Texas is live!

An updated test network has been successfully launched Friday: texasnet.explorer.minter.network/blocks/1

If you did not do anything with your balance within the last 24 hours, it must ALMOST mirror the one on the testnet. See DAO address as an example: texasnet.explorer.minter.network/address/Mx18467bbb64a8edf890201d526c35957d82be3d95

During the final transition to the new version of the network, not a single coin will be lost as the operation will stop, and all validators will have one hour to get ready for the launch with the full data.

On this test network, BIP is replaced with MNT. We strongly recommend you DO NOT sign in to the testnet Console using your actual seed phrase.

The application deadline for the second stage is tomorrow morning. Hurry up!

https://minter.link/pushhackathon

We plan to launch the new minter.network website as sort of a wiki. From developers, for developers.

It will have the following sections:
– How-tos (guidelines on a wide range of topics)
– Solutions (existing and future solutions—e.g., explorers, wallets, pushes)
– Tools (all tools for development and maintenance)
– Docs (multi-level technical documentation, for community-developed services and solutions as well)

The website’s target audience will be developers, while minter.org will be aimed at ordinary users.

https://minterscan.net/exchanges/BIP/BTC

All BIP prices & reserves in one place!

👨‍💻 The results of the second stage of the Minter Push Hackathon

First place
• yyy.cash
• tap.mn

Second place
• minterpush.com
• p.motherminter.org

Third place
• push.gifts
• phewapp.org
• push.reef.mn
• bip.plus

🎉 Congratulations to the winners!

#dev

📗 Minter Wiki: New Arrival

KeepMySeed is an application providing users with NFC-enabled secure storage capabilities.

The project development team has implemented the idea of storing sensitive data—such as passwords—on an NFC tag.

NFC tags are off-line devices that operate without an internal power source. For activation and uninterrupted performance (data transmission), they must be within the range of the active device—e.g., an ordinary smartphone.

Check out the latest Minter.Wiki article breaking down KeepMySeed’s features and functionality.

#wiki

Minter Push Hackathon: Customization

Stage three is all about customizing everything you did in the past two.

First and foremost, challengers need to polish their code, publish it on GitHub, and release decent documentation (preferably in English) so that other members of the community could build from there. These teams will win our immediate attention.

Second, services must be provided as white label offerings so that anyone could issue their own customized push using your server.

Third, a flexible API is a must as it will give advanced users freedom in making skins or implementing the product in bots, apps, etc.

As you can see, we don’t go deep into details here. The main idea is that other teams start using your advancements, embedding them into their projects.

The deadline is Saturday evening (February 15), and this time, it’s final. Winners will be announced Sunday.

Prizes:
1st place: 200K
Two 2nd places: 100K each
Four 3rd places: 50K each

BONUS: on February 17, the fourth stage of MinterPush will start. At this point, we will not reveal the objectives but what we can share is that you will have 10 days, and the prize pool will be increased.

P.S. There will be stage five as well.

#minterpush

As round two of voting on the Minter 1.1 upgrade proposal is imminent, we are revealing all the details.

https://medium.com/@danillashin/minter-1-1-a1cd858c047c

Minter Push (Customization): Results

At stage three, projects needed to offer options for customization and polish their code & documentation.

First places (200k BIP each):
🥇 yyy.cash
- Customization options: photo/logo, background color, main text, animation, text on a card shown after the animation, selection of a “highlighted” store.
- Email newsletter customization: subject, image upload, heading and text, button.
- Documentation for launching a project / Swagger

🥇 tap.mn
- White Label presets (sandbox editor): more than 20 flexible customization settings for your push—color, noscript, image (paste a link or upload), switches, etc. You can also import/export to .json for future reuse, which will allow you to modify existing presets or create new ones in a simple text editor. Examples of presets.
- Instructions on GitHub / Swagger

Second place (100k)
🥈 p.motherminter.org
- Customization: thematic skins (+ own skins), target spending (for campaigns), personal accounts.
- Detailed documentation / Swagger

🥉 Third places (50k each)
— push.reef.mn: enable payments to any store or provider (BipToPhone example).
— dev.bip.plus: rebuilt a service from scratch in 4 days. Denoscription and API documentation
— push.gifts: change styles to fit any brand book. API documentation
— easybip.ru (new project): Denoscription and API documentation

We would like to thank all teams for their projects and doing a good job! The hackathon is not over yet, and we will soon publish tasks for the next stage.

#minterpush

Minter Push Hackathon: Merchants

Stage four is about merchants, or, more precisely, the ability to exchange received coins for goods and services in a simple, fast, and easy-to-understand way.

The term “merchants” will become key to us this year, just as key as “liquidity providers.” The network must be able to have money—in the broad sense of the word—deposited and withdrawn.

The task for the teams is to add support for as many interesting and, preferably, unique options for exchanging coins for goods and services as possible. Prioritize common sense—i.e., the options we couldn’t live our everyday lives without. Some examples may include: mobile connection, taxi/car sharing, food, entertainment (movies, consoles such as Xbox or PlayStation, App Store/Play Market), beauty services, etc.

Payment systems, electronic money, and bank cards are not merchants but liquidity providers.

Try to put yourself in the user’s shoes. What will they get right away, and not in an hour or the next day? Stick to the idea of instant economics—choose -> press/tap -> receive.

Another hint is to focus on something global, something that we all generally use quite often—for example, Steam gift cards or a single system for topping up mobile account balances (see BitRefill. They have an API, by the way).

The goal is to integrate a merchant in an engaging way, not to become one. Feel free to team up with those who have already made some progress in that. It is important that users that receive your push understand what they can do with it—or, in other words, realize its value. If you create a preset for gamers, make sure the first thing they see is, “You can spend this money on Steam.”

This stage will last until Friday evening (February 28). The winner will be announced on Saturday, February 29. The deadline is final & won’t change.

Prizes:
🥇st place: 400 000 BIP
🥈nd place: 200 000 BIP
🥉rd place: 100 000 BIP
Another four incentive prizes (50 000 BIP each) will be awarded as well.

#minterpush

Getting ready for Minter 2: updating the website, removing the promises, keeping what’s been done — https://www.minter.network

Minter Information (#minfo)

With the MINFO standard, all projects can provide detailed information about themselves to Minter users, catalogs, and services.

It will help tens of services and aggregators get access to the most recent information about your project. Just don’t forget to keep the file up-to-date.

Although all fields are optional, we suggest that you use as many as possible. Once you’re all set, upload the file to GitHub or the root directory of your website.

📗 Documentation with recommendations on how to create a file
📄 Example: minter.network/minter_minfo.txt

🍪 Chainik: An Explorer for Minter Coins

Chainik.io (beta) is a CoinMarketCap for Minter that equips you with advanced coin stats, rankings, and charts.

The service does not use a full node. Instead, it recalculates the parameters of all coins on a transaction-to-transaction basis, reconstructing the blockchain. This allows Chainik to have the most recent and accurate data, not depend on external resources, and show superb performance.

— Widgets: summary on the state of all coins
— Ranking of coins with data visualization
— Filtering by coin type and more
— TradingView charts with different timeframes
— All necessary coin parameters
— Accurate calculations related to the transactions, down to the pip

🔬 Article: Review of the Functionality

News: @chainik_io
Group: Chainik CHAT

The Minter network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade to version 1.1 at block number 5 000 000, which will occur on March 6. Are you ready?

Check out what we were up to last month in our latest community update.

https://medium.com/@MinterTeam/minters-month-in-review-february-2020-ffe11a10d0c8

Console on GitHub

From the very beginning, we have been paying special attention to the transparency and openness of our code. Two years later, we have over 111 repositories on GitHub, and you can work efficiently with each and every one of them—for example, by turning code that all of you can view and verify into fully operational services.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to the GitHub-hosted Console: https://minterteam.github.io/minter-console-web/

What’s especially interesting is the principle of product release. The domain name always matches the organization, and the address always matches the repository, meaning no one can fake the Console.

We feel that this is an important step toward strengthening security for all users.

Final Vote on Minter 1.1 Upgrade Proposal

In the coming days, Minter validators will set the block height at which the network will be upgraded to version 1.1. If the proposal is accepted by more than two-thirds (66.6%) of the network capacity, the upgrade will go live at block number 5,000,000 (around 7:00 a.m. UTC on Friday, March 6).

All current Minter network validators are eligible to participate. To cast a vote, use your reward/validator management address. Voting will end on 3/4/2020 at 11:59 p.m. UTC.

https://minterscan.net/proposals/1.1b

#MinterPush Hackathon Stage Four: Merchants. Results

🥇 https://dev.bip.plus (400,000 BIP)
🥈 https://minterpush.com (200,000 BIP)
🥉 https://tap.mn (100,000 BIP)

Another four challengers get 50,000 BIP each.

To be honest, it was a really hard choice. bip.plus led the poll by a wide margin, followed by the rest of the participants who were very close to one another. Again, bip.plus were first to submit their solution, so we had more time to analyze it.

All teams become stronger with each stage. That being said, let’s call it a day. Get rest before the next stage and give it your best.

Thank you all very much for your work!

Minter Push Hackathon: Speed

The fifth—and in this race, last—lap of the push hackathon sounds like this:
Design the fastest ready-made Push product, i.e., a transfer that the receiver can spend on a digital good or service.

If you think that this is going to be too easy, think again. After a month of work, we must completely reassemble our Formula 1 cars, from the deposit of funds to delivery of goods or services.

Come up with a new branch of your solution, cut off what’s unnecessary, take a stopwatch, and go. We will accept vertical videos (we all live in a mobile era after all) posted on YouTube under the tag #MinterPush as applications. The video has to show one person sending money to the other (they can even be in the same room), and that money then spent with the proof of receipt of a good or service.

If you have questions about KYC/AML practices, they are the same as if you were handing cash to someone you know. You see the person, you know them, KYC/AML passed. If you are airdropping money to people you don’t know at all, of course, that is another issue. Anyway, most of the tasks will be completed once #MinterID is introduced.

Winners and Prizes
The team to present the fastest and most interesting case gets 300,000 BIP. The second place will be awarded 200,000 BIP, and third, 100,000 BIP. Three “snails” will get 50,000 BIP each.

Please note that it is not enough to create a skeleton where everything is lightning-fast yet non-native. Those will not even qualify as applications. What we are talking about here is the demonstration of solutions on par with WhatsApp or Apple Pay and what they did for the world, namely accelerated the process that had previously been taking a lot more time, preserving UX for the mass user.

We want you to conquer the global community with these videos, the community that hasn’t yet learned to make money transfers or spends hours of waiting and piles of forms in the process. Who cares about the achievements of popular blockchains if they can’t be used in real life? In 10 years, no one has come even close to our pushes. Now is the time for your solutions to help grannies outspeed Flash.

Will we manage to pack it all—send, receive & spend—into one minute?

Waiting for you at the finish line on March 8. The results will be announced on March 9.

Step on the gas!

🗳 1.1 Proposal B Voting Ended

A two-thirds majority of Minter validators voted in favor of the proposed block number for the transition to a new version of the blockchain.

At the 5,000,000th block (March 6, 2020, ~7:00 a.m. UTC), the current network will stop. An hour after that, Minter 1.1 will go live.

#dev