[Weekly report] April 20
By: Lightning Bitcoin, Lbtc
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Lbtc Weekly, Blockchain

[Weekly report] April 20

Node Elections | Light Wallet update | Cobo Mobile Wallet | Community Reward Program

Milestones

Lightning Bitcoin is going to start Lightning node elections. The rules will be revealed soon.

Technical Improvements

Full node wallet

Modified invoke commands to fix deadlock.

Completed DPoS datastore fault. At the time of program exception, the full node wallet recovers the DPoS data.

Light wallet

Added automatic language detecting function.

Made password dialog show only once when user do vote or cancel voting.

Removed the black background dialog, new version run without python embeded interpreter. The speed have been improved to make experience better.

Minimized wallet size from 257M to 20M.

Announcements

Cobo Wallet supports LBTC

April 17th, LBTC was listed in Cobo Wallet. Cobo claims that you can get approximate 170% return of LBTC by voting in their wallet. It uses smart voting system and profit allocation algorithm. Users do not need to vote manually but still can get stable income.

Cobo Wallet’s team includes the founder of the world’s largest mining pool (F2Pool), Shen Yu, and former Facebook senior scientist and founder of coin bank, Jiang Changhao.

New Light Wallet tutorial

LBTC team has published a tutorial for the latest version of light wallet (v0.0.6). We have added details about how to change system language and how to vote. Read the article

Node Capital participates in LBTC Lightning Node Election

April 13th, Node Capital announced that it is going to participate in the LBTC Lightning Node Election. Node Capital is a venture capital company that focuses on blockchain investment and is one of the earliest professional investment institutions in the global blockchain industry. It aims to connect each part of the blockchain industry through project investment and cooperation.

Node Capital’s participation will undoubtedly help LBTC accelerate sustainable ecosystem construction.

LinkVC participates in LBTC Lightning Node Election

April 14th, LinkVC announced the will to participate in the LBTC Lightning Node Election.

LinkVC is an emerging venture capital firm based in Singapore, focuses on investing in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and Internet financial services.LinkVC’s participatation will bring massive resources and make large contribution to LBTC community.

ColdLar participates in LBTC Lightning Node Election

April 16th, hardware wallet, ColdLar, announced to join in the LBTC Lightning Node Election. The concept of separation of network and non-network, God Seed Code plus Payment Password and Multi-signiture make ColdLar known as one of the most reliable hardware wallet.

We believe that ColdLar Wallet can both help LBTC community attract more attention, and provide hardware storage services for LBTC users.

BTCC participates in LBTC Lightning Node Election

April 19th, the BTCC Pool decided to take part in the LBTC Lightning Node Election. BTCC established the largest and earliest bitcoin exchange in China. The BTCC pool is the most important business of BTCC company, and it is deployed globally to provide excellent service and competitive rates for miners.

Zhao Qianjie, the vice president of BTCC believes LBTC has a good future and BTCC pool will be deeply involved in the elections.

LBTC Community

LBTC will join K Site

Bitkan launched the K Site “100 Global Community Officers” Recruitment Plan, and LBTC will be one of the first to join it.BitKan is a popular chinese cryptocurrency price aggregation. K Site will be released as a new feature in the BitKan App.

K-Site has the characteristics of a small community culture, multi-currency payments, token incentives, and expert nodes. We believe that K Site will further promote construction of LBTC’s global community.

LBTC Community News

Lightning Reward Program

The Lightning Program is still ongoing, rewards for contributing into the community for past three months will be given out soon.

The details of the reward winning contributors will be revealed in LBTC forum, Medium.

Thanks for your support. The contributors to the LBTC forum are counted in the Lightning Reward Program as well. We encourage everyone to share your opinions and suggestions with us. It will help to establish a better and stronger community.

GIES2018 summit

April 18th, Jack Zhang, on behalf of LBTC, was invited to give a speach in the 2018 Blockchain Plus Technology Application Summit Forum organized by LianJin Finance, Blockchain Finance Weekly, Blockchain Form and Yousheng Voice, co-sponsored by Dapao Rating, Future Finance, Golden Finance, 9 Billions Finance, Blockchain Learning and Tuoniao Blockchain.

Jack Zhang, gave a speech about “The Past, Present and Future of Blockchain”.