The Nimiq Community Update — Momentum

Welcome to the Nimiq Community Update! This a community contributed write-up on what Team Nimiq have been posting in the official Nimiq discord channel alongside community led projects and content being created for Nimiq. The Community update will always remain open source & community driven.

What is Nimiq?

Nimiq is a browser-based Blockchain designed for simplicity. Nimiq’s reason for existence is to bring the benefits of blockchain technology to the mainstream. To achieve that purpose Nimiq has been built from the ground up to address and break the barriers to entry that inhibit the mainstream adoption of blockchain technologies. Nimiq is encompassed by a strong philanthropic mindset, it will always remain open-source and community-driven.

Momentum: the impetus and driving force gained by the development of a process or course of events.

Since the previous post of the NCU in Week 18, developments by Team Nimiq & the Nimiq Community have been vast from the launch of the Nimiq webshop to the creation of multiple community applications. Here’s a list of what’s new:

Official Team Nimiq updates

Reminder that the deadline for Activation is October 14. After this time Activation will no longer be supported. This also means that NET will no longer be associated with the utility of the Token of the Nimiq Blockchain.

‘Breakfast with Robin’: In this /r/Nimiq post we get a look at how the team’s current structure has been changed & what blockchain technologies Robin Linus has been researching for implementation onto Nimiq.

‘Incident report’: Following an anomalous block that caused miners using clients with erroneous code to crash, an incident report covers what exactly happened.

‘Transparency report’: This report covers the finances for the Nimiq project dating from July 9th 2017 to July 31st 2018.

Launch of the Nimiq webshop: The first iteration of the Nimiq webshop is now live! Spend some NIM to obtain a Nimiq branded shirt & cap.

Win a Nimiq-branded Ledger Nano S using cashlinks! This promotion is a preview for how Nimiq cashlinks can be used in the future.

‘Communication & Marketing Hackathons’: Following a recent hackathon that focused purely on community communication & marketing, the project has undergone a notable change in the frequency of communication between the team and the community.

Community updates

All projects featured within the Nimiq community update posts should not be viewed as endorsements, caution should be taken when visiting any website outside of the official Nimiq website.

SushiPool have released a Nimiq Explorer: Visualise the incoming and outgoing connections of a Nimiq specific address.

SushiPool are currently developing a GUI miner, check out the progress at their github.

A community created Nimiq Android wallet created by Brudaswen (Discord) is currently in testing on the Nimiq testnet. Jump through the link above to try it out.

Jump through the link above to try it out. Go check out Nimizuela’s /r/place inspired canvas! For 0.01 NIM/pixel, draw whatever you’d like!

In a blog Reto Trinkler (Trinkler Software) covers the DIY blockchain and how Agora.Trade utilises Nimiq’s HTLC (Hashed-Time Locked Contracts) to function.

Nimiq focuses almost entirely on cryptocurrency payments, there is no notion of Turing-complete smart-contracts etc. This allows Nimiq to have an unprecedentedly low storage footprint, while still allowing for full decentralisation. — Trinkler, 2018

If you’d like your community update added to the next post please contact me through the comments or @Symphonys on the Nimiq Discord!

Nimiq Network Stats — Week 21 snapshot