Development Update, Website Restructure Underway & Community News

The NavCoin community developers continue to work on roadmapped features, while the NavCoin website is set for a refresh, including addition of content to help support existing projects.

NavCoin Application Development Update

There’s been lots of development progress across the board this week by NavCore and the wider NavCoin community.

The NavCoin Core Docker image has been added to the NavCoin repositories to help make it easier for anyone to build on NavCoin. Sakdeniz has continued to make progress on the NavCoinVue project, which can be viewed on the NavCommunity site.

http://navcoin-vue.navcommunity.net

Alex and Paul have begun working to port the Go implementation of Bitcoin for use with NavCoin. This is the first stage of implementing the Lightning Network for NavCoin. For that reason this project has been moved from Upcoming to In Progress on the project roadmap.

https://navcoin.org/project-roadmap

Encrypt S developers have spent some time this week planning the NavPi Kowhai user interface. Most of the backend API’s are nearing completion and this project is nearly ready to move to its second phase. The test coverage has been increased on the back end, and the docker workflow has been refined.

The TeDiCross bot has been re-enabled to bridge NavCoin’s Telegram and Discord communities. Posts on Discord’s general channel are now relayed to Telegram and vice versa. A new translation plugin has been implemented on the NavCoin website. That allows community members to keeping translations up to date more easily. We’re starting with Español, and will be re-enabling more language translations over the coming weeks.

Behind the scenes the NavCoin Core developers have been working with @mntyfrsh to upgrade the NavPay backend infrastructure so it can scale efficiently as more users come onboard. Aligning and scaling existing infrastructure is a top priority of the team and this is the first step in the process.

Website Refresh in Progress

NavCoin content creators are focussing on restructuring the navcoin.org website to provide more standalone resources on projects and technologies, as well as refreshing existing content.

The goal is to create a better user experience for new visitors and add extra detail for those who want to know more about NavCoin.

Community Contributions

iFaq has made a stellar effort this week contributing multiple articles to the NavCoin Knowledge Base. So far the Knowledge Base has been serving the community well as a technical support resource. If you can’t find what you need there, head over to the support channels on Discord where the Nav community can help you.

Kirk Dunkley, more commonly known on Twitter as @sigma_six_ has released a limited edition NavCoin sculpture in his coin sculpture series. The series was created to engage with the cryptocurrency community in a meaningful way, and introduce the art collectors in this space to his online gallery. Browse his online store to purchase your NAV sculpture.

http://www.sigmasixdesign.com/bitcoingallery-store#!/The-Simplifier-NAV/p/102127036

One of NavCoin’s community members, Sakdeniz has created a video explaining NavCoin and spotlighting it’s features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz62CXljDVk&feature=youtu.be

Thanks again to the NavCoin community and their efforts in raising awareness of the NavCoin project and its goals. You will continue to be updated about projects and events in the NavCoin community. Don’t forget NavCoin is open source and community developed. You can follow along on GitHub and more importantly get involved by making your own contributions.

Xero Presentation

Encrypt S software engineer, Craig MacGregor gave a presentation at Xero’s Auckland office yesterday. His talk was geared towards introducing people to the basics of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. It covered blockchain’s distributed rather than centralized architecture, how transaction data is shared across the network and the emergent benefits that come from this approach. He also covered the fundamentals of Bitcoin’s supply, demand and the blockchain tech company landscape.

Thanks again to the NavCoin community and their efforts to raise awareness of the NavCoin project and its goals. We will continue to keep you updated on each project’s progress as milestones are achieved. Don’t forget it’s all open source so you can follow along on the NavCoin GitHub and even get involved.

Talk Soon,

NavCore Team