If you look at the time in a full working day... 8am to 5 pm say on average... to make an update on what has happened during that time, takes only a minute % and it's standard in pretty much any business practice... it's also productive to share what you have been working on with other people.

Updating on progress is a healthy thing not only for the investors but also the developers.

We have a policiy of ensuring public communications and progress reports being delivered each working day (Monday to Friday), the time in which the coders are working during office hours, whilst always being accessible 24/7 in slack or via the forums.

That is exactly what we are working on!

I'm not sure that it's possible to buy your way onto Poloniex although I could be totally wrong.

They are very hard people to speak with, where are their contact email addresses for example? Where is there Slack or IRC channel with Poloniex admins? Bittrex has all of that and the Bittrex team is open and readily available.

If it's question of having to talk with Poloniex team in the Trollbox it's not really the way I would like to kick off communications.

I would hope that poloniex adds us when they see that we are a serious project that is providing a unique take on the Lisk codebase (which itself was a clone of Crypti).

They have tons of clones already on their website such as EXP so no reason not to list Rise.

If Rise members could continue to reach out to them that could help us get noticed.

Rise is absolutely a clone of Lisk and we've always been very clear about that.

In fact the original thread title contained the words "Lisk Clone".

However, our goal is to work on the lisk codebase independantly and go our own direction with it.

That means adding extra programming language support for multi languages including python, c# and ruby as opposed to offering node.js as the main language.

So whilst we are staying close to the Lisk codebase because we believe it's a solid foundation to start Rise platform, we also want to change things that will offer developers a more diverse platform with less restraints.

Monday Update:

http://forum.rise.vision/topic/18/dev-team-new-office-delegates-and-node-syncing

Photo's of office will follow once it's correctly setup!

Wait for Mondays announcement where we talk about the devs moving into actual office space (more than 99% of coins have).

The "kitchen office" was just a temp arrangement.

Perhaps you could be kind enough to explain why it is that people in the Lisk thread are still asking for forging to happen?

Well there you go there is one idea for how we can allocate some of the delegate funds we are holding.

Related to coding the delegate fix was a forum update posted by Justin recently:

http://forum.rise.vision/topic/14/dev-team-delegates

Agreed that the sooner we get the rewards going to public delegates the better. They were going to the public but we had to switch that back because of the forking issues.

Right now the rewards being generated by the genesis delegates will be put to use for the benefit of Rise by the way of bountys and promotional work, we could even create a public Rise pool where we place the funds (rise generated) and allow the community to decide how it gets spent. For example another signature bounty or twitter promotion and we vote to allocate 600,000 Rise for those purposes.

And fingers crossed that the developers have the rewards going to the public again in the next couple of weeks.

It's the pre-coded rate of inflation in Rise, the block rewards are the incentive to have multiple delegates securing the network.

Over the next 5 years Rise has the following rate of inflation.


Year 1: 15 RISE per block, 115,768,000 Total coins with 15.77% annual inflation rate
Year 2: 12 RISE per block, 128,382,400 Total coins with 10.90% annual inflation rate
Year 3:   9 RISE per block, 137,843,200 Total coins with 7.37% annual inflation rate
Year 4:   6 RISE per block, 144,150,400 Total coins with 4.58% annual inflation rate
Year 5:   3 RISE per block, 147,304,000 Total coins with 2.19% annual inflation rate
Year 6+: 0 Rise per block and therefore 0% inflation.

At the end of the the fith year there is 0 block reward and transaction fees alone will sustain the network.

Latest news from Justin and the team posted on forum.rise.vision

http://forum.rise.vision/topic/13/dev-team-new-devs-new-machines-office-space

Correct, there is tons of coding that needs to be done in order to complete the roadmap.

Having a single person attempt to do such a thing would stretch the project out for potentially 18 months and onwards.

Justin is the lead developer on Rise and he was with us from the start, he will be overseeing work undertaken by new developers that we take on which includes the two coders that joined yesterday, Richard and Nathan.

So to make the point clear, it's not because Justin can't do it on his own it's because it's faster and more constructive to have extra hands on board.

Rise featured in Cointelegraph:

https://t.co/Kpl1A6S5z4


Main development is about to get a kickstart as there are two new devs about to join on Monday.


If you look at the Rise vs Lisk image you will notice there is a key on it with certain features shown as "coming soon". They are on the roadmap.


We are focusing on stability first. Lisk doesn't have delegates running yet and we are focusing on getting Rise to have public delegates working without issue. That was not part of the schedule when we started but we are having to deal with it now as priority.

Update related to todays events and bittrex:

I asked Bittrex to suspend deposits and withdrawals today until we found out exactly why there was a server outage causing the blockchain to stop.

The following explantion was posted here:

http://forum.rise.vision/topic/8/rise-wallet-re-opened-at-bittrex-21st-july-2016

This highlights EXACTLY why we need delegates back into the public hands asap and running on multiple nodes.

Thanks for the understanding and patience while the development work is completed to make public delegates possible and stable again.

We always want things to go faster, to get what we want faster, to not have to wait and instead get instant results.

That's because in reality events rarely go EXACLTY the way we want them to happen.

However, I'm fully confident that we will roll out the items listed on the roadmap and the team we have is only an asset to the project.

People can troll as much as they like but it won't stop us from doing what we set out to do, in the meantime there are plenty of people that will join us and support the project and contribute in positive ways.

To recap on recent news / events:

* Dedicated Rise Forum... forum.rise.vision
*Patch on the delegate issue that was causing forks is expected quite soon.
*Two full time developers about to start as well as Justin that is already full time.
*Exectutive director that has previous US government experience is joining with the mission to demonstrate the decentralized application platform we are building.
*Conferences are being lined up for later on in the year to make Rise better known in the public eye.


In summary, yes I would like to see development work happening at lightening speed but what matters to me most is seeing the overall progress on a day to day basis, and it's happening believe me. The tempo will pick up in August with a higher frequency of Rise Core Development updates.

Fastest way is to contact me in the slack group!

Thanks to everyone who voted, a secondary vote with more options on block reward will take place at forum.rise.vision

It was a difficult one to decide because if we had provided shares based on twitter follower totals it was open to abuse.

I.e twitter followers can be bought or gained for next to nothing.

We decided that we wouldn't have the time to verfiy if people had cheated by using fake followers or not, therefore it was simplified.