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Announcing the Information Hub Site

The Bismuth Foundation is proud to introduce our new, community-powered Information Hub.

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March 26, 2025

Bismuth Node Database Snapshots (June 2024)

Using the provided snapshots significantly reduces syncing time for both the main-net and hypernode databases.

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June 20, 2024

Bismuth has been Listed on XeggeX Exchange

The Bismuth Foundation has some fantastic news to share!

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March 2, 2024

January 2024 - Progress Report

This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14th, 2023 to January 15th, 2024.

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January 15, 2024

How to Run Tornado Wallet with a Custom IP

Here is the Tornado Bismuth Wallet Startup Guide.

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November 15, 2023

January 2023 - Progress Report

This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14th, 2022 to January 14th, 2023.

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January 14, 2023

January 2022 - Progress Report

This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14, 2021 to January 14, 2022.

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January 17, 2022

Using the BIS<>BSC Bridge Crystal

To swap between native BIS and BNB wBIS token, you need the newest Tornado wallet (v0.1.43 or more) with the BscBridge Crystal activated, as pictured above.

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May 12, 2021

Using the BIS<>ETH Bridge Crystal

To swap between native BIS and ETH wBIS token, you need the newest Tornado wallet (v0.1.41 or more) with the EthBridge Crystal activated, as pictured above.

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April 21, 2021

Bismuth 2.0 - Official Announcement

Late last year, the Bismuth Foundation unveiled “Bismuth2.0”. The reveal was brief, did not go into any detail and the team remained silent on the topic for the following months.

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February 24, 2021

Python and State Machines

Are you familiar with Finite state machines? They are everywhere, yet, we don’t see them as such.

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February 24, 2021

Real time Hypernodes map from Dingo

We’re always happy to see new users jump in on the Bismuth Discord and ask questions. More over dev questions… And above all, we like it when these users then come back with a “Oh, by the way, I just did that small thing…”

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February 21, 2021

Bismuth Mobile Wallet - Genesis and Reward

For way too long, Bismuth had no proper mobile wallet.

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January 15, 2021

My Bismuth Wallet - Mobile Wallet

For way too long, Bismuth had no proper mobile wallet, or was dependent on third party wallets. Those days are over!

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January 14, 2021

Bismuth Toolbox, interview and reward

Months ago, Bismuth user “Whatever” developed a shiny app to monitor his BIS mining rigs, wallets and Hypernodes. Apps you code for yourself, because you feel an urging need for it can end up most useful, and this one makes no exception.

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January 1, 2021

BisBabble Interview - Nyzblossom

Q&A session with wBismuth Developer Nyzblossom.

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November 4, 2020

Beyond DeFi with Bismuth

The main difference between Bismuth and Ethereum up until this point was the level of contract decentralization.

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August 12, 2020

The largest ignored use case for cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies and trading. They are indivisible.

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May 30, 2020

Tesla Battery Monitoring

Tesla is a market leader in electric vehicles (EVs). They have currently sold and delivered more than 1 million EVs worldwide while production is ramping up fast with new factories in Europe and China.

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May 25, 2020

Decentralized Condition Monitoring

Condition monitoring (CM) is the basis for condition based maintenance (CBM). CBM is an alternative to calendar based maintenance, where an asset is serviced in regular time intervals.

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April 30, 2020

HelloWorld Crystal for Bismuth’s Tornado Wallet

Bismuth is a chemical element and a metal with number 83 in the periodic table.

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April 13, 2020

BisBabble Interview - ShadowCrypto

Welcome to another edition of BisBabble! In this episode, we chat with ShadowCrypto, a dedicated Bismuth supporter and key contributor to the Pawer bot.

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February 7, 2020

BisBabble Interview - Endogen

In this second issue of the “BisBabble” series we welcome Endogen, a long-time Bismuth supporter and developer of the Bismuth Telegram Bot, Bauer.

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January 18, 2020

BisBabble Interview - Aravind

Welcome to the BisBabble series! In this issue, we chat with Aravind, a recent contributor to the Bismuth project. He shares insights into his background, interests, and development work.

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December 18, 2019

Bismuth Hard Fork

During November 2019 the Bismuth community went with the first governance vote, about supply emission. The issue was overwhelming votes for a fork to support a supply reduction.

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November 19, 2019

Outcome of Bismuth’s First Governance Vote

Decisions are the most crucial part of advancing a project. Without them, ideas lie in-acted upon, development stalls, and instead of progress there is stagnation.

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November 6, 2019

Voting page Helper - Dev and Bounty

Bismuth community is currently voting whether or not change the supply emission (see BGVP-1). In order to allow easy and un-restricted access to the vote, the team went for a full client side helper to generate voting transactions. This ensures full privacy and allows to vote from any wallet. External help was welcome to get it successfully running and a Bounty will be awarded.

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October 18, 2019

Introduction to Bismuth Shielded Tokens

New features in cryptocurrency privacy.

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September 20, 2019

BGV-01 - Bismuth Governance Vote 1

Preamble - This blog article explains the BGV-01 motion and the options you can vote for.

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September 10, 2019

Bismuth Governance Shift - Part 2

Preamble In the previous post, the governance shift that is to take place with Bismuth was introduced, and the ETH voting protocol was examined. It was shown that this protocol does come with several issues that could be important flaws in the Bismuth context.

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August 30, 2019

Bismuth Governance Shift - Part 1

During the first two and a half years of the Bismuth blockchain project, important governance actions have been decided by the group of foundation members. Now the core team finds it is time to involve the community deeper into governance questions, and make more use of community feedback.

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August 29, 2019

Coin Supply

When designing the coin supply and rewards model for a cryptocurrency, there are many factors to take into consideration.

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July 3, 2019

Bismuth Strategic Hard Fork v4.3.0.0

Over the past couple of months, Bismuth has undergone major shifts- technologically, socially, and economically. We witnessed a massive upgrade and restructuring of the core code that spanned over 200 commits, that was finalized in version 4.2.9.2 in late March of this year.

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May 17, 2019

Autogame Tournament – One Million Block

20 Months after its mainnet launch, the Bismuth network reached the 1 000 000 blocks milestone.

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January 21, 2019

Semantic Interpretation

Solution to the codebase consensus conflict in context of the Bismuth Blockchain.

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July 19, 2018

Exploring the Bismuth Plugin System

When noticing that Bismuth ($BIS) has a plugin system, I was somewhat surprised—because I don’t know any other blockchain-based cryptocurrency that openly promotes having a plugin system.

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July 16, 2018