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DW thats all the devs do aswell  Grin Grin Grin copy/paste
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July 27, 2019, 06:49:58 PM
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CROWN Development update July 2019

https://medium.com/crownplatform/development-update-july-2019-52410ddf09df?source=rss----6f4062ab3257---4

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Development update July 2019
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
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Another month has flown by; it’ll be Christmas before you know it! In that time there have been some notable achievements on the Crown development fronts.
NFTs
Artem released technical documentation on the NFT framework on 20 June and v0.13.9 in testnet the next day. This is alpha software designed to foster collaborative development. There is enough functionality for developers to start developing applications and to identify problems, friction points and desirable changes or enhancements. Artem already has a list of next steps including NFT registration and trading but has spent most of the last couple of weeks working on the sandbox environment and a database corruption problem.
Crown contributor Andy D (defunctec) is working on a simple NFT generator addition to the https://crwwallet.net/ site to facilitate end-user experimentation. It will probably be available within the next few days and will allow less-technical users to create and experiment with NFTs without having to venture too close to a command line.
If you’d like to be more directly involved in testing and need any help getting started, please contact us in Discord.
Codebase update
Ashot has been ploughing through the thousands of commits which differentiate Bitcoin from Crown and carefully merging the two codebases together. He has also been working on the build environment. He has compiled all of the Bitcoin v0.17 depends but the main code compile is currently failing with Boost errors. This is very much a marathon rather than a sprint and it will be many more months before it is complete.
Most altcoins forked from Dash or PIVX or Bitcoin are forked from very old versions and very few are still under active development. Crown is here for the long term and we recognise the need to plan for the future by upgrading the existing codebase to something much more modern. This will bring security, speed and stability improvements, and allow for easier maintenance in the future.
Trezor
We are still waiting for Satoshi Labs to release the next Trezor wallet firmware upgrade. They don’t have a published timetable for doing so, but based on past update frequency we think it could well happen this month.
Additional development
We currently have only two full-time developers, but we have more development ideas than they can possibly achieve (in a reasonable timescale) on their own. We had a conference call today with Tom (press tab), the external developer of our class-leading MNPoS staking system regarding improvements to the Crown decentralised governance system. A couple of the key changes we would like to implement are on-chain voting and systemnode voting.
The current governance system is based on the early Dash governance system and is a fragile and temperamental beast. Our developers have already spent a lot of time working on stabilising and improving it. Much of the groundwork for on-chain voting has already been done, but was set aside in favour of higher priority work. We think that groundwork could be adapted to use the NFT framework to provide on-chain voting and systemnode voting at the same time.
Tom has agreed to review the not-yet activated code changes with a view to submitting a proposal for superblock payment to gradually build out the new functionality we would like to have, starting with on-chain and systemnode voting. Before even seeing the code he was able to give us (very rough) guestimates for the development effort/time required for several Crown platform enhancements.

Not prioritised possible platform enhancements
Hopefully, following the review, he will be able to leverage the existing work done by Volodymyr and Artem and submit a proposal for 5k CRW per superblock, to be matched by community contributions. At this level of funding, and with the current CRW/BTC price, an 8-point estimate task could be paid for in about 2–3 months.
This level of funding is a drop in the ocean for many newer, ICO-funded, all fluff and no substance projects. It represents a much more significant commitment for an older, honest, hard-working project like Crown. We will be counting on the continued support of the Crown whales to make these platform enhancements possible.
There is a chance the first proposal will be ready in time for the next superblock (block 2462400, expected around 18th July 2019).
Would you like to know more?
There are bi-weekly development update calls which all community members are welcome to participate in. Details are available in the #development contributor channel in Discord.
Questions, comments and suggestions are always welcome. Crown is a community project and the more engagement we have, the stronger our kingdom is.

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July 30, 2019, 08:35:36 AM
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Ok no problemo
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July 31, 2019, 08:59:39 AM
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Crown is now listed on CREX24

Crex24 is a medium size exchange focusing on masternode coins https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/crex24/

check out the new CRW-BTC pair. This gave Crown another exchange leg after Bittrex, Upbit, Cryptobridge and Litebit for CRW / EUR pair

https://crex24.com/exchange/CRW-BTC

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Do you know when the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol, also referred to as the trade name and (technically, RCS is based on the IP protocol) will be integrated into the new CROWN wallets?
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Setupmasternodes.com listed crown on the platform at launch - Welcome CRW

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To understand why blockchain is important, look beyond wild speculation on what is built below.

The Internet bubble of the 1990s is generally considered a period of mad excess that ended with the destruction of hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth. What is less often discussed is how all the cheap capital of the boom years financed the infrastructure on which the most important Internet innovations would be built after the bubble burst. It financed the deployment of fibre optic cable, R&D on 3G networks and the construction of giant server arrays. All this would make possible the technologies that are now the foundation of the world's most powerful societies: algorithmic research, social media, mobile computing, cloud services, large data analysis, artificial intelligence, etc.

We believe that something similar is happening behind the wild volatility and media hype of the stratosphere of the crypto-currency and blockchain boom. The blockchain sceptics growled with joy as cryptographic prices have fallen from last year's dizzying peaks, but they make the same mistake as the crypto fanatics they mock: they associate the price with its intrinsic value. We cannot yet predict what the high-tech industries based on blockchain technology will look like, but we are confident in their existence, because technology itself is about creating an invaluable asset: trust.

To understand why, we have to go back to the 14th century.

It was at that time that Italian merchants and bankers began to use the double-entry method of accounting. This method, made possible by the adoption of Arabic numerals, has provided merchants with a more reliable record keeping tool and has enabled bankers to assume a powerful new role as intermediaries in the international payment system. However, it is not only the tool itself that has paved the way for modern finance. That was how it had been inserted into the culture of the day.

In 1494, Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan and mathematician, codified his practices by publishing a mathematics and accounting textbook presenting double-entry accounting not only as a means of tracking accounts, but also as a moral obligation. Like Pacioli, for everything that merchants or bankers had value, they had to give something back. Hence the use of compensation inputs to record distinct balancing values: a debit coupled to a credit, an asset with a liability.

Pacioli's morally honest accounting granted a form of religious blessing to these previously disparaged professions. Over the following centuries, clean books were considered a sign of honesty and piety, allowing bankers to become payment intermediaries and accelerate the flow of money. This financed the Renaissance and paved the way for the capitalist explosion that would change the world.

Yet the system was not immune to fraud. Bankers and other financial actors have often failed in their moral duty to keep honest accounts, and they always do: just ask Bernie Madoff's clients or Enron shareholders. Moreover, even if they are honest, their honesty comes at a price. We have allowed centralized trust managers, such as banks, stock exchanges and other financial intermediaries, to become indispensable, moving them from intermediaries to gatekeepers. They charge fees and restrict access, create friction, limit innovation and strengthen their market dominance.

So the real promise of Blockchain technology is not to make you a billionaire overnight or to give you the means to protect your financial activities from curious governments. This could significantly reduce the cost of trust through a radical and decentralized accounting approach - and, by extension, create a new way to structure economic organizations.

The need for trust and intermediaries allows giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to transform economies of scale and network effects into de facto monopolies.

A new form of accounting might seem like a boring achievement. Yet for thousands of years, since the Babylon of Hammurabi, the great books have been the foundation of civilization. Indeed, the exchange of values on which society is based requires us to trust everyone's claims on what we own, what we have and what we owe. To build this trust, we need a common system for monitoring our transactions, a system that gives definition and order to the company itself. Otherwise, how else would we know that Jeff Bezos is the richest human being in the world, that Argentina's GDP is $620 billion, that 71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day or that Apple shares are trading at a multiple of the company's earnings per share?

A blockchain (although the term is loosely used and often misapplied to things that are not really blockchains) is an electronic ledger, a list of transactions. In principle, these transactions can represent almost anything. These could be real money exchanges, as is the case with the block chains underlying crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin. They could mark exchanges of other assets, such as digital share certificates. They can represent instructions, such as orders to buy or sell shares. They could include smart contracts, which are computerized instructions to do something (for example, buy stock) if something is true (the price of stock has fallen below $10).

A blockchain is a particular type of general ledger, because instead of being managed by a single centralized institution, such as a bank or a government agency, it is stored in several copies on several independent computers within a decentralized network. No single entity controls the general ledger. All computers in the network can modify the general ledger, but only in accordance with the rules dictated by a "consensus protocol", a mathematical algorithm requiring that the majority of other computers in the network agree with the modification.

Once the consensus generated by this algorithm has been reached, all computers on the network update their copies of the general ledger simultaneously. If one of them attempts to add an entry to the general ledger without this consensus or to modify an entry retroactively, the rest of the network automatically rejects the entry as invalid.

Generally, transactions are grouped into blocks of a certain size that are linked (hence "blockchain") by cryptographic locks, themselves a product of the consensus algorithm. This produces an unchanging and shared record of the "truth", a record that, if things have been well prepared, cannot be altered.

Within this general framework, there are many variations. There are different types of consensus protocols, for example, and often disagreements about the safest type. There are public registers "without permission", to which everyone can in principle attach a computer and be part of the network; this is what Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies belong. There are also "authorized" private ledger systems that do not include any digital currency. These can be used by a group of organizations that need a common recordkeeping system, but are independent of each other and may not have complete self-confidence - a manufacturer and its suppliers, for example.

The common denominator among all is that it is the mathematical rules and impassable cryptography, rather than trust in fallible humans or institutions, that guarantee the integrity of the registry. This is a version of what cryptographer Ian Grigg described as "a three-way accounting": one entry on the debit side, another for credit and a third in an unchanging, uncontested shared ledger.

The advantages of this decentralized model can be seen when comparing the cost of confidence in the current economic system. Consider this: In 2007, Lehman Brothers posted record profits and revenues, all approved by its auditor, Ernst & Young. Nine months later, a fall in these same assets led the 158-year-old company into bankruptcy and triggered the biggest financial crisis in 80 years. Clearly, the evaluations cited in previous years' books were very poor. And we later learned that Lehman's ledger was not the only one containing questionable data. American and European banks have paid hundreds of billions of dollars in fines and settlements to cover losses caused by inflated balance sheets. This was a strong reminder of the high price we often pay for trusting numbers developed internally by centralized entities.

The crisis was an extreme example of the cost of trust. But we also see that this cost is rooted in most other sectors of the economy. Think of all the accountants whose firms fill the world's skyscrapers. Their work, which reconciles their company's books with those of their professional counterparts, exists because neither party has confidence in the other's background. It is a long, costly but necessary process.

The other manifestations of the cost of trust are not in what we do, but in what we cannot do. Two billion people are denied bank accounts, which keeps them away from the global economy because banks do not trust their asset and identity records. In the meantime, the Internet of Things, which is expected to contain billions of autonomous devices interacting to increase efficiency, will not be possible if gadget-to-gadget microtransactions require the intermediation of a prohibitive cost of centrally controlled ledgers. There are many other examples of how this problem limits innovation.

Economists rarely recognize or analyze these costs, perhaps because practices such as account reconciliation are supposed to be an integral and unavoidable feature of businesses (much as pre-Internet businesses assumed that they had no choice but to pay large postal expenses by mail. monthly invoices). Could this blind spot explain why some influential economists do not hesitate to reject Blockchain technology? Many say they cannot see the justification for its costs. Yet their analyses generally do not compare these costs with the social cost of trust that new models seek to overcome.

However, more and more people understand this. Since Bitcoin's quiet publication in January 2009, the number of supporters has grown considerably to include former Wall Street professionals, Silicon Valley technology specialists and experts in development and assistance from organizations such as the World Bank. Many see the rise of technology as a new vital phase in the Internet economy, a phase that is even more transformative than the first. While the first wave of online disruption saw brick and mortar companies dislodged by leaner digital intermediaries, this movement challenges the very idea of for-profit intermediaries.

The need for trust, its cost and dependence on intermediaries is one of the reasons why giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are transforming economies of scale and the benefits of network effects into de facto monopolies. These giants are, in fact, centralized general ledger guardians, building vast registers of "transactions" in what is probably the most important "currency" in the world: our digital data. By controlling these records, they control us.

The potential promise to overthrow this entrenched centralized system is an important factor behind the gold rush scene in the crypto token market, with its rising but also volatile prices. There is no doubt that many investors, perhaps most of them, simply hope to become rich quickly and pay little attention to the importance of technology. But manias like this, however irrational they may be, do not come out of nowhere. As with the advent of the transformative platform technologies of the past - railways, for example, or electricity - unbridled speculation is almost inevitable. Indeed, when a great new idea comes along, investors have no framework to estimate the value it will create or destroy, nor to decide which companies will win or lose.

Although major obstacles remain before block chains can fulfil the promise of a more robust system for recording and storing objective truth, these concepts have already been tested in the field.

Open and freely accessible source code is the foundation of the future decentralized economy.

Companies such as IBM and Foxconn exploit the idea of immutability in projects that seek to unlock trade finance and make supply chains more transparent. Such transparency could also give consumers better information about the sources of what they buy - if a t-shirt was made with workshop work, for example.

Another important new idea is that of a digital asset. Before Bitcoin, no one could own a digital asset. Since copying digital content is easy to make and difficult to stop, providers of digital products such as MP3 audio files or e-books never give customers ownership of the content, but rent it out and define what users can do with it in a license. with severe legal sanctions if the permit is broken. That's why you can lend your Amazon Kindle book to a friend for 14 days, but you can't sell it or give it as a gift, like a paper book.

Bitcoin has shown that an element of value can be both digital and unique. Since no one can modify the registry and "double the expenses", or duplicate a Bitcoin, it can be conceived as a "thing" or a unique asset. This means that we can now represent any form of value, for example a title deed or a musical track, as an entry in a blockchain transaction. And by digitizing different forms of value in this way, we can introduce software to manage the economy around them.

As software elements, these new digital resources can be assigned certain properties "If X, then Y". In other words, money can become programmable. For example, you can pay to rent an electric vehicle with digital tokens that are also used to activate or deactivate its engine, thus fulfilling the coded conditions of an intelligent contract. This is quite different from analog tokens such as banknotes or metal coins, which are agnostic about their use.

What makes these money contracts programmable "smart" is not that they are automated; we already have that when our bank follows our programmed instructions to automatically pay our credit card bill each month. This is because the computers performing the contract are monitored by a decentralized blockchain network. This ensures that all signatories to an intelligent contract will be executed fairly.

With this technology, a shipper's and an exporter's computers, for example, could automate a transfer of ownership of goods once the decentralized software they use both sends the signal that a payment in digital currency - or a cryptographically unbreakable payment commitment - has been made. Neither party necessarily trusts the other, but they can still make this automatic transfer without the involvement of a third party. In this way, intelligent contracts take automation to a new level, allowing a much more open and global set of relationships.

Programmable money and smart contracts are a powerful way for communities to govern themselves in the pursuit of common objectives. They even offer a potential breakthrough in the "tragedy of the municipalities", the long-standing idea that people cannot simultaneously serve their personal interests and the common good. This was evident in many of the blockchain proposals of the 100 software engineers who took part in Hack4Climate at last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn. The winning team, with a project called GainForest, is currently developing a blockchain-based system that allows donors to reward communities living in vulnerable tropical forests for their demonstrable actions to restore the environment.

Yet this utopian and friction-free "symbolic economy" is far from reality. Regulators in China, South Korea and the United States have severely repressed issuers and token traders as speculative schemes to make money quickly and avoid securities laws rather than changing new business models. They are not completely wrong: some developers have pre-sold tokens in "initial parts offers" or ICO, but have not used this money to build and market products. Public or "without permission" blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, which offer the best promises of absolute openness and immutability, are facing growth difficulties. Bitcoin still cannot process more than seven transactions per second and transaction fees can sometimes increase, making its use costly.

In the meantime, centralized institutions that should be vulnerable to disruptions, such as banks, are getting involved. They are protected by existing regulations, which are ostensibly imposed to keep them honest, but inadvertently constitute a compliance cost for startups. These regulations, such as the heavy reporting and capital requirements imposed by the "BitLicense" imposed by the New York State Department of Financial Services on crypto-currency fund transfer start-ups, become entry barriers that protect incumbents.

But here's the thing: the open-source nature of blockchain technology, its enthusiasm and the growing value of the underlying tokens have encouraged a global pool of intelligent, passionate and financially motivated computer scientists to work to overcome these limitations. It is reasonable to assume that they will constantly improve the technology. As we have seen with Internet software, such open and extensible protocols can become powerful innovation platforms. Block chain technology is evolving far too quickly for us to think that subsequent versions will not be improved compared to the present, either in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency-based protocol, in the block chain oriented on Ethereum's intelligent contracts or on a platform not yet discovered.

The cryptographic bubble, like the Internet bubble, creates the infrastructure to build the technologies of the future. But there is also a key difference. This time, the funds raised are not used to purchase physical infrastructure, but social infrastructure. It creates incentives to form global networks of collaborating developers, hive minds whose offer of interactive and iterative ideas is codified in lines of open-source software. This freely accessible code will allow the execution of countless ideas that are still unimaginable. This is the foundation on which the decentralized economy of the future will be built.

While few people in the mid-1990s were able to predict the emergence of Google, Facebook and Uber, we cannot predict which blockchain-based applications will emerge from the wreckage of this bubble to dominate the decentralized future. But that's what you get with extensible platforms. From the open protocols of the Internet to the essential components of algorithmic consensus and distributed retention of blockchain records, their power lies in creating an entirely new paradigm for innovators ready to imagine and deploy applications that change the world. In this case, these applications - whatever their form - will be aimed squarely at disrupting many of the control institutions that currently dominate our centralized economy.



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Blockchain 2042: After The Deep Fake, Prepare Yourself For The Deep True

I propose a forward-looking exercise on the society of the coming decades, marked by the 4th industrial revolution. Taking as a starting point the "regime of the trace" proposed by Alain Damasio, here is an incursion into the era of the "Deep Fake" and the one that will follow it, the era of the "Deep True".

The 4th industrial revolution defined by the German economist Klaus Schwab has already begun. Its beginnings almost coincide with those of the new millennium, and are around the year 2000. And although the term was indeed first used by Schwab in 2015 and then in the book of the same name published in 2016, the vision of a major shift in the role of technology in the structure and functioning of modern society had already been clearly defined in February 2000 in the National Intelligence Council's report entitled "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Non-government Experts" and I invite you to read the latest iteration dated January 2017 : "Paradox of Progress".

This vision is based on the application of the digital revolution to the digital, physical and biological worlds, with the deployment of a multitude of new tools with fascinating potential: blockchain and cryptoassets, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous self-piloted systems, nano-technologies and super-batteries, quantum computers, biotech based on embryonic research, stem cells and DNA manipulation, and connected "intelligent" objects to name but a few. It must be understood that we are talking here about a disruption of human society through technological advances far superior to what the control of the atom's fission brought in its time. And the example taken here is not insignificant, because the main danger facing us today is the same as then: that this fascinating technology fall into indelicate hands....

And that's obviously what's happening.

Discussed in my previous article, the Deep Fake era is the first unhealthy emanation of the technological advances characterizing the 4th industrial revolution. Fake news is only the tip of the iceberg: the ability of machines (hardware and software) to produce perfectly realistic artifacts, and probably even "more real than life" will be fully operational in just a few years. It will then become possible, and easy, to falsify almost anything, whether physical or intangible. We will then wait for the stage where counterfeiting will be widespread and largely dominant in all sectors: medical, spare parts, but also reports, testimonies, recordings and telephone conversations, contracts...

Our grandchildren's generation of printers, coupled with the "Super AliExpress" which will put the most sophisticated service providers at your fingertips and 24 hours of delivery, will allow you to have just about anything made, including a copy of anything... The currency will then be completely dematerialized, and our grandchildren will laugh when they hear us tell them that it was our "before" practice to exchange printed pieces of paper for jewellery, cars, or entertainment tickets. The dollar will have lost its egemony, but that will not matter: the financial sphere will have mutated and adopted the new SFM (Super Fractionned Money) paradigm, characterized by the simultaneous cohabitation of several thousand different currencies, most of them crypto. There will always be state currencies, but they will not be the most used by the general public: each retail player of respectable size will promote its own cryptocurrency.

In this disturbing context, we will then be led to question the concept of reality and truth as we define them today. As a logical reaction and to allow "seeing clearly", the system will put in place permanent and increasingly sophisticated (and painful) controls, regardless of the type of social interaction (trade, finance, politics...). The general public will systematically doubt in the first instance before anything presented to it, suspicion becoming the norm, and fuelling conspiracy theories and other anti-system movements. Governments will try to react by over-legislating, and we will then slide into the era of the "Deep True": "certified true" labels will appear, which will be based on Blockchain technology and its comprehensive and forgery-proof public registry structure. The "truth" can emerge again, because "everything" will be stored immutably on a dedicated Blockchain. Everything will be measured, evaluated, and recorded in a Blockchain: no more need for tickets anywhere, speed cameras, speed cameras, tax controls, paternity tests... We will be tracked, recorded, geolocated and filmed continuously, and this data will be analyzed to generate automated alerts, warnings, and convictions. Data that will also be re-processed thanks to Artificial Intelligence and the results obtained resold to retail players to enable them to be even more efficient in their fierce desire to make us consume, again and again.

Retail players who will also use the power of the Blockchain and connected objects to almost completely eradicate counterfeiting: you will be filmed in all public transport locations, and the images analysed thanks to the I.A. to identify the models of clothing, bags, accessories, watches you wear. These data will be cross-referenced with those of your "Individual Blockchain" in order to verify that there is indeed a purchase trace for each item, otherwise you will be intercepted for further explanations or directly debited with the corresponding sum during a preliminary investigation...

But full traceability will not only have its downsides. Food scandals will become marginal, because everything will be perfectly measured and documented: genotype and paternity of each animal over several generations, respect for the cold chain, storage and delivery times, etc. Similarly in the pharmaceutical industry and for medical reimbursements: from the extraction of basic materials and components to final packaging, to the sale in pharmacy, everything will be precisely recorded in a dedicated Blockchain, eliminating the possibility of spreading counterfeit medicines on the market.

The fake news and other Deep Fake that have disrupted several elections in democratic countries and triggered many false scandals will be a bad memory: the slightest information will be validated before release against the facts stored in the corresponding Blockchain. The "not fake" label will be automatically assigned to content verified by an Open-Source algorithm managed by a decentralized structure.

Two small details as a corollary of this entertaining divagation:

- This scenario, plausible or not, is obviously not global. It would only concern the part of the company that could finance the establishment and maintenance of such an infrastructure. The 4th Industrial Revolution will undoubtedly be the most fascinating of all in many respects, but it will lead to a radical social fracture that risks literally splitting the world in two, and for good this time, by mercilessly excluding those "who do not have the means"...

- The concept of Blockchain applied to all sectors of society would revolutionize the world as we know it today, as we have brushed it along these lines. But it would have a huge cost, and still faces two physical limitations: the amount of data involved, and the energy required to allow its secure storage and instant access.
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I have read this on Crown Discord:
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@Contributors a proposal for my July work

The testnet NFTs build seems to be stable, not many bugs were found. Thanks to everyone who helped to test it, but I beleive there are bugs we haven't found yet so I expect them to reproduce in the future. I'm working on the 2nd phase of impelementing and preparing NFTs for the mainnet release. Right now I'm implementing the NFT protocols management. The estimated date for the mainnet release is 27th of September (date is a subject to change).

Vote YES:  mnbudget vote-many 22d0a4550f81af5269e0bb4ec21f325fe6ea81cb102107e988ec52e519e0a1ae yes

Vote NO:  mnbudget vote-many 22d0a4550f81af5269e0bb4ec21f325fe6ea81cb102107e988ec52e519e0a1ae no
you can keep track of the development on this board: https://gitlab.crown.tech/crown/crown-core/-/boards/54?label_name[]=Release%20Emerald
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There is some new material to publish from Medium at :
https://medium.com/crownplatform/development-update-august-2019-8f1730ac7e26

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https://medium.com/crownplatform/development-update-august-2019-8f1730ac7e26Development
CROWN update August 2019
A rundown of events since the July development update
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Holiday season
Various contributors have been, or currently are, on holiday. Development, however, is still progressing on several fronts and not only code.
NFTs Artem (Dev) has partially resolved the database corruption issue mentioned last time and is still working on the registration and trading aspects of the NFT framework. He expects to include registration in the next testnet release which could occur this month or early in September. Mainnet release is expected with the codename “Emerald” version of Crown by the end of September 2019.
NFT framework testing has so far not thrown up any major bugs. One issue regarding which pubkeys can be used for NFT creation has been identified and addressed. Artem is sure there are a few bugs still hiding in the code and would very much appreciate more people joining the testing effort. If you’re interested the best place to start would be Artem’s article.

Simple online wallet at https://crwwallet.net has built-in NFT generator
The simple NFT generator mentioned in the last update is now available for anyone to use. It was created by Crown contributor @defunctec and is hosted at https://crwwallet.net/crown-nft-generator-testnet/. You can even generate NFTs directly from your Android phone because crwwallet.net is also available as an app from Google Play store. One caveat regarding its use: the list function only shows NFTs created by the tool.

Community have applied to join, and been accepted by The Non-Fungible Alliance.
Crown will be listed among their members following the next website update. We hope this will bring increased awareness of Crown NFTs to a wider audience and provide more opportunities for collaboration with other organisations.
We are aware of a handful of use-cases already being developed on the NFT framework. We don’t have many details nor expected timeframes for release other than sometime after the mainnet release around the end of September. If you’re working on a project which uses the NFT framework please let us know.

Codebase
Ashot was on holiday for a couple of weeks but is making good progress on the Bitcoin codebase update.
He has also been working on a small side-issue: creating a “chainwalker”. This is so that Flipside Crypto https://www.flipsidecrypto.com/go-beyond-price who generate the ratings for CoinmarketCap can get a better idea of the level of our development activity and hopefully raise our rating from the disappointing level it currently has.

Trezor
We are still waiting for Trezor to release updated firmware containing the changes required to support Crown. Unfortunately, we don’t know when this will happen and it’s not something we have any influence over. We’ll announce it as soon as we’re aware of any new firmware release but you could keep an eye on their blog too at https://blog.trezor.io/.
Other stuff
We are in the early stages of a collaboration with Easybit to get Crown into their ATMs. It will probably be a few months before this comes to fruition.

Multi crypto node setup, management and monitoring
Crown contributor @void of cryon.io has created a node management suite which can be used by individuals or hosting providers to manage any number of nodes in a simple and consistent way. He summarised the functionality in the Crown #development Discord channel on 11 July. You can read more about it in his Discord server or at Github https://github.com/cryon-io.
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August 14, 2019, 01:47:51 PM
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https://medium.com/@busyman.cz/time-stamping-intellectual-property-of-startups-on-the-blockchain-using-nfts-5edd207decd5

Time-stamping intellectual property of startups on the blockchain using NFTs

Startups need to have their intellectual property secured
Busyman is a startup platform connecting ideas with angel investors established in Prague in 2010. It has facilitated investments of over 10 mil EUR into over a hundred early stage startups from central Europe. Idea makers, innovators, businessmen or people with progressive ideas come to Busyman looking for smart money angels, who are willing to share their life business experiences and help to grow these brave ideas. Money is only part of the added value angels bring to the table, their know-how and contacts is what matters more to founders. Busyman has a database of over 1000 European angels and it is aggregating a professional club of angel investors who are ready to invest into well-prepared pre-seed and seed ideas. The protection of intellectual property of these startups should not be underestimated, since the majority of these early stage businesses only have their breakthrough ideas to share with the world.

The philosophy behind timestamps on the blockchain
We have observed that in many specific cases, it is very challenging to protect ideas, especially from next generation economies such as information technology, machine learning, virtual reality, blockchain technology and other non-tangible asset sectors. Patent offices do not offer this protection and if they do, the process of applying is slow and not very flexible. Also, once the patent application is approved in a country specific patent office, for instance in the Czech Republic, all the details of the patents become available online to the world and basically anybody can copy the know-how, unless the patent application is submitted in most countries in the rest of the world, which is almost impossible and extremely expensive for early stage startups. Nobody in the startup industry wants to spend their energy on administration tasks, their efforts need to be directed towards scaling their ideas and becoming a business generating income.

We are of the opinion that timestamping of specific know-how and intellectual property on the blockchain could be an alternative to this old and ineffective system that is currently in place.

How would NFT timestamps on the blockchain work?
Busyman currently aims to use the public blockchain of Crown Platform (CRW) to the purpose of protecting start-up ideas through the soon to be launched NFT (non-fungible tokens framework), which enables the registration of basically any forms of digital and physical assets on the Crown blockchain. The main reason behind this is to protect individuals with high-quality business ideas from having their ideas plagiarised by third parties. The problem needs solving with a long-term capability of enabling individuals to capitalize on their business ideas and creativity and bring a certain degree of automation to the idea protection space.

To solve this complex problem, Busyman is currently working with the following three parameters:

1) Positive protection: The protection of ideas against plagiarism by third parties is complicated, because patent right is a question of national sovereignty, hence depending on the laws and regulations of a given country. Thus, instead of protecting ideas against plagiarism, Busyman aims to build an open environment which will help to protect ideas for their development. That means protecting investment ideas from third parties by getting them on the road as quick as possible and pushing them toward rollout as soon and stable as possible.

2) Templatization: To solve the problem of comparability between different ideas (i.e. in order to judge whether an idea has already existed or not), a certain degree of templatization is needed. That means to break down business ideas to certain parameters. These parameters include but are not limited to a) business parameters, b) technical parameters, c) feasibility and scale parameters.

3) Community drive: An aspect of protection of ideas is the degree of acceptance of a given rule. That is, law is powerful because it is obeyed and commonly shared by a society’s participants intersubjective world. A strong community drive in the setup of the protection process gives it further legitimacy. If the community can contribute to the process, it is more likely to be taken as a reference for the novelty of ideas.

But how would the flow of the idea work in the real world? In order to push ideas toward their realization, we have devised the following procedure as a mechanism of submission and elaboration of ideas, protected through blockchain and allowing for quick collaboration in the given contexts.
Ideas basically become code to which contributors from all sorts of backgrounds add respective value and get part of the idea value back depending on their contribution. Similarly as we can see in many blockchain projects such as Crown. Yes this is a vision how the idea economy will work in the future, but NFTs enable us to start now by locking the initial “idea value”, assign a concrete ownership and place it on the blockchain.

Will this approach work?
Naturally the protection of ideas on the blockchain will initially never be as strong as the one provided by patent offices. The main point in supporting this case is the fact that founders will have the option to open their know how to the world (similarly as Elon Musk did with his Tesla patents) while securely claiming ownership. This should attract more talent and capital in case the idea is a breakthrough. Those founders who will not be interested to open up their know-how should have an option to keep it secret, that is perfectly fine. Both models — opened and closed should be able to co-exists next to each other. In the closed model case, if anybody misuses the idea, and for example in 5 years from the time a NFT was created, the know-how is used by someone else, the creator can prove to the world that he was the one who initially came up with that specific idea.
The world today is driven by social networks and communities (including the raising blockchain communities) as we have mentioned earlier in our text. These powerful forces can easily help idea makers to point their fingers towards those who are using ideas without proper rights. We believe that internet societies powered by blockchain might act as the force of good behaviour not only inside the network, but in the real world as well.

Next steps
Busyman will most likely license the NFT tool, which was developed by a long term Crown community contributor “defunctec”. Once the Crown Platform tech lead Artem Brazhnikov finishes the work on the NFT framework and the release into mainnet happens towards the end of September 2019, the Busyman NFT timestamping service should come online soon afterwards.
Initially, it will enable startups to register their intellectual property such as company names, logos, specific know-how as a Non-Fungible Token on the Crown blockchain. At a later stage and depending on the development of the NFT framework running on the Crown Platform, there will be other interesting features such as trading of these registered assets creating a market of breakthrough ideas and intellectual property.


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At @CrownPlatform we have been working for a very long time on designing and implementing expanded Registry APIs that we have called the NFtoken Framework. This solution is currently in testnet and will see the light in mainnet with the Crown Core "Emerald" v0.14.0 release in September.  Digital artist @Passione43 has registered the first artwork "Crown Town" on the Crown testnet chain. You can see it here: https://crwwallet.net/author/passione43/

We sincerely invite you to use the pilot app crwwallet.net to register sample works and learn how to use the APIs. We will be happy to feature your artworks and give you visibility through our social media.

For a guide on how to register files using the app:
https://crwwallet.net/nft-guide-testnet/

You can also download the app for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nodemerger.crwwallet

For a technical document explaining the NFToken framework:
https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76

If you are a techie and want to directly run testnet node to try out the framework there or develop your own 3rd party registry solution powered by Crown, you can download the Crown Core v0.13.9 testnet build here:
gitlab.crown.tech/crown/crown-core/pipelines/1076

You can also watch a registration demo performed by code lead artem at UNCHAIN Convention Berlin:

https://youtu.be/drM_IBZIuBs

By registering a doc or file any user can prove:
- ownership (through vinculation of the nft to a keypair)
- existence (through the timestamping of the file hash)
- authenticity (combined through the exclusivity of the hash within the network + nft information above).

Feel free to reach out with any questions. All we want is that people find the framework useful and capitalise on it!

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Our code lead Ashot is working on bringing the BTC part of the Crown code to Bitcoin 17.1, half of the merge is done, the other half will take him a month followed by community testing. Looking forward to this, seems that after the NFT Emerald Release https://coinmarketcal.com/en/event/emerald-release-24308 the next Crown release will be with the updated Bitcoin code

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Our code lead Ashot is working on bringing the BTC part of the Crown code to Bitcoin 17.1, half of the merge is done, the other half will take him a month followed by community testing. Looking forward to this, seems that after the NFT Emerald Release https://coinmarketcal.com/en/event/emerald-release-24308 the next Crown release will be with the updated Bitcoin code

be actually awesome if people can upvote our upcoming Emerald release

https://coinmarketcal.com/en/event/emerald-release-24308

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Farid Tejani, a Crown contributor in London www.faridtejani.com is launching CrhonoVault (https://chronovault.co) -  a blockchain-enabled asset register for luxury goods which will be using Crown's NFTs for the registration of these goods. Talked to Farid last week and he confirmed that Chronovault will enable the NFT registration feature soon after Crown releases into mainnet in the second half of September. Awesome to see usecases lining up.

Read about the NFT solution here

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76

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Farid Tejani, a Crown contributor in London www.faridtejani.com is launching CrhonoVault (https://chronovault.co) -  a blockchain-enabled asset register for luxury goods which will be using Crown's NFTs for the registration of these goods. Talked to Farid last week and he confirmed that Chronovault will enable the NFT registration feature soon after Crown releases into mainnet in the second half of September. Awesome to see usecases lining up.

Read about the NFT solution here

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76


so far these are the Usecases lined up for NFTs:

1. Busyman intellectual property protection tool https://medium.com/@busyman.cz/time-stamping-intellectual-property-of-startups-on-the-blockchain-using-nfts-5edd207decd5

2. Chronovault.co - a blockchain-enabled asset register for luxury goods such as oldtimer watches

3. Digital artists registering their art on the Crown blockchain
https://twitter.com/crownplatform/status/1159464673399496704?s=12



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Just began researching Crown.  Longtime masternode operator, but my level of involvement in other projects has kept me head-down for a long time.  So, I have a few questions.

  • What sets Crown's NFT platform apart from any other platforms offering ERC-721 alternatives?
  • To what degree is the NFT platform scalable?  If it is highly scalable, how?  I like it when projects pursue scalability in a proactive manner.
  • Does Crown produce superblocks?  If so, how often, and how much is generated?
  • Are governance proposals & voting records retained historically?  If so, where can I view this?  Would especially review proposals where Core design decisions were made via governance & carried-out.
  • MM-PoS...  does this imply masternodes are block producers?  Anything you'd like to tell me about this structure?
  • Was any other means of consensus used prior to MN-PoS?  If so, what was it, and why did it end (honestly)?  Not particularly a fan of PoS nor its variations, but I have an open mind.

I might have more questions, but this is all for now!  Many thanks in advance.

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Just began researching Crown.  Longtime masternode operator, but my level of involvement in other projects has kept me head-down for a long time.  So, I have a few questions.

  • What sets Crown's NFT platform apart from any other platforms offering ERC-721 alternatives?
Please see https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76
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  • To what degree is the NFT platform scalable?  If it is highly scalable, how?  I like it when projects pursue scalability in a proactive manner.
We expect NFT framework to be highly scalable since each token operation is recorded as a transaction and there is currently lots of free space in each block.
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  • Does Crown produce superblocks?  If so, how often, and how much is generated?
Yes, every 43200 blocks (approximately 30 days). Each superblock produces a governance fund of upto 54000 CRW.[/quote]
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  • Are governance proposals & voting records retained historically?  If so, where can I view this?  Would especially review proposals where Core design decisions were made via governance & carried-out.
Governance is not (yet) recorded on-chain. Some individuals may have retained records of past proposals, you could ask in Discord
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  • MM-PoS...  does this imply masternodes are block producers?  Anything you'd like to tell me about this structure?
Yes, masternodes and systemnodes are block producers. Please take a look at https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-masternode-and-sytemnode-proof-of-stake-consensus-system-mnpos-e6780ef534b3 for some technical details.
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  • Was any other means of consensus used prior to MN-PoS?  If so, what was it, and why did it end (honestly)?  Not particularly a fan of PoS nor its variations, but I have an open mind.
Crown was originally a Bitcoin SHA-256 derivative, then merge-mined with Bitcoin. In April 2019 we switched to unique, specially commissioned MN-PoS (actually both masternodes and systemnodes stake) for block creation.
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I might have more questions, but this is all for now!  Many thanks in advance.
Please come and join us in Discord with any additional questions.

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