The wait is over! The Incentivized Testnet 3 is here!! 🥳 Participate in the challenges and earn GTU! Users will collectively earn up to a total of 10,000,000 GTU for helping to secure, sustain, and grow Concordium Network and the ecosystem.
https://medium.com/concordium/concordium-launches-incentivized-testnet-38f76e0cd7ac

We have just released our latest Testnet.
It includes super cool stuff.
Please check and let us know what you think?
https://link.medium.com/Yne5HPTboab

Hey folks, our latest newsletter is here with a lot of good stuff but mainly a call for testers!
https://concordium.substack.com/p/concordium-5-2020-on-the-road-again

Me again 
Listen to our Scientific Advisor, Bernardo David, share his views on the history, current state and future of #blockchaintechnology somersault.one/podcast/

So, yes, mandatory to use Docker, no other way at this stage.
In regards of the average coins, it really depends on a lot of parameters. Best is to try and check by yourself.
Test-GTU won’t be moved to Mainnet no. But early testers will get a significant advantage at launch if you follow my thoughts.

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Today we are extremely pleased to announce the launch of our Testnet 2!  Find out how to play with our network and mobile app.
What’s in the box?
[Node] — Passive node: A node that participates in the Concordium network. It relays messages, provides an API for submitting transactions and inspecting the chain, and processes blocks, but does not produce any blocks on its own.
[Node] — Baker node: Does everything a passive node does, but in addition participates in consensus, producing blocks.
[Node] — Finalizer node: Does everything a baker node does, but in addition, participates in the finalization part of our consensus.
[Client] — Tools for interacting with the container
[Mobile app] — Android-based Concordium ID with an Identity service - Download here
[Mobile app] — Creating identities
[Mobile app] — Creating accounts
[Mobile appt] — Making transfers
[Mobile appt] — Depositing Testnet-GTU tokens
[Mobile app] — Exporting identities and accounts
[Identity] — Integration with Notabene
[Identity] — Notabene developer identity flow for easy generation of test-identities
[Identity] — Notabene identity flow
[Visualization] — An improved network dashboard including a simple block explorer
[Visualization] — A node dashboard with support for becoming a baker
https://medium.com/concordium/concordium-releases-testnet-2-35a707702698?sk=f26225da858e5b390d93d77df76e0859

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There is a new update of the app! You can download it here https://developer.concordium.com/testnet/docs/downloads#concordium-id
What's new?
We identified an issue when using an identification document with no expiry date (such as a Swiss driving license).  The app crashed upon completion of the ID issuance process. This issue has been resolved and you can now download the new version.
The node software is unaffected by this update.

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We have another great news. The Institute of Tech from Copenhagen just joined Concordium Academic Council.
What a great news!
https://link.medium.com/HR9FcSXTT7

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Hey!
Thanks a lot of your kind words. Indeed, we came in a very « naive » way to BitcoinTalk, to present our project and confront our ideas with some of the best opinion leaders we could find.
Regarding our ambassador program, it’s still early to disclose the details. We plan to proceed just after the summer.
But meanwhile, you are more than invited to send me your CV (bi (a) concordium.com) and ofc to join our discussion channels and to follow us on Twitter.
But more than everything else, best would be to learn a bit about what we do, our tech documentation will be released by next week and I’ll add the link here.
Cheers.

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We are sometimes asked why we have chosen to code in Rust and Haskell our blockchain.
Please a beginning of answer on this blog and let us know what you feel?
https://link.medium.com/d7FQDeGSn7

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We are a couple days away from our Testnet 2. For that purpose, testers must upgrade their nodes.
This is how.
https://medium.com/concordium/time-to-upgrade-your-nodes-3ba91d9c693a

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From the Pedersen Commitment to a public permissionless blockchain architecture there is a world, and it is Torben Pedersen’s world. Discover what Concordium means to our CTO Dr. Torben Pryds Pedersen.
This is where you will find the interview:
https://medium.com/concordium/from-the-pedersen-commitment-to-concordium-b6d9fe623b40
To our dear moderators, this is not an advertising link, please do not delete it?

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We are proud to announce that the Indian Institute of Science is joining the Concordium family as our new scientific partner. ISS is part of our Academic Council together with Aarhus University and ETH Zurich.
https://medium.com/concordium/the-indian-institute-of-science-to-join-concordium-academic-council-ba53b3b0722f

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Concordium and our friends from Cobra have participated in the Theory and Practice of Blockchains Seminar. You can watch Simon Kamp, Bernardo Magri, Christian Matt, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Søren Eller Thomsen and Daniel Tschudi's presentation "Leveraging Weight Functions for Optimistic Responsiveness in Blockchains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfyTfr4xZT4

This is a legit question. Actually, all questions are legit if you think about it.
So you are right, we are not going to use commons practices to promote and push the project but we will engage with our growing community using our network sustainers? programs, i.e. Baking and Finalizing ofc but also our upcoming Ambassador Program (you can already reach me via pm) and many more to come.
And sorry for that but no bounty and no airdrop, we will leave these practices to other projects.

what about privacy-centric features to guaranty user privacy in a PoIW environment? Is there any mechanism dedicated to avoiding full transparency?

Just adding my humble piece here.
Quantic-based computing is only a very vague theory that has been translated into very early practical use-cases.
If I would need to pick an example of the past, it would be like saying that 1946's first computer is able to unlock the 2020 Iphone.
Joke apart, this is not far from this.
Most of the Quantum Computing is made currently within very specific universities and there are around a dozen of startups trying to surf on the wave.
Bitcoin and other cryptographic-based digital assets are safe... for now.

Frankly, you've made my day. Kindness lately has been quite rare especially in the crypto space. Your warming words are incredible. thanks for this and looking forward to discussing.

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Good morning here.
I'm very proud and honored to say that Professor Ivan Damgård has received the PKC Test-of-Time Award.
Ivan is one of the Heads of our Academic Research Center (COBRA) at Aarhus University together with Jesper Nielsen and Claudio Orlandi and he's a champion of privacy and identity.
His paper on Paillier’s probabilistic public-key system is very accessible even for neophytes like me. I put the link to the academic paper below, with the hope that our beloved moderator will not ban this post.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-44586-2_9

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Hey there, thanks for this and I'll try to provide some answers.
So, we are on Bitcointalk for the following reasons:
- We would like to confront our tech vision with the most relevant people
- We would like to open some Pandora boxes when it comes to usability and agnosticism when it comes to the Blockchain
- We would like to identify potential partners when it comes staking and running some use-cases
- We would like to spread our scientific publication for better popularization of our concepts
- We would like to know and engage with a community of early tech supporters and future developers on Concordium
- We would like to meet great human beings

We are NOT on Bitcointalk for:
- Looking for new investors
- Creating useless FOMO
- Raising funds
- Launching an ICO / IEO
- Launching an Airdrop or a Bounty program

I hope this is clarifying our intent.
cheers 

Well thank you!

for now we do manage to engage with our growing community only on Discord but soon we might open a discussion channel on Telegram.

I would love to explain? Where? When? Name the place  

So yes we will implement a sharding design but instead of name dropping the concept we prefer a much more pragmatic approach.
The idea is for us to deploy our cross-chain communication architecture first. Then to deploy several shards for our partners and using our Finality as a Service. The benefits of a sharding design are known but Concordium Sharding is one of our answers to the Business call and one of the ways for Concordium to ease and push adoption.
Sharding for sharding doesn't mean anything to us. We're not looking to deploy a tech that will not have any use.

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Well clearly impossible for us to disclose names. It doesn't make any sense since we are on a testnet mode and mainnet is far away.
We have big names and we will reveal them once the use case will be properly launched. We're not trying to create some FOMO here since we don't look for public funds.
But I invite you to have a look on our team page and guess by reading our bios what could the first to implement a solution made in Concordium.

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So our solution doesn't come to teach the Business world the greatness of Blockchain. Our approach is agnostic. Meaning we use the power of Blockchain to solve real issues in the Business world.
That said our 2-layer consensus, our Finality as a Service and our ID Layer at the protocol level, turns Concordium into the most adapted permissionless and public BC for Businesses which will be able to get a white-label, some components or the whole solution to easily deploy.
We are private but compliant and we offer a scalable solution but secure.
Think of the Oracle of our world and you will guess how our distribution model will work. 

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My name is Beni and I'm from Team Concordium so no ambiguity here.
And our dear friend who called me shitcoiner since I was Beam CMO, well...
Anyway, my first post here.
And i just wanted to provide some precisions:
1. Concordium will not conduct any public funding. No ICO, no IEO. Period. We have secured several rounds of funding and we will open a new one in a couple of weeks but only for accredited investors, VCs and Family offices.
2. Concordium is novel Tier 1 Blockchain based on a 2-layer consensus and with an ID Layer at the protocol level. Public, permissionless, Concordium is the ultimate alternative to Hyperledger and Corda.
3. Concordium is based on a PoS mechanism, currently pPoS but we will deploy a smart and dedicated Delegation mechanism.
4. Concordium will deploy a Private Sharding architecture for better security and scalability when our finality will be "used" as a service between all the shards.
5. Concordium has a clear business orientation with already in development use cases in the automobile, Identity and Voting industries.
6. No decentralization for Concordium for now, but when the market conditions and the technology landscape will allow it, we will move from a semi centralized governance to a fully decentralized one.
7. Concordium is based in Switzerland but has offices in London, Copenhagen, not far from Marbella and in Tel Aviv.
8. The Tech team is led by Dr. Torben Perdersen, the father of the Pedersen Commitment and is driven by COBRA, a dedicated Research Center at Arrhus University and led by Prof. Jesper Nielsen and Prof. Claudio Orlandi.
That's it for now.
If you feel like having some debates when it comes to our approach on privacy, auditability and other subjects like Crypto Kitties (just kidding), feel free to find us on Discord and on Twitter.

Oh yeah, have a look at our blog here:
https://medium.com/concordium and especially at our Science section: https://medium.com/concordium/tagged/science

What a start!
My name is Beni and I'm from Team Concordium so no ambiguity here.
And our dear friend who called me shitcoiner since I was Beam CMO, well...
Anyway, my first post here.
And i just wanted to provide some precisions:
1. Concordium will not conduct any public funding. No ICO, no IEO. Period. We have secured several rounds of funding and we will open a new one in a couple of weeks but only for accredited investors, VCs and Family offices.
2. Concordium is novel Tier 1 Blockchain based on a 2-layer consensus and with an ID Layer at the protocol level. Public, permissionless, Concordium is the ultimate alternative to Hyperledger and Corda.
3. Concordium is based on a PoS mechanism, currently pPoS but we will deploy a smart and dedicated Delegation mechanism.
4. Concordium will deploy a Private Sharding architecture for better security and scalability when our finality will be "used" as a service between all the shards.
5. Concordium has a clear business orientation with already in development use cases in the automobile, Identity and Voting industries.
6. No decentralization for Concordium for now, but when the market conditions and the technology landscape will allow it, we will move from a semi centralized governance to a fully decentralized one.
7. Concordium is based in Switzerland but has offices in London, Copenhagen, not far from Marbella and in Tel Aviv.
8. The Tech team is led by Dr. Torben Perdersen, the father of the Pedersen Commitment and is driven by COBRA, a dedicated Research Center at Arrhus University and led by Prof. Jesper Nielsen and Prof. Claudio Orlandi.
That's it for now.
If you feel like having some debates when it comes to our approach on privacy, auditability and other subjects like Crypto Kitties (just kidding), feel free to find us on Discord and on Twitter.