Quote from: vcvitiko on September 01, 2017, 04:48:09 AM

- u guys have any funding?

We are an open, voluntary collaboration. We do not generally seek funding or offer any vestment vehicle, as we find it antithetical to the aims of the project. (You are of course welcome and encouraged to support the project in other ways, including funding individual developers directly at your discretion - we just don't promise any sort of monetary ROI from the project on such.)

Quote from: Greg Pentium on September 01, 2017, 11:00:27 AM

Agreed, this is Ohad's baby, though I would also considering supporting the other group as well if they gave us more details about their endeavours and were taking it in interesting directions.

Agoras is Ohad's baby, but Tau was always a separate, distinct, and ultimately unrelated project. All of the other developers were always against the very idea of Agoras being started, and basically begged Ohad not to do it under the assumption that it could only cause problems for the project. (It did.)

You can find a lot of detail about our effort on our wiki (linked two posts above yours) and can find even more by coming to our channel and asking questions. Personally, I think our directions are about as interesting as things can get.

Quote from: KeyMaster on September 01, 2017, 12:00:19 PM

Yes. Not only interesting but also can work in reality.

We would be very interested if anyone can show a sound reason why the concept should not work. We've had an open call for such for years. So far, noone has actually demonstrated any flaw in the premise.

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The question is, are there really a break-up or just speculation?

There was really a break-up. Ohad really did leave the project to do "something else" (we still don't know exactly what) which he calls "new tau." (Hence our nickname for AN being "oldtau" now...)

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If yes, could hmc & group humbly present the link to their whitepaper? roadmap? when to launch? working project? that would compete with Ohad's work?

If none, then I'm not interested.

See wiki link a few posts above...

Ohad's original whitepaper was about the original design, and so should still apply to our work, as we have not changed plans as he has. (As far as I am aware, he has not published any updated whitepaper/explanation for his new logic, so I can't meaningfully speak to what those changes are.) We keep a sort of roadmap in our wiki, which is what mnemonicsoup linked to specifically, but we do not make guesses about when we will launch. (There are some other resources which can be found in the links in our IRC channel's topic and something like a "working project" on stoop's github - though it is likely not what you're expecting....)

If you are interested then please come talk to us, we'd love to explain what we're trying to do and what we're all about to *anyone* who cares to get involved!