POCKET Day 7: Over a billion tokens claimed!

Right now, we have 1,059 Genesis claims. That means the total token supply of Pocket is 1,059,001,059. Over a billion tokens! I'm very pleased about that.

New confirmation bot

Yesterday, a new confirmation bot successfully started operating; this bot is called Hive account@tech-pocket, and sometimes you'll see it confirm alone, and sometimes it will post the same confirmation message as Hive account@pocket-a. They're racing to collect your fee, and Hive account@pocket-a is usually faster at the moment. But if Hive account@pocket-a goes down for any reason, or the system is under heavy load, Hive account@tech-pocket will be right there to pick up the slack. It looks like Hive account@tech-pocket has successfully confirmed 10 transactions so far.

Hive account@tech-pocket is being run by a community member. He's using the same code as Hive account@pocket-a, but I'm not operating Hive account@tech-pocket! This is an important step towards the decentralization of Pocket!

Claims in the 2nd half of the genesis interval

To claim their stake of Pocket, Steem accounts must resteem the Genesis post within 14 days after it was created. Unfortunately, on Steemit.com, you can't resteem a post after it is 7 days old. Fortunately, you can still do it on Busy.org. If people want to claim Genesis from now on, that's what they'll have to do. I wrote simple instructions on how to do so here. After September 11, no more claims will be valid and the supply of tokens will be fixed forever.

For more information

• Pocket Genesis Post (Reblog to claim your stake)
• Pocket Protocol Specification
• Pocket Announcement Post
• @biophil's Pocket Confirmer Github
• My meta-subchain post
• Dan's original post on subchains