Luckily, it's getting a bit too obvious to even new users visiting here, that the pineapple dude has one single purpose with his postings here.

But let's take it to a positive spin instead of bashing the poor kid. It provides us with an excellent excuse to let people know what's actually happening with the project from time to time.

During the past week, Byteball core members all travveled to Barcelona to meet and discuss the future events and overall strategy of the project. There are several initiatives to be announced in the weeks to come. Firstly, the approach to getting the platform and its vast features and possibilities in the hands of users and creative minds in order to explore real world use cases. An area that all projects find themselves struggling with. There are conferences and events scheduled, where the benefits of the Byteball platform will be explored by people without any prior knowledge of the platform or programming skills at all. This will inevitably lead to a multitude of new and exciting use cases that may differ from the usual "when new exchange" and "when moon" peoples' comprehension. But we are totally fine with that.

Another important thing to note was last Tuesday's meetup in Barcelona. Here, head of strategyValerius Coppens and Head of PR introduced the Byteball platform to the 60-70 participants and later joined a panel debate with a specially invited speaker from Spanish telecom company Telefonica. The interesting thing about the line-up was that he was refreshingly critical to distributed ledger technology in general, claiming that he could build everything that blockchains (and DAGs) has to offerwithout the need of DLT. It was an interesting and sober debate with some highly relevant topics that most projects would have a hard time to come up with proper answers to. But Valerius and Luke completely killed it, leavi g the entire audience convinced of the bright future of DLT in general and Byteball in particular. Video from the event will be released as soon as we have the final version from the Alpha Blockchain crew, who were so kind to record the entire event.

This weekend is also the time that the winners of the Steem Use-a-Thon will be announced, so I highly encourage everyone to follow the Byteball.org user ON Steem and read about the interesting use cases that we will hopefully come to see realized in the following months.

The decentralization of witnesses is also progressing. Not quite as fast as we had hoped, but of the current candidates, there is active work being put into the first 4 decentralization that we hope to be able to announce shortly.

Finally, I'd like to take a moment to thanks the participants of the Use-a-thon and encourage others (even the pineapple kid) to get in touch with me if you have any ideas or suggestions for events, contests or Use-a-thons. You can catch me on the Byteball Slack or on Telegram.

Cheers, and good luck on your crusade, piney... I'm afraid you'll find all that energy to be wasted.