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I sold all my 30k SDC last week!

There are much better coins with true Tech & Devs!!!
Sorry but i thought SDC would be successful...

BULLSHIT

When btc price is dumped or it falls, do the btc core devs make announcements? For every sale that happens on sdc, should the dev team assure the community that everything is fine?

No one can account for what anyone individual or the market will do, people buy and sell all the time. And other nefarious people use that action to instill panic. Case in point what happened this weekend.

Yes i understand what your saying CH, but a line must be drawn somewhere. People shouldnt have to be babysat, about their investments.

I sold all my 30k SDC last week!

There are much better coins with true Tech & Devs!!!
Sorry but i thought SDC would be successful...

BULLSHIT

Here was the problem as I see it.

Yes, there were recent announcements and I'm very grateful for them, but for whatever reason I think some people were expecting a date for the hard fork late last week, over the weekend or today (Monday). See the comment below.


The fact the date has not yet been announced (as far as I know anyway) is not the problem. It is what happened after.

Over the weekend the price of SDC was slammed down to 33k and things began (naturally) to get heated in BCT. People were asking for reassurances from the Team which could have been offered without request (arguably should have been) and once requested were not quickly forthcoming.

This situation was again strained today because obviously (as many thought) ryno would post some kind of update, particularly after such a harrowing weekend. Instead this Freedom Day party comes out of nowhere (for me and most of this community) and when I read that in IRC I had no idea what it was or what it would mean in terms of not having any expectations for Monday.


So again it boils down to basic communication. People had different expectations based on different sets of information. The time delay for information to get from slack/irc to BCT is crucial. The longer it takes the less transparent things appear.

Case in point: ffmad posted what Freedom Day is here in BCT many hours after it was mentioned in IRC. I'm sure the community would've cut the Team more slack (forgive the pun) if this had been mentioned earlier today or yesterday.

Our developers expect to pick up speed now that all the necessary updates have been made to ShadowCore and a date has been scheduled for the PoS v2 hard fork.

Hi guys. Sorry, I know it's been more than twenty minutes since I posted. Ate a packet of Simba Chipniks, took a quick piss.. now back to coding till 3 or 4 am.
Thanks for all your positivity and support. 

All announcements are made on Bitcointalk, ShadowTalk, DevBlog, Slack, Irc, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. And I think we made at least 2 announcements before friday in here and on saturday people start complaining about the lack of communication? Really?

No-one is forcing you to use Slack, just last week we implemented Slack-Irc integration to make it possible for users of each community to talk to each other just because we are actually trying not to force you to use Slack! There is a reason though to use slack. Just last week there has been 14807 messages sent on Slack, 60% were in channels (30+) and 6% were in groups, which makes about 10000 sent public messages. 20 messages per page, that will make 500 bitcointalk pages a week. Sounds like fun browsing through all those uncategorized messages, that you're not interested about. In reality, that amount of communication would never happen here and propably not on irc either, that's reason enough for me to focus on Slack.

All announcements are made on Bitcointalk, ShadowTalk, DevBlog, Slack, Irc, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. And I think we made at least 2 announcements before friday in here and on saturday people start complaining about the lack of communication? Really?

No-one is forcing you to use Slack, just last week we implemented Slack-Irc integration to make it possible for users of each community to talk to each other just because we are actually trying not to force you to use Slack! There is a reason though to use slack. Just last week there has been 14807 messages sent on Slack, 60% were in channels (30+) and 6% were in groups, which makes about 10000 sent public messages. 20 messages per page, that will make 500 bitcointalk pages a week. Sounds like fun browsing through all those uncategorized messages, that you're not interested about. In reality, that amount of communication would never happen here and propably not on irc either, that's reason enough for me to focus on Slack.

Totally agree. While i can understand some of the reasons for slack, i personally do not like it. It's yet another form of social media to get to grips with and monitor along with all the rest. I prefer to browse through here for information and updates. I would consider this far more important and usefull, yet we seem to be getting bloody slack forced down our throats at every turn.

update for today :

it's Freedom day in South Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Day_%28South_Africa%29, King's day in netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koningsdag

Not the best day for an update ... but tomorrow should be a better day  

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Update: Tuesday, 20 April 2015


New ShadowCore Client Now Available For Public Testing


Our development team has been hard at work integrating new features into ShadowCore that will better support our upcoming ShadowMarket. In order to best support a P2P marketplace environment the ShadowCore client has been updated to prepare the network to switch from using Proof of Stake to Proof of Stake v2. PoS v2’s revised coin weight calculation encourages greater network stability by not factoring in “coin age”. Therefore saving up coin age is no longer possible so nodes will need to be online more in order to get their stake reward. It'll involve a move from scrypt to SHA256 which will mean staking requires less processing power (especially helpful for mobile users wishing to stake their coins). The new system is also designed to solve security issues which made PoS v1 coins open to certain theoretical attacks. For more information see Blackcoin's Proof-of-Stake Protocol v2 white paper.                 
         
The upgrade took a great deal of work from the developers (you can view full details of the 230 changed files with 12,219 additions and 8,455 deletions here. There’s a summary of the changes in the release notes.

To participate in our public testing phase join the shadowtesting channel on slack.


ShadowGo Progress Update


We’re currently putting the finishing touches to an upgraded version of our Android wallet. This will give mobile users the full anonymizing functionality of ShadowSend v2. The beta version will be posted in the next few days for a short round of community testing before the full release. Stay tuned for further details.


ShadowMarket Progress Update


Good progress is being made on the Shadow Marketplace. Our developers expect to pick up speed now that all the necessary updates have been made to ShadowCore and a date has been scheduled for the PoS v2 hard fork. We will be working on upgrading ShadowChat for secure messaging, which will be the backbone of the whole market place, using BIP32 addresses for category trees. After that we will be working on anonymous mutltisig transactions. We are aiming to have a beta version ready for public testing and feedback within Q2. ShadowMarket will be the primary focus of our developers and the next feature to be added to the ShadowCore client.


Thank you all for your continued support and enthusiasm,

The Shadow Team

Rynomster (lead developer)

https://i.imgur.com/xQaKD1K.png

Hey all

The testing is going well.
There have been a few cosmetic issues that have been spotted.
We are working on these

Thank you everyone who is participating in the testing

As a rather new investor, I can't understand why you guys are killing child_harold. He makes a valid point. Not everyone will join slack, nor any other resource provided for many reasons both valid and banal. Whether you like it or not, the BTCtalk thread is a major resource that is the so called honey to your slack pot. This thread has to be maintained with the same alacrity as slack or whatever the heck there is. You guys kill him when he gets amped, you guys kill him when he wants news, you kill him when he questions the devs....Jesus christ. His questions are reasonable and valid. In this thread, half the time it feels like everbody's too cool for shit, the other time it's a gotta stay in lock step and not question anything, shout down the dissenters! I want to know these things as well. NO, I will not join slack. Yes, I expect updates to be posted here as well, perhaps by bot or dev or community member.  This community at times  feels, well,  strained. C_H takes care of troll slaying, but mostly its a hipsterish attitude.
P.S Give me a second, preparing for blow back.