It is good to see that you are giving updates at the very start of this thread. This will assure your followers here that there is development going on in this project. However, in terms of your actual use case, you said this quarter you will conduct stress testing of eGift transfers based from your roadmap, is this still on time? Are we gonna see this from your app this quarter?
To be frank, we tend to automate our announcements through Twitter, which then webhook to our social media channels, so this thread tends to lag in terms of announcements, so I'd advice you follow the project along via Twitter / Discord, etc.
The roadmap was written in good faith to outline more specifically the intentions with the development aspect, but as the team have been building out, other areas have taken focus:
Crypto-city.com platform operates within a third party data centre, so a new custom server is being built, so that the entirely of the ecosystem can be operated internally, which has taken some of the momentum away from bitFlowers development. Additionally, as we've been working through the bitFlowers roadmap, some aspects have been more time laden. I.e. both index and exchange acquisition. We intended for 8 suitable non KYC exchange to begin with. We currently have 6 completed and operational and are working toward the next two over the coming couple of months. Additionally, given the intensity of the cryptocurrency environment at present, index listings have been slow and we're still pursuing this. Our main focus has been to acquire a fully tracked listing with CoinMarketCap, so that we can then permeate the data into Coinbase and Blockfolio. This is only weeks away, now, so rest assured that development has not been neglects - we're currently working very hard to ensure that we have maximum credibility within the crypto ecosystem before aiming toward the eGift integration!
Furthermore, we've been driving efforts into community expansion, too. The integration of the Discord / Telegram tipBot has required some focus to see how it can be utilized to support coin distribution and utility. We've been experimenting with lotto, raffles, bounties, invite programs, etc, that have all required lots of focus as more and more people have been exploring bitFlowers. Today, for example, we're re-designing the Discord server to better manage the mass of users that we have. Once Discord simplification is complete, we're going to begin a marketing campaign to ramp up the userbase as CoinMarketCap data goes live, and we can drive some attention toward the market place and create a healthier dynamic at the exchanges.
All of the initial eGifts have been created and are ready for deployment, but prior to engaging with the implementation of the functionality, the team intend to focus on upgrading the current software RPC methods and the additional dependencies that the software utilizes.
So, in simple:
CoinMarkCap > Coinbase > blockfolio index data = maximum distribution of market data = maximum exposure of market activities = maximum potential for use case once phase 2 rolls out
Once the above is completed and we have the additional market acquired - estimated to be by August - then we would have accomplished our marketplace and audience goals. At which point, we're going to drive our attention fully at development and that's when we will create a new roadmap, update the marketing, and then the focus can remain entirely on the core wallet functionality.
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