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finding balance between the past, present, and future
By: Sky Toyne
Tags: Performance, Balance, Perfectionism

finding balance between the past, present, and future

I’ve always been a dreamer. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had a huge imagination for my future. I dreamed of being a business woman living in a big city with big goals and big plans. I dreamed of proving to everyone that I could do it, all by myself. I still want these things. I even want the little things. I have goals of getting that amazing “beach bod” and finally gaining control over my all-over-the-place emotions and becoming a minimalist. It’s good to be goal-driven. It’s good to have aspirations. However, sometimes I set too many goals for myself at once, and sometimes those goals are just not attainable. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in what I should be doing and where I should be and who I should be that I forget to appreciate who I am. I forget to appreciate that I am trying my best to reach my own standards of greatness and that I am consciously recognizing where I’ve gone wrong. I forget to appreciate that I’ve gotten better at listening and that I’m learning how to be vulnerable and that I always try to do the right thing. I forget that I’m surrounded by people who love me regardless of my faults and don’t see me the way I see myself. And, even worse, I try to forget my past. I get so consumed by regret that I sometimes pretend that the person I used to be never existed at all. I dwell on the things I shouldn’t have said and should have said and should have done but didn’t do. So, how will I ever appreciate my future if I can’t appreciate my past and present? How will I learn to love myself later when I can’t seem to love myself now? It’s a vicious cycle. We put ourselves in a position where we can never be at peace because there is always something missing. Yet, as soon as we attain that missing something, something else seems to go missing again. So, I write myself lists. I write down what I love about myself. I write down what I will love in the future. I even write down what I loved in the past. And no, I’m not content. Knowing me, I probably never will be. But, I’m trying (to get better and to appreciate the process when I get worse) and think that’s worth something.
Creating LOOKING A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
By: Donmar Warehouse
Tags: Christmas Concert, Performance, Music, Theatre, Donmar Warehouse

LOOKING A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS was filmed at St. Paul’s, The Actors’ Church in Covent Garden on Friday 11 December 2020 before being released on YouTube on Wednesday 16 December. Read on to take a look behind the scenes.

First up, health and safety. The concert was filmed when London was in Tier 2 restrictions and our brilliant stage management team, including Production Manager Kate West, Company Stage Manager Lizzie Donaghy and Stage Manager Rebecca Toland did an amazing job of creating a Covid-secure environment for everyone involved. Masks, distancing and hand sanitiser were very much at the ready all day!

Company Stage Manager Lizzie Donaghy and performer Imelda Staunton during filming. Photos: Marc Brenner

If you’ve seen the concert, you will have seen Designer Grace Smart’s snowy backdrop. Grace and her team created the effect by stringing together all of the tickets that went unsold this year.

The snowy backdrop created by stringing together unsold tickets

With rehearsals set to begin, the whole team lent a hand to add the finishing touches to the design. There’s no ‘I’ in theatre…

Putting the finishing touches to Grace Smart’s design

Director Simon Evans worked with the live performers and film crew to stage each performance and set up the perfect shots.

Sharon Rose, Giles Terera and Marc Antolin rehearse in The Actors’ Church

Rosalie Craig rehearses in The Actors’ Church

Director Simon Evans looks on during rehearsals

All music was recorded live during filming, with musicians Jen Whyte, Jo Nichols, Camilla Pay, Charlie Brown, Mike Davis, Chris Storr and Orchestrator Simon Hale overseen by Musical Supervisor Nigel Lilley. We are extremely grateful to PPL for supporting the concert and enabling us to work with these brilliant musicians.

Musician Jo Nichols and Musical Supervisor Nigel Lilley

Showtime! The concert was filmed and edited by Really Creative Media with sound design by Sound Quiet Time. The beautiful interior and exterior drone shots were captured by FireFlight Drone Ops.

The concert was captured on multiple cameras

We hope you’ll agree that The Actors’ Church is the perfect setting for a festive concert, and we would like to thank The Reverend Simon Grigg and all the team at St. Paul’s Church as well as Theatre Chaplaincy UK for working with us to make this event possible.

Filming LOOKING A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

The beautiful setting of The Actors’ Church

Finally, on Wednesday 16 December, we were able to share the full concert with you on YouTube, where it is available to watch until Tuesday 5 January. Enjoy watching and all the best for the festive season!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sQeAw4PZ58
C# — Is collection empty — Count vs Any?
By: Dipak Gawade
Tags: Collection, Performance, Software Engineering, C Sharp Programming, Programming

Problem statement — Before operating on any collection, we check if the collection is null or empty. Null check is usually done by comparing with Null value.

Solution — To check if the collection is not empty, there are multiple ways. The most common way is to check if collection count > 0. Another way is to check if the collection has at least one element by checking Collection.Any() which returns true when it finds first element.

Analysis —

Consider ‘integers’ is collection of integer numbers, if I need to check if it is empty or not, our first method is count

2nd Method is to check Any.

Now, if we check how these two methods execute in memory, for Collection.Count

the pointer starts from element 0 and traverse to next with increment in count. This happens till the pointer reaches NULL. Due to this, the time complexity of count is O(n). For million entries in list, there are million traverses expected for simple count method.

For Collection.Any() method, the execution flow is

As the objective of Any() method is to check if there is at least one element, it returns true when it finds the first element. Hence the time complexity is constant O(1).

Thus, theoretically, to know if collection is empty or not, the performance of Any() is better than Count().

To prove this programmatically as well, I wrote a small program. The difference was expected through Environment.TickCount difference before and after the method execution.

When I execute this, the difference between before and after value is 0, for both the solution. List is to its highest capacity. Please note that, TickCount is in MilliSecond, which is not the correct unit to measure performance of these methods. However, this states that, the performance between these two methods do not differ by significant amount.

Conclusion — The performance difference of Count() and Any() is insignificant. However based on objective, I would go for Any() although use of Count() method is not inefficient(at milliSecond level).
Still Writing
By: Mike Vardy
Tags: Practice, Performance, Writing, Time Management, Consistency

Photo by Cliff Johnson on Unsplash

Even when all signs point towards taking a break or stopping or something in between, I’m still writing.

Austin Kleon shared his thoughts on quantity leading to quality. I believe it and that’s why I’m still writing.

The season may see plenty of people slowing down. That’s fine. I’m slowing down in plenty of places too. But… I’m still writing.

I’ve taken it a step further, setting up two horizontal themes specifically for writing — one in the early part of my day and one in the later part. That means I’m not only still writing… I’m writing more resolutely than ever before.

Whatever it takes. No matter what. I’m still writing.

What could you still be doing that you’re not doing? Stop standing still with that and start moving it forward.
Public Speaking Hacks to Keep Your Cool and Present With Confidence
By: Laura Izquierdo
Tags: Leadership, Performance, Success, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking

Adopt the Right Mindset — You’re a Teacher

The most important thing to do at the outset is to adopt the right mindset. Pretend that you’re a teacher. Stop thinking of your audience as people who are there to judge you, even if it is an assessment. During those ten minutes (or however long the presentation has to be), you’re the teacher.

Even if you think your audience knows what you’re talking about, explain what you’re saying as though you’re a teacher teaching your students about this for the first time.

This will help you above all with two things. The first is confidence. Shift the spotlight away from yourself and place it on them. Think — “how can I explain this as best as I can for them? What can I do so that they’ll get the most out of this? How can I help them?”

The second is ‘pace’. A teacher wouldn’t rush through a presentation like they’re reading from a script (or at least, I hope not). A teacher has to pace their delivery; pause at the end of every key learning point to allow the students to take it in before moving on to the next point.

If you’re wondering — how could I teach them when they’re the experts? Well, I was a 25-year-old with just one year’s worth of work experience when I was giving presentations to experts in their industry. Just because I wasn’t an expert didn’t mean I didn’t have anything valuable to say.

My team and I had done a lot of research to find a solution to a problem they were experiencing. We had tried and tested it before, and we were confident that it could help. No, I couldn’t tell you everything there is to know about pharma, or about the energy sector. But so what? I can tell you what this solution does and how it can help you.

So never think that just because someone knows more than you, you don’t have anything valuable to say. Just make sure that you do have something to say.
The Best Investment You Can Make Is…
By: Joe Jacobi
Tags: Media, Performance, Goals, Strategy, Personal Growth

At first sight, these words — the best investment you can make — are so alluring.

Then, they infuse doubt — as if you are not doing things correctly. Or not doing enough.

Often, these words, or a close derivative, are pushed out from the producer who appears to know the secrets to life.

“If you just do this…” everything will be better.

But, how could they know what you need? Or want?

Let’s start with what they do not know:

Your story

Your outlook

Your experience

Your unique talent

Could it be that their words, “the best investment you can make,” are really about them?

Could it be that one meaningful step forward is less about what you consume and more about prioritizing and applying a daily practice of small self-investments that can be repeated consistently?

Such a practice requires frequently cleaning the filter. A cleaner filter improves critical thinking and refines reflection that yields progress over time.

With raised awareness of the process that both filters and delivers the information you consume, wouldn’t better investment opportunities be more visible and actionable?

Only one person knows.

With gratitude, — Joe

PS — As I wish you a happy holiday this year, I will take a week off from Sunday Morning Joe next week and return in January with my “Three Words” post. And, if you are looking for something to listen to that aligns with the spirit of today’s post, please make a small investment and enjoy my conversation with Ken Lubin on the Executive Athlete Podcast — you can preview and listen HERE.
I hope I mess this up
By: Peter Wolfgang
Tags: Performance, Poems On Medium, Storyofmylife, Poetry

Photo by Joshua Hansonon Unsplash

I hope I mess this up

Are not my words

I am not that brave

Fuck, fuck, fuck

Fuck me

Now,

I am truly fucked,

is what I was thinking

when walking up to this stage

when feeling the jitters in my knees

I am truly fucked

You must agree as

I don’t dare to adjust the mike

fearing to mess up

before I even start

feebly pointing it in my direction

and lowering myself to be heard

Though it would be nice to end up

turning this into playful improvisation

maybe even getting some laughs

dream on, boy

my nervousness gets the better of me

so now, I am truly fucked

forgetting my words

hanging on to my phone

I can hardly scroll properly

misreading my own lines

how fucked up can it get?

I hope I mess this up

Are not my words

I am not that brave

I am so in awe to what came before me

to what comes after me

that I am thinking how

truly fucked I am

how can I be so foolish

thinking that my words

will mean anything

to anybody else but me

who put me up for this

but my own sense of adventure

At the end of the day though

I don’t really care for what you think

about how simple my words are

or how clever

or funny

or rhythmical

what matters to me is

that I made it onto the stage

finding my voice

one word at a time
左顧右盼後的藝術呈現
By: Ghost
Tags: Fear, Contemporary Art, Dance, Performance, Activism

Hongkongese multidisciplinary art duo- hijacking virtual and digital tools for creating extended choreographic experiences - across dance, theatre & visual arts
Best Performance Modifications on a Budget!
By: Daniel Kouznetsov
Tags: Performance, Cars, Tuning, Modification, Automotive

The world of tuning and modifications is an ever-expanding one! The more cars come out on the market, the more options for tuning and modifications become available. The market for tuning and mods has become fiercely competitive in the past decade, with many companies always coming up with revolutionary products for each vehicle or are in a tight competition on who can gain the most power out of a vehicle the soonest! Options are endless too! From body kits to ECU tunes, twin-turbocharging, supercharging, or even engine swapping.

All these extreme tuning and modification options do however come at an extremely high asking price, which not many people can afford. Often going for such modifications and tuning can out-value the vehicle itself, especially if it’s a cheaper vehicle or even your first car! (Find our recommended first car mods) So if you want to get the most performance out of your vehicle, but on a budget, where should you go? What are your options?

Here, I’ve got the best cheap performance modifications for your car! Mods that can help your vehicle have the optimum performance, but won’t be draining your wallet. Most of these options also have a huge amount of potential, so if you do decide to go for the extreme modifications in the future, these are a great starting point!

**Just so you know, there are some affiliate links in this post that I may receive a commission from. Thank you if you use my links, as it will help me greatly and I’d really appreciate it!**

Tires

The most important and most crucial parts of any build are the tires. The tires are the only parts of the vehicle making contact with the road and putting the power down on the ground.

A worn or not a beneficial tire will cause the vehicle to slide around and struggle for traction, making all your modifications for performance useless. Too many people tend to look past tires when modifying their vehicles, which is a huge mistake. Not only do you not put all the power to the road, but you also risk the safety of yourself and everyone around you, hence why it’s the number one on our cheap car mods performance list.

Furthermore, a tire that may have too much grip can put a lot of stress on vehicle components such as axles, differentials, gearboxes, and more! So finding the right balance between too much grip and no grip at all, is key when searching for the correct tire for your particular vehicle!

Here is my favorite pick:

Bridgestone POTENZA RE97 AS All-Season Radial Tire 225/50R18

The ultimate all round tire! If you don’t track your vehicle, but want great grip and durability on a day to day basis, this is the way to go!
Making of Meniscus: 微塵積聚。人群聚集。事件交錯。
By: Ghost
Tags: Contemporary Art, Art Activism, Performance, Dance, Art

Hongkongese multidisciplinary art duo- hijacking virtual and digital tools for creating extended choreographic experiences - across dance, theatre & visual arts
Achieving Peak Performance by Doing Nothing
By: Bradley S.
Tags: Sleep, Fitness, Performance, Recovery, Health

Humor

Achieving Peak Performance by Doing Nothing

A new paradigm has arrived

Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash

2010–2020 was easily the era of hustle. Get up at 4 AM. Crush the gym. Grind until you go cross-eyed. Sleep when you’re dead. Get that money!

The pendulum has inevitably swung the other way, ushering in a new paradigm for performance, health, and most importantly….status!

Whether it’s athletes or entrepreneurs, sleep and relaxation are the new social currency for the new decade. Lack of sleep has become America’s largest silent killer. At some point, we got so obsessed with making it big, we forgot that we need a little R and R. Recharging is in such high demand right now, it’s become the ultimate luxury. Forget Louis Vuitton, high-rollers are springing for Sleep Number. You can’t achieve the American Dream without getting some Z’s. Sleep is king. Relaxation is our caviar and champagne.

Not only is rest and recovery the new hot luxury, but it’s also become the number one metric for performance. Athletes are finding ways to exercise less but sleep more. Decades of packing into gyms for hours, slamming supplements and shakes to go longer have led to a generation of fatigued, injured, and sick athletes. The new mantra is: The more you rest, the better you will perform when it’s time to move. Put focus into your training, getting what you need out of it in the shortest time possible, and take the rest of the day off!

What can you do right now to achieve peak performance? Change it up. Integrate rest and relaxation into your fitness regimen.
Iframes with React: Best Practices
By: Andrea Perera
Tags: Iframe, Performance, Best Practices, Security, React

Iframes with React: Best Practices

Photo by Chance Anderson on Unsplash

Today it’s challenging to find standalone web apps. We can find most of these apps work with each other where the integrations happen either from the frontend or backend. When looking at these integrations, one of the oldest yet simple integration strategy is using Iframes.

In a Nutshell, Iframes allow you to embed content from other websites into yours.

When looking at the history, an “Inline frame” called Iframe was introduced in 1997 with HTML 4.01 by Microsoft Internet Explorer.

First and foremost, let’s look at how to embed an Iframe in a React project.

Embed an Iframe in React

Technically, an Iframes could be as small as the following code snippet.

Similarly, as you can see in the below code snippet, embedding a YouTube Iframe in React is straight forward.

import React from "react";

import ReactDOM from "react-dom";

render() {

return <iframe src="

}

} class App extends React.Component {render() {return https://www.youtube.com/embed/cWDJoK8zw58 " />; ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("container"));

However, though it’s easy to embed an Iframe into your React app, making it secure, fast, and reliable requires specific expertise. Therefore, it’s essential to understand the best practices around using Iframes with React.

Can We Add Any URL to SRC Attribute?

As an experiment, I’ve used YouTube to embed a video into a React app. When I copy-paste a YouTube video link directly into the Iframe, it threw an error saying “www.youtube.com refused to connect.” To embed a YouTube video to an Iframe, I had to use their embed URLs.

Verify the X-Frame-Options

Suppose you closely observe the error in Chrome Dev Tools. In that case, you can find that YouTube prevents the loading of their direct URLs (Not the embeddable one) by using X-Frame-Options set to “same-origin” returning in the HTTP Header from YouTube servers.

X-Frame-Options Error

Therefore, we must embed only URLs that are advertised as embeddable. Otherwise, even if it works initially (Unlike the case of YouTube), these could get blocked without your knowledge using X-Frame-Options.

And I hope it’s clear that adding any URL into an Iframe doesn’t work with React or any other frontend library or framework unless the embedding site allows your web app domain to embed it.
We are family…but are we?
By: Jat Thompson
Tags: Leadership, Performance, Expectations, Team, Coach

Effective leaders create a picture for their followers that clearly describes what it means to be part of their team. They will often use a metaphor to paint this picture because a good metaphor creates an image that brings members together into a collective identity that encourages teamwork. One metaphor that leaders often use to characterize their team is family.

On the surface this may seem like an attractive metaphor to use. There are clear similarities between a team and a family. Members of a high performing team will love, defend, take care of, and trust one another just like a healthy family would. But be very careful in applying this metaphor because high performing teams are not built to behave like a family.

Using family as a metaphor has the potential to create expectations that are unrealistic and counterproductive because families are not focused on performance — teams are. Families will tolerate and spend enormous amounts of energy supporting “underperformers” whereas a high performing unit cannot afford to keep these members on their team. This metaphor will place unnecessary pressure on a coach to keep and tolerate members that are consistently failing to live out the core values of the team. Holding on to these “family” members will not only prevent the team from achieving greatness, it will pull the team down and it may eventually cost the coach their job.

Athletes that are encouraged to view the team as family may feel frustration, anger, and even resentment when their coach shows favoritism or fails to give them the attention they would expect from family. Coaches may feel personally responsible for staff or athletes that let the “family” down or guilt for not being able to invest more time. But coaches, unlike a family, don’t have the luxury of time. Families operate in lifetimes, teams operate in seasons. This means a coach cannot invest in every staff and athlete the way a family can. They have a limited amount of time to share across many different relationships.

So as you think about the metaphor you will use to bring the members of your team together, keep in mind that the expectations you make are colored by the picture you paint.
Geospatial big data performance tests with Cosmos DB and data enrichment with Azure Synapse Analytics
By: Remko De Lange
Tags: Performance, Azure Synapse Analytics, Geospatial, Azure Cosmos Db, Big Data

By Remko de Lange and Julien Michel

Photo by Manson Yim on Unsplash

Several reasons can let you move away from traditional spatial store and query engines like Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle. Here we present the geospatial query capabilities and performance of an alternative to these well-established relational databases (RDB), namely Azure Cosmos DB.

Limitations that you can encounter with RDBs occur under the following conditions:

- Scaling: when you deal with a large amount of data that outgrows a relational database.

- Query performance: when you need fast (short) response times on geospatial queries.

- Throughput: when you deal with fast moving or streaming data, like huge number of incoming messages from IoT sensors or Digital Twins.

- Global reach: when your applications, users or incoming data comes from different regions around the world.

In other words, when you deal with geospatial big data. One way to deal with the above given conditions is with Azure Cosmos DB. This service is designed for elastically scaling throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions. Here we focus on the performance of geospatial queries on big data within Azure Cosmos DB, that are demonstrated by query execution times on a large dataset, and show how to do data enrichment with Spark based Azure Synapse Analytics.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, horizontally partitioned, multi-model database service. It holds Service Level Agreements encompassing four dimensions: throughput, latency at the 99th percentile, availability, and consistency. Data resides in containers and depending on the used database model consists of collections, tables, graph etc. Each container is also associated with a flexible unit of scale for transactions and queries. Data in the containers are horizontally partitioned by a customer specified partition-key.

Geospatial capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB’s database engine is schema agnostic and provides support for JSON. The write optimized engine understands spatial data represented in the GeoJSON standard, and supports 4 spatial types (points, polygons, multi-polygons and line-strings). Query performance is highly related to an efficient indexation. The implemented indexation works on a projected 2D plane and holds a two-step strategy, firstly it applies the quadtree approach by dividing the plane progressively into cells, and secondly these cells are mapped to a 1D index based on a Hilbert space filling curve. Resulting in a strong and efficient index combination for absolute position queries and relative nearest neighbor searches.

Cosmos DB holds three key spatial operations that are the basis for complex spatial analyses, these are:
Breaking News from Crypto Business World (CBW) — Dec 16, 2020
By: Cbw News
Tags: Breaking News, Cryptocurrency News, Cbw, Bitcoin News, Cryptobusinessworld

Cbw (Crypto business world) is the platform where you will get all update news about Crypto industry.
Bitcoin Price Skyrocket Past $28,000, As Market Cap Access New Level of $500 Billion
By: Crypto Mang
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Market Cap, Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin

The price of bitcoin has risen to $28,000 for the first time since reaching $25,000 on December 25, as the leading cryptocurrency’s recent meteoric rise continues. BTC’s market value and market share (market dominance) in the cryptocurrency have now exceeded $500 billion and 71.20% respectively, an increase of $2 billion in a day and more than 50% in the last 24 hours. At press time,

Total Market Cap: $714,321,391,360

Bitcoin Market Cap: $ 508,583,855,518

Bitcoin Price: $ 27,369.42

24 Hours Volume : $ 53,274,195,791

After breaking the psychologically important $20,000 mark for the first time on December 16, BTC has since broken several records. In recent days, he seems to have found another gear, reaching $25,500 on Friday night and $26,800 on Sunday morning, before rising to $27,600 on Saturday morning and $28,200 on Sunday morning. BTC rose again on Monday morning before settling at $27,519.52, an increase of $2.2 billion in a day and more than 50% in the past 24 hours.

Institutional investors are seen as the driving force behind the record holder, and BTC has — to date — gained more than 270%. BTC is more valuable than any other listed company, with a market capitalization of $2.2 billion to $500 billion, up from $1.5 billion last year.

The US Federal Reserve is printing money to avert the worst economic effects of the pandemic, while former US President Donald Trump is urged Congress to pass an even larger aid package to allow for a larger stimulus program. These measures are seen by many as a sign that a poor US dollar could be positive for BTC. While the huge rise in BTC prices suggests a sharp rise in the dollar against other currencies, it is worth bearing in mind that the rise occurred during a weekend of low volume. Fund managers may buy BTC to boast that they are smart enough to join in 2020, even if they are said to be doing so at that price.

What next?

I’ll give you a quick instance of previous and current price predictions, followed by some things to consider before investing heavily based on a price prediction.

Bloomberg’s latest report says:

“Bitcoin could reach $100,000 by 2025, and says that in the past Bitcoin has raised its price by zero. Pro-Bitcoiner and Bitcoin evangelists think the future of Bitcoin value will lie in 2021, 2022, 2027 and 2030.”

The US dollar is at its lowest level against other currencies in more than a year and a half, according to some analysts.

“Bitcoin evangelist Tim Draper tweeted that the price of the leading cryptocurrency could rise tenfold by the end of 2022. Scaramucci said he believes BTC is still in its infancy, but there are still those who believe it is only just beginning. Crypto venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, one of the biggest Bitcoin investors, is still considering BTC, he said.”
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Cryptocurrency and Us.
By: Salvador A. Vega
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Rising together to make this space ours.

Photo by Ewan Kennedy on Unsplash

It’s an exciting time for crypto. Bitcoin has reached an all-time high (ATH) of just above $25,000 and shows no signs of slowing down. There are more YouTube videos and media attention about what will be the next bitcoin in terms of value and the highest percentage yield. This available information is an amazing resource but some sources can miss the mark or completely mislead new investors. As much value as there is currently in the crypto space this may be only the beginning of a very lucrative industry.

Today, the overall global market cap is set at around 690 billion. in 2017 it was set at around 329 Billion. This is a fast-growing market and based on many of these cryptocurrencies they vary widely for their utility. This technology will change how we interact with each other and how money is viewed and valued.

All this being said, more of an effort should be made to include and inform working-class people. This effort would elevate the usage of crypto and their specific utility. Additionally, it would also elevate these individuals to have more control of what the U.S. does and how it contributes to its economy. Imagine if the U.S. working class became the pivot point for global crypto adoption. This would help with the financial inequality we’ve seen in the U.S. regarding minorities, Due to a lack of educational and socioeconomic opportunities. For decades upward mobility has been stifled in the minority and working-class communities. Informing and educating the people would secure our position in the future of finance.

In closing, I’d love to see crypto experts, influencers, crypto developers, and CEOs of cryptocurrencies to continue their message. The message of crypto being the future but also denouncing scams and fraud. You owe that to the people who believe in the same future you do. The people who have supported and HOLDd your coin through the ups and downs. Transparency and the connection with the people is something I also feel is unique about the crypto space and we shouldn’t lose that either. Be better, Be Merry.
Cryptocurrency Exchange Software
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency, Crytpo, Cryptocurrency News

When I saw Cryptocurrency exchange software on the global market, I was pulled by it due to the fact that it actively involved several salient money earning features which satisfies in many aspects for me.

What are the essential features of a crypto exchange?

The important features that must be there in any exchange include security, scalability and performance. The exchange adeptly fortified with these features is seen as a reliable option and is more likely to gain more users.

How can I ensure the security of my Crypto Exchange?

It is illustrated that Cryptocurrency Exchanges have always been a target of Hackers. To minimize this online threat, we have ensured that all the best practices are followed while building the product. Before delivery to the client, process of conducting an in house rigorous Vulnerability assessment and also get it done by a third party after that. You can also use the service of a 24 Hour security in monitoring for clients who wish to subscribe to the same.

We know that Cryptocurrency exchange platform is a digital platform for exchanging one cryptocurrency for another at a set rate. The users can create exchange requests by setting the value and volume of the cryptocurrency. In situations if a suitable counter-offer has already been registered on the site, a deal is concluded between users.

Crypto exchange platform offers the following options:

Cryptocurrency trading

Investing in cryptocurrencies

Currency exchange

What is white label crypto exchange?

The white label trading platform offers advanced scalability, crypto payment gateway and an enterprise-grade back-end platform backed by institutional-grade security for cryptocurrency assets and keys.

Which is the best Cryptocurrency exchange software development company?

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Bitcoin New ATH $25,000 Now Beats Visa by Mcap
By: Oj Jordan
Tags: Cryptocurrency News, Ethereum, Xrp News Today, Crypto, Bitcoin

In this episode we go through the markets today and the top headlines, which include:

Bitcoin’s New ATH $25 000 and Mcap $462 billion makes it bigger than Visa

XRP crashed by another 35% today after news of Bitstamp delisting

Binance enables Segwit Support for BTC deposits

2020 was the year of Chainlink

1Inch exchange launches its own token, price shoots up after Binance listing

References:

📄https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-hits-25-000-all-time-high-milestone-surpassing-visa-s-market-cap

📄https://www.coindesk.com/uk-crypto-exchange-exmo-says-4m-of-hacked-funds-was-through-poloniex

📄https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-enables-segwit-support-for-bitcoin-deposits-as-adoption-grows

📄https://decrypt.co/51015/2020-has-been-chainlinks-year-heres-why?&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_source=coinmarketcap

📄https://coinmarketcap.com/headlines/news/xrp-tanks-10-0-30-bitstamp-suspends-trading/

📄https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/alt-coins/decentralized-exchange-1inch-launches-governance-token/

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The estimation of XRP, universes third biggest cryptographic money after Bitcoin and Ethereum…
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Digital Money, Cryptocurrency Investment, Make Money Online

The estimation of XRP, universes third biggest cryptographic money after Bitcoin and Ethereum, smashed more than 40% after the US Protections and Trade Commission (SEC) sued both the originator and current Chief of tech organization Wave for raising more than $1.3 billion through an "unregistered protections offering" in the wake of selling their digital money XRP.

As indicated by CoinMarketCap, the XRP's declined more than 42 percent in the previous 24 hours and was down more than 63 percent from its 30-day high of $0.76.

It currently sits at just $0.27.

The claim which said that XRO is a security not money, guaranteed that Wave's previous President and originator Christian Larsen and its present Chief Bradley Garlinghouse disregarded protections laws by selling XRP over a seven-year time span beginning in 2013.

As per the organization, "The SEC is totally off-base on current realities and law and we are certain we will eventually win before a nonpartisan truth locater".

"XRP, the third biggest virtual cash with billions of dollars in exchanging each day, is a money like the SEC has considered Bitcoin and Ether, and isn't a speculation contract," Wave contended in a blog entry.

The organization said that the other significant parts of the US government, including the Equity Division and the Depository Office's FinCen, have just established that XRP is a money.

"Exchanges in XRP in this way fall outside the extent of the government protections laws. This isn't the first run through the SEC has attempted to go past its legal power. The courts have remedied it previously and will do so once more." Michael Kellogg, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel and Frederick

Garlinghouse said that "in spite of the fact that the SEC's choice brings a considerably more prominent need to keep moving to our choice whether to move our HQ outside the US, we additionally anticipate working with the new Biden organization to check whether we can locate a levelheaded way ahead here".

The SEC in the past had decided that Bitcoin and Ethereum are monetary forms.

XRP, notwithstanding, varies from Bitcoin and Ethereum as the remainder of the two digital currencies are made through a "mining" measure which is progressing.

"Wave began XRP by making 100 billion units at the same time" and this might be the reason the US SEC has considered it a security, not a cash.

Wave was as of late esteemed at $10 billion after a $200 million financing round.
Crypto Exchange Script
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Cryptoexchangescript, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment

Cryptocurrency exchanges are strongly proving to be a massive money earning business that I am actually adopting in my business venture, and it’s one I suggest checking out if you wish to unwind for immense money earning project.

It is experienced that most of the entrepreneurs have a dream to begin a crypto exchange which can bring them a high amount of profits. Thus, most of them have virtually approached best solution providers in the industry who actually render crypto exchange solutions. Also most of them in the industry prefer to go with readily made White label services that would assist them to launch their own crypto exchange.

Best to turn your crypto exchange dreams into reality

Primarily the Cryptocurrency exchanges are the trading platforms where the buy and sell orders are performed by the parties. In this situation, the traders here pay a small amount of fee as a trading charge to the exchange. An exchange owner gets wholly benefited for every transaction happening in it. Moreover to this, the proprietor of the trading platform will get profits for every withdrawal happening in the exchange.

Quality Kinds of cryptocurrency exchanges

Centralized Exchanges

Decentralized Exchanges

Hybrid Exchanges

It is enumerated that a centralized crypto exchange is one where an intermediary in the middle will be responsible to facilitate the buy and sell orders in a hassle-free manner. These popular trading platforms have high liquidity but sometimes lack security. Amazingly most of the business entrepreneurs are successful with centralized exchanges since they bring in a high amount of benefits with the trading fees.

Which is the best Cryptocurrency exchange software development company?

Without any doubt the Hashogen Technologies is a popular motivated cryptocurrency exchange software development company with a team of skilful resources. Their key motto of us is to offer technology-driven services at an affordable cost without compromising the quality. One can also witness quality Bitcoin Exchange Script, Cryptocurrency Exchange script and Cryptocurrency exchange software from Hashogen Technologies.
❄️ The last #WhiteBITDecember activity is up ❄️
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Airdrop, Crypto, Bounty Program

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Action Blockchain Network: Public Node Operators Wanted
By: Nicholas Morley
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Development, Blockchain Startup

Action Blockchain Network: Public Node Operators Wanted

As previously indicated, we are continuing to seek public node operators from all over the planet.

Please complete the following application form before January 1st, 2021 if you’re interested in participating:

👉 Please see my latest post on this subject.
Hoo.com Will List FRM(Ferrum Network) & UDT(Unlock protocol) on December 24
Tags: Unlock Protocol, Cryptocurrency News, Hooexchange, Ferrum Network, Investment

Dear Hoo users,

Hoo will list FRM(Ferrum Network) & UDT(Unlock protocol) on December 24, 2020 (UTC+8).

Deposit: Enabled

Withdrawal: 10:00 on December 25 (UTC+8)

Trading starts:

FRM/USDT and FRM/ETH 16:00

UDT/USDT and UDT/ETH 18:00

Introduction to Projects

FRM(Ferrum Network)

A DeFi Ecosystem that Interoperates Across Chains and Removes Barriers to Mass Adoption.

Name: FRM

Circulating supply: 164,609,374 FRM

Website: https://ferrum.network/

Explorer: https://etherscan.io/token/0xe5caef4af8780e59df925470b050fb23c43ca68c

Twitter: http://twitter.ferrum.network/

Telegram: http://telegram.ferrum.network/

UDT(Unlock protocol)

Unlock is an open source protocol. Integrate it in any and every way you’d like. It’s also permissionless — there are no middlemen.

Name: UDT

Total supply: 1,000,181.696240024221219964 UDT

Website: https://unlock-protocol.com/

Explorer: https://etherscan.io/token/0x90de74265a416e1393a450752175aed98fe11517

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnlockProtocol

Risk Alert: Any digital assets investment is risky. Please evaluate your risk tolerance before getting involved. Your support on Hoo is highly appreciated.

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December 24
#WhiteBITDecember Trading Competition is over!
Tags: Crypto, Trading Competition, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News

🏆 Another #WhiteBITDecember activity is over 🏆

Thanks for joining our Trading Competition and congratulations to the winners!

Check out the leaderboard here. Remember, you can still join our month of festive activities. Choose the one you like and win your reward🎁

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Flash Review of Torum’s White Paper V2.0
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News, White Papers, Cryptocurrency Investment, Blockchain

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Submitted to the Torum Founders Group:

I just did a hyper-scan of the Torum White Paper V2.0.

My impressions?

“Holy $hit! Did you guys bring in a pro to write V2.0?”

The Torum White Paper I read 24 days ago: (IJCH) Micro-Critique of the TORUM Project’s White Paper is not in the same league as V2.0!

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V2.0’s format, flow, grammar and syntax surpasses the last three White Papers I’ve read this week in both readability and ascetics.

I like the nod to the current DeFi phenomenon, plus the well-known social media platforms that are squarely in “Torum’s cross-hairs”.

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The clear and simple explanation of Torum’s XTM tokenomics is virtually “Marine Proof”.

I was happy to see a fund set aside for post-hack recovery and legal defense against malicious or fraudulent litigation.

The “About the Author” style Mini-Bio’s at the end was a nice touch. It gives the paper an honest, “down-to-earth” flavor and captures the youthful spirit of the team.

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Furthermore, it showcases the wide variety of business and technical skills that, in the aggregate, represents a solid, well-rounded and formidable Founder’s Group.

Given that I read V2.0 while walking my dogs, I would have to reread it while stationary to craft a formal critique.

That’s probably why it ain’t gonna happen!

The only suggestions I can think of right now are:

Use the new “TGE” (Token Generating Event) wherever you would’ve used “ICO”.

Why the new acronym?

Because there’s still a lot of “guilt by association” to past ICO failures.

Additionally, there’s a large vocal group of legacy butthead lawyers claiming it (ICO) misleads investors into thinking that ICOs have the SEC’s “Seal of Approval” and “Proven Investor Safeguards” as IPOs.

Wait a minute.

Does that mean the 2008 Global Financial Crisis never happened?

Yeah right.

And I guess shaking a plate of jello doesn’t look like a fat hooker on a cold night either?

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Ok, back on topic — suggestions for the next iteration of Torum’s White Paper:

Table of Contents where a chapter/topic is hyperlinked to its section of the paper.

If the goal is to be truly newbie-friendly, any crypto or blockchain term/acronym should be defined upon its first appearance in the paper or include a “List of Terms and Definitions” (in the Front Matter or as Appendices, your choice).

Well, that wraps up my flash opinions on the Torum White Paper V2.0 and a few “off-the-top-of-my-head” suggestions for future iterations.

Well done, folks!

May you and yours be well and love life today.

In lak’ech,

JaiChai

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