Cheers - usukan
Did Steven have a "pot of UTC" for marketing etc that we all donated to him? I can't remember . . .
Emerge - u r my new favourite person!
Is this 'bloating' a huge problem? Can it be fixed? Is this why the old team left maybe? As a none technical person I don't know
No, the bloating can't be fixed. Due to fast transactions, Ultracoin is very prone to bloating
Might either be a problem now, or a problem sooner or later. Not sure if there is a fix, but I think it will take a while for it
to be an actual big problem. For now we can still work with it.
I am not sure how much work or what level of experience would be needed but pruning introduced in the latest Bitcoin Core 0.12 release is a good way to at least circumvent bloating if not solve it. I think it would be a major rewrite and upgrade of whole codebase to latest bitcoin changes before this can be done. Mintcoin is upgrading there client from some very old version codebase to 0.11 i think and it has been in the works for last 2 months. I am not sure if this is due to level of experience or time constraints their devs have but it seems that it is a big task. Also latest bitcoin version has numerous speed ups which can be used in altcoins maybe.