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Real Name Attestation Bot reactivated

Several weeks ago we temporarily suspended the Real Name Attestation Bot due to reports of abuse in Venezuela. Well, good news. It’s back!

To discourage abuse the reward structure has been redesigned. The bot still functions in the same way, but the $12 attestation reward is now paid to a smart contract, allowing the user to withdraw the funds exactly 12 months from the time of attestation.

Similarly, the referral reward of $20 will be deposited to a smart contract with a 12 months vesting period and a 2 year expiration time. An additional feature is that users can now optionally make a $20 donation to the Community Fund. This donation will be made from the undistributed funds and will not be deducted from users’ attestation or referral rewards.

An added benefit of the new solution is that users are incentivised to spread the word of Byteball for the 12 months the rewards are locked in the smart contract.

New IoT grant application

We have received a new grant application for an IoT (Internet of Things) solution that plans to build on the Byteball platform. You can read the application here (opens a Google Doc).

The project (called IoTVerse) is seeking feedback from the community. Please respond in the #grant channel on Slack. If you are not on the Byteball Slack yet you can join here.

BIot update

The BIot project has finished the second stage and published a comprehensive update on the ongoing development for building IoT services on Byteball.

Included was this video of paying for car parking using the Byteball network. The explanation format of videos of real world actions placed on top of the command line continues to captivate!

Multi-address mode on currency conversion for Byteball tool

The super useful fiat to Byte conversion tool by community member @tarmo888 has been made even better with a new multi-address mode. The Byteball GUI wallet enables multi-address payments by specifying Byte amounts for each address, but this tools enables users to specify total amount of any currency and split it between list of addresses. By default, the total amount will be split equally between all addresses, but it also supports existing Byteball wallet compatible 2 column (comma separated address and amount) lists incase a user wants to add weight to some addresses, so these would get a proportionally larger amount of Bytes.

Translation project spreadsheet

There is a spreadsheet which shows many of the translations done by volunteers for various Byteball resources (e.g. bots, wiki, website etc). The Byteball wallet addresses of the volunteers are listed along with the work they have done. Any donations are much appreciated.

You could try the currency conversion tool listed above to donate the same amount of Bytes to multiple recipients from the spreadsheet.

Betting Bot translated into multiple languages

The popular Betting Bot has been translated into these languages: Danish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Vietnamese.

At a rough estimate that means around 30% of the world’s population can now use the Betting Bot in their native language. A big thank you to all the translators for their continued support!

Binaryballs — new trading champion

Congratulations to VM3QCS who made a 3870 Megabyte 24 hour net profit with 48 contracts, vaporizing the previous record of 2594 Megabytes.

At the time of writing that is a USD profit of around $497.

Reminder — Binaryballs allows you to anonymously trade financial futures using Bytes (the main currency of the Byteball platform), and profit when you make correct predictions on whether the price of an asset will be higher or lower in the future.

Disclaimer: binary trading can lead to huge profits but also huge losses very quickly. Not for the faint hearted.