Peercoin Weekly Newsletter - Issue 6
December 12th
Introduction
Thank you for joining our official weekly Peercoin newsletter. Capping off a big (and wild) week in cryptocurrencies, alt-coins gained wider recognition and a larger share of the spotlight with Peercoin leading the charge!
In "Don’t rule out a ban on virtual currencies: Peercoin," Sunny King discusses cryptocurrency resilience in light of the People's Bank of China's policy view.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101251925Bitcoin Conferences: Vegas Baby!
Led by Super3, a group of activists brought Peercoin to the Las Vegas Bitcoin conference. More on this next week!
We're excited that
CrownCloud has added Peercoin to their list of accepted payment options along with Bitcoin and Litecoin. CrownCloud is a premier provider of OpenVZ & KVM VPSes. Email them for Peercoin payment instructions!
https://i.imgur.com/ZPrvANo.jpgDevelopment Update: Peercoin v0.4 Status
"Sorry to keep you guys waiting; yes peercoin v0.4 has been in the works and once the merge with bitcoin v0.8 is reasonably stabilized I would push a v0.4 branch on the repo so interested developers can try it out.
Hopefully in one or two weeks. Cold-locked transaction feature might be or might not be in v0.4, I haven't decided yet. If not it would be in v0.5. Coin control wouldn't be in v0.4, we'll first see what bitcoin v0.9 does with it." -- Sunny King
Peercoin v0.4 status updates:
http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=990.15Energy Efficiency Update
https://i.imgur.com/eQeq9ev.png "Peercoin now running at a rate that is 250% more energy efficient than Bitcoin. Or, for every $1 of energy spent to secure the Bitcoin network, the Peercoin network does the same for $0.40. Keep it up! This will pay off in the long-run." -- Peercoin Community
This cuts to the heart of one of the primary differences between Peercoin and Bitcoin. Peercoin's PoS allows for continuously low energy consumption even with dramatically rising market capitalization. In fact, the greater the rise in market capitalization the greater the difference in energy efficiency of Peercoin versus Bitcoin will become. As Peercoin sees its energy consumption per USD decrease, Bitcoin may see energy consumption per USD increase susbstantially -- as will be the case if the Bitcoin network hash rate increases at a higher rate than that of market capitalization growth!
Activism: Volunpeers
The Peercoin community believes there's a place for anyone that wants to participate. Whether you are a developer, artist, writer, web designer or just someone that loves to spread the word, we would like to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to fill out this very short questionnaire below and tell us about yourself:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uJbNEJThRc3TqnwbVVrd__UQWVUOOr4QSEMbMIIF--s/viewformWe welcome talent of all types and flavors. Make history and join the growing community of Peercoin volunpeers.
Media Coverage Weekly Review
Bitcoin Examiner, "Peercoin: The Low Energy Bitcoin Beater" :
http://bitcoinexaminer.org/peercoin-the-low-energy-bitcoin-beater-infographic/ReadWrite, "Bitcoin Fever Has Spawned..." :
http://readwrite.com/2013/12/03/the-bitcoin-alternative-field-guide#awesm=~opJTt4ybumG1ioVoice of Russia, "A Guide to Most Promising Cryptos" :
http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_01/A-guide-to-the-most-promising-cryptocurrencies-6351/Social Media
Forum -
http://www.peercointalk.orgFacebook -
https://www.facebook.com/PeercoinTwitter -
https://twitter.com/peercoinPPCReddit -
www.reddit.com/r/peercoinSummary
Keep the spreading the cryptocurrency gospel, folks. We've significantly raised our media profile with Sunny's CNBC interview and subsequent Peercoin references in major media outlets. We sincerely thank all of our volunpeers and activists for their valuable time and effort. The next few weeks will bring exciting developments. Our community is becoming noticeably more effective as our plans are becoming more solidified, organized, and streamlined.
In case you missed the previous editions:Issue 5
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=350553.0Issue 4
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341509.0Issue 3
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333962.0Issue 2
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=326659.0Issue 1
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321355.0
