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MARKETING AND BUSINESS UPDATES

Reorganizing for a bigger, brighter future

This week we announced a massive update to the LUXCORE organizational structure. Some new faces as well as changing places setting our team up for a better and brighter future. Changes listed below.

New to our team:

John McAfee, CEO
McAfee has been supporting Luxcore in an advisory capacity since April. McAfee brings to Luxcore's leadership a wealth of experience in developing and growing technology companies, including the groundbreaking McAfee Associates anti-virus company he founded in 1987

Frederick Angers, CFO
Frederick boasts more than 20 years of experience in accounting as a business owner. He owns an e-commerce business and has worked with many others. As CFO, Frederick will be responsible for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting.

FragileMk, Communications and Social Strategy
FragileMk comes to Luxcore with more than 10 years in creative marketing, operations and planning for a Fortune 500 company. He has expertise in creative execution and worldwide campaign planning. FragileMk will be responsible for managing communication and social media marketing strategy as well as day-to-day content creation and curation.

Luiz Augusto Sará, Designer
Luiz has been working in the design space since 2006. With a specialization in applied 3D design, Luiz has designed everything from lamps to architectural models. Luiz will be responsible for graphic design, web design and user experience.

Furthermore, a few familiar faces within Luxcore are also changing roles. This includes:

Guillaume Huot, formerly Front-End Developer, now COO
Guillaume has honed his marketing and business operations acumen over the past 10 years as owner of a successful web agency. He has worked with numerous small businesses and Fortune 500 companies across a variety of sectors. Guillaume will be responsible for managing and coordinating operations on both the marketing and development sides of the business.

John Kim, formerly Director of Client Operations, now Chief of Strategy
John brings five years of IT and Project Management experience in the U.S. professional services industry to Luxcore. He is also the CEO of his own startup e-commerce business. In his new role, John will be responsible for developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives.

Danny Kuester, formerly Community Moderator, now Director of Business Development
Danny draws from 10 years of professional experience in managing the Finance, Controlling & Supply Chain departments of manufacturing companies on three continents. As Director of Business Development, his global experience will benefit Luxcore in developing partnerships and adaptations of Luxcore products within the blockchain industry.

The full article which goes into more detail on this announcement can be found at:

https://steemit.com/luxcore/@luxcore/luxcore-reorganizing-for-a-bigger-brighter-future

Luxcore AMA is live!

Another milestone in the books with the launch of our very first AMA led by LUXCORE's Chief Strategy Officer, John Kim. In this session, John answers community questions fielded from the company's official Discord channel, provided yet another avenue for improving transparency.

See below for link to the YouTube video…

And below for the Steemit story with written transcript…

https://steemit.com/luxcore/@luxcore/luxcore-ama-1


DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

QT wallet and Core development:

- Luxd.js

  • A LUX full node for building applications and services with Node.js.
  • A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services.
  • Here are the list of APIs already supported:
  • getBlock
  • getRawBlock
  • getBlockHeader
  • getBlockOverview
  • getBlockHashesByTimestamp
  • getBestBlockHash
  • getSpentInfo
  • getInfo
  • syncPercentage
  • isSynced
  • getRawTransaction
  • getTransaction
  • getDetailedTransaction
  • sendTransaction
  • estimateFee
  • getAddressTxids
  • getAddressBalance
  • getAddressUnspentOutputs
  • getAddressHistory
  • getAddressSummary
  • generateBlock
  • listUnspent
  • getNewAddress
  • getAddressesMempoolBalance
  • callContract
  • getAccountInfo
  • getSubsidy
  • getJsonRawTransaction
  • getTransactionReceipt
  • getJsonBlock
  • getDgpInfo
  • getMiningInfo
  • getStakingInfo

- Web3 JavaScript app API

  • No new updates as this feature is still in on-going development. Will update in next weekly update.
  • In order to make your app work on Luxcore, the web3 object provided by the web3.js library can be used.
  • Under the hood, it communicates to a local node through RPC calls.
  • web3.js works with any Luxcore node, which exposes an RPC layer.

- Security improvement

  • No new updates as this feature is still in on-going development. Will update in next weekly update.
  • The coin will provide 2 new functions: Transparent and Privacy.
  • Transparency uses the normal protocol, while Privacy uses the i2p protocol.
  • If people use the Transparency protocol, everything will show (tx in/out, ipaddress, etc.)
  • If people use the Privacy protocol, everything will be hidden but conditions will be applied.
  • The backend is finished and we are doing some GUIs on QT.

- Bug fixing and improvement

  • Fix random crash issue
  • Fix crash on re-indexing
  • Refactor some code and improvement

Luxtre wallet development:

 - LSR_Token

  • Updated LSR_Token Tab UI
  • Added to state and actions to LSR_Tokens Tab
  • Combined state and actions with UI.

 - Smart Contracts

  • Updated SmartContract UI for Windows version.

Web wallet and explorer development:

 - Explorer

  • Add raw block/transaction view
  • Add PoS extraction doughnut chart
  • Add block timing stats (avg. blocktime, avg. PoS blocktime, avg. PoW blocktime)
  • Add block timing chart
  • Add transactions stats (avg. block size, avg. transactions per block)
  • Add transactions chart
  • Add staking stats (avg. stake input size)
  • Add staking chart (avg. stake input size and PoS difficulty)
  • Add difficulty stats (overall avg. difficulty, avg. PoS difficulty, avg. PoW difficulty)
  • Add difficulty chart
  • Fix order of transactions shown in block
  • Fix calc of generated value

 - Webwallet

  • Deployed new slaves to increase capacity
  • And some minor bug fixing

Thanks for reading and, as always, check back next week for more updates!

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