Beam - 2019 Week #24

Covering June 11th 2019 - June 17th 2019

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#Beam_News

• We are happy to offer our European friends the capacity to purchase Beam using Euros, thanks to our integration on Elastum

• We have launched a unique Web Series on Youtube, #FocusOnPrivacy where you will discover what Crypto players feel and think about privacy

• Alex Romanov, Beam CTO, will lead our first Vietnamese AMA on Telegram on June 18th, 2019, 1:00 PM (GMT)

#R&D_Updates

• [Swap] - Fixed rollback/rescan, added addition test for TX without “change”, changed Beam Lock time for testing

• [Swap] Wrong error in our bridge when LTC user doesn't have enough money to swap #717

• [CLI wallet] - Add a command to get full transaction details #613

• [CLI Wallet] - Add the transaction type to transaction history #614

• [CLI Wallet] - Add poll period parameter to cli  #714

• [Desktop Wallet] - User-friendly desktop wallet migration #587

• [Desktop Wallet] Address book - Add ability to edit comment for addresses #623

• [UI Wallet] - Rescan - Not all types of coins are displayed after rescan #720

• There are 177 open issues in /beam

• Excluding merges, 9 authors have pushed 74 commits to master and 86 commits to all branches. On master, 100 files have changed and there have been 46576 additions

#Upcoming_Events

• AMA with Beam’s Vietnamese Community with Alex Romanov, June 18th 2019 02:00 PM GMT

• Beam Nigeria Meetup, Lagos, June 22nd, 2019

• Privacy Tech Alliance - Launch, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 25th, 2019

• Fintech Junction, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 26-27th 2019

• Distribute 2019, Hamburg, Germany, June 27-28th 2019

• Beam South Korea Meetup, Seoul, June 30th 2019

• Bitcoin investing: A beginner's guide to smart saving and safe storage, Krakow, Poland, July 3rd 2019

• CIBTC Granada, Spain, July 5-6th 2019

• Beam Vietnam Meetup, Ho Chi Minh, July 12th, 2019

• Scaling Bitcoin Tel Aviv, Israel, September 11-12th 2019

#Beam_Accepted_Here

Every week new businesses are accepting Beam as a Payment Method. Here is a list of the newcomers:

• VPS Malaysia

• Cinfu

• Offshorededicated

• Nexwave

• Crowncloud

• Bobcrypto

Got an awesome product or service and you would like to accept Beams for it? Drop us line to merchants@beam.mw.

#Privacy_Digest

• Federal Lawsuit Charges Amazon’s Alexa Violates Children’s Privacy (Jim Sams) An international law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc., alleging that the company’s Alexa virtual assistant product violated privacy laws in Massachusetts and seven other states by making permanent recordings of children’s voices without their consent.

• Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings (Zack Whittaker)
  A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds of millions of Venmo transactions in a similar feat.

• Apple's Tim Cook: Silicon Valley has created privacy-violating 'chaos factory' (Steve Ranger)
  In a speech to Stanford university graduates, Cook said the recent impact of the technology industry had not been "neat or straightforward", with the negative impact on privacy particularly bad.

• You Care More About Your Privacy Than You Think (Charlie Warzel)
  I hear this all the time: “This all sounds pretty troubling, but how much do we really, truly care about our privacy? After all, we don’t seem willing to stop using our phones or Facebook or Google.”

• Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative (John Markoff)
  It has been almost two decades since Google started to dominate internet search the way Microsoft dominated software for personal computers a generation earlier.

• Maine shakes up debate with tough internet privacy law (Maggie Miller)
  Maine is shaking up the national privacy debate with a new law, one that advocates say puts in place some of the toughest measures on internet service providers (ISPs) in the country.

#Reading/Videos/Podcasts_Materials

• Beam Privacy AMA - with Beni Issembert | a video by Beam Privacy

• САМЫЕ ВАЖНЫЕ СМЕНЫ АЛГОРИТМОВ... ETHEREUM MONERO BEAM GRIN... | a video in Russian by ValeraTV

• Blockpass and Beam Collaborate on Research to Provide User-Centric Solutions that put Privacy First | a PR by Blockpass

• ミンブルウィンブル実装のBeam、KYCウォレット開発でDID認証プロバイダーBlockpassと提携 | a story in Japanese by CoinTokyo

• Mimblewimble- GRIN & BEAM price analysis | an analysis by Blue Helix

• Is Bitcoin's Increasing Anonymity a Threat to Privacy Coins? | a story by CoinTelegraph

• Krypto-Experten erklärt: Bei 9500 Dollar ist der Bitcoin fair bewertet | a story in German by Finanzen100

• Blockchain Security in the Age of Surveillance | a story by HedgeTrade

• Hướng dẫn cách Tạo và Sử dụng ví Beam coin trên điện thoại từ A – Z | a story in Vietnamese by Toiyeu Bitcoin

• Beam: Embracing Paradox as a Privacy Coin for the Public | a story by BenjamTD

• Is Binance – US Clash The Reason Why The Anonymous Beam & Grin Gained Over 80% This Week? | a story by Cryptopotato
  

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