Re: [ANN][LSK] Lisk | Blockchain Application Platform for JavaScript Developers

While there is competition to become a delegate for the main chain, there will be plenty of demand to run delegates for the sidechains.

Thank you for your answer; however it is earning Lisk I am interested in, and since it's almost impossible to become a delegate of the main Lisk blockchain, can you point me to a sidechain which will allow me to earn Lisk for securing it?

Wrong. We currently do not have anywhere near 101 people running testnet nodes.

https://testnet-explorer.lisk.io/delegateMonitor

Just click on "Status" to do a sort and look at the block of red dots. You can start a testnet node tonight and turn one of those red dots into a green dot with your name beside it. You wanna become a Lisk Mainnet Active Delegate when forging rewards eventually get turned on? Do your testnet homework now. Go to lisk.chat, start hanging out at #testnet, and direct message joel that you want to run a testnet node. The people running testnet nodes now are the only Liskers who are going to have sufficient experience to run mainnet nodes soon.

I was wondering , except the experience and every manual that lisk devs have provided us, should the delegates also have some serious programming skills?

Not at all. I don't code but I managed to become a delegate and run a full node on the testnet in less then 5hrs with the help of others Lisk minded members on Lisk.chat and with the numerous manuals available. Join us! For me personally it's a learning process that I enjoy particularly and the community is fantastic.

Ok you convinced me, as a true lisker I will give it a try by the next month. When will forging be enabled?

Forging is already enabled - on testnet.

For mainnet it is envisioned that Forging starts with version 0.4.0.

According to the last technical meeting we are moving away from the fact that it becomes available with 0.4.0, because we are now using a semantic versioning scheme. (http://semver.org)

Soon there will be a milestone which will work as an activator for community delegates. That means at the end of the day nothing changes, but the numbers might be a bit higher, because we "have to" follow the semantic versioning rules.