Could it be that it was simply the transactions that you thought were in front were out on a stake? Because staking moves funds and ties them up theoretically. Or was the order of the dates of the transactions showing older TX before newer ones? You can PM me a screenshot if it happens again. 

Thanks for reporting this, currently we are updating the QT for the bridge. Does this happen after a transaction or just randomly? Are you staking when it happens?

Very good theres the bridge which we are doing the c++ side of it and lots of progress was made. Theres also the web markets with support for all major coins and also the sister project some of our community members are working on for a Bitcoin based DEX(one of the only ones to my knowledge). To see the progress if you have a Telegram it actually gets pretty active there. BitBay is very much doing well and hopefully it will get back to active trading on AMM exchanges on those networks like polygon with a sort of watered down peg in solidity.

Hi I have a suggestion that you shouldn't remove timestamp completely... isn't it used for stakes to increase security? Also it would make force a Halo software update. I think instead just do the following: Require stakes to have timestamp set correctly and any other TX allow timestamp set to zero... this way the field is never removed. Integration into NT can happen since NT can just set 0 for timestamp.

Thanks for posting the updates 

Yeah everything is moving along nicely

How was it possible to have "wrapped blackcoin" if BLK has not forked? What is the process to burn to wrapped chain? Is there a way to go from Binance back to BLK?

https://bitbay.market/downloads/index.html

Here at downloads under QT or Markets client you can see a link to bootstrap releases.

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/bay/#!network

 

It could be a local phenomenon with your QT or Halo client that it simply connected to some new nodes. To get a better idea it's best to check all the nodes seen at chainz.cryptoid and see how many are connected. As for the status update Yshurik is reviewing code for the QT/bitbayd side of the c++ bridge. He wants me to annotate it a bit more to help him understand the code I wrote in python, solidity and javascript.

For now yes however we will update everyone when the new one is ready.

BAY holders need to update their QT before the fork. We will let you know when the download is ready. Typically during a fork the majority of the users as close to 100% as possible should be running the newest software.

BAY bridge is finished if you were curious. And it will also be listed on an exchange called NightTrader that is being spearheaded by a couple community members which is a Bitcoin based DEX... probably the most sophisticated in the world. So when BAY forks to update for the bridge it should have PancakeSwap, Uniswap and the aforementioned exchange listings. Weather or not it succeeds from there is anyone's guess. But at least you can't say we gave up.

Thanks for the update Doc! 

You can test the bridge now on Goerli at https://dzimbeck.github.io/test-page

Currently I'm working on tying those last parts back to Halo. With the python pseudocode Yshurik is tasked with doing the c++ side. It should be this year for sure. However I can't speak for his schedule or hours. Either way, you can see for yourself this is in the final phases of testing. However do consider there will probably be a c++ client testnet phase. But that can be somewhat short because I can review that code anyways.

NightTrader as a friendly reminder is NOT a project that I've coded, it's a decentralized exchange coded by Yshurik so I have not much control over that. It is based on ideas I shared years ago with sighashes and threshold sigs though. I gave the name to Alec because we have known each other since Blackcoin days so he is the one that knows whats going on with it. However, from watching the progress he made some good breakthroughs I still think winter is a bit early I anticipate it moreso in Q1 although for that to have a fully fledged GUI that rivals something like Kraken may take longer.

Well BitBay is the only coin in the world with a dynamic peg. We are one of the oldest altcoins as well dating back to 2014 and were the first with decentralized markets and smart contracts(using double deposit escrow)

This little explainer document can explain how the peg works. (difference between BAY, BAYR, BAYF)
https://bitbay.market/bitbay-dynamic-peg-visual-reference.pdf

As you can see, it controls it's own supply. The reason we were not high on the charts(we used to be top 40 coin) is because after the peg forked central exchanges
didn't wanna adjust their orderbooks just to accommodate our supply changes. This isn't like somewhat nonsensical projects like Ampleforth(where 1/10=10/100... no equity change means nothing changed economically), this peg which was planned since the beginning has a shift in equity when supply changes only users who actually had funds in reserve get their money made liquid and visa versa.

So we had to make this peg system be able to be bridged to ethereum style networks but it was a lot of data(a "normal" transaction in ETH for this token would cost $100 because user balance is like a matrix of values). But thats okay because there is L2 networks and also cheaper alternatives(like Polygon and Binance) so I coded a watered down dynamic peg system and it's testing currently on Goerli.

If you wanna test it, swing by our main Telegram channel and ask for testnet coins. It's free to do and it's a very friendly community. It's not just a bunch of guys shilling their bags, it's like a community of people that seriously care about tech in crypto industry... that's why they have been there so many years.

Ah yeah Doc thanks for posting this! Yes anyone who wants to participate in the Solidity based testnet can do that now, just come to Telegram and ask for testnet coins and we can also send a bit of testnet ETH as well. It's a lot of fun to see the changes in balance working, the funds freezing and unfreezing.

For this testnet it's worth mentioning the freeze of reserve is only 2 minutes. I probably should have at least made it 10 to get a little bit more of a "delay" going but since this is just tests I figure it's the same either way.

Very shortly it will also be tradable for a testnet version of Uniswap so therefore we would like some feedback on the different experience of being a liquidity provider. Because remember for being an LP here it needs to account for both liquid and reserve coins.

Well BAY needs a permanent home so the goal now is to get it on DEXes. I agree currently we are in hot water. However once we can trade and have web markets that
operate with any token, then maybe we can come back from this. It wouldn't be the first time we come back from being almost totally dead. 2018 for example we were up 4000 time from our floor and with a full delivery on the tools we said we would. However the reality is, the peg was too complex for central exchanges so we got overcharged, censored and even simply stolen from(Latoken, OEX, Bitker, etc). Latoken delivered at first but was honestly not worth the brief moments of success as they kept screwing our users with constant downtime every chance we had for higher volume.

Funny thing is, you mentioned a bridge a year or so ago. It ended up being our only option. At least that way we don't deal with listing fees or exchanges going out of business or being "hacked". It's better this way.

Either way, I wish you well. We will just have to see what happens after the bridge.

It would be false/hype to give an exact time or date, I stopped doing that years ago to guarantee that every word I utter or type is honest. Also, code can't be rushed as there is testing for bugs. With that said of course the goal is to get everything ready before the summer and handed off to Yshurik so he can do some c++ code and then test it.

The bridge so far a lot of the solidity code is mostly done and being tested however there is still more to do. The BAY side code then has to connect to all of that. Plus there is some c++ work after that. So it's still unclear of when it will be done but hopefully it can be finished by this summer. Don't forget we have to test everything as well.

Yeah bridge is en route for Q1 to have most of the mechanics finished and then should go into testnet after yshurik codes some of my pseudocode in c++