Very old project. But what are the major accomplishments so far? A lot are aiming to be the next payment gateway, but how many merchants so far has accepted gulden to be included in their payment system? Is the guldenmap updated? Does it mean that all those merchants in your guldenmap are accepting your coin?
We are happy with the development progress for Gulden as per the OP.
May this year we had a bit of set back with a payment processor called Nocks that unfortunately had to close it's doors
https://twitter.com/nocksapp?lang=en as they were bought out by another company. Quite a few merchants that didn't accept Gulden directly used Nocks as a intermediary between Gulden payments. Some of the community members will be able to shed more light on which stores still accept Gulden as it was mainly community driven.
The Gulden advisory board have also acknowledged the importance of getting a replacement for Nocks and so
https://blockhut.com/ was born. Work still needs to be done on this new exchange medium but it will become a big step forward for payments in the future. This includes a Decentralized exchange as per the last Gulden Advisory Board meeting.
https://guldenadvisoryboard.com/gulden-notulen-gab-meeting-7-september-2020/Full English minutes below and I have bolded the parts you and others might find interesting.
ENGLISH MEETING NOTES SEPTEMBER 7TH 2020
Present: Rijk, Robby, Onno, Annemiek, Nick, Paul, Jaap.
Absent: Matthias, Marc, Bart.
On september 7th 2020 the GAB had an online meeting together with Rijk Plasman. Here you can find a summary of the meeting and the most important subjects during this meeting.
Latest updates from the past few days.
Rijk: We needed to fix an error in the miningrewards (these were to high). This has been fixed with update 2.2.0.12. We didn’t have any noticable errors but it was a slight inconvenience. The blockreward adjustment (through an hardfork) became active sooner than anticipated. A lot of witness devices (mainly the raspberry PI’s) didn’t have the 2.2.0.12 update installed yet. This caused the chain to halt for a longer time than we wanted. For future updates in hard-forks Gulden and the GAB plan to release the software sooner and give users more time to update to the latest version. We also try to communicate this better.
Gulden does have a checkpointserver, a server wich controles the network. This was needed in several transitionphases when introducing PoW2 and witness. This server can be shut-down to decentralize Gulden even more. The GAB votes in front of this action.
The GAB’s opinion is that we need a system where the PI’s can upgrade without any action needed from G-Dash (Bastijn). For now we won’t give it any priority in the near future; but it’s something on our back-log to maintain the decentralization of Gulden.
Electron wallet. Concerning the Electron wallet it looks very promising but nevertheless a lot of work is still in progress, mainly in the connection between front-end and back-end. The implementation will be done for NOVO first. Here al the early stage bugs will be solved. When this is ready it can be easily implemented for Gulden as well.
Progress DEX – At this moment the development team is working on Electron. After that development on the DEX will be started.
New exchange listing for Gulden. The plan is to add an additional exchange listing for Gulden this year. (apart from the Dex)
Questions to the GAB/Gulden from the Gulden Community.What is Gulden’s big vision?
Gulden is a decentralized project and therefore has no vision of its own. The vision about Gulden is different for everyone and therefore personal. Rijk was asked what his vision is, which is as follows: Gulden is naturally on its way to becoming an (inter)national currency. You cannot force that, because this depends on various uncontrollable factors, the most important of which is the price. Gulden is currently not being used as a payment method. Even if the tools were now here for it, far too few people would actually pay with it. Having tools is more of a marketing gimmick at the moment, so desirable, as it can help with adoption. Only when there are very many users it does become interesting for companies to accept Gulden as a payment method. This situation can only arise naturally, because it is a decentralized project. Part of that natural way is the coming / going of community members, where there is always a strong support group. That is already the case, but I expect that it will grow, due to the decentralized nature of Gulden, where you can have your own vision.
When will it be possible again to transfer Euro’s on my IBAN Bank-account directly from the Gulden wallet?
As soon as any broker supports this we’ll have it implemented again.
Now Nocks is gone, can Gulden develop a plugin for checkout pages on webshops?Rijk: This is something we’re working on through Blockhut
