Attention Bitcoin Private community! The BTC+ZCL snapshot date for the long awaited Bitcoin Private Hardfork will occur on February 28th, 2018. We thank you for your continued support as we continue to make digital transactions much safer and 100% private.
There will be a major announcement made at this Sunday's first ever official Bitcoin Private conference. In case you cannot attend in person, the event will also be live-streamed. You do not want to miss this piece of Bitcoin Private history!
We had a constructive meeting tonight with the
#BitcoinPrivate
Development team. We are so close to announcing a fork date, we can almost taste it. Only two issues left to solve! Stay tuned for the fork date announcement because it is coming soon...
Community, we feel we owe it to you to provide a
#BitcoinPrivate
pre-fork roadmap so you have a clearer view of what is to come. While the actual code for Bitcoin Private is finished, there are still a few tasks ahead of us. See below for our pre-fork roadmap:
The
#BitcoinPrivate
fork will begin soon. We will announce when the process has begun. The fork will take 24-48 h to complete. When it nears completion, we will release the
#BTCP
wallet along with instructions on how to claim your Bitcoin Private.
We are pleased that our mission has captured the attention of mainstream media outlets such as
@CNBC
in such a short period of time. Bitcoin Private invites CNBC to discuss the longterm goals of our initiative and how it will positively impact people + businesses across the world
We are pleased to inform our community that the fork simulation was a total success! Tune in to our live-stream later today (details to come) for our first official Bitcoin Private conference and for the major announcement!
After a productive
#BitcoinPrivate
team meeting tonight, we have decided to update the Pre-Fork Roadmap now that we have a better idea of the timeline. Enjoy!
We're pleased to release the Zlassic Electrum Wallet Beta to our community! Available to download here: Stay tuned for one more update before our major announcement taking place tomorrow at our first ever Bitcoin Private conference (will be live-streamed).
We are proud to announce the beta release of our
#ZClassic
desktop wallet! Our development team worked nonstop to get this wallet to you. Shoutout to our nearly 100 volunteers for the wallet alpha testing. This was truly a community effort!
After listening to our community, we are proud to announce
#BitcoinPrivate
weekly awareness day. Let’s get
#BitcoinPrivate
trending on twitter in the next 24 hours and increase our global awareness!
Today, we began alpha testing of the Windows and Linux
#ZCL
Electrum wallet (mac is coming) in our public discord. We are still working on shielded (z) transactions, which we are confident will be resolved sometime next week. See below for more info:
Update:
@hitbtc
is finalizing testing on their end and will be listing BTCP once testing is finished! We are in close touch with the
@hitbtc
team and will provide more precise information on a date when possible.
Earlier today, a critical bug was brought to our attention involving SegWit outputs. Within 2 hours, a fix was implemented and our mining community executed it. Thankfully, this bug was never exploited. Thank you to the developer + mining community for their fast action!
The forking process has started! It will be finished in the next 12-36 hours, after which you can claim your
#BTCP
. See instructions on how to join the forking process here (Linux Users Only):
We have received the last peer review for our whitepaper today. We are currently revising based on their edits/suggestions. The whitepaper will be released soon. A big thank you to our anonymous peer reviewers for their honest and thorough feedback!
Bitcoin Private's full information is now populated on CoinMarketCap. We are still early in our journey and we are confident that the products and technologies we will be innovating on will continue to show the true impact BTCP can have in this world.
Our fantastic community members added us to this community page for listing on
@COBINHOOD
. They want to see how much our community may support us. If you believe in Bitcoin Private, please go ahead and show your support!
In order to provide as much clarity as possible for our community, we spoke to KuCoin yesterday evening and we are allowed to clarify the following for our community:
1) We applied to KuCoin in February.
2) We are actively communicating with them.
Thank you for your patience.
We've published our first official, post-fork community update. Yesterday evening we had a very productive strategy meeting and a summary of how we are thinking about developing the Bitcoin Private mission long-term can be found in this piece.
After reaching over 10.000 members on our official Global Telegram channel, we would like to express our gratitude to our community. You are a core part of our long-term vision, and we thank you for your ideas, constructive criticism and continued support!
Bitcoin Private is committed to decentralized, open source development to bring privacy technology to a mainstream audience. We continue to move forward toward a more decentralized model. Read more in our newest community update:
BTCP is larger than any one individual. We now have over 150 regular contributors participating daily. Today one contributor was removed, but many more will join in his place. Thank you Rhett for creating a community that will last for years to come.
Our latest community update features our biggest technical effort to date. We are bringing 3 years of blockchain infrastructure upgrades and innovations to BTCP. Read about the Bitcoin Private Rebase initiative here:
We have a busy month ahead of us, here is our updated pre-fork roadmap! Please be aware that our Whitepaper will likely be published ahead of schedule.
As written in our whitepaper, the snapshots for both ZCL and BTC will occur at the first block found for each time stamped after 5pm UTC, February 28th, 2018. The countdown is live on our website:
Our third community update is here! We've made some great progress, particularly on our wallets & merchant platform initiatives. We are excited at the prospect of BTCP being adopted at critical mass scale by merchants across the world.
The Bitcoin Private mainnet launch continues to be strong and stable. We've published a "March Sprint" writeup which highlights where our focus will be for most of March! We will also be releasing a medium-longterm product strategy roadmap this month.
Earlier today,
@jyap
responded to a
@BittrexExchange
support ticket with misleading & false statements. We are disappointed with how our team was treated by
@jyap
. As such, we have decided to release details regarding our interactions with him:
Over the weekend our contribution team wrote and began testing a proof-of-work change that will enhance BTCP's ASIC resistance. We are prepared to upgrade the network within the next month if community consensus continues to favor this course of action.
We've published our second community update. Our contribution team continues to make progress, at lightning speed!! We want to be one of the most transparent open-source contribution teams out there, so you'll find what we are currently working on here:
We are very proud to announce that
@generalbytes
, a leading Crypto-ATM manufacturer, has released an update supporting BTCP integration. It's now possible for all ATM providers with General Bytes machines to allow people to buy and sell BTCP on their ATM’s
The Bitcoin Private foundation is awarding a series of grants for research in areas of cryptography and network security that further our goals of enhancing and democratizing personal privacy. Please submit your proposal to research
@btcprivate
.org
The first phase of the merchant platform is currently being tested & used in closed beta. More details on early vendor partners and everything else to come!
Releasing updates for nearly everything: Trezor Model T, Trezor One, and Trezor Wallet!
Inside, you will find Zcash Overwinter, Bitcoin Cash Cashaddr, expanded coins & token support, and more.
Read our blog to find out all the details:
#SecurityMadeEasy
We have begun a bounty system through
@Bountysource
for
#BitcoinPrivate
#Rebase
! See the issues with bounties at the link below. Any first time commits will receive double!
Can’t code but want to contribute? Feel free to donate directly to the issues!
Are you a merchant that values their security & privacy and wants to accept BTCP as payment? We have already signed up many vendors across the world and are looking for more businesses to be a part of our merchant beta solution. We'd love to hear from you!
All Bitcoin Private roadmap related updates will come directly from this account. We always welcome and are happy to have ideas from our community. As of now, no changes have been made to our roadmap.
We want to thank our community for their support over the past few days. Below is a reddit post detailing some of the upcoming releases/events we have for next week:
After much deliberation with our team, miners, and the community, we have decided to increase the block reward to 1.5625
#BTCP
with a halving every 210,000 blocks (~1 year). You can read more about these facile changes in the revised whitepaper:
@Rhett_Creighton
Once again, You're just proving you're an idiot like everyone knows you are. We halted the chain because of a vulnerability you likely exploited like you exploit every one of your followers, not because there was nobody to mine.
Move along troll boi.
Thank you to
@tokens24
for publishing this exclusive piece written by our very own
@gstuto
which talks about our progress to date just one week into our mainnet launch and challenges that lie ahead for our mission.
#BitcoinPrivate
#Tokens24
We've updated our website to include key members of our amazing contribution team who continue to put in fantastic work to help bring Bitcoin Private to life and to show how big of a community we've built in such a short period of time!
Today's community update highlights the achievements and upcoming roll out of Bitcoin Private Pay. This will be the first of many merchant vendor innovations to come into the Bitcoin Private ecosystem. Check it out and see how you can get involved!
There is untapped demand for
#privacy
all around the world. The cost of privacy erosion is not always obvious or immediate, but in many countries the price of not having it is your life.
Our new community update highlights a first of its kind Bitcoin Private ecosystem development,
@Cointigo
. This "crypto over SMS" product aims to deliver financial freedom to millions across the world and gain mass adoption via the Bitcoin Private protocol
We are having a Q&A in Austin, TX with
@HeyRhett
,
@CryptoJake22
,
@HeyTaiZen
, and
@ReeganLessie
on Sunday, Jan 28. Please register below! The event will also be live streamed. The location will be announced soon, you don't want to miss this!
Several mining pools and wallet systems have already connected to the
#BitcoinPrivate
testnet. So far, no issues have been reported! Check out some of the mining pools already set up here:
Roughly 1 hour to go until the $BTCP snapshot! Reminder: The snapshot will occur at the first block mined at 5PM UTC, for $ZCL and $BTC respectively. We will tweet out the block hashes once they have been mined.
The
@BitfuryGroup
announces new solution to help law enforcement de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions, pledges to aid investigations.
Bitcoin is supposed to be about censorship-resistant money. Is this why Bitfury supports small blocks for
#BTC
?
The BTCP ecosystem is expanding at tremendous speed and ingenuity.
@Cointigo
, BTCP Pay, and many other products on the BTCP platform are coming together to form something truly great. We are so proud to have such a wonderful community leading into the rebase and rest of the year
The snapshot for Bitcoin Private is coming soon! We have created a number of tutorials to assist you with accessing your Bitcoin Private after the fork, for both
#Bitcoin
and
#Zclassic
holders: $BTCP $ZCL $BTC
Today's community update focuses on the immense progress that has been made on our rebase and why this rebase will make Bitcoin Private stronger. We encourage any and all developers to contribute toward this effort!
The BTCP Contribution team and the BTCP Donation Treasury has not paid
@officialmcafee
. Any promotion by John McAfee of
#BitcoinPrivate
is purely due to community effort.
People claim that I am being paid by BTCP and others for promotion. Please: I make money from corporations and foundations, not from the people themselves! And I charge corporations a fortune. I have never asked the people - the users - for a dime. Cut me some fucking slack.
Another successful BTCP team meeting tonight. We are taking the right steps to reach our goals. A new one click ZCL wallet installer is nearly finished. Also, a new super node was created to help with connections. We hope you are all as excited as we are!
#ZCL
#BTCP
@BittrexExchange
community: Per our customer support document on the proposed "fork" of Zclassic, we are not opening a BTCP market; however, the $BTCP wallet is now available for withdrawals. Thank you for your patience. Read the support document at:
We have decided give further incentives to the mining community for our Voluntary Miner Contribution Program by using an Auction platform. Read more about it here:
Major strides have been made in the
#BitcoinPrivate
rebase effort. An initial version can now sync the blockchain up to 70% faster than the existing code! Try it out for yourself at the link below. Please be aware that it is not ready for production yet.
Our fourth community update is here! The open source contribution team continues to grow and become more cohesive. We have a lot on our plate and a lot we have yet to achieve!
Are you interested in joining the fastest growing open source engineering team around? We're looking for the following individuals: extensive math / cryptography background, C++ / Blockchain, App dev, and front-end. Please apply here!
Thanks to
@hitbtc
for posting this 5 in 5 Q&A with the Bitcoin Private contribution team. It brings clarity to aspects of the open source contribution team and the general approach to building toward a next general blockchain privacy project!
San Francisco!
@heyrhett
will be the main speaker for the SF Cryptocurrency Devs Meetup on February 21, where he will talk about Bitcoin Private. More info at: