Q2 2019 Community Update
This is our Community Update for Q2 2019. As usual, we rely on our community feedback, so drop us a line if you have any suggestions.
TL;DR
- Nick joins Luxor full-time
- User Accounts Release
- Partnership with Efudd
- Crypto Merch Store
- YCash Fork
- Catalyst
What’s next? Catalyst
Tired of fumbling for your 2FA key so your can sell your mining profits? Catalyst is a newly enabled feature for registered users that converts their mining reward directly to Bitcoin.
Now you can mine Bitcoin with any ASIC or GPU. Coming soon.
Nick joins our team!
After 20 months of endless nights and weekends of grind, Nick Hansen, Co-founder, and CEO of Luxor, joined the team on a full-time schedule.
Nick has worked several years as a Software Engineer in technology companies like Salesforce where he developed the necessary skills to design and implement scalable systems.
We’re extremely excited about him joining the team full-time. This will increase the velocity in which we can release new features and serve our loyal miners.
If you want to say hi to Nick, he will be attending Mining Disrupt in Miami, USA and speaking at MinerSummit in Chengdu, China.
User Accounts
User accounts are the foundation of the features we’re currently working on and will see the light in the next few weeks!
With User Accounts, there are enhanced security features to protect your mining operation while providing you greater control. You can set custom payment threshold and request manual payouts from the UI, you dictate when you want to get paid. Set your payment threshold, rule over your mining.
Over 4,500 miners have signed up since the launch! We’re astonished by the rapid adoption. We still support mining to coin addresses, so setting up an account is not compulsory.
At Luxor, we value and respect privacy.
Efudd x Luxor
It’s a seamless integration between hardware and software. Leveraging Efudd’s firmware (FuddWare) that unlocks new overclocking thresholds and Luxor’s high-quality stratum Zcash, Horizen, Komodo and Pirate pools we are able to maximize mining efficiency and reduce overall mining fees.
Learn more here.
Crypto Merch Store
When the market pumps, it’s time for t-shirts and enamel pins! Our community asked for some swag to rock at their favorite meetup or crypto conference.
We made a few designs and the community voted for the one they liked the most. Now, you can purchase our Happy Hashing T-shirt or our enamel pins at our Merch Store.
Since we’re not a merch company, our products are priced to match production costs. If there’s anything else you would like to get, send us a message and we will add it to the store!
We’re giving-away one of our T-shirts. Make sure to follow us and retweet this Tweet to participate.
Ycash: The first friendly fork of Zcash
Ycash, the first friendly fork of Zcash, launched to restore a goal, mining on commodity hardware, that has been largely abandoned on the Zcash blockchain.
Luxor mined the First Ycash Mainnet Block!
Learn more about Ycash here.
Recent Articles
The blockchain industry is young and requires more high-quality content. We are pushing to further legitimize the industry by releasing informative articles on a wide range of companies/cryptocurrencies/theories. Some of the articles we wrote this month include:
- Unlock your ASIC Potential with Efudd x Luxor
- Meet User Accounts
- Ycash: The first friendly fork of Zcash
Luxor Community
We owe most of our success to date to our community members. We interact with over 3,500 Discord members in our various chats, which represents a 10% increase over the last quarter user base. Members help us to troubleshoot and work with us to create the best possible pools. If you haven’t joined us there yet, please do!
We also recently opened up a Telegram Chat. On top of that, we reached the 2,000 Twitter followers mark!
Join the conversation, don’t miss the fun!
Happy Hashing!
Luxor is building infrastructure to support the next generation of digital assets. Learn more about us 👉 here.
