Weekly updates went on hiatus over the Christmas holidays and returned for the week of January 7 to 11 only to disappear again. This was merely a function of the team focusing entirely on the 5.3.0 and subsequent 5.3.1 releases. Now that those are out, you can expect to see project updates every week from Lux once again. You will also see, from reading what may be our most robust update ever below, that the lack of updates does not reflect a lack of progress and development in Luxcore.
Hot on the heels of the mandatory v5.3.0 release, Luxcore has released a maintenance wallet version to address some bugs and UI issues. Although not a mandatory update, v5.3.1 is highly recommended. Get it today! See the Development Updates below to find out what has been improved in v5.3.1.
In the wake of Cryptopia's (hopefully temporary) disappearance form the market, Luxcore has sought out additional exchange listing opportunities. One such opportunity we managed to find was on CoinExchange.io, where they have listed both LUX-BTC and LUX-ETH pairs.
LUX now trading with both BTC and ETH on CoinExchange.io
The LUX Seeker penned a very helpful Medium story discussing what we know so far about the Cryptopia hack and CoinBene as a good alternative. We note that in addition to the exchanges mentioned in The LUX Seeker's article, Lux is also currently being traded on CryptoBridge and TradeOgre, albeit with lower 24h volumes. Read The LUX Seeker's article here.
In part four of its series on small market cap altcoins, Southeast Asia blockchain and legal SEO consulting firm @BlockChainSEO featured Luxcore, touting its enterprise-ready architecture & cherry-picked solutions, security & privacy, and highly scalable ecosystem. Click here to read more.
In addition to the altcoin roundup, BlockchainSEO interviewed Luxcore developer Sebastian Berger (Cheaterflums | Sebi on Discord) about Luxcore's web-wallet-as-a-service. The story details the web wallet's extremely high degree of decentralization, complete control for users and static staking rewards system. It also contains lots of useful links for helping people get started. It's well worth the read here.
Luxcore Head of Marketing attended The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, January 16 to 18. There, he spread the word of Lux and connected with many industry notables from organizations such as Bitcoinist.com, the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, Barbados Stock Exchange and CryptoCurrencyWire. Click here to read his account of TNABC 2019.
A Korean version of the Luxcore website has been released at https://www.luxcore.io/ko. This follows our German release, providing the Luxcore website in three languages now. If you are a translator and are interested in earning a bounty for website translation, please contact Arsonic via Discord.
The Innovations TV episode featuring Luxcore was supposed to air on FOX Business on Saturday, January 26 at 5:00 pm EST. However, due to a scheduling conflict, it did not. It will be rescheduled and we will provide details once they are available.
Finished:
In progress:
- Fix crash issue for luxd and lux-qt
- Improve luxd/lux-qt speed on heavy wallet
- Reduce CPU usage on staking
- Fix balance calculations for importprivkey
- Fix bug related to UTXO unlock code
- Pruning UX changes
- Remove the trading tab
Luxgate QT:
Luxgate core:
- Finish making it so that atomic swaps do not use ZMQ protocol in Bitcoin connector
- Use signrawtransactionwithwallet RPC call to support newer Bitcoin versions
- Fix and stabilize the refunding scenario in an atomic swap
- Log received messages in p2p exchange that cause misbehavior during atomic swap processing
- Add RPC call gettradeorder for retrieving trade order by ID
- Add RPC call getlocalorder for retrieving order from local order book by ID
- Reimplement createorder RPC call to take trade pair, order type (buy or sell), amount of base coins to trade, price in quote coin
