When devs promised to launch custom blockchains initially, in September?
Soon we will launch part of custom blockchains functional i think.
All takes time, we collected 750 BTC, but we wan't to spend it in one year, we have long term project and we have budget.
Last weeks we was looking for developers, R&D center, designers, had meeting in Moscow.
About Windows client, i already sent it to test in our IRC.
Guys tested it.
It might be a good move to incentivize testing, as in you post wallet that must be tested and users do it then report in-depth reports. You pay them some money afterwards. If
you want quality testing, you will have to pay for it. Not paying any money and then dealing with people who run into problems and can't explain in detail what happened and how
to reproduce the bug is bad move, even big companies realised that so now many of them are paying money to professional (freelance) bug hunters.
Almost all respectable applications in cryptoland went through paid bug hunting at least once - Bitcoin, Armory, Blockchain.info, Dice (gambling) websites, few online wallets, etc.
We have a full time lead tester we hired (Sebastian) as well as a part time almost full time tester (Samsmith16) who is also working on it. Both are now part of our dev team and have a salary. We looked into some crowd sourced platforms other coins used but their devs said it was too hit or miss and costly.
Usual way to do it properly is to just set prices for certain bug levels (minor, major, critical) and open a thread at forum. Also list known bugs and then just pay to everyone who
reported some new issue, based on quantity and quality of provided feedback and bug level. There is no need to pay too much, many people gonna test it for as little as 0.001 BTC
for minor issue and up to 0.1 BTC for great report on critical issue (repeatable bug that completely breaks Crypti or even OS).
I can see where this would be very useful... It just doesn't seem to help when your trying to save time finding bugs and solving problems.. to have a whole new thing to operate... We would have to out source this whole check and pay bug reporter... It would just be so timely to sit there and validate the bugs found... then have to have a ranking system to pay based how critical the bug... Don't get me wrong the more help the better but help shouldn't cause more work for us...
As for my involvement and salary...
Trouble shooting is only a small part of my time I spend on Crypti everyday... I have to keep a log of everything I work on for Crypti and submit it at the end of the month for review prior to payment...
I carry 2 mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) everywhere I go... Grocery store, Doctors office, Golf course..... Most of the time I have a laptop with me as well... I have a computer in my bedroom, 1 in my office and another in the basement... I sleep with both mobile devices next to me on my nightstand... I put in about 15 hours a day researching, posting, testing, brainstorming...
I have 6 nodes set up on different platforms and 2 windows nodes (a window 7 and windows 8.1) These are all for testing
The rest of the team is just a dedicated as I am... and yes the more help the better... We are working on that as well... So while you all look at more help as getting Crypti better faster... We look at it as less we have to do... So trust me we are working on many things to make our jobs easier and Crypti better...
It's that old saying you can have things Good, Fast or Cheap but only pick 2 of them...
We have the 750 BTC from the IPO... we must budget for the whole year... This is not a fly by the seats of your pants operation here... We are making well thought out moves and plans with every last satoshi... So we are all excited to move things along as fast as possibly... Windows wallet will be released soon enough...