Hi Nav Coiners,
It's time for the Nav Coin weekly update and this week I come bearing two amazing pieces of news for you all!
Nav Coin Thin Clients for Windows and OSXWe are very pleased to announce that we have finished the first release of our range of Thin Clients for desktop! These allow you to store and send NAV without having to download the entire block chain yourself. They work using the same electrum server technology that the mobile wallet uses which means they're instantly on and ready to go all the time.
Grab your new thin client from the downloads page:
http://www.navcoin.org/downloadsFor more information, please head over to our news page and read the great press release Sophia has written up for us:
http://www.navcoin.org/news/articles/post/nav-coins-new-lite-walletThere are two types of wallet available for Windows and OSX. We have built an Installer for each which will set the application up into your program files or applications directory. Then we have also built a portable version which you don't need to install and could even run from a USB drive if you wanted to.
This marks the first official OSX wallet we have for Nav Coin. We are working hard to bring also the full node OSX wallet live in the coming days.
Please note that the OSX wallet has a couple of bugs, the preferences wont open and QR code scanning is unavailable. These are bugs within the electrum base code and we are waiting on them to provide a fix for these issues at which point we will update our wallet also.
Anonymous Transaction Test Network is LiveThe second big piece of news is that we have successfully deployed the new anon scripts to the live environment and sent our first anonymous transactions using the live system!
This week the system will be undergoing stress tests and other QA measures to make sure that when we release it to the public it is robust and functions flawlessly. Depending on what comes from the stress testing, we are hoping to re-launch the anon system as early as next week. We will keep you updated on this progress as more information becomes available to us.
The wallet is all configured to use the new system. It has some exciting new tweaks which I will detail in full in my forthcoming whitepaper or at the latest in our release notes for the client when we launch the system.
If you want to have a look at the new wallet code, you can see it on this branch here:
https://github.com/navcoindev/navcoin2/commits/anon-testOur progress has been reflected in our projects page with the Thin Client project moving to the completed section and the decentralisation implementation percentage being bumped up to 70%!
We have also been making progress with the Web Wallet which is now at 95%, we hope to get this finished and out to the public in the coming days.
http://www.navcoin.org/projectsIt's very exciting times here at Nav Coin HQ, we are super proud of what we have achieved this week, but we are also showing no signs of slowing down!
This weeks focus is the OSX full node wallet, the web wallet and stress testing the Anon Network.
We have a lot great features in the lab and with decentralisation just around the corner, we are in such a good place right now and the future is bright.
Talk Soon,
Craig.
