Powerball, DAC sounds cool, and allot faster to develop than BitShares.
What is the status on this one?
Have we found some people to develop it?
It is on our roadmap, to be undertaken when we are able to raise enough funds to pay for its development.
But if some other developer were to start credible work on it, we would be happy to cheer them on.
It doesn't matter to us who develops these DACs, we will invest in them on their merits like everyone else.
This generates decentralization in developers just like the DACs themselves.
Once we have multiple credible developers, hopefully on different continents, the whole industry will be much safer.
Stan,
I honestly think one of the first and most important tasks of Invictus Innovations should be to develop and release an exquisite DAC development kit. If this were any other industry, say the gaming industry for example and you're building a platform for construction of games then you release an easy to use development kit to facilitate the process. If it were mobile technology like Android then you'd release a kit which any programmer can make use of using whatever language they know.
The reason most developers (myself included) don't know where or how to get started right now is because there isn't a development kit. This would mean a lot of documentation, reference protocols and a high level interface. If there are enough programmers opening up the development so that other programmers can write reference implementations, or templates, that could help too.
I've taken a look at Keyhotee and I can figure out what it's doing, and I've looked at Protoshares as well. Protoshares is based mostly on Bitcoin and Bitcoin is very daunting for anybody to mess around with, as a result not a lot of people are able to make anything more than small changes. When I tried to compile Protoshares I could not get it to compile in Linux due to the various dependencies.
Bitshares in my opinion is where it really gets interesting. I hope the API for it is high level enough that I can build on top of it and that development can take place in many programming languages at once. I could easily see a scenario where we are building DACs on top of DACs.