Firo Frontier Newsletter - Vol. 1 No. 6
Firo Frontier · December 22, 2024
Firo Frontier provides a brief summary of what's been happening in Firo over the past two weeks.
Reminder - Firo is officially listed on Biconomy
Firo is listed on Biconomy with a USDT pair - and there's a trading Competition with $2,000 up for grabs, as well as an airdrop of 1,200 Firo available as well.
In addition to supporting both native FIRO and BEP-20 FIRO Biconomy also allows direct withdrawals to Spark addresses for enhanced privacy.
The trading competition runs from Dec 12, 2024, 00:00 to Dec 31, 2024, 00:00 (UTC) with a total prize pool of $2,000 in FIRO!
Don't miss this chance to trade and win some FIRO!
The Biconomy Firo airdrop runs from Dec 18, 2024, 00:00 to Dec 30, 2024, 00:00 (UTC) and you can share in 1,200 FIRO as well.
Read more about the trading competition here:
https://biconomy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/41053147220505--FIRO-Trading-Competition-Share-2-000-in-FIRO
More about the airdrop is here:
https://biconomy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/41248901887641--Share-1200-FIRO-Tokens-Airdrop-Enjoy-Welfare-from-Firo
Start trading at:
https://www.biconomy.com/exchange/FIRO_USDT
Learn more about the exchange listing at:
https://firo.org/2024/12/02/firo-listed-on-biconomy.html
More excitement with Confidential Layer airdrop
As part of the partnership with Confidential Layer (a crypto bridge supporting Firo), the $FIRO community has had further opportunities to explore Confidential Layer and $Firo with new airdrop tasks featuring and promoting the use of Spark transactions and the Firo Campfire wallet. This has created a huge surge of new users interested in obtaining and holding Firo.
The new tasks unlocked on Confidential Layer can earn cloneairdrop users 5,000 Space Miles!
If you're new to the Firo ecosystem, this is your perfect chance to dive into Firo's privacy tech and Lelantus Spark while earning rewards!
Users who are new to creating new crypto wallets must note that the creation of a new wallet can take time - and the wallet must be fully synchronized before new transactions will show up in the wallet balance.
More information about the $CLONE airdrop can be found here: https://cloneairdrop.com
More information about 'Confidential Layer' can be found at https://confidentiallayer.com/
Disclaimer: Some of these tasks do require the sharing of certain socials or e-mails so if you don’t want to give up this information, there’s no compulsion to join.
Firo (Zcoin) was mentioned by Roger Ver on the Tucker Carlson show
As many of you may know - Roger Ver has been a trail-blazer in the crypto world since the very beginning - and on the Tucker Carlson Show - he talks about the possibly of facing life in prison for revealing how the US government worked secretly to subvert cryptocurrency and prevent economic freedom. Roger mentions many privacy coins in the interview, including Zcoin (Firo's original name before it was renamed to Firo because of continued confusion between Zcoin and Zcash). Roger was one of the first investors in the crypto space including being a seed invertor in Zcoin when it began in 2016.
Roger talks about how important privacy is for crypto and the fact that it has been lost with the current implementation of Bitcoin.
If interested you can read more in his book “Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC“.
You can watch the Tucker Carlson interview on X here:
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1866543923939729870
If interested - you can sign the petition to demand justice for Roger at: www.freerogernow.org
Major new interest in Firo this week
There has been major new interest in privacy coins, and Firo in particular this week - sparked in part due to Roger Ver's interview on Tucker Carlson's show as well as 'Confidential Layer's' promotion in their current airdrop campaign highlighting Firo's Spark transactions and the Firo Campfire wallet.
There was so much interest in creating new Campfire wallets that it pushed the Campfire light wallet servers to the limit and the servers needed to be upgraded.
Just a reminder - especially to people who are new to crypto - that when a new wallet is created (even 'light' wallets like Campfire) that the initial setup of most crypto wallets takes time to setup and sync - sometimes hours rather than minutes. Your new coins are safe on the blockchain - however all wallets need to be fully synched before the balance reflects any new funds sent to the wallet. After the initial setup is complete - the time to resync after the wallet has been shutdown for a while (even for a week) - will only take seconds or a minute or so to be fully synched - and will show the current balance.
This new interest in Firo has also created a surge in both coin price and trading volumes - new interest in privacy coins has begun.
Updates from the developers
The $FIRO developers continue to actively work towards having $FIRO’s infrastructure become the best privacy preserving technology in the crypto space.
Current work includes:
Spark Names - Work on this new feature continues and will allow people to be able to send and receive Firo through human readable names. Preparations are being finalized to launch this feature on Devnet soon!
Spats - this feature allows all assets on the tokenization layer to share the same anonymity pool, vastly improving privacy. Work on this feature continues and is progressing well.
Spark support for newly created $FIRO coins - work continues on enabling newly created $FIRO coins (as part of the mining or Master Node rewards process) to be created as Spark assets rather than the current transparent coins - thus allowing privacy for all coins created as part of the $FIRO ecosystem.
Improvements are being made to the Campfire/Stack Mobile wallet to address recent issues. A feature to enable pagination for downloading anonymity sets on mobile wallets is being implemented. This improves syncing for users who are on unstable or poor network connection.
Normal maintenance also continues on $FIRO programs including Electrum / Trezor issue resolution (root cause found and being tested), Performance improvements, preparation work for implementation of new $FIRO features, and normal bug fixes.
Development details can be found in this Firo Forum post: https://forum.firo.org/t/weekly-firo-development-meeting-minutes/2337/110
Other News
The next Privacy Roundtable discussion happened on December 18th at 9AM EST | 2PM GMT on XSpace!
Together with PIVX, Particl, Basicswapdex, and guest speaker Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFiSquad as we dive into DarkFi and more.
A recording of the XSpace!:
https://x.com/i/spaces/1BdGYEQjBADGXNew proposals to the FCS (Firo Crowdfunding System):
- A proposal to develop a Firo plugin to access the BTCpay server - has been approved for funding.
- A Guide to install Firo Wallet on tails/whonix OS - funding amounts changed - status - funding required.
- Turkish language Videos about Firo - Educational content - funded and work in progress.Reminder - FiroFam! Beware of Scammers!
More interest in Firo means more scammers working hard to steal your coins. More new scams every week - note that our official site is firo.org. We do NOT offer cloud mining, deposits, or any investment schemes. Anyone using Firo's Telegram or Discord channels please beware of scammers and impersonators! Our admins and team members will NEVER DM you first. All support questions are answered publicly to keep you safe.
Stay safe and always verify!
Did you know?
More information about Firo is available at: https://firo.org
Archive copies of previous newsletters can be found at:
https://newsletter.firo.org/archive