April, 2018 Skycoin Community Update

Skycoin is soaring to new heights!

Greetings Skyfleet members new and old. A lot has happened the past few weeks, our development teams have been hard at work. So as you take in the sights, be sure to stop for photos!

As the Skycoin team catches the windy updraft of the renewed vigor and excitement of the community, major milestones are being met in stride since our last community update in March so strap yourselves in… this month’s update is a doozy.

More Than a New Website

Do my eyes deceive me? Can I buy Skycoin through a website???

We launched our brand-new revamped website, be sure to give it a good gander! At the new and exciting Skycoin.com, we’ve built so much more than just a website for all of you to enjoy. We’ve been listening to and working with the community very closely, and we know you simply want more things SKY!

While you’re inspecting our equipment, you might notice a hot new button with the words “Buy Skycoin” on it! That’s no joke, the awesome team over at Cryptowolf helped us build and support a seamless passthru Skycoin purchase tool, right at home on our website! No need to create a new account and go through yet another signup process. With this tool you can get Skycoin at the lowest market rate available. Want to know how it works? We’ve got our own video coming soon… until then, our friends at Cryptowolf made this handy-dandy video tutorial:

One of the most common questions from new Skyfleet cadets is: “How do I buy more?” With exchanges, the playing field in cryptocurrencies is hard to trust and navigate, so we’re constantly working to make it easier to get involved and invested. This new Skycoin purchase feature is just the start of our efforts to establish Skycoin’s widespread usage as a fee-less, private cryptocurrency.

Packed With Information — The Skycoin Platform Whitepaper Released

A Cloudy Horizon Gives Way to the Obelisk

Our new whitepaper for the Skycoin platform has arrived, ready for the Skyfleet to read at your leisure. Jam packed with dozens of pages of information on the history of Skycoin, the benefits of the platform, our plans for every element of the ecosystem, and much more. The Skycoin project is so huge, one of our biggest tasks is educating our own community on all the features. So please, read it over and educate yourselves so that you can educate the flood of new Skyfleet Cadets joining our ranks every day as they catch wind of what we have in store.

Goodbye Gas, Hello Greatness: Skycoin Fiber Introduced

This month we bid adieu to Skyledger and said “bon jour” to Skycoin Fiber. You can read all about Fiber in the whitepaper linked above, as well as our Fiber Skypedia article on Medium. The most exciting aspect about the Skycoin platform is the innovative architecture that solves the scalability problems plaguing most popular blockchains today. Fiber enables certified users, from individuals to international businesses, to build upon their own peer-chain on our platform and run a custom-fit and instantly-interoperable blockchain of their own.

Skycoin Fiber is going to change the blockchain space forever.

Fiber’s interoperability features are constantly being expanded upon, but the core tenets of the Skycoin Fiber architecture are well-defined. First, enterprises will have their own blockchain with custom-tailored characteristics based on their usage needs, from renewable energy trading to gaming and from public and permissionless to private and permissioned. Additionally, they will be listed on the Skycoin platform’s decentralized exchange immediately at the inception of their blockchain, if required, so they are instantly liquid and tradable. Tokens, and their blockchains utilizing Fiber, will also be able to interact with one another programmatically and natively through processes like atomic swaps.

Coin Hours Officially Explained At Last!

One of the first questions new members ask when they come to Skycoin is “How do I get coin hours?” Well, we heard you, and what the heck are Coin Hours anyway?! And how are they different than Gas? Keep asking questions — because we’re here to answer them! Check out our Skypedia article on the Coin Hour functionality in the Skycoin platform, and all your Coin Hour concerns should be answered…

And Those Pesky Miners… Never Agreeing on a Fork — Wait, this isn’t Bitcoin!

Not to be petty, but seriously guys, our Miners aren’t what you’re used to. So we put together a Skypedia article on just what a Skyminer is, the benefit it will provide its users, and how powerful the hardware is behind the upcoming Skywire testnet. Already hundreds of Skyminers are being built and brought online around the world in expectation of our upcoming testnet and they will help us test and balance the network so all is good under the hood when we launch the official Skywire Mainnet later this year (fingers-crossed)!

Check out how many official Skyminers have been delivered around the world, AND brought online already in preparation for the public testnet!

Bitcoin You’re not the Only Offender — Let’s Talk Ethereum!

Ethereum has been around the block for a long time, and established the first legitimate smart contract platform, but its flaws still exist and are becoming more and more apparent, so check out our solutions with the platform of the future described in detail right here.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words — So Videos are Worth Millions, Right?

Skywire GUI Being Tested

With so much happening, it’s been exciting to bolster the Skycoin youtube channel with exciting content, interviews and information around the Skycoin platform.

There’s so much to be said, that we’ve also started a featured series, aptly named “Synth Speaks”, where our flight captain Synth piles on such a heaping load of technological think-talk, you should probably watch them a few times:

And, as such a fan of the man ourselves, we’d be remiss not to point out our interview spotlight with advisor, investor, and friend of Skycoin, Chris Emms.

The Team Behind the Tech — The Skycoin 2018 World Tour

Skycoin at Coin Agenda 2018

The Skycoin team has been traveling the globe to attend and speak at exciting blockchain conferences. Just a few weeks ago, we attended Coin Agenda in Puerto Rico. It was a fantastic time speaking at the event, and catching up with Skyfleet community members and our esteemed advisor attendees. Check out our super-cut spotlight of the event!