You've gave us a lot of dates in the past, about when to expect new stuff. And you never delivered. We even build a support development team around you, but that went downhill fairly soon, as you disappeared for a long time. Just be straight up with us and say "well guys, it looks like I'm almost ready but I can't set any dates yet.". Now, everyone expects a release, just to see nothing happening - AGAIN. Causing a lot of investors to lose trust.
Honesty is key in making this succeed!
umm.. hi guys?
i need to support myself too,
for some time now i've managed the entirety of the codebase by myself,
i'd managed most of the support for all side-branches of moon including the utilities,
i supported moon comfortably before the big interest spike in crypto earlier this year (yes, we did exist beforehand),
i had asked people to look and ask around about a qt-developer due to the time-consuming nature of modifying/designing qt interfaces,
at the point where i said i needed to step away (again, to put food on the table), some members were kind enough to set up a fund to help out.
even then; other people were quick to point out that it was just a cash-grab for myself (i did appreciate it
littlestan, organised and gave selflessly - top bloke, big, evangelo and to everyone i havent mentioned from the discord).
other than that; i've had constant messages of all sorts of tone on the bitcointalk forums, i've had people message my phone all hours of the day, people calling me, people emailling me - i've even had a few determined users find me on facebook.
some time back it was suggested that i simply split a cut into the coinbase reward; however i feel this isn't the right thing to do, as good code will attract further funding by happenstance.
most people don't realise that i also support the moonrush pool; as well as the two main nodes out of my own pocket (this does get covered, however i have to pay it upfront).
however to end on a positive note (and the reason i logged on here today); was to announce i've uploaded the codebase to github.
i'll also have a compile done later on today.
additionally - a copy of the cpuminer, with source is available too.
i'd ask that the more tech-savvy users give it a go first; and report and potential gotchas.
https://github.com/mooncoindev/mooncoin-0.13https://github.com/mooncoindev/cpuminer-balloonas we approach block 1,165,000 (the point where the hardfork will occur); i will release the pool modules for nomp/unomp/stratum-mining.
james
Thanks so much for the kudos James! :-D I, and the long term supporters in the Discord, really appreciate it.
I second what Jasper is talking about when he and others in the Discord are/were raring to go these past months; very excited to hear all the positive, progressive news and get the fires lit once more on MOON. :-)