Nobl needs to get its act together and get the POS ball rolling!!! Wether it be by fork or a coin exchange. This silence is slowly but surely killing us
With all due respect, we have not been silent. Yes PoS has been pushed back again as I've stated many times because long-term a fork looks better than a clean wallet swap and that is proving difficult. But if you think PoS is the be-all and and-all of what matters then I don't know what to say.
Edit: Before I hear it saves us from the price going down because of miners what is the reasoning behind VRC, BC, CLOAK & RZR drops - our inflation/day (PoW) is near the lowest of any alt. at this point.PS. If it comes down to myself being the only one to constantly push out updates and news than something more needs to be organized. Every month it's us pushing further in a bear market while coins around us (notice DRK?) that we were meant to emulate 'die' more than we do.
https://twitter.com/NobleCoinSmall update:Marketplace good to go v2:
https://marketplace.noblemovement.com. New cards, bullion still in the works (sorry - tax, legal & costs in Aus.), SSL - double checking products in stock & will enter the external merchant sections next. edit: There are still product/service additions to come to the Marketplace, I just didn't want to leave our Marketplace seeming in limbo.
NobleRoad (OpenBazaar) so far:
https://github.com/jlcurby/NobleRoad. The second coins that are getting 10x-15x our vol. & market-cap for promising OpenBazaar (non-blockchain) marketplaces that are ahead of official development (it's in Alpha) release something I'll bite my tongue and fork our own copy with the products/deals (read: I don't believe them).
Steps is next and merchant map/easier access/use. I'm still tied up in related work that will come out. Our Water Project was completed:
http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/well-repair-in-kenya-4257 and we'll be gearing up for Steps/Round 2. I'll be working this to be funded by the community in a way that doesn't dump ANY NOBL on an exchange for those who are concerned with how fundraising affects price.
PoS as I said hopefully begins in a couple of weeks when our new developer frees up his schedule. If he can't figure it out I'll admit defeat and we'll organise a clean wallet swap to end PoW/miner inflation. All I'm asking now is a little patience, I will give daily updates if necessary to show I'm still here.
Wallet is here still:
https://github.com/jlcurby/NobleCoin-wallet-placeholder - will release some compiled versions to toy with if interested. Going to pay for some new developers to join for wallet work.
Team: Within the next few months our team will look like: Protocol (1 paid developer), Wallet (1- 2 paid developers + protocol developers for additions/testing/GUI/features), myself for Noble Marketplace/NobleRoad, Steps & stuff in the works and then also community Ambassadors for promotion/social. Paid can be trusted developers to provide additions when they come about/are proven, I won't be able to continue handling them all. This will be an ongoing overhaul and I'm hoping we have names/faces for everyone involved.
Small Update on Marketplace(s)In light of recently trying to promote our marketplace and longer-term vision for a decentralized marketplace I'd just like to clear the air and make clear a few things in regards to questions/criticism I've received privately (due to the attention other coins are receiving for their marketplaces).
1. OpenBazaar is an open-source project (decentralized P2P marketplace) being built by quite a large and capable team which has a focus currently on BTC. They have publicly stated numerous times that their open-source version will allow altcoins to be plugged in, meaning every fork of OpenBazaar in the future will have the ability to have an unlimited number of altcoins supported. OpenBazaar is currently in
alpha, with beta not estimated until December and transactions not currently even available. Their site & team:
https://openbazaar.org/, their github:
https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar.
2. Our NobleRoad vision I've gone on about a few times the last half a year was always going to be a fork of OpenBazaar when it was ready and accommodating NobleCoin specifically. It was always to act as a decentralized backup to our current centralized marketplace and have all the same items/deals offered by us as well as the P2P inclusive functionality of OpenBazaar. Our current Marketplace is a centralized version similar to Amazon that is hosted on our servers. Our NobleRoad github/brand is now here:
https://github.com/jlcurby/NobleRoad. We've toyed, deployed and keep up to date when we can with OpenBazaar progress.
I added recent commits now just to make a point of what an OpenBazaar fork actually is.3. Any fork of OpenBazaar done for other coins for specific purposes is not them copying us or us copying them. It is a fork of OpenBazaar and uses their source code - OpenBazaar development team deserve any credit. In all fairness perhaps some coins can deliver their version of OpenBazaar with full altcoin support before the OpenBazaar team gets out of alpha with BTC, but as of right now unless these teams are working on private forks/Githubs and are well-progressed far beyond OpenBazaar development I do not believe that is the case. Their public Githubs are well behind. Hell if they manage to pull it off, I personally can't wait to see the public Github and deliver our own version of it - with a nod of thanks to those who actually deliver something ahead of the OpenBazaar team.
4. Our focus has been on an Amazon-style Marketplace because a decentralized Silk Road-style (free market) market (OpenBazaar) is still in alpha and we haven't had the luxury/desire to compete against a team we feel is far more capable/focused purely on delivering that. An OpenBazaar version is due when it matures, it's not something we want to compete with OpenBazaar or other coins for.
So please stop with the sharp remarks of coins stealing other coins 'innovations'. OpenBazaar belongs to the OpenBazaar team, it doesn't belong to any altcoin. If there are two altcoins that deserve 'attention' for marketplace 'innovation', I personally believe it would be FTC & NOBL, but that's just me (edit: or the asset/digital marketplaces coming from the established 2.0's).
Edit: I'm still waiting on the SSL certificate for marketplace.noblemovement.com to be delivered to our admin email. The delay might be because of the weekend, but it's coming. 
