TEAM TENACITY

How does the PIRATE CHAIN core team look right now?

To date, we have had over 30 different contributors to many different aspects of the project. It truly is decentralized.

The Pirate project wasn’t started by a team of CORE devs who set out to make this chain and “own” it. It was more of an experiment by talented like minded individuals set on securing financial privacy.

At the very beginning there was about 7 people, JL777 as the tech and innovation lead consult, a few KMD notary node operators and dedicated KMD developers, who wish to remain anonymous for the time being.

We have to form a foundation to provide them all with the proper interface to the public for their contributions based on existing projects they are involved with.

These eager and hungry devs were brainstorming and troubleshooting in the Komodo Discord one day as to WHY this hasn’t been done before and HOW to do it. After a few days, they tweaked, tested, and while many details have been left out, they finally got the chain launched with dPoW.

Additional developers began to support the chain and it’s needs, developers like Radix42 and Duke Leto to name a few skilled privacy focused developers.

Projects being developed around Pirate and the Z address integration started up immediately. 15 developers are currently consulting, working or planning items for pirate.

Many of these people wish to keep plans and identities under wraps as we are still working on the legal foundation to make them all comfortable putting their names to it for reasons previously mentioned.

There are also items that are proprietary and the developers want to keep them under wraps until fully ready.

We have 10 international translators and 2 authors who have been putting out quality material. These are all community members who have seen power in the product.

The medium page is always adding new and relevant article.

The whitepaper is in the works.

Daily, I receive offers from people to help with various aspects or they approach me with ideas they want to pursue. I give them a framework and they do as they please.

We have a screen print guy running a promo to get people to spread the hashrate evenly…

Pirate Chain hashrate

…another group of individuals are starting a privacy related podcast, Pirate Radio.

The community is very much behind this and there is no shortage of development power willing to make things happen.

Pirate Chain have a strong community both when it comes to development power and offspring projects

Are there plans of team expansion & in which part(s) of the team?

Timing wise, with Sapling integration around the corner, we have our hands tied with a few things we need to do.

Expansion may not be the right word so much as collaboration.

Michael Toughtini of Verus has been working with JL777 and the KMD team to get Sapling integration completed for all KMD projects.

Normally something like this would get forked in at the KMD notary node re-elections.

They are working with Radix42 to see if we can get it done earlier than that without affecting the rest of the KMD ecosystem.

Once KMD integrates sapling for us, then the door get blown off for our community to go haywire on their adoption ideas and plans. Mobile wallets, POS systems and more all become possible with sapling.

We will definitely need to put our existing developers to the task but I do suspect that others will also gladly dev for the project.

The CakeWallet team has already reached out to us about integration post Sapling. Being decentralized and open source, the possibilities are endless for third party integrators.