Boulton on Beta, Employment Notice and More!

Boulton RC#3 comes to the Beta Network

As the full Boulton release approaches, tests continue on the beta network with the assistance of the community beta testers. The team is assessing the performance of recent refinements, and the overall CPU and memory performance is improving. We are, however, investigating a periodic slowness with bootstrapping attempts for some testers, and hope to have it resolved shortly.

Issues related to bootstrapping can be time-consuming to diagnose, as each test can take up to 1 hour to complete. We’d like to take a moment to thank all of our beta testers, community members, and supporters who have helped with this build — Thank you!

As always, we value community feedback and reports from those operating nodes on the Nano Beta network so if you would like to participate, then head over to http://beta.nano.org for more information and instructions.

You can also track our development progress by following our Milestone Tracker for this build on our GitHub!

Employee Departure

We’d like to take a moment to formally announce the departure of Troy Retzer. We want to thank him for his incredible contributions over the past 14 months, and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

A New Treasure Hunt Discovered?

A mysterious code found hidden in an image of Matthew Boulton posted on Reddit has sparked some community intrigue and fevered investigation on our social messaging platforms.

Matthew Boulton FRS was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins and is the inspiration for version 17 of the Nano Node.

If you have a curious mind, or just love finding TREASURE, then join the fun now on the NanoTrade Discord. Go it alone, or team up with others — it’s up to you!

Thread of the Week!

Each week we will highlight one of our favorite discussions around Nano. This week’s thread of the week comes from Reddit user Qwahzi:

Here is where Nano is going (and where it’s been)

Qwahzi put together a fantastic list of accomplishments, milestones, and even some things still to come! Qwahzi states, “ Remember that it takes time to build a full ecosystem. Bitcoin was around for years before it got real fiat support and general awareness. Nano is doing the right things.”

Thanks Qwahzi!

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