See our previous digest here. Hey everyone! It’s been a very busy month. We’ve carried out a successful hard fork, and most of the exchanges, services, businesses, and users have gradually moved to wallet version 0.7.9. If you haven’t, please do so — we are constantly adding new features and…

See our previous digest here. Hey everyone! This was a busy June indeed! First of all, we want to thank the art_of_bug team for discovering two significant vulnerabilities in the wallet code. The first one drained a victim’s RAM, while the second one allowed an attacker to reorganize blocks until the last soft checkpoint with relatively little resources. We have promptly warned all exchanges about possible issues, and you may have noticed that they required more confirmations than the standard six in the first half of June.

Hey everyone, here’s what we’ve been up to last month: The Emercoin Core Emercoin Core wallet v. 0.7.6 released with some minor changes: Changes to the GUI: Minor changes to the Minting tab: Update after each incoming transaction You can now exchange EMC for other cryptocurrencies via CoinSwitch and EasyRabbit…

Hey everyone! Something small but important happened this month: A few enthusiasts volunteered to join the project as translators, so Emercoin’s content will now be routinely updated in other languages. As we are an open-source project, community support is essential for us. So whether you can contribute to translations, suggest code improvements, or even create your own Emer-based project, this will be of great help!

Hey everyone, here’s what we’ve been up to last month: Emercoin core We released core version 0.7.5, featuring the following improvements: emercoin-qt: The GUI wallet can now be run as an SUID executable on Linux systems. emercoin-qt: A few GUI improvements, including data copying from the emerSSL tab to the…

Interview with Anna Verba and Andrey Gorbatenko — Aktiv financial academy is one of the most active users of the Emercoin blockchain. Their story shows that despite any “crypto recessions”, blockchain is not merely alive, but continuously opening up new non-monetary uses. That’s really inspiring. I talked to the academy’s founder & CEO Anna Verba and CTO Andrey…

Emercoin core We’ve released core version 0.7.4, which now supports Randpay, along with a whitepaper for the latter. The wallet also features several other improvements, most notably EDNS0 support. The explorer can now show Randpay transactions. Coming soon: IPv6 DNS support. EmerAPI We’ve released the first manual for the EmerAPI GraphQL interface. You…

Large-scale micropayment subsystem based on the Emercoin cryptocurrency — This article describes a system for aggregating payments based on a zero-trust lottery protocol. We demonstrate its applicability to very large-scale settlements amounting to trillions of transactions per year. Under the protocol, the payment recipient creates a unique payment address and defines a space of possible payment addresses including this…

Hey everyone! January always feels a little like a vacation, but we pulled ourselves together and dove headfirst into our work. Here are the latest developments: Emercoin core We’ve almost finished version 0.7.4, in which we have: Added an interface for the CoinSwitch exchange. So now you will again be able to…