Note: you can read this on Medium, GitHub or old Reddit to view all the links Development
dcrd: Several steps towards
multipeer downloads completed: an
optimization to use in-memory block index and a new 1337
chain view. Maintenance: improved test coverage, upgrading dependency management system and preparing for the upcoming Go 1.11 release.
dcrwallet: A big
change introducing optional privacy-preserving SPV sync mode was merged. In this mode dcrwallet does not download the full blockchain but only gets the "filters", uses them to determine which blocks it needs and fetches them from random nodes on the network. This has on-disk footprint of 300-400 MB and sync time of minutes, compared to ~3.4 GB and sync time of hours for full sync (these are rough estimates).
jy-p: the server side of SPV (in dcrd) was deployed in v1.2.0, the client side of SPV (in dcrwallet) is in our next release, v1.3.0. Still some minor bugs in SPV that are being worked out. There will be an update to add the latest features from BIP 157/158 in the next few months. SPV will be optional in v1.3.0, but it will become the default after we get a proper header commitment for it (#general)
Decrediton: besides regular bugfixes and design improvements, several components are being developed in parallel like SPV mode, Politeia integration and Trezor support.
Politeia:
testing started on
mainnet, thanks to everyone who is
participating. A lot of testing, bugfixing and polishing is happening in preparation for full mainnet launch. There are also a few missing features to be added before launch, e.g. capacity to edit a proposal and versioning for that, discussion to remain open once voting starts. Decrediton integration is
moving forward, check out
this video for a demo and this
meta issue for the full checklist.
Trezor: Decrediton integration of initial Trezor support is
in progress and there is a
demo.
Android: app design version 2.0
completed.
dcrdata: development of several chart visualizations was completed and is awaiting deployment. Specifically,
voting agendas and
historic charts are merged while
ticket pool visualization is in testing.
atomicswap: @glendc is seeking reviews of his Ethereum support
pull request.
Dev activity stats for July: 252 active PRs, 220 master commits, 34,754 added and 12,847 deleted lines spread across 6 repositories. Contributions came from 6-10 developers per repository. (
chart)
Network
Hashrate: the month started at 40.5 and ended at 51.6 PH/s, with a low of 33.3 and a new all time high of 68.4 PH/s. F2Pool is leading with 40-45%, followed by the new BeePool at 15-25% and coinmine.pl at 18-23%.
Staking: 30-day average ticket price is 92.6 DCR (-2.1). The price started the month at 94.6 and quickly retreated to month's low of 85 until 1,860 tickets were bought within a single period (versus target 720). This pushed the pool of tickets to 41,970 (2.5% above target), which in turn caused 10 price increases in a row to the month's high of 100.4. This was the highest ticket price seen on the new ticket price algorithm which has been in effect since Jul 2017. Second half of the month there was unusually low volatility between 92 and 94 DCR per ticket. Locked DCR held between 3.75 and 3.87 million or 46.6-48.0% of supply (+0.1% from previous peak).
Nodes: there are 212 public listening and 216 normal nodes per
dcred.eu. Version distribution: 67% on v1.2.0 (+10%), 24% on v1.1.2 (-1%), 7% on v1.1.0 (-7%). Node count data is not perfect but we can see the steady trend of upgrading to v1.2.0. This version of dcrd is notable for serving compact filters. The increased count of such full nodes allows the developers to test SPV client mode in preparations for the upcoming v1.3.0 release.
ASICs
Obelisk posted
three updates in July. For the most recent daily updates join their
Discord.
New miner from iBeLink:
DSM7T hashes Blake256 at 7 TH/s or Blake2b at 3.5 TH/s, consumes 2,100 W and costs $3,800, shipping Aug 5-10.
There were also speculations about the mysterious
Pangolin Whatsminer DCR with the speed of 44 TH/s at 2,200 W and the cost of $3,888, shipping November. If you know more about it please share with us in #pow-mining channel.
Integrations
Meet new
stake pool:
dcrpool.ibitlin.com has 1% fees and is hosted by
@life.
An interesting detail about
decredbrasil.com stake pool was posted in chat:
emiliomann: stakebrasil is one of the pools with the lowest number of missed and expired tickets. It was one of the first and has a smaller percentage than the most recent ones who haven’t had the time to do so. (...) The Brazilian pool should be the one with the more servers spread around the world: 6 to decrease the latency. This is to explain to you why the [pool fee] rate of 5% (currently around 0.06 DCR) on the reward is also one of the highest. girino: 8 voting wallets now. I just finished setting up a new one yesterday. All of them in different datacenters, 3 in europe, 3 in north america, 1 in brazil and one in asia. We also have 3 more servers, 1 for the front end, one for "stats" and one for dcrdata. (#general)
On the mining side, Luxor
started a new set of pool servers inside mainland China, while
zpool has
enabled Decred mining.
StatX
announced Decred integration into their
live dashboard and public chat.
Decred was
added to Satowallet with BTC and ETH trading pairs. Caution: do your best to understand the security model before using any wallet software.
Adoption
VotoLegal update:
Marina Silva is the first presidential candidate in Brazil using blockchain to keep all their electoral donations transparent and traceable. VotoLegal uses Decred technology, awesome use case! (reddit)
The story was covered by
criptonoticias.com (
translated) and
livecoins.com.br (
translated), the latter received hundreds of upvotes and comments
on brasil.
On the OTC trading front, @i2Rav from
i2trading reports:
We continue to see institutional interest in DCR. Large block buyers love the concept of staking as a way to earn additional income and appreciate the stakeholder rights it affords them. Likening a DCR investment to an activist shareholdebondholder gives these institutions some comfort while dipping their toes into a burgeoning new asset class.
Marketing
Targeted advertising reports released for
June and
July. As usual, reach @timhebel for full versions.
Big news in June: Facebook reversed their policy on banning crypto ads. ICO ads are still banned, but we should be OK. My team filled out the appeal today, so we should hopefully hear something within a few days. (u/timhebel on reddit)
After couple weeks Facebook finally responded to the appeal and the next step is to verify the domain name via DNS.
A pack of Stakey Telegram stickers is now
available. Have fun!
Events
Attended:
- Meetup in Berlin, Germany hosted by BlueYard Capital. @jz_bz and @lftherios discussed open source incentivization, the value of governance and their respective projects @decredproject and @oscoin. See @issedjur's feedback here. (photos: 1, 2, 3)
- O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, USA. @raedah's talk was "Decentralizing decision-making on the blockchain". Read his report here and see on the photos how the Big Stakey was entertaining the public. (photos: 1, 2, 3)
oregonisaac: many open source devs at OSCON were VERY interested in Politeia and it was probably the #1 hook that resulted in lots of long conversations about what makes Decred unique from the ground up. (#politeia)
- Blockchain Meetup in Faro, Portugal. Marco Peereboom gave a talk "Decred 101" and answered questions.
Upcoming:
- Meetup in Lisbon, Portugal on Aug 2. @moo31337 and @mm will be presenting on Decred with talk "Decred 101 - Governance with skin in the game". Co-hosted by The Block Cafe. Free entrance.
- Meetup in Taipei, Taiwan on Aug 5. @morphymore will give a short intro on Decred.
- OKEx Global Meetup Tour in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Aug 9. @joshuam will introduce Decred and on-chain governance and take part in a panel discussion.
- Blockchain & Decentralised Governance Panel in Melbourne, Australia on Aug 13. Hosted by YBF Ventures.
- Voice of Blockchain in Chicago, USA on Aug 24-25.
Media
Featured articles:
- Decred’s hybrid protocol, a superior deterrent to majority attacks by Zubair Zia (medium)
- 8 Reasons Why Decred is Massively Undervalued by Jason Bacchetta (medium)
- The origin of Decred by @mm (stakey.club, also in Portuguese)
- Decentralized blockchain network governance is the biggest challenge by Mi Sun Silvia Cho (medium)
- Is plutocratic on-chain governance really a bad thing? by Lanre Ige (medium)
- Solutions without Historical Templates: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains by Charles Hugh Smith (oftwominds.com, also published on zerohedge.com)
- Decred Is The Bitcoin You Wished BTC Could Be by Andrew Macdonald (cryptobriefing.com)
Articles:
Some articles are omitted due to low quality or factual errors.
Translations:
- Placeholder's Decred Investment Thesis in Russian by @DZ
- A new kind of DEX in Portuguese by @mm
Videos:
- Morning Coins w/ John & Chas Ep. 16 - Intro to Decred, Bitcoin Tech Analysis (dlive.io)
Community Discussions
Community stats:
- Twitter followers 39,418 (-791)
- Reddit subscribers 8,512 (+102)
- Slack users 5,964 (+134)
- GitHub 404 stars (+12) and 977 forks (+59) of dcrd repository
Comm systems update:
- We lost around 1k followers after a purge of Twitter accounts.
- decred was spam attacked for several days. Generated users submitted a crypto ad 100+ times. Most were blocked by Reddit automatically, some made it through and were removed manually.
Articles:
Twitter: Ari Paul
debates "There can be only one" aka "highlander argument".
Reddit and Forum:
how ticket pool size influences average vote time; roadmap
concerns;
why ticket price was volatile;
ideas for using Reddit chat for
dcrtrader and alternative chat systems; insette's
write-up on Andrew Stone's GROUP proposal for miner-validated tokenization that is superior to current OP_RETURN-based schemes; James Liu's
paper to extend atomic swaps to financial derivatives;
what happens when all DCR are mined, tail emission and incentives for miners.
Chats:
why tickets don't have 100% chance to vote;
ideas for more straightforward marketing; long-running
chat about world economy and failure modes; @brandon's
thoughts on tokenizing everything, ICOs, securities, sidechains and more;
challenges of staking with Trezor;
ideas how to use CryptoSteel wallet with Decred;
why exchange can't stake your coins, how staking can increase security, why the function to export seed from wallet is bad idea and why dcrwallet doesn't ever store the seed; ticket voting
math;
discussion about how GitHub workflow forces to depend on modern web browser and possible alternatives;
funding marketing and education in developing markets, vetting contractors based on deliverables, "Decred contractor clearance", continued in
#governance.
#dex channel continues to attract thinkers and host chats about influence of exchanges, regulation, HFT, lot sizes, liquidity, on-chain vs off-chain swaps, to name a few topics.
#governance also keeps growing and hosting high quality conversations.
Markets
In July DCR was trading in USD 56-76 and BTC 0.0072-0.0109 range. A recovery started after a volume boost of up to $10.5 m on Fex around Jul 13, but once Bitcoin headed towards USD ~8,000 DCR declined along with most altcoins.
WalletInvestor
posted a prediction on
dcrtrader.
Decred was noticed in top 10 mineable coins
on coinmarketcap.com.
Relevant External
One million PCs in China were
infected via browser plugins to mine Decred, Siacoin and Digibyte.
In a Unchained podcast
episode David Vorick shared why ASICs are better than GPUs even if they tend toward mining centralization and also described Obelisk's new Launchpad service. (missed in June issue)
Sia project
moved to GitLab. The stated reasons are to avoid the risk of depending on centralized service, to avoid vendor lock-in, better continuous integration and testing, better access control and the general direction to support decentralized and open source projects.
Luxor
explained why PPS pools are better.
@nic__carter
published slides from his
talk "An Overview of Governance in Blockchains" from Zcon0.
This
article arguing the importance of governance systems dates back to 2007.
Bancor wallet was
hacked. This reminds us about the fake feeling of decentralizaion, that custody of funds is dangerous and that smart contracts must have minimum complexity and be verifiable.
Circle
announced official Poloniex mobile apps for iOS and Android.
On Jul 27 Circle
announced delisting of 9 coins from Poloniex that led to a loss of 23-81% of their value same day. Sad reminder about how much a project can depend on a single centralized exchange.
DCR supply and market cap is now correct on onchainfx.com and finally, on coinmarketcap.com. Thanks to @sumiflow, @jz and others doing the tedious work to reach out the various websites.
About This Issue
This is the 4th issue of Decred Journal. It is mirrored on
GitHub,
Medium and
Reddit. Past issues are available
here.
Most information from third parties is relayed directly from source after a minimal sanity check. The authors of Decred Journal have no ability to verify all claims. Please beware of scams and do your own research.
Chat links were changed to
riot.im from the static
web viewer that suffered from UX issues (filed
here and
here). We will consider changing back to the static viewer once they are resolved because it does not require javascript to read chat logs.
In the previous issue we introduced "Featured articles". The judgement is subjective by definition, if you feel unfairness or want to debate the criteria please check
this issue.
Feedback is appreciated: please comment on
Reddit,
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#writers_room.
Contributions are also welcome, some areas are adding content, pre-release review or translations to other languages.
Credits (Slack names, alphabetical order): bee, Haon and Richard-Red.
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