Thanks for the kind words. Does it help if I reveal that i) it can take me a couple of days to research and couple of hours to write a post like that and ii) I probably get the most benefit out of the exercise?

Cheers

Graham

this seems to me like the existing banking situation ( yes - i called it a situation ) ...

the more you have the higher the score the better the chance of gaining more ...

the rich get richer - the poor still struggle ... but why wouldnt you reward those that put the effort AND spr in? ...

touch one that ...

#crysx

Their not paid more because that's in the code. There paid more because they're more consistent, handle more transactions and respond 100% of the time.

Also the larger your servicenode balance is, the larger transactions your node can handle. And we need the ability to handle large transactions so we need large wallets.

Am i right in saying Dash nodes can only handle 1000 dash at a time?

I guess the advantage is that it will drive the price of Spreadcoin up if it succeeds.

If you're not posing a merely rhetorical question, what's the definition of “fair” in this instance?

Cheers

Graham

So, will masternode payments still depend on a score, because if so it will defeat the purpose of them being dynamic.

I am nearly finished with the website (shouldn't take more than 24 hours)

Now, in the downloads category I have a section called "wallets" where I have the win, mac and linux builds (and a link to github)

Then I also have the AMD + NVidia miners, in their own section called "GPU miners"

Am I forgetting anything important that should also go into the download section?



EDIT: everything "media" related like buttons, design elements etc goes into its own category called "media".

There is a lot of consideration being given to how to keep the community updated on a consistent and regular basis.  Everybody is busy as hell and that's why it hasn't come together yet.  

If the core team can agree on how and when the updates are written, proof read and published then it should be like a nicely oiled machine.

I too wish updates were more regular.  They will become more regular soon, I'm sure of it.

That some of the coins that were instamined - Corrected

You might be interested in this graph someone sent me: https://bitinfocharts.com/darkcoin/visualization.html

It shows that the early coins mined (from the instamine period) were transferred during the price peaks (they are the arcs).

***Mini Update***

* Price Bump

The Elephant in the room is the recent bump in the price. Out of nowhere we have a new Nr.1 Wallet with 180k SPR.

Quite a few people that decided to head for the exit when Mr.Spread went MIA probably ended up giving their coins away to Nr.1.

The coins have been there for the taking since Feb 14, so no grumbles from any corners, please.

Interestingly, the Nr.2 and Nr.3 wallets have also been very active.

The distribution has changed a little in under two weeks. The top 10 wallets went up from 24% to 30%.




* Devs

CHAOSiTEC has announced he is joining the dev team.

For those that don't know him, he played a huge part in making Darkcoin successful during its early days, and he still helps out.  It will be interesting to watch him get stuck into SpreadX11 mining code, and the servicenodes.

Gladimor has now confirmed he wants to help the dev team.

gjhiggins is taking a step back due to other commitments, but will pitch in when he can.

Gerogem will hopefully be providing a meaty update next week on project and dev road map. But as is always the case, it will be ready when its ready. There is plenty to do in so many other areas.


* Project development members

Stonehedge has now joined the team and is already making huge contributions in the background. Hopefully something rather special can be reported back on this in mid May.

A-Russo is busy building an android app for SPR. I'll let him update on that front when he is ready. All I know is that he had to buy a new souped-up desktop to cope with the java work

e1ghtSpace has produced a how-to-mine video for YouTube to help anyone who wants to solo mine SPR.

Coins101 has retained a PR guy who has had crypto articles published. We should be able to get something in cointelegraph and possibly coindesk. It takes about two weeks from making contact to getting something printed. No guarantees the media will take a story, but at least we can get something written and sent to the right people - waiting for the new ANN and dev report on road map before we do anything.

I was a little busy last week contributing to the DASH proposals to add decentralised MN voting before it was made public. I think the central concept of adding MN voting is pretty good. Something SPR might want to consider at some point. No need to rush into discussions on this one until it has been voted through or not by the DASH community.

Scamalert Seems to have joined the community and is looking to dust off his GPU.  Nice to see we passed his scam alert test.

defunctec believes he has evidence that Mr.Spread is still actively developing because some of his known wallets have been active recently.  (Not overly confident about this; and given the steps we are taking to move the project forward I'm not that fussed - it would be good to have him back, but there are plans to move the project forward if he has done a Satoshi ).


Other news

* A couple of other projects have indicated a desire to work with SPR. When the dev team have the time to consider these possible options, I'm sure we will find out more about which other projects SPR could work with and why.

* The branding has been raised as needing a review at some point. No need to consider this in the near term, 3-6 months, IMO.


Have I missed anyone or anything?

Is there something you don't like, or think is wrong with the update?