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June 6th: another update

over 6 years ago by teela

richyjames wrote:

Setting up PIVX to "a standard" is a job, many projects are just patching and slopping it out without little care if it fails later on the line, what would it matter if the chain goes down if you already have acquired 500 BTC and relaxing in the Caribbean. Considering we are not getting paid here, nor graham, when we are discussing the code practicalities of this being 1)reliable 2) we understand what we have built 3)something that can be worked upon later and improved.

When I discuss with Graham and Karma, its always from the point of view, how can we work on a project worth releasing. Personally speaking id like to have assisted in creating something with good prospects of making headway in the area we are aiming. Sometimes that involves Graham telling me line by line what is exactly going on under the hood and why if we change X line of code then why Y is now failing.

KarmaWolf wrote:

@everyone Update on a few items:

  1. The launch is coming well and as stated one of the areas we are still tacking is the Windows binaries - we'll get them done hell or high water
  1. As Richy stated, there are plans for a multi-chain platform / network / token to bring the burgeoning master node ecosystem together in atomic unison. More on this post-launch for Helium as it is not the focus for here and now but I can tell you that Helium holders are going to want to pay close attention to this yet-to-be-named project developments for several reasons (hint hint: something good is coming).
  1. In regards to the dual Helium entities, we have been aware of each other for some time. They are a hardware focused IoT manufacturer founded in 2013 and are out of the United States.

A week or so ago they formally announced they are, like millions of other IT focused companies, jumping into the blcokchain space. A whitepaper was released and it appears they now realize what we have known for many years - Internet of Things does not scale without blockchain. We announced publicly that we are a blockchain project with the generic name 'Helium' back on March 1st, 2017. I have performed several rounds of due diligence for our network over the past year to ensure we are in a good place with this situation. It is very possible given the timelines that they (Helium.com) first were introduced the concept of blockchain from us - a small bit of irony.

They have very low social media traction and are virtually unknown in the area of blockchain, focusing exclusively on IoT. There are no major concerns going forward given the circumstances and should a need arise we will look at this post-launch.

gj wrote:

Windows binary: https://mega.nz/#!qc1wTQQD!bek0oqZhwoH9o3qFFkgLAMrevowdr7PX5dQJfoT4yG8

OS X recompile: https://mega.nz/#!uNNBBZLS!tizIOTEh19Sb9wAwhJMwnoR1zu1NjxH6rGO6aLEYj-s

The mainnet trial is a "poisoned chalice" in that i) the privkeys of those three trial Treasury addys are known (see #dev) and ii) the blockchain is in stasis, i.e. has not been kickstarted, so nothing can be spent (gleefully or otherwise).

But you can now check your HLM balance in the wallet instead of in a plaintext file and you can see the C++ code that effects the ledger transfer of your particular address+balance.

KarmaWolf wrote:

(...)
The dev work is coming along as you can see and I have been working more on the Enterprise portion. Once we launch I will have a partnership to announce and this is where the bulk of my time has been invested recently. Due to the nature of the work I am unable to offer updates on this type of endeavour until both parties are ready

richyjames wrote:

From Karmas perspective he needs the green light from our side prior to then being able to perform his plan. So step by step we go. Next function on the developer list is testing the POS switch over, see if chain stays stable in regards to how we have been theorising. Sometimes theory and reality don't line up, but we will see.

faetos wrote:

no doubt - makes sense to me. Right now I'm waiting on gj to merge codebases and pull in the upstream PIVX pieces into the new master code. That's tough to do on gj's part. While I'm waiting I'm working out some bugs in the make process on git versions and whatnot. Also, checking on scripting the entire change process from PIVX to Helium making sure it is safe and produces clean binaries.

richyjames wrote:

(...) current effort is test runs to observe if the treasury TRX can be used to secure the network POS. Output was unlikely possible in 200 blocks, perhaps trying at 500 etc. And just about to send faetos some info on seeds. Thats the activity on the waterfront.