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#Beam_News
We have released our CLI Atomic Swaps with Bitcoin and Litecoin
This week we have discussed with our community Beam’s usability
We have released the latest version of our iOS Wallet - Bright Boson 2.3
Team Beam is supporting Scaling Bitcoin 2019 "Yesod" that will take place on September 11th-12th in Israel
Register to the 2019 Qtum & Beam Privacy Hackathon - teams will have 2 months to develop privacy-related software and win prizes of $60K
#R&D_Updates
Bright Boson 2.2.5635 - Release Notes
Bright Boson 2.3 - Release Notes
[Wallet Bug] - Wallet crashes if you specify an incorrect port and close wallet #744
[Clear Cathode 3.1] - Check restore flow for cold wallet #745
[CLI] Add ability to expire addresses in CLI #639
There are 174 open issues in /beam
Excluding merges, 7 authors have pushed 19 commits to master and 32 commits to all branches. On master, 62 files have changed and there have been 4376 additions
#Upcoming_Events
Beam Vietnam Meetup, Ho Chi Minh, July 19th, 2019
Mining Disrupt - Miami - USA, July 24th 2019
Beam Official Meetup - Istanbul - Turkey - July 25th 2019 (to be confirmed)
Beam Asian Tour - China and South Korea - August 2019 (to be confirmed)
Scaling Bitcoin Tel Aviv, Israel, September 11-12th 2019
San Francisco Blockchain Week, USA, October 28th - November 3rd 2019
#Beam_Accepted_Here
Every week new businesses are accepting Beam as a Payment Method. Here is the list of this week’s newcomers:
Got an awesome product or service and you would like to accept Beams for it? Drop us line to merchants@beam.mw.
#Privacy_Digest
It was a really bad month for the internet (Zack Whittaker)
If these past few weeks felt like the sky was falling, you weren’t alone. In the past month there were several major internet outages affecting millions of users across the world. Sites buckled, services broke, images wouldn’t load, direct messages ground to a halt and calendars and email were unavailable for hours at a time.Privacy-first browsers look to take the shine off Google’s Chrome (David Ingram)
Before Google, Facebook and Amazon, tech dominance was known by a single name: Microsoft. And no product was more dominant than Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer.Apple Users Warned About iOS 13 Security And Privacy Problem (Davey Winder)
When the "Sign in with Apple" functionality to appear as part of iOS 13 was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) back on June 3, it was met with broad approval from Apple users.TikTok’s mounting privacy issues are unlikely to hurt its ad business (Kerry Flynn)
TikTok is being heavily scrutinized by regulators and activists. But it seems, just like the case with other ad platforms, advertisers are focused more on TikTok’s growing young user base. TikTok has faced a myriad of brand safety issues. One concern comes from its younger user base.FTC to Ask About Disabling YouTube Ads for Kids’ Privacy (Ben Brody)
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission asked children’s privacy advocates whether having video creators on YouTube disable ads could resolve concerns the site is violating laws to protect kids, according to a person familiar with the conversation.
#Stories/Podcasts/Videos_Materials
Разработчики Beam реализовали поддержку атомарных свопов на биткоин и Litecoin | a story in Russian by Forklog
Mineração de criptomoedas volta a ser rentável no Brasil | a story in Portuguese by LiveCoin
Introduction to Cryptography | a story by The Daily Chain
Ipseity And Sovereignty With BEAM’s Atomic Swaps | a story by Brian Colwell
Beam CLI-based Atomic Swap with BTC and LTC - Demo | a video by Team Beam
Focus on #Privacy - Ep 5 - Kirsty Gordon | a video by Team Beam
Massive Crypto Whale Moves 15,000 BTC Worth $176 Million – Plus Ethereum, Ripple and XRP, Litecoin, Stellar, Cardano | a story by Daily Hodl
Focus on #Privacy - Ep 6 - Raymond Koh from Dobi Exchange | a video by Team Beam
Newsflash: 5.000 Bitcoin ATMs in Amerika, Atomic Swaps zwischen BTC und LTC | a story in German Coin Hero
Beam launches atomic swaps | a story by Crypto Inferno
Разработчики конфиденциальной криптовалюты Beam на базе протокола MimbleWimble имплементировали поддержку атомарных свопов на биткоин и Litecoin | a story in Russian by Promining
Beam developers have implemented support for bitcoin and litecoin atomic swaps | a story by BtcxLab
Beam开发人员已经实现了对比特币和莱特币Atom交易所的支持 | a story in Chinese by Oxyz
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