Hello All,

just a quick message from me wishing all you Syscoiners a most happy holiday season!  Also I wanted to let you all know that while I haven't been posting on BCT lately, I am nonetheless still here and still very much active with Syscoin!  This year, after a tough last quarter, is ending on an extremely positive note (I can't say much more than that at the moment due to legal restrictions) and I am really looking forward to 2015 and all the exciting possibilities ahead for Syscoin.

All the best to you and yours for the holidays, and stay tuned! We've got some excitig stuff planned for Syscoin after the New Year.

Best to you all,

Coderboo

Well, I did end up getting some new regression tests created for testing aliases so even on my day off, I'm working (just like the rest of us I think)...

This is fascinating work. I will be looking through today to see about implementing within Syscoin's core - I am the lead developer on that project.

Hi all,  $SYS lead developer here. As Dan has said, this has not been an easy time for any of us.  The Moolah debacle has cost us dearly - both in terms of negative association as well as in basic financial terms - I dedicated myself 100% to syscoin some time back because our ICO gave us the means to do that, and not receiving that funding now is putting me and my family in direct financial jeopardy.

Nonetheless, I remain as committed to Syscoin as ever, because I know that the technology within Syscoin is stronger than ever and NOW is the time to push harder than we ever have before. This team has more skills and potential than most, and I'll be damned if I see that get destroyed because of this situation.

Just my $0.02..

LMAO!!! OMG I needed that laugh, thank you Honeycutt22!

I will say this.

I WISH I was on a boat. Unfortunately I'm on my macbook pro, which is getting so hot from constant use that I'm getting a rash on my palms from the laptop's heat and all the typing I do.

Not nearly as fun as a boat.

Thank you for the well wishes. From your comments it seems we disagree, and that's OK. It sounds like you're asserting that somehow we are not up to executing our plan and delivering to the level we're committing to, and therefore it is best if we do not even try.  On both points, I enthusiastically disagree, and I point to the ever-increasing quality of our work products, as well as our rapidly growing feature set, as proof.

May I suggest that, if you disagree, that you divest yourself of any SYS you hold, and invest in a project you do believe in? This should relieve you of your anxiety and cause you to use your energy in a positive manner on the project you are passionate about - and that *is* a good thing for the entire industry.

Thanks for your interest in Syscoin.

Please, I urge everyone to maintain a level of civility and courtesy in this thread. @Honeycutt is absolutely within his rights to ask questions, and we welcome those here.  

I do see the super low buy support on Bittrex, and I'm going to do something about that as soon as I can (see my first post relative to funds) if nobody else has. I've put my life energy into this project and I will continue to do so as long as I have the means - the btc you entrusted us with - to do so. I believe in SYS because I believe in our team's ability to pull off something really valuable - something worth way more than the 1500 BTC you gave us in terms of return, as well as effect.

Could I be totally off base? Could be. But ask Dan: I told Dan and the guys early this year exactly what the trends would be right around coin launch time and why I made the design choices I did, before the team really got working in force. I was right, on all of them.  

I find it interesting that while many still continue to discount Syscoin, our hashrate today is 375ghs and our difficulty hovers right under 5500 right now. That's by design, and SYS is only what, two months old?

Now SYS is secure from a majority potential attackers, which will, alongside the new assets service, and new content for developers making it easier to build interfaces using assets, certificates, aliases data aliases and offers, make for an attractive platform and investment pretty soon here as all eyes shift to products focused on crypto finance infrastructure.

Good luck getting any SYS then as every single crypto product with the word 'finance' goes flying through the stratosphere. Those that were around during the Internet bubble remember exactly what I'm talking about. Money was being handed our to anyone who asked.  What do you think will happen here as this bubble grows?

I'm not perfect, but I know what I'm doing. So does Dan, so does the entire team. And we're committed, and have the ideas, skills and knowledge to pull this off. That's what we're giving you when you buy SYS.

So thank you, Honeycutt, for bringing this up, and I hope my answer satisfies you.

Hi Android,

Thanks for your comment.  I am unsure as to whether you're asserting that the Syscoin codebase is entirely comprised of borrowed code, low quality code, or both... so I'll respond as best as I can: syscoin's codebase consists of the bitcoin core client, with merge-mining and scrypt pulled in from Namecoin and Litecoin, respectively.  The base alias feature itself was based off of design patterns learned from Namecoin.  The rest of the services grew as an extension if our work on Syscoin and include some novel ways of using the blockchain. I spent many months pouring through the relevant codebases and building syscoin, and am proud of the work I've done, but that's my subjective opinion.

Relative to my experience - I have over 20 years of software development experience, including being one of the core designers and programmers of what is now the Oracle Primavera project management suite of products, one of the most well-respected project management products for the tech industry. I also have consulted for many large corporations and enjoy a solid reputation as a software developer - or at leasts my colleagues tell me so. So on a pure technical perspective, I must disagree with your assessment of my ability. But that's entirely my opinion - you're open to yours of course.

What I do agree with is that we need more resources and more outward-faced business developers working on the Syscoin team. I also personally really need another experienced developer working alongside me - the pace of the Syscoin project has now gotten to the point were these resources are required in order for us to maintain a high degree of quality with all the work products we are putting out there.  Unfortunately, we have limited resources to work with (since we haven't yet received a large portion of the funds that were slated for development).  This makes it hard to just go out there and hire the resources we need. Hopefully someone in the community will see the potential of Syscoin and step forward to help. Until that time, I, like Dan, will continue to carry two full-time jobs - our day job, and Syscoin.

My focus over the next few weeks is going to be all about test and documentation quality. We are working on creating a full suite of regression tests for all our services, expanding the white paper, documenting (more) all the core code (including bitcoin's core so that future programmers have an easier time of it), and establishing core processes for functional design docs, bug reporting, code review and community review.  Rest assured that this team's output will soon be known for the high quality of these work products. And certainly, Dan and I are up to this task.

If you have any further specific questions about any of this, please feel free to ask.  I certainly don't expect people to trust or believe anything we say - our actions are what counts. We decided to take the hard road with Syscoin. We could have cloned another codebase and released a product with a minimum of innovation, and a maximum amount of marketing.  This would have undoubtedly made us a lot of money.  But that's not why we do it.  We do it because we believe in the blockchain and we are excited about what could be built. Has this caused some bumps on the road along the way? Yes. Is it hard work? Absolutely. But its one of the most rewarding projects I've ever had the good fortune of participating in, and I and the rest of the Syscoin team will continue to innovate, improve and refine our product, our business, and ourselves for as long as you all give us that chance.

I hope this answers your questions.

The only requirement is an already strong programming and general technical ability, and a real willingness and ability to learn things fast.

Hey everyone, just a quick follow up to danosphere's post. So I have just fixed the issue which caused dan and I to delay release. We're going to test it tomorrow and update everyone once we have a solid status.

On another bit of good news, I also finished the alpha version of the Syscoin assets service today.  Once the service launches, you'll be able to create all kinds of types of assets on the Syscoin blockchain... our asset service has a range of flexible dividend, convertibility, and supply control options that will allow you to create assets ranging from simple tokens to splittable - and mergeable - dividend-paying assets. I think it's pretty awesome, but I'm biased...   Sorry, no dates on that one yet other than "as soon as we can launch it right"

Thanks for your support, Syscoiners. I can tell you that the assets service is just the start for Syscoin; we have a service and feature set planned for the coin which I think is nothing short of revolutionary coming in our future.  But I'm not talking yet... just quietly accumulating SYS 

CB
Syscoin lead developer

Hey, you're right, I'll stop. Personally, I enjoy occasionally poking at one of these guys just to amuse myself and see what comes out of them, but it does cause reverberations in the thread after I lose interest, which isn't super cool because other people have to clean it up.  So I shall stop poking the trolls for fun 

Thanks a ton for your support, by the way.  FYI the stuff we are working on at the moment... wow... even I am blown away and I don't impress easily. Your support of $SYS shall be rewarded!

Hey, I'm confused.  Since buying ANY crypto currency at the moment is purely a speculative investment and therefore your holdings represent your level of commitment to your speculative bet, then why are you acting against your own best interest by holding 2m SYS and then actively engaging in discussion which works against that interest?  It's equivalent to buying shares of a stock then filing a series of frivolous lawsuits against the company.

Since your behavior has no rational basis on the surface, I have to think that you're either:

1. Acting irrationally against your own best interest
2. Acting rationally with the intent of purchasing more SYS. Perhaps you are holding ICO coins and you wish to buy more so that you can cost average down and break even or profit short-term - in effect setting up your own pump and dump scheme

Since you're regularly posting on this thread, I have to assume that it's closer to #2 than #1,  but if it is #1, can I buy your SYS from you? All 2 million, please? Oh, and didn't I try and make a 1m bet with you earlier - are you interested in taking me up on it? It's the ultimate way to put your money where your mouth is since you have such high confidence in your assessment of Syscoin.

Hi, coderboo, lead dev here. Let's make it 1 million, okay?

Right.  Cryptocurrencies aren't companies. Check. Most us us were aware of that.  As far as the rest of what you assert - have you ever heard of penny stocks? OTC? Troll the listings sometime - they are FULL of stock offerings for companies with ZERO value. One of them just recently - even though it had no solid business plan, no physical assets, and barely a company office - was just pumped up to a market cap of over $2B. So your statement that worthless stock cannot be listed or sold IRL is plainly incorrect.

But I still haven't heard you answer my previous question:

Q: Are you, or are you not in favor of government regulation of cryptocurrencies and cryptostocks? All your answers thus far clearly insinuate that you are, which is not an unreasonable position to take.  Please elaborate on this point, it is one that greatly interests the majority of visitors of this forum and one I find personally highly interesting.

Thanks for your post!

- Wallet updates - done a while back - client functioning 100%.
- Mac Client - I use a Mac to develop, so uh.. yeah that works
- Marketing Plan - Since we haven't yet implemented most of it, I can only assume you can see into the future. Can you tell me which our yet-to-be-implemented marketing tasks is not up to your standards? What *are* your standards?

But seriously, I do appreciate you taking time and energy out of your busy day to comment here. While I don't personally think that the content of your posts has a lot of value to others reading this thread, at least you're interested.

Hey manbot1,

Thanks for another dose of your unintelligible ramblings. Talking to you is somewhat similar talking to a mental patient, except with more crazy and less sense. Oranges by the sea mock my old twat with a life clock o.... oh fuck it. I have work to do.

Hey marketing genius, thanks for your intelligent, insightful, and thoughtful commentary. I'm glad you were able to determine the entirety of our marketing campaign so early on and help steer us down the right path!

Your friend,
coderboo

Ahh - so you are in favor of government regulation of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency exchanges. Gotcha.

Except that an asset traded on an exchange ostensibly has an inherent value set by the market at that moment, whereas a bet placed has a potential future binary value. Not entirely the same thing.

Hi RandyWald,  since the first version of this functionality will initially be incorporated into current services - aliases and data aliases first - using the encryption functionality won't cost any extra - just the alias service fee. I'll likely also add a variant of sendtoaddress called sendmessagetoaddress - sending encrypted messages using that command will likely cost you 0.01 SYS to send, with the fee rising if the message is above a certain TBD length.