal option will bring up a qt5-in-wallet pie chart with the current proposal voting statistics.
- CoinExchange.IO approved our exchange application and offered 50% discount (they want 2btc to list us). We told them we will wait for our treasurer (Jaap) to save up the remaining and then we will hold a vote.
- Biblepay Testnet Branch created! We now have a dedicated branch for our development team to push commits to. Dev team, please push commits to the 'test' branch. I am working on automated build process that will push the windows EXE for test automatically up to the download section (will work with Tom on exposing that).
- April, Togo, Jaap and Thomas have been working on enhancing the website! Ive heard nothing but good compliments on the content April and the team is contributing (IE basically establishing a professional presence, vs. not having a presence).
- Cameroon One is working with me on integrating IT wise- they are on-board! They are creating URLs for each child now, and will support our child communications outbound into Cameroon.
- I'm working on a financial proof of concept with quants for Q3 proof-of-concept for biblepay, for financial related feature(s)
- Jaap working on partnerships and acting as Exchange Treasurer
- Cryptoshot (Habib) launching the Ghana Blockchain Conference! And running the live Twitter feed!
- J Guan merged in Chinese Translations
- Anton G merged in the "Hand of God" wallet theme <- This is a huge contribution. I spent last night tinting a few broken (non Hand of God, but general) icons that kept breaking the build, build is rebuilding now for testnet, so we should be able to take a look at this later today.
- MIP has created Biblepay Mobile for Android, and btw, we gave him an exchange e-mail for support (it will be in the Android play store). I would help test this but I dont have an Android. (I might be picking one up asap to help out). This is a huge contribution bringing us closer to unbanked services and cancer mining without any home PC for setup. And of course this allows the unbanked to transfer in and out of BTC without a PC.
- Licht has been working on biblepay-central proposals and making purepool honor the core wallet rules, and on the api. And working on the new mining guides.
- I've been working on Stratis blockchain sync. I've ported our version of Groestl into Stratis, and successfully hashed one block so far using X11 + biblepay.c in c#. This still needs a lot of work, as next I have to port the entire KJV bible into Stratis. Im also working on the Stratis UI.
- Nox enhancing our whitepaper.
- 616West is starting youtoube show.
- Luke and Togo going on Canary Cry radio
- T-Mike creating PODC forum
- Bhavani is creating Proposals in the core wallet. He is adding a QT5 Grid to show a list of active Proposals (ie those that need voted). He is going to make it so you can vote on a proposal in the wallet by right clicking the row, and seeing: Vote for, vote against, Chart proposal, View Proposal, etc. The Chart Proposal option will bring up a qt5-in-wallet pie chart with the current proposal voting statistics.
- CoinExchange.IO approved our exchange application and offered 50% discount (they want 2btc to list us). We told them we will wait for our treasurer (Jaap) to save up the remaining and then we will hold a vote.
- Biblepay Testnet Branch created! We now have a dedicated branch for our development team to push commits to. Dev team, please push commits to the 'test' branch. I am working on automated build process that will push the windows EXE for test automatically up to the download section (will work with Tom on exposing that).
- April, Togo, Jaap and Thomas have been working on enhancing the website! Ive heard nothing but good compliments on the content April and the team is contributing (IE basically establishing a professional presence, vs. not having a presence).
- Cameroon One is working with me on integrating IT wise- they are on-board! They are creating URLs for each child now, and will support our child communications outbound into Cameroon.
- I'm working on a financial proof of concept with quants for Q3 proof-of-concept for biblepay, for financial related feature(s)
- Jaap working on partnerships and acting as Exchange Treasurer
- Cryptoshot (Habib) launching the Ghana Blockchain Conference! And running the live Twitter feed!
I just had to go back and look this up because I was feeling a bit sad about the state of our community lately. Look at this, nearly a year ago, how many people were actively working to make changes to the websites, add explorers, update marketing material, spread the word to others, bring on new charities, and more. There was a short radio series, the biblepay university was a thing, the wiki was in active maintenance, and people helped on all sorts of things from masternode setup and maintenance, to creating PPA packages, to trying to get us advertising. It's not that the individual people matter, but it's that as a group, we were a much more cohesive community a year ago than we are now.
Looking at 2019, it seems to be just MIP/Rob making code changes, and everyone else upset about those changes - either too fast, or too slow, or too big, or too small - and very little of anyone else doing anything. Developers or not, there's lots of ways for people to make a difference if they choose to.
I'm not perfect here - I'm certainly far less active than I used to be, too - but I want to encourage everyone to think about how we can make a difference in getting us back on mission.
