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This teenage girl seduced Nazis then shot them.
By: Toni Tails
Tags: Life Lessons, History, Family, Feminism, Life

This teenage girl seduced Nazis then shot them. Freddie Oversteegen was 14 when she and her sister were recruited to the Dutch Resistance to lure SS soldiers to their death.

Her hair in pigtails, Freddie rode her bicycle — basket loaded with guns — down the streets of Haarlem in North Holland. She looked two years younger than her age, and was rarely questioned by Nazi officers.

Freddie and her sister actively seduced Nazi soldiers, leading them to the woods to be executed. The men were mostly killed by older resistance members, but sometimes the sisters pulled the trigger themselves.

When asked why and how many she killed, Freddie’s response was,
How Can Art Battle Against Human Trafficking?
By: Janis Cox
Tags: Human Trafficking, Prayer, Inspiration, Art

For the past 5 days I have drawn a picture to go with a prayer scripture. One every day.

And the pictures had to be in yellow. Yes — yellow.

I am advocating against human trafficking working with IJMCanada (International Justice Mission). Join me.

It’s a tough topic. No one likes it. (except the perpetrators). But no one knows what to do. I don’t know what to do.

But I know I can pray these scriptures and paint them. I can fundraise to get people to safety.

I want people to know that human trafficking does exist.

Here are my 5 paintings for 5 days.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.”

Psalm 9:18

“But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.”

John 8:32

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

2 Chronicles 7:14

“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Psalm 72:4

“May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor.”

Do you want to do something to fight against human trafficking?

Are you looking for a group of like-minded people who pray and study God’s Word?

Join us at Artists and Writers Grow Through God’s Word.

Let’s be proactive. Let’s fight against this travesty.

IJMCanada says:

We’ve been getting a lot of joy from the yellow pops of colour on participating IJM Canada staff, and I hope you’ve been feeling the same. Yellow is the colour of warmth, of sunshine, of rain boots and daffodils. Yellow is light, and hope, and happiness. Yellow is bringing an end to slavery so that no one is trapped in darkness.

Join us.
Блокчейн конференция — Decenter Cryptoevent Moscow 2018
By: Bitbon System
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Bitbon, Conference, Blockchain Technology

The Bitbon System is a large-scale infrastructure project, which represents a decentralized platform for Contributing. https://www.bitbon.space/en/home

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Trapped
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Poetry, Skin, Trapped, Uncomfortable, Caged

I squirm and I twist

Trying to adjust

Like a sweater that doesn’t fit right

Or it’s twisted and crooked

The buttons are awry

And the sleeves are too short

I pull and I turn and I shift

Nothing seems to work

It’s like my skin doesn’t fit

I’ve been put in this suit

That wasn’t meant for me

Trapped and constrained

A stranger in this shell

Unable to escape it

This body that isn’t mine
LOC is now trading on KuCoin!
By: Locktrip.Com, Loc Token, Official Blog
Tags: Blockchain, Locktrip, Crypto, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Dear Community,

we are excited to announce that we successfully passed all listing requirements from KuCoin and are now trading on their exchange!

Trading pairs include LOC/BTC and LOC/ETH.

Trading fee is 0.1% ( discount available).

You can view the official announcement from KuCoin here.

About the listing

As you know, this achievement was something, we worked on for a long time. It is very important for the LOC token to have a good liquidity, and we consider this as one of the difficult things to provide for any project. You can see the importance of it reflected in the low trading volumes for most of the crypto projects.

Often, token holders do not have the chance to buy or sell at high volumes, which hinders organic price movement and offers a free playing field for speculators. This is, why providing high liquidity was always one of our priorities from the beginning.

With today’s milestone, we now have 3 high liquidity exchanges (KuCoin, HitBTC and Bancor), of which 2 where added recently.

But of course, we will not stop pushing until we are listed on all major exchanges!

In addition, the listing comes with a free $30,000 advertisement package as a reward for winning their competition.

We want to thank our community once again for their amazing support.

About KuCoin

We consider KuCoin as a high quality exchange with a professional team. Advanced platform features, as well as a good user interface, make KuCoin to one of our recommended exchanges to trade on.

Homepage (KuCoin)

Telegram channel (KuCoin)

LockTrip is the first marketplace with 0% commission where you can save on average 20% on your hotel and rental bookings compared to anywhere else. Learn how to buy LOC tokens to enable access to our marketplace and its lower prices here!
Trump Insists That Adopting 300 Puppies Has Nothing to Do With Impeachment Hearings
By: Christine Anderson
Tags: Comedy, Impeachment, Dogs, Donald Trump, White House

Photo of puppies contributed by Free-Photos on Pixabay

Despite showing little affinity for animals-or even people-President Trump made the seemingly impulsive decision to adopt 300 puppies from multiple shelters all over the DC area. Why would a man who has notably not had any pets in the White House suddenly decide to welcome such a staggering number of canines? According to White House officials, Trump has, and always has had, an adoration of all animals. Officials have stated that he has made this clear in many speeches and that his love of animals is second only to his love of Muslims and Hispanics, who he loves and respects “tremendously.”

Addressing an audience from the Oval Office while holding a small terrier by the tail as it cried, Trump insisted that all animals love him, and that they are naturally drawn to his charisma and compassion.

Trump grew angry when challenged about this decision with critics believing it is a PR stunt to distract from the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Several witnesses claim to have seen him kicking at least five of the puppies when he believed he was not being watched. He has also been seen spraying Lysol in their direction, whispering to himself about “germs” and “vermin.”

While the literal hordes of puppies draped across furniture and rugs would be an adorable and amusing sight to most, it is of grave concern to animal rights’ activists who are left wondering what will happen to these animals if and when the impeachment hearings are over. Most believe that the President may simply return them to the shelters, or even have them euthanized.

President Trump of course dismisses any such concerns, and insists that this act while “noble, and possibly the kindest act of any President ever,” is just par for the course for him. “I love every single one of these dogs, they are like my children to me! I would never dream of using any of my sweet babies for political gain.”
The MFA Student: “Bitterness Is the Emo Cousin of Entitlement”
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Writers, Idk, The Youngs

The New School’s MFA writing students are learning! “Provided they’ve been paying attention to the world outside the workshop, they’ve noticed that the conversation about what it means to be a certificated ‘writer’ has shifted away from the literary, and even the lofty, and is now taking place in the rather harsher language of political economy.”
Fell in love with a girl and saved for a ring -then they closed the banks.
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Love, Ethereum, Argentina, Bitcoin

Fell in love with a girl and saved for a ring -then they closed the banks. ProtocolDroidMC Follow Jun 12, 2018 · 2 min read

I once had a friend who fell in love with a girl and saved for a wedding ring. The day he went to the bank to withdraw the cash he had saved, the banks closed and the government took half of his money. No wedding ring that day.

The country was Argentina, and my friend later married the girl and they lived happily ever after. Score one for love and zero for crooked central banks.

The MonetaryCoin protocol

The MonetaryCoin protocol attempts to address the problems created when the government abuses the banking system. It’s a cryptocurrency that combines Nobel Prize winning theory with blockchain technology. If your country or currency area reliably reports GDP and issues a currency, it will soon have its own MonetaryCoin. Here is how it works:

1. The total number of Monetary Coins is limited in each county to about 1% of that country’s money, measured on the date of launch. Once the limit is reached stakeholders will only be able to mine as many coins as permitted by the percentage growth in the economy, multiplied by the coins outstanding. That’s the Nobel Prize winning part.

2. Owning coins creates mining power. If you set aside coins for mining, you earn a fixed rate, multiplied by your percentage of ownership in the network, and then multiplied again by the coins available for mining in that period. Got it? It means the more you own the more you can mine, and no special mining gear required.

3. The MonetaryCoin can satisfy know-your-customer rules for anti-money laundering. You can turn the feature on and show identity, or leave the feature off and remain anonymous. The so called “AML-KYC” data are not visible on the blockchain to any party other than the intended recipient.

The initial distribution of the first two Monetary Coins is active now at www.monetarycoin.io.

For more information on MonetaryCoin see www.monetarycoin.org.
超過 30 個優質線上學習網站，課程平台資源大全，持續成長靠自學課程
By: 侯智薰 Raymond Ch Hou
Tags: Learning, 線上課程, 優勢, Careers, 學習

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When Satellites Collide…
By: Arnoud Buzing
Tags: Data Science, Space Debris, Satellite, Wolfram, Space

When Satellites Collide…

A Computational Thinking Story With the Wolfram Language

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Space is big, really big. However, space around Earth is getting more and more crowded. Every time a new spacecraft is launched little bits and pieces end up in orbit around. The US Space Surveillance Network estimates that there are over 100 million pieces under 1 cm floating around Earth, about 900,000 pieces in the range 1–10 cm, and about 34,000 pieces larger than 10cm.

Every once in a while, two of those bigger pieces get really close together. For example, there currently is a risk that on October 16 at 00:56 UTC two objects with a combined mass of 2,800 kg will collide:

To get details on what is going on here I cracked open a new Wolfram notebook session. To get the satellites in question, I used the natural language interface and typed in “satellite 19826” as given in the tweet. This consults the Wolfram Knowledgebase (also used by, for example, Wolfram|Alpha) and gave me the satellite entity:

(All subsequent images by author)

Repeating the same process for “satellite 36123” gives me the two entities I am interested in:

All entities have a certain number of properties that can be queried. For example, here are some of the known properties for the “CZ-4C rocket body” object:

Using these properties we can plot the current position and trajectory for the “CZ-4C rocket body”:

And, with a little bit more code, we can plot where these two objects are expected to be on October 16, 2020:

Update: Newly released trajectories are predicting a higher probability of a collision. New trajectory image:

The details of how this map can be created are described by Jeff Bryant in this Wolfram Community post. The full code is also available in this online notebook.

If “Cosmos 2004” and the “CZ-4C rocket body” collide they will create a big cloud of smaller objects, increasing the amount of space debris near the Earth. There are currently no cost-effective ways to remove this debris. The current focus is to reduce the amount of newly introduced debris.
EPISODE 6: REYNOLDA HOUSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
By: Wake Forest Mas
Tags: Winston Salem, Wake Forest University, Art, American Art, Art Collection

ONCE THE ESTATE OF R. J. AND KATHARINE REYNOLDS, Reynolda Gardens is a 129-acre center for recreation in the North Carolina Piedmont.

The Reynolda Gardens were originally conceived as a gift to the community. About 50 years ago in 1967, the museum opened as another gift to the community. The two are tied together because of the history of the estate and the family. People have been coming to Reynolda House as a staple of their visit to Winston Salem for at least a hundred years.

Reynolda Gardens are free to visit.

Originally owned by RJ and Katharine Reynolds, the Reynolda House and beautiful property have always been the centerpiece for locals to enjoy a combination of art and nature. This is a place where you can bring family and friends on a summer day and spend the afternoon walking through the gardens, strolling through the shops, and touring the museum inside the restored mansion.

The Reynolda House Museum of American Art

The Reynolda House hosts an annual community day event that is free and open to the public. “We open the doors to the Museum and the grounds offering tours, activities and fun performances. It’s a really great day for anybody to come and have a really wonderful time free of charge.” — Chris Jordan, Director of Public Programs

The Reynolda Gardens estate has 129 acres to stroll and discover.

It is always free to walk to the property and gardens when you feel like going for a stroll. And there’s almost always an event on the front lawn to take advantage of. Inside, the Museum showcases a rotating exhibition of world-renowned artists. Reynolda House puts the art into The City of Arts and Innovation.
ICO Review — 5 reasons why Uncloak will be the next game player in cybersecurity
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Ico Review

1. A sector booming but a shortage of solution

Computer hacking is a global problem that grows every year as the connectivity of individuals and devices increases (explosion of the connected objects market -IoT-, development of smart cities and mass digitization of the population). Not a day passes without us hearing about computer attacks, data leaks or new ransomware. Even though the public, Internet and telecommunications sectors are the main targets of cyberattacks (industrial espionage), piracy affects all categories of businesses ranging from small businesses to web giants. We keep in mind the impressive attack suffered by TV5Monde, which almost ended with a takeover of the broadcast by russian hackers or massive data leaks from web giants such as Linkedin, Yahoo, …

It’s difficult to estimate the losses due to the computer attacks but according to estimates of cybersecurity companies, the losses would be 13 billion dollars for worms and viruses and $ 226 billion for attacks. According to other studies, cybercrime is expected to cost $ 6 trillion a year by 2021.

In their attempts to protect against computer attacks, companies face several problems:

There is a shortage of protection solutions that are proactive in identifying new threats.

Cyber ​​attacks are constantly evolving which makes setting up a very complicated protection policy. In addition, this requires security experts and (very) important financial resources.

Current cybersecurity solutions rely on an isolated and personalized approach to threat management, with (very) limited (or no) knowledge sharing between industry players.

Most of the patterns and signatures that help security software detect a vulnerability are available for free on the Internet, allowing hackers to have the same knowledge as a security consultant.

The consequence is an eternal game between robbers and cops where everyone tries to be one step ahead to protect themselves for the companies and to succeed attack for the hacker.

In this context, Uncloak has created a solution based on blockchain, smart contracts and Artificial Intelligence in order to allow companies to protect themselves at a lower cost while always being one step ahead of hackers.
Newspaper Media Group Appoints New Marketing Director
Tags: Brand Awareness, Headlines, Angela Smith, Business, Newspaper Media Group

Newspaper Media Group, the region’s largest publisher of community newspapers, today announced it has named longtime media professional Angela Smith as its first director of marketing and events.

Smith will partner with the company’s sales team to develop events in all of the communities served by NMG’s group of more than 40 community weeklies. Along with enhanced marketing programs, the events will enhance the publishing company’s brand awareness.

“One of our primary roles as a community newspaper publisher is connecting with our readers, listening to the people we serve. Angela is an important part of that relationship,” said Perry Corsetti, COO of Newspaper Media Group. “She’ll be getting us more involved with all of our communities, developing new, exciting events at each of our newspapers.”

Smith, a Cherry Hill resident, formerly served in similar capacities at BillyPenn.com, Gannett, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Press of Atlantic City and other leading media firms.

“Newspaper Media Group’s growth makes this an incredibly exciting challenge,” Smith said. “In Philadelphia, the suburbs and New Jersey, we have so many opportunities to connect our advertisers with our readers.”
Poetic Shorts. Susceptible to solitude, everybody…
By: Tim Varner
Tags: Pain, Depression, Short Story, Poetry, Life

Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash

Rise

Susceptible to solitude, everybody needs to be jealous.

Tired of being ridiculed, they pray for a life like what ours is.

I’ll break my back serving you, you’re my world, my everything.

Obsessed with your each and every molecule, you’re the words these wrists sing.

Challenged with the idea of no more moments beside you.

We need to keep to ourselves, never in need of a wake up call.

Never need more than two, I’m wide awake as you sleep it off.

Teaching me to love again, licensing my heart.

No more tears, no pills, no falls.

You’ve given me a bachelors in believing.

A life-long rise into the stars and a doctorate through cupid’s dart. We sing..

Photo by Thiébaud Faix on Unsplash

Cleansing

My whole life i’ve been working’

To free my restless mind, these demons inside

Nobody knows what i know, no one can speak my mind but me

To much weight has been applied to my shoulders

To much brought on by each boulder

I won’t fight, wound me if you will, i can’t die

Pushing to overcome, the remembrance of a broken home

Lost through the separation of my father

Devastated by the loss of my mother

I work to strengthen my mind

To ease this pain of life

I cleanse myself through the smiles of the children

Their innocence, their not knowing, their not caring

Bouncing from home to house

Each one missing something from the last

I’ll criticize, I’ll always rise

No One can bring me down

No One’s been where i’ve been
Learning a XOR Function with Feedforward Neural Networks
By: Jake Batsuuri
Tags: Statistics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Data Science, Deep Learning

What is the “Exlusive Or” function?

While a regular “or” has a truth table like this:

An “exclusive or” has a truth table like this:

If we translate this to a matrix we get the input:

…and the output:

Before we specify exactly which model, cost function, optimization procedure and data, let’s review some basics, nearly all deep learning algorithms consist of a few parts:

Dataset

Cost function

Optimization procedure

A model

Overview

We have the real XOR function, represented by:

Our task is to learn this function’s behavior, we pretend to not know how it works. Now let’s represent our version of the XOR function, and it looks like this:

for our function, the theta represents all the parameters that we adapt to make f as similar as possible to f*. This is our main task, in order to accomplish this task we will jump to a few mini lessons and sub-tasks. Let’s find out what the inputs or the x’s are…

Inputs

There can only be 4 inputs, the truth value of statement A & B inside one vector, in set notation it looks like:

We call our set of inputs fancy capital X. We can’t get a statistic generalization on such a small input space, all we can do is to fit the the dataset.

Cost Function

We use a MSE for the cost function because it has a simpler math. But you can use more different types of functions.

For our dataset we get:

Remember that our number of examples m = 4 and that we are trying to minimize the distance between the actual outputs and the predicted outputs. Next we choose our model, specifically what function the f will be.

Model

Let’s say we choose a linear model, again this part is interchangeable with many other functions but we start with a simple one:

… every input gets multiplied by a weight and adjusted by a bias term, this means that our parameters are:

We need to find what w is first. We will do that by using the Normal Equations. Normal equations are an analytical way to solve for the parameters. It’s the better option when you have a smaller data set to work with. Let’s see what Normal Equations are and what w and b are too.
WRX is listed on FTX ⚡️
By: Wazirx Bitcoin Exchange
Tags: Wrx, Token, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News

Namaste Tribe! Today’s a big day for WRX holders! We’re happy to announce that our native token, WRX is now listed on FTX. 🙌

Buy, sell, trade WRX/USD & WRX/USDT on FTX

Within 3 months of making a debut on Binance Launchpad, WRX has seen immense growth. And it’s all because of YOU! Thank you for supporting WazirX. ⚡️

Listing on FTX is a major milestone in the journey of WRX growth. We have more amazing plans for you WRX holders, so stay tuned! I also want to add, we plan to spread WRX further so that everyone around the world can buy, sell, trade WRX.

If you’re an exchange that wants to list WRX, please write to us on hi@wazirx.com and we’ll be happy to work with you. 💪

Jai Hind 🇮🇳
GoChain Testnet Inbound, Less than 20 Days till Presale, and More!
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency

Our developers have been busy coding and working toward getting the Testnet ready to be launched this month. Currently the Testnet is running at a consistent 950 tx/second with a long running load test. Faster tps can easily be achieved but not consistently just yet. Handling a consistent load is the most important thing! Check our Telegram and other social platforms to catch the release date!

GoChain’s Pre-Sale Is Right Around the Corner.

Have you registered for the sale? It’s coming up quickly so register today! Just follow this link to become a part of GoChain.

April 1st is going to come faster than you know so if you are not sure what you want to do we encourage you to put us in the hot seat on Telegram and get all your questions answered!

It’s Official We’ve Been Listed on ICO Drops!

We would love if you could drop a line in the commments about how cool and awesome we are! https://icodrops.com/gochain/
Digging In
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Change, Lockdown, Plague, Poetry

Digging In

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Colloquially set aside

begged into a frame

of some forgiveness

Always asking for it

at any rate

having to

having made the last

mistake

and the one before it

Rearranging, revisioning

the angel’s head

the tattoo tears itself

away

flees down the street

Unwilling to tempt

the coming agony

the skin knits itself

a whole

to stop the rest from

entering in

A line of defense

against an agonist

that won’t stop to wait

for mere signs

Rendered infantile in

the next embrace

the image-reservoir*

drains a little bit more

bleeds another sentence

or two that are just

fucking ignored

Calling reinforcements

dropping brown paper bags

off on the steps

then running for the sake

of the world

The reinforcements

never come without

problems of their own

Awaiting the newest

number set

and still steeled to dispute

the accuracy

of not laying blame

just everywhere

that life seems insufficient

The grotesqueness

of the hidden body

the time that it takes

to make it right again

after so long out of the view

of the sun

becomes its own relic

its own record of some

extraordinary fear

The timing of the dry

breath

that squeezed itself through

the closet door

ancient handle

that barely turns but is

holding all that precious

stuff

Digging in

getting behind the curve

the mind does

drift
Tree Traversal in JavaScript
By: Gulgina Arkin
Tags: JavaScript, Algorithms, Trees, Data Structures, Tree Traversal

Tree Traversal in JavaScript

Breath First Search vs Depth First Search

Tree example

A tree is a non-linear data structure — a collection of nodes connected by directed (or undirected) edges. Each node contains a value and the connection between nodes is called edges. The top-most node is called root, a node without children is called leaf node. Nodes with same the same parent called siblings. The depth of a node is the number of edges from the root to the node and the height of a node is the number of edges from the node to the deepest leaf.

How can we visit every node in a tree? The common algorithms of traversing a tree are breadth-first search(BFS) and depth-first search(DFS).

Breadth-first search

With BFS we visit nodes level-by-level. We explore the breadth, i.e., full width of the tree at a given level, before going deeper.

BFS example

Usually, we’ll encounter binary tree, so we implement the breadth-first search using binary tree in the following examples.

Depth-first search

The algorithm starts at the root node and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.

There are three common ways:

In-order (Left, Root, Right): A, D, F, H, J, K, Z

Pre-order (Root, Left, Right): J, F, A, D, H, K, Z

Post-order (Left, Right, Root): D, A, H, F, Z, K, J

Tree example for DFS

In DFS, we use recursion for the implementation.

In-order:

Pre-order:

Post-order:

How do we decide which one to use? The simple answer would be, it depends on the tree. After considering the structure of the tree, time and space complexity, we can choose one. For example, for long and one sided single tree, DFS is proper to use, because we just store nodes according to the depth not the breadth; If we have lots of levels, siblings to track of, BFS works better.

Tree traversal can be challenging, I hope this article could help 😉

References:

JavaScript In Plain English

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Her and His Sacrilege
By: Karen L
Tags: Religion, Love, Romance, Relationships, Poetry

i am without a god

but He is one and mine.

much like allah and zeus,

how mighty and divine.

i am without a religion

but He is christianity,

the body i worship.

my church, His sanctity.

i am without an angel

but He is my one true

guardian, sweet lucifer.

and i, His own mary sue.

i am without a sacrament

but He is my baptism.

some twisted bat mitzvah,

if i swore by judaism.

i am without a pope

but He is my rabbi,

a teacher sans priestly

answers to every “why?”

i am without a prayer

but He is my creed,

the amen to what i

imagine i want and need.

— 051510

I knew even then that my deepest relationships would be with non-theists
Weekly Blockchain Industry Report — 10th Issue: A Major Drop in Transaction Volume!
By: Billy Lau
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency Investment

(June 16 — June 22, 2018)

This past week we experienced a major drop in transaction volume. It seems like this may have indicated the bear market we are experiencing this week.

We hope this report provides you with insights into your investments and knowledge of cryptocurrencies. We have also attached a list of upcoming ICOs at the end of this article if you’re interested in any of the new projects.

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Market Overview

The past week’s daily average global market capitalization of cryptocurrency was $283.2 billion and the daily average transaction volume was $12.24 billion, indicating a decline of 6.98% and 20.93% respectively. The daily average market capitalization of the top five cryptocurrencies decreased by 5.17% from the previous week. EOS has experienced the greatest price decrease in the past week with a low of $10.18, a decrease of 6.09%. BCH on the other hand experienced a 6.56% price increase.

Of the top 10 cryptocurrencies that increased, 60% of the tokens were of the vertical industrial application vertical. Also, Fantom of the public chain and protocol vertical experienced the greatest increase in price.

Table of Top 10 Weekly Token Price Increases

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Analysis of Top 200 Market Cap Projects

The market capitalization of top 200 projects decreased by 0.14% compared with that of last week. Based on the main categories of cryptocurrency and payment, public chain and protocol, vertical industrial chain and protocol, and vertical industrial application, the vertical chain and protocol increased the most, increasing by 49.71%.

Through further classification of the vertical chain and protocol and vertical industrial application verticals, it was found that this week’s exchange platform tokens were on obvious increases at a rate of 46.24%.

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Analysis of Newly Listed Projects

There were 6 new projects in the market last week (mainly of the vertical industrial application field), 83.3% of which dropped in price within 24 hours of listing. Most of the newly issued tokens were listed on IDEX.

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Analysis of Closed Public Sales Projects

There were 6 new projects in the market last week (mainly of the vertical industrial application field), 83.3% of which dropped in price within 24 hours of listing. Most of the newly issued tokens were listed on IDEX.

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Important News on Global Governmental Policies this Past Week

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Keeping Up with the Blockchain Giants

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Appendix: Upcoming Crowdfunding Projects (6.23–6.29)

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Please follow our twitter @ https://twitter.com/OKCapital_ to stay updated with our reports!

*Credits go to Daren Kong for her superb research!
Walmart is Using its Massive Sales Data to Help Advertisers
By: Michelle Castillo
Tags: Shopping, Walmart, Media, Advertising, Ecommerce

Walmart made its billions as a shopping giant. Now it wants brands to think of it as an advertising powerhouse.

Walmart’s Vudu held its first NewFront in New York on Wednesday. The NewFronts are annual presentations digital media companies hold for marketers previewing upcoming content and advertising opportunities.

What makes advertising with Vudu especially interesting is it is letting marketers leverage information on Walmart shoppers. Starting July 1, Vudu will launch Vudu Audience Extension. This will allow marketers to target potential customers using Walmart’s own first party sales data. The company estimates it will be able to reach more than 50 percent of U.S. households based on its information. The offering will be available for Vudu content, as well as additional partners which will be announced in the upcoming months.

More people shop at Walmart than watch Hulu, Apple, and subscribe to Amazon Prime combined, according to Walmart Media Group vice president and general manager Stefanie Jay,

“We know how people shop,” Jay said at the presentation. “The quality and quantity of our first-party shopper data is unbeatable.”

More than 250 million Americans shopped at Walmart last year, or about 95 percent of the country, according to Jeremy Verba, vice president and general manager of Vudu. Unlike Netflix and the upcoming Disney+, Vudu is ad-supported which allows 10,000 titles to be viewed for free. A typical 90 minute movie shown on cable will stretch out to 180 minutes because of ad breaks, but Vudu’s movies will only run about 100 movies even with commercials. Customers have the option to pay for additional movies and shows, which gives them more control of their budgets.

For viewers, they may see commercials like “shoppable in-stream ads.” Viewers watching on connected TVs will be able to click on an item inside a show or movie to learn more about the product. In addition, the watcher will get an email with more information on the item, as well as the option to buy it directly.

If Hershey’s is advertising Twizzlers during a movie, Walmart will also tell the advertiser if that viewer prefers the original Twizzlers flavor or the sour one based on their past shopping behavior. The ad will then change to reflect this information.

Vudu is also investing in original content, like the upcoming series “Blue’s Clues & You,” “Adventure Force 5” and reality TV show “Turning Point with Randy Jackson.” Its bespoke programming will be focused on early childhood, kids and family, co-viewing and parents as audiences for mainstream America.

“There’s a big blank space between New York and L.A., and we think that’s our sweet spot,” said Vudu senior director Julian Franco at the presentation.
The most optimistic news of the cryptoindustry
Tags: Blockchain

Offer to increase the reward for PoS validators

Vitaly Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, submitted an offer to GitHub to change a reward scheme for validators after the transition of the second most capitalised cryptocurrency to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism (PoS).

The more assets are fixed for validation, the lower is the interest rate. Thus, 134 217 728 ETH will bring crypto investors only 1.56% per annum. Whereas, the maximum annual emission volume will be 2,097,152 ETH.

According to Justin Drake, the researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, if, after PoS implementation, 32 million ETH are allocated for stacking purpose, the income of validators will be 3.2% per annum. Whereas, the annual emission indicator will be 1% ( the current indicator of Bitcoin inflation is 3.94%).

Adamant Capital: Accumulation Stage of BTC

Analysts of the Adamant Capital cryptocurrency fund claim that Bitcoin has already reached the “bottom”, and now we observe the first stage of accumulation. The published report contains many arguments that an uptrend will occur in the next five years.

During this time, BTC will become more frequently used for hedging investment portfolios and reserve assets. Tuur Demeester and Michael Leskrauvet, the report authors, say that Bitcoin will strengthen its status as a payment network.

Rise of BNB

Binance Coin (BNB) updates historical highs to USD and BTC. Over the past seven days, Binance token has grown by more than 22%; since the beginning of the year, it has increased by more than 300%. Сapitalisation of the coin is $3.39 billion, which allows it to hold 7th place in the CoinMarketCap rating.

One of the growth drivers was the launch of the main network of Binance Chain — its blockchain of the exchange. Migration of Binance Coin to the native network was scheduled for April 23. There is also an opinion that Binance can lure projects from the Ethereum ecosystem, including using such an instrument of influence as listing/delisting. These factors support Binance Coin.

Tron CEO Justin Sun suggests Partnership With Liverpool FC

Tron CEO Justin Sun tweeted on April 24 that the Tron Foundation will partner with Liverpool, British professional football club. The Tron CEO claimed that he is looking forward to explore this new partnership, adding that it is an official partnership and that more details will be released soon. Misha Lederman, co-founder of Tron-related blockchain startup IAmDecentralized, said that the new alleged partnership between Tron and LFC “would be beyond massive for crypto to say the least.”

First Golden Cross for Bitcoin in 3 Years as Bulls Return

Here’s yet another sign the crypto winter is thawing. Bitcoin, the largest digital currency, has formed its first bullish golden cross since October 2015. The milestone follows a 35 percent rally for Bitcoin past $5,600, on track for its best monthly gain since the height of the crypto frenzy in December 2017.
Welcome to TokenDrop, the simplest way to discover, follow, and earn Airdrops.
By: Aidan R-W
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Airdrop

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Do Our Prayers Really Make A Difference?
By: Tina Viju
Tags: Prayer, Self, Religion, Cancer, Life

I was talking to my uncle the other day. His wife, my aunt is at the moment in the hospital undergoing a stem cell transplant for myeloma. She is just in her 40’s. They have 3 young kids. As is the case with Cancer, the treatment is worse than the disease. Watching her suffer the torturous treatment has really shaken him to the core.

He ended our talk with “Keep your aunty in your prayers.” I replied, “ Yes, surely I will. Don’t worry. Take care.”

As I said those words, I couldn’t help but feel guilty. My words were just empty words. He was living his worst nightmare.

Would my prayers change anything?

First of all, I am not an atheist. God has been a very real presence in my life. At the same time, I study cancer data. I know the stark realities of this insidious disease.

As I go through pathology reports of patients, one thing is clear. Cancer does not discriminate. Patients come from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, and economic standings. Some are infants, some are hitting a century, some are pregnant moms, some are youngsters just beginning their lives and some have my exact date of birth.

Some patients manage to reach remission and stay clear. Some relapse and turn to different treatments. Some tragically reach the end of the line as their cancer eventually becomes resistant to all treatments.

I’m sure a majority of those patients and their families prayed for a miracle. They believed they would be the ones to beat it. They prepared to slay the evil dragon with Faith as their sword.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.

But sometimes in spite of our deepest faith and prayers, things happen which are beyond our realm of control. It is devastating, unfair and unbearable. It is not a punishment from the heavens above or a failure of our strength.

‘It is what it is.’ is the horrible truth of this bitter pill we have to swallow.

So I sometimes wonder what is the use of my prayers if LIFE will still happen anyways? It’s out of my control. Should I then just pray for strength to accept it all?

There are however things which are in my control.

I feel the greatest prayer no matter what our religion is, is the humanity we show to others.

That’s easier said than done. I struggle with showing humanity to those who have hurt me. I struggle with not thinking about ‘ME ME ME’ all the time. I struggle with not passing judgment on others and looking at the plank in my own eye.

It is a struggle to be humane.

I pray for my aunt, her young kids, her parents and her husband as they face this monster. But I know it’s little use to her if I just say a ‘Hail Mary’ and expect God to do all the work.

What is prayer without any supporting actions?

I must reach out and help her in any way I can. That is in my control.

We are what we DO and not what we say.

In the end, that’s what really gives power to our prayers.
LearnFactory Internship: Day 47 (July 5, 2018)
By: Favour George
Tags: Coding, JavaScript, Algorithms, Internships, Learnfactorynigeria

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Data dominates, if you have chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithm will almost always be self-evident. This week we took a deep dive into ‘data structure and algorithm’, most of us thought it another programming language, but the reverse was the case. This one was handled by our ingenious chief code smith, he started off with basic questions about algorithms and its underlying importance in software development.

We took three problems on algorithms: first, Checking if a string was a palindrome. A palindrome is a word, number or any sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar.

Then we also treated string and integer reversal with some array methods, but specifically reduce. We were all left in awe, dazzled and amazed at the power of Reduce. It could actually reduce an algorithm’s complexity, lol.

Algorithm for string reversal

Algorithm for integer reversal
Every Type of Zoom Call Participant, Illustrated by Cats
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Humor, Life, Remote Working, Pets, Work

The One Who Doesn’t Understand Lighting

No matter what time of day or night your meeting is, you can be certain that Cookie is going to be lit in a way that is appropriate for telling a ghost story but very little else.
20 Things My Suburban Parents Whispered At Christmas Mass
Tags: Humor, Satire, Funny, Christmas, Parenting

20 Things My Suburban Parents Whispered At Christmas Mass Koko Follow Dec 21 · 2 min read

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We’re going to this church, kids, because their priest has an average sermon time of four minutes.

2. Quick, what’s our excuse for forgetting the charity Christmas gift?

3. My lord, that family is wearing enough layers to open a Goodwill.

4. Does every male over the age of forty sprout a Brooks Brothers vest when it gets cold?

5. Babe, that peacoat makes me wanna do crazy things to you.

6. Having that extra bottle of Merlot was a great idea, honey— all midnight masses should be pregamed.

7. God’s son was born in a mule’s bedroom, and our kid wants a PS5?

8. Why did churches and hockey games agree to have the same background instrument?

9. Your sip of Christ’s blood up there was really more of a gulp.

10. I wasn’t snoring, my throat was applauding that rendition of Ave Maria.

11. God had a pretty lowkey gender reveal, didn’t he?

12. That’s right, kids. Don’t take candy from strangers, but take frankincense from an elderly man who chases constellations.

13. I can’t tell if my head is throbbing or if it’s the true meaning of Christmas.

14. So children can’t believe in Santa, but they’re supposed to believe the baby Jesus was born with that full head of hair?

15. See, Timmy could have been one of the shepherds this year if the casting wasn’t so political.

16. They won’t notice my vomit behind the manger outside, will they?

17. Only Mary and Kate Middleton look like that after childbirth.

18. Someone’s gotta tell the Smith’s kid that there are no ad-libs in “O Come Emmanuel.”

19. Don’t look now, but I may have accidentally put our credit card in the collection basket. Rocks paper scissors for who goes to get it back.

20. Timmy, this year we’re gonna leave out some Robitussin out for Santa, ok?
A contrarian bet: altcoins
By: Jusuf Serifi
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Altcoins, Bitcoin

We’re in a scenario today where the sentiment surrounding altcoins is disproportionately negative.

Back in December 2018, I stated that Bitcoin was over-sold and had most likely bottomed. Fast-forward 9 months, Bitcoin has increased by more than 100% in price whilst most altcoins have failed to surge synonymously. It’s August 2019, and the sentiment towards altcoins reflects that of Bitcoin 9 months ago. People are scared to take the plunge, wondering if they’ll ever return, just like people were worried about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is an incredibly exciting invention that is well on its way to becoming a global reserve currency, especially considering the fact that traditional forms of ‘currency’ are diminishing in value. Bitcoin has incredible upside to come, but should this mean that we ignore other projects that may have even more upside returns?

A quick read of the ‘lindy effect’ will tell you that the chances of an alternative coin replacing Bitcoin as a potential ‘digital gold’ are incredibly slim. Bitcoin continues to grow in security (mining power) and status (public perception), two elements that are creating a feedback loop favoring Bitcoins position on the throne. This aligns with the shift in the Bitcoin narrative, veering towards a ‘safe-haven asset’, an idea that's becoming increasingly attractive in today’s unstable macro-economic outlook. Yet, if we’re to assume that Bitcoin will be the only cryptocurrency to provide any real value to the world, we could be left short-changed from the value-potential that's about to be created in the space.

What’s the case for altcoins?

Altcoins — A word that is as divisive within the crypto community as Bitcoin is within the general community. A disadvantage that ‘altcoins’ have firstly, is that they are all clustered into this term that doesn’t have a positive reputation within the crypto-sphere. Subsequently, this provides an opportunity for thought-leaders in the space to tarnish the perception of these projects whilst painting them all with the same brush, a lazy attempt at edifying Bitcoin. This masks any meaningful fundamental progress that any of these alternative projects have achieved.

Fundamental growth?

Investment bank to launch $1bn worth of security tokens on the Tezos blockchain.

Jaguar Land Rover partnering with IOTA for data and value transfer.

MoneyGram and Ripple entering a 2-year strategic partnership to leverage XRP for exchange settlements.

Google announcing Chainlink as an official cloud partner.

Experienced Bitcoin hodlers will tell you that price is not always indicative of fundamental value. Whilst Bitcoins price approached serious under-valued territory in Q4 of 2018, the same argument can be made for a handful of altcoin projects in today’s market. This blog isn’t here to decipher which altcoin projects those are. But, below will give you an indication of what we can expect.

Technically sound?