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Been a while since i stopped by BCT just wanted to say Consensus 2017 was amazing, made so many connections there; the future for Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry is VERY bright. If you haven't read that blog post yet please do.

Also, thanks @bontol72 for sharing the post about Blockmarket Desktop Beta 3 now being ready for test. While all that was going on Jag lined up a partnership between Blockchain Foundry and the Government of Hawaii. Jag will also be presenting at the International Conference on Computer Communications & Networks 2017 in August where Syscoin's whitepaper was selected for presentation.

So much going on we have yet to share to! Going to be great year for Blockchain Foundry and Syscoin. This team has continued to deliver and we only have more of that coming throughout 2017! I'm on our Slack all the time, so if you've been trying to get a hold of me please join and contact me there!

                                                                             Blockmarket Beta 3 – Ready for Testing!

It’s been just under two weeks since we released Blockmarket Desktop beta 2 and we are very happy to announce the release of beta 3! This release represents many additional functional and security improvements in addition to improvements and UX fixes that were reported by the community. While we fixed many issues in beta 3, our progress was somewhat slowed by the Consensus conference, which as discussed in our post here was a huge boost for Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry. We are actively involved in several discussions which came out of the conference and we will continue to update the community on new opportunities and initiatives as they develop.
The list of fixes can be found on GitHub in the usual location where Blockmarket Desktop issues are tracked. The beta status page has also been updated with more information on what is available in this release. For security reasons there was a big change to character encoding in beta 3. This will cause some offers created with beta 2 to display oddly, however this is not a bug. The solution is simply edit these offers using beta 3 and the offer will be updated with the new encoding.
A big thank you to the whole community for identifying and logging issues as they arise in testing. Please continue to log any issues via GitHub issues and the #beta-testing room in our Slack.
Please note that the current beta does not yet have escrow or encrypted wallet support, features that will be added in beta 4 prior to final release. Additional features and enhancements like Changelly integration, reseller support, and multisignature support are being planned for future releases which will occur shortly after the first 1.0 release.
We are pushing forward with our Blockmarket roadmap even as we follow up on the number of leads and interest coming out of Consensus. Continued development and new partnerships will only lead to further exposure for Blockmarket, Syscoin, and Blockchain Foundry and we are working hard to continue to make progress in all of these areas.

https://medium.com/@BlockchainFoundry/blockmarket-beta-3-ready-for-testing-6e030b4afc68

Syscoin Whitepaper selected for International Conference on Computer Communications & Networks 2017 in August.

https://twitter.com/syscoin/status/868945593028280320

 
 

We have finalized and completed a camera-ready version of the Syscoin whitepaper to be presented at the 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN). The ICCCN is a part of the IEEE Computer Society which is the world’s leading membership organization dedicated to computer science and technology. Jag Sidhu, core developer of Syscoin and Chief Technology Officer of Blockchain Foundry will be presenting the paper and leading a workshop.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE is essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals everywhere, and is universally recognized for the contributions of technology and technical professionals in improving global conditions.

ICCCN 2017 Vancouver Canada
ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving computer communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation.
We are excited to be a part of such a group and present to academics of the highest standard. Being included in any standards body such as this, or our work with distributed identity, is good for the future of Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry. We will have our camera-ready version of the whitepaper on display at the conference and give a workshop presentation on Syscoin on August 2, 2017 at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Read more about the conference and workshop here.
https://medium.com/@BlockchainFoundry/syscoin-whitepaper-selected-for-26th-international-conference-on-computer-communications-and-7df0cbd68b99

https://medium.com/@BlockchainFoundry/consensus-decentralized-identity-foundation-blockmarket-beta-3-beyond-6f830419ea55

Consensus, Decentralized Identity Foundation, Blockmarket Beta 3 & Beyond
We wanted to take some time to update the community on our experience at the Consensus 2017 conference, the connections we made there and our plans for Blockchain Foundry and Syscoin going forward.

The Blockchain Foundry Booth

Blockchain Foundry Team @ Consensus 2017 (from left to right): Chris Marsh (CFO), Dan Wasyluk (CEO), Sebastien DiMichele (COO)
The reception we received from our sponsorship and our booth was fantastic. Dan Wasyluk had a live demo of the latest Blockmarket internal Beta 3 running, and Dan, Chris Marsh and Sebastien DiMichele spoke with a steady stream of investors, corporate representatives and other blockchain enthusiasts. There was so much interest in Blockchain Foundry and Syscoin that we were pinned to the booth by a flood of interested parties, often times with Chris, Dan and Sebastien talking to different individuals in parallel. We also had our brochure on display, which Brad Hammerstron and our incredible community did a great job creating. It was a huge hit, we were constantly having to print more copies as they were a hot item for visitors. You can access a digital copy here.

Blockmarket is our focus at the moment, but it’s important to remember that Syscoin’s infrastructure can quite literally support hundreds of use cases. Additionally, as a company Blockchain Foundry also offers blockchain software development and consulting services. Many of the people we spoke with at Consensus are interested in other applications of our technology and were very receptive to using Syscoin as a business blockchain solution tailored to their particular use cases with Blockchain Foundry consulting them on how best to execute such an integration.
We spoke with corporate reps looking to leverage blockchain to their advantage in a number of different fields- decentralized identity solutions, supply chain management, insurance, micro finance and beyond; all areas we can help serve better with the blockchain. We have multiple followup meetings set up already and we will keep the community updated as these opportunities evolve.

Decentralized Identity Foundation

Blockchain Foundry joins the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) with its Syscoin blockchain and Alias service.
One exciting development that was announced at Consensus was the formation of the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Blockchain Foundry is one of the founding members of DIF, along with organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, ConsenSys, Blockstack, Tierion and others. This is a significant milestone for Blockchain Foundry, as we partner with the other members of DIF to create a new open-sourced decentralized identity network and establish a new set of standards to oversee a new way of looking at identity.
We have already developed a blockchain identity service which allows users to log in anywhere within Blockmarket for Web. Through our partnership with Microsoft we discovered that many projects are working toward similar goals, but with a much larger scope. We can now combine our collective expertise and create open standards which will benefit everyone working in the identity space. These standards will be incorporated in our products, with identities being used as top level services to enabling sharing of physical and digital assets securely across different blockchains. This is a significant benefit for us because many of the companies we are working with and wish to work with require proof of identity as a core part of their blockchain implementations. Being part of the team that sets and creates the blockchain identity standards allows us to deliver those requirements better, faster and in a more informed manner than others.
Watch this presentation to learn what decentralized identity means and how it could help the ecosystem.

DIF will work on a broad array of identity initiatives, ranging from a system to move identity away from centralized actors and provide decentralized access to services, to integrating blockchain technology with biometrics, to a utility-like service that links business processes with blockchain-based timestamps as a way of proving the identity and actions of users across organizations. We are very happy to be a founding member of DIF and look forward to helping to drive these initiatives forward.

Blockmarket Desktop Beta 3 Almost Ready!

The conference took up more of our bandwidth than projected but nevertheless we continued to work on Blockmarket Desktop Beta 3 while at the conference and were showing off that progress to conference attendees. We will be releasing Beta 3 to the public on Monday, May 29, 2017. This is a major update and includes a number of improvements and bug fixes, the list is still being updated but you can check it out on our Github page. This release focuses on the usability and functional issues testers have reported. We will have more info alongside the blog post Monday in which we release the beta binaries but in short our goal is for this to be the final beta in regards to bugs and functional issues users have reported with the current features present in BM beta3. We’ll then add escrow alongside additional user experience improvements, release that as a target final beta (Beta 4) and as long as no major issues are discovered in the security audit be ready for Blockmarket final release in the June time-frame.

Changelly Integrates Syscoin!

Changelly, a popular platform for purchasing cryptocurrencies using fiat or exchanging between cryptocurrencies recently added Syscoin just before the Consensus 2017 conference. This is a major milestone for the project as it paves the way for the “so easy your grandma can use it” type experience that has always been the goal of the Syscoin project at a consumer level. Through Changelly’s website or through their API users will be able to purchase SYS directly in-wallet without having to first figure out how to:
Buy BTC with fiat in their country
How to transfer purchased BTC to an exchange for SYS
How to then send that SYS back from the exchange to their wallet to actually start using Syscoin services.
With Changelly that process is distilled down to a few clicks that require little to no knowledge of Bitcoin/Syscoin and the intricacies of the blockchain. We are already working to integrate Changelly directly into Blockmarket Desktop and will likely release it to the public shortly after version 1.0 of Blockmarket Desktop. This capability fundamentally reduces the amount of “friction” users encounter when trying to enter the Syscoin ecosystem – and that’s a big deal. Expect to see Changelly capabilities directly within Blockmarket Desktop soon.

The Road Ahead

Coming back from the conference we’re more excited than ever for the future of Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry. We also have more work to do than ever with the contact to followup with and the partnerships and opportunities those discussions with yield. Practically no one at the conference knew about Syscoin, much less Blockchain Foundry and what services we provide.
Simply by us being there a whole new group of high level, international investors is now aware of Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry. What’s more is that these are the types of investors we need to be targeting – real businesses looking to leverage Syscoin and the blockchain to their benefit or venture capitalists looking to add blockchain to their portfolio rather than day traders already familiar with Syscoin. While some of the team was busy in New York, Jag Sidhu was busy in Hawaii fostering new partnerships between Blockchain Foundry and the Government of Hawaii- which we’ll have even more details on next week.
As we follow-up with all of the investors and companies we interacted with at the conference we expect to see more and more opportunities opening up for Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry. Get ready to start seeing Syscoin becoming available in more and more places – both physical and digital, very soon!

https://medium.com/@BlockchainFoundry/consensus-decentralized-identity-foundation-blockmarket-beta-3-beyond-6f830419ea55

key derivation function, zero knowledge authentication, block market hop on slack for more info

what is kdf, zka and bm?

What happened to all the goods that presale investors were supposed to get? They got stuck along the way but you were supposed to resend them.

For one its misused its meant to be a kdf. Secondly sticking to bitcoin is smarter move. Merged mining on ltc is not as good as bitcoin. Stick to bigger parent. Third integrations into existing bitcoin tools is much easier.

Btw in core 2.2 ive put scrypt in and used it how its meant to be used.. as a kdf function for zka in bm web.

What was the reasoning from going from Scrypt to SHA256?

No éven that isnt reasonable as a target for this week.
8-9k Maybe

A carefully thought out spreadsheet. Its a bit complicated and related to mechanism design if you read whitepaper.. hop on slack and ill explain some more

Look in the source code for reward halving...


LOL, where did they come up with this?

I did see the specs on page 1, which is why I'm confused.  It has a Mining Schedule showing interest (as if this was POS), yet it says SHA256 merge mining.  Looking the blockchain, the current reward is 16.39 SYS for SHA256.  I can't find the breakdown for reward halving.  I guess I'll have to go looking in the source code.

Mate, check page 1 - specifications. Check this too: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/sys/

With the changes that syscoin has gone thru over the years, I am a bit confused with it's current state.  The official website does not answer my questions.

So, is sys currently SHA256 minable or proof-of-stake or both?  
What is the current reward?  What is the halving or reward reduction schedule?
How many confirmations until maturity?

Yep! Syscoin should really worth now atleast as much as Steem that is currently going slightly above 1$. At these prices its like a stealing!
Syscoin continues to be among the most professional, consistently delivering teams in crypto! Recent event Consensus 2017 was big success! Now with all this recent News, progress, China, awsome professional partnerships, great public events, Sys Blockmarket got recently cartified on Microsoft Azure Marketpleace, ongoing discussions with multiple organizations for potential partner/integration announcements. Sys is most progressive project among crypto in my opinion and has only one way up from here, a lot of investors still about to jump in this boat. Things that about to happen and planned on Roadmap 2017 are outstanding!

This has always been a solid coin I love to see the growth and see it doing well

I decided to invest during the dip last night, lets see how this plays out!

I thought open bazaar was great but this definitely has tremendous potential. Awesome job devs!

Very funny that every altcoin seems to be bleeding heavily except for SYS and ETC... Something strange must have happened in the Consensus 2017?