Quote from: james42 on January 14, 2016, 04:53:17 PM

Have any producer payouts been made yet? I can't seem to see any in my new wallet

So on the Producer payouts here is the deal. I've had some website issues which I detail below. However, I want to point out that the Foundation wallet is accumulating coins and ALL COINS WILL EVENTUALLY BE PAID OUT. My request is Producers continue to use the website as they always have, entering meter readings as you've done before because this memorializes the meter data which is the key. What this does is allow me to produce a daily payout using the current website mechanism (the old blockchain data). Once I can get to the proper stage in the web update I will roll the database back to Jan 7th and re-calculate the coins to be paid against the coin totals for that day on the new chain. You will receive coins for that day in the same proportion that they were calculated using the old chain (albeit, updated for the differing coin total shown below --- and in actuality it will be quite close). Below is the payout schedule where we stand as of tonight's payout:

Payout Date     Block #     Daily blocks     Payout coins Coins in Wallet
1/7/2016     1322     698     1,396,000      1,396,000
1/8/2016     2020     698     1,396,000      2,792,000
1/9/2016     2718     698     1,396,000      4,188,000
1/10/2016     3567     849     1,698,000      5,886,000
1/11/2016     4320     753     1,506,000      7,392,000
1/12/2016     5030     710     1,420,000      8,812,000
1/13/2016     5746     716     1,432,000      10,244,000
1/14/2016     6463     717     1,434,000      11,678,000

As I pointed out previously, all payouts up to and including Jan 1 were made before block 801,739 of the old blockchain and are therefore transferable onto the new blockchain. Payouts for Jan 2 through Jan 6 will be donated by me (through the Foundation) on a 1 for 1 basis. There is nothing to do here, I will send them at some point in the future. I will do this after the web stuff is chugging along so I can memorialize it on a webpage that explains everything and has txid's. The new coin officially began staking on Jan 9, though it found 2718 blocks in that first day of which 624 were PoW (0 reward) and 2,094 were PoS (4,188,000 coins). Since this is about 3X a normal day's worth of staking, I felt it was fair to apply these coins back 2 days (Jan 7th and 8th) as well, thereby effectively making these donation days the responsibility of the Foundation coins. Considering the anomaly of the first days of staking (~3x the # of blocks than normal), I thought and was hoping this would be OK with the Producers for those days. On a side note, the staking seems to have settled down very nicely and is chugging along at ~720 per day which is right on target. Nicely done Ahmed!

So as for the web: I have been using the website (grcoin.com) to spit out the coin payment calculation, which was "professionally done" (the backend is pretty good even the front end isn't much to look at). I didn't have any more funding so I stopped using the contracting services back in 2014. In late 2014 the old coin started to experience issues and that became the priority. I didn't have time or the imperative to do the website stuff if I didn't know if the coin (and therefore the project) would ultimately need to be abandoned. But now in hindsight I wish I had spent more time on it! It obviously took awhile to fix the coin, about 13 months, but now it's done as of 1/9/16 and all of sudden I'm way behind on the web and subsequent heavy marketing that I'd like to do. I have recently begun working on it in earnest by myself but ran into an immediate problem: I can't deploy any updates to the web. I've issued a stack overflow question here.

If anyone can help or knows someone with Rails experience that could spend a little time with this project I would be much obliged, it might help speed things up a bit. For my part I'm committed to staying up late and working on what I can and going to meet-up groups starting next Monday to sit with others who could help and maybe entice them to join the project. Even after I get past the pesky deployment error there's still much to do:

1) update the database to produce the calculation for the new coin [hard]
2) cosmetic upgrades [not that hard, but time-consuming]
3) ease of use for new sign-ups and content [some hard, some time-consuming]

The first step represents the point I need to get to in order to produce the new script files I can feed into the Foundation wallet and payout the new coins, and update the database with the new information so your coin totals are correct on your user pages. At this time I will be able to rip through all of the payments that haven't been made yet in one fell swoop (and will payout the donations for the missed days here as well). The second step is just absolutely necessary to attract users who hear about greencoin through our marketing efforts (or watch the slick movie), and the third is necessary to make signing up solar producers seamless and easy (automatic emails, easy to find instructions, etc.).

This is all a lot of work, for which I am totally committed, but at the same time any additional help just accelerates things along.

I hope this sounds like an actionable plan for everyone.