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Russian Draft Bill Lacks Core Crypto Terms After Recent Edits
Tags: Cointelegraph, Crypto, Bitcoin

Russian Draft Bill Lacks Core Crypto Terms After Recent Edits https://is.gd/OCU5wC

Deputies of the Russian State Duma have removed a definition for crypto mining from the draft law “On Digital Financial Assets.”

Russian deputies have removed the definition of crypto mining from a draft bill on digital currency regulation ahead of its next reading in the State Duma, major local news agency Interfax reports Oct. 19. Consequently, the new law will not clarify tax issues for miners.

The chairman of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets Anatoly Aksakov briefly explained the reason behind the deputies’ decision to eliminate a core crypto term from the bill:

“Earlier we had some thoughts on Bitcoins, on their integration into our economic system. But as we decided we don’t need them, these ambiguous Bitcoins, therefore we don’t need mining as well.”

If the law were to define crypto mining, it consequently would also need to define cryptocurrencies, Aksakov told Interfax. He further added that it would be “senseless” to include mining in the regulation proposed by the government. He said mining should be brought under tax watchdog jurisdiction if needed.

It is not immediately clear whether definitions for tokens and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), and rules for crypto exchanges — which were included in the initial draft — remain in the current version. The present draft law will proceed to the second of three readings in the Duma.

The bill “On Digital Financial Assets” was first introduced in January by the Russian Ministry of Finance. In March, a group of deputies headed by Aksakov proposed a modified version that established know your customer (KYC) regulations for customer identity verification on crypto exchanges, echoing current requirements in the U.S. A draft of the bill was approved by the State Duma in first of three hearings in May.

However, before the second hearing scheduled for the Duma’s autumn session, a definition of “cryptocurrency” was removed from bill. Mining then was defined as the “release of tokens to attract investment in capital.”

In September, a lobby group from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) started working on an alternative crypto regulation bill. According to RSPP vice-president Elina Sidorenko, the new bill will divide digital assets in three groups and help eliminate contradictions in the state bill that she calls “unfinished and fragmented.”

Aksakov spoke to Interfax at Finnopolis 2018 — a fintech event that was held in the Russian city of Sochi this week. During the conference, state officials discussed crypto and its role in the country’s economy.

The head of the Russian central bank, Elvira Nabiullina, compared interest in crypto to a “fever” that was “fortunately” over. Herman Gref, CEO of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, predicted that governments will not abandon centralized control of monetary policy and currencies to allow cryptocurrencies to flourish within the next ten years.

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cointelegraph

#Bitcoin #BTC #ETH #LTC #XRP
The Rapture in America
By: Patsy Starke
Tags: Transgender, Resistance Poetry, LGBTQ, Equality, Gender Identity

…and then there were us,

somehow left behind…

Tax breaks,

Tariffs,

Subsidies,

Corporate welfare,

a country great again?

Misguided Evangelicals,

Religious Freedom Act

like the witch hunts,

the crusades,

the inquisition.

Did Jesus come back?

Only a narcissist,

A liar,

A deceiver…

…and then there were us,

somehow left behind…

Minorities,

Vulnerable populations,

Immigrants,

LGBTQ,

Transgender in the Military,

Transgender in the media,

Rolled back Obama gains,

Senior citizens,

Healthcare,

Medicare

Equality,

Compassion…

…and then there were us,

somehow left behind…

for each other…

Patsy, 2018
Design thinking doesn’t work in real life? ???? (Design Thinking ไม่ใช่ไม้วิเศษ จริงดิ)
By: Dark_Spirit, Warm
Tags: Design Thinking, Agile, Product Discovery, Scrum

From ITSupport to PM jump into Agile world as a SM. The SM/Agile Coach who passionate on Agile, Transformation ,UX and People.

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3 Ways to Make Money Online Using Your Computer
By: Home Grown Income Blog
Tags: Online Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Make Money Online, Business, Online Business

This method requires a lot more work than the previous two methods since you will be starting an online business. If you are passionate about a particular product or know how to spot products which sell you can build an online store.

Popular products or services you can sell online:

Shapewear

Hair bundles or wigs

Eye lashes

Vape products

Seamless bras

Swimwear

Waist trainers

Pet accessories for dogs or cats

You can find suppliers using:

Alibaba: If you want to ship products to customers yourself.

Oberlo: If you want to dropship, having the supplier ship to your customers on your behalf without revealing themselves.

If you need inspiration you can check out this guide: Home Business Ideas: 8 Ways to Start a Work-From-Home Business

Running an online store can be profitable in the long run if you have the right products, in about 4–6 months you could be making a decent income.

For marketing purposes, you can use Facebook ads targeting customers interests and location. For dog accessories you can target FB users who like dog pages and live within your state for example.

You can also use Instagram or YouTube influencers to promote your products. For really popular influencers you can offer $50-$100 per promo and $20-$50 per promo for the lesser known influencers.

If you start an online store remember that you are building a brand, be sure to have social media pages for your business, a suitable name, a decent logo and decent looking store. You can also build a blog into your store and write about subjects in your niche to drive traffic towards your store.

For example if you are selling hair bundles you can create a video blog series detailing how to install the wigs you sell. Create a text blog post and a YouTube video, next embed the YouTube video into your blog post and add your blog link to your YouTube video.

This way they both feed traffic back to each other, to make things simple you can make the YouTube video first and create the blog post summarising the video with a step-by-step guide.

Starting an online store is a marathon, not a race, it will take time for your store to grow, especially with blogging which slowly builds up traffic over time.

You can use Shopify to create an online store here, Free for the first 14 days

I hope you find these options helpful for making money online, if you have any success feel free to drop me a message and maybe I can interview you for a future blog post!

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Painters in the Sky
By: Cassius Corbin
Tags: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Art, Poem

Painters paint at

Their most strong

In the days after

Their life is gone

If you believe it not

Then look to the skies

Hot fire erupts in the

Sun’s daily set and rise

The tickles of pinks

Purples and blues

Drench horizons in

Nature’s heavenly hues
Searching Algorithms in Python
By: Abhay Parashar
Tags: Data Structures, Programming, Python, Productivity, Algorithms

Searching Algorithms in Python

Learn About Linear Search and Binary Search

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Searching Algorithms are always very useful and helpful whether you are performing a data structure operation or searching for a particular file in a set of documents they are always very helpful.

Searching Algorithms are designed to check for an element or retrieve an element for a given data structure.

There are mainly two types of searching algorithms:

Sequential Search: In these types of algorithms we start with index 0 and check the element at each index until the end of the data structure. Linear search is an example of these types of algorithms. The time complexity of these algorithms in the best case is O(1) and in Worst case O(n). Interval Search: These algorithms are designed to search in sorted data structures. These types of algorithms are much more efficient and better than linear search. These algorithms target the center first and then divide the whole data structure into two parts and then again follow the same process.

Linear Search

In linear search, we first start with index 0 and look for the element in the whole data structure until it's found or we reached the end of the data structure.

Suppose we have an array of integers as = [1,2,4,3,6,7,0,9] and we have to search 6 on the list. In the Linear approach, we first compare the number to search with the index 0 value if they are not equal we move a pointer to the next number and again compare we do the same steps until the number is found or we reached at the end of the array.

“Linear Search — Image By Author”

Programming Implementation Using Python

lst = [2,5,3,1,7] num = 1 for index,value in enumerate(lst): if num==value: print(f"{value} found at position {index+1}")

Binary Search

In Binary Search, we first compare the number with the center or mid element which can be found using first+last//2. if the number is not equal to the center element then we check whether it is greater then the center element or smaller then the center element according to that we break the list into two parts and the side in which our element can not exist we stop searching on that side.
The False Correlation Between Bitcoin And Libra
By: Geoffrey Fouvry
Tags: Libra, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

The False Correlation Between Bitcoin And Libra

By Geoffrey Fouvry on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

When Libra was announced, a big bump in the price of Bitcoin happened. As a specialist in monetary questions and investment, I wondered why really.

In fact, Libra is a redeemable currency with a variable composition basket. However, this variable composition basket makes it subject to leakage, or cross-financing between different governments. Let me explain: Holding a fiat currency is like holding a government debt instrument with a zero-coupon, and if there is inflation, you are actually expropriated by the government day by day for as long as you hold the currency. This is well explained by Milton Friedman.

A few months ago, I exposed Libra’s flaws (variable composition, cross country gov financing, and Gresham’s law) as part of our C-Level presentations series in our Company’s proprietary augmented media format. Here it is for your appreciation. http://bit.ly/2OmSFeT. I will keep on posting C-Level presentations / augmented media teasers here. Next time I will expose the issues that Calibra has on its own. Also if Libra finally fails, it should present buying opportunities in the price of Bitcoin. But it will be discussed in another post.

In fact, Bitcoin has nothing to do with Libra. It is a form of money, not a redeemable currency, and all the cross-funding & Gresham’s law problems are evidently absent in Bitcoin. Libra and Bitcoin only share technology: blockchain. You probably see this article from a computer or mobile, so you and I use the same technology. Does it mean we have many things in common? Probably not yet!
It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
By: Violet Detorres
Tags: Kevin J Peterson, Death, Resistance Poetry, Family, BlackLivesMatter

It Didn’t Have To Be This Way

The ending is always the same

What they said was “He looks suspicious”

What they said was “It could be drugs”

What they thought was “He could be trouble”

What they saw was “BLACK”

What they said “He pulled the trigger”

What they did “They shot back”

What they found will never bring him back

No shot was fired, that was the sources feedback

Another Black man dies

Add his life to Requiem’s soundtrack
Монголын Махны Үнэ — Хугацаан Цувааны Таамаглал
By: Robert Ritz
Tags: Mongolia, Time Series Forecasting, Machine Learning, Data Science, Монгол

Монголын Махны Үнэ — Хугацаан Цувааны Таамаглал

For the English version of this article click here. You can find the data and Jupyter Notebook for this article on Github here.
How to Embed a React Application in Any Website
By: Jeremiah Tabb
Tags: JavaScript, React, Programming, Nodejs, Reactjs

How to Embed a React Application in Any Website

Use create-react-app and then embed it into an existing project

Photo by Hal Gatewood.

Let’s say you have a static website — be that on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or HTML from a server — and you want to add some dazzling functionality to it.

“If only I could use React!” you say to yourself, but time and budget constraints prevent a total overhaul of your website.

The good news is that you are not alone, and the great news is that this guide will show you how to create and embed a React widget within your website! We just have to learn to think about React a little differently…
Walk With Me, My Love
By: Carolyn Riker
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Relationships, Romance, Love, Poetry

Walk With Me, My Love

A moonlight serenade

Photo by El Salanzo on Unsplash

On parted lips

of a moonscape night

her supple sojourn

beckons midnight

A golden brushstroke

plunged round with sea

her canvas swells

to haunted harmonies

Wave splashed tendrils

orchestrate succulent shivers

as her shoulders splayed

it bares her heart

a tender serenade.
Video Games May Improve Surgery Performance
By: Ramsay Lewis
Tags: Culture, Technology, Psychology, Gaming

Video Games May Improve Surgery Performance

Can video games make you better at your job? If you’re a surgeon, the answer appears to be “yes”

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

Can video games make you better at your job? If you’re a surgeon, the answer appears to be “yes”.

Gaming Improves Hand-Eye Coordination

Several studies have found that playing video games can improve eye-hand coordination.

Tan Ying Li and his colleagues conducted a study designed to see if playing a video game could increase hand-eye coordination in a group of medical students from Melaka Manipal Medical College in Malaysia. The researchers split the medical students into two groups. In the experiment group, participants were asked to play the smartphone game “Make Them Jump“. The other group didn’t play the game.

The researchers tested hand-eye coordination by asking them to throw a ball at a wall with one hand and catch it with the other. The number of catches they made in 30 seconds was recorded. They recorded the data before and after the intervention.

The results? The video game group caught a similar number of balls as the control group before the video game intervention — but they did better than the control group after playing the game. They also performed significantly better than their own performance before they had played the video game.

What does this mean? It seems that, at least in some cases, video games can help improve eye-hand coordination.

Video Games and Surgery

Video games do not only seem to improve general hand-eye coordination, but they also seem to specifically improve surgeons’ ability to perform particular types of surgery.

In one study, researchers found that individuals in a group that played a balance game on a mobile phone made fewer surgical errors than individuals in a group that didn’t play video games.

These results were corroborated by another study: Participants that played a game on Nintendo Wii made fewer mistakes than those that didn’t.

One other study found that individuals that were warmed-up with a video game performed surgery tasks faster than others that didn’t.

Limitations of the Research

One common limitation of the research in this area is that there tend to be very few high-quality studies. The ones that do exist are limited in that there usually are pretty small sample sizes. Because of this, the research as a whole is somewhat tentative in its conclusion about the utility of video games for improving surgery.

Also, these studies used different types of games. It could be that some games are more likely to improve hand-eye coordination, and some are not. Strategy games, like online chess, may not have the same effect as the hand-eye coordination-heavy games used in these studies.

Still, the research that exists suggests that there is an effect: video games seem to improve surgery performance to some extent.

So the next time you’re being hassled about playing whatever game you’re playing, just explain that you’re training to be a surgeon. I’ll back you up.
Killing Time
By: Tina L. Smith
Tags: Holidays, New Years Eve, Microfiction, Centina, Time

Cyril looked down at crowds gathered in Times Square from his hotel room. Happy couples. Joyous families. He checked his computer connection for the umpteenth time.

He’d come alone, as always.

The hour grew close. The Countdown Crew depended on him. With a sly, victorious smirk, Cyril reset the time — one second backwards.

And prepared to enter the new year slightly ahead of the throngs.
I Am Not Longer Asking Myself for Permission
By: Louis Petrik
Tags: Personal Growth, Productivity, Self, Self Improvement, Fear

I Am Not Longer Asking Myself for Permission

Secretly you’re only afraid of what others might think.

I am writing this article here only because I know that I have a chance to get it well received.

I have already been very successful in other topics, especially the topic of programming, blogging on Medium.

That’s why I’m writing this now, why I dare to write it now.

I see it as justified to try it also here — not only to other topics, to write here on Medium.

That doesn’t make sense to you? You’re right; it doesn’t.

Actually, I would also be sure — even if I had not been successful before.

But then I would have asked myself how to justify the attempt.

Because actually, we’re just afraid of what other people might think

Justification is not about me at all. As I said, I’m confident either way.

I would then only lack justification if someone asked why I tried it. We fear the judgment of others that they cannot understand what we are trying to do.

It’s the same mentality that people don’t dare go to the gym — because they consider themselves unathletic? Yes, because they are merely afraid of being judged.

Even though they are in the right place — and that’s the most important thing.

It doesn’t matter if other people think they wouldn’t be.
Why You Should Celebrate When You Finish Your Novel
By: Brian Rowe
Tags: Novel Writing, Productivity, Creativity, Writing, Celebration

There truly is nothing like completing the first draft of a writing project.

Especially the first draft of a novel.

I still remember the first time I finished a novel. It was the end of May 2010. I had been wanting to write a novel for years. There were so many times I would walk around Borders and Barnes & Noble wishing I could one day have a book on the shelf.

But writing a novel just seemed too hard. I figured I would burn out after a week or two and never finish it.

Finally, in the spring of 2010, when I was tired of writing screenplays and wanted a new challenge, I thought up a story about a casting director I wanted to tell in novel form, and I was bound and determined to write the whole thing until I reached THE END.

I followed Stephen King’s advice. 2,000 words a day every day. I worked a full-time job from 9am to 7:30pm so I wrote at night, usually from about 10pm to 1am. I wrote every day for six weeks… and then at the end of May I had a 106,000-word first draft of a novel.

It’s been ten years, and I still remember that feeling. I didn’t move at first. Just stared at the screen in awe. I had written that final scene the way I wanted and then typed THE END, on page 463. I couldn’t believe it. I had finished a novel.

What did I do next? Once I finally was able to blink a few times and recognize the enormity of what I had just accomplished?

I printed out the pages, grabbed a pen, and started marking up the first page of the manuscript.
A Religious Leader That Shows Us the True Meaning of Courage
By: Erik Brown
Tags: Life Lessons, Inspiration, Spirituality, Politics, History

A Religious Leader That Shows Us the True Meaning of Courage

Defying Hitler and saving countless lives

Archbishop Damaskinos of Greece, 1945 — The Kessel Archive

What is courage? It’s a question that is harder to answer than what you might think. The answer will likely change as you age too. Children might instantly call to mind the actions of a superhero — the type of person who has powers to handle any kind of situation or trouble. However, when you get older you start to realize it’s easier for a person to demonstrate these qualities when they have power, influence, and means. Courage takes on a whole new meaning when you don’t have those things.

If you really want to answer the question, it might be easier to reframe it to “who is courageous”? Now, instead of arguments about non-quantifiable attributes, you suddenly have a figure with actions and deeds behind them. As I’ve thought about this idea and researched, a character emerged who fits the category. This character was by no means a superhero, but he did manage to save countless lives without a cape and the ability to fly. He also faced incredible danger.

What’s more, he was in a terrible ethical position. He found himself a religious leader to a community in Greece who was occupied by the Germans in World War II. Although he may have had a title of leadership, control ultimately wasn’t in his hands. He’d been told by the occupiers and their collaborators to hand over the local Jewish community so they could be sent away to an uncertain fate.

The easier path in this situation was to follow orders, many other religious leaders had done the same to protect their flock. However, he chose to follow his conscience and the words of St. Paul:

“There is neither Jew nor Greek.”

Not only did this individual follow his inner voice and the teachings of his religion, he openly protested the actions of his conquerors, putting his life at risk. He also used whatever status his religious position gave him to help Jews escape the area. In 1969, he was recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations — an award given to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

If you want to know what courage is and who is courageous, look to Damaskinos of Athens.
SureRemit App: How it Works
By: Samuel-Biyi 'Laolu
Tags: ICO, Bitcoin, Remittances, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Finally, a view into the crux of the entire project: The SureRemit App; our non-cash remittance platform, enabled by cryptocurrency.

SureRemit will be a simple but powerful platform. It will be used to send digital vouchers for accessing goods and services at local merchants all over the world, pay bills and send mobile airtime.

Users will create an account using their e-mail or social media account before accessing the service menu.
How to Complete the Qur’ān in 7 Days
By: Qāri Mubashir Anwar
Tags: Islam

How to Complete the Qur’ān in 7 Days

Ahmad and Abu Dawud narrated from Aws b. Hudhayfa, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: ‘We came to the Messenger of Allah, prayers and peace be upon him, as part of the delegation of Thaqif.’

He said: ‘The Messenger of Allah, prayers and peace be upon him, would come to us every night after ‘isha and speak to us.’

He said: ‘One night he was late from (coming to see us at) the time he would come to us.’

We said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, you have come to us late tonight.’

He said: ‘I had my portion of the Qur’an to read and I did not want to come until I had finished it.’

Aws said: ‘I asked the companions of the Messsenger of Allah, prayers and peace be upon him, about how he divided up his reading of the Qur’an.’

They said: ‘Three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen and the Mufassal.’

Thus, the Prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, would complete the Qur’an weekly. His reading would be as follows:

Day 1: Fatiha to Al-‘Imran (three suras)

Day 2: Al-Nisa to Al-Anfal (five suras)

Day 3: Al-Tawba to Al-Hijr (seven suras)

Day 4: Al-Nahl to Al-Nur (nine suras)

Day 5: Al-Furqan to Al-Fatir (eleven suras)

Day 6: Ya Sin to Al-Fath (thirteen suras)

Day 7: Al-Hujurat to Al-Nas (Mufassal)

So, here’s a suggestion for those able to read the Qur’an fluently. With one week (or two) left to Ramadan, who is up for following a Prophetic sunnah. Who is up for the challenge of finishing the Qur’an in a week as the Messenger of Allah, prayers and peace be upon him, would do regularly and then who will continue that and do four readings of the Qur’an in Ramadan? Who is up for it?

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By Shaykh Haroon Hanif

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The Fault In Our Loyalties
By: Adam Prescott
Tags: Work, Startup, Productivity, Leadership, Business

The plan is nothing, strategery is everything

For most of my life, commitment & accountability have gone hand-in-hand as the formula for success. Set a goal, commit, and get it done. So, as I’ve landed in leadership roles, it’s something I’ve emphasized a lot with my teams.

That’s not bad, per se, but I was encouraging commitment at the wrong level. I wanted team members to commit to completing an assignment within a certain timeframe, then hold themselves accountable to get it done. However, that sort of commitment has proven to be too low-level and individual-focused.

You can’t emphasize execution without buy-in on strategy.

What I’ve come to realize is that commitment is much more effective when used to obtain buy-in from the team on a particular strategy. In other words, it’s really powerful when the team can agree, “We’re going to accomplish X by doing A, B, & C,” and commit to the approach. You can’t emphasize execution without buy-in on strategy. I’d been looking for people to commit to A, B, & C without understanding or agreement on what we were trying to accomplish.

I was doing everything I could to make execution of assignments go as smoothly as possibly — and being marginally successful — but it wasn’t until I read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni that I came to see I was prioritizing my teams incorrectly and creating unnecessary turbulence as a result.

In the book, members of a fictional executive team learn to prioritize shared objectives above the goals of their individual departments so the company can succeed. They prioritize themselves as a team and align on strategy. Departments begin working together to achieve common goals rather than competing for resources, and they experience success as an organization rather than as disconnected teams. It’s beautiful.
I Lost All Of My Weight
By: Sergey Bloom
Tags: Death, Nothing, Humor, Diet, Weight Loss

I Lost All Of My Weight

A tragic tale of an obsolescence diet.

This comes to you from nowhere. As I recount my caloric losses, what would have been my remains is instead nothing at all.

I’ve wasted away, got infinitely smaller and denser, died, collapsed in upon myself, exploded like a supernova and became an all-absorbing devouring emptiness.

There’s lots of talk about losing weight to become healthier, or losing too much and needing to gain some of it back. But nobody talks about losing it all and what happens when you do.

Well, let me tell you.

First, you shrink. Then, you become invisible. And in the next instant — kaboom! You become nothing. Like nothing that preceded everything on Earth. Only this time it will be succeeded by nothing. You reverse it all. You suck the life right out of the Universe. The end. Or, is it the beginning? Whatever. Nothing.

So, I am that nothing now, and this is my tragic story.

As I stepped on the bathroom scales day in and day out, the digital readout kept surprising me. My weight was decreasing. I became worried when I broke the one hundred pound mark. Actually, I was worried even before then. The real shocker came one morning when I saw zero.

“Can this be? How am I standing on the scales and registering zero weight? The scales must be broken.”

I turned around, looked in the mirror, and instead of my reflection saw the opposite wall. I wasn’t. Me was not. Gone. There wasn’t what was I. And yet, I (or a facsimile thereof) am (or is) typing this from within the mysterious bupkis.

It doesn’t make sense. But then sense isn’t part of nothing, so it shouldn’t be expected. And expecting shouldn’t be expected. Neither should the word should, or any other word. Or, anything. Nothing. Not even nothing.

“Did I diet myself into a vacuum?”

I did cut out all nutrition to lose weight.

Who would have thought this would turn me into the explosive gaseous matter that would cause an ever-expanding life-consuming black hole?

And now the world will end.

I do so apologize for triggering doomsday with my irresponsible lack of sustenance…
Selections toward the same interest
By: Binary Paradox
Tags: Technical Analysis, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

I came across with a Facebook post from my friend about his Bitcoin investment. I ask him few questions about it since I’ve been encountering some articles already about it in the past. He said that I must buy the BTC and let my fiat valuation grow — HODL is what he meant with bullish mindset. With that, I decided to look for more information about it on the Internet.

Source: http://scdn-images-1.medium.commax16001K_hE35UVDRcIMG4OqHBtZg.jpeg

After some research, I decided to invest in this technology. Also, I learned that one of my colleagues also invested in this. He advised me to look for other coins from several exchanges with great potential as BTC. With that, I researched about these exchanges and how they work.

Source: http://anabernabeu.eswp-contentuploads201801foro-para-youtubers.png

I was able to increase my portfolio by around 20–30 percent by buying some coins that were reviewed by influencers in the YouTube. They are backed with some fundamentals about the technology and potentials of the coins.

Source: https://cryptocoinmastery.comwp-contentuploadsbounties-Out-The-CFTFC-Coming-Pump-and-Dump-Groups-1024x576.jpg

Then I came across with signals group and attracted by the percentages they are showing from their trades. With that in mind, I copied their trades, but with the emotions during the drawdowns and with some pump and dump signals, I lost about 40% of my portfolio.

Redemption came after this tragedy. I attended a workshop tackling the fundamentals of technical analysis. With this knowledge together with the bull market, I was able to reach 215 percent of my original portfolio. I just stick with the system and knowledge I learned from the workshop plus some self-study to learn more.

However, with a bullish mind, I was not even exchanging my BTC to fiat even the market started to go down last January. My mindset during that time is to get more BTC by trading altcoins since BTC will go up in the long term. My portfolio is down by 20 percent from the original value when I realized that I need to get in a mentorship program. There’s so much more room for improvement. With proper risk management and slowly learning the Technical Analysis more deeply, I manage to get my portfolio up by 50 percent.
[fragment #35]
By: Heath ዟ
Tags: Feb 18, One Line, Relationships, Fragments, Poetry

My own work

[fragment #35]

The day came

and the day went,

without you,

without your voice,

without your touch,

without a word from you.

Did you forget,

or did you just not care?
“There’s An Elephant In Harvey Weinstein’s Hotel Room”
By: Jess Brooks
Tags: Film, Race, Sexual Harassment, Gender, Harvey Weinstein

“In Hollywood, where both racism and sexism are rampant, what can look like a sort of mitigated blessing ends up highlighting another insidious problem in (the societal microcosm that is) Hollywood: Black women do not often come up for the kind of prestigious high-profile and award-winning roles that a producer with Weinstein’s power could offer.

Consider, for example, what Scottish film director Michael Caton-Jones told BuzzFeed News this week about a casting dispute with Weinstein. In 1998, he was in line to direct the Miramax-produced crime drama B. Monkey, and his first choice for the lead was black British actor Sophie Okonedo. Recalling a meeting between himself and Weinstein, Caton-Jones said: “Harvey kept saying to me, ‘Do you think she is fuckable?’” The frustrated director replied, “Don’t screw up the casting of this film because you want to get laid,” which apparently incensed Weinstein. After Caton-Jones was unceremoniously fired from the film following the conversation, Variety called him for a statement. He said he told the interviewer about harassment claims against Weinstein that he had heard about, ending the conversation with: “I don’t cast films according to Harvey Weinstein’s erection.” According to Caton-Jones, the reporter laughed. (In the end, Asia Argento, an Italian actor, got the role, and last week she was among the many women who publicly accused Weinstein of assaulting them.)…

Sexual harassment is often predicated on a power differential, but life’s other isms complicate things further.”
We the Peaple…
Tags: Vote, Protest, Politics, Humor, Comics

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
Candi Jawi
By: Yacob Wijaya
Tags: Jawa Timur, Pasuruan, Candi

in Both Sides of the Table
Exploring the Database Inspector in Android Studio
By: Siva Ganesh Kantamani
Tags: Database, AndroidDev, Programming, Mobile, Android

Update Data

If you can’t update the data from the inspector, all the features above won’t be much of use. So the Android Studio team also included a way to alter or add data to the database from the inspector itself. You can see the changes in the device in a matter of seconds if you’re using Room and observing data through livedata/flow.

This feature is useful in many situations while debugging. Let’s say we have the name of a plant with 10 characters, and you want to increase the length to 40 characters to check UI. In this use case, you can directly update the name from the inspector and check the UI.

To update the data, you just need to double-click on the field and add/remove the data. After that, press Enter to update it in the database. Have a look:
Java SDK bounty finished
By: Lin Li
Tags: Bitcoin Wallet, PHP, Bitcoin, JavaScript

A bounty was published one month ago.

The bounty winner is: yuantops/mixin_java_sdk

The author of the SDK has received 5 XIN tokens from Mixin Network CEO Cedric.

There are 7 open source SDK for Mixin network now: PHP, Java, C#, Node.js, Python, Go, and Ruby.

Our tutorial has much content: Create a chatbot in Mixin Messenger, who can send and receive Bitcoin. Create a Bitcoin wallet, programming to trade Bitcoin.

The code in tutorial includes PHP, Java, C#, Node.js, Python, and Go.

Mixin Network resource index.

Developer resource index.
The “streetlight effect” of big data studies.
By: Logan Koepke
Tags: Big Data, Analytics, Connections

Photo by Riccardo Francesconi

In The Conversation, Mark Moritz, an associate professor of anthropology at Ohio State University, argues that big data studies may suffer from the classic “streetlight effect” — “the tendency of researchers to study what is easy to study.” But studying what’s easy to study is not necessarily representative of reality, a potential pitfall for many “big data” studies.

As an example, Mortiz offers the “WEIRD” problem found in many research studies:

Harvard professor Joseph Henrich and colleagues have shown that findings based on research conducted with undergraduates at American universities — whom they describe as “some of the most psychologically unusual people on Earth” — apply only to that population and cannot be used to make any claims about other human populations, including other Americans. Unlike the typical research subject in psychology studies, they argue, most people in the world are not from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies, i.e., WEIRD.

That same principle may be true of of big data studies focusing on social media users, for example, who aren’t necessarily typical.

To avoid such “streetlighting” and related research pitfalls, Moritz argues that context is key:
What is a Minimum Viable Model?
By: Jeff Bienkowski
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Lean Startup, Agile

A Minimum Viable Model (MVM), and the process that surrounds it, aims to maximize our early understanding of an ML/AI problem domain in a real-world context while minimizing investment of time and resources.

The key points above are “understanding” and “real-world context.” When we begin a project, there’s a lot that we don’t know, so we make assumptions based on experience and intuition, but we can’t be certain if those assumptions are accurate until they’ve been tested with real-world data, under real-world conditions.

For example, we might discover that the available data is missing important features, deficient in quantity/quality, or not readily accessible.

Or we might be surprised to learn which features appear to contribute the most (or almost nothing) to the predictive power of the model.

We might even find that it’s not practical to develop a useful model given the (chaotic) nature of what we’re trying to predict.

The sooner we uncover issues (or opportunities), the sooner we can adjust our priorities, expectations, and allocation of resources appropriately.

With that in mind, our first pass at developing a model (and the accompanying exploratory analysis) should serve to answer at least the following questions:

What data is readily available? Where is it and how do we access it? What’s the quantity and quality of it? What are the performance characteristics of a very basic model using this data? Which features appear to be most important to our model? What additional data (internal or external) might improve performance significantly? Do we believe that we can develop a model that will fulfill the business objective we are trying to achieve?

In most cases, the questions above can be answered fairly quickly and many of the steps can be automated, but the interpretation of results into something useful for the business requires both experience in AI model development and a strong understanding of the problem domain. This is best achieved through close collaboration between in-house business experts and the (internal or external) AI team.

As soon as the client feels confident enough to proceed, we can begin to incorporate our model into the larger context of a deployed and fully-operational solution.

At Synapsta, we work closely with IT, Marketing, and other stakeholders to make sure that what we deliver is part of a complete business solution that is both operational and sustainable.

And finally, with all that foundational work behind us, we can continue to iteratively improve our model until we hit a point of diminishing returns on investment (ROI) no longer supported by the business case at hand.

Here’s the basic process we follow at Synapsta:

Now you could argue that this is just the latest in a long line of “Minimum Viable X” buzzwords (see Minimum Viable Product) but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a useful concept to keep in mind when it comes to planning, developing, and deploying your next machine model for your client or internal business stakeholders.
Building Your Audience Isn’t Magic
By: Michael Thompson
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Startup, Relationships, Business, Marketing

The 2 keys to creating an audience:

Houdini was a master of deception. However, he was also a master at building an audience and driving sales.

While most entertainers sat on the corner and performed tricks for every Tom, Dick and Sally in each new town they visited, hoping “word of mouth” would spread, Houdini took the time to identify the mouths that could speed up the process.

When others went general, Houdini got specific, and by doing so, ironically, his influence grew.

However, identifying his target audience was not the only thing Houdini took the time to do before throwing himself out the window. He also mapped out ways in which he could make their lives easier.

If you want to sell your products or services, it becomes much easier if you target the people who are already looking for them. Houdini understood this. As a result, he gave the press the one thing any journalist worth their stones always wants — a story.

Identifying your desired audience, then making their lives easier, put these things together and you have Houdini’s magic potion for growing his audience.

The good news is you can pull off the same trick.

Go small or go home:

Most people today want to make a dent in this world and have their work make a difference — it happens by identifying the ideal someone. Most influencers agree with this — “find your 1000 true fans,” in the words of Kevin Kelly.

The beauty of the world we live in today is that we don’t have to jump out of any windows to find our audience. They are a click away and, to quote Mr. Kelly again, “As far as I can tell there is nothing — no product, no idea, no desire — without a fan base on the internet.”

That means that the key to unlocking your influence is to stake your small piece of land and plant your flag. Then when your audience comes grazing, do whatever you can to make sure they leave well fed.

In short, your job, if you want to influence people, is to leave each person better than you found them. This is how you win attention. This is how you gain trust. This is how you move people towards the change you seek to make.

And this becomes much easier if you identify someone, instead of trying to please everyone.
Crown Development Update. Codebase upgrade in testnet and other…
By: J. Herranz
Tags: Development, Nonfungible Tokens, Trezor, Electrum Wallet, Bitcoin Core

Crown Development Update

Codebase upgrade in testnet and other happenings

Just the facts, bratan

New Website:

The new website was successfully released some weeks ago. Check it out here:

Codebase Upgrade:

During this time, Ashot has kept working on getting Crown Core ready for the new code including the bitcoin codebase upgrade. It is now almost ready for public testing after having solved several issues related to syncing and to early blocks containing NFTokens without NFProtocols (Artem released NFToken APIs first for testing and NFProtocol APIs in a latter update.

Upgraded Testnet:

Testnet is as of now syncing the blockchain and running and Ashot is fine-tuning the Systemnode and Masternode synchronisation processes. After these issues are solved and in the following days, the upgraded codebase will be available for further testing. Join the QA process if you are interested!

Version 0.14.2 running stable

Node providers report further network stabilisation thanks to the 0.14.0.2 patch released a few months ago. Dozens of NF-Tokens are being registered daily. Crown Platform Monitor gives good insight into these informations:

https://monitor.crownplatform.com/

Electrum/Trezor

The new Crown-Electrum code has a different derivation path when used with Trezor. If you are using the old derivation path, please leave a message in the testing electrum/bitcore Discord channel as indicated by walkjivefly in his last development update:

Reward Sweeper

The code is ready and being built for the various OS’es with help of the community. Special thanks to #BernardCornfeld for supporting Adrian in this task.

SpaceCompany

The recent NFT news timestamping use case NewsBunker has incorporated a space resource accumulation game that awards CRW for playing and uses the NFToken framework for functionalities such as saving the game progress to the Crown blockchain to gain ubiquitous access and immutable in-game records. You can join the fun here:

You can also report bugs and feedback in the Crown SpaceCompany discord channel.

That’s all for now, thank you for supporting the Crown project!
Crypto Market Snapshots: News of the Week
By: Kript Team
Tags: Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain News

⏳ What happened with the market in the last 7 days?

- BTC dominance: 50,7% (↓4,3%)

- 24h Vol: $24,5 billion (↑137,9%)

- Market Cap: $145,9billion (↑39,2%)

🔝Top 5 coins:

#1 Bitcoin: $4245,40 (↑28,4%)

#2 XRP: $0,44 (↑51,7%)

#3 Ethereum: $148,24 (↑70,6%)

#4 Bitcoin Cash: $210,86 (↑151,9%)

#5 EOS: $3,06 (↑54,5%)

🔝Top 5 tokens:

#1 Tether: $1,02 (stable coin)

#2 Binance Coin: $6,53 (↑38,9%)

#3 Maker: $495,91 (↑35,6%)

#4 OmiseGO: $1,79 (↑55,6%)

#5 USD Coin: $1,01 (stable coin)

📈 Gainers:

#1 Absolute: $0,387073 (↑211%)

#2 Peculium: $6,38 (↑155%)

#3 Bitcoin Cash: $0,270930 (↑152%)

📉 Losers:

#1 Veros: $0,017552 (↓96%)

#2 Bolenum: $0,000001 (↓95%)

#3 TrueDeck: $0,100598 (↓85%)

👆TOP News

📍 Facebook is developing a stablecoin for WhatsApp messaging app. Read more

📍 Number of reachable nodes on the Bitcoin blockchain fell 19% in 2018. Read more

📍 Cryptocurrencies were offered to be regulated differently than stocks and traditional assets in the US. Read more

📍 Chinese fintech incubation zone located in the Guangdong province has officially started its operations. Read more

📍 Western Union is potentially ready to adopt cryptocurrencies. Read more
To Vaccinate or Not
By: Ep Mcknight
Tags: Life Lessons, Covid 19, Self Improvement, Poetry, Life

A poem on what happens when life decisions confront

Photo by CDC on Unsplash

Covid-19 out of control

308,000 U.S. deaths to date

an climbing, hospitals full

don’t wish to be a casualty

to take or not to take

the injection to prevent

or down the road

pay an unwanted price

like the Tuskegee experiment

much to ponder, who truly cares

to do or not to do

pay now or pay later

that is the dilemma.

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You are Never Alone with a Dog
By: Brenda Mahler
Tags: Pets, Dogs, Haiku, Christmas, Poem

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We’re Partnering with the Healthcare Association of New York State Solutions!
By: Nomad Health
Tags: Nursing, Healthcare, Partnerships, New York, Doctors

New Yorkers, get excited! Connecting great clinicians to great medical employers in the Empire State — while skipping middlemen recruiters — just got a supercharged boost. 🗽

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re partnering with HANYS Solutions, the for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), New York’s statewide hospital and healthcare association! HANYS is the only association that represents all of New York’s hospitals and health systems, including over 250 facilities statewide. Our partnership will support our joint efforts to modernize the way New York state hospitals and health systems hire critically needed doctors and nurses.

“With an aging workforce and growing clinician shortages, our members have been struggling with physician and nurse recruiting, particularly in rural areas,” said Michael Ilnicki, Executive Vice President of HANYS Solutions. “We find Nomad Health’s modern approach and platform to be the best solution to address the recruitment challenges our members are facing.”

Our partnership with HANYS will help us serve over 75,000 doctors and 300,000 nurses in New York — about 7% of physicians and 10% of nurses in the country. On Nomad, all doctors and nurses can chat directly with medical employers in New York online — removing middlemen agency recruiters from the hiring process. Doctor and nurse jobs in New York include locum tenens (freelance), permanent, and travel nursing opportunities. All job details, including pay rates, dates, institution names, and more, are all listed transparently online.

“Nomad Health is proud to be headquartered right here in New York City, so we are particularly excited to partner with HANYS Solutions to help both doctors and nurses find their dreams jobs and solve the critical healthcare workforce challenges in our home state,” said our co-founder and CEO, Alexi Nazem, MD.

We couldn’t be more honored to work together with HANYS Solutions to meaningfully speed up the introduction of our dynamic staffing solutions to medical employers across the state. With this partnership, we hope to help all doctors and nurses find fantastic jobs throughout the Big Apple — all while skipping the hassles of recruiters or paperwork.

New York talent, meet tech! 😊