#14 | 🚀📱Android on Mainnet and more

Covering April 2nd 2019 - April 8th 2019

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#Beam_News 🗞

• We have released our Android-based Mobile Wallet for Mainnet, download it here

• We have released Bright Boson 2.0 with super cool features including:

  • Fast Node Sync - significantly reduces the time required for node synchronization

  • Payment confirmation - now the sender and the receiver can prove that the transaction actually occurred (optional, only sender and receiver can see that)

• We have published an important Development Status Update reviewing our roadmap

• We are eager to welcome Altonomy’s Founder and CEO, Bo Dong to our Advisory Board

• We have scheduled our first Official AMA Session on Discord with Beam’s CTO Alex Romanov, April 17th, 2019, 06:00 PM (GMT)

• Dev. Team will attend The 2nd ZKProof Workshop in Berkeley, CA on April 10-12th 2019

#R&D_Updates 👨‍💻

• [Release] Testnet Bright Boson -  Release Notes

• [Release] Mainnet Bright Boson 2.0 - Release Notes

• [Release] Wallet API, Node Explorer API  2.0 - Release Notes

• [feature]  Atomic Swap CLI #447 in progress

• [feature] One side payments  in progress

• [integration] Hardware wallet - Trezor in progress

• [bug, UI wallet]  #560

• [bug, CLI]  #492

• 168 open issues and 412 closed issues

• 25 commits by 5 unique contributors

#Upcoming_Events 🥂

• The 2nd ZKProof Workshop 2019, Berkeley (CA) - April 10-12th 2019

• Beam Florida University Meetup, Florida State University - April 15th 2019

• Beam New Haven Meetup, April 17th, 2019

• Beam Boston Meetup, Boston (MA), April 25th, 2019

• Beam Madison Meetup, Madison (WI), April 25th 2019

• Beam Marquette Meetup, Marquette (WI), April 26th 2019

• Beam Oxford Meetup, April 28th 2019 (save the date)

• Beam Webinar, May 4th, 2019

• Beam Port Harcourt Meetup, Nigeria, May 11th 2019

• Consensus NYC, New York City (NY), May 13-15th 2019

• Silesia Blockchain Meetup in Katowice, Poland, May 15th, 2019

#Mining_updates ⛏

• Beam reached 136,000 Block Height last week

• Average Mining Difficulty: 170K

• Need some help? Drop us a line at mining@beam.mw

#Reading/Videos/Podcasts_Materials ⏯

• Beam pool Mining and Rig Build | a video by Raskul Garage

• Beam Review | a review and interview by Cryptosieve

• Delivering Practical Privacy in Blockchain and DLT Applications | a story on Hackernoon by Alex Braudy

• What is Beam [BEAM] Cryptocurrency? How Is Beam Related To Mimblewimble? | a story by Captain Altcoin

• Beam Solo Mining 10 steps Guide | a video by Raskul Garage

• Mimblewimble | An Answer to Scalable Blockchain Privacy | a story by Crypto investornews

• Что ждет анонимные криптовалюты в 2019 году | a video in Russian by Forklog

• Grin and Beam, the next Bitcoin? | a video by The Honest Being

#Community_Updates 👫

• We scheduled our first Official AMA Session on Discord with Beam’s CTO Alex Romanov, April 17th, 2019, 06:00 PM (GMT)

• Meet BEAM Ambassadors #11 — Fernando Molina — Madrid, Spain

• Our Ambassador Program is waiting for you to represent Beam in your region

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