The 2nd week payout of the Block Reward Bonus Campaign is done and is now in its 3rd week! 🙌

These are the participating pools in this campaign 👇👇
https://woolypooly.com/en/coin/firo
https://firo.solopool.org/
https://firo.minerpool.org/
https://mintpond.com/#!/firo
https://cruxpool.com/firo
https://badhasher.com/pool/Firo (coinminerz V2)

The campaign lasts till the 12th October 2022!

https://firo.org/2022/09/10/cfc-bonus-mining-reward.html

Follow the discussion here: https://forum.firo.org/t/fcs-proposal-mining-pool-bonus-operation-decentralize-hashrate/2713/23

The 1st week payout of the Block Reward Bonus Campaign is done and is now in its 2nd week! 🙌

These are the participating pools in this campaign 👇👇
https://woolypooly.com/en/coin/firo
https://firo.solopool.org/
https://firo.minerpool.org/
https://mintpond.com/#!/firo
https://cruxpool.com/firo

The campaign lasts till the 12th October 2022!
https://firo.org/2022/09/10/cfc-bonus-mining-reward.html

Follow the discussion here: https://forum.firo.org/t/fcs-proposal-mining-pool-bonus-operation-decentralize-hashrate/2713/13

10% Block Reward Bonus to decentralize hashrate

The CFC has approved a bonus mining rewards campaign to decentralize mining hashrate. This gives a 10% bonus over the block reward to any pool operator that has <30% total hashrate.

Read more here 👉 https://www.firo.org/2022/09/10/cfc-bonus-mining-reward.html

Firo v0.14.11.1 Release

This emergency release fixes a bug which results in Lelantus spends to fail verification when a new anonymity set is started. Additionally, it also adds a fix to ensure that in the case where a spent coin's cover set is constructed from two parts, both parts are included in the corresponding Groth/Bootle proof's transcript.

We recommend users to update immediately to ensure you will be able to sync with the correct chain when a new Lelantus anonymity set is started (approximately in a week with current usage).

As usual, please backup your wallet before updating for safety.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.11.1

We've been listed on BingX, a social trading exchange https://bingx.com/en-us/spot/FIROUSDT/

Happy to be listed on Tokocrypto, a leading Indonesian regulated exchange that has integrations and backing from Binance.

https://support.tokocrypto.com/hc/id/articles/7696663009037

You can now buy FIRO in a few easy steps with USD, EUR or GBP directly from the 7b app! https://sevenb.io/currencies/firo

We are happy to share that you can now mine Firo on Cruxpool! 🥳

Let's spread the hashrate around! 🙌

For more information 👉 https://cruxpool.com/help/how-to-mine-firo

New maintenance release Firo v0.14.10.1 🛠 🧰

This is a non-mandatory update but miners and pools are advised to update as it fixes block creation bug.
This release also updates Tor and fixes some UI issues.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.10.1

The Community Fund Committee (CFC) election has concluded!

Find out how to apply for funding from the newly created Firo Community Fund! Let us empower the firofam to grow FIRO!

https://firo.org/2022/07/04/community-fund-committee-elected.html

Blockchain Malaysia Get Connected 2022 will be happening tomorrow at the Genting International Convention Center. 24th - 25th June 2022.

FIRO will be participating as one of the speakers along with many others.

aseanconferences.com

I do recommend to read this post regarding the concerns and and confusion about this. https://forum.firo.org/t/addressing-concerns-and-confusion-about-the-recent-hardfork/2580

Do note that there will be a revisit of the tokenomics in 6 months time to review the impact of the change. Also, this was the community that voiced and voted. Miners can again vote as they did before.

Reminder to update your Firo QT and Rich GUI wallet before the 16th June for the Firo Hard Fork.

QT Wallet: https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.10.0

Rich GUI Wallet: https://github.com/firoorg/firo-client/releases/tag/v2.2.1

NOWPayments.io now supports fiat withdrawals for merchants accepting $FIRO for payments via Switchere.com

New Firo Rich GUI Client Released (Electron v2.2.1)

This is a mandatory update for as it updates firod to v0.14.10.0 for 16 June hardfork

https://github.com/firoorg/firo-client/releases/tag/v2.2.1

Greetings FiroFam! We are proud to announce that Firo has been accepted into the BPSAA!

The BPSAA is a think-tank of privacy-focused projects collaborating for privacy innovation and interoperability!

Read more here: https://www.firo.org/2022/05/28/firo-accepted-into-bpsaa.html

Firo v0.14.10.0 mandatory update

This is a mandatory release that implements the new block reward division as voted on and creates the community fund. It also reduces the block time to 2.5 minutes.

Update before the hard fork on 16 June. Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.10.0

New Firo Rich GUI Client Released! (Electron v2.2.0)

Now with built-in Coinswap function and no KYC needed!
Choose any of the 4 providers for swapping your coins.
ChangeNow, StealthEX, Swapzone and Exolix.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo-client/releases/tag/v2.2.0

There will be a Firo project update and AMA session tomorrow on YouTube and Facebook Live!

This will go on the state of development, budgeting, the community fund and future plans!

Date/Time:
0930 UTC+8 13 May
2130 Eastern Time 12 May
1830 Pacific Time 12 May
0130 UTC time 13 May

Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel and Facebook!

https://youtube.com/c/firoorg
https://facebook.com/firoorg

We look forward to seeing you there!