Re: MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address”
There have been thoughts about setting up a dedicated forum.
1. FYI, forum.mastercoin.org redirects to this very thread right now, for convenience
2. I opened a Google Group for Mastercoin that nobody except me ever used
3. Right now the consensus is that it's best to remain on bitcointalk, because we want to position ourselves as part of Bitcoin, not an alt or competitor. We have asked theymos to open a dedicated sub-forum to Decentralized Applications (such as Mastercoin, Invictus, and more), and haven't gotten a response yet.
4. If we did open a new forum (I'm not completely against, but we need consensus for that), I would love to do it on Discourse. In this case we'll probablly ask Aric Fedida, our Head of IT, to install it (we haven't formally announced his position, but we should ... I'll do it within a few days).
5. For now - I propose you start a new thread on bitcointalk to discuss this. You can accompany that thread with a poll.
6. I really appreciate the initiative - thanks!
1. FYI, forum.mastercoin.org redirects to this very thread right now, for convenience
2. I opened a Google Group for Mastercoin that nobody except me ever used
3. Right now the consensus is that it's best to remain on bitcointalk, because we want to position ourselves as part of Bitcoin, not an alt or competitor. We have asked theymos to open a dedicated sub-forum to Decentralized Applications (such as Mastercoin, Invictus, and more), and haven't gotten a response yet.
4. If we did open a new forum (I'm not completely against, but we need consensus for that), I would love to do it on Discourse. In this case we'll probablly ask Aric Fedida, our Head of IT, to install it (we haven't formally announced his position, but we should ... I'll do it within a few days).
5. For now - I propose you start a new thread on bitcointalk to discuss this. You can accompany that thread with a poll.
6. I really appreciate the initiative - thanks!
Sure thing. I love the idea and am willing to help where I have some time I can set aside.
The forums post is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341882.new#new
Another thing I'd suggest is a separate thread for spec-related discussion. I've posted several questions that I have yet to get a response to. I'd be happy to do the spec editing work, but would like a bit of discussion before I do it and submit a pull request (otherwise it may be totally "out there"
). ...the only risk here is that the spec thread (or any other MSC thread for that matter) does not get enough responses and gets buried behind all the other bitcointalk product development stuff.Also, one last thing: Do we have any devs that are on this effort full time? (It seems Tachikoma isn't, which I understand as this is quite a new effort and risky.) However, for instance I just hired another developer for my company yesterday...real decent skillset and not very expensive. As the mastercoin project gets more steam, and we now have these libraries that take care of the bitcoin-level bit tweaking, it seems to me that most MSC development largely becomes more commoditized....i.e. if not now, at some point soon, the a smart properties site for example could be made more by a general web dev that has a good midlevel level understanding of mastercoin/bitcoin, and uses the interface libraries that exist. You guys offer what amounts to a 100K bounty, plus 1000-some MSC, but did that do anything with moving anyone over full-time to work on the project? Maybe it's just a matter of time...I need to remind myself this project is only a bit over 2 1/2 months old!