Topic: Bitmark - page 73. (Read 622213 times)

Let's not do this.  Over the course of the project I have performed well, and at other times not so well.  People are free to make any observation they may, and Melvin has helped the project also.

All anybody really cares about here is making some measurable progress and people marking, then indirectly success of the currency or idea based on this.  Let us focus on that

Today is the day most people prepare to get back to work, and tomorrow is the day they dive in to another year of work.  It is no different here.

So you dont think he made claims with poor knowledge that may damage the confidence in the project? If I were an outsider, my confidence could've been shattered by his comments. Primarily because he's been deep in the project and made lots of contributions.

I don't think he implied that, he just stated that some people were wondering that.

Why imply that Mark may have moved on to other things if he doesn't even know thing about where Mark is? Thats FUD my friend. There's many people who only view this post as their source of information about Bitmark, and speaking of development being down 90% from its peak plus that Mark may have left causes Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the very least.

Woah, lets not go down that road please. Melvin wants the project to succeed as much as anyone and he's more than entitled to voice his concerns. His intentions are good and he's already contributed a massive amount to the project so to use that word that's a favourite of every alt out there with something to hide(FUD) is unwarranted in my opinion.

Confidence should be earned anyway. People should be able to speak their mind and raise concerns in a constructive manner.

Just leave Melvin, why are you trying to damage the confidence in Bitmark making such claims? if you dont care about it just gtho and stop FUDing.. Im sick of your EMO behavior..

Welcome back Mark,

Great to hear you are well!

Regards

Nele

As EsteNuno says, I have been a little ill since Christmas, nothing serious merely run down after last year and when I stopped I caught a cold and flu. I'm feeling much better now, and more importantly, it appears that this is one ship that cannot sail without a captain, time to get things sorted out and back up to full steam!

Yeah, he mentioned he had the flu last week. Hopefully he's getting over it/gotten over it.

You bring up some valid concerns. At this stage of the game, it would be great to see an updated road map. When I originally came across Bitmark there really seemed to be an intense amount of development and outreach going on, and this may still be the case, but on the outside looking in, it does seem as if this have slowed down a great deal. I understand the development process can be overwhelming, not to mention every day personal life issues take priority.

Additionally, I have a concern regarding a separate matter. A while back, it was requested the community provide developer loans. I happily sent .3 btc as a loan and have patiently waited. If I am not mistaken, the terms of the loans were to be paid in 60 days @ 10%. I sent my loan on August 21, 2014 and have had no further update and/or payment. Please provide an update.

Sorry to hear that.

Do you know what he sick with?

SuperNET =O oh wait this was about bitmark thats horrible. . . or is it O.O!

From Bittrex:

" This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest. It may be removed on January 9th unless the average daily trade volume for the last 7 days exceeds 0.2 BTC."

Oh, didn't know that. Get well soon Mark!

Yes, he's been sick recently. Hopefully he's feeling better soon. Not sure if he's over it yet or not.

Is Mark Pfennig still involved with Bitmark?
Didn't see an update from him for quite some time.

Dbkeys, Leathan, and Ecucoin have launched a Pfennig fork with the intention of testing new algos out and hopefully coming up with a solution, or at least an improvement that we could potentially integrate in to BTM if warranted and fully tested and stable.

Or if say demand improves on it's own before that and the problem apparently fixes itself then we can have this potential solution/imprvement 'on hold' in case we need to implement it in the future.

They are working on it in Slack under channel #pfennig. It's quite a hard problem to solve so it's not something that's going to happen over night. But any improvements that get tested will be worth looking at. Also, there appear to be other currencies attempting to solve this problem as well like Vertcoin so maybe we'll see some collaboration or discussion at some point.

Care to expand on this comment?

I too would be curious where Bitmark development stands...it seems many of the roadmap dates have come and went. Is there anything non-devs can "look and feel" since Oct? What progress has been made since Poloniex implementation? Judging from the price dropping below mining cost to 0.000455, there doesn't seem to be a lot of confidence ATM   Also I no longer see marking advertised on the Poloniex home page.

The addition of BTM to Poloniex was very promising, just curious what "beta" of higher level items we can help market and spread since then, or even play around with and test since many of us supporters are not developers. There have been some very cool screen shots of a platform of sorts that looked very promising by Mark. I would hate for this project to go dark, when it held so much promise and has so many interested watchers with deep pockets - this I'm sure of.

If it's a matter of no development time available for mark/others, and the initial promises and commitments made this Summer for the various donations have been met, then there is a good precedence for deep pocketed investors to front more funds. Or, if it's just a lack of organization, I would be very surprise as this project started with some of the best usage of Trello and other Project Management tools I've seen. Hows the communication between contributors?

I'm also curious where the talks of the diff retarget ended up, although not as important.

more consistent block times I think would be helpful right now blocks seems to come in spurts at different times of the day