The rebranding once it happens, will be an automatic and smooth switchover

https://github.com/duality-solutions/

^^^Me 80% of the time I visit the thread^^^

If the Silkcoin was generated/created after the release of Silk then it is not eligible to be swapped. However, if it is Silkcoin you sent prior to the launch of Silk's release to Weaver, then please email contact@silknetwork.org with FAO: Matthew Langdon/Weaver Support

Easy to sit in a chair and not do anything but demand answers.

We have provided a Skype group where people can contribute and also see in real-time the work being done.

This is better than any weekly update.

Getting bored of you Dontigua.

Why not actually participate in testing and be a part of this community.....

A new round of testing has begun on DarkSilk:

Join us here - https://join.skype.com/f4lgrGtmJFf6

A nice backup/alternative block explorer for Silk(SLK).

http://explorer.coin-info.net:3005/

Want to help?

We are starting a round of testing and need as many individual test Stormnodes setting up as possible.

If you can help, join us here - https://join.skype.com/f4lgrGtmJFf6

We will not take months like people in the thread are saying, testing is starting with a new version with a lot of fixes today and more fixes are being carried out.

In term of catching up with Dash' work/commits, we are up to July/Sept 2016 of their work,

83 commits to DarkSilk in two days and still working on it, not long now people.

The 83 commits caught up from Aug/Sept 2015 - July/Sept 2016 or in other words we caught up one year in two days.

We are working fast and aim to deliver DarkSilk ASAP.

Oh, go on.....please explain.....

Wolf has no issue with the work. The lack of fast-verify code for Argon2d is the issue, not Wolf.

The project is far from dead, this is simply communication issues within the team.

I stated that the Weaver accounts will be funded with the DarkSilk for your investments.

He was, he is out and at home now.

Argon2d has no fast-verify code and it will take between 3-6 months to get it implemented as we need to write it from scratch.

Argon2d works for mining, but due to no fast-verify code and trying to get argon2d to an "easier" form for the wallet to be able to verify blocks quickly, it in-turn lengthened the time for Wolf to create GPU miners and then once we were at a point to have Wolf work on the GPU miners he unfortunately suffered an infection and was admitted to hospital.

We tried alternatives with other algorithms which was why I posted as Silk Network and asked which cards people use. The resounding response was AMD which also created an issue as the only memory hard algo that we had working was Lyra2v2 which is hugely in favour of Nvidia, so that was a no go for fairness. Cuckoo Cycle was also looked at but that has a bug/flaw and is vulnerable. Yescrypt was another option and varied other algorithms but all had their own problem or caused unfairness to miners.

I want this launch and the development team wants this launch to be fair and this is why the decision has been made to postpone launch until we have completed testing of the wallet and have a fully working implementation of Argon2d within DarkSilk and have no need to Spork or hard-fork later down the line.

DarkSilk binaries will be released which will connect to a testnet for users to use the wallet and learn its functionality and features, users accounts on Weaver will have DarkSilk added to their wallets for their ICO investments and a bounty for help with the fast-verify code for Argon2d will be issued.

Rest assured the actual development team is a team and works perfectly well together and the project itself and the codebase is absolutely fine and in safe hands.

I got asked questions in Telegram and Slack by multiple members of the community via PM which were similar to the question you asked, however, the reason I didn't answer ANY of them was because there was meant to be an official announcement to the community, which has not happened.

There is a team of 8 people, but yet the community within BCT seem to still think its a team of 1, myself, Spencer Lievens. I am the lead developer and a developer, not the spokesperson for the project.

I also notified the team to notify the community of all the issues and information to post, but yet it hasn't happened (~12 hours ago).

Myself and the developers have hit upon issues which all should be conveyed by an official post which has not happened.

Apologies for the ineptness of the teams ability to communicate, this looks completely unprofessional.

Silk Network is the project, I am a person.

Just because I do not want to take a part of BCT anymore, doesn't mean that the project won't interact with users here.

Your post is a fine example as to why I don't want to take part here anymore and will leave a community spokesman to handle BCT from now on.

It is nothing new to not have the actual developers interacting with the community.

Can we all move past price speculation and doubting of the project?

It has been a 2 year period of work & transition, and at not one point have we shown any sign of not producing working software or taking this project to heights not even imagined by the community.

I am spending less and less time looking at bitcointalk, which is bad, because this is where the community is. However, the more I see wild price speculation, the same questions being asked over and over, doubt with the project and whatever REALLY boring things get discussed, the more I will be inclined to remove myself full-time from BCT.

There are a lot better things to discuss apart from what the price will be tomorrow.

Again you are pulling words, worse still, from thin air. Final direction in the new year? This was NEVER said, so stop trying to create FUD.

We will be announcing shortly the exact direction and path, logos will be released, coin names will be announced and documention let loose.

I said that all of the rebranding and complete switchover will be completed and finalised BY January. I didn't say we wouldn't say or do anything until January.

To choose its path? No. The path is set. Just because we haven't announced it to you or the community as of yet doesn't mean we do not have a solid plan, paperwork, working software, marketing lined up, investors and professionals interested, websites, forums and more lined up or already sat waiting.

When it comes to promotion, you can rest assured and the community can rest assured that we have a very competent marketer joining the team.