I created a Discord server (invite link). Maybe we could make the community even more solid this way, with instant messaging. Explanation of the channels.

For everyone involved in Riecoin, I would like that we use the community forum to organize much better the information, or use the Discord server. We should let this topic clean for general discussion (and to avoid posts like this one quoting a lot of people).

Quote from: cryptapus on December 18, 2018, 01:29:19 PM

I've taken the liberty of grabbing a snapshot of the current riecoin.org website in case it goes dark:

https://github.com/riecointeam/riecointeam.github.io

It can be viewed at https://riecointeam.github.io (looks like it will need some adjustments for https).

FWIW, whoever is in control of https://github.com/riecoin (assuming it's gatra) has been invited to join riecointeam as an owner.

Is the riecointeam organization intended to be the official one? May I join it in this case?
Also, good initiative to save the Riecoin.org site, though there is plenty of outdated information there.

Quote from: clo1 on December 18, 2018, 03:03:19 PM

Pttn, Thanks for taking the lead on this. I'm happy to be a developer.

Cryptapus, I'll take a look at the gitian code.

There is not much needed to finish the 0.16.3 code. I need to review the gitian changes. We need to set the blocks that BIP65 and BIP66 will become active. We need to decide if we would like the ability to activate segwit or csv. CLTV and CSV should probably be tested. There are a couple things that I added to the code for testing like getwork support that can be removed now.

More developers would be great. Aside from testing CSV and CLTV there probably isn't much to do until after 0.16.3 is released. You could start looking at changes needed in 0.17 code. There will be plenty to do in upgrading the algorithm which is really my biggest interest. We also need web developers.

Thank you for your confirmation.

About the 0.17.0, as I do not have much time, I did not look that much for now. I however opened a topic to discuss about it. I think that there is no hurry for now, upgrading to 0.16.3 is already enough for a while and efforts would be better allocated in other fields until we find more interest in Riecoin: light/Android wallets, useful services using Riecoin, finalizing the 0.16.3, new official website, reaching new people... That said, we must never have a 4 years outdated wallet again; attracting new skilled developers will help a lot to catch up faster and efficiently the newer versions.

Quote from: Ralvsen on December 18, 2018, 04:19:59 PM

Hi,
do you guys can make an estimation if the rieminer would/will work on RPi?
cheers

I compiled rieMiner in a Toshiba AC100 (Armhf CPU, Ubuntu 16.04) without any issue, so rieMiner should work in a Raspberry Pi with Linux. Note that you need to use the Light branch. Also be sure to read properly the README.md (in particular, 32 bits compilation instructions and reduce the PrimeTableLimit for less memory usage). If you need help, please post questions here.

Quote from: clo1 on December 18, 2018, 03:34:36 PM

I've looked at Gapcoin. I even mined some a while back. They were recently delisted by Cryptopia. I could probably create a 0.16.3 version of the code. I'd be far more interested in doing that if others here also contributed. There are some possible issues with the coin that I would like to see addressed before doing any work on gapcoin.

Riecoin, Gapcoin and Primecoin should collaborate together to provide the best software and community support and promote these three useful projects to make people forget about useless things like Litecoin, Dogecoin or Bitcoin Cash.

Quote from: aikosaito on December 18, 2018, 04:42:11 PM

clo1 and Pttn. I can't message you guys.

There is no way to be sure that someone will be reliable. This is a community and voluntary work.

I am not trying to earn money, or respect, or anything else. I just think that, I earned good money thanks to Riecoin (while Btc38 was around), I can payback some while sharing my time with the community.

That's all.

I will follow you, just lead me.

Fair enough. Now, one quality of somebody wanting to invest seriously in the project is to be proactive and find by your own what is needed to do, what you can do, and do it. Read this topic's post history since the latest 20-30 pages and the community forum's posts. Here is a summary of what you can do :

- The miner is basically finished. There is not really anything we have to do with it right now as it is fairly satisfying now. But you can think about working on some features that may be useful for the future: adding a GUI to have the user friendliest miner in the crypto world; port to Android to potentially get some more miners (why not mine 1 RIC or so during the night with those mainstream 8 Cores phones, while charging). Or, if you are very knowledgeable in this field like Rockhawk, find ways to optimize even more the miner or think about a possible GPU implementation;
- Clo1 said regularly that the 0.16.3 version is basically done and just needs some soft forks testing (CSV, CLTV). Yet nobody seems to be interested to do this, you could be the one. Help him test these things so we can make this new version official faster.
- Else, you can look at the Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 release, see what changed from 0.16.3, and start working on it. As said above, I opened a topic for such work;
- Light wallets are welcome (including Android Wallets). You could look at some existing and good Bitcoin ones like Electrum and fork it for Riecoin. Or, you can also try to create one from scratch. Do some research about the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer protocol and also look at the Riecoin code. Someone else is interested in working on a Android wallet, please contact lzknv in the community forum and collaborate with him. I already gave him some pointers.
- Or, instead of working on the wallet or the miner, you could be the one who will build the new Riecoin official website, though you did not say that you are experienced in HTML/CSS/PHP;
- You don't have to absolutely become a developer. We also need people to constantly reach new audiences and make them join Riecoin. Do you have relations with influential people that may be interested in and promote Riecoin? Or you could write articles about Riecoin if you have a blog, or make videos if you are a Youtuber.
- Also participate to debates and brainstorming: what do you think about Segwit, should we activate it and why? Discuss about some Riecoin improvement ideas. Brainstorm to find how we can spread the Riecoin usage, try to concretize some ideas.

If you are really an experienced programmer like you said, it should not be too hard to do at least one of these things, even if you never touched at any cryptocurrency related code, and some people of the community or myself can help you a bit. Now, it is your turn, good luck.

Quote from: guytp on December 20, 2018, 03:05:28 PM

If there's anything I can do to help - happy to do so. Could host a second explorer and maybe look at a couple of public nodes if that would help. Could run a pool if that's something that people are looking for but absolutely don't want to step on toes of anybody else already doing that.

Unfortunately I don't have time to commit to dev but if running some services is of help I can throw some infrastructure at it

Thank you a lot for your support, we will sure contact you in case we need such services.
I think that 3 pools are enough for now. More 0.16.3 nodes would be very useful to ease the transition to this version.
A Testnet explorer (and node) will be useful for developers. There is only the IGJ's node right now (testnet.riecoin-community.com).

Also, speaking of nodes, we should start hard coding some in the 0.16.3 code to avoid having to edit the riecoin.conf. Anyone here running a reliable Riecoin node? You can announce yourself here.