05 Jan Symbol blockchain news update – 06/01/22
This was going to be my post for tomorrow but I realised that the Twitter poll mentioned further down will close by the time I wake up in the morning so I think that I will publish today (it’s gone midnight in Japan so I think this is OK, you guys can read when you wake up and I am sleeping! 😁). It’s just a quick update as I spent this morning writing but I will be back again soon with some more news don’t worry!
What’s your theme tune?
Love this! Hatchet is looking for a theme tune! 😁 This has taken me off on a tangent thinking about what my theme tune would be. Too many contenders to choose from I think, also different days, different tunes.
If you have any suggestions then this is the thread to suggest them. Sure that some of you will have some clever (and catchy?) ideas.
OK, maybe mine is the Karate Kid finale music 😂 What a tune, what a scene – ah nostalgia 😆
Airdrop
If you missed it yesterday I wrote an article about the XYM airdrop experiment tsubasa_yozawa created. I looked at the balances of the accounts that received the airdrop to see what they had done with the XYM received. TLDR; most still had 20 XYM, some had sold up or transferred it but a minority were accumulating more XYM. In fact, the total amount held by the airdrop accounts was around 400K XYM (four times the amount distributed!). Welcome to the new residents of XYM City!
NB: not to be confused with this airdrop…
Sorry, this appeared in the “What’s happening” section of my Twitter feed and it made me LOL muchly 😂 $1,000 for a jar of farts! I did suggest to my wife that she could make a lot of money with this. She agreed 😂
Iconic
Picked up this tweet from @spacecadetloris who is building icons for Symbol products. I still don’t know who you are – NexLev maybe? Let me know! Apparently, there are close to 1,000 icons – that’s insane! We will have an icon for every eventuality 😊
Article requests
This is a great opportunity for you to find out more about some of the buzzwords being discussed on Discord. I am next to clueless on options A and B (to be honest I haven’t actually tried to educate myself) but it would be great to see an article aimed at your average Symbol Joe so that I could learn more and also see how it links with future development directions. Have your say in the poll below:
Symbol wizard 🤩
Oooh, fancy! Not many that could pull off the “Gandalf in Space” theme but I think you have nailed it 😁 Great to see more amazing avatars for the official team. Still hoping one day to get my own, have to work harder 😬
Calling all businesses
Still waiting guys. There’s not a single venue in the UK that I can buy anything with XYM, in fact, I would imagine this goes for most of the world outside of Japan. if you accept earth money then consider accepting the currency of the future. I want to see XYM City become XYM Planet.
Coming soonTM
Looks like there will be a unified SDK supporting both NEM and Symbol coming soon which presumably will make it easier for developers to work with a standardised single framework. Hatchet you lost me at “dApps bootstrapping the subChain” but I love the idea of the ZED RUN-style game. I didn’t know what this was but I Googled it and it seems to be some kind of NFT horse racing/gambling type setup. I am a gambling man so count me in (as long as I don’t have to pay $100k for a horse to race).
And for any of you thinking “NEM dead” it is most certainly is not. I am excited to see how things develop in the coming months. I think that we all are.
Thanks!
OK, that’s all for now. Thanks for reading this Symbol Blog update! I’ll be back soon with another update. Actually, I think tonight I will spend a couple of hours trawling through the news that I missed over the festive period (there is a lot)! 😬
I’m a Symbol and NEM enthusiast and run this blog to try to grow awareness of the platform in the English-speaking world. If you have any Symbol news you would like me to report on or you have an article that you would like to publish then please let me know!
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