I'm also having the issue you are, with all of the nodes listed. I'm not sure why this is. However, I kept my client open long enough and it finally started to synchronize. I'm going to double check with the team and make sure all the seed nodes that are listed are still operational.

Try keeping the wallet open for a while and make sure you are in fact running the updated one. (perhaps you still ran the old one by mistake?)
Also, try to make sure you have all 6 nodes added. And then be patient, mine took about 30 minutes to start to obtain a connection again.

Hey i noticed some of the comments. We noticed that chainz takes a subscription so I'm going to pay that now.

Also as for developement price and general slowness, as munti said I had to take care of things in my personal life. Crypto is my full time job right now so don't worry. I'm still working on completing Bitbay (including the pegging). It should be noted that we already have decentralized markets one year ahead of open bazaar.

As for crypto in general, not even bitcoin has hit main stream yet. So people are not focused on the utility of crypto yet we are still very early in the space.

I'm here, the 29th was my birthday and I had to move and then the power went out haha. So it was a busy week. I'm back to work today. Currently working on cross platform builds, fixing a small list of bugs and the next template. Most of the delays last month were because my personal life got in the way. Had to take care of a ton of things back in the states that suffered from neglect.

But its all good, I'm really looking forward to the new release.

Also, the volume is low, the price would get brought up with a buy order, Bitcoin has been slightly bullish so i think its okay. We will not get delisted since there is enough people watching the project.

Thanks! I'm working on it! It takes time but is worth it.

Its the one year anniversary of BitBay! We have come pretty far this year and crypto is looking bullish as well. This year the remaining work will be finished so there is a lot to look forward to.

Thanks, its nice to see you have the new logos. Glad to see you remembered us.

Thanks munti, yes awareness is clearly important.

As far as devs, I'm not sure anyone would be able to work on Halo core without costing me more time training them. I've tried to hire on that at least 10 times and always failed at it, wasting more time than it was worth. If we had VC funding then that would probably not be as big of an issue. However, I COULD use a dev to help me build cross platform builds for linux and mac. In fact, I've put a request on r/blackcoin for the same thing. They would not need to code anything in the core, just work on compatibility issues with multiple different linux and mac platforms which is a real headache to do alone.

Otherwise, judging from the progress on this code we could be more than half way there. Earlier in the year I was trying to rush myself but then I realized I had to focus on performance and bugs as well. So a lot of user friendly updates were made (like languages and updated "pay to email"). And honestly some of the updates would have been impossible without the help of slack.

The community members on slack have helped me locate bugs! And that help is something i cant measure. Its been very useful to see how it works on all the different systems.

So before honestly my desire to finish gave me unrealistic time line. However, as you can see progress IS being made. The new template is out, the rest are already graphically designed and from there ive got to finish coding them.

Then when thats done, there is a huge question of what exchanges we can get to run the pegging software! One option I have is to finish Blackcoin NightTrader exchange and that would be based on the smart contracts through a microtrader. But in order for that to run with no latency, I need servers so that could be some dramatic changes to all the Halo clients. Of course that also takes time if I choose that route.

If I peg before that, then we need to figure out which exchanges we want to put it on who can use the two asset classes (Bitbay and Bitbay reserve). And there is still updates to the user interface as well! (We need to have the client recognize frozen and liquid assets and reflect them in the balance!)

So this is all going to take time, months obviously. But I'm going to try my best to get it all done as soon as i can. Hopefully I can get everything before the upcoming summer. Also realize, its not possible for me to move on with my life and any other projects until this is done! So of course, I would love to finish and will work my best to get it as soon as I can.

At least in the meantime, we have contracts and decentralized markets... which is pretty damn good so far.

Probably because its not a pump and dump? They will add dumb coins that don't even have devs. Or someone who will pay them boatloads of money. As long as the volume is high, voila, its on cryptsy. its inexplicable why some of the coins are still on there with 0 dollars of volume and no dev. But really though once we finish all the features here, they won't be able to ignore it since the supply and demand can be controlled with the software itself eliminating the need for a market maker. (at least thats the plan )

I had talked to Horus, he sounded interested but then sort of disappeared. We should be on there, they have so many coins on Cryptsy. When we start pegging im going to need as many good relationships with exchanges as we can get.

You are welcome, you can stay posted to this thread for updates or join us on slack. The next template is on the way as well as a new mac and linux build

Yeah maybe money will start moving out of coins with no purpose into ones with devs! That would be a nice change.

Also, I'm finally finished moving this month was slow, I'm happy back to work, just started looking at a list of things to work on.
Thanks to all the guys on slack for exhaustive testing and helping me locate bugs too. Good job!

The P2M campaign is also a good way to get interested. But really people can just use the feature for tipping

People who invest in Crypto should understand something and its probably why a lot of devs quit. Its because... they aren't real devs. Software can take years to finish even with teams. In the past 10 months, we released decentralized markets that actually work, made major enhancements to the core client, have an auto-translater that translates to 92 languages, a crazy UI with forms that are interactive and mutate as you make different choices, and even the first templte (coins for cash) released with a built in Bot/price tracker. And the full list would take up this page. So relax, it will happen soon enough.

This type of attitude is unhealthy (pure obsession with price). Pegging will certainly help this issue that plagues crypto but people must understand that this isnt like making a website on wix or microwaving your dinner, its more like this, "programming is like building a luxury car from scratch piece by piece without an instruction manual or any help from any previous models"

And its more like building that car with your bare hands and only a hammer and screwdriver.

Its just time consuming.

Lets take an example: Diablo 3 took 10 years to make and they had a staff of 5,000 people.

Bitcoin was probably not created by one person (Satoshi was probably a group of people)

So on the contrary, we are moving extremely fast considering im the only dev. But im not a machine, sometimes i even take a day off! (i know its crazy)

And i can assure you programming destroyed my social life... lol

So be patient, its not a race, its a marathon. If anyone here invested for a quick return then best that they sell and move into some sort of pump and dump (i think Kittycoin is good enough for that)

Bitcoin was worthless for about 3 years... you couldnt even give them away for free (for example Lily Allen turned down 300,000 or so bitcoins when they were worthless), i dont think people were sending Satoshi PMs saying "when will your software be worth something some day?"

If taskmanager shows bitbay.exe then perhaps it was running and was in the system tray, you could just restart your computer and run it again. But since you tried to uninstall then maybe just start from scratch.

Its possible you installed the updater and not the installer?! If this is your first time running it(and you have no keys to back up) just delete the directory c:/bitbay/

But of course if you had funds back up your keys always.

Then reinstall from www.davtonia.com/blackhalo/bitbaysetup.exe

Let me know then if you have any questions, if you see this happen again tell me what it says before it exits and if there is a crashlog.dat please send it to me. It should work just fine. Otherwise maybe an unorthodox antivirus is interfering let me know if that is an issue. Please PM me if you have other questions.

Yeah there is so much of this nonsense in Bitcoin, just sabotage left and right. Hell, ive even thought about going after several people in bitcoin for cyberbullying and libel (even bitcointalk for the same types of privacy violations). Its so stupid, here we are with new technology that really nobody should be trying to prevent since it makes life easier, yet the do it anyways for personal reasons usually related to spite, greed or enmity.

Coins should not really even be competitors! The whole point of open source is to share ideas!

Thanks! Really good video, will take that advice.

Thanks for the advice! It helps remind me that it makes sense to just focus, not allow others to distract me and put one foot in front of the other. Its very easy to get distracted. Coding takes time. Lots and lots of time. So the progress we made so far i think is great. There is no other wallets that do contracts within them. And no other wallets with markets. But sometimes, i need to take breaks, life can be hard and gets in the way.

Anyways, you are totally right. Its a jungle, people are still hungry, fighting all the time. But there are people who try to overcome their desires for a greater cause. In order to be that kind of person one must always question themselves and what they hear. They should absolutely never assume what they hear is true but actually its better to assume that what they hear is false or at a minimum, flawed. Otherwise, we make assumptions, form dogma etc. But to be that way is a lonely path, you can't have beliefs that are too strong, must be willing to change beliefs at will and suffer the fact that most people believe lies. Perhaps its just the way things are. Hopefully it will not be this way forever.

Yes I will open source. Only currently, I'm trying to get all the little features in the client before I do.

However, I do give people source for building that they can audit and can supply instructions for building. The only thing I change is some of the variable names so the code is harder to clone. If you want building source, pm me or send me an email.

Well, honestly because i try not to judge people, im like a magnet for crazy people and frequently find myself in situations similar to this. As mentally warped as Bob is, he is probably not the craziest person i know. I've been stabbed in the back many times before. Some of those stories are equally as wild as this one.

Its a lonely path having to turn my back a majority of people because im taking precaution since it becomes increasingly harder and harder to trust over time. These trustless solutions based on Bitcoin is a result of a unfortunate necessity in society. The most extreme of checks and balances, that the best scenario is to not trust at all.

Ironically, i turned down several other offers before taking the Bitbay one. But then again, no point in having regrets, just focus all the energy inward and towards something positive.

And thanks, im not asking you to trust anyone especially not me... thats why there is no fee collected on contracts, it should be like utorrent, fully peer to peer with no middle man, a protocol, not a company. Fully autonomous.

Thanks, im working and have been for 2 years. However, if you dont trust me by now then perhaps you should not invest. Bob lied to me and so did the 3 other people involved all of whom are gone and did nothing to contribute. If you have gone your entire life and never been lied to then pat yourself on the back because you are one in a billion.

imagine someone also lied about you, tried to shift the guilt off themselves and paid people to cyberbully you... if you ever go through something like that, then you would think otherwise.

I'm known outside of crypto, in multiple different fields, it would be nonsense for me to do anything that isnt honorable and consistent with my other professions.

Besides, markets were delivered, a few templates delivered(more to come), fully new UI, all core features greatly improved. And all without other developer help(another promise by the two chinese partners, bter said they had "devs"). Otherwise, a supportive community remains and thanks to them it helps motivate me code.

Last two weeks have been very slow, im moving and had to do repairs on my home and cars... so very little time to code. However, I'm pretty much done and will be getting back to it in a few days.

Yes I am very much here, the last release of BlackHalo has a full price tracker for selling and buying coins for cash, its a peer to peer cash exchange. The other template being the original custom contracts, still working perfectly. Now im working on the last few templates mainly selling and buying with a shipping calculator etc.

The decentralized markets have been working for at least 7 months now, fully tested and functional with very few bugs (other than being somewhat slow depending on bitmessage)

Im still updating the linux and mac builds, however this month i was moving and was unavailable will be working on it again in a few days.

Rat4 does the coin core functionality so he is essentially Blackcoin. His focus is on security, optimizing the blockchain, protocol, securing the chain and exotic features like locktimes and new daemon commands or mining rules.

My work is in BlackHalo and NightTrader, which leverage Blackcoin and makes peer to peer tools, like smart contracts, decentralized markets, decentralized exchange and user friendly features like templates and pay to email.

The next big release will be NT exchange however we needed markets first as a failsafe, to keep it fully peer to peer and that provoked me to finish templates and user friendliness which has improved a lot over the year. That would fully complete the core client, where an api on the back would be something people can plug into their own projects.

Sorry im not always checking bitcointalk, its not my favorite site to communicate due to excessive trolling but can always be reached on reddit (r/blackcoin)