Beam - 2019 Week #12

Covering March 19th 2019 - March 25th 2019

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Team Beam will attend Deconomy 2019 in Seoul, South Korea

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#Beam_News 🗞

• Meet Team Beam in Seoul, South Korea, during Deconomy, April 4-5th 2019

• Beam will co-host the Building the new web Event in Seoul, April 3rd 2019

• Great initiative from Beam Community with https://beamprivacy.community/

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

• We have released Testnet Bright Boson 2.0.4707 with exciting new features:

  • Fast Node Sync

  • Proof of payment

• Team Beam attended Blockchain UA, on March 22nd 2019

• We have launched our official blog in Russian

#R&D_Updates 👨‍💻

• [Release] Testnet Bright Boson 2.0.4707- Release Notes

• [Release] Android wallet Testnet - Release Notes

• [feature, API, CLI, UI wallets] Fast sync #407 #454

• [feature, UI wallet] Payment proof #415

• [feature]  Atomic Swap CLI #447 in progress

• [feature] One side payments  in progress

• [project] iOS  wallet Testnet  in progress

• [integration] Hardware wallet - Trezor in progress

• [enhancement, UI wallet] #446, #380

• [api] #519 , #515, #536 ,#537, #528, #548

• [other] MacOS binaries signature #517

• [bug, UI wallet]  #552,  #476

• [bug, CLI wallet] #249,  #248

• [bug, documentation] #527

• 146 open issues and 399 closed issues

• 60 commits by 7 unique contributors

#Upcoming_Events 🥂

• Online Webinar by Rafael Hauxley around the Privacy Paradigm, March 29th 2019

• Beam Toronto Meetup, April 1st, 2019 (save the date and no this is not a joke)

• Building the new web Event in Seoul, April 3rd 2019

• Beam Belarus Meetup, April 3rd 2019

• Startup Yale, April 3-5th 2019

• Deconomy Seoul 2019 - April 4-5th 2019

• Beam Kansas Meetup, April 5th 2019 (save the date)

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

• Beam Krakow Meetup, April 18th, 2019 (save the date)

• Beam Boston Meetup, April 25th, 2019 (save the date)

• Beam Oxford Meetup, April 29th 2019 (save the date)

#Mining_updates ⛏

• Beam reached 116,000 Block Height last week

• Average Mining Difficulty: 170K

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

#Reading/Videos/Podcasts_Materials ⏯

• 499 Beam 알레산더 제이드슨 대표 인터뷰 실록 - in Korean by Cointime

• Crypto Mining Podcast with Jameson Lopp - a podcast by H4SHR8

• Why does Litecoin need Mimblewimble? - by Coinut

• Privacy Platform for Grin and Beam, Mimblewimble, Explained - by AsiaCryptoToday

• Does Litecoin Really Need Mimblewimble? LTC to Work with BEAM Team for Privacy Enhancement - by BitcoinExchangeGuide

• No Bear market for Ledger (Nano-S) & Mimblewimble Baffling - a video by Jay Coshan

• Grin & Beam Explained | Why People LOVE the Mimblewimble Protocol - a video by BitBoyCrypto

#Community_Updates 👫

• Meet Beam Ambassadors #9 — Agbona Igwemoh from Lagos, Nigeria

• New Community website

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

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