Beam - 2019 Week #32 - 🍴Hard Fork is coming

Covering August 5th - August 11th, 2019

Downloads: Beam Android Wallet | Beam iOS Wallet | Beam Desktop Wallet

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#Beam_News

• An important reminder to everyone to update wallets and miners BEFORE the upcoming Beam Hard Fork at Block 321,321. This will occur around August 15th 2019 - Make sure you download the latest version here

• Restore from Seed Phrase is now available on iOS. Check out our latest release here

• All you need to know, and never asked about working with wallets with the same seed phrase on multiple devices. TLDR: Don’t do it!

• Team Beam was in Asia, meeting the community in Chengdu and Shanghai (China) and in Seoul (South Korea)

• We are happy to sponsor the F2Pool Official Meetup in Moscow - Aug. 24th 2019

#Upcoming_Events

• Blockchance Conference, Hamburg, Germany, August 16-17th, 2019

• F2Pool Official Meetup, Moscow, August 24th, 2019

• Proof of Moin Hackathon Hamburg, September 6-8th, 2019

• D&DD, Tel Aviv, September 10th, 2019

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

• 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:

• Spheroid Universe

• Borderless VPN

• Luk & Style

• Crypto Chips

• Internet Superstore

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

• We have released the latest version of Beam Wallet iOS - Clear Cathode 3.0

• [Explorer-node] Add API to report node peers #799

• [GUI Wallet] "System time is not synchronized" error is shown after Computer wakes up after sleep/hibernation #798

• [Desktop Wallet] In progress panel - support for swap currencies #792

• [Desktop Wallet] Loading bar issue #790

• [Android Wallet] Beam sending screen - user interface changes #292

• [Android Wallet] Remove "Save address" alert on sending screen #288

• [iOS Wallet] Fix buttons position on login screen #262

• [iOS Wallet] Restore wallet on password screen #259

• Excluding merges, 8 authors have pushed 3 commits to master and 48 commits to all branches. On master, 5 files have changed and there have been 2369 additions

#Stories/Podcasts/Videos_Materials

• Are Bitcoin Mixers Going Quiet? | a story by Crypto Briefing

• Beam’in ilk hard fork duyurusu | a story in Turkish by Beam Turkey

• Qu’est-ce que Mimblewimble ? | a story in French by Le Journal du Coin

• Биткоин-миксеры теряют популярность? | a story in Russian by Happy Coin

• How Zcoin’s Privacy Technology Compares to the Competition | a story in English by Crypto Freak Network

• Beam — Telegram AMA with Gain Associates | a transcript by Gains Associates

• Кто лучше? Криптовалюты Grin VS Beam | a video in Russian by Crypto Dealers

• Buy Web Hosting Using BEAM | a story by Host Mayo

• Конфиденциальность в блокчейне: кому и зачем нужны анонимные криптовалюты | a story in Russian by Forklog

• Beam project scalable Confidential cryptocurrencies 해리포터 밈블윔블(Mimblewimble)로 유명한 익명성 프로젝트 빔 | a video by 튼살침흉터침

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