The more progress I make the lower the price is going!
InstantDEX test release next week

I used to do it all the time, but then a one guy started complaining about it. saying it was a form of spam...
then several others all agreed with the spam point of view

needless to say I didnt feel like spending time to communicate and then be insulted for it
i do have quite a lot to get done

James

since nobody complained about the tech details confusing them, I will do a daily progress.

   static char *allorderbooks[] = { (char *)allorderbooks_func, "allorderbooks", "V", 0 };
    static char *orderbook[] = { (char *)orderbook_func, "orderbook", "V", "baseid", "relid", "allfields", "oldest", 0 };
    static char *placebid[] = { (char *)placebid_func, "placebid", "V", "baseid", "relid", "volume", "price", 0 };
    static char *placeask[] = { (char *)placeask_func, "placeask", "V", "baseid", "relid", "volume", "price",0 };
    static char *bid[] = { (char *)bid_func, "bid", "V", "baseid", "relid", "volume", "price", "baseamount", "relamount", 0 };
    static char *ask[] = { (char *)ask_func, "ask", "V", "baseid", "relid", "volume", "price", "baseamount", "relamount", 0 };

All the above InstantDEX api calls are spot tested and released into testing.

orderbooks are created dynamically when placebid or placeask is called. this is then sent to the network as bid or ask API calls with the price/volume pair changed to base and rel satoshi amounts for the assets.

allorderbooks returns an array of, yes you guess it!, all the orderbooks

orderbook returns, yes!, an orderbook with base -> rel. So the base NXT, rel BTC orderbook is NXT/BTC
but you can ask for it with base BTC and rel NXT and it will return it with the prices as BTC/NXT

a bunch of gory details regarding asset decimal places and other mundane things, but in my tests it is propagating pretty fast to other nodes. still need to get more timing results to know if I need to optimize it more.

now that the orderbooks are back online, next up is ordermatching. This is pretty tricky as I need to make it do an atomic swap of any two assets, with NXT itself treated as a special case asset. Good thing this was done last summer, but still need to get it ported into the new codebase and get it debugged.

I remember it was quite touchy, so I will plan for just achieving this automated orderfilling triggered with a makeoffer API. it actually needs at least two more internal ones to match the state transitions.

At that point, the low level InstantDEX API would basically be done for asset<->asset and other than supporting the GUI port to use this, I dont foresee too much more at this level. However, this is only the lowest level. After this step I need to add another layer for the tradebots. But I like to just do one step at a time as often when I do that next step I can see a bit better what is best to do next

James

i heard that in a week they will allow for withdraws, but this is third hand from chinese twitter site or something like that.
we do see all the SuperNET assets still in the bter account, so it is still there.
I dont know for sure but I would be surprised if the BTCD isnt still there.

only altcoins like XCP that are linked to BTC address appear to be at risk

James

there are more in the pipeline, but it is not such a good idea to release it during bear market. So I am holding them in reserve for now

James

I have some dates!

We will be doing a pre-release stress test and aiming for release on Friday. Assuming we are not finding any showstopper bugs. The release should be viewed as a beta release, so it is for a more general feedback for compatibility, usability, etc.

keep in mind this is just the first version and not all the advanced tech is made available via GUI. To access the more advanced tech, you would need to be using something not so easy, as it is via JSON API. But this is the nature of this as first there must be the advanced functions via API, then a GUI that is working but not the most easy to use, then finally a nice looking intuitive GUI that needs no documentation.

I am currently working on finalizing InstantDEX API and we are pushing for an initial GUI release in a week. This is independent from the release above, which is making easy to use multiwallet. And there are also some features available in the v0 GUI that is there, but not in the v1 series.

I hope this is not too confusing, but it is the best process that we could come up with to manage the nature of SuperNET. Some are not sure if the 60,000+ lines of code in https://github.com/jl777/libjl777/ is making any sense. What the v1 GUI is doing is making about 10,000 of these lines easily accessible. To put it in perspective, I wrote ramchains from scratch starting the new years. I ported the old MGW into realtime MGW, total line count around 10,000. So to go from concept to coded to debugged to production, in this timeframe it is a demonstration. The full SuperNET is much bigger, so I wanted an easy well defined project I can finish quickly.

I hope that this ramchains release puts to ease everybody who is wondering if jl777 can actually write code that works. It is doing a complete blockchain rescan and richlist calculation for BTCD in about 30 milliseconds. But it doesnt even have to do the recalc as it is maintaining in memory current account balances, so all that is needed is a sort, which takes around 1 millisecond.

Now how long will this all take to be finished? This is like asking when linux will be finished. So let us ask a more specific question, when will InstantDEX be finished? I hope to get this done by the end of the month so people can have a much safer place to trade than central exchanges. Next week for test releases and we can get things done faster the more people are testing. This is the standalone InstantDEX, I have no idea the time for it to be finished in the v0 or v1 series GUI.

I want to get InstantDEX prioritized due to the situation with half a dozen exchanges being attacked and not even clear how many will survive. so this will shuffle the schedule a bit, but I think we can all agree it is worth the tradeoff. So I will be concentrating on gettting InstantDEX to be usable for large scale crypto trading. This will include Tradebots, at least default ones with standard functionality. A more advanced tradebot profit sharing will require some website and GUI things.

In parallel, still waiting for some design reviews on the privacy side of the project. I have received invaluable feedback from Come-from-Beyond and we licensed some tech that will really enhance the security of the SuperNET. This will require some time to properly integrate into the codebase, I am estimating about a month and then realistically another month to properly test it. Before all that it will still be possible to use the privacy features, with the caveat that it is not fully validated yet.

So we have the teleport, telepathy and enhanced security all converging to a release in a couple months, but these features will be testable way before it is in the final form.

At this point, I will only have the PrivateBet tech left to complete, and it is possible I can squeeze that in during the privacy improvements. Now I can write a lot of code and I estimate it will end up around 80,000 to 100,000 lines by the time these things are all done. However, I am not the only one coding. There are literally a dozen projects going on and I am not aware of the detailed status on these, but to facilitate others to help with coding, I have added the ability for non-C modules to be dynamically loaded and extend the SuperNET API. Pangea is written in python, so that was the trigger for this, but while adding support for that I realized we can support virtually any other language, so as we get devs who work in a particular language we can extend the SuperNET to support running single instance invocations or even as daemons.

Unfortunately, every person that is taking the task to clearly document all this, well their head seems to explode...
And I must allocate my time to coding and helping the other projects, so I just dont have the time to be making regular updates.

That being said, if there are any specific questions, then I will do my best to answer them.

James

tl:dr releases are happening, tech is being completed, wont happen all at once but it will happen

trex does not support assets
poloniex lists UNITY
and NXT Asset Exchange you can buy direct

http://bitcoindark.pw/ramchains/

during the finishing of the realtime MGW, I ran into a problem. the blockchain was just too slow. So I had to take a month out to write ramchains. This is the reason for delay, but it is well worth the delay as with ramchains things will go much smoother

I do apologize for not posting here more details on this, it is just a lot of work to write 10,000 new lines, get it debugged and into production. When I was posting detail progress, people complained that the didnt understand the technical stuff. So I stopped posting. Should I resume that? Seems if I post the daily progress it is no good but if I dont it is also not good.

James

there are regular newsletters that communicate the status of things and it is in open testing now
not sure how this is considered vapor?
I am done with the low level coding for v1 release, it is now some GUI things

you can get realtime status of the MGW servers via: http://178.63.60.131/init/?requestType=status&coin=BTCD

now you have to realize supernet has a dozen ongoing projects and they cannot possibly all be finished at the same time, so we are doing incremental releases as they become available. it is not possible to exactly predict when any specific new component is finished and fully integrated into the official GUI.

supernet is a decentralized project, so it is quite possible that some things are released independent and then integrated. It is not a binary released/not released type of thing. So if you are wanting to buy the rumor/sell the news, then there is not a clear date that the news of it being released is made, since there will always be the next release with new features right around the corner

Now if you are feeling that there will never be any release (vaporware concerns), then I cannot help with that. I have written and it is public posted 60,000 lines of code, there are dozens of other devs and 400 people in slack. If you are still thinking this is vapor then I suggest that it is time to sell as you will never be convinced. I am coding many hours per day and after dealing with other issues I usually dont have time to come here to post, plus these lower prices are actually happy things for the people that know.

James

We have put in a project team to accelerate InstantDEX development.
Our crazy ambitious goal is to get something into testing within a week.

James

The unity at bter is the SuperNET asset
you wont need this asset to operate the SuperNET, it represents the revenue stream

bter has said non-btc things will be able to be withdrawn, not sure when.
also you can withdraw the UNITY into any NXT address
and v1 GUI is in testing, the MGW servers currently have no known bugs, GUI is looking good.

I know this is no consolation and very nervous times for all who have anything on the centralized exchanges

InstantDEX will be coming soon

James

now that realtime MGW is done as far as my work needed, InstantDEX is the front burner project.
My goal is to make it look and feel just like a centralized exchange, but it is using peer to peer trading and NXT AE

James

both win
they are orthogonal to each other

You probably heard about bter hack. SuperNET was in the process of converting CNY from ICO into BTC for withdraw. unfortunately this appears to be gone, unless bter can recover. The total CNY raised was less than 5%, so this is a relatively small percentage, but due to the drop in BTC price, it was ~400 BTC

On a per asset basis this is: 0.000490196 BTC

James

claim my achievements?

not sure I understand who I would make the claims to. I am pretty well known here and people know what I have done in a bit more than a year. They can safely assume I am not a teenager and have been coding for some years. Maybe I have written code for software you have been using for years from big name companies. Maybe I invented the Internet and "Hello Kitty". But I am still only a bit more than a year in crypto and my history as a crypto coder has started when jl777 was created

In any case I am not interested in fame.

James

curious. why is it so important to know my identity?

I am available most of the time, I publish my work product as I am developing, I still havent disappeared with all the funds raised.

There are certainly anon guys, usually using newbie handles and not ones with 5000 posts, that are scamming, but then there are all the known people who are doing order of magnitude bigger scammer because people seem to feel that if they are known somehow this is making it safer.

James

nice try, but I am not that old

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Born: September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, United States
Died: October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States

James

no, but
you can see my work: https://github.com/jl777/libjl777/

i think mql4 is a C like language with specific environment, so you would have to port them. I have made a similar environment to metatrader as that is most familiar for this space