Beam - 2019 Week #29 - Hard Fork
Covering July 15th - July 21st, 2019
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#Beam_News
We have announced Beam First Hard Fork that will occur around August 15th 2019 - Make sure you download the latest version here
We have celebrated the Mimblewimble Day, July 19th and this is our recap of our first year of activity
Beam and Cudo Miner to join forces and offer a mining solution for all
Team Beam is supporting Scaling Bitcoin 2019 "Yesod" that will take place on September 11th-12th in Israel
Beam is one of the Tech Stack Sponsors at Proof of Moin Hackathon Hamburg, Sept. 6-8th 2019, by Blockchain Mania
#Upcoming_Events
Great moment with our Vietnamese Community last week
Mining Disrupt - Miami - USA, July 24th 2019
Beam Official Meetup - Istanbul - Turkey - July 25th 2019, 07:00 PM (IST)
Beam Asian Tour - China and South Korea - 2-9th of August 2019 (to be confirmed)
Scaling Bitcoin Tel Aviv, Israel, September 11-12th 2019
Beam Official Meetup, Tel Aviv, Israel, September 10th 2019 (to be confirmed)
San Francisco Blockchain Week, USA, October 28th - November 3rd 2019
Beam Official Meetup, San Francisco, USA, November 2nd 2019 - (to be confirmed)
Genesis DevCon 2019 - Bangalore, India, November 23-24th 2019 (to be confirmed)
Beam Official Meetup - Bangalore, India, November 24th 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.
#R&D_Updates
Clear Cathode 3.0.5654, Hard Fork — Release Notes
Clear Cathode 3.0.5660, Hotfix — Release Notes
[CLI Wallet] Invalid input for expiration_time parameter is not processed #422
[CLI - Bug] Wrong error when restoring the wallet #638
[Desktop Wallet Swap] - Add ability to list swap transactions in desktop wallet #761
[Desktop Wallet - Bug] Wallet doesn't load addresses #773
Excluding merges, 8 authors have pushed 12 commits to master and 38 commits to all branches. On master, 59 files have changed and there have been 5758 additions
#Stories/Podcasts/Videos_Materials
What is the difference between Monero (XMR) and Beam (BEAM)? | a forum thread on Monero StackExchange
Alexander Zaidelson Interview with Jerry Banfield | a video edited by Jerry Banfield and published by Beam Privacy
3 Major Changes for Beam Scheduled as Part of the Hard Fork | a story by The Merkle
ミンブルウィンブル実装のBeam(ビーム)が最初のハードフォーク計画を発表 | a story in Japanese by Coin Tokyo
Beam to Split Its Blockchain Next Month | a story by Finance Magnates
光束将在下个月拆分其区块链 | a story in Chinese by 0xzx
Qtum s'associe à Beam pour lancer des échanges atomiques | a story in French by BlockBlog
Beam se prepara para su primera bifurcación programada anti ASIC en agosto próximo | a story in Spanish by Criptonoticias
Beam e Grin alle prese con un hard fork | a story in Italian by Cryptonomist
What Is A “Hard Fork”? | a story by Brian D. Colwell
クドーマイナーとビームが提携を発表、仮想通貨ビームが業界を主導するクドーの仮想通貨マイニングプラットフォームで採掘可能に | a story in Japanese by CoinTelegraph
Beam – Mirando Hacia Atrás Un año Y Celebrando El Día De Mimblewimble | a story in Spanish by Motril Digital
Recapping the First Three Years of Mimblewimble Development | a story by Cryptomak
#Privacy_Digest
Another app with privacy concerns: TikTok, a popular video app with ties to China (N'dea Yancey-Bragg and Mike Snider)
The resurgence of St. Petersburg, Russia-based FaceApp has sparked renewed concerns about online privacy, and popular video app TikTok is also raising red flags among security experts.Why Google Can't Solve the Privacy Paradox (Max Eddy)
Google has said that privacy and security are the focus for Android Q and many of its other releases this year, but Senior Security Analyst Max Eddy explains that a company built on mapping and sorting data can't deliver perfect privacy.As facial recognition software stokes privacy fears, some cities are imposing bans (Sam Fulwood III)
Oakland becomes the third U.S. city to ban the intrusive technology to its monitor residents, saying it could threaten privacy and civil liberties.Fast-growing web of doorbell cams raises privacy fears (Amy Forliti And Matt O'brien)
The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn't see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn't hesitate.
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