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At the time of writing there are 35 teams registered from the Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela as part of the Byteball Use-a-Thon. Needless to say, the number is higher than expected. Around 6,000 email addresses were attested from the university during the first week (that’s not a typo, yes 6,000)!

In fact interest was so great we had to remove the usb.ve domain as eligible to receive attestation rewards. This was due to concerns from the university about the volume of Byteball emails entering their mail server.

The competition is not affected, the only change is that now we can no longer reward users for attesting their email address.

Byteball at Blockshow Europe in Berlin

On Monday and Tuesday of this week several team members visited Blockshow Europe in Berlin. Steve Safronov, Partner and Head of Business Development spoke on a panel regarding next generation blockchains.

There are also photos of Byteball team members and some unknown purple figures. Elena Tairova, Head of PR and Communications gave some insight as to what went on:

“Steve Safronov along with Ripple´s CTO David Schwartz and other panelists shared some thoughts on what awaits the crypto field in the near future. Steve believes that it’s not long till we see mass market adoption (2–3 years), while other panelists predictions were rather vague or sceptical. The rest of the time the team was busy doing interviews, meeting fellow crypto folks and talking, talking, talking!”

Check bots, witnesses and attested assets on a new website

Community member Fabien launched byteball.co which allows users to view information on bots, witnesses and attested assets. For example, you can now see all bots on the Byteball platform without downloading a wallet.

Of course we want people to download wallets, but for newcomers and marketing purposes it definitely helps that we can give everyone a glimpse of what Byteball is all about without them installing a wallet.

Fabien also launched Timeline which is best explained in his words

“You can now generate a new Byteball address online (for free), login with it and publish a post with markdown text on the Byteball chain with Timeline (kind of Steemit like feature without vote, follow, trending or rewards…). You will need to load your newly created account with a few bytes to publish a post (don’t send more than 1MB because there is no method to send back bytes to another account yet.)”.

Byteball Internet of Things first real life example

This very short video was just published demonstrating an electrical device communicating with the Byteball network. The first baby steps Byteball is taking to enter the IoT sphere!

If command line and an unknown electrical device don’t make much sense to you, imagine in the not too distant future it could be your cell phone communicating with your air conditioner over the Byteball network.

Translation update

The Crowdin project previously known as “Byteball betting bot” has been renamed to “Byteball Bots” to allow for more bots to be translated in the same project. This has a number of benefits such as:

- We can add more bots as they are created.

- All bots will share the same translation memory, making consistency between different bots much easier.

- Project-wide glossary is now possible, allowing easier proofreading and better translation-suggestions.

- Adding a new language will automatically be reflected in target languages of all bots.

If you would like to help out with translations please contact Punqtured.

Binaryballs is now connected to Bittrex

As a result of several traders complaining that the update of the Byteball exchange Oracle data is too slow for an optimal trading strategy, binaryballs has switched to a new data feed directly provided by Bittrex as its new assets price Oracle.

Bittrex is one of the largest exchanges in the world, so rest assured Bittrex will provide accurate and reliable data to our traders.

Assets prices are now refreshed every 10 seconds instead of several minutes. The trading experience is now better and optimal entry/exit strategies can now be much more accurate. Further, assets prices are now listed relative to Bitcoin instead of the US dollar.

Website update

We hoped to have the updated website launched by May 31, but it’s a bit behind schedule, perhaps several weeks.

Note: it’s not a full redesign we are doing, but rather an update to the current design. Without going into the full details, the website update was started several months ago, and since then team members have both left and joined. It is likely things will be updated again soon once the current update is done.