Reddit questions,
they are to Vassillis, and one who asks them, also answers them.
Of course, the fork is encoded, but will it happen or not will depend only on our community (first of all, on miners). It's called consensus.
Yes, it's a decentralisation. No one is able to force that. If people update a wallet to the latest version and mine, the fork happens.
If they don't update, it doesn't happen.
As far as I know, exchanges and other services like cointopay.com (online wallet) already updated, but you may want to contact them to be sure,
please contact pools and block explorers to update the wallet. It depends on you - Vassillis doesn't respond!
You can go to chainz.cryptoid.info, select 'Moon' and to see how many nodes are on the new wallet with SegWit (0.13.9) and how many are on the old one (with diff retarget issues). Usually in several days before the fork block more wallets move to the latest version. The reason is that after the fork block is reached, you cannot move coins from the old wallet to exchanges, and if you are not an expert, it will not be safe for you to use the old wallet after the fork block.
Regarding whether Vassilis left or not: I've just sent a PM to him, asking this question and asked him again to post.
Even if he was shocked in January after sudden receiving of 62B (he shared his emotions with the community in his posts) now time had passed and he could give us a normal answer whether or not he will continue with Mooncoin development. Polemarhos888 just PMd me that Vassillis is not going to continue, and polemarhos888 had posted recently at Bitcointalk that a lawyer recommended Vassilis not to communicate with the community,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32013548
and we all understand that it's not possible to develop a coin, without communicating.
However, even if a lawyer recommended a 'safe choice', the community gave a lot of trust to Vassillis, and a transparent post from him with his final decision, with no emotions, would be appreciated. After that, if Vassilis really decided not to continue, not to communicate at all, then he should transfer a Github password to a new dev, or a new dev will create a new Github with a copy of Vassilis' code. The community has to find a new dev in this case.
Then people who run Mooncoin resources will update links, if they agree.
About tech risks with a fork, you can not be sure 100%, any fork is a risk, however now there are many more chances for success than with Balloon and with issues, which were fixed already by Vassillis. Miners, pools mine Scrypt, they don't mine Balloon!
I'm not a miner though, better ask mining experts like mebagger or coinflow, or tuaris (you can find links to their accounts in the OP).
Please understand: in a truly decentralised system like Mooncoin you mostly don't know who runs all these pools, services, sites, block explorers etc (or even if you know some, it's not always a good idea to disclosure that, any additional info could help hack the resources, also to run personal attacks etc).
There are enthusiasts from all over the world. You can not make them do what you want. Do good things, don't offend people, and people will support you.
After all, try to figure out what a consensus means in a decentralised system.
they are to Vassillis, and one who asks them, also answers them.
Of course, the fork is encoded, but will it happen or not will depend only on our community (first of all, on miners). It's called consensus.
Yes, it's a decentralisation. No one is able to force that. If people update a wallet to the latest version and mine, the fork happens.
If they don't update, it doesn't happen.
As far as I know, exchanges and other services like cointopay.com (online wallet) already updated, but you may want to contact them to be sure,
please contact pools and block explorers to update the wallet. It depends on you - Vassillis doesn't respond!
You can go to chainz.cryptoid.info, select 'Moon' and to see how many nodes are on the new wallet with SegWit (0.13.9) and how many are on the old one (with diff retarget issues). Usually in several days before the fork block more wallets move to the latest version. The reason is that after the fork block is reached, you cannot move coins from the old wallet to exchanges, and if you are not an expert, it will not be safe for you to use the old wallet after the fork block.
Regarding whether Vassilis left or not: I've just sent a PM to him, asking this question and asked him again to post.
Even if he was shocked in January after sudden receiving of 62B (he shared his emotions with the community in his posts) now time had passed and he could give us a normal answer whether or not he will continue with Mooncoin development. Polemarhos888 just PMd me that Vassillis is not going to continue, and polemarhos888 had posted recently at Bitcointalk that a lawyer recommended Vassilis not to communicate with the community,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32013548
and we all understand that it's not possible to develop a coin, without communicating.
However, even if a lawyer recommended a 'safe choice', the community gave a lot of trust to Vassillis, and a transparent post from him with his final decision, with no emotions, would be appreciated. After that, if Vassilis really decided not to continue, not to communicate at all, then he should transfer a Github password to a new dev, or a new dev will create a new Github with a copy of Vassilis' code. The community has to find a new dev in this case.
Then people who run Mooncoin resources will update links, if they agree.
About tech risks with a fork, you can not be sure 100%, any fork is a risk, however now there are many more chances for success than with Balloon and with issues, which were fixed already by Vassillis. Miners, pools mine Scrypt, they don't mine Balloon!
I'm not a miner though, better ask mining experts like mebagger or coinflow, or tuaris (you can find links to their accounts in the OP).
Please understand: in a truly decentralised system like Mooncoin you mostly don't know who runs all these pools, services, sites, block explorers etc (or even if you know some, it's not always a good idea to disclosure that, any additional info could help hack the resources, also to run personal attacks etc).
There are enthusiasts from all over the world. You can not make them do what you want. Do good things, don't offend people, and people will support you.
After all, try to figure out what a consensus means in a decentralised system.
Good afternoon. I agree 1000 % !
