Welcome to the 1st Official Unitus Community Update!The community update will be released during the 1st week of every month from now on.
IntroWhat is Unitus?
Unitus is about bringing together smaller cryptocurrencies and the communities that support them into a larger group capable of greater change, influence and innovation, whilst allowing each to maintain their own unique identities.
Who is Unitus?
Unitus is compromised of a bunch of passionate individuals who really want it to succeed. It is not one single person or entity. It is whoever is apart of it. The developers, team members, volunteers, investors, community and whoever else. We are all equal here and everybody is treated as such.
What is the direction of Unitus?
The direction is all about improving UIS in any fashion possible. The development, mining, marketing, exchanges, branding, the community and anything/everything else.
DevelopmentThings on the current roadmap have been going smoothly.
Core Wallet UpdateWe are happy to officially announce that the major project for 2017, an update of the codebase of Unitus is complete! Unitus was initially based on bitcoin core 0.9.3 , which is now 3 years old. We've been working hard to rebase Unitus on bitcoin core 0.14.2, which brings some significant updates including:
* Faster blockchain synchronization
* Faster load times
* Watch-only wallet support
* Security improvements to transaction signing
* OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - a transaction output can be made unspendable until a specified point in the future
* Block file pruning
* Lots of security fixes, less dependence on OpenSSL for transaction verification
Some of these changes are immediate, others are network level changes that will be introduced as more people adopt the new client. Key to all of this is compatibility with existing wallets and network nodes, thus major new features that are available in Bitcoin have not yet been enabled. We will evaluate in the future what features to enable, depending on what occurs upstream.
Release of the new wallet, including pre-compiled binary files for Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu, Raspbian are out now!
We're also working on a major re-styling of the wallet, to give us a unique identity.
Paper Wallet GeneratorJust released a little while ago, this is now available at
https://paper.unitus.online
Electrum WalletPreliminary work on an Electrum port for Unitus has started. This will give people a faster and light-weight option instead of the full core wallet.
Other development projectsAll of these are included in our current roadmap, work on these is on-going:
* Web Wallet
* Mobile Wallet
A new, updated roadmap will also be published soon with other projects for the future.MiningUnitus Mining Pool -
http://mine.unitus.onlineAlways popular with Argon2d miners, the mining pool has been encountering a few growing pains recently, but we're working hard on that to ensure high uptime and maximum rewards!
We are glad to announce that MasterZeus has just updated and released the UIS Argon2d calculator.
We've also implemented merge mining support, allowing us to mine other coins that share on of our proof-of-work, and then exchange those coins for more UIS. This has proven to be popular for Skein miners, and we're looking to add additional coins across the spectrum of algorithms.
What is merge mining?
Merge mining is what sets Unitus apart from many other cryptocurrencies. It allows us to essentially get free hashrate to secure the network, with no additional workload for miners. The miner does nothing extra. He just works away looking for those good hashes. The brains of the operation is in the pool, but the result is the same work for the miner with higher rewards, coins coming from both wallets, and network security for Unitus at no extra cost. Everyone wins!
Coins that you can currently merge mine with UnitusAdzcoin (ADZ)
ArcticCoin (ARC)
Artex (ATX)
AuroraCoin (AUR)
Beach (SAND)
Beonpush (BOPS)
Bitcoin Planet (BTPL)
Bolivar (BOLI)
Bows (BSC)
CannabisCoin (CANN)
Centurion (CNT)
Coexist (COXST)
Coino (CNO)
CopyPasta (CTRLV)
Dash (DASH)
Digibyte (DGB)Eryllium (ERY)
Fal (FAL)
GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY)
Granite (GRN)
Happy (HPC)
Influxcoin (INFX)
Join (J-x-11)
Kash (KASH)
Kurrent (KURT)
Linked (LXC)
Marijuana (MAR)
Marx (MARX)
Mavrodi (MMM)
Mind (MND)
Monetary Unit (MUE)
Myriad (XMY)Ofw (OFW)
OGN (OGN)
Ozzie (OZC)
PIZZA (PIZZA)
Prime-XI (PXI)
Seven (SEV)
StartCoin (START)Vault (VLTC)
Verge (XVG)
VertCoin (VTC)VirtaPlus (XVP)
And growing!BrandingYou may have noticed that there are a few different colored UIS logos floating around the internet. Black chains and multi colored chains. Well, we are officially announcing that in a branding effort, the color Grey will be our main color. The official Unitus logo will be Grey on white. We feel that it is clean and neutral look. Grey on black will also be used for other UIS related headers, images and such. Other promotional material that is already out may still be used.
MarketingUnitus has had solid development for years, but has lacked a bit in the marketing department. Now that we have committed on the branding, we can ramp up the marketing. We have also just hired a new member to the team ~6 weeks ago, and he has been doing a good job on twitter getting attention and followers in the mean time prior to the news announcements in this thread.
In a marketing effort, we would like to officially announce the creation of the United Crypto Alliance (UCA)! It will consist of Unitus and other cryptocurrencies that are merge mineable with UIS. The goal of the (UCA) will be to promote each other, therefore creating a synergistic effect that will benefit everybody involved. We would like to formally introduce Myriad (XMY) as the 1st member of the (UCA) besides Unitus! Stay tuned for more information regarding this!
CommunityThe community has been growing at a very good rate recently. Ever since we picked up our social media activity last month, we have been accruing a good amount of Slack members and Twitter followers. Right now we have over 400 total Slack members and over 1100 twitter followers. The Slack channel has been a lot more active recently as a result. You can get a pretty fast response to a question asked there. We currently have some very intelligent and friendly members. You can currently reach us at these places and we are also currently expanding to other platforms which will be announced shortly. We plan on being around for a very long time
Website:
http://unitus.online/homeTwitter:
https://twitter.com/UnitusCoinReddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unitus/ANN Thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unitus-uis-superior-blockchain-technology-1st-multi-algo-merge-mined-1121974Slack:
http://unitus.herokuapp.com/
