Pirate Chain Monthly Update January 2024 Recap

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6 min readFeb 13, 2024

Ahoy Pirates! The Verus Ecosystem is now much closer to you as vARRR testing nears its conclusion! ARRR is available on the much-liked MEXC Exchange! More functionality, a cleaner interface, and an interactive branding kit are in the works for our new piratechain.com website.

The community is planning on different marketing themes for each quarter. For the first quarter, they are highlighting the new website with a new theme and are currently looking for the perfect slogan.

Community Project Update

vARRR is nearing its launch. We have tested a lot of things with community members, and some tests are still ongoing. We need to prepare a few other bits to complete the puzzle and launch the chain. Recently, we successfully setup electrum server for the testnet vARRR and tested atomic swap with Komodo Wallet (atomicDEX).

Two Verus mining pools confirmed that they will add vARRR for merge mining in their pool alongside VRSC when vARRR launches. This means vARRR will have the same mining hashpower as Verus Coin, securing the chain and mining at those two pools. We aim to get more Verus pools to add vARRR for merge mining.

Pirate Chain on Qortal

Ahoy Pirates! Here you have the ultimate private, decentralized, and censorship-proof way of doing eCommerce! With Q-Shop and your already shielded ARRR, you do gain an extra coat of camouflage while selling or buying anything on the internet. With the supreme autonomy Qortal is bringing with Q-Shop, everyone can sell or buy anything, anytime, anywhere, with no regulations, censorships, or taxes of any kind. Welcome to the new era of eCommerce!

The time is NOW! The infrastructure is in place. Set up your decentralized e-commerce stores on Qortal’s Q-Shop and transact in ARRR today!

Upcoming Events

Anarchapulco 2024 Reborn

We’re so thrilled and excited to visit once again this awesome event held in Acapulco, Mexico! With the whole gamma of key speakers in the freedom movement from around the globe, nice warm weather, and good people, this event is turning into a cultural phenomenon! A must-go for those who really wish to engage with an anarchist and peaceful tribe. Ahoy!

DEFCON 32

Ahoy Pirates! This event is on the works still and we are rallying the forces for the upcoming Defcon Event on August 8–11, 2024, in Las Vegas! The community is in a creative mode and playing with new ideas for the event. You are welcome to join us or share ideas on whatever you feel guided by! Come and chat with us on our Discord server!

Exchanges

ARRR now listed on MEXC

Pirate Chain ARRR is now listed on the MEXC Exchange! Enjoy low trade fees on this centralized exchange! With this move, we’re expecting ARRR to gain wider exposure and gain even more traction.

With its native coin, ARRR, Pirate Chain stands as a lighthouse of privacy in the vast crypto seas. Our platform integrates with decentralized crypto exchanges (DEX), atomic swaps, and P2P wallets, ensuring your transactions remain confidential and secure. In a time when privacy is a fundamental human right, we provide a sanctuary for those who uphold this principle.

Disclaimer: Pirate Chain does not own, operate, or endorse any exchange. Please exercise due diligence and discretion.

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ARRR Hardware Wallet

The portable (1.05 Oz) Pirate Hardware Wallet is the only device that is capable of processing zkSNARKs transactions, as required by Pirate Chain (Arrr). Access to the unit is protected by a root-of-trust setup that starts in the boot ROM at power-up, through all the boot phases, and up to the pirate authenticator application. Offers convenience over the 2-PC online/offline split transaction capability in Pirate Chain’s Treasure Chest wallet.

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Social Media

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February Pirate Chain Community Marketing meet up.

Follow up on our community’s steps at its monthly brainstorming meetups and get to know the individuals that boldly keep carrying the pirate flag up for all to see! This month, the subject is marketing and efforts to rally the community to engage in the upcoming new year projects and developments, as you will get to know professional details about our community individuals at work! Ahoy!

Crypto Rich with Sean Davis.

Another awesome chat from our mate Crypto Rich with Sean Davis. On this one, they discussed ARRR and how pirate chain technologies basicly work, the mirage privacy of Bitcoin, the pirate chain comparison with Monero Privacy Straight, their personal fights to keep their truth out against the tyrant system, and much more!

Daily Dose Of Pirate Chain: #207

On this Daily Dose, @WallStreetKing reads to you a full, quick review of Pirate Chain. He goes from our privacy tech zkSNARKs, supply, market-cap, our latest new exchange MEXC and website piratechain.com review, and eCommerce network. Enjoy this quick one!

Progression of Digital Money

The *most* private way to transact is not with crypto. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. A two-party transaction, with no ledger, is the most private way to transact. Cash, for example, is quite private (though there are serials, so it’s not fully fungible). Gold is very private; only you and the counterparty are knowledgeable of the transaction, and being fungible, there is no uniqueness to link to later. Trouble is, you can’t use gold or cash for sending value in online transactions.

The legacy financial system brought us online transactions, but it requires a trusted third party. It’s not private or free, but it’s also not public. What bitcoin brought us was a way to remove that trusted third party, making it a true two-party, uncensorable transaction, though it achieves this by inventing a public ledger. What Pirate brings to the world are the two-party transactions of Bitcoin, but with no public ledger. The logical next step in the progression of digital money.

Final Words

As anticipated, the year is shaping up well for Pirate, with a lot of things happening. In fact, the Q-Shop eCommerce autonomy Qortal provides for ARRR, along with the new vARRR’s private financial venues, products, services, and systems creation in the Verus ecosystem, will usher in a new era for ARRR and establish it as the world’s most private, anonymous, and decentralized network. Congratulations to all those who helped bring this massive project to life. In the following months, we shall fearlessly carry out the goal by conveying and spreading the freedom that the Pirate Chain is absolutely delivering to everyone. Ahoy Pirates!