Aaaahh, it feels so good to be gettin' back to work! For a Dev to sit on his hands is torture. Now that we have plenty of funding again (HUGE thanx to @onceuponatime), I am expanding my Dev teams a bit, and taking care of business.. There's more work than ever to get done!

So, let's get right to this weeks updates..

Regarding the hostile takeover attempt of my company (BitShares Munich IVS), I got my family out of harm's way (my apartment drama, and reward), but the smear campaign continues on my bitrated profile and most recently as harassment at my wife's place of employment, slandering her and sending her boss pictures of our kids. My wife's boss was obviously shocked, but they have discussed it and closed the matter between them so all is well there now. Let it be known once again that I am not interested in selling out my 51% ownership, nor will I ever sign a non-disclosure or non-compete agreement since I am agorist. It would appear that you-know-who has started replacing his avatars (removing his face) and deleting various BlockPay social media channels such as facebook, discord and the telegram channel.

Because of that, I have created a new BlockPay telegram chat group here:
https://t.me/BlockPay

I will pop in to the new BlockPay chat from time to time to help answer product questions, what new features are coming, etc. Onceuponatime and myself will be the only admins of this new group so rest assured that this one cannot be taken down.

Some other people have come forward regarding the hostile takeover attempt and gone public here, here and here.

Apparently, my company also has a new "interim CEO" named Bernhard Zellner (I assume that name is correct). He was chatting in the original BlockPay telegram group until it was suddenly taken offline a few days ago. I also found out about some company out of Ireland called Freednex Holding Ltd, not sure if he is involved in that or not, but it seems it may involve the same people who started the hostile takeover attempt of my company. As we acquire more details, I will keep right on posting the updates here on steemit :)

OK, soooooo, on to the project updates!!

Stealth - We are now working on the secure, automated backup code for Stealth transactions by way of the C-IPFS decentralized filesystem. This component of Stealth should be ready in the next couple weeks. To view these commits, see here:
https://github.com/kenCode-de?tab=repositories

BlockPay - For those who are wondering, I am still holding on to all of the BLOCKPAY tokens that I bought too as I see HUGE potential in the BlockPay point of sale systems and I refuse to let the project go by the wayside. I will probably make that repo public in the next few weeks as well so that people can fork it, tweak it, and compete. Here is the download link to the current version if you wanna give it a shot in your business:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bitsharesmunich.blockpay

Smartcoins Wallet - We have started in on the github issues that had piled up over the past couple months, and should have most of them done and fixed with another release in the next week or two. Native Steem chain is being added to the android wallet as we speak and transactions are being tested. We are going to leave out the Steem faucet for now so that we can get "Carbon" released sooner rather than later. Most of you guys probably saw the video I made of the new UI which I had to pull temporarily, but will make a new video for you soon enough. For now I just want to get as much of the new Carbon wallet (Smartcoins Wallet 2.0) coded as possible so everyone can start testing it out. Download:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bitsharesmunich.smartcoinswallet

Bridge - The new Bridge software is on hold till July 10th when its lead dev returns from another job he had to take (remember, we all had our pay taken away). Anyway, the new Bridge software is wicked fast and secure, and most importantly, is decentralized so that the evils that be can't take it down, and we can always convert and send our coins wherever we want.

Ledger Nano S - Graphene work has already begun for this cold storage wallet. This will allow you to securely store your Bitshares assets offline. The python and C code repo will be on my github with the rest in the next few days or so. To view our code at any time, feel free to follow our work on my github page here:

https://github.com/kenCode-de?tab=repositories

Ok, gotta get back to it now, but I hope you guys like my weekly reports. Next week I will have more good news regarding BlockPay too and some of the new features that I want to get started on such as employee logins, c-ipfs integration for app decentralization, etc.

Have a great week and thank you for following our work! :)
MUCH love, ken