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DropBit 2.0 is here: Send Bitcoin with Twitter!
By: Coin Ninja
Tags: Dropbit, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Wallet

DropBit now lets you send and receive Bitcoin using Twitter.

We are thrilled to introduce DropBit 2.0 with Twitter sending — a revolutionary way to send Bitcoin to anyone on Twitter without the need for them to send an address or even have a previous Bitcoin wallet set up!

At DropBit our mission has always been to accelerate the global adoption of Bitcoin. A big part of this mission is to make it easier to get new people or ‘Newcoiners’ their first BTC without first sending them through a multi-step process of creating a wallet and explaining the technicalities of seed words, confirmations, and blockchain to them. DropBit guides them through this steps they need to securely receive and store bitcoin on their phone.

Earlier this year, we released the capability to send Bitcoin to anyone in your contact list by allowing users to send Bitcoin via Phone Number world wide. This was met with a very positive response from the community as there is a nearly universal recognition that the Bitcoin wallet experiences need to be as simple as PayPal or Venmo and this is the standard that DropBit aspires to be. DropBit is and will always be the easiest way to send and receive Bitcoin.

Sending Bitcoin via Twitter

While our users love the texting Bitcoin feature to their friends and family, we also know that you may want to send to people whom you don’t have their phone number and needed another way to get them Bitcoin. Accordingly, we saw an opportunity to build an experience that those users can enjoy by allowing users to Send and Receive Bitcoin using Twitter.
Glassdoor: The Yelp of Recruiting
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Glassdoor, Fusion Io

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Fusion-io’s ratings on Glassdoor contribute strongly to our “passive” employment brand[/caption]

Glassdoor, launched in 2008, has become the yelp of recruiting with a little crunchbase thrown in, allowing passionate employees and would-be hires to voice their opinions and share their love or hatred of their favorite companies.

It’s a great way to spark your “passive” employer brand as well since anyone googling your company name will likely see a “glassdoor” link within the first 10 hits. Plus, with glassdoor quickly becoming a go-to source for learning about a company’s insider intel, recruiting practices, reviews about executives, culture and work-life balance, increasingly not being in a favorable location on glassdoor either makes you look out of touch or — worse — not wanting to be in touch.

Well-known recruiting industry writer Allison Doyle notes that Glassdoor “is an excellent way to get inside information on companies you might want to work at, including how satisfied the employees are, what they see as the pros and cons, and how much they are earning.” #

I can honestly say that Glassdoor’s ranking of Fusion-io as a top company to work for and today’s announcement of Shane Robinson (our CEO) making the top 25 highest rated CEOs list (for SMBs) has signifiantly impacted the “driveby” success of our recruiting initiatives. People say “I’ve researched you online and it seems like a good place to work”. That really helps drive the candidate process.

For me, the next-level of employee-driven feedback comes in models like Joel Cheesman’s disruptive morale.me, which I really hope succeeds like crazy, but would require HR departments to care more about what their employees actually think, and not just what they want them to think.

…But that’s a topic for another day ;)
Block by Block is Now EthHub
By: Anthony Sassano
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

The Block by Block Medium publication is being retired. Please click the link below to go to the new EthHub Medium publication!

https://medium.com/ethhub/ethhub-weekly-40-6bf1c5beea3b
Baywatch — Review
By: Will Daniel
Tags: Comedy, Film, Movies

You hear that sound, boys and girls? That’s the bottom of the barrel being scraped. Actually by now that barrel may have given way and we’re actually just mining the dirt. That is to say, I feel like, oddly enough, if producers had pitched a ‘Baywatch’ movie during the height of the show’s popularity 20-something years ago, they’d have been laughed at. But now, with the model of movies like ‘Starsky & Hutch’ and ‘21 Jump Street,’ which address their cheesy source material simply by making fun of it, I guess it’s not too hard to sell anything with the slightest hint of name recognition.

So given the year it is, I guess ‘Baywatch’ is pretty much what you’d expect. We still get the pretty girls with the slow-motion boobs, the muscular dudes (also sometimes in slow-mo), and there’s even a goofy chubby guy on the team lest you think the film too sincere in delivering the series’ signature goods. The disappointing thing to report here is that the movie (directed by Seth Gordon, who also helmed the pretty funny if forgettable ‘Horrible Bosses’) is criminally short on real laughter. I wish I could tell you they were trying, but most of the lazy humor on display (the chubby guy gets his junk caught in a beach chair while he’s talking to his crush; Zac Efron disguises himself as a woman to fool the bad guys and Dwayne Johnson implies he might be enjoying it — how controversial!) plays like it could have been written for a direct-to-video ‘American Pie’ spinoff ten years ago.
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Factories Are STILL Better Than Classes In JavaScript
By: Chris I.
Tags: Coding, JavaScript, Software Development, Frontend, Web Development

Public properties on class instances present a security concern (and how to avoid it)

Codepen 1.

I originally proposed that JS class instances were vulnerable to properties being changed from the outside, and considered this a disadvantage.

For example, given a class, Car , we create an instance with new , and call the drive method.

class Car {

constructor(maxSpeed){

this.maxSpeed = maxSpeed;

}

drive(){

console.log(`driving ${this.maxSpeed} mph!`)

}

honk(){

console.log(`honk!!!`)

}

} const car1 = new Car(120)

car1.drive()

#=> "driving 120 mph!"

It’s “driving 120 mph!” . So far so good.

Public properties and functions can be changed after initialization

Not only can object properties be changed, those changes also affect the output of methods.

car1.maxSpeed = 300

car1.drive()

#=> "driving 300 mph!"

Even whole methods can be overwritten.

car1.drive = function(){console.log('parked')}

car1.drive()

#=> "parked"

Editing properties and methods from the outside seems like undesirable behaviour in most cases.

To be fair, this is how JavaScript was intended to behave. But that said, intended behaviour doesn’t always equal “great” or ideal behaviour.

There are strategies to prevent changing properties

Codepen 2.

One suggestion was to prevent changing values by using a “getter” function.

class Car {

constructor(maxSpeed){

this.defMaxSpeed = maxSpeed;

}

get maxSpeed(){

return this.defMaxSpeed

}



drive(){

console.log(`driving ${this.maxSpeed} mph!`)

}

honk(){

console.log(`honk!!!`)

}

}

Notice we’ve added get maxSpeed() . The object will now be initialized with a this.defMaxSpeed property rather than a this.maxSpeed property.

This prevents an altered maxSpeed from affecting the drive() method.

const car1 = new Car(120)

car1.drive()

#=> "driving 120 mph!" car1.maxSpeed = 300

car1.drive()

#=> "driving 120 mph!"

That said, we can hack around this by updating defMaxSpeed from the outside.

car1.defMaxSpeed = 300

car1.drive()

#=> "driving 300 mph!"

I suppose we could come up with a complicated property name that isn’t guessable, but that would also make coding less fun.
My Village-Life in Pakistan. Childhood memories
By: Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
Tags: Nature, Village, Rural, Show Your City, Nature Writing

My favorite men were shepherds who were semi nomadic. I would love to see them disappearing in the magical fields singing folk songs. Their wild voice seemed to touch the scattered orange clouds, and I could feel the morning light dancing with the tone of their flute. I wish I could show you the simple but beautiful life of our villages. Life was magically harmonious with the Mother Nature. I wish you could see the shepherd coming back to home with his herd in the evening.
「Leave = 請假？」別懷疑！各式請假英文懶人包來啦！
By: Wuwow Team
Tags: Work, 生病請假, 常用英文, 請假英文, 英文請假

「Leave = 請假？」別懷疑！各式請假英文懶人包來啦！

不管是學生還是上班族，「請假」是大家都會遇到的事

各種不同的假，都有不同的說法

快來看看各種「請假英文」怎麼說吧👀

Whether you’re a student or working the 9-to-5, there are always times when we can’t make it. Let’s explore the different ways to take time off and the many different types of leaves of absence!
Cruising to Space
By: Gena Vazquez
Tags: NASA, Film, Hollywood, Spacex, Space

For four decades we’ve watched Tom Cruise light up the silverscreen racing cars in the Indy 500, flying a “MiG-28” Northrup F-5 aircraft, falling out of an airplane, uncovering espionage rings in foreign countries, seducing beautiful women, marching at a military academy, fighting for America in the Vietnam war, and showing Movies Studios the money with hit after box office hit! Now he is taking his act into space.

Earlier this week it was reported that one of Cruise’s lifelong goals is going to come true: he is going to film a movie in space. Both Elon Musk’s SPACE-X and NASA will be partnering with the star to make the film happen! NASA director Jim Bridenstine confirmed the news on Twitter.

Jim Bridenstine on Twitter

“We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality.” - Jim Bridenstine (NASA Administrator)

This isn’t the first time that space technology has been used in Hollywood filmmaking. In 2011 I spoke to the cinematographer, Dean Cundy who shot Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and the late Bill Paxton. They shot the movie in NASA’s “zero-gravity” plane, nicknamed the Vomit Comet.

The film crew and actors had to take between 500 and 600 parabolic arc flights in NASA’s KC-135 airplane to achieve authentic weightlessness. The arc only netted them 23 seconds of zero-gravity. It took a total of 13 days to film.

The aeronautical science behind it is quite fascinating. The plane climbs and dives, coasting over the top of an invisible parabolic arc. When the spacecraft reaches the bottom of a rollercoaster-like dive, the plane slowly pulls out of its parabolic dive and the zero-gravity environment disappears. As the plane climbs again, the cast and crew got into position. When gravity took hold of the Apollo 13 cast, the well-trained NASA crew would hold on to the actors so they wouldn’t crash on top of the cameras or each other. According to Cundy, this made Kevin Bacon extremely sick during filming.

Dean Cundy at IndieCon with a fan in July 2011. Photo by Author.

Tom Cruise’s costly new venture will take place in Space entirely with most scenes in the space station. In 2002, the actor narrated an IMAX documentary film Space Station 3D, which was filmed by astronauts during the assembly of the International Space Station. According to a directive and price list released by NASA last year for use of the International Space Station’s facilities, the use of life-support equipment and the toilet were listed at $11,250 per day. Food, air, and other provisions were priced at $22,500 per day.

No doubt the first of its kind film will be exciting for all audiences to watch as we see Tom Cruise go where no actor has gone before.

© Gena Vazquez 2020
Overview of trading tips from AIT desk
Tags: Machine Learning, Trading Tips, Trading Ideas, Cryptocurrency Investment, Trading

Overview of trading tips from AIT desk

Our ML team provides the freshest and the most interesting #tradingtips and #tradingsignals which you can use for your profit.

We are really proud to have this new section on our blog #AIT_TIPS.

During the past week, we managed to collect several tips and ask you to share them with your community.

The most recent:

For sure you have friends who are asking questions like:

“How do I start investing in crypto?” “What to do with million of cryptocurrencies in the market?” “How not to screw up choosing trading strategy?”

In our list, there are MedicalChain, Level Up Coin, GreenMed, Sia coin, Nexus, Tron, Lisk, Cortex, and Fantom.

Any questions or concerns? Ask our ML team in Telegram community!
Rakuten, Japanese E-commerce Giant, Plans to Purchase Domestic Cryptocurrency, Everybody’s Bitcoin
By: Bernard Obiechina
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, E Commerce Business, Japan, Bitcoin

Japanese e-commerce giant, Rakuten which has a market capitalization of over 1.2 trillion JPY (353 trillion THB), plans to acquire new domestic cryptocurrency exchange, Everybody’s Bitcoin, for 265 million JPY (78 million THB), according to a recent announcement.

Everybody’s Bitcoin, a Japanese unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange, was investigated by Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), following a Coincheck crypto hack in January, as the regulatory measure solicited business protection and security advancements.

However, Rakuten plans to facilitate its internal systems in an attempt to meet with the regulatory policies by obtaining a license. The recent announcement indicated that Everybody’s Bitcoin reported a net loss of 49 million JPY (14 million THB) on 30th March and the deal is expected to be finalized by 1 October, 2018.

Following Rakuten’s plan to acquire Everyday’s Bitcoin, says it has been “considering entry into the cryptocurrency exchange industry” it believes that “the role of cryptocurrency-based payments in e-commerce, offline retail and in P2P payments will grow in the future,” continuing that:

“In order to provide cryptocurrency payment methods smoothly, we believe it is necessary for us to provide a cryptocurrency exchange function.”

Rakuten also indicated that the purpose of acquiring a bitcoin exchange is influenced by the increasing amount of foreign exchange users who are asking for the offering of a cryptocurrency exchange service, however, promising a potential business opportunities. Rakuten has already been planning to introduce its own cryptocurrency to facilitate its business operations world over.
Providing Healthcare for Genderqueer and Nonbinary Patients
By: Olivia Homer
Tags: Nonbinary, LGBTQ, Transgender, Genderqueer, Lgbt Health

Though there does exist some research on healthcare for gender-diverse populations, it is disproportionately focused on transgender men and women and not on genderqueer or nonbinary (GQ/NB) individuals.

A recent study published in LGBT Health explores the healthcare experiences of young adults with gender identities outside of the standard gender binary. The authors found themes among the subjects’ described experiences, including providers’ inability to see beyond the transgender binary and lack of cultural competence in providing GQ/NB care. Subjects reported that providers were unable or unwilling to meet their specific GQ/NB health needs, such as varying levels of hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. Some used binary transgender language in interactions with healthcare professions in an attempt to obtain the care they needed because, as one subject said, “they’re not gonna understand genderqueer, but they’re gonna understand trans.”

It is important to note the clinical significance of these findings. One GQ/NB patient noted that they alter the dose of masculinizing hormones that they receive from their provider because they don’t want the full effects; this kind of medical decision making without assistance from professionals has the potential to be dangerous for GQ/NB patients. Other subjects report avoiding the doctor entirely, which can have obvious negative impacts on their health. The article reports findings from the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey that GQ/NB individuals face even higher rates of discrimination in healthcare settings than their binary transgender peers.

The authors conclude that it is critical that providers receive cultural competency training to help their GQ/NB patients. They also encourage providers to take several simple steps to make these patients feel more comfortable:

avoid assumptions

ask open-ended questions

listen and learn from GQ/NB patients

encourage patients to relate their unique experiences of identity and health

engage in the ongoing process of maintaining cultural humility and improving competence and patient satisfaction

You can access the full text of the study in LGBT Health here: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/lgbt.2017.0215

You can learn more about the LGBTQ competency training services offered by QSPACES here: https://www.qspaces.org/lgbtq-training/
Through Pictures and Short-term Memories
By: Mary Jones
Tags: Grief, Depression, Love, Poetry, Life

You gave me a glimpse of what love felt like

Then you were snatched away

Like you did something wrong

Like an abrupt ending to a song

But your life was destined to end

I was naive to think you would never leave me

Only but for modicum did we conquer

happiness together

I begged for more, yet

I’m left to follow your existence

Through pictures and short term memories

Stories only I can recall

and what it meant to the world

But, if is meant nothing to anyone else

It was everything to me

You were everything to me

Mary Jones
Practice Self-Care
By: Galit Birk
Tags: Self Care, Boundaries, Writing Prompts, Relationships, Poetry

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humble thoughts by humble ventures — Issue #11
By: Harry Alford
Tags: Updates, Newsletter, Articles, Humble

humble thoughts by humble ventures — Issue #11

monthly newsletter

humble is a venture development firm that drives innovation forward in partnership with startups, investors, and established organizations. In this monthly newsletter, you’ll read original articles, press that references humble, and highlights in addition to what we’re tracking in investing, innovation, diverse founders, and those building solutions for diverse audiences.

Curated by Harry Alford

top stories & highlights

Backing Black Businesses With David Hall And Rodney Sampson

The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities has become apparent as U.S. Black-owned small businesses were twice as likely to close during the early months than small businesses…

Why We Funded Over 50 Black-Owned Bars & Restaurants

This fall, NBCC and humble ventures launched a program to award Black-owned bars & restaurant grants. We received a lot of interest from entrepreneurs that we re-opened the submission window. After…

Money Is Not Apolitical. Why Coinbase Should Evolve Its Mission

Show me a company where people can be heard and respected for their differences and I’ll show you a team that will go through walls together. Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, recently published a post…

what we’re tracking

Racial inequality cost the economy $16 trillion over the last two decades, Citi finds

Citi has put a number to at least one aspect of social injustice, finding in a new study that $16 trillion has been erased from U.S. GDP over the last two decades due to discrimination…

Impact America Fund closes $55M to invest in startups targeting the world’s overlooked

The entire asset class of venture capital is built atop systemic racism. The numbers don’t lie: only 2% of partner-level VCs are Black, and 81% of venture capital firms don’t have a Black partner on board. The lack of diversity in check-writers doesn’t stay in board rooms: homogeneity trickles down to the founders who get…

Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity

The investment chief of the university’s $31.2 billion endowment sent a message this month to the firms that manage Yale’s money: They would be measured on their progress increasing their investment staffs’ diversity…

humble ventures

If you’re an enterprise in search of new business or delivery models, please reach out. If you’re a diverse founder with product/market fit, looking to scale — we would love to hear from you. If you’re trying to figure out your post-pandemic playbook, how to operate remote first, or how to address implicit bias and systemic racism, drop us a line — start@humble.vc.
Every Dev Rel professional deserves a clear set of business goals
By: Anil Dash
Tags: Management, Developer Relations, Software Development, Developer Experience, Developer Evangelism

Every developer relations professional should know how their work contributes to helping their organization achieve its business goals.

It’s one of the most frequently omitted forms of support for Dev Rel. Many times, people in Dev Rel roles are sent out in to the world with little more direction than “get developers to try our platform!” Basic requirements like a list of metrics or measurements are often overlooked in favor of undefined generalities.

Most of the time, this isn’t due to any malice or negative intent, it occurs because the function of Dev Rel is relatively new within an organization and poorly understood. That lack of familiarity leads others in the organization to leave Dev Rel practitioners to figure things out on their own. And while some degree of autonomy is useful, communication around objectives and outcomes is fundamental to making sure Dev Rel is treated as an essential strategic investment.

So, do you really have a clear set of business goals? To determine this, consider the following questions.

Questions to ask:

Do people with Dev Rel functions in your organization have a clear definition of “success”? Will they know when they’ve achieved it?

Can people in other roles define what the Dev Rel staff is trying to achieve? Can they articulate what Dev Rel is responsible for delivering?

Can senior management explain why the organization is investing in Dev Rel, and what return is expected on that investment?

By setting expectations from the outset, and clearly communicating these goals, we set up Dev Rel professionals for success.
Blockchain Business Logic
By: Shane Moser
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Data, Business, Blockchain

One of the major areas where blockchain technology will make its biggest impact is that of business logic. Business logic is the part of computer software that operates within the real-world business rules that regulate how data can be created, stored, and changed. By enforcing the routes and the methods by which data is accessed and updated, business logic validates and executes the correct business processes behind the scenes. This often means data being routed to people or software which then completes the final step in the process of business.

While there is practically an infinite amount of circumstances where data needs to be created, stored, and changed, some data only requires creation and storage. Modifying the specifics of data, depending on the motives or reasons, can sometimes be malicious. This kind of data manipulation can lead to sensitive information being shared, or even used in ways that are unethical or illegal.

Utilizing blockchain technology causes the further manipulation of created data to be abruptly halted as blocks of data are sealed by the public network of verifying nodes. This method of recording and storing data allows little to no room for human error or manipulation as blocks are connected together one after another. To make a change to data that is on chain within a block requires further manipulation of every preceding block before it. This task is ultimately unachievable as 51% of all other verification nodes within the blockchain itself would have to reach an agreed consensus that the change to the information.

Business logic then could utilize blockchain technology to further the accuracy and security of data across a vast amount of industries, and execute business rules while providing arguably the most valuable asset in any business — trust.

Trust is the engine of economy, money may be the means, but without a buyer trusting a seller transactions cease to exist.
Stolen Bike Visual Analysis using Tableau
By: Suhas V S
Tags: Tableau, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data, Data Visualization

Stolen Bike Visual Analysis using Tableau

Interactive Tableau visualizations for a stolen bike dataset in the United Kingdom for the years 2014 to 2017.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

In this case study, we will see some interesting visual solutions for the questions we could make out from the “Stolen Bikes” data set.

Here, I have used “Tableau” for working out my visualizations and let us see how easy and visually appealing these charts and graphs be. The figures used in this blog are static as they are the snapshots taken from the tableau. At the end of this article, I have given the link to my tableau public where I have published this visualization where it is interactive to use.

A brief summary of the dataset used: The dataset used here is for the stolen bikes in the United Kingdom from 2014 and 2017. It contains the column names such as “Crime ID”, “Crime Type”, “Falls within”(i.e the police station jurisdiction) , “Last outcome category”(i.e the status of the case), and “Location”.

a) To understand where are the geographical locations that the bike thefts have occurred, we will be plotting the latitude and longitude on the map. Refer to Figure[1].

Figure[1]

b) Month maximum number of thefts occurred? To get the viz for this question, we plot the month-year against the count of thefts using a bar chart. Also, I have highlighted the month with maximum theft in blue which is “September 2014” with a total of 9,999 thefts occurring.

Figure[2]

c) Now, let us see the percentage distribution for the thefts year-wise using a pie chart visualization. Notice that 2015 was the year with the highest theft rate with ~33% followed by 2016 with ~32%.

Figure[3]

d) Find the 15 locations where the theft rate is high? To answer this question, we take “Locations” on rows pill and count of records on the columns pill and then filter out for the top 15 locations with a high theft rate. Finally, select an appropriate chart to visualize it. Refer to figure[4].

Figure[4]

e) What is the status of investigation from 2014 till 2017 for all the thefts that have occurred? We take the “Last outcome category” into rows pill and count of records on the columns pill and then apply a “treemap” to visualize it. We see that “Investigation complete; no suspect identified” as the outcome for most of the cases.

Figure[5]

Finally, let us create a dashboard to bring all of the above visualizations together. It helps us to summarise our case study into one viz.

Dashboard

Note, that the viz provided here are static and not interactive. Please glance through my tableau public link where this analysis is more interactive and with a dark background. Here is the link,

This is it for now. I will continue to work on other interesting topics that are around us. Stay tuned!!!.
Is Project Management the Right Career Path for You?
By: Clément Bourcart
Tags: Work, Careers, Project Management, Career Advice, Jobs

Is Project Management the Right Career Path for You?

Starting your career as a project manager can be exciting — but you need to know what the role entails

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash

Project Management is a popular career choice for young graduates, and also a skillset that is in high demand amongst employers.

And the demand for project managers is predicted to grow even faster, in fact, that any other occupation over the coming decade.

A great way to gain exposure to all sorts of projects and industries, you will find project manager roles in all organizations — large and small. Getting things done right is the bread and butter of any company, after all, and project managers are a key part of this.

Wondering whether this could be a suitable career path for you?

While I’m all for developing your own skills and improving on your weaknesses, there are some inner traits that will make Project Management a more natural choice for you.

Read on for the top 3 qualities you should ideally have, before jumping into a Project Management career.
Summary of Delphy Live Broadcast with China Community — April 4th, 2018
By: Ada Gao
Tags: Predictions, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

20:00–22:00, 04/04/2018 Beijing Time

Dear Delphy Community,

Delphy held another live broadcast event for our Chinese community on April 4th, 2018. Mike, Delphy Product Managing Director, and Jane Zhang, Delphy Marketing Partner, co-hosted the event and provided various updates followed by a Q & A session.

The session commenced with a welcome address by Jane, followed by marketing updates. From a marketing standpoint, we’ve has a very busy month- Delphy participated in various global events that spanned from international conferences to local meetups, held in Beijing, Moscow, Washington DC and San Francisco. Thought-leadership articles, press releases and blogs were published on prediction markets, blockchain industry trends and our vision. You can find detailed information in our March Summary.

Jane also answered many questions from the community about Delphy’s next-step marketing plan. We will continue to participate in blockchain events to demonstrate thought leadership. Bo Wang, Founder of Delphy, is in Tokyo, Japan now, to attend and speak on the Beyond Blocks Summit Tokyo. Bo and Jane will attend the Global Inclusive Blockchain Conference in Singapore later this month. Fox Holt, VP of Business Development of Delphy, will host 2 meetups in Austin, TX USA to meet and discuss with students from UT Austin and blockchain technology enthusiasts and investors. Delphy China team is also working on a local meetup in either Nanjing or Shenzhen in China by end of this April. Additionally, Delphy Marketing team is also working to cooperate with other projects under the same investor portfolio, like Fenbushi Capital, etc., to maximize the marketing results.

Mike updated our community with Delphy product progress. Our Dev team continues to work hard on product development. As mentioned before, we have started another round of internal testing(in Mandarin) recently. This brings our numbers up to 500 users. We value your feedback and invite our community members to help us with testing, we appreciate it and Tokens and/or other souvenirs will be rewarded for the same. Additionally, if you are a champion who predicts more accurately than others, special awards are waiting for you.

Mike and Jane both emphasized that Delphy’s prediction Markets platforms are absolutely different from betting. Prediction markets will have a profoundly positive impact on the daily lives of our society as they are extremely efficient at removing uncertainty from the world. Prediction markets can provide much more theoretical and practical meaning to the whole world than betting.

Last but not the least, Mike announced that Delphy’s official dApp integrated to imToken will be launched this month!!! Stay tuned.

Below is the live stream link, please watch it.

https://www.yizhibo.com/l/MCZqGPzh1E4AONlh.html

Thank you for your continued support!
I’m Calling it Black.
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, Police Brutality

On Friday September 16th, unarmed #TerrenceCrutcher was shot and killed by police. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/us/video-released-in-terence-crutchers-killing-by-tulsa-police.html?_r=0

As a child I was taught how to respond when approached by law enforcement. Be respectful, follow instructions, don’t make any sudden movements. How is that applicable today. The evidence indicates that no matter what, I am at the whim of poorly trained officers who believe they are under siege. Which is perplexing because we are at a 40 year low on crime.

Some of you have heard the term DWB, ‘Driving While Black” Today it stands for Dying While Black. This is my reality and it sucks!

Depending on the source, 697–782 people have been killed by the police in 2016. Over 40% of those deaths are people of color.

Tweets don’t begin to comfort the families robbed of loved ones. They do not bring the police, (represented by their unions) to account for the killing of unarmed people. This is why I urge all of you in your mourning, outrage, and disgust to act. Act by voting. Act by protesting. Act by contributing to Campaign Zero. Change has to happen at the Police Department, and one of the most effective ways to do that is to change the very contracts that protect them and implicitly encourage the false narratives we read after each shooting.

Do something, donate something, and please tell those close to you that you love them. Because sadly, if you are black, it may be the last time you see them alive.
Robinhood, to the crypto rescue — Daily Uncrypt Digest — 1/26/18
By: Will O Leary
Tags: Finance, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Coinbase, Bitcoin

Coinbase, by all rights the leading cryptocurrency exchange, has an intriguing new competitor to tangle with.

Yesterday, commission-free stock trading app Robinhood announced that it will soon allow users to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum. It won’t hit all 50 US states, so adoption may take some time, but this is undeniably a shot across Coinbase’s bow.

Coinbase has heard it all — fees are too high, transactions take too long, there is price arbitrage that expert traders can exploit, the company is playing favorites…the list goes on and on. Though not every insult hurled on Twitter should be treated as gospel, Coinbase and its motivational-Tweeter CEO Brian Armstrong would be foolish not to recognize the threat of a company like Robinhood.

Robinhood offers the best counter yet to Coinbase’s biggest advantage — its user-friendly experience — while offering things that Coinbase either can’t or won’t. With no fees associated with buying crypto on Robinhood, users will certainly kick the tires, if not switch entirely. We’re looking at a full-on race to the bottom with fees, which is great for users but bad for Coinbase.

Perhaps even more exciting is the prospect of trading stocks for crypto and vice versa on Robinhood. It’s not hard to see savvy personal financiers salivating over the idea of flipping some of their portfolio into higher-potential crypto assets. I’m obviously not sitting in on Coinbase staff meetings, but it would shock this crypto blogger if the company had plans to match Robinhood feature for feature with stocks.
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The Hottest Swimwear Trends This Season For Every Body Type
By: Katrina Angco
Tags: Fashion, Style, Beach, Summer, Swimwear

These sizzling styles are available at awesome prices, too.

In recent years, we saw the one-piece swimsuit make a huge comeback. It’s still a staple this summer of 2017, along with the tried-and-tested two-piece bikini, but there are now so many exciting versions of them that are just too cute not to try. Thankfully summertime is almost here, the perfect time to go on a swimsuit buying spree — and the best season to flaunt your body in them!

To get more fab swimwear without overspending, we’ll let you in on a secret: Install free browser extension Piggy, which automatically applies coupon codes as you shop and gives you cash back, to get really awesome deals from thousands of online stores!

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If you’re pear-shaped…

go for a bikini or a one-piece swimsuit with a clean-skirted bottom that falls just below the largest part of the upper leg to balance your proportions.

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If you’re athletic…

get the illusion of curves with sheer swimwear or sexy rashguards. They just ooze s-e-x-i-n-e-s-s without making you look like you’re trying too hard.

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If you have a small bust…

playing around with tassels, fringe, and prints will do your figure wonders.

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If you’re curvy and/or you have a large bust…

stock up on one-piece cutouts or high neck pieces. These will add an elegant flair to your body shape.

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If you want to conceal your tummy…

don a swim dress! This two-piece suit covers up your problem area fabulously. Being covered up strategically is as sexy, if not sexier, than baring all.

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We can’t blame you if you’re having a hard time choosing just one swimsuit. But the good thing is they’re all available at cool prices when you shop with Piggy (install it today)! Enjoy your new chic finds and don’t forget to take lots of photos — we bet those are going to get lots of double taps when you post them on Instagram.
As Women, We Need to Feel Safe to Enjoy Sex, it’s That Simple
By: Stacey Herrera
Tags: Relationships, Love, Sex, Self, Women

As Women, We Need to Feel Safe to Enjoy Sex, it’s That Simple

You can only feel secure when your needs are met.

The most important ingredient for delicious sex is not what you think it is. It’s not about ambiance and lingerie. It is not penis size or vaginal tightness. It has nothing to do with whether it is sacred or not.

For women, one of the most important components for sex to be satisfying and fulfilling is safety. And I am not talking about prophylactics and birth control. I’m talking about feeling physically and emotionally safe and secure with your partner.

You can feel sexually and emotionally confident… but that does not mean that you feel safe.

For women, safety/security is often enmeshed in societal conditioning. A partner’s financial stability, social status, familial relationships, children (how many they have/want), and a slew of other ideas and perceptions that have been embedded into the psyche of our culture.

Our perception of these things shape how we show up in the bedroom… or not. Because a woman’s body is designed to receive. And receiving requires surrender.

But it is difficult to open up and surrender if you do not feel safe. Safe about whether your emotional needs will be tended. Whether your feelings will be regarded. Whether this person will be able to care for you (in whatever way that looks) in the long run.

Whether they are generous, with their time, money, and love. Their attitude towards life, politics, spirituality, and creativity. And more importantly, how much (or how little) you can trust one another. Keeping in mind that these things change over time. What might be true today, may or may not be true 10 years from now.

You might tell yourself the story that tangible things do not matter. And that it is what’s inside that is important. Which may be true… but it also might be a story that you are telling yourself out of fear of being alone. But your body will always tell the tale.

It is essential that you be honest with yourself about what is truly important to you, without judgment. Your truth is your truth — own it.

Casual sex is casual. But if you sleep with someone more than once, it is no longer casual. And safety/security will be factored into the equation. You can only feel secure when your needs are met.

So I invite you to ponder…

What are your basic security needs?

The image above is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. And as you can see this hierarchy is pretty similar to the chakra system… coincidence? Nah.

Remember, what happens outside of the bedroom matters just as much, if not more, as what happens inside. Getting clear about what you want and need is a priority. Clarity will allow you to create boundaries that make you feel safe.

If you are already in a relationship, revisit your needs often. Check in to see where you are. Communicate your truth to your partner. Reevaluate your agreements, commitments, and your partner's security needs as well.

Your needs will change because you will change. But always keep your finger on the pulse of your own truth.
Please Sir, I Want Some More!
By: Lee-Anne Hancock
Tags: Kindness, One Line, Respect, Poetry, Chalkboard

We’ve waited a long time to come together.

Let's not screw it up.

We need to respect and show kindness to each other.

It’s our time for more of both.

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Inspired by Harper Thorpe “Wanting More”, and prompt, “More”. Thanks also to our hosts, Kathy Jacobs and Harper Thorpe, and the rest of the talented Chalkboard team!
I Grew Up Believing I Wasn’t Good Looking Because I’m Dark Skinned
By: Benny Lim
Tags: Self, Race, Media, Beauty, Skin

This year I turned 34 years old. 34 years of living in this world, of gaining life experiences, of learning so much about myself and those around me. Here I am, an adult man, married with a kid, working in a professional career and looking forward to what else life will bring to me.

For most, my life sounds quite good. I have a good paying job, have a loving family and I’ve had a relatively good 34 years so far.

And I’ll be honest, life is good right now. It’s not perfect but it can be considered pretty damn close to it. Compared to so many others out there who are less fortunate than me, my life is good. It’s great. But not many (aside from my wife) would have known that for the longest time, I struggled with how I looked.

Yep, believe it or not, men feel insecure about their looks too. And for me, it was something I struggled with since I was a young boy until I was about 30 years old.

For those who don’t know me personally (and that’s probably 99% of you on this platform), I’m of Chinese and Bidayuh descent. My grandparents from my dad’s side migrated to Malaysia from China back in the early 1930s when they were still teenagers trying to escape poverty and build a better life for themselves and their future children. My father was the 1st generation of his family born in this country and I’m only the 2nd generation.

My mother’s side of the family hails from the Borneo island of Malaysia, Sarawak. They are of the Bidayuh tribe, one of many indigenous tribes on the islands of Borneo. Both my mom and dad’s sides of the family cannot be more contrasting, especially in terms of looks.

One side has fair, white skin, very little body hair and very tiny eyes. The other, the complete opposite with dark skin tone, tons of body hair and big wide eyes.

You can say I’ve inherited both but more dominantly from my mother’s side. I have dark skin, big eyes and am pretty hairy all around. However, I didn’t feel like I got the better deal when I was younger. This is because of my name. As my father is Chinese, I take after his family name — a Chinese name.

And as any stereotyped Chinese, I’m nothing like one but I have the name for it.

So you can imagine how I felt growing up. A dark skinned Chinese kid who was ashamed of how I looked. I was told that I wasn’t good looking because I wasn’t fair, that I would be so much better looking if only I had fairer skin.

I was told to use whitening face creams, lotions that will help my skin get fairer and all sorts of other ‘tips and tricks’ to help my skin be fairer.
Life is not a Shopping Trip
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Travel, Relationships, Culture, Self, Money

Life is not a Shopping Trip

And things cannot replace people

America is obsessed with materialism.

So much so that going to the mall is what passes for a cultural activity for kids, teenagers, and adults alike.

Back when I was working as a tour director in Europe with American groups, I was always surprised our tours included built-in shopping time and not just a cursory 10 minutes in the museum gift shop.

I even had passengers whose sole purpose during a Paris trip was to go to the Champs-Élysées and melt some plastic. They showed little to no interest in culture, and their attitude wasn’t even location specific. Whether in Paris, London, Rome, Amsterdam, or Athens, some folks were only traveling to collect things they could show off upon returning home.

Bragging is central to some people’s sense of self, like those who can’t stop flashing their cash and gloating about what they can afford, as if money made them a worthier human somehow.

What I came to think of as ‘the American affliction’ wasn’t common to all groups, thankfully. Many of my passengers wanted to soak up as much culture as possible and binge on knowledge and I was delighted to oblige, even after hours.

On one occasion, we walked so many miles around Paris taking in all the sights that the sole of my boot split into two and I flip flopped all the way back to the hotel amid general hilarity. Such guests were a gift; seeing European culture through their eyes full of wonder meant I’d fall in love with it all over again, day in, day out. And notice things I had never noticed before as I kept on learning about places I’d known my whole life.

All the shoppers wanted, meanwhile, was for me to circle métro stations or Tube stops on a map and send them on their merry way. It made for soul-crushing trips when I could feel my brain atrophy in disbelief.

On such tours, I became a glorified shopping directory, which was dispiriting.

But I made sure they went home happy regardless; this was my job.
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E43: Turning Information into Innovation — Health Datapalooza Conference Recap
By: Jay Gerhart
Tags: Data Science, Podcast, Innovation, Analytics, Healthcare

Episode 43 features perspectives from Atrium Health teammates who attended the 10th anniversary Health Datapalooza conference on March 27–28 in Washington, DC.

Hosted by AcademyHealth, Health Datapalooza brings together a diverse group of healthcare leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and data analysts to discuss collaboration opportunities at the intersection of policy, data, and innovation. A sponsor at this year’s event, Atrium Health also sponsored the attendance of several Charlotte-area patients who were able to contribute their insights to the national conversation on how to harness the power of data to improve the health of our country. Our very own Dr. Rasu Shrestha, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, kicks off our interviews. You’ll also hear some new voices, including Dr. Ed Kim, Chair of the Department of Solid Tumor Oncology at Levine Cancer Institute; Jason Schneider, Senior Director of Corporate Communications; and Allyson Cochran, Senior Clinical Data Manager for the Carolinas Center for Surgical Outcomes Science. Tune in and . . . #pinksocks!

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E43: Turning Information into Innovation — Health Datapalooza Conference Recap April 25, 2019