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OpenAlias Competition Winners

  • Laura Harris
  • 13 Sep 2018
  • Nav News
To celebrate the release of OpenAlias, the NavCoin Core collective created a competition to encourage the community get involved with this new feature. If you’re one of the lucky winners we will contact you soon to arrange fulfilment of your prize. Thanks to everyone who took part! To celebrate the release of OpenAlias, the NavCoin Core collective created a competition to encourage the community get involved with this new feature. If you’re one of the lucky winners we will contact you soon to arrange fulfilment of your prize.

Privacy Announcement and Education Livestream

  • Kieren Hyland
  • 12 Sep 2018
  • Nav News
The release of OpenAlias has been well received by the NavCoin community. At the time of writing there have been hundreds of OpenAlias addresses registered under @nav.community. If you haven’t already joined them by creating OpenAlias address of your own take a moment to do it now. All that’s required to get it going is install the latest version of your wallet, and register your address here: The release of OpenAlias has been well received by the NavCoin community.

NavCoin Launches OpenAlias Integration

  • Kieren Hyland
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • Product News
Give your NavCoin address a name with OpenAlias If there’s anything that clearly demonstrates NavCoin’s commitment to Simplifying Cryptocurrency for everybody it’s our latest initiative - NavCoin OpenAlias. Now instead of an impossible to remember long string of random characters you can give your NavCoin wallet a simple ‘email style’ alias. If there’s anything that clearly demonstrates NavCoin’s commitment to Simplifying Cryptocurrency for everybody it’s our latest initiative - NavCoin OpenAlias.

OpenAlias Is Live

  • John Darby
  • 5 Sep 2018
  • Nav News
The big news this week is that OpenAlias has gone live as part of the NavCoin 4.3.0 update. You can read the release notes for the 4.3.0 release here: The big news this week is that OpenAlias has gone live as part of the NavCoin 4.3.0 update. You can read the full release notes for the 4.3.0 release here: https://navcoin.org/notices/2018-09-04-navcoin-core-4-3-0/ Alex also posted a technical guide for how OpenAlias works: https://navhub.

Open Alias Developer Notes

  • Alex
  • 3 Sep 2018
  • Nav News
OpenAlias is a protocol originally created by the Monero team designed to relate a domain name with a cryptocurrency address. The recently released wallet version 4.3.0 of NavCoin Core includes the changes necessary to support the translation from OpenAlias-ready domains to NavCoin addresses. OpenAlias is a protocol originally created by the Monero team designed to relate a domain name with a cryptocurrency address. The recently released wallet version 4.3.0 of NavCoin Core includes the changes necessary to support the translation from OpenAlias-ready domains to NavCoin addresses.

Project Updates + Video Content

  • Kieren Hyland
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • Nav News
Over the past week the Core Developers and Content Creators began taking the final steps towards the launch of NAV OpenAlias, the Community Fund, the Collab website, and the refreshed NavCoin.org website. These are all major projects, which have absorbed hundreds of hours throughout 2018. Once they’re complete it’s hoped that they will make it easier for anyone to participate in the NavCoin ecosystem, and engage with other like-minded community members.

Community Heroes

  • John Darby
  • 23 Aug 2018
  • Nav News
Last week community developer Hash512 (on Discord) achieved a major milestone with the launch of the NavCoin m8 staking device. We covered its specs in detail in last week’s NavCoin Community News, and now it’s available for sale through the NavCoin m8 website. This is the culmination of many months hard work, and is another example of the amazing things can be achieved by the NavCoin community. Get your NavCoin m8 here:

NavCoin m8 Launch And Website Redevelopment

  • Kieren Hyland
  • 15 Aug 2018
  • Nav News
This week sees the launch of a long-term project by community developer Hash512 - his NavCoin m8 staking device is ready to go later this week. Check out the description of its features a little way down the page, and give your support to this ambitious community project. This week sees the launch of a long-term project by community developer Hash512 - his NavCoin m8 staking device is ready to go later this week.