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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Is Gulden a good investment?
by
MaNI
on 19/12/2016, 15:27:51 UTC
splendid update!!!!!11! Just love it.
Thanks.

Some questions:
1. Is Segwit code integrated in 1.6.1/1.6.2? If so when is the activation date? Is it using version bits or ISM (IsSuperMajority)?
It's integrated but disabled (except on testnet where it is active). We have no immediate plans to activate it on mainnet as right now there is no immediate need (or immediate benefits) to us doing so, we do not have massive block congestion, none of our current services are having overwhelming malleability issues..
There are various risks to activating this ahead of bitcoin, including the fact that it may never activate on bitcoin, if it never activates then perhaps the Bitcoin devs will revisit the malleability problem and find a better solution, perhaps we would rather follow them in that then be stuck supporting a feature they never activated and dumped (just because we wanted to be first) We also have no real desire to being Bitcoins beta testers.

So yes, we could have activated this already if we wanted but we aren't really interested in that right now, we are far more interested in our own projects that we are busy working on which IMO are far more exciting and represent far more real value for our userbase.

I know the above probably sounds strange in the 'crypto' field where other coins are all clamouring to claim they are first at something so that they can score cheap hype points or whatever, but this is how it is.
At Gulden we are focused on sustainable responsible development, not hype driven nonsense and cheap tricks.


2. Is BIP68, BIP112, and BIP113 integrated? If so when is the activation date?
Yes, depends on miners, but in the next few days I believe.

3. Are the ios and android wallet open source? If not, why? The android wallet seems to be based on schilbach but seems to use electrum servers? Any plans to release electrum wallets?
None of our official wallets use Electrum in any way whatsoever, only third party wallets like Coinomi do, personally I recommend people stick to our official wallets which I feel are a far better experience.
All of our official wallets are and will remain fully decentralised.

4. It seems that you are the second ios wallet that enables payment to btc also (Dash being the first using shapeshift instead of nocks). Are there any plans to support iWatches also so we can be again the first?
We don't comment on future development plans outside of official announcement channels, I'm afraid you will have to wait and see.

I have no comment on any of the other questions.