Hi all, a lot of big news happened this week with Peercoin, so I just wanted to post this to keep everyone who is interested up to date (especially since there is a mandatory client upgrade coming up soon).
#1. Peercoin version 0.4
was released this week. The new version includes UI usability features, protocol adjustment for possible future p2pool support, and bug fixes. Make sure you upgrade before the 5th of May.
#2. The new wallet
allows easy unlocking for minting. To do this, go to the debug console and enter: walletpassphrase abc 99999 true, where "abc" is your password, and "99999" is whatever amount of time you want to mint for (in seconds). Make sure to clear your password afterwards (Ctrl-L). Minting helps secure the network so give it a try.
#3. Another exciting
announcement came from Peershares architect Jordan Lee, who is launching a new wallet and client that will support both Peercoin and Peershares. It is called Peerunity. This will be a community project that everyone can get involved in to add much requested features such as a minting button, coin control, nicer themes and language translations. To quote Jordan: "The days of slow or nonexistent Peercoin development are over."
#4. Sunny King also made a surprise
appearance in the chat on PeercoinTalk, mostly talking about how security in Peercoin is Proof-of-Stake only. This sparked
discussion on whether Proof-of-Work could also be used for security, instead of just distribution, but Sunny appears to be against this idea.
#5. The web developer for peercoin.net, Super3, is developing a new project for decentralized storage, that could compete with the likes of Dropbox. It's called Storj, you can read about it
here or see the
website.
Finally, it would be great to continue to spread Peercoin on social media, so please subscribe to
/r/peercoin if you haven't already, and follow Peercoin on
Twitter and
Facebook. Also check out the forum:
PeercoinTalk.
Here's last week's review on reddit in case you missed it.
