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May 26, 2017
Breaking News: Stratis Mines 1st POS Block in C#
Hello Stratis! We wanted to share with you a major milestone achieved by Stratis development. We are happy to announce that we have mined the first Proof-of-stake block on the Stratis testnet blockchain utilizing our C# Full node. This is the first documented and tested instance of a Proof-of-stake blockchain block mined in C#. Now the developers will combine the full node with the wallet layer developed for Breeze, our full node with POS will then be ready for a test release in approximately a week from now. After this technical breakthrough, we still have a series of activities until we can have the first test releases to the community for comments and evaluation. Major tasks following this first achievement are: Testing Peer Reviews 3rd party audit Industry expert audit (C# /.net) This event puts us well ahead in our development plans according to our road map. Follow us in Slack and join our different development channels. We invite experts and developers interested in participating in the different stages of this process to create the most secure and popular C# POS Digital currency.
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May 25, 2017
Mission Consensus 2017
We took the opportunity of the gathering of blockchain entrepreneurs, developers and investors at Consensus 2017 to kickstart our funding activities for the BaaS and consultancy areas of our business. It proved to be a very timely decision as the show was pretty much a showcase of existing and upcoming ICOs and many other business opportunities available to us in the market. As we have mentioned a few days ago, Stratis Group Ltd. has secured the services of renowned blockchain entrepreneur Marshall Swatt, initially in the capacity of Strategic Advisor, to help us evaluate the different options we have been presented and the new opportunities and challenges. His first task - help us evaluate a series of proposals and perform due diligence on some of them with the goal of determining their suitability to our business goals. Based on his initial assessment, we feel very optimistic about the frameworks and legal support offered by platforms such as Argon Group - recommended to us by Blockchain Capital's Brock Pierce, read more here and here. At the same time, we are also performing due diligence on BnkToTheFuture (very attractive in terms of reach and capabilities) as well the traditional VCs that have presented investment offers (such as Seraph.VC and others). With all these opportunities we feel confident that shortly we will be announcing a final selection and officially open our funding round. On the regulatory side of things, we also had some very interesting meetings with experts and practicing lawyers that will help us sort out present and future legal hurdles we may face. We are following up conversations to secure the services of world class experts, including a former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prosecutor, as well as specialists from very prestigious global legal teams in the areas of investment, corporate governance and intellectual property protection. All this, is done with the idea of guaranteeing a solid legal framework that reassures investors and customers of the stability and sustainability of our operation in an environment of rising compliance challenges. In the next few weeks we will share with the community more details on how things evolve on each of these important areas. Stay tuned!
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May 19, 2017
Feel the Breeze: Testers Wanted!
The above GUI Breeze Wallet image is just a mockup and some features may not be available by the time of first public alpha release.
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May 12, 2017
Stratis Developers Roadmap and Update (June 2017)
On this Special Update: Stratis Developers Report First Breeze Wallet Transaction Revised Stratis roadmap We are happy to report our consistent progress on the development of the Stratis Breeze and related Stratis Platform components. Additionally, we would like to share some highlights from our go to market strategy, to give you an idea of key messages and direction of the Stratis project. For this special update, we asked our developers to tell first hand what they have been busy with, their accomplishments, present and future challenges. We start with our Core Tech Developer, Dan Gershony. Besides helping orchestrate the overall development effort at Stratis, Dan is currently focused on finalizing the core nodes infrastructure and POS system. Under the immense pressure to deliver a lot of complex tech and the shortage of time I feel we are doing well, the C# Fullnode is becoming mature with many of the major components such as the mempool, blockstore and our network builder complete. With POW mining and POS staking as the last barrier, we can soon go into beta and start optimisation and testing cycles. With the FN in beta we can start on the really interesting stuff like sidechains and smart contracts. Some of the specific tasks that Dan has overseen include: Fullnode: Done - Consensus validation of POS Next - Staking/Mining functionality, currently on collecting transactions from the mempool to add to a block to be mined. POW (mining) is already done next is POS (staking). BreezeApi: Done – Creating an HD wallet according to the BIP44 specification and address derivation (coin, account, change, address), Tracking of address balances, retrieving address history, persist wallet to disk, build and broadcast a transaction. Next – Adding support for the stratis network, test and performance optimisation BreezeGui: Done - Most endpoints to call the Breeze api are complete. Next - Adding both Stratis and Bitcoin tabs (whenever ready) and mainly working on the design. Breeze Wallet Update We want to start this Breeze update, with celebrating the great progress we are seeing in our project in terms of functionality and UI. As we are preparing this note, we are happy to report the First bitcoin testnet transaction from inside Breeze wallet (as you can see in the picture below). Please note this is not yet a tumbled TX, but still very cool and it shows the progress we are achieving on a daily basis. Jeremy, Dan and Pieterjan have been working hard on making Breeze the best wallet possible. Thanks to their efforts we have already advanced in the development of key functionalities : Completed: Creating and restoring a wallet. Syncing wallet with the network. Display of history of transactions Calculation of balance for accounts Ongoing: Building and sending of transactions (Partially completed!) Outstanding: Encryption of the wallets files Performance and testing review Packaging of the solution. In the words of Jeremy: Once the above tasks are done, we still need to do some testing. Hopefully we'll get lots of help from the community for this bit. Everything is going very smoothly, and between the dev, the UI and design teams, we're making excellent progress. Pieterjan has been working on the GUI for Breeze wallet. Together with our UI designers they have put together an amazing experience for our Breeze wallet: The above GUI Breeze Wallet images are just a mockup and some features may not be available by the time of first public alpha release. Completed Layout (structure) of the wallet Navigation between elements Connection with the backend Create and restore a wallet Show balance, receive address, transactions Ongoing Error handling Restructure to fit the design mockup Outstanding Building/sending transactions with the UI Input validation Styling I'm sure we'll get a lot of feedback on the GUI and together with the GUI designers we already have a lot of things planned for V2. Our CEO, Chris Trew, has been busy looking into the different aspects of our roadmap and opportunities around Cloud Stratis and Azure. We have produced an updated version of the roadmap that reflects both our main development activities, as well as go to market activities for the remaining of 2017. The roadmap and corresponding milestone definitions will be posted and made available via our Wiki soon Cloud Stratis Project and Microsoft Azure: We are currently working on integrating Microsoft's Azure into our Cloud Stratis Project, so that we can utilize the infrastructure capabilities of Microsoft's offering and achieve deeper integration with Microsoft's business units and partner programs. We are also working on completing Azure Certification for some key components of our platform. In the coming weeks Stratis will hire a developer that will be dedicated to Cloud Stratis development, this person will have extensive experience with the Azure architecture and APIs. The plan is to have a Proof of concept for Stratis Platform deployed on the Azure platform by the end of Q2. Masternodes: Breeze Nodes (MasterNodes): Breeze Nodes will be available for private testing by future node operators soon. Extensive testing on the Bitcoin testnet will be completed in preparation for the production release of the Breeze wallet. We aim to hire a dedicated developer to work solely on TumbleBit and the Stratis Privacy Protocol. We will have separate posts and details about Breeze Nodes as we move closer to release. Developer Code on Stratis Wiki: Finally, we want to recommend all developers to visit our Wiki, where we have enabled an area where we plan to share code samples and documentation to help you get started with development on the Stratis platform.
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May 7, 2017
Stratis Miami Roundup
During the past week the Stratis top management gathered together with advisors, consultants and subject matter experts to discuss strategy and major projects.
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April 28, 2017
How to Secure Your STRAT
In today’s digital world, we are seeing extremely clever tactics being used to subvert the security systems in place that are supposed to protect us.
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April 23, 2017
The Stratis Platform Q&A (Apr 19th)
On the 19th of April, Stratis Group Ltd held an amazing Q&A hosted by Heidi.
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April 13, 2017
Stratis announces first 'Master Nodes'
  Stratis Group Ltd. has just revealed initial details of the upcoming Breeze Nodes infrastructure release. The blockchain company, that has created one of the most innovative cryptographic tokens – Stratis ($STRAT). Will soon be offering an economic incentive to node operators to participate in securing different types of on-chain and off-chain transactions for the Breeze Wallet. As well as for blockchain apps and services for corporate clients. The first iteration of the Breeze Tumbler Node (often referred to as a "Master Node") will see their application supporting the Breeze Wallet, where they will help execute Bitcoin and Stratis TumbleBit transactions. These will have hybrid functionality running both Bitcoin and Stratis full nodes that provide additional services to the network. There will be future releases of other forms of Stratis Nodes providing functionality, such as: Payment Node - Payment Channels Side-Chain Node - Hybrid Side chain special features Identity Node - Identity management node A Breeze Tumbler Node can be operated by anyone that meets the minimum protocol requirements. Some of those requirements include: An operator will be required to sign a transaction with an account that has 250,000 STRAT or more. For BTC tumbling transactions, an operator will also need to have 5 BTC or more held in reserve to be able to process payments. The more bitcoin held in reserve, the more payments theoretically can be processed. Server hosts will need to provide a minimum amount of storage capacity (details TBA). It is recommended that your Breeze Node be available 24x7 in order to opt for the most transactions and potential fees. Breeze Tumbler Nodes will operate in a totally decentralized and trustless manner, meaning that no one can steal the funds trusted to the network. Additionally, the STRAT required to operate a node can be stored on a Ledger Wallet or on offline backup. The private key to the users STRAT address is only required during registration with the Stratis Node network. The BTC in reserves will need to be in a wallet on the node, as it is required to sign the transactions when processing the tumbler transactions. Full instructions and documentation will be released in due course and made available via the Stratis Wiki. The intention is to make it near one-click, so operators do not have to deal with configuration files. Our developers will be ready to assist you with any issues you may encounter. Rewards to the Breeze Node operators will be paid in the form of a transaction fee (estimated at 1%) paid by Breeze users directly to the Breeze Node that processes their TumbleBit transaction. This fee amount and its distribution may vary for specific implementations of the Breeze Node depending on the type of applications and services. Depending on the operator's jurisdiction there may be legal and tax related specific requirements and/or restrictions. We highly recommend all operators seek proper advice before operating a Breeze Node. This is a decentralized network not managed, controlled or administered by Stratis Group Ltd. The Breeze Tumbler Nodes are expected to go live before the end of Q2 2017, by the time of the release to production of the Breeze Wallet. If you have any questions please contact the team by joining our Discord.
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April 6, 2017
Learn About Stratis in the New Wiki
Good news for all us! On occasion of our participation at the C# Corner Annual Conference 2017 in New Delhi, India, we would like to present the first version of the Stratis Wiki. Brought to you by the efforts of our Stratis Academy in collaboration with members of our community, we have put together a basic structure of what we expect to be the most fundamental repository of documentation and research of the Stratis technology and developments. This will be a welcomed tool for the countless developers we expect to make aware and onboard on the Stratis Platform in the years to come. We consider this a fundamental instrument in making available technical know-how for developers wishing to explore our technology, services and capabilities. We expect it will also be a nice source of information for our existing community members, as well as new comers and investors interested in learning the specifics and the business applications and potential of our technology. The new Stratis Wiki can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/StratisWiki We invite our community to use it and propose comments and amendments. To this effect we are opening a #stratiswiki channel to the public in our Slack where you can initially post your comments and suggestions. There will be bounties and special recognition to collaborators and for those who help us put together informative and technical articles for the Stratis Wiki. Thanks to Phil (@daddy) for his effort and help putting this together. Also @alpho2k, @dlow, @khilone, @krushang and other members of the team & community for your help with this.
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March 22, 2017
Stratis Bitcoin Full Node in C# Goes Live
Stratis Group Ltd. announced this week that it has officially released the Alpha version of the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node. Built on Stratis Mainnet, it will give developers from around the world, the possibility of building the most advanced blockchain applications by incorporating capabilities from the Stratis Privacy, Security and Identity Protocol. Building the Blocks Stratis has adopted a modular approach to the development process of the Stratis Application Framework, a streamlined approach for faster and incremental releases. On this regard, the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node plays an essential role as the foundation upon which other modules of the Stratis blockchain solutions can be easily and rapidly assembled into the most basic demo or the most sophisticated financial application. This update released from the Stratis Development team includes the addition of key components to the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node, namely: Mempool Network Blockstore In addition, the Stratis Full Node has been activated on the Mainnet, providing a full SDK that allows developers to start testing their blockchain apps on live blockchain conditions. Stratis Privacy, Authenticity and Identity Protocol Currently under development, the Stratis Privacy, Authenticity and Identity protocol, includes capabilities inherited from the Tumblebit integration into Stratis, such as, enhanced privacy and off-chain transactions support. Stratis plans to release several proof-of-concept projects this year, together with some strategic partners, in which to showcase these advanced features. The Stratis Privacy Protocol, an integration of the Tumblebit on the Stratis Full Node and Bitcoin networks, will be the first proof of concept offering a long awaited enhanced and secure privacy solution for cryptocurrencies. Currently being implemented into the Breeze Wallet, Stratis plans to extend its application to authentication and identity solutions for the enterprise and major corporate clients. These implementations are not only positive additions to the Stratis portfolio of technological advancements, but also will serve as a production environment where latest improvements to the Bitcoin network can be tested. Integration with C# and .Net Core Tools Written with C# and .Net Core developers in mind, the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node opens to developers from around the world the opportunity to start developing blockchain applications within a familiar environment for them and their clients. If you are a C# developer, and would like to start coding your first blockchain app, we invite you to join our Slack. Our developers there will be more than happy to guide you and help you get started with the installation and operation of the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node. We also want to take this opportunity to invite developers to attend our presentations and meet with us at the C# Annual Conference in India. This is one of the major C# / .Net developers events in the world, and we are thrilled to be presenting Stratis to such reputable audience. A Blockchain is made of many components, from a Full Node that validates blocks to a Wallet that tracks addresses. Our objective is to offer a set of Nuget packages, from which an implementer can cherry pick what he/she needs. On this regard, we have made available a Nuget for the Alpha Release that can be found here. The Road Ahead The Stratis team has plans to add many more features on top of the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node. Starting with a sleek GUI for Stratis Wallet (due in aprox. 4 weeks) and later for the Breeze Wallet (due in aprox, 8 weeks), we are methodically putting together the pieces for the most advanced features to be offered on the Stratis Platform: POS/DPOS, Sidechains, Private/Permissioned blockchain, Compiled Smart Contracts, etc. These features, will undoubtedly bring us closer to offer purpose-built Blockchain solutions in a very short time-frame. Included in this release (V1.0.1-alpha) Stabilizing the consensus validation and block download code. Signaling of new blocks and transactions that are discovered on the network. Block Store is stand alone: Store can respond to GetData payloads enabling FullNode capabilities. Push blocks in batches to disk. Download missing blocks from the network (catch-up mode). Broadcast blocks to peers using Inv or Header payload Cache store for faster block reads. Memory Pool: Async lock free implementation of the memory pool. Logic and tests pulled form core. Broadcast transactions to peers. Fee estimation. Introducing the Builder Pattern: Build a full node in an easy and familiar builder pattern in a modular approach. Support for creating new features inject-able to the full node. Dependency Injection Testing Adding many more unit tests A separate integration test project Full Block SPV Laying the grounds for a full block spv (for Breeze wallet) Links: Project Repository: https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/releases/tag/V1.0.1 Getting Started / Installation Guide: https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/blob/master/Documentation/getting-started.md Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Nicolas Dorier for all of his work for the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node. Also we would like to thank our other team members Dan Gershony, Pieterjan Van Hoof and Jeremy Bokobza for their outstanding work on the different modules. Special mention to our collaboration with Adam Ficsor as well as other participants from the Tumblebit project, which have been actively supporting the implementation. And last but certainly not least we would like to thank our community members for helping testing the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node and providing support to our team.
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March 20, 2017
What is Stratis?
We are happy to see new members joining the Stratis project on a daily basis. Our community is growing and with that come new ideas and actions to help us improve. We received an excellent piece of writing by one of our community members regarding 'What is Stratis'? We would like to share this with all of you. It's easy to miss the significance of The Stratis Project. Drowning in hyperbole, the cryptoverse spawns a never ending stream of next-big-things. Bitcoin Killers abound and thousands fall for promises that never deliver. Even so, among the dross, real innovation shines. A handful of projects deserve their top slots while others grow in the subsoil waiting to show the beauty of their form. Stratis is no shrinking violet; the team confident and businesslike. They walk a fine line, avoiding hype, building quietly and spreading the word through provable action. A growing community is witness to the skill, hard work and sharp vision that defines Stratis. This article comes from that community. We can praise where its due and, hopefully, help others see what we see. Stratis is not a coin but a platform. We all know that bitcoin and the blockchain is going to impact the world in fundamental ways. The very success of bitcoin to-date has fostered a conservative approach to development, leaving room for a small army of visionaries to poke and prod with ideas good and bad in the alt coin space. We are in a golden age of early innovation and yet it is still a geek-fest. We are in the days of punch cards and green screen terminals. To fulfil its destiny, bitcoin and its sisters need designers, business people, financiers and the ingenuity of tens of thousands of non-crypto coders to humanise the space. Like it or not, we need to find our Steve Jobs, our Bill Gates and (if we're really lucky) our Elon Musk and Jimmy Wales. Without our specialised coders, we would be nowhere but now is the time to lend them a hand – to attract experts from beyond the narrow walls of the cryptoverse – not in their hundreds but in their thousands. When Chris Trew, Stratis' CEO approached bitcoin developer Nicolas Dorier for help, he turned him away, uninterested in working on anything but bitcoin. Coming from the corporate world, Chris knew that the boring nuts and bolts behind millions of computers on the desks of businesses around the world relied on Microsoft's .Net platform and its C# language. He also knew that when MS open sourced .Net and C#, the path was suddenly open to reach out to millions of experienced developers and their partners in design and business. Decades of battle-hardened operations tuned to real-world customer-focused use has formed a global infrastructure primed with easy to use tools that could change the landscape of crypto and help lead to its ultimate destination – the pockets of billions of ordinary people – rich and poor. It is important to realise that although Stratis aims to bridge the specialised realms of blockchain and the corporate world, it is doing so in the spirit of open source where success is not a zero sum game. This is perfectly demonstrated in the relationship between Nicolas Dorier and Stratis. After agreeing to talk to Chris and on seeing his vision, Nicolas changed his mind. He had been working for two years developing a complete bitcoin node, rewriting it in C#. A labour of love, he was unpaid and had to find the time between everything else going on in his life. The key to this change of heart? Chris did not want him to work on Stratis. He wanted to pay him to finish the work on bitcoin. Always intended to be open source, in helping accelerate Nicolas' bitcoin project, Stratis would give something to the bitcoin community and benefit themselves from all Nicolas' work in the two previous years. On completion, they would clone the software, rapidly accelerating the Stratis project beyond anything that could have been achieved without such open-minded collaboration. There are two main parts to the Stratis Project. The platform itself is complemented by the formation of a company based in London. The Stratis Group is a consultancy, intended to help companies with blockchain ideas realise them quickly even as blockchain expertise is thin on the ground. By providing a suite of tools and apis, Stratis allows an entity to concentrate on what they are good at knowing that the security of the blockchain side is rock solid through the same algorithms used to secure bitcoin. In consulting with various projects, some may require a completely separate chain. In this case, the value to Stratis token holders will be indirect. However, free to take on board innovations produced by other crypto-projects, Stratis is able to fast-track code to enable scaling, side-chains, segwit, LN, POS and other advances not yet invented. In many cases, a dedicated side chain might make sense, requiring Stratis to be bought on the market and locked for the duration of the project. To cater for companies large and small, Stratis is building a cloud solution similar to Azure, making BaaS a one-stop solution for any company to experiment or run a project to completion on the Stratis ecosystem. It is easy to be ambitious but how do we know these guys are capable of making this happen? After all, the code is open source. Anyone can copy it – and they will. To those already following their progress, this is a no brainer. Step-by-step Chris and his team constantly impress. With modest resources, they have shown themselves capable of forming partnerships and moving with a speed that would shame others with bags of cash, half the business intelligence and a fraction of their drive. In the past few months, they have so far: • Completed the Stratis Full Node (on test) • Got listed on multiple exchanges including Bittrex and Poloniex • Occupied a booth beside MS at London's Blockchain Expo – engaging with key business players leading to follow up meetings in UK and US • Given a talk at The Blockchain Event, Ft Lauderdale, USA • Been added to MS Azure • Become an official coin on Ledger Hardware Wallet with no fee paid for inclusion • Recruited extremely impressive advisors to their board. This includes Cesar Castro, founder and managing partner of Escalate Group and Mahesh Chand, founder of C# Corner – a forum for C# developers with over two million members. • Through Escalate, engaged the help of Seraph, a global network of investors and family offices with experience in the cryptocurrency sphere to help with their VC funding strategy. • Secured a coveted key-note slot at one of the world's biggest C# conferences to be held in Ghaziabad, India mid-April It is interesting to note that the team was surprised to find that although many developers beyond the crypto fringe knew of bitcoin, few had any idea how it worked or the potential for innovation it presented to them. This bodes well for the C# conference. If they are able to convince such a body of sharp minds that this is something worth paying attention to and at the same time give them the tools to ease their path, the resulting opportunities could be enormous. To help in this phase of their mission, they are preparing a number of proof of concepts they can demonstrate there and to future clients. From Steem-like social platforms to privacy-based wallets, customer-focused products become much faster to develop using Stratis. There is nothing like doing it yourself to prove that your mission lives beyond mere words. As many confuse the need for privacy with nefarious deeds, no serious organisation would think of exposing confidential data on a public ledger. The need for privacy is evident in the many anon alts out there but bitcoin has been able to do this for some time. For many reasons, it has not happened so far in a package that's usable to normal people. To push this along Stratis has agreed to build a front-end for Tumblebit, a project conceived and built as another labour of love by talented coders helping to build the bitcoin economy. The result will be The Breeze wallet. Scheduled for completion around May 2017, bitcoiners will be able to download the Breeze wallet and use it to afford a high degree of trustless and secure transactions with privacy built in. Importantly for Stratis, the same wallet will be used to transact with that coin, too. Not only will this help bitcoin, it will expose Stratis to a potential user-base otherwise beyond its reach. In the same way that Tumblebit can swap respective coins to ensure privacy, so too, they can be used to swap with each other, providing a gateway between each coin should users find that useful. Once again, Stratis demonstrates that this is not a zero-sum game. Recognising that praise coming from those you respect is more valuable than any other, here is a quote from nopara73, Tumblebit's backend developer: “I am not sure I'm the right person to answer that message, but here it goes. First note I am not a part of the Stratis team, so I am not obligated to follow the company rhetoric. But I had the idea of asking them to contribute to Breeze, because I suspected their team is probably the most competent team when it comes to C# and Bitcoin. Now I am working with them for a couple of weeks and I can say they are really working their asses off, GitHub is the proof, but also I was right on the competency question, too. I was also amazed by the professionalism, not seen in other cryptocurrencies. However I have to admit I know nothing about Stratis as the cryptocurrency, I'm too busy to catch myself up and I don't have much interest in cryptocurrencies, other than Bitcoin. That being said I bought a significant amount of Stratis. I mean it's not rocketscience to speculate when Breeze gets used by most of the privacy focused Bitcoin users, and they'll have a one click convenient way to trade btc strat back and forth, that'll have a positive pressure on the price, plus I am confident about my work, too. Bitcoin wallets are the path to customers. An altcoin implementing an innovative Bitcoin wallet is a win-win. To sum up, I am not interested in altcoins, but I am not that stupid to refuse free money when the opportunity presents itself.” No-one can predict the success or failure of any project but we go a long way if we manage to cut through the clutter to see its vision and potential. We are often quick to latch on to something we recognise as important to the exclusion of all else. For this reason, on seeing that Stratis will have in-built privacy, some may think it is an anon coin. In targeting corporations, others might see it as tool for financiers, or fuel for the next dotcom hype wave or a bridge to gaming and VR through Unity (built with C#). While all of this may or may not come to pass, the real thing we need to keep in mind is that Stratis is not intended to be a single feature app. It is a platform cleverly constructed to marry the dynamic, exciting limitless potential of the blockchain with the powerful tools and experience already out there in the real world. It will do this with an open and collaborative mindset coupled with astute business sense. That is as powerful as it gets. Special thanks to our community member ('Stratisfied') and thanks to all of you that are supporting us. For more information about Stratis take a look at our website.
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March 14, 2017
Staking Stratis on a Raspberry Pi
We have some great news for all of the stakers of the Stratis network. Two of our community members (@demon and @olcko) have made a guide about how to stake your $STRAT on a Raspberry Pi. Special thanks to both of you! We encourage our community to keep taking great initiatives like this. The guide can be found over here. The $STRAT token is a Proof-of-Stake (POS) token with limited emission and a low inflation rate. Proof of Stake attempts to provide consensus and double spend prevention. With Proof of Stake, the amount of $STRAT you hold influences the amount of reward you receive. In return for staking your $STRAT, you get rewarded $STRAT tokens. This reward is offered because you help to keep the network stable and secure. It is possible to stake on almost any device, a laptop a desktop etc. Some of the known issues with using a desktop or laptop are that they are power consuming, hardware performance degrades over time and your $STRAT can be less secure on those devices. An answer for these issues could be found by staking on a Raspberry Pi. With the Raspberry Pi you have a machine that costs less electricity, has lower purchase costs, it's small and its very secure. If you are planning on starting to stake your $STRAT on a Raspberry Pi (a Raspberry Pi 3 in the guide) you can follow the guide step by step to get started. If you encounter any problems or have additional questions regarding staking on a Raspberry Pi please come and join our Discord and ask away. If you are interested about the staking rewards and statistics about the $STRAT token, please take a look at our Blockchain Explorer. To work with the latest Stratis Wallet, please go to our website. Happy staking to all of you and a big thank you to @demon and @olcko and all of you that are staking and helping to keep the network secure and stable!
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March 3, 2017
Stratis Group Partners with Escalate Group
We are proud to announce that Stratis Group has officially signed a partnership agreement with Escalate Group, from Florida, U.S.A. For the past few months our team has been working with Escalate Group on designing an exponential growth strategy, and we are finally at a point where we feel confident they are the best fit to lead the efforts that will help Stratis Group achieve its ambitious goals in the short and long term. To this aim we have formalized a partnership and invited Escalate Group's Cesar Castro to join Stratis Group's Advisory Board with the idea of moving to the next stages of the implementation of the growth strategy. Escalate Group will assist Stratis Group on defining a sound business strategy to create the basis of a solid organization, generate business opportunities, increase the company valuation and eventually attract investors. By partnering with Escalate Group, Stratis gains reach to a world-class team of executives with deep understanding of different business and technology areas and an impressive network of contacts, including finance, marketing, business development, exponential growth and business strategy. Lead by Cesar Castro, Escalate Group has put at the disposal of Stratis Group a vast network of experts including: Kent Langley Kent is an advisor in the areas of the application of exponential technologies, technology operations, scalable process and FTI member support. A serial entrepreneur for over 20 years, Kent Langley is also an educator, speaker, father and author. His massive transformative purpose is to Apply Technology for Humanity. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentlangley Michal Monit (ExO Community) Michal lives and breathes ideas. He has a background in energy, engineering & research, but he’s now maneuvering at the intersection of design, innovation, data and entrepreneurship, as an ExO Coach and Consultant. Michal lived, worked and studied in Portugal, Iceland, Japan, US, Poland and the UK. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Energy Systems, from MIT Portugal, is an alumnus of Singularity University's GSP'12, and a Fellow of Kairos Society and Thousand Network / Sandbox. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michalmonit Farnaz Ghadaki (ExO Community) Farnaz is a strategist and innovator with multi-disciplinary skillsets in a variety of industries including space, telecom, wireless, electronic manufacturing, and real estate development. Her expertise include business development, strategic partnerships, product lifecycle management, project management, solutions marketing, and event management. Farnaz serves as Board of Directors, Board of Advisors, and committee member for several non-profit organizations including a Think Tank Accelerator. She has authored several published papers and been a speaker at various global conferences. Farnaz is an alumnus of Singularity University (GSP13), International Space University (SSP11), and University of Toronto (B.Eng). https://ca.linkedin.com/in/farnazghadaki Olga Calvache Olga is Founder and Managing Partner of EscalateGroup. She is an expert on mobile marketing and related technologies, a consultant to content and service providers and independent leader on marketing strategy, online market research and digital marketing. Formerly Olga was Managing Director at FocusMovil, and previously worked in Information Technology Services and Telecommunications. Olga holds an MBA degree in International Business from The University of Dallas, a Master degree in Marketing and a Computer Science degree, both from Universidad EAFIT. https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-calvache-38596019 Nayib Kiuhan Nayib is the CTO of Netbeam and a Senior Consultant at EscalateGroup. Nayib has over 20 years’ experience overseeing Wireless Telecommunication teams on a global basis, with focus in Latin-American with Nokia products, and Nextel International consultant for deployments in Asia and South America. He has always enjoyed new and innovative technologies that solve real world problems. With a dose of curiosity, hard work, and some luck he has been able to identify and then evangelize innovative technologies throughout his career. From the early days in the wireless industry, to Machine-to-Machine, and now the Internet of Things, he has created and led successful technical teams and business development initiatives. Since 2016, Nayib has been interested in blockchain linked with IoT and other fields to resolve problems that other technologies fall short on. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nayib-kiuhan-7ab700137 In the words of Chris Trew, CEO and Founder of Stratis Group: The partnership with Escalate Group has sparked an exponential growth mindset in our organization. The amount and the quality of resources and connections they are making available to Stratis Group is really mind blowing. I have no doubt that with their help we will reach far beyond our wildest expectations in terms of potential growth and increased value for our organization.
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March 3, 2017
Seraph VC to Advise Stratis Group on VC Fund Raising Strategy
Stratis Group is proud to announce it's currently working with Seraph in defining our VC funding strategy going forward.
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March 3, 2017
Stratis Group Announces First Appointments to Its Advisory Board
Stratis Group has announced the appointment of its first Advisory Board members, a group of industry leaders that will help Stratis shape its strategic vision, achieve exponential growth and tap into market opportunities worldwide. Stratis Group has initially identified two critical aspects that should allow the organization achieve steady and sustainable growth in the short term, namely: a) Setup a strong business foundation, with clear strategic vision, a solid business plan and world-class organization to support it. b) Fast-track onboarding of C#/ .NET developers onto the Stratis Platform and assist in the integration with Microsoft's tools and services. To this aim we have extended invitations to Mr. Cesar Castro and Mr. Mahesh Chand, and they have graciously accepted to join Stratis Advisory Board effective immediately. Following the profiles of Stratis Advisory Board first two members: Cesar Castro: Board Advisor on Exponential Growth Cesar is a strategic driver of corporate expansion for over 20 years with extensive experience in multiple high-change environments. He has delivered profitable growth and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value in Mobility, Cloud Solutions, Consumer Electronics and Telecom in Latin America and the US at America Movil, Nokia, and Microsoft. Today through his consulting firm, EscalateGroup, he advises leadership teams, boards of directors and founders on trends, innovation and strategies for growth and value creation. He is particularly focused on exponential organizations, start-up innovation and the application of accelerating technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Blockchain, Mix Reality and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Committed to improving people's lives, he embraces innovation accelerators to help organizations and societies unlock their digital transformation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/castrocesar. “I am thrilled for the opportunity to help Stratis Group to set itself as the premier enterprise blockchain as a service provider. At EscalateGroup we are convinced that the Exponential Organization framework will set the right foundations to enable Stratis accelerated growth. We are committed to making blockchain easy and for that, we have formed a very international group of business experts to drive this endeavour” Mahesh Chand: Board Advisor on Microsoft Developers Outreach Mahesh is the CEO of Mindcracker Inc., a Philadelphia based Web and Mobile App development company. He is a Director Board Member and Advisory Board Member in different startups and technology companies. His experience includes Software Solutions Architect, Technical Author, 12-time Microsoft MVP and Founder of C# Corner, the most popular online communities for Microsoft developers and programmers. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics and a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mahesh has written half a dozen books with publishers including Addison-Wesley and Apress. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchand/ According to Chris Trew, CEO and Founder of Stratis Group Ltd.: Our new appointments to the Stratis Board of Advisors, will undoubtedly rise our profile as an organization, while bringing into it the best corporate practices and an impressive network of experts and business contacts that will make Stratis exponential growth in the short term a reality. We are truly excited and humbled to have such high profile professionals interested in our technology and organization and look forward to work together with them to maximize results and create a solid, long lasting organization.
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March 2, 2017
Stratis Core Development Update
We are happy to inform that at this point we consider we are well on track to accomplish our goal of having the Stratis Full Node and Stratis Cloud projects finalized by the end of Q1 2017, with the idea of presenting it at the C# Annual Conference in India. We expect to showcase by then a robust solution, with a friendly user interface and have it sufficiently tested by multiple parties before going into commercial production.
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March 2, 2017
Stratis’ Breeze Wallet Redefines Financial Privacy for Blockchains
TumbleBit is probably one of the most promising technological advancements built on top of Bitcoin to date. Not only does it offer one of the best — if not the best — privacy related innovations so far, it can also provide significant scaling benefits as a payment hub. The solution is also fully compatible with the current Bitcoin protocol and, most important, it is in an advanced stage of development. (Bitcoin Magazine , Feb. 2017)   Stratis Group has announced today it is launching an ambitious cryptocurrency project, aimed at increasing financial privacy available to the users of Bitcoin and the Stratis Platform. The project dubbed “Breeze Wallet” incorporates the innovations brought by TumbleBit to both Bitcoin and Stratis, into a real-world production environment combined with the privacy enhancements introduced by the Full Block Secure Payment Validation system. Stratis plans to integrate TumbleBit into the Breeze Wallet making it the first Bitcoin wallet that addresses the privacy issues in blockchain transactions, the Breeze Wallet works with the current Bitcoin protocol and does not require any forks. Stratis Financial Privacy Protocol The Stratis development team will be extending the Stratis blockchain to support the Stratis Financial Privacy Protocol based on the TumbleBit concept. Our goal is to offer a truly trustless and decentralized privacy protocol on the Stratis blockchain and its private chains, while working with financial services regulators on developing regulatory compliant blockchain solutions utilizing the Stratis Privacy protocol. Enhanced Privacy Presently there is a huge demand for privacy on the blockchain. One of the main hurdles faced by the adoption of Blockchain technologies in the financial services industry is the privacy of financial data on the blockchain. When the Stratis Financial Privacy protocol is implemented into the Stratis Platform, businesses will have the possibility to use the Stratis Blockchain with a guarantee of privacy from their transactions (payments, records and data). That's a big advantage over other Blockchain projects. Why TumbleBit? The team behind Stratis carefully evaluated the different concepts and technological options to deliver a truly trustless and secure privacy solution that would meet the requirements of enterprise and consumers worldwide. After extensive research, it became evident that TumbleBit was the best fit for our future development goals because it is: Private: Transactions are truly private and unlinkable. Untrusted: No one (including Tumbler) can steal payments Compatible: TumbleBit is fully compatible with today’s Bitcoin protocol. TumbleBit includes (offblockchain) cryptographic protocols that work with the very limited set of (on-blockchain) instructions provided by today’s Bitcoin scripts The TumbleBit/Stratis Roadmap A few weeks ago, Stratis put in motion a development plan for the integration of TumbleBit capabilities into Stratis. Having established the feasibility of such an endeavour, we immediately took the initial steps to make this a reality in the shortest term. To help us accomplish a smooth and speedy process, we secured the services of Adam Ficsor, one of the contributors to the TumbleBit research paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/575.pdf) and the official implementation of Tumblebit NTumbleBit. As a Technical Advisor for the development of a production ready Tumblebit full block SPV wallet in C# (Breeze Wallet), Adam will help us achieve our goal, by delivering a fully functional full block SPV, while also working on the Stratis Wallet framework and the completion of NTumbleBit. According to Adam: “Everyone who is not using Bitcoin Core has already had all their addresses linked together by third parties. This is not a theoretical "assume the worst case" strategy, this is reality. The third parties are either the central servers your wallet relies on or in case of SPV wallets all Blockchain surveillance companies." Trustless Exchange: Trustless Stratis <-> Bitcoin exchange The planned TumbleBit implementation not only will speed up and streamline the development of Stratis full-block SPV TumbleBit wallet, but will also make possible to include in it a trustless, secure exchange for Bitcoin-Stratis pair. Exposure of Stratis to millions of Bitcoin Users The expected inflow of Bitcoin users towards a TumbleBit enabled Bitcoin wallet offering enhanced privacy, will undoubtedly translate into making it the de-facto wallet for such transactions around the world. This in turn, will represent an extraordinary opportunity to expose Stratis and its platform to all those users, and this will further cement our symbiotic relationship with the leading cryptocurrency and its community.
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February 2, 2017
Stratis at the Blockchain Expo - London, U.K.
This past week has been incredibly rewarding for the Stratis team and our community.
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January 20, 2017
Update on our Stratis Wallet
We want to thank the community for giving us feedback that have lead to this update. We welcome you all to keep giving feedback so we can keep improving and maintain our high standards. We have updated our Stratis Wallet to version 2.0.0.2. This update includes our new logo and a better first time connection. We advise you to update your Stratis Wallet to the new version. For new users of the Stratis Wallet we would like you to take a look at our Wallet Instructions before your start. These instructions will guide you through setting up your wallet step by step. Our Stratis Wallet is available for Mac OS and Windows. Before you update always close your existing wallet if it's open and then run the new wallet. This wallet will overwrite your existing wallet version. It's also a nice opportunity to make a new backup of your wallet.dat file in order to keep your wallet safe. We recommend you to backup your wallet on a regular basis. We've noticed that there are still some of you that are using the old 1.2.2 wallet. We urgently ask you to update your Stratis wallet to version 2.0.0.2. People that are running the old wallet are on the old chain. Any stake rewards you received on the old chain after we've switched to our new chain will be lost. You will start to receive staking rewards again once you have updated and resynched. It's essential that you re-synchronize the blockchain after you have updated to version 2.0.0.2. Make sure to make a copy of your wallet.dat file before you begin the process. If you need help with the process please join us on Slack and ask for help in the #support channel. With the Stratis Wallet you have the possibility to stake your $STRAT. By staking your coins you help to secure the network and in return you get Stratis rewards. The inflation over a year is 1%. A good measure of the amount of rewards you can get is by moving your mouse onto the lightning symbol in your Stratis Wallet. And last but not least we want to remind you on the following things: If you aren’t a member of our community on Discord we hereby invite you to join us. If you still have unclaimed Stratis coins, now is the time to claim them. Keep your $STRAT safe, secure and stake away :).
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January 19, 2017
Stratis Bitcoin Full Node Daemon Alpha Released
Today we are proud to announce the culmination of a major milestone in our development roadmap, the release of the Stratis Bitcoin Full Node Daemon on testnet and is now ready for public testing by developers here: https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/releases/tag/V0.1 This is a historical release not only for Stratis but to Bitcoin as a whole.
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January 18, 2017
Stratis Ledger Wallet Now Available
We are proud to announce that Ledger Wallet now officially supports Stratis.
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January 14, 2017
Stratis Platform Showcased At The Blockchain Expo in London, U.K.
This coming week, companies and developers attending the Blockchain Expo in London, U.K.
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January 13, 2017
Update on our Electrum Stratis Wallet
First of all, we want to take this opportunity to thank our Stratis community for testing and providing feedback about our recently released Electrum Stratis Wallet.
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December 30, 2016
Stratis - The Future is Now (Stratis Weekly #11)
What a year we had. Looking back on the last few months we probably all agree on the feeling where did the time go. We all have been working non-stop to get Stratis where it is today. It has been a true adventure. We feel proud when we are looking back at the results. Some highlights of our activities in the past months include: A successful ICO with almost 1000 BTC raised from more than 500 participants. A well planned and executed $STRAT distribution to investors from ICO. Listing of $STRAT in major exchanges Bittrex and Poloniex. Extraordinary performance of $STRAT on exchanges reaching more than 5x original value to investors. Addition of Stratis to the Microsoft Azure BaaS Program. Support by Ledger Wallet to Stratis. Launch of Stratis Academy, with 1st Hackathon invite. Promotional activities on social media, TVE, and media partner channels. Brand refreshment: corporate identity and website. Secured Stratis trademark in the UK as well as fulfilled all requirements for incorporation and physical address for our business operations. With the development of the Stratis Development Framework (SDF), SDF .NET Core Native Cross Platform Support we have some great development milestones to look back at in 2016. We initiated the integration of breakthrough developments such as nTumblebit and the Azure indexer, which will make Stratis one of the most innovative platforms in the space. From the organizational point of view we worked on improving our organization by hiring for key positions as well as defining internal processes, roles and responsibilities. We have set in motion processes for timely and accurate communication and to address potential issues on a timely manner. We have been consulting with top experts on exponential growth and business organization to adequate our vision and strategy to grow at an accelerated rate and make Stratis attractive for VC investments in the short term. We have put in motion an expansion plan to the Americas and India to position Stratis as a valuable investment opportunity for VCs. We have established and developed channels to provide regular communications and updates via Stratis Weekly, social media, video interviews, Slack and media partners. We have run multiple successful marketing campaigns via TVE and distributed a multitude of bounties and incentives to promote different Stratis activities. We are currently working on several community lead projects, such as video production, merchandise and commemorative coin, and we are continuously receiving great input and new ideas. Special thanks to those leading and actively participating on those projects. We are privileged to have the support of an amazing community that keeps on improving and growing with us. We want to thank all of you for participating in all possible ways, you have truly amazed us. We wish you all a happy new year and hope that this weekly news will contribute to your holiday spirit. One for Stratis and Stratis for all. Announcements We are happy to announce the completion of the following steps towards the completion of the Stratis Roadmap: Website The next step in our brand refreshment is here. Earlier we showed you our brand new logo, and now the first version of our new website is ready, we all invite you to take a look at stratisplatform.com. Please, feel free to share with us your comments and suggestions to improve it. Electrum Stratis Wallet The new Electrum Stratis Wallet is a fact! You can download it here. With the new wallet you don't have to download the blockchain anymore to use it. It also has an HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) wallet feature. This means that by remembering 12 words you can get access to your wallet anywhere you want. It will generate your addresses and private keys from those 12 words. So needless to say those 12 words should be 12 words not to forget. The Electrum Stratis Wallet is fast, secure and easy to use. The wallet can be used on the desktop or with the command line interface. It also will support the Ledger Wallet feature after they have released their new firmware. nStratis and Stratis Cloud These projects are still being developed and soon to be publicly released on the testnet. We are happy to report that our Stratis full node is currently running over actual bitcoin nodes, which is a huge step on that direction. Additionally, we are giving the final touches to the UI for our Stratis Cloud. We will inform of additional progress, but we expect those to be concluded by the time we start making public presentations planned for 2017. The Road Ahead (2017) Our marketing efforts will kick off early in 2017. Only for the 1st Q 2017 we are already booked for participation in major blockchain events in three continents: Blockchain Expo London Expo (London, UK) The Blockchain Event (Fort Lauderdale, USA) C# Corner Annual Conference (Ghaziabad, India) This events also cement our expansion into markets in the Americas and India, through solid partnerships and regional presence. At the C# Corner event (the largest C# developers community in the world, 2+ mill members) we will have a keynote presentation and will organize a hackathon for developers to get hands on the Stratis development tools. In 2017, we expect to develop strong bonds with C# / .net developers. We will be launching our Stratis Academy training program, as well as identifying MVPs and Ambassadors candidates all of which will help put Stratis in front of corporate decision makers through their IT departments. We will be also holding several hackathons and competitions, so stay tuned to the opportunities. We will be making a major marketing push with advertising on the most popular blockchain related websites and publications properties, as well as on C# Corner and some of their affiliate publications for C#/.net developers. We are working to implement the Unity/Stratis integration based in the latest achievements from Nicolas Dorier, an integration that would open the possibility of Stratis platform being used for in-game asset creation and development of in-game economies with Stratis at the center. We are actively seeking for developers and partners to assist with this major project, and have received multiple applications which we are in the process of reviewing. Last but not least we are looking into our next steps for the future of Stratis, such as the Stratis Assets & Crowdfunding Platform and the Stratis Dapps Marketplace. All these initiatives guarantee we will stay competitive and secure our spot among the top cryptocurrency projects of all times. As you can see the future ahead of us is bright. Thanks for coming along with us in this journey!
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December 22, 2016
Stratis on Poloniex, Ledger and beyond (Stratis Weekly #10)
Stratis project gets validated once more by receiving approval to be listed in one of the major cryptocurrency exchanges.
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December 16, 2016
Stratis Hackathon is Officially Open (Stratis Weekly #9)
The Stratis Virtual Hackathon has arrived!
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December 8, 2016
Developers Update (Stratis Weekly #8)
Our developers have been working so hard and so fast on the nStratis project that it's often difficult to keep on top of the latest news, so this week we have made a special effort to bring you a snapshot of what is happening under the hood of nStratis, right now.
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December 7, 2016
Anonymous Transactions Coming to Stratis
Nicolas Dorier the developer of NBitcoin and consultant to the Stratis project has announced the NTumbleBit project, a server and client implementation of the TumbleBit payment scheme in C#. TumbleBit, is a new anonymous payment protocol that aims to solve two of the major challenges faced by Bitcoin, scaling Bitcoin to keep up with the increasing demand, and protecting the privacy of payments made via Bitcoin. TumbleBit is implemented as a layer built on top of Bitcoin and is compatible without requiring changes to the existing Bitcoin protocol. TumbleBit payments are processed off the blockchain, this is how it helps Bitcoin scale. These off chain transactions are unlinkable, as volume increases we expect TumbleBit to offer a new level in anonymous payments. The TumbleBit payment scheme does not require the user to trust the TumbleBit server, at no time can the TumbleBit server link the users transactions or steal their bitcoin. The TumbleBit whitepaper states, “To deliver on this promise, anonymity must also be provided in the face of the anonymity-enhancing service itself—if the service knows exactly which payer is paying which payee, then a compromise of the service leads to a total loss of anonymity. Compromise of anonymity-enhancing technologies is not unknown. In 2016, for example, researchers found more than 100 Tor nodes snooping on their user.” TumbleBits payments aim to address the Bitcoin scalability issue by processing all transactions off the bitcoin blockchain. By utilizing off chain transactions the service removes the 10-minute delay associated with waiting for traditional Bitcoin confirmation times. By utilizing the TumbleBit payment scheme all transactions will be completed in mere seconds. NTumbleBit In order for TumbleBit to function the Tumbler Hub has to put many bitcoins into escrow. If it cannot, some people will not be able to use it. Therefore the growing of TumbleBit is actually a direct Bitcoin buying pressure. A quote from Nicolas Dorier: "NTumbleBit will be a cross-platform framework, server and client for the TumblerBit payment scheme. TumbleBit is separated into two modes, tumbler mode and payment hub mode. The tumbler mode improves transaction fungibility and offers risk free unlinkable transactions. Payment hub mode is a way of making offchain payments possible without requiring implementations like Segwit or the lightning network. I decided to work urgently on NTumbleBit, as I don't see any exit to the situation we are in regarding Bitcoin scaling. TumbleBit will be, I think, the first off chain payment system reaching mainstream" NTumbleBit will be forked by Stratis development for the Stratis blockchain and will also be available on Stratis Private Chains. The NTumbleBit implemention on Private chains will be utilized to provide greater scalability for corporations that require higher transaction volumes. The Stratis parent chain will be utilized for the anonymity functionality available from NTumbleBit. The Stratis project is exploring the possibility of offering a centralized NTumbleBit service for Bitcoin, but a service of this nature represents several legal hurdles. Its certainly on our roadmap and we will update the community accordingly. Because NTumbleBit is developed in C# utilizing NBitcoin (the base framework that was utilized in our SDF) our in house team and also our community of developers will be able to implement and make changes to the NTumbleBit payment scheme. We expect to see some innovative use cases conceptualized for this technology.
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November 30, 2016
Stratis Roadmap Update (Stratis Weekly #7)
From the first moment we presented Stratis to the world, we knew how important it would be to operate on a planned and verifiable schedule.
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November 23, 2016
Get Your Coding Gloves On, It's The First Stratis Blockchain Hackathon (Stratis Weekly #6)
We are excited to announce the Stratis Blockchain Hackathon, our first major Stratis developers event of 2017 and we wanted to give you, our dedicated community, a head start.
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