This Week in Blockstack #4

NEWS

Muneeb recently joined an AMA with over 8,000 people on BiHu, a Chinese digital community.

→ Read the recap.

→ Take a look at the transcript.

The UX team is still accepting feedback on the new Blockstack authenticator.

→ Try the new authenticator.

→ Share your thoughts.

→ Watch the live session with the UX team.

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COMMUNITY

Blockstack PBC Head of Product, Jeff Domke gave a presentation on delegation services to the PoX and Business Model working groups.

→ Watch the recording.

Working groups are now meeting weekly!

→ Join the #overview channel to see the new schedule.

→ Go to the community calendar to learn more about specific sessions.

An #ask-me-anything channel has just been launched in Discord. Upcoming AMAs include discussions with PBC Full Stack Engineer, Reed Rosenbluth, Production Partner, Xan Ditkoff, Head of Engineering, Diwaker Gupta, and Engineering Partner, Jude Nelson.

→ Join the channel.

Governance researcher, Lane Rettig is working on a community survey to help move Blockstack's governance proposal forward.

→ Contribute to the survey.

→ Read the first governance update.

Evangelist, Shankar Ganesh recently led a Zero-to-Dapp workshop for student developers at the DotSlash 2.0 hackathon.

→ View the photos here.

Dmails is officially changing its name to Pravica.

→ Read the message by the founder.

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DEV

A new version of Gaia (v2.8.0) has just been deployed to the official PBC hub.

→ View the changes in detail in the changelog.

The Stacks blockchain engineers recently shared some updates on SIP-007, the Stacks 2.0 testnet, and the Clarity VM.

→ Read about these updates in detail on GitHub.

Community members, Marvin and Talha tuned in to the latest Community Dev Call to discuss security and app updates.

→ Watch the full recording here.

→ Read notes from the meeting.

The Pravica team uncovered a potential security issue within some Blockstack apps.

→ Join the discussion and contribute to the solution.

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EVENTS

→ Blockstack will participate as a sponsor at the #cmdf2020 "Change the Norm" hackathon celebrating women in tech from March 7–8th.

→ Evangelist Georgina is partnering with Codemotion to host a webinar on Blockstack on March 10th at 7:00pm CET.

→ Full Stack Engineering Partner, Reed Rosenbluth will be hosting an AMA on the latest version of Gaia on March 9th at 10:00am EST.

→ Production Partner, Xan Ditkoff will be hosting an AMA on March 12th at 11:30pm EST.

→ Head of Engineering, Diwaker Gupta, will be hosting an AMA on March 13th at 10:00am EST.

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WATCH, LISTEN, READ

→ Refine your understanding of Proof of Transfer (PoX) by watching the most recent town hall, during which Muneeb answers questions from evangelist, Harini Rajan and other community members.

→ Listen to Muneeb break down the Proof of Transfer consensus mechanism on the Bitcoin Magazine podcast with David Hollerith. Listen on Apple.

→ Read evangelist Harini Rajan's article on how to protect your children's privacy.

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GET INVOLVED

→ Sign up to learn more about PoX and STX Mining on Stacks 2.0.

→ Join the Governance Working Group.

→ Join the Business Model Working Group.

→ Join the PoX Working Group.

>> Read the previous newsletter.