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DragonEx Global Supernode Program Announcement
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum

Since it’s launch, DragonEx has grown into a vibrant community with users just as passionate about crypto and Blockchain as we are. Over the past few months the DragonEx team has reached out to many large DT holders and have found that it is made up of multiple large and/or influential investors who could further contribute towards the growth of DragonEx.

To benefit the entire DragonEx ecosystem and DT token, DragonEx has set up a Global Supernode program which will reward these high-volume investors with early discounted access to new projects and ICO’s as well as other exclusive benefits. The purpose of this program is to cross utilize resources and ability to further grow and continually improve the entire DragonEx platform for Supernode and everyday user alike. By working more closely with the strategic and influential partners who have already shown great dedication to our platform, all users stand to benefit from the increased project access and volumes that their influence can create.

Campaign Plan

Qualifications:

1. Investment Institutions with good reputations.

2. Freeze 30,000DTs during the period of being in the Super Node Project.

Application:

Please kindly send the following information to supernode@dragonex.io

Information including:

- DragonEx ID;

- Valid ID information;

- Organization/institution information;

- A copy of business license;

- Partner information;

- Previous investment caces;

- Contact person information.

Thorough Investigation:

DragonEx will then carry out a thorough investigation towards applicants. Eligible organizations/institutions will become one of DragonEx’s Super Nodes.

Benefits:

1. Token listing recommendation.

Supernodes enjoy the right to recommend a good project for token listing every week.

2. After token listing, you will enjoy DT rewards.

After the recommended token being listed, you will receive extra DT rewards if the token produces over 1500USDT commission for the platform. DT rewards will be frozen permanently but you will receive the dividends from the rewards. DT rewards = Total commission of recommended token / Total platform commission * daily total DTs released * 10%.

3. Investment opportunities for good blockchain projects.

As an exchange we are able to access new tokens and projects during highly exclusive private presales before the general public, typically coming with greater discounts and bonuses. In many cases some of the best projects will not even hold a public sale. As a DragonEx Super Node, you will receive access to some of these exclusive opportunities and discounts based on your Super Node level.

4. More benefits are coming soon.

Exit

Please apply 15 days in prior to unfreeze your DT for exiting the Supernode Program. After filing your application, benefits from the Supernode Program will be terminated immediately.

DragonEx Team

August 2nd, 2018
Blockport Community Update: June
By: Sebastiaan Lichter
Tags: Trading, Bitcoin, Community, Ethereum, Blockchain

In this article, a brief overview is provided regarding last week’s developments at Blockport. Additionally, we also give you a short planning for the upcoming week.

What happened this week?

Another week of momentum and growth has flown by at Blockport HQ. First off, our executive team is happy to announce the onboarding of Chris Alders as Blockport’s new Corporate PR & Brand Manager. With an extensive background in PR, communications, strategic marketing and brand management, Chris brings in a lot of experience which will drive the engagement and quality of our brand and community to a next level.

In line with that, we have also seen the first Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session in our upcoming series of Blockport team session AMAs. Conducted on a bi-weekly basis, the Blockport AMAs will enable our community to engage with two Blockport team members at a time. This week, Jasper Jansz (Lead UX & Design at Blockport) and Jasper Blokland (Product Owner at Blockport) answered community questions about the Blockport Beta platform. Find out more here.

Blockport Beta

Moreover, we have had an enormously productive week for Blockport’s development team. For starters, the Bank Transfer feature has now been added to the Beta platform. This means that all users within the EEA (European Economic Area) are now able to deposit Euros via a SEPA wire-transfer process.

Furthermore, we improved our platform’s security, tech support tool, registration process and overall onboarding flow. This means that we are on track to remove the VPN and open up the Beta to our community before the end of this month. The exact date will be announced next week.

On that note, our product team has also been working hard on the UX front, where improvements have been made regarding to our on-boarding and registration flow. When making an account, our password-strength checker now ensures that your password is, in the truest sense of the word, safe. At the same time, the account creation process and user onboarding flow (filling out personal details and similar prerequisites) has itself been smoothened out to a further degree. Apart from over twenty other small improvements in the domains of content and user interface design, various new countries have also been added to our identity verification procedure, specifically Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

Looking ahead

The upcoming week looks to be promising for the Blockport team. From a product point of view, our Beta platform will offer the cryptocurrency withdrawal functionality as of next week. Users will therefore be able to transfer their funds to other crypto wallets if they wish to. Crucially, the upcoming week will also see improvements to the security infrastructure that will soon enable us to abandon the current VPN process required for Beta users. As mentioned before, the exact date will be announced next week.

Stay tuned for our next update and join our Telegram community if you have any questions.
Oversimplified ML(2): Neural Networks
By: Theo De Quillacq
Tags: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data, Data Science, Analytics

Applying Neural Networks to create predictions

Today we will discuss what neural networks look like. Neural networks, also called deep learning, are the bread and butter of prediction. They look like webs and can be a bit confusing at first, so let’s start with multiple regression.

From left to right: input (x), multiplication (θ), output (y)

This graph represents the input variable x on the left, each x[i] being multiplied by θ[i], and the resulting output y on the right. This creates a plane in space with a constant slope in any specific direction.

This type of model is capable of understanding simple patterns, but we can do better.

Let’s take the multiple regression model and add a few upgrades:

This diagram above represents an equation that takes in x[0] and x[1], then returns an output y. This equation would look something like the surface on the left.

Here is the step by step process for calculating the neural network equation:

The left hand column transforms into the middle column. For visibility, the connections have been color coded. This middle column is called a hidden layer. Each node in the hidden layer comes from these colored weights. These weights are written in the bottom right corner and are represented as θ.
The Dreamer
By: Mark Kelly
Tags: Philosophy, Fantasy, Fiction, Dreams, Dreamers

There’s nothing more tedious than listening to other people’s dreams, so I’ll spare you the details. But six months ago I got the distinct impression that mine were trying to tell me something specific. I was spending my sleeping hours solving problems of one sort or another, sometimes successfully and sometimes with a lingering sense of frustration.

But by the time I had risen from my slumbers, used the bathroom, checked my phone, all of the detail had been lost.

So my first experiment was designed to keep hold of the narrative a little longer, using two specific techniques. First a nicotine patch applied just before bed, to add colour and depth to the scenery. This was accompanied by a voice-activated recorder, which I could mumble into before I even opened my eyes.

Even after weeding out the hours and hours of snoring captured on tape, the resulting snatches of night-time adventures were a chaotic mess. How to make sense of the clown on the other side of the school fence and the realisation that I was similarly attired? Or the post-apocalyptic cathedral where the arches started to fall into the nave?

I don’t know why I persevered, but over time there was a change.
Efficiency vs Effectivity
By: Martin Thoma
Tags: Business English, Terminology, Business, English Language

Efficiency vs Effectivity

Explained with comics, coffee, and coke

Image source: XKCD (Randall Munroe)

When I hear the word “efficiency” I’m thinking of engines and light. How much energy does the car use for actually bringing me from A to B and how much is wasted on heat or simply transporting the car itself? For light bulbs, how much energy is used for producing light, and how much for unwanted heat?

Efficiency is the ratio of resources spend for a task and total resources spent in the process, including non-task related stuff. The resources and be either energy, time, or other.

Effectiveness on the other hand is about goal-alignment. You want to make sure that you satisfy the actual client needs. The client might ask you to implement a neural network for figuring out a good layout for the website because they have heard that neural networks can solve any task. Being effective might be to ask if they might want a responsive design.

Peter F. Drucker summarized the difference between effectiveness and efficiency pretty well:

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

As an example, let’s say you go into a coffee shop and you order a cappuccino:
Just 30 Photos of a Cat Who Thinks He’s a Dog
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Japan, Photography, Love, Instagram, Pets

Just 30 Photos of a Cat Who Thinks He’s a Dog

The dogs think he’s a dog too, apparently

Photos: saki.ibuki.hazuki via Instagram

Kiki is a one-year-old cat who lives with three dogs in Japan, but no one has the heart to tell him. His brother and sisters accepted him into the family as a two-month-old kitten, and have patiently taught him all about life as a dog, which mostly seems to involve eating, going for walks, and posing for group photos that would look good as an album cover.

Unlike most cats, Kiki has no qualms about patiently posing with his pack, who have all been exceptionally gracious about accepting this tiny, oddly shaped, purring puppy into their family. This is, to say the very least, a major development in the field of feline/canine diplomacy, and you can tell by Kiki’s extremely earnest expressions that he’s taking his role very seriously.

You can keep up with his (truly, quite precious) antics by following saki.ibuki.hazuki on Instagram.
Autumn leaves
By: Joseph Brown
Tags: Poetry, Creative Writing, Literature, Life, Fiction

Autumn leaves

A Poem About the Circle of Life

Photo by Anthony Rossbach on Unsplash.

Autumn leaves are falling down,

In a haze of gold and brown.

And Winter’s winds aren’t far away;

Blowing leaves in a colorful play.

And here I sit and wonder why,

All this life, born only to die?

We laugh and love and eat and breath,

We spend our time chasing impossible dreams.

We fight and strive and wonder why,

Only to fall down, and then to die.

But when the leaves are in the ground,

And time has turned its compass ‘round,

Life will spring with flowers all around.

And life goes on, around, around, around.
Essence
By: S. Snow
Tags: Haiku, Spirituality, Love, Poetry, House Of Haiku

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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9次アーリーバード案内
By: Sophie Ha
Tags: Jpn, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Notice

APISplatform

Official publication for APIS, the world-first masternode…
Dear Fathers, Your Gay Sons Are Hurting
By: Armando Sánchez
Tags: Family, Love, Fatherhood, Healing, LGBTQ

If you’re a father to a gay son, there’s something I want to tell you. My intention is not to make you feel guilty, but rather, to help you understand your son better. He may have tried to tell you this before in his own way, but being vulnerable isn’t easy, especially with you.

Your gay son is hurting.

He hurts because there’s something that’s missing in his life that no one else can give him other than you. He tries to get it from his job, accomplishments, men, money, style, and countless other ways. Wanting it for so long and living without it has led him to do things that weren’t always good for him. What he gets in return never quite measures up to what he wants — your love and approval.

Your gay son was your child before anyone knew he was gay. As an infant and throughout his childhood, his admiration and adoration toward you created a bond much like the one you developed toward your father. No matter what type of person you were or if you were even present in his life, he thought the world of you. He was your number one fan, even when others spoke unkindly or truthfully about you.

When a child loves his father, his father’s love becomes the most cherished and sought after thing in the world. Your son tried his best to make you proud. He played the sports you wanted him to play, prayed like you wanted him to, and convinced himself to date girls, or tried to, at least.

When your love was denied to him for being gay, he developed a belief that he was unworthy of love. To believe that you’re unworthy of love can be one of the most damaging things to the human spirit.

Again, I’m not here to shame you. The reality is that society doesn’t prepare men to be fathers to gay sons. It’s hard to be good at something you were never taught to do. Men are raised to be tough, strong, and pursue women, aggressively at times. This then becomes the way in which men raise their sons, and so on. An idea of “the perfect son” begins to form in the minds of men before they even have a child.

A gay son spoils the idea of “the perfect son” for many fathers. It’s tough to realize your son will not live up to the expectations you were taught to have for him. You experienced the loss of a dream and you weren’t equipped to process that loss in a healthy way. For that, you have my empathy.
Distributed Systems joins Coinbase
By: Nikhil Srinivasan
Tags: Y Combinator, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Coinbase

Distributed Systems joins Coinbase

A meaningful step towards the future of decentralized identity.

As of today, we’re excited to announce that Distributed Systems is being acquired by Coinbase, the easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell, and use crypto. We firmly believe this move will push us closer to our shared mission: to build an open financial system for the world.

Our team is excited to continue working on applying computer vision to scale identity verification and extending that service to decentralized identities and permissioned tokens. We think decentralized identity is one of the most useful applications of the blockchain and together with Coinbase, we think we can prove that.

Read more about our acquisition via Coinbase, TechCrunch and Wired.

Interested in joining us? Drop us a line at careers@coinbase.com 🚩
🐈 Night Cat
By: Rolli, Https, Ko-Fi.Com Rolliwrites
Tags: Cats, Life, Art, Drawing

D R A W I N G

🐈 Night Cat

Purrr…

Drawing by Rolli

Artist’s Note №1

Though I have a great fondness for all animal (crocodiles excepted), I fancy cats more than any of them. Ginger cats, especially. One of my closest friends is an enormous ginger cat named Tummywumps.

What’s your favorite animal?

Artist’s Note №2

This post will earn no money (Medium recently all-but-demonetized poetry, cartoons, flash fiction and other short articles). If you enjoyed it, please consider buying me a coffee. More coffee=more drawings.

Artist’s Note №3

Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “K.” “K” stands for Kabungo, my acclaimed children’s novel about a cave-girl — who lives on Main Street.

Artist’s Note №4

From now on, I’m letting my readers determine how often I post new material. When this post reaches 1000 claps — but not before — I’ll post something new.

Artist’s Note №5

My new one-man Medium magazine is called — Rolli. Subscribe today.

Artist’s Note №6

You might like this drawing, too:
Finding the Space Inside Us
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Personal Development, Philosophy, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Meditation

photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash

Finding the Space Inside Us

Allowing our thinking to dissolve away

Our thoughts don’t see, they don’t experience our life.

The inexpressible, inner conscious space in all of us brings seeing and experiencing into our lives.

We’re not our thoughts about ourself, we’re the one conscious space in all of us that’s giving rise to thoughts.

We’re the inexpressible cosmic silence we can find inside ourselves.

We’re consciousness in the Universe appearing as human beings.

When we pay attention to this inner conscious space, it dissolves us into itself and brings insight and intuitions emerging from it into our awareness.

Consciously realizing the inner space helps us enter into the stillness and silence of this cosmic presence and bring its clarity and wisdom into our life.

Sometimes though, we can be so busy in the everyday world that we forget the spacious inner dimension of our being.

Choosing to focus our attention inwardly helps us make the shift from separation to wholeness and intuitively realize ourselves as unique human expressions of one unlimited cosmic consciousness, rather than seeing ourselves as separate and alone.

As we reach into the inner silence of this conscious space with our attention, it dissolves us into itself and we realize there’s one conscious awareness in all of us.

We can find the seamless one space in all of us that brings us into a deeper intuitive connection to people we know, the silent inner space that allows us to dissolve the separation thinking that sometimes makes us feel unhappy.

And we can access a stream of intuitive insights that help us live in sync with the synchronistic intelligence that orchestrates the Universe.

If we’re giving too much time and attention to our thoughts, rather than the one conscious space inside all of us that our thoughts emerge from, we can lose touch with something important to our well-being.

The calm, unlimited cosmic space in all of us knows each one of us as an expression of itself and it’s always available to us.

We’re consciousness in the Universe mysteriously transforming itself into the precisely orchestrated biochemistry of our bodies, allowing us to live life as a human being.

The inner awareness space we find inside ourselves is cosmic consciousness itself, the quiet presence of conscious awareness, prior to all thinking.

This single conscious space exists inside all of us and becomes knowable as we allow our thinking to dissolve away.

We’re not our thoughts, we’re the stillness and silence of now, the presence of one conscious space in all of us.
Morning coffee and the Christmas Tree
By: Renee Tarantowski
Tags: Personal Development, Love, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Meditation

a stillness revelation

Morning coffee and the Christmas Tree

why this is the perfect time of year for reflection

My actual Christmas tree . . . midday.

Ever notice how the beaded garland travels around the tree?

The little beads reflect everything they see.

Like little moments of our life, these little beads travel up and down, round and round.

Sometimes they have deep lows.

Sometimes higher highs.

Sometimes they get caught on Eyore.

The further up the tree, the fewer beads.

The quicker the climb to the star . . .

to rest?

to die?

to live every day fully with intention?

Life is good with a mini cattle dog and a blue heeler.

Me, my coffee, a dog by my side, another at my feet, and the Christmas tree as my muse.
Bitcoin Regulation: South Korea is Making Progress
By: Marko Vidrih
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin, Blockchain

On June 8th, the South Korean Advisory Committee met to develop a legal framework for national crypto exchanges. Following the Coinrail Market’s recent hack, the South Korean government is enforcing stricter investor protection guidelines: Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML).

Crypto-exchanges are recognized as financial institutions

With the intention of developing new strategies for traditional financial institutions, the Korean Financial Intelligence Unit (KFIU) has included crypto currency exchanges in the discussion to find new ways to regulate the emerging market. The South Korean government is taking steps to implement new KYC and AML guidelines for financial institutions on the $ 33-million hack of the Korean crypto-exchange Coinrail. Currently, the Korean Free Trade Commission is not authorized to access or monitor cryptographic exchanges and their clients.

An interesting twist is that the Korean Financial Intelligence Unit (KFIU) now recognizes crypto exchanges as big financial institutions, so that the legitimacy around the Bitcoin market continues to grow. However, this also means that the crypto exchanges are subject to the same scrutiny as commercial banks and stock exchanges. This also makes sense after it has recently become known that Bitcoin exchanges have offered the respective ICO projects to artificially influence the volume to appeal to investors. A KFIU spokesman described the impact of looming regulation and said to CCN:

“Under current regulations, there are clear limitations in preventing money laundering on crypto exchanges because the only way authorities can spot suspicious transactions is through banks. If the bill of lawmaker Jae Yoon-kyung from the Democratic Party of Korea passes, local authorities will be able to impose identical regulations on crypto exchanges that are implemented on commercial banks.”

Korean government is reluctant to legitimize cryptocurrencies so far

In an article released last year, Korean media company Hankyoreh revealed that the Korean authorities encouraged policymakers to develop earlier stricter laws to regulate the cryptocurrency. At that time it became clear that the Korean government deliberately renounced a regulation in order to shift the legitimacy of the markets.

Long-term effects

As the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries grow rapidly, a regulatory framework is needed to make the market more transparent and accessible. Institutional investment companies such as Goldman Sachs and the NYSE are gradually using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a new asset class. The entry of institutional companies and the regulatory development will be the prerequisites for the worldwide launch of cryptocurrencies.

Japan is already taking on a pioneering role to create a regulatory framework. It seems as if the Asian region is trying to create market conditions in the near future to be considered a future blockchain valley.
Finally Friday
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Relationships, Fiction, Short Story, Love, Dating

It was the end of the work day and David wasn’t ready to go home. Friday was the day everyone looked forward to, but not David. There wasn’t anything, anyone, waiting for him at home. At least at work there was the commotion, the bustling of life. At home there was a worn out couch and a TV, bright and vibrant as it may be, but it wasn’t enough.

Reluctantly, he closed out of his email and turned off his computer. His jacket, which was draped over his chair, wouldn’t be enough to help him avoid the rain falling down in buckets out the window. When he got into his car, a sedan with three payments left, he was drenched.

At home he took off his shoes and flicked the light switch, only to watch as the room ignited for a moment before being swallowed in darkness after a sizzling pop came from the light-bulb.

The only thing in the fridge was leftovers from the night before, fried rice and vegetables.

As he waited for the TV to boot up, having to always make sure it was connected to the WiFi before he started going into the various apps, he placed a bowl of leftovers in the microwave. When the timer went off he found a movie worth watching, a romantic comedy.

He burned his mouth with the first bite. The second bite also burned his mouth. He laughed when he was supposed to, wiped a regrettable tear (he put hot sauce on his rice and managed to get some on his hand), and washed his face. When the movie was over he took out his laptop and went to a dating website, just to see if there was any validity to the movie. He’d tried dating sites in the past, but they never seemed to work. Nobody he ever met up with seemed like they wanted the real thing, although he wasn’t sure he knew what the “real thing” was.

After taking a half hour to make his profile he put some water on the stove for tea. By the time his tea had finished steeping he sat down at the kitchen table and noticed his profile already had some alerts. He smirked, sipped, and opened the first message.

“I love your profile,” said Kristen, from six miles away. “I don’t have any pets either, but agree that dogs are the best!”

David responded. Then Kristen replied back. Eventually they started talking on the phone. Soon it was 1:00 am, a time David hadn’t seen in nearly five years. They agreed it best to go to bed, but made plans to meet up for coffee the next day.
Convert Your Crypto with the Secure Wallet!
Tags: Ecomi, Secure Wallet, Changelly, Bitcoin Wallet, Cold Wallet

Changelly- the Fastest Way to Convert Your Crypto!

The ECOMI dev team have once again been hard at work, integrating an in-built conversion/exchange function, powered by Changelly. From within the ECOMI app, you’ll be able to select which tokens to exchange, which wallets you want them sent to, and securely confirm the transaction using the big red button on the Secure Wallet.

Key Features Thanks to Changelly

With an incredibly simple interface, ECOMI and Changelly now allow you to:

Exchange more than 100 cryptocurrencies in-app

Exchange your tokens at real market rates

Keep your tokens secure in offline cold storage at all times

How Does It Work?

In order to exchange your tokens, you simply choose which currency you wish to change from and to. Changelly then finds the best rate available, tells you the fee for the transaction, and in a matter of minutes (seconds in most cases) your cryptocurrency is converted and re-appears as the new token in your ECOMI app.

Take Me Through It

Once the app update has been released (it’s expected to go live in the next week or so), your ECOMI app home screen will feature a ‘convert’ option above your balances:

1.

Start by tapping convert, and you’ll see the image below (left). From this screen, you can choose which currency you would like to convert from. This will be dictated by the capabilities of Changelly, as well as the tokens you actually hold on your Secure Wallet. To change this token, simply tap the Bitcoin token image.

As you can see in this example, we have the option to convert from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin (image below center). For the sake of the example, if you select to convert from Bitcoin, you are given a myriad of tokens to convert to (image below right). Simply scroll through the tokens and select the one you wish to receive in exchange for your Bitcoin.
A Mother Knows Her Heart
By: Dr. Jackie Greenwood
Tags: Poetry, Blue Insights, Family, Love, Self

POETRY

A Mother Knows Her Heart

Do you know yours?

Photo by Julia Joppien on Unsplash

Oh, young man

if you knew

a mother’s heart

would you

hurl those

flaming words

across the table

Emboldened by

the rising laughter

what started as

harmless fun

has taken on

a malevolent hue,

exposing your anger

exposing your heart

Glasses are refilled,

plates collected

as the room quiets,

discomfort settling

like a fine dust

over the conversation

But a mother

knows her heart

She nuzzles the kitten

and settles him on her lap,

tuning her ear

to that gentle purr

and away from the

ruined moment

A mother knows

her heart

but young man,

do you know yours?

Dr. Jackie Greenwood

Thanks for reading :)
The Manafort Trial
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Corruption, Trump, Russia, Politics

Cartoon impressions

The country is glued to the proceedings of the trial of Paul Manafort this week and next. Who’s coming and going, who’s testifying, what Manafort spent his money on (and why?!), how Trump is trying to divert our attention, and more.

I will continue to draw (on my phone) as things happen!
ETHLend Airdrop: official statement
By: Amelia Tomasicchio
Tags: Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICO, Blockchain, Token Sale

ETHLend airdrop for Eidoo users

As you might know, the ETHLend airdrop for Eidoo users ended a few days ago.

It started on January 19th and ended yesterday, on January 27th.

We are receiving some messages from users who didn’t receive these 87 LEND tokens of the airdrop, so we want to clarify how the process worked exactly.

Eligibility for ETHLend Airdrop

As announced back on January 9th, to be eligible to for the LEND airdrop you just needed to download the Eidoo app before January 10th 12 p.m. GMT, date on which the snapshot will be taken.

That said, we took care of the snapshot, by giving the list of eligible wallet addresses to the ETHLend team who was in charge of the distribution of 15’000’000 LEND tokens among eligible Eidoo wallets that turned to be about 170’000.

In fact, the exact number of LEND tokens received by users is 87.

The airdrop started as promised on Jan 19th at 12 p.m. GMT and the ETHLend team sent 87 tokens to the whole list of addresses we provided them.

As explained in the previous communication, the whole process of tokens distribution was not completed in one day only, but it took a couple of weeks to finish because of the bad condition of the Ethereum network that is very slow during these days.

This is the reason why the distribution ended just a few days ago on Jan 27th.

Rules for eligibility

Again, to receive the ETHLend airdrop you needed to download the Eidoo app on your device (both Android and iOS available)

After downloading the app, you needed to follow the wizard by entering your password and completing the backup. This was a must if you wanted to receive the ETHLend airdrop.

Your Eidoo wallet could be empty, but it had to be initialized by creating your password and completing the backup process.

ETHLend tokens missing

The Ethlend airdrop is over now.

If you cannot see your LEND tokens, you may need to manually enroll the LEND token.

To force token enrollment by going to “Preferences” in the bottom right corner of the Eidoo app and enter the following address:

0x80fB784B7eD66730e8b1DBd9820aFD29931aab03

If you haven’t received any tokens at this point, then, unfortunately, it means that you were not eligible for the airdrop.
A Movement Is Death (From “A World Where” chapbook)
By: Paul Brookes
Tags: Poetry, Life, Literally Literary, Death

Photo By Paul Brookes

He touches me. His skin

warm. An abnormal

response. I can tell

he is dead. His heart

will beat. He will walk and run.

This is how death shows itself.

He had a good life: cold, inert,

a quiet stillness. The dead

have built a world to keep busy.

He will cook and clean, laugh

and joke, have sex.
為什麼我無法坦率地擁抱成功？ — 冒牌者症候群. 設計圈隨處可見的職業病之一
By: Jasmine Lin
Tags: 設計, 心理, 自我成長, Designer, Imposter Syndrome

Written by

UX Designer / Information Architect from Taiwan, now living in Seattle.
Picture Of The Day
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Istanbul, Mosque, Hagia

We are the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and this publication is dedicated to portraying the true, peaceful instructions of the final religion through our live broadcasts in the UK and regular editorials.

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Live, for One Night Only
By: Gillian Brassil
Tags: Live Music, Memoir, Concerts, Comics, Illustration

I write, draw, fact-check, and translate. Once I was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (I did not become a millionaire.)

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A Different Shade of Green
By: Ruks Moreea
Tags: Personal Growth, Spirituality, Enlightenment, Soul, Change

Same grass on the same land

And yet…

A different shade of green.

Perception changes

As we move around

With open minds

To different perspectives.

People come, people go

Some stay for a bit

Some stay for a while

A few..

For a new forever.

Just as the grass on the same land

Reflects different shades

Of green…

We traverse this journey

With changing perceptions

And different perspectives.

Perhaps…

We embody the same person

For an evolving soul.

And maybe…

We grow to become

An enlightened new being.
Over The Wire — Natas 0 1 2. OverTheWire (OTW) is one of the best…
Tags: Overthewire, Natas, Solutions, Ctf Writeup, Infosec

Over The Wire — Natas 0 1 2 PVXs Follow Dec 9 · 3 min read

OverTheWire (OTW) is one of the best resources to learn about a wide range of security topics, their home page clearly states:

The wargames offered by the OverTheWire community can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.

To find out more about a certain wargame, just visit its page linked from the menu on the left.

I have personally spent much time on OTW as it made me understand some concepts I did not have and learn commands and methods I did not know

This series of posts will be about the Natas Wargame, if this is the first time you hear about OTW, I would recommend you to start with the Bandit Wargame first, but do as you wish, feel free to experiment and have fun!

OverTheWire Natas level 0

Over The Wire — Natas level 0 description

By going to the given URL and logging with the credentials, we are presented with the following page

Natas level 0 webpage

Let’s do a simple HTML code inspection with our favorite browser dev tool

A wild password appears

And in between the HTML code, in a very hidden (!) comment, we find natas1 password

Follow the instructions to get to natas1 webpage and login

OverTheWire Natas level 1

Natas level 1 — Oh no! right click is disabled

This level wants us to get a better understanding of how our browser work

To open the inspection tool on FireFox, I went to FF menu -> Web Developer -> Toggle tools (Ctrl + Shift + I)

But to check the page HTML code you can also

use Burp (or any web proxy)

prepend “view-source:” to natas1 URL

intercept the response on Burp and disable/delete the JS that locks out the right click

There are countless ways to see the code of a web page

Another wild password appears

And once again, the password is in the webpage source code

OverTheWire Natas level 2

Natas level 2

Let’s go ahead and check the page source code

Image on the page

There are very few elements on the page, the only thing that sticks out of the ordinary is a file called “pixel.png” present on the page but apparently invisible

exiftool on pixel.png

I then decided to download this image and check its info with exiftool but the image has no useful info

Natas 2 /files directory

So I tried to see if the parent directory of pixel.png was accessible, and it was, inside there is a users.txt file

Natas 2 users.txt file

And there you go, natas3 password is there

This concludes OTW Natas 0 1 2 levels

I hope you liked it.

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The Green Report — March 2019. The Green Report is a monthly blog…
Tags: Proof Of Stake, Bitcoin Green, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

The Green Report is a monthly blog designed to keep the BITG community informed on recent developments. Make sure to check out the last report!

Stakebase Beta Launch

Stakebase released a video showcasing the latest Stakebase UI

The Stakebase beta platform has been launched with an initial group of ~30 users on-boarded for testing. Read more on Medium

Register for the Stakebase beta early access here.

You can still get 25% reduced fees for signing up before Stakebase public launch, and access to referral program

Roots Network Members Program

The Roots Bounty Submission was overrun by bots attempting to exploit the system for airdrops. This did not work, as all Roots bounties are processed manually

In response, we introduced the Roots Members Program

Users can register now to become a Roots Member on Discord

Roots Members get access to special airdrops and bounties

Top Contributors will be rewarded and given a special role on Discord

Coin Vote #4

Reddcoin vs. Neblio vs. Polis

Last chance to vote! Coin Vote ends on 4/5

Due to problems with their card provider, Polis was forced to cancel all of their Polispay cards outside of Mexico.

Link to vote →http://www.stakebase.com/vote

Coin vote details →https://medium.com/@stakebase/coin-vote-4-reddcoin-vs-neblio-vs-polis-6c4b1b68a847

Other News
SECrawl beta: audit for search, with search
By: Rob Hammond
Tags: Web Crawler, SEO

Does anyone need yet another website crawler?

There’s no shortage of crawlers out there, and for most people, my web-based SEO crawler, Screaming Frog or URL Profiler is more than enough.

There is a gap though — no two websites are alike, yet we look at the same metrics and cookie-cutter recommendations again and again. Or vast tables of complex text data that Excel was never built to analyse or manipulate.

Introducing SECrawl

SECrawl is a search engine, and an enterprise-level website analysis tool that offers:

Flexibility

Because SECrawl is a search engine, the variety of reports and queries you can perform on the data are only limited by the data itself.

There are over 30 advanced, Google-style search operators which you can combine to provide deep insight into your website’s content and meta data.

The problem with using spreadsheets to analyze website data is that they’re terrible at dealing with arrays and nested data structures. So for the same reason NoSQL databases have become popular for building websites, we need similar flexibility in analysing big data that doesn’t conform to tabular structures.

Speed

SECrawl is built to be fast; both in terms of how quickly it crawls a website, and the speed at which you can start playing with the data.

Another advantage of using a search engine in the back-end is that a lot of hugely complex queries and reports can be completed in less than a second.

Scalability

The technology behind SECrawl is robust, and all has been proven to scale massively.

It has been tested so far with crawling millions of URLs with no significant slow-down in crawl speed or analysis.

Portability

All search result based reports (which means most of them) are directly exportable into an XLSX file.

So if you’re very comfortable in Excel, you can narrow down the big data you want to analyse using SECrawl, then PivotTable to your heart’s content once you’ve got a manageable number of pages to analyse.

Accessibility

Obviously using a web-based solution means you can use the crawler from any web browser.

Content audits

Not only does SECrawl index the content every page it crawls, it also picks up the author and publish time, which allows you to do nifty things such as view your most prolific authors, or see Google N-Gram style charts of your language usage over time.

Language Trends — analyse content published in a Google N-grams style report

By combining advanced search operators, you can also quickly narrow down a dataset of millions of pages to a more focused view.

What next?

SECrawl is still very much in beta, but you can email me for an invite code to try it out for free.
Discover New GPU Ethereum Crypto Currency Miner That Provides Maximum Results With Latest Tech…
By: Jannet Louis
Tags: Crypto Currency Miner, Eth, Promax7, Bitcoin, Ethereum Miner

Discover New GPU Ethereum Crypto Currency Miner That Provides Maximum Results With Latest Tech Innovation

The world of cryptocurrency is fast becoming a norm and a constant fixture in the modern life. This is an industry that has consistently boomed over the past decade or so since the birth of Bitcoin, with the market worth hundreds of billions of dollars by current market valuations. While buying cryptocurrencies and trading them on exchanges is now a normal fixture in the new business world, the markets are prone to volatility, which is one of the main reasons mining has been the preferred option for many crypto enthusiasts.

Eth and The Arising Problems of Mining

There is no doubt that Ethereum miner is the single biggest thing to happen to the cryptocurrency and blockchain world since the birth of Bitcoin itself. This infinite giant virtual computer that is capable of conducting any and every kind of computing which is fast revolutionizing the way we create companies and do business, in general, has been nothing short of a revelation.

For long, mining Ethereum has been bogged down due to the lack of spectacular mining equipment, as most that are presently available, are simply uneconomical due to uncompetitive power consumption, lack of yield and profitability as well as many being prone to security threats.

The Promax7 Solution

Promax7 is a brand new Ethereum mining hardware that is set to revolutionize the industry, shake things up and reinvent the way Ethereum mining is done. Promax7 is a unique hardware that is the product of years of intensive research into producing the perfect mining rig for Ethereum as well as other altcoins such as Zcash, which will produce the highest possible yield for its users, consume a bare minimum amount of power, require little extra cooling, and also be completely secure from outside interference.

PROMAX7 is one mining hardware that was designed from bottom up filled with amazing features to separate it from the rest of the crowd. Promax7 has an absolutely huge 1830 MH/S hashrate for mining Ethereum which is also equivalent to 27726 Sol/S on Zcash mining. It is built in a compact way which boosts its tremendous performance, and with just a 2200W power consumption, this is one hardware that comes with the rare combination of extraordinary performance with reasonable, power consumption rating, much better than those of GPU mining farms, which are generally uneconomical.

If you are a serious miner, who is out for that perfect hardware then PROMAX7 is just the thing for you, as it is built with its inherent Firewall capabilities to ensure maximum security and does not require much in terms of cooling costs, as its cutting-edge jet cooling fans running in high speed will keep things steady as you mine you Ether, or tweak it to mine Zcash.

Product Available for Sale on Product Page

https://promax7.com/shop/
Can Art Teach Us About Relativity and Reality?
By: Joshua Clements
Tags: Art, Illustration, Artist, Art History, Genius

Can Art Teach Us About Relativity and Reality?

The Genius in M.C. Escher’s Art

Photographer: Hans Peters (ANEFO) / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)

M. C. Escher, known for his blending of figures and shapes, often used mathematical forms and concepts in his art.

His seamless application of what is impossible in nature is unequaled. To the average person, his unique perspective may seem overwhelming.

His work Relativity, a lithographic piece completed at the end of 1953, upset the traditional interpretation of gravitational position. What is up? What is down? Who knows. Surely not the people within the piece.

In an almost cyclic nature, the viewer can become lost in the maze of staircases and landings. Escher’s use of arches and keystones creates the illusion of groin vaults and balconies.

Escher employed shading with incredible finesse to illustrate depth within this composition. Without it, we would not have a true perspective of the illusion of 3-D.

The stairs seem to jut forth from the page, begging the viewer to take a step. The question arises as to which direction you would be walking.

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity states that space and time are connected on a continuum, much like this piece of art. This continuum is often depicted in 3-D and time is seen as the fourth dimension. This perspective can create a spiral-like vortex to the viewer.

If you focus on the center of the piece, you can almost sense this winding of the different scenes represented in the image.

Perhaps Relativity could illustrate the popular theory to an aspiring physicist who is having trouble understanding the concept. Or, perhaps it might be a simple way of giving it visualization to the average person.

Something else to consider is the people in the work are faceless. Could this mean that we are walking daily in a cycle unknown to us?

Take a look at the topmost staircase. One person appears to be walking up while the other is stepping down.

The question arising from this observation is, how often do we have no sense of direction in our lives? Do we pass others with no conscious thought of where they are headed, and what lies ahead for us?

Maybe what Escher wanted to portray is the idea that our lives do not necessarily move in linear motion, but rather a circular one.

This artwork can be as deep as you can mentally wander or as simple as the smile you make imagining the stroll through it.

Read into it what you wish, Escher was a genius. He might have understood how relativity works better than some in the scientific world.

Who knows. Perhaps the greatest theories of man lie dormant on a staircase leading to nowhere.
Grasper
By: Jack Burt
Tags: Poetry, Satire, Happiness, Dreams, Lucid Dreaming

Photo by Author

This is a happy one

It’s burly like a blue brain pumped, and

Twenty dreams deep in I.D. —

Maybe even breaks god’s mainframe

But man when it surges through

Hope plucking without strings

Those soft colored chords of game

Her paper-cut hands on fine foliage

No handles to bear both weights

Yet all service is shirtless —

Agency itself void under name
Join Me?
By: Ani Vidrine
Tags: Poetry, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

Join Me?

Poems From The Porch

photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash.com

I love that there is a special day set aside

just for giving thanks,

a gratitude and appreciation,

and count-your-blessings day.

I like it so much that

I think I will do it again tomorrow.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Morpheus Labs onboards a renowned Blockchain — VeChain
By: Morpheus Labs Team
Tags: Dapps, Smart Contracts, Blockchain, Prototyping, Ethereum

Morpheus Labs is excited to announce that we have inked a technical collaboration with VeChain that constitutes a breakthrough within the Morpheus Labs ecosystem. This significant milestone came after many rounds of study and on-boarding trials with VeChain’s CTO, Mr Gu Jianliang.

Screenshot of the “Application Library” within the Platform

Morpheus Labs, a Singapore homegrown startup aims to develop a comprehensive full-stack blockchain platform and marketplace, Morpheus Labs offers infrastructure for enterprises and developers to build and experiment their own blockchain applications effortlessly at a fraction of the cost and time. This provides a one-stop development tool, for smart contracts, back-end services, and front-end applications (Dapp).

Morpheus Labs and VeChain will work together to create comprehensive templates cover four-stack development needs: including node deployment, smart contracts, back-end SDKs and front-end applications. This is a turn-key solution and will be ready for enterprises implementation with little secondary development.

The core team members are subject matter experts in the respective fields who had the capabilities to onboard tech partners like VeChain in scaling the business towards the goal of being the quality assured service provider with easy-to-use tools to develop and deploy world-class scalable blockchain applications.