Here is a status update from the PTS thread a few days ago. For those of yes not involved in the testing. I found this to be insightful.
No work on the exchange has taken place since DPOS since we want to have a solid foundation... I will provide more updates with respect to the exchange in a week or so. Our primary focus is a solid chain foundation with DPOS. So far we are relying on trustee model because the ability to handle natural chain forks automatically is challenging to say the least. We are making the wallet/RPC api as close to compatible with bitcoin as possible which should make the DPOS update to PTS as easy as possible for the exchanges.
I have been working around the clock to get the chain fork handling in order. We have solved a lot of issues in the past week and I hope to have a full up DPOS system with fork handling through basic unit tests in the next couple of days. We are making MAJOR strides here and our team coordination and efficiency has never been higher.
Like everyone I want this thing done as quickly as possible and there is no harder slave driver than myself. Being an imperfect man, I do my best with my weaknesses and unfortunately for us all I am the best we have at this point in time. So I will continue to plow ahead as quickly as possible and appreciate your understanding from one person to another.
In our last public test the trustee failed (crash) and served to remind me that launching with even a well-tested trustee model could have some major issues and liability. I want things out as soon as possible, but the reality is whether we launch sooner or later the problems that we must overcome are the same. Launching sooner just means we are asking the community to do more beta-testing and take greater risks.
I don't know how the others think on the community. But from me you have 100% support. I am not a programmer so I can not help this way, but I will invest time and even more PTS/AGS, and will wait as long as it needs to witness bitshares succes... After all what really matters in the end is
the journey to Ithaca...
as a real gift to bytemaster I want to dedicate him from my heart the poem "Ithaca" (C. P. Cavafy)
Ithaca"As you set out on the way to Ithaca
hope that the road is a long one,
filled with adventures, filled with understanding.
The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
Poseidon in his anger: do not fear them,
you’ll never come across them on your way
as long as your mind stays aloft, and a choice
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
savage Poseidon; you’ll not encounter them
unless you carry them within your soul,
unless your soul sets them up before you.
Hope that the road is a long one.
Many may the summer mornings be
when—with what pleasure, with what joy—
you first put in to harbors new to your eyes;
may you stop at Phoenician trading posts
and there acquire fine goods:
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and heady perfumes of every kind:
as many heady perfumes as you can.
To many Egyptian cities may you go
so you may learn, and go on learning, from their sages.
Always keep Ithaca in your mind;
to reach her is your destiny.
But do not rush your journey in the least.
Better that it last for many years;
that you drop anchor at the island an old man,
rich with all you’ve gotten on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.
Ithaca gave to you the beautiful journey;
without her you’d not have set upon the road.
But she has nothing left to give you any more.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca did not deceive you.
As wise as you’ll have become, with so much experience,
you’ll have understood, by then, what these Ithacas mean." Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
(Poems by C. P. Cavafy.)
PS Maybe other translations will like you better, you can find them here:
Source:
http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=259&cat=1
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