The latest Obyte email newsletter: Awards 🏆 witnesses + Oscript improvements

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PolloPollo wins award

Obyte-powered charitable donation platform, PolloPollo, picked up an award at the Latin America Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference in recognition of “its potential to develop models that leverage the blockchain technology or Global Impact”.

A huge thanks to Santiago Law, who travelled for several days from Venezuela to Uruguay to represent PolloPollo at the conference. See the video of Santiago talking about PolloPollo onstage at the conference.

Bosch Connectory candidacy

A reminder that the Bosch Connectory in Stuttgart, Germany, is a candidate to run a public witness node on the Obyte network, and it's up to the community to approve them or not.

To cast your vote please go to Polls section on Obyte.io or add the “Poll Bot” in the Bot Store to your wallet. Here is a short video on how to vote if needed.

Reminder - witnesses are nothing like Bitcoin miners, in that they do not act as validators or gatekeepers to the network, meaning all users have equal access.

Oscript improvements (technical)

Quite a few improvements have been made to Oscript recently, which you can see on Github, or read about the changes summarized in lead developer Tony's words on Reddit.

Reminder - Oscript is a programming language for Autonomous Agents, which are currently available on Obyte testnet. If you are a developer and feel like trying out Autonomous Agents, head to testnet.oscript.org, write your first AA in the easy-to-use browser editor, and deploy it to testnet.

Alternative witness name suggestions

One of the advantages Obyte has over most crypto projects is that it's not a blockchain. However there are some drawbacks to this, mainly because Obyte’s lack of miners is hard to explain. We have witnesses (very different from miners) and it's a confusing topic for people. Further, the name witness is used by other blockchain projects, which are nothing like Obyte witnesses and we plan to make the difference clearer.

Current alternative suggestions include:

• Sequence Provider
• Sequencer
• Sequence Witness
• Sequence Beacon
• Lighthouse
• Lighthouse Builder
• Guiding Light
• Order Provider
• Waypoint Provider
• Waypoint Node

Please post any suggestions you have on Reddit or Discord.

Happy holidays

This is the last newsletter of 2019, so enjoy your holidays and see you next year!

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