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We feature the top brokers and exchanges that offer the option to buy VeChain (VET) with a credit card or debit card. For larger sums you can also send a wire transfer. We list exchanges and …
We feature the top brokers and exchanges that offer the option to buy VeChain (VET) with a credit card or debit card. For larger sums you can also send a wire transfer. We list exchanges and services based on personal experience, and reputation. Please view the risks associated with Vechai and cryptocurrency trading at the bottom of this page. Also access our affiliate disclaimer.
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VeChain is an open-source blockchain project, focused on disrupting supply-chains and enterprise operations. Developers at this project launched a custom built blockchain in 2018, titled ‘VeChainThor Blockchain’, which is capable of executing smart-contracts.
VeChain allows for the quick and transparent transfer of value, through use of blockchain technology. Furthermore, its unique set of attributes allows for complex smart-contracts to be executed. These features allow for the blockchain to function as a payment system, in addition to a decentralized data ledger – potentially replacing traditionally compartmentalized systems.
The VeChain network functions through use of dual token system.
VET – As the heart of the VeChain system, VET tokens are used as a means to transfer value between parties.
VTHO – These tokens are used in conjunction with VET during value transfers. VTHO tokens function in the same manner as ‘gas’ on the Ethereum blockchain – fuelling transactions.
These tokens function on the VeChainThor Blockchain, with consensus being reached through use of a ‘Proof-of-Authority (PoA)’ protocol. PoA is a
Developer participation in VeChain is quite high, relative to most projects. While still underway, the following are a couple of the upgrades expected to be implemented on VeChain in the coming years.
The VeChain foundation has, in the past, made it known that the project is being developed with a clear ideology.
“VeChain Foundation believes strongly in compliance and self-regulation…We want to set a standard within the industry to drive home the ideology that blockchain cryptocurrency projects can embody ‘Transparency, Fairness, Openness’, this is our commitment to the community and ecosystem at large.”
Having been launched in 2015, VeChain has been around longer than most projects. This staying power has allowed for modest levels of adoption over the years. Notably, VeChain recently signed a partnership with travel agent giant, Travala.com, which will allow for VET tokens to be used as a form of payment on the platform.
For a full list of established partnerships, click HERE. Some of the more noteworthy companies on this list are as follows.
Such levels of adoption have allowed for VeChain to firmly entrench itself within the top-30 projects, when ranked by marketcap.
Over the course of its life, VeChain has managed to remain relatively free of controversy. The lone event which stands out was a $6.5M hack, which occurred in late-2019. It should be noted that this event occurred due to human error, not a shortcoming in the project coding itself.
To date, no official classification of VeChain has been provided by regulators. While similar projects, such as Ethereum, have been deemed non-securities, the risk remains that this is the case due to a lack of decentralization.
As with any project, proceed with caution when trading/holding, as the classification of a digital asset may change at any time.
VeChain was created in 2015 by Sunny Lu. Notably, Sunny Lu served as the CIO of Louis Vuitton China prior to spearheading VeChain.
While Sunny Lu remains at the helm of VeChain, the entire ecosystem is overseen by a committee of elected professionals, known as the ‘VeChain Steering Committee’.
There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading securities, and this trading risk is higher with Cryptocurrencies such as VET or VTHO due to markets being decentralized and non-regulated. There is no central bank that can take corrective measure to protect the value of Cryptocurrencies in a crisis or issue more currency. You should be aware that you may lose a significant portion of your portfolio.
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Penguin FA — Republic Protocol ($REN)Crypto PenguinBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 15This article was first released to the CryptoBirb Exclusive Moon Club. For more information, visit …
Penguin FA — Republic Protocol ($REN)Crypto PenguinBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 15This article was first released to the CryptoBirb Exclusive Moon Club. For more information, visit discord.gg/emw5Npb.Website | Lite Paper (Q1 2019)| White Paper (Dec 2017)| Twitter | Telegram | Reddit | Github | MediumCirculating/Max Supply: 631,984,400 /1,000,000,000Mineable ❌Masternodes ✅ (Darknodes)Table of ContentsOverviewToken UtilityToken EconomicsTeamRoadmapCompetitionConclusionRecommended ResourcesOverviewSource: https://youtu.be/kjX72sHFZhI?t=238Republic Protocol started out with a mission to build a protocol for a decentralized dark pool that allows traders to buy and sell large amounts of cryptocurrencies without announcing their intentions through an open order book. It currently supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ERC20 tokens, with plans for expansion to other cryptocurrencies.Republic Protocol’s description from their original white paper (left) and from their new Q1 2019 Litepaper (right)In a November 2018 presentation and their January 2019 update, the team revealed that in their quest to create the most private dark pool possible, they ended up creating a new virtual machine called RenVM. Their new algorithm allows a decentralized network of computers to work with data while maintaining end-to-end privacy.Their ultimate aim is now to become a platform for privacy-preserving decentralized applications. In the short term though, Republic Protocol will still be focused on creating a private decentralized dark pool.Dark PoolsFacilitating OTC cryptocurrency trading has the potential to be highly lucrative. In April 2018, Reuters reported Genesis Trading as handling $75–80 million daily trading volume on average. Circle Trade handled $24 billion in volume in 2018. A dark pool is a form of OTC trading that offers greater privacy.Normally, a trader announces their intention to buy or sell by placing an order that is displayed in an order book. Other traders can then see that order and raise or lower their prices to fulfill it.Rich whales can have trouble filling large orders on regular exchangesIf you are a whale trying to get in and out of large positions though, placing large transparent orders can be problematic. It provides information to other traders who could try to copy or undermine your efforts. Market prices can also be affected by traders who react to the large order. This is why some exchanges offer the option to place hidden orders.But hiding the order alone is not enough for large orders to be filled without affecting market prices. Traders can still determine the existence of a hidden buy or sell wall if large numbers of trades go through but fail to make a difference in the market price. A sudden increase in trading volume can change the price as traders react, resulting in slippage.This is why whales and traders with large positions often turn to dark pools, where large hidden orders can be discreetly matched and filled by other hidden orders. This usually requires a third party that has to be trusted to match these hidden orders while keeping information about these orders hidden from others.But how do you know if you can trust these third parties?Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-16.htmlMany existing dark pools have been fined by the SEC for lying about how they operated and failing to keep order information confidential. As long as the party operating the dark pool has access to order information, there will always be the possibility that they will try to profit from it.A Decentralized Dark PoolRepublic Protocol is planning to solve this problem by creating a protocol that allows orders to be matched without any knowledge about the details of the orders. This makes it impossible for any third party to reveal information about orders submitted to the dark pool.Through the use of the Shamir’s Secret Sharing algorithm, orders are split into fragments and distributed to different nodes that then work together to match orders. Privacy is maintained because no single node has the full order information. Ethereum smart contracts are also employed to help maintain privacy and verify computations. Once orders are matched, traders can then perform atomic swaps to exchange assets directly with each other.RenVM — A Privacy Preserving Virtual MachineCTO Loong Wang explains the benefits that RenVM will bring to their dark pool (Source)In order to make their dark pool more secure, stable, and private, Republic Protocol created RenVM, a virtual machine where privacy can be maintained for all inputs, outputs, and even for generated data.CTO Loong Wang says that RenVM can be used to build privacy-preserving apps in areas like voting, financial, or sensitive data analysis (Source)RenVM makes it possible for a dApp running on Republic Protocol to work with sensitive data (such as financial or health information) and calculate a result (such as filling an order or conducting medical research) without ever exposing that sensitive data to anyone.There will be several different components to Republic Protocol’s new platform built on RenVM. So far the team has revealed three components, which are:zkTransactions Layer: RenVM can create private keys on different blockchains that are unknown to everybody. These blockchain-specific private keys are each controlled by dapps called zkTransactors. Users can deposit funds through these zkTransactors. From that point on, trades and transfers can be made while keeping balances and transactions secret. When the users wish to reclaim their funds, they can simply withdraw the cryptocurrencies back to their own blockchain-specific wallets.Note: The Lite Paper states that this “makes private transactions possible for any blockchain”, but it does NOT specify any way of hiding deposits, withdrawals, and public keys for public blockchains. This means private transactions and balances are only possible as long as the funds remain in the Ren ecosystem. Depositing and withdrawing a conspicuous amount of BTC through a zkTransactor in a short period of time will probably make your transaction easily traceable.Interoperability Layer: Different zkTransactors are created for different blockchains(e.g. a BTC zkTransactor, an ETH zkTransactor, an LTC zkTransactor). These zkTransactors are compatible with each other. As long as both parties have deposited their funds into zkTransactors, they can freely perform cross-chain atomic swaps, trading freely between different cryptocurrencies.Dark Pool Layer: This is the previously mentioned decentralized dark pool, a protocol that privately matches orders in a hidden order book. Eventually this will be open to allow third parties to build their own dark pools with customizable rules to meet various requirements.The Application Layer allows dApps to be built using all of RenVM’s technology. So far the team has revealed two dApps that will be built on RenVM.RenEX: Republic Protocol’s dark pool is currently up and running in beta form, but will be migrated to RenVM over the course of 2019 to take advantage of its end-to-end privacy and interoperability features.SwapperD: This will be a wallet that interacts with RenVM and an interface that allows users to access Ren’s private cross-chain atomic swap features.CTO Loong insists that the dark pool is still their main focus (Source 1)(Source 2)RenVM was created to allow their dark pool “to offer privacy at every level” (Source)Despite the massive potential opened up by the creation of RenVM, CTO Loong Wang maintains that Republic Protocol’s main focus is still on creating their dark pool, and the creation of RenVM is merely a result of their dedication to making that dark pool as private as possible.At least in the short term, it seems likely that Republic Protocol will continue to focus on launching their dark pool. However, CEO Taiyang Zhang’s closing remarks in their latest update seem to suggest much loftier long-term goals:“As the ecosystem grows, and the core components are completed, Ren will introduce development tools to support the open development of private applications of any kind, as well as new products, paving the way for unstoppable privacy.”— Taiyang Zhang, 18 Jan 2019Token UtilityREN’s main use at the moment is for the right to run a Darknode. 100,000 REN is required to run each Darknode.Right now, these Darknodes help match orders that are submitted to the dark pool and are rewarded with transaction fees. This makes REN’s current value highly dependent on the volume of dark pool trading taking place on Republic Protocol.All Darknodes will be rewarded for contributing to RenVM (Source: Lite Paper)In the future, Darknodes will be rewarded for facilitating RenVM’s privacy preserving computations. For each computation, all Darknodes will receive an even split of an upfront fee and a variable incentivization fee that can be raised to get special priority from Darknodes.CTO Loong Wang explains how REN trading fees will be chargedWith the use of zkSNARKs, traders will NOT have to submit a large refundable bond in order to access the network as stated in the 2017 white paper. However, a small REN fee, payable by the trader or a third party, will still be needed to open an order.REN will no longer be required for all trading fees as suggested in the 2017 white paper. The team announced in April that nodes can be rewarded with the Ethereum or other cryptocurrencies used in the transaction instead.Token EconomicsSource: e is a fixed supply of 1 billion REN tokens with no inflation.Republic Network raised 35,500 Ethereum from their February 2018 ICO. The token price was $0.0513 USD/0.000055 ETH (private sale) and $0.0561 USD/0.0000581 ETH (public sale).Token Distribution is as follows:Private Sale: 56.6% (Including 5% early adopter tokens)Public Sale: 8.6%Team and Advisor Tokens: 9.9%Community Development and Partners: 5%Reserve: 19.9%Contrary to what is stated in their ICO FAQ, the team tokens do NOT have a 2 year vesting period. Instead, the team and advisor tokens will start being unlocked in February 2019 and will continue to be unlocked every four months until February 2020.Source: https://t.me/republicprotocol/116573The team is using some of their reserve tokens to run bootstrapping Darknodes to help maintain the network. This will also give them some revenue as trading volume picks up.Overall the team and advisors control 34.8% of the total supply. 56.6% of all tokens went to private sale buyers. This could make it easier for whales who control the majority of the supply to manipulate prices.TeamThe website lists 13 team members and the majority of them had little professional experience prior to joining Republic Protocol. All seven members of the development team (including the CTO) were educated at The Australian National University and many of them only recently graduated around 2018. This is definitely a very young development team that’s looking to prove itself through its code.Here is some information on some key members of the team:CEO Taiyang Zhang has two years of experience as a software engineer, 3 years of experience as director/co-founder of software development company Neucode, and is a co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading fund Virgil Capital. Though he has accomplished more than most people his age, Taiyang is only in his early 20's and is still relatively unproven as a CEO.CTO Loong Wang has a computer science degree, 1 and a half years of experience as a software developer for Neucode, and 7 months of experience as a researcher at the Australian National University. He also seems quite young and inexperienced, but has the right background and education for his role.Software developer Jaz Gulati was the co-founder of Neucode along with Taiyang Zhang.Backend developer Divya Mary has 2 years and 8 months of experience working as an Application Engineer at Oracle India.Darren Toh is their Head of Communications and Compliance. He has a diploma in corporate law and corporate tax, plus many years of experience in various legal and compliance roles. Since Republic Protocol’s solution will have to be customizable enough to comply with various dark pool regulations in different countries, it is important that they have access to this kind of legal expertise.There are some notable advisors listed, including:Loi Luu, co-founder and CEO of Kyber Network, describes himself as Republic Protocol’s Technical Advisor. Loi’s expertise should come in handy, since Kyber Network is working on a protocol for decentralized token swaps and Republic Protocol is working on a protocol for ‘dark’ decentralized cryptocurrency trading.Prabhakar Reddy is an investor at venture capital firm Accel Partners, co-founded a successful

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The MB size limit per Block is for the Bitcoin's blockchain. In Ethereum, there is theoretically no limit for the block size. However, blockchain is not meant for data storage and storing large …
The MB size limit per Block is for the Bitcoin's blockchain. In Ethereum, there is theoretically no limit for the block size. However, blockchain is not meant for data storage and storing large documents will be very expensive. Here are some instances where people hacked into the Bitcoin Blockchain and stored some unexpected data. You would have to compress and store the doc/pdf/

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Mid-2017 saw a large number and a wide variety of crypto projects launched that ran the gamut from technology to investment products, through to media and markets offerings.The Revain Platform, a …
Mid-2017 saw a large number and a wide variety of crypto projects launched that ran the gamut from technology to investment products, through to media and markets offerings.The Revain Platform, a blockchain-based review forum for any type of product or service, also debuted at this time, focusing initially on the crypto-market. In addition to reviewing Revain’s upward trajectory, we’ll also delve into a few of the key players in the crypto-market’s boom of mid-2017 and see where they are now.It was an incredible year for the growth of crowdfunding in 2017. Although there is some

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A lot of cryptocurrency projects are using Slack as a medium of communication. Ethereum introduced the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) concept with its crowd sale. Raising funds before the project was …
A lot of cryptocurrency projects are using Slack as a medium of communication. Ethereum introduced the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) concept with its crowd sale. Raising funds before the project was finished in exchange for tokens. As People got unexpected high returns on ICO, Most of the new investors are now try to invest on a coin As early as possible, because **Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) is going to the moon** Now if youâre not deep into crypto, To give you context for why there is epic FOMO happening right now take a look at these returns. Slack has a feature, that sends users an email to let them know they have unread direct messages and Itâs is enabled by default.Naturally, scammers have started sending direct messages to users. This bypasses email scam filters since the email is coming from no-reply@slack.com as Slack is a reputed site When an ICO happens the Coin Developer team is communicated through a variety of public channels. These announcements create a very convincing template for scammers to use.Like 5 to 100% bonus for attracting more users to get trapped. But Here comes the advantage of Blockchain, We can know the exact amount got scammed. Etherscan.io makes it easy to look up transactions on the blockchain to a particular address. Using the address in the scam we can see 90 transactions and a token balance of $439,492.70 USD A scammer can set tasks for every user via slackbot. Once the scammer is detected and kicked out of the slack group there is no way to delete the tasks. As a result, slackbot sends the message even after the scammer is removed. We can understand, In large and legit organizations, Work must be completed even after the member left. But an Open community like above is damn hard to clean the mess done by a scammer. There are some users who will first doubt it because There is a lot of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in the trading channels. So, It is obvious that they will search it on google. I heard about Red Pulse along with Kyber (an ICO that is so hot right now). So naturally, I was curious to know more. See What I found on Google Now the Top Ad takes me to below site. I will talk about this Site in Next Head I show you where that ad took me. Now See What is the actual ICO Site is Also, send a

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Bitcoin, the base protocol which controls the governance of the peer-to-peer cash system and the economic incentives of a securely distributed, highly available global financial network with a public …
Bitcoin, the base protocol which controls the governance of the peer-to-peer cash system and the economic incentives of a securely distributed, highly available global financial network with a public unit of account on an immutable public ledger, has many subtle, often missed tricks up its sleeve.I have spoken many times about its Turing completeness, its unbounded predicate scripting language, its small-world, highly connected network and a plethora of on-chain innovations that aid the tsunami of transactions from services and APIs that will form the backbone of the Mandala network that is Metanet, with microservices performing specialised internet-like tasks in an incentivised web of privately secure microtransactions.That is a microscopic overvue of what Bitcoin is, and all of that wonderful stuff is great, however, the subtle macroscopic elements of Bitcoin are the real keys to its success and longevity.Bitcoin, often imitated but never bettered, has been systematically attacked and usurped countless times, but all

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HomepageAbout membershipSign inGet startedHomepage Member previewFrancesco CoreaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingComplexity scientist, data strategist, tech investor and AI advisor. All opinions are my …
HomepageAbout membershipSign inGet startedHomepage Member previewFrancesco CoreaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingComplexity scientist, data strategist, tech investor and AI advisor. All opinions are my own.Dec 1, 2017The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what’s the deal?Why a decentralized intelligence may affect our futureImage Credit: Zapp2Photo/ShutterstockIt is undeniable that AI and blockchain are two of the major technologies that are catalyzing the pace of innovation and introducing radical shifts in every industry. Each technology has its own degree of technical complexity as well as business implications but the joint use of the two may be able to redesign the entire technological (and human) paradigm from scratch.This article wants to give a flavor of the potentialities realized at the intersection of AI and Blockchain and discuss standard definitions, challenges, and benefits of this alliance, as well as about some interesting player in this space.I. Setting the stageImage Credit: 4zevar/ShutterstockI have been talking and writing about AI since a while now, so I will not waste any time defining what it is and what is not (if you want to know more about it, you can check my explanation or a brief history of AI).However, I never touched upon blockchain and cryptocurrencies so far, so I will dedicate this first block to describe what it is and how it works.A blockchain is a secure distributed immutable database shared by all parties in a distributed network where transaction data can be recorded (either on-chain for basic information or off-chain in case of extra attachments) and easily audited.A blockchain is a secure distributed immutable database shared by all parties in a distributed networkPut simply (with Bank of England’s words), the blockchain is “a technology that allows people who don’t know each other to trust a shared record of events”.The data are stored in rigid structures called blocks, which are connected to each other in a chain through a hash (each block also includes a timestamp and a link to the previous block via its hash). The blocks have a header, which includes metadata, and a content, which includes the real transaction data. Since every block is connected to the previous one, as the number of participants and blocks grow, it is extremely hard to modify any information without having the network consensus.The network can validate the transaction through different mechanisms, but mainly through either a “proof-of-work” or a “proof-of-stake”. A proof-of-work (Nakamoto, 2008) asks the participants (called “miners”) to solve complex mathematical problems in order to add a block, which in turn require a ton of energy and hardware capacity to be decoded. A proof-of-stake (Vasin, 2014) instead tries to solve this energy efficiency issue attributing (roughly) more mining power to participants who own more coins (there are many

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Russia Exposes British Lies On Skripal, But Trail Leads To USFacebook Moves 1.5 Billion Users' Data Out Of Europe To Circumvent New Privacy LawEx Chief Adviser For The UNs Child Labour Program …
Russia Exposes British Lies On Skripal, But Trail Leads To USFacebook Moves 1.5 Billion Users' Data Out Of Europe To Circumvent New Privacy LawEx Chief Adviser For The UNs Child Labour Program Arrested For PedophiliaDems Sue For Hillary Loss, Comey Leaks Investigated, North Korea Suspends Nukes & The Marijuana RebellionThe Hemp Deception: The Stolen Future Of The American PeopleDemocratic Party Sues Russia, Trump, Wikileaks For Conspiring To Hurt Hillary In 2016 ElectionThe Top Ten Marijuana Myths That No One Should BelieveWhat Are 'Assad Apologists'? Are They Like Those 'Saddam Apologists' Of 2002?After spending several years developing my own theory as to whats wrong with the world, often flip-flopping back and forth between different schools of thought, there has been one theme in particular that constantly stands out as quite possibly the root cause of all the dysfunction. It seems pretty clear to me and a growing number of individuals that the ever-increasing tiptoe of society towards power centralization is at the root of most of the worlds problems.If one is to look at almost any type of market, whether its banking, government, media, big business, or even culture, everything is falling under centralized control; meaning society is becoming increasingly controlled by fewer people and fewer institutions. Another way to think about it would be the idea that fewer are gaining control over a larger group of people, hence the idea of a New World Order, where a small global network exercises jurisdiction over a large percentage of the worlds functions. It seems we have evolved from tribes, to towns, to cities, to states, to nations, and now to a one-world-system. This concept is discussed in-depth in a previous article.While having a globalized world of people who are interconnected isnt necessarily a bad thing, and in fact could be considered healthy for growth as a species, one has to wonder whether having a centralized design to society is healthy not only for humans, but the entirety of life on this planet. Yet, is it really ideal for everyone to fall under the umbrella of one system, when the world as we know it is so incredibly diverse? In my humble opinion the answer is definitively no. We all know that conflict arises when people are forced outside their will, so constraining everyone into the same box is sure to manifest a whole host of negative feedback patterns; who is in control of designing/maintaining this system? As Lord of the Rings,brilliantly pointed out, having too much power in one spot naturally breeds corruption, especially if that throne has the power to impact the world at large.With that in mind, the obvious antidote to this predicament would be decentralization of power, aka more power being placed into the hands of more people. Its basically like going from a singular society, controlled by a few select elite, to a multifaceted society controlled by its people, with everyone having the ability to control their own destiny. Fortunately, there is an ever-increasing amount of people who are catching on to this trend towards centralization, hence the popular meme the 1% vs. the 99%. As a result, those awake have begun to feverishly work on ways to decentralize power and give opportunities to the disenfranchised citizens of the world, so that they can become their own compasses and leaders in life. Power is beginning to shift.Before the world got introduced to Blockchain technologies, there were many pioneers in the move toward decentralization that rose up and paved the way. Some people refer to these pioneers as part of the peer-to-peer economy, collaborative economy, sharing economy, or just simply the peoples economy. Whatever name you want to go with, the basic premise is facilitating ways in which people can interact directly with each other, hence the name peer-to-peer, instead of relying on third parties or middlemen to conduct transactions through. It cuts out unnecessary legislation, which cuts costs on both sides of the transaction.Most people, without even realizing it, are already familiar with many of these businesses/institutions. Some of the most recognized ones today include: eBay, a peer-to-peer e-commerce platform; craigslist, a peer-to-peer classifieds/trading platform; Uber, a peer-to-peer transportation platform, Airbnb, a peer-to-peer hotel platform, Kickstarter, a peer-to-peer capital-raising platform, and many others not mentioned.Its not just these companies alone that have laid the foundation for the peer-to-peer economy either. Its also the explosion of farmers markets all over the world, the build-up of worker co-ops, which allows workers to directly own the company, and its peer-to-peer file sharing and communication through the use of the Internet; arguably the greatest tool in the history of mankind with the unprecedented ability to decentralize the control of information and ideas all over the world. Never in our known history have people been able to interact with each other directly and instantaneously, without the need for any type of institution to help facilitate it. The Internet is an ever-expanding reservoir of knowledge, and by far the biggest reason for this shift towards decentralization.All of these platforms have been paramount in the shift towards a decentralized social and economic model within society. However, like all fields, innovation can lead to new ideas that take everything within that space to new heights. In this case, blockchain technology is that innovation; and has the ability to totally revolutionize the way we structure a decentralized society. In many ways, blockchain is the next layer to be placed upon the Internet, hence the name Internet 3.0. Blockchain has the potential to be the future foundation of the peer-to-peer economy.Blockchain technology was the next logical step after the Internet in the progression towards a world owned by the people. What is so transformational about Blockchain technology is that it allows people to build collectives without the need to live close by, trust each other, or put in place some form of highly centralized control. Essentially, its allowing people to form new economic and governmental systems through the use of open source mathematical algorithms (blockchains) that represent the structural framework of how the businesses and organizations function. It also gives people the capacity to interact directly with each other all over the world, rather than go through unnecessary middlemen or regulators, who often take cuts along the way and require that people put trust in them. Blockchain makes everyone their own bank and gives people their own voice within collective systems.One of the other major areas Blockchain aims to solve is that of money, which happens to be one of the biggest problems facing humanity. Its not necessarily money itself that is the problem, because money is nothing more than a representation of value that makes trading in collectives easier, but its the distorted value of money and the lack of alternatives, which has brought about tons of negative ramifications on prices. Simply put, the exchange of value all over the world has become skewed. Basically, some people are getting more value then they should from trades, while others are getting less value then they should from trading. Many energy inputs dont match the economic/monetary outputs, which undoubtedly creates tension amongst people and societies. Blockchain is attempting to solve these problems by propping up new, open source currencies, giving power to individuals to control their own transfer of value, and allowing decentralized groups the ability to operate without central controllers. Blockchain technology could become the new legal structure of the Internet, where no throne is needed to watch over and dictate. For better or for worse, it could be the backbone for the Internet of Things.To help those unfamiliar with the blockchain space or advance the understanding of those already acquainted, I wanted to introduce eight blockchain companies that are already laying claim in this new space. The foundation of a new paradigm is literally taking shape right before our very eyes, so I suggest people wake up and start to pay attention if they want to ride this wave before the rest jump on board.Note: This is not an endorsement of any of these products/companies. Many have strong competitors and their own legitimate hurdles to climb before they are anything but a passing fad. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions. This is just to introduce people to some of the ideas and businesses being floated around in the space. There are many more important ones either not mentioned or that have slipped past my limited time and knowledge base. There is literally something new happening everyday in this space, so its impossible for any one person to have their mind fully wrapped around it.Its impossible to mention the realm of blockchain without mentioning Bitcoin, the first successful application of such a technology. Bitcoin is not only a pioneer in blockchain technology, but its the first successful crypto-currency. I would liken Bitcoins niche in the decentralized economy to being primarily a payment system and currency, which allows people from all over the world to financially transact with each other directly and cheaply, without the need for third party intermediaries, taxes, or legislation at the borders. It really is the first digital currency of the world that allows people to freely move value amongst one another peer-to-peer.In many ways, Bitcoin is like the gold of the crypto-currency space because it is both secure, limited in supply, and has the longest track record of success. Given this comparison to gold, Bitcoin is kind of like the weight that everything is tied down to within the space. Though its still young at only seven years in existence, it has given the entire blockchain space credibility and is one of the biggest catalysts behind a potential explosion in the decentralized economy. While it has serious infighting issues about how to scale that it must resolve before competitors capitalize, its pretty reasonable to assume that Bitcoin isnt going anywhere in the near future if it can resolve its difference and come to together as a community.Launched just over a year ago, Ethereum has taken blockchain technology to the next level through the use of smart contracts, which allow contracts to be programmed into the blockchain. This ability to create self-executing contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, has given rise to the formation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), which are basically decentralized organizations of people who come together around a common goal, yet are bound together through the contract they all agreed to. In the simplest sense, the open source smart contracts that are programmed into the blockchain act as the legal framework for the business structure. Since they are self-executing, there is no need for middlemen and legislation to interpret or act as agents of trust in the transfer of value. There is sometimes no need for a central business or authority to exist at all since the smart contract is the business itself and nothing more than a program.There are so many use cases for Ethereum, like developing decentralized voting structures, creating online databases for wills and land contracts, or even creating digital locks for all types of content and services. Ethereum has already risen to number two in market cap amongst crypto-currencies and offers great flexibility for developers to build upon. However, its still very early in its growth process and very much still recovering from its mini-venture capital fund, The DAO, being hacked, which resulted in the Ethereum blockchain being hardforked into two. Nonetheless, it has shown great promise in terms of design and has the very real possibility of becoming the perfect open source platform for building all types of decentralized autonomous organizations upon.Only released just a few months ago, Steemit has become the first social media platform to be built upon the blockchain. What has blockchain community buzzing so far is that Steemit appears to have found a way to monetize social media, whether its by paying the posters of content or rewarding the curators of content. Essentially, Steemit is a social media platform (especially blogging) that users can get paid for using, unlike Facebook and Reddit where people post and curate content for free. There also seems to be no censorship or central control on the platform, which is a huge plus for many in the alternative mediaand liberty movements who are desperate for a way to escape the heavy censorship/demonetization coming down the pipeline through many of the major social media outlets. Steemit is built upon a Graphene blockchain, which allows it to handle thousands of transactions a second. It has also become a great space for those open-minded individuals to not only share ideas, but to make a little money from it. Its popularity has grown so fast in a few months that its already up to the number four spot in terms of market cap among crypto-currencies. However, Steemit is still in Beta and there are many questions that need to be addressed, such as how it will maintain value in the long-term. Despite the fact, Steemit has sparked an idea in the community, that we the people can profit from our own social media, as well as find ways to keep it open and free. If Steemit can successfully blossom into a widely used platform with good content, then it has the potential to capitalize on this new form of social media.Whether people like it or not, the derivatives market is here to stay and very much an important part of the financial system. Businesses need to lock in costs ahead of time in order to stay on budget, so a derivatives market has been created to provide businesses with the financial flexibility they need to maintain budgets without affecting their cash flow. With crypto-currencies being volatile due to the relative newness of the space, Bitshares has developed Bitassets to allow companies to hedge against this volatility by entering into derivatives contracts for crypto-currencies. As a result, companies who may deem Bitcoin too risky to hold on their balance sheets can now purchase derivative contracts to hedge against price volatility, giving them greater financial flexibility to maintain tight budgets.While Bitshares is very new and started off a bit slow, this kind of idea is essential to the crypto-space. Price volatility is one of the major hurdles keeping companies from holding crypto-currencies in their portfolios, so bringing in price stabilizing derivatives to bridge the gap between mainstream finance and the crypto-space is fundamental to its growth. Bitshares also has the ability to stomp out a lot of corruption that takes place in the derivatives markets by reducing the credit limits and decentralizing losses. Bitshares has the potential to carve out a niche market in derivatives, but it will be interesting to see how it and Ethereum interact with each other, given they both specialize in smart contracts and use/plan to use a Graphene blockchain. Ideally, they both will carve out areas of value.Many people are now aware of Uber, and recognize fairly easily just how powerful it has been in challenging the current paradigm of the taxi market. Its true that Uber has done many great things in terms of providing employees with more money and customers with lower prices. However, a new wave of competition is set to hit the scene called Arcade City, which is built upon the Ethereum blockchain. Essentially, Arcade City is fairly similar to Uber in that is pairs drivers with riders, but unlike Uber, Arcade City is based on blockchain, which cuts costs tremendously on both sides of the transaction. Blockchain allows drivers greater autonomy to set their own prices, accept many forms of payment, and take home more profits, as Arcade City takes little to no cuts along the way. With many starting to realize the increasing costs being tacked on by Uber, Arcade City is poised to capitalize on this trend if it can bypass many of the legal battles it currently faces and will continue to face. The apps global launch is September 1, 2016, so its going to be a company to watch very closely moving forward. Someone will capitalize on this market.Slock.it is another technology built upon the Ethereum blockchain, which is essentially a smart contract company that will specialize in digital locks. For example, Airbnbcould be completely automated through the use of Slock.it, or renting a bike could be completely automated through Slock.it, or even Wi-Fi routers could be rented out and automated through Slock.it. Basically, it allows you to rent, share, sell, or share just about anything without any middlemen. It really has a niche for facilitating the P2P sharing economy, without any central management of it.However, it will be interesting to see how Slock.it will recover from the recent hack of The DAO, being that some in the community are quite unhappy with them for producing sloppy coding, which they claim is partially to blame for the theft. This could lead to competitors like ConsenSys coming in and taking over the platform. One thing is for certain: The use of digital locks in the sharing economy is coming; its just a matter of who will step and deliver the vision.Logistics is an important part of the global economy, especially since products are moving all over the world at all times of the day. So it would only make sense that blockchain technology would revolutionize the logistics space. According to their website, Provenance is a platform that empowers brands to take steps toward greater transparency by tracing the origins and histories of products,all through the use of blockchain. The story/origin of the product can follow the product anywhere online, giving buyers and sellers more accurate information to conduct trade with.The real benefit of Provenance is that people can better understand where the products they want to buy are coming from. This is especially important for people who are conscious of certain ethical criteria in products, such as who made it (slave labor?), how its made (material), or the quality of it (organic/fresh). Provenance could provide a database for certificates that authenticate products as well as give consumers faith in companies. Provenance is still in its early stages of testing, but its already clear the tracking items all over the world through blockchain will become a reality in the future.Finally, the blockchain space wouldnt be complete without a spot for e-sports and betting. According to its website, Peerplays is the worlds first decentralized tournament management and wagering platform built entirely on the blockchain. Whats enticing about Peerplays is that there is no house, meaning the odds are not skewed towards the house. Instead, those on the system develop the structures of the games and how their rewards are to be given out. The blockchain simply holds the funds in escrow and divvies them out according to the smart contracts programmed in.Peerplays has the ability to take over fantasy sports leagues, online gambling like poker, online gaming (like Counterstrike, Dota, Fifa)and really any type of game people decide to create. Also supporting a grapheme blockchain, Peerplays can handle thousands of transactions per second. While Peerplays has many hurdles to climb just like the others, its clear that gaming will become fully integrated by blockchain technology in the foreseeable future, especially since it already takes place online. Why pay middlemen when gaming peer-to-peer?Note: Other ideas to check out include: Monero,

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Here are the latest items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. …
Here are the latest items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. And it bears mention that most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of JWR. (SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor.) Today’s focus is on Bitcoin recovery expert David Veksler. (See the Cryptos section.) First up, over at Sharps Pixley: Lawrie Williams: Russia May Now be World’s No. 2 Gold Miner One of my regular consulting clients in the American Redoubt recently told me a tale of woe with a very happy ending. Here is how “Bob” told it to me. (Pardon any factual errors, because I’m relating all of this second hand): In early 2012 Bitcoin cost a relative pittance — less than $10 USD would buy an entire Bitcoin (BTC). So, on a whim, Bob invested $100 in Bitcoin. That bought him around 13.5 BTC. Then he essentially forgot about it, until in early 2017 he heard news that the Bitcoin market was heating up. The news? The cost of buying 1 BTC exceeded $1,000. That really caught his eye. Bob remembered that he had his Bitcoin wallet stored on an old laptop computer that had died back around 2015, due to a failed motherboard. He also realized that he probably hadn’t made a copy of the Bitcoin wallet, and he only had a vague recollection of the passphrase that he had chosen. Now in a minor panic, he removed the dead laptop’s hard drive and attached it to a “sled” disk drive USB adapter, and connected it to his new laptop. He was not a happy camper when he found that the old laptop’s 250 GB drive was corrupted and only about half of the files were working. But at least he saw a “wallet.dat” file. He breathed a sigh of relief and copied that wallet file to several 4GB memory sticks, and put them in various safe places. Then, just a few month later, Bob read that Bitcoin had jumped to $2,500 per BTC. So he gave one of his 4GB backup sticks to his son the computer wizard, and asked him to check on the status of his Bitcoins. His son soon had bad news: “The wallet is corrupted, Dad. You’re probably out of luck.” Then, together, they spent many hours going through his entire collection of backup disks and backup CD-ROMs. Most of these were old 100MB ZIP disks. Mournfully, they found that there was no backup of the crucial “wallet.dat” file. As the year 2017 neared its end, Bitcoin kept climbing higher and higher versus the US Dollar. By December, it cost $19,000 to buy one “coin”. This made Bob’s seemingly unretrievable Bitcoin wallet worth about $256,500. Ouch! This situation was starting to cost him some lost sleep. So Bob contacted his other adult son–also quite tech savvy–and gave him another one of the 4 GB backup sticks, as well as the original corrupted hard drive. Bob asked him to do some research, and see if there was any way to recover the lost Bitcoins. He promised him a 1 BTC fee, if he was successful. Bob also wrote down five different

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When information hit the crypto-verse that the CBOE change had withdrawn its utility for a rule trade on the SEC to believe a Bitcoin ETF, many investors had held their breath anticipating the price …
When information hit the crypto-verse that the CBOE change had withdrawn its utility for a rule trade on the SEC to believe a Bitcoin ETF, many investors had held their breath anticipating the price of BTC to fall a couple of hundred issues or even perhaps retest $3,200. The information most effective led to BTC losing from $3,600 to round $3,567: a decline of 0.91%. The King of Crypto is these days buying and selling at $3,600 indicating that the scoop had little impact on BTC.Looking on the general marketplace capitalization, we discover that it fell from $120.6 Billion to $119.1 Billion because of the scoop. This is a drop of one.24%. The general marketplace capitalization is these days again to $120.346 Billion indicating that the scoop didn’t do a lot harm.Numerous theories were floated round within the more than a few social media platforms. Four explanations that have been dominant have been as follows:Further elaborating at the 4 imaginable the explanation why the scoop of CBOE’s withdrawal of the Bitcoin ETF had little marketplace impact, we discover within the first state of affairs the these days ongoing govt shutdown has affected the purposes of many federal companies such because the SEC and CFTC. In the case of the latter, the CFTC has the only authority to resolve the way forward for Bakkt. Crypto traders and investors had possibly hooked up the dots and concluded there could be dangerous information in the case of the Bitcoin ETF because of the continued Shutdown. This then explains why there was once no panic promoting.The 2d state of affairs issues to the indifference many crypto dealer and traders these days have against the approval or rejection of an ETF utility. This is hinged on the truth that 2018 was once marked via the crypto markets been shaken via a number of ETF rejections. With time, investors have evolved an immunity for dangerous information from the SEC. There may be the added undeniable fact that many crypto idealists imagine that Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t intend for Wall Street to become involved within the purposes of Bitcoin.Thirdly, every other batch of CME Bitcoin futures expire the next day, January 25th. The present worth of BTC and different cryptocurrencies had already factored in this match thus the CBOE withdrawal didn’t have an effect on the markets as expected. Perhaps if the scoop arrived previous on within the month, there would possibly were severe panic promoting.The fourth concept that has been postulated is an extension of the second one: crypto investors and traders have dealt with the current bear market for over a yr and feature evolved an immunity to dangerous information. The ones nonetheless buying and selling or hodling have weathered the hurricane and feature develop into proof against any exterior adverse information.What are your ideas at the crypto markets no longer falling as anticipated when information broke that CBOE had withdrawn their Bitcoin ETF utility on the SEC? Has the ETF misplaced all relevance to crypto investors and traders? Please tell us within the remark phase beneath.Disclaimer: This article isn’t intended to offer monetary recommendation. Any further opinion herein is solely the creator’s and does no longer constitute the opinion of Ethereum World News or any of its different writers. Please perform your personal analysis prior to making an investment in any of the a lot of cryptocurrencies to be had. Thank you.Like what you learn? Give us one like or proportion it for your buddiesoriginal post…Galaxy Digital Raising $250 Million to Offer Loans to Crypto Firms: ReportYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *The tZERO buying and selling platform has simply introduced that secondary buying and selling of its safety tokens that were distributed to traders previous this month, is now are living. Accredited traders can now business tZERO safety tokens with different accepted traders via a virtual securities brokerage account at Dinosaur Financial Group, LLC. The latter will acts as a broker-dealer. The company has partnered with PRO securities, LLC, which is a subsidiary of tZERO.Earlier on within the month, groups at each Overstock and tZERO had notified the investor neighborhood that the buying and selling platform would get started operations by means of the tip of this month. The CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, defined that the release of tZERO has been 4 years within the making. With secondary buying and selling now are living, what stays is the overall release of the online platform.The ICO increase of 2017 and 2018 led many regulatory our bodies around the globe to step in to give protection to traders from fraudulent actions and the corresponding losses incurred from such investments. In the case of the American SEC, route used to be a little bit sluggish however they in the end issued a directive that some ICOs fall under the category of securities offerings. This led many willing marketers and corporations, to notice that Securities Token Offering (STOs) would be the subsequent large factor on the planet of crowdfunding.tZERO CEO Saum Noursalehi, defined why safety tokens have been a lot more secure than different tokens got from the standard ICOs.The global of safety tokens has lacked a regulated venue for secondary buying and selling. The buying and selling of our personal safety tokens is the crossing of the Rubicon for the brand new global of virtual property. This will create liquidity, democratize get right of entry to, convey transparency and potency to international markets and boost up the adoption of safety tokens.The Nasdaq powered DX.Exchange went are living on the 7th of this month. Users of the change can now business the cryptocurrencies of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP , Bitcoin Cash (BCH), EOS (EOS), Digibyte (DGB),

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When the bubble finally popped last year, the “market cap” of all crypto fell over $700B, an 85% drop from its peak in January — steeper than the dotcom bubble’s 78% crash. The media gawked at this …
When the bubble finally popped last year, the “market cap” of all crypto fell over $700B, an 85% drop from its peak in January — steeper than the dotcom bubble’s 78% crash. The media gawked at this collapse, and as usual, proclaimed this was the nail in the coffin for cryptocurrencies.There’s already been enough hysterics and I-told-you-sos. In this essay, I just want to answer the simple question:It’s easy to believe that the ICO bubble, having taken place on uncensorable public blockchains, was a fundamentally new phenomenon.The technologies that enable bubbles are always new, but the underlying social dynamics are not. The open and permissionless nature of blockchains allows anyone to co-opt them. Thus, blockchains enabled multiple social forces, all interacting in the same network, all reified under the name “the ICO bubble.”In this blog post, I’ll examine three major moments in history that illuminate three separate social dynamics that were at play in the ICO bubble.The first is the peer-to-peer file sharing revolution in the late 2000s, which explains the ideology of decentralization, the proclamations of revolution, and companies trying to circumvent securities laws.The second is the penny stock boom of the 90s, which explains the casino of shitcoin gambling, market manipulation, and fraudsters that comprised the long tail of ICOs.And the third is the dotcom bubble, which explains the mass of speculators, the new paradigm of decentralized companies, the VC coins, and the redistribution of wealth.By exploring these episodes, I hope to show you how the ICO bubble recapitulated well-known patterns of human behavior.History does not repeat, but there are a few refrains it loves to come back to.(I recorded an

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An Australian Beginners Guide To Cryptocurrency By on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE 28 min readAround this time in June 2017, I took the plunge and jumped into the wild world of Cryptocurrency but the same …
An Australian Beginners Guide To Cryptocurrency By on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE 28 min readAround this time in June 2017, I took the plunge and jumped into the wild world of Cryptocurrency but the same question plagued me then as it undoubtedly does many others currently Where the hell do I start!?The question sounds simple enough but like many others, I Googled and found an overload of information and choices, littered with Ads further adding to my confusion. It was near impossible to separate the real and valuable information from the ill-informed. Eventually, I found a friend who was heavily involved in Blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency, who was able to guide me in the right direction early on.Fast forward over two years and I have found myself on a crazy journey thats seen me jump into the cryptosphere with two feet, both emotionally and financially! Ive seen unbelievable 1000% unrealized gains in 2017 followed by a brutal market crash! Like many others who were there for the wild ride in 2017, I got to watch those gains evaporate due to greed. Since then I have spent the time and money learning and refining my trading abilities to get to a point where I have been trading full-time for nearly eight months. And all the while, I have been helping many friends, colleagues and complete strangers on their first trip down the rabbit hole by spamming them with long detailed messages at all hours of the night possibly confusing them beyond repair. However many believed the information invaluable and suggested I should post a polished (with a few fewer explicit!) guides to help newcomers, and perhaps even some seasoned Crypto hands.In this guide while I wont focus on the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain, how it works and all those excellent questions Ill cover a wide range of topics ranging from where to buy cryptocurrency, which exchanges I recommend and why, safeguarding your crypto assets, where to find good paid and free content, wallets, portfolio balance and more! Many of these lessons I have learned the hard way, so hopefully, I can save you time and prevent some of the painful mistakes I made, setting you in a better direction!On a side note These are my personal opinions formed from my own experiences, this is not financial advice nor have I been paid to shill or endorse any of the services or platforms that I will mention in this guide. Quite simply, I use these platforms, have found value in everything mentioned and think others may find the information valuable as well. Ive posted links to every service mentioned, including referral links below as well as some donation address should anyone wish to donate. Donations are much appreciated and will ensure the time will be spent keeping this guide up to date and extra articles and content added in the future.SO probably the two/three most important things first up Many people straight up ask me; Is Bitcoin worth investing in What should I buy? Whats a good coin to invest in other than Bitcoin? Which coin is the next bitcoin? Should I go 100% Alt coins? What coin will be the next to do 1000x gains? I generally avoid some of those questions like the plague butNO NO NO! Dont be scared off by Bitcoins higher cost, Bitcoin is the king!Firstly I usually suggest beginners start with the BIG 3 (Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin). As a very rough template for your portfolio, I recommend around 70% BTC, 20% ETH and 10% LTC.At some point, you will want to diversify your portfolio and get more exposure to other high cap Alt coins and even some low cap Alt coins, the FOMO (fear of missing out) will take hold when some of those coins start having crazy parabolic gains. Even so, you should still have at a minimum 7080% of your portfolio in the BIG 3 (BTC, ETH and LTC in that order from biggest holdings to lowest), 10% to high cap alt coins, 10% to low cap alts coins and 10% trading account IF you are interested in actively trading. I mostly recommend the blue-chip cryptocurrencies to start as they have constantly held their value and position in the top 5 coins over the years.So for a more diversified example between 60-70% Bitcoin (this would include your 10% for trading should you look at actively trading), 1020% Ethereum, 1015% on a small selection top 20 alt coins (including LTC) and remaining 5-10% spread over a handful of lower cap alt coins.Regardless of how much money you invest, that should be a rough template.Obviously, you can play around with the percentages of the top 3 but I personally wouldnt go less than 50% BTC and that has been my advice to anyone who has asked.Its generally where a lot of newcomers to space make their first mistake of going all-in on cheap alt coins thinking it will be the next bitcoin and become filthy rich.The chances of that happening are very slim to none. Diversifying your portfolio is important and while Alt coins can see larger gains in bull markets (a market where the price is increasing), they can also lose 90%+ of their value in a bear market (a market where the price is decreasing).Secondly dont invest all your funds at once! The key to this is called DOLLAR COST AVERAGING! Essentially the idea is to spread your capital over a period of time to get an average entry price so lets say you have 10k to invest, you should dollar-cost average that 10k into the market over an extended time frame.For example - invest that 10k in 22.5k increments over a period of 45 weeks, even longer if you want but keep in mind the market moves up and down a lot faster than traditional markets.Crypto is a highly volatile market which means it can sometimes swing 1020% in a day. You dont want to invest that 10k at once and see your crypto investment drop 20% the next day, instantly losing 2k of your initial 10k investment.If you dollar cost average you minimize that risk you may not catch the bottom but you shouldn't be buying at the top either!There are a few services I will mention further down that can help you dollar cost average into the market.The only time its not worth dollar-cost averaging is if you have an understanding of technical analysis and can use your knowledge of the market to get your best entry. That knowledge comes from learning and experience gained over time! Whilst some people have gone big and made large profits, my guess is theres an equal (or perhaps larger) amount of people who have gone big near the top and have been feeling investment pain since December 2017 (the height of bitcoins price).Regardless if you are planning to invest and/or trade, as much as the cryptosphere may say otherwise, HODLing is not a viable investment strategy. HAVE A PLAN take profits because while HODLing in a bull market might be viable, HODLing in a bear market is suicide. Set targets Invest and trade with a plan. You wont go broke taking profit and many myself included have learned this lesson the hard way. If your plan is to buy Bitcoin and check on it in 5 years time, theres nothing wrong with that and in fact, for the vast majority of people, it is probably your best option. But buying something without a plan and hodling the asset with sheer hope of recovery or make a massive profit while its price falls off a cliff, is a fast way to lose your capital.Thirdly If you want to trade, spend time and money learning. If you are going to invest your hard-earned capital into a market, the best investment will be knowledge of the market and the skills to navigate through it. As a very generalized rule; any service offering guaranteed returns and is combined with referral payouts IS A SCAM and should be avoided! Dont be lazy, take the time and effort! The end result will be worth it.Theres some really good books and free content on YouTube. Ihighly suggest a book called trading in the zone if you are interested in cryptocurrency trading, with an

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Editor’s Note: The following is “new” article by Rayo, taken from Vonu: Book 2, Letters from Rayo, the second major batch of vonu publications from the 1960s-1990s that we’ve been able to obtain. …
Editor’s Note: The following is “new” article by Rayo, taken from Vonu: Book 2, Letters from Rayo, the second major batch of vonu publications from the 1960s-1990s that we’ve been able to obtain. This article in particular absolutely destroys any credibility collective movementism had–anarcho-capitalists are targeted as well. All abbreviations and original errors have been left to uphold the integrity of the original publication–[brackets] will be used for any corrections–any errors beyond that are those of your humble transcriptionist. If you’re interested in picking up FREE copy of the book he references, The True Believer, click here to do so. Please enjoy and keep look out for more great content like this. Reprinted from PREFORM #9, May 1970 For those not acquainted with it, collective-movementism (also called “utopianism” “bullshit libertarianism”) comes in many styles. There are the “educationalists” who think freedom will be achieved by just talking about it, the “politicians” busily campaigning for tweedle dee as the lesser evil to that terrible tweedle dum, the “revolutionists” who want to play cops-and-robbers with the Establishment (or, more usually, TALK about doing it). Some dream of utopia of “limited govt” capitalism, some anarcho-capitalism, some anarcho-communism. But no matter how great their surface differences or how bitterly they feud among themselves, they share the same fundamental fallacies. The basic premise of the collective-movementists is, in essence: no one can be free unless/until everyone is free. From this authoritarian assumption comes what there is of their strategy: to change society as whole – to achieve freedom thru altruistic crusades and provide it for all as free gift. Such strategy goes contrary not only to historical experience but (in the case of the “individualists”) to their economic theory social ideals as well. (The anarcho-communists are at least consistent in their mistake.) The collective-movementists propose to produce maintain freedom by means proven ineffective for the large-scale production of anything of value – failing to recognize that incentives/benefits must be individualizable. They embrace dichotomy between means ends failing to recognize that, in social movements, the means employed will determine the ends (if any) achieved. The collective-movementists are invariably utopianists – dreaming not of INDIVIDUAL freedom for those willing to expend the effort to achieve maintain it, but of “free society” wherein millions of people behave as the dreamer thinks they shd [should]. Such view is implicitly authoritarian – perhaps another reason why the best-intentioned political crusades have brought forth only more tyranny destruction. Consider the results of the Russian revolution, of the many “social reform” movements in the US of 50 yrs ago. Collective-movementism, in all its bizarre

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Blockstream's Austin Hill: confidential blockchains can remove systemic risk from finance By Ian Allison Updated November 18, 2015 14:49 GMT Austin Hill, chief instigator of the highly regarded …
Blockstream's Austin Hill: confidential blockchains can remove systemic risk from finance By Ian Allison Updated November 18, 2015 14:49 GMT Austin Hill, chief instigator of the highly regarded Blockstream project, believes confidentiality of data on blockchains will lead to hitherto unseen levels of confidence in the financial system itself.Hill, whose background is in zero knowledge proof applications and cypherpunk technologies for privacy in electronic cash, thinks blockchain users should be able to have their cake and eat it: the efficiency of a shared ledger system without sacrificing the privacy of transactions therein.Confidential Transactions is one element within the sidechains project, which Hill says has garnered a lot of interest from Wall Street. He explained how retaining privacy through some cutting edge encryption can leverage the real time audit capabilities of the blockchain, strengthening integrity generally in many use cases.Hill told IBTimes: "In some use cases you might want to prove a leverage ratio for an asset class and the issuing of new assets against a base asset. You may want to say - we do not have insurance contracts that are above and beyond our core assets, or we don't have fractional lending going on above a certain ratio."You could prove that without having to show what the underlying assets are. So using these technologies I think there's a lot of potential for removing systemic risk and improving confidence in our finance system."Blockstream's Confidential Transactions does not disclose the value of a transaction but allows the network to check that inputs add up to outputs and things balance; the network understands that encrypted 3 + encrypted 5 = encrypted 8. The actual amounts are only disclosed to the sender and the recipient, and potentially their auditor. It uses one-way homomorphic encryption which uses less in the way of computational power than two-way homomorphic encryption."There is a small size trade-off in terms of the size of transactions. But traditionally one-way homomorphic encryption is a lot more manageable than two-way homomorphic encryption which is still very bleeding edge science. In fact there is a range of values that you can hide using this technology. You can do multiplication, you can do greater than/less than, you can do all sorts of mathematical operations."This is a very new area of cryptography. It's based off a lot of other research and is a very powerful tool for striking an appropriate balance between corporate confidentiality and leveraging public blockchains. We have seen a lot of interest among major companies who want to use this technology.Blockstream aims to bring innovation to Bitcoin and follows the spirit of fairness of public blockchains. However, Hill and co-founder Dr Adam Back saw the huge potential beyond Bitcoin and Sidechains Elements have been developed accordingly."Sidechain Elements is like a Lego tool kit for building blockchains. It doesn't define what the end blockchain looks like, but it gives a whole bunch of new powerful tools that allow you to construct blockchains according to whatever rule set you desire. In some situations those are going to be public, openly available blockchains, in other situations they might be federated blockchains," said Hill.Corporates trading with multiple partners and transferring stock, bonds or loan products would constitute such a private blockchain environment, due to corporate confidentiality and protecting customers' records."In many cases you may not want to reveal that information. There is an information advantage to people who data mine the blockchain, who may be able to do things like front running of transactions, where they understand the flow of money or the flow of transactions and they can then predict certain moves in a market place."Blockstream recently announced Liquid, the first commercial deployment of sidechain technology which uses a pegged federated system to move bitcoin rapidly between exchanges in a rarefied environment of added privacy, without existing capital reserve requirements and risks.Hill said: "The whole concept of Sidechains is that you can build multiple blockchains that are all interoperable. Confidential Transactions could potentially be included in the Bitcoin blockchain but I suspect that would take a lot of time and would be a major change because all wallets, everything that talks to the Bitcoin blockchain would have to upgrade and there would be a very long period of testing."In its current form the target is not to roll it [Confidential Transactions] into the Bitcoin blockchain, but rather let sidechains like the Liquid chain be able to deploy it, such that certain trading partners may want to have a network that has different properties than the Bitcoin blockchain."Participants who choose, who are part of this network and consortium can automatically transfer bitcoin in a very rapid way, but they also have the assurance now that bitcoin transfers from one exchange to another are not publicly available for other people to monitor."You can either deploy it in a federated model or eventually, once we actually make some changes to Bitcoin core, you will be able to do it based on merged mining, where you leverage all the same hash rates," he added."Right now we use a federated two-way peg, and eventually in the future we look forward to a time when the two-way peg will just be a normal supported feature in Bitcoin. So you won't need to use a federated peg, you could just automatically move coins from one network to another and that would be supported by all the miners."Hill likes to use an analogy from the early days of the internet to illustrate Blockstream's goals. "Imagine you had to go to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the standards group, if you had a new idea for a service you wanted to build on TCP/IP - imagine you needed to get everyone to upgrade their protocol, every time you wanted to make a change. That would have completely slowed down and really hampered the speed at which we got things like streaming

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