Helix is doing great! Hundreds of users have used it this week, some multiple times a day. The average wait time has been 1 hour. There were a couple transaction that took 3 hours but that was because of the large amounts.
I did a few small updates to grams/helix over the weekend and wanted to let you all know about them real quick.
Auto-Helix
As most of you know every time you want to reload your grams' account you need to get anew reload address. Since most users want to helix the funds as soon as they are confirmed I added the auto-helix. Now when you get a new reload address you can activate auto-helix by setting an auto helix address (where the bitcoins will be sent after they are helixed). Once activated any transaction equal to or greater than 0.02 BTC(the helix minimum) sent to the current reload address will automatically be helix and sent to you receive address. This way you don't need to log in again to helix the fund once they have been confirmed.
couple of notes
- all the logs are still there so when you do log in again you can see everything that came in and went out just like a normal helix.
- fee is the same 3%
- any transactions under 0.02 btc will still be credited to your account. You will just have manually helix them when they add up to over .02 BTC
- an auto-helix only applies to 1 reload, after the reload address expires (7 hours) so does the auto-helix
Maximum helix increased.
For the first week I has a max helix transaction of 2 BTC. Now that the reserve is built up I have doubled it to 4 BTC
Vendor links
I change the way the InfoDesk vendor profile links work.
#Example old: http://grams7enufi7jmdl.onion/infodesk/vendor/0x595D7BCDCB3813C4
#Example new: http://grams7enufi7jmdl.onion/vendor/DakotaFred
This should make it easier for vendors to post these links on their market profiles. The old links still work too.
Extra hour
The reload address are only valid for 7 hours to save on server calls and for security to users. Before when the 7 hours was up if your transaction wasn't confirmed you lost those bitcoins (this never happened to anyone, but could have) Now if the 7 hours is up and it see a transaction is not confirmed all the way it will add an extra hour to let the transaction confirm.
I know these are just small things but I wanted you guys to know about them and know I am working hard to make grams the best it can be.
TODO this week
- InfoDesk "about me" sections for vendors to display things such as shipping cost, times, when they are on vacation, or whatever else they want.
- Multiple address Helix
- A little surprise :-)
Cheers,
GramsAdmin
Grams <3