Your Week in SmartCash, from December 18 2018

Weekly highlights from the SmartCash Hive Teams and SmartCash community.

SmartCash Community

You can now use SmartCash to buy Trezor wallets and other hardware wallets from http://kriptobr.com , the most popular crypto wallet store in Brazil.

Experience the music video "SmartCash All Over The World" by flamzyMarshall, with special thanks to dim for video editing.

The Crypto Lark discussed SmartCash adoption, scaling, and the Bitcoin Confidential airdrop with Zaphoid.

ADAM vs The Man mentioned Bitcoin Confidential on their latest YouTube show.

There are presently four proposals to vote on at the SmartCash Voting Portal.

Visit the SmartCash Pre-Proposal Forum to share your own ideas and get feedback. Having trouble getting your proposal passed? Try these three simple steps and try again with a revised version.

This week's featured graphic is "Bitcoin Confidential":

Development & Quality Assurance Teams

The SmartCash Performance Testing (Stress Testing) has reached new levels: SmartCash can do 100 tx/s sustained, 117 tx/s 5 min averages, and 380 tx/sec peak now all using on-chain transactions. You can also explore the mempool statistics at the interactive visual charts at the SmartStats SmartCash Transactions page.

Development on SmartCash version 1.3 has progressed to the testing/testnet phase, and will introduce cold voting keys that will be integrated into the proposal system. This will enable secure and simplified methods for Improved SmartRewards. The estimated timeframe to switch to the v1.3 criteria are around January 25th or February 25th, with the final date to be determined once testing is completed.

The testing and quality assurance process for the new Bitcoin Confidential wallet is underway, with an estimated release of December 22nd and 31st.

The latest SmartCash Electrum release is getting close! You can see the regular activity on this GitHub.

The Edge Wallet APK which includes SmartCash support is being tested, and should be included in the next Edge Wallet release.

You can keep up-to-date with new developer commits across multiple repositories at https://smartstats.cc/github.

Outreach Teams 1 & 2

SmartCash meetups are happening all over the world, including Argentina, Japan, Ukraine, Ohio, and Boston. Hosting a meetup? Let us know and it can be added to this SmartCash Meetup directory.

You can now follow updates from SmartCash at CoinGecko Beam, Blockfolio, InvestFeed, and Delta Direct, in addition to the SmartCash social media accounts.

A new SmartCash exclusive radio show, SmartTalk Radio, has been launched. The first episodes include discussions of Scaling SmartCash, Bitcoin Confidential, and Anarchaforko. More episodes are being recorded regularly, so be sure to subscribe to the podcast or YouTube channel!

Bitbacker is now accepting SmartCash. It's a great way to support content creators like Naomi Brockwell using cryptocurrency.

Now that Iozeta supports SmartCash, you can feed the "BCH Chickens" and "Dash Ducks" with SmartCash!

Support & Web Teams

The Bitcoin Confidential website is now live at BitcoinConfidential.com! The snapshot was completed, and the estimated time frame for the Bitcoin Confidential wallet release was also announced.

SmartCard has newly updated websites and there is a new SmartCash SmartPay App version released which include the following features for businesses: Reserve Wallet, Top Up, Exchange Price Selection.

Two great resources to follow SmartCash are Coingecko or Yahoo! Finance. They have the correct market cap information, without excluding any addresses.

Remember, the best place to get support 24/7 is at the SmartCash Discord, but there are also support articles on common topics on FreshDesk here.

Helpful visualizations and other SmartCash Blockchain and Community Statistics are available and updated regularly at smartstats.cc.

Community Activity Summary

There are now 15,755 Smarties on the SmartCash Discord Server, 3,138 on Telegram, 14,091 followers of @Scashofficial on Twitter, 2,863 subscribed to /r/SmartCash on Reddit, 1,292 on Instagram, and a growing presence on Gab.ai with 161 followers. We have 13,397 enabled SmartNodes, our blockchain has a current height of 801,597, and in the last 24 hours it has transacted 27,046,960.00 SMART via 2477 transactions! There are 25,733 addresses eligible for SmartRewards, which is currently expected to pay around 1.12%. Our official mining pools have a total of 3,435 workers and have paid out 16,527 SMART in the last 12 hours. CoinGecko currently has SmartCash ranked at #90. They report a -4.266% change in price and a USD volume of $518,086 in the past 24 hours.

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Originally published at smartcash.cc on December 18, 2018. https://smartcash.cc/your-week-in-smartcash-december-18-2018/