Getting ready for Minter 2: updating the website, removing the promises, keeping what’s been done — https://www.minter.network
www.minter.network
Minter: digital assets marketplace
Your single gateway to major digital currencies and assets: buy, sell, send, and spend BTC, ETH, BIP, USDC, gold, oil, stocks, and thousands more.
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
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
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
https://medium.com/@MinterTeam/minters-month-in-review-february-2020-ffe11a10d0c8
Medium
Minter’s Month in Review — February 2020
Minter 1.0
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.
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.
minterteam.github.io
Console — Minter
Minter Console is by far the most advanced part of our project that lets you manage all your activities on our network.
Forwarded from Minter Dev Notifications (ru)
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
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!
🥇 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!
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!
Forwarded from Minterscan EN
🗳 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
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
In the picture above, you can see the layout of the new minter.network website where everyone will be able to create their own article or collaborate on one.
Everything is centered around documents that cover a wide range of topics—some more in-depth, some less. Once launched, you can cite them as a final authority.
“Tools” refer to what helps develop the projects. “Solutions” imply on-chain and off-chain services you can use. And last but not least, there are “How-To’s” at their best—ultimate guides and educational materials.
We will start with the English version, and within a year, the website will be available in 10 most popular languages.
Everything is centered around documents that cover a wide range of topics—some more in-depth, some less. Once launched, you can cite them as a final authority.
“Tools” refer to what helps develop the projects. “Solutions” imply on-chain and off-chain services you can use. And last but not least, there are “How-To’s” at their best—ultimate guides and educational materials.
We will start with the English version, and within a year, the website will be available in 10 most popular languages.
Minter Network
The network is being updated.
Everything is up and running. In 298 days of existence, the network has been unavailable for about 10 hours, which is 0.14% of all time or 2 minutes per day.
The experiment goes on.
The experiment goes on.
Developers and Enthusiasts
We have decided to simplify our community as much as possible and split it into two parts so that everyone enjoys participation. From now on, there will be only two categories in our terminology: developers and enthusiasts.
By developers, we mean everyone who has already started doing something within Minter and can code, release solutions, and manage services.
Enthusiasts refer to those who are interested in the network and its products, but either can’t program or never even planned to—for example, managers, traders, blockchain newcomers.
Why do we introduce such a division? We want you to be able to provide information and exchange opinions more easily. Time is (a lot of) money, and search for managers for the product often does not interest developers at all, and vice versa.
Where’s the mass user, then? There is no such group in our system of coordinates—in much the same way as you will not find it on Amazon Web Services, yet you will on Netflix, which relies entirely on AWS. The most interesting thing is that grannies may also be enthusiasts, understand how the network works, but still, they will not count as developers. They cannot simply create Minter Push working from the browser address bar in a one-weekend sitting.
If it seems to you that we praise developers only, you are wrong. It is often enthusiasts who come up with user services and spread them among their friends and colleagues.
It is safe to say that today, all Minter community members are enthusiasts who support the network and want to build projects on top of it. And our task is to match those who can code with those who would take on products, ads, and sales.
Websites & their target audiences:
minter.network for developers
minter.org for enthusiasts
We will think of something for grannies as well. Who knows, maybe they will start developing, too!
We have decided to simplify our community as much as possible and split it into two parts so that everyone enjoys participation. From now on, there will be only two categories in our terminology: developers and enthusiasts.
By developers, we mean everyone who has already started doing something within Minter and can code, release solutions, and manage services.
Enthusiasts refer to those who are interested in the network and its products, but either can’t program or never even planned to—for example, managers, traders, blockchain newcomers.
Why do we introduce such a division? We want you to be able to provide information and exchange opinions more easily. Time is (a lot of) money, and search for managers for the product often does not interest developers at all, and vice versa.
Where’s the mass user, then? There is no such group in our system of coordinates—in much the same way as you will not find it on Amazon Web Services, yet you will on Netflix, which relies entirely on AWS. The most interesting thing is that grannies may also be enthusiasts, understand how the network works, but still, they will not count as developers. They cannot simply create Minter Push working from the browser address bar in a one-weekend sitting.
If it seems to you that we praise developers only, you are wrong. It is often enthusiasts who come up with user services and spread them among their friends and colleagues.
It is safe to say that today, all Minter community members are enthusiasts who support the network and want to build projects on top of it. And our task is to match those who can code with those who would take on products, ads, and sales.
Websites & their target audiences:
minter.network for developers
minter.org for enthusiasts
We will think of something for grannies as well. Who knows, maybe they will start developing, too!
minter-mainnet-1
For your convenience, the history of the first main network will stay here forever: https://v1-history.explorer.minter.network
For your convenience, the history of the first main network will stay here forever: https://v1-history.explorer.minter.network
v1-history.explorer.minter.network
Explorer — Minter
#MinterPush Hackathon Stage Five: Speed. Results
🥇st place for speed and clarity: https://yyy.cash (300,000 BIP)
🥈nd place for creativity and quality of production: https://reef.mn (200,000 BIP)
🥉rd place: the rest (100,000 BIP each)
We had a long discussion, and to be honest, it was a much harder choice than the last time. And no, we are not flattering anyone or trying to commend our community. It’s a simple reality: all participants have been working on their products, constantly improving them.
The teams are notable: 5s.gift for an example with tipping the waitress; bip.plus for a cool explainer; tap.mn for an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use product; push.gifts for concreteness. What we’re talking about now are videos. The functionality is much more complex, and each team is strong in its own area.
But YYY blew everyone away with their drive, and REEF, with the atmosphere.
In a month and a half, the team awarded a total of 4,150K BIP (>$100K) and 77 #POPE, including this stage and the quick one with the address bar. And it was worth it because the products we got are on a whole new level.
Today, we celebrate as we learned to make transfers in one minute or less, and tomorrow, back to the battleground: we must introduce them into loyalty systems for millions of people around the world.
Below you can find the applications sorted by the project’s name:
5s.gift: youtu.be/FuXPiJUmyBE
bip.plus: youtu.be/6b4LMQVvdX4
push.gifts: youtu.be/Lw6Tfhj3g8Q
reef.mn: youtu.be/lI9YId6xcFs
tap.mn: youtu.be/caOoQNSuVNo
yyy.cash: youtu.be/a-2OE6TZw24 | youtu.be/unWc4-D82wQ
P.S. By the way, try @yyycashbot if you haven’t yet. After depositing your BIP, simply write "@yyycashbot 100" (without quotation marks) in any group or private chat. The person will immediately get the link to the wallet with the amount you entered (replace "100" in the example above with the value you need).
We also take this opportunity to thank our iOS developer Alex who created monke.io and was first to come up with sending money using links via monke.me. He got the idea, you developed it, and now we’ll bring it to perfection!
🥇st place for speed and clarity: https://yyy.cash (300,000 BIP)
🥈nd place for creativity and quality of production: https://reef.mn (200,000 BIP)
🥉rd place: the rest (100,000 BIP each)
We had a long discussion, and to be honest, it was a much harder choice than the last time. And no, we are not flattering anyone or trying to commend our community. It’s a simple reality: all participants have been working on their products, constantly improving them.
The teams are notable: 5s.gift for an example with tipping the waitress; bip.plus for a cool explainer; tap.mn for an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use product; push.gifts for concreteness. What we’re talking about now are videos. The functionality is much more complex, and each team is strong in its own area.
But YYY blew everyone away with their drive, and REEF, with the atmosphere.
In a month and a half, the team awarded a total of 4,150K BIP (>$100K) and 77 #POPE, including this stage and the quick one with the address bar. And it was worth it because the products we got are on a whole new level.
Today, we celebrate as we learned to make transfers in one minute or less, and tomorrow, back to the battleground: we must introduce them into loyalty systems for millions of people around the world.
Below you can find the applications sorted by the project’s name:
5s.gift: youtu.be/FuXPiJUmyBE
bip.plus: youtu.be/6b4LMQVvdX4
push.gifts: youtu.be/Lw6Tfhj3g8Q
reef.mn: youtu.be/lI9YId6xcFs
tap.mn: youtu.be/caOoQNSuVNo
yyy.cash: youtu.be/a-2OE6TZw24 | youtu.be/unWc4-D82wQ
P.S. By the way, try @yyycashbot if you haven’t yet. After depositing your BIP, simply write "@yyycashbot 100" (without quotation marks) in any group or private chat. The person will immediately get the link to the wallet with the amount you entered (replace "100" in the example above with the value you need).
We also take this opportunity to thank our iOS developer Alex who created monke.io and was first to come up with sending money using links via monke.me. He got the idea, you developed it, and now we’ll bring it to perfection!
Proven fact: Minter is the fastest way to send, receive, and spend crypto. It runs on a reliable DPoS blockchain, which can process thousands of transactions per second. With absolute liquidity and a unique mechanism for issuing your own coin, you get the most universal solution for the market of private monies: loyalty points, game credits, achievements, tokens, and so on.
🏆 Multi-Language Article Contest: Results
There were quite a lot of people who submitted their writings, so we needed some time to determine the winners that met the competition criteria. Unfortunately, not all languages have their winners as there were many translated and non-unique pieces, and we will need to continue our search for local content managers. For now, let’s look at the results.
Turkish
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
Italian
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
German
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
Indonesian
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
French
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
Chinese
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
Prizes will be distributed today to the addresses specified in the application forms.
There were quite a lot of people who submitted their writings, so we needed some time to determine the winners that met the competition criteria. Unfortunately, not all languages have their winners as there were many translated and non-unique pieces, and we will need to continue our search for local content managers. For now, let’s look at the results.
Turkish
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
Italian
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
German
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
Indonesian
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
3rd place (5k BIP)
French
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
Chinese
1st place (25k BIP)
2nd place (15k BIP)
Prizes will be distributed today to the addresses specified in the application forms.