Please find below the official press release with regard to BIP’s arrival at the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency portfolio management application:

https://medium.com/@MinterTeam/blockfolio-adds-minters-bip-23df7d7eb90

CoinGecko added us.

Minter has become one of the first projects to be listed on Cosmonauts World, which is meant to become a community-sourced platform of all Cosmos- and Tendermint-based chains curated by members of the Tendermint team: cosmonauts.world/projects/minter. Check it out!

Minter on CoinMarketCap? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/minter-network/

Although there is no detailed data available yet, it is safe to say that landing on the far side of the moon has been successful!

Another achievement is that minterscan.net is listed as a primary explorer.

Any open-source product dreams to create benefits for those building on top of it. As the team is focused entirely on the core, third-party developers often come up with even more exciting and feature-rich products.

Minterscan is a great example of how to pick a niche and conquer it. Thanks to Sergey and his team!

Let’s make our CoinGecko profile gain even more steam!

Follow this link and click on the Star icon to add BIP to Favorites!

Workshops

Below is a preliminary list of workshop topics to be covered during Minter Demo Day on December 4 (the first half of the day):
– Minter 1.1: new advantages of the network
– Two worlds: how to launch nodes both in Minter & Telegram Open Network and win a TON contest for smart contracts, which will be useful when it comes to the interconnectivity of the two networks
– Squeezing the maximum: blockchain data processing, what can be built
– Seeds: safe seed phrase storage and cold wallet creation
– Node: a new node management tool
– Hub: a brand new one-stop website for developers: blogs, contests, and demos
– Opportunities: how to use Minter efficiently when creating your own product
– Minter 2.0: fully-fledged decentralized services—stablecoins, smart contracts, storage solutions, and gaming platforms

The working language is Russian. There will be no live broadcasting, but we will prepare video summaries and upload them to YouTube.

As we all have to operate in an international field keeping our compliance game up, Minter’s legal team is going to shed light on such an important issue as “Blockchain project incorporation: benefits and risks.”

As a bonus, you will also hear from an iOS developer: “How to design a wallet for iOS devices and do it fast.”

To sum up, we have 10 reports from those who know how everything works in practice. There will be a lot to learn.

#MDD

Minter Demo Day will be a closed event so that developers can share their achievements and exchange their experiences in a calm environment. The list of participants has already been approved, thanks everyone for applying!

We will publish the form for mass media shortly. In the broad sense of the term, “mass media” applies to everyone who has a website, forum, channel, or bot related to Minter. If you run one of those, we will be happy to invite you.

#MDD

There’s some really cool and secure stuff in the works!

Video credit: @RundaxCom

We must admit, all developers invited to Minter Demo Day underwent a rigorous selection process. We still have 10 vacant spots that we would like to offer to someone who falls into one of the following categories representing our community:
1. Those willing to launch something on Minter, not knowing where to start
2. Those popularizing Minter by operating websites, channels, bots, and other informational resources

On Monday, we will reveal the event’s schedule and share the application form for the groups mentioned above.

We hope that the atmosphere will be work- and efficiency-oriented as we want to establish an event format to be followed in other cities and countries.

#MDD

Today is a good day. Looks like I've solved the model for the new money protocol as simple as TCP/IP for the information.

Mark it down.

#IOMP

We support charitable initiatives of the Monster team. The end of the year is a perfect time to share with those who were a little less lucky.

https://minterscan.net/tx/Mtf9bf8383e5851aa0d106656183c5888586cb574da62ca5b01cc01be863817b74

P.S. The payload message says “for the kids” in Russian, and the coin ticker translates as “the good.”

#DOBRO

Please find below the official press release with regard to the Minter Demo Day event and Minter network’s current milestones in achieving mass adoption:

https://medium.com/@MinterTeam/minter-holds-its-first-demo-day-just-six-months-after-launch-announces-upcoming-changes-c82adaa3e419

So good to see the platform grow and improve. Only 7 months have passed, and many aspects that caused confusion and speculation in the community are now working like a charm. Take LP - everything came to the initially declared rules. Mbank guarantees the purchase of any quantity of BIP for the current market price, and is more for BIP specifically, especially large quantities. It's for the "I'm gonna launch a validator right now" kind of users, because entering that business already costs a minimum of 6M BIP, or about 200K bucks, and buying that amount is serious business.
As for the "gonna sell some bip real quick and buy a game" type, you should look into trading services, i prefer fully automated ones. Recently tested just how quick it would be for me to go to the store and pay with my BIP. It took about 5 minutes to process everything - threw some money onto 1001 using an Any.Cash USDT address, then i converted it to roubles and sent it to my Qiwi virtual card, which was added to Apple Pay, and you know the rest. Think about it - we can have money that isn't tied to any government or company, which you can turn into anything you need no matter where you are. Money that can't be frozen or stolen, is available 24/7, is always being improved and simplified. Transparent money. Fair money.

My money.

🍃 Mint Digest #16
A fresh past week events review

Minterscan & Zen
• We reviewed the details of the InDEX Project IMO and shared the most important
• We carried out scheduled work on the server

New on Minter.Wiki
• PayMnt
• Jazzme
• Joobip

Partners
• MinterToolsBot has been updated

Project News
• MinterCat project switched to MSCAN.DEV API
• Racoon Labs Team has announced new services
• BTC.Secure updated logo
• MinterInfoBot learned to notify on turning on/off of Validators
• 1001BTC Exchanger moved the IMO to January 2020

Important from Minter's Life
• The Minter Team delegated 9,000,000 BIP to different Nodes and told about projects that will receive grants in the first place
• Minter Demo Day photos were published
• Minter Network produced 3,500,000 blocks
• Daniil Lashin published the first public assembly of texasnet
• The Network has 171 addresses with a balance >1M BIP and 25 addresses with a balance >10M BIP
• Ukraine legalized cryptographic payments
• Telegram Team launched the second stage of a TON Developer Contest

🍃 See ya!

#summary

Let's get some global awareness!

Starting this week core-team will be sponsoring promotional efforts to make Minter a #1 blockchain brand in Telegram and YouTube.

Our focus:
– 10 languages
– Continues campaigns
– Launched projects and Minter itself
– For developers and users
– Only Telegram and YouTube
– 100K to 1M grants

We are ready to give away up to 50 million bips in year 2020 alone! Our first grant went today to International Promotion Fund (https://minterscan.net/tx/Mtb9b26802ac898058ab447d601312d4251b26b30b497d024f7d7ad4fb92db728a), so get ready to apply in few days with your ideas!

#promo #bigbang

Total amount of funds addressed to developers, promoters and liquidity providers in 2020 will be around 150 million bips. We need strong projects, growing awareness and instant liquidity for network's coins to push Minter in the top league of decentralised services.

Minter Development Foundation will be launching many initiatives as contest and hackathons to ensure only the best of the best get support and funds.

So if you know how to build blockchain-based projects, run Telegram and YouTube promotions, and have experience in trading, start preparing your pitches and presentations.

#bigbang

Starting today, we will be publishing speeches of Minter Demo Day #MDD participants.

In the first presentation, Daniil Lashin reveals details of the upcoming Minter 1.1 upgrade.

Each module of the new blockchain version has been, if not rebuilt from scratch, significantly optimized and improved.

In this report:
– Maximum supply of custom coins
– GasCoin in checks
– Wallets with multi-signatures
– History storage on the nodes and events storage optimization
– Elimination of custom coin liquidation and introduction of the minimum reserve
– Reduction of the load on the nodes
– Rewards optimization
– Console-based node management tool

🖥 Presentation
🛠 Testnet Minter 1.1 (Texasnet)

@egordeev: “A clear and simple example of how you can use blockchain in real life:
- You have an office
- There is a vending machine in there
- Every day, employees are credited with coins they can use to pay for coffee, snacks, stuff like that. Not everyone has a startup business and can spend investor money on a kitchen with endless food and drink; many pay for those things
- There is an office coin (token), and it will work only on the company’s devices. But it has a real value, and if one of the employees wants something beyond the limit, they can buy more of it. Or vice versa: sell to top up a mobile phone or pay for gas. Or transfer it to a colleague, of course
- Each charge is in the chain and can be tracked, if necessary—e.g., for statistics, reporting purposes

Below is a video that shows how it works.

Now imagine that instead of a vending machine, there are gated parking lots connected to the blockchain (each tenant has a limit); paid WiFi access points at an airport, hotel, or park (you scan, pay, and get the amount of time you’ve bought); interactive billboards (type the text, send it, and your better half sees the message), etc.

All of this can be done on a simple Raspberry Pi board and a fast Minter blockchain.

First, people will pay machines via the blockchain, and over time, machines will be paying other machines for people as they simply don’t know what Visa or a bank account is. What they need is a specific payment status, not ‘please contact your bank.’”

Engineer: @webcounters
Credits: @BTCSecure

BIPs for dollars from your bank card? No problem!

Mercuryo is now connected to bip.dev! Buying BIP with U.S. dollars, euros, or rubles has become easier than ever.

Try it yourself👇
https://bip.dev/card

Develop games and loyalty systems. They are the real deal!

@egordeev: “I gather that many are mistaken in thinking that the Internet of Money necessarily implies digitized national money used to pay for everything and everywhere. The same ideas were taking hold in the ’90s when everyone expected all content to be professional and to copy newspapers, compact disks, and other off-line containers.

In reality, the Internet of Money represents relationship systems established by the communities—e.g., in-game coins and loyalty points. Without such kinds of money, efficient growth becomes merely impossible as every system itself programs the corresponding terms of use. Think of it: you do not spend U.S. dollars within World of Warcraft, nor do airlines deposit pure cash to your account (hint: even in case they do, you lose up to 90% of all opportunities; my effective cashback through points reaches 5% from all purchases).

That is why what I am betting on today is not the swap of U.S. dollars or Indian rupees to the blockchain, which will ultimately lead to fierce resistance on the part of governments (cases of Libra and TON), but the development of private money in projects. The more efficient the systems, the faster the national money will be digitized as there simply will be no other option left. People transition from cash to cards, from cards to Apple/Android Pay, from contactless payments to QR codes, and so on.

In-game coins and loyalty points are a ‘Trojan horse’ strategy blockchains can adopt. The gaming industry rakes in the largest revenues among the broader entertainment market, superseding all others combined. Loyalty is what every business needs, and as we all know, marketing costs per returning customer are ten times lower. In both cases, thanks to blockchain, the following model is perfectly implemented: one can be assured that millions of people will receive their funds and be later able to use them inside the system or transfer them to their friends. Maximum security, highest uptime possible, protection from balance tampering, extremely low infrastructure costs. Both coins and points have already become part of contemporary IT systems, so you will not have to persuade anyone on the benefits of the transition to decentralized ledgers, and even more so, to digitize anything.

Now, let us take a look from a regulatory perspective. Watchdog agencies are indifferent to where you store user coins and points—be it MySQL or Minter blockchain—their main concern is whether you pay corporate taxes. Just like with the common digital assets that have been in use for a few decades now.

I am confident that the years 2020 and 2021 will first give a head start to these two directions as demand for solutions is colossal—all users want to entertain themselves, and all users want to benefit from taking part in the systems. Consider the idea that loyalty gamification is one of the most efficient formats of audience engagement and retention (raise your coefficients as you level up), and vice versa: special loyalty programs for players (invite your friends) allow businesses to get products similar in functionality yet diverse in terms of potential use cases and applications.

There is no need to exaggerate and try to give everyone in the world a Bitcoin so as to create a single free market of money. What is needed, though, is attending to seizable problems facing projects and businesses. By solving them, we will acquire grateful users; those who will stop running from crypto like the plague and thinking of it as ‘something out of thin air.’ Once they can buy WoW armor or flight tickets, no one will care about how it is called—people will only want it to continue to work just as cool.”