Repost from yesterday for those who may have missed it buried in the fud. Personally I will also be opting for Colored Coins....
I contacted killerstorm of Coloured Coins/Chroma Wallet to see if I could get some information regarding their progress and here's what I have.
I'm an ActiveMining shareholder and understand that the CEO, Ken Slaughter is very interested in CC as a long term solution to the lack of a viable trading platform.
I know.
In terms of your development, are you able to give an idea when you think your project will be ready for adoption?
End of January.
If it's too soon for that are you in a position to briefly outline what obstacles need to be overcome prior to full release?
Currently ChromaWallet implements only "order-based coloring" (OBC) coloring scheme, which isn't good.
There are multiple proposals of coloring schemes which fix problems with OBC, but we're trying to find one which would be 'perfect', and there is a disagreement on what it would look like. Perhaps we can just implement one which will be good enough, and that would be it.
Otherwise, we're working on following things, but they aren't really obstacles:
1. make sure that it works without local bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt
2. finding unspent outputs in a separate thread
3. p2ptrade needs some fixes and improvements
4. handling of additional asset issues
5. better asset definition format
I'm not sure ActiveMining needs all of these features, perhaps we can make an intermediate release with fewer features if there is a need for it.
Many thanks for your in depth reply killerstorm. That's excellent news. Very much appreciated. Would you be happy for me to post this on the ActiveMining thread?
Sure. In addition, I'll be glad to help to set this up (i.e. scripts for migration from old platform, instructions, etc).