Went outside, did not like. Back indoors, reading monster thread. No idea what is going on, but we seem to be doing something right:

www.coinmarketcap.com

There are only 3 alts showing green in the top 20, and guess which one has made the most gains on a bad day for everyone else?

(I'll give u a clue, its not Auroracoin.... )

To the moon, kids.

I will, as usual post a lot more blah, blah really soon.
In the meantime, go the the marketing thread and check out what is happening for the Amsterdam BTC conference:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/412243.msg5492453#msg5492453

And someone buy me a Tesla Roadster, please:
http://www.teslamotors.com/nl_NL/roadster
It's for a good cause....yeah, white is OK.

I had to gloss over the nitty gritty details as they are not totally finalized yet, plus you did ask for simple explanation. I tried to abstract out the relevant parts. Mapping the zerocoin.org instructions on how to integrate zerocoin into bitcoin blockchain was kind of helpful, but it leaves a lot of details out as to how to actually do it.

Add to this, the constraint of not changing the NXT core, but still working with current NXT blockchain
And we know the zeroknowledge proofs are crazy big and also time consuming to calculate

Suffice it to say that a lot of thought is going into how best to solve this and the first internal release made us realize that we were not totally on the right path. However, this is by design. For complex problems that I cant see all the way to the finish line, I opt to just go in the general direction of the solution. From there, course correction toward the final goal. Rinse and repeat.

As long as each iteration is getting closer, you will soon get to where you can see the finish line. At that point, fully solve all the details with the experience gained.

It is similar to playing chess. You really cant see all the way to the final checkmate. However, you can use your experience to guide you and avoid obvious mistakes. Keep making the best move within your powers, each and every move and at some point you will be able to solve it all the way to checkmate. unless your opponent does it to your first! thank goodness software usually doesnt fight back

James

Do you mean, that NEM will never appear?

Good job, me too: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,4315.msg40221.html  

Hi,

I make Offspring there is an issue list here https://bitbucket.org/incentivetoken/offspring-public/issues please report your bug there and include the version number, I'll help you solve it there. Please make sure you have the latest version 0.3.1e https://bitbucket.org/incentivetoken/offspring-public/downloads

If Nxt becomes gets more popular, it will be easier to attract new developers.

Either that, or we can add some of the people involved in writing clients (like wesley) to the core team.  The developers must be trusted.

For future Core Dev team;

I'd recommend; Chuckone, wesleyh, zahlen, ricot, gimre, ImmortAlex, CIYAM, BloodyRookie, Jaguar0625.  We'll need to offer a significant amount of Nxt for 3 months of work.  I would suggest 250k Nxt for each member from unclaimed.  

I posted this kinda late yesterday, in case anyone missed it. 

Offspring v0.3.1e released

Downloads available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

https://bitbucket.org/incentivetoken/offspring-public/downloads

See wiki for changelog.

https://bitbucket.org/incentivetoken/offspring-public/wiki/Home

[4-3-2014] version 0.3.1e:

• Offspring now uses NXT from source instead of precompiled versions
• Compiled against NXT 0.8.5
• Offspring version and NXT version shown in title bar
• At startup user can select to start main or test network, if you choose test network you will use a separate wallet
• First bare-bones implementation list of assets in Trader section (only available on test network)
• First bare-bones implementation list of trades in Trader section (only available on test network)
• You can now add *read-only* accounts, enter any account number and it will show up in the accounts section

[3-3-2014] version 0.3e:

• Offspring now uses the NXT Java API
• NXT 0.8.3
• Added easy discovery/registration/update for aliases
• Temporarily disabled recent blocks viewer
• Added Trader section (not yet enabled)
• Numerous changes to UI in the dialogs because responses from NXT are instant now
• Database and wallet are now in the users home folder
• Database can be cleared from menu, new blockchain will be downloaded
• Total uploaded/downloaded visible in the statusbar
• Height of latest block in your blockchain is shown in the statusbar
• Last block timestamp and number of seconds ago are visible in the statusbar
• A progressbar displays how much of the blockchain you have downloaded and how much more to go
• Each account is forging by default, you can turn forging on and off and your generation time is shown
• Early version of messaging implemented. You can enter an account number and a text and it will send the text to that account number. Messages are not encrypted! Everyone can read what you send (like twitter).

A few of these people (Jaguar0625, gimre, BloodyRookie, more?) are involved with NEM. They won't have time to work on two project, so they should be out of the list

Just got a call from an outside investor who is interested in using the Asset Exchange for issuing Assets for his new project.

Was looking to set up his own alt to start this up, but is now véry interested in the possibilities of Nxt.

I'm having a talk with him on Saturday.

I may have to draw on the knowledge of some of our devs to contact his devs to see how the two systems will mesh.