"The Tata Communications' Hedera mainnet node is hosted in our highly secure, tier 1, US West data center. It’s connected to our global IP backbone, which carries roughly 30% of the world’s internet routes" Learn more from Ankur Jindal in his recent blog post. https://www.hedera.com/blog/tata-communications-why-we-joined-the-hedera-governing-council-our-node-infrastructure-setup-and-application-use-cases

The first desktop wallet to list #HBAR, Atomic Wallet’s PC application can be downloaded onto a user’s computer and is available on all major operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-hashgraphs-hbar-coin-added-to-atomic-wallet

Hedera’s Ledger Nano S and Nano X wallet implementations will allow users to view and validate public keys using a companion app, perform #HBAR transfers, receive precise confirmation of transfers, and access records using the transfer capability: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-hashgraph-announces-ledger-nano-s-and-nano-x-wallet-implementations

We commend the whole Acoer team for the tireless work they are doing to bring this visibility, consistency, and trust to an important set of data related to the Coronavirus being used by scientists and others around the world: https://www.hedera.com/blog/acoer-coronavirus-tracker-powered-by-hedera-hashgraph-now-freely-available-to-general-public-with-added-clinical-trial-data

Listen to CEO Jim Nasr of Acoer explain the innovation in healthcare technology that provides near real-time results. The Coronavirus outbreak has caused much confusion and many question the accuracy of the reported data. Learn about this healthcare use case here: https://youtu.be/VI4eLoCoRtA

Listen now to hear Mance on how businesses can use blockchain with Tomer Federman: https://www.federman.capital/theblockchainvcpodcast/episode/46fd3aa5/mance-harmon-ceo-of-hedera-hashgraph-how-businesses-use-blockchain

"Hashgraph can deliver finality even under challenging network conditions, ex. firewalls. Consequently, hashgraph is *asynchronous* BFT - the highest guarantee of security a consensus algorithm can make." Read more from Mance on Blockchain.News: https://blockchain.news/interview/mance-harmon-hederas-hashgraph-is-bft-blockchains-are-not

From Silicon Valley to Texas, read why Cody Littley, Senior Software Developer, took a chance on hashgraph: https://www.hedera.com/blog/why-i-left-silicon-valley-for-a-startup-in-texas

The Hedera Consensus Service SDK eXtension Components repo is now on GitHub. HCS-SXC is a set of pre-built components that provide additional functionality over and above the Java SDK for HCS to make it easier and quicker to develop apps: https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-hcs-sxc-java

We've opened up early access to the upcoming Hedera Consensus Service and are seeing some impressive TPS numbers. Want to test it out? https://docs.hedera.com/guides/docs/mirror-node-api/hedera-consensus-service-api-1

Nickel FX platform is starting to build with Hedera Consensus Service, in place of Kafka, as a decentralized ordering service for application events in Hyperledger Fabric: https://www.nickel.to

Migrating from Ethereum and EOS to Hedera Hashgraph for its high-throughput, ordering, and finality, Armada Chain are building with HCS to securely process data in their customer's enterprise supply chains, without the drawbacks of smart contracts: https://www.hedera.com/users/armada-chain

From today’s webinar with Dr. Leemon Baird, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist: “The hashgraph codebase will be open review and all of Hedera’s services and developer tools will become open source within the first half of 2020.” Check out our roadmap here: https://www.hedera.com/roadmap/

With the launch of Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet, join us live in under an hour for a webinar on building apps with HCS: https://hedera.zoom.us/webinar/register/2915815565947/WN_Acj0nebRRlSVJAIrycbNHw

The Hedera Consensus Service enables AdsDax to achieve its vision of providing full transparency and accountability of tracked event data. It aids in the fight to reduce ad-fraud and recover billions of dollars lost each year in wasted ad spend: https://www.hedera.com/users/adsdax

Congrats to the dapps running on Hedera’s mainnet for generating 40,000,000 transactions in 6 months! View more details on our Explorers page: https://www.hedera.com/explorers

From Google: "Working with Hedera Hashgraph to support the next generation of distributed ledger technology": https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/working-with-hedera-hashgraph-to-support-the-next-generation-of-distributed-ledger-technology

Nasr, CEO of blockchain developer Acoer, said blockchain can be used for “real-time auditability.” Governments might be wary of sharing data for political reasons, but “infectious diseases cross geopolitical boundaries,” Nasr said to Decrypt Media. https://decrypt.co/18473/how-blockchain-is-being-used-to-track-the-coronavirus

A limited public version of Acoer's Coronavirus Tracker is now also available: https://acoer.com/coronavirus.html

The digital transition that has occurred since the turn of the century, first to downloadable and then streamable music, has resulted in a system that is out of tune with consumers, creators, publishers, and record labels: https://themusicnetwork.com/micropayments-music-rights-op-ed/

Acoer, developer of blockchain-enabled applications, today announced that it is helping its healthcare and life sciences clients to easily track and visualize the Coronavirus outbreak with its HashLog data visualization engine: https://www.hedera.com/blog/cdc-and-whos-coronavirus-data-now-searchable-via-acoer-powered-by-hedera-hashgraph

Having up-to-date and accurate HBAR to USD conversion values is an important aspect of network operations at Hedera. If you’ve ever wondered how we do that conversion, look no further: https://www.hedera.com/blog/how-hedera-calculates-the-hbar-usd-exchange-rate-for-sdks-and-applications

The ability to require multiple signatures for operations on entities in state is critical for security and usability of public ledgers: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hierarchical-multi-signature-support-in-hedera

"A National Permissioned Blockchain is proposed, where government departments and industry associations run validator nodes. It proposes running a private version of Ethereum or Hashgraph". Read how India can use Hedera's Consensus Service: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/india-blockchain-strategy-central-bank-digital-currency-rupee/ #hellofuture

"The institution which once had a centralized power over consumer data can effectively be removed from any real-time participation in the use of that credential." Read more from our Technical Lead, Paul Madsen, on data privacy regulation: https://www.chipin.com/data-privacy-day-2020-emerging-tech-leaders-opinion/

To stay up to date with the change in r0.4 from the old model, read this FAQ about how we now report fees and balances in records: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005232657-How-are-the-transfers-and-fees-associated-with-a-transaction-published

Kabuto is a Hedera mainnet explorer, and a testnet and mainnet mirror node API for live and historical data and events. Why did they choose to build on top of Hedera Hashgraph? The answers are pragmatic and not driven by hype or speculation: https://medium.com/kabuto-sh/the-top-5-reasons-why-we-chose-hedera-hashgraph-4573355597c6

As part of the recent business and coin economics review, the senior leadership team at Hedera has examined every part of Hedera’s strategy and operations. We want to provide timely and comprehensive information to our community and have included our findings in this post: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-january-update-on-business-operations-and-saft-amendment-proposal

The DragonGlass REST API allows you to query historical data by transactions and accounts on both the testnet and mainnet. Learn these basics to get started: https://www.hedera.com/blog/query-historical-data-rest-api

ICYMI Hedera Consensus Service is exposing the hashgraph consensus algorithm more directly for you to creatively take advantage of the speed, security, and fair ordering of hashgraph. You can build entirely new services and applications. https://www.hedera.com/blog/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-hedera-consensus-service

Learn about Hedera Hashgraph's 4th native service, Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) in the whitepaper co-authored by Dr. Leemon Baird, IBM's Principle Product Manager Bryan Gross, and Hedera's Principle Product Manager Donald Thibeau. Download and learn more here: https://www.hedera.com/hh-consensus-service-whitepaper.pdf

Hedera Hashgraph CPO: “The Adoption Of Blockchain Is Going Faster Than I’ve Seen In IoT And AI” via Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinoconnell/2020/01/17/hedera-hashgraph-cpo-the-adoption-of-blockchain-is-going-faster-than-ive-seen-in-iot-and-ai/#692513a84f62

“Up to a million people are killed every year worldwide because of recall management problems.” Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon. New laws are transforming the way companies handle supply chain management and governments are safeguarding public health. Learn how the rise of technology in food safety is used to enhance track and trace in this podcast. Full episode here: https://youtu.be/XVRNAzWSblY

In the past two decades, we’ve shifted our compute from on-premise servers to shared public clouds. What will the next generation of infrastructure look like? Join Cooper Kunz at Hack Arizona on January 18th to learn about the next era of the web. https://www.hedera.com/events

If you're building on Hedera, then the Hedera Boost startup program is open and ready for your application: https://www.hedera.com/boost

Congratulations to the many dapps running on Hedera’s mainnet today! 30,000,000 transactions generated in 4 months! As confirmed by DragonGlass, a cloud-based service that provides live and historical data across all distributed ledgers. https://app.dragonglass.me/hedera/home

Despite the controversy surrounding blockchain, today distributed ledger technology is used to track food, address land grabs, protect refugee identity rights, combat bribery and corruption, eliminate voter fraud, and facilitate financial transactions for those without access to banks. Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon, Rachel Epstein, and Paul Madsen share the potential to transform the way companies look at governance and enterprise risk management, and to assist governments and businesses in mitigating human rights impacts. Full episode here: https://youtu.be/XVRNAzWSblY

Learn the advanced features of blockchains and DLT, know how to set up an advanced blockchain development environment, and know how to develop and deploy a smart contract with advanced functionalities. Join CAS Blockchain at the University of Geneva or by video-conference on Jan 17th. https://www.hedera.com/events

What is the Hedera Consensus Service and what are the ideal use cases for this service? Learn why this service could be a game-changer for developers. Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/El8HhmyPV5

From our family to yours, best wishes for a fantastic holiday season and a very happy new year! We welcome 2020 with all of you to say Hello Future!

Join us top of the hour... Create an ERC20 token & write a solidity #smartcontract in this virtual meetup. Pablo from @hashingsystems will teach you how to build a web app powered by Hedera & integrated with Composer, a browser ext that toggles between testnet & mainnet. Sign up: https://www.meetup.com/Hedera-Hashgraph-Virtual-Meetup/events/266645683/

There was standing room only for Hedera Hashgraph's Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Dr. Leemon Baird, at this workshop, Fairness in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, at WebSummit. https://youtu.be/DU6e0KEFtqY

Learn from the award-winning team at MyEarth.ID who are paving the way for self-sovereign identity in this live stream. Our guests Shiv Aggarwal and Sharat Chandra from MyEarth.ID answer your questions. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8JStqaASIZM

Will blockchains be the foundation layer of the decentralized stack? Join Hedera's Cooper Kunz at Edge Computing World to learn more. Also, hear the promise and landscape of Web3 with the most interesting projects in the space today. https://www.edgecomputingworld.com/agenda/

How enterprises are becoming comfortable with cryptocurrency and public ledgers to fend off disruption and fuel innovation. Hedera Hashgraph's Chief Product Officer, Lionel Chocron spoke with Silicon Valley Insider at Blockchain Expo. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8xez4KL91ow

What is the latest update on the token economics review? Find out in this FAQ: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003969638

You can create accounts on Hedera Hashgraph using a combination of key types, including: simple keys, key list, threshold keys, and complex keys. Learn more about each key type in this blog posting by Hedera developer Sree Kaimal: https://medium.com/@sreejithkaimal/keys-signatures-on-hedera-hashgraph-e173814456d5

“It appears that 2020 is the year when, to a real degree, these ledgers actually start doing real things. DLT actually starts being used for real things. I think 2020 is the year.” Dr. Leemon Baird, inventor of the hashgraph algorithm, spoke at the University of Oxford. Listen to the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/yYNv6YadS64

ICYMI This live stream features Hedera's Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz and the cofounder of Tune.fm, Andrew Antar! Watch it in full here: https://youtu.be/QhrfYT0vJ4k

Join us for Forkless Café, & get your weekly DLT insights. Our guest will touch on a less obvious use case. Ask questions, leave comments & learn with the community. Can't join us live? Catch the recording on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/6qPexa_7Atg