[PPC] [XPM] Peercoin/Primecoin Weekly Updates

[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #86

• Peercoin v0.4 release is now in the upgrade window. Upgrade deadline is May 4th. Please visit peercointalk forum for more information and instructions: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2473.0
• Alert message has been sent to all v0.3 peercoin clients.
• Recently there have been multiple GPU mining development for Primecoin. Primecoin is designed to be a powerful network for scientific computing and the first to bring such technology to cryptocurrency world. It's expected Primecoin network would migrate to GPU mining and ASIC mining just like Bitcoin did. Prime algorithm hardwares are important contribution to computation technology in general. We certainly welcome such development. In the next primecoin release, the proposed v0.2 protocol would be readied on testnet so mining developers could test against v0.2 protocol to ensure future compatibility.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #87

• Reminder that Peercoin v0.4 upgrade deadline is May 4th. Please upgrade your peercoin client within next two weeks.
• We are trying to confirm with major service providers about their upgrade schedule/status. If you are a service provider, you are welcome to confirm with me at sunnyking9999@gmail.com, or post to the forum thread: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2473.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #88

• Reminder that Peercoin v0.4 upgrade deadline is May 4th. Please upgrade your peercoin client within the week. It is recommended to upgrade as soon as possible, at least before Sunday May 4th 2014 14:00 UTC. Late upgrade would require manual procedure to redownload blockchain, possibly even more manual procedures such as wallet repair, key export/import etc. should wallet discrepancy occurs due to running on a forked v0.3 blockchain.
• Our community team is contacting peercoin service providers to confirm their upgrade to v0.4, to ensure timely upgrade from the service providers without service disruption. If you are a service provider please feel free to post confirmation message to the relevant discussion at http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2721.0
• Due to numerous new service providers emerging in the industry, we feel that extra step is needed to further protect service providers in case they miss the upgrade deadline. On May 5th around the protocol switch time, another alert message is planned to be sent to all v0.3 clients, while triggering safe mode on all v0.3 clients. This means v0.3 clients would stop sending transactions by default, unless overridden manually by configuration setting 'safemode=0'.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #89

• Peercoin network has been upgraded to v0.4 protocol.
• If you haven't yet upgraded the client, please do so as soon as possible. Instructions at http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2473.0
• v0.3 clients would reach end of support within two weeks. v0.3 clients would fork blockchain from the main network (v0.4) in about 20 days. This means nodes that continue running v0.3 clients would no longer operate properly with the main network.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #90

• If you haven't upgrade peercoin client to v0.4 please do so as soon as possible. v0.3 client would be desupported in a week or so.
• Happy to see the community continue to gain strength. Come and join us at peercointalk.org for discussions!

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #91

• If you haven't upgraded peercoin client to v0.4 please do so as soon as possible. v0.3 client would be desupported on May 24th, and another alert message would be sent to all v0.3 clients to trigger safe mode, to prevent unnecessary losses for unaware users.
• Primecoin difficulty is now approaching 11! As of today difficulty is around 10.96. It means primecoin network has been gaining computation power vastly in the last couple weeks, likely due to the transition from cpu mining to gpu mining.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #92

• If you haven't upgraded peercoin client to v0.4 please do so as soon as possible. v0.3 client has reached end of support. v0.3 client shouldn't be used any more, if you continue to use v0.3 it would run on a forked blockchain from the main peercoin network.
• Primecoin now has a test switch against proposed v0.2 mining protocol. Miner developers (fpga and gpu especially) and pool operators please test with this new switch -v2compatible for future compatibility (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2858.0).
• My interview last week at peercointalk with transcript here: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2862.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #93

• Peercoin v0.3 has reached end of support. v0.3 clients have now separated from main peercoin network. If you haven't yet upgraded, please do so. Upgrade instructions at http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2473.0
• Peercoin's merge with bitcoin v0.8 resumes testing. There should be a separate development branch on repository once tests complete to reasonable satisfaction. Once the development branch opens, requests would be reviewed for acceptance.
• Primecoin network reached another milestone by discovering a 14-prime chain at block 547276, a Cunningham chain of 2nd kind with 100 digits (http://primecoin.21stcenturymoneytalk.org/index.php?block_hash=5119057bae9847731b735e2b21d77239e14c9decc53a6241181f8e9a6be5dbdf). This is a result of great strides made in mining market. Primecoin now holds 5 out of the 21 world records in simultaneous primes (http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl522332/math/simultprime.htm). Looking back, when primecoin was launched less than a year ago, such record shattering results are simply inconceivable even to me. So congratulations to primecoin community, miners and especially miner developers!

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #94

• I have now opened the development branch of peercoin on the source code repository. Merge with bitcoin v0.8.6 has been done. The development branch is for testing purpose only and is not considered stable, so please refrain from using it on production systems.
• I have done another community interview this week, transcript here: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2934.0

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #95

• Peerunity v0.1.0 has been released by the peerunity dev team. See announcement thread: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2902.0
• Based on the consensus of project leaders of the community, I am happy to announce that sigmike is now sharing responsibility with me in the Peercoin core-dev team. Responsibility of core-dev team is maintenance and development of peercoin protocol and reference client implementation. sigmike has been a key member of the peershare project and peerunity project, who has also demonstrated exceptional knowledge of peercoin protocol and security.
• There are many more talented developers/contributors in the community project teams, so we are continuing to evaluate and seek recommendations. Some of the key members are focusing on the respective project currently but could be joining the core-dev team at a later date. It's very nice to see the growth of peercoin dev community and the quality work being produced.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #96

• Peercoin v0.5 is under development, currently work is being done on the checkpoint system. First step, user would be able to opt out enforcement of broadcast checkpoints.
• There are many exciting development on peercoin and primecoin projects, stay tuned. Visit our forum and join the community in helping with different development projects, and ongoing marketing effort.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #97

• HolyTransaction(https://holytransaction.com/), an integrated wallet/exchange/payment service provider, now support peercoin services. Give it a try
• Peercoin marketing fund is now operational, it's an important step to further marketing effort in peercoin community. Proposals can be submitted at the fund's subforum here: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?board=66.0
• Many more projects are underway on peer4commit (http://peer4commit.com/). Since its establishment, peer4commit has become an important portal for organizing and funding community projects.
• Let's give big applause to all the hardwork of the teams and community members to make all these projects happen!

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #98

• Congratulations to the primecoin network reaching one year old! I would like to show appreciation to primecoin users and especially miner developers, without whose tireless work we wouldn't be able to claim 5(!) of the simultaneous primes world records out of a total of 21 world records (https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin/wiki/World-records) (http://primerecords.dk/simultprime.htm), within the first year of its running. This is a feat that I couldn't have imagined at the time of primecoin's design, when I was still in doubt whether it could break any world record or not. One year after primecoin's public debut, the cryptocurrency designers are still focused on mixing hash functions with hash-cash proof-of-work, or finding ever more 'cpu friendly' proof-of-work, primecoin's unique proof-of-work remains the first and one of the very few useful and actually interesting proof-of-work designs, that preserves the decentralization property of cryptocurrency.
• So happy birthday Primecoin 

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #99

• The peercoin community video project has made great progress! Check out the project: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2537.0
• Check out and contribute to many other community projects at our forum and peer4commit!
• I have done an interview with Sean@Let's Talk Bitcoin earlier the week.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #100

• Peercoin video project released on youtube: http://whatispeercoin.com
• More peercoin news see this week's Newsletter #9: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=3181

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #101

• Interview by Let's Talk Bitcoin published at http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-real-sunny

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #102

• Team is still busy working on peercoin v0.5 features.
• Some strategic planning is also being worked on. Stay tuned.
• Check out many active projects on going at our forum and peer4commit!

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #103

• I am happy to see peerchemist's Fazon initiative (http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=3246.0), a very good step toward better organization of community development and sharing of resources. If you don't know, peerchemist is also the lead developer for the excellent peerbox project (http://peer4commit.com/projects/92).
• Given recent market loss in altcoins, I would like to remind investors in peercoin and primecoin projects to be always aware of market risks, i.e. only invest with what you can afford to lose.
• Our development community has grown quite a bit compared to last year, thanks to the tireless and selfless  teamwork of many of you. I am amazed at what our community has achieved, and honored to express my appreciation for all your great works!

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #104

• Happy birthday peercoin 
• I am taking a short break this week. More infrastructure related development will be coming in the following weeks.

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[Sunny King]

Weekly Update #105

• As a first project of our data services initiative, we are working on a web wallet support service. The core team will look into providing a reference brain wallet implementation in client side javascript, with combined peercoin/primecoin support. More full-featured wallet app can be developed by community further with API support of full nodes.

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