Reddcoin 2.0 release this monthReddcoin 2.0 release this month
Dear Reddheads,
An update made at the beginning of this week to the community by Reddcoin lead dev John Nash (@gnasher) gives information on a series of points, resumed in this newsletter.
In the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem controversy and uncertainty return in the form of forks, hacks and other painful-sounding problems, following significant periods of positive sentiment and media attention for the biggest projects Bitcoin and Ethereum during the first half of the year.
Does the current tension in the big league leave space and an opportunity for smaller teams now to raise their profiles? Whatever the case may be, thanks to John Nash's efforts Reddcoin is ready to take advantage!
Happy reading,
Reddibrek
Editor
Releasing v2.0 on Github
Over the past months @gnasher has been working on the Reddcoin core code via his own Reddink Github repository, and it would in theory be technically feasible to release his work in the form of Reddcoin v2.0 to the community from that repository, but the Reddcoin project has its own Github which was written to by @laudney in the past and which still exists.
@Gnasher recently requested write access to the Reddcoin Github, which was granted by Jonathan. @Gnasher has been able to commit his work to the repository and v2.0 binaries that will be released directly from this account will include:
32bit & 64bit Linux binaries
32bit & 64bit Windows binaries
64bit OSx binary
An official and up to date .dat bootstrap will also be made available.
There has been a fair amount of other work involved in preparing for the new release: continuous testing; editing, updating and writing of accompanying documentation; and making contact with exchanges and third-party services to inform and keep them updated regarding the upcoming release.
For those of you who have not been following recently, with v2.0 Reddcoin is evolving to become a fork of Bitcoin and not Litecoin, opening the door to a wealth of development to which the project has never before had access.
Translations
One of the significant sub-projects related to the new Reddcoin wallet has been updating and creating translation files, so that the wallet can cater for as wide a user base as possible.
Community member @Serkan34 has been hard at work, sometimes with the help of other contributors, to prepare translation files.
The current state of affairs for translations:
French (100% completed)
Spanish (100% completed)
Dutch (100% completed)
Russian (100% completed)
German (99% completed)
Chinese (99% completed)
Turkish (99% completed)
Swedish (98% completed)
Italian (98% completed)
Danish (97% completed)
Czech (97% completed)
Norwegian (97% complete)
Portuguese (96% completed)
Polish (96% completed)
Ukrainian (94% complete)
Icelandic (88% completed)
Indonesian (87% completed)
Greek (85% completed)
Romanian (82% completed)
Hungarian (78% completed)
Korean (73% completed)
Tagalog (15% completed)
Reddcointalk forum software update
The Reddcointalk community forum has long been due an upgrade, as new NodeBB (the forum software) bug fixes and features have been released regularly but these releases have not been followed.
Another related issue: transactional emails for the forum stopped working recently as a third-party service provider changed their account structure. A new service provider can offer the same functionality for free but they require an up-to-date version of NodeBB to be running.
An active project, NodeBB releases have gone from 0.6 to 1.1 over the last 12 months or so; to get everything right @gnasher was obliged to step through each upgrade incrementally!
Following a period of testing to make sure that noted bugs have been fixed, the new transactional email service provider is working correctly, and that nothing new has broken, @gnasher confirms that Reddcointalk is now running on the latest version (v1.1.0) with no problems.
Redd-ID
When not completing testing and other tasks related to Reddcoin v2.0, @gnasher has been continuing his investigation and work on Redd-ID. In particular:
Preparing a simple technology presentation involving web sign-up and ID browsing and running on testnet
Bringing features into the back-end
Designing the overall interface and on-boarding for 3rd parties
Designing the integration for social media
With the new v2.0 wallet, up to 80 bytes are available for OP_Return transactions. This provides various opportunities for on-chain metadata and social networking ideas.
Reddheads newsletter special edition
To announce the release of Reddcoin v2.0 a special edition of the newsletter will go out to the community in August. This newsletter will include links to the new binaries and information related to the new release.
