Hi Nav Coiners!
It’s time for your weekly Monday Update from the Nav Coin Team.
Navtech Anon BetaWe’ve had a busy week at Nav Coin HQ with the first round of Beta Testing of the Navtech Anon system completed successfully. We’ve made some minor improvements to the code and have re-deployed the updates to the servers. The second round of tests have begun and the test group has been widened to all 22 members of the slack channel #navtech-anon-beta. If you are interested in helping with the test, please join us on slack and get a sneak preview of the system in action!
Now we have more users, we can start to stress test the system and I will also start to add more servers into the cluster this week. I am very pleased with the testing so far. Any adjustments we’ve made have been very minor so it is looks like everything is progressing as expected.
ThunderclapWe’ve started a Thunderclap campaign to help spread the news about the new Navtech system.
The idea behind Thunderclap is quite simple, you authorize Thunderclap to post on your behalf via Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Then at the end of the campaign (October 20) it will blast out the message through everyone who has signed up and help to get Nav Coin trending on social media.
So please, go to the campaign and sign up with your social accounts!
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/47929-navcoin-powered-by-the-people Even with just the few people we’ve got signed up the campaign already has a social reach of over 60,000 people! You can see how quickly this will add up, we are hoping to gain 500 supporters of the campaign, so please head over there sign up and let all your friends know how they can help too.
Press ReleasesSophia and Mark have written our next press release and sent it for circulation. There should be a coordinated public release of the articles across all the major crypto news outlets this Thursday. The press release covers things which you will already know if you follow this thread or are signed up to our slack, but we want to broadcast the news of our recent successes to the wider public. The article focuses on the success of the first round of beta testing and the recent release of the Navtech whitepaper.
Promo VideoWe have planned and are commissioning a slick promo video for Nav Coin. It will be produced by Mark’s award winning associate Bobby Dazzler. You can check out his show reel here:
https://vimeo.com/122617955We are also going to produce some of our own which we are trying to release as soon as possible. We think that video content is a great way to engage people with Nav Coin.
ExchangesWe’ve been in contact with the admins of BTER. They previously de-listed the old Nav Coin and were unresponsive in their support channels. However they have expressed interest in re-opening their NAV markets with the new coin. Any users who had coins on BTER when they froze the Nav 1 market will have their coins upgraded to the new Nav 2.0 automatically and reinstated on their account. When this market re-opens it will mean we have a NAV / CNY pair again which is great news for our Chinese investors! If you are interested in doing business through BTER, please remember that they have been hacked in the past. So please use their service with caution.
https://bter.com Payment GatewayWe’ve been in talks with the leader of a large retail network in India. They have asked us to build a Nav Coin merchant gateway for their online retailers to accept NAV payments. We will be implementing a service for Nav Coin which is similar to bitpay. This will allow merchants to accept Nav Coin in their physical stores and also on their websites. We currently looking into our options and scoping the project. This will move from pending to in progress on the projects page shortly.
http://www.navcoin.org/projectsThat’s it from the team for this week. We are kicking goals and marching towards the public release of the Anon Network followed by its decentralization. To keep up with the latest, follow us on twitter and join us on slack!
Talk soon,
Craig.