Yobit is now back online.  Thanks to all that messaged them.

This is essentially correct, although I would just like to reiterate that any speculation on price or amount raised at this point is purely speculation. There will be a full professional audit following the completion of the crowdsale to determine the actual price of the token.

The exchange rates got adjusted, based on more accurate calculations:
1 BTC = 7746,521995 KMD
1 BTCD = 50,42041779 KMD

These are now the final numbers!

Taking a short break from debugging. multithreaded networking code is always tricky. I did find and fix some deadlocks, but primarily drastically simplified the control flow. Simple is a lot simpler and much less can go wrong as compared to complex logic.

What is working now are several different types of nodes that are all coexisting in the same (super) network.

Each coin of course has its normal p2p network using the bitcoin protocol. Overlaid on top of that are the supernet nodes which use the same ports, but only do supernet comms to other supernet nodes as identified during the version handshake.

For a coin, a node is either a full relay node or a basilisk lite node that queries the full nodes for the blockchain/blockexplorer data. All wallet, tx construction, signing, is done locally as it is the same codebase with some toggles for basilisk mode where it does a basilisk request instead of scanning local ramchain files.

There is a special coin with no blockchain, called NOTARY and the notary nodes would be the full relay nodes and all the others basilisk nodes for this special coin. The NOTARY p2p is now working as a pubkey messaging server and also a way to find all the active notary nodes. I am adding a layer on top of the low level pubkey messaging so a node wont keep retransmitting if the data is already there. That will make the bandwidth usage much more efficient and allow a lot of DEX trading at the same time.

I also got LP nodes to work even as a basilisk node, though it is of course faster if it is a full iguana node. Still, not having to have a full bitcoin node locally is quite handy. And with the NOTARY pubkey messaging in between, there is no direct IP level interaction between the two parties doing the atomic swap.

In order to minimize the changes needed to be made to the zcash baseline and support dPoW, having a min-diff exception for notary node blocks but still using the same PoW seems the path of least resistance. This will make the seamless transition to fully decentralized block creation in the even all the notary nodes go away, or there is some problems in getting a majority of notaries to agree, much much simpler.

With notary nodes having the min-difficulty exception, it would not be feasible for some high hash rate attacker to do 51% attacks. And even if they can anybody that just waits for the bitcoin confirmation would be protected. That is the power of dPoW as even very weak chains become quite secure.

With this plan, the biggest remaining issue is how to get the election results propagated securely. Using komodo chain to record election results has the issue that if all blocks are created by notaries, then the existing majority could block the activation of the new slate. A natural idea is to use the BTC blockchain to record the election results, but again the issue of who writes that data arises.

My idea is to ratify election results via the majority of existing notaries OR a one third majority + special signature. The special signature would be held by the devteam. With this approach, even if there is a majority of notary nodes unwilling to give up their position, it can be overridden by one third minority and the devteam.

This ties into using the zcash PoW as the method for block generation. Even with a min-diff exception, with enough hash rate a block will be able to be mined by non-notary nodes and so the (one third + special sig) transaction will be able to get onto the blockchain in spite of a hostile notary majority.

I realize this is a bit of a change from using a NXT-style PoS, but the current testnet is working smoothly and I dont see the need to add a lot of complicated balance tracking that using a NXT-style PoS would require. Also, using a peercoin uxto based PoS has the problem that only one utxo per block is able to collect the staking revenues.

The other requirement is for people to be able to get 5% per year, without having to run their own node. at first I was going to rely on the notary nodes to do the staking, but I think an even more efficient way is to award all accrued interest whenever a utxo is spent. This approach might even allow interests to be earned by the protected funds, though in order to prevent abuse, the lower spectrum of the average age would need to be used. Still investigating this, but I am hopeful that something like this will work and it wont consume any measurable resources as it would only require to boost the satoshi total from the inputs based on a deterministic algo. I guess that could be one approach for the protected funds interest rates, the notaries can vote for the current applicable rate.

So you can see that while some details are changing from the original conception, the overall requirements and goals are held intact. By minimizing the changes, reliability is increased.

How about me? I bought at 1380k. I am down by 73% where James told me 2 years ago, I am in the right place now.
Will he give me condolences for my loss again?
Out of a sudden, my BTCD should be converted into an ICO coin (and we all know the future of ICO coins and who gains what) otherwise I will be left with BTCD with no future. On the other hand i see some people trying to raise 30,000BTC
And yes, I know the usual answer. I am free to sell all of my BTCD, nobody told me to invest and I should go away AKA F... off if I don't like that.

Thats right, but he pushed BTCD with his statements, that the coin will be a core part of supernet. Thats the reason why the people bought it. Thats the basement of the price. Nobody would believe him anything in the future if he would say now: "Sry guys i will use another coin for supernet" The swap is absolutely necessary. Dont sell it as his good will.

And now the stakes of these buyers get diluted without any discussions or warnings.

I have only a few BTCD which i have bought over a year ago because of james's announcements. Now i feel a little bit.. pranked.

In any case you are free to swap or not swap. If you dont swap you will still have the BTCD you have now.

Yes we use the Zcash technology, all credit to them! However, we are not a simple fork as we have added our own technology on top of it. We use NXT style PoS along with a new consensus method called dPoW. The dPoW is an innovation of our own, which will secure Komodo with bitcoin's hashrate (and other coins can secure their blockchains via Komodo).

Here's a thought:

If Iguana is so close to being finished for the first release and its development is independent of this new ICO, why not just finish it, then do the ICO?  Perhaps this would build more trust and more people (especially long time BTCD supporters) would support the ICO.  Iguana seems to be the one thing that development has been focused on for a good part of the year and many have been anticipating its release.  So to all of a sudden announce a new tech that is still being developed and will require yet even more extensive testing/debugging, is pretty ridiculous.  I understand this new tech is promising and could change everything, but it could wait.

The most terrible thing about multitasking is that it tends to leave a lot of tasks unfinished.  Focus on one thing at a time and get it done right.  Why is that so hard?

Congrats jl777

You artificially created conditions when most beneficial to loyal long term BTCD holders is FUD the shit out of the Komodo thus increasing their share of ICO.

And I will do just that. Sorry, I can't just ignore free market conditions.