** Status update on Development - and Future Projects **
So on our conf call yesterday, MIP made me aware that users are complaining they don't know what parts of BiblePay are in production and what are 'expirimental'.
Although the roadmap is accurate, it is a very high level diagram. Then we have testnet threads, which people may or may not know the details.
It seems that we need a document outlining the 'current quarter' so people will understand our development endeavors.
Anyway for now, let me give you an update on what is in beta and whats in production:
Production:
BiblePay Core Harvest, which includes Portfolio Builder UTXO staking (and non biblepay staking positions) - those are going quite well, and appear to becoming popular - we have $173,000 locked up in UTXO stakes at this point. We need a poll to see if users want us to remove the leaderboard and make it so everyone is anonymous, or I wonder if having an anon address is enough? You can keep your portfolio builder position without a nickname if you want as well.
BBP University - Learning the gospel - Taking tests on it in the core wallet: This is a great feature, and its in prod. We have almost half of the modules from Harvest Time in our wallet (just waiting for some users to finish the courses we have and see demand for the remaining courses, then we will add the rest).
NFTs: These appear to be very successful, our Orphan NFTs are going very well with almost one being sponsored every other day. I see that Todd replaces NFTs with new NFTs as soon as someone sponsors a child. I think this is partially why our price went down, but its for the good of the children.
Beta:
The Amazon storefront,
https://foundation.biblepay.org/Storefront, is working great. I havent had any complaints at all. We have had a small amount of orders successfully delivered. Our Orders page has automatically added Delivery Date and Intl-Tracking #, and marks items as completed. It even auto-fails an item that is not in stock (we had a couple cereal orders that were not in stock that automatically get credited back to your account, and the order is closed as completed and not in stock). I have a todo item on my list to encrypt the shipping addresses (IE only expose them to Amazon during the order and on your screen when you list them to yourself). That will be done soon and I think that is what is causing some hesitancy for users to use this at a high level. This service, afaik, will be released to prod in 90 days. Its currently available in the US. The financial side of it is working perfectly.
Alpha:
BiblePay TV: BiblePay TV allows you to watch any video that is in our Unchained.biblepay.org area for free, on your ROKU. You can also sponsor an orphan from there.
We are the first Cryptocurrency to have a built in wallet in the roku also. You can send BIBLEPAY to Your ROKU today, and spend it on an orphan NFT. We have a lack of testers; and that is keeping this project in alpha.
Unchained.biblepay.org: This project is extremely exciting. It not only allows you to use your phone or browser as a wallet, but it has the underpinnings for social media as well.
More details will be given in the wiki. This is also in alpha. We need many more testers for unchained.
** How centralized is BBP **
We also had this question come up recently, so I wrote this wiki doc in response:
https://wiki.biblepay.org/BiblePay_Is_Not_Centralized
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