Topic: [Ultracoin] [Est. Feb 2014] ~ ASIC Resistant & Ultrafast 6 Second Transactions! - page 87. (Read 381063 times)

Update - I have nothing of consequence to report so far on our search for a dev.

Whats quite clear in my discussions and research around this matter is that "good" devs are very busy.  There is more work around than the experienced/proven devs can handle.  They can pick and choose their work to a significant degree.

The dev that PressTab recommended is too busy to take on our job right now but will get back to me when he gets a space in the future.  This could be several months to wait - so I think we need to keep looking for now. Its a damn shame as he had done some really innovative work on wallets which were exceptional.

So - I am still searching. 

I am not panicked or even too concerned - I am more focussed on getting the work done once and properly.  We have a working coin and a wallet thats functional (sure the retargetting issue annoys the crap out of me and others - but I am glad to see that we are now getting a good mix of miners now getting blocks during low diff periods - its not dominated at my last check by just one miner). 

1684780   489 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:40:16   0.0002   10.00   16   10   62.28
1684778   487 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:40:01   0.0002   10.00   16   18   112.50
1684776   485 left   anonymous   03/24/2016 18:39:37   0.0002   10.00   16   6   37.50
1684775   484 left   Chip254   03/24/2016 18:39:33   0.0002   10.00   16   12   75.00
1684774   483 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:39:04   0.0002   10.00   16   44   275.00
1684772   481 left   whortonda   03/24/2016 18:38:50   0.0002   10.00   16   6   37.50
1684771   480 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:38:42   0.0002   10.00   16   10   62.50
1684770   479 left   Chip254   03/24/2016 18:38:37   0.0002   10.00   16   8   50.00
1684768   477 left   Chip254   03/24/2016 18:38:22   0.0002   10.00   16   10   62.50
1684767   476 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:38:08   0.0002   10.00   16   32   200.00
1684765   474 left   anonymous   03/24/2016 18:37:36   0.0002   10.00   16   34   212.50
1684763   472 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:37:20   0.0002   10.00   16   8   50.00
1684762   471 left   Chip254   03/24/2016 18:37:13   0.0002   10.00   16   8   50.00
1684761   470 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:37:09   0.0002   10.00   16   2   12.50
1684760   469 left   Chip254   03/24/2016 18:36:56   0.0002   10.00   16   18   112.50
1684758   467 left   eel   03/24/2016 18:36:06   0.0002   10.00   16   26   162.50
1684757   466 left   marsulon   03/24/2016 18:35:47   0.0002   10.00   16   22   137.50


We have a management team/committee getting organised to take the coin forward. We have access now to all resources (ANN, Website, Facebook, Twitter etc) so we are sailing and have a crew and someone at the helm.  We are not going to drift onto the rocks.

If any of you have any leads to a trusted dev who could take on our work - please let me know.

Have a great Easter break everyone. 








Cheers - usukan

Welcome back Steven. As mentioned before; you're always welcome en have my respect. And thanks for all the great work you have done in the past.

Update - Emerge has confirmed he will join the Committee.

He's 60-70% done on the backend of the Android java based wallet setup - but busy with his real life too.

So solid progress.

He will sign up at UltracoinTalk Groups shortly.

Thanks Emerge!

Cheers - usukan

Just an update on the DRAFT ROADMAP

Cheers - usukan


1. Get a Dev team and Manager overall for UTC (Mar to May 2016)

Progress:

Usukan is acting as the overall manager of UTC on a temporary basis until a full team is formalised by the community.
Steven has proposed that we set up a "Management Committee" - This has been agreed and in the process of being established.  Steven will head this up.

UTC is still seeking an experienced coder/Dev. 
Emerge is a committed Co-Dev and working on an Android/IOS wallet and some other Lite wallets for Windows and Mac.
We are looking at taking on a contract Dev to kick start the wallet/coding and retarget fixes - usukan is exploring these options and will report back to the community on this.
 

2. Fix current Windows wallet, update antique coding (retargeting and streamline wallet)

Progress:

Potential Co-devs currently looking at these issues and will report back. First task is to fix the diff re-target issue and its agreed to revert to V3 which is practically identical to DigiShield.  It may be best to address all these issues at once for a proper UTC fix. Mar to May/Jun 2016.
Usukan is exploring our options and costs for this work.  PressTab was unfortunately too busy but we are talking with a colleague of his now who is highly recommended.  Usukan to update community.
MAC wallets to be addressed later after Windows wallet tested and fully operational.

2. Get Marketing manager
 
Progress:

In the interim we need to think about a marketing plan and develop the basics of a platform that is flexible to cater for our future community favoured directions and vision.
Update - With Steven returning to UTC its most likely that he will assume this marketing role.  Committee to advise

2. Add a second mining pool (May-Jul 2016 approx)

Progress:

First - Alenevaa has committed to continuing his mining pool and upgrading it as required with new wallet developments.  Many thanks Alenevaa
At some stage in the future - when we get a few more miners we need to encourage someone to set up a new pool - or have the UTC Devs set up another.  There is no great rush for this and we certainly don't want to detract from Alenevaa's contribution and viability of his pool.  We should only do this when we have a lot more miners to spread around.

2. Get a block explorer (Mar 2016)

Progress: COMPLETED on time
http://utc.presstab.pw/


2. New or update - Ultracoin Website (add blockchain download http://cryptochainer.com/dir/) (Mar/Apr 2016)

Progress:
Update - with Steven's return we now have access to this website and it should be updated - esp defunct references/links deleted.  Major update when wallets/code/retargeting and fork close at hand.

3. Android wallet - QR Codes - Lite Wallet - GUI

Progress:

Emerge working on this - java based wallet (Emerge will give us relevant updates and invite testing).

4. IOS wallet (Apr/May 2016)
4. Iphone wallet (Apr/May 2016)

Progress:

Emerge to look at these after he has rolled out the Android wallet.

5. One Click Miner (not urgent but could be very beneficial in the medium/long term)

Progress:

This project was started by Steven with a Dev from MYR (Myriad Coin).  I doubt if we can pick up from where they left off.  There are a couple of open source resources for these and I think we should leave it until one of our community members is available to run with this project.
Update - with Steven's return he can update us all on whats required to kick this off again.


6. (priority 2-6 ongoing). The exciting stuff - whats our VISION for UTC - apart from the price going up. (Mar - Aug 2016) 

THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DO

How can we give the coin utility in an attractive niche amongst all the other ALT coins. Does the algo have something that is useful that could set UTC apart. UTC has to be KNOWN for something special - and that attribute has to have value and/or utility in the real world. 

Progress:

Not much - but we have plenty of time to discuss this and have already received many ideas from the community.  We need to make UTC a preferred currency in a specific niche.  That will be the community's challenge to choose 1 or two areas and work towards this.  The new "Committee" will oversee and manage this work on behalf of the community. Of course the Marketing Manager will be a key figure in these discussions.  We will need to listen carefully to his considered suggestions and rely on him putting forward some solid cases to test out and focus on the best market opportunities.

Our vision for present must surely be based around a fast and secure payment or value transfer technology.  People dont necessarily need to know that UTC is the underlying tech - and they probably don't care as long as it works.  Thats the essence of the future game changing uses of Crypto.

Updating you with the good, bad and plainly ugly - this will always be the case...........


So - after ongoing discussions with PressTab - he really is over-committed with work right now to take on our full job and deliver in a timely manner.  OK - this seems bad on the surface but better he's honest and we don't get down the track with a drawn out process and rush implementations etc...

The good news - press has made a good recommendation of one of his trusted colleagues for the work.  I will divulge his full details in due course if we get past first base. I can say he is a talented developer and has many interesting crypto works under his belt including lead dev of an innovative crytocurrency.  

First - I have already contacted him and briefed him on the situation with UTC and what we need done.  If he is interested in doing this dev work for us - I will come back to the community and update everyone.

Cheers - usukan

Well its Monday in my timezone - so I have moved to Stage 2.

I have briefed PressTab on the work we require (using my best marginally technical skills).

Press has had a good walk round UTC now and will have a much better idea of really what needs to be fixed - but its basically:

Update the antique UTC code and fix the QT wallet issues - fix the retargeting issue by either reverting to UTC Version 3 or use Digishield (which are both practically the same).

In a few days hopefully Press will get back with:

1 - A short technical description of the work he proposes (so we can discuss and confirm)
2 - Cost for the work (in BTC)
3 - Estimate of delivery time


Cheers - usukan

Good on you Valpe - thanks so much for your continued strong support.

Yes - this communication is so critical to the community spirit.

Cheers - usukan

Iam ready to support UTC and willing to donate for good reason.

UTC is good reason 

Valpe

 

Welcome back Steven. Good to know you are allright.

I will continue my support to Usukan and committee is very good idea. I hope that @Emerge can join to this Committee.

Thanks Usukan, you are the best.

I hope the Committee understand that informing this forum is very important (several time in week period). Talk even weather if there is nothing else to say.

Valpe

@ Emerge

Do you want to join this Committee?  Probably a good idea since you are working on the Android/IOS wallets etc.

Cheers - usukan

Excellent, it looks like we are all in agreement to form a committee which would convene on a regular basis with each member taking a clearly defined role in the development of Ultracoin. I have created a social group which is essentially a private forum on Ultracointalk.org, this way the committee has a method to communicate efficiently and can create a thread for each discussion or project. The social group page can also be updated to show events, such as meetings, and would be a convenient way for the group to communicate and keep tabs on what is going on. I would also suggest we have bi-weekly or monthly meetings on Skype to supplement the social group and include the entire committee. The time of the discussions can be agreed upon before hand to include the maximum number of participants. I would suggest that at this time we keep the structure of the committee informal, this would avoid bureaucracy and keep the decision making "holographic" rather then top down. In the future I believe we should remain open to the idea of a more formalized structure, but I believe this is unnecessary for now. I volunteer to chair this committee, my roles would include accepting members into the committee, organizing the committee structure, arbitration between committee members, and approval of the creation of sub-committee's. I would also be directly responsible for regularly communicating with the community unless that task is delegated to another member. If you are interested in becoming a part of the committee, e-mail me at [email protected] and join the official Ultracointalk forum where I will add you to the social group once approved. Usukan, Paul, Fabian and Aleneeva will be accepted to the group as soon as you make an account on the forum and request permission to join.

You can access social groups through the following link: http://ultracointalk.org/sgroups/

Sincerely,

Steven "Rapture" Nekhaila
Ultracoin Team
[email protected]

I support Usukan's opinion 100% and wish Steven will come back to the Ultracoin Dev Team !

I wish Usukan and Steven will form together the commitee to manage the further development of UTC.

Thanks Roister01 - agree 100% with all you say here.

Have a good weekend.

Cheers - usukan

Hi folks,

From my limited experience, I can see that Steven was/is well respected, and has obviously put in a lot of time and effort into trying to make this a success. For that reason there must be a prominent role for him to play, should he want to.

At the same time, I think the leadership shown by Usukan, getting things moving again, whilst at the same time involving anyone else who wants to get involved, has been a massive boost to the success of this project.

For me, there needs to be regular communication, via a medium such as this page, to discuss ideas, keep folk informed of progress, and keep things moving. We can't have an active community if we are, for whatever reason, kept in the dark. Good progress has been made so far. We don't want to allow this to slip away. There will always be folks working away in the background, Presstab for example. However, we will always need an effective communicator like you Usukan, to 'motivate the troops!'

Just my thoughts..

Roister...

Thanks for your solid input here wtfc360 and continued strong support.

Its very important at this point that we get as many views and discussion from the community on the issues on the table here.

Can we please get all views in on whats proposed both by Steven and myself above.

If we can get general consensus - we can move forward relatively quickly.

I will state clearly my position in this. I support Steven coming back to lead the Ultracoin Team and putting together a Committee to undertake/manage the wishes of the community for the development of UTC.

I offer my continuing input as a key part of this committee if thats the community wishes.

If I have any issues - with anything - I will bring it back here to the community.



As I stated earlier on I will be working according to my policy thats keeps things moving - which is as follows:

Silence will be taken as agreement.

If you have any issues you want to discuss - thats great.  Just get your ideas on the forum here so we can discuss.

I will not make any movements until after the weekend to give the community a chance to discuss. Next week when PressTab has the time - I will be discussing in detail the coding/wallet/re-target fixes and will hopefully get back here with an attractive price for this critical UTC work. This work has already been strongly supported by everyone and need not be held up.


Cheers - usukan




 

@ Steven, I'm glad you are alive and healthy, people get worried. Great to have you back! It takes a lot of courage to come back and be honest and ask for forgivness from the community and for that I respect you! I know you have done a lot for UTC and hope you will stay with UTC and the community! Please work together with Usukan who is a natural talent with great leading abilities. The two of you will be great together!

@ Usukan, I like your leading abilities, and thinking and your priority list. Also better take some time and make it good, than quick fix that won't work anyway and don't be afraid of ditching something bad. We have to move forward in a dialectal way, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, new antithesis and so on, moving forward, learning. That way there is no stopping UTC!

@ PaulR1, I agree with you. There where several times when Steven asked for assistance from the community but got no response (including me), its easy to forget that one person will not change everything, everyone has to help and support any way they can.

@ the community, together we can do anything, alone we are nothing.
I will continue to donate if it will help UTC become better, and from the looks at the work from presstab I think he is worth it, what do you all say?

Dear community members,

I find it very courageous and I am very happy with the message from Steven.
As I have stated previously, Steven has done very very much for UTC.
He has invested a lot of private time and a lot of private financial resources in to the UTC project.
Steven asked on the forum several times for assistance, but unfortunately, from time to time, he received too little feedback or to little help from the community.
Please don’t forget that UTC is there for and by the community. We must do it together.
It should not be accepted as normal that only one person pushes or pulls the UTC cart forward.
We have to help where we can and stay motivated.

@Steven ; Thank you for your message and welcome back mate !

This image brings me back good memories

Cheers!

Best regards
Leo