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New User Acquisition Manager

We are delighted to have hired a new (and our first) User Acquisition Manager. Casper Niebe (Punqtured on Slack) has joined us on a part time basis. Casper is currently in charge of the Byteball Use-a-Thon in Venezuela and has hugely impressed everyone with his ability to execute on ideas amongst other things.

Casper works as a product manager at a Danish B2B telco. His career covers more than 20 years in the ISP and telco industry in positions ranging as far as systems administrator, network engineer, systems developer, head of engineering design and development, head of company mergers and strategic planning.

His educational background covers an AP degree in information technologies and a diploma in leadership and management. Both educations where completed while having a full time job, so getting things done and exercising great self discipline while working full time is definitely not new to him! You can connect with him on Linkedin.

On his onboarding Casper said:

“In Byteball, I immediately saw a platform with the potential to make a real difference in this world. Being Danish, I like to compare Byteball to a huge box of Legos. A single Lego brick isn’t particularly interesting, but when put together with other blocks and you add imagination and creativity, they become magnificent pirate ships, fierce beasts or fast cars.

I see Byteball’s features as the Lego bricks allowing everyone to tailor it completely to their need. I’m absolutely convinced it will allow young entrepreneurs to build their own businesses and make a huge impact on people and businesses. That’s why I’m thrilled to put this box of Legos in the hands of people who are able to create amazing things with it”

Byteball ambassador in Poland

We were contacted recently by Andrzej Winiarski, the owner of Youtube channel Daily Dose of Discomfort (nice name) He published this video introducing Byteball to his community (it’s in Polish). Andrzej only found out about Byteball recently, so naturally he had a lot of questions.

His audience is unfamiliar with crypto so there is potential here to introduce newcomers to the wonderful world of crypto, perhaps having Bytes as their first coin.

Byteball is targeting mass worldwide adoption and this is less likely to happen without Byteball ambassadors like Andrzej spreading the word of Bytes in multiple languages. We are very grateful to Andrzej for the work he has done so far.

New ICO using Byteball

Aworker is a new dual chain ICO using Byteball. They plan to “reinvent recruitment via recommendations and smart contracts.” Their whitepaper is here.

You can find the Aworker bot in the Bot Store.

Betting Bot now supports the World Cup

Thanks to community member neversaynever the Betting Bot now supports the World Cup. Just in time, it kicks of June 14!

Betting Bot now has an API interface

The betting bot now has an API interface which allows makers to automate their odds offers.

So yes, you can be your own bookmaker, automate your odds offers and settle bets using Byteball powered smart contracts. Pretty awesome!

The code is on Github. Thanks again to neversaynever for this update.

Videos of newcomer Masha buying Bytes

We have published two videos recently of crypto newcomer Masha trying to buy Bytes. Masha struggled in video 1, and the struggle continued in video 2. It was pretty eye opening and was commented on a fair bit on Reddit.

If you watch either video please leave a comment on Youtube, we aren’t looking for praise, just feedback!

New video formats

We are going to publish some new videos with a different format for our Youtube channel soon. These videos will have a broader appeal than what we are currently doing (but this will be an addition rather than a replacement). Stay tuned.

World Community Grid update

As you may know, our World Community Grid distribution has been paused for several weeks now. This is because WCG closed API access due to GDPR (yes the same GDPR that has probably been flooding your email inbox during the past month).

We have applied for access again but like everyone else, we just have to wait until the WCG lawyers get the Data Processing Agreement done.

With a name like IBM behind WCG and GDPR having been planned years ago, you would think this would have been done a long time ago! At least WCG have acknowledged their lack of foresight regarding this.

WCG contacted us on June 12 with this latest update:

“As many of you are aware, we’ve been working with lawyers to come up with an agreement that will serve the wishes of volunteers who use the data exports, while ensuring that we are GDPR-compliant, as defined by IBM. We did receive the agreement drafted by lawyers specifically for World Community Grid.

But since IBM is a commercial entity that focuses on selling technology solutions, we felt that the agreement drafted for World Community Grid wasn’t sufficiently geared towards volunteers.

The World Community Grid team feels strongly that, in the long run, it’s better for us to continue to work with the legal team to push for an agreement that we believe will meet volunteers’ needs as well as IBM’s needs, rather than give volunteers an agreement that is more geared towards commercial engagements and is not as relevant to a philanthropic initiative.”

Hopefully this is resolved soon by WCG.