Happy New Year fellow Arkies! We hope that all of you had a wonderful time with a lot of love, family and happiness. What a ride 2017 has been for Ark and what a beautiful road lies ahead of us. The future looks bright and 2018 promises to be even more spectacular. After a period of relative quietness we felt it was time to update you on what we have been up to and the progress we have made so far. Let us therefore give you an overview of our current and future activities.

First of all we would like to mention that our automated payout script seems to work as we intended here. The automatisation of the payout script caused blood, sweat and tears to drop from our foreheads, also with regards to a few big mistakes it made, as most of you probably can remember. However, without failure there is no succes. So by trial and error we achieved where we are today and we are very content with the results so far.

Besides working on the automatisation of the payout script, we went to several developer blockchain meetups across the Netherlands. For example the Ethereum meetup for developers in Rotterdam at December the 4th 2017. We think it is wise to look at what other projects are doing, so we can learn from them, share knowledge, implement good ideas in our own projects and of course promote the Ark Ecosystem. One of the main points mentioned here was that - in general - crypto API’s are terrible to work with, so Charles decided to rewrite the Ark API and is now finished with version 1.

Ethereum developers meetup Rotterdam

But that’s not it, behind the scenes we are very busy setting up our own legitimate business entity. We noticed that there is a great demand coming from organisations for people with blockchain expertise. Since blockchain technology is rather new and we are working with blockchain around the clock, we feel like we have most of the expertise organisations are looking for. Therefore we want to help organisations with understanding blockchain technology, give insights into how it could improve their business processes and help them with the implemention of it. December the 19th we presented our business proposal for a commission of the province of Gelderland and were rewarded with a cheque of €2.500 for the initial set up costs. We are very excited to become an official enterprise and transform our activities to a professional level.

Lastly, we have a lot of meetings, meetups and conferences on the agenda for the upcoming months. With the Cambridge University Hackathon in particular. We were asked by the Ark team to represent them at this event the 20th and 21th of January. They are in Miami at the Bitcoin Conference at that time, hence the replacement. Furthermore we organise a meetup in collaboration with the delegate ‘thefoundry’ on the 10th of february in Utrecht. Everyone is welcome to join! Read more about this meetup here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkEcosystem/comments/7nfgrl/ark_meet_up_in_utrecht_the_netherlands_february/

Thank you for voting Dutchdelegate! We wish you all the best for 2018. May it become a prosperous year in every aspect of your lives.

Kind regards,

The Dutchdelegate team

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