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Opinion piece: What are the benefits and problems arising in a future where blockchain allows individual citizens to control their own identity?
By: Gayan Samarakoon
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Digital Identity

Opinion piece: What are the benefits and problems arising in a future where blockchain allows individual citizens to control their own identity? Gayan Samarakoon Follow Jul 20, 2018 · 2 min read

Many countries such as India and china have national identification systems. Self-sovereign identification is an excellent global identification system solution that cannot be altered and extremely secure. Users control their personal data and their online identities allowing greater personal data safety and reduced identity theft. It empowers individuals with the ability to control what they release leading to reduced redundant steps involved in identifying self, enhanced user experiences and security.

The use of a distributed ledger system removes the need for a central database allowing multiple parties to securely share information with each other. Estonian governments’ implementation of self-sovereign identification system has shown to reduce bureaucracy. Improved secure voting processes are another advantage of this system. Banco Santander recently conducted voting during its recent AGM assisted via a blockchain based identification system. Other use cases include: passports, e-residency, birth, death and marriage certificates etc.

Commercially this presents a significant opportunity for companies to significantly reduce burden on data protection and compliance. As an example, banks could reduce the heavy burden placed on them to monitor Identification and Money laundering.

However, blockchain identification systems are not without problems. Individuals still have the need to prove their own identity using a digital key, if lost, or locked due to incorrect use an administrator is required to roll back a transaction or give special access. As for a business intending to implement this system it would be a challenge educating their clientele regarding self-sovereign identifications. The system is also not 100% secure. In October 2017, a security vulnerability affected the 750,000 Estonian national ID cards.

Even so, the current identification verification methods are inefficient and insecure. With the momentum developing in blockchain it is inevitable that a more secure and more efficient self-sovereign identity system will be developed in the near horizon.

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Harmonious Compatibility
By: Dr. Fatima Imam
Tags: Self Improvement, Relationships, Blue Insights, Poetry On Medium, Life

Zero expectations liberate relationships.

Zero tolerance for negativity nurtures relationships.

Empathetic collaborations lead to propinquity in relationships.

Non-judgmental attitude complements relationships.

Being childlike attracts novelty in relationships.

Being adaptive brings flexibility in relationships

Being spontaneous revitalizes relationships.

Being appreciative of every gesture strengthens relationships.

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[Community] MediBloc at Tokyo Blockchain Meet-Up in Japan
Tags: Qtum, Ethereum, Blockchain, Meetup, Bitcoin

Participants

MediBloc shared its vision with Japanese blockchain industry leaders and led a heated discussion around the blockchain technology. The MediBloc team will strive to do our utmost to share the value of MediBloc in the global blockchain industry and stand by our roadmap.

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MediBloc is a team of medical professionals, data architects and blockchain technologists. Both founders are computer scientists turned to medicine, turned entrepreneurs.

If you have any questions regarding the MediBloc Project, please contact us through the following channels.

👉🏻MediBloc Official Website: https://medibloc.org
Poetic Dignity
By: Lidia Almeida
Tags: Love, Slam Poetry, Poetry, Poets Unlimited, Heartbreak

It’s hard to fall asleep these days

It’s also hard to stay awake

The poetic dignity in me says I should stop writing

Now that there is no poetry left

Now that you left

And the shower water seems pleasantly warmer

Maybe cause there’s no more turns to be taken

But the bedsheets seem colder

No more love to be made

The kitchen feels the same

I guess we never did much cooking anyways

That’s where I spend most of my time now

I still don’t cook

Just draw on the chalkboard walls you put up

You said I should write about fruit

Or any other kinds of food

That it couldn’t “go bad”

I remember how hard I laughed

I knew I loved you after that

And every day since then.

You wouldn’t mind me waking you up at 6am to meditate

It didn’t matter to me

That you’d end up falling asleep half way through

I was just happy I had you

Now I sit facing that blank wall in our bedroom

But my mind is elsewhere

It’s hard to meditate without you there

Wondering why you left

Which one of my quirks was so unbearable

It could’ve been any.

I have so many.

I know it made you angry

When sometimes I didn’t answer an important call

I guess you weren’t in love with my weirdness after all

You struggled to understand

Why couldn’t I go to the bank

It was just an address change

Always missing the doctor’s appointments you made

Breakfast always the same

Coffee, plain

The bed I keep

Even though I sleep on the floor

The room with the locked door

And where was I disappearing to every Wednesday

I was giving you a break from my obsessive ways.

The doctor gets me anxious, so do the people at the bank.

Coffee soothes my nerves.

There’s nothing behind that door, I just like to keep it that way, it feels safe.

The bed was already there when I moved in.

Not much has changed about me

About what happened, I wouldn’t change a thing

Some mistakes are good to keep

Except for all the poems I wrote you and didn’t let you read

I hope this one can make up for it.
Covesting’s Soft Launch Goes Live!
By: Covesting Pr
Tags: Investing, Trading, Cryptocurrency, Covesting, Bitcoin

Dear community,

Following Covesting’s tremendous achievement of receiving a DLT License from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, we are proud to announce that we’ve hit yet another major milestone in our roadmap and are ready for the Soft Launch of our cutting-edge trading platform! The Soft Launch is already live, take a look around at covesting.io.

Follow these steps to start trading at Covesting Exchange:

Register or login to the Covesting platform Complete the KYC process and wait for verification if the step wasn’t previously completed Go the funds section and deposit any cryptocurrency currently available for trading Transfer your deposited funds from wallet to trading portfolio Start trading on our cutting-edge platform!

The soft launch allows Covesting to perform critical testing of live trading activity, while our users are able to begin enjoying many of the platform’s most exciting features, including:

Quick order execution;

ROI-based trader rankings;

An internal messaging system;

Advanced performance reporting dashboard;

Industry-best charting software;

Unrivaled high liquidity;

24/7 live support;

and much more.

The soft launch also allows everyone the opportunity to get a head start on passing the know-your-customer (KYC) process and build trader profiles ahead of the release of the highly-anticipated copy-trading feature, which offers new traders to the ability to easily mimic the trades of the industry’s most prominent cryptocurrency traders. In addition, the soft launch will reset all trader’s performance statistics for a fresh start. This includes trading history, balances, internal transfers data etc.

During the soft launch a limited number of cryptocurrencies is available for trading, depositing, and withdrawals, as well as a limited set of features to allow for proper testing to ensure everything is operating smoothly (that’s why we call it a “soft launch”). Other assets will be included on ongoing basis.

Shortly after the soft launch, we plan to enable fiat funding methods, such as wire transfers, credit cards, and through other popular payment providers.

We also want to take the opportunity to remind you that the Covesting platform is now available via iOS mobile app, which released last month and received a positive feedback from the community. The Covesting app for iOS (Android app coming later) offers traders a simple and user-friendly way to trade and monitor their portfolio while on the go.

Download the app here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/covesting/id1402062324?mt=8

Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions, we welcome you to contact our friendly, 24/7 live support staff.

Good luck in trading!

Yours,

Covesting team
250 Baht Fee Credits Promotion from bitkub.com
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Thailand

Fee Credits Promotion

1. GET 50 Baht fee credits after your successful Identity Verification (KYC1 / Level 1).

2. GET 50 Baht fee credits after your first successful Thai Baht deposit.

3. GET 50 Baht fee credits after your first successful Crypto (Any Cryptos) deposit.

4. GET 100 Baht fee credits after your first successful trade.

Promotion Period : 23rd August 2018–31st October 2018

*Please read and understand about fee credits through the link below*

What are Fee credits ?

Terms and Conditions

This promotion is only applicable during the promotion period.

2. Users who have already completed each condition (or more than once) will not receive duplicate fee credits

3. Bitkub Online Co., Ltd. reserves the right to change conditions without prior notice.
Weekly update #2
By: Live Stars
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Weeklyupdate, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Last week development report.

1. Broadcast quality (now only depends on user channel bandwidth, models camera and mediaserver load, tested);

2. Models can now turn microphone on and off.

3. Regional block (models can set it in the settings, before the broadcast)

4. Private video chat implemented:

- tokens get transferred from user to model at a custom per-second rate.

- private video chat messaging (not saved on the server)

- private chat starts after model confirmation

- can be stopped by both model and user

5: Streamer can be blocked by administrator + any stream can be stopped

- admin can stop any stream

- model cannot start streaming if admin has blocked their broadcast

- admin can unban streamers

We are moving on to closed testing this week.

Current situation with the exchanges — waiting on OpenLedger. Cryptopia and Forkdelta are being worked on. Etherdelta is not responding.
Sticky HTML Elements Done the Right Way
By: Jose Granja
Tags: Css3, Programming, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Sticky HTML Elements Done the Right Way

Best practices to create elements that stick as you scroll

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Nowadays there is a very common pattern when scrolling past an important element we want to remain there for the user at all times: making it stick. There is an out-of-the-box solution built right into CSS which is position: sticky and position: -webkit-sticky . For this property to work, it needs more info on how to behave and that’s where bottom , top , left , and right come into play. Without that extra information, position: sticky won’t do anything as it lacks crucial information; it will be treated like position: relative . If you have ever tried it and it didn’t work for you, that’s probably the reason.

Assuming the happy path, you can achieve the sticky effect in just a couple of CSS lines, like in the example below:

In return, you will be getting something like the following.

This is pretty sweet, and the article could probably finish here. But what happens to browsers that don’t support this? You can see that the feature has great support, but still some browsers are falling behind. For browser support, caniuse.com is always our best friend:

Fortunately we have a tool to check on the fly if a browser does support some CSS properties or not. The Css.supports method returns a Boolean value indicating whether the browser supports a given CSS feature. This is a very interesting API, and you can check it out in more detail.

For our use case, what we want to be checking is:

And so the next question is which is the most efficient way to add this feature to those legacy old browsers. Here’s where things start to get very interesting. Let’s deep dive into the best solution.
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Tags: Thailand, News, Cryptocurrency, ICO, Bitcoin

Bitkub.com is a new generation digital asset and cryptocurrency exchange platform that offers advanced cryptocurrency exchange services

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Environments: An Overview of how putting yourself in the right environment can help you grow
By: Jordan Mendiola
Tags: Environments, Planning, Fun, Extrovert, Willing

Environments: An Overview of how putting yourself in the right environment can help you grow Jordan Mendiola Follow Jan 27 · 3 min read

Through cool collaborations, you have thiis!

Have you ever heard of the phrase “you only get out what you put in”? This quote is the gist of the points I am trying to make. After being on deployment for five months, I can say I’ve been both good and bad about getting myself in the best environments. During my college years, I joined nearly every club the school offered and attended any and every event that I could. I made more friends than I could imagine and learned so much during my time in multiple environments.

Doing what is comfortable isn’t awful, but there is more out there my friends!

On the other end of the spectrum, I have been a little more closed off since I have been a little more closed off since deployment started. I catch myself hanging out with the guys I have been close to for many months and have only put myself out there a few times with complete strangers. Sometimes, I greet randoms, but most of the time I keep to myself which isn’t typical of me. The main crowd I have exposed myself to is the Super Smash Bros Crew who hosts tournaments every Tuesday consisting of 20 or more people. You can also catch me dabbling with the workout crew. Both of these are great communities to be a part of and all, but I’ve been holding out on events like Latin Night, Hip-Hop Night, Karaoke Night, Jiu-Jitsu Night, and Card Game night, There’s a lot of real estate around here on deployment to expand my horizons, I just need to take the leap!

If you catch yourself struggling to try something out, I challenge you to give it at least one try before saying no at all.

Regret. That’s a no-go.

I do not want to have any regrets so from here on out, I will be putting myself out there by at least trying each environment once and seeing what clicks. There are numerous ways that you can put yourself out there in your local communities! Starting with the web, there’s tons of inner communities on Facebook you can find. Also, going to any gym will lead you to a number of communities and events that may spark your interest. Are you a young entrepreneur who needs some quick cash? Try using NextDoor and finding people who may need help with some odd tasks! That’s how I’ve gotten closer to my community back at home. Let me tell you, it feels good to help out!

Your time is YOUR TIME. Spend it with intent.

The purpose of me sharing this isn’t to turn you into a “yes man” or “yes woman”. Instead, the purpose is to persuade you to try new groups and activities out! The best way to find out what you do and do not enjoy is to try everything you can. Please let me know how your journey goes!

Remember… “ The biggest mistake you could ever make is being too afraid to make one”.

Instagram: @Jordan.The.Mendiola

YouTube: Jordan Mendiola
ICO Review — 5 reasons why DataBroker DAO is the future of sensor data
Tags: Ico Review, Cryptocurrency, Data, Blockchain, IoT

2. A decentralized solution based on Blockchain and smart contracts

DataBroker DAO platform is based on four type of population : the owner of sensors who have sensor data to sell, the buyer of data who buy data for its own purposes, the data processor who buy data in order to enrich them and resell them to their customers and the gateway operator which expose the gateway they operate to allow sensor owners to sell their data on the platform.

Currently, data emitted by IoT sensors flow only to the sensor owner’s private silo via a wireless sensor network (WSN) and gateway operators that are typically operated by telecommunication companies or sensor manufacturers directly.

In order to the owner of the sensors can sell their data to potential buyers, it will be necessary to add an interconnection between the gateway operator and the DataBroker marketplace. For this, the gateway operator will have to set up his own Ethereum blockchain node in order to run the DataBroker DAO APi over it.

To sell their data on the marketplace and give them visibility, sensor owners must pay a certain number of DXT tokens. These DXT tokens will be staked by the marketplace to guarantee the good behavior of the seller. If the seller wants to have a better visibility on the marketplace, he can fulfill a larger number of DXT tokens.

Once the data is present on the marketplace, buyers can discover and buy an access to these data by paying with DXT tokens.

In the case where the buyer is not satisfied by the data received, he can launch a “challenge” on these data (equivalent to a negative opinion) by paying a certain amount of DXT tokens. In the case of a single negative opinion, there will be no impact for the data and the seller. On the other hand, if several challenges are launched, a verification by a DataBroker DAO administrator will be carried out. If the administrator agrees with the buyers, they will share with the platform the vendor’s DXT tokens staked during the uploading of the data. In the opposite case, buyers’ tokens blocked during the launch of the challenge will be shared between the seller and the platform.

Once the data has been purchased, data must be sent to the buyer’s storage. The gateway operator is already configured to flow the data from the sensors to the owner’s private silo. Thus, adding additional routing of purchased data to an Internet location is simply an extension of its current process. To perform this operation, the gateway operator will receive 10% of each transaction as a DTX token. For its part, the DataBroker platform also receives 10%. The most important part of the transaction is for the owner of the sensor who receives the remaining 80%.

This entire process is based on the use of smart contracts put in place by Databroker DAO on the Ethereum network. The image below describes all the processes that are going on around this smart contracts.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Saturday, Illustration, Fashion, Humor, Drawing

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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You can now use HandCash with Voltaire
By: The Voltaire Team
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, Fintech, Partnerships

We first spoke to Alex at HandCash a couple of months ago. Both Voltaire and HandCash share the same mission, that is, to see daily peer-to-peer electronic cash payments become a reality.

During our first call, we asked Alex why he chose Bitcoin Cash for HandCash.

His answer was simple.

“We chose Bitcoin Cash because it was the best technology. We didn’t choose Bitcoin Cash for any other reason. It was cheaper and faster to send money from one person to another using Bitcoin Cash, than anything else in the world”

It’s important to work with other companies that not only share our vision but also get things done. That’s the HandCash team. It’s going to take many small steps to achieve the goal of daily peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions. We hope to make one of those steps today by announcing our first integration with HandCash.

Beyond this first partnership, HandCash and Voltaire will be continuing to work together. Our next announcement will be in January.
First Snow
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Vancouver, Winter, Poetry, Nature, Peace

The raw earth begged

heavy grey sky

for luscious white

changeling wet flakes

Abundant stint

of winter rapt

skin bit lively,

senses arrest

City rounded

in shush of cars

percussive tracks

in curbless space

The trees bow rich

with frosted light

and viscous sheen

a crystal melt

Sea mountain lap,

my urban nook,

a ghost to eyes

the open white
How Coinbase and Robinhood Will Split the Pie
By: Daily Bit
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Crypto, Blockchain

On Tuesday, we mentioned the monster year that Coinbase had, with the exchange raking in over $1 billion in revenue. While that certainly calls for some celebration, anyone who toasted to their continued success was put on the fast track to sobriety by Robinhood’s decision to offer free Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to five states next month. On the advantages of Robinhood, co-founder Baiju Bhatt stated that “consumers will be able to invest in and trade stocks, ETFs, options and cryptocurrencies al in one place”, while also noting Robinhood’s ability to leverage past experience in traditional markets for their cryptocurrency division.

The few alternatives through which retail investors can buy and sell cryptocurrencies has enabled Coinbase to maintain a dominant foothold in the market. However, Robinhood is once again transferring wealth from the rich to the poor with their highly attractive offer of zero fee trades.

Trust Sells

On top of that, Robinhood targeted — and identified — 16 cryptocurrencies that the startup has expressed interest in integrating down the road. This level of openness was never exhibited by Coinbase, which resulted in a hail of fury following December’s impromptu listing of Bitcoin Cash.

Then there’s the impending domino effect. The longer that other institutions wait on the sidelines, the more challenging it will be for them to offer a value proposition that is more advantageous than their competitors. As Bhatt referenced, Robinhood is money in that it returns value to investors while collating tradable instruments onto a single platform. Spencer Bogart summarizes the utility of such a product by reminding us of the sheer quantity of signups that Robinhood obtained following the announcement:

Better Tools, Bigger Fish

Now, staying “woke”, we understand that this comes off as rather bearish towards Coinbase. Although Robinhood is primed to make a splash in the market, Coinbase is piling on agreements of its own. Bloomberg recently announced that Trading Technologies International Inc. will be adding Coinbase to it’s line of trading software. That data is marketed for institutional grade investors with an appetite for sophisticated analytics rather than retail buyers piqued by zero fee trades on Robinhood.

So in the end? Both companies are poised for success in 2018. It’s just that each company has their own set of pails that requires them to set their sights on different zones of the sandbox.
Forbes: Representing more of a disruption to the status quo may be startup Bubbletone’s blockchain-based roaming and reconciliation system, now under development
By: Bubbletone Blockchain In Telecom
Tags: Forbes, Blockchain, Disruption, Oracle, Roaming

Forbes, a well-known global media company, has published an article on cutting-edge blockchain-based roaming projects. Bubbletone is reported to be among the disruptors.

Called New Call Roaming Projects Demonstrate Blockchain’s Disruptive Character, the article is written by Bernard Schwab, Director of Global Communications Industry Solutions at Oracle.

Read the full story here:

About Forbes

Forbes is a global media, branding and technology company, with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles.

For over 100 years, Forbes has focused on discovering up-and-coming leaders, exploring pivotal moments in history through the lens of entrepreneurship and innovation, and inspiring the gamechangers of the world to reach their highest potential.

Forbes is committed to fearless and credible journalism covering the leaders and innovators who are changing the world. With a strong print base and an ever-growing digital audience, the brand continues to evolve and reaches 71.1M visitors in the United States in 2018.
Bitbns will support the upcoming ETH Muir Glacier Upgrade
By: Vaibhav Seth
Tags: Bitbns, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency

Hey there,

If you HODL Ethereum and you are planning a big party for 2020’s arrival, you might reconsider your plans because team Ethereum has decided to land its much-awaited hard fork ‘Muir Glacier’ on January 1st, 2020. The fork is scheduled to take place at the block height of 9,200,000 and is a regular network upgrade that aims to solve the ‘Difficulty Bomb’ issue, also called ‘Ice Age’ of Ethereum.

However, with Bitbns, you have at least one less thing to worry about, as we will take care of all the technical requirements for the fork. Here are a few things you need to know before the fork happens:

Trading of ETH will not be affected during the fork.

No new token would be created as a result of the fork.

Deposits and withdrawals will be paused before it.

For more insights, check out the official announcement by Ethereum: https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/12/23/ethereum-muir-glacier-upgrade-announcement/

Till then, keep trading, keep rocking!

Warm Regards

Bitbns Team
Missed TV-TWO’s AMA? Never Fear…
Tags: TV, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum

Our founders (Jan and Philipp) along with adviser, Kai Rieke, held their very first AMA on Tuesday morning (16 January), live on the TV-TWO Facebook page.

We were all stoked to have so many viewers and there were some great questions — on everything from who’s in our team, to what will happen after the ICO, as well as what you’ll be able to do with our Tokens For Television.

“Oh man! I meant to tune in…”

Never fear. We recorded the whole thing for you!

It’s easily accessible on Facebook. But you could just stream it here by hitting ‘Play’ below.

Soundbites from the AMA

On TV-TWO’s Ambition

“Our vision is to connect the 700 million smart TVs across the globe to the Ethereum blockchain and manage the value exchange between the user, the content provider, and the advertiser.”

On Current TV Networks

“Right now there is a clear middleman — the TV network — who rules the entire ecosystem. The blockchain enables us to take away the middleman and give direct interactions in the ecosystem, allowing us to create value for each of the important players.”

On Content

“There’s great content out there — amazing drone footage, arts and crafts, people travelling the world recording the sights and sounds. You can see all it on YouTube but not on your TV.”

On Broadcast TV

“Broadcast television doesn’t fit into user behaviours. We have a great algorithm in place to help people love television again. Plus they’ll get a share of the ad budget.”

On Ad Targeting

“YouTube has a lot of focus on the initial ‘click’ on the video. Watch statistics do count but they make a lot of money on the pre-rolls. We will go a different way. People don’t choose the videos they see on the TV-TWO app, but it’s an algorithm that adapts to whether you skip a video, like it or go back to the broadcast.”

On Netflix

“We love Netflix, and we don’t see them as a competitor. For us, they’re a potential partner. Our video stream has shorter content — like trailers for Netflix shows. So we see synergies here. We could be the ‘discovery’ channel for Netflix.”

On Earning Tokens For Television

“We’ve had some funny comments from people like: “Hey, finally I like that my kids are watching so much TV because they will earn me tokens!” Very funny stuff!”

Want to find out more? Take a look at our whitepaper.

Mark your calendars… the TV-TWO ICO starts on Tuesday April 24, 2018, at 1pm GMT. For more info, check out our FAQ section, subscribe to our newsletter, and don’t forget to follow the latest news on Telegram, Twitter (@tvtwocom), Facebook, or Medium. We’re also active on Reddit.
Graupel’s Sonnet
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Sonnetry, Love, Sonnet, Language, Snow

As frozen foam-like spheres fall, I recall

A dozen words for snow — yet only one

For love, whose strengths, so varied once begun,

A thousand prisms couldn’t light them all.

Each temperature variance produces

Its kindred sort of icy ornament

As each degree and type of love is meant

For its own native heart and vivid uses.

So do we value love so less than snow

That just one word to name it should suffice,

While labeling taxonomies of ice

Will cause us to attend it closely? No.

Instead, our human language is too small

For fierce love’s faces, breadth, depths to recall.
From Joe’s Desk: Bitcoin in Price Uptrend, Finally
Tags: Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Altcoins

Bitcoin (BTC) survived a double-bottom and may be in a price uptrend. Double-tops and double-bottoms typically signal a change in price trends. Double-tops may signal a turn from a price uptrend to a price downtrend. Conversely, double-bottoms may signal a change from a price downtrend to a price uptrend.

In the ninety-day price chart of BTC, there was a price uptrend in late April (1) with double topping of price (2) on 25-April at about $9,670 and on 6-May at about $9,800. BTC could not break past this price resistance and it appears there is a psychological ceiling at around $10,000. This double topping marked a trend reversal with a price slide of BTC in a clear downtrend (3) over the ensuing seven weeks.

Ninety-day BTC chart ending 4-July-2018 from CoinGecko

There was price support at $6,400 around 14–16 June (4) but that failed and BTC crossed the psychological floor of $6,000 but not by much and not if the crypto community could help it. BTC had a price bottom at about $5,860 on 25-June and another price bottom at similar pricing of about $5,860 four days later on 29-June-2018 with clear marks of a double-bottom (5) of BTC. BTC may have made the turn, finally, and may now be in a price uptrend (6). The current BTC price of about $6,400 puts us back to the price floor from mid-June with good, but not strong, support. The stochastic indicator for trading volume shows an uptick of 8% (7) as the market experiences an influx of BTC buyers and elevated liquidity.

There is a 22% likelihood BTC may return to $6,000 with an 11% likelihood of BTC breaking that price floor. If BTC falls below $6,000, it will be in freefall. However, in the event that BTC returns to $6,000 and pops back up, the price uptrend of BTC will be much stronger with the price support from a triple-bottom. The path of the BTC price uptrend will be rough with profit-taking on price spikes. This price uptrend may be a good opportunity to buy BTC on dips for re-calibrating and dollar-cost averaging your portfolio comprising the major cryptos such as BTC and Ethereum (ETH), and alt-coins such as Chynge tokens (CLPX).

Forecast: BTC in the $12–15,000 price range in the next ninety days (mid-October) and $35,000 by end of 2018.

Disclaimer: Joe Tusin is CEO and Founder of Chynge which is currently in an Initial Coin Offering. Hence, Joe has a naturally-biased and bullish market outlook for cryptocurrencies. This is a purely technical analysis and ignores fundamentals such as fiat currencies, financial markets, economic indicators, geopolitics, natural disasters, and other factors. There are forward-looking statements in this article and it is highly unlikely these statements will come true. Do not make buying and selling decisions based on this article. Joe was an FX Trader in San Francisco and was deep in the market when the British Pound (GBP) was attacked and devalued on Black Wednesday 1992. Connect with Joe at Linkedin.
How to Become More Resilient
By: Matthew Royse
Tags: Success, Mindset, Personal Development, Life, Self Improvement

How to Become More Resilient

10 things resilient people do to overcome life’s setbacks

Photo by Tai's Captures on Unsplash

Resilient people are flexible, strong, tough, capable, and efficient. They understand the benefits of overcoming adversity and life’s setbacks. Resilient people know that hard times ultimately makes them stronger, tougher, and more successful.

In other words, the phrase: what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. The wisest and most well-rounded people you meet are resilient.

Resilient is defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary as “capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture and recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”

What do resilient people do well to handle life’s daily challenges? Let’s dive into the top 10 things they do successfully.
How to Buy Education Tokens (LEDU)
By: Dr. Michael J. Garbade
Tags: Exchange, Blockchain, Token, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Education tokens (LEDU) are available for purchase from exchanges. This article will explain where to purchase education tokens and payment methods you may use. See also How to Buy Education Tokens (LEDU) on Exrates, Livecoin, Mercatox and IDEX.

How to Buy

Education Ecosystem (LEDU) tokens can be bought on the following exchanges: Exrates, Livecoin, Mercatox and IDEX. Extrates, Livecoin, and Mercatox offer Education Ecosystem tokens (LEDU) with BTC and ETH pairs while IDEX only offers LEDU tokens with ETH Pairs only.

Payment Methods

1)ETH

If you have ETH in a wallet then you can purchase Education tokens. If you don’t have ETH then you can purchase ETH on any exchange you prefer or convert Alt coins to ETH using Shapeshift.

2)BTC

If you have BTC in a wallet then you can purchase Education tokens. If you don’t have BTC then you can purchase BTC on any exchange you prefer or convert Alt coins to BTC using Shapeshift.

3)USD

Convert your USD to ETH or BTC in order to purchase LEDU tokens.

4)Credit Card

If you don’t have ETH, BTC or USD then you can use your credit card to purchase ETH or BTC easily on Blockchain.info and then use ETH or BTC to purchase LEDU tokens.

5)Cash/ PayPal/ Bank Transfer

If someone you know holds Education tokens and you wish to purchase them then you can give them cash or send them money using PayPal or Bank Transfer in return for tokens. This carries a risk and we do not recommend you do this unless you know the person well. (NEVER DO THIS WITH STRANGERS ONLINE).

Get LEDU Coin

Get LEDU coins now on Exrates, Livecoin, Mercatox and IDEX or join the LEDU OTC Trading program for large purchases. Read more about LEDU coins on our project page and ask any questions you might have in our Telegram group chat.
CoinTiger Weekly Highlights (2019.3.18–3.24）
Tags: Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Cointiger, Bitcoin, Report

About CoinTiger:

CoinTiger is a global and innovative digital assets exchange platform which provides multi-cryptocurrency trading service including multi-language support for blockchain enthusiasts around the world.

Since the platform was launched, it has continuously iterated with a steady upgrade and now has an increasingly mature ecosystem comprising web, iOS, and Android clients application and comprehensive exchange services including cryptocurrency trading, Ticker Capital, Labs, IEO, and voting for listing program. Currently, CoinTiger users have topped 1.8 million and are from more than 40 countries and regions in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.

LINKS

Website: https://www.cointiger.com/en-us/#/index

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinTigerEX/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoinTigerEX?lang=en

Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@cointiger

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinTigerExchange/

Telegram Channels

English: https://t.me/cointiger_en

Mandarin: https://t.me/CoinTiger_cn

Vietnam: https://t.me/CoinTiger_VN

Announcement Channel: http://t.me/cointiger_annoucements

CoinTiger APP Links

Official Link: https://www.cointiger.com/en-us/#/app_download

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cointiger.exchange

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/cointiger/id1366562802?mt=8
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Concept, Drawing, Tuesday, Art

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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by Background Noise Comics
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Comics, Comic Books, Comic Con, Humor, Geek

We only did one day of New York Comic Con this year, but we made the most of it.
Important update: buy and sell digital products on Ubcoin Market!
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Android, Ubcoin Product

Important update: buy and sell digital products on Ubcoin Market!

Now you can buy and sell e-books, tickets, databases, audio- and video files, etc. — any digital files — on Ubcoin Market mobile app.

Attention: copyright violations are not tolerated.

How to sell: when you create a listing on the app, please choose category “Digital assets (files)” and follow the instructions.

Buyer receives the link to download your file only AFTER his payment is frozen by Ubcoin escrow service.

How to buy: choose a digital item you want to purchase, click on Connect to seller, then click on Book item — and you will receive an e-mail with link to download the file after the automatic escrow service freezes your payment in ETH or UBC (upon your choice).

Happy New Year and good deals to you!

🔥 Download Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubcoin

💥 Download Ubcoin Market iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/ubcoin-market-cryptocurrency/id1410295111?mt=8
Shopify’s GraphQL Based Mobile Buy SDK (Pt. 1)
By: Charlie Oxendine
Tags: Swift, Shopify, iOS, GraphQL, Payments

GraphQL is an open-source query language designed by Facebook internally in 2012. A query language is designed for the retrieval and possible modification of data in a database. This is the language by which you will connect your mobile app to the Shopify Platform.

Installing

Installing the module with cocoapods is as simple as adding the line below to your podfile.

pod "Mobile-Buy-SDK"

Then you can import the SDK module as follows.

import MobileBuySDK

The great thing about the SDK is that we don’t have to worry too much about GraphQL beyond having a general understanding of it’s use. The Mobile Buy SDK takes care of generating queries and parsing responses, so we only have to deal with typed models and compile-time checked query structures.

Request Models

Request models are derived from the GraphQL.AbstractQuery, but the documentation makes it clear that we should never use this directly. Instead, use the typed methods provided by the SDK.

Below is the example from the documentation:
Piper’s Choice — Rick. Part 3-Rick
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Relationships, Piper, Self Improvement, Series, Fiction

He woke to an intense pounding above his left eyebrow. The world spun in circles as he sat up.

“Bitch,” he muttered as he dragged himself up. Grabbing the counter, he opened the drawer and discovered the missing deposit. “Fucking bitch is gonna pay.”

He grabbed his phone and thumbed the screen, opening the GPS tracker. There was a blinking icon moving south.

He grinned, congratulating himself for installing the tracker on Piper’s phone. One by one, he cracked his knuckles slowly in a gentle dismembering. He slipped on his jacket and thought about how her shoulders would pop when he ripped her arms off.

Shuffling out to his car he eased himself in. Wincing in pain, he flipped down the mirror and inspected his forehead.

“Damn,” he sputtered, lighting a smoke. He started the engine and turned onto the highway.
Betting Platform Augur Spreads Its Wings and Migrates to Its Own Mainnet
Tags: Augur, Ethereum, Betting, Blockchain

Betting platform Augur parts ways with Ethereum and launches its own mainnet

The highly-anticipated betting platform Augur migrated away from Ethereum and onto its own mainnet yesterday. Augur provides a platform for prediction markets on which users can bet on future events, such as political outcomes, natural phenomena, and business trends.

The launch of the mainnet is a step towards more usable prediction markets. Augur has been in development since 2014 and launched its own REP token in 2016. Though it was a niche platform until now, the mainnet will gradually introduce new usability features, including reduced transaction costs, faster transactions on the 0x platform, and automated rollover contracts.

The fact that online betting is a legal minefield in the United States makes Augur a somewhat radical innovation. Rather than running a market itself, Augur takes a hands-off approach by providing a decentralized platform. On Augur, peer users can create their own markets with minimal costs and legal restrictions. The team claims Augur will

[Enable] anyone, anywhere, at anytime […] to create and speculate on derivatives at a low cost for the first time / Augur co-founder Joey Krug on Medium

Migration away from Ethereum is a common step for budding blockchain projects. Because Ethereum is widely used and has an existing value, many projects build on it in their early stages. However, Ethereum has price volatility and scalability issues, leading projects like Augur to part ways with it.

Disclaimer: information contained herein is provided without considering your personal circumstances, therefore should not be construed as financial advice, investment recommendation or an offer of, or solicitation for, any transactions in cryptocurrencies.
Fetch Beta is Live!
By: Hansmeet Sethi
Tags: Ethereum, Fetchproduct, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Since releasing the Alpha, we’ve been busy rounding the corners on all the buttons and making sure the math is just right. Today, we’re happy to share that we’ve released the Fetch Beta!

Fetch allows anybody to manage their tokens and transact across 20+ exchanges easily, with one-click.

We built Fetch because we believe in a future of decentralized services and know that for everybody to participate there needs to be a simple way to manage assets and transact easily. So, Fetch doesn’t ask you to figure out blockchain jargon, hex addresses or paste JSON blobs. Just point, click and relax.

We have so many great features planned for Fetch that will roll out in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned for more platform support, integrated protocols and ways that Fetch makes your experience on the Blockchain so much simpler and more delightful.

Today, the first wave of invites went out to people on our wait list. If you didn’t receive yours, watch your inbox. We’ll be inviting more people every week. And if you’re not on the wait list yet, there’s still time to sign up!
Introducing Auto-Layout for Sketch
By: Anima App
Tags: Sketch, iOS, UX Design, Web Development, UI Design

Our mission at Anima is to empower designers to own their design. We are creating a tool for designers that enables designers to define, specify and architect all of the bits and pieces that encompasses User Interface/Experience and in the end automatically generate native code that is 1:1 to the original definition. This allows designers to be independent on other parties of the team such as engineering who sometimes have different priorities than the design team.
theory: snapchat launched an app platform
By: Michael Sippey
Tags: Tech

Discover may look like content distribution, but instead of “publisher” think “developer,” and instead of “channel” think “app.” And then go through the list of capabilities they can bring…

Interaction? Check. You may not have all the tools of Swift or Java at your disposal, but the v1 of Discover (especially with publishers taking over the entire screen) points to app-like experiences down the road. The basics of navigation are similar (swipe between stories, swipe down to exit), but note that they gave each of their publishers a lot of leeway in how they are present their content. Vice’s channel looks nothing like The Daily Mail’s. Snapchat-driven discovery & distribution? Check. They can use all sorts of in-product mechanics to promote Discover and the apps on the platform. User-driven discovery & distribution? Check. Obviously this isn’t there yet, but they have the graph, they have the messaging channel, and can light this up at will. App to user communication? Check. Snaps for alerts, stories for marketing, chat & video for support. Identity? Check. There’s no such thing as a logged out Snapchat user. Payments? Check. Even if Snapcash is just an early experiment, it’s a useful one.

So while zero day partners are media companies, it’s pretty easy to imagine the slate of circles growing to include a social games (Trivia Crack or Words With Friends, anyone?). Or motivational diet, health or meditation apps (here’s your calorie counter, here’s your moment of zen). Or even a personal finance app (what did you spend today?).

Apps on Snapchat won’t be exactly like native apps on iOS or Android, for obvious reasons (not least of which might end up being the buried in the terms of service of the App Store). But the “full screen” nature of Snapchat (as opposed to the translated-from-desktop-web stream of Facebook), combined with the all the assets above tells me this isn’t just about media.
Supervised Learning on Python — Predicting Customer Churn 2
By: Cheer Hung
Tags: Classification, Churn, Data Science, Customer Success, Predictive Analytics

tenure = round(telco[“tenure”].skew(),5)

print (“the skew of tenure is”, tenure)

MonthlyCharges = round(telco[“MonthlyCharges”].skew(),5)

print (“the skew of Monthly Charges is”, MonthlyCharges)

TotalCharges = round(telco[“TotalCharges”].skew(),5)

print (“the skew of TotalCharges is”, TotalCharges)

According to the graphs and results that are shown above, we infer that TotalCharges has a long tail and the result obtained from .skew() is relatively far from 0. In conclusion, we are only going to transform the TotalCharges. To transform this positively skewed (a.k.a right skewed) variable we use Square root transformation:

telco[“TotalCharges”]= np.sqrt(telco.TotalCharges)

Ta-Da! After taking the square root the result is 0.3077. Compared to pre-transformation, it has significantly improved from 0.9632 to 0.3077. The comparison of the distribution is given below.

Left : before transformation / Right : After Square Root Transformation

Scale the numerical features

Another thing to do before the modeling is to scale the numerical features. As usual, we talk about WHY we need to scale the features first.

I like the picture above as it precisely elaborates why there is a need to scale the numerical features before we proceed further with machine learning. Imagine if there are 2 numerical variables with different units 1 representing weight in kg’s and the other representing salary in €’s, the algorithm might provide more weightage to the variable which has higher magnitude (e.q 50000€ > 5kg) and will obtain misleading results.

Have a look for Sudharsan’s article, he explains really well for Why When and How to Scale the features.

A manual way to do this is subtract the average value and divided by standard deviation. But we will just use the library StandardScaler to help us normalize the numerical variables. This give us the columns with average of 0 and standard deviation of 1 (In general case, the range will between -3 and 3)

telco[numerical].info()
All Souls in Secret Saved
By: Rev Dr Sparky
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Poetry, Halloween, Death

All Souls in Secret Saved

reluctant poem in blank verse

All souls seek hell or heaven, said the preacher

to the faithful gathered warm within the glass.

And we looked out and saw them gross, unloved,

despised, benighted; those who murder, those

who soil and twist, who steal and beggar; cheat;

befoul. How dare they claim humanity? we said.

Not Philistines; not Pharisees. Not those, and please,

not them. All souls do not include the ones

we do not like; must not embrace the ones we

do not know, or have not met or have not

cared for. (That one, that time, hurt our feelings;

others wore the colors we don’t like.)

All Hallows Eve means dress the wicked up

as ghouls; parade them through the living lights

and houses; show them forth as damned and doomed.

So give us candy, preacher, candy! We

are better than the wicked; we are saved

and holy; we are blood and bone and brain;

and they are cold and death and pain.