9/20/2017 by Jeremy
New Hires Counterparty is excited to announce two new hires in recent weeks Firstly, Counterparty would like to welcome Rebekah Moss as community outreach manager for 6 months. Rebekah will work to drive engagement across, and offer support to, the Counterparty community. Secondly, Counterparty has retained Devon Weller as a core developer for 6 months,
6/23/2017 by Jeremy
Ecosystem Updates The Counterparty ecosystem has seen a lot of progress the past month. There has been a massive influx of new projects and updates of existing ones. Here’s a brief overview: XChain.io is nearing full release and will be replacing Blockscan as our primary block explorer. IndieSquare is also working on their 'Token Explorer',
5/18/2017 by Robby Dermody
Due to several important new changes, we're releasing a development update independently this week. Transaction fee improvements When composing a new Counterparty transaction, counterparty-lib must select which Bitcoin unspent outputs (UTXOs) to use as inputs for the transaction in order to pay the miners’ fees. We released a hotfix earlier this week to the current 9.52.2
5/3/2017 by Jeremy
On April 3rd 2017, the Counterparty Foundation announced the start of its blockchain-based election for four Community Director seats, that will together with the Founding Director, Robby Dermody, officially represent the Counterparty project, help shape its direction and ensure an active and transparent leadership. During the two-week voting period, a total of 68,134.4311 votes were
4/25/2017 by Robby Dermody
NOTE: If you run a Counterparty node, please UPDATE your software as soon as possible with these instructions, prior to the block 467417 hard fork! Today we released version 9.55.2 of counterparty-lib, which adds the much anticipated “subassets” feature, as well as an update to use bitcoin-0.13.2. In short, subassets allow for owners of a specific named
4/3/2017 by Jeremy
On May 1st last year, the Counterparty community elected four Counterparty Foundation community directors to help shape the direction of the Counterparty project and grow the community around it. Candidates with most votes from the community were Matt Young, Jeremy Johnson (J-Dog), Koji Higashi and Trevor Altpeter. With the term of one year now coming
3/27/2017 by Robby Dermody
Since its inception, Counterparty has functioned as a “metalayer” on Bitcoin, enabling functionality that Bitcoin could not perform on its own. Until recently, Counterparty and Bitcoin technology worked well together to provide this valuable functionality quickly, simply and at a low cost to a growing user base. The recent strife in the Bitcoin space —
1/5/2017 by Jeremy
Ecosystem Updates Bitcoin and Counterparty were recently on Shark Tank South Africa as a result of an investment made by South African entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. Augmentors will be raising funds in part by selling DATABITS, a token on the Counterparty network. Following the investment, Corin Faife wrote an article detailing the event. Below are some
12/3/2016 by Jeremy
Release Announcement for counterparty-lib 9.55.1 Counterparty experienced roughly 14 hours of downtime on December 2nd, 2016. Counterparty is back up and running thanks to a fix enacted by several leading Counterparty developers. Ruben de Vries will be porting changes from master to develop within the next day or so. Please update to the latest version
11/1/2016 by Jeremy
Development Updates Robby Health Issue Several months ago, due to increasing complications with a chronic health condition, Robby had to stop working for Symbiont. He is on the road to recovery, and has had to minimize his involvement in Counterparty. We wish him the best of luck and a speedy recovery. Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)