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As of tomorrow at noon, we will start adding the support for the Dash, Bitcoin and Steem blockchains to the Smartcoins Wallet. This way, the users of those coins can use our wallet if they like to get the benefits from BlockPay such as Loyalty Points, eReceipts, and of course to start getting familiar with Smartcoins at the same time. Those communities are really missing out right now since they don't have mobile wallets that support all that stuff. i have 3 part-time guys working to add those 3 extra chains as fast as possible.
 
As of today, I broke out the different parts of our new BlockPay Core and BlockPay Engine IPFS-related stuff into 7 different repos:
https://github.com/kenCode-de?tab=repositories
 
so, as of Wednesday the 2nd, next week, you will start seeing our commits there. i have 3 full-time guys, and 8 part-time guys working on those repos. The new BlockPay Core relies on them to be able to load up the new BlockPay Engine from IPFS for the specific platform or device that BlockPay is installed onto, such as windows, mac, linux, vending machines, raspi's, etc.
 
as of thursday of this week (tomorrow) we will start the integration of Stealth with the Bitshares platform and if all goes well we should have most of it ready for testing by Christmas. I have 2 full-time guys, and 1 part-time guy on our Stealth team.
 
all of these things that we are coding right now are needed for the Echo app as well and I have 5 more guys on standby waiting for those components so we are knocking this out as fast as possible.
 
the new 1-step setup for BlockPay by the way is frign awesome, I think you guys will really like it.
keep an eye on my github, steemit blog, and right here in this thread for more updates to come...
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I have some more good news, the Smartcoins Wallet will have full support for real Bitcoins, Dash and Steem soon (3 more chains). So, with just one mobile wallet, you will be able to hold the coins and assets from 4 different blockchains. I have a meeting on wednesday and thursday of next week about that to finalize who is doing which parts (it has to work with our new IPFS based BlockPay Core and BlockPay Engine). If all goes well, we will have that release of the wallet ready by Christmas.
 
Also, it looks as if we may be moving the BlockPay Core to C instead of Java, as this has helped us to port BlockPay Integrated to more hardware (such as the vending machines and gas pumps projects I mentioned earlier). The new Core and Engine should be ready for you by Christmas as well.
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Our new Engine (for BlockPay, Smartcoins Wallet, Echo and beyond)...
http://steem.link/pMJgn
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Thanks for the progress reports and the news about coincap.io is great! I just snatched up some more blockpay shares and I'm sure that I've joined a winning team!

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BlockPay just went live on coincap (http://coincap.io/BLOCKPAY)! I like the coincap UI better than CMC. Now if we can just get BlockPay listed on Blocktrades too... (I'm workin on it)
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Our IPFS proof of concept is 90% complete.
Here is a really boring video we did today showing how we interact with IPFS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiMcZW1sux0 (roughly 6min long)
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Thanks for the continued updates.  Your project has great potential.

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BlockPay - Day 2 of 4 at Oktoberfest and Bits & Pretzels events (some very sexy photos)
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@kenCode/blockpay-day-2-of-4-at-oktoberfest-and-bits-and-pretzels-events
edit: a better link: http://steem.link/Rh3PC
 
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Update on BlockPay IPFS integration...
 
Task-8: "File which handles the coin logos, coin name, details about the coin, etc."
Status: "Done"

Task-5: "File which handles sending/receiving loyalty points and UIA tokens"
Status: "In-progress"
 
Task-12: "File which handles all css or stylization standards, color codes, font weight and sizes, etc."
Status: "In-progress"

- We started fetching images from IPFS as we were storing logos as base64 encoded strings in our json files.
- Due to base64 encoded strings files became too large and IPFS daemon was unable to fetch.
- we decided to put logos as separate png files and their names in the corresponding json files.
- This approach reduced the file size as well as time taken by IPFS to download.
- We stored the image files in android as IPFS was sending the content of image file.
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BlockPay - Day 2 of 4 at Oktoberfest and Bits & Pretzels events (some very sexy photos)
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@kenCode/blockpay-day-2-of-4-at-oktoberfest-and-bits-and-pretzels-events
edit: a better link: http://steem.link/Rh3PC
 
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BlockPay now at all Augustiner biergartens and Wirtshaus am Bavariapark:

 
Next comes their restaurant chain! :)

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BlockPay now at all Augustiner biergartens and Wirtshaus am Bavariapark:

 
Next comes their restaurant chain! :)
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RE: Building IPFS and IPNS support directly into "BlockPay Libs" engine.
 
We are working on a proof of concept right now (to be done by friday of next week) where IPFS is fully integrated and completely decentralizes BlockPay as well so that it is unstoppable. "BlockPay API" will use this new Libs engine for integration with other apps, websites, etc.
 
BlockPay has been modularized in a way that allows us to use shared components across all versions of BlockPay across all kinds of systems and Integrations that we do (such as Odoo, SAP, ticket machines, etc etc). IPFS is now being added which further decentralizes BlockPay components and makes upgrades much faster over time and easier. If for example, App Stores decide to ban crypto apps or modules, or ISP’s decide to block “unapproved” crypto, IPFS has solved these problems as well since the files which run BlockPay and access to the BlockPay app will no longer require an App Store’s approval, http or even DNS.
 
Please find today's progress update below:
Task-1: "Create basic Android app for POC."
Status: "Done"

Task-2: "Implementation of IPNS/IPFS in Android app."
Status: "In-progress"

Task-21: "Research on development of non-http android IPFS library."
Status: "In-progress"

- We started researching IPFS libraries for android and found that almost all the libraries are using IPFS http api to get files.
- The libraries we investigated are: js-ipfs-api, go-ipfs, py-ipfs-api, js-ipfs, go-ipfs-api.
- We worked on somehow running IPFS daemon on android devices.
- We found a library that was doing something similar to it, however it was in kotlen language instead of java.
- We created a basic android app and tried to create IPFS daemon in it.
- We were able to create the daemon successfully, and are now working to grab the app files from it.
 
Next friday I will be ready to post more videos of the latest POC.
We are breaking new ground with IPFS here, this essentially makes BlockPay unstoppable and rock-solid, so when the tyrants start clamping down on crypto and crypto apps, BlockPay will still prevail.
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