Everything seems usable until now. And more than that, I feel good with the stuff. Code is clean and I have origin of spin off on my archives. I can step in if community really wants it and support it.
Community seems alive and kicking. I have more connected peers with q2c than with doge... wow this doge!
Question is what you want to do with this coin... coin is almost fully mined... then what next? I think life cycle is unrealistic: you cant half a coin reward every 3 weeks starting with 2048... even every 3 months would be too much...
So what you, the community, want from a new dev?
i suppose that one idea could be to change halving time at next interval, when coins per block be 128, and we could use more optimisations of the wallet, it tends to stop syncing after while while and you have to close it and run again, then also i guess some optimisations between wallet and pool mining, and in global sense that coin have an active dev or devs, in a combination with good comunity gives other ppl more confidence into our coin.
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About changes: I can code whatever community decides to use. If you people want me to grow back block reward to 1024 and triple total coins created I surely can do that. It will be applied when community adopt new wallet as good.
About the wallet: I have Linux and OSX wallets running without any issue (any of them in 2 different cpus [one virtual, one real] and using my new clean safe builds from source on github) until this moment (may crash next second of course... its software...).
Are you reporting about Windows? Its a known fact that some windows builds had problems when using some LTC spin off time ago as this coin is made... (doge was one of them as I was told... I never use windows except for full hard testing of my work) because built over some buggy dependencies. Strange your dev didn't spot and change that... as far as I can evaluate for now he was good...
About active devs: when I am dev coder I code. I mean, I have better things to do than discuss lines with someone. If community decides I am the coder then I will be the coder. When community decides to change mind they just don't download wallet they don't like... simple. Usually so called devs don't say this... but its the reality: imagine you community tell me I am new dev and I decide to code that reward goes to 10000... if no one download that new wallet it will not happen - simple.
About optimizations: a good optimization takes lots of time and testing (a millisecond today, ten milliseconds tomorrow - you learn that after coding for aviation soft). If I understood what you talking about, lets put that on 4th or 5th place in our list.
About global sense of existing a dev... who controls twitter, forum, site, whatever? Everything must be changed/moved or it will be just a joke.
I must say I used my answer to your post to clarify my global vision about everything involved. Thank you for helping me do that.
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Thanks for that .. I think, judging by the upvotes, the community approves you as the developer coder !
As I see it, the community has decisions to make in several areas:
1. Marketing /Media.. Who runs Twitter, BTCtalk thread, alternative new forum. Who will step up for those ?
2. Image and wallet software. The 'Cube' logo is good and very distinctive. The wallet might benefit from a little graphical tweaking.
3. Coding for a fork : block reward and any other issues.
IMO the wallet and code for blocks are functional and have some degree of optimisation, so do not warrant messing with first... unless that is required to get the coin onto new exchanges (was that a sticking issue or not ?.. I am not technically competent to answer)
Begin with a new forum if someone has the experience to run it.
As far as longer term block reward goes, from my own experience, I believe that the current 128 is fine (because the community holders can fund projects and redistribute existing coin) but the halving should be of a longer period now, like 3 months. An inflation of 5% permanently will not hurt, because this is a model that other coins have eschewed, and it separates Q2C from the others. I have 30 years experience in financial industries and will gladly debate and inform on this point.
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