What’s up, BEAMers? We are delighted to see you here back again. During the last two weeks, team BEAM and the community have been thrilled with the significant event that occurred — the first BEAM Hardfork, featuring support for Confidential Assets, support for HTLS that enables payment channels, PoW requirement to post an SBBS message to prevent spam and a new minimum fee. After the Hard Fork occurred, team BEAM witnessed a significant drop in difficulty, the reason being that not all the miners performed a timely upgrade — read how it was from the point of a team. You can also learn how to deal with this update via the BEAM 2 Mining Guide, provided by VoskCoin. Development was represented by several enhancements on Wallets, CLI+API, Laser Beam, Android, IOS and Linux applications. Excluding merges, six authors have pushed 26 commits to master and 60 commits to all branches. On master, 92 files have changed, and there have been 4916 additions.

BEAM social activity was also impressive. The team attended F2Pool Mining Meetup in Moscow; numerous events and meetups are planned — check our update not to skip any of them! Lots of articles and videos about BEAM in many different languages have appeared recently. Read why Privacy Coin Beam Conducts First Hard Fork Away From ASICs and watch Alexander Zaidelson talking Mimblewimble, Grin, Road to Decentralization, Stablecoins, and Bitcoin. Learn why Guy Corem believes that Interest in Mining BEAM in the US is skyrocketing and what can you spend your BEAM token on. The community keeps growing — there is a stable increase in the number of subscribers in social networks. Besides, the new community art-page is available. Don’t back the wrong horse — stay with Paradigm!