Shift vote day is here for some timezones! Make sure to get out and vote. Guidelines to be eligible to have your vote fees refunded can be found here;
https://www.shiftproject.com/news/news-item/11

Also, a community member has assembled a suggested list of delegates to vote/unvote and the reasoning behind that here;
https://www.shiftnrg.com.mx/2018/08/31/suggested-vote-unvote-list-for-shift-delegates/

For people having pool issues, I mined at mining pool hub for months with no issues. Used them before for a few other coins with no issues, MPH has been reliable in my experience.
https://musicoin.miningpoolhub.com/

That has always been the plan. Get a working product on mainnet first, then market it. It has been in development since 2015, yes but also had a major setback having to switch to a completely new codebase (from eth to lsk due to 51% attacks) and had to start over. The team has been consistently delivering and progressing since then.

That's the total supply!

Yes, same reward, currently at 1.1 per block plus any fees. Block time is 27 seconds, so delegates forge once every 45 minutes, about 30 per day, so about 900 per month.


Also, message from Ralf on the Ryver chat regarding the concerns about the API endpoint:
"Ralf SWed 7:34am
Update regarding the concerns posted at 4chan.org some days ago. We made it priority #1 and have rewritten the wallet transactions to offlinerequests. We're doing some final testing and will soon ask our delegates to update their wallets. For the sake of security we'll completely remove the API call (with private key as parameter) from Shift core as well."

Thanks, you as well!

It was a fork of Eth but due to 51% attacks switched over the the Lisk codebase. In both cases Shift was had its own blockchain, so not currently connected directly to Lisk, but using the same codebase.

We switched over the Ryver awhile back due to costs associated with Slack. The link to signup is here: https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl
You can find the link from the website under the Contact tab.

Total supply can be found in the explorer: https://explorer.shiftnrg.org/. Just under 11 million at this point. Inflation is ~10% annually

It's pretty impossible to tell right now. More pools get voted in every day and as people move funds to and from the exchanges your voting weight, and therefore payout, will change. However, if you go to Vekexasia's neat tool he posted about a few pages ago and plug in an address from the explorer with about 10k, you can see they're earning about 50 Shift/month
https://dpostools.com/SHIFT/holderview/5896893697515518514S
So about 6% return per year if my match is correct. It's not bad, and obviously we all hope Shift will go up in value as well, but it's no GPU miner making ROI in 90 days. Basically if you're already invested, vote for pools and other solid delegates, and it's not a bad idea to buy some and vote for another source of passive income and possible investment appreciation. But don't expect to double your money in a year. To my knowledge, no other DPOS coin would return much more either.


Marketing is planned once Phantom is running and stable on mainnet. They won't stop anyone from marketing themselves, but the team wants to have a working product before official marketing is done.

They've talked about client sided signing before.
If you don't trust the devs then it's easy to run your own node and only transact from there.

https://wallet.testnet.shiftnrg.org/
Make an account, go to applications > Phantom > Open > Open anyway
Welcome to the playground. Obviously since it's testnet nothing is permanent  and there's always a chance you run into bugs. To the best of my knowledge the official wallet will let you do everything, but you could always run your own test node on an Ubuntu setup very easily.
https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift/releases

Neat video, but there's no way anyone can read that fast. You may be better off just sticking to the headlines in the video and directing people to the text version for explanations/descriptions

Two brand new accounts above, trying to create hype. No one said anything about two days, although there should be a mainnet release to match the current testnet soon, which integrates IPFS, but not quite Phantom yet.

@cryptoholic11 and @bionioncle
If you want constant updates join the Ryver chat! It's very active. Also a new version of testnet was just released yesterday that gets the IPFS integration and it will be live on mainnet next. Phantom should be following closely behind although we haven't been given a solid date. It will be ready once it's ready.
https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift/tree/testnet

Also Shift is based off of the Lisk codebase but the teams are not working together. Both teams have contributed to making the overall codebase better though.

Currently only official wallet;
https://wallet.shiftnrg.org/

But you could install and run a node yourself on something running linux if you wanted to
https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift

Registering a delegate is easy. You would need to run your own node for sure then, preferably on a VPS, get connected on the Ryver chat and try to get voted in. Getting voted in is the hard part
https://shiftnrg.nl/docs/a-beginners-guide/delegate-handbook/delegates/

I don't think so. Not sure if there is an exact reason why or not, but the given passwords are very secure.

Your address is the number (and the S) in the upper left corner under the silhouette.

You can make a wallet and store them there. Got to tools->wallet from the official site. Make sure to always use the official wallet!
https://www.shiftnrg.org/

It would also be smart to make a second passphrase and store it somewhere different than the first. Just make sure to not lose it!

Inflation goes down as supply goes up. There was a blurb from Ralph on the Ryver a bit ago about the block reward increasing to 1.1, but nothing since. No cap on total number of coins. The relatively low supply right now could be argued as good or bad.

Current supply is about 10.8 million. Inflation is about 1 million per year (1 Shift forged every 27 seconds).
https://explorer.shiftnrg.org/

I depends on your voting weight and not all delegates run as pools. The following delegates are pools (sharing percentage varies);
seatrips, gregorst, shiftraider, shiftspider, bawga, shiftpool, jamiec79, official_pool, djandre (from saluki on the Ryver chat)

Most pools have websites that you can check your stats such as;
https://pool.gregorst.org/
https://pool.seatrips.nl/

The forging reward for Shift is fairly low (1 Shift per block) so depending on your weight it might take a bit to reach a payout threshold. Usually it's .1 around 1 from what I've seen.