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Skip to content Introduction for Consumers for Businesses for Developers for Miners for Exchanges Features Proof of Capacity Payment solutions Arbitrary Messages Token Smart Contracts Alias System Marketplace Crowd-Funding Resources Roadmap Core Faucet Styleguide FAQ Exchanges Explorer Mainnet BAT Explorer Lev-Lybin Explorer Burstcoin.RO Explorer Testnet Explorer TESTNET Explorer TESTNET 2 Development CIP DApps Awards Bounty Program NDS-Award Community Blog Download Wallet Home Burstflash 2020-06-28T16:00:29+01:00 The Pioneer of Proof of Capacity — an eco friendly blockchain Burstcoin (Burst) enables you to connect people and companies without intermediaries in order to communicate, do business or sign contracts. Burst as a decentralized open source platform – acts as a scalable, environmentally friendly and adaptable blockchain. A smart concept for current and future generations The Pioneer of Proof of Capacity — an eco friendly blockchain Burstcoin (Burst) enables you to connect people and companies without intermediaries in order to communicate, do business or sign contracts. Burst as a decentralized open source platform – acts as a scalable, environmentally friendly and adaptable blockchain. A smart concept for current and future generations NO MORE ENERGY WASTE 0 kw Bitcoin True story: Due to the power-consuming ASIC mining hardware, the Bitcoin network alone consumes as much energy as Switzerland. ( Source ) It doesn’t have to be that way! With Burst and its proof-of-capacity algorithm, Miners use free space on their hard drives to back up the network, and it consumes little more power than simply turning on the computer. SEE WHY 0 kw BURST BURST FEATURE RICH ARCHITECTURE Burst has a lot of built-in functionality that can be used for any kind of idea/business Proof of Capacity Payment Solutions Token Arbitrary Messages Smart Contracts Crowd-Funding Alias System Marketplace Burst has a lot of built-in functionality which are ready to use for any kind of idea/business Proof of Capacity Payment Solutions Token Arbitrary Messages Smart Contracts Crowd-Funding Alias System Marketplace QUICK OVERVIEW FOR Consumers Businesses Developers Miners Exchanges BURST CHAIN ACTIVITIES Total Blocks 0 Mined Blocks Total TX 0 Total Transactions Wallets 0 Burst Wallets Nodes 0 Full Nodes Smart contracts 0 Created Smart contracts Token 0 Created Tokens BURST ROADMAP Upcoming improvements Nearterm Midterm Longterm Nearterm Core improvements All Roadmaps points reached –> see History Usability All Roadmaps points reached –> see History Accessibility Decentralized Exchange A decentralized exchange built using the improved smart contract solution currently in development. Communication More exchange gateways Getting Burst listed on more exchanges and expanding the trading of Burst for fiat. Development and Retail Adoption Bounty Programs To encourage adoption, the Burst Marketing Fund (BMF) has been organizing and already started rolling out various development and retail-related bounty programs. Communication Advertising A bounty program has been started which rewards BURST for users who generate YouTube videos about Burst, its mining software, and tools. Bi-Weekly Updates The Bi-Weekly Burst Report will continue to be published and produced under the flag of the Burst Alliance. Midterm Core improvements Wallet Auto-Updater and Multi-Signature Verification It is important that Burst nodes stay up to date, and that the process of software delivery be safeguarded against malicious actors or centralized authorities. An auto-update feature coupled with a multi-signature signing process helps ensure that Burst nodes remain up-to-date and secure. Usability New Features for Phoenix Desktop Phoenix Desktop has more new features planned, including a full node installer, web version, node rotator, customizable dashboards, and several feature enhancements. Accessibility n/a Advertising Redesign of the burst-coin.org website. Pushing community articles with paid advertising to reach a larger target audience. More Bounty Programs To further encourage adoption, the Burst Marketing Fund (BMF) will open new bounty programs and conduct hackathons. Longterm Core improvements The Dymaxion The combination of many technologies: tangles, lightning network, Proof-of-Capacity, ring signatures, zk-SNARKS in order to create a truly global, scalable and green cryptocurrency. Usability Wallet implementation in other languages Creating new wallet software written in languages other than Java, allowing better flexibility for the end user and potential performance gains. Communication Large-scale promotional campaigns Creating/Increasing brand recognition via social media BURST HISTORY Since 2014 with the genesis block of the Burst blockchain many community members contributed to this project. We like to highlight the most important improvements or events of the last years in this timeline. July 2020 BTDEX with Burst-Token and cross-chain orderbooks launched BTDEX is a decentralized exchange system running on the Burst blockchain. It implements a unique non-custodial exchange method for cryptocurrencies and conventional fiat currencies based on BlockTalk Smart Contracts and Burstcoin on-chain encrypted messages. The exchange method is serverless and fees are distributed among Trade Token (TRT) holders. June 2020 HardFork at Block 765,000 On 20th of June 2020 a successful HardFork happened on the Burst-Blockchain initiated by the BAT including improvements through CIPs 20, 22, 23, 24 and 25. The two main goals of this HardFork was to stabilize the Blocktimes around 4 minutes and to boost the smartcontract framework. Read the technical details here November 2019 Cross-Platform Mobile Wallet With the release of the mobile version of Phoenix, the CIP-18 was implemented. Phoenix is a Cross-Platform Wallet Application developed mainly by blankey1337 and ohager to support mobile devices, including iOS and Android. This wallet feature increased security and a refreshed look and feel. This was a Roadmap “ Nearterm ” goal for 2019. Check the wallet download section for the newest version October 2019 Burst Marketing Fund (“BMF”) was proud to announce that BURST is now listed on the eterbase exchange also with FIAT and stablecoin pairing ! EUR USDT BTC ETH EBASE XBASE XBASE-B A big milestone in the history of BURST ! July 2019 Burst Marketing Fund (“BMF”) was proud to announce that BURST is now listed on the STEX Exchange (BURST/BTC) New Pool-software BAT nember harry1453 released a new pool-software.With that pool operators are finally freed from any license restrictions and Burst can open a new chapter for its mining pools. The new pool-software can be downloaded from the burst-app-team-github. This was a Roadmap “ Nearterm ” goal for 2019. Multi-out payments view integrated into BRS Recipients of multi-out payments have now the ability to see those transactions in their wallet just like any other transaction. The CIP-19 was implemented with the BRS 2.4.0. release This was a Roadmap “ Nearterm ” goal for 2019. June 2019 Celebrating the first ever Burst-NFT Koh-i-Noor BlockTalk is an extended Burst smart contract framework which aids in the creation and deployment of contracts. New contracts are written in Java with a simple interface for testing and deploying to the Burst blockchain. BlockTalk includes tools and code snippets to assist in the process and helps to manage the minimal fees involved with running the contract on chain.As a result of the extensive development in the last few months, the team introduced non-fungible tokens (NFT) to BURST. These smart contracts have the unique feature of ownership . May 2019 Poloniex delisted BURST BAT nor any member of BMF was informed about the Poloniex decision on the 10th of May. Why Poloniex decided to close the order-book can be only guessed, but the impact was a nearly 50% price drop on this news Phoenix Burst Wallet released by the BAT members blank...