Report To The Community
Volunteers
We are very pleased to announce the addition of our very first volunteer -- dan_and_shan. He will be working on the youtube sponsorship initiative, trying to find a science related youtube channel that can be sponsored by EMC2.
There is a great need for volunteers, we have many projects, and many assignments in each project. Would you kindly provide a few hours of your time each week? The more volunteers we have the faster we will accomplish our goals
Our major responsibilities are: the security for coin trying to protect against PND; finding income resources for the financial obligations that arise for coin care, finding contractors to maintenance the coin; finding science projects to fund; producing marketing and promotion projects for the coin; managing any mining concerns; and supervision of volunteers. Here is a list of responsibilities that are important but secondary to the ones previously mentioned: finding places to spend EMC2; requesting media attention for all worthy events; providing ongoing outreach to schools for project and sponsorship opportunities; writing, proofreading, and editing for articles, correspondence, and reports; conducting campaigns for voting issues, crowdfunding, or social-push matters; notifications to The Guardians; lots of research on various subjects, and finding different entertainment vehicles to involve EMC2 -- get EMC2 mentioned in multiple media including TV, radio, and film. We NEED volunteers.
We have a REAL need for some volunteers, but we want many volunteers so that we can add more value to EMC2. All of you who have invested in EMC2 please donate a few hours of your time a week, we're not asking for much, you know that.
Good & Bad News
The Good News is, thanks to the generosity of Praxiscat (administrator emerita), and Sashorx (CTO of TitanBIT.net), plus 70K EMC2 from promotions budget the Poloniex Giveaway was a SUCCESS!
The Bad News is we tested the new EMC2 wallet gifted to the community by Ryan, here is the two-party review:
First Reviewer
Block explorer: lacks information, don't know why but it's not very useful. You can get info on the block number (height, hash, merkle, nNonce, nBits, Timestamps, difficulty, Hashrate) or a txid (txid, value out, fees, outputs and inputs) both ouptuts and inputs return fail. I think it's not worth it to have one like the one included in the v2.0. If we had one we should have a complete one.
Social: it link to the irc channel, lack finition. It looks like is was put together fast and no one took the time to check if it was ok. Not really worth it.
Beside the looks, the V2.0 is not really worth it, as i see it. Can we build on it later to get something better? i think so. Right now we better stay with the v1.0 and when we have time, look for someone to build a better one.
... When i say "not worth it", it means that, giving it to the community won't shows that we are serious since the addition aren't working properly.
Second Reviewer
The wallet is more visually appealing but the block explorer doesn't work. I suspect this is something Ryan didn't get to finish as when he revealed it in the forums he did say at the time it was only something he was "working on" and didn't claim at any stage that it was due for release. Also, if we are going to look at a new wallet we should perhaps look at basing it on bitcoin-qt version 9 which supports multisig functionality unlike the current wallets which are based on version 8.