Quote from: TrollByFire on October 19, 2014, 11:35:07 PM

Quote from: McKie on October 19, 2014, 10:50:50 PM

Is PoS around the corner by chance? I'd love to put my hoard to work. Also -- OS X wallet. Create a bounty for a build!

This week? Not likely. I do plan to have a minor update that I'm hoping to have ready by the end of the week, but no promises. PoS isn't far away, most of the code is in place in my local repository, but pushing out hard fork after hard fork without any time in between is a terrible idea. The only reason we've done so has been to address problems with the 1.0 codebase and specs that became apparent when the coin was hammered by multipools.

The OSX wallet has been requested several times, and I keep stating (and will continue stating) the same thing. To the immediate left of me is my (broken) mac which I have simply not had time to repair. I'm responding to this message from my primary development machine (linux) which I have only just managed to finish rebuilding. Up until this point I've been developing on a glorified tablet/all-in-one computer due to the urgency of certain fixes and the community's unyielding demand for updates.

Warning: The following rant is strictly my opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the rest of the LitecoinDark team. Under no circumstances should it be taken as an "official" stance of any real standing.

The crypto world confuses me. It seems to be full of "investors" (many, if not most, of whom consider a "long-term" investment to be measured in days or weeks as opposed to months or years.) In the software development industry, software undergoes extensive code review, unit testing, some standardized release schedule, and even then after every single line of changed code is reviewed, any given build is tested for weeks before it is released. This is how quality control works.

In crypto, we don't get that luxury a lot of the time. It seems that I can't even get a week of development time to fix a critical issue (for example the previous update lowering the block reward) before the cries of "implement the next feature!" overwhelm me. This is why I stopped being quite so active in the forums.

It has been known for a while that once coin rewards dropped and we lost the multipools that we would lose a lot of network hashrate. This is why Proof-of-Stake is highly desirable. That said, this is a major change. It isn't going to happen overnight. It's coming. It's next in line, even. But it isn't going to be immediate.

Everyone is constantly asking for the "status" of a given feature. The CPU from the build server has barely had time to cool from the last release build, lol. I understand that people have money "invested" in LTCD, but remember that I do not follow the markets, and I am not paid for my work on LTCD. My time is 100% my own. I want to see LTCD succeed, as much if not more than any of you. This is why I "invest" my time as heavily as I do. That said, so far LTCD's development has bought me a really good cup of coffee (thank you to whomever donated that by the way) and a small bit of fuel in my vehicle. I'm sure you can appreciate that I have bills to pay as well, which is why instead of "fixing my mac so I can build an OSX wallet" I've spent my day UVW unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating character models for another project I've been working on.

I don't want anyone to get the sense that I am not thankful for this community, that simply isn't the case. I enjoy working on LTCD and in crypto in general. But it does not pay my bills, and unless something major happens, it won't any time soon. Until it does, I can only work in my spare time.

With all of that said, I am brought to the next point: Creating a bounty for an OSX build. I both really like and really dislike this idea. First of all, it eases my own burden by allowing a community member to compile (and be rewarded for his/her efforts), however, it does not give us the opportunity to review the code used in the compile. There is no way of verifying that the code compiled is identical to the code in the github. Therefore, I cannot in good conscious sign and verify a community-built binary without seriously putting it through its paces with a disassembler -- if I had time for this, I'd have time to build the binary myself, and then some.

TL;DR

PoS: Next on the list. Not this week.
The community is welcome to build an OSX wallet, but we couldn't accept it as official.

Thanks for the extended explanation. And trust me. I know what its like devving for a community nonstop and not having much to show for it (i.e. BlackCoin). It's crazy to have someone hounding you for developments for their investment. Its just a nature of the beast. Glad to hear PoS is next on the list. I'll stick with my virtual Windows wallet for now -- but I'd prefer to have it on my Mac side out of personal preference. Hope it rears its head one day soon.

Btw, I've reached out to CoinTelegraph in an attempt to get some news for LTCD about your interesting proof of concept with this OO modularity you got a cooking. Will keep you posted.

Also, it is possible I could do a piece for TheCoinFront and FollowTheCoin, one that would delve deeper into your OO modular based design. PM me if you would like to go more in depth and I can get some information published for awareness. Perhaps get you some dev $ support by proxy.