It was the Bitcointalk forum that inspired us to create Bitcointalksearch.org - Bitcointalk is an excellent site that should be the default page for anybody dealing in cryptocurrency,
since it is a virtual gold-mine of data. However, our experience and user feedback led us create our site;
Bitcointalk's search is slow, and difficult to get the results you need, because you need to log in first to find anything useful - furthermore, there are rate limiters for their search functionality.
The aim of our project is to create a faster website that yields more results and faster without having to create an account and eliminate the need to log in -
your personal data, therefore, will never be in jeopardy since we are not asking for any of your data and you don't need to provide them to use our site with all of its capabilities.
We created this website with the sole purpose of users being able to search quickly and efficiently in the field of cryptocurrency
so they will have access to the latest and most accurate information and thereby assisting the crypto-community at large.
Very good. I'm interested to see what Jordan Lee does once it reaches beta or release status in regards to marketing/promotion. I'm sure the person who funded $500k to Peershares and won't be content for Jordan to just sit around
I'm also hoping some other developers start their own projects using Peershares, since it's open source...as long as it doesn't compete directly with Jordan and his team's project. They deserve the success due to all they have contributed to it so far
Bit off-topic here, just quickly looked at your side. Good article, but just noticed that Peercoin scores pretty low in your score table regarding exchanges. Here is a recent link to all the exchanges the coin is listed on we made to notify them about the updates, which is way over 20 exchanges (and more than Blackcoin, which scores higher): http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2721.msg23980#msg23980
Very good. I'm interested to see what Jordan Lee does once it reaches beta or release status in regards to marketing/promotion. I'm sure the person who funded $500k to Peershares and won't be content for Jordan to just sit around
Great read! I have the feeling that Peershares is going to be much more clear and easy to use than that huge and cloudy ethereum/blockchain 2.0 project (or platform?).
That's the plan. Rather than trying to do a million things, Peershares focuses on this one area and tries to succeed at it. It also makes for a quicker development schedule.
Great read! I have the feeling that Peershares is going to be much more clear and easy to use than that huge and cloudy ethereum/blockchain 2.0 project (or platform?).
So much progress has been made in Peercoin, Peershares and Peerunity!
I still need to wait for 20 days to minting. Can not wait!
+1 It feels great being able to contribute to the network - and getting a small reward for it - without having to invest in hardware. And that meme is worth a thousand words really! I give my thanks to all who contribute to these projects.
Peercoin is quickly approaching a major milestone in its life with the announcement of Peerunity. On 4/12/14, Peershares architect Jordan Lee revealed the development of this next level wallet and client supporting Peercoin and eventually Peershares. This represents a sort of melding in the Peercoin and Peershares development, meaning faster and broader updates to Peercoin development:
I am pleased to be able to announce the launch of Peerunity development, your next Peercoin wallet.
Since day one the Peershares specification has included a client (wallet) that would integrate support for Peercoin as well as multiple Peershares instances. While this versatile client has not been scheduled for the initial release of the Peershares template, the Peershares team feels it is time to begin development of this combined Peercoin/Peershares wallet. Accordingly, you can find the code project here: https://github.com/Peerunity/Peerunity
It is a fork of the ppcoin repository. The first two or three releases will not feature support of Peershares. We would like it to be an open and inclusive environment for the broader Peercoin community to improve this Peercoin client. This does not belong to the Peershares team. In recognition of Peershares' dependence on Peercoin, some development of Peerunity will be sponsored by the Peershares team. We also want to reach out to developers such as irigi, b0netruper, Curve25519, JSmith-BitFlipper, ghost, sengaya, ngbatnicdotmil, ErikDubbelboer, samilaine and especially vpereira who have placed pull requests against ppcoin and say: the Peercoin community is very thankful for your work and we want to cooperate closely with you to refine and test your contributions and get them into the hands of users in the Peercoin community quickly. We encourage all developers considering making a pull request against the ppcoin repository to also make a pull request against Peerunity.
To help faciliate broad community cooperation, a number of trusted Peercoin/Peershares community leaders have write permissions to the repository, meaning they can integrate the code changes into the master copy of the code. These members are Sunny King, Ben, sigmike and myself.
I have said in the past that Peercoin development will be provided and funded by our Peershares team in the future. Today that future arrives. The Peershares project will be funding user interface based minting (aka one button minting) and will also provide Peercoin branding (updating PPCoin branding) for the client in our first Peerunity release. We will also include most of the pull requests currently pending against the ppcoin repository. We want to lock down the code for testing very quickly (in a week or two) and then release very quickly after that, so if you have something you would like to contribute to the first release, please speak up quickly and we will consider your request. One button minting is already in Peerunity (thanks to sigmike and funding from Peershares) and we will be merging ppcoin pull requests in the coming days. Initially we will place changes in master. As the cutoff for feature inclusion arrives, we will branch into 0.5, stabilize the branch through testing for release and simultaneously continue adding additional improvements to master. The days of slow or nonexistent Peercoin development are over.
Though winter has arrived in Bitcoin land and Peercoin land, it is spring in Peershares land. I am ecstatic with the progress we are making, the prospects for Peershares and our implementation and extension of Peershares.
Though the USD value of the funding Peershares received has declined by about 40% over the last couple of months, we are not struggling with funding at all. Of the 200 BTC dedicated to our implementation of Peershares, 158.45542308 BTC remains unspent. The entire sixty thousand PPC balance remains unspent. There are several people who have expressed interest in providing additional funding in exchange for equity as well. We are well funded now with excellent prospects of finding additional funding when needed.
We have Peershares successfully distributing Peercoin dividends now and the features slated for initial release are rapidly approaching alpha quality. Soon we will be opening a Peershares test network to the public.
We are expanding the team. I am in negotiations with snakie (his peercointalk username), creator of peerchain.net, regarding terms for creating the website for our implementation of Peershares. While the mini-blockchain project is technically separate from Peershares because it is high risk and we don't want the success and release of Peershares to be held hostage to it, Cryddit of bitcointalk.org is working hard on this and we are ready to pay another C++ developer to work with him on it. Please contact me if you are interested and spread the word about the opening. For those who don't know, the mini-blockchain is basically a mechanism for pruning a blockchain so that it scales much better, supporting high transaction levels while requiring modest amounts of disk space. It will be open source and available to be used in other blockchain implementations.
The development of our extension of Peershares is about half code complete. When this is complete it will provide additional funding for the team.
Now is the time for businesses interested in raising funds and managing equity using Peershares to step up and seize the opportunity. Contact me if you are interested in creating your own Peershares blockchain and would like to try out our test network. The people on our team can guide you through the process of setting it all up. Peershares is no longer vaporware. I think a lot of people are still confused about what type of business could benefit from Peershares so I will briefly say that any business that wants to raise funding or manage shareholder equity in an inexpensive automated fashion could benefit. Your business need not be related to cryptocurrency. It could be a restaurant, a property management business or nearly any other type of business.
Regardless of what other businesses do, we are racing to create our extension of Peershares which will provide a real world demonstration of what Peershares has to offer. Additional details will be released in the coming weeks and months.
What's included in v0.4.0: - Debug window console support in Qt, easier to get to command line e.g. unlock wallet for minting (if you enter wallet passphrase in the console please remember to use the clear button to clear it). - Protocol adjustment required for future p2pool support. Protocol switch scheduled for May 5th. - Experimental getblocktemplate support - getpeerinfo support - Bug fixes - Mandatory upgrade release, upgrade deadline May 5th.
For the average user, there are two important things to note about v0.4.
- Improved security via bug fix. You are now required to enter your wallet pass-phrase in order to send coins when your wallet is unlocked for minting.
- There is now a debug console which makes unlocking your wallet for minting coins much easier. Open the client, go to Help - Debug console. Type in " walletpassphrase
