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How to Surmount the Difficulties of Building a Business
By: Thinkdata Works
Tags: Business Strategy, Data Management Platform, Business Insights, Startup Lessons

What does summiting Mount Everest have to do with building a business?

When it comes to doing something difficult, whether it’s building a business or climbing Everest — there are no shortcuts.

The goal may be clear but the path isn’t.

No one knows this better than Tony van Marken, a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and mountaineer who has reached the top of both the professional world and the physical one.

At ThinkData Works we recently had the pleasure of hosting Mr. van Marken at our office, where from the safety of sea level we were captivated by a recollection of his two month trek up Everest and the storms, setbacks, and self-doubt he endured along the way.

There is less of a difference than you might think between scaling the world’s highest peak and scaling a startup.

Grit, innovation, tirelessness, and bloody-minded determination will keep moving you forward, but it’s the people on your team who help you reach the summit.

It’s not hard to see this from the context of growing a business, where despite the difficulties in our path we keep strategizing, reflecting, innovating, and growing; sharing our successes, learning from our failures, and picking each other up when we falter.

When you’re climbing a mountain, you’re connected — literally — to the other members of your team. The rope between you helps to keep you on track and not veer off course when the going gets rough, but it’s also a lifeline: if the ice breaks away from under your feet, it’s the people on the other end of the line who can pull you to safety. The problem is that if there’s any slack, if you’re not in step, you’re all going down.

The key, says van Marken, is “knowing who’s on the end of your rope.”

Any successful founder will tell you that you can’t do it alone. Businesses are built on the backs of people who aren’t merely good at what they do but want to be part of the journey, to carry their own weight and make everyone around them better. Whether you’re a new addition to the team who’s full of energy or a founding member who’s battle-hardened by experience, it’s critical that everyone is pulling in the same direction, moving at the same pace, and relying on each other when you can’t see what’s ahead.

Here’s the thing: if it was easy everyone would do it.

There’s no fast-track, no shortcut, there’s only hard work and trusting the process. You don’t become a CEO overnight. You don’t become a Team Lead without earning your stripes. Whether it’s building a world-class business or ascending the Hillary Step, you can’t breathe the rarified air unless you’ve acclimatized to the altitude.

Working at a startup is not a walk in the park, it’s scaling a mountain. At ThinkData, we can’t promise you an easy trek, but we can promise you that we’ll reach the peak together.
TRX Migration
By: Artis Turba
Tags: Ethereum Wallet, Blockchain, Altcoins, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Artis Turba are currently looking into migrating TRX ERC20 tokens to TRX public blockchain for our users due in June, we will keep you updated Tron Labs
MyBit signs partnership with smart tech innovator, Ability Concept.
By: Joost Toornend
Tags: News, IoT, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Today, we’ve got an exciting announcement to make — and it’s one we’re sure the community is going to get excited about.

Back in December last year, we announced our partnership with Arabco, a leading smart technology provider headquartered in Dubai. Since then, we’ve been working tirelessly to build on our progress so far. And today, we’re proud to announce an exclusive partnership with Ability Concept, a smart bench and hardware sensor platform provider based in Prague.

This means we’re now partnered with smart bench providers across the Middle East and Central Europe. Two of the biggest markets for smart benches in the world right now. And we’re in prime position in both.

We’re particularly excited to be working with a smart tech company in Central Europe, especially Prague. Prague is an amazing place for crypto projects. From Trezor, the original Bitcoin hardware wallet, which was founded there, to Slush Pool, the world’s first Bitcoin mining pool. There’s also Paralelni Polis and the Institute of Cryptoanarchy, which is driving thinking in the cryptocurrency space. Right now, Prague is a hotbed for all things blockchain.

For the long-term vision of MyBit, this partnership is great too. Ability has the most durable and innovative smart benches on the market and through the MyBit platform, they’re going to be able to scale up rapidly. And their product is massively scalable.

Ability bench in Prague, USB ports, Qi wireless charging, Wifi

Smart benches are the future. Cities are rapidly changing, especially when it comes to smart tech. Sustainable products, harnessing renewable energy and solar power, and the demand for smart, connected cities (think public charging and Wi-Fi) are growing year on year. Even the way local governments procure and maintain their benches can be revolutionized — with investors providing the funds, rather than taxpayers.

Ability’s SmartBox could be used for monitoring air quality, water levels , gas industry monitoring etc. etc. Technically, it is the green technology helping to protect our environments. Ability

Ability’s products are perfectly placed to take advantage of this new future.

What’s more, it’s a win-win. For the MyBit community, this partnership will provide a strong return on investment while giving a boost to our core principles of alternative assets, decentralised investing and sustainability.

Currently, Ability can place benches in nearly every location in Europe. Using the MyBit platform, users can invest and own a share of one of these smart benches. Then, any revenues generated (such as Wi-Fi subscriptions and ad revenue) are automatically distributed straight to investors using Ethereum smart contracts. And so investors on the MyBit platform reap the rewards, not some investment fund or conglomerate.

It’s another step towards a future where decentralised investments are the new normal. And you can own the future too — with MyBit.
The Request
Tags: Humor, Family, Funny, Comics, Cartoon

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
Darkness and Life
By: Esther Spurrill-Jones
Tags: Darkness And Light, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Fiction, Short Story

Shri walks carefully, resisting the urge to hurry. The glowing grasses alongside the path beckon her, their beauty enticing. She tries not to look directly at the light, keeping her eyes on her feet and the safe grey gravel. Her hands tremble and her knees are weak.

Beyond the light, ancient gnarled trees in staggered rows stand tall among the shadows. Soft darkness coils around trunks and branches. Winds whisper and sigh through the leaves.

A moth flutters past and, for a moment, Shri is distracted by the play of golden light across creamy wings. Then it lands on a blade of luminescent grass. A flash, a pop, and it is gone, leaving only a lingering scent like that of a snuffed candle slowly fading into the cool night air.

Shri flinches, her body tensing in anticipation and fear, even though she is in the centre of the path, nowhere near the deadly light. She stops and takes a few calming breaths before she continues. The beauty of the grasses has intensified, strengthened by the moth’s tiny life, and the call rings silently in her ears, whispering to her to step into the light. The moth only whetted its appetite. It wants her.

Shri curls her shaking fingers into her palms and keeps her head down. She could have worn heavy boots and gloves and protective clothing, but none of that could protect her. Nothing can protect against it. The only defense is to resist its call. At the edge of her vision, the radiance waxes and wanes like a heart beating. A tickle in her mind calls to her soul. A drop of cold sweat trickles down her spine.

Directly ahead of her, a figure slowly materializes in the centre of the path. Gadise waits just ahead, cloaked in shadows. The light shrinks away from her, away from the tendrils of darkness that twine around her. Shri’s feet pause of their own accord at the sight. She did not expect help on this journey, but Gadise’s assistance is always welcome. Shri may be weak to the call of the light, but Gadise stands untouched.

Shri stands before Gadise, and finds her shaking has stilled. Her fear is calmed in the depths of Gadise’s dark eyes. Gadise lifts her hands and shadows stream between her fingers, warding off the light. The siren calls fade as Shri keeps her eyes on Gadise. “You’re here,” Shri whispers in disbelief.

“Hello, Shri.” Her voice is rich and dusky, her lips merlot. She is power and joy. She is darkness and life. Gadise takes Shri’s hand, her fingers dark against Shri’s pale gold skin. She embraces Shri, enfolding her in shadow.

They come together in a flare of shadow and bright. All around them, the malevolent light cries out to her, but Shri no longer hears it. She is safe.

Image via ItNeverEnds on Pixabay

This piece is part of the short fiction challenge of the LGBTQ Fiction Project, hosted on Crossin(G)enres. This week’s theme is “Darkness and Fear.”

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Bitcoin bull run: will Ethereum benefit?
By: Lukas Wiesflecker
Tags: Technology, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Ethereum profits and reaches annual high

BTC rises to over 22,000 US dollars, ETH follows suit and reaches over 650 US dollars

The next Bitcoin bull run is in full swing, and ETH, the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum ecosystem, can also benefit from the huge rise to over 22,000 US dollars. As a result of Bitcoin reaching a new all-time high, Ether (ETH) was also able to rise to a new high for the year.

As a result, the price was able to rise to over 650 US dollars at times, fueling the hopes of the Ethereum community that ETH could experience a similar hype as Bitcoin. In addition to the Bitcoin all-time high, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's announcement to offer an ETH future from 2021 was also very conducive to the short-term price development.

The Ethereum camp assumes that the growing DeFi trend will be the price driver in 2021 and will lead to four-digit US dollar prices per ETH.

ETH 2.0: The Ethereum ecosystem continues to evolve

News of the launch of ETH futures on the CME exchange were not, of course, the most significant event for Ethereum this year. The first phase, Phase 0, of ETH 2.0, officially launched in early December.

ETH 2.0 is intended to transform Ethereum from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain. In addition to the change to the consensus mechanism, there will also be other upgrades. The focus is on sharding, whereby a blockchain is practically “decomposed” and can thus process transactions in parallel—the possibilities for scaling increase immensely as a result and could clean up some problems.

In the course of the DeFi hype this summer, the Ethereum blockchain often reached its limits. Transactions took forever, and transaction fees were bid up to the point where people sometimes had to pay double- or even triple-digit U.S. dollar amounts to get their Ethereum transaction processed by the miners in an acceptable time frame.

Conclusion: Will the big ETH bull market come in 2021?

No one can say with absolute certainty whether another ETH bullrun next year, as was the case in 2017. But the signs are not bad, given the world’s growing interest in cryptocurrencies in general. For example, it was also recently announced that a hedge fund from the United States had invested $600 million in cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum in addition to Bitcoin. It is not unlikely that more big investors will buy Ethereum.

“A tide raises all boats,” goes the old saying. In terms of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with large market capitalizations, this has been true, at least historically. However, the prerequisite for an enormous price increase with ETH is the smooth course of the upcoming phases of ETH 2.0 implementation. If this is guaranteed, nothing stands in the way of a strong price increase.

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Why the UN Security Council is Fundamentally Flawed
By: Mythili Iyer
Tags: United Nations, Politics, Security Council, World, P5

On the 7th of July 2020, a resolution for humanitarian assistance in Syria was voted upon by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). But this resolution proved futile because it was vetoed by Russia and China, both permanent members of the UNSC. This was no surprise because Russia and China support the regime of Bashar-al-Assad (who has been accused of human right violations) in Syria and are suppliers of arms to the same.

Similarly, on the 16th of February 1946, the Soviet Union¹ vetoed a request submitted by the Lebanese and Syrian governments for the withdrawal of French and British troops, because (according to Soviet Diplomat Andrei Vishinski), “The amendments which would have enabled me to vote for it have not been accepted.” This was the first UNSC resolution to be vetoed.

Both incidents demonstrate various aspects of the veto power being exercised. The first veto was used to keep the other powers in check and the latest veto was used to protect one’s self-interest. The world has transformed since the first drafting of the UN charter and the governance structure made during that time does not suit or represent the world of today.
Shroud
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Poetry, Sharethelove, Death, Poetry On Medium, James Brennan

Taken out of a wood and tin sarcophagus

decorated in what must be fake marble decoration

I’m surprised just how cold the body

is as the embalming fluid seeps through linen

onto my hands clenching hardened feet,

hardened not as a result of walking around barefoot,

not this time.

The airconditioned casket keeps all in order,

Dimethyl kept at bay while in this humidity, my query answered.

Placed in the new wooden oven-ready box

barely long enough for the body’s frame,

just for an instant, I wondered,

how the feck are they going to handle this one?

The knees will most certainly not give.

Relief comes in coaxing the lid into place before

setting onto the wheelbase for one last journey;

to the crematorium fire.

Our final goodbyes placed in a flower.

R.I.P. Jango.
The Man-child Who Dug His Own Legacy
By: Christyl Rivers
Tags: Election 2020, Trump, Politics, Resistance Poetry, USA

Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash

They say it takes a Man-child to raze a global village

Okay, okay, I guess you can say, I clearly made that up

But look around, and you will see, his predatory pillage

No one asked for tantrum tyrant, yet, he is our runner up

Worry, worry, fire and fury, defying logic, pushing extremes

A man-child playing clown, sends out his dripping shields

While he hides with a whacking stick upon his private greens

As day by day he fades away in waning light of oilfields

The Man child, live-streaming, screaming, kicking, won’t get very far

He has dug up loud doubt. Each day, he loses, even Foxy friends

There’s not enough nasty in the world to support his repertoire

Among the death and wreckage, a strange, new calm descends

The Man-child is furious. Curious? How could they turn away?

He smacks his stick deeper in the ground, digging himself in

“When you’re a star they let you do it. Donate please! Give me your pay!!”

Yet the hole seems in control, and starts to swallow him
The Four Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming
By: Andy Del Valle
Tags: Programming, Software Development, Object Oriented, Flatiron School, Coding

Encapsulation

Encapsulation is when you hide internal data and functions/methods within a module or class. The hidden logic/information is enclosed, or encapsulated, within a class and can only be accessed via instances, or objects, of that class. The state of the object can be managed via the functions within the enclosed information.

Let's say we have a class called CoffeeMachine with attributes of beans , grinder , and brewingUnit . It would have methods like brewCoffee , addWater , and addBeans .

All the attributes and methods declared above are encapsulated within the class CoffeeMachine and can only be accessed via objects instantiated from CoffeeMachine . So if you have a newly created object called keurig instantiated from the CoffeeMachine class, keurig has access to and can be managed via the functions encapsulated within CoffeeMachine .

Abstraction

Abstraction is a process of exposing essential features of an object while hiding other irrelevant data. Programs contain an extreme amount of code. We need to maintain this code through the concept of abstraction. When we apply abstraction it means that each object should only expose a high-level mechanism for using it while hiding internal implementation details.

Continuing on with the CoffeeMachine example. In reality, when a user approaches a coffee machine, all they would have to do after setting up the machine is press a button that would start the brewing process. The user does not have to know all the logic that goes underneath the hood (the internal implementation details) of the ‘brew button,’ they just know it will brew their coffee (high-level mechanism).

Inheritance

Inheritance is the passing of property from a parent class to a child class or subclass. While the parent class can be seen as the base class that has all the basic properties and methods, the child class can be seen as a subclass of the parent class. It will have all the same properties and methods of the parent in addition to their own properties or methods. Inheritance gives objects the ability to create a new class from an existing class.

Let’s say we have a class called Animal with attributes name , sex , and preferredMeal . Subclasses of Animal could be created such as cheetah , deer , and turtle . Each of the subclasses would inherit all the attributes and methods encapsulated within the Animal class with the addition of their own relevant methods.

Polymorphism

Polymorphism comes into play when a subclass is created through inheritance of a parent class. It means one name but with many forms. The parent class can have one function that is passed down to its subclasses. However, that one function could take on different “forms” when called on a subclass. In essence, the method from the parent class could be overridden from its subclasses.
《北角演義》全集目錄
Tags: 小說, Relationships, Life, Love, Fiction

北角演義（二十二）

Things can go wrong will go wrong.
ออกแล้ว! Official WordPress plugin สำหรับ Responsive Images
By: Suranart Niamcome
Tags: Highlight, Coding, WordPress

SiamHTML

The collection of articles for front-end developers
B21Live — An Evening at the DeCentre Blockchain Caffe
Tags: Investment, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

The newly opened DeCentre Blockchain Caffe was the venue of choice for B21’s first ever live meet-up, B21Live, which took place in Seoul earlier this week.

The Blockchain Caffe opened its doors in August, as the very first blockchain Cafe in Korea it provides a space for crypto-enthusiasts to share their knowledge about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It will also play host to key local and international blockchain events, allowing crypto followers to keep up to date with the latest news in the space and network with like-minded crypto enthusiasts.

Earlier this year we announced a marketing partnership with DeCentre and we are delighted to be one of the first to host a meet-up at the trend-setting venue. Upon entering the first thing you notice are the large screens on every wall that display the market price information and adverts for innovative cryptocurrency projects, such as B21!

During the B21Live event, B21 Co-founder Miles Paschini took to the floor to present our upcoming cryptoasset investment platform B21Invest, and our recently launched education and training app, B21 Life to a full room of over 70 investors and supporters of B21.

The event was presented in both English and Korean and after the presentation there was an open mic Q & A session, allowing everyone to find out more about B21, our plans for the future and how our products can help them. Miles also had the opportunity to talk with the host of a renowned Korean TV show — look out for the coverage of this interview on our social media channels.

Miles Paschini while presenting B21

The evening was a great success and we were delighted to see such a positive interest in both B21 Life and our upcoming investment products. Thank you to all of our community members that shared pictures from the night to both our telegram and our new cryptocurrency education and training app B21 Life. It is in light of events like this that we recognise the importance of what we are doing at B21 — bringing cryptoasset investing to the mass market! It is fantastic to hear how our products can truly help people to understand cryptocurrency and the investment process. Our main objective has always been to build the world’s largest cryptoasset investment community and it is becoming evident that we are already doing this.

We will keep you updated on when we will be hosting the next B21Live event at the Cafe. In the meantime, If you are in the area, we recommend that you pay the Blockchain Caffe a visit and look out for the ‘Blockchain Wall of Fame and the fascinating menu — you will not find a Flat White’s or a skinny Latte on offer here, instead, the drinks are named after renowned influencers from within the space such as the Ethiopia Buterin or a Kenya Satoshi Nakamoto!
Counting Our Blessings
By: Compassred Data Labs
Tags: Data Science, Thanksgiving, Data, Data Visualization

At CompassRed — the Thanksgiving Holiday has quickly become one of our favorites. Though we are young — we have been shaped by the experiences that so many friends have allowed us to experience that we feel like we have lived a lifetime. These friends challenge us to push ourselves harder every morning or spend a sleepless night learning about the next principles in Deep Learning or Neural Networks. If we haven’t said “thank you” to our clients, partners and colleagues enough — we hope you hear us now.

For the support of our spouses, partners, children now (and the ones that are coming!), friends, and mentors, we feel fortunate that you are empathetic and supportive in our passionate purpose to save the world with data. In addition to those physically close to us in our life, we are thankful for the online communities where we have learned so much through knowledge sharing. Whether they are based around Twitter hashtags, Slack groups or weekly emails, learnings from others online have increased our skills and awareness of what’s possible in our data analyst and data science roles. Groups like the #measure community/Slack group for digital analysts, the #Rstats community (R weekly emails, Tidy Tuesday, and the Shiny Developer Series to name a few resources), and the relatively new Data Visualization Society/Slack group. To the wider data community — everyone is so incredibly supportive of new ideas and innovation — it brings us calm knowing that we are collectively changing the world every day.

We are super grateful to our colleagues (better known as our “second family”) who we share our awake hours with every day. It’s very motivating to see how much we’ve grown over the past year and how much runway we have in front of us.

And finally — those in our community who work tirelessly to make the community around us better. Our friends at Habitat For Humanity, The Delaware Prosperity Partnership, Girls on the Run, and so many other groups that wake up everyday to selfishly give of themselves so we can focus on our purpose and mission.

Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at CompassRed.
Coinbase UK Customers Can Now Buy Bitcoin With British Pounds
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin, Coinbase

Coinbase announced on Wednesday, August 1, that its UK customers can now buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with the British Pound.

Until now, users had to maintain their fiat funds in euros instead of pound sterling. This meant the process for buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on Coinbase took several days and resulted in foreign exchange fees.

Zeeshan Feroz, the CEO of Coinbase UK, said in a statement:

“We’ve worked hard over the last few months to add GBP support for Coinbase customers across several of our product offerings in the UK. We’ve also taken major strides towards our goal of making Coinbase the most trusted and compliant brand in the space. These steps include obtaining an e-money license for our fiat operations from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), adding support for the Faster Payment Scheme, and becoming the first cryptocurrency trading platform to obtain a bank account with a major UK bank”.

The company also said that it will be starting with GBP trading pairs such as GBP/BTC and GBP/ETH. Coinbase expects that the new offerings will also become popular among professional traders.

“Faster payments will benefit all UK customers, enabling almost immediate transfers. This is essential for Coinbase Pro and Coinbase Prime customers in particular who will now be able to transfer funds quickly,” added Zeeshan Feroz.

Coinbase’s support for British pounds (GBP) could also mean a higher volume of cryptocurrency transactions in the United Kingdom, which is the world’s fifth biggest economy.

The cryptocurrency exchange hinted last month that it is planning to expand the number of digital assets it makes available to customers. Due to regulatory uncertainty, the company has so far only offered Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Litecoin.

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My Heart is My Guide
By: Alan Lew
Tags: Poetry, Spiritual Secrets, Awakening, Heart, Soul

My heart is

…the center of my being

…where my soul connects into my life

…the pulse of my life

My heart is

…my peace

…my love

…my joy

My heart shines

…into my world

…on my creations

…my eternal truth

My heart is

…my inner guidance

…my true intelligence

…my Higher Self

My heart

…accepts my past

…forgives the past

…is always in the present

My heart is

…how I communicate with my world

…all I need to create my desired reality

…teaching me to be human

My heart

…honors my truth

…is me being me

…is my guide
The 6 Swift Extensions I Use in Every iOS Project
By: Mats Bauer
Tags: Mobile, Xcode, iOS, Swift, Programming

1. Dropping Shadow Under UIView

When implementing modern designs, dropping a shadow under a UIView is often required. Instead of having to write multiple lines of code for each view, I use an extension:

Of course, every project might require some minor changes to the shadow style, but that can be changed in a central place.
APACHE WEB SERVER CONFIGURATION IN DOCKER USING ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK
Tags: Arth2020, Automation, Docker, Ansible, Webserver

What is Ansible?

Ansible is a software tool that provides simple but powerful automation for cross-platform computer support. It is primarily intended for IT professionals, who use it for application deployment, updates on workstations and servers, cloud provisioning, configuration management, intra-service orchestration, and nearly anything a systems administrator does on a weekly or daily basis. Ansible doesn’t depend on agent software and has no additional security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy.

Because Ansible is all about automation, it requires instructions to accomplish each job. With everything written down in simple script form, it’s easy to do version control.

What is Docker?

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly. With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your applications. By taking advantage of Docker’s methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly, you can significantly reduce the delay between writing code and running it in production.

Ansible Architecture :

Task Description📄 :

🔹 Configure Docker

🔹 Start and enable Docker services

🔹 Pull the httpd server image from the Docker Hub

🔹 Run the docker container and expose it to the public

🔹 Copy the HTML code in /var/www/html directory and start the webserver

We have to make an ansible playbook which will do these all step for us

The command to run ansible-playbook: ansible-playbook file.yml

playbook link: https://github.com/Prasoonagrawal/Anisble_Playbooks/blob/main/docker_Web_Server.yml

step 1

Configuration of Docker Repository

by using the command yum repolist we check that docker repo is configured successfully
Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) Self-regulates to a 4:1 Leverage.
By: Crypto Network Asia
Tags: Blockchain, News, Japan, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) announced on the 24th that it has voluntarily regulated to make the upper limit of cryptocurrency trading leverage to four times.

Currently, the largest domestic cryptocurrency exchange, BitFlyer, has a leverage limit of 15:1. If the self-regulatory rules are adopted, then the upper limit will be 4:1.

Concerned stakeholders said that based on the fact that the leverage limit of over-the-counter FX transactions is now 25:1, customers might leave the cryptocurrency exchange.

On the other hand, JVCEA seems to take transitional measures allowing exchange companies to set their own leverages.

However, since the rule is aimed at protecting investors, the policies should unify the upper limit of the leverage to 4:1 within one year from the formulation of the self-regulation rules.

In addition, the Leverage Voluntary Regulation Rule is expected to be officially decided after it reaches an agreement with the 16 member companies, including BitFlyer.

Source: “Cryptocurrency exchange industry association self-regulates, leverage of trading to 4 times upper limit”
I’ve Always Been A Cool Person Who Uses Marijuana
By: Gracie Beaver-Kairis
Tags: Humor, Drugs, Satire, Funny, Marijuana

I’ve Always Been A Cool Person Who Uses Marijuana

I’m finally ready to reveal the details of my daily weeding.

Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash

With marijuana now legal in 15 states, so many people I know are excited they can openly smoke the Mary Joe. Well I too have been doing drugs this whole time. In fact, I am constantly high on grass clippings, and I have always been very cool.

Yeah, I’m 240 friendly, alright. I’ll never forget my first puff on the ol’ mystic dragon. It was the eighth grade and some tough kids named CJ and Eric who wore backward baseball caps and football jerseys offered me a drag on a fat joist behind the bleachers. They were impressed by how cool I was by not saying no to drugs, and I eventually became very well-liked and popular in middle and high school. I’ve been smoking the doopie ever since.

I’ve branched out since then, and enjoy my weeds in a variety of ways, such as putting drugs into a hearty home-cooked meal. Last night, I folded six tablespoons of dried Satan’s arugula right into my pasta primavera. Yeah, my dinner is a little spicy, but it’s so worth it once I start feeling the way that I feel when I eat marijuana.

I don’t believe the killjoy scientists who say vaping is bad for your lungs. They need a big serving of the ol’ Jolly Green Giant, if you catch my drift. I treated myself to a brand new Vicks humidifier just last week. Yes, I have chronically dry sinus passages, but I also love nothing more than to plop a couple of joists into that water tank, crank that sucker up to 60% relative humidity, pull up a Bob Marley playlist on Spotify, and let that sweet green mist wash over me.

Sometimes when I’m feeling really decadent, I fill up one of my many decorative marijuana vases with a fresh bouquet of pot branches and slowly nibble away at them like a baby deer. What a relief to reveal the Japanese flower arranging class I took at the community center I took last year wasn’t lame, but was actually for the purposes of furthering my chill, doop-smoking lifestyle!

In fact, all of my so-called “boring” hobbies have been covers for my recreational drug-enthusiast secret life. The vegetable garden I’ve been growing? It’s actually rows and rows of Beezlebub’s Swiss chard. When I learned how to crochet? I was just making a festive cozy for my bongo. Those homemade bread bowls I posted on Instagram? Filled to the brim with cannabis gazpacho, or as we stonemasons say, “gaz-pot-cho.”

So yes, I use marijuana loudly and proudly. I always obviously have, and from now on, will say I always will, at least until it falls out of favor or I get old enough to not care what people think of me. Now stop talking and pass me a bowl of Lucifer’s broccoli rabe!
Sleep Paralysis
By: Patience Marshall
Tags: Poem, Poetry, Illumination, Sleep

Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash

I lay on my back to relax

My body is getting heavy

I try to move my limbs

But something will not let me

I panic because I’m stuck

I’m trying to find a way to move

But every time I breathe

The more it makes me feel like glue

I hear someone nearby

Then they walk in my view

I try to ask for help,

straining to yell but my mouth will not move

Is My body possessed? I have no control

Am I dreaming… or am I woke?

Then I realize that I’m

Stuck in dream that seems real

I can’t move but I can feel

Like a child who gets stuck in tight spaces I panic

All my emotions are frantic

My body is suffocating me

Slowly changing my breathing pattern

I’m struggling to breathe

Trying to fight my body with my mind

For a quick second I’ll get free

but then I’ll lock back up and the cycle repeats

My surroundings are changing

There’s something in my presence and I’m out of control

I see a shadow flashing by

And my face is turning cold

My ears are becoming sensitive

They’re aching from the sound of the fan

I’m uncomfortable in this dark room

Still trying to develop a wake up plan

I fight to get one limb to move

I feel my muscle twitch

Then I jerk my head next

Just to reposition it

That’s when I regain my power

My body is mine again

I open my eyes, everything’s fine

I defeated sleep paralysis
Disable Alerts for an iCal Shared Calendar
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Notifications, Calendar, Mac, Shared Calendar, iCal

If you have many shared calendars, say for family members, birthdays or other things, you may be annoyed that iCal foists alerts upon you even if they are just not valuable.

I found this great article that explains how you can Ignore the alerts from a shared calendar! This is heaven-sent, and I never would have found this on my own (who thinks to hit Command-I and go to the info settings!)

Now, how to make this work on iOS?
How can you boost your Google ranking in 2018?
By: Pennink Productions
Tags: Content, Optimisation, Content Creation, Search, Lead Generation

Guessing the future can be notoriously tricky — for every iPhone, there are quite a few Sinclair C5s — but thankfully, the world of search engine optimisation (SEO) isn’t quite so unpredictable.

Indeed, the following trends have been gaining traction among providers of SEO optimisation services for a long time already.

But you still need to know about them, as they are likely to become even more prominent aspects of SEO in the 12 months to come. So, here are just three big strategies you might want to try out in 2018.

1. A mobile-first approach

Did you know that six in every 10 Google searches are now made from a mobile device? Nor can you accuse the search giant of being ‘behind the curve’, as it’s already been more than a year since it declared its plans to use a site’s mobile content as the primary basis on which it would rank pages.

Such a big change hasn’t taken effect yet in Google’s search algorithm, but you can bet that it’ll happen in 2018.

That gives you plenty of reason to provide the mobile version of your site a timely refresh, bringing its data, buttons, tags and menus into line with those of your desktop site.

2. Producing more (and better) videos

Yes, video marketing has been big for the last few years, but our point here is that it’s not going away. As a matter of fact, research has shown that 43% of people want to see even more video content, and you know who’ll be listening to them, don’t you? That’s right: Google.

Amid predictions that video could make up a whopping 80% of online traffic by 2021, if you do anything for your SEO over the coming 12 months, we’d certainly recommend adding video content to your site.

You can easily enough do that with the help of YouTube, which — let’s not forget — is the world’s second-biggest search engine in its own right, processing more than three billion searches every month. And Google owns it.

3. Content of that’s deeper and more useful

Those of us who provide SEO optimisation services have been screaming to anyone who’ll listen for many years now, that content really is king of the SEO equation. This means that your content has to be genuinely great — those days of wanton keyword-stuffing doing the job are long gone.

These days, Google is placing more emphasis than ever on topical relevance and context. That means you’ll need your site content to be genuinely helpful to the human user, and you can probably guess what content is most helpful to said users… in-depth and often long content.

Expect 2,000-word articles, complete with links to other authoritative sites offering a similarly impressive amount of useful and actionable information, to achieve the best rankings in 2018.

Would you like to start incorporating some of these approaches into your own firm’s SEO to help to make next year your most successful yet? In that case, you’ll want to get on the phone or wing an email to our experts here at PENNInk Productions, pronto.
Weekly Report #3
By: Michael Douranos
Tags: Altcoins, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Greetings to all. Another week has passed, another Weekly update for our great Community! Last week has been extremely busy and POSWallet team has achieved some significant Breakthroughs. Keep in mind that there are still some Cheap POSW Coins that everyone should purchase from Livecoin, Yobit & Cryptopia. Hurry up, time is running out and we won’t be able to hold the price down for much longer!

POSWallet & ICOtimeline Competition

POSWallet.com and ICOtimeline.com partnership has brought great results and in order to celebrate this success, we organized a great Competition for our Community with 10 lucky Winners and with the amazing prize of 200,000 POSW Coins! The Competition is designed in such a way so that everyone can participate with the most entries possible! More entries equal more points, equal more chances for everyone to be among the Winners. So, don’t lose more time and run for it. Here are the prizes according to the winner positions:

1st Winner: 100,000 PoSW Coins

2nd Winner: 50,000 PoSW Coins

3rd Winner: 20,000 PoSW Coins

4th Winner: 10,000 PoSW Coins

5th Winner: 8,000 PoSW Coins

6th Winner: 4,000 PoSW Coins

7th Winner: 2,000 PoSW Coins

8th Winner: 2,000 PoSW Coins

9th Winner: 2,000 PoSW Coins

10th Winner: 2,000 PoSW Coins

POSWallet Android App

As we wrote in our previous Weekly Report, POSWallet Android App is almost ready and we are testing it out before it’s released on Google Play in a few days. As we promised here are some awesome printscreens of the App:
We’re All Going to the Zoo
By: Charlene Dekalb
Tags: Travel, Animals, Los Angeles, Tourism, Pandemic

Trying to find fun and safe outings during this time is a difficult task, but luckily the Los Angeles Zoo is a great option for families to explore the outdoors safely. I visited the zoo last week and wanted to share my experience for others to gauge how comfortable they feel in making the trip out.

Entry to the Los Angeles Zoo is through a timed ticket. You choose your time through the website and make your purchase online. I had to plan for my trip almost a month out because all the good available timeslots in the morning were sold out on the weekends. You will receive a PDF with your tickets/barcode and I was able to show my phone at the gate for entry.
广度优先，从子节点找到到根路径的sql
By: Jin Weijie
Tags: Sql, Path, Iteration

这是以前在公司遇到的一个问题，避免sql语句的递归，提高效率

/*

注解：

以前遇到过一个同事，在处理树的时候，在sql语句里面用递归，造成性能非常低下。

在遇到sql处理树的时候，可以采用以下方法，用循环来解决。

主要思路：

找到Cateogry的Parent插入临时表，在临时表里做遍历，每到一条记录，都做一个操作：将它的parent select出来，插入临时表，最后，将临时表join Cateogry表。

*/

set ANSI_NULLS ON

set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

go

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Proc_GetCategoryPath]

@CategoryID uniqueidentifier

AS

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.sysobjects WHERE ID=object_id(N'#_Name') AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable')=1)

DROP TABLE #_Name

/*建一个临时表*/

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[#_Name] (

[ID] [bigint] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL,

[ParentCategoryID] uniqueidentifier NULL ,

[CategoryID] uniqueidentifier NULL ,

[OrderNum] [int] NULL

) ON [PRIMARY]

/*do insert*/

INSERT INTO #_Name

SELECT

[Category].[ParentCategoryID],

[Category].[ID] AS CateogryID,

[Category].[OrderNum]

FROM

[Category]

WHERE

[Category].[ID] = @CategoryID

order by [Category].[OrderNum]

DECLARE @ID BIGINT

SET @ID = 1

DECLARE @Parent uniqueidentifier

SET @Parent = (SELECT TOP 1 [ParentCategoryID] FROM #_Name WHERE ID = @ID)

WHILE (@Parent IS NOT NULL and @Parent <> '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')

BEGIN

INSERT INTO #_Name

SELECT

[Category].[ParentCategoryID],

[Category].[ID] as CategoryID,

[Category].[OrderNum]

FROM

[Category]

WHERE

[Category].[ID] = @Parent

order by [Category].[OrderNum]

SET @ID = @ID + 1

SET @Parent = (SELECT TOP 1 [ParentCategoryID] FROM #_Name WHERE ID = @ID)

END

/*end do insert*/

SELECT [Category].*

FROM #_Name

JOIN Category ON [#_Name].[CategoryID] = [Category].[ID]
The 4 Most Important Metrics for the eBay Stock!
By: Marcus Franke
Tags: Money, Stock Market, Finance, Passive Income, eBay

2. Value

The second most important metric is the value of the stock.

There are prices and values.

eBay 22 Year Stock Price History from macrotrends.com

The price is the quote on the stock exchange. The value is your personal estimation that you have unlocked through research.

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” — Warren Buffett

Here are the most important questions:

Does the Company Trade Below or Above your Calculated DCF-Fair Value?

The Fair Value of eBay is roughly at $59 per share, which is fairly close to today’s share price quote of $53.

How Does the Company Perform With its Price / Earnings and Price / Book Ratio?

It is the most reasonable tech-companies and usually trades of a P/E- Ratio of 15, but increased to a P/E-Ratio of 20.

eBays P/E-Ratio from macrotrends.com

(Earning per Share of $2.72 / share price of $54)

eBays P/E-Ratio is much lower than the United States Online Retail Industry average of 30 and other tech companies. The reason is that eBay sales have until recently been declining by 1 to 3% per year.

I wouldn’t look into the P/B ratio. I consider P/B-Ratios (book value per share, which is essentially the equity per share) only a reasonable ratio for capital-intensive businesses such as railroads, real estate, etc.

For the tech industry with its intangible assets, this ratio isn’t the right approach.

Are The Market Estimations Correct in Your Opinion?

Do you use eBay nowadays more than 1 year ago?

eBay 2019’s revenue recorded roughly $ 10 billion, analysts expect it to grow to $ 12 billion in three years from now.

In terms of earnings, the estimations guide from 2019’s $2 billion income to §2.3 billion in 2023.

That means analysts expect eBay to grow slower than the average e-commerce market.

We have come to a point where things get interesting.

Ask yourself if you think eBay will grow faster or slower than the market.

Analysts’ estimates don’t reveal the future! A consensus estimate is a forecast of a public company’s projected earnings based on the combined estimates of all equity analysts that cover the stock.
Newly Developed Gateway Protocol Looks to Allow Token Exchanges between BCH and ETH
Tags: Blockchain

A new open-source protocol promises to improve the interoperablility of the global blockchain ecosystem by allowing cross-chain token exchanges

A new open-source protocol known as the Open Federated Gateway Protocol (OFGP) has been developed to help crypto-users complete transactions between public blockchains. The new OFGP was developed by iBitcome, a mobile wallet provider, and DEx.top, a decentralized exchange, and promises to improve the interoperability of independently developed blockchain networks.

At present, the first blockchain built on the OFGP is called “Mallow” and is used to allow cross-chain transactions between the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ethereum (ETH) blockchains. Exchanges are executed via the creation of a temporary digital token, called “Wrapped” Bitcoin Cash (WBCH). This WCBH token is pegged to the value of Bitcoin Cash, and a simple explanation of how the process is executed is found in the OFGP whitepaper,

[t]he basic operation from BCH to ETH is to transfer a certain amount of BCHs to the specified multi-signal address on the BCH chain. The corresponding gateway will go to the contract on the ETH chain to deposit the specified account with the corresponding amount of tokens. The contract’s token and BCH are permanently pegged to a fixed ratio. / Open Federation Gateway Protocol

iBitcome and DEx.top hope that more opportunities for cross-chain transactions will be created through the open-source nature of their newly developed protocol. The companies encourage developers to create new gateway solutions between blockchains, and they believe that the continued development of these gateways will not only lead to more transparency in the crypto marketplace, but will also create opportunities for increased efficiency and transfer speeds.

As more blockchain companies explore the idea of “tokenization”, new cross-chain solutions are popping up to help facilitate token exchanges. Last week, a Spain-based company called shEOS announced the development of their new cross-chain protocol solution. Their EOS21 protocol allows the “teleportation” of ERC20 tokens to the EOS blockchain without any loss of functionality, and destroys the original ERC20 token in the process, effectively moving the token from the Ethereum ecosystem to the EOS ecosystem.

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.
Tonight’s comic has a lot of enemies.
Tags: Wishes, Humor, Time, Comics, Physics

WHY ARE WISHES NOT A THING

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1066/
Emotional State Mottos
By: Nikki Palumbo
Tags: Emotions, Illustration, Anxiety, Humor, America

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