Quote from: popshot on February 18, 2014, 04:47:38 PM

Diamond Community!

First of all I wanted to thank you all for enduring this difficult period without updates and lack of progress. It might have appeared as if the project was in doubt but its nothing more from the truth.

This relates to the discussion from the help section -> http://dmdcoin.net/forum/index.php/topic,20.msg382.html

As you all know developers are real people with real life and as was mentioned before sometimes there are situations that cause they cannot give 100% of their talent to the project.

Apart from Zuper who cannot perform at full capacity at the moment we now have Pamdetroit who is well known, well established and gifted developer who had been with Diamond Coin almost since the beginning and understands very well the code and inner workings of Proof of Stake. The more I learn about Proof of Stake the more excited I am about the possibilities it brings. Minting and PoS will be explained to you all soon as this is crucial and the most important part of Diamond Coin. Of course it might be a challenge but once you get it you will understand.

I just wanted to assure you that Diamond Coin is in active development and please just wait a tiny bit longer for official release of the new wallet.

Many of you will believe when you see it so just .. wait, see and believe. Its coming and its coming fast.

So what's coming?

First of all the checkpoints will be updated and the stake will be turned on. Those of you who were holding your coins to mint will finally have the opportunity to do so. After accumulating long coin age, it will be a nice reward for you all.

We are looking at adding new features to the wallet but lets make it a surprise

Whats more the NVC code used in Diamond is broken and has to be fixed. We might be able to do it without forking but if thats not possible we would do that in the next update which would be bigger that the current one.

I hope this will bring some sunshine to your crypto lives.

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zuper, popshot, PalmDetroit, and the rest of the dev team: I would just like to say a big thanks to all of you guys for putting your time and expertise toward strengthening Diamond. I am now 100% confident that DMD will establish itself as one of the most serious digital currencies - perhaps not tomorrow, but for those having the necessary patience, early investing in DMD will prove to be more than rewarding!

We all understand that technical development, wallet upgrades and network security should be your first priorities and they take time. So, please take the time you need. Although I understand that many people in this forum want to make a quick buck (and there's nothing wrong with it), there's also some of us who are interested in it for the long term and see the potential of a super-fast, super-fair, scarce digital coin with PoS!

While I cannot help with technical development, I'm more than willing to contribute to the community in other ways and help DMD grow stronger. When the next wallet release is made, we need to focus our attention on:
First, community building and awareness (faucet, giveaway, game, etc.)
Second, market making (trading, exchanges, liquidity)
Third, merchant buy-in (a "DMD Accepted Here" Logo would help)

I can help in all the above, just let me (and other volunteers that I'm sure are out there) know how you want us to be involved.

Keep up the good work!