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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 06/04/2016, 09:57:17 UTC
Out of curiosity, how does B&C Exchange main idea compare with zero knowledge proof-based decentralized exchange (ex: http://roberts.pm/zk_exchange) ?
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 06/04/2016, 09:50:32 UTC
Maybe a handful of shareholders that would own 50% of the network do not bother upgrading but according to this poll (https://discuss.nubits.com/t/new-poll-how-many-bks-do-you-own/3586), we have some indications that it is not the case.

By the way, do not hesitate to take the poll if you have not yet.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 05/04/2016, 21:07:40 UTC
And I've just been reminded that there's another data feed for BKS voting:
https://discuss.nubits.com/t/cryptogs-bcexchange-data-feeds-beta/2503

Thanks, it would be good to compile a list of data feed providers to make it easier for people to decide

I agree. I have created this thread: https://discuss.nubits.com/t/b-c-exchange-data-feeds-providers-list/3747

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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 30/03/2016, 03:59:03 UTC
Peershares such as NuBits and B&C Exchange are the most advanced form of decentralised blockchain governance to date. The work I have already done establishes me as the leading innovator in decentralised blockchain governance.

I must say agree.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 11/03/2016, 01:53:30 UTC
I'm pleased to be able to announce that we have added Xiaochuan Wu as a Senior C++ Developer to the B&C Exchange development team. Xiaochuan successfully led a team of developers in the creation of the Huobi Bitcoin wallet. I asked him a series of difficult blockchain technical questions related to an upgrade scenario and he answered each perfectly, whereas other previous candidates had displayed mostly ignorance of the intracacies of blockchains. I can certify that he is a blockchain expert, as well as being well versed in C++.

Xiaochuan is on contract as a Senior C++ Developer from March 14th to August 13th, having committed to completing an average of 20 to 30 hours of billable work per week. He is interested in extending past August if funding permits. He is dedicated to B&C Exchange and is not expected to work on NuBits any time soon.

Please welcome Xiaochuan to the team! We now have significant development work on B&C Exchange occurring in North America, Europe and China.

Hi guys, I am Xiaochuan Wu. I prefer you call me Eleven. Thank you very much ,Jordan. Thank you everyone here. I am very pleased to join B&C Exchange development team. B&C Exchange development team is doing cool and awesome things. I believe It would have a good future. I would do my best to make it better and better. Now I am together with B&C Exchange family.
Cheers.

Welcome @eleven. I am glad you made it!
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 22/02/2016, 14:00:07 UTC
We have a new release candidate for B&C Exchange 4.0 that will enter testing tomorrow:

https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/bcexchange/downloads/bcexchange-4.0.0-RC2-win-gitian.zip
https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/bcexchange/downloads/bcexchange-4.0.0-RC2-linux-gitian.zip

4.0 will allow shareholders to vote for signers and allows signers to prepare for trading operations in the following production release.

CoinGame will keep us informed in the coming days regarding what he finds while testing.

Nice and reassuring to see some substantial progress.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 16/01/2016, 23:25:19 UTC
NuBits and B&C Exchange share the same team. This gives B&C the advantage of having people work on it that have worked with the code base for a year or two in most cases. It has the disadvantage of meaning that when the team is focused on NuBit development, B&C Exchange development necessarily gets less attention and work.

The NuBit 2.1 release has been a major undertaking. We thought we were nearly done with it a month ago, but testing revealed some important performance issues that were difficult and time consuming to track down and remedy. The NuBits 2.1 release is very close to being ready for beta release. As a result, the team is once again turning its focus to B&C Exchange. The B&C Exchange 4.0 release will receive additional testing in the coming days. Over the course of the last month, glv has continued to make progress on developing the exchange messages (to be released after 4.0).

Sigmike and I are discussing a couple ways we could bring additional developers to the project to speed implementation. While I regard the pace of development as a disappointment to date, we have effectively conserved our funding and I am more convinced that B&C Exchange has a viable design than I was six months ago. Progress has taken longer than expected due to lower availability of developers than was expected, but the project is still very viable and is in fact moving forward.

Tks for the update, Jordan.
I am wondering: what about the contribution from erasmospunk ?
If you need more developers, maybe we should advertise it on social networks?
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 11/12/2015, 04:40:26 UTC
While reading the white paper a doubt emerged about market makers / liquidity providers:

(Inside B&C Exchange protocol/structure) Are ONLY core clients (that download the FULL blockchain) gonna be supported for liquidity providers?

OR

Are Simplified Payment Verification Clients (e.g. Electrum) gonna be supported too?

What has been mentioned is that you would be able to export your bitcoin private key to a light weight bitcoin client for dividends distribution.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 20/10/2015, 03:24:51 UTC
B&C Exchange client version 4.0 is now code complete, although that code has not yet been merged into the master branch of the BCExchange repository which masterOfDisaster was observing. We will begin testing shortly. Version 4.0  includes complete implementations of all voting features needed for the exchange and a fully functional reputation voting system. That is major progress. I estimate we are 35% code complete at this point.

sigmike has spent the last month on Nu version 2.1, which is also now code complete and partially tested. So there are no contributions from sigmike in the last month on B&C Exchange. I have mentioned in posts in the past about how the Nu and B&C team are shared resources. He is just turning his attention to B&C Exchange again, now that Nu 2.1 is code complete.

About a month ago I began recruiting an additional developer for B&C Exchange. Obviously, such a vacancy means progress is not occurring at the optimal speed. However, it also implies the pace will increase once the position is filled. That position was recently filled by glv, and he has just completed his first successful set of tasks, or pull request.

So, most of the progress that has been made was understandably overlooked by masterOfDisaster. Additionally, today we have glv and sigmike focusing on B&C Exchange where over most of the last month they weren't working on it because glv just joined the project days ago and sigmike was working on Nu 2.1.

Tks for your update. There is indeed much progress behind the scene.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 20/10/2015, 03:14:12 UTC
Jordan Lee and the development team have been hard at work on B&C Exchange and don't always find time to surface for updates. You can track development in our open-source repository here: https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/bcexchange/src.

We will always make updates as we approach major development milestones.

What do I overlook?

https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/bcexchange/pull-requests/ contains exactly one pull request in the last 5 weeks - and that one is still open.



Indeed not much activity over the past 5 weeks. Are developers (and Jordan Lee) working on some code that have yet to be pushed to the repo?
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 13/10/2015, 12:41:41 UTC
Would it be possible to have some updates on the roadmap and milestones along with when we can expect to have those milestones completed?
Tks
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 09/10/2015, 08:46:56 UTC
How would compare the decentralization of the rating system of B&C Exchange with this: https://blog.openbazaar.org/decentralized-reputation-in-openbazaar/ ?
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 05/10/2015, 16:39:42 UTC
I'm happy to be able to announce that glv (glv2 on GitHub) has joined the B&C Exchange development team. He has done excellent work in the Peercoin

https://github.com/glv2
Indeed a lot of contributions to peercoin.
As a shareholder of B&C, I hope it will accelerate drastically its development for the world has never needed that urgently a decentralized exchange...
Welcome glv2.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 25/09/2015, 01:58:13 UTC
@jordanlee Tks for the info.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 23/09/2015, 17:45:04 UTC
It looks like version 4.0.0 is being worked on.
More details here: https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/bcexchange/branch/4.0-stable#diff

Tks for the pointers.
So Nu is at version 2.0...at least.
and BCE is at version 3.0....and soon 4.0.
Wondering about the relationships between Nu and BCE....
BCE is a fork of Nu....
But the enhancement and innovation implemented into BCE could be brought to Nu as well, I suppose.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 23/09/2015, 15:26:50 UTC
any update on the development side?
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 30/08/2015, 00:08:02 UTC
In the Project Development section, B&C is now the 18th most viewed project.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 30/07/2015, 09:56:56 UTC
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By the way, I easily envision B&C Exchange be used as the first decentralized cloud wallet for any crypto assets and currencies.
Thus, people that have no interest in trading would have a reason to use B&C Exchange.
In other words, we could see 2 services:
1) Exchange
2) Wallet

Perhaps we could even think about charging for 2) as well.

I fully second your assessment about BCE offering a wallet service. I've written my take on this at another place (https://discuss.nubits.com/t/passed-motion-to-provide-seed-funding-for-b-c-exchange-a-decentralized-exchange-built-on-the-peershares-platform/2001/539):
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Via BCE exchange web sites you effectively can create something similar to e.g. blockchain.info, but in an improved version:
Web access to BCE provides BCE with a kind of online wallet capabilities - similar to blockchain.info.
Transactions (e.g. withdraw) can be executed using a web site - similar to blockchain.info.
This requires coins to be available in a multi signature deposit address - assumably better security than at blockchain.info (does blockchain.info support multi signature addresses and if what level?).

You can execute payments with all coins supported by BCE by creating a withdraw (to the payment deposit address) on any BCE exchange web site - that's way more flexible than at blockchain.info which only supports BTC.
And if you don't have enough BTC, trade some of your deposited LTC or whatever first - that's way more flexible than at blockchain.info.

But the major benefit over central wallets is this:
there's no risk to get your funds seized by taking down a central service or stolen by that central service.
The central server as single point of failure is gone.
All relies on the (distributed) reputed signers which can't be tracked easily if ever.

For the wallet service there's a charge: all transactions that utilize the BCE network as a wallet service require transactions; they have a size and cost BKC Wink

You said it all.
About the wallet charges, tks for reminding me. The business model is natural.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 30/07/2015, 06:54:57 UTC
If additional funding is received, we could see additional goodies such as an Android interface that simultaneously functions as a wallet for assets being traded.

That would be nice to have!

By the way, I easily envision B&C Exchange be used as the first decentralized cloud wallet for any crypto assets and currencies.
Thus, people that have no interest in trading would have a reason to use B&C Exchange.
In other words, we could see 2 services:
1) Exchange
2) Wallet

Perhaps we could even think about charging for 2) as well.
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Re: [ANN] B&C Exchange - A decentralized exchange paying BTC dividends
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cryptog1
on 19/07/2015, 04:20:38 UTC
If you requested and paid for BKS via email and did not receive our bulk email requesting BKS addresses, there is no need to wait for us to contact you individually. You can just take the initiative to send us your BKS address(es) by email at bkssale@vistomail.com, using the same email address you used to pay for your BKS.

I was expecting somewhat an email requesting the addresses exclusively just before the distribution day (one of the emails handling payment did mention that I would need to indicate a few addresses though once i would have downloaded the wallet) but this is now clarified.