Thanks for joining us for the Pirate Chain Monthly Update. I am Daniel, the
Johns here on Twitter, or I'm sorry here on Discord, Telegram, and some other
platforms. This meeting is being recorded and putting out on YouTube for
those that couldn't make it today. So we got quite a few things to get into, so
I'll just jump right into it. First topic I wanted to talk about was the
Pirate Chain halving that happened on September 29th. It brings us the ninth
era of Pirate Chain with a mining reward now down to all the way to one. That's one
Pirate Chain per block. This is a very low reward, which obviously increases our
stock to flow ratio and makes us a harder asset. It's not deflation yet
disinflationary, I guess is the word. Pirate Chain is becoming more and more rare.
The miners are receiving less per block, which puts less selling pressure on it
and is generally celebrated in the crypto world. It's just a showcase of how hard
our money is and how it can't be diluted. It happened on September 29th, and it
happens every 270 days on average, so a little under a year and we'll be
bringing us to the next one. The next important update I wanted to cover was the
Treasure Chest update. We are now on 5.9.0. If you have not updated yet, then
your wallet will not be syncing. It's nothing to worry about. You just have
to update and it will re-sync, but this is a mandatory update. So your wallet
will not work until it's updated. This kept us in line. This update was to
keep us compatible with our D-Pow with Komodo. So you won't see really any changes
in usability. This is just to keep our delayed proof of work with Komodo working.
So make sure you update to stay on the main chain and to keep your wallet
working. And it also got a new look. We got a couple new skins for it that look
really cool. So that's the only real visual difference or usability
difference you'll notice. Other than that, everything's the same. It's just
keeping us compatible with Komodo. Rafael Laverde of Crypto Vigilante has
announced a Halloween Pirate Chain meme challenge, where as of right now, the
reward is at $2,500R, which I believe is around $500 or so, for the best
Pirate Chain meme. This isn't necessarily an image. It could be a song. It could
be video. It could be just about anything you want. So get creative with it. Make it
Halloween themed and Pirate Chain themed. Now you can go to our website to find
the official logo PirateChain.com. It's where you'll find the official logo that
we're trying to, you know, push out for people to use these days. And Rafael
himself, he is donating $1,000R towards it. Then the Pirate Chain team has
matched another $1,000R and there is a handful of other people that have
thrown in some money too. So it's now at $2,500R. If you'd like to also donate to
that pool, you can go comment on the post from Rafael. He's at Vamos Vigilante on
Twitter. Go comment on his post and tell him that you'd like to pitch in. Let's
get this number as high as we can so we can really get some momentum and some
new memes and songs out there to help promote Pirate Chain. These are always
really fun and I'm pretty excited to see what people produce. The last
contest we've done, we've had some absolutely legendary memes and songs, of
course. I think Scott Perry, I believe is how you say his name. He won the big one
we had where he did his acoustic rendition of the Privacy Shanty, which is
absolutely incredible. He did such a good job on it. If you go to YouTube
and just search Privacy Shanty, it's one of the first results. He did a
great job on it. Let's see what some of you guys can do to one-up him
and make something even better. It doesn't have to be a song, it could be
images, it could be video, whatever you want. You can go reach out into the
marketing channel here on Discord if you'd like some inspiration or help, if
you need help with anything, creating your meme or your song. Don't be
afraid to ask the community for help. Come join us here on Discord. Let's
really collaborate and make this Halloween something special. Make it a
Pirate Halloween. I'm pretty excited about it. There's already been
some cool entries if you go and look on Raphael's post. There's already
been some cool entries, but I'm hoping to see a lot more. It's a decent chunk
of money, and who knows that number might increase, but as of right now,
it's at 2,500R, which is a decent little treasure chest for whoever the
winner is. Jump on that, guys. Many of you might know that Pirate Chain
has been sponsoring a team at the Monero Cup, Copa Monero. It's been
going on all year long, and Pirate Chain did relatively well. We made it
to the semi-finals. They were played October 13th yesterday down in
Argentina. Unfortunately, Pirate Chain did not win this one. It was our
first loss, so we did not make it forward to the finals that are
happening over Monero Topia next month, but we're really proud of our
boys as the Velez Sarfield team. They won most of their games, and they
really put up some great competition for the other teams. It was really
fun to be a part of, and we're really stoked that Pirate Chain got to
sponsor such a good team. Those boys really tried hard, and we're really
proud of them. Who knows what we might be doing again next year. There is
going to be a championship match. It's going on the same weekend as
Monero Topia. That would be the November 15th, I believe. So make
sure you go check out the Copa Monero YouTube channel. Go watch that
live stream, and we'll see who ends up taking home the Monero Cup
and the bagful Monero that goes to the winning team. Thank you to
Velez Sarfield. They did a great job representing Pirate Chain at
this event, and we're hoping to do it again someday. It was really
great. Speaking of Monero Topia, Pirate Chain will be represented
at Monero Topia. It starts October 15th, I believe. Let me double
check that date. I'm sorry. I thought I had this in my notes.
November 14th through 17th. It's in Mexico City. Tickets are
available at MoneroTopia.com. They are very reasonably priced. A
general admission ticket is under $100. The VIP tickets are only
$250. Slides and hotels to Mexico are really cheap, so it's
a really great vacation for anybody who's interested in
privacy and crypto currency who's wanting to meet other
people and figure out what other projects they're doing and
also help promote Pirate Chain to these people who are already
interested in privacy and cryptocurrency. There's some great
speakers there, and it's three days long. The weather should be
great down there. It's really going to be a lot of fun. Amy
and myself will be there, but there will also be many other
pirates that have already reached out to me and told me that
they are also going to be there, so we're going to have
quite a good presence there. We're going to have a table
set up there, and we're going to be mingling with
everybody, and we're going to be teaching everybody about the
privacy that Pirate Chain uses, E.K. Snarks, and show them what
we're doing over here, and that we're still grinding away
every day to make the most private cryptocurrency we can.
We're all friends with Monero, and we always wish Monero the
best. We have a great relationship with them and
with a lot of people building on it, so they're welcoming us
to their event, and we're really stoked to be there. Come
hang out with Amy and I, come meet some other pirates in
real life. Let's go talk about privacy, make some in real
life connections, and sometimes when we do all of our
community organizing online, sometimes we lose some of those
connections that you can make in real life, so I think it's
important for those of us who really feel passionate about
this and really creating a decentralized currency that we
could use instead of fiat and use privately without sharing
our information all over the internet. It's really
important for us to get together, and meet each
other sometimes and shake hands, and you can get a lot done
when you're in the same room with somebody as opposed to
online. I know not all pirates out there want to show their
face, don't want to show up to these events because they
want to maintain their privacy, which is incredible. We
respect that, but for those people who do show their
face online, or out in the public, come to one of these,
come shake hands with us, come hang out, get to know
each other, come meet other people who are passionate
about what you're passionate about, and that's how
we really move this movement forward, convincing people
to use Pirate Chain, to use private cryptocurrencies, and
to start taking their privacy seriously. We can really get a
lot done when we're all together, and we're all meeting
each other and making those in real life connections. So I
really encourage you guys, these events that Pirate
Chain are at, come hang out with us, come spread the
word. There's a lot of important people that show
up to these events, and when they see community
coming together like Pirate Chains to go and
represent them at an event, it really goes a long
way to show that we're a serious project with a
serious community. And I'm really excited to go and
do these things. I'm personally stoked about this
vacation to Mexico, so if you can get the time off
or you can afford it, it's not that expensive of
a vacation, and the tickets are very reasonably
priced. So there's going to be a lot of pirates
down there, so come and hang out with us. We'd love
to see you. And it's going to be really fun.
That's November 14th through 17th. Go to
Monarotopia.com to check for tickets and to see
the speakers and all the hotel accommodations
that are around there. It's going to be great.
We're coming up on the holiday season, which
around the holidays and around Black Friday,
which is Friday after Thanksgiving. We really
like to use this time to promote the merchants
that accept Pirate Chain and other private
cryptocurrencies and really take the opportunity
to show them our support by making purchases
from their store using Pirate Chain and
utilizing their services that they offer for
Pirate Chain. We have lots of options over on
Armada and Barter.com. That's Armada, A-R-R-M-A-D-A.
Or Barter, B-A-R-R-R-T-E-R. This is our
merchant directory and our online marketplace
where you can find lots of goods and services
that are sold for Pirate Chain, or you can
have your business added to the merchant
directory on Armada.com. If you accept
Pirate Chain, if you would like your
business to accept Pirate Chain, go to
Armada.com or reach out to them on Twitter or
a team member here on Discord, Telegram, or
anywhere and we'll help get you in contact
with them to make sure that your business
is listed on Armada.com. And Barter is more
like an eBay platform, but using Pirate
Chain exclusively. So if you're selling
anything, you have any old collectibles
you want to get rid of, it's a great
place to go and post those. There's also
some great merchandise on there that
people are selling from all over the
world. That's where you can get the Pirate
Chain hardware wallet as well. That's
exclusively sold on Barter.com and it is
the only ZK Snarks hardware wallet on the
market. So it's something that Pirate
Chain has that no one else has. A community
member built that for us and I've
heard nothing but good reviews on it.
So if you're interested in getting a
hardware wallet, you're going to want
one that supports your Pirate Chain
transactions because the other hardware
wallets on the market are frankly just
not powerful enough. He built a more
powerful one that can handle the ZK
Snarks transactions and we're really
grateful to do that for doing that.
That's exclusively on Barter.com. So for
Black Friday, we'd really like for our
community to rally together, go on
Armada, make some purchases, then
share on your social media, go and
share your favorite merchants that are
selling stuff on Armada or on Barter and
make some memes, make some posters, some
flyers and we're going to thank our
merchants for everything they do for
accepting Pirate Chain. Some money is
only as good as where you can spend it.
You know, if there's nowhere we can
spend our money, then what good is
our money. So here at Pirate Chain, we
really, really appreciate our merchants
and want to show them that every
holiday season. This is around when
everybody's doing all their shopping and
spending a bunch of money and there
are so many great gift ideas on
there. You guys are going to love it.
Definitely go check out Armada.com and
this is a big marketing event for us so
we really try to push it as a community
and we're really hoping to rally the
troops again this year. Last year we had
a great event, great turnout. A lot of
people bought some really cool products
and we really took over Twitter with
different posts from different merchants
and stuff like that. So it's a big
marketing. It's one of our big
marketing events for Pirate Chain.
So Pirate Chain is a community
project so we need the community to
come together and help us push this and
take over the social medias and reminding
people when they're doing their holiday
shopping that they could do it
privately and without blasting their
personal information all over the
internet. So that's going to start, you
know, the weekend, the weekend of
Thanksgiving, but we'll continue it
all through the month of December. So
if you need any help getting your
products on Barter or on Armada,
make sure to reach out to one of us
and we will help you. Next thing I want
to mention is a big milestone for
Komodo and Pirate Chain. As of right now,
over 10 million Pirate Chain has been
traded on Komodo Wallet. Since it went
live, which is over 5% of the total
supply, which is great news to me. It
shows people are actually using the
decentralized options. While most
cryptocurrency projects out there are
heading in the direction of
centralization and they are, you know,
begging for the attention of banks and
ETFs and to be, you know, get under
regulatory umbrellas, it really
highlights how real cryptocurrency
projects out there, real decentralized
projects that actually want to create
an alternative financial system and
opt out of the fiat establishment
that we're over here building real
solutions and not begging for money
from, you know, the fiat
establishment. We're trying to fight
them. We're trying to offer a
better money than they can offer. And I
think it just really highlights, you
know, the ethos of our community and
what we're trying to do over here that
we're moving away from centralized
exchanges over to just decentralized
options. Komodo Wallet used to be
called Atomic Dex. Now it's called
Komodo Wallet. They've been doing
this for years. They're some of the
first people. They might have been
the first people to launch
successful Atomic Swaps. Don't quote
me on that, but they were very
early. They've done it best. There
are hundreds of currencies you can
swap between on Komodo Wallet today.
It works well. It's not hard to use.
It's self-custody. Nobody else holds
your coins. You're just swapping from
your wallet to their wallet. It's
as decentralized as it can come. And
if you haven't tried it out, then
what are you even doing? This is
like a big aspect of our community
is, you know, moving away from
centralized establishments to, you
know, transact, but also to trade
between cryptocurrencies. We love
the guys over at Komodo. There's some
absolute geniuses over there doing some
incredible work. And we love that we
have ZK Snarks Atomic Swaps. Still, the
first and the only ZK Snarks Atomic
Swaps are on Komodo Wallet. And if
you haven't tried it out yet, really
go try it out. It is the best way to
buy and sell cryptocurrency out there.
And if you're not using it, you're
being left in the dust, because this
is the direction of decentralization.
While their projects are moving in a
more centralized direction, we are
doing the exact opposite and we're
building solutions that you can use to
opt out of the fiat establishment and
take control of your money back and not
play their establishment games. So go
to, let me get that one. I believe the
website is still atomicdex.io, but if
you Google Komodo Wallet also it'll
bring up. But you can definitely find
it at atomicdex.io. You can
download it there for Linux, Mac, or
Windows. And also there is a mobile
version and there's also a web wallet
version. I personally have never used the
web wallet, but I have used the mobile
and I have used the Linux version and
they work absolutely great. You
self-custody your funds at all times.
You get your own, you know, seed
phrases and private keys for every
asset that you have on there and
there are hundreds to swap between.
There are some communities out there
that don't even know that their coin
is listed on atomicdex. I was in one
Reddit group the other day and they
were all asking, when are BTC swaps
coming? I don't want to go call them out
specifically, but they're saying, when
are we going to get BTC atomic swaps
for our project? And I had to chime in
there and be like, guys, you guys have
had that on Komodo Wallet for years
at this point. I did my first, you
know, swaps with BTC on there years
ago. So they're way ahead of the
curve. Other projects are playing
catch up to what we're doing over here
at Pyrochain and at Komodo. We have
incredible privacy and we have
incredible decentralization. We have
easy ways to integrate Pyrochain into
your store to buy and sell, to do
business in Pyrochain. We have most
decentralized ways to transact in it
using Komodo Wallet. We have secure
wallets to store it in, including
hardware wallets. We have absolutely
everything you need to do business in
Pyrochain, to save Pyrochain, and
hold it securely, trade with other.
We have absolutely everything you
need and we have some incredible
people working on it. And if you haven't
explored our ecosystem yet, you've
really got to come and check it out. We
have incredible, our full node wallet is
in my opinion, you know, the flagship of
private cryptocurrency wallets out
there. They've built something truly
incredibly special. Komodo Wallet is
incredible, what they've been able
to do, and with so many different
cryptocurrencies and it works so well
with so high. I have had very little
problems with it and I've done
thousands of swaps on there at this
point. It's the best way to trade
it's the most anonymous way to trade.
You don't have to depend on these, you
know, centralized exchanges that are
frankly going under all the time and
locking people out of their accounts
all the time just for, you know, logging
in from the wrong IP or, you know,
your funds came from some other
exchange that they don't like and they
freeze your funds and do all kinds of
sketchy stuff. Come join the
revolution, join us over Komodo Wallet
and learn how to trade cryptocurrencies
in a decentralized way. Don't depend
on others, it's not your keys, it's
not your coins. So if you haven't tried
out Komodo Wallet, what are you even
doing? And let me see, what else do we
need to talk about today? There's
anything I missed, you guys can pop them
in the chat there. Amy's asking to
speak. Hey there you are, what's up
Amy? Hey thanks for the great update
to John's. I just want to encourage
people, again you already mentioned
it, but for Monerotopia to come
join us in Mexico City on November 14th
through 17th, tickets are available on
Monerotopia.com or if you can't join us
in person, there are virtual tickets
available on the website as well. So
just want to shout that out. And also
we have regular community meetings for
prior chain, usually on Sundays at 1
p.m. Eastern on the Discord channel
here in the Community Call Channel. So
people can join us there as well. And
did John's, I sent you a message as well.
Thanks. Okay, awesome. Thanks Amy.
Yeah, come join us on our Community
Calls as the community project. So
we'd love to get everybody involved. You
can come be a part of it. You can come
you can help come contribute to the
direction of Pirate Chain. All you
have to do is show up and do the
work. There's a decentralized project.
Nobody controls it. And we do our
organizing a lot here on Discord. So
if you're not on Discord, you need to
come join us and come to our Community
Calls. If you can't make one at that
time, then schedule your own Community
Call at a different time. Or if you
want it for a specific topic, a
marketing call, or a development call,
or something like that, you can
schedule a time and you can start
doing it. The channel is open to
anyone at all times. And that's just
when we've been doing it. Amy and
myself are usually there on Sundays.
A lot of times other team members
drop in. We get a lot of work done
there. We talk about Pirate Chain, but
we also go off about a lot of other
topics. It's kind of, you can talk about
whatever we want in there. They're not
recorded. So you can come in and talk
about whatever you want. And come be
part of something special. You know, come
contribute to what we're trying to do.
We're trying to build something really
special here. We have built something
really special here. And you have a
chance to be a part of it. It doesn't
cost you anything, except your time
and energy. And you can come
contribute a little bit, or you can
come contribute a lot. We welcome
it all. But this is a community project
driven by the community.
We're all volunteers here. None of us
are paid. We're just doing this out of
passion
for privacy and decentralization. And
wanted to see a real
true, you know, alternative to using,
you know, the banking system and the
fiat establishment to make purchases
and do business in something besides
fiat.
And it's a really revolutionary idea.
It's very, you know, what we're
trying to do is not easy. And we
need all the support we can get.
And you really have a chance to do
something special here and come
contribute to something special. Because
so come join us on our community
calls.
We have a lot of fun, and there's a
lot of great people in there.
Let me see. I think that might
be just about it for this month.
Yep, I think that's all I got.
Anybody else has anything to drop in
the chat real quick.
But we do these the second Monday
of the month.
Every month at one p.m. Pacific
time.
So we'll be doing again a month from
now.
Make sure you join our community
calls.
Make sure you keep an eye out for
Twitter spaces.
We'll be doing another one of those
here pretty soon.
So just keep your eyes out.
There's lots of cool stuff going on
here.
We're all working really hard.
We have a lot.
We have some cool announcements
too that are coming up in the
future and in the new year that we
haven't announced yet.
So we got a lot of cool stuff
going on behind the scenes.
We can't wait to tell you guys
about.
So make sure you're paying
attention and checking up on the
blog on piratechain.com.
Check our Twitter page for
updates and come drop in here into
Discord.
Join our community calls.
Come join our Twitter spaces.
We're doing lots of cool stuff.
So if nobody else has anything
else I'm going to go ahead and
close it up for the month.
Thank you so much everybody for
coming and we will see you again
in November.
Have a great day.