Pitchfork Countdown May Begin Next Week

[BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode]

WOOOO HOOOO!

[phillyguy]

For every time one of us has urged you to rush this, you deserve ten big thank you's for the hard work and dedication.

Absolutely. Nice work guys. You have a lot to be proud of.

[Tuck Fheman]

I noticed the address 1013 in the background. Very clever.

;)
whats' your bts address?

[canucklehead]

10 Brownie.PTS to first person to call out the "easter egg".

I noticed the address 1013 in the background. Very clever.

[mike623317]

In other words, I am feeling pretty good about having the upgrade date be:  Tuesday, October 13th  (middle of work week)

Good news BM.
At least its not a friday on this particular 13th.

[Tuck Fheman]

10 Brownie.PTS to first person to call out the "easter egg".

[merivercap]

 +5% +5% +5%

[bobmaloney]

In other words, I am feeling pretty good about having the upgrade date be:  Tuesday, October 13th  (middle of work week)

[canucklehead]

 +5% :)

[Ander]

Everyone's dedication has been incredible.  You guys persevered through many hard times, and a mountain of FUD.  Time to show to the world that BTS is for real. :)

[donkeypong]

For every time one of us has urged you to rush this, you deserve ten big thank you's for the hard work and dedication.

[Ander]

Nice, great job Bytemaster and every single person who worked on this!

And yeah, if you guys are feeling confident in this, its probably announcement thread time.

[Chuckone]

2 days left now.  How are you guys feeling about the testnet?  On track for friday?

I believe that the test network has proven robust enough to replace the BTS 1.0 network in 30 days.

We have some graceful fallback positions that can be taken without missing the upgrade deadline:

1.  If all witnesses are on a single node then the network works perfectly, even with 1 second blocks
2.  Have several different witnesses all run from the same Amazon or Digital Ocean location
3.  Have all witnesses use a dedicated server to relay messages through while being geographically diverse
4.  Have all witnesses use current P2P and reduce block times to 5 seconds

In any event we are confident in the market behavior and evaluation of transactions and see no reason to delay upgrading the protocol simply because of networking/communication issues.

On the user interface side we have a viable wallet that supports:

1. market operations
2. transfers
3. voting
4. backups

Over the course of the next 30 days we will continue to refine the user interface, but at the very least it should be better than BTS 1 long before 30 days is up.

In other words, I am feeling pretty good about having the upgrade date be:  Tuesday, October 13th  (middle of work week)

I believe this announcement deserves its own thread ;) Good news indeed and great work!

[bytemaster]

2 days left now.  How are you guys feeling about the testnet?  On track for friday?

I believe that the test network has proven robust enough to replace the BTS 1.0 network in 30 days.

We have some graceful fallback positions that can be taken without missing the upgrade deadline:

1.  If all witnesses are on a single node then the network works perfectly, even with 1 second blocks
2.  Have several different witnesses all run from the same Amazon or Digital Ocean location
3.  Have all witnesses use a dedicated server to relay messages through while being geographically diverse
4.  Have all witnesses use current P2P and reduce block times to 5 seconds

In any event we are confident in the market behavior and evaluation of transactions and see no reason to delay upgrading the protocol simply because of networking/communication issues.

On the user interface side we have a viable wallet that supports:

1. market operations
2. transfers
3. voting
4. backups

Over the course of the next 30 days we will continue to refine the user interface, but at the very least it should be better than BTS 1 long before 30 days is up.

In other words, I am feeling pretty good about having the upgrade date be:  Tuesday, October 13th  (middle of work week)

[Ander]

2 days left now.  How are you guys feeling about the testnet?  On track for friday?