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Hello everyone!
I have recently been discussing EverGreenCoin v1.7 in the community meetings and wanted to take a few minutes and share the progress of v1.7. First, and what will be the most noticeable improvement, will be enhancements to the Staking For Charity interface. In its current form as of version 1.6, staking for charity does require the user to manually enter an address or select an address from their own address book to deffer interest installments to another EverGreenCoin wallet (Staking for Charity). I hope to remove the necessity of this and finding a charity to contribute to in the first place.
How I plan to do this is to present the user with a list of charities, crowdfunds, causes, etc. they can select by name. Then the EGC address and subsequent “thank you” message will change acordingly. Users will of course retain the ability to enter an address manually or by address book, if they so choose. They also may wish to only be using staking for charity as a mechanism to divert interest installments to another wallet. For example, a user may want interest installments sent directly to an exchange. For this and all the other possible reasons, manual address entry for staking for charity will always be an option. As will staking for the EverGreenCoin Foundation as of v1.7.
Next is when it gets really interesting! Further options (i.e. name of charity, cause, crowdfund) will be populated dynamically via a list we maintain! During loading, the EverGreenCoin wallet will check for a list maintained on our servers. EverGreenCoin staff will be able to change (always under the discretion of the community) this list at any time. So if for example, a new green charity comes ‘on-board’ with EverGreenCoin, we can almost instantly update the list on everyone’s list without the need for them to upgrade. It is a very exciting idea. I do have the bulk of this communication already working. I wanted to share that progress.
To demonstrate, please take note of this json file containing some example charity information, https://evergreencoin.org/charities.json
The following screenshots show this data in-use and populated at run-time. As stated, “Manual Entry’ and ‘EverGreenCoin Foundation’ will always appear. Followed by the dynamic information. Here is the 1st charity:
…and here is the 3rd charity:
Of course, this is not in a polished form by any means. It is only to demonstrate the communication of the data is working as we would intend. As off the time of this writing, I do have a bit of logic to work through. For example, if you were staking for a charity address previously that was removed from the server’s data, I wish to inform the user their staking for charity configuration needs attention in some manner before staking for charity can proceed. Technically they could still be sending to that, now removed, EGC address. But, in sight of the possibility that charity may have been removed for some fraudulent or otherwise undesirable behavior, I do not want people to unknowingly support what was previously presented as a good thing (via EGC funds to that address) to support. Of course, much scrutiny will always be taken to prevent such EGC addresses in ever making it into the list in the first place. But we best be safe, than sorry. Much of that logic, ‘business’ and programmatic, remains but I will keep the community informed to the progress.
Another improvement, though will be less visible for most, slated for v1.7 are any updates to the code that need to take place for relied-upon building tools and libraries. Some of this may extend form making the software function correctly on various Single Board Computers (SBC) as the EverGreenCoin Solar Staker progresses. There are some less-robust SMB that may need modifications. I hope to full-fill any of those requirements in v1.7 as well. Of course, other and various enhancements to the code such as new checkpoints or any other updates will certainly be in v1.7. But they may not need mention as is standard practice of any new release.
Version 1.7 very well might contain any-other-number of enhancements as we are constantly looking to improve. That said, time commitments are a variable, so please always consider and respect that. I and others do have a life, families, jobs, and various other commitments. No one is being paid hourly or salary. No one is anyone’s boss. We all contribute because we want to. I do not mean to present the above information as the ‘only’ enhancements in v1.7, only the certainties as of this time. Version 1.7 is roadmapped in Q4 of 2017. Due expect its release prior to EverGreenCoin’s 2nd ‘birthday’ (Christmas morning), probably much, much sooner than the actual ‘launch (Dec 25, 2015) anniversary’ I am referring to as ‘birthday’.
Thank you for taking the time to read this update. I hope I have explained clearly. Do feel free to comment in a reply to this post or in any other way you feel comfortable. I will certainly keep the community up-to-date as v1.7 progresses.
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