good work guys! let's put the silk in place it deserves at the top 10 of the coinmarketcap!

LOL, interesting theory about my secret identity.

...maybe I'll promise the world, promptly vanish for three days and then you'll know it was "me" all along  

Ben

P.S. Working on a community org chart right now, will post the framework soon.

If you think your changes were a lot, just wait until you see how much crap I cleaned up in 1.0.9.4!!!
I can see why the other devs walked away.  They were in way over their heads.

Still finding a few minor bugs and there are a lot of cosmetic things I would like to clean up, but right now I'm focused on functionality, stability, and reliability.
I am still hoping to get this released tonight to the members on Trello for additional testing.

If you think your changes were a lot, just wait until you see how much crap I cleaned up in 1.0.9.4!!!
I can see why the other devs walked away.  They were in way over their heads.

Still finding a few minor bugs and there are a lot of cosmetic things I would like to clean up, but right now I'm focused on functionality, stability, and reliability.
I am still hoping to get this released tonight to the members on Trello for additional testing.

Some users may experience getting stuck in sync. 
In this case reload client or download the blockchain. 

Yes you are correct,  Wednesday is crazy. Saturday latest? I will do what I can to see about a new dev with C++. I know one guy so let's see if he'll commit.

Yes you are correct,  Wednesday is crazy. Saturday latest? I will do what I can to see about a new dev with C++. I know one guy so let's see if he'll commit.

As I have previously stated I have silkcoin.us ready for the community to use. I have also disclosed my full Id and email. Just to reiterate I am Marc Fortenberry.  Look me up on facebook, linkedin, or btcjam. I have no problem revealing who I am for this community.  I am pretty much a noob in this but I do have about two hours a day I can devote to this. I am open to suggestions as to what my role can be. Please read previous posts as I have stated this before. I love silk and want this coin to succeed.  As this is a holiday weekend in USA let's wait till the weekend is over to hear from bholzer. If no communication then let's take control and finalize a plan no later than Wednesday.  Give a shit now about stepping on toes, let's get this done. There are plenty of devs that can do what we need. Thank you.

Ben's Bounties

Here are the bounties I'm happy to offer, and more will come as we make progress.

5,000 - for 10 positive news and promo Tweets from a crypto-related account with more than 1000 followers.
5,000 - for securing www.silkcoin.co and transferring control to the webmaster our community nominates. Invoice and whois confirm required for payout.
25,000 - for designing and publishing a new website at www.silkcoin.co ... our new public face!
25,000 - for coding and publishing a new wallet using Bitcoin Core 0.9.2.1 ... Windows to start.
(Basically this bounty is about somebody doing what bholzer said he would do. See OP for details. As I'm not a coder myself, I will pay this particular bounty after the work is confirmed valid and functional by other, more experienced members of the community.)

The funds have been transferred to the following wallet:
B8NN3ANBqfu7Sde8GbvWBNcdBuiqLLmnEB
As they're coins entirely from my holdings, I will pay them out as each task is completed. PM me on here if you're entitled to one.

From my comparative analysis I firmly believe that SilkCoin has a current intrinsic value around 800 SAT, but is depressed below that because of recent news/trauma.
Getting us up to a liquid trading range of 1200-1800 SAT is really not going to be too difficult, with some hard work and applied collective brainpower.
So these bounties are worth more than you think 

Ben

It would be ridiculous to abandon this coin and start a whole new one. There are a lot of positive things that we can build on with this coin.

I do think that a rename to Silk will be better, but future will tell if the community agrees in the polls. Also change the ticker to SLK.

I think as soon as we gathered some devs to start a new ANN for a relaunch and also for a rebrand. I really hopes this will happen this weekend.

EDIT: My wallet isn't staking.

Coins are mature enough.
Wallet unlocked.
No reserve balance
Lightning bolt is saying that it is staking, but I don't receive anything, for 12 hours now?

Anyone?

During testing I have uncovered a few more bugs with the market data APIs, but I have made great progress and have fixed all of the ones I have found so far.  Next round of testing starts...now()!

...Screen name/BCT handle

• mbishop75, thank you very much for offering your services -- when I'm back home tonight I'll construct a proper Org Chart that we can fill in, make sure that no efforts are duplicated.

Right now nobody should be concerned with "stepping on toes"... let's just get the work done. We're all in this mission together and nobody's ego should be a factor.

Ben

I agree.  It takes two seconds to reply to a thread, no excuses.  He's not interested in helping SC anymore and I can't really blame him since Murraycoin has been a great success.  It's a shame he didn't have more class to at least reply to a PM or a post a message to let the community know.

arteleis, I say start a new thread.  If he decides to come back, he can message us there.  Now about these devs you have:

1.) How many of them are there?
2.) Are they on the forum or trello (do not need to be identified at this time)?
3.) What kind/amount of compensation do they want?
4.) How do you know them?
5.) What's their programming background?

Now would be a good time for anybody who has made contributions to this rebuilding thread to put their hand up, to nominate themselves for a defined, accountable position within the team.

- CTO
- Programmers
- Visual Design Manager
- Web Dev
- Social Media Coordinator
- Thread Moderator
- Treasurer/Escrow Manager

... for example

Ben

You're in Bishop.  We definitely want your help.  Start a card on the "Doing" section and tell us what you're working on. (market/data fixes, correct?).  The other volunteer developers we get can create their own cards of what they would like to do and then everyone can get on the same page.  For now it's important to work in sequence so there's no code changes going on simultaneously until we get a workspace setup (which we can't do until we get the devs sorted).  For now, let's have some volunteer devs literally take turns upgrading the wallet?


Exactly, let's just kick some ass.  As long as we don't fork the code, people can check the trello board and just run with things that need to be done.  End of story.

Don't know how many times I need to say it, but I am a professional C/C++/C# developer and will volunteer my services.
Last night I spoke with arteleis about the market data bugs and I already have fixes that I'm testing now. 

Once I'm done testing my fixes, I'll submit to arteleis for release on GitHub.

Also, I sent two messages to bholzer offering to help, but got no response.  My offer still stands and don't want to step on toes, nor do I want to waste my time fixing things that are being fixed in another branch of code.

I see what you are trying, its not the effort people putting in to SC, its how.
Despite off the efforts Bholder is putting in to SC, its not a developer who safe the coin now.

Developers learn, and most off them learn fast, one or two dev's with knowledge about coin development, and 4-5 devs learning along the way is also a option.

But first SC need 1 at most 2 persons who can setup a new team, both should be backed by the community.
Without it its gonna be a mess.

Roel.

Essentially what it sounds like we need is a board of directors who run the shoes and make quick decisions but still have a democratic infrastructure in place to make larger overarching decisions as well as eleviating bad seeds. The foundation is the most important thing. Take time with it. Get it right. Everything is built upon it and it better be damn level.

Despite now being at my office, I will take what free moments I have to start posting my ideas.

First:
Arteleis, do you have admin privileges on this thread?
We need to sticky the Trello board link at the top of each page, which can be done by spoofing it as a survey.
Trello is a fantastic organizational platform and will be key to us making real progress.

https://trello.com/b/YfCUpW9h/silk-coin-rebuilding

Also, I suggest you remove the lamp & treasure wallpaper -- it's blingy, but in my opinion is amateurish and distracting. I think a washed version of the camel graphic would be optimal. I can provide a Photoshop'ed version tonight if you let me know the correct resolution.

Ben