Beam 2020 week #1 - Happy Halving!
Covering January 1st-6th 2020
Downloads: Beam Android Wallet | Beam iOS Wallet | Beam Desktop Wallet
General
First Beam Halving happened flawlessly on Jan 4th, 2020 (Halving Block #525,600). For the next four years, the block reward will be 50 Beam per block - 40 for the miners and 10 to the Treasury
On Jan 3, we also celebrated the first anniversary since Beam Mainnet launch. Many Happy Returns!
Merry Christmas to our Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian and and other Orthodox friends!
We are working on the 2020 roadmap - will be published soon
Press
What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recognizes privacy as one of the key crypto trends for the next decade. We can’t agree more.
A great video review of Beam by VoskCoin
An article on home mining by BraveNewCoin features Beam as one of the coins you can successfully mine at home
David Burkett has completed the first month of Litecoin Mimblewimble development - an article by Cryptobriefing
Events
Beam team attended the Uptrennd Naija Meetup in Lagos, Nigeria on Dec 29
Beam team will be attending the Stockholm University Welcome Fair on Jan 19
Dev
Defining the scope of the next release and the timing of the second Hard Fork
Holidays notwithstanding, we had 44 commits in /beam
229 open issues in /beam, 50 open issues in /android-wallet, and 20 open issues in /ios-wallet
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