uTalk

New year celebrations are a few days away. Therefore is is time to recall and evaluate our past year's achievements. Despite tough year 2020 for the whole of the humanity, 1984 Group has been doing our best to improve Utopia. Of course, not everything went as smoothly as we would like. Extensive functionality of Utopia ecosystem, that is fully based on P2P architecture with no central servers, caused unexpected routing problems that effected overall ecosystem's stability. Utopia relies on miners to enhance the connectivity within the system, while miners depend on the stability of mining nodes. Unfortunately, our attempts to improve the current mining software have failed.

As a result we have decided to create an alternative miner from scratch that is compatible with Utopia (hence no hard-fork) while avoiding problems of the old miner altogether. The result is UAM (Utopia Alternative Miner), developed by a team of best 1984 Group's specialists. At the moment over 95% of Utopia nodes are UAM nodes. The new mining software has proven to perform well resulting in return of overall network stability. We have accomplished this task thanks to your help, support from each of you who remained a believer over the challenging days.
   
Regained Utopia stability has allowed 1984 Group to re-focus on the main objective: developing functionality for secure and safe communication. Make your websites available within Utopia network, create group chats and news channels, communicate with your partners and friends, pay with Crypton and create new services for fellow Utopia users. We leave the decision to save the world from censorship or make money up to you, and we at 1984 Group will bring together the enthusiasts and create a technical base for safe work.

While one part of our team was busy developing UAM, the other part implemented Texas Hold'em poker within Utopia ecosystem. If you are interested in a multiplayer game within P2P network, we suggest that you try the game along other Utopia users. Soon Utopia volunteers will organize a tournament with valuable prizes.

The upcoming year 2021 will be the year of success for Utopia cryptocurrency. This year Crypton was noted by numerous media outlets. Most of them were impressed by functionality and benefits that include privacy, low transaction fees and ease of use for merchants and users. Only 3 seconds needed to confirm a transaction within Utopia network. Improvement of Crypton's liquidity has been highlighted as one of the priorities for year 2021. Within several months Crypton will be listed at new exchanges under CRP ticker. At the modern world, payment privacy is a top priority, and Crypton is well positioned to fulfil the role of such payment mean.

We highly admire the fact, that a lot of users appreciated privacy and safely of communication within Utopia ecosystem while using it on a daily basis. The number of channels and registered uNS (Utopia Name System) is rising drastically. We are confident that this trend will persist in 2021 and Utopia will gain millions of new users. In the upcoming year a Self-Governance based on Humane Society system will be launched. The best ideas will get grants and ready made implementations will get sponsorship and subsidies by 1984 Group.

This year has reinforced our believe that surveillance by governments and corporations will grow. The trend to limit individual liberties under pretence of fighting epidemic or political enemies is on the rise. Corporations and government agencies seem to be determined to get to hidden corners of our consciousness for their own benefit. They are confident that they know what we think, feel and capable of determining our own future.

Our goal in 2021 is to continue our struggle for a right to stay free. Eight years have passed since Utopia was founded. We are working hard so that each of you can decide for yourself what information to share, with whom to communicate and what activities to engage in. Our goal is to rerun freedom of expression, freedom of choice, privacy of communication and payment. Obviously, all of us may face obstacles along the way, and we are ready to overcome those obstacles with no motivation loss.

1984 Group is a group of highly professional and motivated individuals that believe in higher purpose of our ideas and dedicated to follow them for the sake of achieving the results. Nevertheless we cannot change the world on our own, and we need help from those that share our ideas. Fill our platform with content, create websites, channels, communicate, play and, most importantly, let others know that there are those that are still willing to change the current course of events. Meanwhile we will complete the development of mobile apps to fully cover the audience that share our ideas.

We wish you and your families happiness, excellent health, and prosperity in the year 2021! Always follow your heart and stay true to your ideas. Let year 2021 be better with Utopia!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021!

1984 Group.

Dear Utopia Community,

The minimal required version for mining will been increased to 1.0.7023 within next 24 hours.

Please update your bots to avoid mining process interruption.

UAM (Utopia Alternative Miner) 1.0.7023

+ The update will fix the issue with high CPU load during traffic spikes allowing more stable mining and increased network stability.

Linux (RPM)
https://update.u.is/downloads/uam/linux … x86_64.rpm

Linux (DEB)
https://update.u.is/downloads/uam/linux … _amd64.deb

Best Regards,
1984 Group Team

Dear Utopia Community,

The minimal required version for mining will been increased to 1.0.7013 within next 24 hours.

Please update your bots to avoid mining process interruption.

UAM (Utopia Alternative Miner) 1.0.7013

+ The update will fix the issue with message delivery to channels.

Linux (RPM)
https://update.u.is/downloads/uam/linux … x86_64.rpm

Linux (DEB)
https://update.u.is/downloads/uam/linux … _amd64.deb

Best Regards,
1984 Group Team

Dear Utopia Community,

As you have likely noticed, our ecosystem has experienced considerable instability recently and we have released a number of updates as a result. We would like to provide the community with insight about the recent updates so that you may be more fully informed as to their purpose.

A while back we conducted research which showed 97-99 percent of all network traffic was consumed by users for mining purposes. Taking this data into account and following analysis of feedback gained from our users regarding the ecosystem functionality and stability, we made a critical decision to develop an alternative independent network core - one that would be much faster and much more efficient than the existing one. Moreover, all the processes inside the new core would be more transparent.

That decision was the genesis of the UAM - Utopia Alternative Miner.

We have worked tirelessly on UAM development, having started it from scratch. Despite the fact that the UAM was developed independently, it is now fully compatible with the existing network protocol of Utopia. As a result, we now have the latest version of Utopia, which does not contain an embedded miner. Going forward, the only possible tool for mining and network support is the UAM.

After the new core has been completely integrated, we expect a significant decline in issues associated with lost packets, resolving issues with payments and stuck operations in Utopia.

Here is a list of technical issues that need to be resolved at the moment:

1. Small number of mining bots on the network - currently, few users are mining in accordance with the new requirements.

2. Some minor glitches of the network (e.g. lost messages in channels), currently we are working on it.

3. Not all users have updated to the latest version of the Utopia client

The main advantages of the new UAM miner are: speed, mining stability and ease of operating.

There are also a number of advantages for developers: high reliability, predictable behavior of UAM, ease of modifications and changes, improved performance.

Please note that the full functionality of Utopia is only available to users who are running the latest version of the Utopia client. Because of this, we strongly encourage users who are still on previous versions to update your clients and mining bots as soon as possible, as previous versions will soon be disabled.

We wish to thank the entire community for your continued patience with, and commitment to Utopia ecosystem.

Best Regards,
1984 Group Team