The past two weeks have been a blast for the Blocktix teams working all over the world. With the big event ofcourse being the release of our Testnet, where fifty users are currently already playing with the system we are building, creating events all over the world. Before we delve further into the testnet release we have some other updates to share with you.

Community Growth

Over the past few days we have again noticed a huge increase in our community growth. Our Discord already boasts over 850 members and our Reddit subscribers have nearly doubled over the past two weeks. Our Facebook likes and our website visitors are also following a really nice uptrend and overall the word of Blocktix is getting out there more and more.

Our Twitter is a different story sadly. In the beginning of this week we suddenly saw a growth from 3500 to over 100.000 followers. As this happened within 24 hours we’ve investigated this growth and found that our Twitter got ‘attacked’ by many fake followers. We as a company feel that organic growth is more important than boasting with a huge follower count that is not realistic at this point. We’ve thus contacted Twitter Support to look into the matter and we hope that the fake followers can be removed from our account sooner rather than later.

Exchange Update

Today we have also received the news that we now have a trading pair with the South Korean Won. The TIX/KRW pairing is now available at Upbit.com, where we got previously added with a bitcoin and ether pairing. A very exciting development while we keep working on getting more exchange additions in the near future.

TestNet Release

On the 16th of November it was that time to open the doors to our Testnet environment. Many of you requested access and we’re happy that over the past week we have had the opportunity to let fifty members of the community join the testnet and see the Blocktix system that we are building with their own eyes.

As the testnet is directly our staging enviroment changes are happening all the time. Bugs reported are being fixed quite quickly. Over the past week, since we have launched the private testnet we made the following changes to the system:

General

- App displays a notice on pages that require an unlocked wallet / account

- App refreshes properly when you change your account or network in Metamask.

- All transactions have tailored default gas limits

Event Feed

- Added distance filter and sorting by distance or date

- Added relative distance indicator to each result

- Search parameters are persisted in the URL

- You can no longer zoom out to an unreasonable level

Event Detail

- Updated ticket status messaging

- The number of tickets you can buy are properly limited by how many you already own

- Added ticket order form (click Buy Tickets)

- Added checkout page (actual purchasing of tickets is currently disabled)

- Fixed fractional price display issue

Event Editor

- Displays an unauthorized notice if your current account is not the event creator