Quote from: Seville on February 07, 2021, 11:40:14 PM

i have XTO from the C-cex days. why cant I take my BTC out of Alt market? Is this a scam?

also what happened to your slack? strange...

Slack is back. A couple of the guys and I saw it disappear and were talking about it via Twitter. I let Bryce know and he recovered it.
AM is wildly overdue but will be back as soon as possible. I'll paste in the relevant info from Bryce via slack from earlier:

Quote

had an admin get haxed
not sure who because slack doesn’t believe in security accounting, but the attacker disabled their account as the final maneuver which removed their admin status so problem solved
it was basically just vandalism and the loss of public channels
…
since folks are paying attention staking is online
shifu-beta.tao.network
AltMarket is still under rewrite and code audit and I’m more crazy about it than anyone in this chat which is why I don’t talk about it
lol
also check out our new stats page stats.tao.network
and i’m in the middle of writing a new explorer.

folks making money in tao again so the software mill is a-crankin
we all web3 and defi af
validator ROI is 15.96% which is 2x DeFi returns
4x the old tao

I'd been meaning to update the thread for the last week. The voting/validator app was supposed to come online in January, but oh noes it was a few hours late coming online February first. As mentioned above, you can find it at shifu-beta.tao.network
and if you have Tao in your MetaMask wallet you can now activate a validator/masternode if you have a node set up already (100K Tao required) or you can vote one there.
The Shifu site gives you info on the validators including ROI for both the operator and for voters. Looks and works great. Very easy to vote or fund your own masternode once you have MetaMask set up.

Meanwhile, Bryce has also given a thorough overhaul of the stats site here stats.tao.network which also looks good but it's a work in progress so the map doesn't show the location of nodes yet. I think he's also planning to update it so that you can click a validator on the stats site and go to its voting page over on Shifu. Here's the repo if you want a look or to set up your own:
https://github.com/Tao-Network/tao-stats

And another update is we've been dissatisfied with the current very basic explorer, so Bryce is working on a new open source explorer inspired by Etherscan.io and that's in progress.

He's also working on wrapping Tao so it can be listed on Uniswap, but also to create a bridge so people can move tokens and projects freely out of Etherem and onto Tao, Expanse, Ubiq, or other Ethereum-based networks so people can escape the crazy ETH gas fees.

It's been a long road, but a lot of ground has been covered now. Looking forward to what's next.