A new version of Transcendence Dashboard has just today been publically released and this new version basically makes governance.rocks obsolete by making votings and other similar stuff become part of the Dashboard.
If you dont know yet what Transcendence Dashboard is, you can read about it from this previous article.
Otherwise, just head on to download the new version.
And here we have it, faster than any of you thought we already have another article from Onat 42 who started writing only a day before his next release.
This article is basically a continuation to an article from a day before that was a practical approach to Vpiggy. While the article from the day before concentrated on actually getting a Vpiggy, and how to use a Vpiggy, this one now tells, like the title suggests, how to keep your Vpiggy up to date.
It is an excellent thing to have instructions like these for those of us who are not so interested in digging too deep into everything but just want simple instructions on how to get things done without needing to learn everything about it first.
Check it from here:
There’s a new writer in town writing about the best subject available – Teloscoin!
The writer’s name is Onat_42 and he has dedicated a whole section in Publish0x for Telocoin.
His first article is, as the title of the article suggests, about Vpiggys which have been covered by TELOSNEWS.COM before as well. However, onat_42 approaches the subject from a more practical point of view, like how to get them in practice.
So if you got interested in Vpiggys having read about them from TELOSNEWS.COM, it might be a wise next step to head on to read onat_42’s article about both how to actually get them and use them.
Head on to read it from:
and based upon his own writing, in the future, there should be more articles coming from onat_42 which we will be looking forward to reading.
There is now a new WIP roadmap for 2021 available for Transcendence/Telos made by Pascal himself.
Before you get too excited about this, do notice couple of things.
First of all, Pascal dislikes Roadmaps, Whitepapers, and similar, he just rather does things, and this dislike once again shows on the Roadmap he made, not to mention, it says this is a WIP, as in Work-In-Progress, meaning not finalized.
Instead of having this new shiny thing to show off to everyone, it shows out that Pascal doesn’t really care much about making a roadmap but it was made rather as a burden than a pleasure.
For example, he didn’t bother to use even autocorrection to fix some of the simplest miss spellings, and you can also notice that the same page might be there twice, not to mention what he writes is not always easy to figure out what he means.
This all mentioned and taken into consideration, this roadmap however is well worth a read. While many spots might stay a bit unclear, and it definitely isn’t for the newcomer to understand it, it does contain lots of good information and tells about Pascals plans for the future, or at least to 2021, and it even explains some of his past decisions.
To recap what is my interpretation of this roadmap is, that first of all Pascal has had right from beginning a somewhat clear plan of where to head at and how things would work in the end, which is a good thing to know.
It also seems that Halal Cash Coin seems like something Pascal at least seems to be hoping a lot from, interesting especially when considering that it was only a couple of days ago that he mentioned he had sort of given up on it as byrocracy didn’t seem to be moving at all, but now that byrocracy did move, things are different again.
Another thing that comes out continuously is the message about Mass Adoption and there is even a sort of newbie guide which tells you how to get to Telos passive income in many easy ways, however, this part wasn’t clear enough to actually show to some newbie, but this all anyway seems to point to me the same as Pascal seems to have been talking on Discord too couple of times lately, that I think Pascal thinks we are starting to be on a point when Mass Adoption can begin.
A fair warning therefore that these might well be the last days to get Telos for cheap anymore. My guess is that as long as Pascal’s plan is a working one, I don’t think there will be cheap Telos available in 2022 anymore, but seems to me like Pascal will start his mass adaption plan during this year, 2021, but when?
A piece of slightly bad news on the other hand is that it is mentioned that Cryptomages next test period might not be until Q4 of 2021 due to other projects taking priority, so that is a long way to wait for those eagerly waiting, especially since what we saw last year looked good.
On a more interesting new ideas side, there is talk about both Nano Nations Universal Basic Income plan as well as talk about a New Internet to replace the current one and a bit of explanation why Pascal dislikes the current internet, which in short seems to have went to wrong road.
Although this roadmap doesn’t really reveal that much about the future in the sense that it is supposed to be a roadmap, if you like to get some insight into what is Pascal’s plan with all things Transcendence, this roadmap is well worth a read.
Since Transcendence/Telos is a Premium Backer at Masternode Buzz, there is a small piece of news about Telos and one twitter feed from Telos in Daily Buzz. Not much, but better than nothing anyway and you can read it yourself from here:
https://masternode.buzz/dailybuzz-friday-5-february-2021/
Telos Wallet 3.04 and Transcendence Dashboard Beta have been released to Github.
This is actually a bit of a old news already, but I didn’t want to write about this until I had tested Dashboard myself since I was actually expecting Dashboard to be much more than it currently is yet and was expecting to be writing a long article telling you all about it.
Now don’t get this wrong, Dashboard is still a great piece of work and I personally at least like it quite much in that it shows to be quite promising with the little there is already.
Wallet version 3.04 was released in hopes of fixing some unintended forking happening, and at least so far it seems it has worked.
Along with the Wallet 3.04, there is also now a Beta version of the long waited Transcendence Dashboard and I am finally starting to see what Pascal has been meaning all this time about not needing exchanges anymore, etc. that Dashboard could be one in all solution.
Yes, we are still far from that point, but the underlying technology is already there, and using just a little bit of imagination you can see how that all will happen, and indeed, I can see how there wouldn’t be a need for exchanges anymore, but all trades would happen as basically, OTC trades, even at the same time they would be like exchange trades as long as there’s a system to keep track of them and their prices.
Anyway, right now there is only quite a little on the Dashboard yet. There are lots of menu options that are shaded out as not there yet, but they will give you a hint about the future.
At this point Dashboard is basically only working as a Telos and Bitcoin Subsidium wallet.
What is interesting with this is that instead of Dashboard being a wallet in itself, it is actually more of an interface to work with the wallets. So in practice you will still have the usual Telos and XBTX wallets running, but they are basically invisible since you just don’t need to worry about them since basically Dashboard is supposed to take care of them.
This however is not true yet, as it is still only on Beta stage and missing some crucial pieces still, like if your wallet doesn’t get automatically connected to nodes, you actually need to go and do stuff on the wallet, since Dashboard doesn’t have these features implemented yet, although they are planned to come.
However, after you get your wallet running smoothly, you can see how handy Dashboard actually is. For instead of flipping back and forth with different wallet softwares, you can just choose from Dashboard which coin, Telos or XBTX, to look at, and Dashboard will show all the info regarding that coins wallet of yours.
What I also liked was that while the old QT-wallet was a bit limited in how to show transactions, that you could see them only one way basically, Dashboard, on the other hand, gives you a chance to display them in different ways, like you could choose to look only received or sent transactions, or only from the certain time period. Just choose the filters to use, see the result and even save it in sort of CSV form. Sort of CSV since it actually isn’t CSV, since CSV would be Comma Separated Values, but this is actually using Tab to separate values. However, when you open this file in Excel, for example, you can choose to have separation done using Tab instead of Commas, and it works.
Also, when you close or open the Dashboard, you can choose to run or stop running all the associated wallets with Dashboard.
So instead of starting XBTX wallet and Telos wallet separately, I simply open Dashboard and Dashboard opens them both automatically. Or when I close dashboard, it asks if I also want to close my Telos and XBTX wallets, choose yes, and they are both closed instead of me needing to close them separately.
This alone can be pretty handy feature if you for example have 10 different wallets that you just want to sync and see the situation once a month. Instead of opening them all separately and having possibly 10 different interfaces to deal with, just open Dashboard and get them all automatically synced and save the transactions using just one interface instead of 10.
Now there is however a downside to this too, for opening all these wallets and running them at the same time will also take lots of memory. It seems to me that running Telos and XBTX wallet at the same time takes about 5 Gb of memory, so that needs to be taken into consideration. If you have less than that of memory, there is an option to run only one of the wallets at a time however.
Couple of Instructions regarding DASHBOARD that you might run into:
The first problem you might encounter is your AntiVirus not letting you run some parts of the Dashboard or wallets. In this case, you need to check your Antivirus settings and there should be some place where you can choose to give permission for some files manually. You might need to give permission to all files regarding Dashboard as well as regarding wallets, including wallet.dat files. My own AntiVirus (F-Secure) actually even tends to delete wallet.dat files if I don’t tell it to ignore them first, and that is a pretty scary thing to happen.
Next thing is that running the Dashboard requires about 5 Gb of free memory (just based upon my own test and only at the time I tested, it might take more in the future) Having less than this amount of memory can result in strange behavior, errors, and crashes.
If you can’t have enough Memory, you can try opening only one of the wallets
When you start Dashboard for the first time, it will make a certain folder called “Transgui”-folder to a certain location.
This location is usually located at:
C:Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/transgui
Notice that “Username” refers to the user name you are having on your computer and to see AppData, you need to enable seeing hidden files.
In here you will find a file called “cfg_autostart.exe” open this to your notepad and you will see a line reading “XBTX=true” now change this line to “XBTX=false” save the file and start your dashboard as usual and it will now not try to start XBTX wallet and hence saves you a lot of memory.
Then the problem you might encounter is that your wallet doesn’t get any connections.
To fix this, You need to locate your Blockchain folder. When you first time started your Telos Wallet, or if you have never started it, then in case when you first time started the Dashboard, it is asking for a folder where to save the Telos Blockchain.
Locate this folder and inside this folder you will see a file called “transcendence.conf” open this file and in this you need to add addnode lines. as an example:
addnode=12.34.56.789
Thing is, you cant use just any numbers, but these numbers need to be actual node addresses.
To find them, you could first try if ones in the Telos Explorer work for you:
If ones on the Explorer don’t seem to work for you, then you can go to Transcendence/Telos community discord and search from there for the most recent list of Add nodes.
With these instructions and a fair warning that we are talking of a Beta version that might still contain some bad bugs in it, go and try Dashboard.