I am also into skycoin as well.
Year 2018 was a very bad year for skycoin. many fuds after ATH.
However project still progressing with tremendous leaps. But not all things good, i will just give more general outline then rather bias.
I will include some links which will be useful for newbie to do research as i found Skycoin website rather hard to follow.
i believe this is the reason why skycoin isnt popular as it should be, as the project is revolution if it works as the whole.
- IOS/Android wallet released (easy to use)
https://www.skycoin.net/downloads/- Hardware wallet released (apparently waiting to be shipped after chinese new year)
https://store.skycoin.net/- Transfer rate for this coin is great and fast.
- Explorer is some how it is hard to follow. but that may be because of decentralised blockchain. we dont want to be tracked easily.
But one thing i should say is it doesnt work sometime. for example most of time you cannot browse through Binance address.
(Of course you cannot ask this on telegram as you will be banned by the might Sudo)
https://explorer.skycoin.net/app/blocks/1- Test net been ongoing for years now.
pay out from the SKYMiner was great compare to cost running.
There was a little hickup from whitelisting and other than that the setup was easy.
2nd generation Skyminer now on sales
https://store.skycoin.net/ New whitelisting has been implemented for easy signup. Here the link for whitelisting
https://medium.com/@Skycoinproject/january-2019-community-update-30291df47bc6- Node growing fast and furious in number comparing to Eth/BTC. many diy skyminer instructions and guide help skyfleet community growing larger.
http://discovery.skycoin.net:8001/#/ https://github.com/skycoin- Telegram group was very helpfull, however i cannot say it is great as there are bunch of SKYCoin admin who think they are god (you cannot say anything bad or even feedback likewise Sudo and his axx suckup)
https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@skywire- The website is not very informatives. everything is all over the place.
https://www.skycoin.net/ Announcesment / updates / roadmaps / mediums / instructions should be clearly sections in 1 place so newbie can read and research. you will see what i meant.
So here my experience. Medium section is the best place you will find your information (on bottum left corner of main page)
https://medium.com/@Skycoinproject- I recommend you watch all the youtube interviews and updates. you will Synth very smart guy. He knows the tech.
(of course you will be offended by the way he presents himself. very amateur and unprofessional. but with his background in blockchain this project is the one you should be watching in near future.)
you can reach out his twitter @NotSkycoinCEO and Skycoin officials announcement @Skycoinproject
- Things to look for next is main net will supposed to be launched this 2019q1. with test complete of sky antenna.
however is a bit delay in debug and developing.
- You will find many great things about skycoin. it is so far only blockchain with
hardware - Skyminer/wallet
software/language/language/smart contract - with CX/obelist and skyfiber.
1-1blockchain (unlike Eth you running on single network which killing off the network bandwidth ETH results as is today)
(so there has already been project likewise ER20 running on Skycoin network
https://medium.com/@Skycoinproject/my-daily-life-2c7de0b801e3)