After spending some time reviewing Trent Russell's code, I have merged it into the dev branch: http://qeditas.org/gitweb/?p=qeditas.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/dev

This gives all of us a common code base to branch off of, in case anyone wants to contribute.

The white paper had not been updated in over a year, so I spent some time bringing it into agreement with the current status and plan. For example, the white paper now discusses the plan to have claim windows during which the value of the unclaimed initial distribution will halve every 4 years after the first 5 years.

The latest draft of the white paper is here: http://qeditas.org/qeditas.pdf

One thing is worth explicitly discussing now. The snapshot from block 350,000 is now over a year old. While I am not opposed to using a more recent snapshot instead, I am opposed to taking such a snapshot myself. Taking and preparing such a snapshot is very tedious and time-consuming, and I have no interest in doing this again. If someone feels strongly that a more recent snapshot should be used, please prepare it for me. Otherwise, I will simply use the earlier snapshot. There are stronger arguments in favor of using the older snapshot, or perhaps combining the older snapshot with a newer one. For example, the earlier snapshot was announced in advance as the one on which the Qeditas distribution would be based. It may be considered unfair to change that now.

My next task is to update the technical documentation to reflect the changes in the code. Then I will create a version people can download, try to compile, and check their balances. To check a balance, people will need to also download the initial ledger tree, which is roughly 700MB. This data will be separate from the git repo.