A decentralized exchange is a possibility once smart contracts are added. I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves though, for now we're focusing on SMS integration since we have a unique opportunity with that.

Hey guys, we're hard at work on the Enigma implementation and everything is right on schedule. I will say that September 28 is a tentative release date for the Pesa client with Enigma. Between now and then, we will be working on organizing a robust social media campaign to make sure everyone knows about our shiny new features

The highlights from our chats will be compiled and posted here, either by myself, JakeThePanda, and anticlimax. For all intents and purposes, the three of us can be considered thread admins.

Pesa - Plans and Ideas


Twitter

To start off the twitter campaign, we’re going to go with another giveaway. Since the last one was attempted amidst the syncing troubles of the version 1.0 wallet, we think it appropriate that we do a full and uninterrupted giveaway to make up for it. The funds will come from the community donations, as well as some of my personal holdings.

In addition to a Pesa giveaway, I’d like to incorporate some type of contest with a large Pesa prize for the winner. Possibly a twitter contest where the winner is decided by seeing who can get the most retweets/favorites for a Pesa related tweet in a certain amount of time. That is my idea, although I’m sure the community will have others.

Another option is to sponsor certain Twitter users to consistently tweet about Pesa. These users will be rewarded with Pesa depending on how popular their tweets are, and whether they create new interest in the project. This may go hand in hand with a type of referral system, where users are rewarded in Pesa for bringing new members to the community on Bitcointalk.org or the IRC channel.

It has also been proposed that prior to any further organized Twitter campaigns, we first implement a Pesa branding overhaul, and use the Twitter campaign as vessel for the new and aesthetically improved Pesa.


Branding

There has been some support shown in the forum for a Pesa rebranding, along with a website revamp. The website is a feasible goal, and we’ve started working on some designs for an updated site. A full rebranding has the possibility to be detrimental (for example, if we change the logo, exchanges and other services might not all be switched at the same time, causing confusion) However, it is really up to the community. If there is enough support for a new logo, then we will deliver a new logo.

One possibility is that we vote on the type and extent of the rebranding. One way to accomplish this is to incorporate a standard survey-styled voting process, using a third party service, to determine which course of action is the most popular. Another option is to emulate the crowd-funding inspired smart contract system that we are working on for Pesa. To do this, we would just set up a number of Pesa addresses, each labeled with a different course of action, and whichever gets the most funding is the one that is chosen.

These are my two ideas, but any others are welcome for discussion in the thread, or during one of our IRC sessions.


IRC

The Pesa IRC channel was a great idea that was put together by ‘anticlimax’, a longtime supporter of Pesa. To date, we have had one formal Q&A session, as well as a few other informal chats amongst community members. It has been proposed that we can set up a weekly or twice-weekly time slot to do formal discussions on the irc channel about Pesa, with me and the other team members.

Before I assign an arbitrary time to do this, however, I’d like to see what the community thinks is an optimal time. As far as my personal schedule goes, Tuesday’s, Thursdays, and the weekends are when I am the least busy with classes and such.

Another IRC development is the possible incorporation of an IRC tip bot. JakeThePanda pointed out that most well established and successful coins have a large number of participants in their respective IRC channels. A tip bot might bring more interest in our channel by providing a new layer of interactivity between members. With a tip bot we can organize IRC-based games, betting, transaction-related proposals, and increase the general sociability of the community.



Skype

A Skype chat group was proposed by JakeThePanda, and I think that this is a great idea. Like the IRC channel, it gives us an opportunity to communicate as a community on a more frequent and personal basis. The advantage to Skype is that it works very well on mobile, and I will be able to respond to it at almost any time, versus only when I’m at a computer.




All of the above is open for comment and discussion, as well as revision, by the community. This is the rough roadmap/proposal for the next steps of Pesa's social framework. I'd like to get a discussion going about these aspects in the time until Enigma is implemented.

Did you personally get left out? I think I've gotten to everybody. If not, just pm me your address

Also, I decided to incorporate IRC and Branding into the document regarding the Pesa Twitter campaign, making more of a general proposal for the developments of Pesa's social platforms.

Hey guys,

Right now I'm finishing up the plan for the upcoming Twitter campaign, to see if we can get some buzz going for Pesa, and bring some new people into the community. I'll be posting that as a .doc today or tomorrow.

As for the website, we are working on a more robust and informational design, and we'd love to hear your thoughts as to what should be included. Right now we're thinking specifications, obviously, how you can get involved, and a contact form in case anyone who is not familiar with the thread wants to contact us.

Let me know what you guys think.

Which cryptos do you mean? I'd love to take a look and see if there anything we can emulate or expand upon that other coins have already successfully implemented.

Enigma will be closed source, similar to (I think) all other anon implementations in other coins so far. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, for specific features, Enigma will be based upon a multipath transaction structure. What that means is that each transaction or message will be broken down into smaller parts, then encrypted, then sent over the Pesa network. The encryption guarantees that any intercepted packages will be protected, and the multipath structure adds another layer to the mixing service that was outlined in the white paper (I'm assuming most here are at least somewhat familiar with coin mixing, it's been around for a while).

All anonymous transactions will have the option to be encrypted end-to-end, meaning that the only way to decrypt a transaction or message is to be the intended recipient, and for the transaction to have arrived to an official Pesa client.

As an additional layer of anonymity, these encrypted, multipath transactions will optionally be sent over the Tor network, further obscuring the sender's IP.

This will be the core functionality of Enigma, but it has been built to be easily extensible to account for the incorporation of future improvements and features. It is also completely original, meaning we did not borrow the code from a currently active coin or project. We hope that this makes Pesa as a whole a bit more desirable.

Hey everyone,

For those of you who haven't been in IRC the last couple times, here's a quick update as to what is happening behind the scenes:

• Enigma is ready for implementation into the Pesa source code. We should have a stable build within 3 weeks, and possibly pre-release builds before that.
• The Pesa team is attempting to get a spot on the Casheer App, and the community can help out by tweeting about @CasheerApp and @PesaCrypto, as well as participating in the discussion on the CasheerApp forum. You can check that out here: http://forum.casheer.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=151
• We're putting together another Twitter campaign, this time with bigger giveaways and more outreach. If you think you have an idea that relates to this or will improve the campaign, feel free to voice it.
• whive has shown interest in contributing to the advancement of Pesa on a global scale, namely through the incorporation of SMS technology into Pesa. We're really excited about this, as you can imagine.
  

I think that about sums it up, if I forgot anything, just let me know below

Doing it now.

Really looking forward to working with whive, especially on PesaSMS. This type of community voicing of ideas is exactly what we had in mind from the outset of this project.

Looking good. It seems that the .conf fix is working nicely so far

In order to increase the security of the network and to reduce the amount of people getting temporarily stranded on the wrong chain, we need those of you in the community who have a large holding of Pesa to enter "connect=173.255.114.193" into your wallet .conf file. Others who are having issues, or would like to ensure you are always on the right chain, insert "addnode=173.255.114.193" into the .conf file.

Edit: Eventually this issue will correct itself as long as enough of the total coins are staking on the correct chain.

Q&A time on the #pesacrypto irc channel.

I am currently on the pesacrypto irc channel.

Very nice. We'll add it to the OP

Edit:


Nothing more from keycoin. The choice was arbitrary, we just needed a better foundation that was free of worrisome bugs (Guerrillacoin), and then we added the dynamic interest portion.

This is correct. We only used keycoin code because is was very clean and did not deviate too far from bitcoin source. The dynamic interest portion was all us.

I just messaged him on here. He's usually pretty prompt with his replies.

Yeah, my crypto knowledge is a bit patchy. It's getting better though!  Most of the time I ask Max to explain it if I can't figure it out on my own.

Did exactly what I listed above just now, worked like a charm.

Run the remove_old_files script (take out your wallet.dat first)

This isn't a problem with the wallet, we think a whale/whale(s) came online on an older fork and disrupted the blockchain. If everyone updates again, we should be good.

According to the dev:

"Someone rich came online and made a lot of stake, the peers he was connected to, updated, but the rest were late and had other blocks of same height
and it was a long fork that confirmed blocks from both forks, and once it confirms, it can't auto correct it"