Ok, time to put some new energy in Viacoin.
I’m still supporting Viacoin. I consider Drak as one of the smartest guys in the crypto cummunity and I have followed his steps closely in the past year. There is a lot of time invested in Viacoin, but he cannot do this by himself. We need to support Viacoin together and promote it in several ways. Like Drak said, everybody can participate, nobody needs permission for this. So lets pick up the gloves together.
Hopefully Drak can tell us the latest status of the project. From that point we can move forward and give Viacoin new energy that it deserves. I believe in the idea which Drak envisioned for Viacoin.
Below are some subjects we should (in my vision) concentrate on to build and promote Viacoin
Viacoin CoreDrak and Reorder are the developers who have worked for the biggest part on Viacoin. They can tell what kind of knowledge/resources is needed right now. I am not a hardcore techie, so I leave that up to them.
I understand that there is a release with new features ready, but to deploy this there is a prerequisite (copied from viacoin blog):
- BIP66 is being implemented because of recent changes in the way OpenSSL parses signatures. Viacoin Core uses OpenSSL to check signatures to make sure they’re valid, but OpenSSL used to accept signatures using multiple different types of encodings. Once BIP66 is fully implemented, there will only be one valid way to encode a Viacoin signature (the DER encoding). This change breaks the dependency on OpenSSL’s signature parsing, and is a stepping stone to removing all dependencies of OpenSSL from the consensus code. It is a soft-fork which relies on the miner-voting where 75% of miners agree to the change at which point the new consensus rule becomes active for those blocks. When 95% of blocks have version number 4 or higher, it becomes mandatory for all blocks.
@Drak, Is this correct? If so, how can we help as a community to fulfill this prerequisite?
Building Services/AppsBuilding services apps on top of Clearinghouse / Viacoin blockchain
- We have to brainstorm about usecases which specifically fits clearinghouse / Viacoin blockchain. We need these usecases to take Viacoin to the next level.
- We need companies who are interested in these usecases described above and like to experiment/build it on top of Clearinghouse / Viacoin blockchain
AdoptionAs a community we need to promote the possibilities of Viacoin to the following industries:
Game industry: BCT user Crypto trout suggested for example the following:
We need to find out more of these examples and chase new projects which have not decided what kind of blockchain they want to use. We can try to convince them to choose for Viacoin.
Financial industryGovermentAs an example Drak mentioned some time ago:
- I would like to see an intellectual property rights registration service. Something that combines centralized service and decentralized timestamping (using the viacoin blockchain). The timstamping techy stuff needs to be a bit more opaque as it's currently a bit "raw". Maybe even something where users can create profiles and they can keep a register against their name of items.
Other suggestions? Above points are high level off course, but we need to come up with
ExchangesOne of the things to get more volume to Viacoin is to get more attention from the community and media. But besides this, Viacoin should also be added to more exchanges to get more access to funds. The bigger exchanges like BTC-e, Bitfinex are (probably) out of reach at this point in time, but BTC38.com is duable in my opinion. As a community we have to focus on one exchange at a time to convince an exchange to at Viacoin. But this goes side by side with other developments off course.
News /EducationAs a community we have to work on the following:
Presentations- Why use Viacoin --> Get companies, individuals interested
- Usecases --> How to use viacoin with an example of a concrete usecase.
Articles- Regular updates on developments
Educational videos (animation perhaps)- to show what Viacoin can do for your business
CoordinationTo coordinate and communicate about this subjects, we need a better platform than BCT in my opinion. A lot of usefull info and questions/answers are lost which we can build further on.
- Anybody have any suggestions for a platform to do projects on and work on the points above?
- Who can play a part of the coordination in the points above? It would be great to form teams and work on the point above.
I’m willing to pick up some parts and coordinate if necessary, but keep in mind: I have more than a fulltime job, so I cannot do this alone. Every hand is welcome!
