I'd noticed an error and created an issue for it last night, but must confess I did not research it thoroughly. I'll address this now as a matter of urgency.

You just inadvertently explained why banks are bad.

"How would you store $50,000 Dollars?"
"You should give them to a trusted third party"
"Woah woah woah, don't do this!"

On a similar note, it's nice that all of these suggestions are even available, it is good to reflect on how far we have came, not just to store money securely, but to store copies of it also. - Copies of the keys I know, but it amounts to the same

received, thank you.

I need help from others, as I am taking on too much. Let's start Delegated cards, anybody can do them - assign to yourself in Trello or say here that you are working on it.

1. OP Graphics and Branding
2. Create List of Existing Contacts

Thank you.

Thank you on both counts, credit to Cryptozim for his efforts on the OP.

I'll update the list of developer loans, 3.7 of 8 now, almost half way.

Now to contact all the places with our old logo to update.

Miningpool.co have lowered their fees to 1% at our request. Spread the hash.

All,

Please update your clients to v0.9.2.2 - this was a security release, branding was a side product. If you are running v0.9.1.1 from the previous release you do not have any new checkpoints to prevent against forks, and you do not have alerting to be informed if something has gone wrong.

The main seed nodes, exchanges, and pools are all updated frequently to mitigate risks.

Thank You

UPDATES

New Client: Bitmark v0.9.2.2 Released - please update to keep your network secure.

New Branding: Bitmark Logo and Variations.

New OP: The top of the thread - thanks to Cryptozim!

 

I'll just post again quickly then

Would you consider lowering your BTM fees? All the other pools are at 0.75-1%, you have a very good pool but people are leaving due to this, it would be great to see them come back, and also for the hashrate to be nicely distributed.

Thank you for any consideration.

Our goal is to have hundreds, or thousands, of wallets and ways to interact with and store the currency. Consider the 'QT' to be a temporary then legacy interface which is enough for those used to crypto currency to get started. Most people's interactions with Bitmark will be through marking, pressing buttons on websites and transferring from service to service. Apps, browser wallets, alternative clients, we hope to have a wide range of them, and foster competition between design and experience specialists. There will likely always be a P2P daemon back bone network, but the last thing we want is for our friends and family to have their first encounter of cryptographic currency be a clunky unintuitive downloadable program, no currency, and to be required to jump through several hoops before being exposed to even the slightest utility.

Checkpoints, deferred to be discussed under separate cover Multi Signed Broadcasted Checkpoints.

I will be retiring for the day shortly as I've been preparing things for the last 26 hours. Not before releasing an updated client however

Sometimes I am very glad that I read a post on this forum, this is one of those occasions. Respect.

We are considering adding (optional) Peercoin style broadcasted checkpoints to Bitmark to further enhance security.

It occurred to me today, that it may be nice to require multiple signatures on any broadcasted checkpoints before they are accepted or relayed as valid. This would allow say 2 community members, an exchange, two pools and a developer to all sign a checkpoint once every few days, requiring a majority of signatures from those listed as valid, 5 of 8 or 8 of 12, and so forth.

We would intend it to be semi manual process requiring a human to verify and sign, not a fully automated system, to ensure a smooth transition and no technical exploits. Perhaps it is even better than hardcoded checkpoints where you have to trust only the developer(s).

Has anybody implemented such a thing, or proposed or analysed it? Seeking feedback, and to discuss this further over the coming weeks.

Mark

After reading that, I think you may need till next month or longer, and would also suggest you move development to something open like github so that people can help you test and contribute along the way.

This isn't an alt coin, it's a new set of technology, you need more time and more eyes to do this correctly.

Keep up the good work, and please to keep things positive and for your own sanity, move it to be considered as a software development project until tested and proven, and then turn it in to a currency.

I wanted to help you test and couldn't as I didn't know what the binaries you sent contained, we need source to compile, honestly nobody will steal or can steal it, as it's under development and would take anybody weeks to catch up to your understanding of your own code.

Best of luck,

Mark

Interesting discussion.

The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it.

It's really explicit

'proof of' ... just the proof that work was done

'work' ... the expensive bit that protects the network. It has to be hard and expensive and require a lot effort and investment, that's our protection.

If the majority of work is controlled by honest nodes then the chain is safe. Not done by honest nodes, controlled by honest nodes.

So as long as the work is expensive (monetarily) and controlled by honest nodes, the network is safe.

Perhaps it warrants further discussion and we should delay it until the next release, open an issue on github and research plus test thoroughly. I'm 99% certain I could have it implemented and working today thanks to prior work by Sunny, however that 1% risk isn't worth it.

This release will contain configured and test alerts, new branding, and bring all people who upgrade to the newest checkpoints.

We are getting to the 50/50 point regarding the ANN. We should meet half way and partially update it to include pertinent information. Cryptozim has offered to help in the process.

IMPORTANT

Should we implement peercoin's check pointing in this release?

I know it has been seen as contentious, however all checkpoints come from the repository owner (me) any way, this allows me to update checkpoints without rebuilding the client.

More importantly it means all nodes on the network have recent checkpoints without downloading or rebuilding a release, including exchanges and mining pools.

Please advise and discuss.

Please ask any questions you have, the more questions are asked the better we can collectively refine our documentation and ideas

Thank you.

The OP is crafted in such a way to encourage participation from those who take the time to consider the project's merits and who may potentially want to be involved in some way to shaping it's future - it isn't an 'ANN' in the traditional sense, as Bitmark isn't really an 'alt coin', it's a fully fledged alternative currency and more pertinently a project focussed on massive adoption.

So far this OP format has enabled us to have over 55 pages of useful on-topic engaging discussion and to achieve what we have so far.

That said, everything you need can be found by following links from the first couple of lines

Many regards, and I hope you find the information you are looking for quickly.

Wonderful - I have already had interest from several miners requesting a multipool paying out BTM, especially from GPU miners and those running slightly older ASICs if that information helps.

The Simple pools you provide are very good, I'm extremely glad that it was you who replied. Please do update here or by PM when you launch your beta multipool, very interested to see it

Many Regards,

Mark

Very kind, thank you, also a nice approach using the proceeds of signature campaigns to donate to projects.

I'd also like to thank you for the feedback you've given to multiple questions so far, it has been most useful.

That's good.

I feel I will need to contact everybody to use the correct logo's - they have used an old suggestion that was never adopted, I'll wait a short time until we are live with everything.