'Halo' isnt giving Blackcoin anymore updates. Bitbay getting everything with Halo now. what does that tell you?
..visit blackcoin slack..and just ask, he will tell you, David is working on nighttrader..
Actually there is some truth to this. After a very long discussion with the core BitBay guys they explained (rightfully so) that they spent the past 2 years testing 1000s of contracts, testing cold stake, promoting, marketing and making videos, volunteering insane amounts of hours etc for features that keep getting pushed back to BlackHalo.
I can assure the Blackcoin community that the BitBay community has been a godsend and the core members not only invested thousands of hours of their time daily but gave endless advice and inspiration and without their testing I would never have improved the software to this level or found bugs or really anything.
So there will be a delay in the release of the remaining templates in BlackHalo AND BitHalo. Namely because (and this can be proven by seeing the lack of multisig addresses in the BLK block explorer) that very few people actually use the software here that was designed for free. As the community knows I don't run the github (this is still rat4's coin) and have very few coins only a few hundred thousand.
The delay does not apply to bug fixes and improvements and patches. So for example 1.27 will be released in a few days with some pretty major updates.
The delayed release of templates will happen most likely after BitBay's rolling peg. Perhaps if people start actually USING BitHalo/BlackHalo and help promote it (you realize it has a coins for cash template that tracks the price and should have already replaced localbitcoins?!) then I can release templates under a faster schedule.
If you look at BLK block explorer the top 500 addresses there is only ONE multisig address. And that would be my address. So that proves nobody is even bothering to download test or do anything except use Halo as a vehicle for speculation.
BitHalo alone should have been in the news daily and yet I see as it is constantly ignored and no community was built around it (perhaps because there was no token to invest in directly). That to me is very disheartening considering they clamor for vaporware like "root stock" or whatever proposal someone has for one day adding smart contracts for Bitcoin when we already have the only software in the world that does smart contracts for Bitcoin.
It should have been a slam dunk and been on the news every time Bitcoin and Ethereum were mentioned together especially since unbreakable contracts have more real world use cases than "pie in the sky" ETH contracts.
As far as NightTrader is concerned which is BlackHalos exclusive feature indeed any incentive plan I work for Blackcoin be it dividends or some sort of advantage is still very real. So even if I didn't hold a single coin I would still push back to BLK that gift. Even if NightTrader becomes its own token I will still work out a way to reward Blackcoin members from the exchange.
The best design for NightTrader is Atomic Trade. The problem is as described before it needs to be done completely in Javascript. Currently I'm already investigating techniques. I've had a few conversations with Gritt. It is a massive undertaking and we might actually want to consider funding for such a thing. After all these years why am I still working on a shoe string budget? Regardless the timing of such a thing will only be assessed after my current obligations are met.
With that said, Halo can already be used for decentralized exchange yet I've never seen a single person attempt microtrading as traders tend to enjoy charts and fast paced centralized trading. Even at their own risk and expense.
So to make matters clear each coin has it's own exclusive set of features.
