Okay. As I noted in a previous posting, the demands on your time will escalate and become extreme going forward so you'll need to run this with project management like attention and prioritisation.

A proper ANN and roadmap is fundamental though. It's good and all to be talking about masternodes and whatnot, but sound answers to the questions "What is Positron for? Who will use it? How will it be adopted? Why would someone choose to acquire some Positron?" are the bedrock of whether it has a future or is just another flash in the pan P&D.

Yes. This is starting to become very concerning. I've been refreshing the OP to see the updated announcement but it's been days now and nothing's forthcoming.

What this crypto is exactly and what issues/requirements it is addressing is fundamentally important. There needs to be a statement on what areas of adoption for real-world use it's looking to achieve. People need to see what the vision is for long term growth and usefulness that will attract users of the currency, not just speculators.

At the the moment it's looking very much like people are just waiting for the pump so they can offload all their holdings and buy back in when it slumps back down. That's not a future, that's a small bunch making big bucks and a whole lot being burned.

I'd like to see far more from the dev on the vision and what this is genuinely about/for.

Aw heck....let's just go the whole hog and get him to announce a Tron version of quantitive easing with an extra 50,000 coins a day until further notice. We're all gonna be rich!  

Hey Cryptowest,

You certainly are full of great ideas and a great level of energy.

Just remember (if I may) a few rules for your health, sanity and clarity of what you're trying to do:


Eat well, take time away from the keyboard outside in the fresh air and don't let yourself get consumed (which can easily result in physical exhaustion). Many of us have to, on occasions, be dragged kicking and screaming away from our keyboards when we're in the middle of trying to fix some elusive problem or get something critical that's terribly exacting finished. Sometimes the very best thing is to go for a walk and let your subconscious (and the greater universal mind....that's a bit of philosophy for another time!) do its work in the background which then often results in brilliance flooding our consciousness that never would have happened if we didn't go for a walk.

Don't over commit. Please don't take offence at this, we all suffer from it, but you're already often saying "2 - 3 days I'll have that finished" yet you have enormous volumes of stuff to do now, plus you'll be fielding many requests from people to talk to you. You need to manage your time and work flow very effectively. And (here's the big one) you'll need to get good at saying "NO!" because if you fall into the age old trap of agreeing to do too much you'll fail. I can't stress this aspect enough.

Don't try to be everyone's friend. You absolutely cannot be. You already have considerable experience of how easily you can be let down and how easily everything can turn pair shaped. To stay the course you must be nimble, prudent and a minimalist. I'd be thinking very carefully just exactly what is your philosophy for the wallet. Who is it directed at and who will use it? We've all seen thousands of whacky ideas being touted by various devs on what's going to be in their wallets. Often one wonders whether they're smoking something pretty strong when they write up their posts. Take a leaf from Steve Jobs' MO and continually ask "who are the users of this and how does this specific feature address their likely needs/desires?"

Remember to have fun. Don't get too serious with it all. What you're doing is great but if you end up turning into a workaholic dev who's become a complete stranger to his family/significant other you are going to be failing in areas of your life that are the backbone of success. This is SOOOO important!

Just a few tips from someone that's been around a while....  

I think you might be asking an ARCH related question in the Tron thread? (Unless I'm confused too)

Tante you haven't rambled at all. You've put up an incredibly important set of questions and points about the future of Dash (and frankly all open source based 'community' style projects). There can't be too much emphasis placed on how important the points you've raised are.

I'm in the middle of something so can't give it my attention right now, but hope to respond in teh next day or two (and I'm sure Toknormal, Bridgewater and others will be busily thinking about what you've written too).

Duh!

How insightful of you! I'm gonna have to change them all now. Might use something a little stronger like RENEGADEMAN (and variations). Yep, that'll work.

Yeah I know; it's good. The only thing is that I have a pretty good memory and I have probably around 40 passwords memorised allowing me to logon to various things on multiple different devices. If I started using something like KeePass I'd pretty soon lose the capacity to remember all those passwords and forget them. I know that increases my risk that a keylogger somewhere will then pick up what I'm typing but I don't login to anything on a device that's not my personal property unless it's something where I have 2FA enabled and I also use the onscreen keyboard if it's really dodgy (like a friend's laptop or computer somewhere else in a public place).

I used one of NSCrypto's builds (when the dev was offline back a few days ago and the QT wallet had stopped). I only used it for a short while but at this stage none of my coins have been stolen nor my bank accounts cleaned out so I guess he's either chosen to ignore all those inbound key-logger strokes he's collecting or there's a surprise awaiting me on a future date. 

Ha! I have but one account on Bitcointalk. But I'm flattered you think Good_Samaritan is me. I think he (or she) is very clever with the subtle sarcasm that quite a few are misunderstanding. Bloody brilliant (more brilliant than I could have come up with)!

In the meantime perhaps you'd consider either going away from this thread or being of some use. If you have an intelligent critical analysis to offer that reasonable people would consider to be balanced then you'll be adding value. But if you're just here to put shit on Positron's dev and people that are here taking a keen interest, well.....you know what I think of you.

Yes well done Tao (I've already tweeted it for you!)

It's epitome not epitomy. Looks like you can't spell either!

Pathetic.

You are the epitome of what's wrong in crypto.

You really are clueless aren't you?

Prior to you coming onto this thread and posting never ending negativity and nasty comments I'd actually been thinking I should check out ShadowCash and see what it's about. But now, those big letters in your signature are completely tarnished by the manner in which you behave. If you are the standard of people from ShadowCash (and I've had a couple of similar experiences before but I'd started to discount them....now it's all adding up) then congratulations, you've just completely turned a potential investor off.

Shame on you for doing such damage to ShadowCash by your pathetic and immature postings. Grow the fuck up.

Voted. They're brilliant!

You're hilarious Good_Samaritan!

So someone comes barrelling into a thread like this, brings bucket loads of judgement, innuendo and (frankly) obnoxiousness with them by opening their mouth and a blurting out:


and you think they're not a FUDder?

You're a word-smith of tremendous capability (and entertainment!) Tok.

I've been in IT for over 30 years and have never heard of a TCP packet being referred to within a reproductive context!

I think you might be misunderstanding Good_Samaritan's (not so) subtle sarcasm. I'm finding him (her?) quite amusing.

The staking for the most part is working fine and I've already received more than 200 Tron in less than 48 hours. My posting is more about me understanding how it works.

Why don't you find something useful to do with yourself?