First, EXTREMELY appreciative of all the work you've gone on this!!!!!!!!!!! So great to see you working on this and the exchanges.
Any idea on the windows wallet? We missed 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 is delayed now....I'm happy to help financially and labor-wise as long as we can avoid missed commitments.
I'm heavily committed financially and I have plenty of skill in that arena as an exec in corporate finance. Feel free to reach out if I can help in any way.
My wish list would be:
1. Identify a way to elminate the 'holdups' along the sync chain...whether it is "fixing" the block along the way or prescribing a blockchain download to today's block
2. Shortening the splash screen upon wallet launch. How is it possible that ECCoin splash screen is 5x-10x longer than bitcoin core or litecoin?
Please understand that I know these are not your problems, they are community problems.....and I want to help. I just think the best way to help is to look at best-of-breed and to identify what we can change to get there
Re: Mintpal --- have we reached out to hostmaster to get him to tell Mintpal your are the new admin and they should talk with you? If not, I can reach out to him. Mintpal is key to our success, like it or not.
1. the hold ups on the chain are caused by people with coins not leaving there wallets open. PoS works that instead of mining, the idea is that people will leave there wallets open and a small script runs in the wallets and thats how blocks are generated (the script causes staking) and you are rewarded a % for doing this. aka staking. if people close the wallets, it will try to stake a coin. find that it is in a wallet that is offline, the coin wont be staked and it will have to find a new coin and the block time is delayed. the 1.8.4 wallet i can almost guarentee has all chain fixes that will help the chain speed as much as possible assuming people are keeping there wallets open to even help generate blocks
2. yeah, i noticed it is long too. i know the lenth of time it takes depends on cpu speed. but ECC is pretty long. idk what is causing that and it isnt really that high on my priority list to fix right now mostly because it is never longer than 30 seconds and is just a slight inconvenience rather than a problem. i do know the longer the chain the longer the wait time is (noticed this with older coins like FTC compared to newer coins like DOGE)
3. i am not quire sure what you are saying with that mintpal message. did they send you that message? or are you telling me? or? clarify that please for me.
i have uploaded the QT's to the github as well as updated the source. it didnt sync last time i tried to update it. the source is definitely 1.8.4 now. i recommend redownloading the source sheepman. my bad on that one.