Hey guys,
I took a bounty from the team to get the site redesigned. It's still not 100% polished to where I'd like it to be, but since everyone is eager to see progress, I will post it as is.
http://getearthcoin.comHere are some of the things I've done in the last month in addition to the site since I've started working with the team.
Migrated earthcoin.biz to getearthcoin.com
Redesigned and developed the site to be responsive
Redesigned Facebook, Twitter, Reddit
Created
http://earthcoin.uservoice.com to collect suggestions. This is integrated with the feedback button on new site.
Updated existing site while new site was being developed including writing content
Created TeamEarthcoin form to seek new talent. (and I've been reading them)
Going over merchant docs
Working with Android devs (Xploited and Hash Engineering)
Working with Earthcoin tip bot dev (sprocket)
Working with Earthazar dev (Centurion)
Submitting content to earthcoin.eu
Put my own fiat behind sponsored posts on facebook
and of course maintaining a presence in IRC, here and EarthCoin Talk
I haven't been updating the socials in the last few days due to personal reasons, but I am going to be picking it up once again.
Huge apologies to Quorum. I mentioned to the devs that I had an idea for a marketplace, and then I was put in touch with you for an initial conversation because you had set up that marketplace at wikicompany, but I wasn't sure of the goal of putting us in touch with each other? When I had checked up on the marketplace next, it was gone and I assumed it was to make room for Earthazaar.
Anyway, there's a new version of the Earthcoin Wallet (v1.2) up on the site, but we still need people to compile for Mac and Linux.
The main differences is that it shows up to 6 transactions on the main overview page
There's a field to display transaction messages (awesome)
Also a filter to show only values over a certain amount on transactions... I am assuming that's mostly for miners?
For everyone who has been filling out the TeamEarthcoin form, I will respond. Again, there are a few personal issues I've had to deal with recently and I come from the community, like you, and have a full time job and non-crypto life that I have to balance (and despite that, I've put in a tremendous amount of hours into helping Earthcoin grow).
This is the next step...
I've drafted the following message that will be posted to the developers board. Any suggestions or comments?
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Seeking coin, wallet, and service developers. Bounties Available. Escrow needed.
We at Earthcoin have been watching various alt coins make new developments over the last couple months. There have been many contributions to cryptocurrency technology that we’ve found desirable. However, to ensure the stability of our community and network in our early days, we wanted to wait as long as possible before doing anything that would required a hard fork.
However, now than transaction malleability vulnerabilities have reared their ugly heads and with scrypt ASICs just around the corner, it seems as though a mandatory upgrade and hard fork is inevitable in the near future. Now we are seeking your input and your help to make Earhtcoin the most competitive alt out there. We want to take all the latest features in the alt market and combine them into one coin.
This is what we are looking for.
Upgrading our base/wallet code to be based off of the latest upcoming bitcoin/litecoin code that incorporates the fix for transaction malleability.
ASIC resistance (Via Vert’s Scrypt Adaptive-N or scrypt-jane or whatever the community feels is most appropriate) along with corresponding mining and pool software.
Built in anonymity such ascoin mixing similar to the recently-released Fedoracoin feature or Darkcoin’s coinjoin implementation. We eventually look forward to implementing the Zerocoin anonymity protocol.
We currently have a block target time of 1 minute and retargeting difficulty every block to make us resistant to transaction stalling from multi pool hopping. Can anyone give us any reason why we would benefit from Kimoto’s Gravity Well implementation?
We would like to change our bonus reward days (2X and 5X days) to give blocks only when BOINC is running like Gridcoin. We like the idea of using your extra computing power to also help scientific progress.
We would like a more custom wallet… MUCH more custom. Not just nicely designed like Megacoin, Worldcoin, Copperlark, etc, but we would like something that can contain price/hash chart information, links to our network of websites and merchants, news feeds, and mining setups. It does not necessarily have to be Qt based, but it must at the very least match all of the Qt wallet’s functions. If we have a working Earthcoinj (java implementation of Earthcoin) then perhaps we can build off of that.
Currently, we support transaction messaging through the blockchain like Florincoin and we believe that our Android wallet (which is to be released soon) is one of the first if not *the* first to support this feature. This does create an extra field in block chain transactions that programmers will have to account for. Perhaps we can make this more useful and include metadata about transactions similar to simple.com or mint.com so types of transactions (goods, services, mining, trade, etc) can be tracked in a nice, sortable interface.
We want everything to be easy, easy, easy for the first time user. That means we would like to have links inside the wallet pointing the user to help files on the web with audio and video that explain everything from mining to the nature of cryptocurrency itself. That means we’d like preconfigured files for the solo miner and various pool miners, including an easy way to connect to any pools in an updated list of pools and preconfigured bat files for the CPU, AMD or Nvidia miner.
Pie in the sky idea, but if there are even developers that can help build next generation services on top of our block chain (similar to what Mastercoin has done with Bitcoin) then we are open to that as well.
Any and all ideas are on the table here. The only limitation at this point is that we still want to be based off of the fully-tested and well understood bitcoin/litecoin base rather than something like NXT.
Please discuss the above, let us know what your wish list items are and we will bounty it. All of the above should be done through escrow so you know we will deliver and we know you will as well. We want nothing less than the best.
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Current list of bounty-worthy items.
http://earthcoin.eu/?p=293However, if people have great ideas that they want to bring to the table, contact someone on the team or let's start an open discussion.
