Quote from: _ingsoc on November 20, 2015, 05:34:35 PM

Quote from: madmalkav on March 06, 2015, 09:34:53 AM

Hope to get any news soon, I think this is the most promising project in the cryptocurrency world.

Quote from: frga13 on March 06, 2015, 09:36:17 AM

This is still active?

Quote from: nutildah on August 05, 2015, 03:27:34 AM

I guess the idea fell to the wayside...

Quote from: igba on August 16, 2015, 07:37:38 AM

TacoTime got busy with Monero development is what happened. Pretty sure no one else was consistently working on this.

Quote from: canth on August 16, 2015, 05:51:45 PM

And that's fine. It would be good for his reputation though if he put out an official comment on the direction of this project.

Hey guys, not sure if anyone is still out there. The last correspondence from tacotime in this thread was over a year ago. I spoke to him yesterday, and we agreed for me to come here and share the story with you. Truth be told, the project has had a bumpy ride. It's been an uphill battle, and quite a few times it looked like it was going to end as just a theoretical piece. It was during this time that we decided to drop off the radar and get our hands dirty until we could deliver, lest we end up building hope and letting everyone down. So today I bear good news for you. tacotime has been coding on this for over a year now. He started solo while I searched and tried to build relationships with developers who care about this technology and the ethos behind it. We built a relationship with the group that develops the free and open-source btcsuite (formerly known as btcd). btcsuite is solely funded by a relatively unknown guy who I can describe as an open-source philanthropist. He has been instrumental in helping us get this going. The group agreed to help us build up the project, and what we hope to present is an "alt" that will have the same level of quality and development consistency demonstrated by btcsuite over the last 2.5 years since its introduction in 2013.

So the good news is this, the project is alive and well, and close to completion. We can begin to break the silence because now we know we can deliver. But ultimately this isn't about who developed what, it's about the community because it'll be dead in the water without your interest in using it. I wanted to come here first and reach out to the people who have supported this project during its darkest days (and hopefully for its brightest!). You should receive this news first. The plan now is to have everything finished and ready for launch in January. There will be an announcement soon, and from that point on, there is going to be open communication and transparency in every reasonable regard. Nobody will be able to own the project, just act as contributors and custodians where required. Once the infrastructure is up, we turn on the machine and everyone is welcome. The future for the project is not a big monolithic corporation that took all your money before a line of code was written, but small dedicated teams that work with surgical precision and efficiency on building this out beyond what is launched. The whole thing was self-funded at a fraction of the cost we've seen some projects take in this community. We took the risk and time over the years knowing it can fail, and every cent we take from it to cover the bring-up cost will be matched and given in full to the community for free to distribute the network effect as far and wide as possible. All of this will be documented in full at the announcement. As we work, I wanted to take a second and share this information with you if you're still out there.

I look forward to getting to know you all again. And I look forward to working with you now that we're so close to this being real. In this project, if you have a voice and something meaningful to contribute, you will have a place to share that with others. My personal objective is to make sure it stays that way. Can't believe we're going to get there in the end, community.

Definitely exciting news. I'm a big fan of the work that has been done on BTCD - being associated with this project is a big positive. Keep up the work - we'll be here whenever you guys are read to share more details!