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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: DNotes 2.0 - Bridging the Gap Between the Centralized and Decentralized World
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DNotes
on 23/09/2017, 01:08:23 UTC
The launch of DNotes 2.0 has been delayed. The learning curve has been more demanding than anticipated and the amount of customized C# coding is also more than we anticipated. As much as I am always very conservative in estimating time-line and cost, I have been down this route before. Big complex projects like DNotes 2.0 development often ended up taking longer and costing more; sometime with more problems than expected. Fortunately, in our case, there are no major known problems.

A lot of that is because of the inherent challenges in dealing with the unknows. It is even more pronounced in our decentralized open source environment. There are heaps of contributions and work-around but very time consuming to sort through. It is not uncommon to end up with incomplete solutions, with the last most difficult 10% unfinished.

I anticipate that it will take a few more months and we will update our community on any significant developments. Meanwhile, our developer will be working with his team and create a git repository on GitHub.

DNotes 2.0 is a large-scale project creating a new coin to replace DNotes with a 1:1 coin swap. We are migrating from our current Proof of Work (POW) to Proof of Stake (POS).  This is a multi-year project leading to 100% conversion to C#, along with numerous applications to best support our projects as outlined on our road-map: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924858.0


We are actively working on DNotes 2.0 and it is taking longer than we expected to complete. To ensure everyone can see the progress of DNotes 2.0 as work on it, we will be uploading the DNotes 2.0 source code to GitHub, and will be actively working on it online. It may take a few days before we can upload the initial code, as our lead programmer Ken for DNotes 2.0 is in the Florida area and experiencing internet problems.

In addition we will be releasing screen shots and/or partially functional wallets to review and comments. As soon as we are ready for live testing, we will upload the compiled wallet and invite everyone to work with us to test. We will also be running our internal and independent code testing in parallel with live testing to ensure the new release will be ready.