I haven't been able to find anything. Reddit is also pretty dry to so it looks Telegram and Rocket chat are where most of the discussion takes place.

Actually just took a look at both and it seems almost all the daily discussion takes place on Telegram.

Great graphic truxton -- thanks for posting.

The mainnet launch of Phantom should happen by EOY. Nearest competitor is probably MAID.

Yep agreed. I'll be glued to the screen for the presentation. It should hopefully act as a catalyst for more general awareness around the project. And actually the timing was accidentally perfect, with the 2x cancellation.

Nice, thanks for posting Synechist. There's so much confusion in this space (albeit it IS complicated, and progressing so @#% quickly), and so many people looking at charts and YouTube gurus instead of white papers. But my suspicion is that the influx of funds and other "smart" money will cause quality projects like Blocknet to rise to the surface ... and up the chart.

Apparently the Palm Beach Group recommended ZEN in their newsletter today.

How did this hunt start? Anyone have a link where the said they'd sell some XMR and buy another privacy coin? Thx

Mind if I ask where you found that? Can't locate it on Twitter or Telegram, but still trying to find the best ways to keep up-to-date ...

Just started researching PTOY but ... was the app already released? I came across a video from mid-September saying the app would be released by the end of the month? Was it released, and I missed the news? Or was there a delay?

Yeah that makes sense MrPuffnStuff. So I imagine we don't have any community members who speak English and Korean? Part of the problem is Googling their names in English skips over the sources they'd probably be appearing in (with their Korean names).

Can anyone direct me to more detailed info on the founders? Haven't been able to mind much aside from the website bios. Thanks in advance.

For staking, you need to have at least 5k BLOCK and be holding them in your wallet, correct?

I'm on Mac OS, but it looks like the wallet download is no longer working: https://blocknet.co/#downloads

Any suggestions? THX

Would it be accurate to summarize Blocknet as a direct peer-to-peer exchange of digital assets?

I've been doing a bunch of research lately and fsr ... my understanding of Blocknet keeps getting pulled in different directions.

Can Blocknet be summarized "in a nutshell" (I realize leaving a lot out, but still ...), and if so, is the above summary about right?

Likely with the next update, July 1.

Awesome -- thank you! I wasn't aware of the other options. Will check out ...

You need a Windows wallet to collect ANC, right? No love yet for us Mac users?

Anyone know if 2.0 is still schedule for "early June"? Someone on the Slack mentioned they thought it was for June 22 ...

NP

FWIW below are some random / unorganized quotes from devs and community members I’ve collected. They aren’t nec my own opinions, but they provide a rough understanding of what SHIFT’s up to I think.

—Phantom is the flagship "product" (I guess you could call it a dApp) but I don't believe the primary purpose is to act as an SDK. The primary purpose is to act as the gateway to the Shift network. Shift's focus is decentralized hosting and Lisk's focus is dapps and sidechains, although since they're based on the same codebase, in theory they could each do both. … the teams have different focuses and different goals. Shift and Lisk have contributed to each other to make the codebase the better in the past, it's not really a competition. … Shift is focused on decentralized hosting and is not a direct competitor with Eth. Also a big differentiation is the use of IPFS, which I don't think has been done before in crypto.

—Decentralized Web (like maidsafe), + decentralized storage (like siacoin), + decentralized smarts contracts (like ethereum and lisk), all in one, but the first to implement IPFS in a really successful way, there are many other features

—If we don’t encounter too big bumps in the road, we will release a first version of Phantom at the end of Q2 on testnet!!

—Hosting websites at servers, p2p connected

—Shift is kind of like maid, only without encryption and tor, but it will be available under normal DNS, so shift will be better for adoption. The other 'competitors' ignore the fact that over half the webs traffic is mobile also. Shifts scalablity is huge using lisk codebase, nothing else could really be more perfect for a decentralized internet solution in my opinion.

—Decentralized hosting solution in parallel of a decentralized application platform. With IPFS, you can pin content that you want to see hosted forever … the blooming of Web 3.0 with an ecosystem built in from the get go, which SHIFT is the spearhead of. No single point of failure, freedom of creation, built-in payment system.

—An easy way to describe it is that we are trying to build a parallel Internet for decentralized content distribution.

This is a really great question I think. I just posted on the Slack, will let you know if I get a response.

Andreas A was talking in the latest Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast about how he thought the SEC (in the US) was inevitably coming for some of these ICOs. There's the jurisdiction issue, but he said the SEC sort of has de facto jurisdiction internationally as well. Anyway if this is true, and if awareness of the potential problems with ICOs increases, and if people realize that laws enacted in the future can have retroactive consequences now / in the past ... then I could see ICOs on Antshares suddenly becoming very attractive.

The Slack was discontinued I think. They have a Ryver (similar service) account, though. Sign-up here: shiftnrg.ryver.com