[PPC] [XPM] Peercoin/Primecoin Weekly Updates

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #186

• Peercoin 0.4.2 support will end on April 25. Upgrade from v0.4.2 to v0.5.2 is required before this deadline.
• Peercoin 0.5.1 RC2 support has ended as of March 13. For users running this release candidate, if upgrade wasn't performed before March 13, blockchain redownload is required for the upgrade.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #187

• Peercoin v0.5.3 is released. This is a bug fix release with hot fix of the Qt transaction amount display bug in v0.5.2. Users of Qt clients are required to upgrade: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4453
• v0.4.2 upgrade deadline is still Monday April 25.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #188

• Peerunity new version that's compatible with peercoin v0.5.3 should be ready soon: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4459.0
• Reminder that upgrade deadline for Peercoin v0.5.3 is April 25th. A mandatory upgrade alert for v0.4.2 users would be issued soon.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #189

• Peerunity v0.2 has been released: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4465.0
• peerchemist posted a white paper on simple asset for community review, welcome to comments: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4461.0
• Reminder that upgrade deadline for peercoin v0.5.3 is Monday April 25.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #190

• Reminder that peercoin v0.5.3 upgrade deadline is Monday April 25th.
• peerchemist announced a debian/ubuntu build for v0.5.3: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4505.0
• peerchemist also announced arch linux package here: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4417.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #191

• Peercoin v0.5 protocol switch is coming up next week. The protocol switch will happen on Tuesday, 26 Apr 2016 19:46:40 UTC
• Please remember to upgrade to peercoin v0.5.3 or compatible before April 25th. Late upgrade would generally require blockchain redownload.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #192

• Peercoin blockchain has now switched to protocol 0.5.
• There was a blockchain fork incident on peercoin network due to a bug in peerunity client. Impact is limited to peerunity clients. Kudos to Matthew for quickly providing the fix and peerunity team for quickly providing hot fix release: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4541.0
• Sentinelrv excellent peercoin newsletter on 0.5 release: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4536.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #193

• Another blockchain fork incident has hit peercoin this week, which is similar in nature to the incident of November 2015, impacting all windows and 32-bit linux clients (https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4563.0)
• Fix is being prepared. Both peercoin and peerunity should release hot fix within a couple days, check peercointalk forum for latest status update.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #194

• Kudos to sigmike and other community members, peercoin hot fix release 0.5.4 and peerunity hot fix release 0.2.2 have been released. Users who have been impacted by the recent 32-bit clients fork incident should upgrade.
• Peercoin 0.5.3 64-bit linux client is still supported.
• hrobeers has published a paper on 'P2TH' for peerasset: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4546.0
• peerchemist has published a much expanded version of peerasset paper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4566.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #195

• peerchemist's peerasset paper has been translated into Chinese: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4566.0
• sigmike has updated python tools for peercoin.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #196

• Python tools for peercoin is now at github.com/ppcoin/peercointools
• Peercoin v0.6 development resumes next week

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #197

• hrobeers is working on a browser based client called 'PeerKeeper' with support of PeerAssets: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.0
• Peercoin v0.6 is under development.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #198

• Interesting discussion in hrobeers's peerkeeper thread: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.15
• Support hrobeer's peerkeeper project here: https://peer4commit.com/projects/179

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #199

• Peercoin v0.6 is in development.
• In v0.6 users can choose to disable checkpoint enforcement. In this mode, the node does not automatically reorganize to the blockchain fork where the checkpoint resides. Instead, it shows a warning message that checkpoint is on a different blockchain fork.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #200

• hrobeers has begun work on project PeerKeeper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.30
• Tyke is planning another book on Peercoin: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4627.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #201

• Sentinelrv has reorganized peercointalk forum, there is now a new project development board now: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4647.0
• Some good discussions here related to peerassets: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4632.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #202

• Bitcoin reached its 2nd halving this week (congratulations!). As expected peercoin's proof-of-work difficulty is pushed up due to influx of miners. Currently peercoin's proof-of-work difficulty is about 700M, roughly doubling the difficulty before bitcoin's halving.
• There is a discussion regarding merge mining (https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4655.0). I am still of the opinion that merge mining does not provide any security benefit to peercoin as peercoin's security is pure proof-of-stake. Additionally supporting such feature involves significant development and maintenance overhead.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #203

• I have recently done an interview with Ying-Ying from Crypto Capitalism Center: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4661.0
• From hrobeers - key card printer implemented in project PeerKeeper: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4583.45

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #204

• We did a great interview as a team with CoinDesk this week. I like it very much, as in the past most of those are on me alone. Thanks team!
• hrobeers is having some fun with data transactions in peercoin: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4671.0

Have fun!

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #205

• Have some graffiti fun with hrobeers: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4676.0
• Some thoughtful discussions on funding of cryptocurrency projects: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4673.0

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