PIVX Monthly Recap: May 2018

It’s difficult to keep up with the many moving parts of a decentralized autonomous organization, especially one with global reach such as PIVX. This May was a particularly busy month for PIVX, with news ranging from industry-first technical achievements to various exchange listing announcements.

Technical Achievements

PIVX Core Wallet Update v3.1.0.2 is the star of the month, and the year… so far! While it is clear that this update ushered in a new era of private proof of stake, it also brought the crypto community a variety of enhancements ranging from simple to fundamental.

Notable PIVX Core Wallet v3.1.0.2 changes include:

zPIV Staking (zPoS)

Deterministic zPIV Seed Keys

Updated zPIV Minting

zPIV Search

Wallet GUI Overhaul

Return change to sender when minting zPIV

Disable Automint Feature / Set Amount

External Storage Backup

These are only some of the wallet enhancements, see full release notes on GitHub: https://github.com/PIVX-Project/PIVX/blob/3.1/doc/release-notes.md



In the midst of various enhancements and industry-firsts, PIVX produced more than a dozen videos in May, each translated into many languages. The commitment to creating educational content for PIVX pros and neophytes reflects PIVX’s continued effort to educate the cryptocurrency community at large.

PIVX DYK Announcement Videos

PIVX Class Instructional Videos

Exchange Listings

PIVX announced three exchange listings in May, each with a unique value proposition and audience base.

#ChainEX is excited to reveal that PIVX is now available on our platform. PIVX wallets are live and trading starts tomorrow. Get your wallet ready at https://t.co/MBP1vBKxyB #bitcoin #btc #cryptocurrency #pivx pic.twitter.com/OgEGpdLs0O — ChainEX (@ChainEXIO) May 22, 2018

Service Listings

One particularly notable service listing this month enhanced the PIVX position on Bitscoin, a Korean digital asset exchange.

Industry Events

In addition to many regional meet-ups, PIVX participated in Consensus 2018 and the Chainges Conference 2018 in May.

Merchant Announcements

PIVX continued to add new merchants to its roster in May and enhanced the PIVX Places location directory.

Lighthouse fish and chips in East London, South Africa now accepts $PIVX Our adoption rate continues to grow as merchants and investors realize the potential of the superior privacy Proof of Stake #cryptocurrency PIVX.#southafrica #blockchain #merchants pic.twitter.com/AFmIUKISln — Jeff (@satoshinakajeff) May 13, 2018

Community-Created Content

Several pieces of PIVX community created content made waves this month, including an objective privacy coin matrix, an educational WhyPIVX? website, and an introduction to PIVX infographic.

The Privacy Coin Matrix: A Comprehensive Spreadsheet of Anonymous Digital Assets https://t.co/Vtr4eZRRLP #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/17t5B96VTG — Bitcoin News (@BTCTN) May 21, 2018

Brand new $PIVX Infographic Now Available! Huge thanks to @turtleflax and all of the other PIVians who donated their time and knowledge to coordinate this amazing piece of content! Full Infographic Available Here -> https://t.co/Y9hocQNLNJ#PIVX pic.twitter.com/MsDfI10JkT — PIVX [NO FREE ETH] (@_pivx) May 9, 2018

It was an eventful month for PIVX, let’s see what June 2018 has in store!

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