THIS IS  ANOTHER REASON WHY WE HAVE LOST FOCUS!

Lock this thread and let's move to a new forum.

If we have a debate for something the whole thread get's derailed and you have the impression that NXT project is chaotic etc.

Having specialized topics like TF, Instant TXs, AT, AE etc will help a lot both progress and get rid of this feeling that progress is stalled, situation is fuzzy etc. that puts us in a negative feedback loop!

that is true but I dont see much agreement , just some bits here and there. that doesnt make it stronger?

Personally I think we just "stick with the plan" and get on with it (otherwise you guys will still be debating in 2015 about what to do by which time Nxt will be irrelevant).

It was designed to favour a smaller number of very high powered machines - so it is much more centralised.

Also when it comes down to it PoS *forces* you to rely upon the stake holders - of course there is no reason why a parallel chain couldn't be PoW/PoH instead.

I thought with TF we also have some security measurement against certain attack attempts.

That could be a good idea - perhaps if we added a few extra APIs that control things like fees then it would make it very simple to "add a blockchain" to a client.

Okay - well technically I think parallel chains are not going to be very difficult as we *already have one* (it's called "test net") so we are not talking about a huge amount of extra coding that would be required to be performed.

The main thing is going to be to work out what "features" are going to be made available to a parallel chain and what differences in rules (such as say fees) might apply and in particular to get community support for it.

If and when NXT launches its decentralized exchange and when that exchange actually allows people to trade crypto back and forth for next to free, THEN NXT will get a lot of attention. That couple with a large marketing campaign in China would draw a lot of interest. Momentum feeds momentum in this industry.

Ethereum has excitement now because its new. That's the only reason why. No one really understands it. What NXT needs is utility, an exchange where people can freely trade peer to peer. If we get that it could be a game changer.  People are interested in what they can use, not in theories.

Once Etherium launches it will be in the same boat as NXT now. It will eventually have to have utility.

Look at Namecoin. It's all theoretical. And thus it is stagnant.

I think NXT's focus should be on completing TF to increase the transaction speed, P2P AE and multiple blockchains.

I don´t know one single cryptographer so I think I won´t be able to help here.
Does anyone has a suggestion whom to approach?

Unable to find member 'i8orre'.

I think its a big joke.

  +1 . It is fair ?  

  You cheat most of us who are red font marked

Here is the final namelist:
pandaisftw
abctc
I8orre   -- SHOWED INTEREST ON JANUARY 9 (I forgot to include his name in the first two list.)
Jef-Diesel -- SHOWED INTEREST ON JANUARY 9 (I forgot to include his name in the first two list.)
butterclown
eXtatiC
Shin
swartzfeger
LemonAndFries
Allwelder
Opticarrier  -- SHOWED INTEREST from early February
kodtycoon
smaragda
eB101
Damelon
KyLins
rushi
shenjie
voldemort628
redsn0w
stoneone
bezbezbez
xcn
sashsh
Igmaca
Chanc3r
Vega
Rickyjames


All other names below Rickyjames are still on my main list if someone above Rickyjames pulls out then Arafel71 is next in line and so on down the list.

Give the applicant a real life scenario to work on. Something that has to be done for Nxt. A small part of a bigger task. So you can assess if he/she is good enough to be in the core dev team.

"In addition to Java developers, and in fact much more urgently, we need a good cryptographer."

Is that the same msin is working on with the review of the code? Or we need a cryptographer in our core dev team? Do you (or anyone else) have a suggestion whom we should approach?

Who will communicate with BCNext in April after CFB departs?

Uncertainty about the core dev team isn't instilling much confidence in investors and current holders. Investors will stay away until this confusion and uncertainty disappears.

Friends of mine have no idea which client to download so are keeping their NXT on exchanges. They won't do anything until there is a one click install that works. They ask me which one is the 'main' website. All they want is to Send/Receive and not lose any NXT. No messing around with batch files, firewall settings, testnet and having to update twice a week. They don't even want to know about forging.

I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to promote one simple client that works and isn't going to freak out newbies. Can someone design a simple, safe, client that just sends and receives? I can assure you that would make so many people happy. Most newcomers aren't going to use all the other features they don't even understand, at least not yet. Forging is not an issue for them and don't care about that because they own 5k to 10k. None of their other coin wallets make any money and they don't expect NXT to either. They just want to send and receive and know their wallet is safe (secure password of course) It's that simple.

Does this make sense to anyone and does anyone have any ideas about how we arrive at one website and one simple client.

If Account Control has multisig, please transfer that also. AT is still a ways away and I dont think we should charge AT execution fees for multisig.

If you wont port the multisig code, at least release it, this is very important.

James