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Nxt Source code released a month early!

Read here what is planned next

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Funding Committees Voting

• Voting for the Funding Committees has started. You can apply to rickyjames for a code to vote. Running results can be viewed here.

Clients

• Nxt Solaris version 2.1 has been released.
• Nxs version 0.3.6 has been released.

Community Addons

• jl777 opened a github for his multi gateway exchange. He is looking for help with the project. Here you can find a description of the project.
• Shoutout for developers for lightweight Nxt tool for Windows or Mac.
• jl777 gives an update on the NxtCash project.
• NxtPool.net is closing. The domain is for sale.
• CIYAM gives a description of atomic-crosschain transactions. The stakeholder of the 50 million Nxt acount responds to a bounty request for this, but has some conditions.

Marketing

• Nxt is now Gold Sponsor of Songs of Love after raising over $5000 in Nxt.
• apenzl has an idea about Nxt becoming the national curreny of Christiania, Copenhagen.
• Mintpal will not be implementing Nxt due to technical difficulties. All voting payments will be refunded.
• A video by investor Marc de Mesel.
• Updates on the Texas Bitcoin Conference: here and here.
• d13id has made a new Nxt Introduction video. You can donate to him on account 8987437801852093688.

Concepts & discussion

• 90% protection has been figured out by CfB and CIYAM.
• Here is an interesting article related to the Nxt Asset Exchange possibilities.
• Nxt Improvement Proposal by CIYAM: Adding “meta information” to Arbitrary Messages.
• For developers: you can find the TestNet docs here.
• There has been a discussion about locking the BCT thread and migrating to forums.

Miscellanious

• Xio has plan for a site and is working on it.
• Nxt Mobile Company shares update.
• Here are the top 500 posters in the BCT thread up till now.

Clients

• There is a new version of wesleyh’s Nxt Wallet client.

Charity

• The fundraiser for Songs of Love has ended. Today we sent 114571 Nxt (~ $ 5400) to Songs of Love. John Belzer, the founder of Songs of Love has this to say to you:

“The Nxt community is the most compassionate group that we have so far come across in the cryptocurrency world. We are eternally grateful to you John for spearheading this most amazing campaign. We will be delighted to bring Nxt in at the 5,000 sponsorship level and we will be giving you the full back page of our event program as well as top billing on our event web site at www.songsoflove.org/LA. Please provide us with the logo you would like to see displayed on our site and event program. I addition, I was so moved by your effort that I still want to come up with the Nxt theme song. I would like to work with you on the various elements you’d like included in the lyrics of the song. You can reach out to me for a discussion about this.”

• 12 tickets for Songs of Love benefit in LA are available. Please contact Justabit for more information if you are interested.

Concepts and discussions

• rdanneskjoldr has an idea for betting with Nxt.
• New tests are being run for the Forging algorhythm.
• BIG discussion on the role of BCNext and his communication.

Marketing

• Here is the brochure for the Texas Bitcoin Conference.
• Nxt will be represented at the coinsumm.it conference in San Francisco by NxtMinnow (Brian Snyder). He will be speaking on the Decentralized Applications Panel with Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum.org and David Johnston of Mastercoin on a panel moderated by Adam Levine of Let’s Talk Bitcoin.
• Nxt has been included in an article on alternative digital currencies in der Spiegel.

Community Projects

• CIYAM offers us the use of his project site CIYAM Open.
• jl777 automated multisig DOGE gateway has been launched in a test version.
• The Nxt Mobile Company IPO has started.
• lyynx looking for web developer (Java, JQuery, Ajax, PHP/Ruby) for the frontend of a Nxt/BTC echange.

Nxt Shops

• www.edcbelts.com is now accepting NXT for his fantastic custom hand crafted Every Day Carry Belts.
• www.nxtshop.eu, a shop for promotional Nxt items has opened.

Funding committee voting!

• The voting for the Funding Committees will start tomorrow. You can read the statements by the candidates here.

At the moment the BCT thread is enormously active, but mainly with discussions.

Today was a hectic day in which some frustration with the model of communication that BCNext has chosen was aired and the reactions of the community to that. Suffice to say that it was a stormy day! However, I have committed to report only practical things like applications being released, because I too have my opinions and do not want to use this blog as a platform to push that opinion. I want this site to be as unbiased as possible, and so even summarising the discussion for me is a no-no.

Due to the amount of discussion there is less “tangible” stuff to report, or just the other way around. Maybe we all just have too much time on our hands! Who knows? For now I have decided to switch temporarily to a two-day format for the summaries, so I can present a filled list to you.

It also gives me time to develop some other ideas I have to either make this site into something different, or to work with some other people to create something else for Nxt.

So, until tomorrow, for the Nxt Summary!

NRS Client Update 0.8.3 (stable)

Math, concepts and discussions

• Today CIYAM Open ran a lot of simulations on the Nxt forging process to try and see if Nxt is as safe as it claims to be. This was done after a two day discussion on how the forging process works and could work. User mthcl helped with the mathematical proof of these concepts. I freely admit this frequently goes over my head, but it is vital work and I am happy that so many talented people are chipping in to actually come up with models. Lots of hours go into this, so if you are feeling generous, donate them some Nxt or come into the thread to say “Thank you!”
• An idea for Nxt insurance has been proposed.
• Pouncer asks for a Proof of Existence development so Companies can register themselves on the blockchain.
• A discussion about escrow services in Automatic Transactions.

Clients

• Version 0.3.4 of the Nxs client has been released.

Community Addons

• A Nxt Apps thread has been opened.
• jl777 gives an update on automated multisig gateway status.

Funding committees

• Nominations have closed. Voting will start in the first of March.

Miscellanious

• User lyynx wants to start a Nxt Scholarship fund.
• klee donated a million NXT to the Brain Preservation Foundation. You can read the press release here.

I have a bit of a problem summarising today, as the day was again mostly taken up with the discussion about forging and the rewards it should or shouldn’t bring. This is not a bad thing, as forging and Transparent Mining are what makes Nxt unique and the discussion is thus a fundamental one. However, the discussion is so deep and far-reaching, I cannot in good conscience summarise it. For those who are really interested, the only way is to go in there and read and then think and read some more. The discussion is vital for how we decide (and yes, it’s WE who get to decide this!) how Nxt protects and incentivises its network and nodes.

However, apart from this discussion, a few other things have happened:

Asset Exchange

• At the moment, another round of Asset Exchange tests is being run. If you want to participate, jump into the thread and ask for Testcoins. Most current clients will work on the Testnet. Find them at nxtclient.org.

Clients

• wesleyh’s client now is available for download. This downloadable version should still be considered to be in beta-stage.

Sites

• nynxt.org has been updated.

Marketing

• The Nxt Newsletter, issue three, can be found here.
• User lurning has contacted Humble Bundle to see if they want to work with Nxt.

Miscellanious

• jl777 has a plan for using AE-coins for aggregating CPU power.
• Here you can find an idea to use Nxt for DRM.
• The Nxt Mobile Applications Company has released their business plan for the public.

NRS Client Update 0.8.1e (experimental)

 

Clients

• mynxt online wallet giveaway update.

Community Addons

• Alpha release of an Automatic DOGE -> Nxt AE gateway exchange by jl777.
• The mynxt site is now featuring charts.
• User xyzzyx has made a bash script for multisending transactions.

Concepts and discussions

• Both of these days (starting at page 1897) have been filled with an in-depth discussion about the fees, Transparent Mining and forging. It’s much too complicated to summarise, but good reading if you want to see how people are discussing this critical feature of Nxt.
• The Automated Transactions  (AT) dev group has come up with some new idea: Crowdfunding via Nxt.
• You can now donate to the AT group.
• A proposal for a Nxt microcredit system.

Marketing

• SWARM for adding Nxt to various exchanges. Please participate if you haven’t already!
• We still need around 32 registrations for being added to Bittrex. Please do so!
• You can see a new video about the Greenness of Nxt here.
• We are SWARMING to get merchants on coinpayments.net to add Nxt.

Charity

• Here is a proposal and site for a new format for charities being funded in Nxt.
• The Songs of Love charity now stands at 43953 Nxt. You can still donate on Nxt account 4636321498642303120. All your donations till we reach 100,000 Nxt will be doubled. This donation closes on the 28th of February.

Miscellanious

• Nxt is now three months old!
• klee has made a mystery donation of 2,500,000 Nxt. More news to follow.
• Account 7017504655955743955 has been giving out a lot of donations on 23 February. Thank you very much!
• Jean Luc (developer) wonders if it would be a good idea to release the source code ahead of time on the 1st of March.

Funding committees

• On the first of March the voting for the committee members will start. You can find their statements here. If you want to run for election, please make your statement in that thread.