The Peercoin Development Team wanted to put out a teaser for the new v0.6 reference client that is currently under development. As you may have heard, the Peerunity wallet will no longer be supported after v0.6 of the protocol is released. We’re currently working on moving functionality from Peerunity over to the main Peercoin reference client.
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As part of the transition process, we’ll be retheming the reference client to reflect Peercoin’s updated visuals and logo. @Sentinelrv took the previous Peerunity theme and updated it with a brighter and simpler looking design. Some inspiration for the minimalist design was taken from our new Discourse forum.
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@Fuzzybear has already submitted a pull request to merge in Qt5 and he’s currently working on coding these design changes for the client. You can see a preview image of the Overview screen below. Click on the image to make it larger…
New Updated Theme
Outdated Peerunity Theme
For comparison, here is a screenshot of the old Peerunity theme.
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The migration of Peercoin to the Bitcoin v0.8 codebase has been successfully tested on testnet. The team is now discussing some protocol upgrades like porting over some newer Bitcoin OP codes such as OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY.
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Peercoin surpasses $1, the highest price in nearly 2.5 years.
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Indicium, a DAC focused on building cryptocurrency index funds, began its first round of funding. Indicium will use the PeerAssets protocol on the Peercoin blockchain and will act as the first financially driven PeerAsset. Funding has already reached $100k with a $250k cap and several weeks left before closing. The Series A announcement and business plan can be seen here.
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Mercator Atlas, the block explorer of Mercator currently indexes the entire testnet chain in <50MB database, with room for improvements. Atlas currently exposes the needed functionality to continue the implementation of PeerKeeper. Public testing of PeerKeeper to be expected later this year.
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PeerAssets RFC-0005 for on-chain voting protocol specification has been completed. This protocol will allow decentralized, trust-less on-chain voting and polls using PeerAssets protocol.