[PPC] [XPM] Peercoin/Primecoin Weekly Updates

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #206

• Next week will be peercoin's 4th birthday coming
• CoinDesk article on peercoin: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4689.0
• hrobeers announced 'advanced relay subnet' to experiment non-standard transactions in peercoin blockchain: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4684
• peerchemist announced a chat service for the community: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4688.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #207

• The peercoin community had great birthday events at beyondbitcoin on 19th! hrobeers gave the main talk and then we had a pretty extended party afterwards. It's been great fun
• Sentinelrv's newsletter for the 4th birthday of peercoin: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4701.0
• Enjoy ppcman's picture contest for the anniversary: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4698.0

Have fun

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #208

• hrobeers is making great progress with PeerKeeper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.msg44485#msg44485
• Here is the audio of hrobeers' interview with beyondbitcoin on peercoin's 4th birthday: https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts/e169-beyond-bitcoin-dollarvigilante-talks-steem-blockpay-ico-grc-hangouts-steem-billboard-campaign
• Audio link to the birthday party: https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts/peercoinbirthday

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #209

• I was asked about the status of cold minting feature, it is currently on-hold pending further evaluations. We want to make sure that it can be supported long term. Yes we are aware of the concerns of large stake holders, so it is still on the plate. Sigmike recently gave a good summary of the feature: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2783.msg43933#msg43933
• Interesting discussions of a possible 'PeerTicker' project: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4723.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #210

• Long-time Peercoin supporter Superppc has acquired domain peercoin.org: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4735.0
• Superppc is also the original author of this peercoin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjL2AgCQDJ0
• As members of the peercoin community, let's all give gratitude and appreciation to Superppc for his great effort and generosity!
• peercoin.chat has been upgraded, existing users need to re-register though if you haven't yet.

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #211

• hrobeers introduces PeerScript Labs: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4742.0
• peerchemist refreshes peercoin.chat service. This service is intended for community hangout place and provides better channel for developers. https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4738.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #212

• Peerchemist's python tool for rpc access to peercoin daemon: https://github.com/peerchemist/peercoin_rpc
• New peercoin logo set announced by Sentinelrv: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4750.0
• New look at peercoin.net, lovely?
• Updated theme at peercoin.chat, now a busy place for developers and community members!

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #213

• nagalim compiled a list of 10 current peercoin projects: https://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin/comments/5722yj/10_current_peer_projects/?st=iukpbc3z&sh=f36c70ab
• Peerbox v0.6.3 released.
• hrobeers article in PeerScript labs - P2SH script puzzle explained: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4758.0
• Support hrobeers excellent projects: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4761.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #214

• Nice tutorial on peerassets deck spawning protocol by embeddedthought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpewpLGEfiM
• Sentinelrv annouced peercoin's telegram chat group: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4767.0
• Community proposal to reallocate project funds for peerassets and peerkeeper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4766.0
• hrobeers started working on backend of peerkeeper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.msg45051#msg45051

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #215

• peerchemist announced development of peerasset python library.
• Some discussion in the community regarding future of PoW mining in peercoin: https://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin/comments/5cebk1/its_time_for_peercoin_to_reduce_its_pow_reward/?st=ivmg6wf9&sh=0cd91546
• Article on peerasset advantages by Nagalim: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4774.msg45077#msg45077

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #216

• Negalim published a nice article on history of peercoin: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4785.0
• hrobeers annouced the first peerassets explorer with a cool name 'Mercator': https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4787.msg45226
• Peercoin surpasses 5000 followers on twitter!

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #217

• We have transferred our official source code repositories from ppcoin organization to peercoin organization on github, to match the branding efforts.
• I am happy to announce that the peercoin core development team welcomes hrobeers and peerchemist to join the team. In 2017 the team plans to release newer versions of peercoin that matches with latest functionalities of bitcoin.

Happy New Year!