Hey Jyri,
I see you are listed as the Tech Dev. Do you think that the new DOPE devs will be sending out all the pre-mined DOPE v3 to the addresses of the owners of the DOPE v1 & v2?
I think this will be a serious issue for the rest of time for DOPE v3. I don't see anyone wanting to support a coin where the devs previously stole some peoples coins.
You have gone public with your identity so I'm curious how you feel on this all. You reputation is at stake here. Has anyone else involved in this gone public with their identity?
Hello everyone!
As fartbags and Dopecoindude already know, I've been busy building something rather interesting (to be released shortly), and have not been following the DOPE thread for a while.
It is indeed a rather strange situation that I'm listed as the tech dev for DOPE, while I have in fact had nothing to do with the ongoing upgrade. =D
I'm sure the switchover has been announced many times over, but the fact that even the guy listed as the tech dev is not up to date on what's going on is rather telling. =D
The whole alt coin scene has the huge problem of being so volatile that people can't really trust in any of the numerous (and in many ways ingenious) coins out there. Developers keep disappearing, serious bugs are left unfixed, proper testing is not done, etc. etc. Things keep changing
way too fast even from the perspective of an officially diagnosed ADHD.
I have had to learn the art of Zen the difficult way. For the first 32 years of my life I was pretty much just rushing around to whatever direction I felt like going at any given time. Seeing something (anything) happening
now was always more important to me than doing things "the right way" - meaning a way that results in something that lasts.
I know Dopecoindude and/or Aaron are definitely
not trying to scam anyone - they are way too good people to even consider doing anything like that. At the same time I do understand that the pace and the way things have happened lately may raise suspicions and ill feelings.
My humble advice (as the officially listed DOPE tech dev;) is that
1) The swap should be continued until everyone has had the time to hear the news and react to it
2) Users should be informed in a much more visible way (there's no information whatsoever about the situation even at the official site)
3) Things should be taken under proper control from now on.
Step #1 includes taking the pain of having to continue the manual swapping until even old timers like me have had the time to realize what's going on, without blaming the users for not following this thread and/or Twitter. There are many users and investors out there who simply do not have the chance to constantly keep an eye on what's going on with every coin they own. A proper time frame would be several months.
Step #2 includes coming up with
very clear and precise step by step instructions on how to complete the swap. I can take care of writing the instructions - as soon as I know the details myself. =D
Step #3 includes crafting a long-term continuity plan, having the updated source code inspected and tested properly, creating precise descriptions of different areas of responsibilities, clearly assigning those responsibilities to the chosen people, and publishing all this information in a coherent and understandable way on the DOPE web site.
DOPE still has my support. I do wish to see the situation settling down and coming under control ASAP, though.
-j.