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Simple Website: http://sparkle5.github.io/Sparkle/

Mining reward now decreases linearly over 100 years rather than halving ever 4 years, this should smooth things out.

I have run a test network with two mining nodes on it and everything appears to be working.  I am looking for some people to run public nodes.  It is setup to generate a lot of forks in the test and these forks seem to resolve themselves well. 

Still waiting on an icon/logo/splash screen but so far finding help has been difficult.   I will start work on these myself if I don't get any feedback soon.

Overall I am very happy with how this is progressing.

I think something classy (diamonds) would be better than something gaudy (pink ponies and rainbows).   If you want Sparkle to be a success it needs to have a feel of "fresh, new, clean" and not a toy.



A space theme would go well. 

 

I think this looks pretty for a logo.   

Perhaps a constellation?

Just some ideas to show my support.

  Bytemaster!     I like how you think.

I agree... I know someone who is a comptetent dev and I can refer... but havent heard from BM regarding what work he can start on.

Once a process is put in place it will be way easier.

There are 1000 items that could be worked on.  This is a DAC so why are all decisions still going through BM?   There are countless issues on github.  Many of the people who are getting delegate positions showed up and started working on something so I would stop asking for tasking and take initiative.   

I thought that a POW version of BitShares was needed so I just started working on it.   Others should do the same.

Great work!  I'm waiting for this release prior to launching Sparkle!

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I know people from all of the mentioned organizations.   

Then you'll know that the foundation, bitcoin mag and Invictus were all connected. And Ethereum is its own animal. I'm doing just fine Sparkles and plenty of people want to work with me.

I was not aware of that.   How were they connected?    I am also aware of other individuals whom you have burned.   Lets just say that there is a social network that tracks what you do and spreads it around in an effort to protect people from you.   

Charles you have earned a reputation throughout the crypto currency arena.   People from many different projects have interacted with you and had both bad vibes but also bad experiences with your manipulative techniques.  You have a big ego and a way with words.   

I have seen the conflict you have created everywhere you go.   Ethereum, BitShares and all the way back to Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin Foundation.   

You have a reputation that is so throughly burned that you need to start over again from a very humble and cooperative position.    I suggest you may want to go to a different industry where you are not known.

I don't know why you post here, but it is hardly constructive. 

First, one can make CFDs fungible. This is just pure lack of imagination. Second, trusted price feeds are the bedrock of the entire financial industry. I don't see any adoption problems stemming from them especially if they are can pooled and averaged.

Pure lack of imagination?  BitShares imagined fungible CFDs from the start.    Pooling / Averaging?   Looks like BitShares has it again.

Everyone will end up with BitAssets.   Which is why we have more than BitAssets on our side.  DPOS has great power. 

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Maybe I'm too harsh on Charles, but I usually enjoy his posts.  Last I heard he was working on lots of scala code (I was reminded as I was finding the thread).  I'm curious how that is going.

Over the past few months I've been going on a magic tour of a few categories of technology. Coming from the Haskell world, I've always admired functional programming for its simplicity and ease of multithreading thus I've been trying to catch up on the non-academic progress in the field. So far there's scala, clojure and F# as the major innovations. Haskell itself has grown a lot and does now have decent libraries for most anything. Scala and Clojure are connected to the JVM whereas F# is connected to .net. Since MS open sourced .net I've added F# to my list to review.

Second, I've been looking heavily at curveCP, ZeroMQ, Saltstack and nanomsg. I'd highly encourage you guys to spend some time with these technologies. They are both elegant and remarkably efficient.

Third, the remainder of my time has been split between a regulatory paper I've been drafting (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xG1hkPbk0uuavjPc_gt_eWxEUbWM1SlsxNmhGdRIUtg/edit?usp=sharing) and reviewing graph databases. I'd like to thank the Neo4j guys. They've been enormously helpful in answering all my questions.

So yes, the Scala is coming along well.

Beware the name dropping.   This is typical of Charles.  Once you recognize the technique these types of individuals use it becomes very obvious that there is no substance.