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Announcement #24: More trading options with Options Trading
Tags: 100daysofbns, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Trading, Bns

Hey everyone,

When we say we are the largest cryptocurrency exchange in India, we’re not referring to just the volume, but also to the size of innovations we have come up with from time to time. We feel, without innovation Bitbns wouldn’t exist. Therefore, with announcement no. 24, we’re taking a major leap forward in terms of innovation by introducing Options Trading on Bitbns.

With this, we are fulfilling a major part of the roadmap i.e derivatives. Derivatives are financial instruments that derive value from their underlying assets. There are mainly four types of derivative contracts, namely Futures, Forwards, Options & Swaps. Today, we are announcing the launch date for options. So far, options trading in crypto doesn’t have something solid to offer and has been explored only by Deribit, which occupies over 85% of the options trading market

Building options trading products is a fairly complex endeavour and we had been working on this for the last 12 months. This is precisely why very few entities globally have done it. We are sharing with you a sneak peak of how the interface looks like:

We would be making significant content and educational material to simplify options trading experience for the users.

Nifty is the world’s largest derivatives market by trading volume for equities and options are traded largely on it, as compared to futures. Typical daily trading volume on Nifty trading is upwards of 100 billion USD. Through an options trading platform of our own, we look forward to opening an avenue for these users to trade digital assets derivatives.

On Sept 10th, traders would be able to trade cryptocurrency options on Bitbns. Currently, Bitbns Options is running in closed beta to analyse and iron out any issues.

One last thing XRP FIP goes live on Monday. XRP seems to be making another attempt at breaking the year long resistance. Let’s hope it breaks. Till then keep earning interest on your FIP and you can always redeem your XRP at any time you wish.

Till then

Onwards and upwards

Team Bitbns
It’s Time To Create Your Own “Trickles”
By: Sar Castillo
Tags: Change, Action, Ideas, Leadership, Business

It just might be time to become a Filipino Entrepreneur and help our country truly grow. It’s also time to realize the demographic blessing we have before us… before it’s too late.

In the article by Jillian Keenan, she writes about the “Reality” behind the country’s Economic Growth.
Membuat Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Sederhana menggunakan Python
By: Fahmi Salman
Tags: Image Processing, Python, Ocr, Technology, Tesseract

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Learn Core Language to Cue Healing
Tags: Tech, Life Lessons, Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement, Business

“The unconscious insists, repeats, and practically breaks down the door, to be heard.” — Annie Rogers, The Unsayable

If you don’t know you’re unconsciously repeating traumas from your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents… how can you become conscious?

The first step is just looking for the patterns.

You might not be able to see them for a while. Finding these signals in the noise of our lives can feel impossible. But it’s not.

By simply taking the approach of someone who loves themselves, you can begin to spot clues.

The hard part here is knowing how you might treat yourself if you DID love yourself. This often requires we get way outside our comfort zones. It requires us to think in long time horizons. Thinking with compassion across long swathes of time can be one of the hardest psychological exercises in the world.

But if you can identify even ONE cycle of trauma and self-abuse that seems to be linked to your ancestors’ trauma…

Then you know what you’re looking for.

Once you find one of what you’re looking for, now you’re better positioned to find two. If you find two, you can identify more.

To get started, think about the times you’ve been in the most severe physical and emotional pain. What were you doing? Were those behaviors similar to ones your parents or grandparents have gone through? Were you seeking to be like them or please them in order to get attention?

After you’ve identified these behaviors, now you’re in a position to do something about them. Tomorrow we’ll talk about how to create space in your life to better identify and prevent these cycles.

– Chad Grills, Mission Founder and CEO
5 Reasons why WAX is the best blockchain for video games
By: Wax Io
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Videogames, Gaming, Blockchain, Dapps

There are hundreds of blockchain-based video games today, with more and more launching each day. Fortunately for developers, there are a number of blockchains that they can choose to build their game on including EOS, TRON, Ethereum, and of course WAX.

Selecting the right blockchain can make or break a game. If the mechanics of a particular game were based on, say, players trading thousands of digital items every minute, a blockchain with low throughput and high transaction costs would be catastrophic. Different games have different requirements, and that’s why it’s important to select the correct blockchain for your game. Let’s look at a comparison of a number of popular blockchains for games:

All things considered, WAX is the best blockchain for video games. Why? Let’s look at the top five reasons:

1. One click account creation

Create a WAX Account with Google, Facebook, Steam or Kakao.

2. NFT Marketplace accepting fiat currency

Video game dApps that run on the WAX Blockchain can enable their customers to buy and sell NFTs on OPSkins (and other WAX Marketplaces in the future) with credit cards and other fiat currency methods, or crypto.

3. Funding available for dApps

The WAX Worker Proposal System is designed to incentivize and compensate community developers who build upon the WAX Blockchain. The WWPS allocates funds to be distributed to developers who work on community needs, patches, and upgrades. In exchange for their time and effort contributing to the development of WAX, these developers will be eligible to receive WAX Tokens from the WWPS.

4. Optional private key management

Mainstream video game players who aren’t crypto-savvy can easily play video game dApps that run on WAX, without using a Scatter or another wallet (coming soon).

5. Transactions are fast and free

WAX uses DPoS as its consensus mechanism which means 500 millisecond transaction speeds and free transactions. What’s more? WAX Accounts are free.

There you have it, the 5 reasons that WAX is the best blockchain for video games.

To start building on WAX, visit the WAX Developer Hive for documentation including quickstarts, tutorials, topics & reference, release notes, API reference, troubleshooting, code samples, and more.

Watch WAX co-founder William Quigley give his thoughts on why Ethereum isn’t suitable for video gaming here, and the pros and cons of the EOS blockchain here.

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Fortune Cookie Sayings to Prepare You for 2021
By: Don Be
Tags: Fortune Cookies, New Year, Short, Humor, Satire

The early bird gets the worm. The rest will be forced into a 3-day line for a super shady half-dose designed by Pinky (c/o: Pinky and the Brain, Warner Bros. Studios, Hollywood CA) and intended to replace the corneas of 86.5% of all recipients with Magic 8-balls.
Paint Me Understanding
By: Patsy Starke
Tags: One Line, Colors, Transgender, Poetry, Poverty

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Paint me black.

Paint me red,

yellow and brown.

Paint me your life.

Make me the same

and I will proclaim,

Yes, I understand.

Patsy, 10/4/2019

In response to Leah J. Living With Synesthesia, Colours of Humanity. Thank you Leah J, Harper T, and Kathy J.
Deploy Django using UWSGI + Nginx in AWS Lightsail with Ubuntu 20.14 LTS
By: Aji Pratama
Tags: Lightsail, AWS, Deploy, Django, Nginx

Introduction

Amazon Lightsail is an interesting product of AWS Cloud. We can use VPS service, storage, and Networking with a very low budget start from $3.5 which is a good offer if we want to deploy Company Profile, CV, Portfolio site, starter Blog, or even MVP with an early-stage user with no many traffic yet.

Django is a powerful web framework for Python Programming language with so many great features and remembers that Django is released in 2005 which is until right now Django has 15 years old with so many product build, eg: Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify, etc. We can serve Django with UWSGI and Nginx as a reverse proxy to Deploy Django in production. And we will set up DNS for connecting with the domain name.

Goals

In this article, our goal is to deploy and set up a Django application for production-ready and can access the Internet using UWSGI Nginx in AWS Lightsail.

AWS Lightsail Instance

To prepare to create something in VPS AWS Lightsail, we need to create Instance first.

Login to AWS Lightsail Console, Choose Instance Location (for me is Singapore, but you can choose need to depend on your need/customer location), Instance Image (Linux), and OS (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS).

3. Choose Instance Plan and give Identify name, for me it’s important to make clear identify the name with the region, like this:

4. Add tags

5. Click Create Instance to release your instance, and VPS is almost ready

After click Create Instance, wait until AWS finish their system to create Instance, and we back to the Home console and will see disables style Instance like this:

It’s mean the VPS is not ready yet. But after a few seconds/minutes VPS will ready and looks active like this:

VPS is really ready. We can see on the top right Instance card have terminal symbol, it’s mean we can log in SSH on the web by click that, and the Web terminal will look like this:

We just create VPS. And after this, we will set up OS.
How to Help Prevent Minor Inconveniences From Becoming Long-Term Problems
By: Max Phillips
Tags: Life Lessons, Overthinking, Psychology, Self Improvement, Mindfulness

How to Help Prevent Minor Inconveniences From Becoming Long-Term Problems

It’s probably not as bad as it seems.

Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Whenever I do something mildly wrong, I often let it take hold of me. For example, I recently painted my first wall — a significant achievement for a 22-year-old, I know. As I was going, I kept making mistakes. I put the masking tape on incorrectly, and there were a few imperfections.

It took the reassurance of my dad to calm me down. But it also got me thinking. How easy is it for you to let a mild inconvenience become a long-term problem? If you’re like me, then I doubt it’s challenging.

You see, we all make little mistakes along the way. For instance, forgetting your lunch is annoying, but if you let the thought fester, it can cast doubt in your mind. Soon, harmful language is the most prominent in your brain’s vocabulary, and you are on the road to hating yourself. It may sound slightly ludicrous, but it’s a slippery slope. Here’s how you prevent falling down it.
Just a teaser of the demo site of the #ArtisTurba exchange
By: Artis Turba
Tags: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Exchange, Blockchain, Altcoins

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Suju Rajan on how innovation and machine learning are the core of Criteo
By: Criteo Labs
Tags: Machine Learning, Innovation, Criteo

Tell us about your background and how you ended up at Criteo.

I started out as an intern building behavioral targeting models in Yahoo Labs and got to experience a variety of exciting applications of machine learning from search relevance to personalized recommendations. In parallel, on the management side, I grew from being an intern to directing a research team.

I had friends who worked at Criteo, and I was very aware of the importance given to machine learning here. When I was offered the opportunity to create and grow a research group, I had to sign on to the challenge.

What about our product most excites you or makes you proud to work here?

Even when interviewing at Criteo, I was very impressed by the forward and lateral view that the engineering and product teams had in wanting to constantly identify new opportunities to invest in. Criteo is the only success story in the space of publicly traded ad tech companies. The interviewers could have sold me on just the merit of our market position. Instead, the focus was on what we could do better, what opportunities we are missing out on, and where we could go with the data assets we have. This urge to stay ahead of the game, to constantly innovate and the laser-sharp focus on performance is what makes me proud to work here.

What makes working at Criteo different from your other experiences?

The strong mathematical and statistical training that our engineers and product managers have is a differentiator. It is easy to have an in-depth conversation on what the research team is working on and to get meaningful feedback on how that fits within the engineering and product roadmap. I have even had very insightful conversations with folks on the sales team on how the research team can help translate their insights from client conversations to factor into our machine-learned models. How cool is that? The whole company has a strong sense for what it means to be data-driven.

What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on?

We kicked off an internal machine learning “sabbatical” for our engineering counterparts — the Machine Learning Bootcamp. Members of the research team offer a set of classes that focus on the theoretical aspects of machine learning algorithms from simple categorization to reinforcement learning and, of course, deep learning. Our Bootcampers then sit alongside the research team to deep-dive into a machine learning research project. It has been exciting to see the enthusiasm with which the Bootcamp has been received, and we have even reached the point where our Bootcampers are publishing papers based on their projects.
Future great designers at The 2017 IxD Awards Shortlist (Student projects)
By: .Dsgnrs. Team
Tags: Awards, Students, Ixd, Design, UX

Stories from .dsgnrs. team, The place where designers become top designers www.dsgnrs.io

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I Sided With the Cheating Husband
By: Emme Beckett
Tags: Relationships, The Bad Influence, Marriage, This Happened To Me, Love

I Sided With the Cheating Husband

Yes, I broke girl code, but hear me out.

Image by pathdoc on Shutterstock

The husband had an affair. It lasted over a year. Maybe longer. It may have even started before they got married. Nobody knows.

Lies. Oh, so many lies. A family — with two young kids — torn apart.

The wife was blindsided. She had complete faith in her marriage. She never thought to question the frequent poker games, the many nights he’d arrive home late, or the unmistakable distance growing between them.

Distance is part of marriage, isn’t it? Sometimes? The key is to acknowledge that distance, resent its arrival, and work together to reconnect. Resuscitate.

But, I’m no expert.

The wife and I were friends. Not super tight, but occasional phone calls. Frequent texts. We’d get the kids together from time to time.

I never quite thought they were a great match. But, love is strange, I’d tell myself when I was in their presence. Is there even really such a thing as a perfect couple?

The husband confessed his affair to a friend. → The friend told his own wife. → The friend’s own wife told the wife.

Cards out.
Seize the day! 30% discount for Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Thailand
By: Lidiya Tsenenko
Tags: Bangkok, Thailand, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Conference

Only between February 22 and February 28: buy tickets to the first Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Thailand in Bangkok with 30% discount.

Discount price = 10500 THB (269 EUR)

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Special offer is valid 7 days only. Use promo code BBCThai30 during the registration.

Attendees of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Thailand will enjoy the reports of 15 crypto industry experts from 10 countries. Speakers from the USA, Russia, Australia, the UK and Thailand will share not only their knowledge and experience, but also reveal the insider information, give useful tips and discuss successful practices.

Event attendees will get answers to the most topical questions:

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Topics and speakers

Headliners of the conference are:
OTROVIO — Future of Mining
By: Vladamir Sergeyev
Tags: ICO, Ethereum, Token Sale, Blockchain Startup, Blockchain

Blockchain industry has been shifted into a revolutionary transaction tool that gives the impression of the future of all the economic activities. The improvement it went through has been extremelly fast so far and seems to be continue accelarating that way for decades. What exceeds imagination has been getting real although not much long ago it was considered imposible. Yet, where we are briefly explains that this assumption was proven wrong by the enlarging community of Blockchain technology.

Responding to the needs of that new industry, there would be a self developing and nature friendly movement for building an infrastructure to sustain the necessary suply for cryptocurrencies. OTROVIO is planned to use renewable energy sources as input for Blockchain mining. That is, it will be using loss energy that has no usage in the energy producing fields and mostly wasted after the main energy requirement has been provided. Otrovio has no toleration to waste any energy because it has faith on the sustainability of the environment. As for all other sectors, Blockchain also needs to be rise upon such ideas.

Otrovio will be introduced via this channel. Our structure, roadmap, team members and future plans will also be presented as to be in direct contact with our members.

Until then, take care!
Is it Time to Invest in Ripple XRP?
By: Cryptonite, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Writer
Tags: Xrp, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Ripple

Benefits of Ripple/XRP I have seen:

XRP has really fast transaction times, a transaction currently takes about 4 seconds to be processed.

XRP has really cheap transaction fees which are currently under a penny at $0.004 per transaction (less than 1/2 a cent).

Ripple is also partnered with over 100 banks which include the Bank of America, UBS, Standard Chartered, Barclays, JP Morgan, Santander and American Express.

XRP’s blockchain adds transparency and additional security to transactions by adding each transaction to a public ledger which cannot be altered or changed.

Since XRP transactions are peer-to-peer there is no central point of failure.

Why Ripple (XRP) could grow immensely in the next upcoming years:

Ripple (XRP) is currently the 3rd most valuable cryptocurrency in the world and over the course of 2017 the value of Ripple’s XRP rose over 35,000%.

XRP’s growth outdid both Bitcoin and Ethereum for that year, on top of that Ripple is already working with over 100 different banks including Barclays, JP Morgan and Bank of America.

Ripple aims to make sending and receiving money through banks anywhere in the world near instant and at a very low cost, this will be done using their XRP cryptocurrency.

The main entities that will benefit from this will be banks (yes I know a lot of crypto people hate banks but we cannot be closed minded, banks will be here to stay for a while).

Ripple will save banks a lot of money in terms of fees (XRP transaction fees are currently less than a cent) and since transactions only take a few seconds this means a lot more transactions can take place.

Ripple’s public ledger also adds an additional security layer to transactions since the ledger is built on Ripple’s own blockchain which cannot be tampered with or changed in any way.

This alongside civilian peer-to-peer transactions will create a lot of potential for Ripple/XRP in the future.

Ripple has also gained recognition from cash enabled cryptocurrency exchanges, London based CEX and the European exchange BitPanda for example have already added Ripple to their platforms.

Final Thoughts:

If Ripple can continue to add more banks to it’s roster and increase the ease of access to XRP for the everyday person then I see the future looking good for Ripple.

The technology is good and the people behind it are great as well, I cant wait to see how everything plays out.

If you plan to invest in Ripple (XRP) you can buy it using cash from BitPanda if you live anywhere in Europe or buy it from CEX using cash from anywhere in the world.
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of the 2010s
Tags: Culture, Film, Society, Art, Movies

Writing about a decade, by one’s self, is not for the faint of heart. I don’t recommend it. There’s never the worry of disappointing someone else, at least there shouldn’t be. Still, there is the real potential of forgetting about a movie that you love that deserved to be in the scuffle with the other 24 movies swirling around in your head. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen here. I’m almost ninety-percent sure it won’t, but mistakes are like hair — everyone has some everywhere.

I have also not seen every film I am going to see in 2019. Some of which I am very much anticipating (Marriage Story & Rise of Skywalker being two that come to mind). List’s are subject to change anyways, especially ones that dare to rank works of art next to the other. It’s subjective, and that, naturally, changes over time. But this list has consumed a sizeable sector of my bandwidth over the last month and a half. After a great deal of fine-tuning, I’ve decided to shoot it out into the world in hopes of people finding themselves taking away one undeniable fact: It has been an impressive decade of filmmaking.

From artsy dramas that pluck at the heartstrings to bombastic blockbusters that soar higher than we’ve seen in some time, the 2010s have been a great time to see a story on the biggest screen possible. Though there have been the troubles of expressing that love, as social media became the frenzy of toxicity and opinionated judgment it is today in the same length of time. Nevertheless, there’s so much to love about the stories we were privileged enough to see. Twenty-five of which, find themselves on the list before you. I’m sure I didn’t do all of you proud, but boy am I happy with it, and that’s kind of all that matters when doing something like this. Subjectivity is key.

Honorable Mentions:

“The Avengers,” “The Martian,” “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens,” “Deadpool,” “The Boy and the Beast,” “Sing Street,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Green Room,” “Warrior,” “ The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Nice Guys,” “Swiss Army Man,” “Train to Busan (BUSANHAENG),” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Prisoners,” “The Edge of Seventeen,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Looper,” “The Master,” “Django: Unchained,” “Skyfall,” “La La Land,” “The LEGO Movie,” “John Wick,” “Wonder Woman,” “Nightcrawler,” “Interstellar,” “Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Baby Driver,” “Spider-man: Homecoming,” “War for the Planet of the Apes,” “Dunkirk,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Gone Girl,” “A Ghost Story,” “Sicario,” “Spotlight,” “Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi,” “The Shape of Water,” “Paddington 2,” “Coco,” “Black Panther,” “Annihilation,” “Toy Story 3,” “Inception,” “Shutter Island,” “Toy Story 4,” “Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun),” “Parasite (기생충),” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Scott Pilgram vs. the World” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Incredibles 2,” “MANDY,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part I,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2,” & “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
Using Promise with Async/Await to get data
By: Harsh Patel
Tags: JavaScript, Front End Development, Coding, Promises, Ecmascript

Using Promise with Async/Await to get data

Using Promise.all with Async/Await to get data from multiple endpoints

Sometimes you want to get some data from several different API endpoints. In this example, I will be using the Star Wars API to get information about some characters. See below.

const urls = [

"https://swapi.co/api/people/1",

"https://swapi.co/api/people/2",

"https://swapi.co/api/people/3",

"https://swapi.co/api/people/4",

]

Begin with an outline for the function. Do this so you can easily visualize what’s happening. I use a try/catch block as it’s easy to see what’s going on.

Try/Catch

Try — ‘Do this.’

Catch — ‘Can’t do the try? Then do this instead.

const fetchData = async () => {

try {

} catch (error) {}

}

For this, the catch block will console log the error with a message if the try fails.

const fetchData = async () => {

try {



} catch (error) {

console.log(‘ERROR’, error)

}

}

The serious business happens in the try block below.

const fetchData = async () => {

try {

const response = await Promise.all(urls.map(url => fetch(url)))

console.log(response)

} catch (error) {

console.log("Error", error)

}

}

We create a variable response for holding our data.

for holding our data. Using the keyword await’. Await - ‘Go do this for me and come back.’

- ‘Go do this for me and come back.’ Promise.all method is used to tell the function to go and do all of the urls from our urls array. One at a time.

method is used to tell the function to go and do of the urls from our array. One at a time. Using .map() array method to iterate over our array.

array method to iterate over our array. We then pass each URL into the fetch() . Seen as url => fetch(url)

Logging the response you will see the promises have been fulfilled. Each url is hit. However, we want the data in a format we can use. So there's one last thing to do. We must make the response a JSON object.

const fetchData = async () => {

try {

const response = await Promise.all(

urls.map(url => fetch(url).then(res => res.json()))

)

console.log(response)

} catch (error) {

console.log("Error", error)

}

}

Notice above we added .then(res => res.json() . We use .then for chaining. Taking the response or 'res' which is returned once 'fetched'. Convert the response to JSON which we can use.

Code for you to try
A pioneering team
Tags: Fintech, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Finance

PayPal, Google veteran Mike Blandina joins Bakkt as Chief Product Officer

One of the most important aspects of building Bakkt isn’t technological. It’s human. Building an innovative company from the ground up allows us to assemble a team of trailblazers and doers — those who want to deliver on our shared vision for digital assets, and who work tirelessly to execute and deliver.

Last year, we began with several critical hires, including Adam White, our founding COO and who heads up our institutional custody and traded products. We also recruited Balaji Devarasetty, who joined from Worldpay, as our VP of Tech to advance our payments platform and to help build out our engineering team. We’re also establishing a strong culture — one centered on solving for our customers’ challenges and delivering new opportunities. This requires us to collaborate, communicate and to lead with integrity. This will also enable us to continue to attract the best teammates.

Toward that end, I’m pleased to share the news that Mike Blandina has joined as Chief Product Officer. As our CPO, Mike will lead our efforts to converge a trusted ecosystem for digital assets with payments use cases, two elements of Bakkt that help bring real world applications to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. We are thrilled to have Mike as a leader on our team as we build an innovative platform for securing and transacting with digital assets.

Mike joins us with more than 25 years of experience in payments across product, engineering, strategy and operations. He was most recently with OneMarket, where he was CTO and led product & engineering. Previously, Mike served as head of payments and credit engineering at PayPal and director of engineering for Google Wallet at Google. Mike joined Google following its acquisition of TxVia, a venture-backed FinTech startup where he was COO and a member of the Board.

Before that, he was CTO of Blackhawk Network, one of the global leaders in gift card and digital payment solutions. A founder of several successful tech startups, Mike began his career writing software in the United States Army. With deep experience in the payments and fintech industry, he also served as a member of the Money2020 advisory board.

As we work through regulatory approvals, we are mindful that the infrastructure we are building has the potential to create more opportunities for digital assets to grow in relevance and trust — by being more secure, investible and useful. As a former marathoner, this point in time recalls the stage in the training regimen when you’re putting in long runs with your training team. Race day is approaching, and there is more work to be done. I’m proud to be going the distance with this growing team and of the culture we are building, while bringing digital assets into the mainstream economy.
Space Ecosystems: Ireland with Laura Keogh
Tags: Ireland, Libra, Brexit, Cryptocurrency, Space Exploration

If you’d like to get in touch with Laura, you can find her at the following:

If you’re keen to hear on the go, the episode is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher Radio under Clayming Space.

Enjoy! And please like, share and subscribe, so we know the type of content you want us to produce.
Step Inside the Legendary Frankenstein’s Castle
By: Anthony Dezenzio
Tags: Novel, Frankenstein, Horror Stories, Castles, Writing

Situated on a hilltop some 10 miles away from the town of Gernsheim lies the legendary Frankenstein’s Castle overlooking the Rhine. The stories and movies that followed were inspired by a young girl named Mary Shelley. It began in 1814 after she celebrated her 17th birthday while briefly stopping off in the town for a rest before proceeding on.

Mary and her now husband Percy Bysshe Shelley had run away secretly to France and Switzerland to get married. Upon returning to England by riverboat traveling through Germany they decided to stop off for a brief rest before proceeding on. As the story goes, Mary more than likely looked up and saw the castle sitting on top of a steep cliff.

Cobble walkway leading up to Frankenstein’s Castle

During the course of their three-hour stop in Gernsheim, it’s not likely that they attempted to climb up to the summit. However, it is quite possible that she overheard some of the gruesome stories regarding the alchemist and physician Johann Konrad Dippel, who was born in the castle. Dippel had created a type of animal oil which he claimed to be a common medicine furthermore speculating the involvement of transferring souls between dead bodies with the assistance of a funnel.

Window view from the castle overlooking the town of Gernsheim

Although there is very little supportive evidence that Dippel was the guiding factor for the novel, the coincidences are somewhat creepy. In comparison, Mary Shelley’s social environment does consist of a connection to Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin’s experiments with electricity would certainly be an inspiration for the animating process for bringing the monster to life.

On the other hand, the connection to anatomist Erasmus Darwin is by far the most certain among all of them. He is reported to attesting to the fact that those events associated with the Gothic tale are “not of an impossible occurrence”. It was outlined within the introduction to the original version of the novel. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the published novel.
5 Ways to Save Money When You Travel
By: Uchechi Onuoha
Tags: Travel, London, South Africa, Budget, Tourist

I love travelling. If I could afford to travel every month or make it my day job, I absolutely will. That’s how much I love it. But there’s usually a limit to the things you can indulge in because of finances. Except you have unlimited cash at your disposal, I am sure you are always on the lookout for how to maximise your funds while on a trip.

Well, here are 5 ways I have saved money when I travelled:
Rhubarb Fever & a Recipe for Rhubarb-Rooibos Cake
By: Stephanie Arsenault
Tags: Dessert, Recipe, Breakfast, Cake, From The Kitchen

I feel that I should warn you: there’s going to be an awful lot of rhubarb talk around here this spring. If you don’t like rhubarb, I’m so sorry.

If you do like rhubarb, you’re in for a treat.

There seems to be an abundance of the tangy-tart vegetable this year {or maybe I’m just imagining it}. Either way, I’m not the only one who’s excited. When I popped by the market over the weekend, the lovely girl at the counter actually jumped, gave a little squeal, and said, “Yay, spring!” when I put my big bag of rhubarb on the counter {my kind of girl}.

See, the beauty of rhubarb is that its flavour can be as intense or as mild as you want it to be. Stew it on its own with a little {or a lot} of sugar, top with a little sweetened whipped cream, and you’ll have a really rhubarby {okay, that’s not a word, but it should be} treat. If you’re a purist, peel a stalk and eat it straight up.

Alas, there are always some people who prefer just a hint of rhubarb flavour, and I can respect that. After all, it’s not an ingredient for the faint of heart.

Combining it with warm, aromatic flavours can help mellow it out, enhance the taste, and bring out its natural sweetness. This Rhubarb-Rooibos Cake does just that. Plus, it’s not too unhealthy, so a big piece of it for breakfast wouldn’t be that irresponsible. Having a big piece of it for breakfast and lunch, however, is a little irresponsible {I couldn’t help myself…}.

So where do you stand on the rhubarb spectrum? Do you love it or loathe it?

Rhubarb-Rooibos Cake

Serves 10

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

¾ cup whole wheat flour

¼ teaspoon sea salt

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

¾ teaspoon baking soda

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature

¾ cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon loose rooibos tea

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 large egg

¾ cup milk + ½ teaspoon white vinegar

¼ cup plain yogurt

2 cups peeled, chopped rhubarb

Icing sugar, to serve (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and oil a 9” round cake pan (or similar-sized pan); line the bottom of the pan with parchment.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk flours, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.

3. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together on medium-high speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and rooibos and continue to beat for another minute; add the egg and mix until smooth.

4. Add half of the flour mixture to the large bowl with the butter mixture and mix until incorporated. Next, add the milk and vinegar and mix until smooth. Add remaining flour mixture, mix, and then add the yogurt and mix until smooth; fold in the rhubarb.

5. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan and smooth out with a rubber spatula. Bake in preheated oven for 45–50 minutes, or until the top of the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving dish to cool completely; remove parchment. Dust with icing sugar before serving, if desired.
24hr Crypto Market Round up
By: John Fenton
Tags: Trading, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

24hr Crypto Market Round up

No Fibonacci, Elliot Wave or even Nostradamus his good self could predict this stuff!

Sorry for the break posting my round ups, I was busy posting FUD about the stock market to make it slide too!! :-)

All jokes aside, since my last round up some crazy S$%T has been happening in the crypto world!

And looking at any investment market around the globe I’m not sure its over!

For me day’s or even weeks of this yo-yo crypto market it is possible to make a good return, But you scale back and be sensible, not going all in on this that or the other! Just riding the waves of today, money can be made!

If enough interest I can write a little piece in what I do on a day like today.

Remember Follow me via https://medium.com/@john.l.fenton)

Check Out My Crypto wallet https://carbonwallet.com/ Currently supporting #BTC Bitcoin, #BCH Bitcoin cash, #ZEC Zcash, #ZCL Zclassic (ZCL is a entry point into the upcoming fork for bitcoin Private BTCP as is BTC) More coins coming soon

So here we go Crypto Pickers!

Bitcoin (BTC) $7150 up 0.78% in last 24hrs but that is fantastic in my eyes as was traded at some point today @ $5,850.0

Ethereum (ETH) @ $723.79 up 4.88%

Ripple (XRP) up 1.82% @ $0.714644

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) @ $899.77 down 0.80%

Cardano up 1% @ $0.33152

LiteCoin (LTC) @ $130.97 up 4%

Stellar (XLM) @ $0339273 up 2.87% (still one of my top coins)

NEO @ $91.92 up 12.51%

EOS back up 1.67% @ $7.53

NEM rises @ $0.515602 up 12%

Note: These are my opinions and I like to think I am right all the time, but have been known on the ODD occasion to be wrong, so the here is the legal bit

My opinions on the blog do not constitute investment advice.

Please If you like what you read Clap and share I've an ego to keep happy :-)
Shōnan
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Travel, Connection, Japan, Pilgrimage, Poetry

From holy seat of Buddha

in gentle giant’s reverie,

among pines, sleepy hills and sea,

I take refuge in Shōnan

the altar of serenity.

On pilgrimage from city

from tangled net of rail,

with interior exteriors

and skyscraper wind,

I slow to a breeze.

Kicking about the shore

devout with beach bums,

I unfold in Pacific foam,

roots, rock, reggae,

frothy drink and book,

feel good wax on board,

the lovely lonesome dusk

with Fujisan and Amitābha,

pillars of the ocean.

I wrap myself in this coast

and rise like moon between.

I return like tide every time

to this divine company.
Political Accountability and Responsiveness at the Midwest Political Science Association annual conference
By: Fsi Student Programs
Tags: Political Science, Fsi Students, Conference, Politics

About the author: Alexandra Blackman is a Stanford Ph.D. Candidate in political science and recipient of an FSI Conference Grant, which she used in support of her travel to present her research at the Midwest Political Science Association annual conference.

From April 4 through April 7, I traveled to Chicago to attend the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) annual conference for the first time and presented work on two panels. On April 5, I presented a new paper on political accountability in new democracies. In this paper, co-authored with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz, we examine how politicians respond to different types of constituent threats to hold them accountable. We ran a conjoint experiment with over 1900 local politicians in Tunisia in which we vary whether a constituent says: If they do not get assistance from the local council member, he or she will: A. not vote for the politician in the future, B. he or she will tattle to the governor, or C. he or she will protest (in a final category, the constituent simply expresses gratitude for seeing the request).

Figure 1 displays our initial results. We find that politicians are more responsive to constituents who threaten to protest than to those who threaten to tattle or who threaten to not vote for the politician. This suggests that electoral accountability is a weaker means of holding a politician accountable than a threat of collective action. We received great feedback from our two discussants as well as the other panelists and audience members.
Why I Have Emotionally Detached Myself From Things That Are Beyond My Control
By: Benny Lim
Tags: Life Lessons, Self, Self Improvement, Calm, Life

From my own admission and those who have known me well, I can say that I’m a pretty emotional guy. I tend to take things emotionally hard and it hasn’t always worked in my favour. Relationship experts will say that being emotionally in-tune with oneself is a desirable trait that people look for in partners.

But some times, being TOO emotionally in-tune with oneself isn’t really a good thing, especially when health and well-being come into the picture.

The problem with being a bit too emotional is that you tend to be affected by almost everything that happens around you. It could be from a conversation that you’re having (or even just hearing about) or it could be something that you’re reading about. It could be something that you’re watching on TV or in the movies. Whatever it is, you’ll be affected by it emotionally and it could be good or it could be bad.

It’s hard because sometimes you have no control over what happens and yet, it still affects you emotionally and it doesn’t do you any good.

For example, I’m a HUGE Manchester United fan. I’ve been one since 1998 and despite living in Malaysia, I’ve managed to visit their stadium, Old Trafford, twice in the last 5 years. Just so you know, for someone who isn’t swimming in cash, it’s not easy and it’s not cheap. I have A LOT of friends who are fans as well and have yet to even step foot in the UK, let alone in Manchester.

I’ve watched the great teams that conquered England and Europe like the team in 98 which won the treble and again in 2008 with that dramatic penalty shootout against Chelsea in Moscow.

For the longest time, I have been attached emotionally to the club despite not being a local. But recently, after Sir Alex Ferguson retired, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster with the club and being a supporter, it has really taken a toll on me, emotionally.

Being in a different continent entirely, it’s also challenging watching their games, especially their European ties because of the time difference. Where it’s just 8 or 9 at night for them, it’ll be 3 or 4 in the morning for me. To either stay up that long or sleep first and wake up later to watch them, it takes a commitment that you’d usually only see in relationships. But I guess what I have with the club is also considered a relationship.

But lately because of how the club is being run, it is causing me a lot of stress and anxiety. I hate watching the games now because I just know that the players would play like crap and I’ll just end up in a shitty mood after that.

It’s been emotionally draining over the last few years and finally, this year, I told myself that I’d have enough.
Informe Semanal 10–20 de Septiembre de 2018
Tags: Crypto, Criptomonedas, Fork, Blockchain, Crptocurrency

in Both Sides of the Table
I Want A New Stat
By: Greg Prince
Tags: Music, Social Media, Funny, Humor, Poetry

Traffic Analytics Chare from Pixabay

Reads shall rule them all!

I Want A New Stat

Let’s out the skimmers.

One that will betray.

One that will make me see;

Who has read,

How long,

And, doesn’t just swipe away.

I want a new stat.

One that makes me grin.

Screw fan counts and claps.

Give me real juice.

Without all the trim.

I want a new stat.

MuddyUm change not done.

Reads make me happy;

Reads make me care.

Even if it’s disliked

Reads tell me I’m not shunned.

I want a new stat.

Yeah, we can pretend,

But we give a crap.

Colors in the graph,

Names who have read,

Spice up the blend.

I want a new stat.

(Thank to Huey Lewis And The News for their song I Want A New Drug inspiring these playful words.)
JEF’S CORPORATE EMBASSY
Tags: Jef, Trade, Israel, Business, Jef Activities

Israel is a hot destinations for multinational companies. Between 2014 and 2017, multinational companies from 18 countries have established their R&D or innovation centers in Israel.

Many companies have decided to expand to Israel because of its unique ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. The Israeli government pursues the goal to encourage the private sector to invest in innovations. This is achieved thanks to a full set of governmental incentives and programs.

A new program allows startups to use the data collected by state-owned companies and also pilot their technology.

The Jewish Economic Forum is a hub connecting leading Jewish entrepreneurs worldwide. The members of JEF’s exclusive network are successful businessmen looking for partnerships and connections with other businessmen and prominent global leading companies.

Headquarted in Tel Aviv, the JEF is a non-profit organization that promotes stronger cooperation among the Private Sector, Jewish and non-Jewish Organizations, NGOs, Communities and the State of Israel.

The JEF has recently launched an innovative service to its members: The Corporate Embassy.

JEF’s Corporate Embassy can assist you to expand or strengthen your business in Israel in a fast and effective way.

By establishing a Corporate Embassy, your company will be able to access to the following services:

Government Relations

Local Representation

Lobbying Services

Technology Scouting

Institutional Relations

Public Relations

Consulting Services

For further information and details, please contact us at info@jeforum.org

or sign up on this form.
Rearrange the order of bars in Barplot [R]
By: Priyanshu Madan
Tags: Learning To Code, Data Science, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, R

While I was doing my California Housing Analysis, I faced a problem where the bars of the bar plots were not in the order they were supposed to be in.

barplot( height = rowsum(household_income_inland$households,household_income_inland$incomecut)[,1]

, las = 1

, col = "#A3A500"

, border = NA # eliminates borders around the bars

, main = "Households by Median Income (INLAND)"

, ylab = "count of households"

, xlab = "Age"

, ylim = c(0,1400000)

)

You can see from the plot above that the bars are not in chronological order (10k-20k,20k-30k). The reason this happens because R arranges the labels in ascending order. (special characters < 0 < 1 < 2…..)

The way I solved this problem was by creating a character vector “headers_income” of the bar labels in order.

headers_income <- c("0-10k", "10k-20k", "20k-30k","30k-40k", "40k-50k", "50k-60k","60k-70k","70k-80k","80k-90k","90k-100k"

,"100k-110k","110k-120k","120k-130k","130k-140k","140k-150k"," >150k")

Then I wrote “[headers_income]” at the end of the rowsum() function.

barplot( height = rowsum(household_income_inland$households,household_income_inland$incomecut)[,1][headers_income]

, las = 1

, col = "#A3A500"

, border = NA # eliminates borders around the bars

, main = "Households by Median Income (INLAND)"

, ylab = "count of households"

, xlab = "Age"

, ylim = c(0,1400000)

)

Done!

The Bars are now in order