To anyone who might have missed it before, here's Hironews Issue #2 !
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And here it is, slightly delayed : the second edition of Hironews. The aim of this newsletter is to keep you informed of all that's going on in the wonderful world of Hirocoin. Hironews will be released every two weeks.
We present our new logo ! 
We love this logo because it expresses what we stand for, and it's very easy on the eyes.
Open, friendly, professional and secure. It's simple and easy to recognise. The color green symbolizes growth.
And the logo has a Japanese vibe to it, which resonates with the name Hiro.
Congrats to Basun, who has won 36,000 Hirocoin with his winning submission.
Now that we have our new logo, we're ready to have a nice video made by a very talented artist. He's made promotional videos that we are very impressed with.
We keep your hard earned HIROs safe
The recent addition of NGW ( Nite’s Gravity Well ) is a prime example of this. NGW is cutting edge. It does a great job in mitigating a major vulnerability in KGW. Nite's fix limits the most extreme changes in difficulty by a time warp attack possible. Here's how : What an attacker can do is generate a series of blocks with future time stamps with very little spacing between them. By doing so, the attacker can pump up difficulty by a massive amount. This fix sets a minimum for the space between these spammed blocks of 1 second where in the past it could have been 0.
In layman's terms, the fix further protects the network from malicious activity, safeguarding your investment.
Just a day after the Heartbleed attack was unveiled to the world, n00bsysop and Hiro have worked around the clock to remove this threat. Web comic XKCD
made a great explanation on how Heartbleed works.
Change of management & organizational structure 
While Hiro enjoyed founding Hirocoin and getting the ball rolling, he’d rather focus on his passion : coding. He has left strategic planning in the hands of Joerii. ( yes, the writer of this newsletter ).
What does this mean for you, distinguished reader ? One thing is that the organization structure has changed, to make it easier and more inviting for new talent to join us.
Here's why Hirocoin is such a great community to joinWe now have a “departments” part of the forum where you’ll find four departments and their objectives ( at the time of writing : work in progress ). Joining a team is open to everyone who agrees with our values of transparency, cooperation and ethical behaviour. Teams are coordinated by leaders who ensure that our short and long term objectives are met. Objectives come from the Think Tank, the place where researchers and dreamers meet to brainstorm about Hirocoin. Come join one or multiple teams and grow Hirocoin into a digital currency built for the future !
Community leaders are no longer anonymous. 
Joeri "Joerii" Pross ( strategic planning and community manager ) and
Xander "n00bsys0p" Shepherd ( leader of the development department )
Joerii and n00bsys0p have decided to show their faces. It fits the new direction we’ve chosen to go in. We also think it’s good for Hirocoin’s image : we have nothing to hide and are available to anyone.
This does not mean that everyone has to do the same, but it will be required of all future leaders in our community.
New features on Hirocoin.org
“How profitable is Hirocoin to mine right now?”
“Whats the balance of my grandmothers Hirocoin wallet?”
“How do I chat with Hiro himself ?” These questions will soon be easy to answer.
- The block explorer is now online.
- n00bsys0p has ported Abe to X11. That means that he added some code to Abe that allowed it to support X11 coins, and those changes have been added to the official release of Abe . For us non-techies : We have a nice block explorer now that works like a charm.
- A Hirocoin mining calc is about to be integrated into our site.
- You’ll see how many coins you can expect and how much those are worth in the fiat currency of your choice (many currencies can be supported).
- Jabber support is in the final stages of testing.
- Jabber is the original open instant messaging (IM) technology. You’ll be able to instantly join a channel with your forum login name, no extra registering required. Better looking and with more options then IRC, and you even get a custom "you AT jabber.hirocoin.org" Jabber ID you can add any of your Jabber friends to.
Why don’t we pump Hirocoin ?
We’ve been blamed for not being more dramatic, for not making any promises and for not buying up our own coin to raise it’s price. For not releasing a new killer app every few days.
We don’t do these things because it’s against what we stand for. We follow an ethics based approach and strive to be 100% honest and transparent. Hirocoin will have to become more valuable on it’s own merit. Not only as a speculative vehicle, but as an actual means of payment and transfer of resources. And we’ll release a new feature when it’s done, or very close to it.
Marketing is part of this, manipulation and vaporware is not.
Our main objective is to become the next tier in digital currency. First there was SHA-256, then there was Scrypt, and now there’s X11. The valuable features of Hirocoin and its super community will make it the premier X11 coin.
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