hey there is a dev team. currently its me, cshelswell and possibly coretechs although im unsure. im the maintainer of the source code. currently making a new version based on 0.8.5 and 1 on i0coin (merged mining) (testnet).
website: run and mainted by cshelswell
pool: bte.crypto-expert.com (mine) (me and cshelswell are working on a seperate bte pps pool )
wiki/forum: need to talk with the owner of bytecointalk yet and wiki ill add once we have the clients upgraded
Hi Ahmed, thanks for the response. Am i understanding correctly that you are not the originator of the coin? Who owns the bytecoin domain(s)? Is there a way to contact these people? Why are some people claiming "merged mining will kill the coin"?
If the originator(s) of bytecoin are no longer interested I'm curious why you would be trying to do work for them? I mean.. if you are the one putting in the time i think a hostile take over of the coin is in order. We should grab a new domain and declare it the official home of bytecoin and leave the past where it wants to stay.
Also, I'm trying to understand why there would need be so much development on the client itself? Shouldn't it always remain an exact(almost) copy of the stable bitcoin branch? Or is bytecoin still behind on the bitcoin v0.8 fork? Is the bytecoin software veering away from the bitcoin code or is the intention to continually update bytecoin as bitcoin updates and essentially run the same code, different blockchain? I would think this is the very characteristic that would drive bytecoin adoption.
Thanks for ANY info!
you are correct i am not the originator of the coin. cshelswell owns the bytecoin.biz domain and coretechs owns the bytecoin.org domain i believe. if u wish to contact them you can find them here or i can pass a message onto them. i honestly dont know why people claim that since bte was near dead before our forced takeover.
bytecoin is quite behind on the bitcoin code so its just easier to rebase it onto the latest code. the most timeconsuming process is rebasing it onto bitcoin and then adding in merged mining. since i also have to handle real life, college life, my crypto-expert pools, trading and finally app development (android wallets) so im quite behind on work
but were slowly getting there imo
Ahmed