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Bifrost vETH officially listing on Uniswap, Weekly Report 34
By: Bifrost Finance
Tags: Veth, Defi, Stakingderivative, Uniswap, Mintdrop

Development

Merged substrate commit f73ac5eb

vToken minting incentive module development and testing

Mint Drop Wallet Connect protocol development

Voting Market & Minting Incentive Code Review Jenkins Deployment

Bifrost Asgard Nightly connects to Subscan

Bifrost official website adds risk tips

Dashboard Polkadot JS upgraded to v0.69.2–13

Hoo wallet docking with Bifrost mainnet certificate

Ecosystem

The Bifrost vETH MintDrop has successfully listeing TokenPocket, imToken, DeBank, MathWallet and AToken within a week. Search vETH in the App to directly mint vETH for BNC.

Sort out and filter out the Bifrost Meme Contest. A total of 50 people participated in the competition and nearly 350 entries were submitted. Community voting is now open, so vote for your favorite one!

On December 1, the “Witness Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 Start Online Live Summit” hosted by the Odaily invited Bifrost co-founder Lurpis to discuss the evolution of ETH 2.0 in combination with Bifrost vETH minting. Event Details: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/56uOXfB_0HPk3ItvIwGFsw

The vETH/ETH trading pair will be launched on Uniswap at 12:00 pm (UTC+8) on December 4th. Hold vETH to obtain staking reward and liquidity, without waiting for the ETH 2.0 lock-up period. Details: https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?inputCurrency=ETH&outputCurrency=0xc3d088842dcf02c13699f936bb83dfbbc6f721ab

On December 3, Bifrost product manager Tryone accepted an exclusive interview with Lian chaguan, and expressed his views on a series of issues such as Staking and its derivatives, ETH 2.0, vETH minting and DeFi. Details of the interview: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iONSBMS_-nSnuaZXmByIvQ

Designed Bifrost Banner and displayed it on OpenSquare. In the future, Bifrost’s newsletter will be synchronized in OpenSquare. Details:

https://og.opensquare.network/

Risk Warning: Recently, in response to the impersonation and false information of the Bifrost project in the market, Bifrost hereby reminds you: In order to maintain your own information security and ensure asset security. When you see a similar situation, please contact the Bifrost community administrator in time. We will prompt the risk and contact the other party to correct the information as soon as possible.

What is Bifrost ?

Bifrost is a Polkadot Ecosystem DeFi infrastructure protocol that aims to become an infrastructure for providing Staking liquidity, and currently offers a derivative vToken for Staking and Polkadot Lease Offering (PLO). It is also a member of the Substrate Builders Program and Web3 Bootcamp. vToken can optimise transactions in multiple scenarios such as DeFi, DApp, DEX and CEX.

vToken can optimise transactions in multiple scenarios such as DeFi, DApp, DEX and CEX. vToken can be used to realise the transfer channel of governance right such as Staking and PLO to hedge the risk of Staking assets. In extended scenarios such as when vToken is used as collateral for lending, the staking proceeds can offset part of the interest and realise low-interest lending.
[Wallet] Why an investor must use IONIA -interest -
Tags: Wallet

This is IONIA :)

A new form of asset called cryptocurrency started to emerge and many people started to have it.

So if you leave these new assets in the bank, the bank will pay interest on the assets, but why not yet? No, there’s a place where the coin is given with interest even if you keep the crypto asset as a deposit.

It’s an Ionia wallet(Platform)

The Ionia platform is designed to be a multi-functional participant with a tokenEconomy

Holder

Taker

Maker

Host

If people with crypto asset play their role on the Ionia platform, they can get an NIA token as compensation.

In addition

On the Ionia platform, getting an NIA token as an interest is a huge benefit and advantage that you don’t see in other Wallet simply by keeping the crypto asset as a deposit

If you keep it, the value of your assets can continue to rise!!

And if you perform various roles in the Ionia ecosystem, you’ll get more NIA tokens for reward.

If you look at the Lite paper, you’ll see in more detail what the roles are.^^

These NIA tokens are available as fees in the Ionia ecosystem.

It’s going to be a call to the Ionia ecosystem for various services.

Are you expecting an interest-bearing ecosystem with my crypto asset?

Then start using the Ionia Wallet right now.^^
Dalal
By: Arin Segal
Tags: Dalal, Music

Pop musician Dalal chatted with me about her music and acting.

Q: What are you most excited for with your movie role?

A: I love acting and I love playing different characters. Every new role is a new adventure that I can’t wait to embrace!

Q: Who are some actors and actresses you have dreamed of working with?

A: There are so many incredible actors out there! I have always dreamed of working with Tom Hanks, I think he is wonderful! Meryl Streep, I love her! I think Sandra Bullock would be an amazing person to work with! Ralph Fiennes, he is one of my favorites and Johnny Depp, I think that could be an adventure.

Q: Musically, what are your goals?

A: 3 words. Madison Square Garden! :) I’d like to spread my wings a little, I love writing instrumental orchestral music as well as pop and dance and I would love to score soundtracks or collaborate on scoring movies. I really hope that many, many people all around the globe will enjoy my music.

Q: What got you into music in the first place?

A: Performing, music and art, is a place where I’ve always felt comfortable and challenged at the same time. My grandma loved to sing and my great grandpa played about 40 instruments, my ancestors wrote the lyrics for a composer called Franz Schubert. Maybe their passion and love for music was genetically passed onto me. ;)

Q: Who are some of your biggest musical inspirations?

A: I grew up listening to Dave Brubeck, Bobby Darin, lots and lots of musical theatre and Broadway tunes, Richard Wagner, Bach, Beethoven, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Irish folk, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, The Rolling Stones, Elton John… they all inspired me and many, many more!

Q: What social networks do you use and how can fans reach you?

A: I use Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. :D

Q: What are your plans for the next few months?

A: We are currently working on the next Single, as well as the album while putting together the live shows! :) I start shooting my new movie “Old 37” in September and I will model for NJ Fashion Week in October…. :) I’m also working on a couple amazing projects, unfortunately, I can’t give too much away but there might be a few surprises along the way.

Q: What was your reaction to the music video passing a million views?

A: I never would have thought that it would get that kind of response! I’m thrilled!!! :)

Q: Are there any charities you currently support?

A: Yes!!! I just finished shooting for the NoH8 campaign! It was such a great experience. I did a PSA for the “It Gets Better” campaign during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York. I also wrote a song together with composer Jeff Franzel that was inspired by the work of the “National Wildlife Federation” and was performed live at “Nature’s Night” in NYC.
The Secret to a Smart Strategy: Clear Objectives and Courageous Choices
By: Hattaway Communications
Tags: Audience, Behavior Change, Marketing Strategies, Communications Strategy, Podcast

EVP of Hattaway Communications Carrie Schum on using strategy to make unexpected choices to connect with your audiences.

When the American Lung Association asked Carrie Schum and her team at Porter Novelli to develop a campaign to encourage smokers to make another attempt to quit smoking, they never expected to end up with the headline “You’re not a failure. You’re a seven-time learner.” Although the campaign headline was different from anything that the American Lung Association had done before, the campaign tested strongly because of one key reason — Carrie and her team developed a strong understanding of their audience.

As Hattaway’s Executive Vice President, Carrie brings a long history of using research and audience insights to produce smart, strategic, and successful communications campaigns for organizations such as the American Lung Association, the Truth Initiative, and the Internal Revenue Service. She believes that having a clear strategy along with the courage to try something new is essential for achieving desired outcomes.

“[For effective communications, you need to] know where you want to end up, know what your objective is, be very clear about why that’s the right objective, and then be open to the way you get there…. because it might be unexpected.”

For successful campaigns, Carrie believes that it’s important to trust what your audiences are telling you and not merely your assumptions about them. By understanding the unique characteristics of your audiences — such as the isolation felt by people who are trying to quit smoking or the ability for teenagers to make their own decisions about smoking — you will be able to reach your audiences in new and different ways.

On this episode of Achieve Great Things, Carrie gives us a crash course on how to combine audience insights, smart strategy, and courageous choices to drive meaningful behavior change.

Thank you for listening and reading! Please reach out to us on Twitter, visit us on Facebook, or email us at podcast@hattaway.com.
He touched me like no one ever did…
By: Indu Ks
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Poetry Under Cover, Touch Prompt, Touch

Gerald never touched my skin;

But —

He touched me with his eyes,

his words,

his smile,

his bittersweet stories,

and his melancholic lullabies.

He had a voice of a fallen angel,

his words were like a drug

to my empty existence —

making me feel emotions, I

couldn’t possibly fathom.

He told me stories about his life,

the kind of stories

which break your heart,

but also make you feel

at home —

that someone somewhere

knows; understands.

A lot of men touched me,

my skin, my hair —

But Gerald:

He touched me without

ever having to use his hands.
A Hike is the Perfect Elixir
By: Nancy Peckenham
Tags: Aging, Outdoors, Healthy Lifestyle, Wellness, Hiking

An exercise plan for the next quarter century.

The author back on the trail.

I started hiking again this week and it was exhilarating, though I had to kick my 65-year-old body in motion to make it up some hills. The sandy path led us up into the notch of a canyon, barely a boulder to clamber over — but still up.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been challenged by physical exercise. I’ve been living on the coast of Maine, at sea level, and my daily walks rarely challenge me. I haven’t dare to re-visit the gym where I worked out at this stage of the pandemic. Our road trip out West has given me new opportunities.

The Dragoon Mountains of Southeast Arizona.

Our visit serious hike tackled the majestic mountains of Arizona’s Coronado Forest, which rose straight up. The trail we took wound up gently but nine months of low activity meant my breath was shorter and I stopped more often than I ever used to. I plan to keep hiking for another 20 years so it never occurred to me to stop hiking. A lifetime of experience told me that the best way to keep my body functional is to use it .

Photo by the author.

I kept going as if nothing had changed and then it happened, I thought of nothing more than the smooth boulders piled above our heads, some balancing atop another rock, caught in frozen motion. They were beautiful and I gave no heed to moments when I wondered just how commonly the earth shook in this canyon.

Closer at hand, on the path edge, tree trunks wrapped like old vines, switching from black to red and back again. Amazing red branches twisted, each craggy branch ending in a spray of red berries and green leaves, the colors of Christmas in early December. The constant, probably arthritic, throbbing in my left toe barely got my attention.

Photo by the author.

So, this is my plan to stay healthy and active into my 80s. Walk at least three miles every day unless there’s bad weather and moderate hiking and biking when I can. It may not sound like a lot to some people but for me it is right. I also practice yoga with my good friend and excellent yoga teacher Octavia Nasr, who teaches yin yoga classes online — a positive outgrowth of the pandemic. Now, wherever I am, I can spend an hour in deep stretches of my hips, spine and shoulders, a practice that studies show can contribute to a long and healthy lifespan.

Practicing yoga online with Octavia Nasr while staying outside Death Valley.

The pandemic also offers so much more time alone than we’re used to, it’s easier to pick up some arm weights and do a few arm lifts at home. What are other people doing to stay in shape during this special period?
Giving Goggles
By: Ace
Tags: Covid 19, Donations, Virus, Impact

Dear reader, I hope you are keeping healthy during these strange and unsettling times. It has been a while since I last posted on Medium. We have been working on a project at Ace & Tate that I feel strongly about though, so I wanted to provide some context.

Considering all that’s been written about the subject, I don’t believe I need to dwell on the fact that COVID-19 is making life hard for all of us. Humans and businesses are impacted in ways we haven’t experienced for generations. To put it bluntly: this is fucking terrible.

Times like these also, thankfully, prove that we’re willing to put individual ambitions aside for the greater good. People are helping each other in creative and often heartwarming ways, and communities are pulling together to get through this. The obvious question for me personally and for Ace & Tate as a company, therefore, was how we could contribute in a positive way.

The answer was simple. There is a profound shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical workers and volunteers who are risking their health and safety to care for the sick. One of the key elements in short supply are safety goggles — protecting the eyes from contact with the virus. This needs to be solved.

Luckily, one of our key suppliers has a direct partnership with a manufacturer of medical-grade safety goggles who also share the same standards we have for quality and working conditions. We decided to get involved and for starters, placed an order for 5,000 pieces. This first batch will be delivered shortly to regional Red Cross entities and governmental bodies, in order to get them to frontline medical workers and volunteers in Europe as quickly and efficiently as possible.

But why stop there? Ace & Tate will donate an additional pair for every eyewear order placed on aceandtate.com or in our physical stores. That’s the least we can do as a brand. But, we hope to donate more with the help of… basically anyone who can miss €3. We invite you (and your family, friends, neighbours, casual acquaintances — you catch my drift) to donate through our website — with or without a purchase of our products.

Since launching on 16 April, we have raised the equivalent of 10,680 safety goggles (see live stats here) — an amazing achievement and something that the Ace & Tate team is incredibly proud of. However, this is not nearly enough to solve the issue. So, we need your help: please head over to the donations page and give what you can. We will keep you updated here and on other (social) platforms as the safety goggles are manufactured and distributed to those who need them most.
Cyber Security’s War Games
By: Ft Product
Tags: Cybersecurity

Cyber Security’s War Games

Bringing the excitement of Star Wars to FT’s Cyber Security

by Rosie Crocker

On Friday February 2nd 2018, we ran our first ever War Games. This was an event to bring people across technology together for a day to learn more about Cyber Security.

Our intention was that, through working on security-threatening bug finding and fixing, teams and participants would not only improve our cyber security, but would learn how to spot and avoid these in the future.

We put people in teams of mixed levels of technical backgrounds to ensure they could learn from each other and created three rounds of competitions.

We suggested tools to help find bugs and awarded points based on the complexity of the bug and *lots* of points if the team fixed the vulnerability. It was a great success with over 73 bugs found and some were even fixed on the day.

Points were totalled, prizes were awarded based on the number of points received, and prizes (some less exciting than others!) awarded by Cait (our CPIO). Below is a picture of those who came first and received the most attractive prize — a Feitian Multipass FIDO U2F Security Key that will help them keep their data more secure in future.

We are planning to hold another War Games, though will wait until the majority of the bugs have been fixed. As we can track bug-fixes in Github, we will know when this has happened.

We, the Cyber team, want to say thank you to all those who attended our War Games day on Level 6 and for so enthusiastically taking part. Short of assigning a full-time cyber security person to every team, raising awareness around security is the only way we’ll ever be secure. No matter how many tools we offer to find security vulnerabilities, they are useless if they are not used. So, thank you and, to quote Arnie, “We’ll be back…”.
Everyone is Affected by Social Distancing
By: Kyrie Gray
Tags: Poe, Poetry, Culture, Humor, Comics

Everyone is Affected by Social Distancing

Even the narrator in classic poems

Licensed from Unsplash

Like many I am getting tired of social distancing. At least I have friends to talk to right now. It’s harder for recluses who depend on ill omens or symbolism to keep them company.
A Silly Thing To Do
By: Guy New York
Tags: Short Story, Relationships, Fiction, Threesome, Love

“Wake up,” S whispered in my ear.

She had a hand on my chest to keep me from sitting, but I slowly opened my eyes. She covered my mouth before I could speak and then put a finger to her lips. We sat up and it was clear what she was looking at.

I have a couch near the foot of my bed and our friend was still sound asleep on it. The light blanket had mostly fallen off her and the borrowed shirt she was wearing sat around her waist. The light from the window landed her on perfect little ass and reflected off hairs otherwise too small to see. One leg was forward and the back of her thigh offered us a teasingly close peek at something more.

We sat in bed just looking until S couldn’t contain herself. She got up slowly and moved towards the sleeping girl. She knelt down in the sun and her fingers slid up the back of a leg until she felt the warm skin of her downy ass.

Our friend stirred as fingers moved closer, and I crawled to the foot of the bed to watch. Without warning, she rolled over on the couch and I saw S’s face light up with joy. She leaned in and kissed her stomach only to find fingers gently teasing her hair.

S didn’t stop kissing, and our friend didn’t stop teasing as her legs fell open on the oversized couch. I could see S tremble as she kissed lower and lower and the fingers in her hair grew stronger and more urgent until kissing turned to tasting.

Someone moaned and I watched with hardening delight as their bodies intertwined completely. I watched S’s fingers and tongue do amazing things, and I listened to quickening sounds of pleasure. I saw sleepy eyes open wide, and slow movements turn to powerful thrusts and tightening grips.

S made our friend come before any of us were completely awake, but by the time they crawled up onto the bed next to me, sleep was a distant memory.

“Why didn’t we do this last night?” she asked as I wrapped my arms around her naked body.

“Will power?” S asked with a raised brow.

“That was a silly thing to do,” she said as she nestled in between us.
Nice tool
By: Ben Edwards
Tags: Technology, The Web, Software

Anil pointed out one of the slicker web applications I have seen in a while, BrowserCam takes screenshots of any URL you give it in any of the many browser/platform configurations they support (which is a lot). Now you can see what your site looks like in Safari 1.0b on Mac, Konqueror 3.0.5 on Linux, and Netscape 7 on Windows 2000 to name just a few. The best feature however is that the site will create a layered Photoshop file with each platform configuration as a layer so that you can easily see the minor differences in rendering on each.

The pricing is pretty aggressive at $10.00 for up to 10 URLS or $39.95 per month (unlimited use) but it is a very useful tool. Plus there’s a free 8-hour trial! (I’m not kidding — I have like 6 hours and 57 minutes left.
Freedom
By: Angshuman Bhattacharjee
Tags: War, Storymaker, Poetry, Life, Freedom

Freedom-

Not just a word,

It’s a life story,

This is a scandalous chapter of life,

It is an ornament of life.

Freedom-

She is the cry of life,

The cries of hundreds of mothers in rural Bengal.

Freedom-

He is in the field of ripe tops

Re-walking of enemies.

Freedom-

He is in my brother’s chest

A name is written in fresh blood.

Freedom-

He hits the enemy

by dedicating himself.

Freedom-

He painted it with life

A colorful dream.
3am Panic: Anxieties of a Pregnant Woman
By: Tiffany Antone
Tags: Anxiety, Sleep, Motherhood, Humor, Pregnancy

I am currently 38 weeks pregnant and massively uncomfortable. Everything feels tight, and I feel like I’m about to split open like a watermelon — wait a minute, is that possible? Probably not, right? Like, no matter how tightly stretched your stomach, babies can’t actually punch and kick their way through actual flesh… right?

See, my anxiety is in overdrive. Adding pregnancy to my mental mix has been like feeding miracle-grow to my worries. It’s better during the day, when I’m working, because I can usually keep the “Super Crazy” stuff at bay… but when night-time comes (and my giant belly and squished bladder join forces to prevent me from sleeping longer than an hour at a time) my imagination gets dark, scary, and just plain malevolent.

Allow me to share a few excerpts from the conversations we’ve been having lately..

Anxiety: Hey! You awake?

Me: No.

Anxiety: Good. I’ve just been thinking…what if this baby, like, totally hates you?

Me: Why would he hate me?

Anxiety: Because you’re kind of a crapshoot of a mom sometimes. You know that, right? I mean, you get frustrated easily, you aren’t very good at playing with toys, you’re kind of selfish with your time because you consider yourself this “creative” person who needs time for her projects (whatever that means) and—

Me: (Gulp)

Anxiety: You know what, I actually think this could be a poem. I’ll title it 101 Things Your Children Will Hate About You. (Clears throat) #5…
Coronavirus Racism is Just an Expression of Cowardice
By: Grace Owens
Tags: Human Rights, Life, Covid 19, Racism, Religion

Coronavirus Racism is Just an Expression of Cowardice

A coward dies a thousand times; a hero only once

The reports of attacks upon Asian Americans have been unprecedented in my lifetime. Instigated apparently by fear of any Chinese person being infected by the coronavirus, Asian Americans have suffered physical attacks as well as financial attacks, as many Chinese businesses report a reduced rate of customers.

The question is, why would a nation with an advanced system of medical care, established civil rights, and open search engines with access to information be this crazed over the sight of someone who doesn’t look like them?

First, we have multiple viable cures for Covid-19. Second, racism has long been one of the most hated vices in our culture. Finally, it doesn’t even a take a search engine to realize that the Chinese people, let alone Asian Americans, born and raised in the US, are not to blame for a rogue virus. (It does take a search engine, however, to see that an American doctor financed the actual virus, however, even when it was illegal in the United States.)

Yet people are still racist. The reason for this racism is fear. Fear of succumbing to a virus. Fear of the unknown effects of the virus, as it clearly affects people differently. Fear of death.

Well…Clearly this demonstrates the sub par morality of American culture. When death is something to be feared, clearly you have not lived life well.

“To the well-organized mind,” says Rowling, “death is but the next great adventure.”

We run scared before invisible enemies, pushing others out of our way so that we can survive. Yet survival on those terms is hardly worth living. Cowardice prolongs no man’s life, as he hears the whisper of death’s cloak around every corner. It is the courageous one who goes to meet death with a smile on his face, with no need to hide behind others.

It is time to stand up and realize that death comes to everyone. It is your choice how you will live. According to Katarina Bradford, we fear death because we don’t believe in the afterlife. Maybe that is something you should look into.

If you are searching or have questions, please feel free to reach out to me or Ron Tran or Kimberley Payne. We’d be happy to talk.
What Is Love? A Story of Storge
By: Chloe Cuthbert
Tags: Aninjusticeprompt, Relationships, Motherhood, Love, Parenting

In Ancient Greek, there were seven types of love, yet today, we typically just say love. At most, we’ll concede two types, conditional and unconditional, but that’s not even accurate.



Eight months ago, I became a mother again. My story isn’t dissimilar to many others, but it’s one I never thought I would tell about myself. A man and a woman had unprotected sex, a child was conceived, and nine months later, a child was born. As children are wont to do in those circumstances.



The man was my husband. I was not the woman.



My husband was not her only partner, so there was quite some time before we knew the child was his. Things happened, drama ensued, and finally, at two, our child came to be a part of our lives.

And I became a mother again.



I’ve always wanted another baby since I left my first husband almost 16 years ago. But biology didn’t agree with my wants and it wasn’t meant to be. When my current husband and I married, he already had a four-year-old daughter, so being a step-parent isn’t new to me.



But being Mommy to a toddler at my age is very new and unexpected.



He is mine, just as sure as if I’d carried him in my body. Strangely, he even looks like me. He acts like me. He’s my tiny partner in crime. It’s not possible for me to love him more.



Storge is Ancient Greek for familial love. I’m sure they meant family by blood, but I don’t care. I’ve chosen my family for myself since I was a teen. I chose to be a mother to this child, and I continue to choose him every single day.



I don’t do it for the likes; I don’t do it for Facebook Mother of the Year awards, and I don’t even do it because he’s my husband’s child.



Because he puts his little hand in mine and calls me Mommy, no matter what we’ve struggled through, makes me choose him and our unconditional love every time.
Top 5 SaaS Metrics VCs Look At for Series A/B/C
By: Jon Ma
Tags: VC, Metrics, Startup, Software, SaaS

With leading SaaS and consumer subscription companies like Grammarly, Roman, Anchorfree, and Safegraph in the SignalFire portfolio, we’ve had the fortune of partnering with some of the most innovative, fast-growing companies in this era. Signalfire aspires to be the partner of choice for these founders as we’ve amassed resources ranging from Growth and GTM to Team Building and Pricing. Our hybrid team has extensive experience building large-scale software businesses (for example, our partner Tony Huie was an early executive at Dropbox) and thus look at companies from an operational lens to understand if companies are building enduring and sustainable businesses. We wanted to share with founders the top metrics we’ve found to be most helpful when evaluating businesses.

For SaaS founders, it isn’t always clear what metrics VCs are looking for during a Series A/B/C fundraise beyond ARR and ARR growth. What happens behind the scenes after sending over a data room to an investor? How do you turn your customer transaction file from Salesforce into the key metrics they will be focused on? For example, given a customer transaction file, how are you supposed to calculate Net Dollar Retention from cohort analysis or the breakdown of ARR via growth accounting? The due diligence process can seem like a black box at times, especially for first-time founders.

As the first venture fund built like a tech company with a team of data scientists and engineers, we want to open source our methodologies for analyzing the top SaaS metrics to demystify the data diligence process for entrepreneurs.

Not always clear how to convert a customer transaction file into key SaaS metrics VCs are going to look at

In this post, we’re going to share

What are the top 5 key SaaS metrics VCs typically look at Why the metrics are important for building an enduring business How to calculate the metrics Relevant benchmarks for SaaS Companies Examples from an imaginary SaaS company raising a Series B (with software margins of 80%)

Caveats:
Senryu
By: Charlotte Zobeir Ali
Tags: Senryu, Spirituality, Monday Motivation, Mindset, Energy

La Bibliothèque

I write towards what I want to know
Resilience.
By: Keith R. Higgons
Tags: Resilience, Life Lessons, 100 Naked Words, Short, Writing

FACT: If you live long enough, you’ll be living proof of resilience.

Life can be messy.

It can hurt.

It can make you angry.

What you learn from that mess is what matters.

Don’t embrace toxic negativity.

Everything isn’t always shitty.

Don’t embrace toxic positivity.

Everything doesn’t happen for a reason.

Sometimes, things suck.

Remember that.

If there is anger, temper it.

If there is a conflict, solve it.

If there is pain, try to cure it.

You will stumble.

You will fail.

Suck it up.

Pause, reflect, and then move on.

Learn to be resilient.

You’re gonna need it.
Flirting with a Stranger
By: Bernadette Decarlo
Tags: Poetry, Pom, Flirting, Romance

Flirting with a Stranger

Seconds in time

Photo by Quinten de Graaf on Unsplash

He can smile with his eyes

from across the room

and flirt with a toothy-grin

I desire him beyond my understanding

He walks out of the room

and turns and catches my eyes

I grin, and he is gone

I have butterflies with nowhere to go
Lines for the Day They Sentenced Dostoevsky to Death
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Dostoevsky, Writers On Writing, Poetry, Death, Writing

Lines for the Day They Sentenced Dostoevsky to Death

a writer’s questions

Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash

And when you heard the proclamation that

Sought your death, did riots start among

The characters still living in your head,

Whose songs you had already partly sung?

Was Ivan mostly terrified to meet

The void that permits all, prohibits not

A single evil? Or did he enjoy

Conversion to religion on the spot?

What of Dmitri, too? Did the judge settle

His mind for him? Or were all his bets off?

He could have gone in either direction,

You know, just like his kin, Raskolnikov.

But back to Brothers K, I’d rather think,

That Alyosha led the whole great horde

To his own peaceful attitude, believing

(Though intellect-loving Ivan might get bored).

How did you manage all those disparate voices

That lived inside your head, defined your choices?
Star-crossed
By: Monica Ashokumar
Tags: Star Crossed Lovers, Poetry, Fantasy, Love, Blue Insights

Star-crossed

Poetry

In the dream she saw his silhouette,

slipping away with every passing moment.

It wasn’t sad though, atleast not yet.

Maybe she thought of it as an atonement,

the fleeting joy was only hers to covet.

He might not have enjoyed her company,

but his companionship she would not forget.

In the dream he walked away,

farther with every step.

It wasn’t sad though, atleast not today.

Maybe he thought of it as a favor,

for he could only bring her harm.

Her memories of him may vanish like vapor,

but he would treasure hers as long as he lived.

In the dream, Love watched it all unfold,

utterly helpless against a fate so cold.

It wasn’t sad though, not because of this.

There had been better times filled with bliss.

Maybe that’s why tragedies are immortalised,

not because of the pain they hold, but for the love they held.
Health Questions Part 2: For What Purpose
By: Michaela Grek
Tags: Self Improvement, Life, Health, Goals, Coaching

Day 2!

Welcome back! I hope you've learned something about yourself by honestly answering the questions from Part 1.

If you haven’t done so yet, read and answer the three questions before answering these questions. Otherwise, it won’t make much sense and it won’t be as effective.

Now that you’ve established what it is that you want, it’s time to look at your big WHY. Why do you want that six-pack? Place your hand on your heart and find your honest reason.

What’s this all about?

A gentle reminder.

This is a series of 4 health discussions taking you on a journey like no other. You’ll discover more about yourself and grow your clarity around your own personal health. All in the comfort of your home.

Before we go ahead and ask the questions below I want you to record your answers. I’m assuming most of you would be happy to write down your thoughts and answers as we’re all writers here on Medium. However, a simple web-cam or phone recording will do, too. The reason I suggest video recording as well is that it’ll force you to speak your mind and answer these questions as if you were having a conversation with someone. Perhaps a coach.

So open your Google Docs or Web-cam and answer these questions:

Why do you want this over anything else?

For what purpose do you want to have/achieve this?

What is having/achieving this going to give you?

Don’t overthink these or filter your answers. And for the love of health don’t Google these either. It’s your interpretation and your journey.

Don’t forget to have fun!
[Crypto] The Case of Hacking on the Exchange in Korea
Tags: Crypto, Bitcoin

20.06.18 BITHUMB

I am John :)

And it happened.

The idea was that even though small and medium-sized exchanges could be vulnerable to hacking, the large-scale exchanges that generated huge profits would be fully prepared from hackers’ attacks.

I thought there would be enough room and capital to defend.

That’s until Bithumb, the largest/biggest floating exchange, was hacked……

5.June 20, 2018 Bithumb 2nd (?) Hacking

Damages amount to 35 billion won (->fixed to 19 billion won)

Bitcoin (13.9 billion), Ripple (2.7 billion), Idurium (1.1 billion) and Bitcoin cash 500 million).

A total of 11 different types of coins were hacked.

As they moved quickly to hardwallet, the damage was reduced a little.

The hacking was a shocking incident in which everyone was robbed of the largest exchange, rather than the damage. And in the aftermath, people were shocked to see the whole price drop in the crypto market.

And It is a second hacking. I told you that it was the second time that the customer information on the exchange was hacked.

Bithumb emphasized security by actively introducing security solutions in the first financial sector, but once again, the cryptocurrency was stolen and security was compromised.

But,

Since Bithumb made more than 500 billion won in revenue last year alone, it was sufficiently compensated for damages and the compensation made by the company does not mean that there is no user damage to hacking

So in the case of Bithumb’s exchange hacking, the cause is that everything is managed through the central server. The personal information of customers using the exchange was also stored on the central server, which resulted in two hacking attacks. The market for cryptocurrency is getting bigger, and the central exchange is vulnerable to hacking, so there are a lot of solutions out there.

Among them, the DeCentralized Exchange (DEX) appears.

Now, I’m going to summarize the hacking incidents on the exchange in korea, and I hope that these hacking attacks are now gone and that people transact cryptocurrency in a safer and better environment.

Let’s keep coming up with a variety of crypto news and industry stories!
The Top 5 Soft Skills for Data Scientists
By: Olufunmilayo Aforijiku
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Analysis, Programming, Business

The Top 5 Soft Skills for Data Scientists

Because being great at your job is about more than just the code

Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash

In technology, data science is one of the hottest jobs, and data scientists are becoming sought after in almost every field. Data scientists are the middlemen between the goals of a business and product strategy. According to the Harvard Business Review, data science is the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it also comes with a lot of challenges.

You must possess the right interpersonal skills to be successful because you will need more than just technical skills to overcome these challenges. The combination of these skills enables data scientists to gain insights and help with decision making by effectively communicating the results.

“Data science is more than just number crunching: it is the application of various skills to solve particular problems in an industry.” — Dr. N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan, head of the data science team, Infosys.

You need to be creative and imaginative to thrive as a data scientist. These skills are transferable across different careers. Developing these skills will make you stand out from the crowd of data scientists.

Here are the top five soft skills for data scientists:
Re-animated History
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Visualization, Art

Re-animated History

Deep Learning Models in Use

Historical Image, being #DeOldified and #3DKenBurnsed

We have learned a variety of fantastic models, powered by Deep Learning. In perspective, you can call it a data-driven Visualisation Renaissance. But what can we undertake with all these manifold ways for AI image manipulation? Especially if we combine various DL methods.

You can construct a time machine.

Here is an interesting example, how quickly one image can become alive in inspiring teamwork. And how unexpected things can happen.

This is Mulberry Street, Manhattan, New York City, once a heart of Little Italy:

Jason Antic, the developer of DeOldify (DL driven model, which allows colorizing B&W photos), often presents in his twitter timeline the newest results of his work: historical images are getting back their colors and freshness.

Yesterday he posted the image above, being #DeOldified:

Mind the resolution of details and richness of the palette here! You can endlessly contemplate this revival of old Manhatten Street (often referred in movies, books, and films):

Jason, for example, found funny small details (human factor of history is fascinating in every form):

Another twitter user discovered time-traveling Orlando Bloom:

Here you can encounter another glimpse of somebody’s vivid childhood:

Even this: Time machine.

The whole composition almost pleads to be virtualized.

Motioned picture

So I appended the 3D Ken Burns method, developed by Simon Niklaus (read about this method and try it out here):

Or, in better quality:

3D Ken Burns method works at best with such clear vanishing point images. The picture is separated into various spatial layers, and the background voids behind layers are filled up with content-sensitive inpainting.

Such a simulated tracking shot above is convincing. Yet, it can still be improved by more dynamism. Jonathan Fly did it. He fine-tuned the 3D Ken Burns camera settings:

Experimenting with parameters creates new visions:

Yet he even perfectly exaggerated the settings till an exorbitant quality:

You cannot recognize the initial image anymore, but you discover new frontiers behind the image, being dreamed up by Artificial Intelligence:

Thus, in a combination of people’s sharp minds and Deep Learning, the interactive examination of historical footage has become a fascinating exploration of reality limits.

Deep Learning can do way more than opening new frontiers — it can open our minds.
Wool Weekly — Volume 15
By: Emma Cookson
Tags: Manchester, Digital Agency, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Web Development

October has gone in the blink of an eye and we’re well into November. Over the last week at Wool Digital we have launched our brand new website. You can check out our site and find out what we’ve been up to here.
Reminder: open invitation for boards and commissions
Tags: Zoning Board, Headlines, Brief Resume, Serve, Planning Board

The Township of Medford is extending an open invitation to residents interested in serving on the township’s Boards and Commissions to make application for 2013.

This includes the planning board, zoning board, economic development commission, as well as the newly created neighborhood services advisory board and environmental affairs advisory board.

Residents interested in serving need to complete the Citizen Leadership Application that may be found at www.medfordtownship.com This completed application, along with a brief resume and/or statement of reason to serve, must be submitted and mailed to the attention of Beth Portocalis, 17 North Main Street, Medford, New Jersey or by e-mail to bportocalis@medfordtownship.com.

Applications should be received by Dec. 17.

For more information, please contact Beth Portocalis at (609) 654–2608 x338.
VideoCoin Analysis
By: Jack Trunz
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, ICO

The Delivery Miners

1. Client requests video to be played and polls current delivery miners

2. Delivery miners in close proximity who are willing to accept fee for distribution respond with offer message to client

3. Client can then accept the offer message from nodes in distribution pool

4. Distribution miner then establishes a connection with the consumption node and delivers the video

To make sure that bad actors do not tamper with video or attempt to steal information, a verifier pool of mining nodes will be established. This verifier pool will be based on delegated proof of stake and will ensure that each mining task is done properly and without fault. The miners will stake X amount of VID in order to get added to the pool. Three winners are chosen from this pool with one node being assigned “Alpha” status. (The algorithm weights the miners with the most VID more chances to win the pool) After being chosen, the Alpha node of the mining pool will inspect each transaction and either confirm and write to the blockchain or will conclude a process to be faulty and deny the transaction. Verifying the Alpha node is done by the other winners of the verifier pool. If the Alpha node is deemed to be incorrect they are removed from the pool and their stake is taken. If they are correct they earn the block reward.

The cost reduction achieved by using decentralized CDN’s is through the segmentation of video encoding tasks. The VideoCoin network allows for encoding processes to be split and run in parallel using ffmpeg. This is possible because blockchains allows for trust to be formed through anonymous entities. Since video encoding tasks can be split into smaller subtasks, commodity-based hardware will be able to participate in the process. Ordinarily this process is limited to compute intensive resources, which limits supply and cause the per unit cost of encoding to be higher. Downwards price pressure is to be expected with a much larger market competing on cost for encoding tasks. Other than the expected benefits seen from price reduction are reduced regulatory pressures, increased vendor price flexibility and reduced pirating.

In traditional CDN models, the encoding process is not split, or run in parallel, because the costs and trust required to facilitate this is too high. Blockchain technology enables this split encoding process by providing trust amongst unknown entities. Instead of the costs centralizing around an ISP or CDN, this system allows it to be shared among all market participants.
Hope By Itself Is Not Enough
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Poetry, Life, Self, Tanka, How To

Hi! I’m Terry Mansfield and I Specialize in Eclecticism

Here are some things about me you probably don’t know (and maybe don’t even care to know; sorry about that).
Migrate from Vue Cli 2 to 3
By: Jin Weijie
Tags: JavaScript

Vue Cli 3 is officially released so it’s a great time to upgrade because it brings a bunch of new features like plugin system, hiding the complexity of webpack and the very nice UI for the Cli. It make the Vue development experience even more fun.

I spent around 30 mins to migrate an complete application which including Vue router, vuex, authentication, authorization and so on. The migration experience is quite smooth and with no pain at all. Here are my steps (let’s assume my app is called myapp ):

Install the Vue Cli 3 with npm install -g @vue/cli Create a new project with vue create myapp-cli3 Copy the content of src folder from old app to new app. Create aliases.config.js in the root folder, content (to enable the @ as src root):

const path = require('path') function resolveSrc(_path) {

return path.join(__dirname, _path)

}

'@': 'src',

'

} const aliases = {'@': 'src', @src ': 'src' module.exports = {

webpack: {},

jest: {}

} for (const alias in aliases) {

module.exports.webpack[alias] = resolveSrc(aliases[alias])

module.exports.jest['^' + alias + '/(.*)$'] =

'<rootDir>/' + aliases[alias] + '/$1'

}

5. Create vue.config.js in the root folder, content:

module.exports = {

configureWebpack: {

resolve: {

alias: require('./aliases.config').webpack

}

},

css: {

// Enable CSS source maps.

sourceMap: true

}

}

6. Create .env (and .env.production based on your environment) to enable configuration according target environment. Please be aware that you have to start the configuration key with VUE_APP_ . For example:

And in the client code to use this configuration:

process.env.VUE_APP_OAUTH2_ENDPOINT

7. Try to npm run serve (if you still want to use npm run dev , you can add "dev":"vue-cli-service serve" in package.json file) to start myapp-cli3, fix errors you may encounter.
The Butterfly Effect
By: The Nib
Tags: Immigration, Refugee, Racism, Comics, Donald Trump

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