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

  @Beamprivacy @beamprivacy

  Kudos to Team Beam Vietnam for this incredible moment we had during our meetup in Ho Chi Minh City last week. Chúng tôi yêu bạn! #PrivacyMatters #Mimblewimble

  

  

  

  

• 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:

• CyberHour

• Crypto Coffee

• Unlimited Miners

• Senang

• Max Server

• Fomo Hunt

• Ecwid

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.

• Does FaceApp violate your privacy? (Gzero Media)

• 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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