StakeCube in Numbers
Although Bitcoin was showing weakness at the beginning of the week, and some people thought it would lose the $40k support; we got a huge green candle on Friday that has taken us close to the $50k mark again. This new surge in optimism could be related to the change of the month, as Cryptos have traditionally performed poorly in September. Whatever the cause, it seems to be positively affecting most coins, SCC being no exception with more than 21% weekly growth. But StakeCube.net also saw impressive growth figures, with almost 2000 new users joining this week. That is double as many as last week, to give an example. The only negative figure is a decrease in pool value, which was caused by huge withdrawals of TUP to be swapped to the new Ethereum token.
- User Count: 122,761 +1.72%
- Pool Value: 631.13 BTC -6.70%
- Daily BTC Mined: 0.097 BTC +1.04%
- SCC Price: $1.02 +21.43%
- SCC Market Cap: $9,592,000 +21.26%
- Daily Exchange Volume $601,461 +26.68%
- Alexa Rank 19,117 +61
Top 1 this week was BTCT with a humongous growth of 281.4%. While this is probably just a spike caused by a relatively illiquid trading pair, it is still a nice surprise to wake up to for BTCT investors. Thanks to its great performance, SCC managed to sneak into the top 5 as well this week.
Top 5 Gainers
- BTCT+281.4%
- PNY+30.1%
- XLR+24.2%
- POLIS+24.0%
- SCC+21.2%
StakeCube Protocol Twitter
As part of our efforts to help popularize StakeCube Protocol, we have created a Twitter account to keep users informed of the latest developments. If you don’t want to miss anything about the progress of StakeCube Protocol, make sure to give us a follow:
https://twitter.com/SC_Protocol
Even though the account has only been active for a few days, the follower count is already at 3,500!
SCPizza Airdrop
To celebrate the release of SCP NFTs, we will be airdropping SCPizza NFTs with the release of wallet v1.1.6. To earn yours, you’ll need to follow our SCP Protocol Twitter account, retweet the following tweet:
https://twitter.com/sc_protocol/status/1442591377926275072?s=21
And reply to it with your SCP address. If you don’t have the SCP wallet yet, you can download it from here:
https://github.com/stakecube/StakeCubeProtocol/releases/tag/v1.1.5
TUP Swap
The TUP Swap to the Ethereum network has started this week. The increased traffic from all the withdrawals of TUP to be swapped caused some backlogs at times, but the situation quickly resolved itself. As far as we know, the TUP team intends to keep both the old TUP and the new token running. If you’re interested in swapping your TUP, just follow the instructions you will find here:
MineCube News
On the 29th there was there was some sort of error on Meatec’s side that postponed the corresponding MineCube payment to the 30th. Some users noticed that the accrued values were abnormally high, but they also turned out not to be real. Apparently an update had to be installed on their database. The installation was successful and payments went through the next day as promised. This was the official communication:
https://twitter.com/meatecm/status/1443118723829747712?s=21
These are some statistics for MineCube as of today:
- 341 users with at least 100% recovered
- 165 average workers per user
- Highest recovery rate: 116.3%
- $1.98 million worth of workers sold
Certainly the latest issues with Meatec haven’t helped attract more investors but nevertheless we are at most 2 weeks away from the goal of $2 million worth of workers sold.
StakeCube Twitch Affiliate
Our E-Sports Twitch channel has achieved a new goal, as we reached this week the “affiliate” level. Affiliates on Twitch have some advantages such as gaining access to the subscription system and additional emotes. If you want to learn more about it, you can read the information they provide here:
If you want to support more E-Sports events, make sure to follow us on Twitch. You can subscribe to us as well, as that’s now also a possibility!
https://www.twitch.tv/stakecubeesports
SCP Wallet Outage:
Between the 30th of September at 23:00 and the 1st of October at 16:30 UTC there was an API outage that affected the SCP wallet. It was caused by the faulty issuance of a new SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt. The outage has now been resolved, and new valid certificates have been issued. This was a one-time problem which has been resolved for the foreseeable future.
Some full-node users also experienced issues loading their balances. This is an accidental dependency on an Explorer. We have noted it and will be patching it with a future update. Full-nodes will prioritise their own RPC data, rather than a 3rd-party explorer for balances.
This of course did not affect the SCC blockchain or the real balance status. Just the light-wallet experienced these issues.
Development News
SCP NFTs have advanced further, with the full integration of IPFS and a very intuitive NFT creator. The entire process was designed with decentralization in mind, while maintaining user-friendliness. NFTs are now in internal testing phase, with the next steps being the integration of NFTs into the light-wallet and public testing for the community on the Testnet.
Wallet Maintenance News
Wallet Updates
We updated the following wallets:
SMART
Previous version: 2.0.6.0
New version: 2.1.0.0
“Smart rewards” increased to 89% of block rewards with this update.
XP
Previous version: 3.4.0.3
New version: 5.2.0.2
This was a mandatory update. While the versioning might look like there were many missed updates in between, these was not the case. Apparently they are just using a creative version numbering system.
Masternode restarts were necessary after this update.
PIVX
Previous version: 5.3.0.0
New version: 5.3.2.0
Masternode restarts were not necessary.
ONION
Previous version: 2.3.0.1
New version: 2.3.1.0
KOMODO
Previous version: 0.7.0
New version: 0.7.1
This was a mandatory update that included a hard fork.
Security Notice
Please read the following information regarding the security of your account and funds:
The StakeCube.net team will:
- Never contact you first
- Never ask you to send them or move coins to some other address
- Never ask you for remote access or to install any third party software
- Never ask you for your password or 2FA codes
- Never provide support using direct messages
If you observe any of these listed behaviors, someone is trying to steal money from you. This applies to all of our social media channels. Our team will post official messages in the appropriate channels, and we only offer support through our ticket system on Discord.
Please, also take into account the following measures to keep your account secure:
- Enable 2FA in the account settings
- Enable IP verification in the account settings
- Use a strong password
- Change the password regularly
- Never share your password with others
- Never allow remote access to your devices
- If you require assistance, use only the official channels
- Download software only from verified sources
SCP Wallet is now signed with JSKitty’s public PGP key. This allows users to verify that the wallet has been cryptographically signed and approved by him. Even if our GitHub is compromised, the downloads are still safe as long as the PGP verification confirms that the files have not been tampered with. If you download SCP, please verify the binary against our developer’s public key:
