Let's do this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/StableCoin/comments/20z286/a_call_to_the_stablecoin_community/

Hopefully soon we'll get an announcement like this. Removes the Single Point of Failure, plus multiple people working on a team would help speed up the development of the mixing service and other features (like PoP) before our anon/zerocoin competitors. Not only that, restored faith in the coin would it increase the value of SBC x5-10 overnight, and in turn a re-energized Stablecoin community would be able to fast-track marketing efforts so we can get SBC on more exchanges and accepted as currency in more places.

I made my case that Artos should open up expressions of interest to make a dev team here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=349198.msg4594734#msg4594734

I think his issue is trust - the fear that someone may join the dev team and then copy the mixing code and give it to another coin. However, if he opens up expressions of interest he can sift through the post history of different people to see who is most reliable. People like R-T-B and Zavtra seem to be very trustworthy judging by their comments and how long and active they've been as part of this community and I'd recommend he brings them on board - R-T-B has already expressed his interest.

It is frustrating having a Single Point Of Failure with this coin. It also makes people hesitant to support/invest in this coin as its future is uncertain. I am well aware that the mixing feature will definitely take some time, and I have no doubt Artos is working hard on it. But if we don't get there first, SBC will die (unless there turns out to be a huge problem with the anonymizing features of zerocoin/anoncoin, buying us more time).


Also, Artos, could you please update the original post with the 1.5 clients, as well as add links to the CoinedUp and Coins-E SBC/BTC markets in the exchanges section of the website:

CoinedUp: https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=SBC&base=BTC
Coins-E: https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/SBC_BTC/

Also, Artos, could you please update the original post with the 1.5 clients, as well as add links to the CoinedUp and Coins-E SBC/BTC markets in the exchanges section of the website:

CoinedUp: https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=SBC&base=BTC
Coins-E: https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/SBC_BTC/

Hi all,

I'm a long-time lurker, first time poster. I've been following this exciting coin since the relaunch and am one of the new mods (coinn00b) revamping the subreddit.

I'd just like to say a few things Artos, I hope you read this:

We all appreciate the hard work you've put into this coin - the development, the infrastructure, the promotion, etc, but we also know it can be too much for one person. Stablecoin has a large community behind it, our subreddit now has more subscribers than /r/Digitalcoin and /r/Anoncoin. We as a community are able to take on the responsibility of promotion and marketing. We just really need that Mixing Service (or at the very least updates about its progression) - without this unique feature SBC doesn't stand out from a sea of clonecoins and is difficult to market.

Originally you didn't give us a hard timeline and understandably reasoned it just needed to be out before Coin-Validation becomes a reality. However, with the Zerocoin news, and a team of devs working on a mixing service for Anoncoin, we now have a race on our hands to become the first coin to offer anonymous transactions. If we don't do it first, SBC will most likely have no future.

My proposal is that you open signups to assemble a dev team. There are several members of this forum who are trustworthy and have been supportive since the beginning who may be able to assist. You have shown you are a great programmer, but when both our competitors have teams while you work solo they have the advantage at implementing features faster. Not only that, as others have said currently you are the Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) - not only does that put a lot of pressure on you, it also makes some in the community nervous when you don't communicate regularly and people's imaginations can run wild.

Just think, with a small dev team, you'd be able to implement the Mixing Service faster and likely well before Anon/Zerocoin, and then you'd be able to work earlier on more projects setting SBC apart from the rest like Zavtra's PoP suggestion: http://forums.stablecoin.net/index.php?topic=237.0
Not only that, by removing the SPOF, as well as the dev team sharing the responsibility of regularly updating the community, faith in the coin will be strong for the long term.

Please give this proposal serious thought Artos. The future of this coin depends on your actions in the next few days/weeks.

If you want to invest for medium to long term you need to research coins that have unique features (not Bitcoin/Litecoin clones). You also need to beware of scamcoins which are either premined or instamined. And keep in mind if Bitcoin goes down, altcoins will follow.

From $2000 I would put:

$350 into Litecoin
$350 into Peercoin
$350 into Namecoin
$350 into Stablecoin
$600 into Bitcoin

They all have unique features and strong communities behind them. Make sure you never invest more than you can afford to lose!