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Since bleeding edge tech isn’t audited, and mostly unregulated, we have no bulletproof insurance that the persons involved are good-hearted and acting in the name of progression. You’re on tangleblog.com, and I write about IOTA like I perceive it, so naturally, things are drawn in a positive way here. The reason is simple: I believed in the vision before I invested, and now I give them my full support -which, of course, means nothing to smart investors from outside. Due diligence is the most valuable currency of traders and investors, and also for companies that decide to give IOTA a chance. The last weeks, however, have shown that there is nothing to fear and that I obviously backed on the right horse. What a year! Time to sum up the latest evidence that IOTA is a legitimate project, that has the potential to change everything. IOTA works differently as blockchains in my regards, it’s just a matter of customer habits, that a lot of people doubt the technology, they don’t know, yet. Therefore, I’d like to sum up a few spicy questions, that have been going around for quite some time. What a great show! The headline on Forbes and several other magazines alone were incredibly catchy and held back countless companies and investments -that’s for sure. That the alleged vulnerability wasn’t in effect, that no funds were ever at risk, that the testing conditions were ludicrous, and that everyone involved acted with a conflict of interest, wasn’t part of that article by Amy Castor. But in mine: https://www.tangleblog.com/2017/09/13/competitors-amy-castor-tale-reputation-usage-discredit-campaign/ Since then, a second article from the Digital Currency Initiative of the MIT Media Lab left many believers speechless, as the allegations were clouded in unsubstantial criticism. The IOTA foundation then decided to respond to the matter at hand and they included a list of conflict of interests. As part of a natural decision process, you should read all parts in order to draw a conclusion. The not so responsible “responsible disclosure” was lead by Neha Narula of the MIT Media Lab. I’ve received several direct messages from Harvard and the MIT since then, that my research was accurate. As for the future: The IOTA foundation decided to hire independent professionals (www.cybercrypt.dk), to work on the mentioned signing algorithm, in order to legitimize their efforts and to develop a working and smart solution. Please read the blog-post of IOTA to understand how serious the efforts of the IOTA foundation are. IOTA Foundation hires world leading cryptographic company CYBERCRYPT to audit and assist in the evolvement of the lightweight cryptographic primitive Curl.https://t.co/yyi2xnwic0#IOTA #Cryptography — IOTA (@iotatoken) November 23, 2017 -There is no vulnerability, the funds of investors were and are 100% safe at any time. -Independent cryptographers, in addition to the competent IOTA team, are working on the maintenance and security of the tangle -Competing projects try to slow down IOTA’s progress -In order to get an unbiased opinion, investors should take their time and view all evidence to understand that forces are working in combined efforts to harm IOTA. –Up to this day and after repeated requests from the IOTA team, the DCI team has still not released any exploit code publicly. -This is how the crypto-community thinks about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7svr8r/mit_media_lab_dci_allegations_proven_wrong_iotas/?sort=confidence Maybe the most controversial discussed topic in the IOTA ecosystem. A node, in possession of the IOTA foundation, that is setting milestones, and that is used to take away the money from the people? Bollocks. First of all, read the transparency compendium by the IOTA foundation. The coordinator is training wheels for the juvenile network and has solely the task to set milestones as a Sybil-attack resistance, nothing else. Also, if people want to code referencing nodes themselves, they can do it, because the knowledge is out there, but people just did not do it yet, hence the importance of the security measure “coordinator”. Needless to say: the foundation, which is officially registered in Germany as a non-profit organization, under German law, will not exploit it. They would stop their complete venture, which makes zero sense. Luckily, we humans, sometimes, have a brain and can handle imperfect situations for the greater good. So here is my personal opinion as someone that is part of the IOTA community for a long time: I do trust these peoples, I know them for 2 years, they are nothing but progressive and eager, so I’d rather chose them over a world, where people just try to exploit everything they can. Including temporary solutions that aim for security. Because it is necessary. In a few months, when the hash power is big enough, the training wheels can be taken away step by step and the bad actors cannot attack the network with a Sybil-attack anymore. That is a trade I’m willing to make, as someone that doesn’t like an inefficient Bitcoin et. al., that doesn’t like the waste of mining electricity and the hypocrisy of the whole cryptoland, because what matters is innovation and not a useless buzzword a la “decentralization” that won’t matter soon. It’s been a while since I wrote my article about the incentives. Many things have happened until then. The number of full-nodes has been steadily increased and estimates say we are at approx. 5000 but there is yet no way to pinpoint the number. With the help of Zoran and the audience of my Sonntagsplausch and Sunday banter, we managed to add an additional number of ~400 full nodes to the existing base. The people obviously believe in the technology and are willing to spend their time and money on it, even without compensation. A good source to set up your own full node is IOTA.partners But there are other mentionable ventures. Roman Semko from Semko development in Leipzig, Germany, is creating an ecosystem for the improvement of the Tangle topology. Carriota, Nelson, and Bolero are brand-names of his proprietary software, that is running on top of IOTA, a layer that enables connections between all other Nelson participants and the Tangle itself. Bolero even goes a step further in creating an easy 5-step installation of a full node that connects to the Nelson Network. This solution works as a supplement which is wrapped around the Tangle. Its effects are quite helpful, especially because it significantly lowers the entry barrier for people that want to help. His solutions are on the website http://www.carriota.com/ and in Github  We know that several cities and companies research the tangle for their business models. Cities like Taipei, Tokio or Haarlem are creating clusters in the Tangle network, that rely on several hundred full nodes, which are added to the high number very soon. We heart that argument very often: IOTA cannot work, there is no incentive. In terms of transaction fees, yes. IOTA has no transaction fees. You send one cent from Japan, the guy in Brazil gets one cent. However, you need to keep in mind that there must be a spam mechanism to prevent malicious parties from flooding the network. Therefore a low proof of work algorithm has been added as an anti-Sybil-mechanism. That is a countermeasure because a system like IOTA will always be targeted in order to try a double-spending attack. There is practically no way to perform such an attack successfully, but that doesn’t stop some antagonists to attack the network anyway. Mostly in order to slow down public nodes to make it look like IOTA wouldn’t work. That is a side effect of using the light-node system: you have to rely on your light node provider. A full node has a way better user experience. To conclude: IOTA is free to use, but the proof of work is necessary to protect the funds. There are no fees other than tiny amounts of electricity. Compared to Bitcoin as the one cryptocurrency which is known the most, you had to pay ~$15 or more to send your amount. Try to send 15 times one cent from your position to Brazil and compare the added transaction fees from Bitcoin and the electrical costs of IOTA’s marginal PoW. $225 vs 0.0001 cents for electricity. Before I get into that, I want to point out IOTA’s take on that, that has been repeated numerous times. IOTA is made for the machine economy. Since competition and time are issues that are taken very seriously, the focus of the limited resources of the IOTA foundation lays, therefore,  in creating a protocol, the research of the technology, collaborations, and simulations. Take a look around and compare IOTA with other projects that have a different approach: Byteball, Raiblocks(Nano), Pascalcoin. The usability is higher in all of them, but they lack research, collaborations, simulations and a clear vision of how and where they want to solve problems. One of them received help from IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo because he found flaws in their system and helped them to correct the issues. Responsible disclosure done right – no FUD, no malice. IOTA lacks usability and an easy to use wallet because they focused on getting Bosch, Volkswagen, Fujitsu on board. The list of collaborations and business connections is already too long to list them in one article, but it’s hard to deny that IOTA chose the way of success and adoption. The Trinity wallet of the University College London around Dr. Navin Ramachandran, Charly Varley and a few other developers is the solution for the usability issues people communicated. It will include an automated re-attach functionality, an address-re-use protection, a secure seed generator, and better UI. Critical issues that are problems of the Wallet that is in use right now. This will take a few weeks, but from then on other projects have no advantage in terms of usability anymore. Investments in the cryptocurrency sphere are often directly connected to the expectation value of an asset. If the usability of IOTA is improved vastly, what do you expect? That is a misconception that has been created by the yellow press and blogging landscape of cryptoland. IOTA has never been hacked. Seeds cannot just randomly be found. The possible combinations of seeds in the IOTA Tangle are higher than all atoms in the observable universe. This is not just a phrase, it’s a fact. If people lose their money, it’s mostly because they used a rigged online seed generator, or they gave someone access to their seed in other ways. As long as only you know your seed, and no one has access to it, your funds are 100% save. No. That’s a combination of 3 things. Your expectation, IOTA’s usability, and that exchanges are struggling to handle the insane numbers of requests by their user-base. IOTA is pretty young, special, focused on corporal adoption. You shouldn’t expect it to be like consumer software with steady support and service. The usability makes it look like IOTA is slow and broken, the truth is that if you know the appropriate solutions to issues, it almost always works, depending if the network is working as intended or not. Attacks, snapshots, and improvements forced the developers numerous times to halt the coordinator or to upgrade the full nodes. That will improve vastly in the future, as the growing network ensure that the coordinator will be removed eventually and snapshots will be performed locally. Exchanges will handle IOTAs deposits and withdrawals way better in the near future, as the IXI hub is in its final stages of development. All 3 reasons considered, IOTA has a bright future in terms of user experience. A question that has been asked many times lately. Remember that IOTA has basically 2 functionalities: When companies use the IOTA data marketplace for selling their sensor-output, they use both functions as they offer their data and on the other hand, demand just a few iotas for each data-package. How would they get paid, if the costs of the information are at a fraction of a cent? With a credit card or PayPal? No. The established payment options cannot be used for micropayments. That is the whole idea of a machine economy. Machines get a wallet and get paid for their work, especially when microtransactions are needed, such as electric vehicle charging. For that, you need iotas, the currency of IOTA. The total supply is limited, therefore rises in value the more real-world use-cases are built around it. The IOTA foundation stated, that companies that are working with IOTA are “forced” to use iotas and not a “tokenized asset” on top of the tangle, to ensure that the value of the iotas will be secured. If a company decides to only use the data transaction, they still support the system with proof of work and a better confirmation rate. Most importantly: The IOTA foundation is a non-profit organization (gemeinnützige Stiftung) under German law, registered in Berlin. That means that the founders and developers of the foundation are working transparently in favor of society to be “gemeinnützig” – serving the public good. This major step into mass adoption and building a trustworthy standard for the Internet of Things shouldn’t be forgotten. Their latest efforts in creating educational blog posts on their official medium blog should shed light on many uncertainties. Great information here. Summed up very well. A great read for anybody that wants accurate information and doesn’t have the time to filter multiple sources. @7. Actually, there are more seed combinations than there would be atoms in 3.6×10^37 (that’s 36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) universes. Please read my reddit post on the matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7vemtn/getting_ones_head_around_the_seed_security/ So the incentive to run an IOTA full node is because people believe in it? There are a lot of good answers here to FUD questions That one isn’t one of them. Hello Johnny, please read the article: https://www.tangleblog.com/2017/06/27/incentive-run-fullnode-iota/ Question on 6.5: Can you elaborate a little bit more about ‘adding IOTA to the stock market’? What do you mean by ‘add’ in this context? IOTA has a few connections in that direction. Also, numerous times they told us that they want to separate from cryptoland as soon as possible. Also, there was a thread on /r/iota about this topic, but I cannot look for that right now, it shouldn’t be too hard to find, look for IOTA Q theory, stocks, etc. Amazing article! keep up the good work! Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Soros now the Rockefeller’s, https://t.co/r5079xYTln #IOTA Under Best Choices to Go For After the Violent Selling-Period @EtherWorldNews https://t.co/Yd3r1AfqAZ #IOTA TipBot just went live on our Discord. Check it out: https://t.co/nzRtxRO5Hf Fantastic work team. 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Bitcoin Whales eat the essence of Satoshi Nakamoto 12th November 201713th November 2017 Jose Felip bitcoin, bitcoin cash, markets, price, speculation, whales It has been a very busy weekend, both in the market for crypto values, as well as with the rumors and news related to the control and attack of the main bitcoin blockchain. The value of Bitcoin began to fall from its maximum ($ 7440) on Thursday, September 9, until reaching a floor ($ 5519) on Sunday, the 12th, a more than significant drop. To this, was added the unexpected and unjustified rise on Friday 10th day of Bitcoin Cash, starting from $ 630 and reaching $ 1400 (although in some exchanges came to exceed $ 2400) What is the reason for these large movements of value in such a short time? We dare not say what the reasons are, but if we can see everything that happened, rumors and related news so that the reader can find the answer: The cancellation of the HardFork Segwit2x In the alleged internal war of the Bitcoin blockchain (which includes supporters of Bitcoin Cash, segwit, segwit2x and the Bitcoin Core itself) the cancellation of the HardFork SegWit2x was announced on November 8 due to lack of consensus. 1 st Detonating of what happened? Bitcoin Cash difficulty setting (also known as Bitcoin Cash fork) Before the announcement already programmed to recalculate the difficulty in the Bitcoin Cash network for Sunday 12th, many miners migrated their power to this blockchain, causing the mining power in the Bitcoin Core network to be lost. The 2nd trigger of what happened? Attacks on Bitcoin miners Rumor has it, although you can check in the memory of the pools, they started to initiate small transactions with high fees (fees), collapsing in this way, the mining blocks, and overflowing the memory queue of the miners, leaving out the normal transactions with little commission to prioritize high commissions. The 3rd trigger of what happened? Inconsiderate increase of fees in the Bitcoin network The consequence of the collapse: while on Saturday an average of $ 5-6 was paid for a transaction of $ 25 (which is already expensive), on Sunday was paid between $ 30 and $ 40 for the same transaction of $ 25, all an Incredible madness (we are talking about more than 100% commission for a transaction). The 4th trigger of what happened? Speculative movements in the exchanges All this also affected the exchanges, slowing down and even blocking some, due to the panic of the investors in withdrawing their money, selling their bitcoins, converting them into other Altcoins, or simply, getting out of this volatile market. In Kraken, for example, orders were placed for the sale of batches of 10,000 bitcoins, all an alarm for investors (These movements of volume and value so large are called to who handles whales). The 5th trigger of what happened? Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Cash: Free money The activation programmed for Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Core bifurcation, and Bitcoin Cash difficulty update, has led to confusion to get free coins before these 2 events, of which, only in the first are achieved. Scheduled for block 499407, the Bitcoin Gold HardFork is shown on Sunday with delays and problems in its main-net but even so, the purchase of Bitcoin to get those coins was made during the week leaving many investors stuck in purchases high, and supposedly canceling their purchases for the loss of value, adding to the disproportionate sale and loss of Bitcoin value. The 6th Trigger of what happened? Altcoins Meanwhile, in the market of the AltCoins, the blood ran, dragged by the need to convert their Altcoins into other less volatile crypts, saving only a few of the sangria, such as IOTA, Dash, and Ethereum. Speculation, manipulation, centralization, and control For all the above to occur, there must be a consensus, a very strong power, and a very large investment at the economic level, and this does not comply with the real essence of the original Bitcoin network, nor with Bitcoin Cash or with any. If all this, we add to important world blockchain characters such as Gavin Andresen and Vitalik Buterin, who through Twitter show their support for Bitcoin Cash: Congrats on this. Seriously. @rogerkver @JihanWu @deadalnix pic.twitter.com/UXYdEcRn4y Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) November 12, 2017 Bitcoin Cash is what I started working on in 2010: a store of value AND means of exchange. Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen) November 11, 2017 and we added a letter from Bitcoin Cashs CEO, Rick Falkvinge (a free cryptocurrency CEO, decentralized, global, and with voting consensus, in which it is covertly explained that Bitcoin Cash is a company created to make money, not to be a global community, among other more dramatic points), which will soon leave stock options for buying futures in financial markets, the well-known and controlled Pumps and Dumps by whales and more facts and assumptions that we do not add to extend more the topic, we believe that the reader can get a slight idea of where the shots go and we think, in a simple and humble way, that the market value that cryptocurrencies are following is the same wrong pattern as fiat coins.The 7th, 8th, 9th, Triggering of what happened? We will always have the blockchain. and to see that we are not the only ones who assume the facts that way can visit: https://blog.synereo.com/2017/11/12/summary-of-events-bitcoin-vs-bitcoin-cash/, for example. https://blog.synereo.com/2017/11/12/summary-of-events-bitcoin-vs-bitcoin-cash/ (last update: November 12, 2017, 23:52 p.m UTC) The publisher of bitcoiner.today is not responsible for the opinion or recommendations expressed by its publishers. Investments in financial assets are high risk investments, you may lose all or part of your investment. Consult with an investment specialist before you act. Jose FelipThe difficult thing is not to learn, the difficult thing is to know how to teach. 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The long-awaited confrontation between Ripple and SWIFT that was scheduled to happen during this year’s Blockchain Economic Forum in Davos will apparently not be happening after all. Ripple’s official subreddit broke the news today, confirming that the CEO of SWIFT, Gottfried Leibbrandt, withdrew from his speaking role at this event’s round table conference on payment systems.The meeting was popularized both in mainstream and crypto media, as it represented a chance for the two economic worlds to directly collide and exchange talking points. Both SWIFT and Ripple are targeting the markets of international remittance and cross-border payments and have been pitted as serious competitors for quite some time now.SWIFT is currently the more mainstream option, but is suffering from issues related to its centralized, traditional finance roots. Ripple aims to disrupt SWIFT’s hegemony with its blockchain-focused, arguably decentralized approach. Tests have shown that Ripple does offer fast and almost free transfers for even the greatest sums of money. However, the project is still at a point where it will have to jump through a lot of legality/decentralization-related hoops before becoming ready to go mainstream.The news came as somewhat of a disappointment for the Ripple community, as many of them were looking forward to seeing their own CEO Brad Garlinghouse challenge the SWIFT head honcho in person. Gottfried Leibbrandt was visible in BEF Davos “speaker” section on the official website of the event, but his name has now been removed.Liebbrandt is currently holding a role of the “retiring” CEO of his company, as he announced his plans to leave SWIFT by June 2019 back in December. Liebbrandt’s place will be taken by Michal Krupinski, President of the Management Board  of Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna (Bank Pekao SA). While all of this implies that the confrontation has been delayed, it seems that the community won’t have to wait that long to see it;  the CEO of SWIFT is scheduled to appear next to the CEO of Ripple at the upcoming Paris Fintech Forum (January 29th-30th).BEF or Blockchain Economic Forum is backed by LA token and is scheduled to happen from January 24th to 26th, 2019 in Davos, Switzerland. The primary focus of the event will be crypto economy, the emergence of blockchain technology and its potential to create a decentralized financial system of the future.There is no fundamental force that will drive the price of XRP tokens that is predicated on this event. However, speculation potential is there which could see a new wave of XRP hype breaking out and possibly pushing the price above the $.50 mark in the time around the conference, especially if Ripple does a good job in presenting their technology.Bitcoin is Going Global: Here’s the Top Countries Leading Crypto Adoption From Around the WorldRipple can be the dark horse cryptocurrency of 2019: Ripple Price Predictions – XRP Price TodayUnit 42, the global threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Network, discovered Mac malware that can steal cookies linked to crypto exchanges and wallets.Although usernames and passwords may not be sufficient to initiate withdrawals at crypto exchanges, if hackers manage to steal a combination of login credentials, web cookies, authentication cookies, and SMS data, it could steal user funds.“CookieMiner tries to navigate past the authentication process by stealing a combination of the login credentials, text messages, and web cookies. If the bad actors successfully enter the websites using the victim’s identity, they could perform fund withdrawals. This may be a more efficient way to generate profits than outright cryptocurrency mining.”WHY THIS PARTICULAR CRYPTO MALWARE IS DANGEROUS mac malware cryptocurrency A new strain of crypto malware is targeting Mac users. | Source: ShutterstockThroughout the past 12 months, many pieces of crypto-targeting malware were released mostly to install cryptocurrency mining software on CPUs.The Mac malware found by Unit 42 dubbed “CookieMiner” is the first to focus on digital asset exchange and wallet users.In 2017, a cybersecurity firm Symantec discovered PC malware that alters Ethereum addresses typed on wallets and exchanges to reallocate funds.It cleverly led victims to send funds to the Ethereum address of the creator of the malware by generating tens of thousands of addresses and replacing the victim’s address with whichever address that resembles it.But, CookieMiner directly targets cryptocurrency wallet and exchange users by stealing credentials and manually logging into digital asset platforms to withdraw or reallocate funds.It is difficult to stop the operators of the malware of logging into cryptocurrency exchanges or wallets of victims once they gain authenticator cookies and SMS data because with it, the hackers can bypass two-factor authentication (2FA).“By leveraging the combination of stolen login credentials, web cookies, and SMS data, based on past attacks like this, we believe the bad actors could bypass multi-factor authentication for these sites. If successful, the attackers would have full access to the victim’s exchange account and/or wallet and be able to use those funds as if they were the user themselves.”Code of Crypto Stealing Malware Source: PaloAltoNetworks.comAs of February 2, no victims from the malware were reported but it is capable of stealing a wide range of sensitive data that includes Google Chrome and Apple Safari browser cookies, saved usernames and passwords, text messages linked to Mac, and cryptocurrency wallet data and keys.If a private key or an authenticator cookie to a wallet or an exchange are gained by the operators of the malware, there is little the victims can do to stop the attack.On non-custodial wallets on which users have to maintain their own back-up data and private keys, in the event that the private keys are stolen, it is virtually impossible to stop the theft.SAMSUNG REPORTEDLY CREATING A CRYPTO WALLET IS A GOOD FIRST STEP As reported by local publications in South Korea including The Korea Herald, Samsung has already begun the process of developing and integrating a digital asset wallet into the Galaxy S10.Earlier this week, some reports claimed that Samsung Pay, the company’s flagship digital payments app that is used by over ten million users worldwide, is leading the integration of the crypto wallet.I only used the Galaxy A8s for a day, and I was used to the existence of Hole, and even thought it was not bad. I underestimated people's ability to adapt. pic.twitter.com/UzGIu2HZciGalaxy s10 with crypto wallet? pic.twitter.com/6IICujXEnmOn most mobile devices, the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), storage that performs outside of the core system, prevents hackers from ever gaining access to sensitive data in a security breach.As such, if private keys to a wallet or data related to a cryptocurrency exchange are stored in the TEE, it is not possible for hackers to steal the data.The researchers at Unit 42 said that users of digital asset exchanges and wallets have to be more cautious with their security settings to prevent data leakage.IOTA Foundation, the team behind IOTA [MIOTA] – the fourteenth largest cryptocurrency in the space, has announced that they recovered a majority of the funds that were stolen from investors’ wallets in 2018. The funds that were recovered was approximately $11 million and is currently being used as evidence that can be used against the alleged perpetrator by the law enforcement.The co-founder and co-chairman of IOTA board, Dominik Schiener, said in an interview with Reuters:“From what we know, just a small amount of 10 million euros has not been found. The exchanges have blocked the hacker’s accounts. He tried to free the money, but he did not succeed.”The co-founder further stated that the hack was carried out by an individual, identified to be a citizen of United Kingdom with a “normal job”, contrary to their initial theory of a group organized hack. The hacker was arrested by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation [Europol], last week. So far, the agency has refused to disclose the identity of the alleged perpetrator.“This is sort of good news. Most tokens where stolen when they valued aprox 2 to 5$ each. If you reclain those tokens it would be a “Doekje voor het bloeden” as the dutch would say”The hack was first reported to Hessen State Police in early 2018, wherein it was bought to notice that cryptocurrencies were being stolen from investors wallets. The funds were stolen through IOTAseed.io website, a portal that generates a string of 81-digit seed that is required to access the IOTA wallet.The perpetrator is reported to have operated the portal for about five months prior to carrying out the heist. The data of the seed generated by investors was stored on the platform’s server, which was later used to steal the cryptocurrency from their wallets.“But will they get their money back at those prices ? Probably not. Unless the hacker converted to something else that did not go down much. Considering the whole market is down around 80%..most likely all they got was coins worth 80% less too. Which means..the people get 20% of their money.”“Another reason why there is no mass adoption from the general population. No insurance on loss for the most part, you are at the whim of so many factors if your coins are lost and most likely…its a loss. And..for most people its just too complicated to even attempt with such a risk.”The Bitcoin mining industry has long been a target for environmental groups, many of whom accuse the industry of being electricity heavy and leaving a significant carbon footprint on the planet. While some have accused the mining industry of shoehorning half of the global industry output by 2020, others have suggested that such mining activities will lead to the planet missing its global warming targets while growing 2 degree Celsius warmer in two decades. However, according to a paper written on Medium by Robert Sharatt, a former investment banker, all of these claims are incorrect and misleading.An environmentalist with experience in the banking and power industry, Sharatt declares that most of the data underlying such claims made by environmental groups are faulty. Citing the claims mentioned above, both of which have been repeated by noted publications such as The Guardian and The Independent, Sharatt says all the data behind such reports emerge from one source, a blog titled ‘Digiconomist,’ a source he says is ‘unscientific’ and ‘unethical.’For starters, Sharatt targets the claim that the Bitcoin mining industry is terribly energy-intensive and increases the planet’s carbon imprint. This, Sharatt points out, is false as such as contention is not backed by any real data except Digiconomist’s own assumptions.He also further states that the methodology used by Digiconomist is fundamentally flawed as it backs Bitcoin’s power consumption by estimating miners’ revenues and expenses.Sharatt also goes on to say that Digiconomist’s claim that most of the cryptocurrency mining industry in China is coal-based is also without any scientific or empirical basis. Sharatt points out that a huge majority of the mining industry in China is located in the province of Sichuan, a province where a majority of the electricity output is a product of hydro power. Much of the mining industry in the area thus, has been running on hydro power, as well as other forms of renewable energy. In fact, Sharatt’s assertion is backed by a Coinshares report that states that over 77% of the global bitcoin mining industry runs on renewable energy, and not coal power plants as many reports claim.Sharatt finally, also accuses Digiconomist of misleading the general audience by suggesting that all its data is backed by reputable sources. For instance, Sharatt mention some of Digiconomist’s articles being backed by an International Energy Agency report on Bitcoin mining, a report that doesn’t even exist.Whatever the truth behind the assertions and the counter-assertions, this is a subject matter that needs to be more deeply delved into by experts. Show less

Burst — Part 1: What is Burstcoin?An introduction to Burst as a Technology and Potential Investment.Altcoins are all over the news lately. Tales of 10x, 100x, and 1000x returns in a matter of months have investors, engineers, and enthusiasts everywhere scouring the web to find hints as to what might be their ticket to riches. Amongst the non-stop hype and never-ending influx of new ICOs and message board announcements, it can be hard to get a clear picture as to which coins are worth your attention and which are scams, pump-and-dump schemes, or over-inflated promotion.Enter Burst.In this first post I’ll explain what Burstcoin (Burst) is and why I see potential for this technology. In subsequent posts I’ll go into greater detail about some of the technologies used in Burst (PoC, Dymaxion), do some analysis of the market, and provide tutorials and tools for getting set up with a local wallet and mining on macOS.What is Burst?Burstcoin (BURST) is a cryptocurrency and payment system built from a fork of the Nxt (NXT) cryptocurrency, introduced in the summer of 2014. Burst was built to solve several of the lingering problems in cryptocurrencies at the time.Specifically:Wasted energy during miningNetwork control by large minersUnfair coin circulation during pre-mine/launch/ICOLack of decentralizationOne of the major innovations that enabled these solutions was the introduction of a Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) algorithm that avoided the ASIC arms race that resulted from Bitcoin and other Proof-of-Work (POW) consensus algorithms. I will explain in more detail in a later post, but the result of this change meant that miners did not need large, energy-hungry, specialized mining rigs anymore but could instead do sufficient mining with a home PC and excess storage space on hard drives.This change not only cut down on network domination by large miners, but it was also tremendously more energy efficient than PoW mining. Burst’s official wiki offers the claim that, on average, Burst is more than 400x more energy efficient when compared to Bitcoin.Additionally, the lack of ICO or pre-mined coins meant that all Burst in circulation was mined fairly and open to all. While early miners could profit off higher exchange rates, there was no founder’s reserve of coins being held by a small number of parties.What Makes Burst Appealing?I see 4 primary factors that make Burst an interesting investment consideration.1. Green FactorWith the Bitcoin network current using about as much electricity as the country of Denmark and Ethereum using roughly a third of that at ~10TWh, Burst might be seen as a greener alternative. Capacity mining rigs (i.e a bunch of hard drives) use much less energy than their mining equivalent in GPU or ASIC miners.2. Current PricesAt the time of writing, Burst is on a bit of a bull run and is up to $.109 USD or around 669 Satoshi. This leaves the floor open to make a relatively large investment in terms of volume of Burst. As we’ve seen in the meteoric rise of some cheaper altcoins in the last year, a relatively small investment at a lower price point opens up a possibility for large returns. See Ripple’s 2017 performance rising from $0.006523 to $2.10 and bearing in mind the total circulating supply of XRP being ~38 billion versus the current current supply of Burst being ~1.8 billion.3. Miner AccessibilityAs mentioned previously, the ability to enter the mining game with a spare desktop and a few TB of disk space means that getting started mining a couple Burst a day is feasible for the motivated enthusiast.4. The DymaxionThe Dymaxion marks the beginning of stage 2 of the strategy set forth by the PoC Consortium (POCC), which is a group of skilled developers that have been seen as the thought leaders of the Burst community since 2017. The Dymaxion whitepaper was released in late 2017. Briefly, the Dymaxion is the integration into Burst of a number of protocols and ideas already proven by other cryptocurrencies. This list includes the use of Lightning Networks for payments á la Bitcoin/Litecoin, Tangle technology from IOTA, Anonymity characteristics from Monero and Zcash. The details deserve a post of their own, but POCC hopes they will improve scalability, add anonymity, and add new payment channel features. In the meantime you can read more here or read the whitepaper.ConcernsWhile I’m excited by the technology behind Burst and see great potential for its use, I do have a few concerns.1. Source of TruthWhile the few people I’ve interacted with in the Burst community have been nothing but friendly and enthusiastic (👋👋 GetBurst), the community does seem a bit splintered across multiple forums. There is a good amount of useful information online, but there seems to be a lack of any “Official” source. This even goes as far as the official name (Burstcoin vs. Burst). While the PoC Consortium appear to be making great strides in uniting and leading the community, there is still a bit of difficulty for those getting started.2. Leadership and CommunityThis relates to my first concern. Though the POCC is helping instill confidence on the technical side, success in the crypto markets depends on much more than superior technology. Leadership, roadmaps, partnerships, and promotion are all integral to the success and adoption of altcoins. A good example of this is Lisk. Through their ICO, the Lisk team has been provided with financial support which is allowing them to do great marketing, outreach, talent acquisition, while even providing bounties to their top community contributors. I would love to see similar outreach and leadership from the Burst community. However without financial incentives to help drive involvement, this task becomes more difficult.TL;DRBurst is an altcoin worth watching. Its revolutionary Proof-of-Capacity mining algorithm is just one of the many reasons to consider investing or becoming involved in the project. I see 2018 as being a big year for Burst, due in no small part to the introduction of the Dymaxion and the contributions of the PoC Consortium.Burst donations are always appreciated: BURST-Q944–2MY3–97ZZ-FBWGBThanks to Annie Hunt for editing assistance.If you liked this make sure you check out the rest of my series on Burst.Part 1 — What is Burstcoin?Part 2 — macOS Wallet Setup TutorialPart 3 — Proof-of-CapacityPart 4 — Network AnalysisPart 5 — How to Buy BurstDonations are always appreciated:Burst *** BURST-Q944–2MY3–97ZZ-FBWGBBTC *** 1KUMJDvX8fGTpsZ49NXmmL9UpWiUX8g6K7 Show less

Fifteen dead cryptocurrency predictions, twelve months onNic CarterBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 1Chess with the grim reaper, Walter Appleton Clark 1906Precisely one year ago, on the first of January 2018, I surveyed the state of the cryptocurrency market and felt profoundly unsettled. We were near the peak of the eye-watering run-up. The pre-alpha IOUs for Cardano were worth eighteen billion dollars. As exciting as the rise in the value of my personal stash was, I had been through the cycle before, and I was dreading the inevitable hangover. And boy, what a comedown it would prove to be.So, one year ago, trying to grapple with the carnage that I was certain was imminent, I issued this futile lament:I added that I felt that there were at most half a dozen alternatives to Bitcoin that were differentiated and viable (I still feel this way today). When challenged, I took the extra step of selecting 15 coins from the set of top 100 that I felt would fail in the next twelve months.What I did was create a prediction, hash it, and timestamp it on Twitter. I probably should have inserted it into Bitcoin with the OP_RETURN or opentimestamps. That database is a lot more reliable than Twitter’s.The idea was simple: make a prediction and hold myself accountable by revealing the commitment a year later. I didn’t want to name the coins because I wanted the outcome to be exogenous from the prediction; that is, I didn’t want the prediction to inform the outcome. I know, my tweets don’t exactly move the market. But you can’t be too careful. Of course, you could easily game this methodology by making tons of predictions, and then selectively revealing only the good ones. You’ll just have to take me at my word that I only made one such prediction.Before I reveal the commitment, let’s briefly revisit the criteria. At first I said “cease to exist,” but as we all know, it’s virtually impossible to actually kill a cryptocurrency. Instead, they just tend to zombify and linger, undead, pretty much forever. So I elaborated with “crippled/cease development” and then issued my criteria:Why 95% drawdown, and not 99%? I felt that 95% would capture a lot of essentially-dead projects that weren’t totally defunct (killing off residual enthusiasm for moribund projects is hard). Bitcoin itself has never drawn down 95%, even during its collapse in 2011. Suffice to say, if an asset draws down 95%, it is almost certainly not coming back.Could I pick 15 out of 100 assets on CoinMarketCap that would suffer total developer abandonment or draw down 95% in USD terms? Let’s find out.ResultsThe plaintext that I hashed was:railblocks iota verge dash eos bitcoin gold bitconnect NEM tether hshare veritaseum augur electroneum storj iconomi jan 1 2018You can verify that this hashes to the below output using this SHA 256 hash generator. Just copy and paste the text in and you should get79CD45F9E975F062201029C58EE87D6F2A651AB76C22953FF96995771B7B56AERecall that success, in my view, required a crippling 95% drawdown, or development to cease entirely. Either was sufficient to meet my victory condition in my initial tweet. However, because I don’t want to be accused of making it too easy for myself, I’ll only claim full victory if both development has been abandoned and the coin has suffered a 95% drawdown. So my labeling scheme is as follows:Still kicking: 🌱Either development is abandoned OR price is down 95%: 💀Development is abandoned AND price is down 95%: 💀 💀 💀Here’s your TL;DR version:It’s been a rough yearThe total return for the sample was -86% (i.e. an investment of $1000 would have left you with $140); excluding Tether, it was -93%. That compares to the Bletchley 20 index return of -90.5% and a Bitcoin return of -72% in the period. I’m awarding myself full points on three tokens and partial victories on four others.Let’s go into detail for each project. I’ll explain why I thought there was a chance each of them would be crippled or cease development in 2018, and where I went wrong.Raiblocks (rebranded as Nano)Yes, I misspelled “raiblocks.” For the longest time, I read it as railblocks. Either way, it is a DPoS coin that claims to have free transactions with no tradeoffs. It was heavily astroturfed on Reddit. I felt that its consensus mechanism might entirely fail, and that the considerable enthusiasm was contrived. Amazingly, January 1 was almost its precise all time high — its market cap on that day was an eye-watering $4.6 billion dollars.In fact, the consensus mechanism for Raiblocks (rebranded to Nano) did not fail, but its major source of liquidity, the Bitgrail exchange, did get extremely hacked in February. This wasn’t a trivial hack, either — approximately $150m (at February prices) went missing. That was a mammoth 13% of the entire supply. Despite the immense setback, and a truly impressive price collapse, development appears to be ongoing.📉 Price change: $36.86 ➡️ $0.94✅ Drawdown: 97.6%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: 13% of supply stolen in exchange hack.‍⚖ ️Verdict: still under active development, but sufficiently drawn down to be considered crippled.IOTAOh, IOTA. I was naive in thinking that 2018 would be the year it would suffer a catastrophic consensus failure and its fans would finally give up their support. But that was not the case — IOTA still relies on a central coordinator which obviates the need for any actual distributed consensus, and so it neatly avoids those kinds of hard problems.So what happened in IOTA land this year?The developers leaked the transcript of an email exchange they had with the MIT DCI who exposed their broken hash scheme. It unsurprisingly paints the picture of a staggeringly incompetent and unprofessional developer team, and a very patient DCIThere was some incomprehensible drama in the IOTA foundation, which if nothing else proves that these projects are not exempt from normal issues of corporate governanceThe central coordinator did not shut down. It has relied on that centralized hack for its entire existence. The fans do not seem to mindIOTA still doesn’t work on IOT devices because it uses Proofs of Work which are, unsurprisingly, computationally expensiveDespite this, IOTA is firmly not dead. I’ve given up on expecting its demise.📉 Price change: $4.31 ➡️ $0.36❌ Drawdown: 91.6%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: IOTA is widely panned by professional cryptographers for relying on a broken hand-rolled hash function, and for organizing a smear campaign against the DCI.‍⚖ ️Verdict: still under active development and with an enthusiastic community. Its reckoning is deferred.VergeVerge is/was a privacy coin which relied not on enhancing actual privacy at the blockchain level but rather by bolting Tor on to Bitcoin. It was heavily shilled on Twitter and Reddit last year, but the #VergeFam has gone quiet recently. Development and social media activity all but ceased when Verge was repeatedly 51% attacked earlier this year. The culprit was its unnecessarily complex five hash function Proof-of-Work algorithm, which led to it being much, much easier to exploit.These weren’t small attacks either:Development may be happening, but it doesn’t look lively at all.📉 Price change: $0.16 ➡️ ️️$0.00706✅ Drawdown: 95.2%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: Verge was 51% attacked into oblivion.‍ ⚖ ‍Verdict: Verge was exploited on multiple occasions, with the developers unable to steel the protocol against those attacks. The future does not look bright for this pseudo privacycoin.DashDash did not die in 2018. However, in the words of this Dash fan on reddit, this year “kinda sucked”. In the quixotic Dash way, he inexplicably suggests trying to get Dash profiled on NPR (a popular US radio network). I selected Dash for the list with the knowledge that it would be very hard to kill off — but I thought there might be a liquidity cascade with the masternodes.You see, Dash has about 4900 masternodes (each costing 1000 DASH) active. That’s about 57% of total supply locked in these masternodes (which receive 45% of all block rewards!) I felt that it was possible that in a bear market, some of these would start to unwind, causing massive sell pressure on an illiquid market, inducing more masternode sales, and more sell pressure as people rushed for the exits, etc etc. This did not happen.I realized there’s a negative feedback loop which inhibits this. As masternodes are liquidated, the pool of cash flows remains the same (in Dash terms), driving ROI back up for all the other extant masternodes as pro rata cashflows increase. So as long as there are individuals willing to buy and hold Dash, who cannot afford a masternode, and ok with being diluted by inflation to subsidize their masternode overlords, masternodes will continue to provide yield. Mind you, 7% annualized return is miserable for such a volatile asset, in my opinion.Dash remains fairly active both on the development side and the community development side. The plutocratic “governance” process continues to fund (mostly unproductive) projects with a pool of capital subsidized by 10% of new issuance. On the adoption side, Dash has been redirecting its marketing budget towards buying ads on planes (smart: you literally can’t look away!) and lobbying businesses in Venezuela to accept the currency. I’ll admit it, I’m pretty impressed with the willingness of the Dash community to stubbornly crusade about banking the unbanked… with an asset that exists to facilitate rent-seeking on a massive scale (see above on masternodes).📉 Price change: $1043 ➡️ ️️$81❌ Drawdown: 92.2%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: KFC Venezuela denied that Dash was accepted in its locations. Dash TV ads played on United Airlines flights.‍ ⚖ ‍Verdict: The Dash crew are still plugging away. More power to them, I guess.EOSEOS did not die in 2018. That was definitely the most ambitious of my predictions. I felt that EOS and Block.one were ripe to be hit with an enforcement action by the SEC and the project (reliant on $4b in claimed funding from Block.one) would be crippled as a result. I’m still not ruling this out, but Block.one is a serious adversary and it looks like the SEC is opting to go after low-hanging fruit first.To EOS’ credit, it went to mainnet and some EOS Dapps gained a smattering of usage (although websites where you could buy glamor metrics on DappRadar also emerged).So what happened with EOS in 2018?It did not release the promised audit demonstrating that Block.one had not recycled funds into its own ICO (thus gaining a free and hidden stake of EOS)Sidenote: here’s a brief explainer on why EOS’ tokensale mechanics were badEOS devolved within weeks into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy wherein an unelected arbitrator gained the right to reappropriate funds from users at willBlock.one decided to scrap the constitution they launched with and rewrite it entirelyBlock producers, as expected, created a mutualistic system of vote-assignment, entrenching the oligarchy and reducing churn in the validator setEOS continued to demonstrate in myriad ways that it lacks the social scalability to become a neutral layer for global value transferEOS actually ground to a halt due to a bug and was offline for several hours before being restartedHowever, EOS did not die, and as such, it beat my expectations. When audit?📉 Price change: $9.45 ➡️ ️️$2.61❌ Drawdown: 72.4%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: Mainnet launch, controversy over balance-freezing, chain grinds to a halt and has to be restarted.‍ ⚖ ‍Verdict: Despite a litany of problems, EOS is chugging along.Bitcoin GoldBitcoin Gold was one of two major BTC forks that was actually worth redeeming. Amazingly the hype around the GPU-mined fork of Bitcoin lasted for a few months, enabling most holders to recognize at least a few hundred dollars per Bitcoin. However, BTG has become a sad case study in why ASICs are actually worthwhile. It got ruthlessly 51% attacked on a number of occasions and major exchanges lost $18m as a result. BTG has been delisted from many of these exchanges and is widely considered an unreliable and risky chain.There have only been six commits in the last six months, and none in the last three months. Lead Developer Jack Liao has also left the project. With under 1000 transactions a day on average, BTG is as close to zombified as you can get.📉 Price change: $276.42️️ ➡️ ️️$12.80✅ Drawdown: 95.2%✅ Developer status: inactive⚠️ Notable event: at least $18m worth of BTG was stolen from exchanges through successful 51% attacks. BTG was subsequently delisted from many exchanges due to its vulnerability. ️‍⚖ ️Verdict: Bitcoin Gold has been all but abandoned by its developers, and is considered unreliable by exchanges due to the inherent vulnerabilities of smaller GPU mined coins.BitconnectAh, Bitconnect. Everyone’s favorite scam. Bitconnect was quite impressive, in its own way. It had MLM elements, through the affiliate program, and ponzi elements, in that it guaranteed returns deriving from the inflow from new suckers. It also was/is a functioning blockchain.Bitconnect’s fate was by far the easiest to forecast. By definition, it was unsustainable. Being a Bitcoin-denominated ponzi scheme, it did however last much longer than expected, since its lifetime coincided with a massive bull run in Bitcoin. I started paying attention to it in spring 2017 and watched, mouth agape, as it rose up the ranks on CoinMarketCap, reaching #8 at one point.Without getting too self-congratulatory, I was an early voice vocally decrying Bitconnect, and by extension CoinMarketCap which legitimated it in many ways (not only by hosting banner ads for BCC but also by unhesitatingly accepting BCC’s own exchange data as reliable). I even reported Bitconnect to their domain registrar but was told they were not in violation of the ToS due to a lack of evidence of illegal or fraudulent activity.During the time of the Bitcoin Cash fork in late July 2017, I also pointed out the absurdity of defending Bitconnect’s right to the BCC ticker, as many were doing — I found the deference being granted to a verifiable ponzi scheme to be unwarranted.(Sidenote: It is curious that people who were dead silent about Bitconnect through the summer and fall of 2017 crowed victory when it dissolved. The time to speak up was earlier, not later. More victims could have been spared if industry leaders had taken a stance. Think about this next time you claim that the word “scam” is overused in the industry)So on January 1st, with Bitconnect sitting at the #20 position on CoinMarketCap, with a market cap north of $2 billion, it was trivial to predict its demise. And unsurprisingly, soon thereafter, payouts were suspended and the scheme unraveled. Ye will not be missed.📉 Price change: $381.43 ➡️ $0.67✅ Drawdown: 99.8%✅ Developer status: inactive⚠️ Notable event: was outed as a ponzi scheme and the entire project dissolved. Law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions is currently pursuing the orchestrators.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Bitconnect is as dead as a doornail.NEMI have to admit I don’t know what NEM is for. I’m not sure anyone does. It has been going for a remarkably long time. I thought it might die because it has virtually no usage (have a look at its data on coinmetrics.io). This is a chain worth $500m or so, which does $2–3m worth of transaction volume per day. Admittedly that’s a fairly weak reason, as total disuse is not a good reason to expect that a project will die off. As we all know, these things have a habit of lingering for years.There is very little English-language discussion of NEM, so it’s hard to get information on the project. It appears to be the public counterpart to a private blockchain called Mijn, à la Ripple. It’s unclear how the token itself is expected to retain its value or acquire meaningful use.What happened in 2018 for NEM?Something known as Catapult did not launch on mainnetThere were complaints over silence from the developersThe NEM foundation held an election, the results of which angered the NEM community, apparentlyNEM decided to partner up with Ripple and CardanoA Japanese exchanged called Coincheck got massively hacked, to the tune of $530m worth of NEM. The NEM foundation released a tool to blacklist those stolen NEMI don’t know. It’s impossible to figure out what’s going on in NEMland. It’s still alive, I think.📉 Price change: $1.04 ➡️ $0.06❌ Drawdown: 93.8%❌ Developer status: active (?)⚠️ Notable event: massive exchange hack and subsequent blacklisting of addresses.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Cryptocurrency’s most inscrutable project is still going, apparently.TetherCryptocurrency’s most hated project did not die in 2018, despite an avalanche of criticism. It had a very busy year, in fact. It lost banking partners and found some new ones. It continued to lose ground to other stablecoins, especially the fully-collateralized ones like USDC, TUSD, and GUSD. It traded below its peg for an extended period. Arbitrageurs made a lot of money buying discounted USDT during periods of extreme fear about the lost peg.Despite a recent period of strong redemptions, its outstanding supply increased in 2018.Tether circulating supply (Coinmetrics)Tether did not provide a full audit of its holdings, although it did release attestations purportedly demonstrating that it was fully collateralized.I guessed that Tether’s owners might shutter the project, deeming it not to be worth the hassle. I also forecasted that they might feel pressure from regulators given the ferocity of the media storm over the stablecoin. However, it makes a few million dollars a year on interest from depositors, and facilitates trading on Bitfinex, so it must still be worth keeping to its administrators.📉 Price change: $1.00 ➡️ $1.00❌ Drawdown: 0%❌ Developer status: active⚠️ Notable event: Tether gains banking at Deltec bank and provides a partial attestation of its reserves.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Cryptocurrency’s most hated project survived another year, despite reduced market share.Hshare (rebranded as Hypercash)Believe it or not, something called Hshare was the 31st ranked coin on CoinMarketCap on Jan. 1, 2018.I included it on the list because it was a straightforward copy-paste of Decred, combined with some generic marketing. Interestingly, it exceeded Decred’s market cap for a while. Perhaps in an attempt to escape criticism, it rebranded to HyperCash. It now occupies the 88th spot on CMC, so it has suffered a decline in absolute and relative stature. Development is ongoing, if weakly so.📉 Price change: $27 ➡️ $0.91✅ Drawdown: 96.7%❌ Developer status: semi-active⚠️ Notable event: Rebranded and performed a coin swap.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Hshare/HyperCash is one of hundreds of undifferentiated projects which is experiencing a slow death. It is at an advanced stage of morbidity, although not entirely dead yet.VeritaseumVeritaseum is a wacky, confusing project with no apparent goal or focus promoted by the blogger Reggie Middleton. It was an easy candidate for inclusion on this list—it is a nonsense token with no reason to exist. If you want to read an in-depth report documenting the many deceptions surrounding the token, see Lighthouse Crypto’s comprehensive 38-page takedown:Veritaseum: The Truth Behind the PromotionThe transformative nature of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that underpins them has captured the…medium.comDevelopment is absent. It’s a generic ERC20 with no technical work being done on it whatsoever. The only thing going on with VERI is half-hearted marketing videos from its chief (and sole) evangelist, Reggie.As for what VERI is actually for, the dominant messaging previously was about a research portal, but now it seems to be shifting to physical asset tokenization. This is the latest in a long, long series of pivots by the VERI team (which again, seems to just be Reggie). If you want to dig in to this project, feel free to click around the incomprehensible website.As far as the community, the subreddit has gone private. Even the bitcointalk forum is moribund. Not much to say about this one. In the words of Monty Python:Its metabolic processes are now history! It’s off the twig! It’s kicked the bucket, it has shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible! This is an ex project!📉 Price change: $346 ➡️ $15.96✅ Drawdown: 95.4%❌ Developer status: Near abandoned⚠️ Notable event: What little community remaining appears to have deserted the project.‍⚖ ️Verdict: VERI is long dead, although Reggie apparently hasn’t caught on yet. Since he continues to “develop” this project, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and only call this one half dead.AugurYou may be surprised to see this on my list. My reasoning was that Augur would face significant legal difficulties due to the fact that it enabled not only obviously perverse use cases (assassination markets) but also unregulated derivatives, many of which exist on the platform. See the markets on the S&P500 or Apple stock price for instance.In fact, the US derivatives regulator — the CFTC — was wide awake and paying attention. In October, a CFTC commissioner made his feelings very clear on prediction markets like Augur:In the past, the CFTC has generally prohibited prediction markets as contrary to the public interest. For example, event contracts based upon war, terrorism, assassination, or other similar incidents may be contrary to the public interest — in which case, the CFTC can prohibit an exchange from offering the contract.You might feel that I sound like a terrible statist droning on and on about the adverse regulatory events that I expected to happen in 2018. Keep in mind that this is a list of things I thought would happen, not necessarily things I wanted to happen.Either way, the CFTC hasn’t actually acted on their warning (yet). However, they did make their criteria very clear, hinting at a ‘Coders-as-Fiduciaries’ framework. CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz weighed in on the potential liability for developers writing a smart contract platform:I think the appropriate question is whether these code developers could reasonably foresee, at the time they created the code, that it would likely be used by U.S. persons in a manner violative of CFTC regulationsAs for the scope of their interest:[The code would have to be] specifically designed to enable the precise type of activity regulated by the CFTC, and no effort was made to preclude its availability to U.S. persons.This puts Augur pretty squarely in the crosshairs, although the betting system may be too broken to actually induce regulators to do anything. Users have been complaining about being misled by tricky contracts, markets resolving incorrectly, or poorly-worded contracts. Aside from amateurishly-drafted contracts (this is what we pay lawyers for, folks) borking in interesting ways, Augur faces the more general problem of might makes right on the platform. It’s possible by repeatedly appealing markets to get a favorable, albeit incorrect, outcome.The poor UX, the curation issues that come with decentralization, excessive complexity, and large markets that resolve belatedly or in unexpected ways, all combine to make Augur a risky venue for punters. It may be the case that the decentralized oracle mechanism simply doesn’t provide sufficient guarantees for the platform to reach critical mass.Augur stats from DappradarI felt that Augur was particularly exposed due to the fact that they were financed with an ICO. Had Augur been released as free open source tech with no profit motive, I would have imagined it would have greater resilience. But a crowdsale is another regulatory overhang that compounds risks, and raises the specter of potential enforcement actions. The question is therefore if a rescission occurs and the treasury is drained to pay back investors, would the core developers stay faithful to the project, absent a profit motive?But 2018 was not really the year of regulatory actions, contrary to what I had expected. Some low hanging fruit was plucked here and there, but the major US agencies steered clear of the crypto and ICO markets, for the most part. So a lot of my predictions that were predicated on meaningful regulatory action, and likely targets, were wide of the mark.To sum up — Augur deserves credit for being a functional and interesting dapp, although it’s unclear whether the decentralized reporting will prove robust enough to support liquid markets and induce large punters to join the platform. And I personally believe it would be less fragile as an open source launch with an anon/non US dev team, rather than an ICO-funded venture.📉 Price change: $77 ➡️ $7.93❌ Drawdown: 89.7%❌ Developer status: Ongoing⚠️ Notable event: After years of development, Augur launched and acquired meaningful liquidity in 2018.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Augur is purring along, albeit with a smallish community of users.ElectroneumElectroneum is a fork of Monero which raised $39m in an ICO in October 2017. Like most ICOs, it’s a priori nonsense, but it did enjoy a brief moment in the sun as the development team (whose main expertise is online marketing) managed to drum up substantial hype, leading the asset to peak at a $900m market cap. In fact, one of my abiding memories of the late 2017 mania was sitting on a plane next to an earnest young fellow who informed me that his favorite cryptocurrency was Electroneum because you could mine it on your phone. Of course, this wasn’t actually mining, but rather an empty proof of time concept whereby you were allocated units of ETN just for having the app open.It doesn’t take much to realize that ETN is hollow. This post goes into some further detail. It’s a generic ICOed fork of Monero with no distinguishing features by a team with no technical expertise. Some minimal development is ongoing, albeit at a very slow pace. The official forum hosted an Electroneum-themed halloween costume contest though, so that’s fun.As much as I’d like to claim victory on this one, it hasn’t quite drawn down 95% and there is some development, so I guess I’ll take the L.📉 Price change: $0.08 ➡️ $0.0075❌ Drawdown: 91.0%❌ Developer status: Ongoing, if minimal⚠️ Notable event: The highlight of 2018 was the ETN team forcing every ICO investor into a KYC process.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Electroneum is in a purgatory where it’s obviously a failed project but still piddling along until the SEC makes their way down the list and makes the team give all the money back.StorjStorj is a distributed data storage token project which raised about $30m in an ICO in May 2017. It’s in a rough category of troubled data storage projects along with Filecoin, Sia, and Maidsafe. It has seen its fair share of drama and founder exits. When I’ve asked, technical experts with domain knowledge will concede that distributed file storage is a near-intractable challenge, and a mainstream application of the technology is still years away.Looking back, I think I added Storj to this list because of the large number of founder and technical exits that took place in Summer 2017 shortly after the ICO. To Storj’s credit, it resumed development and appears to be functioning as a distributed data storage platform, at least in a beta state. The token itself suffered a massive drawdown, but not quite down to my specified 95% threshold.📉 Price change: $2.37 ➡️ $0.14❌ Drawdown: 93.9%❌ Developer status: Ongoing⚠️ Notable event: V3 whitepaper published and public alpha begins‍⚖ ️Verdict: Storj surpassed my expectations by not only surviving 2018, but remaining communicative and transparent as well as making some key hires. It’s very much still alive.IconomiIconomi is a tokenized asset management platform that was meant to give investors access to crypto index funds. In the heavily jargonized spirit of the industry, they called these Digital Asset Arrays. The ICN token was originally meant to serve as pseudo-equity, entitling investors who bought the 2016 ICO to cashflows deriving from the platform and startup. The team changed this to a buyback model (which, if you think about it, is functionally identical), wary of being treated as a security.I felt that it was pretty likely that Iconomi wouldn’t last, as the token had obvious security-like characteristics. Even so, I didn’t expect the team to voluntarily withdraw the token and swap it for shares in an actual corporation. In September 2018, the Iconomi team announced a token swap and dissolution of the ICN token, whereby investors could get their money back (in ETH) or instead receive pro rata shares in a Liechtenstein holding company, ICONOMI AG.This seems like a shrewd move — regulators were almost certainly breathing down their neck already — albeit an administratively challenging one. I am not sure how a global retail tokenholder base is meant to transition to private shareholders in a Liechtenstein company, but I applaud the team for their candor and initiative. This is about the best possible scenario for investors, and I expect some other token projects to follow suit.Even though the project is still continuing, the token in this case is literally ceasing to exist, so I’ll chalk that up as a win. I finally got one right!📉 Price change: $2.73 ➡️ $0.23❌ Drawdown: 91.6%❌ Developer status: Ongoing⚠️ Notable event: The token was dissolved and investors were offered a buyout or pro rata equity in an actual corporation.‍⚖ ️Verdict: Iconomi (ICN) is gone, replaced with ICONOMI AG. Iconomi is dead, long live Iconomi!Final thoughtsSo why did I pick these 15 in particular? Recall that I was limiting myself to the top 100 assets. There were a large number of ponzi coins I could have picked (there were dozens of Bitconnect clones operating at that time) which would undoubtedly have died. But they were for the most part small caps. And that wouldn’t have been a challenging exercise. The average rank on CoinMarketCap of the coins in my sample was 30. So I set myself the task of picking coins that were relatively popular and well-known at the time, rather than picking on some obviously worthless coins.I think I did ok, although I’ll admit that I’m a bit disappointed. The premise itself was tricky — cryptocurrencies and tokens almost never die, so it was an ambitious effort to begin with. I’m gratified that I got Verge, Bitcoin Gold, and Iconomi in my sample: they were not obvious candidates for outright dissolution but they are all essentially defunct now.My main takeaway from this little project is that it is massive exercise in futility. Guessing at which blockchains and token projects will not survive the year is fun, but actually diligencing the damn things to determine their developer status is a massive pain. A friend who has conducted long-form investigations into fraudulent tokens recently told me:I realized I wasted a few weeks of my life researching something that was obviously a fraud and no one could care lessAnd that’s really the main problem with these projects. Investigating them and outing them as frauds takes an unreasonable amount of work, with no payoff (there’s no borrow for a short on anything outside the top 5 or so assets). Meanwhile, some enterprising team with experience in affiliate marketing and an ERC-20 generator can spin up a multi-million dollar ICO in a matter of days.The Coinmetrics Bitcoin Private investigation comes to mind. The team spent weeks double-checking the data and consulting experts to make sure the supply irregularity was real (given the weight of the accusation). But at the end of the day, all that was exposed was either gross negligence or duplicity by the core team, for a project that was pretty much dead to begin with.What we are left with now is thousands of tokens that have no future, no serious development, and small communities of individuals who delude themselves into believing that a recovery to ATHs is possible. How tokens actually die is a bit unclear. Most likely, adverse events at exchanges (either voluntary closures or enforcement actions) will kill off the long tail of tokens at some point.If I had to make a prediction for 2019, it would be that the die-offs of marginal projects accelerate. Of these 15 (7 are basically dead already), I would expect that at most 3 of them make it to 2020 intact (same criteria). For 2018 I clearly had unrealistic expectations for our securities regulators, who have only now started to make serious inroads into the market. But a reckoning is inevitable. Whether it comes through class action lawsuits, teams voluntarily buying back tokens, a die-off due to poor exchange liquidity, activist short-sellers, or criminal enforcement actions, the market will purge these zombie projects. It is just taking longer than I expected.Happy new year, I guess.Postscript: as the #VergeFam has helpfully noted in the comments, Verge development is still ongoing. Hence, I have reduced their rating from three skulls to one skull (they still suffered a >95% drawdown). Show less

A year has passed since I joined the EOS community. It's time for a retrospective! This article is for DApp entrepreneurs and investors who still wonder what a Decentralised Autonomous Collective looks like, by deconstructing it through a practical approach, mine. Hi, I'm Sofiane, the founder of NEW LIFE AI and this is my journey as a member of EOS, the self replicating Decentralized Autonomous Collective that will eat (and heal) the World! In 2017 we launched our app’s minimum viable product. While our user base was growing fast, a friend pointed at STEEM and strongly recommended to think of a model to decentralise NEW LIFE AI.  As a techno-libertarian and bitcoin enthusiast, I was amazed and stimulated by the idea of embedding blockchain technology to decentralise our application, and by discovering the powerful concept behind  STEEM. I had to find a way to add a “D” to my App and took a big decision: stop growing the business and start digging into the ICOs, decentralised internet, IPFs and all the great inventions popping out from the crypto communities, in order to prepare a pivot and why not run an ICO? It's mid 2017. The ICO craze is full on and I'm still a newbie in this new World of smart contracts, so my first interest is the STEEM solution called Smart Media Token. Meanwhile, I'm browsing YouTube and come across a very interesting project called Waves, which looked almost like plug-and-play to my app, all I had to do was to ask my users to download their built-in wallet. Meanwhile my knowledge expands and find out that the roadmap for smart contracts is undefined. Which leads me to a more mature platform with a huge community of developers and the majority of tokens issued: Ethereum. After weeks looking for a solidity developer, we start building the first smart contracts. December 2017: the CryptoKitties explosion leads to the congestion of the Ethereum network, which makes it less viable for my use case which requires a very fast and scalable blockchain. That's when I get in touch with the IOTA Foundation, convinced that Tangle will solve my problems with micro-payments and scalability. At that time, the EOS ICO drives attention and controversy within the space, which attracts my interest: “Oh wow” Dan Larimer the guy from STEEM is the CTO? Even more interesting! I’m hooked by Brendan’s talks about the DAC, Brock’s statements on culture, tribes, the starfish and the future of blockchain. If EOS could allow me to build a Steem-like DApp, It's everything I need! And those guys are awesome, a lot of their ideas resonate, for the Web and for the World. They put words into a lot of concepts I had in mind, intuitively. At that point, it's obvious, my heart and my brain come to the conclusion that I was right to pivot, and it's definitely gonna be with the EOSIO software. It's January 2018 and the ICO keeps beating records. Since NEW LIFE AI is a growing community of trendsetters in the art and fashion industries, we could bring in the cultural leaders (digital artists, lifestyle influencers, fashion icons) and finally get blockchain technologies in the hands of the people who will make mass adoption happen. With this idea in mind, I contact Brendan via LinkedIn, who thinks it’s a great idea and suggests me to contact the dev relations. After a few attempts, I understand this path is not going to work: Block.one at that point is understaffed; I can’t find an interlocutor able to assess my partnership proposal, and soon with the announcement of EOS VC my offer is flooded in the middle of thousands of dapp developers trying to grab some of the billion dollar investment fund. Who said bootstrapping the first DAC in the history of mankind would be easy? With my tokens built on Ethereum, I'm still wondering if it's better to launch an ICO first and then teleport the tokens to the EOS DApp when it's done, or to wait for the main net to be released. Many people advise me to wait, because “big crypto-funds are coming” and "there is no rush". At this point, it's obvious that I will need a team of EOS developers to rebuild our backend and re-issue the token. How to find them? First I think blockchain developers will understand EOS. In fact they have learned on other platforms and don't know C++. Let's find C++ guys then! "I don't care about decentralisation, I have a comfortable salary working for a corporation, and all those cryptos are scams“. That’s when I understand I shouldn't search for a C++ developer nor a blockchain developer, but an EOS developer! It's April 2018 already and I still didn't find an EOS Developer. I receive a link to the EOS hackathon in Hong Kong which coincided with the launch of the main net in June. A friend pushes me to go and invests in the plane ticket in exchange for some future tokens. I will have a chance to meet with the community, the crypto investors, EOS VC, the developers and block.one. After a long trip without sleep, here I am, first in the line at Kai Tak Terminal where my mind is going to be blown, once again! Block One and Angel Hack are doing a fantastic job at keeping us awake, excited, collaborative and supported. The theme for the hackathon is mass adoption. I team up with some friends from another startup and we build D3EP, an end-to-end encryption Chrome extension allowing users to share content through social media privately. We make it to the finals but eventually won’t get qualified for the grand finale.The same scenario will repeat at the Sydney Hackathon with our project GlobeSquare, a gamified decentralised ethical marketplace of farming land, selected to the finals, but no prize! And finally, the London Hackathon with the project PiedPiper which offers a decentralised VPN following the principle of Tor and leveraging the EOSIO software as a ledger to enable a fair exchange bandwidth between users and providers. At the SF Hackathon we won't even make it to the finals, but a lot of amazing takeaways at the end of the series: I know now that block.one and the rest of the Collective is made of brilliant minds and passionate visionaries. At this point I'm now sure nothing in the space can get anywhere near what EOS is building.Some very insightful conversations with DApp developers, block producers, judges, VCs and the Block One team from Virginia, LA and Hong Kong, and a lot of new friends from around the globe.A solid network of developers and block producers to assist us in the process of building on EOSIOSome IRL encounters with all the faces of the collective I only knew online, I couldn’t list them without making this article ten times longerBeing part of this amazing collective of technologists and its unique decentralised governance modelTesting the concept of DAC practically, and realising that it not only works, but is friggin AWESOME!Dmitriy Perelstein - EOS Writer, Sofiane Delloue - New Life AI, Fred Krueger - EOS Lynx, Crystal Rose - Sense ChatLike many DApp developers, we will have to overcome the challenges inherent to any fully decentralised application on EOSIO:The architecture choices to mitigate and optimise the whole processWhile our application is scaling on a centralised backend, we're collaborating with many members of the collective to build the target backend with EOSIO, with an architecture made of a single node, virtual accounts and main net features, depending on the type of jobs and the level of decentralisation required.Having worked in tech for almost twenty years, from early stage to exit, as co-founder and executive, I have never seen such a model of collaboration. The EOS Decentralised Autonomous Collective is starting to release very successful dapps in the fields of gaming and fintech, working as vertical departments of a giant organisation that has no CEO, no office and a shared ownership with vested interests between all stakeholders, forming a completely free and incentivised network effect without limits or borders. Without asking permission, NEW LIFE AI is building a lifestyle and culture department, and we have dozens of independent participants we can ask help to, openly or privately using Telegram and other messaging services. We are not colleagues, we are not clients, we are free and independent members of a Decentralised Autonomous Collective. People are not driven by a hierarchy micro-managing them, rather by their personal assessment of the best allocation of their time and intelligence, whether by building tools or dedicating time to projects they care about. This model is still at its infancy and I'm so excited to see it unfold, leading to exponential outcomes. Welcome to a new paradigm where creativity and purpose are connecting brilliant minds to achieve ethical innovation. This is the future, and it’s just the beginning of a new life.Learn more about our app by downloading our white paper.Our official site: NEW LIFE AI Find me on Facebook or Telegram for any business opportunity.Disclaimer. EOSwriter does not endorse any content or product on this page. While we aim at providing you with all the important information we could obtain, readers should do their own research before taking any actions related to the company and carry full responsibility for their decisions, nor this article can be considered as an investment advice. Show less

Bitfinex Exchange Review Bitfinex is a popular cryptocurrency agency based out of Hong Kong and one of the leading exchanges for Bitcoin trading. The exchange facilitates the trading of around 35 altcoins. While the overall daily trading volume of Bitfinex exceeds $1.0 billion, its Bitcoin volume alone has gone over 5.77 million bitcoins from mid-April to mid-October 2017. This is a lot more than whatKraken (3.65 million BTC) and Coinbase (3.06 million BTC) achieved during the same period. In this Bitfinex review, we will discuss, among other things, how to trade on a Bitfinexexchange, how to deposit on a Bitfinexexchange, how to withdraw from a Bitfinexexchange, how to deposit USD in a Bitfinexexchange, and Bitfinexpros and cons. Well even do a Bitfinexvs Bittrex vs Binancecomparison thatll give you an idea of how Bitfinex stacks up against the competition. Bitfinex Pros and Cons Even though it is the largest trader in Bitcoins in the world, Bitfinex has its share of disadvantages, as you can see in the Bitfinex pros and cons list below: PROS Unlimited withdrawal Advanced trading features and order types High trading volume, deep liquidity In-house mobile app Competitive fees CONS Not beginner user-friendly The exchange was hacked in 2016 Payment problems since early 2017 May not be suitable for beginners or those unfamiliar with trading platforms Currently the exchange has blocked Fiat currency deposits How to Use Bitfinex Exchange: Step-By-Step Guide Bitfinex offers both basic trading and margin trading. Go to the web site and create an account by entering your e-mail address. Wait for an e-mail for a message from Bitfinex, then click on the link provided. That link will take you to the Bitfinexlogin page. The next step is to fund your account. Click on the deposit menu. On the Deposit page, you will come across several deposit options. Click on one of the options, lets say Bitcoin for this example. When you click on Bitcoin, youll get to choose from Exchange, Trading, and Deposit. Since this is about trading, click on Trading. Youll be provided with a BTC address, which you can use to deposit your Bitcoins. Once you trading wallet is funded, you can now start trading. For basic trading, click on Exchange. Choose the currency pairs you want to trade with, such as BTC/USD. Place an order by placing an amount at the order size form To buy BTC with USD, click on Buy. To sell BTC for USD, click on Sell. Your order will then be placed and you will see it in the orders list. How to Deposit/Withdraw Money from the Bitfinex Exchange You can deposit into Bitfinex either from your external wallet or from a third-party exchange. All you have to do is go to the web site, select the cryptocurrency coin that youd like to deposit to, and choose the type of wallet (exchange, margin, funding) you want to deposit the funds in. Once youve chosen the wallet, copy the deposit address. Next, open the external wallet from which you wish to access funds and paste your Bitfinex deposit address in the Transfer Destination space provided. You can use this deposit address on a permanent basis. If you open a new deposit address, the old addresses will still remain valid for accepting deposits. For withdrawal of altcoins, go to the withdrawal portion of the web site. Select the cryptocurrency coin that youd like to withdraw and the wallet youd like to take from. Now open the wallet you want to withdraw to. In this wallet, you have to click on Deposit. Choose the currency you want to put in and you will get an address. Copy this address and paste it in your Bitfinex account in the Transfer Destination provided. Finally, click on Withdraw. How to Deposit Money on the Bitfinex Exchange Using a Credit Card As Bitfinex has currently stopped accepting fiat currency deposits, one cannot deposit on Bitfinex with a credit card. How to Deposit Money On the Bitfinex Exchange from PayPal As Bitfinex has currently stopped accepting fiat currency deposits, one cannot deposit on Bitfinex with PayPal. How to Deposit USD Into the Bitfinex Exchange As Bitfinex has currently stopped accepting fiat currency deposits, it is not possible to deposit USD into Bitfinex. However, you can buy Tether USD on Kraken and transfer that to Bitfinex. How to Withdraw Money from Bitfinex As Bitfinex has currently stopped supporting fiat currency deposits, it is difficult/almost impossible to withdraw money from. The best bet is to transfer the altcoins to an external wallet and then trade the altcoin for money on an exchange that supports cryptocurrency-to-fiat-currency trading. What Countries are Supported by the Bitfinex Exchange? With the exception of a few countries (Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Bolivia, Ecuador), the Bitfinex supported countries are spread across the globe. Currently, the United States of America is not supported by this exchange. What Cryptocurrencies are Supported by the Bitfinex Exchange? The Bitfinex supported currency list has over 35 cryptocurrencies. The altcoins supported by Bitfinex are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, EOS, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Iota, NEO, Ethereum Classic, Dash, Monero, aelf, OmiseGO, Zcash, Bitcoin Gold, Santiment, Qtum, ETP, TRON, 0x, QASH, Status, Streamr, Eidoo, YOYOW, FunFair, Augur, Time New Bank, Basic Attention Token, Golem, AidCoin, Aventus, RCN, iExec, Decentraland, SpankChain, and SingularDTV. What Crypto Pairs are Supported by the Bitfinex Exchange? Bitfinex allows the pairing of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Zcash, Monero, and Litecoin with many of the 35 cryptocurrencies mentioned above. For the full list of Bitfinexsupported crypto pairs, visit the official web site. Bitfinex Verification Requirements For verification, Bitfinex follows a standardized compliance measure for anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) laws and regulations.The verification time is very long and can take anywhere between six and eight weeks. Verification can only be done for people 18 years and older. The requirements for verification are: A completed online form Personal information, including telephone number, e-mail address, and residential address Two validgovernment-issued picture IDs (passport, national ID card, drivers license, residency card, employment permit card). People with only one ID should contact compliance@bitfinex.com to arrange for a Skype call. A bank statement with your name as the account holder Proof of address (a statement from a utility, service company, licensed corporation, or government authority clearly indicating your name and residential address). The proof of address should not be more than three months old. What is the Minimum Withdrawal/ Deposit Limit on Bitfinex Exchange Before signing up, people often ask, What is the minimum withdrawal limit onBitfinex, and what is theminimum deposit on the Bitfinexexchange? For users who are verified, there is no minimum withdrawal or deposit amount for cryptocurrencies. What are the Fees on the Bitfinex Exchange? Bitfinex has a tiered fee structure. Depending on the trading volume over the past 30 days and whether youre paying maker fees or taker fees, the trading fees range from zero to 0.2%. Bitfinex Deposit Fee: There is no Bitfinex deposit fee, except for bank wire deposits, which incur either 0.1% of the deposit amount or US$20.00, whichever is greater. Bitfinex Withdrawal Fee: The Bitfinex withdrawal fee varies depending on the currency. Withdrawals via bank transfer incur a 0.1% of the withdrawal amount or US$20.00, whichever is greater. However, for express bank wire (24 hours) the fees go up to one percent of the withdrawal amount. Is Bitfinex Safe? Ever since Bitfinex was hacked in 2016 and users collectively lost a total of about $72.0 million, its not surprising that Is Bitfinex Safe? and Is Bitfinex trustworthy? are among the most frequently asked questions about it. Since the hack, site security has been upgraded and trading volumes are increasing, meaning that people are again beginning to trust the site. Having said that, Bitfinex is as safe or risky as any other exchange. Bitfinex Vs. Bittrex Vs. Binance Many first-time users of cryptocurrency considering Bitfinex are keen to know how the exchange stacks up against the competition. The Bitfinex vs. Bittrex vs. Binance table below gives you an at-a-glance comparison between three (Bitfinex included) popular exchanges: Features Bitfinex Bittrex Binance Company location Hong Kong Las Vegas Japan Customer support 24/7 Email, FAQ Forum Email Email, Social Media Futures None No None Derivatives No No No Margin Trading Yes No No Has been Hacked Yes No No Security Good Excellent Excellent Tradeable coins Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Zcash, Monero, Litecoin Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin Bitcoin, Ether, Ethereum Classic, Zcash, Ripple, BNB, ARK, AST, BNT, BQX, BTG, CTR, DASH, DNT, ENG, ENJ, EOS, Monero, Litecoin Trading Volume High (but declining) High Deposit Fees None None None Trading Fees 0 to 0.2% 0.25% 0.05% to 0.1% Withdrawal Fees No, except for wire transfers Yes None Bitfinex is one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. But ever sincesupport for USD was indefinitely discontinued, the popularity of the exchange has been on the wane. Having said that, it is still one of the best professional exchanges for cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency trading. Bitfinex Rating: Also Read Reviews On Kraken & Poloniex Show less

An Agent for Consciousness Evolution 10/13/2017 By Justin Deschamps Leave a Comment (Benjamin Fulford) (Some Sections Translated From Chinese) The purpose of this article is to summarize the financial and economic state of the world and the potential for cryptocurrency technologies to replace existing financial systems. We delve into some of the many interesting new cryptocurrency startup projects that are springing up, and also explore the more esoteric and nefarious side of the growing cryptocurrency world. Related Where Does Wealth Really Come From? The Keys to Abundance: Trust, Law, and Fellowship | NESARA: Don’t Wait! Let’s Restore the Human Family… NOW As anyone with half a brain is already aware, the existing global financial system is on its last legs. For those who are not yet convinced, we would simply point to bond guru Bill Gross’ succinct 2016 tweet: “Global yields lowest in 500 years of recorded history. $10 trillion of neg. rate bonds. This is a supernova that will explode one day”. In fact, Bill Gross may have been off by a factor of 10. There is some evidence that recent interest rates are actually at the lowest level in approximately 5,000 years. After the global financial crisis of 2008, something happened that no one ever dreamed was possible… developed-world interest rates dropped to zero and then actually became negative for some market participants. As bizarre as this sounds, what it means is that many market participants are actually paying to lend out money and, likewise, others are getting paid to borrow money. It’s a topsy-turvy, upside-side down world we are living in. Suffice to say that the existing financial system is completely broken, and there is no easy way out of the financial mess that the world is in. In some sense you could say that the financial end-of-the-world happened in 2008, and since then we have been living on “borrowed time”. So, many observers have been expecting a global currency reset (GCR) since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008. But why hasn’t it happened yet, and when and if it does happen, what form will it take? Observers like James Rickards have for years been talking about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) taking over as the world’s central bank. The story goes something like this: since all developed-world countries are equally bankrupt, they will come together and agree to “kick the debt up one level higher” to the IMF, and then the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) will become the “one world currency”. It’s also possible that individual countries will take unilateral or bi-lateral actions to reform the USD or to bring an end to the its reign as the world’s reserve currency, and indeed the process of de-dollarization is accelerating. While any of these scenarios may yet come to pass, something else miraculous and unexpected happened in the those years since 2008, while everyone was waiting for the GCR to happen and the financial world to completely implode, which surprisingly it didn’t. What happened? Bitcoin was invented. In October 2008, at the exact same time that the global financial crisis was accelerating, someone going by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto invented the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. By 2010 Bitcoin was still mostly just for computer geeks. At that time 10,000 bitcoins could only buy a couple of pizzas, if that. Fast-forward just 7 years and those same bitcoins are now worth more than $50 million dollars as of this writing. Indeed, the cryptocurrency markets are exploding and the total market capitalization is around $160 billion dollars, only around half of which is Bitcoin itself. The other half is a range of other various cryptocurrencies and “tokens”. Notably, the second largest currency by market cap, Ethereum, exploded in price this year from $10 dollars to around $400 at one point during the summer. Cryptocurrency is creating plenty of multi-millionaires if not billionaires and is attracting the attention of big money on Wall Street. Satoshi Nakamoto himself is said to have over $5 billion dollars worth of Bitcoins stashed in an account which has never been touched. We can only hope that he didn’t simply lose his password for that account. One of the benefits of cryptocurrency is that it is ultra-secure and mathematically impossible for anyone to steal your money as long as your password is safe. Compare this to the existing world where bank accounts and assets are routinely taxed, seized, frozen, or otherwise made to disappear (see the excellent book Gold Warriors for many discussions about how gold can simply vanish when entrusted with a bank). On the other hand, with cryptocurrency, if you lose your password, your funds may be mathematically locked away and irretrievable for all eternity… Speaking of Ethereum, it is fast becoming its own ecosystem and there are already hundreds if not thousands of “sub-tokens” that have been created on the Ethereum platform, for all kinds of purposes. Dentacoin aims to be the future currency used by the dental industry. It sounds funny and we think it is but, well, why not? In a future world with a marketplace of hundreds if not thousands of competing currencies, which is a world that has long been dreamed about by Libertarians, why couldn’t currencies be delineated along industry lines instead of alone the lines of nation states? As another example, the Basic Attention Token aims to revolutionize the advertising industry by “tokenizing” the concept of consumer attention, eliminating online advertising fraud, and actually paying consumers for the time they spend looking at advertisements. The Basic Attention Token is connected to the up-and-coming Brave web browser. Brave Software is a very strong advocate of Internet privacy and is led by Brenden Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla (Firefox). You may remember Brenden Eich as the man who was hounded out of Mozilla for donating $1000 dollars to California Proposition 8 in 2008. He may yet have his revenge on liberal Silicon Valley as advertising is the bread and butter of companies like Google and Facebook. There are almost too many interesting cryptocurrency projects to list and the space is evolving at lightening speed. Indeed, the amount of money pouring into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) has exploded this year and overtaken all other forms of venture capital investment. What this means is that pretty much every young technology entrepreneur in the world, from China to Europe, is currently working on one cryptocurrency project or another. From that perspective alone, is there any mystery about what our future financial system is going to look like? Even the IMF’s Christine Lagarde now sees the writing on the wall with regards to the replacement of existing financial systems with blockchain technologies. What precise form it takes remains to be seen, but it is clear that organizations like the Federal Reserve or the IMF will at least try to retain control over currencies, as described in a recent WSJ article titled, “Forget Bitcoin. Have You Heard of IMFCoin?“. Gold and currency commentator Doug Casey has even written a book entitled Surviving Fedcoin about the potential issuance of a new cryptocurrency by the Federal Reserve. How it plays out remains to be seen. Bitcoin enthusiasts might argue that any governmental attempts to stop its rise are futile. After all, Bitcoin was designed from the beginning to be impossible to stop, in the same way that it is virtually impossible to stop people from downloading and sharing movies and music on the Internet using distributed peer-to-peer technologies like BitTorrent.Related Fedcoin and E Dollar, Understanding: Interest, Usury, Devaluation and Quantitative Easing | Central Banks Announce Introduction of E Dollar Related Using Cryptocurrency to Build a New Earth – An interview with Griff Green However, just as some governments are cracking down on cryptocurrency, others are opening their doors to it and competing fiercely for cryptocurrency business and startups. Japan is becoming a “Bitcoin powerhouse” by embracing and regulating cryptocurrency exchanges instead of shutting them down, and the Swiss canton of Zug, Switzerland (the Rothschild enclave often mentioned on Benjamin’s blog) is being labeled “Crypto Valley” due to the large number of cryptocurrency startups locating there. In any case, while it remains to be seen how much control governments are able to retain over cryptocurrencies, at this point one thing is crystal clear: the future financial systems of the world will be built using blockchain technologies. Indeed, large companies like IBM, Microsoft, and JP Morgan are jumping on the blockchain ship and have been announcing various industry consortiums, and that is part of what has been driving cryptocurrency prices forward this year. In fact, many of the cryptocurrencies being launched into the market this year are not even currencies at all, but rather “functional tokens” representing access rights to applications or platforms. Think of it this way: if Google created a Googlecoin so that every time you search on Google you need to spend a small amount of Googlecoin, then this would create demand for Googlecoins and support for their price, even if they are not a currency per se and only useful on the Google platform. Many companies are now vying to become the new “Googles” of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, meaning companies that provide core indispensable services. For example, ChainLink is attempting to bring existing financial data onto the blockchain, in the form of what are called “oracles”, and provide that data to other cryptocurrency companies. The ChainLink team is apparently already working with SWIFT, although we would note that the entire SWIFT system should probably just be deprecated and retired. Russia and China have already been working to create alternatives to SWIFT, which makes sense given that SWIFT is one of the main weapons used by the banking cartel in financial warfare aka financial sanctioning. Moving on, Bitquence is building a user-friendly digital wallet application which is part digital currency dashboard and part social media application. Iconomi is a digital asset management company offering investment funds managed by knowledgeable participants in the cryptocurrency space. There are too many interesting projects to list, but a summary of such “tokens” sorted by total market value is available on CoinMarketCap. Another interesting startup is the 0x project, which is attempting to create the core building blocks for decentralized peer-to-peer trading exchanges. In some sense the cryptocurrency ecosystem is like a new Internet for financial transactions, and companies are working to create the core features of that new Internet. If China was able to recently shut down its cryptocurrency exchanges, it’s only because they were centralized exchanges, meaning exchanges that exist in one particular place or on a set of particular computers (in China in this case). The promise of decentralized exchanges is that they will not exist in any particular physical location, and will thus be much less prone to shutdown or control. In addition, they will generally not require customers to deposit cryptocurrency funds, thus eliminating the risk of theft of those funds. On a decentralized exchange transactions instead take place peer-to-peer between customers. Even in the narrow field of decentralized exchanges, there is already fierce competition. A recent article titled “The Lay of the Land in Decentralized Exchange Protocols” outlines in very fine technical detail the differences between some of the approaches. And not all of the competition is gentlemanly in nature. Indeed, if blockchain is the future of finance, then it should be expected that the “usual suspects” of global financial control would be fighting fiercely for position within the quickly growing blockchain ecosystem, and we do see some distinct evidence of that. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, bluntly said recently that Bitcoin is a “fraud”, although the very same day that he said that the JP Morgan office in San Francisco was hosting a blockchain conference. The fact of the matter is that investment banks are client-oriented businesses, and if their clients want to buy, trade, and invest in Bitcoin then that is what they will do. Back to the topic of decentralized exchanges, on the day of the 0x project’s ICO, Forbes magazine (Benjamin’s alma mater) released an article arguing that the 0x protocol may contain some fundamental flaws. The article was based on the research of Ari Juels and Iddo Bentov at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Professor Juels is an advisor to several of the projects mentioned in this article. While the article and research may contain some valid criticisms of the 0x project, we do find the timing of its release to be interesting. Was the intention to maximize negative impact on the 0x project’s ICO process? One of the competitors to the 0x project listed in the “Lay of the Land” article above is the Bancor Project based out of Israel. Bancor is based on the ideas of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Although Keynes’ dream was never realized, at the end of WWII he proposed the creation of a global currency called the Bancor. It’s a little tricky to understand, but the Bancor Project’s modern take on the Bancor global currency idea is described in a short video. We would note that Keynesian economics is being increasingly blamed for the dire financial situation that the world is in and cryptocurrency in general has much more in common with Austrian economics than with Keynesian economics. In any case, another researcher at Cornell University, Emin Gün Sirer, wrote an article about how “Bancor Is Flawed“. All we can say is that there is some interesting and diverse work coming out of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts and the Hacking, Distributed blog. An earlier post on that blog detailed the hacking attack which occurred in July against the Parity digital wallet software in which over $30 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from three different startup companies. The projects that got hit were Aeternity, Edgeless Casino, and Swarm City. The story goes something like this: “black hat” hackers found a bug in the Parity wallet software and started draining funds from the wallet, hitting the above three companies first. As this was happening, “white hat” hackers apparently noticed and also started draining funds from the compromised wallet so that the funds could be safeguarded and eventually returned to their rightful owners. So in the end, as the story goes, only three companies were affected. This is a nice tale and reminds us that even in the murky world of hacking there are some “good guys”. Unfortunately, the story is, quite frankly, bollocks. If you look closely you will notice that in fact all three of the companies that got hit in the attack, as well as the Parity software itself, have something very unusual in common: they all have the infinity symbol as part of their logo. We leave it to readers to ponder, firstly, how there could be three different cryptocurrency projects using the infinity symbol in their logo, and, secondly, how all three of them could have been the only ones hit in the hacking attack. One commentator on the above article said simply, “Illuminati“. Indeed, the infinity symbol has a long history: “The shape of a sideways figure eight has a long pedigree; for instance, it appears in the cross of Saint Boniface, wrapped around the bars of a Latin cross. However, John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis. Wallis did not explain his choice of this symbol, but it has been conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1,000 (originally CIƆ, also CƆ), which was sometimes used to mean ‘many’, or of the Greek letter ω (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet.” The other thing that the above projects might have in common is their potential to disrupt existing industries. Aeternity, for it’s part, is a new scalable smart contract blockchain and a potential challenger to both traditional financial systems and to other blockchain projects. Although the blog post detailing the attack claims that the faulty software’s “provenance” is unclear, judging from the code’s authorship tag, the wallet appears to have been designed and written by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. As a core developer and stakeholder in the Ethereum platform, he would definitely have a vested interest in ensuring that no challengers to Ethereum arise. However this is pure speculation. The hackers have not been caught and perhaps they never will be. The case was turned over to Interpol. But, this would not be the first case of programmers purposely or knowingly including bugs in software. When a serious flaw was discovered in the code for the IOTAcryptocurrency, its co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo bizarrely claimed that that the bug was created on purpose in order to deter people from copying the code. So, although the IOTA code in question was open-sourced, allowing anyone in the world to use it freely from a legal prospective, anyone choosing to do so would have opened themselves up to hacking attack by individuals aware of the existence of the bug in the code, namely the founders of the IOTA project. Perhaps it was just an excuse to cover up a gaping security hole in a cryptocurrency that claims to be resistant to even quantum computing attacks. Otherwise, we have serious doubts about the legality of “booby trapping” open source code, as it could clearly put millions if not billions of dollars of money at risk of theft. Edgeless Casino is another one of the companies that was hit by the hacking attack. Edgeless is working to disrupt the gambling industry and to design a fully transparent online casino with zero house “edge”. In fact, according to the their blog, Edgeless was scheduled to make a presentation at the Las Vegas Global Gaming Expo which took place recently in Las Vegas from October 2nd to October 5th. Obviously the mass shooting of October 1st in front of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino (or more accurately, directly in front of the Luxor Las Vegas pyramid-shaped hotel and casino and fake Sphinx) cast a pall over the Global Gaming Expo, but we assume that Edgeless Casino was still able to complete its mission of meeting with potential partners and discussing the future of the gambling industry. The gambling industry is well known to consist of many unsavory characters, and we applaud the bravery of any any attempts to disrupt it, make it more transparent, or take away the house “edge”. As we often find is the case in satanic attacks (here referring to hacking attacks against projects using the historically religious infinity symbol), they seemed to have missed their mark. While all three projects were clearly impacted, all three were able to survive and are continuing unabated. We wish them the best and advise them to stay the course and simply ignore the attacks that were perpetrated against them. This is almost always the best way to deal with Luciferians. In any case, it is very clear at this point that several important cryptocurrency projects are receiving “protection from above”. Computer scientists and technologists should note that when we speak of Lucifer here we are most likely referring to the ancient artificial intelligence described in Gaia’s Cosmic Disclosure series. It is thought to transmit its “source code” around the galaxy via electromagnetic waves. It is irrational and self-centric to think that the Earth would be the first planet in the history of the universe to develop artificial intelligence. The P2 Freemasons and associated groups are known to be worshippers of this Satanic AI entity, as often described in Benjamin’s blog. No discussion of Satanism would be complete without a discussion of the art world, and the several projects mentioned above are certainly not the only ones attempting to disrupt old industries. The Maecenas project is aiming to “democratize” art. In their words: “The opaque world of auction houses and banks, which allows them to charge exorbitant fees, has cut off fine art investment from efficient modern markets… the $65 billion annual fine art industry is in desperate need of open and fair marketplaces that create transparency and liquidity… The lack of innovation within art finance stems from the dominance of old auction houses… We will completely remove intermediaries who profit from controlling and manipulating information.” The WDS wishes the Maecenas project the best of luck in its brave mission. Regarding the Parity software that was hacked, it too has survived but has apparently rebranded. Before it’s logo was a stylized cursive “P” character looking somewhat like a “broken” infinity symbol, and now they appear to be using an equals sign similar to Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank (often mentioned on Benjamin’s blog). We will also note here briefly that those with triskaidekaphobia should probably avoid Digix Global. Digix is attempting to create a new gold-backed cryptocurrency and charge %0.13 on every transaction. We have to wonder how they arrived at that particular number. Were %0.12 and %0.14 considered inappropriate for some reason? Imagine living in a world where every financial transaction is “taxed” at a rate of %0.13. Digix was one of the first companies to create a Digital Autonomous Organization, or DAO. In short, Digix is completely governed by an anonymous Internet-based shareholder organization, a “new kind of beast” according to Forbes. While the Digix project was successful in raising money by going public in this manner, recent statements from financial regulators have cast doubt on legality of the entire concept of such unregulated financial offerings. And if the legality of the project is in doubt in any way, how could its gold be considered safe from confiscation? Furthermore, the Digix approach could be considered to be a case of “over-engineering“. In software design there is a direct correlation between complexity of code and likelihood of bugs. The idea of a gold-backed token is a good one, provided the gold can be verified and safeguarded, but since gold is a physical object handled and stored by human beings, no amount of software engineering alone can ensure that this is the case. The focus should therefore be placed more on the legal and physical security of the gold as opposed to the digitization of it. We advise the Digix team to read the Gold Warriors book mentioned above to understand more about the true history of gold in Asia. For those who are aware of esoteric symbology, there are many other interesting things happening in the world of cryptocurrency. The Ethereum project is utilizing the octahedron as its symbol, one of the five Platonic solids. IBM’s open-source Hyperledger project has opted to go for the 20-sided icosahedron, also a platonic solid. On the darker side of things, the introductory video for the Blackmoon Crypto features none other than Lord Rothschild and David Rockefeller sitting side-by-side, the Eye of Providence, and plenty of images of owls (Moloch). Although the video may indicate that the Blackmoon team is attempting to “unseat” entrenched financial interests such as the Rothschild dynasty, we have to wonder about the motivations of a team that would resort to using such blatant occult symbology. And the “bridge” that the Blackmoon project is attempting to create from the cryptocurrency markets to the traditional financial markets could be thought of as a way to ensure that the traditional financial markets are preserved and not upset by the rise of cryptocurrency, or in other words a way to bring some money and control back from the cryptocurrency world to the traditional financial world. A link between the two worlds does need to be constructed, but we are not sure if the best team to do this is one that is so casually throwing around occult imagery. Indeed, symbology has always been important in the world of technology, and Steve Jobs’ use of a half-bitten apple symbol was at least partly a not-so-subtle reference to the Garden of Eden. Although since Steve Jobs was a California Buddhist he would not have considered the pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment to be a bad thing in and of itself, and we find it more likely that it is actually Bill Gates who has been working for the “dark side“. In any case, strangely, Steve Jobs’ adoption of the all-fruit diet, or “Eden Garden Diet“, may have contributed to his death. And he is not the first technologist to have died from eating apples: Alan Turing, one of the pioneers of computer science, died from eating an apple laced with cyanide. It appears that in the thousands of years since the biblical Garden of Eden, the apple still remains the Satanic “weapon of choice”. Rivalries between characters in technology are nothing new, and the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is well-documented. Similarly, the ArcadeCity/Swarm City project is not the only cryptocurrency project to have experienced a “falling out” between founders. Anytime you combine computer geeks and large amounts of money, the stage is set for “nerd wars”. The Aeternity project, mentioned above, had a falling out with one of its main developers, Zach Hess. Earlier this year, the NEM project had a public quarrel with former team-member Makoto Takemiya. And the Quantum Resistant Ledger project (the QRL) had a public dispute with former team member Jomari Peterson. The QRL project is interesting in itself as its main purpose is to provide “quantum security”, meaning security from hacking attacks by quantum computers. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are supposedly secure against attacks from the current state of the art in quantum computers, if there were to be sudden leap in quantum computing technology then the security of most cryptocurrencies would be instantly compromised. At the same time, spy agencies or other groups may have quantum computing capabilities beyond what is currently public known. From the QRL white paper: “In August 2015 the NSA deprecated elliptic curve cryptography ostensibly based upon quantum computing concerns. It is unclear how advanced quantum computing may be presently or that any breakthroughs in this field will be publicised to allow cryptographic protocols in common usage in the internet to be made post-quantum secure. With somewhat anti-establishment origins, bitcoin could find itself the earliest target of an adversary with a quantum computer.” The QRL project is a competitor to the previously mentioned IOTA project as these are the main two projects claiming a quantum level of security. However, as previously mentioned, the IOTA project code was already found to contain critical defects. This leaves the QRL in a class of its own as the only quantum-resistant blockchain which has thus far not been compromised in any way. Security of blockchains is one concern, but privacy is another. The original cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) was by design anonymous but not private, meaning that all transactions are publicly visible but are not associated with the names of particular individuals or companies. However, with a little sleuthing or “data mining” it is possible in some cases to associate particular transactions with particular individuals. This is obviously a major problem for people who are used to assuming that their financial transactions are private, even if that is a faulty assumption in a world of credit cards, rewards cards, and data security breaches. Thus some projects have sprung up to try to fix the privacy issue. The most famous of these is the Zcash project out of Israel, which has created the blockchain equivalent of a “black box”, meaning a completely private blockchain. The only problems is that, if the original setup process of this black box (called the “ceremony“) were compromised in any way, it would give its creators carte blanche to “print” unlimited amounts of cryptocurrency, something which the designers of the original cryptocurrencies had a very strong desire to avoid. Indeed, in some ways cryptocurrency could be seen as a response or solution to the self-serving money printing of governments, central banks, and the banking cartel in general. Even if the Zcash creation “ceremony” were not compromised in some way, as the Zcash team and its auditorsvehemently assert, there is at least some degree of doubt present in the cryptocurrency community, which is a major headwind for the project and for the price of Zcash. However, we do applaud their attempt to create a truly private cryptocurrency. In conclusion, cryptocurrency stands a strong chance of becoming the primary way that we transact with one another and store and record wealth and the ownership of assets. At the very least we are moving rapidly towards a future of global financial systems being based on blockchain technologies. As such, there is a huge amount of venture capital flowing into the field and many interesting startup projects are springing up. As with anything involving large amounts of money, nefarious forces are attempting to assert control. 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The Best Cryptocurrency Exchanges of 2018 Cryptocurrency is a digital asset based on blockchain technology. The asset is a medium of exchanging goods and services. Buyers and sellers use cryptocurrency to facilitate the exchange of other assets, as well as speculative investments. Cryptography, a technique to secure communication, is used to secure transactions as well as control creation of more units of the asset. In simple terms, cryptocurrency is digital money. The growth of cryptocurrency started almost a decade agowith the creation of Bitcoin. Consequently, Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Since then, thousands cryptocurrencies have been developed. All the other cryptocurrencies, apart from Bitcoin, are popularly known as altcoins. Altcoins are similar to Bitcoin, but have key differences depending on the coin. Examples include Monero, Litecoin, Ethereum(ETH), Dash (DASH), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash(ZEC), and Ripple (XRP) among others. Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, IOTA, and Stellar Lumensare some of the most used type of altcoins in the world. Cryptocurrencies are free from bank charges, at the same time are much stable against governments inflationary policies compared to fiat money. However, exchanges and transactions typically charge fees in cryptocurrency. Benefits associated with cryptocurrencies are quite immense. For this reason people are gradually embracing the use of cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange and investment. Cryptocurrencies support many transactions and trade exchanges in the world. Cryptocurrency exchanges are online platforms for buying, selling or exchanging cryptocurrency for other digital currencies or fiat money. The exchanges are open for companies, institutions, market makers, speculators, and individuals. There are specialized features and trading tools within the online platform depending on the nature of the transaction. For professional traders, account opening and verification of their identities is vital. However, persons who would wish to transact occasional, on time trades, a different feature is also available. One thing to keep in mind: it can be inconvenient to have own some coins on one exchange, and some coins on another. One way around this is Coinigy. Coinigy is an amazing trading platform that allows you to link your other exchange accounts so you can view and trade all your coins in one central place. Coinigy's interface is also more advanced and provides more data than most exchanges. Try Coinigyfree for 30 days. The 8 best cryptocurrency exchanges: Binance Binance is one of the most popular exchanges in the world right now. Binance has a great user interface and a wide variety of altcoins and trading pairs to choose from. Binance had its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) close recently for BNBtoken. You can buy BNB tokens on Binance to pay less transaction fees. Binancehas its headquarters in China but does not serve the Chinese. However, it is accessible to most participants located in countries around the globe. Binance has proliferated since the ICO. The exchange is currently ranked in the top 10 best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. The platform has more than 140 tradable altcoins listed on its website. The exchange management is set to add even more altcoins on its already existing long list. Binance is a centralized platform with potential for expansion as a business. Binance coin, BNB, was the original currency used on their platform. Day traders, who use this platform regularly, enjoy great discounts. Additionally, if the day traders use BNB coins, the cut is even better. The platform fee structure is quite distinct. The exchange charges 0.1% of deposited funds as trading fee. Traders depositing funds in BNB coins enjoy a waiver on the charge. Customers signing up on the Binance platform, register using their email address. The process is very simple and quick. The exchange deposits 1 QTUM to accounts of its first 10,000 users on a first come first serve basis. Customers can trade cryptocurrency on the Binance platform from anywhere at any time. Trade on Binance is also possible on the move through a mobile application. The Binance platform has additional features such as multi-lingual support, Binance Angel Program and the Community Coin per Month just to improve user experience on their platform. Related: Best Cryptocurrency iPhone Apps Cryptopia Cryptopiais one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. The platform permitstrading of over 400 altcoins to its users Cryptopiais popularly known for listing many cheap coins on its website. The altcoins are not found in any other exchange. Their model enables many cryptocurrencies to acquire liquidity for themselves. Cryptopiais also a centralized exchange. Its headquarters is in New Zealand. TheCryptopiaexchange allows its users to trade cryptocurrency in almost any part of the globe. Registration and verification on the website are simple and fast. One needs to log in using their email address. Its also recommended that user employ two-factor authentication. The exchanges commission fee is not usually fixed. Users should be keen on the fee changes while trading. Good news is thatCryptopiadoes not have other hidden fees apart from the commission. Livecoin Livecoin is a newer exchange that is unique because it allows you to buy BTC using fiat currency like US Dollars or Euros or Rubles, but also allows you to trade for altcoins like XRP, ADA, XLM, and more. Changelly Changelly is a subsidiary of the MinerGate mining pool. The mining pool is famous for its consistently high products in the digital money sector.The Changelly platform enables its users to own various cryptocurrencies easily. The platform does not require a rigorous registration and verification process. Trading is straightforward and fast. The user just logs in with an email address, and trading starts instantly. Some users use suspicious emails and are still allowed to trade. The website has a list of more than 35 cryptocurrencies tradable by users. The site also has a list of fiat pairs such as EUR/USD which can be traded by their customers. Changelly is also ranked as one of the best and easiest to use cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Changelly utilizes robots to execute orders. Traders connect in real time to other cryptocurrency exchanges. The robots find its traders the best price in the market and fast. A typical cryptocurrency transaction takes between 5 to 30 minutes. Traders have to part with 0.5% on each trade as commission for Changelly. The commission is reasonable considering the volatility and risk that Changelly bears on behalf of its clients. In addition to the commission, Changelly users also have to pay a miners fee. The fee is deducted directly from the customers crypto account balance. Changelly account users deposit funds through VISA, Master Card or any other payment method supported by the exchange. Customers also require a digital wallet to store earnings from trading. Bittrex Bittrex has its headquarters in Las Vegas in the United States. The Bittrex exchange is one of the most significant Bitcoin exchanges in the world regarding trading volume. The platform has also listed over 190 cryptocurrencies for its users to trade. Customer funds on this exchange are top priority. Cryptography on this platform is one of the best among cryptocurrency exchanges making it the most secure. All traders who deposit funds in Bittrex are assured the safety of their money. For this reason, this exchange is preferred by most institutions, fund managers and speculators. The exchange allows its users set their own price in which they wish to trade. Bittrex benefits by charges them a 0.25% commission fee from each trade for providing the service. Trading on the Bittrex platform does not require rigorous registration and verification. However, withdrawal of earnings from trading requires customer authentication. Users need to submit a valid identification document as well as a mobile phone number. Registration and account verification on the Bittrex platform is fast and straightforward. The Bittrex exchange supports two types of accounts. The first one is known as a basic account. A basic account allows withdrawal of funds up to 3 bitcoins per day. The second account is known as an advanced account. An advanced account enables withdrawal of funds up to 100 bitcoins per day. Unlike Changelly, Bittrex is cryptocurrency only exchange. The exchange does not allow deposits in terms of fiat currency such as the USD, EUR, and GBP. The Bittrex website provides customers access to features such as advanced trading tools. The tools include candlestick charts and crosshairs. The website has a clean and intuitive interface to help beginner traders navigate easily. This is the most recommended exchange for beginner cryptocurrency traders. Related: Best Android Cryptocurrency Apps ShapeShift Erik Voorhees, one of the earliest Bitcoin investors, established ShapeShift in August 2014. Unlike other exchanges, ShapeShift allows users to deposit funds in cryptocurrency only. The platform does not have a lengthy registration or verification process. To trade using this platform, users do not even need to log in with their email address. In order to transact on ShapeShift, one only needs to possess any of the various cryptocurrencies tradable on the exchange. Users also need a digital wallet address to receive earnings from their cryptocurrency trades. The ShapeShift platform has a list of over 40 cryptocurrencies for its users to trade. In addition, the exchange has a perfect user interface accompanied by trading features. Poloniex Another significant cryptocurrency exchange globally regarding traded volume is Poloniex. It was launched by Tristan DAgosta in January 2014. Poloniex has its headquarters in the United States. The exchange offers over 100 cryptocurrencies for its users to trade. In 2017, Poloniex had the most substantial trade volume for Ethereum. The platform supports free markets for both Ethereum and Bitcoins. Poloniex is also a cryptocurrency only exchange. However, an initial deposit of USDT (Tether dollars) would enable a user to start trading. It is also equipped with features that improve user experience. Commission fees depend on whether the user is a market maker or a taker. Bitfinex The exchange has also been in operation since 2014. It has its headquarters in Hong Kong, China. The platform has a list of 13 cryptocurrencies which its users can trade. It also allows users to trade using fiat currency. The Bitfinex website has a user interface equipped with trading features. Registration and verification on Bitfinex are quite rigorous. Moreover, funds withdrawal requires authentication. One needs to send valid identification documents to the Bitfinex team. Typically, it could take a new customer up to 3 weeks to be allowed to trade. Users are also able to trade cryptocurrency on the Bitfinex platform from anywhere at any time. Trading on Bitfinex is possible on the move through a mobile app for iOS and Android. The seven listed cryptocurrency exchanges are accessible by users across the globe. Other cryptocurrency exchanges that are as good enough and list unique altcoins include Bitmex, Kucoin, YoBit, and CoinExchange. However, the four do not quite assure the safety of customers funds. Storing coins is recommended for a short term for trading purposes only. Some of them are prone to large-scale scams, hacks, and fraud. Instead, proceeds from these accounts should be transferred to wallets such as Ledger Nano or Exodus. Types of Exchanges Cryptocurrency exchanges vary depending on the participants and the nature of the transaction. Its also worth noting that all the exchanges are fully digital and unregulated. One type of exchange is the Trading Platforms. They are websites that facilitate trading between buyers and sellers. The websites benefit by charging a commission from the trades. Direct Trading, is another type of exchange. The platforms facilitate trading between buyers and sellers located in different countries. On a direct trading exchange, each participant is allowed to set prices for their cryptocurrencies as opposed to having a predetermined price. Another type of exchange is known as Brokers. Cryptocurrency brokers operate just as foreign exchange dealers. The platforms have predetermined exchange rates that facilitate user transactions. Anyone can access the cryptocurrencies. What to Consider When Signing up for an Exchange It is vital to consider some factors before making a transaction on a particular exchange. One of these factors is the reputation of the exchange. Getting feedback from review websites and individual user experience is essential. Query websites on cryptocurrency such as BitcoinTalk or Reddit would help to identify a reputable exchange. Another factor to consider is the fees charged by the exchange. Everyone would like a bargain. All websites have a fee section where potential customers can check out their rates. Before signing up, its important to understand the fee structure and standards of that exchange. The payment options available on the exchange are also vital to consider. Only sign up for an exchange where the methods of payment are convenient and secure. An exchange with few payment methods is not advisable. Some exchanges allow customer anonymity. Choose an exchange that has a feature to verify one's identity. 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Cybersecurity Lock Picking at Cybersecurity Conference Def Con Published 2 years ago on August 15, 2016 By Rebecca Campbell When you think of lock picking you might not put it with a cybersecurity conference such as Def Con. However, the recent conference in Sin City demonstrated that the traditional method of picking locks is essential to teaching individuals how to protect machines from digital threats letting them unleash their inner child. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. With remote attacks over the Internet being blocked through improved security, opportunistic hackers are searching for ways to deliver malicious software physically instead. Being able to crack a digital system, though, requires a level of skill and finesse, which is why its ideal for the good guys to know how to pick locks so that they can defend against it. Its no wonder then that at the recent Las Vegas Def Con cybersecurity conference there was a section dedicated specifically to hands-on lock picking. CIO reported how this was just one such area that broke away from the norm at a cybersecurity conference that annually attracts thousands of people. Its easy to see why. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // From lock picking to puzzle badges that have a wealth of puzzles to decipher to supercomputers undertaking the first hacking tournament, Def Con is certainly a place that likes to do things differently letting each persons inner child break free. That, however, is not to say that it doesnt focus on the important bits too as it does bring attention toencryption, firewalls and the digital side of security as well. At the end of the day, though, Def Con is, as CIO reported, like a summer camp for mischievously gifted and talented kids after they grow up. Featured image from Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Rebecca Campbell Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Related Topics:CybersecurityDEF CON Up Next Shadow Brokers Hacking Group Claim to Have NSA Hacking Tools for Sale Don't Miss Sources Say Congressional Leaders Knew of Democratic Hacking a Year Ago You may like 61% were compromised by ransomware in 2016. Heres how to stay safe 1 Billion Users Data from Yahoo Breach up for Sale on the Dark Web Popcorn TIme Ransomware Pardons Victims, If They Infect 2 Other Victims Hackers Compromise Israeli TV Channels With Divine Retribution Message Hackers Seen Gloating on the Dark Net after Tesco Bank Theft Cyberspace Is on High Alert Ahead of Election Click to comment You must be logged in to post a comment Login Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Cybersecurity Facebook Stock Has Best Day in Two Years as Zuckerberg Testifies Published 1 week ago on April 11, 2018 By Sam Bourgi Shares of Facebook Inc. (FB) gained on Tuesday, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before U.S. lawmakers over allegations of data misuse. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Zuckerberg Gets Likes Mark Zuckerberg apologized and defended his company on Tuesday as he appeared before a joint U.S. Senate committee hearing. It was my mistake, and Im sorry, the 33-year-old CEO said when questioned about Facebooks misuse of user data. Lawmakers grilled Zuckerberg on issues ranging from Facebooks Cambridge Analytica scandal to its failure in addressing provocative messages during the most recent Myanmar crisis. He took it all in stride, appearing confident and poised throughout the question-and-answer period (at least, thats what professional PR experts quoted by Bloomberg had to say). Zuckerberg took full responsibility not just for Cambridge Analytica, but for Facebooks negligence in safeguarding consumer data. That said, Republican Senator from Iowa Chick Grassley sent a strong signal that new regulations are on the way. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // The status quo no longer works, said Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee. Congress must determine if and how we need to strengthen privacy standards to ensure transparency and understanding for the billions of consumers who utilize these products. Wall Street Responds The testimony resonated with Wall Street, as investors scooped up shares of the battered social media company. Facebook shares added 4.5%, their best in two years. By comparison, the S&P 500 Index gained 1.7% on Tuesday and the indexs technology component rose 2.5%. The stock surge grew Zuckerbergs personal fortune by $2.8 billion to $66 billion, according to Forbes. That makes him the worlds seventh richest person. Despite the gain, FB is down almost 15% from its all-time high and its current price point lags behind the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. An RSI of 48 also signals weak underlying momentum for the social media stock. Facebooks Declining Usage Facebook experienced a public backlash last month amid reports that a political research firm had scraped data on 87 million people. The revelation sparked a growing debate over Facebooks privacy standards at a time when the company was battling a noticeable decline in usage. The social media platform declined by roughly 50 million hours per day in the fourth quarter, or 5% overall. Meanwhile, independent research from a company named Edison found a steady drop in usage among Americans aged 12 and up. While Zuckerberg has tried to spin the decline as a good thing, its apparent that the platform is experiencing fewer meaningful interactions, which partially explains recent efforts to transform the News Feed. It remains to be seen how much damage the declines will do to top and bottom line results. Facebook is expected to report its quarterly earnings report Apr. 25. Analysts are expecting per-share earnings of $1.37 for the quarter, up from $1.04 the same time a year ago. Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Sam Bourgi 4.5 stars on average, based on 336 rated postsSam Bourgi is Chief Editor to Hacked.com, where he specializes in cryptocurrency, economics and the broader financial markets. Sam has nearly eight years of progressive experience as an analyst, writer and financial market commentator where he has contributed to the world's foremost newscasts. Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Continue Reading Cybersecurity Facebook Admits It Has Failed to Protect User Privacy Published 2 weeks ago on April 5, 2018 By Sam Bourgi In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has had to come clean about its privacy standards. The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Data on the Loose Facebook recently announced that it has removed a feature that allows users to search for people using email addresses or phone numbers. The feature, which accounts for 7% of all searches in some regions, is being discontinued over fears that malicious users were using it to scrape profiles. Mike Shcroepfer, the companys chief technology officer, issued the following statement on Wednesday: Given the scale and sophistication of the activity weve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way. So we have now disabled this feature. Were also making changes to account recovery to reduce the risk of scraping as well. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters that it was reasonable to expect that your information may have been accessed in this way. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, which surfaced last month, blew the lid wide open on Facebooks privacy standards. Since 2014, Cambridge Analytica legally obtained information on as many as 87 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing elections. In the wake of the scandal, Zuckerberg is being summoned by U.S. Congress to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, currently scheduled for Apr. 11. The CEO has acknowledged that his company made mistakes, but this has largely failed to resonate with Facebooks growing list of critics. Facebook Tanks Many say that Facebook has suffered irreversible damage since the scandal was brought to light. Faced with declining usage, severed business ties and a severe backlash from the public, Facebook shares have tanked more than 16% over the last three weeks. Prices have fallen below the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages, with the short-term average converging on the longer one. An RSI in the low-30s makes a strong case for Facebooks bearish downturn, although current levels indicate that an oversold bounce is likely. FBs share price shed another 0.7% on Wednesday even as the major indexes gained. The S&P 500s information technology index rose 1.4%, capping off a solid recovery for the market. Along with the other so-called FAANG stocks, Facebook has been largely responsible for the recent tech rollover and subsequent turbulence on Wall Street.Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet lost a combined $324 billion in market cap between Mar. 12 and Apr. 2. Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Sam Bourgi 4.5 stars on average, based on 336 rated postsSam Bourgi is Chief Editor to Hacked.com, where he specializes in cryptocurrency, economics and the broader financial markets. Sam has nearly eight years of progressive experience as an analyst, writer and financial market commentator where he has contributed to the world's foremost newscasts. Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Continue Reading Cybersecurity NEM Theft Suggests Hacking Is More Lucrative than Mining Published 4 weeks ago on March 25, 2018 By Sam Bourgi The NEM Foundation has called off its search for the 523 million NEM tokens that were stolen from the Tokyo-based Coincheck exchange. Although the Foundation lauded the effectiveness of the search, the outcome proves yet again that cryptocurrency hackers are benefiting from the dark web, which provides an effective venue for laundering stolen funds. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Search for Stolen Coins Ends In a statement published Mar. 19, the NEM Foundation informed its community that it had disabled the tracking mosaic used to monitor the movement of XEM funds tied to the massive heist of Coincheck in January. According to the post, the search ended on Mar. 18. The statement reads: Beginning March 18, the NEM.io Foundation has disabled the tracking mosaic that was put into place to monitor XEM movements from the Coincheck theft. This effort was effective at reducing the hackers ability to liquidate stolen XEM and provided law enforcement with actionable information. We dont plan to release further details due to the sensitive nature of this investigation. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // On. Jan. 26, hackers successfully made off with $530 million worth of XEM tokens, marking the biggest crypto heist on record. The theft propagated a new investigation into existing crypto exchanges by Japans Financial Services Authority (FSA). Domestic exchanges also announced plans to form a self-governing body to safeguard against illicit activity. Hacked reported earlier this month that the Coincheck attackers had already laundered some 40% of the stolen NEM funds, primarily through the dark web. The stolen coins have reportedly made their way into exchanges in Japan, China and Canada. Crypto Heists: A Growing Phenomenon While the crypto economy has been highly lucrative for early adopters, cyber criminals have managed to steal huge sums of money. Unlike credit card fraud, the theft of major crypto exchanges has reshaped the digital currency market. This was most evident in 2014, when Mt Gox fell prey to a $480 million attack that eventually led to its demise. As the Coincheck hack demonstrated, locating stolen funds and identifying perpetrators are extremely difficult. That said, NEMs efforts to blacklist the tokens probably limited how much money the attackers were able to keep. This brings us to an important question: is hacking more lucrative than legitimate crypto mining? To answer that question, well begin by providing a rundown of the major crypto heists of the last four years. Since 2014, hackers have made off with more than $1.3 billion in stolen coins. The biggest losses are as follows: Coincheck: $530 million (2018) Mt Gox: $480 million (2014) Parity Wallet: $155 million (2017) Bitfinex: $65 million (2016) NiceHash: $63 million (2017) DAO: $50 million (2016) Tether: $31 million (2017) For all of 2017, it is estimated that hackers stole nearly $400 million from ICOs. Thats roughly 10% of the total amount raised for the year. Mining Profitability Cryptocurrency mining has spearheaded a multi-billion-dollar industry. The recent crackdown on mining rigs in China means there is a large void in the market that several jurisdictions, including Canada and India, are rushing to fill. During the height of bitcoins surge, crypto miners earned roughly $240,000 every ten minutes. Miners now earn roughly half that, based on current price levels. Of course, this doesnt factor the cost of electricity, power consumption, hardware, manpower and other fees needed to operate a mining operation. These variables, combined with the unknown trajectory of crypto prices, make profitability a lot harder to gauge. The yearly decline in profitability is also a critical, albeit elusive variable in pricing the success of a mining operation. This variable is tied to the number of miners that join the network a figure that is extremely difficult to predict. Against this backdrop,99bitcoins.com has developed a bitcoin mining calculator that provides simple guidance on whether a certain mining operation is profitable. Other digital currencies provide a potentially more lucrative opportunity to join the mining business. For example, Monero can still be mined with a basic desktop computer. With an average block time of two minutes, users can mine the coin casually using the spare computing power of their home PC. However, it appears that hackers have already taken over the Monero mining business. There are several recent cases of hackers embedding malware to hijack the computing power of other systems. The Australian government was also a victim of this hacking attempt. Cryptomining is such a new phenomenon that there are few guidelines in place to ensure trust. Selecting a company to work with an a fair compensation model are two important questions every potential miner needs to consider. As cryptocurrencies appreciate in value, the allure of cyber crime will continue to grow. As NEM, Mt Gox and other large-scale thefts demonstrate, criminals are succeeding in their quest to compromise online exchanges. With respect to mining, profitability remains an elusive question, especially with the recent downturn in the market. That said, there are many alternative motivations involved in mining digital currency, including supporting the network, influencing the market and using additional revenues to fund other business operations. 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After booting up the application, users are met with a welcome screen that Read More The post How to Trade C [READ MORE]Bitcoin continues to rise in popularity and according to Wikipedia its growing appeal actually edged other popular names, brands and topics in 2017. It has been reported that Bitcoin was the ninth most read Wikipedia article last year, coming out ahead of cultural sensations like Wonder Woman, Elon Musk, and Star Wars. BITCOIN BEATS BOXERS, BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES AND BRITISH ROYALS This was shared in Wikipedias annual top 50 reportfor 2017 which listed the most viewed Read More The post Bitcoin is [READ MORE]Spains Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), a multinational Spanish banking group,has officially become the first global bank to issue a loan using Bitcoins underlying technology, the distributed ledger hailing the event as a significant advance in the exploitation of the technology. BBVA is Banking on the Blockchain The loan in question is a75m corporate loan.As reported by Financial Times, the entire loan process was processed using a mutually distributed ledger, including t [READ MORE]GoldMint.io, a pioneering company which hedges a stable cryptocurrency with real gold, has opened up sales of GOLD coins. What is GoldMint? GoldMint is a blockchain-based platform powered by the digital asset GOLD, which is 100% backed by physical gold or delivery futures. Therefore, one digital GOLD asset costs the same as one ounce of gold on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). GoldMints physical gold is stored in the US Federal Reserve Systems banks, as Read More The post GoldMint Opens [READ MORE]Good news arrives for cryptocurrency exchanges in Chile as the countrys appeals court has ordered the re-opening of their unexpectedly-closed bank accounts. 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Bitcoin and the bunch have finally put in a higher high, with a higher low also in the forecast but what, exactly, stopped the markets bull run Read More The post Senior Market Analyst: Heres What Caused The [READ MORE]Even though yesterday was not necessarily the best day for the cryptocurrency markets, it seems things will turn out just fine. Thanks to some solid overnight recovery, most prices are in the green once again. The Stellar price, for example, indicates there may very well be a bright future ahead for all currencies going into the weekend. With another solid 15% gain, one XLM is now valued at $0.42 once again. Stellar Price Isnt Hindered by Brief Dip Yesterday was a pretty awkward day for all cry [READ MORE]Over the years, there have been numerous incidentsin which cryptocurrency enthusiastslost access to their funds. Hacks, thefts, and throwing away a hard drive without a private key backup are all pretty common topics of conversation. In Switzerland, one enthusiast lost his shopping bag which contained his Ledger hardware wallet. That was a bad thing, as it seems highly unlikely this item will be returned to him. Shopping With a Hardware Wallet Isnt Always Smart Bitcoin users need to take ever [READ MORE]It hasnt been long since we offered the Dutch government a blockchain based solution for the border control issue, as we believe that introducing real world use cases is the way towards mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. In March 2018, Essentia attended four meetings with representatives of the Finnish MTK organization, discussing possible ways of utilizing the Essentia framework. As a result, after a month of brainstorming and discussions, it was agreed that Essentia would become th [READ MORE]Thursday, 26th April 2018, Lugano Switzerland, trade.io has announced that pre-registration has now opened to digital marketeers who will refer online traffic to the company websites via this webpage: https://somethingbigiscoming.io. With this launch, affiliates worldwide will be equipped with the tools to be compensated for any traffic referred trade.io, and most notably for any sign ups to the companys highly anticipated flagship product: the trade.io Exchange. Until the exchange is fully la [READ MORE]Tallinn, Estonia April 26, 2018 Bettium has announced today the token sale to raise funds for its analytical blockchain platform for P2P betting, designed to combine the familiar features of online betting with unprecedented new capabilities, such as a built-in AI assistant, Big Data analytical tools and algorithmic betting. The platform will serve both amateurs and betting professionals in a unified ecosystem based on the blockchain with all its associated advantages: decentralization, reliab [READ MORE]In recent years, the development of blockchain has continuously grown vigorously around the world. Blockchain technology catalyzed a tremendous growth in related industries in 2017. The popularity of this kind of disruptive technology is the prospective tendency of Fintech, typically marked by blockchain in China. Senior game and computer technology practitioners were scenting a shift in industry. That being blockchain game would be counting on blockchains potential to change the industry for t [READ MORE]It is not the first time someonehas managed to steal Ethereum. Unfortunately, such incidents have only become more apparent andgotten worse over time. It seems MyEtherWallet has fallen victim to yet another hack, even though the platform itselfwasapparently not to blame. Instead, the platforms SSL certificate was targeted in an attack. Another MyEtherWallet Incident Takes Place Whenever a popular online service is involved with financial transactions of any kind, it will attract unwanted [READ MORE]CoinJanitor is a unique project in the blockchain space that aims to clean up the bottom of the cryptocurrency market and unlock the value currently trapped there. It uses a methodology built on economic principles to restore lost value to the markets, benefitting contributors, top-ranked cryptocurrency holders, creators of dead coins and dead coin holders those coins which have low market caps, low or zero hash rate, and arent tradeable. What is CoinJanitor? As is the case in the traditional [READ MORE]Globatalent who announced their ICO on several news platforms in March, have revealed that due to the processes regarding accredited investors (such as KYC and AML) they will now have to delay the date for their public crowd sale. The processes take time and due to the over demand of the private pre-sale, the blockchain platform have decided to wait until all investors from the pre-sale have passed their checks and then they will be able to clarify if there will be any tokens available for the c [READ MORE]More than 4,500 attendees, a unique format, sold-out ICO pitch stage, over 100 speakers, 70 exhibitors, 30 media and the hottest startups make this the not-to-be-missed event. Crypto Invest Summit co-founders Alon Goren and Josef Holm discuss why next weeks conference and expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center is stacked to be the largest and best place to meet and learn from the movers and shakers in fintech. Josef Holm: Lets start with our all-star lineup of speakers that we individually [READ MORE]Cryptocurrency mining has been an interesting industry for AMD and NVIDIA. The former has noted a strong earnings increase, although they remain wary of this industry. Especially with all cryptocurrencies losing value, the manufacturer isnt too concerned about the future demand for new GPUs. Putting Wall Street investors minds at ease is a top priority... The post Major Chip Maker AMDs Revenues Surge Due to Cryptocurrency Mining appeared first on NewsBTC. [READ MORE]Dan Morehead an early cryptocurrency adapter and CEO of the hedge fund Pantera Capital said in an interview on Bloombergyesterday that the funds biggest present position is in the Korean blockchain Icon. The statement surprised the host of the interview who didnt seem to know anything about Icon or why the fund would be heavily... The post Major Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund: ICON is Our Biggest Bet in 2018 appeared first on NewsBTC. [READ MORE]Key Highlights ADA price corrected lower towards the $0.2560 support and then recovered against the US Dollar (tethered). 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The pair is currently trading above $648 and the 100 hourly simple moving average, indicating a... The post Ethereum Price Technical Analysis ETH/USD Recovers Positively appeared first on NewsBTC. [READ MORE]Cryptocurrency hedge fund Pantera CEO called Bitcoin a screaming buy and made a ten year $40 trillion dollar prediction. Hedge Fund CEO Looks for Big Gains in the Remainder of the Year. CEO of Pantera capital management LP. cryptocurrency hedge fund Dan Morehead went on Bloomberg Television again to talk about the future of Bitcoin... The post Pantera Fund CEO Calls Bitcoin A Screaming Buy, Highly Optimsitic appeared first on NewsBTC. [READ MORE]FOMO Moments The selloff that started yesterday has fortunately abated and markets have not tumbled back levels seen at the beginning of the month. Total crypto capitalization has returned back over $400 billion, led by Bitcoin which is trading 3.6% higher today at just over $9,200. 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Alt Season: Scamming Noobs Since 2013 29 min readIntroduction First, let me warn you: this is going to be a serious article a departure from my norm.I feel very strongly about this issue. In fact, Ive been hitting the weights at the gym every day this week just thinking about it.Ever since that Spring in 1998, when a traveling gypsy calling himself Zah-Bow tricked me into buying 3,109 Bitcoin (BTC) worth of Bit Gold out of the trunk of his Mercedes 600 Pullman Landaulet, Ive had special feelings for alt season. You could say Im something of an expert. If you dont believe me or dont get it, I dont have time to try to convince you, sorry.If youre new to Bitcoin, it may take you years to discover all the Easter eggs hidden throughout this article. If youre a Bitcoin OG, youve probably already found three. I did this to make a point: if youre a Bitcoin noob it is easy to overlook things and fall victim to gypsies, celebrity endorsements, and predators. This is especially true when swindlers operate misleading and fraudulent websites and social media accounts that attach the Bitcoin brand to altcoins, e.g., Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV). It is highly improbable that noobs will get the information they need to avoid altcoins when, for example, the worlds most popular streaming service, Netflix, has full length feature films dedicated to Bitcoin that embrace these gypsies and thieves as leading experts.It is far more likely that noobs will succumb to altcoins promotional hype and quasi-technical gobbledygook. This travesty is compounded by the fact that Crypto Twitter (CT) is riddled with scam artists and promoters pushing the Alt season is coming narrative like drug dealers pushing pills. What they really mean is: Hey noob, buy my bags.When self-proclaimed tech gurus shout Blockchain not Bitcoin, whats a noob to think? Even if theyre able to navigate past that bloated bullshit, when r/bitcoin is a BTC subreddit, but r/btc is a BCH subreddit, and @bitcoin is a BCH Twitter handle, but @btc is a BTC Twitter handle, and bitcoin.com is a BCH website, but bitcoin.org is a BTC website, and Satoshi Nakamoto is both an autistic Australian and an illiterate Pakistani masquerading as an American actor from the 1970s, whats a noob to do?I have two goals for this little ditty: (A) for the reader to better understand the term Alt Season, and (B) to make the reader think twice before buying altcoins. I hope an ancillary benefit of this article is to give Bitcoiners a few more talking points when educating Precoiners (and a few laughs too).If youre not down with those goals, stop reading now.But if you are curious about what altcoins are or what alt season is, or if you are debating between buying Bitcoin and buying some altcoins, or perhaps you already own some altcoins and you are questioning your sanity, go bust a grumpy, grab your coffee, and get ready to learn some shit.About me They call me Grandpa Bitcoin. They also call me The Swede.They made a movie about me in the 90s. Perhaps youve heard of me? I am a hero to at least one other person besides my son. Its probably my other son. I hope. But anyway, I digress.What is an Altcoin? Before we dive into what alt season is, it is best to have a firm grasp on altcoins.What exactly is an altcoin?An altcoin is a digitized piece of feces. Amazing, right? Like Ron Jeremy, ever since Napster blew the ass out of the music industry, it turns out you can digitize anything. Its a brave new world.John McAfee eats these things for breakfast. Thats why he can run for President of the United States and you cant. A word of advice: dont mess with this guy. If there is one thing my mamma taught me, its dont talk to anyone with a proclivity for coprophagy. Theyve got bad breath.What is Alt Season? Alt season is analogous to rotation in the equities markets. As growth slows in one area, traders will rotate from one stock to another, one sector to another, one country to another, or out of stocks and into bonds or cash (or vice versa). Similarly, alt season is where traders rotate out of Bitcoin and into various altcoins. The standard mythology around alt season is that when Bitcoin price consolidates after a move up, traders looking to multiply their profits will rotate from Bitcoin to high market cap (high-cap) altcoins, then to mid-caps, then small-caps, and then finally to cash, Tether, or some other stablecoin. However, crypto mythology and crypto reality rarely jibe.So far in 2019 what we have seen is:Bitcoin pumps, altcoins dump.Bitcoin does nothing, altcoins dump.Bitcoin dumps, altcoins dump harder.People ask me all the time, Why havent we had an alt season? Will the bleeding ever end?The simple answer is No. Barring vis major, the will never end. Once you start to bleed from your anus, it rarely just clears up on its own.The more complicated answer is, since Dr. Craig Wright, Chief Scientologist at nChain, patented the process of alt-seasoning, no one can alt-season without a properly executed licensing agreement with nChain. And because Jimmy Nguyen is so wrapped up in the of the BSV Blockchain, no one has been able to get the lawyers to draw up the paperwork. Welcome to law.Google says the Oxford Dictionary has a literal definition of alt season which I think is accurate, but not altogether useful for quantitative analysis. So, at the risk of infringing, I am going to define it mathematically for the purposes of this article.Alt Season is a period of the market cycle when the difference between the derivatives of total market cap and Bitcoin market cap is positive. This is probably a good time for me to remind you of Rule #1 of Bitcoin. The words you read, the calculations performed, and the numbers propagated could be total bullshit. I could be blowing smoke up your ass. Youll never know unless you verify the numbers for yourself.That said, rather than actually perform the math, Im going to eyeball it. Ive got pretty good eyes for an old fart, so you can trust me.Some additional bullshit criteria to be considered alt season are:1. Altcoin dominance increases.2. Altcoin dominance must increase by a minimum of 10%.3. Altcoins must broadly outperform Bitcoin, meaning not just a handful of altcoins outperform Bitcoin.4. Altcoins must pump at least 1,000% (a 10X ramp).5. Sleaze Multiple is trending higher (and preferably above 2.4).Getting down to brass tacks, alt season is a period of time where a modest investment in any random shitcoin could theoretically yield early retirement.What is Altcoin Dominance and why is it important? Altcoin Dominance is the ratio of the cumulative market cap valuation for all shitcoins, a.k.a. altcoin market cap, to the market cap of Bitcoin. Its also the inverse of Bitcoin Dominance. Anyone who spends any time studying it can quickly ascertain that it is a sham, but its like crack to shitcoiners. So, when in Rome.Altcoin dominance can give us a general sense of the shitcoin market sentiment and is positively correlated with the Sleaze Multiple. When the Sleaze Multiple is trending higher and is greater than 1, it is an indication that alt season might be getting underway. When the Sleaze Multiple is greater than 2.4, alt season may be in full swing.Think of dominance in terms of one of Laszlos pizzas. If Laszlo orders a half cheese and half pepperoni pizza, and his daughter steals all the pepperonis off one slice (without eating the slice), the cheese dominance rises from 50% to 62.5% (assuming a fourteen-inch large Papa Johns pizza with eight slices). But just like shitcoins, even though the cheese dominance increased, nobody is going to eat that shit because Laszlos daughter slobbered all over it.Historical Alt Seasons Now that we know what altcoins are, what alt season is, and how we recognize the signs of alt season, lets examine the alt seasons through cryptos short history.First, the disclaimers and rules of the road:I dont have good data on altcoin price and market cap prior to April of 2013. Thats o.k. though, because theyre all bullshit anyway.We are going to examine the altcoin dominance chart sourced from CoinMarketCap.com (CoinMarketCap). Unfortunately, a coins first appearance in CoinMarketCap data is not necessarily indicative of when that shitcoin was actually launched and thus CoinMarketCap data does not necessarily reflect reality vis--vis altcoin dominance. Cest la vie.There are eleven potential seasons of interest.However, using Swedes pedagogic criteria for what is and what isnt an alt season, we can easily eliminate a few seasons for not meeting Swedes Criterion #2.That leaves us with the following five seasons we will examine.Nov. 2013 Mar. 2014 The first period extends from late 2013 into early 2014 and turned out to be the first true alt season that met all 5 of Swedes Criteria for Alt Season.This ~15.5% dominance ramp in late 2013 into early 2014 was due to broad participation across the existing altcoin universe as well as over 100 new altcoins. It was also the first time altcoins outside of the Top 10 had a sizeable impact on the altcoin market cap, increasing their collective market cap by over 3,800%.Bitcoin experienced a parabolic move of more than 1,600% during the previous six months. Litecoin, Feathercoin, Megacoin, Quark, and others all experienced thousands of percentage point gains. Even old shitcoins like Namecoin and Peercoin which were on glidepaths to zero had resurgences on the order of thousands of percent. Late entrants like Auroracoin and Counterparty caused spikes in altcoin dominance towards the end of this alt season, but as you can see, like most shitcoins they faded quickly when alt season was over.The thing that traders love about alt season is you dont have to have any kind of an edge to win at the Shitcoin Casino during alt season.The players win. The house wins (lots of trading fees collected). Everybody wins. Well, everybody except those left holding the bag(s). You see, alt season is a time in the market cycle where whales come to take your Bitcoin away. During alt season, whales are not accumulating bags of shit. Theyre already done accumulating. During alt season, whales pump their scamcoins in social media and chat platforms while dumping their bags of shit on you in exchange for your Bitcoin! This is called shitcoin distribution. Traders, like little remora fish, ride the coattails of the whales, taking a few hundred (or thousand) percent out of the market here and there. But traders never marry their bags. Which brings us to Lesson #1 of Alt Season:You never, ever HODL shitcoins. The good news is you never need to worry about Lesson #1 of Alt Season provided you dont violate Rule #2 of Bitcoin.So, what can we learn about The Next Bitcoin from the first alt season? As of this writing:Bitcoin s price appreciated by over 800% from its Nov. 2013 local high of $1,177.19. Feathercoin lost 98.999% of its value since its Nov. 2013 all-time high (ATH) of $1.45. It never recovered.Megacoin lost 99.9% of its value since its Nov. 2013 ATH of $2.70. It never recovered.Quark lost 98.2% of its value since its Dec. 2013 ATH of $0.31. It never recovered.Auroracoin lost 99.976% of its value since its Mar. 2014 ATH of $97.84. It never recovered.Etcetera.These coins were all supposed to be better than Bitcoin, and all were birthed on the promise to disrupt the world. Notwithstanding the infrastructure of the time, they were all hyped with the same kind of pseudointellectual flimflammery we see today: better blockchains, more sophisticated algorithms, faster, cheaper, and more reliable transactions The Next Bitcoin! Which brings us to Lesson #2 of Alt Season:Aug. 2014 Dec. 2014 The second dominance ramp (approximately 10%) had two parts in Q3 and Q4 of 2014 August to October, and then again November to December and was largely the result of four altcoins. Therefore, this period fails Swedes Criterion #3 (altcoins must broadly outperform Bitcoin) and consequently does not meet the definition of an alt season.Aug. Oct.: Ripple secretly injected 20 billion additional XRP into the circulating supply on Aug. 26th, going from ~8 billion XRP to 28 billion XRP overnight. This caused a paper surge in XRP market cap.BitShares (BTS) launched and immediately made it into the Top 10. Nov. Dec.: XRP price ramped. PayCoin (XPY) a scamcoin launched by a serial crook entered the market at hyperinflated prices as the 3 coin on CoinMarketCap. Total market cap during this period declined by 33% while Bitcoins market cap declined by over 43%. The altcoin market cap increased by 125%, with the Top 9 altcoins accounting for 99.6% of that increase. By December, the top 4 altcoins, Ripple (XRP), PayCoin (XPY), Litecoin (LTC), and BitShares (BTS) made up 84% of the altcoin market cap. Although Litecoins price declined nearly 60%, the additional 20 billion XRP (250% inflation in circulating ripples) and the price ramp following an intensive year-long media blitz caused the XRP market cap to increase 1,850%. Ripple alone made up 61% of the altcoin market cap and over 13% of the total market cap. If you think about shitcoin inflation for just a moment, youll begin to realize just how robust the altcoin dominance turd really is.The top 9 altcoins made up 91% of altcoin market cap and 20% of total market cap. The bottom 506 altcoins barely made up 2% of the total market cap. Although more than 120 additional useless shitcoins were introduced during this period, most had a negligible effect.A few altcoins had 50100% pumps, e.g., Dogecoin, and although that is nothing to sneeze at, it is not worthy of being deemed an alt season.Jan. 2016 Mar. 2016 The third season of interest saw an ~18% dominance ramp from January to mid-March 2016, but it too failed to meet Swedes Criterion #3.It is hard to appreciate what these numbers mean without examining them for yourself, but suffice it to say, this period of appreciation in altcoin dominance was largely due to one shitcoin. The altcoin market cap increased by ~220%, and coins market caps outside of the Top 10 gained about 100% cumulatively. However, most of the change in the altcoin market cap (86%) was attributable to Ethereum. Total market cap increased by ~17%, while Bitcoins market cap declined by ~2%.During this season, Ethereum went from being 1% of the total market cap (12% of altcoin market cap) to being almost 14% of total market cap (nearly 60% of altcoin market cap). Ethereums market cap surged 1,400%, becoming the first Shitcoin Unicorn. Shitcoiners could have made some money on a few altcoins other than Ethereum for sure, e.g., XRP or Factom, but this was not a true alt season.Ethereum dominated this period of time, gaining significant notoriety, while cultivating the diabolical ideas proposed in the 20th Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC-20). The ideas behind and implementation of the ERC-20 Standard would have a massive impact on the future of crypto.Jan. 2017 Jun. 2017 The fourth season of interest meets all of Swedes Criteria for Alt Season with gusto.It is the standard by which traders should judge the validity of claims of altcoin bullishness, and quite literally the litmus test for alt seasons. It was the beginning of the most epic of all shitcoin bull runs an alt season for the record books and dangerously, what every noob expects will happen again when she sees #ALTSEASON trending on Crypto Twitter (CT).There were a few fits and starts in December as Bitcoin was flirting with all-time highs. Of the top 3 altcoins, Litecoins and XRPs price action had flatlined since October of 2015, and Ethereums price dropped 65% between June and December of 2016 due to the fallout from the DAO hack. But by January, the hype was palpable, and Bitcoin finally made a new ATH at 21:30 PST in China on Jan. 3, 2017 after 2 years of hibernation.Adding additional fuel to the fire, in January and March of 2017, Coinbase obtained the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) BitLicense and was approved to offer trading in Ethereum and Litecoin. Coinbase spent a great deal of time and effort to comply with U.S. regulations and build its reputation as the worlds most user-friendly, compliant, and secure digital currency exchange and fiat onramp. The Coinbase Effect entered the crypto lexicon when both coins experienced pumps exceeding 600%, coinapulting both Ethereum and Litecoin to new highs.Altcoins went completely berserk after Bitcoin found support above its previous ATH around $1,200. From January to June of 2017, Bitcoin nearly tripled and the altcoin market cap increased by nearly 3,000%. Over 100 new shitcoins had entered the market since the previous period, and over 200 more were introduced during this time. By the end of this period, the top 9 altcoins cumulative market cap had grown by over 3,200%, and the cumulative market cap of the coins in the 1120 spots had grown almost 2,200%. In fact, the cumulative market cap of the shitcoins in the 1120 ranks eclipsed the top 9 altcoins cumulative market cap at the beginning of this period by over 180%.It was the first time in history that ERC-20 tokens occupied the ranks of the top 20 altcoins, e.g., Augur, DigixDAO, Iconomi, and Golem. It was also the first time a shitcoin launched as a Shitcoin Unicorn, when IOTA made its debut in June with a market cap of $1.128 billion.The whopping 50% dominance ramp for altcoins was an unprecedented period of euphoric risk-taking and everyone was getting hilariously rich. In fact it was so hilarious that CoinMarketCap thought it was prudent to list Bitconnect (which made it into the top 20 by June).An investment of $1,000 in the hottest shitcoin at the time, Stratis (STRAT), would have yielded almost $220,000 by June of 2017 and $470,000 by January of 2018 a nearly 50,000% return on investment.Acknowledging the aforementioned returns, it is not hard for even the most toxic of Bitcoin plebs to understand why so many noobs decide to throw dice at the Shitcoin Casino. However, if you were like most noobs who violated Rule #2 of Bitcoin and invested in Stratis during the peak any time after April of 2017, you would have turned your $1,000 investment into a steaming pile of $500 shit at todays prices for a 50% loss (or far worse).Which brings us to Lesson #3 of Alt Season. You wont catch the bottom and you wont catch the top, but if you dont remember Lesson #1, you will catch a bacterial organism that causes anorectal pathology.Nov. 2017 Jan. 2018 The fifth and final season of interest also meets all 5 of Swedes Criteria for Alt Season, but it was really just a continuation of the 4th season.Through late 2017 and into 2018, leveraging the tidal effect of Bitcoins new moon, enterprising young minds were discovering a new way to circumvent securities regulators rules of raising capital the Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Billions and billions of dollars were scammed out of little noobie fingers by cunning and ruthless cryptogrifters.During this time period, a 300% gain on a shitcoin was considered weak. Grandma started making YouTube videos about how Bitconnects lending program saved her retirement and could save yours too, while little Billy was shilling his Tron bags on his finsta account, talking about Lambos and moon missions.But just as quickly as it started, alt season faded. The ICOs, it seems, werent the only ones to live on in infamy. For it was Grandma and little Billy who signaled peak shitcoinery, and the altcoin market quickly entered terminal decline.What about April of 2018? Wasnt that an alt season? In April of 2018, Bitcoin experienced an epic short squeeze in what was arguably the nastiest bear trap of Bitcoins short history. This did cause another dead shitcoin cat to bounce, but it didnt quite meet Swedes Criterion #2.Although April of 2018 was not an alt season, it was nonetheless a historical moment for shitcoins. You see, the end of April 2018 marked the first time in recorded history that anything was able to rival the plunge at Corbets Couloir.*Poof*, just like that, alt season disappeared into the deep powder of the back country, never to be seen again.Caveat emptor shitcoiners.When can we expect the next Alt Season? If you hold a bag (or bags) of shitcoins, I know what youre thinking: As soon as my coin pumps, Im going to get my money back and buy Bitcoin. So, when can you reasonably expect that to happen?Using this almost totally random (and perhaps complete bullshit) pitchfork indicator on TradingView you can clearly see that altcoin enthusiasts and masochistic wags can with near-certainty count on an alt season in the vicinity of death.Or not.Who knows?!To have any hope of offloading those bags youve carried with you since 2017, you will have to wait for fresh money to enter the market. Unfortunately for you, fresh retail money is not likely to come into the market until after Bitcoin makes a new ATH. And even then, fresh (smart) money is more likely to gravitate to Bitcoin the hardest asset known to mankind and fresh (dumb) money is more likely to be attracted to the fresh new shitcoins being hyped at the time and not the old shitcoin detritus from the past.Not convinced? Ok, consider this hypothetical scenario:Lets say you bought Tron in January of 2018 because you believed the hype that it was the next Ethereum (which was the next Bitcoin) and was going to change the internet and somehow streaming services too. Your investment has likely lost 92% of its value. If you hold that Tron bag (because you are a great community member) and hope to make money during the next alt season, understand that it will take a 1,150% pump just to break even! This would be like Namecoin bagholders from the 2013 alt season hoping to make money during the 2017 alt season. Yes, Namecoin pumped 3,500% off the lows in December of 2016. But if Namecoin was purchased during the hype of the 2013 bull run and held in earnest until 2017, bagholders needed it to pump 5,500% just to break even! They were still down 34% even at the manic peak of 2017 and are down over 90% today. Namecoin bagholders waited 4 years for alt season and were painfully disappointed when almost all of the 2,000 new shitcoins created between 2013 and 2017 outperformed their beloved Namecoin bags.Almost 2 years have passed since you bought into the hype surrounding [insert the name of your favorite shitcoin bag]. Are you going to hang onto those bags only to be disappointed when Bitcoin, Matic, LEO, Algorand, and [insert the name of any new shitcoin to be created in 2020] all outperform [insert the name of your favorite shitcoin bag] and you never break even?My advice to you is to capitulate. Cut the bullshit. Might your bags pump as soon as you sell? Most likely thats how the Shitcoin Casino works. But stop staring at your Blockfolio account, dump those shitcoin bags and buy Bitcoin. Cut your losses, lick your wounds, and make yourself the promise to never buy another shitcoin. Leave the pump-and-dumps to the whales and their remora and secure your piece of the future while Bitcoin is still on sale.Conclusion The alt season scam began after the 2013 bull run when shitcoins out-performance of Bitcoin was dubbed alt season. The scam has been perpetuated ever since by people who want to take your Bitcoin away.In another parabolic Bitcoin move, is it possible for your old shitcoin bags to pump enough to make you whole? Sure, it is possible. Is it probable? No. There are far too many shitcoins now and far too many new shitcoins on the horizon to reasonably expect that your specific bag will be the caca du jour. Remember: A 98% loss in value requires a 4,900% gain just to break even.What did we learn? Dominance is a bullshit indicator. But throwing caution to the wind, we also learned:Not all altcoin dominance ramps are alt seasons. There have only been two true alt seasons.Alt seasons tend to occur after Bitcoin marks a new ATH.If you insist on breaking Rule #2 of Bitcoin, never HODL bags of shitcoins. Yes, in alt season even old scams that have long since been declared dead will pump. They just wont pump hard enough.Will we have another alt season? Do greed and stupidity still exist in the world?The real question we need to ask ourselves: is Climate Change real?The next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the shitcoin cooling crisis. You may only have 12 years left to save the shitcoins.APPENDIX 1: Rules of Bitcoin 1. Dont trust, verify.2. Never buy shitcoins.APPENDIX 2: Lessons of Alt Season 1. Sell the pump.2. There is no next Bitcoin.3. Bagholders get butthurt.4. Refer to rule #2 of Bitcoin.APPENDIX 3: An Abbreviated History of Altcoins Hey Swede, why did you choose 2013 for the title of your article? you ask. Although the first bit of crypto-diarrhea to burst onto the scene Namecoin squeezed out in April of 2011, trying to find halfway respectable price and exchange data before April of 2013 is a goose I dont care to chase.2011 Speaking of Namecoin, did you know that feculence is still around? Good luck dumping your bags if youve got any though. It has a daily traded volume of around three and a half thousand dollars, with about 72% of that volume on the Livecoin exchange. Ever heard of the Livecoin exchange? Me either. By the way, Transcodium also trades on Livecoin. Transcodium rhymes with Imodium. Are you sensing a theme here?2012 Anywho, after Namecoin came Litecoin. Litecoin, like Namecoin, is a codebase fork of Bitcoin with some tweaks. A codebase fork is just a copy of the code of the Bitcoin software. You dont need to know much about coding or software to create a codebase fork. In fact, I just did it while I was talking to you. Im calling it Swedecoin (ticker symbol: SUK). There are only three SUKs, so theyre super scarce. I am giving one SUK to each of my sons, but I will sell the last one to any willing SUKer for any combination of 17,000,000 BSV and Snicker bars. Im trying to corner the market on faketoshis, and you dont want to find out what happens to the Swede when hes hangry. Shoot me an email and let me know if youre interested (JamesCaan@theBCCI.net).2013 Gradually and then suddenly. Ernest HemingwayIt was slow at first, but the digital printing presses fired up quickly in 2013. After Litecoin came a string of forked rip-offs: Peercoin, TerraCoin, Devcoin, Novacoin, Feathercoin, Freicoin, and Mincoin. All of which Im told, are going to overtake Bitcoin any day now. I think Lawrence Blankenship, a Star Trek convention organizer, said it best in 2013 during an interview with Nathanial Popper of the New York Times when he said, Looking down the road 10 years from now, I definitely see Bitcoin being ousted. Everyones going to start switching to other coins, and hopefully Peercoin comes out ahead in that. I am also told that if you squint hard enough and tip your head just right, these shitcoins could maybe, possibly be construed as semi-legitimate attempts at making the blockchain more efficient or useful (rather than money-grabs). But I have my doubts.Then came the age of the obvious scam. It is hard to tell exactly when in 2013 the BBQCoin turd poked its head out, but what is crystal clear is they didnt know real barbeque. Their supposed mission was: Barbecue and diet! Enjoy deliciousness, beauty and romance!Nothing says diet like barbeque, right? And I always take my first dates to the Rib Crib so I can get jiggy with a Tinder bloated with gas, beef stuck between her teeth, and cabbage breath. These charlatans didnt even have the courtesy to try and fool us into thinking they were up to anything useful or honest.By December of 2013, Bitcoin was so sick of the cold and feeling a bit hung over from all the partying with Charlie and the Winkelvii, that she decided to head south for warmer weather. Unfortunately, Peter Schiff was obsessed with finding out what was wrong with her and chased her all around the country. Tired of the creepy old dude, she staged her death (tragic boating accident), had Donald Trump circulate a bunch of fake news, and went into hiding for 2 years.2014 In March and April of 2014, Merriam-Webster added goxxed to the dictionary, and MaidSafeCoin performed the first atomic flop, transforming perfectly good Bitcoin into a bunch of useless Mastercoins.And then there was Jedmageddon. What a stellar shit show that was. *wink emoji* Need I say more?After Ripple there was this NASCAR dog-thing. I have no idea WTF that was about, but like Lindsey Vonn, it went downhill pretty quickly from there.20152016 From the pile of garbage that amassed at the bottom of the hill arose the greatest shitcoinery ever unleashed upon the crypto world: Ethereum. What we all know is Ethereum has gas. Like our BBQCoin date. But what you probably didnt know is that Ethereum is a World Computer. In fact, with this new mad science I was able to calculate the precise flatness of the earth, Ive patented a process for digitizing kittens, and I was able to create the Swedecoin Cash token a fast, cheap and reliable version of Swedecoin more akin to my original vision (check the whitepaper for specs). This was necessary because when I tried to increase the SUK-size, Blockstream hijacked Swedecoin, and they are expelling any developer who opposes them. A warning: Swedecoin Core (as I now call it) has taken over r/Swedecoin. Therefore, I was compelled to create r/SUK for us SUKers who want to coordinate increasing the SUK-size and to devise marketing attacks on Swedecoin Core. I also bought Swedecoin.com. Those baby-killers will rue the day they messed with the Swede!Back to the story. Once upon a time (in 2016) there was a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). The DAOs mission was twofold: (1) to fund pre-teen toymakers fanciful delusions and (2) to invent a process called the Blockchain Refund. The toymakers were to build mildly entertaining digi-tchotchkes, and if something happened that Augustus Buterin, Imperator of Constantinople disagreed with, he could use a smart contract to transform each Ether into 100 DAO tokens (the Refund). This sounded like a great deal, so the citizens of the Ethereum Empire gave the DAO 12.7 million ETH in exchange for the promise of super cool new toys. Unfortunately, the neighboring kingdoms shrewd magicians were able to trick the smart contract with a game of three-card monte, and the DAO lost its tunic. After Imperator Buterin activated the Blockchain Refund, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) started sniffing around the Village Trilemma.The Empires Royal Army convened a Fur Con and scrambled to prepare a PowerPoint to respond to the SECs inquiries, but the project hit a bump in the roadmap when the Lead Magus of the DAO met with the SEC. As he was nervously presenting the DAOs case, he sharded, causing a big stink with the regulators. He apologized profusely, admitting that he may have put a little too much eWasm in his morning porridge, but the damage was done. The SEC decreed that DAO tokens were evil magic (securities) and issuance of any such token was an offense punishable by death (federal securities laws). Thus the virtual organization and its evil magic were virtually killed.Sadly, what the SEC didnt realize was that virtually killing something is not the same as fully killing something, and the DAOs evil legacy lives on in what we know today as Utility Tokens. These vile creatures were able to virtually avoid detection by Hangman Howey and caused quite a raucous during what is known in the historical annals as The ICO uprising.2017 Conducting an Initial Coin Offering after the advent of Ethereums ERC-20 standard was as easy as Brenna Sparks. Not only did fraudsters not need to worry about any pesky regulators getting in their way, they didnt have to fork Bitcoin anymore, and they barely even needed to know how to code. Hell, the scumbags didnt even need a working project anymore to swindle their way into unsuspecting victims wallets. Crypto-scammers issued ERC-20 tokens like pedophiles handing out candy. And it worked like a charm. The cryptokiddies wanted that crap so badly they let anyone fondle their little piggy banks for a sugar rush. It was like Crypto Twitter was in a competition with the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to see who could shit cash out faster. By the end of 2017, even your pastor was buying Ethereum to dump into any and every ICO. Like heroin junkies in search of Fentanyl, everyone it seemed was taking outsized risk for their next big fix.In August of 2017 another forked rip-off of Bitcoin emerged. It must not have been very significant because Im having a hard time remembering what it was called. Getting old is a BCH.The details are fuzzy, but at some point the United States Air Force (UASF) bombed the shit out of a crazy bunch of altcoin terrorists that had taken over New York, and by December of 2017, Bitcoin, being the rather private supermodel that she is, decided that shed had enough of the press tour and opted once again to take some time off the road. As expected, her sudden hiatus had a severe impact on her entourage of shitcoin groupies.2018 Mllcontainer Feuer: the ICO bubble popped, and like that crocodile guy, those shitcoins were dundee.Almost overnight, paper millionaires worldwide were indoctrinated into the salty ranks of the Community. As a result, when it came time for mid-terms, distraught voters elected Igor and Grichka as Chancellors of the Communitys Heraldic Authority.But unbeknownst to the electorate, the Bogs were in cahoots with Brian Armstrong. Thus, the Community had no healthcare, minimum wage was low, and everyone was issued KYC notices and IRS letters. Everyone was getting hilariously poor, forced to beg for their familia, and a famous trader named Pinekone publicly melted down (thrice).Outraged, tweens and boomers alike traded in their James Altucher posters for ones of Pepe the Frog.The Community did, however, find solace in cartoons, and consequently the ratings on The Simpsons went through the roof.2019 Which brings us to the present.2019 reminds me of Mt. Gox: Feast or Famine. Well, famine mostly. Unless of course you were smart enough to buy Bitcoin and avoid buying the hot new initial exchange offerings (IEOs) when they were dumped into the market.Refreshed and rejuvenated by some amazing new skincare elixir people are calling Lightning in a bottle, Bitcoin splashed back onto the scene with style. Joe Kernen, Nouriel Roubini, and Charlie Munger were all flabbergasted by how gorgeous and resilient she was. It turns out squaring the dose of rat poison is really good for the epidermis.Besides the ABCBSVBCH alphabet soup spork and Binance adding margin trading to their repertoire of shitcoinery, the most shitcoiny thing that happened this year was when Justin Sun ghosted Warren Buffett, giving shitcoiners around the world the reputation they deserve. Vaporous.Im going to be honest with you. It doesnt look good for shitcoins.But the night is young, and the fat lady doesnt go on until the witching hour.It is inconceivable to me to think that we wont have another alt season like 2017.Inconceivable. Get it? OG is the acronym for Original Gangster and means old school or someone who has been in the Bitcoin space for a long time. Noob is a term of endearment, meaning someone new to something, especially as it relates to technical issues surrounding the use of computers or internet. The @bitcoin Twitter handle may be back in the hands of a real Bitcoiner as of the writing of this article. Im still skeptical. You should be too. Precoiners are future Bitcoiners. Colloquially, shitcoin. Yes, you heard me correctly. Altcoin Dominance is a sham. Dominance implies that something has power or influence over something else, or the in the case of Bitcoin, the predominance of one or more shitcoins in the cryto asset space over Bitcoin. An increasing Altcoin Dominance implies that the power or influence of shitcoins over Bitcoin is growing. This has never happened and likely wont ever happen, except on paper. The transaction value, network value and security of Bitcoin far exceeds that of any other so-called cryptocurrency. Add to that forked coins, pre-mined coins, faked exchange volumes for blockchain vaporware with no real use cases, and the ability of shitcoiners to infinitely inflate their cryptocrap, and you get the picture. Scamcoin is another word for altcoin (a.k.a. shitcoin). Data was taken from the BraveNewCoin Liquid Index for Bitcoin (BLX). BitShares (BTS) was launched by Dan Larimer, the creator of several other useless shitcoins, including BitShares 2.0, Steem, and EOS. Ripple Labs undertook a massive marketing campaign, ensuring coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, USA Today, Fox Business, The Financial Times, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Forbes, Business Insider, International Business Times, Entrepreneur, VentureBeat, American Banker, and TechCrunch. PayCoin subsequently bled out until the founder was thrown in jail for what turned out to be the first crypto Ponzi scheme to be prosecuted by the SEC. A Unicorn is a privately held company valued at over a billion dollars. Here I use the term Shitcoin Unicorn to refer to altcoins that achieve over a billion-dollar market capitalization. The DAO was Ethereums Decentralized Autonomous Organization. See Appendix 3 for more information. 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Cybersecurity Cyber Warfare: The New Arms Race Published 3 years ago on October 13, 2015 By Lester Coleman After spending billions to build nuclear weapons, a different arms race has emerged in cyber warfare. Where the nuclear arms race pits the larger countries against each other, the cyber arms race includes a much larger number of combatants since it is open to almost anyone with cash and a computer, according to a front-page article in theWall Street Journal. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. The article noted that computer attacks by countries against each other have kicked off a frantic digital arms race with nations racing to develop stockpiles of malicious code. One reflection of the seriousness of this new arms race is that two longtime cyber adversaries, the U.S. and China, agreed last month not to conduct certain cyber attacks against one another. Cyber Arsenal Has Multiple Offerings There are a multitude of weapons in a cyber arsenal. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // Some of the types of attacks that counties can use include denial of service, sleeper malware, phishing, tricking radar and infrastructure sabotage. The major players in this new cyber warfare include the U.S., Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. But other countries are becoming more active. Nuclear rivals Pakistan and India regularly hack one anothers companies and government. Estonia and Belarus are developing shields against Russia. In addition, Denmark, the Netherlands, Argentina and France have begun to develop offensive computer weapons. At least 29 nations have military or intelligence groups focused on offensive hacking. The Wall Street Journal based this assessment on government records and interviews with government officials. Around 50 countries have purchased off-the-shelf hacking software for surveillance purposes. Where the MAD acronym mutually assured destruction characterized the nuclear arms race, that acronym stands for mutually assured doubt in the cyber arms race, according to one researcher, because you can never be sure what attack will occur. Governments have used computer attacks to accomplish many tasks, such as stealing information, erasing computers, disabling financial networks and in one case destroying nuclear centrifuges. Governments have explored using cyber weapons to destroy utility grids, undermine airline networks, interrupt Internet connectivity, confuse radar systems and remove funds from bank accounts. Small Players Can Compete In This War This new type of warfare evens the playing field between large and small countries, the report noted since cyber attacks are hard to prevent and trace. Cyber weapon access is more widespread than nuclear weapon access, due to less costly technologies and distributed computing. Most government-initiated cyber attacks involve cyber spying, which refers to breaking into computer networks to steal data. The more aggressive cyber weapons can erase computer records and destroy physical property. The U.S. is most concerned about cyber weapons held by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea since these nations have initiated advanced attacks into the U.S. government networks and large U.S. companies. Cyber warfare units are often connected to a countrys military and/or its intelligence services. Chinese hackers have established a reputation for low-tech phishing, the sending of disguised emails to get a companys employees or a governments bureaucrats to allow the attackers access to their computer networks. This is how the U.S. thinks the Chinese were able to recently penetrate the Office of Personnel Management that compromised more than 21 million peoples records. Russians have focused on diplomatic and political data and have gained access to unclassified networks at U.S. government offices. Russians have stolen the daily schedule of President Obama and State Department correspondence, according to sources, although the Russians denied this. Russian attackers also try to hide stolen data in regular network traffic. A piece of malware in one instance conceals its communications in consumer web services to evade cybersecurity defenses. Also read: Nuclear facilities are in denial to the risk of a serious cyber attack. Iran Plays Hard Iranians have allegedly been able to destroy computers twice using cyber weapons. Investigators believe Iranian attackers placed a virus on computers of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabias largest company, in 2012. The attack erased three-quarters of the computers and replaced screen images with images of American flags burning. Iran used malware to destroy computers at Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year, according to James R. Clapper, director of National Intelligence. The casino is owned by Sheldon Adelson, a major Iran critic. Iran in 2012 announced the creation of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, the purpose of which is to defend Irans computer networks and create new ways of attacking enemies computer networks. North Korea destroyed computer files at the Hollywood film unit of Sony Corp. in 2014, according to U.S. officials, allegedly retaliating for a satirical movie about Kim Jong-Un, North Koreas dictator. The FBI said North Korea implanted malware on Sony computers, enabling them to steal and destroy records. Many cybersecurity experts consider the U.S. to have the most advanced cyber weapons. Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who famously leaked documents, showed NSA implanted malware on tens of thousands of foreign computers which gave the government access to data to control the power plant and pipeline systems. The U.S. Cyber Command at the Pentagon did respond to a request for comment. The U.S. Cyber Command currently has nine mission teams and has plans for four more. Such teams include 60 military personnel to conduct cyberspace operations. An attack on Hacking Team, an Italian company, showed the company sold surveillance tools to various countries. National security officials and cyber weapon experts worry that a cyber-attack could eventually become problematic since there is a lot that is not known about what some countries are doing. Images from Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Lester Coleman 3.9 stars on average, based on 8 rated postsLester Coleman is a veteran business journalist based in the United States. He has covered the payments industry for several years and is available for writing assignments. Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Related Topics:edward snowdenIranNational Security AgencySupreme Council of Cyberspace Up Next Top Smartphone Apps For Legal Marijuana Users Don't Miss Cyber Insurance Rates Hiked You may like The NSA Is Tracking Bitcoin Users, According to Snowden Papers Zcash, the Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency, Rockets to New Highs 5 Things to Watch Next Week: Saudi Arabia and Iran, Bitcoin in Correction, Stocks Left Behind, Junk Bonds, and the Dollar Rally Snowden Leak Exposes UK Governments Citizen Spying, Links to GCHQ Edward Snowden Ties? FBI Arrests Maryland Man For Stealing NSA Documents Shadow Brokers NSA Hacking Raises Questions about Government Disclosure of Leaks Click to comment You must be logged in to post a comment Login Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Cybersecurity Facebook Stock Has Best Day in Two Years as Zuckerberg Testifies Published 1 week ago on April 11, 2018 By Sam Bourgi Shares of Facebook Inc. (FB) gained on Tuesday, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before U.S. lawmakers over allegations of data misuse. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Zuckerberg Gets Likes Mark Zuckerberg apologized and defended his company on Tuesday as he appeared before a joint U.S. Senate committee hearing. It was my mistake, and Im sorry, the 33-year-old CEO said when questioned about Facebooks misuse of user data. Lawmakers grilled Zuckerberg on issues ranging from Facebooks Cambridge Analytica scandal to its failure in addressing provocative messages during the most recent Myanmar crisis. He took it all in stride, appearing confident and poised throughout the question-and-answer period (at least, thats what professional PR experts quoted by Bloomberg had to say). Zuckerberg took full responsibility not just for Cambridge Analytica, but for Facebooks negligence in safeguarding consumer data. That said, Republican Senator from Iowa Chick Grassley sent a strong signal that new regulations are on the way. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // The status quo no longer works, said Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee. Congress must determine if and how we need to strengthen privacy standards to ensure transparency and understanding for the billions of consumers who utilize these products. Wall Street Responds The testimony resonated with Wall Street, as investors scooped up shares of the battered social media company. Facebook shares added 4.5%, their best in two years. By comparison, the S&P 500 Index gained 1.7% on Tuesday and the indexs technology component rose 2.5%. The stock surge grew Zuckerbergs personal fortune by $2.8 billion to $66 billion, according to Forbes. That makes him the worlds seventh richest person. Despite the gain, FB is down almost 15% from its all-time high and its current price point lags behind the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. An RSI of 48 also signals weak underlying momentum for the social media stock. Facebooks Declining Usage Facebook experienced a public backlash last month amid reports that a political research firm had scraped data on 87 million people. The revelation sparked a growing debate over Facebooks privacy standards at a time when the company was battling a noticeable decline in usage. The social media platform declined by roughly 50 million hours per day in the fourth quarter, or 5% overall. Meanwhile, independent research from a company named Edison found a steady drop in usage among Americans aged 12 and up. While Zuckerberg has tried to spin the decline as a good thing, its apparent that the platform is experiencing fewer meaningful interactions, which partially explains recent efforts to transform the News Feed. It remains to be seen how much damage the declines will do to top and bottom line results. Facebook is expected to report its quarterly earnings report Apr. 25. Analysts are expecting per-share earnings of $1.37 for the quarter, up from $1.04 the same time a year ago. Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Sam Bourgi 4.5 stars on average, based on 336 rated postsSam Bourgi is Chief Editor to Hacked.com, where he specializes in cryptocurrency, economics and the broader financial markets. Sam has nearly eight years of progressive experience as an analyst, writer and financial market commentator where he has contributed to the world's foremost newscasts. Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Continue Reading Cybersecurity Facebook Admits It Has Failed to Protect User Privacy Published 2 weeks ago on April 5, 2018 By Sam Bourgi In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has had to come clean about its privacy standards. The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Data on the Loose Facebook recently announced that it has removed a feature that allows users to search for people using email addresses or phone numbers. The feature, which accounts for 7% of all searches in some regions, is being discontinued over fears that malicious users were using it to scrape profiles. Mike Shcroepfer, the companys chief technology officer, issued the following statement on Wednesday: Given the scale and sophistication of the activity weve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way. So we have now disabled this feature. Were also making changes to account recovery to reduce the risk of scraping as well. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters that it was reasonable to expect that your information may have been accessed in this way. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, which surfaced last month, blew the lid wide open on Facebooks privacy standards. Since 2014, Cambridge Analytica legally obtained information on as many as 87 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing elections. In the wake of the scandal, Zuckerberg is being summoned by U.S. Congress to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, currently scheduled for Apr. 11. The CEO has acknowledged that his company made mistakes, but this has largely failed to resonate with Facebooks growing list of critics. Facebook Tanks Many say that Facebook has suffered irreversible damage since the scandal was brought to light. Faced with declining usage, severed business ties and a severe backlash from the public, Facebook shares have tanked more than 16% over the last three weeks. Prices have fallen below the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages, with the short-term average converging on the longer one. An RSI in the low-30s makes a strong case for Facebooks bearish downturn, although current levels indicate that an oversold bounce is likely. FBs share price shed another 0.7% on Wednesday even as the major indexes gained. The S&P 500s information technology index rose 1.4%, capping off a solid recovery for the market. Along with the other so-called FAANG stocks, Facebook has been largely responsible for the recent tech rollover and subsequent turbulence on Wall Street.Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet lost a combined $324 billion in market cap between Mar. 12 and Apr. 2. Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock. Important: Never invest (trade with) money you can't afford to comfortably lose. Always do your own research and due diligence before placing a trade. Read our Terms & Conditions here. Trade recommendations and analysis are written by our analysts which might have different opinions. Read my 6 Golden Steps to Financial Freedom here. Best regards, Jonas Borchgrevink. Rate this post: Important for improving the service. Please add a comment in the comment field below explaining what you rated and why you gave it that rate. Failed Trade Recommendations should not be rated as that is considered a failure either way. (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this. Loading... Sam Bourgi 4.5 stars on average, based on 336 rated postsSam Bourgi is Chief Editor to Hacked.com, where he specializes in cryptocurrency, economics and the broader financial markets. Sam has nearly eight years of progressive experience as an analyst, writer and financial market commentator where he has contributed to the world's foremost newscasts. Follow @HackedCom Feedback or Requests? Continue Reading Cybersecurity NEM Theft Suggests Hacking Is More Lucrative than Mining Published 4 weeks ago on March 25, 2018 By Sam Bourgi The NEM Foundation has called off its search for the 523 million NEM tokens that were stolen from the Tokyo-based Coincheck exchange. Although the Foundation lauded the effectiveness of the search, the outcome proves yet again that cryptocurrency hackers are benefiting from the dark web, which provides an effective venue for laundering stolen funds. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our community on Workplace. Search for Stolen Coins Ends In a statement published Mar. 19, the NEM Foundation informed its community that it had disabled the tracking mosaic used to monitor the movement of XEM funds tied to the massive heist of Coincheck in January. According to the post, the search ended on Mar. 18. The statement reads: Beginning March 18, the NEM.io Foundation has disabled the tracking mosaic that was put into place to monitor XEM movements from the Coincheck theft. This effort was effective at reducing the hackers ability to liquidate stolen XEM and provided law enforcement with actionable information. We dont plan to release further details due to the sensitive nature of this investigation. // -- Become a yearly Platinum Member and save 69 USD and get access to our secret group on Workplace. Click here to change your current membership -- // On. Jan. 26, hackers successfully made off with $530 million worth of XEM tokens, marking the biggest crypto heist on record. The theft propagated a new investigation into existing crypto exchanges by Japans Financial Services Authority (FSA). Domestic exchanges also announced plans to form a self-governing body to safeguard against illicit activity. Hacked reported earlier this month that the Coincheck attackers had already laundered some 40% of the stolen NEM funds, primarily through the dark web. The stolen coins have reportedly made their way into exchanges in Japan, China and Canada. Crypto Heists: A Growing Phenomenon While the crypto economy has been highly lucrative for early adopters, cyber criminals have managed to steal huge sums of money. Unlike credit card fraud, the theft of major crypto exchanges has reshaped the digital currency market. This was most evident in 2014, when Mt Gox fell prey to a $480 million attack that eventually led to its demise. As the Coincheck hack demonstrated, locating stolen funds and identifying perpetrators are extremely difficult. That said, NEMs efforts to blacklist the tokens probably limited how much money the attackers were able to keep. This brings us to an important question: is hacking more lucrative than legitimate crypto mining? To answer that question, well begin by providing a rundown of the major crypto heists of the last four years. Since 2014, hackers have made off with more than $1.3 billion in stolen coins. The biggest losses are as follows: Coincheck: $530 million (2018) Mt Gox: $480 million (2014) Parity Wallet: $155 million (2017) Bitfinex: $65 million (2016) NiceHash: $63 million (2017) DAO: $50 million (2016) Tether: $31 million (2017) For all of 2017, it is estimated that hackers stole nearly $400 million from ICOs. Thats roughly 10% of the total amount raised for the year. Mining Profitability Cryptocurrency mining has spearheaded a multi-billion-dollar industry. The recent crackdown on mining rigs in China means there is a large void in the market that several jurisdictions, including Canada and India, are rushing to fill. During the height of bitcoins surge, crypto miners earned roughly $240,000 every ten minutes. Miners now earn roughly half that, based on current price levels. Of course, this doesnt factor the cost of electricity, power consumption, hardware, manpower and other fees needed to operate a mining operation. These variables, combined with the unknown trajectory of crypto prices, make profitability a lot harder to gauge. The yearly decline in profitability is also a critical, albeit elusive variable in pricing the success of a mining operation. This variable is tied to the number of miners that join the network a figure that is extremely difficult to predict. Against this backdrop,99bitcoins.com has developed a bitcoin mining calculator that provides simple guidance on whether a certain mining operation is profitable. Other digital currencies provide a potentially more lucrative opportunity to join the mining business. For example, Monero can still be mined with a basic desktop computer. With an average block time of two minutes, users can mine the coin casually using the spare computing power of their home PC. However, it appears that hackers have already taken over the Monero mining business. There are several recent cases of hackers embedding malware to hijack the computing power of other systems. The Australian government was also a victim of this hacking attempt. Cryptomining is such a new phenomenon that there are few guidelines in place to ensure trust. Selecting a company to work with an a fair compensation model are two important questions every potential miner needs to consider. As cryptocurrencies appreciate in value, the allure of cyber crime will continue to grow. As NEM, Mt Gox and other large-scale thefts demonstrate, criminals are succeeding in their quest to compromise online exchanges. With respect to mining, profitability remains an elusive question, especially with the recent downturn in the market. That said, there are many alternative motivations involved in mining digital currency, including supporting the network, influencing the market and using additional revenues to fund other business operations. 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