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A: BLOCKv has not filed for patents. Vatomic Systems, a U.S. company, formed several years prior to BLOCKv, provisionally filed a patent application for its digital objects platform in 2016. BLOCKv licensed this technology from Vatomic to enable it to build out the current capabilities.
A: VEEconomics will be published before the end of this month.
A: In 2017, as part of the partnership signed with Science Blockchain, BLOCKv allocated $500,000 worth of VEE to support projects over a period of two years as an initiative to incentivize the developer community to use the technology and expand the digital goods economy. We have not received any project requests from Science Blockchain and therefore have also not given out any VEE grants yet.
A: We don’t disclose specific grants of VEE to partners or developers. However, partners and developers can receive grants from the community pool. We make these grants to kick-start a partner’s engagement on the platform where we can see a real benefit in terms of driving adoption. However, grants are never intended as an alternative to needing to purchase VEE from the market in the medium term, but to ease initial partner R&D and adoption of our platform.
A: It’s natural in the evolution of every company to choose advisors based on its stage of development. BLOCKv’s original advisor line-up was focussed on defining BLOCKv's initial vision & strategy. BLOCKv has moved on significantly in the past eighteen months to a live production platform with rapidly growing adoption.
Engagements with some advisors have ended whereas we continue to work closely with others. To give some examples: • Our advisor Craig Sellars talking about Blockchain being alive with Vatoms at the North American Bitcoin Conference 2019. • BLOCKv showcased Vatoms at Peter Diamandis’ annual keystone event, Abundance 360 for the last two years. • Xin Chung’s direct collaboration with BLOCKv during the Intel Project Engage and NRF butterfly experience.
A: As per the latest February newsletter, we have updated the Web SDK to version 2.0, launched the Brain Framework in Closed BETA to the community and completely re-architected the data paths within the platform to asynchronous. Forthcoming technical updates will include: Q2 • Brain Framework PUBLIC LAUNCH • Vatom transfer between BLOCKv accounts and Ethereum wallets (and back again) • BLOCKv Unity SDK • Enhanced Developer Portal Admin Functions • Cyclers Framework BETA • Extensive Developer Documentation updates • Demo Vatom Templates Q3 • Cyclers Framework PUBLIC LAUNCH
A: We see the projects for big brands as a strategy to proliferate the usage of virtual goods, generate PR and educate a mass community of how to interact with Vatoms. The positive outcome of these projects is huge for all of those involved with the platform, including the developers, as it exposes a greater audience to the virtual goods economy. That being said, BLOCKv is a platform open to all and we highly appreciate, welcome and encourage developers who want to use our platform to build projects. We understand that earlier in 2018, when we were building up the team, some developer queries may have been missed. If your technical question has gone unanswered, please email support@blockv.io and we'll do our very best to help (if it's not too late). Please note that if you need support, please contact us via email rather than other channels.
A: Rewarding a user for sharing a Vatom with another Vatom is a function which is already available and many developers and partners have already used this. For example, we created a business card that comes with 1 VEE credit which can be transferred to an Ethereum address, so there’s nothing to stop a developer on the platform from doing this now. We’re happy to support any developers wishing to use VEE as a mechanism of reward. Please email support@blockv.io with your request.
A: This will be answered in the forthcoming VEEconomics paper.
A: In addition to our partnerships with Intel, Austella, Vatom Labs, Varius, MEDA & InCrowd, who are all actively working on implementing multiple projects in Q2 and Q3. These include a ticketing solution for a sports team, a branded game for a major beer distributor and a new product for a global toy company. We’re also recruiting a significant number of both global and local partners to the BLOCKv platform, and will announce these when we are able to, with mutual consent. Moreover, there are also lots of developers within the community who are building projects on the BLOCKv platform that we’re loosely aware of, but we’re not directly involved with, and we’d love to hear more and how we can help, so please share.
A: We’re working to improve the developer portal with additional documentation, blog posts, and functions, and we’re planning to launch a developer technical forum shortly. We’d also love to support any meetups, and we’re looking at launching a developer web conference, as per suggestions from the channel.
A: Absolutely. We have numerous production campaigns live currently. There will not be any breaking changes to any features which are out of BETA.
A: Absolutely. Please reach out to us!
A: We’ve just appointed a new social & community manager, Joana Rizzo. Joana will do her best to respond to reasonable questions raised, or get another team member to respond. KC will be stepping down as Telegram admin and we thank her for her hard work.
A: BLOCKv allows the creation of Vatoms on Ethereum- as well as EOS-based blockchain. Varius has used this functionality to showcase their campaign creation tool, Studio, but all digital object orchestration is via the BLOCKv platform. A tutorial on how to create EOS-based Vatoms will be available on the developer portal.
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The Giant Impact hypothesis event occurred 4.5 billion years ago when a large celestial body struck the earth. The resulting impact ejected material into an orbiting ring of debris that eventually formed into the moon. Originally orbiting at 14,000 miles above the earth, today it orbits at a distance of 238,000 miles from earth and continues moving further away at about 1.5 inches each year.
Maybe the Giant Impact of Bitcoin isn't taking us to the moon. Maybe it IS the moon. ¯\_(ဖ ͜ ဖ)_/¯
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Hello Reddit, We released an all-you-need-to-know guide on Bitcoin ETF's. We would love any feedback. Here is a small excerpt from the article.
How do Bitcoin ETFs Work? Now that we understand how normal ETFs work, we can turn our attention to Bitcoin ETFs.
- ETFs that Physically Hold Bitcoin This type of ETF is almost identical compared to the ETF model we’ve described.
The only difference is that APs have the option of sending over baskets of cash instead of Bitcoin. This is simply for convenience as many APs don’t want to purchase Bitcoin and hold on to it themselves.
So when the AP sends over a basket of cash, the ETF provider trades the cash for Bitcoin. Then the provider returns ETF shares that are of equal value, less transaction fees, to the AP.
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Hello Reddit, We released an all-you-need-to-know guide on Bitcoin ETF's. We would love any feedback. Here is a small excerpt from the article.
How do Bitcoin ETFs Work? Now that we understand how normal ETFs work, we can turn our attention to Bitcoin ETFs.
- ETFs that Physically Hold Bitcoin This type of ETF is almost identical compared to the ETF model we’ve described.
The only difference is that APs have the option of sending over baskets of cash instead of Bitcoin. This is simply for convenience as many APs don’t want to purchase Bitcoin and hold on to it themselves.
So when the AP sends over a basket of cash, the ETF provider trades the cash for Bitcoin. Then the provider returns ETF shares that are of equal value, less transaction fees, to the AP.
We would really appreciate it if you check it out Here
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On March 15th, 2018, Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, announced the birth of the first official beta version of the lightning network. The solution was supported by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, SpaceX investor Bill Lee and computer giant Microsoft, other prominent members of the encryption community also expressed their support.
A year later, the Lightning Network (LN) has made great strides. According to data from the LN monitoring website 1ML.com, the network has a capacity of 1057 BTC（about $4.3 million）, which has increased by 50%+ in the past 30 days alone.[1]
https://i.redd.it/kuq714zq0pn21.png
With the continuous development of the lightning network, many wallets have publicly expressed support for the lightning network. However, most of the wallets have not yet completed the support on the product, only few of them are actual functional.
This guide will give a comprehensive overview of the most mature wallets that support bitcoin lighting network and will also introduce some fun APP with lighting network payment (LAPP) so that you can experience the Lighting network and have some fun.
Lighting Network Wallet is an Android based wallet can be downloaded at google play. It features a standalone SPV Bitcoin node with a fully functional built-in Lightning node and allows for sending and receiving of regular Bitcoin transactions as well as off-chain Lightning payments.
Although the name looks like an official wallet, it is actually a product from an individual developer - Anton Kumaigorodski. However, Lighting Network Wallet is indeed one of the first wallets on the market to support lightning networks. Despite being a personal product, Lighting Network Wallet has very good reputation in the market, and Anton Kumaigorodski is also an experienced blockchain wallet developer with other 3 wallet product.
The first-time open Lighting Network Wallet, choose a new wallet, the app will create a wallet and prompt the user to save the mnemonic phrase.
Then you can see on-chain funds and off-chain funds which refer to Bitcoin Wallet and Lightning Network Wallet. To use the lightning network, you must first transfer a certain amount of BTC into the Bitcoin wallet, and then use these BTCs to create a new channel by yourself.
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Blue Wallet is an on-chain bitcoin wallet which supports both traditional bitcoin model and custodial lightning network model. On Blue wallet, you can create custodial Lightning wallets (or choose to run your own node), that allows you to use the Lightning Network for payments, without the need to open channels, be online, provide liquidity or operate and maintain a node. This Lightning model is powered by the LNDhub.
This is how custodial model works:
"when user sends his bitcoins to a dedicated top-up address, and this balance is added to his account on LndHub. Then, the user can use this balance to pay Lightning invoices. But under the hood, it’s actually LndHub who pays the invoice, deducting the user’s account balance. It works the same way when the user wants to receive a Lightning payment - it’s LndHub who creates Lightning invoice and actually receives bitcoins on one of its channels.[2]
Compared to non-custodial lighting network wallets, Blue is much easier to onboard since it’s a more centralized model. When you are using the Lightning Network functions you rarely have obstacles on picking up. It’s just like using a common centralized wallet. The Blue Wallet team just set up an underlying channel on behalf of you at the rear end. So strictly speaking, it’s not a fully decentralized Lightning Network solution. It’s more of a transitional product than a professional solution. The drawbacks of this solution are user transfers his funds in custody to a 3rd party (and we all know that trusted 3rd parties are security holes, thanks to Nick Szabo).
However, it can bring more users to the Lightning Network with better user experiences. Therefore, if you are a newbie, you can start from Blue Wallet. But blue wallet app is not stable enough, I always encountered the blank page of the interface, where allow me to do nothing but reinstall it.
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Eclair Mobile is a wallet running by ACINQ, a well-known Lighting channel. And the name of "Eclair" actually is the word "Lightning" in French.
Like Lighting network wallet, after created a new wallet in Eclair, I put a small amount of bitcoin into the wallet first. Then I can start to open new LN channel with two options - open with a random LN node or open with ACINQ node. I choose the ACINQ code and pay the funding tx fee as it asks. After around 20 mins, a new LN channel was setup. Then I tried twice with the new channel. The first time, I use another LN wallet to transfer 10 Santoshi but failed. The reason why it failed maybe relate to the unstable of the bridge node. Then the second time, it works.
Interestingly, when closing the channel, it reminds me that I have to wait for 720+ blocks to get my BTC back. It is a really long time to wait.
Unlike other lightning network wallets, Bitpie is **an on-chain wallet supports a lot of major blockchain such Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, USDT, LTC, DASH and even Tron.**Bitpie wallet came from the same team who develop Bither wallet(https://bither.net) which is listed in bitcoin.org for many years and it looks like they have huge user base in Asia.
Similar to Blue wallet, Bitpie lighting network wallet is also a custodial model which reduce users learning curve. To use LN, user have to switch to bitcoin wallet first then switch from on-chain bitcoin model to LN model. The rest things are same to all the lighting wallets. You can enter a specific amount to collect or scan or bar code to send some Santoshis. But as a custodial model wallet, you don’t have to choose node or setup channel.
As a custodial model LN wallet, the overall experience is user-friendly and smooth. Bitpie also has a LAPP marketplacewhere users are able to use LAPP in wallet.
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Zap Wallet is a Lightning network Wallet provides two clients - iOS and windows desktop version. Although ZAP wallet is one of most powerful lighting network wallet candidates, it is not a user-friendly wallet at this moment.
Compare to other wallets, it is a little bit hard to get start with ZAP wallet. Since it is still in early development stage, by default, ZAP will connect you to bitcoin testnet rather than mainnet and it will take hours for blockchain data synchronization before you can use it.
When the synchronization is complete, user will able connect to one of those existing nodes and send some tBTCs(testnet Bitcoins) to setup a lighting network channel in testnet. Zap is also functional on mainnet, but you have to setup your own LND node, do a lot of configuration in command line before you can actually use it. This is way complicated for users but for hardcore player**, ZAP is definitely the most powerful lighting network wallet.**
There are already some fun LAPPs that you can pay with Lighting Network. Only very few of them are serious commercial project, but we can definitely have some fun with those LAPPs.
1. Satoshi’s Place (https://satoshis.place)
Satoshi's Place is a Lightning Network powered online collaborative artboard. There are 1 million pixels on the canvas. Each pixel costs 1 Santoshi to paint and pixels can be painted over indefinitely.
This is a great way to experience the power of micro-transactions through the Bitcoin Lightning Network and have some fun.
https://i.redd.it/0uv4klz01pn21.png
The editing tools built into the website make it easy to draw, and finally calculate the total pixels, and check out through the lightning network.
Can you find my paint?
2. Bitrefill(https://www.bitrefill.com)
Bitrefill is an e-commerce site that lets you refill prepaid mobile phone or buy gift card using bitcoin lighting network. It supports prepaid SIM cards from over 600 carriers in over 150 countries. Full privacy and the top up happen as soon as the transaction clears.
Compares to most experimental LAPP, Bitrefill is a serious commercial project which is rare in Lighting Network community. You can really use the lightning network to pay for what you need in your life such as phone bill, dominos gift card or reddit award.
https://i.redd.it/faxczw011pn21.png
In a nutshell, The lightning network has grown tremendously, but the entire lightning network is still at a very early stage compared to other mature blockchain networks. As an experimental solution to the micropayment, it still has a long way to go.
However, with the continuous support of more wallets and the continuous emergence of LAPP, Lightning Network already entered a channel of accelerated development. With this speed, maybe you will use the Lightning Network every day to pay for a subway ticket, a cup of coffee or a slice of pizza in near future. 📷
[1] https://medium.com/altcoin-magazine/altcoin-news-lightning-network-bandwidth-on-bitcoin-blockchain-topped-1-000-btc-48b37318b7b6
[2] https://medium.com/bluewallet/bluewallet-brings-zero-configuration-lightning-payments-to-ios-and-android-30137a69f071
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