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Hip Hop: From the Streets to the Stage
By: Evelyn May
Tags: Music, Dance, Hip Hop, Origins

Relatively speaking, hip hop is a very new style of dance. It began in the 70s to accompany the new wave of hip hop music. The streets of “both New York City and California”, hip hop found its beginnings (Blackwelder). Although many diverse races have contributed to the hip hop style, “African Americans and Latin Americans” are some of the biggest contributors (Fuller).

Break dancing was the first style of hip hop that became popular. It was “originally performed to Funk and Rock ‘breaks’” where the upbeat music would allow dancers to freestyle and “‘go off’” (“The History of Hip-Hop Dance”).

Break Dancing

After the 80s, breaking began to die down and we entered a stage of the more well-known hip hop freestyling. It incorporated a bounce to the beat of the music and could take simple grooves and turn them into something unique and entertaining to watch. Most of the moves were made up on the fly, hence the word “freestyle”.

Hip Hop Freestyle Battle

The 1990s helped give hip hop a boost as the popular music videos of the decade featured hip hop dancers. The style really took off, however, with the “the advent of the internet — specifically YouTube” which found hip hop videos taking a large prominence (Blackwelder). Hip hop then hit a wide audience and gained massive popularity which brought it into dance TV shows such as So You Think You Can Dance (Fuller).

Ice Ice Baby features Hip Hop dancing

Hip Hop number on So You Think You Can Dance

Now hip hop has earned a spot as a main style of dance that studio dancers train with to perform on the stage. Hip hop has truly had quite a journey from its humble street beginnings to the stage for formal dance competitions.
My Semester with Dance History
By: Dale Urbelis
Tags: Dance

In fall 2017, while at Pasadena City College, I enrolled myself in a Dance History class. Going into the class, I thought it would be one of those classes where I would be able to show up, put in little work and walk away with an “A”.

I was wrong.

My professor, Ms. Catrelia Magee, had been a professional dancer her whole life. She took her subject of profession very seriously. Even though this was a GE elective class, the work load was reflective of an upper-division university course. Although I knew this class was going to be a lot of work, my friend, Kristie, and I decided to stick it out. It was one of the best decisions I have made in my college career. I learned so much that semester and was exposed to things I would have never imagined.

As part of the course requirement, each student was responsible to extensively outline each chapter representing a different era of dance such as “Ancient Greece” to “Modern and Contemporary”. Additionally, each student was responsible to go to three separate dance concerts and write an analysis about each respective dance at each concert. Here is an excerpt from one of my analysis:

“The second dance was The Veriginous Thrill of Exactitude performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet. Set to the final movement of Symphony №9, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, this dance is a celebration of tradition. The music fit very well for this particular dance as it had it’s moments of serenity as well as agitation. The dancers would emphasize their motions at more intense moments in the musical piece. For this piece, I felt like it was more classical rather than modern. The design, space and the rhythm were all very traditional. By traditional, I mean proper. I felt as though I could be enjoying my leisure time watching this performance in a field somewhere during the Romantic era. The color of green, a field, was something I kept visualizing. The technical skill of the dancers were outstanding. This dance was characterized by quick, precise movements. I do think if Forsythe would have tried to incorporate more theatrical elements, it would not have worked, stripping the classical dance of it’s “elegance”. I was able to connect on the greatest level with this dance. This dance was of the telic form.”

This excerpt in particular was from the 3rd and last dance concert I was to attend. By this time, I knew what I was to look for at these dance concerts and how to interpret and critique a dance. Reading this excerpt, I am amazed at how well-versed and attentive to detail I was regarding the particular dance. This class really did teach me so much about dance- not just about the history, but truly understanding the dance, what it represents and the story it attempts to convey to the viewer.

Looking back, this was one of the first times I pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Today, I embrace that feeling of being out of my comfort zone. Upon completion of the semester, I finished with an “A”. I will never forget this class because although it was hard, I learned a lot and had so much fun in the process.
Is it acceptable to go to dance clubs if you’re not single?
By: Two Left Feet Podcast
Tags: Social Dancing, Salsa, Dance, Bachata, Kizomba

Question By User musiclovermina

Been struggling to find ways to dance outside the classroom for years, and these opportunities are finally opening up to me after moving to a better area. Thing is, I just got into my first real relationship and he’s not a dancer. Is it okay to continue to partner dance in clubs and possibly competitions with someone who’s not my boyfriend? I’ve been waiting my whole life for these opportunities, mostly with bachata and salsa. I don’t even know how to bring it up with him.

Answers

User Goodmorningdave

Yes. Its acceptable. At the very least, you should communicate your interest in dancing at the clubs or in a team with your boyfriend. I wouldnt give up on inviting him to dance either. He is missing an oppurtunity to do something you love plus it may help alleviate any jealousy or insecurity on his end.

User That Guy

Yes. The clubs I’ve been to have been very social. You see people come in as a couple but everyone dances with everyone. To be blunt you need to address this or you will miss out on bachata and resent him

User nachog4
Is it normal to feel the lead’s dick when dancing kizomba?
By: Two Left Feet Podcast
Tags: Social Dance, Dance, Semba, Ginga, Kizomba

Question By User Barely_Even_A_Pers0n

With full body contact I almost always feel the lead’s dick on my thigh. Is this normal? How to avoid this without ruining the dance?

Answers

User rlndgg

I’ve been dancing Kizomba socially for a little over 2 years and can say that I’ve experienced it as well, however I don’t feel it is “normal” to experience it in every dance. A good way to prevent this from happening is to seek lower thigh connection as a follow while maintaining a slight pelvic tilt away from your dance partner. In fact, you may find that your dance improves because this is proper dance form. Even when practicing Taraxinha, I can say that it is possible to have pelvic connection without genital connection.

User nereprezentativ

Sometimes it happens with overly happy bachatero follows that take their sensual bachata skills to the kizomba room. It’s annoying and not very sexy. I think theoretically nothing should touch between the belly button and the lower thighs.

User Fatalogic

I would say that’s not normal. Kizomba is a close dance but it doesn’t have to be that close. Many moves are pretty difficult if your that close. I would say you just gotta find leads who you are comfortable with and stick with them. Even as a lead there are people I won’t dance with because it’s clear they want something from the dance I’m not willing to give them.

User kimblim

Absolutely not! Kizomba is my favorite dance so I dance it pretty often and have never had this happen. Now Bachata is a different story, unfortunately. I was taught a connection where basically only our arms, chest, and middle thighs (chasing their thighs) are touching. Bachata has proven to be a wilder form to maintain.

User ingloriabasta
Gangnam Style Lyrics — Psy. Gangnam Style Song is Very Popular…
Tags: Music, Dance, Lyrics, Hip Hop, Songs

Gangnam Style Song is Very Popular Korean Song By Musician Psy. The Gangnam Style was released on July 15, 2012.On December , 2012, “psy gangnam style lyrics” became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views.The song’s music video has since been viewed over 3.4 billion times on YouTube.

Video of Gangnam Style is also become Viral and the steps of Gangnam Style is Become Popular in 2012. “Gangnam Style” is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul.Check out Gangnam Style Lyrics in English.

Gangnam Style Lyrics [English]

Oppa is Gangnam style

Gangnam style

A girl who is warm and humanle during the day

A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee

A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes

A girl with that kind of twist

I’m a guy

A guy who is as warm as you during the day

A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down

A guy whose heart bursts when night comes

That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable

Yes you, hey, yes you, hey

Beautiful, loveable

Yes you, hey, yes you, hey

Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style

Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays

A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes

A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all

A sensable girl like that

I’m a guy

A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays

A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes

A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles

That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable

Yes you, hey, yes you, hey

Beautiful, loveable

Yes you, hey, yes you, hey

Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style

Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

Read Full Lyrics at..https://www.thehindilyrics.com/2020/01/gangnam-style-lyrics-psy.html
D Story
By: Yeyi Veck
Tags: Dance, Daytime, Latin America, UK, Dolls

My three ‘D’ words are Dance, Doll and Daytime

My culture (of my nationality) isn’t very close to dance — I mean, it’s definitely far from casual dancing culture (we are more close to singing). On the contrary, in Latin America (where my soul belongs) dance seems life itself. Salsa, tango, bachata, cumbia…Latin America is also the birthplace of many well-known dances, and each country has developed its own style. I’d prefer to dance those Latin dances — I used to dance salsa and tango — than EDM or hip-hop. Latin dances have their “sabor”. It’s amazing how a series of movements with music can become a way to communicate.

Maybe I’m not young enough to have a doll. Anyways, I love dolls. Since I studied at the university, I spent way more time far from home, including living abroad. When I moved to a foreign country for the second time, my mom gave me a cute rabbit doll as a present. She said: “Although we (family) can’t go there with you, this doll will always be with you for us, protecting you”. And he — my cute rabbit is male, becoming my tiny little brother — still does; he has already travelled to five different countries (unfortunately, I don’t bring him to my ordinary trips, so he has only been my residential countries).

During the winter, daytime is too short in the UK. Not mentioning the cold weather and rain, this tight daylight makes me spend more time at my room (very inactive lifestyle) — it’s already dark outside at 4 PM. When the sun goes down, I feel like the day “ends”. Weather affects people. Apart from our mood or personality, if we aren’t exposed to sunlight sufficiently, our body can’t create vitamin D — we absolutely need to photosynthesize. The good thing is that my radiator works phenomenal, and my room is snug. Even though I miss sunshine sometimes, I constantly try to remind how I’m lucky to be here, living in a thankfully decent place. I decided to love even the British weather condition.
Space to Move
By: Craig Berry
Tags: Design, Dance, Movement, Art, Architecture

What does it mean to have a building designed specifically for dance? You could ask the same about other places designed for a specific subject. Be it related to the arts, as a studio for an artist or a theatre for actors. Or for sports, like a basketball court or football pitch.

Dance, though, isn’t tangible; you can dance, but you can’t touch it. You also can’t touch songs, music, or acting but, you can hear these; they connect with more than one sense. Dance doesn’t need to be heard to be enjoyed, but dance is also impermanent; it is the body’s movement through space.

This space, whatever it may be, is essential. The Austro-Hungarian theorist, choreographer, and pioneer of dance, Rudolf von Laban, understood this and based his principles on space and movement, specifically: “Antrieb”, aka an ‘internal impulse’ or action, translated to English is Drive.

“Laban describes the dynamics of movement, which he calls drive [antrieb], with various objective terms. The variety of possible modes of expression results from the relation of the movement to the factors weight/strength, flow, space (attention) and time, and their numerous possible combinations. The analysis of the drive is an important tool to perceive and name the quality of the non-verbal expression. Depending on the inner constitution, personal preference for movement or the external context, the drive expressed in a movement, changes.”

— Translation of Antrieb from Laban Movement Studies Wikipedia Page.

Through this Antreib, Laban explored how movement creates space and how a creator may feel — while capturing an artistic idea — to a performance space. Since movement creates space, the way a dancer moves and reacts in/to a space is essential to the performance.

As a mere graphic designer with little to no experience of dance (other than the half-drunken nightclub two-step), I asked my fiancé, Kirsten Oelofse, a professional dancer and choreographer with way more experience than me, to share her thoughts and insights about dance — and performance in general — when thinking about physical and metaphorical space.
Charles Heather: Part 1
By: Ali Datoo
Tags: Mining, Founder, Sto, Blockchain, Exploration

Quote from Charles Heather regarding the #Geostandards

Behind every project are it’s members. Geoblocks and our initiative the Geostandards have deep roots in the mining industry. As our previous article mentioned how Geblocks was created, we invite you to read a series about our founder Charles Heather and how his experience combined with John Griffin’s business acumen is going to help create a new, unique asset class.

Charles Heather was born and raised in Zimbabwe where he developed a passion for nature and the environment from a very young age. Fascinated by geology and flight, it comes as no surprise that he should end up working both in Aviation and Minerals Exploration.

Having experienced a great deal of success in both areas Charlie eventually found himself gravitating towards Latin America including in particular, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela.

Charlie and John Griffin developed a close friendship through Charlie’s brothers entertainment business aptly named the Heather Brothers, through their work in the West End writing and producing musicals. John and Charlie embarked on several adventures together finding themselves in the deepest darkest jungle regions looking for various precious metals and gemstones. It was on just such an adventure that they both met Luciano Bourges and became great friends.
Genesis 3.0.5 Fork Success! Reactivation of Big Blocks
By: Genesis Network
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Genesis, Bitcoin, Altcoins, Mining

Older fans of Genesis and the Genesis Network remember prior to v3 release of our custom maturity-based masternodes, there were bonus blocks every day, week, month and year. Well, they’re back!

Genesis Big Block Tracker

Background

During the huge ramp up in the cryptocurrency market cap in late 2017 and early 2018, PoW mining was extremely profitable. This in turn caused thousands of people to spend thousands of dollars for GPUs to get into this “gold rush”. Fast forward mid-2018 up until now (mid-2019), GPU mining and similar has not been profitable unless you happen to get lucky and held out on some coins that had a random “pump”.

As Genesis was getting ready to launch, we wanted to create a way for GPU miners to “make crypto mining great again”. Thus, we created Big Blocks.

What are Big Blocks?

Big Blocks are an initiative instituted by the Genesis team to create more interest and buzz for our GPU Proof-of-Work miners to create additional funding for them. Once a day, week, month and year, Genesis block reward changes from it’s default reward to a bonus for one block only. This creates additional hype and enjoyment for GPU miners so that they might be the ones to hit the “golden block” if you will.

Big Blocks are determined by the following:

Daily “Bonus” Block: 14,400 GENX

Weekly “Super” Block: 14,440 * 7 GENX

Monthly “Mega” Block: 14,440 * 7 * 4 GENX

Yearly “Ultra” Block: 14,400 * 7 * 4 * 12 GENX

Integration of Big Blocks has helped bring GENX miners back time after time. You can always track when the next blocks are at the Genesis Big Block Tracker. Let’s make crypto mining great again and get the dust off that old rig!
BLOCKCAP PLANS TO HAVE 50K BITCOIN MINERS OPERATIONAL BY 2023
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Technology, Mining

BLOCKCAP PLANS TO HAVE 50K BITCOIN MINERS OPERATIONAL BY 2023

Executive chair and founder Darin Feinstein said the firm plans to make the U.S. a global leader in making blockchain technology mainstream.

One of the largest crypto mining firms in North America said that it has acquired an additional 8,000 rigs and has begun mining other cryptocurrencies.

In an announcement from Blockcap on Monday, the mining firm said it planned to have more than 50,000 mining rigs online by the end of 2022. Blockcap now controls more than 12,000 mining rigs, generating more than 6.6 Bitcoin (BTC) daily — roughly $380,000 at the time of publication. The firm added that it was accelerating its move to mine other cryptocurrencies including Ether (ETH).

According to the firm, the addition of the ETH mining rigs in operation would account for 1.229 terahashes per second, or roughly 0.21% of that of the Ethereum network. The more than 50,000 Bitcoin miners, when fully operational, are projected to control roughly 2% of BTC’s current combined hash rate.

“Blockcap’s growth strategy is focused on bringing various peer-to-peer digital assets directly to the people who will utilize them to improve their lives,” said Blockcap executive chair and founder Darin Feinstein. “We strive to contribute to the critical infrastructure necessary for mass adoption of these digital asset technologies so people can participate more fully in the global financial system.”

Both Blockcap and Riot Blockchain — two of the largest crypto mining operations in the United States — have announced plans to set up shop in Texas for their corporate offices and their mining facilities, respectively. Blockcap raised more than $75 million in two funding rounds led by Off The Chain Capital and Foundry Digital.
Newland ,a new token farming platform ready to launch
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Yield Farming, Launchpool, Fishpro, Mining

Newland, a launchpool where users can farm their digital tokens and assets in a safe way , will be launched by Fish.Pro on June 18,2021 in order to meet user’s diverse needs. The era of “Zero Cost for Yields” is around the corner.

As an elite platform in decentralized field, Fish.Pro is built by a group of International talents with high caliber. Most of its senior executives, after years of practice in International futures business and top fund management, have rich experience in traditional finance and crypto markets .It is committed to provide best experience for its users.

The launch of Newland not only provides more opportunities for users to farm new tokens in a safe way, but also greatly simplifies the mining process, which is bound to attract more users to enter the crypto market.

Liquid swap distributes token to wider user groups in a fairer and more friendly way. Strict in examining and selecting token type , the team offers best token projects with broad application and huge value potential. New projects will be launched successively in the future.

As our slogan says, Fish.Pro will lead you to explore boundless treasure islands in fantastic crypto world.
MAKE THE BEST OF THE BEAR SEASON WITH VERASWAP LIQUIDITY MINING POOL
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Mining, Defi

MAKE THE BEST OF THE BEAR SEASON WITH VERASWAP LIQUIDITY MINING POOL Kekeyous Jun 17·3 min read

The lowliess of the Bearish season is upon us with most people still trying to figure out how to wield the current situation for optimal results.

If you are in this position, I have news for you. VeraSwap protocol recently launched several liquidity mining pools on its fully decentralized exchange. It is time to leverage an on-chain staking protocol that allows users to earn rewards from other liquidity pools.

It features various mouth-watering Annual Percentage Yields (APY) across the different pools. Therefore, offering participants an opportunity to earn more $Vrap tokens as rewards by engaging any of the liquidity mining pools. The APY offering on the Veraswap liquidity mining protocol ranges between 360% to 50000%.

Currently, the available Veraswap Liquidity Mining Pools, include;

VRAP-BNB Liquidity Mining Pool: with an APY of 36000%, liquidity providers staking their VRAP-BNB LP tokens in this pool stand a chance of earning 98% on their stakings daily. An icing on the cake for liquidity providers on the Veraswap DEX and holders of VRAP-BNB liquidity provider token, is that, they can deposit their tokens within this pool and earn $Vrap as rewards with an APY offering of 50,000% i.e an ROI of 137% on a daily.

VRAP-BUSD Liquidity Mining Pool: presents an APY of 360%, thus, participants within this pool will earn 0.98% daily. This pool is for participants who provide liquidity on the Veraswap DEX and hold the VRAP-BUSD LP tokens.

VRAP-CAKE Liquidity Mining Pool: is the last functional mining pool of Veraswap protocol at the moment. By staking your VRAP-BUSD LP token within this pool you can earn more $Vrap token as reward for staking at an APY offering of 500%.

Engage the Veraswap liquidity mining pool here.

Happy Mining!

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Undervalued? Or what and when to buy.
By: Alex Rahmanin
Tags: Exchange, Mining, Free Crypto Airdrops

When reviewing the columns with the description of tokens, it is difficult to decide on the purchase of a new asset, especially in a growing market.

How do you know if a purchase is justified?

In fact, practically nothing. This is a very young market with a high density of events. In such a situation, even one of the market participants can change the price movement contrary to the forecast and those. analysis. Do your own investigation.

An important factor for buying is the underestimation of the asset — that is, when you objectively understand that the technology or the project behind the asset is necessary and interesting.

Pay attention to whether you are aware of a material underestimation of the facts that you know about the asset. If yes, then start monitoring. Start by exploring the project site, forums, and communities. Gather information about the participants in the project. Think, will you trust this team with your money? Check the asset’s event calendar. This will allow you to study what is happening and show what kind of work is being done.

When you receive a sufficient amount of information about the asset of interest, you will know for sure whether you want to purchase it or not.

It is important to pay attention to the apparent underestimation of the project. Such research will allow you to feel comfortable with the course movement and understand what to expect from it.

Be attentive to your assets and your decisions will bring you profit.
NFT’s Global Development Process
Tags: Cards, Mining, Nft

Non-Homogeneous Digital Currency

NFT is called a non-profit token in English and is indivisible, irreplaceable and unique. Non-homogeneous tokens, or NFTs, are unique and indivisible tokens, such as encrypted cats and tokenized digital tickets.It is equivalent to the US dollar number, and there will be no two US dollars with the same number.At the same time, due to the Non-homogeneity and indivisibility of commodities, NFT can anchor the concept of commodities in the real world.Simply put, it is the digital assets distributed on the blockchain, which can be game props, digital art, tickets, etc.NFT plays the role of the patent office.Help each unique thing to register the copyright and help it identify patents and physical assets.Other tangible assets such as real estate and houses can be represented by NFT tokens. Can be used as a financial market for asset circulation.

NFT May Reshape the Internet Profit Model

From fragmented time to fragmented value, the profit model of the Internet has completely changed.At the same time, in this process, the community can participate in and share part of the value, and can also participate in the creation to make things more valuable. Let the community and content creators have a richer experience.More importantly, creativity has been realized.NFT can be pictures, sounds, and videos, which are key elements of media. Together they become things like articles and puzzles.These things are really reflected in the form of NFT. You do see someone filming, but for some purpose, someone bids for this thing. When he clicked the “Confirm” button, he received the money, and this thing belonged to another person.

NFT Community Collaborative Creation

When discussing NFT, most of the topics discussed recently are artworks, game characters, and props.But when it comes to copyright, it is easier to think of the copyright of an artwork or a picture.When we form a community like Elon Musk to issue NFTs or tokens, token holders will manage copyright infringements and help you manage the matter. If someone does violate it, he will affect it. If you make an NFT and others know where to verify it, there will be no copyright issues.If you build a closer relationship with the community, you can share more interesting topics that are not suitable for large-scale sharing.These are some of the features that content creators want to see.

There are communities and members, you can watch updated content or other things. This allows content creators to realize that implementing them can bring huge benefits.

Pictures can be made into NFT, and stories can also be made into NFT. All big things can generate value through NFT, so that the entire society can participate in creation, and participation can be more clearly defined. NFT can do better things without charging so many taxes and fees.
Rare Minerals for the Better Technology
Tags: Elements, Invest, Stocks, Technology, Mining

Sponsored Post:

Rare minerals are crucial to the manufacture of mobile phones, electronics and medical equipment, and a shortage could upset the global marketplace and spark wide ranging financial instability, a study warned Friday. The analysis of international commodity exchange networks and how they could be roiled by shortages of minerals was published in the journal science advances.(1) Besides, let’s face it. The new way discoveries are found, how resource targets are proposed, and even how mine development and operations are run could be outdated and virtually unsustainable in today’s world. To see this fascinating news about mineral resources. Explore this one!

Mining could yield a range of benefits to societies, but it could also cause conflict, not least in relation to above-ground and sub-surface land use. Similarly, mining could alter environments, but remediation and mitigation could restore systems. Boreal and Arctic regions are sensitive to impacts from development, both on social and environmental systems.(2) These other sectors claim that it is the only pure generator harnessing AI horsepower to discover what geologists couldn’t with their own eyes. Only about 1 out of approximately 3,333 potential mining average have been exploited in the last few years. Want to dig more information? Read more of it here.

These elements are said to be necessary components of about 200 products across a wide range of applications, especially advanced tech consumer products, such as cellular telephones, electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines and computers. Several other public sectors possibly engaged in mineral exploration and development. Could these potential elements affect the economy? Could this indulge people in need? More useful information here. Check disclaimer on my profile.

Source 1: https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/article/21966311/rare-mineral-shortage-could-upset-global-markets

Source 2: https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-019-0152-8
ForTube and Polygon are commencing a strategic partnership, which will include product integrations and co-mining
Tags: Defi, Polygon, Blockchain, Cryotocurrency, Mining

ForTube and Polygon are commencing a strategic partnership, which will include product integrations and co-mining ForTube Jun 17·1 min read

We are excited to announce that ForTube has reached a strategic and technical partnership with Polygon.

The two parties will start cooperating together in several areas including building up DeFi communities and ecosystems, cross-chain compatibility and market expansion.

As a decentralized digital asset bank, ForTube’s product portfolio covers the ETH, BSC and OEC chains. The first version of ForTube on Polygon version support MATIC, DAI, USDC, USDT, wETH, wBTC, QUICK and LINK for deposits, borrowing and repayment. The program will simultaneously begin liquidity mining of the above currencies. The mining activity will last for 60 days.

When users deposit and borrow assets, they will receive a double reward of MATIC and FOR tokens. Polygon, as a Layer 2 solution, has adopted the Plasma framework and PoS validation to ensure asset security, solve scalability and usability issues, and provide a good operating experience for DApp users.

At the same time, developers do not need to pay high fees or get expensive equipment. Scalable smart contracts can be deployed for a small fee. As such, the number of DApps in the Polygon ecosystem has reached nearly 300, and the number of infrastructure and development tools has exceeded 60.

Follow us on social media for more updates and mining campaigns:

▲Announcement channel: https://t.me/fortube_announcement

▲Medium: https://fortube.medium.com/

▲ForTube website: https://www.for.tube/home

▲Twitter: https://twitter.com/ForTubeFi

▲knowledge library of ForTube platform: https://docs.for.tube/
POLKAMINE NETWORK — A new era arises — First multi-chain standard hash rate token protocol
By: Mine Network
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Polkadot, Polkamine, Blockchain, Mining

Polkamine network will standardize the mining performance of different mining pools for different mining projects and then issue different standard hashrate tokens (pTokens), such as:

pBTCM for the Bitcoin standard hashrate token

pETHM for the Ethereum-standard hashrate token

pFILM for the Filecoin-standard hashrate token

pLTCM for the Litecoin-standard hashrate token

(more chains to follow as well)

Each standard Hashrate token is a synthetic token that represents the basic standard mining performance of a unique mining blockchain and is also backed by standard mining performance.

The pTokens could be integrated into cross-chain DeFi protocols (such as DEX, lending protocols on Polkadot, Ethereum, HECO, Binance Smart chain, etc.), which will increase the liquidity of pTokens.

To fully address the liquidity issue, Polkamine Network will issue another synthetic token, called mToken, for miners who deposit the issued pTokens into Polkamine’s contract to receive mining rewards.

The mTokens can be used in various DeFi protocols for trading or issuing collateral.

Any mining pools outside the Polkamine Network can freely join in or exit the standardized mining pools on the Polkamine Network after mining power standardization.

Polkamine Network will also use Substrate’s OCW (off-chain oracle workers) to monitor the on-chain revenue data of various mining projects in real time and upload the revenue information to ensure the information is open and transparent to miners.

In addition to pTokens, there is another type of asset called Wrapped Output Tokens (wTokens). wTokens are tokens issued on the Polkamine chain that are anchored at a 1:1 ratio to tokens produced by the Polkamine standard mining pool. You can consider wTokens as an income certificate in the mining products of the Polkamine standard mining pool.

wTokens include wBTCO, wETHO, wLTCO, wFILO, etc., each anchoring BTC on the Bitcoin chain, ETH on the Ethereum chain, LTC on the Litcoin chain, and FIL on the Filecoin chain in a 1:1 ratio.

Since different mining projects use different chains, only by issuing 1:1 mapping assets wTokens can Polkamine write all mining revenues of mini-miners to the chain and achieve automation.

Introducing Mini Miners

Mini Miners are the miners of Polkamine Standardization Mining Pools.

They need to purchase standardized Hash Tokens, which represent a certain HashRate. Meanwhile, they can claim the output income of the mining pool by their possessions.

Introducing MINE Token

MINE Token fulfills the role of core utility in the Polkamine Network ecosystem. Its functionality includes, but is not limited to:
How to mine EPIC with a GUI Miner
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Guides And Tutorials, Epic Cash, Mining

EPIC isn't the easiest of coin to mine so I made a simple GUI to help out with basics commands

Development stopped / out of date

Download Java Current 8u221

Download the GUI Current v0.1.0

Extract the Epic folder somewhere on your pc

Run EPICGUI-0.1.0.jar

Setting it up

Input Username, Worker and Pool

Save Profile 1 to have it loaded on boot

Start Node and Listener if solo mining

Profile 2 can be used for alternative mining

Use Reset to default if you get any errors

Future improvements to be made

One-Click installation

Pretty up the GUI

Add ability to send coins

Store wallet password

Version History / Change Log

0.0.6 First Public Beta

0.0.7 Changed file location to the C drive

0.0.8 Added config for TUI ( Textual User Interface )

0.0.9 Added Wallet creation, Outputs and Txs button, Cancel transaction, cleaned the look a bit and added version numbers

0.0.10 Added Profile saving and auto-load Profile 1 at boot

0.0.11 Can now be run from anywhere, extract folder in any drive or directory

0.0.12 GUI reorganization and code cleaning

0.0.13 Consolidate save to toml and run buttons for simplicity / fixed cancel button broke from 0.0.11

0.1.0 Removed the need for the quotes / simplified usage again and moved GUI a bit / first release that I consider out of BETA
White label: Management rights
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency Mining, Crypto, Minerstat, Mining

We have recently introduced a few new and important features to the white label licenses. All updates were applied to both branding and enterprise licenses and can be also used by those that already own a white label license.

The first part of the update is the new white label dashboard look. The main account and customers are now organized in tiles and can be edited from there.

For each customer, you can now do the following updates:

Update profile URL instead of going on the settings page of this customer;

instead of going on the settings page of this customer; Enter the white label mask URL for owners for enterprise license;

for owners for enterprise license; Enter the global electricity costs for the customer;

for the customer; Enter the fee that will be deducted from earnings on the customer’s profile page;

that will be deducted from earnings on the customer’s profile page; Enter the number of owners that will show the estimated earnings per owner.

that will show the estimated earnings per owner. Enter the new password which will show the public profile only after the password is entered.

which will show the public profile only after the password is entered. Select between different management rights.

Under management rights, you have several different options available. You can select as many rights as you like, but keep in mind the technical knowledge of the customer.

Load from config template: You can define different config templates and your customer can switch between them. For example, ETH, ETC, BEAM, GRIN, NH-BEAM, etc.

You can define different config templates and your customer can switch between them. For example, ETH, ETC, BEAM, GRIN, NH-BEAM, etc. Custom config: The customer will be able to select a mining client and edit its config. They won’t have access to the overclocking profile and address editor, so the config entered must be rough, working config.

will be able to select a mining client and edit its config. They won’t have access to the overclocking profile and address editor, so the config entered must be rough, working config. Restart mining software .

. Reboot mining machine .

. Shut down the mining machine .

. Start / Stop mining.

The management rights will be available for each worker on the public profile page.

You can now also find a public demo of the white-label profile here. Login to the profile using the password minerstat . As this is only a demo, you won’t be able to perform actions (you will see an error message) or load configurations (all default configurations will be empty), but you will see which actions are available.

Want to take monitoring and management of your mining farm to the next level? Join minerstat and register a new account now.
A Brief Intro about the Flowchain Ecosystem
By: Kalidindi Sahitya, Flowchain Research Intern
Tags: Iot Platform, Flowchain, Ecosystem, Blockchain, Mining

Inventions and innovations are never-ending, for every era or decade coming our way we have a new invention or revolution in technology. Blockchain is one such revolution and Flowchain is an innovative platform based on blockchain. The ecosystem plays an important role in any development. Before getting deeper, let’s first study the basic ecosystem of Flowchain.

Compared to product or service, the ecosystem requires more manpower to develop and maintain. Therefore, Flowchian will invest to set up a software foundation to build its own developer community.

Flowchian’s ecosystem consists of four main roles: Miners, Flowchian developers, EMC & hardware vendors, and Dapp vendors.

Flowchain Ecosystem (source: Flowchain White paper)

EMC Vendors :

A Flowchain tokenized chips for edge device of IoT Blockchain is firstly developed. By providing the initial computing power of the platform, the EMC manufacturers will build private computing centers, which will be put into the Flowchain network during the idle period of operation to provide computing power.

Miners :

In the Flowchain ecosystem, miners get block rewards (referred to be FLC) by computing consensus tasks assigned by the computing pool. When a miner is not assigned to the AI computing task, the Ethereum can still be used for mining.

DApp Vendors :

The developers who stayed outside the industry because of the computing power and electricity can now enter the IoT industry with relatively low development and operating costs to develop their IoT products and services.

Flowchain is one of the advanced innovative platforms which integrates software and hardware ecosystem.

23–09–2019
CoinFly: What’s new?
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Technology, Mining

Dear friends, this is the beginning of the week and we hope that it will be full only of good news! And we have plenty to add to that list:

⧫ one of the most anticipated points: mining with ASICs is fully functional (don’t forget to install the CoinFly firmware on your ASIC)!

⧫ your mining statistics display on the dashboard is adjusted: data transfer doesn’t consume a lot of traffic, and your dashboard shows the number of your rigs and GPUs and their status, your mining hashrate and algorithms and your farm’s total energy consumption;

⧫ incomes management process is more comfortable (it is super easy to track your the status of your transactions);

⧫ ability to integrate any miner for any cryptocurrency is fully functional (you can either choose one of the pre-installed miners or add the custom one)!

⧫ ability to mine on any pool convenient for you enjoying the versatility, convenience, and automation of CoinFly’s ecosystem is fully functional (just add the new pool in the “Settings”)!

We are not going to rest on our laurels: don’t miss more wonderful CoinFly news!
“Experience from crypto world while being into home because of covid situation.” — Chapter one
By: Jonathan Jr
Tags: Defi, Ido, Ethereum, London Hardfork, Mining

“Experience from crypto world while being into home because of covid situation.” — Chapter one Jonathan Jr Jul 7·2 min read

“Hello World” — is the well-known sentence for all those who start learning programming or tech related stuff. Just like that, lockdown is becoming popular among everyone because of covid-19 and we already went through two waves of it. In the meantime, many of us learnt a lot of things while we’re being locked into our own home. I’m also one of those who spend few hours daily to learn a lot of stuff about crytpo-currency which was unknown to me previously. I’m going to talk about one topice as of now from those new stuff which is learnt in the lockdown time.

How ethereum transection works and gas price is fluctuated?

When bullish rally for bitcoin was started after the halving of 2020, defi space got huge attention from the retail investors and many successful projects was launched and investors got a lot of profits from those. But we get another problem of high gas price which wasn’t suitable for small investors at all. As soon as IDO (Initial Dex Offering) got the hype for defi projects, gas price was sky-rocketing in the meantime. Everyone was familiar with doing transection on ethereum blockchain, but many of us didn’t try to figure out how those transection are works and we only knew that ethereum’s using PoW (Proof Of Working) mechanism and we need to pay fee for that. When gas price started to increase, everyone was wondering how that’s possible and how it’s growing. The short answer for that is: ethereum transection system is based on auction as of now. So whoever will use high gas price to complete the transections, miners will pick those transection first to get more rewards. So as a result, gas price’s sky-rocketing when IDO hype is started and many participants started to use higher gas price so that they could buy new tokens from the IDO platform. Not only this, AMM (Auto-mated Market Maker) is becoming popular day by day. In simple world, we call those platform dex as we don’t need any 3rd person to monitors our trades to complete. So, ethereum gas price again started to incrase whenever a new defi project got listed into uniswap for the first time and supporters rushed to fillup their portfolio with the new defi tokens and that’s why used higher gas price than the suggested one. As a result, we get higher gas price for those investor’s action. But miners of ethereum was on profits for the whole time.

As a solution of the higher gas price, ethereum devs introduced EIP-1559 (Ethereum Improvement Programme 1559) which will incrase the block size more almost 2x from the current block size which means more data hash will be stored into that. Not only this, EIP1559 will replace the current auction based transection system with burn mechanism after implementing this. As of now, it’ll be deployed through London Hardfork which might happen around first week of august, 2021. So lets wait for the result of it as everything has pros and cons.
Iran’s new crypto bill is on the agenda: There are important details about mining and use of cryptocurrencies
By: Onur Sakarya
Tags: Iran, Bitcoin, Mining, Btc

Iran’s new crypto bill is on the agenda: There are important details about mining and use of cryptocurrencies Onur Sakarya Jul 7·2 min read

The Iranian parliament has drafted new legislation to centralize and regulate the use of cryptocurrency. The country has also proposed licenses to be issued to Bitcoin miners. Iran plans to issue a national cryptocurrency for settlement of domestic transactions and ban the use of cryptocurrencies issued outside of Iran. Licensing Bitcoin mining operations can overcome permanent power outages caused by illegal mining operations that consume excessive electricity.



After a crackdown on Bitcoin miners, the Iranian government is now taking steps to license these operations. So the general ban on cryptocurrency mining could be lifted soon.Central Bank of Iran tries to prevent capital flightIran’s economy is in crisis after collapsed oil exports, systemic corruption and decades of mismanagement. The economic turmoil has affected the national currency, the rial, which has fallen sharply against the dollar since former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018.



Since then, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has been tied to foreign currencies and has sought to counter capital flight by enforcing a general ban on the use of cryptocurrency issued outside of Iran.The ban served as an opportunity for Iran to expand its power plant infrastructure and make repairs to its existing power grids to try to mitigate the impact of the crypto flow. Many unlicensed mining companies operate across the country, as electricity costs about US$0.003/kWh, or about forty times less than the world average of US$0.14/kWh.



President Hassan Rouhani said:



‘’In order to legalize the activities of cryptocurrencies in this area and protect people’s capital, we must immediately think of a solution and put forward and communicate the necessary laws and instructions.’’



Interestingly, the proposed bill also proposes that Iranian cryptocurrency miners would be allowed to build and operate new power plants by obtaining special permits from the Ministry of Energy. These companies can then sell the excess energy they produce at their stations to the ministry.



With the new regulations across the country, Bitcoin mining activities in terms of profit are expected to rise in terms of costs, including electricity. Still, the Iranian authorities offer miners the opportunity to make more profit by selling the excess electricity.