Happy Pi Day!
In celebration of Pi Day, the Core Team is presenting a few Product and Tech announcements and updates that are important milestones to the project and that Pioneers care about. Pi Day is the time for us to reflect on what we have built and achieved and also the time to look forward.
Pi Wallet
We announce today that Pi Wallet that connects with Pi Testnet will be launched to Pioneers on March 31, 2021. As mentioned in an earlier wallet update, the Core Team has spent the past few months to design, develop and iterate on multiple versions of the wallet with moderators and nodes, in pursuit of a functional, scalable, hopefully easy-to-use wallet for all Pioneers.
Pi Wallet will enable Pioneers to create Key-pairs (Public and Secret Keys) and store the secret keys safely on your phone locally, in a non-custodial way. At the current stage, The Pi Wallet will be connected to Pi Testnet and initiated with Test-Pi by the Pi Testnet faucet, which is a facility on the Testnet to distribute free Test-Pi. With the wallet, Pioneers will be able to send and receive Test-Pi on Testnet, just as if how it would work eventually on Pi’s Mainnet with real Pi. Of course, the same iterative design process will apply to our wallet which means improvements will be made along the way after the release on March 31 and feedback from all Pioneers is welcome.
We want to emphasize that Test-Pi (or test-π) is NOT REAL Pi! Test-Pi is solely for the purpose of testing transactions on the Pi Testnet and contains NO VALUE. The Test-Pi balance in the wallet may be reset because Testnet will be periodically reset as part of the testing. Please remember that currently sales of Pi are unauthorized and violate the terms of service, which may result in freezing the account. Please report violators.
Node and Testnet update
As the Core Team has committed to launching the Pi Mainnet by the end of the year, the work on Node and Testnet is the most crucial to that end. For the past few months, we have made tremendous efforts to progress on the node software, Testnet, infrastructure and scalability.
We released multiple versions of the Pi desktop software, with the latest one being v0.4.3. There are currently over 140,000 live installations of the Pi Node active every single day. Based on their availability and reliability metrics, we have enrolled about 10,000 node applicants to follow the blockchain and run the Pi consensus container. With about 10,000 functional active nodes, the Pi Testnet is already one of the largest peer to peer networks in the world. This also means that we are one step further on our path to a more decentralized Mainnet that is aimed to launch by the end of this year.
There has also been much work done for infrastructure. To enable the Pi Wallet to transact Test-Pi on the Testnet, the Core Team created the faucet and established connectivity of the wallet with the Testnet blockchain. Community members have created a block explorer and a node network dashboard as user-friendly interfaces to view the blockchain and nodes network. Moreover, all items listed above involve much work on scalability, given the size of our network.
KYC
We just announced as part of the Pi Day celebration that additional 100,000 free KYC slots are provided by the Core Team to selected Pioneers all over the world to bootstrap the Pi economy. In addition, the Core Team has started working technically and logistically on the community-driven KYC solutions proposed in the Brainstorm app for the mass majority of Pioneers, in the hope to achieve low-to-no cost KYC solutions for all real human Pioneers. So if you have not received a KYC slot yet, please be patient.
Pi Utilities Platform
The Core Team launched the Brainstorm app in the hope that Pioneers collectively propose new Pi App ideas, and form or join teams to make these ideas a reality. So far, we have received 33,367 proposals of Pi Apps. Due to the sheer amount of proposals, we also released a two-step blind review mechanism with the help of small groups of Pioneers to bubble up the best and more feasible proposals that provide concrete implementation plans. Currently, the second step of the blind review is finished for previous submissions and new proposals can continue to be submitted. Soon we will publish the initial selection of ecosystem app proposals for the whole community to view, join and support.
In addition to the utilities side, the Core Team has also been designing and developing a new and more open user interface for the Pi utilities platform that we hope will better serve the ecosystem building. More concrete updates on the new platform tailored to Pi utilities and ecosystem will be announced on March 31.
Chat features
The Core Team has been working on improvements to the chats to address spam and trolls and foster more meaningful conversations among Pioneers. Today we also released a chat feature to a few specific chats and topics - Decentralized Moderation that allows senior Pioneers of the chat to flag any spam and troll messages of newer members, e.g. spam bots. A threshold of such flags would make the message disappear from the chat, and the sender of this message can appeal in case of any unfair flagging. The appeal can be approved or rejected by chat Moderators. False flagging in case of moderators approving the sender’s appeal would result in suspension of the senior Pioneer’s ability to flag messages as a measure to prevent malicious flagging of good messages. This feature is meant to empower most Pioneers to help protect and maintain the health of our chat rooms.
Conclusion
It has been an amazing, challenging and fulfilling year that we had together building Pi since last Pi Day. To all Pioneers all over the world, the Core Team appreciates your trust in the project and the Core Team in spite of the noises in the world, your efforts in growing our network, supporting the Testnet, defending the project and bootstrapping the Pi economy, your caring about the progress of the project, the health of our community and the Core Team, and your creativity in Pi utilities, ecosystem building and Pi art. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. We are feeling lucky to have you along the way with us overcoming one difficulty after another. The Core Team cannot promise success, but commits to trying our best to build and lead the project along with all Pioneers around the world toward its vision - an inclusive global digital economy.
π的一天快乐!
为了庆祝 Pi 日，核心团队发布了一些产品和技术公告和更新，这些都是项目的重要里程碑，也是先驱者所关心的。圆周率日是一个反思我们所取得成就的日子，也是一个展望未来的日子。
π的钱包
我们今天宣布，与 Pi 测试网连接的 Pi 钱包将于 2021 年 3 月 31 日向先驱者推出。正如之前的钱包更新中提到的，核心团队花了几个月的时间设计、开发和迭代了多个版本的钱包，其中包括版主和节点，以追求一个功能强大、可扩展、易于使用的钱包。
Pi 钱包将使先行者能够创建密钥对(公开密钥和秘密密钥)，并以一种非托管的方式安全地存储在本地的手机上。在现阶段，Pi 钱包将连接到 Pi 测试网，并由 Pi 测试网水龙头发起 Test-Pi，这是测试网上的一个设施，可以免费分发 Test-Pi。有了钱包，先驱者将能够在测试网上发送和接收 Test-Pi，就像它最终在 Pi 的主网上与 real Pi 一起工作一样。当然，同样的迭代设计过程也将适用于我们的钱包，这意味着在 3 月 31 日发布后，我们将继续进行改进，欢迎所有先驱者的反馈。
我们要强调的是 test-π(或 test-π)不是真正的π !Test-Pi 仅用于测试 Pi 测试网上的事务，不包含任何值。钱包中的 Test-Pi 余额可能会被重置，因为 Testnet 将定期重置，作为测试的一部分。请记住，目前销售 Pi 是未经授权的，违反了服务条款，可能会导致账户冻结。请报告违反。
节点和测试网更新
由于核心团队已承诺在今年年底推出 Pi 主网，Node 和 Testnet 的工作对这一目标至关重要。在过去的几个月里，我们在节点软件、测试网、基础设施和可伸缩性方面做出了巨大的努力。
我们发布了多个版本的 Pi 桌面软件，最新版本是 v0.4.3。目前每天有超过 14 万的 Pi 节点安装活动。基于它们的可用性和可靠性指标，我们已经招募了大约 10,000 个节点申请者来遵循区块链并运行 Pi 共识容器。Pi 测试网拥有大约 10,000 个有效的活动节点，已经是世界上最大的点对点网络之一。这也意味着，我们在通往更去中心化主网的道路上又迈进了一步，该主网的目标是在今年年底推出。
基础设施方面也做了很多工作。为了使 Pi 钱包能够在测试网上进行 Test-Pi 的交易，核心团队创建了水龙头，并建立了钱包与测试网区块链的连接。社区成员创建了一个块浏览器和一个节点网络指示板，作为用户友好的界面来查看区块链和节点网络。此外，考虑到我们的网络规模，上面列出的所有项目都涉及到大量关于可伸缩性的工作。
KYC
我们刚刚宣布，作为 Pi 日庆祝活动的一部分，核心团队将向全球选定的先驱者提供额外的 10 万个免费 KYC 插槽，以引导 Pi 经济。此外，核心团队已经开始在技术和后勤方面开展工作，为广大先驱者提供头脑风暴应用程序中提出的社区驱动的 KYC 解决方案，希望为所有真正的人类先驱者实现低成本甚至零成本的 KYC 解决方案。因此，如果您还没有收到 KYC 插槽，请耐心等待。
π公用事业平台
核心团队推出头脑风暴 app，希望先驱者们共同提出新的 Pi app 想法，并组建或加入团队，将这些想法变成现实。到目前为止，我们已经收到了 33367 个 Pi app 的提案。由于提案数量庞大，我们还推出了两步盲审机制，让一小撮先行者冒泡出最好、更可行的提案，提供具体的实施方案。目前，已完成前期提交的盲审第二步，可以继续提交新的提案。我们很快会发布生态系统 app 的初步选择方案，供整个社区查看、参与和支持。
除了实用程序方面，核心团队也一直在为 Pi 实用程序平台设计和开发一个新的、更开放的用户界面，我们希望它能更好地服务于生态系统的建设。为 Pi utilities 和生态系统量身定制的新平台的更多具体更新将于 3 月 31 日公布。
聊天功能
核心团队一直致力于改进聊天功能，以解决垃圾邮件和喷子问题，并在先驱者中培养更多有意义的对话。今天，我们还发布了一些特定聊天和主题的聊天功能——去中心化审核，允许聊天的资深先驱标记任何垃圾邮件和喷子消息的新成员，例如垃圾邮件机器人。此类标志的阈值将使消息从聊天中消失，如果出现任何不公平标记，该消息的发送方可以提出申诉。申诉可以被聊天管理员批准或拒绝。如版主批准发送人的呼吁，则会作出虚假的标记，从而暂停资深先锋对讯息的标记，以防止恶意标记好的讯息。这个功能是为了使大多数先驱能够帮助保护和维护我们的聊天室的健康。
结论
从去年的圆周率日开始，我们一起创建圆周率，这是一个令人惊奇、充满挑战和充实的一年。所有世界各地的先驱,在项目的核心团队感谢您的信任和核心团队尽管世界上的声音,你的努力在我们的网络增长,支持 Testnet,维护项目和π经济引导,你的关心项目的进展,我们的社区的健康和核心团队,和你的创造力在π公用事业、生态建设和π的艺术。凡是值得做的事都不容易。一路走来，有你陪我们克服一个又一个困难，我们感到很幸运。核心团队不能承诺成功，但承诺尽我们最大的努力建设和领导项目，与世界各地的所有先锋，以实现其愿景——一个包容性的全球数字经济。
