Weekly highlights from the SmartCash Hive Teams and SmartCash community.
SmartCash Community
Are you looking for old rare items? You can now pay with SmartCash at the Adelheid Antiek store in the Netherlands.
You can now buy a great cup of coffee using SmartCash at Spill the Beans Café in Montreal, Canada.
The popular Backyard Hotel in Costa Rica now accepts SmartCash!
Several new stores in Brazil will now be accepting SmartCash payments in person, including several of the popular clothing store chain, Kattleya.
Popular vegan restaurant in Acapulco Mexico, Verde Vegan, is now accepting SmartCash payments. This is the go-to restaurant for crypto enthusiasts attending the Anarchapulco event.
"SmartCash Featured on Major TV Network RT America as Faster than Bitcoin" as reported by Coinlance
There is presently one proposal open for voting at the SmartCash Voting Portal.
Visit the SmartCash Pre-Proposal Forum to share your own ideas and get feedback. Having trouble getting your proposal passed? Try these three simple steps and try again with a revised version.
This week's featured graphic is "Pay With SmartCash at Verde Vegan" by Semptly:
Development & Quality Assurance Teams
The next release of SmartCash, v1.2.8, is undergoing final testing. This version introduces a higher SmartNode collateral amount in order to improve the quality of nodes on the network. Read more about the update at the announcement here.
Read the latest update on Bitcoin Confidential and check out the teaser screenshots at Coinlance.
You can keep up-to-date with new developer commits across multiple repositories at https://smartstats.cc/github.
Outreach Teams 1 & 2
This is the first SmartCash BitugaX ATM machine in Portugal. SmartCash is also available at 11 bitcsuisse ATM locations in Switzerland.
In the coming days and weeks, dozens of top Brazilian stores, known brands, will start integrating SmartCash payments. This is a huge breakthrough for us in terms of merchant adoption. Expect multiple announcements and more specifics in the days to come. Like the Tweet
Check out the SmartCash T-Shirts and other merchandise available at the new online SmartCash outreach store run by team member illumin8. SMART payments are accepted!
Check out the recap of the Paris Blockchain Summit in France, where attendees learned about the SmartCard. A summary of the notable event is also posted at Coinlance.
Listen to the recent SmartTalk Radio Episodes on YouTube: SmartTalk Radio E07 --- Adam Kokesh and FREEDOM, SmartTalk Radio E08 --- SmartShift and SmartVault and E09 --- Crypto Communities, Anarchaforko and Tatiana Moroz.
There is a new SmartCash WordPress WooCommerce plugin that makes it seamless for web stores to accept SmartCash and automatically convert to fiat using integration with Kamoney.
Support & Web Teams
Read about SmartVault and SmartShift in the recent article, "New SmartCash Web Wallet Features Make Crypto Cash Accessible to Everyone" by Coinlance.
SmartCard has had the following feature added to the latest version:
GeneralBytes ATM tweeted, "SmartCash support is listed on the features tab of both, BATMTwo and BATMThree platform. https://www.generalbytes.com/batmtwo . We have instructed the web designer to add the coin token to our homepage". Be sure to ask your local GeneralBytes ATM owner to enable SmartCash!
Check out this comparison chart of different web and Android wallets:
Remember, the best place to get support 24/7 is at the SmartCash Discord, but there are also support articles on common topics on FreshDesk here.
Helpful visualizations and other SmartCash Coin Statistics are available and updated regularly at smartstats.cc.
Community Activity Summary
There are now 16,431 Smarties on the SmartCash Discord Server, 3,203 on Telegram, 14,085 followers of @Scashofficial on Twitter, 2,891 subscribed to /r/SmartCash on Reddit, 1,593 followers on Instagram, and a growing presence on Gab.ai with 174 followers. We have 12,255 enabled SmartNodes, our blockchain has a current height of 879,377, and in the last 24 hours it has transacted 12,677,982.00 SMART via 1977 transactions! There are 28,789 addresses eligible for SmartRewards, which is currently expected to pay around 0.83%. Our official mining pools have a total of 1,526 workers and have paid out 6,529 SMART in the last 12 hours. CoinGecko currently has SmartCash ranked at #126. They report a 1.773% change in price and a USD volume of $154,067 in the past 24 hours.
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Originally published at smartcash.cc on February 9, 2019.