I don't think this is a dead project but I do think the dev is stretched with two big projects and this is making everyone a little cynical.

"Gotta say it looks interesting but there has been no action for a long time now, dev is busy with another project."

So this project can be launched this year?

The dev is a frequent on the BBR thread so I doubt he isn't looking at this one too.

Is there going to be an update from the dev soon? Many miners are really interested in this project but with lack of communication, I fear that interest will wane and many miners will choose another project which will ultimately harm XDB and its chances for mass adoption.

That's great news. Looking forward to get some Doubloons soon.

When will Doubloon be purchased on an exchange? Is there going to be any pre-mining?

Sounds like a nice project!!

Make ico, or youll have no money for listing.
Do you want to ask money from community for exchange, like in your bbr?

Hi proride,

Boolberry is not "my" project. I'm a proactive holder there and our R&D group, Chainmasons, is contributing to that project in form of advanced ring and multi-signature research as well as a comparative performance analysis vs Monero. As mentioned in an earlier post, that technology was original planned for Doubloon but since we pivoted this project towards a fully zero knowledge system we won't be using it anymore.

As far as exchanges go there, I covered all listings so far with my own coin and our team made necessary API improvements required for listing on certain exchange who've yet to follow through with their side of the arrangement. I asked the community there to chip in for the Kucoin listing since they will also benefit from Boolberry being back on relatively high volume exchange.

I'm personally not a fan of ICOs. Maybe I'm just "old school" but I believe that the market should decide the price of an asset not a developer or group of founders. This is why we're choosing to launch this project traditionally with small pre-mine/mining tax that will cover any future costs i.e. new hires, listing fees, bounties etc.. Then once the coin hits the exchanges the markets can decide its worth. This is the free market principal vs the principal of price fixing an asset before the market has chance to decide its value. In most cases of ICOs the asset only sustains above ICO value for a short period until the market decides that an asset without working product is effectively worth less than the ask. Here we are working on real research with a new mining algorithm, new zero knowledge privacy protocol with trustless key generation, not some photoshop design asking for millions.

That said, if the community really wants a portion of the pre-mine to be an ICO we would need to lay out the entire system here and let general consensus along with market research decide what the value would be rather than just myself or our team.

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