Weekly Nano Update: 8/27/18

Node Versions, Conferences in Chicago and Contests

**A reminder to those who run a Node or service around Nano, on September 1st, the Vote by Hash feature goes live at 00:00 UTC. Please make sure you update accordingly.**

What is Coming Next

After last weeks successful deployment of version 15.2, we now look ahead to upcoming node developments.

Version 16 is due this Saturday, September 1st. This patch is mostly cleanup and optimization of features introduced in version 15. While Lazy Bootstrapping was originally slated for version 16, the decision was made to include it alongside vote stapling in version 17.

Version 17 is tentatively scheduled for September 21st.

The Chicago Voice of Blockchain Conference

This past weekend Colin and Mica attended the Voice of Blockchain Conference in Chicago. By all accounts it was a great trip. Colin appeared on the panel focusing on scalability Friday afternoon and engaged in some lively debate alongside Jimmy Song, Marco Peereboom of Decred and Frederic Fortier of the Enigma Project.

On Saturday, several community members joined Colin and Mica at Reggies Rooftop Bar for a last minute meetup. A big thank you to everyone who was able to make it out. It is always a pleasure to meet other Nano enthusiasts and hopefully we will be coming to a city near you shortly.

Representative Video Contest

The fine folks over at The Nano Center have launched a contest for the best community created video telling users how to select and change to a trusted representative and why changing your representative is important.

To support the initiative, we would like to “up the ante” by offering each of the 3 selected winners a custom branded Nano Ledger S.

This contest, along with the initiative to increase the number of nodes operating on the network, come as our team begins to turn our focus to further decentralizing the network.