The last Beam update in 2019 is here! Let’s briefly recall what was going on during the previous two weeks. The stable development continued with the release of Double Doppler 4.1.6978 that introduced significant usability improvements for Atomic Swaps for BTC, LTC, and QTUM. Over 70 tasks were accomplished in total. Transaction status messages became more informative in some cases, so you’ll know what is going on and what to expect for the next step. Atomic swap offers expiration times became much shorter to align with the general market dynamics. Node connection indicator (for BTC, LTC, and QTUM) now provides detailed information on connectivity issues. All in all, they have 219 open issues and 40 commits in /Beam, 42 open issues in /android-wallet, and 13 open issues in /ios-wallet.

The expansion and social activity remained vivid. African Ambassadors Agbona and Niran ⁦represented ⁦Beam at the Art of Technology event held in Lagos, Nigeria. Furthermore, Beam Lead Dev Valdok has co-signed “Confidential Assets on Mimblewimble,” an academic paper in collaboration with Qtum Chain Foundation and Peking University. Besides, Beam had a friendly welcome by CryptoIndia during the AMA. Several articles were published on Beam halving that will happen on 4th January and slash the block reward from 100 to 50 coins. CryptoDaily Official posted a video on crypto’s future, the dichotomy of privacy coins, and transparency. You can also read a story by Nederob approaching that “Even privacy coins can reveal your crypto secrets.” By the way, fresh platform listings appeared, including Bitit, Bitfare, and ChangeNOW. Some new shops and services that accept Beam as a Payment Method were added to the list to let you know where it is possible to buy stuff and services when financial privacy is guaranteed. Last but not least, the community keeps growing; the number of subscribers in social networks increased over the period. Beam into 2020, Beam with Paradigm.