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Morgan Stanley Shares Research On Countries That Top Cryptocurrency Trading Volumes
By: Max Neuhaus
Tags: Fintech, Regulation, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Investment Business is a key thing to study if you want to journey to the business world. And Morgan Stanley, a Financial Services Company, has been known in its study in this sector.

Morgan Stanley is not only doing researches, but they are also advisors about distributing capital, managing trade, and more business-related ideas. Government or private institution, Morgan Stanley’s services are still highly regarded.

April 29, 2018, Morgan Stanley published a research conducted on the online cryptocurrency market.

The main reasons the research was done are:

To measure cryptocurrency trading volumes on legal exchanges in some parts of the world. To measure the number of legal exchanges all over the world.“Exchanges” is defined as the platform on which cryptocurrencies trade. The biggest daily trading volumes can actually reach billions. Sheena Shah, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, andher team sent a note to clients this week examining cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.

The study shows that Malta has the majority of trading volumes. Next one is Belize. The United Kingdom (UK) is reported to have only 1% of trading volumes but it has the highest number oflegally registered exchanges.

This is caused by a big factor from one of the biggest exchanges in the world, Binance, whichdeclared plans of placing their legal headquarters in Malta. It’s a big pull to trading volume towards this European Island.

Shah stated:“The largest exchange called Binance announced intentions to set up headquarters there, so ifwe take that company out, Malta would be much further down the list.”

Binance’s current registry is in Hong Kong. The reason for its moving away from Asia is because of the tight regulation, specifically from Japan. OKEx, another large exchange, has also stated that they will be branching out in Malta because of how it is seen as a “BlockchainIsland.”

Malta holds the record for largest volume but still UK has the largest number of exchanges although their global trading volume is low.Most legal exchanges are located in Hong Kong, the UK, and the US, according to Sheena Shah and her team. These three countries have huge financial centers and the US has technology focus specifically in the Silicon Valley.

Some countries like the US and India have plans to lay low on crypto activity as the exchanges are highly monitored by regulators all over the world because of a large sum of money that has flowed into this sector for just the past year. However, many are still open and embracing this industry into their lands.

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From selection to sale — the journey of masterpiece on Maecenas
Tags: Investing, Art, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto

Ever wondered how pieces of a famous painting end up being traded in the Maecenas marketplace?

Take a look at this graphic, showing the journey of a masterpiece. Follow the steps from the moment a museum proposes selling a Picasso through its authentication and auction to being bought and sold transparently as tradeable financial units on the Maecenas platform.

This is the Maecenas process for democratizing access to fine art investment. This is our decentralized gallery in action.
Quick Guide for Beginners Using Mixin Messenger
By: Mixin Evangelist
Tags: Mixinmessenger, Mixinid, Groups, Wallet, Luckycoin

Follow this simple guide to quickly get in Mixin Messenger.

Step 1: Download and Install Mixin Messenger

Download Mixin Messenger from either Google Play Store or App Store. Also, you can get it from CoinMarketCap. After then, finish the installation following the wizard.

Note: Mixin Messenger is compatible with both iOS and Android, and it requires iOS 10.0+ or Android 6.0+, so first of all, please check and update to ensure your system is qualified.

CoinMarketCap - “Get Wallet”

Step 2: Sign up

Main Interface

Launch Mixin Messenger, click Agree & Terms of service, then you are presented with the sign-up interface. Just choose the right country and input your phone number and the 4-digit verification code you received following, the sign up process is finished by then, and you are logged in.

You will be asked for setting your 6-digit wallet pin code and repeating inputting the pin code three times, just do it. After then, the initialization is done, and you enter into the main interface.

Just a kind reminder: it’s necessary for you to remember your pin code as there is no way to find it back if you lose it. When you intend to change your wallet pin, you need to input the previous one to verify the account.

Step 3: Build your own Mixin Messenger

Contacts Page

Click the contact icon at the top right corner of the main interface, there will be a Mixin ID for you exclusively.

You can see and edit your profile, including uploading your profile photo, changing the username or phone number. Notice that your request will not be processed if the new number is used by someone else.

You can add contacts by inputting their registered phone numbers/Mixin IDs, scanning the their QR codes, or simply importing your local contacts in.

You can also create groups to chat, transfer or distribute tokens. When chatting with friends or in groups, you can send audio, pics, emoji, files in addition to text.

Step 4: Join the Group for More Assistance

Mixin English: Mixin ID: 7000101502, deep interaction for global users.

Tap Send Messages and then Confirm after adding Mixin English, then you’ve enter into this group. You may be lucky to receive the distributed token from this group with the lucky coin feature integrated in. Stay tuned for more specials in this group.

Step 5: Send lucky coin to the group

To send lucky icon to other members, just click the bot icon at the left of the application management icon to unfold all the options of Mixin English -> click Send lucky coin -> choose the token, amount and number of receiving members -> leave the memo or blessing message -> click Pay lucky icon -> verify your account by your fingerprint or Face ID, after then, you successfully send the lucky icon. And you will be clear about winners of this round of lucky coin.

Have a nice time with Mixin Messenger!
40 Incredible Panoramas of Buildings and Cityscapes
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Cities, Architecture, World, Culture, Photography

Whether it’s the imposing geometric forms of a grand and impressive building or the quaint idiosyncrasies of a rustic cottage, a gifted photographer can give even the uninitiated an appreciation of architecture. And this is especially true when these human interventions are set against a natural environment that provides color and texture, bringing the building to life in a new context.

The Epson International Pano Awards, now in its 11th year, is celebrating these achievements with a category devoted to excellence in panoramic photographs of built environments. From the dazzling ceiling of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to the night lights of New York City to an old windmill in Toledo, Spain, each of these stunning panoramas finds a way to bring out the symmetry and beauty of an architect’s design, the spectacular contours of a cityscape, or the striking contrast of a man-made object and its natural environment.

“Night Palace,” by Juan Lopez Ruiz
Roses For A New Romance
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Poetry, Haiku, Relationships, Romance, Dating

Fiction writer. Coffee enthusiast. Writer of romance, mystery, and humor. Discover more at Patreon.com/danleicht and DanLeicht.com

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A Gardener Watches Blown Snow
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Free Verse, Poetry, Winter, Gardening, Meditation

Diamonds driven by water-winds

hiss against my windows

frozen fire crackling

burning coldcrisped leaves

where vines still tether

pods of purpleblack beans.

Ferns bowing to the rush

of switchback winds

tempt my gardener’s hands

into the frigid world

calling it my promise

to serve the gardens.

Cowardly I huddle instead

sunk into the brown softness

of this warm armchair

embrace the persistence

of Life in all its generosity

only with my eyes and heart.
Spilling Tears
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Poetry, Aging, Regret, Tears, Sadness

Another minute, another day

Just another year older

Just a number, it’s all how you feel

It means nothing

Oh, but it does

It means so much, but you cannot see

The years wasted, squandered

So much time, and what to show for it

If nothing

Nothing but empty words and promises

Forgotten dreams, unchecked boxes

Aspirations and opportunities untouched

Just a number, yes, but significant

Why did I wait so long to live

Lost in daydreams inside my own head

Instead of chasing them

Out here in the real world

It’s no big deal, you say

But it is

And I can’t help these spilling tears

Mourning all that I’ve let pass by

Grieving the should have beens

The could have beens

The might have beens

…time to shake it off and dry my cheeks

And look forward to the will-bes
PPC Bee Pricing
By: Michaela Zákopčaníková
Tags: Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, PPC Marketing, SaaS, News

This article has been moved to the official blog of PPC Bee. You will get to the article by clicking on this link.
Grin Community Collaboration to Bring Mimblewimble to Nervos
By: Nervos Network
Tags: Grin, Community Update, Mimblewimble, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

We’re pleased to officially announce our plans to support the Mimblewimble protocol on Nervos. Mimblewimble is a technology that will enable Nervos users to transact privately using CKB or any other Nervos-supported tokens without revealing the participants and amounts of the exchange.

The origins of Mimblewimble

Mimblewimble was created in 2016 by anonymous individuals using pseudonyms taken from the popular Harry Potter fictional universe. The technology they released was nothing short of a breakthrough in cryptocurrency privacy. A following quickly assembled, leading to the formation of the community-driven project known as Grin.

Grin has proven itself as one of the most successful community-driven projects based around privacy technology and has continued to advance the Mimblewimble protocol. In recognition of the project’s efforts we have made a donation of 10 BTC to the Grin General Fund to support further research on Mimblewimble and the privacy layer design on Nervos with the help from the Grin Community.

The future of Nervos and Mimblewimble

The integration of Mimblewimble will give users the ability to transact privately on Nervos, but it also opens the door for future offerings built on the technology. The Nervos core development team and the Grin community will continue driving forward the technology and investigate the possibilities of cross-chain connectivity between Grin and Nervos.

In the coming months, we will continue down a three-phase development plan:

Phase 1: Schema Design (~2 months) — Prepare a general schema for the operating model.

Schema Design (~2 months) — Prepare a general schema for the operating model. Phase 2: Technical Specification (~2 months) — Produce a detailed technical specification.

Technical Specification (~2 months) — Produce a detailed technical specification. Phase 3: Implementation (3+ months) — Construct the codebase which will power the platform.

Phase 1 is currently in effect and multiple community members have already begun exchanging knowledge to make this effort a reality. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the effort is encouraged to join the @grincoin#mw_nervos channel on Keybase. This public channel will serve as the main conduit of communication between our two communities.

Through the Nervos Foundation, we are also setting aside a grant fund specifically for infrastructure and interoperability solutions between Grin and Nervos. All developer teams and community members with interest are encouraged to apply here!

Both of our communities are excited about the advancement of Mimblewimble technology. Anyone who wishes to voice their opinions or keep up to date with the latest developments is encouraged to follow us on Medium and Twitter or join the discussions on Discord and Telegram!
Finding files with largest number of lines
By: Zhao Li
Tags: Shell, Terminal

Problem: I have a hard time reading and understanding source files that contain more than about 100 lines of code. Hence, if a file gets to be around that size, I usually try and extract things out to another file and/or class. Sometimes, time doesn’t always permit me to make nice and small classes and files. When there is time to refactor and clean up code, I needed a way to find which files to focus my attention on.

Solution: Without using static code analyzers (which I should probably look into at some point), I just found this snippet of shell code to help me target which files to focus my refactoring efforts on:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | sort -n

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Why your T&Cs are ‘the’ gateway to greater trust
By: Nathan Kinch
Tags: Digital Trust, Open Banking, Digital Rights, Digital Ethics, Legal Design

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer surfaced the ‘insight’ that “easily understood T&Cs were highly valued by consumers (of U.S. Financial Services). In fact, this was considered the number one thing organisations in this category could to to restore trust.

I’m here to extend this idea.

Your contracts or ‘disclosures’ are a representation of how you operate as an organisation. They are a representation of how you treat your stakeholders. They are a damn good proxy for your trustworthiness.

And, as we consistently observe, organisations are broadly seen to be failing at ethics. They have a negative net trust score. They fail to act on their stated values.

T&Cs today accurately reflect this trustworthiness failure.

So, what can be done? How can you fundamentally redesign your contracts — progressively and with an empirical focus — so that they add value to the experience, help establish a meeting of the minds and measurably enhance trust?

This recent presentation from Rob Hale (CDO at Regional Australia Bank) and I will help.

Once you’ve watched it, let’s talk. There’s plenty of practical, action-oriented stuff you can get started on right away.
How the invention of infinite scrolling turned millions to addiction
Tags: Design Thinking, Ethics, UX, UX Design, Product Design

How the invention of infinite scrolling turned millions to addiction

And what can UX designers do to mitigate it

It’s been 14 years since one technology engineer designed a simple app feature that changed the lives of millions and turned the use of social media into an addiction we all fight. His name was Aza Raskin and he now says he’s deeply sorry and feels guilty about it. What feature are we talking about? It’s the infinite scroll. The most intuitive feature enabling you to endlessly move up or down through content with the simple flick of a finger. But what makes it so powerful and addictive?

Bottomless bowl

Research by Wansink, Painter, and North showed that people can be tricked into eating more soup by offering them self-refilling soup bowls. Those who were unknowingly eating from the bottomless bowls consumed 73% more soup than people with normal bowls and didn’t believe they actually had eaten more.

How is this related to technology, apps, and infinite scrolling, you ask? Well, tech companies tend to exploit the same principle, designing apps to automatically keep serving you more and more content without asking you whether or not you want it. Just like the soup.

Infinite scrolling is everywhere. You finish a video on YouTube, the next one loads immediately. You just watched an episode of your current favorite show on Netflix, the next episode begins without you having even the slightest chance to consciously think about if you still want to watch. Oh, and what about that one Facebook video you intended to watch for just “a minute”. Well, it’s already been half an hour and you’ve watched six more. As Aza Raskin says, if you don’t give your brain time to catch up with your impulses, you just keep scrolling.

“It’s as if social media companies are taking behavioral cocaine and just sprinkling it all over your interface and that’s the thing that keeps you like coming back and back and back.”

Raskin’s statement may seem a bit over-the-top, we know, but Professor Daniel Kruger of the University of Michigan agrees that the methods used by social media companies activate the same brain mechanisms as cocaine.

An article by Purohit, Barclay, and Holzer suggests the social media platforms are intentionally designed to trigger addictive usage patterns, using the Hook model to aid habit formation. The Hook model consists of four phases, starting with a trigger leading to action that produces a reward and finally creates investment. If utilized successfully, the Hook model creates an addictive feedback loop that keeps users glued to their phone screens.

Hiding behind a seemingly innocuous claim, “We’re just making it easier for users to see the video they want to watch,” companies incentivize the creation of addictive app features to keep their users hooked.
Lost Home
By: Anushka Choudhary
Tags: Poetry, Memories, Home

Photo by Cheryl Winn-Boujnida on Unsplash

I left my home behind,

to find my new abode.

Hardships came my way often,

but I tried to keep a brave face.

I triumphed in my endeavors,

but I could never feel the content I desired.

’Cause I know my heart lies at home,

but now I’ll be a stranger in my own birthplace.

They would have moved on,

and started living a life without me.

My bed would no longer have my scent,

and my drawers would’ve been rearranged.

My home no longer requires my presence,

yet I’ll go back to my loved ones some day.

Will I disorient their life like before,

and leave them behind again?
Haiku: The Shortest Day
By: Greg Rosenthal
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Haiku, Winter, Inspiration

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Good to Great — How to become the top 5% developer in the world!
By: Maximilian Zachow
Tags: Career Advice, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Science, Programming

To spice our analysis up a little, we asked ourselves the following question before starting our profiling analysis:

Who are the top 5% best earning Developers?

Filtering the 88883 Survey Respondents by those who have answered most of the questions we end up with a population of 52545. From those we select the 95% Quantile of the Annual USD Salary Column and we end up with around 2600 Respondents for our Project. All these people have a minimum Income of 573,108 USD per year and we want to understand who these people are.

Important: Stack Overflow calculated the Annual USD Salary using the total Compensation, the Currency, the Exchange Rate and the information if that Compensation is Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. A Consultant that charges a lot per project will therefore easily have a virtual annual Salary of more than 2 Mio.

1. General Network

After feeding our Dataset into Graphext we end up with this beautiful Graph that you can see above. There are several uniquely colored groups of developers already recognizable, and with one click we can find out what are the main characteristics of these people.

In the following we will show you now the main variables that explain a Profile. The values of each variable are sorted by Uplift, which means:

Imagine only very few people (6%) in the whole population program in VBA. When we create a Filter of our Population it is unlikely that VBA will become the most important programming language in that Selection. BUT if its proportion increases to — let’s say — 12%, its significance for that Selection doubled and we therefore say that it is an important feature of that Person. On the other hand: If 50% of all the People program in Java but in our Cluster only 30% do so, that Characteristic is less important than others even if it would be the single most used Programming Language.

Profile #1: Americans with Bachelor Degrees
Our Plans Over Christmas
By: Jon Hawkins
Tags: Editor, Christmas, Philosophy, Writer

Our Plans Over Christmas

How the festive season will impact our schedule.

Photo by Filip Bunkens on Unsplash

It’s been an incredible year for The Apeiron Blog. Since launching our Medium publication back in April, we’ve accumulated over 5500 followers, and our community is growing daily.

I would like to say a massive thank you to our writers, who never cease to amaze me. With your support, expertise, and unique insight, we’ve managed to elicit discussion on some of the world’s most important questions. Together, we are encouraging Philosophical discussion to up to 300,000 monthly readers around the globe.

As the sole editor of this publication, I work hard every day to curate and edit the very best content for our readers. But I’m taking a break over the Christmas period to spend time with my family. Because of that, our turnaround on submissions between December 23rd and January 2nd will take a little longer than usual.

If you’re an internal writer, your piece will either be scheduled to go out over that period, or will sit in our queue until January. Please remain patient as we work our way through to your article. If you’re an external writer, your application will be picked up in due course.
Defense Minister Rejects Call Inquires On Palestinians killed
Tags: Middle East, Israel, Politics, News, Palestine

15 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military.

It happened last Friday when a Palestinian demonstration at the Gaza-Israel border turned quite violent. Also, Israeli military opened fire Saturday using live ammunition and rubber bullets, wounding about 70 Palestinians at the border. Hundreds had been warned to stay away. The military has said that some of those shot at had rolled burning tires, tossed rocks, tossed firebombs and fired at soldiers. Witnesses say stones were tossed.

Of the fifteen killed, The Hamas have said five were theirs. Israel has said they were eight. And two others have been stated to belong to other militant factions. The Hamas, dominant Palestinian group in Gaza and deemed a terrorist group by Israel and the West, have also been accused by the Israeli military of “cynically exploiting women and children” by sending them to the front lines. A Hamas spokesman called the claims “lies aimed at justifying the massacres”.

Calls inquiring a justification on the killing of the 15 Palestinians came through on Sunday but Israel’s defense minister Avigdor Lieberman rejected the calls. He also believes the soldiers “deserve a medal” as they did what he believes was necessary to protect the border.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini called for an independent investigation on the killings.

Diplomats have also said that the U.S. stopped a Kuwait-drafted U.N. Security Council statement which would have called for an independent investigation on Saturday

Hundreds of Palestinians, a small number compared to the initial turnout, stayed back in tent encampments after the incidents and much more are expected come Friday because of the Muslim Sabbath.

When the Palestinians mark the “Nakba” or “Catastrophe” on May 15, the protest would reach its peak.
Brazil Startup Grind meetup recap
By: Pundi X, Writers
Tags: Meetup, Bitcoin, Pundix, Cryptocurrency, Brazil

Pundi X’s technology has made its public debut in Latin America!

Supported by Google for Entrepreneurs, the XPOS was on display for the first time at a Startup Grind meetup event: “Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies: myths, truths, and the future”.

Held on May 3 in Sao Paulo, the event panel featured industry experts Gustavo Cunha and Emilia Campos and an audience of 40 attendees including a mix of blockchain enthusiasts and finance industry entrepreneurs, professionals and investors.

Gustavo Cunha spoke to the ‘big truth’ of blockchain technology: that it is here to disrupt the way things operate and we are going to see many applications in the upcoming years.

Our blockchain researcher, Joao, introduced Pundi X’s solution to the crowd and demonstrated the ease with which cryptocurrency transactions can be conducted on the XPOS device.

The demonstration generated a lot of excitement in the crowd and several questions about when the technology would be available for deployment, which were leading into conversations with participants.

Reviewed by Cryptomaniacos, a popular Brazilian crypto YouTube channel

Before our first meet-up in Brazil, Guilherme, a Brazilian crypto enthusiast who presents the Cryptomaniacos channel on YouTube, gave an excellent review about Pundi X a thorough review on his popular channel. He brought up key aspects of our White Paper and was very impartial by tackling raising the challenges that Pundi X might face in the Brazilian market. Watch it:

Exclusive meeting by Empoderoff

On May 11, an exclusive meeting hosted by Augusto Sitio from Empoderoff, brought together players and enthusiasts across blockchain. The goal was to bring interested parties, including investors and innovators, together with blockchain companies and Pundi X was selected to present its solutions and share experiences.

A number of parties presented about their technologies, including Swipecoin, Econobit, Quantum, Uniproof and, of course, Pundi X.

Brazil is the first step for us to expand our network in Latin America. We are very excited about the uptake in this market and look forward to more development in the near future.
The Proust Questionnaire Answered by Steve Alexander🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 for Tree Langdon, CPA, CGA
By: Alex
Tags: Life, Questionaire, Self Realization, LGBTQ, Autobiography

1) What is your idea of perfect happiness?

There is no “perfect” happiness. Happiness comes at a price. Once achieved, it’s ephemeral.

Life is a sequence of journeys. One slogs through a swampy valley, fights against the current across an un-crossable river, scrabbles across the rock-strewn desert on the other side only to come upon the upward slope of an outsized boxcar of a mountain. One scrambles up the slope with any number of start-and-stop fits and falls backward, but ultimately reaches the peak. The atmosphere is pure though rare, the view rich and glorious. Angels sing, and the Aurora Borealis dances down across one’s shoulder and touches one’s soul with its fleeting resplendence. Perhaps a cosmic love finds one. Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! Oh, Joyous Rapture!

But mountain peaks are precarious perches. One’s time there is short. All too soon, the lubricious footing and high winds topple one down the opposite slope and into the next valley, across which one labors only to reach the next mountain.

Life is that journey.

The realization that happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in depth and breadth is one’s savior. That realization is itself the closest one will get to perfect happiness in this world. It gives one strength, courage, and hope to see one through the valleys and up the inclines.

One way or another, those valleys and inclines are coming at one. Best to have strength, courage, and hope to see one on one’s way. Best to realize that the rapture on the next peak, short though it be, will more than make up for the toil it took to get there.

So, the realization is itself happiness, for it gets one across the valleys and up the opposing mountain slopes of this world. It is perhaps the closest thing to perfect happiness for the promise that lies at its end.
How I Growth-Hacked My Age In One Year
By: Hassan S. Ali
Tags: Humor, Growth Hacking, Life

How I Growth-Hacked My Age In One Year

And you can too!

As a fan of startup culture, I’ve been reading a lot about growth hacking.

For those of you who don’t know, “growth hacking” is a strategy a lot of startups use to get their name out, grow their customer base, etc, all without having to spend tons of money on advertising or expensive PR firms.

But growth hacking isn’t just for startups. Any one of us can “growth hack” aspects of our personal lives, too: Like getting more people to join your book club, or increasing the number of readers on your blog.

In my case, I personally used this strategy to grow my age by a whole year, all within the short span of the last 12 months.

At left: 29, At right: 30. Results: A whopping 3.3% increase in age.

Here’s How I Did It

I breathed a lot. I found it crucial to inhale and exhale every few seconds, so as to keep my aging on pace with growth expectations.

I found it crucial to inhale and exhale every few seconds, so as to keep my aging on pace with growth expectations. My body performed basic biological functions. To help with this, I consumed food and water, slept, and exercised from time to time.

To help with this, I consumed food and water, slept, and exercised from time to time. I avoided standing directly under loose wrecking balls. As tempting as it is to stand beneath a 1500-lb wrecking ball that is clearly about to snap from its chain, I chose not to. It’s important to weed out things that might get in the way of whatever you’re trying to “growth hack.”

Growing from age 29 to 30 in just one year, that’s a staggering 3.3% increase in age!
Hope Has Risen
By: Jennifer Cowie King
Tags: Free Verse, Poetry, Nature, Beauty, Hope

lifting red above horizon’s promise,

a rosy tint to sky

this morning’s sunrise crests

the lip of ocean

symphony of color shifts amber

to glorious gold

now…hot yellow singing above

a wide-open sea

gentle waves, cresting glides,

ripples into shore

alone on the deck I watch

a seagull’s flight

wind whipping cool air over

my bare shoulders

unbearable lightness of being

brings a new day

hope’s golden orb has risen

after the storm

©Jennifer Cowie King

If you liked this poem, you might like this one…
Este olho biônico experimental poderá ajudar cegos a enxergar
By: Futuro Exponencial
Tags: Eyes, Technology, Light

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Email Spoofing 😈
By: Martin Thoma
Tags: Infosec, Computer Security, Spoofing, Cybersecurity, Hacking

Email Spoofing 😈

Learn what it is, how it works, and how to defend against it with SPF, DKIM, DMARC

Photo by Rinck Content Studio on Unsplash

Email spoofing is the creation of emails with a forged sender address. Faking the senders’ address is often a part of a phishing attack. There are different ways to fool the victim of a phishing attack about who is the real sender: Using slightly different sender domains like security@paypal.co instead of security@paypal.com , hiding the senders address like in Paypal Security <something@phishy.com> , or spoofing the email address.

Why it Matters

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a form of fraud that uses a business email address. There are many examples of this, but they are not well documented. At least not publicly. Some of the bigger ones I’ve found are:

2014 : The drug company Upsher-Smith Laboratories lost $50 million USD by CEO fraud (source)

: The drug company Upsher-Smith Laboratories lost by CEO fraud (source) 2015 : The networking company Ubiquiti Networks lost $46.7 million USD to a scammer who impersonated employees (source)

: The networking company Ubiquiti Networks lost to a scammer who impersonated employees (source) “In 2018, the IC3 received 20,373 BEC/E-mail Account Compromise (EAC) complaints with adjusted losses of over $1.2 billion” (source)

How are Emails spoofed?

Emails are transferred via the SMTP protocol. This protocol has an envelope that contains the sender (MAIL FROM) and the recipient (RCPT TO). The sender is typically not verified and not displayed. Instead, the content of the mail contains additional metadata. One item there is the reply-to and the sender. It’s interesting that reply-to and sender are different.

As an attacker, one can manipulate everything. Just like with normal mail:

Write a wrong MAIL FROM

Claim within the mail you’re another person (sender)

A key difference here is that typically, a lot is handled in the background.
ABCI Compatibility: What does it mean for Fantom?
By: Connor Hughes
Tags: Crypto, Consensus, Smart Contracts, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

This week, we announced ABCI compatibility for our Lachesis consensus engine — a milestone that we’ve been working towards since the launch of our Opera mainnet in December. The achievement unlocks several opportunities for Fantom in the consensus-as-a-service (CaaS) space — lower barriers and costs to deployment provide integrators with confidence and flexibility when implementing Lachesis as their chosen consensus.

What is ABCI?

The Application BlockChain Interface (ABCI) decouples the consensus engine from the rest of an application. Developers often work in different programming languages according to personal preference, but without ABCI compatibility they are forced to adjust. As ever, forcing people to move away from their favored practices creates friction and reduces adoption.

The offering will increase adoption of Fantom technologies as industry partners and developers can make use of our aBFT consensus in their applications by merely ‘plugging it in’.

Blockchain service providers relieve themselves of having to build and maintain their own consensus engine. Instead, they can outsource the continued research and development to us and focus on their businesses operations.

What it means for the Fantom Foundation

We offer Lachesis aBFT consensus as a standalone product: Any project, whether a new blockchain or a private deployment of distributed ledger technology, can plug Lachesis into their technology stack effortlessly and benefit from fast, scalable solutions.

We extend an invitation to any application currently using Tendermint to trial Lachesis for increased performance — our developer team are happy to offer support.

What it means for FTM token utility

The new extension to consensus-as-a-service brings enormous benefits to FTM token holders.

Visibility, awareness and validation are all improved by the use of Lachesis in more applications. Accessibility to developers is consistent with our goal to make Fantom the go-to name for advanced consensus — anybody creating a new blockchain-based product will be able to import Lachesis immediately. Integration is simple, allowing our development team the time to continue making strides to cement our place as a world-leading provider of blockchain technology.

Where projects lack sufficient developer resources, or the ability to disseminate their token to a sufficiently distributed base of holders to ensure decentralization, they may opt to maintain the default reliance on FTM for network security. Several mainnets supporting FTM staking increases the tangible utility of the token.
Interview: Impact of the New Hours of Service Rules
By: Opex Analytics
Tags: Transportation, Trucking, Optimization, Supply Chain

Interview: Impact of the New Hours of Service Rules

by Michael Watson

We recently did a video interview on Supply Chain Digest (starting at about the 3:20 mark) on the trucking industry’s new Hours of Service Rules (basically increasing the limit on the amount of time a truck driver can drive before resting).

In the interview, we make a case that the impact on the total costs of transportation will not be as high as excepted.

This interview was based on an earlier blog post.

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Light
By: Moriah Rivera-Lawrence
Tags: Short Read, Poetry, September, Nature Writing, Autumn

An Oregonian writer and poet with a knack for the paintbrush and the camera.

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Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, John Oliver, Ethereum, Bitcoin

John Oliver, sometimes controversial but always entertaining.
รีวิว Barcamp Bangkhen 5
By: Suranart Niamcome
Tags: Highlight, News, Barcamp

SiamHTML

The collection of articles for front-end developers
How to Connect With Your Divine Feminine Energy
By: Jade Scarfone
Tags: Spiritual Growth, Divine Feminine, Astrology, Spirituality, Meditation

The Ages of Time

There’s a spiral image that depicts the various ages since Creation. They are:

✨ Age of Leo — this was the Golden Age. A time of peace, harmony, and natural order and connection to the earth.

✨ Age of Cancer — this was the age of the Great Mother or birth of humanity. There were lots of Earth Goddesses and female deities. Matriarchy ruled.

✨ Age of Gemini — the age of Duality. A time of expression, communication, trade, literature, storytelling, science, and mathematics.

✨ Age of Taurus — signified agriculture and structure. Birth of the Iron Age.

✨ Age of Aries — the age of war, adventure, and expansion of empires. Also, a rise in arts, science, and a new philosophy.

✨ Age of Pisces — this is where we’ve seen the biggest shifts in civilization and is the dark age we’ve all been living through. The main aim of this age has been to control and divide.

✨ Age of Aquarius — there're different ideas whether we’ve already entered this age or not. Some say it began in 2012, others say we’re still in Pisces and about to shift soon. December 21 is the dawn of the new age. This is what I lean towards believing. This is the age of raising collective consciousness. A time to call for a better world and to align back with Mother Earth.
Double Doppler 4.2.8635 — Hotfix — Release Notes
By: Beam Privacy
Tags: Mimblewimble, Release Notes, Cryptocurrency, Privacy, Bitcoin

Come discover Beam and join our community!

Download Beam Desktop Wallet here

Download Beam iOS Wallet on App Store

Download Beam Android Wallet on Google Play

Learn more about Beam on our website and blog

Telegram: t.me/BeamPrivacy

QQ Beam 中国官方社区: https://jq.qq.com/?_wv=1027&k=5Mbs8N4

Reddit: reddit.com/r/beamprivacy/

Twitter: twitter.com/beamprivacy
Concrete jungle
By: Kathryn Stumpf
Tags: Haiku, Walking, House Of Haiku, City Living, Concrete

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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September 2020 Burn Report
By: Locktrip.Com, Loc Token, Official Blog
Tags: Blockchain, Locktrip, Ethereum, Crypto, Bitcoin

About the Mechanism

Every booking made on our marketplace triggers a LOC burn equal to 3% of the booking value. These are bought from exchanges and sent to the parking wallet.

When the customer checks in to the hotel, we consider the booking as final and the parking wallet executes the final burn transaction. If the customer cancels the booking, the parking wallet returns the balance into circulation.

Burn Rate

The burn mechanism continuously removes LOC from the circulating supply, which is driven by booking volumes. This factor turns LOC into a deflationary economy as opposed to other coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, where new coins are added to the supply with every block.

In the chart below you can see the rate at which LOC are being destroyed.

September displayed a strong burning performance with 23 LOC being removed from the total supply per day, second only to the record broken in August.

Will we see new highs later this year?

Cumulative Amount

Another fundamental metric is the cumulative amount that has been removed from the circulating supply.

The growth trajectory continues on a healthy track, despite the LOC price having experienced a doubling on exchanges over the past months and the burn rate being dropped from the previous 5% to the current 3% (read more).

Quarterly Overview

While we are preparing the quarterly bookings report with some in-depth data about the nature of bookings, it is worth to take a quick look at the quarterly progression.

The third quarter has been the one with the most burns to date. More than 2,400 LOC have been permanently destroyed in Q3, which is 60% above the previous record set in Q1 (1,500 LOC at that time). More details about bookings will be shared in our upcoming quarterly booking report.

Verify the Numbers

All transactions are publicly verifyable on the blockchain through the two wallets linked below.

Burn Wallet

Parking Wallet

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LockTrip is a blockchain-based travel marketplace that allows users to save up to 60% on their bookings by cutting out middlemen. Every booking burns LOC proportionally to its booking value, continuously reducing its total supply.
Six months as a DesignOps manager
By: Claudia Love
Tags: Product Design, Design Leadership, Product Management, Designops, UX

Six months as a DesignOps manager

My experience in the role, so far.

First, some context…

Cisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS) is cloud cyber-security software for enterprises. I joined the company back in 2016 to manage the team in charge of the experience of the product. About six months ago, after a re-org, I was given the role of “Manager, Product Design and Design Operations” which essentially meant that I would continue to manage my team as usual plus a new emphasis around design operations.

Defining the role

DesignOps is a new discipline. I first heard the term in mid-2017 and the design community is trying to define it, but its value is well understood.

My original definition of DesignOps was something like this…

Or better put, I was thinking about DesignOps as mostly delivery-focused. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to attend the 2017 DesignOps Summit, but I got to review the videos and presentations and I particularly liked this definition by Kristin Skinner:

“Design Operations focuses on the health of the practice, the people, and the projects.”

This is a much more accurate and holistic definition, and it allowed me to set my goals around three pillars: process and tools, team, and delivery.

Setting goals

Once I had more clarity around the role, it was time to assess the state of design operations and set some objectives. When I looked up the traditional definition of operations management on Wikipedia (because why not?) I ran into the following statement:

The operations function requires management of both the strategic and day-to-day production of goods and services.

Following this concept, I set strategic and day-to-day (or tactical) goals for each of the three pillars I mentioned above.
The “Like” Test
By: Josh Hallman
Tags: Test, Like

I just went to the grocery store and was standing next to a loud conversationalist, she was on the cell phone and of course talking about herself. I hoped I didn’t sound like her when I’m on the cell but something tells me I do. Regardless, she kept saying “Like” and it got me thinking. A man that I hold in a high regard once challenged myself and a handful of other people. He challenged us not to use the word “Like” It seems simple enough…no. In our highly self involved world we use the word Like for a handful of common conversation. I was like… Then he was like… I was like….then they were like…. Well, he’s kind of like…. It’s like… It’s possible to get around using this word, I have become very aware of the use of the word yet I still manage to use it. It’s the Like Challenge, I don’t know the benefits of cutting this word out — however, if you do manage to chop this word down in your daily use at least you’ll sound smarter.
Dynamic Programming in Golang
By: Adeshina H. Hassan
Tags: Go, Programming, Software Development, Golang, Algorithms

Recursion

One approach that’s likely to come to mind when faced with the Fibonacci sequence problem is to use recursion. Let’s take a look at the implementation of this approach and how efficient it is:

// the recursive function approach definition

func expensiveFib(n int) int {

if n < 2 {

return n

}



result := expensiveFib(n-1) + expensiveFib(n-2)



return result

}

Running the recursion solution with an input of 50 will result in 12586269025 with an execution time of roughly 1m and 6.413943065s . Why does it take so long? Simply put, it’s due to the recursive call of the function. We’re checking whether the input is less than 2. If so, we return the input and move to the next stack of the function calls. In this case, the returned input would be either 1 or 0. On the other hand, if 2 is not greater than the input, we call the function twice — once with the input 1 and the second time with the input 2, and sum the result of both calls. The image below depicts the process (using an input of 5):

Loop

Another approach is to use a loop. Let’s take a look at the implementation of this approach and how efficient it is:

// the loop approach definition

func fibByLoop(n int) int {

fibBox := []int{0, 1} for i := 0; i < n; i++ {

v := fibBox[i] + fibBox[i+1]

fibBox = append(fibBox, v)

} result := int(fibBox[n])

defer trackTime(time.Now(), result, "Loop")



return result

}

Running the Loop solution with an input of 50 will result in 12586269025 with an execution time of roughly 2.356µs . That seems much faster than the recursive approach — from 1m and 6.413943065s down to 1.428µs , impressive!

So, what’s the algorithm behind this solution? The answer is, we used an iterative approach. Let’s review the steps:
Wet Dream: How To Create The Ultimate Ocean-Themed Bathroom
By: Clare Wieck
Tags: Home, Humor, Interior Design, Comedy, Funny

Wet Dream: How To Create The Ultimate Ocean-Themed Bathroom

Take a swig of rum, strap on your lifejacket, and steel yourself for the best guide on how to fool your guests into thinking they’re at sea when they relieve themselves in your home.

Going to the bathroom or submerged in an underwater world? Your guests won’t be able to tell the difference. Photo: Francesca Zama

1. Collect some nautically-themed images on Pinterest. One to two thousand should be enough to spark some inspiration.

2. Buy a new house. Your current one doesn’t have a bathroom vast enough to contain your oceanic dreams. If you calmly explain your project to your bank manager, they will respect your idea and offer you a loan, no problem.

3. Decide on your sub-theme: Will you go tropical or cold water? Do you want to feel like a Scandinavian fishmonger or a sunburnt Pacific Island tourist when you take a shit?

4. Install portholes. Go for tinted glass if you like your privacy. Go for clear glass if you want a more thrilling bathroom experience.

5. Walls: blue, obviously. Any shade will do because after step 9 the color won’t be particularly relevant anyway.

6. Floor treatment: If you’re going for cold climate, fill your floor space with pebbles and small rocks. If you’re going tropical, dump a ton of fine white sand onto the floor (this also doubles as an effective absorber for couldn’t-get-there-in-time accidents).

7. Décor: You’ll need around 20 wall pieces to convince your guests that your bathroom is near to or under the sea. Some suggestions: wood-mounted plastic tuna (preferably programmed to sing a jaunty tune like Under the Sea when it detects movement), rusted anchors, lifesavers, buoys (hang these from the ceiling with rope), diving gear, whalebones, giant clam shells, pirate paraphernalia (including pieces of eight, taxidermied parrots, and miscellaneous booty). (I caution against Googling to find the latter.)

8. Mount a large TV to your ceiling (the wall space should already be occupied) and program it to play water-themed movies 24/7. Some suggestions: Water World, Free Willy, Ocean’s Eight through Twenty-One, Watership Down, Jaws.

9. Buy an automatic spray dispenser with a motion sensor and fill it with saltwater. Install it at approximately eye-level near the doorframe. The spray should activate every time someone enters the bathroom. Saltwater is great for the skin and everyone loves sea air.

10. Unleash the crabs: Do not use real crabs. Crabs make poor pets due to their surprisingly low trainability and their indifference to affection. Instead, purchase 20 to 30 fake battery-powered crabs. Make sure they’re switched on when you have guests over.

11. Your bathroom is done! Invite your guests over. Give them plenty to drink (caffeine and alcohol work best) and nothing to eat. Do not tell them about the bathroom until they ask where it is. It’s far more enjoyable for everyone if your guests experience your bathroom without any preconceptions about your masterpiece and with the adrenaline-pumping urgency of a full bladder.