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Highly Recommended Podcast on Nocks
Roel discusses the newest partners going live and how they’re using the Nocks infrastructure to enhance their service(s) and them expanding into new areas such as ASIA! Get a Nocks.com account here.
Preview 2020
By Rijk Plasman, CEO Gulden BV. The beginning of the year is always a nice period, the less productive days are over and it’s time for action again. Although my days weren’t really that less productive… I’m always working on crypto, it’s just too interesting and promising. For the masses it seems to be…
Ranking crypto’s by number of nodes
Article by Aat de Kwaasteniet Introduction As already explained in previous stories, the ranking on CoinMarketCap, based on market capitalization, is highly questionable. See the story “The Nonsense of Marketcap.Attempts have been made to rank the cryptocoins in other ways. For example, a range of research items on cryptocoins in the story Which crypto…
Be a Winner!
We are approaching a new milestone for the Gulden Blockchain. Soon the 500st million Gulden will be mined. Eventually there will be not more than 1650 million Gulden. With on average one block in every 150 seconds it will take approx. another 50 years to mine the rest. As we do not want to…
Gulden mining figures
Article by Aat de Kwaasteniet. Here’s an update on the mining of Gulden over the total period of SIGMA mining 20 october till 7 november. Blocks and block times In these 19 days, 11315 blocks have been mined. An average of 595 blocks per day. That is slightly above the desired number of 576…
A post launch look at SIGMA
by Malcolm MacLeod, Lead Developer at Gulden.com For those who don’t already know about Gulden; Gulden uses a unique consensus algorithm which we call PoW² that combines traditional “proof of work” mining with a secondary system of “witnesses” to greatly enhance security. To be a witness coin holders must lock substantial funds up for…
Update 2.1.0.16 ready
REQUIRED UPDATE: Gulden for desktop 2.1.0.16 (fixes sync issues) is now available at Gulden.com/download. The development team is working round the clock to iron out some unforeseen bugs. Please update to this latest version as soon as possible.
Mobile wallets updates
Both iOS and Android wallet updates are waiting for you. They are now fully Sigma supported.
Important: iOS wallet update
Gulden for iOS (SIGMA compatible) is now available in the App Store. Dark mode support and other improvements.
Update for Pi users
There is an update available for Pi users (Gulden 2.1.0.11). Please update your Pi before October 16 (when SIGMA activates).
Community benefits from Sigma
Gulden has been created within the mindset that blockchain, although being a powerful technology, could be way more user-friendly and robust than what has been displayed in the crypto landscape thus far. As of today Gulden has become one off the most secure and energy-efficient blockchains ever created. Next to that it…
G-Dash Cloud fee change
Soon the block rewards for witnessing will be changed from 20 to 30 Gulden. Therefore the fee for using cloud witnessing at https://cloud.g-dash.nl will change from 5% to 3.4% on October 20 (GMT+2) to keep it around 1 NLG.
Sigma is here!
By Malcolm, lead developer at Gulden.com It has once again been a busy few months for the development team, with work split up amongst multiple different projects all of which are challenging in their own right and even more so when all going on simultaneously. Unity/iOS Earlier in the year we saw the release…
Development Snippet
SIGMA is now essentially “complete”! 🎉🎉
Over the weekend release on testnet and then barring any major unexpected tragedies devs will set an activation date for mainnet release.
Edit: The Phase4 update is also almost ready but will be a seperate release from Sigma and will be rolled out at a later date.
Gulden iOS wallet update
The Gulden iOS wallet has just received the long awaited update. This version (1.9) now also has a Buy button to buy Gulden directly from the wallet. This service is running through Nocks.com. The familiar look doesn’t suggest that the app is now written entirely on the Unity back end. As already with the…
G-Dash Cloud celebrates
Happy birthday G-DASH Cloud!! 🎉 To celebrate 1 year of G-DASH Cloud there will be no fees for witnessing using this service between today and August 31 for both existing users and new users! Check it out at cloud.g-dash.nl!
An introduction to SIGMA the new ‘CPU friendly’ algorithm for Gulden
Article by Gulden Lead Developer Malcolm MacLeod. This article will give a high level overview of how our new ‘CPU friendly’ PoW algorithm works; however before doing so first a discussion about how we arrived here and why we think a ‘CPU friendly’ algorithm is the way forward for Gulden is necessary. Generally when…
AnycoinDirect makes it possible to buy Gulden using your creditcard.
Are your Gulden safe? A closer look at the Recoveryphrase.
Based upon an article by Art de Kwaasteniet: Introduction The serious cryptocurrencies use a backup technique in their wallets that we call the “recovery phrase”. Is this backup technique safe and reliable? In this article, we will discuss this technique in more detail. History In the early days of cryptocurrencies, and still now with…