btc38 would be great for bitbay.
Indeed it would.
The thing is to push the marketing side of it now.... or await the pegging. I mean if we await the pegging and get it fully stable and get all the bugs ironed out.
Then we done some marketing get some volume going through on the exchanges.
Then we got some decent vendors using it since with pegging they can't lose on volitile spiking
That could be great.
We do have a few senior or above serious crypto people interested in BAY it would seem. It just seems so low in value considering all the things it has going for it?
It's terrible that none of us really has any coding skills to help david. Is there some team for other things? I see some nice graphical work has been done, and the website looks really nice too.
One thing that could be holding us back is the bitbay QT ... I mean i know it is just a standard wallet to coin to hold the tokens for now, but really I don't know why but it seems so buggy compared to some other qts on my machines. It takes ages to download the chain from scratch too.
I know it's not actually important right now but it would be cool for when people get started to have something as easy as possible with zero wating and frustration.
Is anyone here using the bitbay market place to sell things atm?
Well it is undervalued because the casual investor only cares about price and not tech. Half the projects dont even have a real dev and are just fake. Even Etherium had absolutely no product for years and spent the entire time raising money with no actual proof of concept.
There is a lot of senior bitcointalk members interested and obviously the code was of interest enough to draw a lot of people to its unfortunate launch.
Also, it is fair to mention the progress made on the client in the last year (comparing screenshots alone) a lot of features have been added and of course the decentralized markets.
The people we have on our team are mostly the slack members. We have a couple people who did graphics mostly meta who did our site which I have to admit looks excellent. And the slack members helped find artists for the new logo, promotional materials and everything else which I made sure everyone we contracted got paid of course.
The reason the QT is buggy is because it was not built with complete source code. Oxidians github is missing files so it cant even build bitbayd for some platforms. I have a more updated source which is good for the daemon but it wont run qt. It would be nice to see a new qt but we have to consider that very soon it will be phased out. I might even fork early to get rid of the qt before we even start to peg.
I just bought a new laptop today actually for testing and may buy a couple more cheap ones just to see a few different systems. Aside from any VMs im going to run.
By the way, to avoid the sync, you should look at how Ive coded Bithalo. That version of Halo actually doesnt download a blockchain.
The reason i download a blockchain for Bitbay and BLK is because I want to make sure the data is 100% reliable (like blockchain.info). I used 3 different apis for Bithalos balance checking to avoid mistakes at all costs since these are contracts and we cant afford unreliable info.
HOWEVER, since Im coding a decentralized exchange, technically im going to have to start relying on online block explorers for altcoins. Plus, i dont see why bitbay cant do both once that functionality is complete? Just a though. I'm trying to not promise more than I already have on my plate though.
Some sales have been done on the Bitbay market. Someone sold a tire pressure gauge, trading cards, cash for coins, fawcet contracts, stickers and promotional materials. So I think thats a pretty good start for our first year. Hell the only thing anyone ever bought with Bitcoin was a pizza! For like 10,000 btc haha
The reality is, I would LOVE coders. Did you know that I posted to find someone to simply build a cross platform blackcoind and bitbayd build on reddit and on a few job search platforms and found absolutely nobody?!?
It was sad, I have a hard time simply getting a damn build. Of course, Im going to build those myself but to get them cross platform and stable requires some testing and ive been working on other things.
I was in Cambodia, tried to hire, had 3 coders who didnt contribute a single line of code. Sad i know. I spent 1 month training them and after saw the sluggish speed of how they struggled and gave up on them. Two of them quit. They only really managed to build the daemon, get blackcoin and bitbay running and they practiced on some small projects i gave them that took them forever. A thing one of them took an entire week to do, i did in one hour.
So I tried to look into India, was there for a month, but found out that i need to apply for a 3 month or more visa from the usa and India doesnt take bribes anymore haha. So that was out. Plus they are ballbusters anyways. I was concerned about the training issue and time commitment since I knew I had to produce markets asap... ( so i did
).
I tried hiring a guy from Blackcoin under a BlackHalo contract for a basic refactor. At first it was good, he did a decent amount of work (proof that double deposit works!) BUT he started to get lazy after 2 weeks. He had a bunch of things changed with file management, cleaned up some stuff etc. The problem was, I was working on the code at the same time and we werent using github. SO he was frustrated since I didnt merge the code, he asked for about 5 time extensions and eventually disappeared completely. So the contract ended.
Unfortunately, I ended up not using a single line since I already refactored the file mangement in Halo core myself.
So I also tried hiring a few other crypto guys but they take weeks to respond and just suck. They either dont understand my source code, or are obviously planning to pad their hours. (where are the good cheap ones hiding?)
I'm looking into hiring here in Mexico... since I'm not far. And the quality and price might be alright plus i speak spanish. But its very hard to say again if they will understand the code or bitcoin. Coders are hard to find. Bitcoin coders are impossible to find. Cheap bitcoin coders are like unicorns... they dont exist.
So, I'm stuck coding alone. And by the way your assessment was correct. The amount of work for one coder is insane and unhealthy! But we've made it this far, this client is like 10000 times more badass than any client out there. Its STILL the only client in the world that does contracts, still the only one with true decentralized markets, and like 10 other cool features.
On a side note about marketing, to bring in some extra cash and to help a buddy out, I spent the past week making some marketing bots for a friend... and maybe they can be useful for crypto related projects. Mostly for forums, online promotion social media... all automation bots. The thing is, I'm not so interested in marketing heavily until the pegging is complete so we dont worry about volatility.
By the way, are you on slack? Its been a bit quiet there lately.
