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Nxter News – December II: Attitude is a Little Thing that Makes a Big Difference

Nxter News | December 2018 (II) Attitude is a Little Thing that Makes a Big Difference Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Attitude. If you haven’t been building, testing or playing around with all the Ignis functionality on testnet, you might have forgotten that Jelurida recently speeded up Ardor to generate new blocks every 10 seconds. …

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Nxter News – December 2018 I: Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Nxter News | December 2018 (I) Count your life by smiles, not tears Count your age by friends, not years   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! All them kids, crawling, kicking, running. Growing big. We’ve celebrated a birthday since the last Nxter News post, Nxt’s 5th. Soon we’ll witness a new birth, an independent clone …

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Nxter News – November 2018 III: Only Those who Attempt the Absurd can Achieve the Impossible

Nxter News | November 2018 (III) Only Those who Attempt the Absurd can Achieve the Impossible Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! At the time I found my interest for blockchain, started following Nxt and began writing newsletters, Nxt’s potential almost seemed absurd to me. I fell in love with the idea of cheap crossborder transactions 24/7, …

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Nxter News 2018 – November II: Wherever Smart People Work, Doors are unlocked

Nxter News | November (II) Wherever Smart People Work, Doors are unlocked Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! There are more good reasons than usual to join ardornxt.slack this week, if you aren’t a member already. One is the AMA with Jelurida, that will take place on November 14th, and be about Lightweight Contracts and the …

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Nxter News – November 2018 (I): It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done

Nxter News | November 2018 (I) It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! What is truly impossible? Licking your own elbow? Yes. Teach goldfish to play clarinet? Positive. Code and launch a decentralized blockchain platform that smokes AWS, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Ethereum? Done. And bring it to the mainstream? We’ll …

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Nxter News – October 2018 (IV): If the Wind Will not Serve, Take to the Oars

Nxter News | October 2018 (IV) If the Wind Will not Serve Take to the Oars Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! And a good Friday to you, sorry for the delay this week – here’s finally your newsletter! Or, it really isn’t a real “newsletter” is it? More like a massive attack of updates from …

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Nxter News – October 2018 (III): Pleasure in the Job Puts Perfection in the Work

Nxter News | October 2018 (III) Pleasure in the Job Puts Perfection in the Work Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Ardor PoS is walking the walk, with the new 2.1.2 release and Jelurida pushing Ardor into the next phase with stateless Lightweight Contracts on testnet, supplementing the already inbuilt advanced core functionality and parent-child chain …

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Nxter News – October 2018 (II): The Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With One Step

Nxter News | October 2018 (II) The Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With One Step Lao Tzu Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Journeys require planning, effort, time, and a million little things to go right. Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon was a small step for him that was the culmination of millions …

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Nxter News – October 2018 (I): It Depends On Where You Put the Paint, Not How Much You Splash On

Nxter News | October 2018 (I) It Depends On Where You Put the Paint, Not How Much You Splash On Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Welcome to the fall season and welcome to our Nxter.org rebrand! A fresh bit of “paint” thrown on to make what was once old new again. The last few months …

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Nxter News – September 2018 (IV): The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience and Time

Nxter News | September 2018 (IV) The Two Most Powerful Warriors are Patience and Time Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Good things happen with time, and time is a precious asset: for you and for us. Over the past months, Nxter has been working on a rebrand and the fruits of our labor should be …

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Nxter News – September 2018 (III): The Question Is Not What You Look At, But What You See

September (III)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Seeing is believing. Sounds obvious, simple even. Yet many people look, but they do not see. Haters out there close off their minds to logic and new experiences, we have all seen people do this. It is sad. People too quickly succumb to fear, uncertainty, and …

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Nxter News – September 2018 (II): There Is Nothing So Stable As Change

September (II)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! An unanswered question in physics is “do the fundamental constants of the universe change?” Our universe has many such fundamental constants, some more applicable to daily life than others – anyone reading this can appreciate the constant (c) used for the speed of light. Yet there is …

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Nxter News – September 2018 (I): Minds Are Like Flowers, They Only Open When The Time Is Right

September (I)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Flowers look pretty, smell pretty, and they make a great gift for your significant other. They also serve as poetic license to talk about the human mind. We live in an age where many close-minded people are in power the world over, from the US to …

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Nxter News – August 2018 (IV): People Do Not Quit Playing Because They Grow Old; They Grow Old Because They Quit Playing

  August (IV)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! This week marks two consecutive years of there being a weekly Nxter newsly! We are getting better with age, like a fine wine! Growing old tends to be tedious, full of aches, pains, and the phrase “remember when…?” For 104 consecutive weeks, we have published …

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Nxter News – August 2018 (III): Sometimes It’s Not The Strength But Gentleness That Cracks The Hardest Shells

  August (III)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! The Nxt community has always been known as one of the friendliest and most helpful in crypto. Now we’re growing again, with the creation of Ardor, new assets, and new child chains, new Nxters join our ecosystem from all over the world. We welcome you. Investors …

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Nxter News – August 2018 (II): There Is Nothing Better Than A Friend, Unless It Is A Friend With Chocolate

  August (II)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Friends are great! They are there when you need them and sometimes provide you with chocolate. Not everyone is your friend though, as we cover later, friends do not try and scam you. Friends support and encourage you to be the best version of yourself. …

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Nxter News – August 2018 (I): The Real Voyage Of Discovery Consists Not In Seeking New Landscapes, But In Having New Eyes

  August (I)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! To voyage conjures up images of brave people doing brave things as they traverse the unknown. The NASA Voyager probes famously provided humanity the first glimpses of the outer planets and discovered much data about these mysterious solar bodies and they are now beyond the …

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Nxter News – July 2018 (V): All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

  July (V)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! We are all wandering through life, trying hard to put on a good face and deceive others into thinking that we have life “figured out” but these are lies we tell to our coworkers and friends. We are all wandering, but we need not be …

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Nxter News – July 2018 (IV): Life Has No Remote Control, So Get Up And Change It Yourself

July (IV)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Recently the batteries in my tv remote died, and to my great dismay, there were no other ones that small around my house. So there I was, comfortable in my lazy clothes, staring at a blank tv. No amount of button pushing would power the tv …

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Nxter News – July 2018 (III): Imagination Is The Highest Form Of Research

July (III)   Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers! Imagination is not the same as following a trend. Adding a touchscreen on your espresso maker does not make it better, you have just feature-creeped an existing product likely at the expense of a good user experience. No, imagination is coming up with a unique solution, …

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