19 Jul Symbol blockchain tweet update – 19/07/21
Good morning everyone! It’s Monday, it’s the start of the working week and we are back to spread some Symbol news and views in a bitesized blogpost for your coffee break. So here we go with today’s stories!
Share your opinion on branding
First of all, if you haven’t voted yet then please check out this Twitter poll. I think that it is being translated into multiple languages as we speak and will appear on Telegram in the near future too. This is not a binding vote or anything but is the first step in trying to solve this ongoing(!) problem with naming. The pirate captains need to know what the community views are on this important point before taking further action.
To be honest, the results don’t look great to me after over 2600 votes at time of writing. It’s almost a 50/50 split between options A and B and very few for C – there is obviously a lot of confusion on this issue!
In a related tweet thread, @0x6861746366574 shares some of her views on this controversial topic! If you haven’t read it yet then have a look and see what you think.
The community will be discussing this for a while and @SamiurR76186237 has already sent me a translation of one of @TrendStream‘s tweets about this topic. I echo these thoughts, we need to get this process right this time. We don’t want to be back here in the future discussing this again (please no!). People outside of the community need to be absolutely 100% clear what the two coins are and how they fit under the NEM umbrella (if that umbrella even exists in the future).
So now that I have opened Pandora’s Box, I think it is time to move on..
GitHub
Another important announcement from @0x6861746366574 – all project management is moving over to GitHub, this is another move to make everything more transparent and to allow the community to get involved. I like this new way of working! Also just a reminder, you can catch up on internal team communications in real time already on the XYMCity Discord server – go check it out, it’s so much better than using Telegram, I am a convert!
Crypto cuts
OK it’s a bad pun – I tried! I had this one on my radar too but thanks @alediemmee for sending this tweet from @nembear. You can now pay for a haircut with XYM at Calenda Hair and Makeup. I could really do with a haircut myself, shame, if I didn’t have to travel over 6000 miles to pay with XYM I would be there in a flash 💈✃👨🦱 As it stands I think my wife will be cutting my hair next week 😬
School time
Well it’s Monday so it is time to go to school again 😆 Thanks @bestgoldangel for these tweets from @SchoolofNEM. As you may, or may not know, NEM was launched by Utopian Future on Bitcointalk. It originally was supposed to be a clone of NXT but ended up as a completely new blockchain and the XEM token was born. You can check out the original thread here.
And lastly, just a reminder that there is a total supply of 8,999,999,999 XEM although I suspect a number of these are effectively burned as people lost their private keys over the years (oops). XEM is the currency of the NEM NIS1 blockchain. XYM is the currency of the new Symbol chain from NEM.
Well, that’s it for today’s tweets. I hope that you enjoyed catching up with the latest goings on in the Symbol world. We will be back again (as usual) tomorrow with some more hand picked stories sent in by our awesome community members. Please guys if you have a story, a tweet, an article – anything(!) please let us know – just DM @blog_symbol on Twitter. We can help translate to English and publicise your Symbol stories on the blog 😊
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