Quote from: FrictionlessCoin on January 20, 2014, 12:16:32 PM

Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on January 20, 2014, 12:12:45 PM

Quote from: FrictionlessCoin on January 20, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

Seeking Additional Java Developers

We have successfully decompiled the Nxt source and are now in the process of performing a massive refactoring and cleanup of the code base.

Short term goals.

Remove the primitive addressing scheme and use a scheme that looks like Bitcoin. Bitcoin addresses are more readable, have a checksum and have many tools to generate them. Nxt addresses that are all numerical are something that came out of the 1950's.

Secure Wallet. Nxt wallet is fundamentally insecure. Exposing a wallet to the public internet for everyone to hack is just idiotic. No wonder so many Nxt users have lost money!

Nxt does not use an internal database like every other alt coin. This is idiotic because NXT nodes easily fail and run out of memory. Furthermore, if you accidentally turn off your node... your wallet can get corrupted!

NEX strives not only to be a fairer distributed Nxt variant, but a technologically super version.

Join the enterprise... participate with your coding skills!!!
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We will not ship SHIT like the Nxt folks. We will ship product that will secure our users coins!

May I join?

High time you all joined the winning team!

I am watching this NEX melodrama with a combination of fascination and horror but Friction Clown is making two very important points that need to be addressed seriously here and not by attempting to out troll him.

It DOES seem idiotic to expose NXT accounts directly to internet hacking, even to me and I understand the math. This seems idiotic on an emotional level that overwhelms facts and reality and logic. It will cause people who do not understand math to reject NXT and that is bad. Soooooo.....one more time with my pet peeve...WE NEED AN ACCOUNT FREEZE CODE CAPABILITY A USER CAN LOAD INTO THE BLOCKCHAIN AS A PAID MESSAGE THAT ALL NODES WILL RECOGNIZE AND REJECT ALL TRANSACTIONS OUT OF THIS ACCOUNT UNTIL A USER REVERSES IT AND TURNS IT OFF WITH A SECOND PASSWORD. I think this could have stopped EVERY example of NXT theft / loss we have seen so far. If this is a bad idea, somebody tell me why and shut me up. If it's not a bad idea, let's implement it and shut Friction Clown up, sooner rather than later.

FC is also right that non-error correcting endless numeric addresses are idiotic and right from the 1950s. We should commit to the discussed Reed Solomon NXTXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX address format and get into the 1990s. Even if it does look like a windows authentication code it is user friendly and gets the job done.

And out of curiosity...just what DOES happen if a chosen node goes down in the middle of forging a block?

NEX is a joke but a potentially deadly one if we do not respond quickly to its legitimate criticisms.