Light and bright, vs. dark and gloomy (which might be good for a gamer specific website).

Check out the websites for some of the world's biggest companies. (These guys literally spend BILLIONS on marketing, and these web design choices are not the result of happenstance!)

http://www.chevron.com/
http://www.apple.com/
http://www.valero.com/default.aspx
https://www.att.com/
http://www.fanniemae.com/portal/index.html
http://cvshealth.com/
http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/
http://www.ibm.com/us-en/

Spaciousness is also very important for product promotion and online shopping (not having things bunched and packed together like we might expect for online news/magazine websites). IBM and Apple's websites are good examples.

Again, the DESIGN of the current website (digibyte.co) is much much better in my opinion (of course that's because it squares better with all of the above design criteria).


On a somewhat related subject, what's happened to that fantastic promo video? It should figure prominently in all of DGB's offerings, and it seems to have been relegated to being buried in the youtube list of videos.  

And seriously, can anyone read the small font on the OP graphics without a magnifying glass? Security, Speed, Transaction Volume, etc. - what does it say? The font is so small that the letters run together . . . and I'm looking at it with a supersized monitor right now!

The idea is to make it easier, not more difficult, on the eyes and the mind!

Here's what i think
http://tinypic.com/r/166gked/9 or http://i64.tinypic.com/166gked.jpg




Here's what i re-imagine
http://tinypic.com/r/sxkxsw/9 or http://i65.tinypic.com/sxkxsw.jpg

I agree with the current/old website's advantage in laying out the basics and how to use DGB right there, streamlined, for new users.

Hello,

Yes, I am around. Reading this thread and going to work on other bounties when there is some free time. I was hoping we could get together more people able to work on them. This has not happened so far.

Anyway if you guys have concrete ideas what should/could be done please update Bounties page. This should help with keeping things organized.

Thanks,

Those bastards want to keep controlling us!

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a pool forked away network did stay unharmed

hybrid POW/POS did show again his power

while in pure POW networks full power lies in mining pools

a hybrid POW/POS network much more resistant against bad behaving pools even if major hashrate inside

the problem why a pool can fork away is because at some degree of hashrate the pool starts to belive himself more than the network

and then he create his own fork

(i did post in last few week multiple times about spread hashrate
and what can happen and that it will harm the miner on pool
wasting a day of electricity
and exact that happend......

if u tell someone dont jump off the bridge it will hurt you
- and he jump -

who is responsible?
the guy who say dont jump?
the bridge?
or the guy who jumped?

should we forbid build bridges in the future?
)

until yet i know only of 3 wallets who forked

out of like 200 regulary open wallets each day (and lot more if u add the rare opened wallets twice a month)?

and all 3 returned to mainnet

if at all its a sign of strengh

the other topic about timedrift is more interesting and will be addressed next month

in fact we had this on last wallet todo list

by some misstake it wasnt in final code

but it will be now

and as i said regarding mining there will be interesting changes where i anounce more once it run successfull through all internal tests

I guess they all allow buyers to take back payments they’d made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you aren’t aware of this “feature” that’s because Bitcoin has only just changed to allow it)  

Groestl do more work then digibyte but they don't have marketing, same with myraidcoin. Jared is a master marketing specialist and hires good developers which is why digibyte will be successful. The gaming wallet is the best achievement of digibyte to date but the digispeed update was a joke.
You do know the digispeed update was nothing more then changing the block times and reducing the rewards but the marketing behind it was brilliant! You want to hear the truth and I am unveiling that for you.

Please correct me if the above is false...

There is .7 btc for you at 33 on bittrex, don't be shy. I am filling my bags with purchases in the 20s to sell at 100s again. *5 profits.

People, let's test official Noble Android app and give some feedback to Rofo



Apps link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jasonlcurby.noble

no, I had same issues using them but it's fixed now.

It seems to be partially up now. At least there is no server error with the homepage, but the document I uploaded several hours ago is still trying to process itself - and the 2 DGB fee has over 1500 confirmations.

http://digusign.com/document/0JNkbuf2lFjfI61DJbYS

http://digiexplorer.info/address/DEmeY1xgkWs4KLWc3mbq1pc2mFpDtZvUNG




Edit: now I'm getting the application error again:

Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.

Thank you HR - that looks like good reading.  I keep reading about these virtual machines and I was contemplating setting one up.  I have 24gb of ram on my machine so I think I have enough space to create one.  However, one question - can I have wallets staking within a virtual machine?  How does that work?

Thank you Dromedar very much - On a brighter note - I am working on an encrypted partition on my hard drive that acts as a live volume.  I am running my test wallets out of the normal roaming folder that defaults.  I was able to creat an obscure folder and encrypt the partition.  I am making headway!  Thank you once again for your support.

Ohhh no it isn't...

jason / rofo is full focused on NOXT and all they stuff around it
that will have positive effects on NOBLE too because where he enable NOXT he most likely enable NOBLE to as possible payment coin

but for NOBLE u must organize a group of community guys working for it

i mean we as DMD DIamond Foundation are nothing else than stakeholder of DMD who did takeover after there was no more activity from old dev visible

u can ask a few times what will happen what is planned in a coin thread

but if a thread like this stuck a few months on same page u know if u dont find people who together with u care for the coin noone else will

i suggest get in touch with eagleflies ask if he is avaiable and willing join a team that wana set activities for Noblecoin
and also seek other same minded people in community

and then when u have people willing to work for NOBLE then u can talk with rofo

no now come with empty hands expect him alone to do stuff

if he see there is activity he will support u for sure

like update first positing or help ya reactivate website and update content with stuff u deliver

@eagleflies and joelao95,
On top of your technical skills and knowledge that you clearly demonstrated in the pioneering and completely successful switch of Noblecoin from POW to PoS-II, the professionalism shown in your documentation along with its timely dissemination, your open discussions about the various ways of moving forward and then the same with the actual implementation of the agreed upon options, and your almost immediate and impeccable responses to possible issues, make both of you a couple of the best examples we have for how the Open Source world ideally functions. My hat’s off to you both. I don’t think it would have been possible to ask for anything better with the switch, and, if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’d have said it was impossible. Fantastic work! I hope we see you doing more of the same in the future, helping to make Noblecoin the best it can be.

@fairglu, james6546, ctenc001, and everyone else who belongs to this community,
You represent even more examples of what a cryptocurrency’s community should look and be like – your open, frank and honest above board working relationships and mutually complementary contributions added even more weight in favor of my eventual decision to endorse and become involved in Noblecoin.

@Rofo,
Your example of stepping back and delegating is equally commendable. It’s next to impossible for something of the envisioned scope of Noblecoin to reach its potential without delegating responsibility. In fact, I would say that any attempt to do otherwise would actually be extremely harmful to that goal. Similar to what Merlin said in Boorman’s Excalibur, “when a man lies, he murders some part of the world”, I believe the same can be said for those who hold others back: when a man holds back someone’s efforts to improve things, he murders some part of the world. Said in positive: when a man empowers others to improve upon what’s already been done well, he gives birth to something new once again. You gave birth to Noblecoin, and every time you delegate and empower others to continue building upon that, you give birth to something equally new and wonderful. Something of the scope of Noblecoin, if it’s going to survive, ultimately gains a life of its own, and more so, and more quickly, if it’s Open Source – there’s no holding it back, and it takes just as much of a visionary to “let it go” as it did to conceive it to begin with.

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As for my 2 cents with regards to ideas for future improvements for NOBL, I would recommend the following:

• 1)   A continual, unwavering, and undistracted focus on the core product, which is A CURRENCY (if there isn’t a currency to begin with, then there’s nothing at all - in spite of all the great value added real-world business partners that we might have), which means MONEY that maintains its value, at very least, and most likely increases in value as the fiats inflate away (never forget that a cryptocurrency’s main purpose is to offer people a decentralized, apolitical, safe haven from fiat depreciation). This should always be a coin’s main priority, in my opinion – a safe place to store one’s wealth – and fantastic independent value added satellite businesses are obviously the icing on the cake in the most positive sense of the phrase.

• 2)   Always keeping in mind the basic underpinnings mentioned above, I would recommend that current publicity campaigns focus on and leverage the strengths of Noblecoin: the safest, most advanced, and best developed PoS in existence made possible by a truly decentralized and exemplary Open Source dedicated community that will only continue to get better and grow. Ultimately it’s the community that makes the currency something to be trusted (means of exchange have always been commonly agreed upon monetary units, the difference being that historically, until now, excepting the precious metals, which also require mutually agreed upon consensus, it’s been governments that have created that “trust”) and that indeed is our most important responsibility.
  
  With respect to the technical side of things, along with the cosmetic improvements already mentioned by others, I would recommend prioritizing wallet improvements with a more intuitive “one click” type of management of transactions and their groupings (for the less tech savvy who are not comfortable with command line instructions) which, with PoS–II, will increasingly become necessary everyday operations for active wallet holders. I highly recommend continual development, in proactive manner, dealing specifically with known issues before they get out of hand. In regards to transaction management, that would also include education of best practices for manual use while more “automatic” means are being developed – of course, the great documentation and open development characteristic of this community serve as fantastic foundations for that education. Unrushed product development of this sort also keeps the community alive, active and in touch.

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In my opinion, the switch from a simple, low network hashrate, scrypt POW to PoS-II is a game changer for Noblecoin. It is no longer just another altcoin to be mined and dumped for something more stable and more secure. I think that with the end of POW, Noblecoin will not only see the end of continuous sell pressure perpetually driving price lower, it will actually begin to see the exact opposite: continual buy pressure that perpetually drives price higher. As people slowly come to realize the huge potential that Noblecoin has to offer, that in becoming THE state-of-the-art and safest PoS cryptocurrency in existence leading the way in its space it has actually become that “something more stable and more secure” itself, and that since the only way to get involved is by purchasing NOBL, price has nowhere to go but up.

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Given everything I’ve just outlined, and in interest of full disclosure, I’d like to make public my recent purchase of a medium sized amount of NOBL (something along the lines of a top 20 rich list amount). I will also be incorporating Noblecoin into my efforts to slowly build what I hope will someday be a comprehensive cryptocurrency knowledge base that has to date focused exclusively on DigiByte. Noblecoin will be a natural complement being that it will put what is in my opinion the best PoS in existence shoulder to shoulder with what I consider to be the best POW in existence.

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Again, kudos to everyone involved here, and best wishes to everyone who continues to give Noblecoin a life of its own that knows no limits.