“Ask me for anything but time!”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

There has been a fair amount of quiet from the Raptoreum team on exactly what has been going on with the different development streams. This has been due to the team discovering several bugs in our codebase which are currently in the process of being upstreamed.

I would like to lift the skirt just a little bit, for a flash of a nice pink ankle, of what has been going on in other areas of development.

Yeah I’m good, feels like my skull’s on fire, but I’m good.
~GhostRider

July has been busy and there has been a lot going on, here is the lowdown!

• Logo bounty has finally been completed, and so far the feedback on the winning logo (above) has been awesome. The winners are the guys from https://thecoreadmin.com/ Awesome guys and recommended should you need one of their services!
• Testnet 3: TN3 or as fondly nicknamed in our Discord “Terminator 3” went live yesterday July 20th. In less tehn 24 hours it has reached an all time high on network hash breaking 16,000H/s…

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”

Sydney J. Harris

Counterfeiting and fake products in various forms are becoming a more and more commonplace issue in the 21st century. In many cases, regular consumers are unable to tell the difference between a real product or a knock off from elsewhere.

I have touched briefly on this issue before in our Medium article on gem certification. Obviously, solutions suited to guaranteeing the authenticity of gemstones are a somewhat expensive proposition for more mass-produced items such as branded clothes, bags etc.

On a fully private blockchain this…

Have had a few people asking about the lottery so figured I would whip up this quick guide. The Raptoreum Lotto Pick 4 contest is a way for testnet contributors to earn real RTM before mainnet launch. You are not sent any RTM right now as there is none. Instead you are issued an IOU asset on the Ravencoin blockchain that is an official IOU saying we owe you X amount of RTM. These coins to be paid out within two weeks of mainnet launch.

How To Play

You need to mine testnet coins as each lottery entry is 100k coins. At this…

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas Holcroft

The last few weeks have been pretty quiet but things have been busy behind the scenes as usual, we have had our noses to the grindstone!

What Is Happening

• Development has begun on our weusertm portal and we hope to have that in testing this month. weusertm is a type of vendor portal where small businesses and artisan type companies are provided a company page where they can advertise them self as well as offer some of their wares for sale in exchange for RTM…

We get a lot of questions on what makes us different from Ethereum and Ravencoin as we are a code fork of Ravencoin and will be adding smart contracts. First, I will list the differences between Raptoreum and Ravencoin both technology wise and for the overall project.

Note: This is meant to be a quick, simple, easy to digest comparison. Going in depth is beyond the scope of a single article. If you want more in depth details on Raptoreum and what it can do and offer please check the following;

Full Spec List: https://medium.com/@kawwwoin/raptoreum-full-spec-list-ba1d4d48e7a4
Raptoreum FAQ: https://medium.com/@kawwwoin/raptoreum-faq-446185503cee

Raptoreum And Ravencoin

1.) Raptoreum…

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May 20th

“The Only Limit To Our Realization Of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts Of Today.The past is gone for good. You can sit here mourning it’s departure, or prepare for the future” ― Petyr Baelish

The weekly update has been MIA for a bit, mainly do to me being busy, sidetracked, etc. DuckAvenger pitched in and gave me a little kick, and here we are. Thanks buddy!

What’s new with Raptoreum

GhostRider is live on testnet: GhostRider went live on testnet on April 25th, we have had great participation thus far in helping test it. Thank you everybody for helping! …

“Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.”

— Angelo Sotira

Running a small business frequently feels like a constant uphill struggle. This is something we at the Raptoreum project understand and can relate to, seeing as our entire core team is made up of current or former small business owners.

There are tools that level the playing field to some extent, social network engineering, viral marketing etc.

Very few tools allow small businesses to provide their customers with say full product traceability or product stories that will help in social network engineering and the viral marketing of…