TO THE UTC COMMUNITY
herewith my proposal for the new roadmap (Priority ratings 1 - 6 but note that "vision' is starting now and always ongoing).
Could the community please consider and comment - happy to add/subtract any areas which we all agree as important.
I would suggest that the new roadmap be reorganised something like this:
1. Get a Dev team and Manager overall for UTC (Mar to May 2016)
Progress:
Usukan is
acting as the overall manager of UTC on a temporary basis until a full team is formalised by the community.
UTC is still seeking an experienced coder/Dev. We have several potential Co-devs who are looking at improving the wallet and re-target functions. They will report back in due course.
Emerge is a committed Co-Dev and working on an Android/IOS wallet and some other Lite wallets for Windows and Mac.
2. Fix current Windows wallet (retargeting and streamline resource usage by wallet)
Progress:
Potential Co-devs currently looking at these issues and will report back. First task is to fix the diff re-target issue and its agreed to revert to V3 which is practically identical to DigiShield. Mar to May/Jun 2016.
Other issues with the Qt wallet need addressing in the longer term especially the bloat issue and the heavy use of resources by the current wallet - updates to Qt core may provide some solutions here.
2. Get Marketing manager
Progress:
Emerge has kindly offered his services here and I think we should take up this offer - at least on an interim basis. We are only a few days into rebirthing UTC and its too soon in my opinion to make the final decision on this. Depending on developments - we should review this and may choose to formalise this as a full and permanent arrangement (but volunteer) in about 3 months (May 2016). In the interim we need to think about a marketing plan and develop the basics of a platform that is flexible to cater for our future community favoured directions and vision.
2. Add a second mining pool (May-Jul 2016 approx)
Progress:
First - Alenevaa has committed to continuing his mining pool and upgrading it as required with new wallet developments. Many thanks Alenevaa
At some stage in the future - when we get a few more miners we need to encourage someone to set up a new pool - or have the UTC Devs set up another. There is no great rush for this and we certainly don't want to detract from Alenevaa's contribution and viability of his pool. We should only do this when we have a lot more miners to spread around.
2. Get a block explorer (Mar 2016)
Progress:
None - we need this asap. We must rely here on any community members who have the skills to do this. Its urgent.
2. New or update - Ultracoin Website (add blockchain download
http://cryptochainer.com/dir/) (Mar/Apr 2016)
Progress:
We have both Emerge and possibly whortonda who could update the official UTC website. I do not have web skills - at all!
usukan will list the required edits within the next week or so and distribute to the community for comment.
It would be good to have a block explorer for the website update?
3. Android wallet - QR Codes - Lite Wallet - GUI
Progress:
Emerge working on this as first priority - java based wallet (Emerge will give us relevant updates and invite testing).
4. IOS wallet (Apr/May 2016)
4. Iphone wallet (Apr/May 2016)
Progress:
Emerge to look at these after he has rolled out the Android wallet.
5. One Click Miner (not urgent but could be very beneficial in the medium/long term)
Progress:
This project was started by Steven with a Dev from MYR (Myriad Coin). I doubt if we can pick up from where they left off. There are a couple of open source resources for these and I think we should leave it until one of our community members is available to run with this project.
2- 6 (ongoing). The exciting stuff - whats our
VISION for UTC - apart from the price going up. (Mar - Aug 2016)
THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DOHow can we give the coin utility in an attractive niche amongst all the other ALT coins. Does the algo have something that is useful that could set UTC apart. UTC has to be KNOWN for something special - and that attribute has to have value and/or utility in the real world.
Progress:
Not much - but we have plenty of time to discuss this. We need to make UTC a preferred currency in a specific niche. That will be the community's challenge to choose 1 or two areas and work towards this. Of course the Marketing Manager (Emerge) will be a key figure in these discussions. We will need to listen carefully to his considered suggestions and rely on him putting forward some solid cases to test out and focus on the best market opportunities.
Our vision for present must surely be based around a fast and secure payment or value transfer technology. People dont necessarily need to know that UTC is the underlying tech - and they probably don't care as long as it works. Thats the essence of the future game changing uses of Crypto.
As an example only - Emerge may develop a plan to have UTC used as the currency technology of choice for remittance of funds by overseas workers to the Philippines. This could easily be expanded to other Asian countries and India. Its a massive market worth billions USD. Even taking out a small segment of the market is significant. The current players only deal in BTC and its slow compared to Western Union - but much cheaper. Coins.ph can take 12 hrs to a day or more over weekends. Rebbit is working on more instant transfers. However with BTC there is still going to be the 6 conf delay issues. With UTC its more instantaneous. Problems are - UTC would have to link with established cash-out networks like Lhuillier, 7-Eleven or others - or set up our own street based network. Of course bank deposits are possible but frought with regulatory issues no doubt esp in the future. Nevertheless - UTC could provide the technology to power this system. This is just an idea off the top of my head - there are of course a lot of details to fill in but it demonstrates what a "VISION" for UTC could be.
One other matter which I think is important:
To go back to the ship analogy - UTC is now sailing with a skeleton crew. We have a captain and some crew members training on the job. The engines are running and there is no immediate danger of getting washed onto the rocks. Until the crew gets up to speed and we service the mechanicals we dont want to risk any tricky docking manoeuvres. I am referring here to rushing through some quick wallet changes, hardforking and blowing the engines or ramming the ship onto the shore.
UTC is working for now and better than some folk actually think. I have done many transactions lately and they are still fast and reliable. Staking works just fine too. We must not RUSH through any wallet and re-targeting fixes - but acknowledge we need to fix the re-targeting bonanza issue that we currently have. We need to dev them very carefully, have experts review and fully test before implementing. This is important if not critical to prevent a meltdown. The other issue is our exhange Bittrex. We can't afford to muck these guys around. We need to fork once and do it properly - not going back every couple of weeks with wallet updates etc.
Sorry - one other thing. Donations for Development.
If and when the UTC price hits 5000 I will hit this community for donations.
They will be voluntary of course.
This will be the true test of community support.
They will be taken in UTC or BTC - but converted to BTC
Stored in one visible to all BTC address - controlled either by myself or the new UTC Leader only
Community will decide what to spend on and how much
Comments please
Thats all for now - I'm relying on your comment and feedback to move to the next stages. Have I forgotten anything?
I will update the Forum lead page when I get some good solid community feedback and we have consensus on direction. I will take any silence as agreement.
Cheers - usukan
So now that this has happened, what's our new itinerary and roadmap?
