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We begin the last newsletter of 2017 with several updates from projects in the Counterparty community. Regardless of the swaying back and forth of forks, improvements to the Counterparty protocol continue, and the innovative community continues to grow. We look...

Last Saturday, Counterparty hosted a community hangout on Discord. Long overdue, the hangout was the first of many regularly scheduled voice-meetings to come wherein projects are welcome to discuss their own project updates, as well as join the community in an open...

Today counterparty releases version 9.55.4 which includes a hotfix for an uncaught exception which could cause a Counterparty server to stop operating normally. There is no mandatory upgrade block for this release. However, all users are encouraged to upgrade as soon...

Continuing on from last month, Counterparty continues to move forward with some exciting updates from the community. Implemented from our funded CIPs – the Counterparty Protocol has also seen some vast improvements this month – fulfilled by donations from the...

NOTE: If you run a Counterparty node, please update your software as per these instructions within the next 2 weeks, prior to the block 489956 hard fork! Today we released version 9.55.3 of counterparty-lib, which notably includes a reduction in the cost of all...

New Hires Counterparty is excited to announce two new hires in recent weeks Firstly, Counterparty would like to welcome Rebekah Moss as community outreach manager for 6 months. Rebekah will work to drive engagement across, and offer support to, the Counterparty...

Ecosystem Updates The Counterparty ecosystem has seen a lot of progress the past month. There has been a massive influx of new projects and updates of existing ones. Here’s a brief overview: XChain.io is nearing full release and will be replacing Blockscan as our...

Due to several important new changes, we’re releasing a development update independently this week. Transaction fee improvements When composing a new Counterparty transaction, counterparty-lib must select which Bitcoin unspent outputs (UTXOs) to use as inputs for the...

On April 3rd 2017, the Counterparty Foundation announced the start of its blockchain-based election for four Community Director seats, that will together with the Founding Director, Robby Dermody, officially represent the Counterparty project, help shape its direction...

NOTE: If you run a Counterparty node, please UPDATE your software as soon as possible with these instructions, prior to the block 467417 hard fork! Today we released version 9.55.2 of counterparty-lib, which adds the much anticipated “subassets” feature, as well as an...