Hello Community......
We started to work on the implementation of the api codes into the wallet and build of the environment. We ran into some build errors with
regards to the Dions wallet prototype on OSX. After some debugging we decided to build a server to set up gitlab & gitian, as we are sure it was a compiler problem but with gitlab & gitian it will add continuous integration and help us make our builds automatically from now on. In the meantime we switched to linux as my main dev platform just until the prototype progresses reasonably. After that will take care of windows and OSX testing of the Dions V.1 wallet prototype, with the integrated api calls. Once we get the first few calls in the wallet, then things should progress faster.
I/O Digital Dev Team
Hey Folks, hope everyone is doing well. I wanted to share with you guys something that happened to me with my Galaxy S6 phone. So long story short my phone would not recognize my fingerprint, the backup password failed to be recognized and even the google password was not working. The phone was inaccessible, So I tried locking the phone to then unlock it remotely and that also failed. With no more options available I was forced to do a factory reset but before I did that I tried changing my google password. After changing my google password the phone was still locked out as it also failed to recognize the new password. I had no choice and proceeded to reset my phone. Once the phone was reset, I was surprised to find that Google and Samsung have a feature called FRP which would leave me phone less for 72hrs.
At this point I was so appalled by the entire thing that I sprung into a full on research. I found so many people facing the same issue, but the sad part was a few people were offering boot loader to remove the FRP. I looked into one of these loaders and as I had suspected they were infected with malicious code. So here are Samsung and Google trying to protect customers, but Hackers found an opening with desperate users and pushed them these bootloaders. The users in some forums were ecstatic, but they had no clue that they were also injecting malicious code into their phones.
I proceeded to do what I do best and I was back in my phone by the morning so no issues with me. I bring this up because this is a perfect scenario as to why
BlockChain technology is so important in our lives. In the near future, it would be a possibility that the imei of a user's phone, identity and or fingerprint will be registered against your private key [in our case your Aliases] for purposes of securing your gadgets. The phone or gadget would ask for a passphrase, do a query to the I/O Blockchain and unlock that said phone, gadget, home, car etc upon confirmation. This scenario is one of many of the things that will be possible, if implemented, by a company using our blockchain as part of the internet of things.
As we proceed to complete these api calls to the wallet, It is also imperative that our Blockchain It's also capable and at the ready to handle millions of transactions for the near future. Once Dions is out, Im sure private and public entities will come in and do aggressive stress testing to ensure that we meet the requirements for them to adopt our Blockchain.
With this in mind, I don't want people to think that DIONS is a walk in the park, it has been challenging and aside from the core capabilities we are also looking ahead and discussing these scaling scenarios. Everyday you hear folks coming up with all sorts of new ideas of what the blockchain can do and the requirements that will be needed for the long term success of them. I'm excited for the times ahead, but at the same time I'm cautiously optimistic, and want to be very clear with the community once again. We are not here to make features just to have the price pump. Our dev team is a very serious team and we are committing ourselves to do the best work that we could possibly do. Now is the time to make these changes before we grow to big, in the future, forking would be almost impossible if we were to scale to fast. Therefor we are not in any kind of hurry to release crap code just to satisfy short term holders. To the team and I, security is always at the forefront. When we release DIONS we will have an open source chain, but some features will have to be protected for a period of time to ensure we are not copied on release. We have plans to further our development as explained in our roadmap to chameleon and we hope for continued support from the community and blockchain enthusiast. As the project manager I've given 200% to our project and I personally continue to invest heavily in our project because as I've said before, I believe that in time we will have our spot in this space, but this will only come with a long term commitment, hard work and dedication. Rest assure that I always have everyone's best interest in mind and will continue to do so as we move along.
I want to take the time to thank the entire team for their continued hard work and dedication. To the community thanks for the support, continue to stake and keep on rocking.
Big Hug to Everyone
Joel
Really enjoyable read, happy to hear you were able to get back into your mobile Joel. Would love to see some big mobile phone company take a look at the IOC blockchain and implement a blockchain for the purposes you outlined. You need a meetin with Carlos slim, he own a huge mobile phone company that would be ideal.
People like to know. 
(love the dedication, hate the low progress, but thats normal)
