Hello everyone,
as ATOMIC is preparing to go into testing, we wanted to give you a preview about the actual progress and where ATOMIC is heading to.
Following are a few pictures of the working ATOMIC-Qt wallet with explanations of the different tabs.
All of the screenshots are from a Debian system but the interface is basically the same on all other operating systems.
This update is mainly intended for everyone signed up/signing up for the alpha testing so it will be more on the technical side.
This shows the startup screen of ATOMIC-Qt, which will be the first thing testers see when they startup the client.
A function runs several checks on your client configuration to make sure that everything is working and will help you fix any errors that are found.
The goal was to make it easy to use and quick to understand.
The second picture shows the Ledger Maintenance page when the maintainer is not running (mining is disabled).
In the alpha testing release we will use a modified version of cpuminer that supports the POG (Proof Of Gateway) protocol which is built in along with a modified p2pool.
The third picture shows the ledger maintainer page when the maintainer is running (mining enabled).
There is a built in web interface and alpha testers will also be able to see console output from the maintainer.
For the first time Alpha testers will have a chance to see how Proof of Gateway and the peer to peer 'mining' network of ATOMIC works - which is very differently than anything that they are used to.
Instead of competing for hash power, ledger maintainers (as described in the documentation) are rewarded for maintaining an active full node, which assists the network in recording cross chain transactions
to the Atomic Block chain. This means that all nodes are rewarded, for actually being a part of the network.
The fourth picture shows the DAC Voting Tab which may begin with testing in either alpha or beta stages of ATOMIC.
As described in the ATOMIC documentation, DAC asset owners and atom token owners will be able to influence and control the decisions of the DAC.
Asset and token owners will be able to create votes on a subject of their wish and publish it for the network to decide.
The fifth picture shows the current development version of the vote submission page and shows the idea behind the voting system and the decision making of a DAC.
The sixth picture shows the multisig/escrow widget that we have included.
We had to develop a library for dealing with multisig payments for asset holders, as well as for holding funds, storing the funds of a DAC vote and so on.
We made a QT widget which gives users access to this library and enables them to create and spend multisig blockchain transactions.
Our main goal for the Alpha testing is to test the multisig system as much as possible because it plays a main role in the ATOMIC DAC.
I hope the pictures and explanations gave you a gist of how the network and the DAC will work, else i advise strongly to take part in our alpha testing and of course read the
documentation 
Also for all alpha testers who signed up please send an email to cryptaxe (email on
atomicdac.org contact page) with the following informations (all optional of course):
* Operating system(s) you have access to (We recommend starting a virtual machine for testing)
* Crypto Currencies that you want to test with
* Number of nodes you plan to run
* Do you have any devices like raspberry pis, or old low end computers that you plan to test
* Download and Upload speeds of your connection(s)
* Source or Bin download?
