Dear Antony,
It says "ParkByte (PKB) was not developed by Antony" on coinsource. Are you hiring someone to develop this software?
Correct, I paid someone else to fork their coin initially, this meant I was guaranteed a faultless launch. I also outsourced other parts. I have full control of all code and take responsibility for it.
I don't plan on hiring anyone, there maybe parts of the development that I will pay a freelancer to complete but nothing full time.
My initial aim is to provide the fundamental tools to push adoption of PKB, by providing parking companies an easy route for them to implement PKB in their existing apps, the main tools needed to implement any crypto currency in my view are:
- Electrum Servers that give access to the PKB network to broadcast transactions, check balances, select inputs etc
- Bitcoinj to give them a ready to use, out of the box module to allow their app to do all the processing, signing etc
Both of these have now been published as open source code for anyone to modify and use
I don't expect companies that already offer parking tickets via a mobile app to use the ParkByte APP and backend to issue tickets. Companies like Ringo, ParkMobile, PayByPhone, Parkeon, Metric, Cale Access would all want to use their own branded app that already exists, they all have a huge worldwide presence in the parking industry with a dedicated development team.
Yes, I am developing a full solution myself, primarily to provide a proof of concept to the companies listed above but I only see this solution being used by smaller companies that operate a few car parks. The bigger companies will be able to claim parts of the premine as I have said in various other posts.
This project is predominantly aimed at adoption, only adoption gives true value to any crypto currency.