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A new Head of Marketing and Strategy Development

We are very pleased to announce Valerius Coppens has joined us as Head of Marketing and Strategy Development. Valerius has been very active on the Byteball Slack and subreddit for some time under the handle Suirelav. He brings significant executive experience in the financial services sector to the project and is a wonderful addition to the team.

Private chat rooms now available on Byteball

With the explosion in the use of chat apps such as Whatsapp and Telegram during the past few years, it’s pretty clear many people have decided they prefer to text than talk.

Keeping with the times, Byteball community member Papabyte released this private chat room bot which enables multiple users to chat privately from within their Byteball wallets.

The bot decrypts messages and relays them to other users after re-encryption.

Easily convert multiple currencies to Bytes

Community member Tarmo888 released this currency converter for Bytes. You can use it to convert USD, EUR, GBP, BTC and many other fiat and crypto currencies into Bytes. An added benefit is it shows the conversion in Gigabytes, Megabytes, Kilobytes and Bytes.

The tool also remembers which currency you converted before, so you do not need to find it each time in the drop down menu.

Super useful and super simple to use. We suggest you bookmark or save the link, as its very likely you will use it! If you do, a $5 donation to Tarmo888 would be much appreciated.

Byteball Cashback program lowers barrier to entry

Community members btctry and ruiluntran published various resources on Github which aims to make the barriers to entry for the Byteball Cashback program for offline shops much lower. For example:

Cashback App This app makes it fast and easy for e.g. waitresses in restaurants to provide the Cashback to customers. Hopefully it will soon be added to Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Printed materials for merchants Here you can find printed material for merchants e.g. in a restaurant or at the cashier of a shop.

Great news from Venezuela

Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has ordered the country’s consular services, as well as several other services and gas stations, to accept any cryptocurrency including the nation’s own petro. This is excellent news for the ongoing Byteball Use-a-Thon in Venezuela, especially as real name attestations are approaching 20,000. Community member Punqtured gave us his current thoughts:

“Right now we have 35 teams working on creating use cases, exploring ways to utilize the Byteball platform in general. That’s 80+ young, energetic students that — apart from the prizes in the Use-a-Thon contest, know that there’s probably around $50,000 (provided 3/4 got converted to btc or sold to exchanges by now) in circulation right where they are.

If that doesn’t create at least a couple of interesting projects, I’d be surprised…….Much of this, is all about lighting the spark that ignites the rocket.”

A micro Byteball device on a microcontroller grant application

Community member neversaynever submitted this grant application (opens a PDF) for a micro Byteball device on a microcontroller. It is quite technical and has so far received mainly positive support from the community.

Bosch Hackathon recap

Our new Head of Marketing and Strategy Development Valerius Coppens published this excellent summary of the hackathon Byteball attended in Stuttgart towards the end of May.

Byteball founder and lead developer Tony Churyumoff attended the event and had this to say:

“I was there and helped the guys learn how to use chatbots, payments, smart contracts, etc. on the Byteball platform. It was a pleasure working with them! Another outcome of this event is that I had to (finally) write developer docs about smart contracts on Byteball.”

If you’re interested in the developer docs (as a growing number of developers seem to be) you can find them here.

Thank you CryptoUnicornRider

CryptoUnicornRider is a Byteball fan who champions the project on Twitter. When we say champion we don’t mean tweeting “buy Bytes, soon moon”. We mean intelligently responding to tweets such as this from Jimmy Song, a well known figure in the crypto world. Thank you CryptoUnicornRider, your support is not going unnoticed!