Episode 153 - NoirCoin Team

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thing. But you know, we've come a long way from a year ago, where it was very difficult to get a test. Now you can go anywhere. I can't speak for where you are. But I know my state. I know anywhere and get a test. And it's refreshing, man. And as this vaccine gets rolled out, obviously, I'll be one of the last people to take it. But

it's good that it is available for people who want to take it. You know what I mean? Yeah, that is certainly true. I mean, I'd love to tell you how it is. I'm not sure if you're at least I live, but I honestly can't because I barely left the house in the last few months. So no idea. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, we have a pharmacy

on the corner of the street where I live. And there is every day, there are so many people waiting in line to get a COVID test. Yeah. Yeah, man. People want to know. And it's just it's a good thing to do. You know. Yeah. Yeah. I also, every time before I meet with my family, we also get tests and see that we don't have COVID. Yeah.

It's important, man. You know, these are the new protocols that we have to endure, uh, to spend time with our friends and our loved ones. And for me, this isn't really a big deal because I'm not really a people person. I'm a very, I'm not really a person. I'm a person. Solitary kind of guy. So the idea of not being around people doesn't really bother me,

but not being around people because I'm, I can't be around people bothers me because there are times when I want people interaction. I want human interaction. But not being able to interact with people when I want to kind of bothers me. So hopefully when we're coming out on the other side of this. And things won't go back to the way they were, but I believe we'll

have a new normal that'll be similar to the old normal. If that makes sense. Yes. Hopefully. And hopefully, like, still kind of this year. Yeah. Yeah. That is the goal, man. I think there's a lot of head weight going on. Uh, we've got three vaccines over here and they're pumping them out as quickly as possible. Um, I heard May 1st, they're going to mandate that everyone

regardless of age, uh, has access to a vaccine shot of their choice. So I think, you know, we're moving towards a new norm. Again, I'm, I'm on the fence about the shot. But, uh, you know, if people want it and they really want it and they really need it, then they should get it. You know, yes. Certainly. So what else is going on, gentlemen? What's going

on in New York world? Flow, we were talking during pre-roll. We were talking about a new progress on the swap. I have made a ghost program. I have a new progress in the proof of stake integration that we will need in order to release a test net. And I also want to test the whole swap process in the test net so that we can get a.

We like to ask how good it feels and if it works the way it should. And that we also see if this will work in the main net later on. Got you. So if people wanted to participate in the test net, tell us how that would work. Because I have a lot of new listeners at a new to crypto currency and they may or may not

know the difference between the test net and the main net. So for arguments, say, the test net. Test net is literally what it sounds like. It's the network where you test new product enhancements and innovations before you release them out in the wild to the public. And if people wanted to participate in testing in the test net, how would that process work? What would they have

to do? Most importantly, where would they get test net coins from? It's pretty simple. Um, we in the past made it like this. You have to the normal client of the wallet. And there you can start it in test net mode for the windows installer. You get it. You get a entry in the start menu on windows, where you can start it in test net mode.

For Linux and Mac, you will need to input a console command to start the wallet in test net mode. But we always explain it before releasing a. Test net version. And for the coins, we made it like this. You will need to join a certain group on telegram or write to a channel on discord, where you are your test net address and then you get sent

new coins by the team. But I want to, for this test net, I want to make the people download the current wallet. But started in test net, get a few coins from us and then swap those coins to the new wallet for the new chain. So you heard it folks. If you want to participate in the test net, that's how you get started. Make sure you

reach out to flow. Not always. Let me sure you get those tokens. So let me start the testing process. Now we have applied with you guys. We've gotten our coins. We've put our coins in the test network. So we've pointed our existing wallets towards the test network. Right. When will the functionality that you're building be available in test net. I think it's ready in about a

week. Oh, wow. In the last interview, I spoke about midmosh. We are already in midmosh, so I think a week. And we are. Then it would be fine to release our first testing version. Okay. Right on track. Good, good, good. So have you, have you been getting a lot of feedback from the NWR coin community about what you're proposing? I remember being a part of the

discord when we were voting on it. But have you received a lot of feedback from the community about what you're doing right now or any additional energy. What are the solutions that they proposed during the last voting cycle? Yeah, we had many interactions with the community. And it seems like they liked the idea of this wall. And it seems like more and more people are getting

active again. It's nice to see. Yeah, yeah. I was looking the other day and I saw. All time high for volume or grabby X. I think it was. Yeah. It was a couple of years ago. Yeah, it was a few weeks ago, where we hit. I think it was. Over 2000 dollars of volume per day. If I'm right. Good. Which we didn't have in a long

time. Right. I think there's real. There's a lot of buzz and excitement around what you guys are doing, trying to innovate to be, to remain relevant. And to maintain the attention and enthusiasm of the NWR community. I think that what you're doing is exactly what the community asked for. And they have every right to be excited about what you're providing to. You know, I think it's

wonderful. What do you do? Yeah, we always try to hear the community. I mean, we are a community coin. So that's what we should do. Indeed. Indeed. Now the wizard. What's up, brother? You can't acquire back there. Man, how you been? I'm fine. I just thought I'd let you talk because especially on the technical side, he's essentially the master of it all. And I think that's

what I'm going to do. I think it makes a lot more sense for him to talk about it. So I thought I'd hang back a bit. I got you. I got you. No. Hey, are you looking to invest in Bitcoin? Coin Flip is the easiest way to buy. Coin Flip ATMs let you trade cash directly for crypto. And you can get started with as little as

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need to provide to you and the team so that you know what to tweak, what to fix, what's okay and when the rollout to main net will be ready. What types of things are you looking for from the community assistant? I'm looking for every kind of feedback. If it's something that works well or something that doesn't work as intended. So, I think it's also good for

the users if they join the test net. So, in this process, they can still give feedback on things they like or don't like. So, we can change it beforehand. So, all kinds of feedback that might help with that is appreciated. Exactly. So, you know, that's the best part about being in a community, man. Everyone has a role that they can play to move the collective forward.

So, what other than this, because it sounds like you've been really, really, really busy on this. You, your own target with your release by mid, you know, the middle this month towards, you know, next week, week after to get this rolled out. Once you've got this in main net, if I'm not mistaken, is it two months or three months where members will have an opportunity to

swap out their coins for the new chain that you guys are working on? Is it two months or three months? We always said two to three months. Okay. So, I think it was last month that we started saying that. So, right now, that's two months then. Got you. Got you. Okay. I think that could still be, we could still be in target for that. Good. Very

good. Very good. So, gentlemen, is there anything else that you want to share with us today? Because this has been very enlightening. Well, I don't have anything about more in specific. So, if flow has anything on more specifically, he should go ahead before I take us elsewhere. No, nothing on the art from my side anymore. Okay. Then I've got something more on the kind of literary

or general kind of side. I've lately been, I've lately been reading in search of lost time again by Marcel Poust, or I've been continuing to read it because I haven't finished yet. And as I read it yesterday, I found a quote that I think fits quite nicely in here. So, the quote is, other people, as we get to know them, are like, I'm not sure if

I can read it. I can metal dipped in an acid bath, and we see them gradually lose their qualities and their defects too at times. And what I think is interesting, not only is this quite well said in my opinion, but also it goes with ideas as well. So, ideas, we see an idea and we conceive many qualities or defect. It's on essentially first sight. And

as we get to know them better, either through implementation of an idea or through investigation of that idea, we see them lose some qualities, or lose some of their defects, which we previously thought that they had. Nothing this, this goes also, this goes quite well with things like cryptocurrencies, or, well, everything really, every kind of business in general. And if you look at it this way,

this is also where the innovation comes in. Because as you see them lose certain qualities, and sometimes lose defects, you can try to push it, push the idea into a different direction to regain those qualities. As we, for example, see with a bit of a sense of the same. So, we go into proof of stake, which consumes a lot less power. And thereby restoring possibly some

quality that we first thought a cryptocurrency with classical mining head. I can see that point of view, but I also see where the energy usage in Bitcoin creates a need for innovation. Where people want to find ways to reduce the costs associated with mining. Of course, that as well. That was just a general example I thought of in the moment. It wasn't my main point Bitcoin

mining. It's just something that came to mind. Right. As an example, I got you. Yeah. You always just like really profound dude, man. You read these like these really, really high-end books and I'm trying to get on your level, man. You've got to start DMing me your reading list so that I mean to start reading these. Do you have a good reads account? I think I

do. It's one of my kind. My problem is I read mostly sci-fi stuff. That's fine. Yeah. I like sci-fi stuff. Yeah, but I mean, but you're not going to get good quotes like that one from sci-fi. Come on. Yeah. That's. You're not going to get good quotes like that from sci-fi books, bro. True. But I mean, there are some very profound books, in my opinion. For

example, in Sierra Flause Time, which given us quite the time investment to read, but it is a very philosophical book. And if I'd write down every quote that I found in that book or in the several volumes of that book that I found interesting or inspiring, I'd probably feel like another book with those quotes alone. Yeah. So it's, in my opinion, it's very well worth reading

because it also gives you a certain perspective and it shows you society as a whole. And even though the book is at this point about 100 years old, you see yourself and you see the people around you in the characters of that book. And it's written in a way that, essentially explains a lot of things about why people do something. And these are partly things of

daily life that you've never really thought about to that degree. But when you read them on the page, you go, well, that's true. Or I felt like this at times. And that is at least in part one of the fascinations of that book in particular for me. I like this. It's quite early in the first volume of the book. Perhaps the immobility of the things that

surround us is forced upon them by a conviction that they are themselves and not anything else. By the immobility of our conception, the intuition of them, which I think is, it seems a bit weird at first. But if you think about them, you generally don't try to do things with a thing or a person that you don't think will work. So in fact, you will engage

with a person or a thing. Only in a way that corresponds to the way you conceive of them. And then of course, most likely, they will only respond in that degree. And thereby, you do indeed force a kind of immobility by your own conception of the person or the thing upon them. I mean, bro, you're going to have to drop me that book list to treat

me. I happily will. I want to be able to share some of these insights with folks too. I appreciate you coming on both of you. And in typical noir coin team fashion, moving us from really technical cerebral discussions about noir coin to really, cerebral borderline esoteric conversations about, about 100 year old books that blow your mind with quotes that are riddled through the pages. Indeed. It's

always fun. Indeed it is. Indeed it is. Gentlemen, I want you to promise me that you all have an awesome day. And thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having us. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.