SmartCash 2019 Year in Review. Let’s take a look back!

2020 is getting closer! This is a great time to remember the important  moments of 2019 for the SmartCash team and the whole community. At the  moment, SmartCash has been continuously developing for 2,5 years as a  cryptocurrency created for daily payments and every step of the team is  aimed at developing several important directions at the same time:  increasing recognition, community growth, integrations, development of  our own tools and, of course, listing on exchanges.

New Features 

This year the team introduced several tools that made it even easier  to use the cryptocurrency: SmartCash payment plugin for WooCommerce, a  service for sending SMART by Email, SMS and links,  SmartShift, and many others! (full list at the end of the article).  Scheduled payments, which are available to everyone through a Web Wallet,  have become a particularly attractive feature.  With it you can easily  pay for your subscriptions or memberships based on a fiat amount of  SmartCash every month. The ATM Vouchers were released (for Switzerland and Portugal),  which allows users to quickly exchange their coins for Euro or CHF and  then cash out these funds in one of the ATM`s, BitC or Bitugax ATM`s in  Switzerland and Portugal respectively. 

Check out this video to get more information:

At the end of 2019, the development team released SmartHub App,  which now includes a mobile wallets without a password login and soon  will have SmartCards and business account setup, replacing SmartPay,  web, and mobile wallets with a simple single easy to use interface.

Worldwide Adoption 

During 2019, SmartCash was accepted for payment in many offline and online stores. It is worth to highlight the official WikiLeaks Shop, CryptoStorm.is, Spill the Beans Café in Montreal, and others. The exciting news was the addition of SmartCash payments to 42 top stores in Brazil by Yamcol Group. 

Watch the video of it here:

Also this year SmartCash has expanded its ATM network in Switzerland and  Portugal. Currently, there are 5 and 11 ATMs in Portugal and  Switzerland respectively. This integration allowed residents of these  countries to buy and exchange SmartCash in a more convenient way. At the  same time, work is underway to connect new ATMs in other countries.

You can find more information about new places at the end of the article and also at find.smartcash.cc, official SmartCash merchant directory.

The Goal is to Work Effectively 

The SmartCash team prioritizes the long-term and effective  development of the cryptocurrency. That’s why, this year, various costs  within teams have been reduced and the focus has been put on developing  the most important areas of the project. Besides, several coordinators  of the project continue to work on a volunteer basis. All these  activities will help SmartCash to effectively build a roadmap for  development in the near future.

You can find more information on this topic in our separate article: SmartCash continues to work efficiently, reducing costs during the crypto winter.

Exchanges and Services 

SmartCash (SMART) was added to Finexbox, Pars, DelionDex, Safetrade  and other exchanges. SmartCash also has been integrated into the  following apps and services: Anypay Global, Pecunia Platform, Monkey  Tracking, MyCryptoCheckout, Solobet.com, and others! This year SmartCash  has been added to the Ellipal’s stunning hardware wallet, whose advantage is the ease of use and high-level security. 

You can watch a video about this wallet and how to use it below:

Bitcoin Confidential Release 

On April 26, 2019, the Bitcoin Confidential  mainnet was launched. For those who do not know, it’s SmartCash’s  sister project. Bitcoin Confidential is focused on providing full  privacy for each user from block 1. All users who had SmartCash at their  addresses on the date of the snapshot can participate in airdrop  (1 SMART = 10 BC). And it’s still not too late! Now the project is  developing and looking for new people willing to join the team and  contribute to its development. Just join Discord to learn more details. By the way, BC is now running a contest for the best article, there  will be only 3 winners, each winner will receive 100 000 $BC. Find out  more details here and try your chance to become one of the winners!

Media 

This year a lot of people were talking about SmartCash. It is worth to highlight the following articles / videos: SmartCash Featured on Major TV Network RT America as Faster than Bitcoin, Did SmartCash Just Replace WesternUnion in Switzerland and Portugal?, Watch an episode about how SmartCash is changing the world of payments on CryptoDealers, the popular Russian-speaking channel about cryptocurrencies, SmartCash ranked 11th among cryptocurrencies by the number of active nodes. 

Also, SmartCash Smartalk Radio’s project continued to host new guests and discuss important things during the year, such as the SmartTalk Radio E05 – Iozeta, CryptoCandy and Feeding the Crypto Birds, SmartTalk Radio E09 – Crypto Communities, Anarchaforko and Tatiana Moroz, SmartTalk Radio E11 – Derrick J Freeman of Anypay.global, SmartTalk Radio E19 – SmartCash Adoption in Portugal – new ATM locations and ATM vouchers and others. 

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It’s been a really interesting and exciting year. In 2020 SmartCash  has exciting plans, so stay here to be the first to learn about  everything. We will always be happy to hear your feedback, so feel free  to contribute to the project!

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