We will continue pushing for more vendors and services to adopt BitcoinPlus.Part 2 of the original planned wallet upgrade is on hold due to our current developer being too busy so we are working out what other things we can be going ahead with for now.We may scrap the auto setup feature for wallet messaging proposed but are working out some alternative ideas and may outsource the work to an alternative developer to see if they are doable within our current budget.
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I am mentioning this only, because You wrote our current developer is too busy and the team may outsource work to an alternative developer.
Perhaps we should consider hiring Romano from Viacoin, if he would make an exception for XBC (i guess he already rejected to help many teams asking him),
and if he would generously give us the same amount of new tech he already implemented in Viacoin, after he fixes the AUXPOW bug and after activating SW & LN.
He single-handedly brought Viacoin from version 0.10.11 to version 0.13.2.1 in about 2-3 months of time only, and now it's almost ready to signal.
Check this out, what he has already done for Viacoin:
https://viacoin.org/roadmap/roadmap.pngViacoin price quadrupled since he started working on it a couple months ago and now almost finished it,
and Viacoin price may possibly still double after successful activation.
At first i was sceptical about SegWit, but it really seems to fix a bunch of issues, while at the same time allowing a whole set of new features, including anonymous
transactions over styx, bi-directional payment channels, smart contracts etc.
We could try to hire Romano as temporary advisor or assistant developer to our current dev.
If we would succeed in engaging him, would be nothing short of a freakin miracle, and we shouldn't even think (!) about trying to re-negotiate a better price than what he asks for.
In case Romano would do the job, i'm offering to contribute 30% of his cost (as long as 100% overall cost won't be higher than $20k).
And i would urge others who are invested in XBC to join me with some percentages at least, and maybe we could already raise nearly 50% of the development cost this way,
so the fund would have to pay only the remaining other half.
All which i wrote above is of course provided, the team and community would want to go with SegWit, Lightning Network and all the advanced features it will allow.
If the team is divided or undecided about it, we could have the community vote on it.
Love you all my dear XBC fellows !!
