Quote from: s4w3d0ff on October 17, 2016, 05:53:44 PM

Quote from: bkcdt on October 17, 2016, 01:15:57 AM

Hello s4w3d0ff, hope you're doing well. I know you're hard at work doing a lot. I've been following your updates. You mentioned there's an upcoming update. How's the progress. Anything we can do to help? Can you please estimate when an update is coming? Any updates or news at all. Thank you so much for your hard work, s4w3d0ff. All the best

You're right, I should keep this community more informed. I will try to post more updates here and link them on the social sites so users know what is going on. I may move CGA news to a new thread (op seems to be gone), keep an eye on twitter and facebook for updates.

CGA source code update:
I have been doing TONS of research on other scrypt coins that have updated to Bitcoin Core.
I decided to go with (or at least start with) Litecoin v0.10 and I have been slowing moving the necessary variables into the new code base.
I have also been eyeballing Dogecoins code in the hopes that I can enable merged mining for CGA but this initial update will probably just be pure Litecoin (with CGA block rewards and 'Digishield' diff re-targets).
I also have been looking into Dash's 'masternode program' (rewarding users for running full nodes). I have been contemplating just forking Dash but that would mean that CGA would turn pure x11. Personally, I like what Digitalcoin did (having 3 algos) but I am not sure how well that would work with CGA's block reward (being adjusted by the difficulty and having 3 different difficulties) and Dogecoins merge mining. I'm sure it can work, but it is a bit over my head.

I plan to remove the 'bonus blocks' and clean up the reward system in general. The original block reward scheme has changed (evolved) drastically since CGA first started, I intend to revert the block rewards to just 1/diff (with special rule for low difficulty). Removing bonus blocks will keep miners from jumping in and out of the network (they are trying to snag just the bonus block then leave, leaving the difficulty super high and then transactions take longer than expected.).

CGA community update:
Seems we have pools and block explorers scattered across the internet.
I have adjusted the CGA logo further (images coming soon).
I have secured the basic domains and social pages for the upcoming rebrand.
I am working on setting up a personal website along-side the new CGA site. I will be hosting a forum for CGA on that site (once I have it fully operational) as well as a basic block explorer of some kind (probably just ABE).
I am also working on creating an online gaming community centered around CGA. I want to create a system that uses cryptocoins as a means to 'pay' gamers for "out-playing" other players in various online games (once I get the forum up updates on this project will be posted there).

So, to recap the things I have left to do:
- Convert CGAv2 code to Litecoin (or Dash? or Dogecoin?)
- Create a 'coinswap' page if one is needed (if we switch to Dash or I just can't get the update to talk to the old network)
- Create/update CGA webpage
- Setup CGA community forum
- Setup 'official' blockexplorer
- Migrate CGA to rebranded name
- Maintain CGA/rebrand social sites
- Create framework for gaming community
- I also maintain a(the) python api wrapper for poloniex
- Post regular 'updates' so investors don't get cold feet
- Attempt to live a 'normal', stress free, life

How long will all this take me?
I really have no idea, just updating the code base alone could take months, other coins have teams of devs working on updates and it takes them months to do it, with CGA it is just me for now so it may take a very long time... Once I have the code mostly transferred I will push my local dev branch to git. If anyone feels like I am moving too slow and they can do it quicker, by all means, do it.

Wow, really good post. Thank you so much for taking the time to give such a good update. I know for sure you're working hard and that it's not easy. That's a lot of stuff you have to do. I code as well but no where close to the stuff you're doing. I am hopeful you get all the help you need. I have to commend you on your hardwork. I will keep spreading the news about CGA to bring more people to it. I hope everyone does their part to keep this community going. All the best with everything and thanks again for the update.