Here is some actual news that was last in the less-productive chatter:

Quote from: johnp on August 25, 2014, 01:52:25 PM

Quote from: danosphere on August 25, 2014, 01:38:43 PM

Just want to say that we are looking to push out a 0.1.4 release later today/tonight with Service Fee Regeneration working for miners (higher block rewards). We're working on a rollout plan now and will have news shortly with an official release time. Seems there was also some progress on merged mining as well overnight. Will update community shortly.

Hi I might be being a bit silly here, how can this benefit miners sure the block reward will increase but wont that be offset by the increased hashrate and difficulty making it harder to find blocks. Sureley Merge mining would be the first choice to increase rewards?

Both will have a similar effect. Merged mining will improve the distribution, regen will improve rewards. In either case it will lead to more miners which will increase the hashrate and the difficulty so specifically in terms of hashrate/diff I think that merged-mining and fee regen yeild a similar result.

Quote from: tobeaj2mer01 on August 25, 2014, 03:21:14 PM

@DEV, this coin is a long-term project, but can you post the roadmap and timelines in detail and do it as planed, it will lead this coin to the right way, it's very very important in current situation!

Reposting; this is why we need a new thread. This will be in OP of new thread (as well as the full roadmap, this is only the 1-3mo outlook):

Quote from: danosphere on August 24, 2014, 03:16:05 PM

To reiterate, and this will be clearly posted in the new thread later today [ROADMAP]:

- Merged Mining and Service fee regeneration (we are working on this now on testnet, we have regen working and MM but there was an issue with MM + services which we're ironing out right now). <- this will constitute the NEXT release aka 0.1.4 and will happen very soon, we're not launching things without overly testing now.
- ESCROW. We already have stubs in the code and this is the next feature to be implemented
- END TO END ENCRYPTION USING SYSCOIN KEYS - This is after escrow
- SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE FINALIZATION (after 90 day period, dynamic pricing will go into effect)
- QT WALLET IMPROVEMENTS (services in wallet, with nice UIs)
- (in parallel with the above, the non-C devs on the team): Building web-based service demos on top of all our four launch services all of which are properly functioning.

The above represents a 1-3month roadmap and will be clear in the new post, which will be up later today we were drafting it yesterday but then focused on Merged-mining later in the day.

We will begin shipping rewards this week pending the first payout from the fund, we have all of the gear ready to go out the door!