This won’t be a very long piece — I am not much of a writer unless it’s code of course.
It’s hard to see a coin’s development from the outside as a lot tends to go on behind closed doors and it’s easy to assume no development is happening. But being the newest addition to the dev team allowed me to peek behind the curtains and view all the hard work everyone of us puts into Bitcoin Rhodium and we truly have an amazing team.
So what am I doing? Well, I’m glad you asked. I have already pushed several updates to our master on gitlab which allows nodes behind a firewall to connect to other nodes. This is disabled by default (for reasons I will explain later) but you can remove the define (or whatever Microsoft calls them in C# -I rarely use them) NO_UPNP and your node will be visible for the whole world to see.
This is only the first step in a series of many steps I need to take to utilize the full benefit of UPnP. I have also discovered several bugs in the node implementation which causes nodes not to broadcast themselves, this is currently what I am working on at this moment. This progress has been severely hindered by my internet whose speed makes 56k dial-up look good, this should be fixed in the next few days an progress on this should resume as normal. Thanks Optus.
I hope by enabling broadcasting of nodes, this will increase the initial sync speed and increase decentralisation and make the overall network stable. Even though my internet connection wouldn’t be able to download blocks during testing, I have been doing other things that’s less bandwidth intensive in the mean time. After I found out we have an api that lists the top 1000 richest Bitcoin Rhodium addresses and seeing that there would be use for something that was user friendly, I contacted bitinfocharts.com to see if they could add the rich list to their website and I really hope they do. However, upon hearing about unsuccessful attempts of contact, I took a few hours of my time to create a mock up (Can be seen on my website: https://www.ekcdd.com/xrcrichlist/ ) which hopefully will be incorporated into the rest of the explorer.
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