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BTCmartian.com Legit & Trustworthy
By: Jorge Lopes
Tags: Investing, Investment, Bitcoin Investment, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Wallet

BTCmartian.com

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Went to the investment section, selected the 5% Daily plan and invested 0.05 BTC.

BTCmartian Investment Plan

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I made 0.025 BTC total profit from BTCmartian, i was super happy with the results as you can believe. Okok, so i placed a withdrawal of my profit (0.025BTC) and after 15 minutes it arrives to my bitcoin wallet!

BTCmartian.com is very professional and one of the best sites to make these kind of investments. Of course i recommended BTCmartian to many of my friends using the affiliate link and now i’m making profit in 2 ways ;)

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We Are Building Keevos!
By: Team Keevo
Tags: Keevo, Bitcoin, Crypto, Bitcoin Wallet, Cryptocurrency

Over the past weeks, we have been ramping up toward production. Now, your Keevo is speedily moving down the conveyer belt on the factory floor. Please watch our exclusive manufacturing video montage embedded below:

Production of Keevo Wallet in Progress

What can you expect in the coming weeks?

We will be sending our customers a series of email communications to detail the status of their Keevo shipment. Each email will be accompanied by an informative graphic letting them know their current step in the process:

If any pre-order customers who signed up to receive an early release Keevo have not yet received an email from us, please write to us directly at support@keevowallet.com and let us know. We really need the correct shipping information to ensure your Keevo arrives on-time and to the right address.

The email you receive from us will contain your order number and a link to view your order confirmation page. Simply click the button, enter your order number and the email address which was used to place your initial pre-order and verify or update your information.

For any changes or updates that need to be made to your order, please send an email to support@keevowallet.com.

Soon, the Keevo will be available to everyone.

Our initial batch of pre-order Keevos will be sent first and once they have been fulfilled and our customers satisfied, we will be opening up our doors to the general public. If you didn’t get a pre-order, not to worry; this will be coming soon. To make sure you can get notified and can order your Keevo when we launch, please sign up for our waitlist in the popup on our website. Act quickly. Our first batch will be relatively small and orders will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Visit keevowallet.com for more details on how you can obtain your very own Keevo next-gen crypto wallet.

Don’t miss our AMA’s on Telegram every Friday morning!

Visit us on Telegram for the latest news and information and join our 10AM Pacific AMA. Our team fields all kinds of questions and would love to help you better understand why Keevo is the right choice for your crypto.

Visit t.me/keevowallet to access our Telegram channel.

Hope to hear from you there!
How to Create A Bitcoin Wallet Account: Step-by-Step Process
By: Kevin Jones
Tags: Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Wallet, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Bitcoin wallet is a virtual account using that you can send or receive your bitcoin. Bitcoin is one of the highly liquid cryptocurrency, you can trade or invest and transfer through wallet account. And wallet is a kind of holder in which you can keep your money in various denominations.

While here Bitcoin wallet is here virtual holder can keep your bitcoin that you can sue while making payments or transferring into others account. To use and access your wallet you have to create a Bitcoin wallet account and you will get key to use every time when you login or make transactions.

If you don’t have Bitcoin wallet and want to know how to open a binance wallet account you can find the steps given below with online helpline.

Steps on How to Create A Bitcoin Wallet Account:

Step 1: First of all visit at Blockchain.com’s Wallet Website and make sure visit right URL.

Step 2: Now fill you details and complete the Sign-Up Process by registering with your valid email id and unique password. Make sure keep a strong password and don’t share with anyone.

Step 3: Now click on the “Continue” button to proceed you will receive a confirmation mail with link.

Step 4: Here you have keep Backup Your Paraphrase using the “Security Center”.

Step 5: And to complete that navigate on the left side of your dashboard of the website and click “Backup Phrase.” This is the first level in securing your bitcoin wallet.

Note: It’s recommended to take a print of the “Recovery Sheet” and write down your 12-word recovery phrase somewhere. Store the Recovery Sheet in a safe location.

Step 6: Now you have to link mobile number and enable 2FA to add an extra layer to your security.

Step 7: Finally you have secure the final level in your “Security Center”. To do that you have to block the IP addresses from the TOR network.

Step 8: Now you can request Bitcoin into your account and you will receive the cryptocurrency from other account holders.

Step 9: You can import a paper wallet to start trading with receiving bitcoin into your wallet.

Step 10: And to do that go to your dashboard and click on “Request” to gain access to your Bitcoin address.

These are the simple steps you can create or open a new Bitcoin wallet account. However, there might be some issues if you not follow the steps carefully or make any kind of mistake. Just confirm your mail account and you can use your Bitcoin wallet to transfer money and do other transactions.

Bitcoin Support for Wallet Issues

If you face any kind of problem while creating a Bitcoin wallet account you can take help from experts who will help you to open a new wallet account successfully. To get online help, call at Bitcoin will assist you remotely to resolve the technical problems stopping you in creating a Bitcoin wallet account and also resolve Bitcoin wallet related various other problems. Source
Telx introduces the first cryptocurrency SIM card wallet
By: Mark Penovich
Tags: Litecoin, Dash, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

International

Telx SIM’s work in over 180 countries. Send transactions across national borders via SMS seamlessly. See the list of supported countries.

No internet

Because the SIM uses telecommunication towers, no internet or smartphone applications are required.

Accessible

The Telx SIM card works in any cellular connected device, whether that be a feature phone or smart phone.

Unlimited

We offer unlimited SMS messaging and put no caps on the amount of messages you can send and receive each month.

Multi Currency

We currently support Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, and Bitcoin cash

Phone number

Your new Telx phone number acts as your digital currency address. No longer do you need to type or copy and paste long wallet address’s. Just send an SMS to any phone number whether they are a Telx customer or not.

Security

NO SIM SWAPPING OR PHONE NUMBER PORTING.

Only transactions coming from your SIM will be accepted.

Outgoing transactions are protected by a user chosen PIN number.

Backup keys are provided after activation in case of loss or theft.

As the digital money revolution continues its rise across the world, we hope to make the barrier of entry that much easier for every day people. Get your SIM for only $17.

For more information visit us at https://www.telx.tech
How to Deploy your Dash App on Heroku
By: François St-Amant
Tags: Heroku, Python, Dash, Tutorial, App Deployment

How to Deploy your Dash App on Heroku

You just spent weeks developing your Dash app. It now looks great and you want the world to see it? This tutorial will show you how to do just that using Heroku.

Heroku is a cloud application platform that allows you to run your apps, completely free of charge.

What you will need

For this tutorial, you will need to install a few things:

Heroku account : https://id.heroku.com/login

: https://id.heroku.com/login Git Bash : https://git-scm.com/download/win

: https://git-scm.com/download/win Virtualenv, which can be installed with pip: pip install virtualenv .

You should also download 4 files, all available right here: https://github.com/francoisstamant/dash_heroku_deployment.

App.py is the file that contains your Dash appplication. That’s the file that you should be changing if you want to update/improve the app.

requirements.txt contains the Python dependencies needed to run the app itself.

Step by step tutorial

Alright, now that you got everything needed, here is the step-by-step tutorial that will get you to deploy your Dash app for everyone else to see!

Open Git. From there, type the following code to create a folder for the project and make that folder the current directory.

$mkdir dash_app_deployment

$cd dash_app_deployment

2. Initialize the folder with an empty Git repository with $ git init .

3. Create a virtual environment called venv with $ virtualenv venv .

4. If you are using Git Bash In order to activate the environment, you need to make the Scripts folder the current directory first. Then, you can activate the environment. Here are the commands:

5. Then, install Dash and Gunicorn in the virtual environment:

$ pip install dash

$ pip install gunicorn

Just a heads up, it can take a while to install dash (took about 4 minutes for me).

5. Then, make sure to change the directory back to the repository, using in this case $ cd ~/dash_app_deployment .

6. Now, make sure the 4 files from earlier are actually copied in the current location and once they are, initialize the folder by adding them one by one, like this:

$ git add app.py

$ git add Procfile

$ git add requirements.txt

$ git add .gitignore

7. You can now create the heroku app with the name you want for it. That name needs to be unique. It will let you know if the name is not available. Then, you can deploy your code to heroku.

$ heroku create francois-st-amant-app

$ git add .

$ git commit -m 'Initial app template'

$ git push heroku master

8. Finally, run the app on one dyno by doing $ heroku ps:scale web=1 . Dynos are “containers” for running apps/code. Assuming you want to keep everything free, you are allowed 2 running dynos, each with 512MB of RAM.

The URL of your app should be visible after step 7. Basically, it will be https://name-of-your-app.herokuapp.com.

Here is my app: https://francois-st-amant-app.herokuapp.com/

You will notice that if you go on your Heroku account now, you will see your app page. From there, you can manage the app settings, add collaborators, etc.
Hello, “Covid” World: Python Dash and R Shiny Comparison
By: Nathan Lang
Tags: R, R Shiny, Python, Dash, Data Science

Hello, “Covid” World: Python Dash and R Shiny Comparison

In the data science field, it is common for the final goal of a project to end in some sort of dashboard or web app to visualize your results. Both widely used data science languages, Python and R, each have their own packages to tackle this issue.

R has a single, main package named Shiny that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. On the other hand, Python has a few packages that are widely used depending on the intensity of the project.

The three main packages for Python web apps are Django, Flask, and Dash. Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Flask is a lightweight web application framework. It is designed to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to complex applications.

Per the introduction of their website of Dash:

Written on top of Flask, Plotly.js, and React.js, Dash is ideal for building data visualization apps with highly custom user interfaces in pure Python. It’s particularly suited for anyone who works with data in Python. Through a couple of simple patterns, Dash abstracts away all of the technologies and protocols that are required to build an interactive web-based application. Dash is simple enough that you can bind a user interface around your Python code in an afternoon.

Both Shiny and Dash have the common goal of making a web app dashboard with minimal to no web development skills like JavaScript. Although both do allow for better customization with the use of the JavaScript, HTML, CSS stack.
This Week in Blockfolio Signal — Tezos, Dash, Band Protocol, Haven, SyncFab
By: Jason Hamlin
Tags: Band, Tezos, Defi, Cryptocurrency, Dash

Societe Generale Launches First Structured Product as Security Token on Tezos

“The third largest bank in france, Societe Generale, has issued the first structured product as a Security Token directly registered on the Tezos public blockchain. This transaction completes a new step in the development of Societe Generale — Forge, a regulated subsidiary of Societe Generale Group, aiming at offering by 2022 crypto assets structuring, issuing, exchange and custody services to the Group’s professional clients.” Read More — Amer Justice, Community Director

Summary

On April 15th, 2021, Societe Generale issued the first structured product* as a Security Token directly registered on the Tezos public blockchain. The securities were fully subscribed by Societe Generale Assurances.

This operation follows in the footsteps of a first covered bond Security Token issuance worth EUR 100m on the Ethereum blockchain, settled in euros in April 2019, and of a second covered bond Security Token issuance worth EUR 40m this time settled in Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) issued by Banque de France, in May 2020.

This transaction completes a new step in the development of Societe Generale — Forge, a regulated subsidiary of Societe Generale Group, aiming at offering by 2022 crypto assets structuring, issuing, exchange, and custody services to the Group’s professional clients.

This week Tezos also announced OpenMinter, an open-source DApp framework for the creation and collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Significance

This is a significant vote of confidence in the security and scalability of the Tezos blockchain, as Societe Generale is the third-largest bank in France. This new experimentation demonstrates the legal, regulatory and operational feasibility of issuing more complex financial instruments (structured products) on a public blockchain like Tezos.

Price at the time of Blockfolio Signal: $6.80. View XTZ on Blockfolio.
How to Create a Modal Window with Python in Dash
By: Kelvin Kramp
Tags: Web Development, Programming, CSS, Python, Dash

Introduction

The Definition of a modal window:

“A modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application’s main window. A modal window creates a mode that disables the main window but keeps it visible, with the modal window as a child window in front of it.”

The workflow for making a modal:

Adding the modal callback

The code of the call back:

The modal code that you can copy and paste within your Dash app for creating the modal window within your Dash app:

Applying CSS

You need the right stylesheet to have a modal that is centred in the window. There are two options. The simplest one is:

Adding a css with the line:

app = dash.Dash(external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.BOOTSTRAP])

2. The slightly more complicated but better adjustable one consists out of copying the code of the yellow accentuated css code for a modal window in this link and pasting it somewhere in your css file which should be in the folder assets within your Dash project folder (or you have to create or copy one from online).

Styling

After defining the id name of your modal you can choose out of a lot of different settings:

id="modal", # Give the modal an id name

is_open=False, # Open the modal at opening the webpage.

size="xl", # "sm", "lg", "xl" = small, large or extra large

backdrop=True, # Modal to not be closed by clicking on backdrop

scrollable=True, # Scrollable in case of large amount of text

centered=True, # Vertically center modal

keyboard=True, # Close modal when escape is pressed

fade=True, # Let the modal fade instead of appear.

Changing the size of the modal window takes an extra step, adjustment of the modal properties with a styling line:

id="modal", # Give the modal an id name

is_open=False, # Open the modal at opening the webpage.

size="xl", # "sm", "lg", "xl" = small, large or extra large

backdrop=True, # Modal to not be closed by clicking on backdrop

scrollable=True, # Scrollable in case of large amount of text

centered=True, # Vertically center modal

keyboard=True, # Close modal when escape is pressed

fade=True, # True, False

style={"max-width": "none", "width": "50%"}

And adjustment of the modal body dbc with a styling line:

dbc.ModalBody(

html.Div(children = "your modal here"),

style={"height": "30vh"}

)

vh stands for viewport height. You can see what viewport height is n this link:

How the end result looks:
Exploring SG’s Rentals with an Interactive Webapp built using Dash, Flask and Heroku — Part 1
By: Huy To
Tags: Heroku, Data, Flask, Web App Development, Dash

Exploring SG’s Rentals with an Interactive Webapp built using Dash, Flask and Heroku — Part 1

1. INTRODUCTION

Have you ever played around with some fun Data Science problems, and arrived at some truly interesting insights or ML solutions, only to realize at the end of the day that all you ever have is an Ipython Notebook full of codes that will never reach an audience? Or maybe, it will only be read by your fellow DS practitioners, whom you have spent a considerable amount of time convincing to clone your repo, download your notebooks and — out of sheer respect for you — make an effort to read through the entire thing to eventually realize your brilliance

You are left unsatisfied. On one hand, you want your work to be appreciated by a wider audience, not just your fellow technical peers but also your non-technical ones. Maybe you want to share it with your friend who is curious about DS but may not fully understand the codes, simply because he/she has never actually dived that deep. Maybe you want to show off to your non-engineers friends, colleagues, bosses or even that cute girl/guy whom you sit next to in “Business Analytics 101” :)).

On the other hand, you feel that perhaps you could have done more, that you need to step up your game to produce something more finalized, something that more or less resembles a finished product, with which you can proclaim “Aha! I built this. Isn’t that cool?”

I was at one point feeling like this with my most recent project. I decided to take it to the next level by building a fully interactive Webapp — even though I’ve never built one before — where users can play with the data, build their model, pick their important features and get back a certain prediction/results.

Finally, I succeeded — building my first ever ML Webapp. You can check out the app HERE. This is an app about exploring rental properties in Singapore — where I’m staying.

The app consists of 3 sections

A. The first section that allows users to play with the data by specifying min & max rental rates, then choose the features and the property type they are interested in and the app returns back some interactive visualizations

B. The second section allows users to propose a hypothetical property and the app will attempt to predict its rental rate using on a model built in-situ by the users via some guided questions

C. The last section allows users to propose a hypothetical property, specify which attributes are important to them and the app returns most similar properties to the one proposed based on the established criteria

I used Flask as my Webapp framework to create my server-side Python program, Plotly Dash to serve my interactive visualizations, and the usual suspects Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn as tools to build up parts and parcels of my program. Last but not least, I used the free app-hosting site Heroku to deploy my work. Check them out here: https://www.heroku.com/home
Japan’s NHK News Covers Dash As Venezuela Gains More Global Coverage
By: Dash News
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Dash, Blockchain

Japanese news network NHK recently covered Dash’s expansion in Venezuela.

The Japan Broadcasting Network (Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK) recently covered the economic crisis in Venezuela, pointing out the extreme circumstances stemming from the country’s hyperinflation. Shown is Venezuelans’ difficulties in using traditional payment processors and cash, and the switch to using US dollars as well as cryptocurrency. While Dash is not explicitly mentioned by name, all the footage of cryptocurrency-accepting businesses prominently shows “Dash accepted here” stickers.

NHK is Japan’s public broadcasting network, which also streams English-language content 24 hours per day on NHK-World-Japan. Its social media channels include over a million followers.

Japan’s rocky history with Dash

Dash has not always had this manner of positive treatment coming from Japan. Last year, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) took active steps to discourage exchanges from listing cryptocurrencies with advanced privacy features, namely Dash, Zcash, and Monero. This was reportedly because of implications for criminal activity facilitated by anonymity features of these coins. As such, approved cryptocurrencies were added to “whitelist” by the FSA, excluding coins such as Dash. Non-whitelisted coins experience difficulties getting listed on domestic exchanges, which in turn hampers adoption.

Major mainstream news coverage, then, represents a positive development in the country, particularly after the central bank characterized crypto-assets as no competition to central banking.

Dash’s surge in Venezuela is continuing to make headlines

Dash has garnered significant attention in Venezuela for its progress during these difficult economic times. Earlier this month, the country experienced persistent blackouts, which left millions without power and internet, and without means of using bank transfers or other payment processors. Mobile phone service, including SMS, however, continued to function during this time, meaning that SMS-based wallet service Dash Text remained one of the only payment services still operational. In order to assist the people of Venezuela in being able to maintain in contact with friends and family, Dash Text launched a donation campaign partnered with Bitrefill to pay for top-ups for those in need.

Additionally, Dash Text recently launched possibly the world’s first fully-distributed charity system, allowing donors to send Dash and have it instantly distributed to the end recipients, in this case schoolchildren in need of funds to buy food, without having to wait on a middleman. The recipients receive Dash to their Dash Text wallet on their SMS-capable phones, an are then able to use it to spend on food.
Cryptofacil Exchange Adds Dash Trading Pairs
By: Dash News
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Dash, Blockchain

Dash trading pairs have been added to the Cryptofacil exchange including a promotion for free trading, expanding Dash liquidity.

The Latin America-based exchange announced last week the integration of Dash trading pairs to the platform. These pairs are with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the popular USD-based stablecoin Tether. In addition, the exchange also launched a temporary promotion, where customers using the “DASHFREETRADES” invite code may trade on the platform at no fee. This promotion lasts until the end of March.

Launched in September of 2018, Cryptofacil has partnered with Bittrex, a top-50 cryptocurrency exchange with over $50 million in daily adjusted volume. This partnership expands cryptocurrency trading options to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dash’s focus on expanding access in Latin America

The addition of Cryptofacil expands Dash’s liquidity and accessibility in Latin America, a key region for the currency. Last month CoinBene added Dash as well, bringing Dash to Brazilian markets with more than 3 million active users.

Currently, the Latin American countries of Colombia and Brazil represent some of the strongest areas for Dash adoption, with 2,454 Dash-accepting businesses currently listed in Venezuela on the largest merchant directory listing Discover Dash, and 327 currently listed in Colombia. Expanding liquidity in this key region to support growth is a major goal of the global Dash community.

Dash is a top-three performing coin following initial exchange listing

Dash has fared as one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies following initial exchange listing. According to data pulled from DataLight, Dash ranks in the top-three best-performing cryptocurrencies following their first listing on an exchange with 39,500% increase, behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum with 1.3% million and 68,200% respectively. The nearest competitor, Binance Coin, ranks a distant fourth with 13,100% growth since its initial exchange listing.
Revision 6.9: DASH File Format Specification and File Intercommunication Architecture.
Tags: Web3, File Format, Metaverse, 3d, Dash

Monte Carlo Methods are a group of algorithms that simulate the behavior of a complex system or phenomena, using inferential statistics. You can think of it as one of the tools used to model probabilistic real-world processes. You don’t run one simulation, you run many. There is no one single correct answer that the simulation is attempting to compute. It is a landscape, a multiverse, from which you sample.

During the last Transformation Pass of the DASH File Format we are taking a more mindful approach to our final choices, using the Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for ending the directive with an evaluation and potential restart, for retrieval of the best known information output candidate.

It’s exploration-exploitation. We can ultimately decide to remain with the outcome that we have processed from the computational efforts of the various other transformation passes, or we can choose to replace this with an outcome that is pre-processed from the Open Source Community Incentive group or from that stored on the Optimistic Ledger.

By maintaining this mindset and approach directly through to the last mile we can ensure to quickly adjust and repeat experiments for better outcomes whenever is required by the outcome itself, rather than an attachment to a set process or processes. We can iteratively distill and amplify the final features to maximise the suitability for transfer into the application environment and further fine tuned adjustment and optimisation by post processing techniques.

This gives us the highest human relative fidelity for commercial application transfer and also openly injects an open source shibboleth into the very fabric of DASH, as we continue to scale the exposure of the solution’s instructions to positive Black Swan events — through wider community leverage. We maximise novel capabilities and vitality, whilst also reducing misalignment risk with multiple learning schemes.
Relisting Announcement: Dash (DASH)
By: Bittrex Global Team
Tags: Usdt, Usd, Eth, Btc, Dash

We’re pleased to announce the relisting of Dash (DASH) for Bittrex Global clients! The DASH wallets are now open for deposits and withdrawals. The BTC-DASH, ETH-DASH, USD-DASH, and USDT-DASH markets are now open for trading!

Disclaimer: The below information is provided directly from the token team. As per our terms of service, Bittrex Global does not control, endorse, or adopt any of the information below and shall have no responsibility for such Third-Party Content, including without limitation material that may be misleading, incomplete, erroneous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable.

By accessing or using any Bittrex Global Services, you voluntarily choose to engage in sophisticated and risky asset transactions.

From the Dash website:

Your money, your way. Move Dash in a second for less than a cent.

Any amount, any time, anywhere. Get paid, shop, pay bills. Dash gives you the freedom to move your money any way you want. Grab a coffee, split a check, or pay your phone bill. Dash moves money anywhere, to anyone, instantly, for less than a cent. Get Dash Dash is easy to buy or receive online, from friends, or at an ATM near you. Get Going! Grab a coffee, buy a plane ticket, or pay your phone bill. Dash is growing and is accepted by new businesses every day. Use Your Dash Pay Friends and Family Airfare, Utility Bills and Subscriptions Groceries and Dining Out Buy Electronics and IT Equipment Find Hotels and Lodgings Business Services DashPay Wallet Coming Soon Experience cryptocurrency payments in an enhanced easy-to-use user experience and with social factors like username, contacts and personalization Real-world vendors accept Dash currency Dash is accepted globally by businesses of all shapes and sizes. Our low fees and instant transaction time make Dash the preferred method of payment around the world.

Trade BTC-DASH, ETH-DASH, USD-DASH, and USDT-DASH now at: global.bittrex.com
What is the Digital Cash Vision?
By: George Donnelly
Tags: Digital Cash, Dashpay, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Dash

The most basic and original idea behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that we can use these cryptographically-protected account balances protected by hash-making machines as digital cash. That is, as cash that you can’t touch. But otherwise, you can use it just like cash. This implies:

free use (as in speech, not necessarily beer)

meaningful privacy, or at least difficult-traceability of transactions related to people

ability to hold without anybody knowing your balance (mattress-style)

These correspond, respectively, to merchant adoption, censorship-resistance, pseudonymity if not anonymity, and privacy.

We collectively blew right through our first 10 years of crypto, a not-to-be-repeated window of near-complete freedom where bureaucrats everywhere asked each other, what the hell is that? and opted to ignore us.

We are in now in the age where governments and large institutions are wising up.

This means we need to wise up and get to work if we want to realize the digital cash vision. If you count yourself among this increasingly dying breed, in the midst of blockchain-mania, “private blockchains”, fedcoins and endless griping about energy usage, then we need to work together before, like gunpowder in 2nd century China, this technology and this dream become forgotten.

That’s what this blog is about.

This blog is going to tell things as they are because we can not wise up and get to work if we do not have correct information or if we are tip-toeing around everyone’s delicate feelings all the time. This blog is an abattoir for sacred cows, a killing field for unspoken agreements to keep secret our own failings, a chopping block for stupid ideas, bad practices and other acts of incompetence and negligence.

Let’s do without ad hominem, but it has to be done, no matter the cost, because the future of human liberty and prosperity depends on our ability to realize the digital cash vision, which is, after all, a first and critical step towards global market anarchism.

Originally published at http://dash.ist/2019/03/09/what-is-the-digital-cash-vision/
Spork 15 Activation: April 2
By: Elizabeth Robuck
Tags: Payments, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Dash, Blockchain

Spork 15 Activation: April 2

Dash Community,

We are currently at over 67% of masternodes registered with the Deterministic Masternode List. This is terrific progress given that DIP3 was activated just 9 days ago! However, it does not appear we are going to meet the spork 15 activation criteria this budget period. Based on the activation criteria, at 67% of masternodes registered, the rate of masternodes registering would have had to slow to less than 2.13% per day to justify a discontinuation of the process, and it is still going strong at over 3%.

Therefore we now plan to activate spork 15 on April 2, the day after the next super block payout. By that time, the masternode network will have met our activation criteria under any scenario. Masternode owners should continue registering with the Deterministic Masternode List as soon as possible. Instructions on how to register can be found here. It is critical that masternode owners register before the activation of spork 15 on April 2 to continue receiving payments.

Why the spork 15 activation criteria?

We created an activation formula to ensure we were balancing the competing objectives of the spork activation timing. These objectives include providing adequate time for masternode operators to register, and ensuring the spork is activated early enough in a voting cycle for proposal owners to recover lost votes. At the same time, we wanted to ensure that as we approached the 80% target, the network would not be held back if activation rates tailed off. The formula we proposed balanced the above objectives, while more aggressively discounting the importance of adoption rate as registration approached the ideal 80% target. The deadline of March 8 was set to minimize the impact to the proposal system, as the activation of spork 15 will reset proposal votes. We were concerned about multi-month proposal owners not having enough time to recoup votes. The deadline was selected because it is ~25% of the way into the voting period.

Spork 15 Activation Criteria

Please cast your votes!

Therefore, at this time masternode owners should feel free to begin casting their votes on proposals without concern that they will be reset. In the meantime, the team is working on a few updates to Dash Core v0.13 (separate communication coming on this), in addition to continuing work on Dash Core v0.14.

Thank you again to all masternode owners for the great progress made towards finalizing the Dash Core v0.13 update. We are really excited to continue rolling out new features together!
Is NVT indicating a buy zone for large cap cryptocurrencies?
By: Christian Gazzetta
Tags: Litecoin, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Btc, Dash

Bitcoin last 3 months, 56d Moving Average. Data from CoinMetrics

In last months, the market cap of the most important cryptocurrencies has been hiking consistently while their NVT is on its way down. Is it a good buy signal?

As described in our last Medium post, NVT is the ratio that measures the value attributed by the market to the volume of transactions executed in a ledger. Mathematically, it is defined as the market cap of a cryptocurrency divided by its on-chain volume, and it can be interpreted as the price of each US dollar transacted in the network.

Thereby, a rising trend for NVT means the token’s market cap is climbing up faster than its inner value, what may indicate FOMO or a price bubble. Alternatively, when the ratio keeps falling down it can mean that a good opportunity of investment is being set, if the volume follows an uptrend.

Dash last 3 months, 56d Moving Average. Data from CoinMetrics

Litecoin last 3 months, 56d Moving Average. Data from CoinMetrics

And that’s exactly what has happened to some large cap cryptocurrencies in the last months. Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dash are good examples of that: in last three months, prices are hiking rapidly while the NVT ratio is consistent on its way down, what indicates the volume of transactions is evolving in a notable pace.

But is that signal sufficient for investors to make good decisions right now? For us to know that, we should analyse other fundamentals indicators, which will be presented to you in next weeks.

Keep checking out our posts for more learning and insights!
Altcoin April
By: Astontech International
Tags: Tezos, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Dash

March so the arrival of the so called “altseason”, where many mid and low market cap coins saw significant, double or even treble figure growth despite the relatively low pace of growth with top 10 cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin included.

As we enter April, Bitcoin’s market dominance is one of the lowest that has been seen for some time, currently at 50.1% according to coinmarketcap.com. This not only reflects on traders looking for high volatility outside of the top currencies but also the emergence of new projects and the advancement of existing projects.

The industry has stopped clamouring for institutional and Wall Street approval and adoption and is instead focusing much more internally on some of the stand out projects to emerge from the crypto space.

Below we take a look at two of of the coins that have seen exceptional growth throughout March and which one will likely continue to grow through April and the news stories and announcements that are continuing to prompt these large price movements.

DASH

Dash has started April with some good news and a consequent price surge in a prime example of the sort of news that moves markets. ElectroPay, a cryptocurrency payment solutions provider, has released its in South America its first set of crypto keypads with Dash support (amongst others) which will increase adoption on the continent. DASH has also seen significant upgrades to its network as well as a number of other positive news stories surrounding the project.

Dash, currently ranked #13 by market cap, is up 11.21% over the past 24 hours. DASH has a market cap of $1,000,886,510 USD with a 24-hour volume of $348.8M.

Tezos (XTZ)

The price of a Tezos token reached $1 valuation for the first time in 2019 on 30th March. It gained 100% since the beginning of the year when its price was $0.499.

Tezos has enjoyed what seems to be the revival of the “Coinbase Effect”. In 2017 and 2018 a coin getting a listing on coinbase.com would be enough to send its price straight upwards, an effect that has diminished somewhat during the “crypto winter”.

However, Coinbase recently announced that it would allow its clients to stake their XTZ holdings (the TEZOS network runs on what is known as a Proof-of-Stake Consensus rather than mining) and earn annual returns. Offered via Coinbase Custody, all staked XTZ tokens would be held in fully-insured cold storage wallets, making it a very attractive proposition with attractive returns for institutional investors, which has seen Tezos speculators stocking up of the token in anticipation of big investors fuelling demand.

If you’d like to find out more about trading TEZOS, DASH or any of the many other cryptocurrencies available on our platform then contact Aston Tech International today.
Demelza Hays to Join the Dash Investment Foundation as Consultant
By: Amanda B. Johnson
Tags: Demelza Hays, Fund, Cryptocurrency, Dash, Dif

The directors and elected supervisors of the Dash Investment Foundation (DIF) are thrilled to announce that Demelza Hays has agreed to serve as the DIF’s first investment consultant.

Ms. Hays most recently served as consultant for the Alternative Investment Fund at Liechtenstein’s Incrementum AG, where she was concurrently the editor of Crypto Research Reports. Ms. Hays was also recently named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in European finance.

“We’re delighted with this development. Hiring an investment professional is the last piece of the puzzle in order to for us to truly leverage the full power and potential of the DIF.” — Michael Lewis, DIF Chair & Supervisor

While consulting the DIF, Ms. Hays will continue pursuing her Ph.D. in Business Economics at the University of Liechtenstein, where she also lectures on corporate finance, financial services, and blockchain technology.

To share her investment vision tailored specifically to the DIF’s unique setup, Ms. Hays will join the DIF’s supervisors on January 13th at 3:45pm UTC for a livestreamed call detailing the organization’s recent activities and its path forward.

“The Dash Investment Foundation distinguishes Dash from other cryptocurrencies by building a reserve of assets that receives all of its funds from the protocol… [Our] strategy is designed to start out as bankless and digital and to evolve into a well-diversified portfolio that hedges price fluctuations and supports the Dash ecosystem with capital for startups.” — Demelza Hays

The Dash Investment Foundation was incorporated on March 21st, 2019 as a Cayman Islands foundation company limited by guarantee. It is led by two Cayman Islands-based directors and overseen by six supervisors elected directly by the Dash cryptocurrency global network. The DIF has been called the world’s first “ownerless and memberless” investment fund.
Video Rewards App Kimeo Joins Dash Developer Program — Earn Dash For Browsing Content
By: Dash Developer Program
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Videos, Tech, Dash

Video Rewards App Kimeo Joins Dash Developer Program — Earn Dash For Browsing Content

One of the early promises of blockchain technology has been to democratize the content space and make it equitable and rewarding for creators and viewers alike.

By some estimates, large companies like Youtube pay out less than 70 cents for every dollar they receive in advertising while wielding complete sway over moderation. Only Recently, Youtube removed a large number of videos pertaining to crypto-currencies. While the videos were restored after a global outrage, the incident showcased the power such centralized platforms wield to distribute content.

To bring about transformative change, it is imperative for more companies to build new age content sharing platforms that not only uphold user freedom but can also find innovative ways to engage all three sides of the platform — Consumers, Creators and Advertisers while maintaining a balance.

To achieve all these aims and more, Kimeo — a video app with rewards for everyone was launched by Ajay Pal Singh and his team in 2019. A product of National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Ajay pal has had a successful track record as an innovator with entrepreneurial stints in Startup Chile and the Iron Yard Accelerator in USA.

Kimeo leverages the combination of blockchain, cloud and cryptocurrencies, enabling users to get rewarded for adding or consuming content while allowing advertisers to reward people for watching. After a successful initial run, the app and data is currently being moved entirely to the blockchain and IPFS, providing 100% transparency and future proofing the app.

Kimeo App Screenshots

In 2019, Kimeo raised investment from the prestigious CV labs Incubation program and has quickly grown to 100,000 users with content being shared actively everyday indicating strong engagement.

Kimeo has users from 80 countries with a large number of them coming from the 18–25 Age Bracket. The platform is especially popular with crypto enthusiasts. Users are currently able to earn tokens for adding content on the platform and consuming it.

On working with the Dash Community, Ajay is especially Bullish.

Dash has one of the most active blockchain communities and we are super excited to be a part of it. We look forward to integrate Dash to Kimeo to give our users an opportunity to earn and spend Dash while spending time on Kimeo.

With the launch of Dash Evolution, will apps like Kimeo be able to leverage the unique feature set of the Dash Platform and drive world wide crypto adoption? We are sure excited. Watch this space to find out more !
First Decentralized Polis Platform “PolisNodes”
By: Polis Chain
Tags: Masternodes, Polis, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Dash

We are glad to announce the release of PolisNodes platform, a one click masternode platform powered by the Polis Blockchain and Polis Community.

The main objective of “Polis Nodes” is to add value to polis through making a one click masternode platform powered by POLIS.

Polis Nodes aims to provide cryptocurrency investors with an easy way of creating and deploying their own masternode(s) — regardless of their technical abilities. All services in the platform will be paid in POLIS — thus creating more demand and use cases for the coin.

Features

First DPP (Decentralized Polis Platform).

As you may know, Polis motto has always been “Polis Empowers People”, so the Polis Team decided to create the first Decentralized Polis Platform.

How does it work?

Well, the PolisNodes platform will involve the Polis Community in many aspects of the platform, such as:

New Features.

New Listings.

Delistings.

Important decisions.

Bug Hunting.

A guide on how to participate in this project can be found here:

We will also send 10% of the total earnings from PolisNodes to all the Polis masternode owners that participate in the voting of new proposals.

Masternodes that do not vote on new proposals, will not be rewarded.

Every end of a quarter, the PolisNodes team will issue a report on the earnings of the PolisNodes platform, and will pay to the voting masternode owners their share in POLIS.

Fair pricing

PolisNodes will start at .1 USD a day, 3 USD a month, paid in POLIS.

This pricing is a competitive one, as we are below average.

Roadmap

PolisPay Shift on coin payments

We are starting the integration of PolisPay Shift payments in the PolisNodes masternode platform, meaning that you will be able to fund your account in POLIS from any coin supported in the PolisPay app.

How does it work?

You are given an address in your coin of choice, you deposit your coin, and using our internal PolisPay Shift, we deposit you POLIS balance into your account.

Investments Dashboard

A full dashboard with all your rewards information will be available in PolisNodes, this way, you will be able to ttrack your investments in a better way.

ERC20 Nodes

There are some nodes that require a different setup and are not masternodes, such as IDEX, HoriZen, Waltonchain, among other projects that are starting to integrate a “trustless staking” platform, and polisnodes plans to support them.

Social Media

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Conclusion

PolisNodes will be the first Decentralized Polis Platform, and as such, we are excited to see how far can we go.

We’d like to thank the Polis Community for all their support, exciting times ahead!
This Week in Blockfolio Signal — May 10th
By: Jason Hamlin
Tags: Iotex, Blockfolio, Insights Network, Dash, Blockchain

Dash Partners with eGifter to Launch Gift Card Marketplace

“Announcing the launch of the eGifter marketplace on Dash.org! eGifter has integrated Dash and InstantSend, the result is a seamless experience for Dash users to spend Dash at their favorite retailers in the U.S. To celebrate, purchases made in Dash will receive additional DashBack on select retailers!” Read More — Omar Hamwi, Head of US/Canada Business Development

Summary

Dash has partnered with leading online gift card provider, eGifter, to launch a gift card and reward marketplace. Anyone can use Dash to buy gift cards to popular retailers, restaurants, etc.

The marketplace rewards users with “DashBack,” currently at 3% to 8% at places like Nike, Home Depot, Dominoes, Macy's and Dunkin Donuts.

Dash’s Instantsend has been enabled within the marketplace for fast and seamless transactions.

Significance

Dash is providing a convenient new use case for consumers. The ability to go to their website, learn about Dash and then take immediate action is a potential game-changer among the sea of cryptocurrencies that have no immediate use for most people. This pushes cryptocurrency another step closer to mass adoption.

In addition, Dash is demonstrating the viability of cryptocurrency as a payment method and transaction layer. They are well-suited to do so, given their focus on user-friendliness, speed, and privacy.

DASH price at the time of Blockfolio Signal: $117.88

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