Mid-month General News Update — Jan 2015Staking fixAll is going well. It's happening! However, EasySend-on-the-Blockchain might have to wait for another day; See neurocis's most recent update about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/piggycoin/comments/2r32jc/staking_fix_hard_fork_scope_of_changes/cnnaq51Reddit tipbotThis has been being tested, and is working. It may be moving servers right now, but will soon be officially 'announced' :@)
Android walletSome progress has been made on this recently, and we now have a functional alpha version. Send and receive are working. Items left to address are user interface improvements and SSL functionality.
LitePaidYou'll recall that we have a retailer who'll accept PiggyCoin if we get on LitePaid.
LitePaid got back to us asking if we were planning to be added on Bittrex or Cryptsy, because their system doesn't work with Poloniex yet. We've responded to ask if they have any plans to get it working with Poloniex soon and are waiting for a response.
ExchangesI asked for more details about what happened during the delisting from Bittrex, as a Piggy supporter was saying that he had put a .8 BTC buy in that should have prevented our delisting. Bittrex said:
Depending on what the trade for 0.8 BTC was made, it could have been outside the window when we checked the volume and delisted the coin. It's much better to spread trades out rather than have 1 big trade.
It seems that Bittrex
still own a lot of PiggyCoins, so things don't look
too bad if we wanted to try to get back on Bittrex.
However, note that Bittrex now require .2 BTC per day of trades (= 1.4 BTC a week) to keep a market open. (
https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202583874-Bittrex-Market-Removal-Policy-Updated ) They've explained to me on IRC that the fees they collect from that amount of trading are less than what it costs them to run a market for a coin.
There's another service we're thinking of starting that has an interface with Bittrex. I don't want to say anything more until it's more definite though.
Bittrex or Cryptsy, what do people like? I think we'll also be interested in trying to get on other exchanges that have active chatboxes where we can promote PiggyCoin. That's once the hardfork wallet is ready.
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Mo of the PiggyTeam