I am an iPhone user, so I am really looking forward to check my Thrones during the day on my phone! Great job calnaughtonjnr!

Next time we meet we should hold a plenary session so that investors and supporters can be involved.

Not sure where next meeting will be. Maybe Prague?

Hey guys

iOS app is finally done. Few bugs to sort tomorrow then will submit to app store. Crown monitoring on iPhones in just a few weeks, following Apple approval  

CROWN DEVELOPMENT TEAM MEETING NOTES
12/5/2016 – London / Blackfriars
9:30 AM -  3:30 PM

In Attendance: Chaositec, Defunctec, Crowncoin_Knight, Stonehedge, Urban_Idler

Purpose/Goals:
1.   Have a chance for people to meet face to face.
2.   Define and discuss each individual’s goals and reasons for involvement in the project, as well as their level of commitment.
3.   Discuss design principles and the elements of the Crown Revolution project.
4.   Begin to break out specific tasks, responsibilities and requirements for executing the project.

SUMMARY

The meeting served several the purposes listed above, and was the only way that the team could both digest the ideas which Chaositec and Stonehedge have articulated as the Crown Revolution and a face to face meeting was also the best way for team members to connect and commit to the goals of the project.

Everyone in attendance is committed to building, or attempting to build, a durable cryptographically secured application platform of lasting value.  This commitment and long-term orientation will be essential for the project’s success if we are to avoid “pursuing an attractive local maxima” – or in more colloquial terms, we aren’t going to run up to the top of the nearest hill and say we’ve won.  We have our sites set on a mountain – or constructing a system which solves problems which have developed for Bitcoin.

Chaositec articulated design principles which included the need for focus and simplicity – despite the fact that he himself can jump from idea to idea at different times.  The purpose of this note isn’t to get into any technical details, so this portion is truncated.  The key takeaway from the technical discussion was that everyone on the team at least conceptually understands the goals of the Crown Revolution project.  The course of work is leaving the conceptual phase and everyone on the team is onboard.

Stonehedge and Urban_Idler will begin work on the detailed documentation of the project, which is expected to result in a series of short white papers, and/or functional specifications describing what we will be attempting to build and why the high level logic suggests it should work and where the challenges may be as we drill down into the specific details.  The devil is always in the details.

Stonehedge and Urban_Idler discussed the importance of constructing the platform in a way that takes into account the different business models of the people running businesses on the platform.  Simplicity of the core platform is both a security consideration, but also a business consideration.  We want the platform to be stable and secure and rarely updated once it is completed so that economically successful communities of node operators and application developers can rely on and build their businesses on the Crown Network.

Part of the value of the Crown Platform will be that “Crown” will not be in the application business – Crown will be focused on the new blockchain and providing a stable framework for compute capacity and a process for integrating and operating applications on the platform.   

There are skills which the existing team lacks which will be needed to complete the project and we discussed how we would fill those skill gaps.  The team was in agreement that the way to do this would not be to raise capital from corporations. 

Despite the significant interest corporations have in blockchain at this point, the team believes that it is critical for the core Crown platform to stay clear of outside capital so that the project remains open source.  The world doesn’t need another technology platform controlled by corporations, arguably it needs more good ones that aren’t.

As the team thinks about the appropriate governance structure to both embed in Crown revolution (throne voting implementation details), Crowncoin_Knight and Urban_Idler agreed that it will be critical for the core platform to be organized such that we do our best to embed our values – in a way analogous to what Crowncoin_Knight did with the Knight’s Code, but formalized more as a sort of social contract or terms of service.  These elements of a social contract or terms of service should be constructed in collaboration with the community.  Crowncoin_Knight and Urban_Idler are idealistic about this, but it is not clear that these ideals can be implemented at the end of the day.  The only value of these statements may be as a signal to others who might be interested or deterred by them.

If the development process is successful, we hope to legally organize the project such that the intellectual property is held by a community benefit organization to prevent the platform from being captured by corporate interests, as one might argue has happened with Bitcoin. This would require more legal research, and may never happen. 

Defunctec updated the team on discussions with Bittrex.  The team has confidence and expressed support for whatever agreement he may be able to reach with Bittrex.  The address committed to covering Bittex’s listing expenses currently has a balance of about 2.2 BTC.

We quickly covered the current update to the latest Bitcoin/Dash core code for Crown which Infernoman has been working on and is on pace to complete before the end of the year, and the progress which Crowncoin_Knight is making on the website update -- texts were recently updated but the site is a little dated at this point.

And I think that’s about all that’s fit to print… except one last important detail...  I am someone who is sort of a “long-time listener, first time caller” in the crypto community.  My greatest personal concern coming into the meeting was that something from someone on the team would “set off my radar” – or it just wouldn’t feel right or add up.  In other words, I would get the vibe that someone was running a scam or that somebody just felt shifty or not genuine.  What I found was an eccentric, idiosyncratic group of very bright guys, all of whom are interested building something and whom I think I can learn from and also have fun working with. 

There are no guarantees that the team will reach its goals.  This is still a project, and not anyone’s full time job.  But if it fails to happen it won’t be due to a lack of effort from the team – the biggest issue is really that we know we don’t know everything we need to know to do this… which is an awkward sentence and an even more awkward feeling.

Our commitment to the community is just to communicate about our progress as we proceed. 

1.9133697 BTC on balance today

1.8 BTC raised in few days!

I have started discussion with Bittrex to alert them of our plans at the end of the month.

They seem interested now... feel free to forward any questions to me.

I will make one tonight.

3 BTC is around $2200  
I'd be amazed if we raise that, no harm in trying though

Thanks for the update.  Good to know the code update is on schedule -- Looking forward to learning more after the meeting next Monday, and also hoping to see the coin on Bittrex soon.

Seems like the key is to get up-to-date with the code, build the uses of Crown, and also make it easier for folks to get started with the token/platform...

Regarding Bittrex listing -- that involves a fee correct?  If so, would it be possible to set up a scripted bitcoin address which members of the community could contribute to and which would pay the required amount to Bittrex when the threshold is reached?  Could be an easy way for folks in the community to anonymously pitch in to help get Crown better trading access, and on more than one exchange?

Thoughts?

Net. hashrate: 1032.43 TH/s

Code update
The update of the Crown code to the latest Bitcoin and Dash codes is progressing as planned. We're not that far from being done with the core update. The dev team is now focusing on the implementation of name stamping and time stamping to the updated code. We are on track to meet the end of the year deadline.


New QT Wallet
New design of the QT is done, the team is now waiting for few features on the core update, which have impact on the QT. It is expected that the new QT will be released together with the core code update before year end.


New web design
The dev team hired a new professional designer who is now studying all the major crypto currency websites to get inspired and will be presenting
a brand new designs in the coming few weeks. We will be posting progress of the designs on BitcoinTalk for the community to get an opinion on it.
We expect that the new web will be released together with the core code update.


Throne monitoring app
A professional throne monitoring app for android was released and is available on Google store: Throne Monitoring App
The team is now finishing the iOS version, should be ready very shortly.


Crown games platform
The community has inspired few team members to pursue a few new games running on the Crown network. We believe this could be one of the steps which could boost our community and open new doors to new followers. Details of the new games will be posted separately.

Listing on Bittrex
Several team members wrote very detailed emails to Bittrex to try to persuade them to list Crown. We would appreciate if the community can help us an any way so Crown can be listed there. We believe that it is just a matter of time for Crown to get full attention there.


Dev team meeting
The core dev team consisting of 6 people is on track to meet for a whole day in London on December 5th. Several team members are flying long distances for this strategic meeting to happen. Major focus in our meeting will be the future steps of Crown and specifically Crown Revolution.

Not at all.

We're still on track for the core updates to be finished at the end of the year.

Net. hashrate ticking up: 659.79 TH/s

THE QUESTION
So what is this system?  What are your ideas?  

For my part -- I don't store keys in a wallet, and I actually don't really even use a wallet anymore -- and a wallet was never something I used for networking so I have no idea why I would call the software on my computer for accessing a powerful P2P network a wallet.  I do carry around a notebook or a "journal" -- where I right down ideas or store things I don't want to forget.  Seems like if I thought of this software on my computer as something else (not just a wallet) but really a gateway on a new world which is being built... I think of different things, the ideas step through and click together in new ways.

Maybe it's a journal, but I want to be able to make encrypted phone calls and encrypted texts, and group messaging and calls and video calls all within this thing too... and that's not a journal...

I don't know.  Just riffing.  

The question is what do you think the "wallet" should become?  

I'v had a new section made for the OP,

"Crown Games"

and added ACP's game to the section
More to come in the future!