Binace Vote Started, Nav Pi Ready to Ship and Nav Coin ES Launched



This week the Nav Coin Team activated a community vote to get NAV on Binance, commenced building the third batch of Nav Pi,  launched a full Español version of the Nav Coin website and fixed the login issue on our technical support forum. It’s been a busy week to say the least!

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Vote for Nav Coin on Binance.com and be in to Win



Nav Coin has the opportunity to be listed on one of China’s largest Alt Coin exchanges, Binance. To get listed, we need to win the community coin vote on their website. To vote, all you need to register for Binance and purchase a small amount of their BNB token (0.1 BNB) to cast your vote with. Voting is only open until the 5th of October 2017, so please go and cast your votes today!

https://binance.com/vote.html

To raise awareness about the vote, we are running a Retweet Competition on twitter. If Nav Coin wins the community vote and is listed on Binance we will give away 1000 NAV to one lucky winner who retweeted our promotional tweet about the vote and cast their vote for Nav Coin. To enter the draw, cast your vote on Binance and retweet this tweet before the 5th of October 2017:

https://twitter.com/NAVCoin/status/914642672895254528

Visit our website for the full terms and conditions and further information.

https://navcoin.org/news/vote-for-nav-coin-on-binance-com-and-be-in-to-win

NavPi Shipment, Polmorph Update and Team Expansion



It’s been a busy week as always at Nav Coin HQ. We have landed the final piece of the NavPi units so we can begin to build and ship batch 3 in the coming days. We’re steaming ahead on Polymorph and also looking to add some new developers to the Auckland team.

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Weekly Report: NavTech, Polymorph, Marketing Content and ADapp Platform



This week the dev team have been busy refining the latest version of our private payment processor NavTech. Polymorph enters its next phase of development with transaction being created with our exchange partner Changelly. Our Digital Strategy team are working on a content series of articles, infographics and videos. And the details of our ADapp platform are just around the corner.

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Project Progress, NavTech Upgrade and Slack AMA



The Nav Coin Team continues to make steady progress on the feature projects of our 2017 roadmap. Navtech 1.2 is in its final testing stages as we integrate and test the Nav Coin Core update alongside the Navtech processing scripts. And the Nav Coin Team has been invited to do an AMA on the Ark.io Slack channel.

We have been hard at work building extra obfuscation layers into NavTech and the Nav Coin Core wallet over the last two weeks. The development is now complete and the project has over 95% unit test coverage. We have deployed the scripts and new core to the NavTech servers for live testing to iron out any remaining integration issues between the two parts and to rigorously test them in the live environment. We are aiming to release the new wallet and re-open NavTech transactions before our Lead Developer Craig MacGregor leaves for Europe this Friday. There have been substantial changes to the code base with this new release however, and we will not release the new product until we are confident it is bulletproof. Keep an eye on our social channels for the official release date and time.

https://github.com/NAVCoin/navtech

Sprint 5 for Polymorph has gone well with some major parts of the Changelly integration now built. We have extended sprint 5 until the end of the week to give some extra time on refining what has been completed this sprint. Craig and Matt also go into planning mode for the next couple of days to make sure Matt has everything he needs to continue working on Polymorph in Craig’s absence.

https://github.com/NAVCoin/polymorph

The Auckland team got together today to discuss the future of Nav Coin and learn a bit more about the Research and Development that has been done for our Anon Dapp Platform, Multichain Wallet and NavTech 2.0 projects. We all now have a good understanding of where we are taking projects and how to proceed. While Craig is in Europe with Alex, they will be laying out the technical framework of these projects and defining each one’s features to be written up into Whitepapers and presented back to the team and then to the public.

The NavPi boards have finally arrived, so we have all the parts we need to start to put this product together for sale. We will be training Guy on how to assemble the units, flash the SD cards with the NavPi image, test and prepare these for shipping. With Craig going to Europe for two weeks, we may not get the training completed until he gets back, but we are looking at opening pre-orders for the device on the store before then.



The marketing team have been busy creating some great new content for the website. They have just finished putting together the “Getting Started” and “FAQ” pages which are now live. We are looking to build up more useful content to help new users get educated on and interested in Nav Coin. This is a great addition to the site. We look forward to creating more interesting and useful content for our potential new users.

https://navcoin.org/getting-started

https://navcoin.org/faq

Our team has been invited to be the subject of an AMA on the Ark Platform’s Slack Channel. We are excited to discuss Nav Coin, NavTech, Financial Privacy and Cryptocurrencies in general with their community. We are dedicated to create collaboration rather than division between cryptocurrency projects and are grateful for the opportunity to share some knowledge with people who are wanting to learn. If you haven’t checked out the Ark Platform, make sure you do, its an interesting project.

https://ark.io

The AMA will take place at 3PM EST on Friday 16 June 2016 in the #trading_altcoins channel. If you’re not already a member of their slack, you can join with this link:

https://ark.io/join-ark-slack



That’s about all we have for this week. We look forward to the upcoming release of NavTech 1.2 and more information about our feature projects over the next couple of weeks as the planning sessions roll out.

Talk Soon,
Nav Coin Team

Nav Coin Added To UQuid Debit Card, Project Progress


 
Nav Coin has been added to the UQuid cryptocurrency debit card platform. You are now able to load your UQuid debit card with NAV which gets converted into USD, EUR or GBP. They have a range of options including physical or digital cards. UQuid requires no identification on sign up, so you can spend your private NAV privately. Check out their service and get a card so you can spend you NAV in any store that accepts Visa.
 
https://uquid.com
 
Nav Coin has been re-enabled on Changelly.com so you can now purchase NAV again with Credit card through their platform. To purchase NAV, visit:
 
https://navcoin.org/buy-nav
 
This week the team has made great progress on NavTech 1.2 with the goal of releasing the new version next week well within reach. Polymorph continues to gather momentum as begin on the more challenging back end work. The planning of the interrelated subchain platform, multi-chain wallet and navtech 2.0 is well underway.
 
The changes necessary to Nav Coin core for the NavTech 1.2 release have entered their testing phase, while the NavTech server update itself is about 80% completed. We are looking to move it into testing before the weekend to identify and iron out any unknowns. We have added some really great new features in NavTech 1.2 including;
 
Adding encrypted data to all NAV transactions to make it impossible to tell which are private or which are regular sends.
 
The new Nav Coin Core will split NavTech transactions in the wallet before sending them through NavTech in a random number of fragments.
 
The transaction fragments will be joined back together inside NavTech, then split into factors of 10 to create lots of identical transactions on the network.
 
We have also added a small time delay which will scatter the transactions across multiple blocks as they are output from NavTech.
 
All of this will greatly will improve NavTech’s defence against blockchain based metadata inference. Beyond this, we are also going to implement dummy SUB and NAV transactions between the servers to create additional blockchain traffic to obscure transactions when the system is under lower volumes. The dummy transactions will be implemented in a back end only update to NavTech after the new Nav Coin Core and NavTech 1.2 has been released.
 
Sprint 4 of Polymorph closed with 16 story points achieved, matching our average velocity. We have built the first integration with Changelly.com’s API and have successfully plugged their list of exchangeable coins into Polymorph’s front end. Sprint 5 will be largely focused on validating the user input data and retrieving expected transaction times and fees to display. We will also be attempting to gain some ground on the planning tasks so we can queue up the next few weeks worth of work.
 
Craig is preparing to make a trip to Germany to work in person with Alex on the Subchain Platform, Multi-chain Wallet and NavTech 2.0 whitepapers. All three of these projects are interrelated and need to be planned in parallel. They have been making good progress while working together half a world apart with a lot of the core concepts understood. But the time has come to sit down in person and really figure out how all the nuts and bolts are going to fit together. Craig flies out next Friday and will be spending the better part of 2 weeks in Berlin refining these projects with Alex.
 
We hope to have more news about these three big projects of ours after this planning session has taken place.
 
We have so far received the SD Cards and cases for the NavPi’s, but the actual Raspberry Pi boards are still stuck in New Zealand Customs unfortunately. We are hopeful that they will come through in the next couple of days, we have filled in all the appropriate paperwork and are awaiting their release. They will be available for pre-order when get the units in the door.
 
The Forum, Paper Wallet and Nav Coin Store have all been moved to the new web host and we hope you have all noticed the improvement in service on all of these sites. The current nav coin wiki has been defaced by a user who decided to edit all of our articles. So, we are installing a fresh wiki on to the new web host and we will unfortunately have to lock it down to approved editors only. We were hoping that it could remain open so that any community member could contribute, but it looks like we are unable to proceed in this spirit. If you’re interested in being an editor for our new wiki, please contact someone on the team.
 
All projects progress on the Nav Coin Project Roadmap has been appropriately updated.
 
https://navcoin.org/project-roadmap
 
Talk Soon,

Nav Coin Team
 
 

Hi Cryptohunter,

I am here to confirm that Soopy is no longer active in the Nav Coin project. The last wallet he worked on for us was our 3.x wallet which is now out of service. You can see his last commit on the project was 3 Jan 2017:

https://github.com/navcoindev/navcoin2/commits/master

Our core project is now on a completely different code base than Soopy worked on and the source code for NavTech is 100% written by me.

Feel free to look at the current members of our github organisation and check the commit histories on our projects if you are unconvinced.

https://github.com/NAVCoin

Nav Coin is in essence a community project, our team is ever evolving as new people become involved and old members fade away. We have taken some time to restructure the Nav Coin Team section to more accurately display who is currently active on the project with the inactive team members relegated to the Legacy Team section.

https://navcoin.org/#team

I am actually the only founding member still active on the Nav Coin project, but we currently have the strongest development and strategy teams in the history of Nav Coin and we are all working hard to keep the project on a steady course.

I am sorry to hear your circumstance. I will gladly send Soopy a message and ask him to contact you. I have attempted to get him to contact GREEDYJOHN numerous times in the past regarding beecoin and other projects they are both involved in. I can't guarantee he will respond, he can be a hard person to get hold of, even for me! But I will try.

A friendly word of advice when paying contractors to do work, especially anonymous ones on the internet: don't pay the whole fee up front, pay for work delivered.

Best,
Craig.

The Wheels Keep on Turning at Nav Coin HQ



It really has been a massive week for Nav Coin this week. We have seen the release of our 4.0.0 Core wallet, NAVTech 1.1 and the NavPi from the development team. Alongside our great new website, Q1 press release and the social media competition from by our awesome new marketing team.

We have moved a lot of projects from in progress to completed and have also started on our next batch of projects.

You can have a look at what we’ve ticked off here:

http://navcoin.org/project-roadmap/#completed

Alex has begun work on our full suite of Mobile & Web Wallets based on the Copay source code. Copay is an amazing javascript based wallet which will provide us with a great platform to build our Nav Coin wallets on top of.

Victor is going to look at improving our NavPi, streamlining the interface and improving performance. This means a full redevelopment using Angular2 served by NodeJS.

Guy is comparing supplier options for sourcing and supplying NAV branded NavPi units on the Nav Coin Store. These will ship with the image pre-loaded onto the memory card so all you will need to do is plug them in and send the coins.

Craig is busy preparing to present his talk “Exploring Private Cryptocurrencies” for the Bloktex conference this weekend in Kuala Lumpur. Once he gets back from KL, he will begin to work rebuilding the Subchain aligning it with the new core code base. This will mean restarting that blockchain and is a vital step toward integrating the Subchain into the Nav Coin wallet.

If you’re near KL, you should definitely head along to the conference: http://bloktex.com

Kieren has been largely focused on helping with the Q1 release schedule since being onboarded. He has been a huge help with our new website, the Q1 press releases and also our very successful social media campaign. With that pressure off, the marketing team can now refocus on the wider branding message and marketing strategy. The first step is to formalise a marketing roadmap and present our marketing plan.

You can see all the things we’ve started this week here:

http://navcoin.org/project-roadmap/#in-progress

We may have been a bit quieter than usual this week online due to the team having a couple days of hard earned rest after our successful (but very demanding) Q1 launch. As you can see, we still have made a lot of progress and as always, the wheels keep turning at Nav Coin HQ.

We have a lot of great projects in the works and lots of amazing things lined up for the rest of the year. So stick around and come on this journey with us.

Talk soon,
Nav Coin Team

We encourage all $NAV users to please upgrade from 3.x.x to the shiny new 4.0.0 wallet! It's the best!

http://navcoin.org/downloads/

The Future of Nav Coin is Now



Designing a complicated and theoretically secure value-transfer system is fairly easy; examples are plentiful in the crypto scene. However, such systems, although never broken, are never used.


As in many undertakings, the difficulty lies in doing things in the simplest possible way and creating a system that consumes no more resources than necessary (be it computing power or human brainpower). Because the ultimate goal of a cryptocurrency is to be used and to allow to create a system which would help making the world a better and fairer place, we support a notion of elegance that is more related with minimalism and simplicity than with mathematical beauty — an elitist and subjective notion which is very likely to eternally remain the only object of academic research.

Today we release a major update of our complete products family. This notion of simplicity had a big presence during the whole development process. Our Core has been modernised to have all the advantages from the latest BitCoin developments, while its graphical interface has been totally redesigned to be the cleanest and simplest to use GUI we’ve ever had.

A new member just arrived to the family: NavPI. A little piece of hardware which will allow you to store and stake your coins in an eco-friendly way. The full project is open source —building your own one will become a funny exercise and everything at a very low cost.

Last but not least, our renowned decentralised private payment processor, NavTech, has been refreshed with its first version bump — from now it will be even more safe to transfer NAVs privately between users.

Three products which wouldn’t have been possible without the big support of our community.

We want to send you the biggest THANK YOU.

We promise this is just the beginning.

 —

Download the Future of NavCoin at http://www.navcoin.org/downloads.

Learn everything about NavCoin Core 4.0.0 biggest technical changes at release-notes-4.0.0.md.

Read about our latest software update at https://medium.com/nav-coin/nav-coins-q1-software-launch.

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Nav Coin’s Q1 Software Launch



Nav Coin continues to earn its place in the market as the currency goes from strength to strength. In 2016, they released the innovative NAVTech private payment platform and NAV became the 3rd most profitable cryptocurrency of the year. 2017 is already another record year for Nav Coin and they round out Q1 with a bundle of great software releases, a fresh new look and a strong project roadmap filled with premium projects.

Nav Coin Core 4.0.0

This is the big ticket item for the Q1 releases.

Nav Coin Core 4.0.0 is a complete wallet rebuild that has been forked from Bitcoin 0.13. It has modernised Nav Coin’s core with lots of new features, and provides a great base for the Nav Coin Development Team to continue with the 2017 Roadmap.

The upgrade gives Nav Coin Core all the latest API commands which Bitcoin implements. This makes it compatible with more software and services than ever before. This includes the API’s necessary for Nav Coin to start their Copay fork which will end with a beautiful set of Mobile and Web Wallets that are also capable of sending NAVTech Private Payments.

The new wallet focuses on simplicity. A lot of the complicated, unnecessary features have been removed and it has been streamlined with an installer. There is also now a graphical way to set up & manage the NAVTech server list which was previously managed through the configuration file.



The Nav Coin Core 4.0.0 wallet will be available for download on the 31st of March from the Nav Coin website:

http://navcoin.org/downloads

Key updates

- First Bitcoin 0.13-based fork with POS consensus algorithm.
- Faster and more robust syncing between nodes.
- Multi-signature addresses.
- New GUI with cleaner design.
- Easier Tor integration.

NavPi

Nav Coin have developed the NavPi — a Raspberry Pi that runs the latest version of Nav Coin Core.

The Raspberry Pi is an energy efficient and convenient way to earn your Proof of Stake rewards without having your laptop or desktop constantly on. You plug it in, send it your coins, and it earns you money 24 hours a day — while only using minuscule amounts of power.



Mining Nav Coin has never been simpler or more cost effective.

It comes with a web interface which can be accessed from your network, and will allow you to send & receive NAV, encrypt your wallet, and stake coins — all the functionality you get from a full node wallet.

You can even send NAVTech private payments directly from the NavPi!

Here’s why this is a great way to grow your NAV investment:

- You’ll earn a 5% return on the amount of NAV you have.
- It’s always on and cheap to run
- Includes the latest version of Nav Coin 4.0.0 — which has been updated with all the latest features in Bitcoin 0.13.
- The NavPi image will be available for download on the 31st of March from the Nav Coin website:

http://navcoin.org/downloads

NAVTech 1.1

NAVTech is Nav Coin’s private payment platform which is decentralised, open source and and completely anonymous. Transactions are encrypted and broadcast over our secondary blockchain called the Subchain — which provides full anonymity.

Since NAVTech was decentralised in December, the Development Team have been refining the code and increasing test coverage. This updated software has been tested and deployed on the official NAVTech servers and will be distributed to the public on the 31st of March.

These improvements pave the way for Nav Coin’s ultimate goal of combining the Nav Coin & Subchain blockchains along with the NAVTech processing scripts into the Multi-chain NAVTech Wallet as seen on the project roadmap.

http://navcoin.org/project-roadmap

When this Multi-Chain NAVTech Wallet is completed later this year, running a NAVTech node will be as easy as checking a box inside your Nav Coin wallet and you will be able to earn extra rewards for participating in the Private Payment Network.

Website Redesign

Nav Coin have also released a new version of the Nav Coin website today, which aims to support their wider marketing activities going forward.

The main changes have been updating the visuals, and tidying the content to be more user friendly & easier to understand.

There is still a long list of refinements, which will be rolled out over the coming months — including new content, how-to guides, and more regular posts from the team. But this relaunch will help give the brand momentum to move forward with.

A standout new feature of the website is the addition of instant Credit Card purchasing of NAV using Changelly’s Instant Exchange Service.

Check it out at http://navcoin.org

Overall

It’s been a busy few months for Nav Coin, but their hard work is paying off.

With some new hires in the team, and lots of new energy, Nav Coin is kicking things up a notch as they move onto some really exciting projects which will really continue to set them apart.

To make sure you stay in the loop, by getting involved in the Nav Coin community channels (Slack and Telegram), and follow them on Twitter & Facebook.

http://navcoin.org/#community

Yes: https://gleam.io/z1b6m/nav-coin-40-launch

We've launched a new competition to celebrate the Nav Coin 4.0 launch. We’re giving away 10,000 NAV (worth ~$1000), and there are multiple ways to enter. Good luck!

Check it out here:

https://gleam.io/fb/z1b6m

Another week, another status update.

http://forum.navcoin.org/index.php?/topic/63-nav-coin-400-website-redesign-anon-dapps-8th-february-2017/

https://medium.com/@NAVCoin/nav-coin-4-0-0-website-redesign-anon-dapps-3e6da5305172#.adsmvw2v6

http://navcoin.org/news/articles/post/nav-coin-4-0-0-website-redesign-anon-dapps

Please ignore the pyramid schemes and scams! This is part of why urge people to move to our own forum!

The weekly status report has been posted to our forum:

http://forum.navcoin.org/index.php?/topic/56-status-report-on-core-upgrade-and-anon-dapps

or on our website:

http://www.navcoin.org/news/articles/post/status-report-on-core-upgrade-and-anon-dapps

or on medium:

https://medium.com/@NAVCoin/status-report-on-core-upgrade-and-anon-dapps-ebd3bfff5941

Take your pick 

The main reason why we want to transition most of our conversations to our own forum is to make it much easier for people to find the right answers. Finding any useful information in this 1000+ page thread is near impossible. The weekly reports get buried amongst troll posts, technical questions and other posts. The goal of the forum is to make the content much more indexable and useable by separating concerns.

We will continue to post here, but we would prefer people to transition to our forum so their discussions can help people who might have the same questions or thoughts in the future find answers without having to spend a month of their life wading through 1000 pages.

Can you please post the requested information to our thread in the tech support forum: http://forum.navcoin.org/index.php?/topic/36-390-sync-issues/

Our weekly announcements will be made using our new forum from now on.

http://forum.navcoin.org/index.php?/topic/47-sync-fix-coinomi-wallet-wiki-full-time-dev

I recommend heading over there to ask questions, get support and talk about Nav Coin as we transition away from bitcointalk to our own communities.

Cheers,
Craig.

Yeah, this is awesome, we will be doing a review / write up of this service as soon as possible.