In an era of pervasive surveillance, the line between citizen and subject is increasingly questionable. In a p2p distributed system the line between peer and "user" is much more concise and distinct. Be a peer.

Join us on Reddit in 1 hour for an Ergo AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/ergonauts/comments/1qu5hxg/ergonauts_reddit_ama_february_5th_1700_utc/

We spent years trying to convince “crypto” to care about cryptographically hard assets and trust-minimized derivatives instead of endlessly printed insider junk that makes fiat look honest. Ergo had to survive in a grift-heavy ecosystem built around exchanges and speculation. That phase is ending. Fundamentals matter again.

📢 Ergonauts Reddit AMA!!! Ergo Book will be a guide by community on doing alternative monetary stacks on top of resilient p2p Ergo network and core hard proof-of-work backed asset ERG. Lets discuss its ideas over Reddit! Join AMA on Thu, Feb, 5th, 5 PM UTC, @ old.reddit.com/r/ergonauts/

Around holidays many missed maybe another great visionary article by @Armeanio, "Ergo’s Vision for Sovereign Money". Read it here: https://curiaregiscrypto.medium.com/ergos-vision-for-sovereign-money-26f520426c05

🚀 New release: Ergo protocol reference client 6.1.2 (v6.1.2) This release is identical to 6.0.2 but on top of RocksDB as database ## What's Changed * Versioned block transaction serializer since 6.0, not 5.0 by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2229 * Candidate regenration fixes by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2231 * Add blocks with full txns endpoint to indexed node by @mgpai22 in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2233 * add exclude mempool spent to all blockchain unspent endpoints by @mgpai22 in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2234 * Add Full Input with Proof for Unconfirmed Transactions Endpoint by @mgpai22 in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2235 * Candidate for 6.0.1 release by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2222 * Test for accepting solution for previous candidate by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2237 * Agent rules by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2242 * Fix for duplicate addresses on derivation after wallet restoration by @kushti in https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/pull/2244 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/compare/v6.1.0...v6.1.2 Check it out here: https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v6.1.2