Hey all,

Short post today. My focus over the last few days was on working with exchanges including mercatox as well as testing out the new code additions to the node.

Today using a cheap DigitalOcean droplet and the latest master I was able to sync from 0 in 3 hours. My plan is to run this a few more times. The new code allows for better peer selection as well as improved block downloading. Obviously there are a number of factors that will affect speed but we feel this is a massive step forward. An enormous thank you for the various Devs who are contributing to the node code - for more info check out the raiblocks GitHub.

Summary 1. We have been working with multiple exchanges

The new sync code is awesome, this will be in the next release.

From my opinion rai is alot better:
https://i.imgur.com/BCTjOL8.jpg

I bought quite a bit of XRB some time ago and I am feeling the pinch at the moment but hopefully here is some good news.

According to Coinmarketcap XRB is up almost 22% in the past 24 hours. After a week of down trending from a high of $20 it has made a comeback from a reversal at $13 yesterday and is currently heading back upwards trading at $17.63 at the time of writing.
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/27/leading-altcoin-moment-raiblocks/