Here is a link to our previous expense report. http://forum.rise.vision/topic/69/expense-report-july-october-2016

We are working to get the new one out which looks about the same.

Porte, I explained this in the original message. To be clear, it was time for Justin and his team at Don't Panic to ask for more money. We were not happy with the results and cut off their funds. Devs can be replaced. So that's the path we went with. No matter what kind of ideas you want to concoct. We drained the swamp and we're moving on...

Edited to add: We'll post an update next week detailing our negotiations with the casino software company for chipz and our plans to make it popular...

Guys, please stop with the scam accusations. We are moving forward with Rise. I also don't see anything wrong with finding ways to reward our Rise holders with new and innovative ways such as Chipz. We have all the work that Justin and team did. In the meantime, we ARE going to get Lisk cloned up and delegates going.  

We are working on a new roadmap as we speak and we hope to have that this week. I understand people are on edge etc, but tossing out scam accusations isn't going to help things go smoother. In fact, we could use more support from the community, therefore it's going to be my job, with the help of McVenture, to restore confidence in you guys.

As for Alty. Yes, he's still with us. And Shazzy.

Development Update:

We have a fairly big announcement. We are in the process of restoring investor confidence and part of that process is to reward our current Rise token holders, as well as getting delegates forging as soon as possible. Even though we are currently on this path, it’s only fair to mention that we had hit a bumpy road. 

Previously, we have been pulling teeth, trying to get updates from our development team. It had gotten to a point where we were instructed to formulate emails as the “method” to reach them. Days had turned into weeks and even after many promises of daily updates, we still didn’t see progress. Many of you guys had stressed your concern as well.

We were then told by Justin that his development team needed more funds to continue the project. After close examination, and to prevent our funds from becoming more depleted with little to show for it, we discontinued funds to Don’t Panic (Justin’s business). As a result, Don’t Panic including our co-founder Justin walked away from the project.

However, we have acted quickly and are working with another developer right now. We will let everyone know who this is in an upcoming announcement. All Rise 2.0 work so far has been transferred to our new developer. Before we move further on that, we have decided that we will push out Rise Classic by cloning Lisk to get delegates forging and earning rewards ASAP.

We had relied on Justin’s promises that Rise 2.0 code base was going to be “easy enough” for him and we counted on his insight, such as promising a working prototype by December. It was moved to January, and then to February. And nothing came to fruition. “More funds” was never part of our original agreement with him.

So we have decided to move quickly and get Lisk cloned and delegates forging (Rise Classic) while Rise 2.0 is looked at by our hired new developers. We don’t want to waste any more time on this. In addition, we will be rewarding our token holders by providing them with Chipz which is explained below.


We are in negotiations with an online casino software supplier with the aim to launch a fully operational online gaming platform that will operate using Chipz tokens as the currency. Rise holders will receive Chipz tokens based on their holdings. The value of Chipz will be determined by the free market as soon as it hits an exchange. In order to use the casino players will be required to purchase Chipz tokens... Chipz will be available for purchase direct from the casino converted at the current market price or from an exchange. As soon as fiat gateways are available on the Waves network the casino will begin accepting fiat tokens that can be used to instantly purchase chipz for use in the casino.

More details to be revealed as we advance the Chipz project.

McVenture and myself will check in regularly this week here at the forums to make sure we answer any questions you guys have. Thanks. And let’s get this project rockin’. Good things to come!

Rem

There are 2 more SDKs about to be released today/tomorrow. Justin will also be updating us with progress made on the public delegate issue.

As for RiseGal, she's still around.

We are pushing for a development update from our coders shortly.

Max thanks for following up. I don't want to get into a public back and forth, but I had sent you a message via skype that we had received your message on saturday. 

If you go look it should be there. It's all good though. 

On a side note, nice podcast on cointelegraph. I finally got a chance to listen to it last night. Good things definitely coming down the pike for Lisk.

You really think there are 424976 instances of the word Lisk? 

Yes, good news coming. We also have a new person who is going to stay active in the forum here to help communicate a bit better. We're getting her set up now.

As for trading, I don't think people would like it too much if the devs could control the price of our own coin. That would be manipulation at its best. However, we need to do a better job communicating to the community which is definitely a full time job. So we have a good friend, Latasha, who will be assisting us with this.

We're all attempting to modify and improve on the current code base. Things take time to build and create. I know people are excited and want things overnight but the good thing is this just allows for a greater barrier to entry. If things could be developed in a week then everyone would be doing it.

For those who believe in Rise and our roadmap (an updated one coming shortly) we thank you for being patient. For others yelling the S word, our goal is to prove you wrong in the coming days/weeks/months. We'd like more community support rallying behind us but that will come in time as we develop and deliver.

Feel free to hop in Slack (link in my signature) or our new forum here http://forum.rise.vision

Project Acre was removed from our roadmap back during the ICO period. As for Poloniex, we have contacted them so it is up to them if they want to add us or not. However, we will keep pushing to get us added as we move forward.

Update from Justin at the New Dev Office

We have pretty much maxed out the space already. We are working on finding a good local source for signs and banners, then we will have some branding up on the walls.

We are still hard at work on Delegates, as well as documenting the rise-core codebase. Up until this point, all of the code we have been working on has been entirely undocumented, so to get into the code, Nathan has been going through line-by-line and adding comments once he understands what the code is doing. This will allow people to use the rise-core codebase in their own private projects easily.

I’ll have one more update later today, roadmap related.

The new office is getting set up at the moment. Soon we'll be posting a picture of it (minus food and/or drinks) 

Definitely a fun picture and one to look back on years down the road to see how far we've come. Justin and the guys are looking for office space and may have something confirmed next week.

Shoot me or Alty a PM with your info and Rise address and we can do that today. Thanks 

Message me your RISE address and I'll send it to you now!

Next round of Twitter bounty payments will go out Friday mid-day (EST).

Reminder of what I wrote on Friday. We will be sending out more bounty payments today:

Maybe if everyone could retweet this https://twitter.com/RiseVisionTeam/status/755010342586093569

That'll help spread the word a bit. Thanks ztrader2016 for posting the link.

UPDATE ON TWITTER BOUNTIES

Everyone who has contacted us to receive twitter bounties have been paid. If you contacted us in the past 4 to 5 hours then you probably were not in this round and will be paid in the next round beginning on Monday.

If you did not receive your bounty please make sure that you:

1 - Had over 20 followers when signing up

2 - Are actually, in fact, following us...  

3 - You are actually ON THE LIST

4 - You contacted us with the username associated with the twitter account that was on the form. We have had people sign up for new accounts with one letter off trying to claim other people's bounties which slowed the process down to a crawl. So we need you to contact us with the user you put down on the spreadsheet.

If you qualify after looking at all of the above and still have not received your twitter bounty please contact one of us directly. The RiseTwitter user does not have the ability to reply or comment.

Thanks
rem