[ANN][NIM] - Nimiq - The Browser Based Blockchain

[U]

Another,how many devs now? two or three?

[Nimiq]

Another,how many devs now? two or three?

You can check out our team page to learn more about our team. Currently our core team consist of 6 Blockchain Developers plus 2 UI/UX Developers, but pretty much everybody in the team is a dev with different areas of specialty.

[rngkll]

VLOG Update: Signing the Nimiq Foundation into Life

A short conclusion to months of preparation... the Foundation was signed into Crypto Valley existence supporting the long-term view of the Nimiq open source project. The team travels by ICE train, and enjoys 'coding on the rail'.

Learn more about the Nimiq Foundation, it's vision and roadmap in our Blog Post Intended Use of Funds Part 3: Roadmap

[IMZ]

VLOG Update: Signing the Nimiq Foundation into Life

A short conclusion to months of preparation... the Foundation was signed into Crypto Valley existence supporting the long-term view of the Nimiq open source project. The team travels by ICE train, and enjoys 'coding on the rail'.

Learn more about the Nimiq Foundation, it's vision and roadmap in our Blog Post Intended Use of Funds Part 3: Roadmap

Memo to Our Devs: eat better food, guys! Fresh fruit and veg washed and packed in a container for these trips. Fresh bread.

You can't live on pizza and snackies and rich rich food.

IndiaMikeZulu, South West Western Australia

Here is our HQ. You are welcome any time. [The emu's name is 'Felicity']

https://imgur.com/a/snE2m

[metallicelmo]

Is there any news regarding the launch of Nimiq? I haven't heard anything about it since the ICO some time ago

[CryptoNeed]

Is there any news regarding the launch of Nimiq? I haven't heard anything about it since the ICO some time ago

Not really.
Does anybody know if Luna has been released to public test net?

[AlCamus]

Luna-beta net announcement told "November", so they are still working on it. I guess they adhere to deadlines - but if it would need some more time, they should take it.

[IMZ]

Luna-beta net announcement told "November", so they are still working on it. I guess they adhere to deadlines - but if it would need some more time, they should take it.

I agree, Al. Deadlines and roadmaps are too often 'investor pressure.' I'd rather wait, and get a better product.

[metallicelmo]

I would love to see Nimiq work right from day one so the best thing they could do is take their time and make sure it's ready to be launched. If needed take more time, don't be like Electroneum for example

[altcoiner555]

So the website was updated now Q1 2018 for mainnet, not December as it says in the title of this thread.  

Watching the vlog did you ever see a more self-absorbed, out-of-touch group of people? It's all beards and bro-fisting, dizzy with conceit after all the millions they raised to support their new jet-set lifestyle, which is excessive and inessential to this kind of software project.  

The reason for the delay? They want to give time for people to swap their coins. Bullshit! Q1 = 3 months. It won't take 3 months to do that. Eth is at all time high which means anyone who invested in Nimiq has lost big, while the money they took in the ICO just keeps growing like one big huge sushi plate.

Tezos is getting sued, other projects that break promises will follow.  Being a skateboarding hippy with your head up your ass won't protect you, nor will a Swiss foundation.

[Filli]

So the website was updated now Q1 2018 for mainnet, not December as it says in the title of this thread.  

Watching the vlog did you ever see a more self-absorbed, out-of-touch group of people? It's all beards and bro-fisting, dizzy with conceit after all the millions they raised to support their new jet-set lifestyle, which is excessive and inessential to this kind of software project.  

The reason for the delay? They want to give time for people to swap their coins. Bullshit! Q1 = 3 months. It won't take 3 months to do that. Eth is at all time high which means anyone who invested in Nimiq has lost big, while the money they took in the ICO just keeps growing like one big huge sushi plate.

Tezos is getting sued, other projects that break promises will follow.  Being a skateboarding hippy with your head up your ass won't protect you, nor will a Swiss foundation.

Patience, the project has lost none of its potential.

[JC1DA]

Tested the new luna. Very fast. Nice job, waiting for the main net.

[CryptoNeed]

Tested the new luna. Very fast. Nice job, waiting for the main net.

Did your hash rate drop?
Mine dropped from 27kH/s to around 5. :O

[rngkll]

LUNA HAS LANDED: New Version of the TESTNET

We are happy to announce that at 2017–11–23 at 17:53:48 Luna has landed in our release branch and is now live for the public.

This is the final major update before the Nimiq Mainnet launch. Luna introduces all remaining core protocol features such as:

- Nano clients establishing consensus with the network by downloading just about a megabyte of blockchain data.
- Light clients that securely sync to almost full consensus by downloading just about 100 MB.
- High degree of miner decentralization by using Argon2 as memory-latency bound Proof-of-Work algorithm.
- Multiple significant performance improvements such as WebAssembly modules, Ed25519 signatures and fast database transactions.
- An intuitive address format designed for usability, based on the IBAN standard.
To learn more about the guts and features of Luna please read here.

First sighting of Luna, taken by Telegram User @stankadank

[F2b]

I just tested the new release of the testnet, I was impressed by how fast it is now to connect to the network.

Tested the new luna. Very fast. Nice job, waiting for the main net.

Did your hash rate drop?
Mine dropped from 27kH/s to around 5. :O

The global hashrate and my personnal hashrate both decreased a lot. It's probably because they changed the algorithm. I dropped from 12 kH/s to 1 kH/s.

Also, the blocks seems to be heavier. I don't remember the blocks' size on the previous betanet, so if may be totally false, but currently an empty block is 555 bytes and a block with 4 transactions is more than 1 MB.

PS : the reward has dropped from 50 NET per block to 5 NET per block.

[slyder3]

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2uf3668.jpg

Tested it too just now, got 5 Nimiq right away Those are worthless right?

[JC1DA]

It's close to mainnet now. Good job devs.

[F2b]

Tested it too just now, got 5 Nimiq right away Those are worthless right?

They are.

[Wekkel]

I tested the connection on a PC webbrowser (Chrome) and the syncing goes fast. Good job.

[btvGainer]

Tested it too just now, got 5 Nimiq right away Those are worthless right?

They are.

The real coins can be mined after manner but by then difficulty will go up