PLS updates last night from Bret (PLS Core Dev):

Question

PLS updates last night from Bret (PLS Core Dev):

Question: Do you feel the progress is going so well that it is possible for November or December [mainnet] launch?

PLS Core Dev: Yeah, it’s totally possible…yeah. I don’t want to steal any thunder from Richard, which is why I am holding back, because really he should communicate a lot of this stuff and he will communicate a lot of this stuff, but I am very excited with the progress I am seeing and the stuff that is going on. I’m excited to the point where it is difficult for me to sleep…so I’m excited.

Question: When you are enthusiastic, is that including a working uniswap fork as well?

PLS Core Dev: We’ve had some community members in the dev channels posting progress there and they are doing a very good job on that. I am using their uniswap front end to test testnet. We are trying to keep this as decentralized as possible and in our private call today, I sent Richard a screenshot of the number of test nodes we have, which is public information, and we have 395 test nodes throughout the world. That’s amazing. That is really really awesome for a testnet. Think about Ethereum. How long did it take them to get 200 nodes? How many years? For uniswap and bridges, the more decentralized that can be and not rely on us, the better it is for the ecosystem. We want this to be decentralized.

It will be 3-second block time on PLS. 3000 milliseconds. TCP packet can travel the world on PLS in less than 100-120 milliseconds.

Question: Any major hurdles for launch?

PLS Core Dev: No, no major hurdles. Just making sure math is correct. We have a lot of other good stuff going on, but I’m not going to mention that now, which Richard will discuss.

There is a lot of cool stuff happening that Richard will announce. Yeah, I’m excited. The core team is solely focused on launching PLS chain and the core software. We try to help people where we can, but we are laser focused on PLS chain.

Capitalism will ensure that there is on and off ramps.

I’ll talk to the other devs and Richard to have questions answered in a forum like this. I’ll ask Richard. I think he’ll be all for it. I think it would be helpful for you guys.

We all listen to you guys. We may not always respond. We pay attention to the community. I’m impressed. We’re impressed.

Richard put together a really good team guys. The talent is really amazing. I’m super impressed with the talent. I don’t know if he talks about it much. Maybe he has. I’m really excited to work with these guys. I’m a Silicone Valley guy, so I’ve worked with some really high caliber people. Richard put together a really good team.

Starts at 5-min mark of this video of PLS live chat (65 minutes of info from PLS Core Dev):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwzk2SkBGU