Quote from: StanLarimer on August 31, 2015, 09:11:42 PM

Quote from: sumantso on August 31, 2015, 08:18:17 PM

Quote from: StanLarimer on August 30, 2015, 05:23:57 PM

Therefore, rejoice, heaven and you who live there!
But woe to you, land and sea, for the adversary has come down to you,
and he is very angry, because he knows that his time is short!

Must be tough to be a troll knowing that you have so little time left before 2.0 appears.

I notice trolls are coming out of the woodwork in these last days like insects from a burning log.

Stan, you shouldn't really start tarring every dissenting voice with the troll brush. I know its tough to post here with DE's inane ramblings (who probably should try and prop up his beloved coin), but there are a lot of 'investors' who are aggrieved because of one reason or the other.

The testnet was working decently enough and I see that BM has now shifted to 5 sec blocks which to me is a positive step. While '1 sec blocks' makes for a nice slogan, I wonder how necessary it is. 10 seconds was good enough for me and 5 sec should do the job. I would rather that BM makes a small blockchain which I can download and run a full node rather than rely in a light wallet.

Agreed. I welcome dissenting voices who can explain their dissent coherently like an adult.

The plan is to cut block times gradually for the reasons you stated - from 10s to 5s to 3s to 1s as the code matures.

But once you've used it at 1s its pretty addicting.

As for the stand-alone wallet, that's coming too. But we want to lower the barriers for incoming newbies in the referral pipelines, so web wallets are a key new user on-ramp strategy.

Is there any plan to start pruning the blockchain after the one second blocks start? Given a few years of that speed the blockchain will become bigger than bitcoin's. The bitcoin devs are already moving in the direction of adopting pruning. The latest wallet lets you remove some bloat after you have downloaded the entire blockchain. BitShares 2.0 could do the same, or take it further.