17 Sep Symbol blockchain news update 17/09/21
Hey guys, we are back with another Symbol Blog update! After all of yesterday’s excitement we have a slower news day today but I think I have just about enough content for a small post. By the way, sorry for the lack of longer articles recently, as soon as I get some time I will start working on some new posts π
No forking problem πͺ
The planned fork went off without a hitch at block 528000 (2021-09-16 11:05:13) π If you didn’t upgrade your node, don’t say that I didn’t warn you!
And the chain split as expected at the last importance block (528,480).
If you are delegating to a node that hasn’t been updated then harvest on a different node! It only takes a minute to do this in the desktop wallet. Choose who you want to delegate to, choose “select custom node”, enter the address and you’re good to go! Make sure that you double check they are running v1.0.2.0 here just to make sure – those nodes that are will be highlighted green π
If you are a node owner then update your node!!
Artists everywhere!
Looking through Twitter today I see a lot of cool Symbol related designs and logos. I guess the final logo still hasn’t been decided as the community are having their say and the pirates are listening. A final decision should be taken soon though if the website is due for release in the next few weeks! π¬
Anyway, if you have a cool design then tag Hatchet in your Twitter post when you show off your logo design!
I love the book design that gimre posted too, I don’t think this is his own work (but maybe he is even more multitalented than I thought). I hope that we will see a whole library of space pirate tomes in the future! π
Finally, on the design front, @bestgoldangel has updated her avatar and it is super cool – loving the all of the excellent community artwork on Twitter at the moment! Just a shame that I have literally zero artistic talent.
I need a cool avatar too! Can we get some designs for the XYMbassadors please pirates?
Ooh, and @elcoiki just posted this design by NexLev on Discord so I am updating my post to include it. It’s an early concept design of a new mobile wallet and looks pretty awesome! Looking forward to seeing this project evolve π€©
Harvesting tax headaches made simple(r)
Some of our global community have some pretty strict tax rules and it sounds like a real headache with harvesting income. This was a nice idea from @Chrom_Prince1 which it sounds like will be implemented in a future wallet release. It will show the fiat value of your XYM harvest income at the time of harvesting that block. This makes it easy to calculate tax due and saves you from looking up historical prices for every date/time that you have earned harvesting income in the past. It’s a simple but useful feature that I am sure will be beneficial for the community.
Thanks
Well, I said it was a short update today, but I like to let you know what is going on! π We will be back soon so thanks for reading. I haven’t said this for a while but if you have any stories that you would like me to report on then let me know. Also if you would like to submit an article I would really appreciate it!
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