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January Recap
Tags: Siglocoin, Blockchain

It’s only the 1st of February, but it’s already been a busy year for Siglo as we are beginning to start commercial campaigns with global brands in Mexico and Colombia. Anonymized data gathered from the Siglo apps in exchange for coins is used as training data for Faro.ai machine learning algorithms. Initial response from companies has been overwhelming because there’s a void of consumer data that allows for precise segments and targeting.

A few important updates this month:

New Siglo bounties available through the Pig.gi App allow users to upload anonymized consumption and behavioral data. This January consumers have uploaded thousands of photos of consumption and of receipts in exchange for coins.

in exchange for coins. Siglo app users are answering 500,000 questions a month in exchange for coins and are being rewarded to share anonymized data regarding their media preferences.

in exchange for coins and are being rewarded to share anonymized data regarding their media preferences. More than 10,000 wallets have been created on the Siglo testnet . Early this month, beta users tested top-ups with all of the mobile operators in Mexico and Colombia .

. Early this month, beta users tested top-ups with . Bounties from the first phase of the Siglo Bounty program that ended in autumn 2018 will be able to claim their tokens with the smart contract that will be available on February 4, 2019. The tokens will be distributed to the Siglo Wallet that is registered in the smart contract from your ETH address. The tokens are on the testnet, and will be exchangeable on a 1-for-1 basis for tokens on the mainnet at the TGE. The Siglo wallet is available on Android. The iOS is currently being distributed on a dev license.

of the Siglo Bounty program that ended in autumn 2018 will be able to claim their tokens with the smart contract that will be available on February 4, 2019. The tokens will be distributed to the Siglo Wallet that is registered in the smart contract from your ETH address. The tokens are on the testnet, and will be exchangeable on a 1-for-1 basis for tokens on the mainnet at the TGE. The Siglo wallet is available on Android. The iOS is currently being distributed on a dev license. Last week, Joel and Isaac were invited to Davos to participate in several investor events that took place alongside the WEF. A big thanks to our investor Lan who hosted us in her chalet and organized several delicious dinners and to Digital Davos for inviting us to participate in their panels.

Siglo co-founder Isaac Phillips talking about consumer data in emerging markets 📷Rob Berry
The Illustrated Interview: Jef Harmatz
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Spiralbound, Comics, Jef Harmatz, Illustrated Interview

Every week (or so) on Spiralbound we ask one of our featured artists: How do you make comics? This week we spoke (emailed) with Jef Harmatz, most recently of “My Grandma’s Smoked Salmon Recipe” and “Caesar Salad!” (Check them out if you haven’t already! And see here for our full interview archive.)

So, Jef, how do you make comics? (Text from Jef, drawings by Edith Z.)
Morning Rain
By: Tarrant Smith
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Couples, Love And Sex, Sex And Relationships

Photo by May Betcher on Unsplash

Gray light of a rainsoaked Sunday,

Breakfast crumbs pressed

into rumbled sheets

and cooling coffee sits.

Cell phones lay facedown.

Digital expatriates —

the pitter-pat against windowpanes

is our chosen anthem.

We are languid explorers

of sensual lands within

bedpost-boundaries.

— Discovering each other again.
Cohort 8 Student Spotlight: Meet Ariana
By: Lisa Chua
Tags: Students, Data Science

Ariana Moncada joined the MSDS program after obtaining a BS in Mathematics and Statistics from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Continue reading to learn more about her background and what she’s excited to do at her practicum with Hohonu!

What were you doing before the program?

Before the MSDS program, I had just obtained my bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from The University of Texas at San Antonio. During my studies, I worked as a research assistant for about two years in a solar forecasting lab.

What led you to Data Science?

While doing research in the solar forecasting lab, I had the opportunity to work with very interesting datasets. I found that I really enjoyed working with data and the ever-pursuit of trying to make sense of the data. What really attracted me to Data Science was how much it reminded me of art (something I like to do on my spare time!). The idea of using creativity with a little math and statistics I learned while in school really led me to this field.

Why USF MSDS?

I chose this program because it had hands-on learning and all the opportunities I was looking for. For one, I knew I wanted to strengthen my computing skills and it was clear that the curriculum was rigorous in this regard and reflected the technologies used in the tech industry. The biggest deciding factor was the unique practicum experience and opportunity to implement what you are learning in the classroom to a real-world problem.

How do you want to apply Data Science after the program?

After the program, I would love to use Data Science in the clean energy or environmental sector. I strongly believe that technology and Data Science can help solve some of the biggest challenges we face in these industries. Knowing that I can apply what I learned and contribute towards an area I am passionate about really excites me!

Where were you placed for practicum?

For my practicum, I was placed in a Hawaii-based startup named Hohonu, which creates low-cost water level sensors that can be used for monitoring coastal communities and areas prone to flooding.

What are you excited to do there?

For one, I am really excited to apply many different modeling techniques I am learning about, such as time series and machine learning, to an incredibly unique dataset. I am also excited at the opportunity to do some interesting data visualizations and figure out the best way to view the data such that it provides business value.

Favorite thing to do in SF? OR anything you’d like to share about your hobbies, what you do to relax on the weekends etc.

There is so much to do here in San Francisco! Since I just moved to the area for the program, my Friday evenings are spent trying new food around the city. Some things I like to do during my spare time is paint and more recently I have picked up hiking!
Tonight’s comic is about grudges.
Tags: Friendship, Humor, Comics, Family

Written by

I make cartoons and t-shirts at www.dieselsweeties.com & @rstevens. Send me coffee beans.
Solutions for Real-Time System by Jane W. S. Liu (Chapter 7)
By: Neeraj Dhanraj
Tags: Real Time Systems, Scheduling, Solutions

Chapter 7 adds aperiodic and sporadic tasks. This post provides the possible solutions for Chapter 6 in Real-Time System by Jane W. S. Liu. The book is available here.

Q.7.1: A system contains three periodic tasks. They are (2.5,1), (4,0.5), (5,0.75), and their total utilization is 0.475.

a) The system also contains a periodic server (2,0.5). The server is scheduled with the periodic tasks rate-monotonically.

Suppose that the periodic server is a basic sporadic server. What are the response time of the following two aperiodic jobs: One arrives at 3 and has execution time 0.75, and one arrives at 7.5 and has execution time 0.6.

2. Suppose that the periodic server is a deferrable server. What are the response times of the above two aperiodic jobs.

b) Note that the utilization of the periodic server in part (a) is 0.25. We can give the server different periods while keeping its utilization fixed at 0.25. Repeat (1) and (2) in part (a) if the period of the periodic server is 1.

c) Can we improve the response times by increasing the period of the periodic server?

d) Suppose that as a designer you were given (1) the characteristics of the periodic tasks, that is, (p1,e1), (p2,e2),…..(pn,en), (2) the minimum interval pa between arrivals of aperiodic jobs, and (3) the maximum execution time required to complete any aperiodic job. Suppose that you are asked to choose the execution budget and period of a deferrable server. Suggest a set of good design rules.
Host Your Static Website in Azure as a Docker Container
By: Mwiza Kumwenda
Tags: Programming, Docker, Front End Development, JavaScript, Azure

1. Create a Static Website

We will create a directory for our static website and name it docker-static . But feel free to use any name of your liking.

$ mkdir docker-static

Our static website will consist of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript files. Go ahead and create the following files in the project directory:

$ touch html.index index.js styles.css

For simplicity’s sake, our website will have minimal functionality. The HTML for the static file will contain a single button that will trigger a JavaScript function when clicked. The JavaScript function simply logs a message to the console. The CSS simply adds some background color to the website.

Index.html

You can copy and paste the following HTML code into the index.html file:

Index.js

Copy and paste the JavaScript code below into your index.js file. We have declared one function that logs to the console every time the button in the HTML is clicked:

function logToConsole(){

console.log(`button clicked !`);

}

Styles.css

In the styles.css file, we will simply set the background color of our website to light gray as follows:
Courage
Tags: Poetry, Courage, One Line Poetry Prompt

Courage

Share your own one-line poem on the theme as a response to this post, or write a stand-alone piece if you prefer. Tag your piece “One Line” and, if you have a stand-alone poem, be sure to leave a link in the response section below.

FYI: Responding to this or any Chalkboard prompt adds you to the prompt notification list.
Bugs Cause Chaos For ICON & EOS | News Update 17/06/18
By: Joseph Harris
Tags: Events, News, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Disclaimer:

Any statements I make in these videos are just my opinion, and should not be taken as investment advice.

Please do your own research in addition to watching these videos, ensure you are fully confident in any investment decisions you make, and never invest money you cannot afford to lose.
BITCOIN PUZZLE SOLVED AFTER 3 YEARS
Tags: Digital Painting, Puzzle, Bitcoin, Art

HIDDEN BITCOIN

Artist Marguerite deCourcelle, also known as coin artist, has been hiding Bitcoin in digital paintings for years. Her third Bitcoin puzzle, released in April 2015, has finally been solved by a 30-year old programmer. Obviously we don’t know very much about this little smarty pants, but we do know he’s now the proud owner of around $50K worth of Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin puzzle The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto (1FLAMEN6), has been a work in puzzle solving progress for ages! It took nearly 1095 days for the third puzzle in the series, “TORCHED H34R7S”, to be solved. When deCourcelle and fellow artist Rob Myers originally placed the key to the Bitcoin wallet into the digital painting, the wallet contained 4.87 Bitcoins — which was, at the time, worth about $1,400.

The painting was inspired by William Shakespeare’s poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle, and contains two coded pieces of information. Decoding and combining these would yield the private key to the Bitcoin wallet containing the coins.

Oh and the plot thickens because the poem itself is something of a mystery and has been the subject of rampant speculation about who Shakespeare was actually referring to when he spoke of the Turtle and the Phoenix. A turtledove and a phoenix feature pretty pretty pretty prominently in deCourcelle’s painting. Just sayin’… ;-)

So how the puzzle actually worked

The puzzle encoded a string of binary — a series of zeroes and ones — in complicated rows of flames painted around the edge of the canvas.

The colour and shape of each flame determined a four-character chunk of the binary series, with a further part of the code represented by six ribbons of different lengths in the bottom right-hand corner.

After all of these codes had been worked out and linked together, the 30-year old programmer was able to translate the full string of zeroes and ones into a Bitcoin private key with the help of a simple computer program. JUST WOW!

Get a super geeky mega detailed explanation of the little smarty pants solution right here.

SOURCES: BBC, Bitcoinist & Motherboard
Creating Contentful backups with Semantic Release
By: Alejandro Orta
Tags: Contentful, Javscript, Ci, Semantic Release

Contentful CLI tools

Contentful created a nice set of tools for exporting and importing content and models. You can use it as a CLI or separately. For this example we will use contentful-export tool it’s already inside Contentful CLI but we want to use it alone for exporting a JSON for our space content, models and assets.

List of things we need to start

We will need two variables, the Contentful space ID and a management token. First let’s get the space id, head to space general settings and you will see it

No matter if you want to create a backup of one environment or another, that ID it’s unique. Also, we are going to need a management token, for this example, we will use a personal access token head to APIs menu:

Generate a new personal token and save it for later.

Node script

Let’s create an isolated node script with the necessary stuff for exporting all content, models and assets from the master environment, later we will put this script in our Semantic Release config.

First install the library:

npm install --save-dev contentful-export

Now create the script:

// script.js const contentfulExport = require(‘contentful-export’); contentfulExport({ spaceId: space-id’, managementToken: ‘token’, environmentId: ‘master’, exportDir: ‘backups’, contentFile: ‘environment-backup.json’, errorLogFile: ‘error.json’ });

As you can see we are setting an exportDir if you do it make sure the folder exists before executing the script.

And run using node script.js if everything works as expected you will see this output

Take a look to all contentful-export configuration options, maybe you want to enable/disable some.
Utterance
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Image, Speaking, Struggling, Illumination Curated

Utterance

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Lips tongue spit

form fell flop even

melting

head rolls with

eyeball manoeuvres

creased explanations

waiting

still waiting

and the redundant

thing gets said

iced over

frosted

reformed into an opening

and the authority

of the moment

glassed

frigid minute

of silence before

you put something

else

where the words

should go

but tired of the jaw

clicks

the vacancy of response

the dispersion

of the idea

held in by the

falling

apart of anatomy

and

the musing

relegated to a prison

again
The future of CSS, guidelines and tools to build everything you can imagine
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #2: This week we bring you a collection of five links that will change your perspective on CSS.

When working on large and complex applications with dozens of developers at the same time, it is important to have a unified standard to follow. We should always keep stylesheets maintainable, and a transparent and readable code.

There are several techniques we must employ in order to satisfy these goals. CSS Guidelines is definitely an awesome document, full of recommendations, that will help us move in the right direction.

This guide’s author is Harry Roberts (@csswizardry). We hosted Harry’s CSS workshop a couple of months ago.

In this post, Heydon Pickering (@heydonworks) explains the importance of adapting our design to the content. He also shows how to make our site fit the content using pseudo classes.

As Maxime Thirouin (@MoOx), the author of @cssnext, states: “Prior to 2015, CSS was frustrating by not having any specification for features we were looking for. No variables, no math, no color manipulation and no customization. Things are going to change soon since a lot of work has been made by the W3C to write new specs to make our dev life easier. With cssnext, you can start using some of the new features today!”

Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) wrote a remarkable in-depth article on how to style the contents of the SVG <use> element and overcome some challenges it brings.

As CSS crosses the boundaries of the mere cosmetics and penetrates into the lands of layout, one may ask the question: What’s the future of CSS and HTML, and what’s the reason for keeping them separate? AXR aims to unifying both into a new language, so called HSS. The platform is a little bit outdated and the website is begging for a redesign, but the idea is by no means less interesting. Maybe if we help the author, @veosotano, and contribute to the project we help improve the web!
The Assault on Albu Saif
By: War Is Boring
Tags: War, Iraq, Military, Wib Front

The Assault on Albu Saif

I went to the front lines with Iraqi troops fighting the Islamic State on the road to West Mosul

by MATT CETTI-ROBERTS

The rhythmic thump of a helicopter reverberates though the cold, clear morning sky.

The source of the noise — an Iraqi Mi-28NE gunship — straightens out after performing a slow banking turn. Unguided white-tipped rockets suddenly fly from beneath its stubby wings, dirty black smears of smoke trailing behind them as they speed toward a target.

The helicopter is nearby, but the delay between seeing the rockets fire and hearing the popping sound caused by their launch is eerily long. The helicopter fires two salvos of two rockets before it wheels away — flying in a low, long circuit which passes the sun and causing those below to strain through narrowed eyes to catch a glimpse.

Sitting on the Nineveh floodplain, the low rise, sprawling city of Mosul is split into two by the River Tigris. The eastern side of the city was recaptured from the Islamic State in early January 2017 after 100 days of battle, giving the Iraqi Security Forces — or ISF — 26 days to re-organize and prepare for the third phase of the operation.

I’ve linked up with the ISF on the second day of offensive to retake western Mosul. The Iraqi military, with extensive coalition support, is using just about every weapon at its disposal to try and clear a path to the city from the south.

This is also the 126th day of the overall offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the temporary capital of the Islamic State in the country.

Today’s assault is taking place in a rural setting dotted with small settlements, and is part of a broad advance by Iraqi forces. The fighting to come when they reach Mosul’s western half may be more difficult than the east.

The western neighborhoods of the city are much older and more compact than the eastern ones. From a military standpoint this means that the attacking troops may not be able to rely on vehicle mounted support weapons, such as the ever present armored Humvees — used by all sides in the conflict — which will be unable to maneuver in the tight alleys and streets.

“In the west, it’s a high-density environment,” U.S. Air Force Col. August “Pfoto” Pfluger told Los Angeles Times correspondent Nabih Bulos. “People live in apartment buildings and areas that are in much closer quarters.”

On the flip side, this could also reduce the damage from suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices that the occupying militants could otherwise employ.

Fortified in the city, the Islamic State has had more than two years to prepare for the clearly-anticipated assault. Recent reports suggest that the defenders have smashed holes through walls to allow hidden movement between buildings. There are an estimated 750,000 residents trapped in western Mosul, including those from nearby villages who have been pulled back for use as human shields.
The Faith of a Sick Woman & Joy of a Dead Girl
By: Michael Murray
Tags: Devotional, Spirituality, Christianity, Religion, Theology

Photo by Justice Amoh on Unsplash

Today’s Bible Reading: Mark 5:21–43

In Mark 5:21–43, two interactions with Jesus are woven together to create one beautiful tapestry. We get two stories for the price of one.

Mark is the shortest gospel, and it’s all about showing Jesus in action. I’m not surprised that Mark saved ink on the page by telling these two stories side-by-side. And yet, the stories are connected. They almost mirror each other.

At the center of the story are two women. One has been battling a medical illness every day for twelve years. The other is on her death bed, at only twelve years old.

Is twelve years a long time? I guess that depends on who you ask. For the woman, the past twelve years have been excruciatingly long. For the girl (and her parents), twelve years went by like a vapor of mist.

But despite their terrible situations, these two women lift my spirits. Their stories play out like a comedy, and I can’t help but smile. Chaos surrounds them on all sides⁠ — pushy crowds, sarcastic disciples, and busybody neighbors. And yet, surrounded by all that negativity, faith and joy still manage to win the day.

The sick woman had the faith to go to Jesus, even when every other avenue of healing she tried was a dead end. Her faith is staggering:

“If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” (v. 28)

After so many disappointments, she still has confidence in Jesus.

Then you have the joy of the dead girl. After Jesus raises her to life, she’s up and walking around, going about her day as usual. And how do you celebrate any happy occasion? With a meal! Jesus tells her parents to get this girl something to eat!

These two stories remind me that Jesus is in control even when everyone else is in panic mode. They are stories of hope. And we all face circumstances that could use a little dose of hope to get us through.

Questions to Ponder:

As you read this passage, list all the instances where faith and joy win out over chaos and panic.

What is one circumstance you are facing where you need to be reminded that Jesus is in control?
Rita Marie Meets the Virgin Mary
By: Rita Sapunor
Tags: Comics, Autobiographical Comics, Autobiography, Catholic, Faith

Rita Sapunor is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vice, and the RESIST anthologies. Follow her on Instagram @ritalately!

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The Disappointing Greatness of a Man Like Harrison Ford
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Women, Relationships, Culture, Film, Equality

Harrison Ford in The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

I first fell in love with Harrison Ford when I was just eight years old. As much as any eight-year-old could fall in love with a stranger. Back then, all of my peers were obsessed with Joey from New Kids on the Block and Brad Pitt. They also went gaga over various boys’ looks — boys in school, and the popular Tiger Beat boys on TV. But I never really understood their appeal.

I was a young Star Wars Saga fan and for many years, The Empire Strikes Back was my idea of the perfect movie romance.

Without being able to tell you exactly why, I fell hard for the scruffy-looking nerf herder, and that love seeped into my adoration of Ford in other roles, like Indiana Jones as well. It wasn’t just a bad boy thing. Ford just happened to frequently embody what I thought “the whole package” was.

Often, he appeared confident, a little cocky, quiet, and tough to know. I didn’t grow up with healthy men in my life, and somewhere along the way, I learned to equate good men with somewhat difficult ones.

In my mind, Han Solo and Indy were these larger than life males who were savvy, worldly, and worth the trouble. Sure, you knew they had been heartbreakers, but they also had a marshmallow-soft center that only the right woman could melt. That’s how I saw it, anyway.

Did I know I wasn’t really in love? Of course. At eight years old, I understood that I didn’t even know the guy. Furthermore, I knew the Hollywood actor had way too many years on me. Those things don’t kill an intense celebrity crush, however. I daydreamed that maybe one day, even in some alternate reality, he’d have a younger brother or a son who was more appropriate for me.

Was it an absurd fantasy? Obviously. But that’s childhood for you. You grow up with some ridiculous beliefs whether you talk about them or not.

On-screen, it was Ford’s gruffness and hidden heart of gold that always did me in. At least, that’s what I gleaned from his iconic roles. Without any real-life knowledge of the man off-screen, I fell for the notion that he was a rarity in Hollywood. A gentleman, a family man, and a devoted husband.

Magazines certainly encouraged my view. I once read — and tore out for safe-keeping! — a People article that described the actor as a faithful family man who rarely spent even a night away from his beloved wife.

In a world where Hugh Grant made headlines for cheating on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute, and Ben Affleck would later catch flack for hanging out at a strip club when he was engaged to Jennifer Lopez, Harrison Ford seriously stood out.

“He’s one of the good guys,” I thought to myself.

Clearly, I was incredibly young and naive about men and relationships.
Sandcat Browser — Navegador para Pentesters
By: Marcos Henrique
Tags: 100security, Pentesting, Sandcat Browser

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Worldwide Introduction of OpenST Mosaic Protocol: Scaling Blockchain Economies to Billions of Users
By: Jason Goldberg
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Tech

Worldwide Introduction of OpenST Mosaic Protocol: Scaling Blockchain Economies to Billions of Users

Watch the Keynote: OST announces OpenST Mosaic at the Upbit Developer Conference, Jeju, South Korea, 13 September, 2018

On 13 September, 2018 OST Co-Founder & Chief Blockchain Strategist Benjamin Bollen and I presented the OpenST Mosaic Protocol at the Upbit “Proof of Developer” conference in Jeju, South Korea.

Watch the Keynote

We believe that OpenST Mosaic is a viable on-chain solution for scaling apps on Ethereum to billions of users, without requiring any upgrades to Ethereum as it (proof of) works today. Mosaic will also scale even further with future upgrades to Ethereum as they are released.

OpenST Mosaic is presented in the context of Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0, Casper, Sharding, and Plasma.

Mosaic is a consensus protocol to run meta-blockchains on top of Ethereum. Each meta-blockchain runs in parallel and injects an additional state space into Ethereum. Each meta-blockchain is secured by Ethereum with an open, staked validator set. All transactions on meta-blockchains are asynchronously finalised and committed onto Ethereum. This enables tens thousand+ transactions per second on Ethereum — critical for mainstream adoption.

Mosaic is a companion protocol to the OpenST Protocol introduced 1 year ago. The Mosaic paper will be released around 1 October, 2018.

View the Slides
Monthly Update IX
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Iconomi, Ethereum, Updates

With the announcement of the eICN equity token; the imminent launch of Delta Summit Index, one of the world’s first crowdsourced digital asset indexes; and much more, September has been one of the most momentous months in ICONOMI history.

Changes to the ICN token and corporate governance structure

On September 27, we announced the future launch of eICN, a tokenized share in a new joint-stock company that will be based in Liechtenstein. There are three main aspects to our plan:

Starting on November 1, 2018, eligible ICN token holders can choose either to opt into becoming shareholders of a new joint-stock company that will be tokenized with eICN tokens, or to exchange their ICN tokens for ETH; The first phase of the transformation will end on December 31, 2018, with the tokenization process starting in Q1 2019; ETH will take the place of the ICN token’s utility on the ICONOMI platform (e.g. fees paid by DAA managers).

Click here for the full announcement. Technical and legal aspects are available here.

Delta Summit Index

As an ultra exhibitor of Delta Summit, we are proud to announce that we will be establishing one of the world’s first crowdsourced digital asset indexes for the occasion: Delta Summit Index (DSI). DSI will be co-created by attendees of the event, including many of the world’s foremost financial and cryptocurrency experts, blockchain enthusiasts, and influencers. Every Delta Summit attendee will have the unique opportunity to participate in setting DSI’s structure by voting for their favorite digital assets.

DAA Manager Interviews

In his DAA Strategy Insights interview, ArabFolio.Capital Head of Investment Ahmad Shadid discussed their recent shift from the “hodl” mentality to active trading. ArabFolio.Capital’s MOON DAA was the best performing DAA last week.

In our DAA Manager Insights interview with Global Macro Crypto, Mihail Semertzidis explained how crypto will transform the world of finance as we know it.

Blockfolio Signal Program

On September 27, we joined Blockfolio’s Signal program. Download the Blockfolio app today for iOS or Android to receive ICONOMI news and updates directly to your phone!

Events

Head of DAAs Jure Sutar introducing ICONOMI to a new audience at Millions Camp

The ICONOMI team attended Consensus: Singapore from September 19–20.

Head of Marketing Tjasa Tolj, Head of DAAs, Jure Sutar, and Francis Lee of the Future Crypto Economy DAA

COO Matej Tomazin and Head of DAAs Jure Sutar with the Wanchain team

On September 27, ICONOMI CTO Miha Vidmar spoke at Verity’s Original Crypto Night event in Ljubljana.

ICONOMI CTO Miha Vidmar discussing the security and safety of the decentralized future at Verity’s event
She’s an ugly American.
By: Teri Bayus
Tags: Ugly, Comedy, Satire

She’s an ugly American. One of those who elected Trump. The embodiment of what I don’t want to be seen as, but her type is frequently featured on the news channels.

She came in the X-ray center screaming. And apologizing. The girls behind the counter yell, “Not it!” after one glance. All but the last one goes away to pretend to file.

Then her shrill redneck ring tone on her pink sequined phone breaks her rant. Mid sentence- she answers it and has an inane and worthless conversation.

Her side; “Well that’s weird. Ya so strange. Really? Pink? Your pants pink? I have to deal with this X-ray. I’ve been sick so long.

They seem stupid. Bye. I love you. (Pause) I love you. (Pause). K — love you.”

She’s wearing a mismatched Harley Davidson sweat suit. Which tells me she has many. It’s drags on the floor, tattered and dirty. Her nails are Formica pink and long & sharp. It doesn’t suit her stubby fingers and precisely why she has a Vietnamese woman file them into this shape.

Her hair is an unnatural shade of blond pulled back in a glitter scrunchy. Her skin like an old saddle. Tanned and put away wet. Make-up is heavy. You can see the track marks on her cheeks. Lips are a hip shade of blue.

She goes back to her jeremiad. “Just why can’t I be seen now? I have pneumonia and a tanning appointment that I can’t miss.”

The girl wearing scrubs covered in puppies looks at her computer.

“I’m sorry ma’am — the machine is broken. Techs are working on it now.”

She Humphs. Hand on hip, pointing the pink blade at the poor girls throat, “When will it be done?”

The puppy Girl grins tightly. “We have no idea.”

Her phone broadcasts Jason Aldean, Dirt Road Anthem, she holds up her palm stopping the receptionists breath.

“These people are stupid. Yes, I’ll meet you at tanning. Oh really? That’s weird? I love you. (Pause). I said, I love you. (Pause). Please. Ok. (Humphs). Well. I love you.”

I think- Is she that insecure in being loved she must be reminded every hour?

Of course she is. Every item she wears carries a brand name on it. None of it matches. Just a capitalist billboard of worthlessness.

She goes back to berating the poor girl who I want to go buy chocolate cake for. I’m embarrassed to be in the same species with this creature.

As if she reads my thoughts — her head whips to my corner. She looks me toe to head. The disdain look at my make-up-less face and plain black dress is only seconded by my unruly red curls sprouting like medusa.

Sonorous iPhone breaks the spell. “Hello. Yes, I’m still here. Surrounded by imbeciles. Okay. I’m sorry. Yes. No. My appointment doesn’t matter. I’ll be right there. Get the pre-tan lotion. I’m leaving right now. I swear. Don’t be mad. I love you. (Pause). I love you. (Humphs). Bye.”

She shoots us all a look of disdain and storms out to her ugly American car.
Pinterest Marketing: How As a Blogger You Can Get More Traffic
By: Aamir Kamal
Tags: Pinterest Marketing, Blogs And Blogging, Website Traffic, Blogging, Social Media Marketing

Pinterest Marketing: How As a Blogger You Can Get More Traffic

I posted 160 Pins On Pinterest, here how much Impressions I have got.

Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash

As a blogger, if you create the best content on your blog but you are not promoting it and getting more readers then you will not get any leads, sales, or Ad-clicks on your blog post. A not so right marketing strategy can costs you more money and time. The best strategy is to find ways to present your blog posts to as many people as you can.

I discovered Pinterest a few months ago. In the first place, I was confused about its business model and how it will work out for bloggers?

A site that lets people share Images, why would people visit such a site? But, I was wrong. Pinterest isn’t just an image sharing website but a site that is full of people interested to find out and let their creative work get discovered.

Pinterest is definitely is a great tool for you to get more traffic to your blog.

The basic goal of being on Pinterest is to make sure you get more readers to your blog or YouTube Videos or your virtual store on the Internet. The whole idea is to get more readership, you get readers from a different platform, one of the most prominent platforms is Google search.

If you don’t have any online business or you are doing a job and want to start a side hustle then you need to read this masterpiece.

Let explore Pinterest now and market your gig like a rock.

How to post Search engine optimized Pins on Pinterest?

When you log in to your Pinterest account, click on the red “+” sign and click on “Create a Pin” A new page will load, look like this one.

Pinterest interference for posting a new pin to the site.

There are four options in the Publishing process of the new pin on Pinterest.

The Title is the most important part of the Pinterest Search engine optimization. Write a great, more interesting title for your Pinterest pin. Then, the second section is “Tell everyone what your Pin is about” You can add up to 500 alphabets in the description of your pin. Try to write at least 490 to 499 alphabets in this section. Add hashtags to get discovered easily. The Third portion is what you are actually using Pinterest for. Add a link to your blog post or any other external link in order to grow your traffic. When a user discovered your Pin, he/she has the opportunity to read more about that thing on your blog or your YouTube video. The Last portion of the Pinterest Pin Publishing is “Adding Picture” This is also the most important part of Pinterest SEO. Adding an attractive image will increase your click-through rate. Keep one thing in mind that don’t copyright any image.

How to get more impressions on your Pins?

To get more impressions on your pins, you need to post more Pins everyday. I post 10 Pins every day on Pinterest. This helps me reach 3.1k impressions per month.
The green apple goes savoury
By: Olivia Darmanin
Tags: Celery, Fresh Fruit, Recipes, Cibus, Salads

This recipe was first published in the June edition of Cibus magazine.

As part of my contribution in Cibus magazine I chose to prepare sides to accompany the grill, a popular cooking method at this time of the year. Since I love the sweet twist fruit gives to savoury food, I opted to include fruit in these recipes. The first recipe I proposed was caponata with green apples, a dish which was born after I tasted a similar one in a Sicilian restaurant some years ago. The other fruity and savoury recipes will follow in separate posts.

Green apple caponata

Ingredients for 4 persons:

500gr green apples

100gr green olives, pitted

100gr capers

150gr celery sticks

1 onion

1 can chopped tomatoes

Extra virgin olive oil

2 tblsp sugar

2 tblsp white wine vinegar

1 tblsp sultanas

1 tblsp pine nuts

Salt & pepper

Lemon

Rinse the capers and olives under running water and leave to drain. Finely chop the onion and the celery sticks. Peel the apples, cut into medium-sized cubes and put in some cold water with a few drops of lemon juice.

In a saucepan, pour some extra virgin olive oil, add the onion and celery and fry on low heat for 5 minutes. Add the capers and olives and keep cooking for further 5 minutes, adding some cold water, if necessary. Pour in the chopped tomatoes and leave on medium heat for 10 minutes.

Drain the apples from the water, pat dry with a kitchen towel and add to the sauce. Keep cooking until the apples become soft. Finally add the sugar and vinegar and leave to evaporate for a minute or two. Add the sultanas, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Leave to cool and serve.
God is Real and Active in Our Lives
Tags: Suicide, God, Blessings, Depression, Miracles

It would be easy for me to ask where God is in all of this, but then I look around and his hand is being shown all around me.

Just before COVID rocked everyone’s world, my family moved. I was doing pretty well for a few months and then my mental health took a dive.

We moved to a neighborhood where I actually feel safe. Feeling safe is something that has been hard to come by, as I have lived few places that didn’t take me back to my childhood sexual abuse. Finding this home was a miracle in so many ways. We live in a neighborhood where my son can run free with his friends around the neighborhood, we have never had that.

There are also a lot of really good kids in our neighborhood which is such a blessing. We have a view behind our house that literally takes my breath away. As the flowers on our property began to bloom, I noticed that I have admired every one of them at some point in my life, wanting to have them in my own yard one day, they were already here.

Our neighborhood is full of real life angels. We are surrounded by the most selfless and kind people on the planet. They are all so quick to jump in and help when help is needed. When I admitted myself into the hospital with a plan for suicide, one of my neighbors came and watched my kids so my husband could sit with me during intake.

Over the following weeks so many individuals took their time and money to provide meals for us, gifts for my children and effort in taking care of our yard.

There have been moments where my therapist seemed inspired in giving me direction, and then opportunities that perfectly align with his suggestions just miraculously open up to me. There have been days where I was in a really dark place and countless people just happen to think of me and reach out to me with a text, phone call, or even dropped by to say hi.

All of this happened within a couple of days, during my darkest moments. I sent a message to a friend and she sent the calvary running to my aid. She got me out of the house, someone watched my kids, and someone else got me a massage. One friend has even been taking me walking with her in the evenings at the gym which has really made a positive impact on my mental health.

All of these people have truly saved me.

They have enabled me to get my feet back under me. They have been angels, real angels. They have blessed my live in immeasurable ways.

We have also had the means to afford all of the therapy and treatment to help in my recovery. This has not always been an option for us.

If all of those things weren’t enough to convince you that God is active in my life, there have been whisperings of the spirit and miracles of healing that could have come from no other place.

How hard are you looking for God’s miraculous hand in your life? Can you see him? God is most definitely active in my life, I see his hand almost daily.

Look for him and you will see him in your life too.

I know God lives and I know that he loves every one of his children no matter how unforgivable they may think they are. Reach out to him and I promise he will reach back.
Inclusion room write-up
By: Satyam Kanojiya
Tags: Local File Inclusion, Ctf Writeup, Inclusion, Tryhackme, Ctf

A beginner level LFI challenge on TryHackMe

LFI (Local File Inclusion)

Level : Easy

Room link : https://tryhackme.com/room/inclusion

Hello friends, thodi hacking krlo // skip-this

TASK 1 :-

Deploy the machine, no answer required

TASK 2 :-

NMAP SCAN : nmap -sV -T4 <I.P>

2. Visiting <I.P> on browser an LFI vulnerable blog shows up

3. Upon visiting one of the blog we can see parameter “?name=” in URL bar and it seems vulnerable. Let’s exploit it!

4. After getting credentials from above ssh into machine and ola we are in 😎

For Privilege Escalation : https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/socat/

Rooted

Grab the user & root flag from above steps……………

Enjoy, thanks for reading and have a good day 🍺

👋 Follow and connect with me on Github
“Confidence”
By: Paul Gallagher
Tags: Blue Insights, Doubt, Poem, Resilience, Confidence

Ask me for a word to define in 25 words or less… just add a comment.
「幸せで成功している人」は、好きなことを仕事にしているだけではなく、自分の仕事に心を奪われている
By: プロブロガーのタクスズキ
Tags: Short Story, Japanese, Medium Japan

in In Fitness And In Health
It's time to bid goodbye to Medium.
By: Abhishek Thakur
Tags: Medium, Verbys, Maice

Verbys will allow creators to read & write, create their portfolios, and learn the intricacies of being a professional writer. This is just one part of the expansive content ecosystem we are building at maice.

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and hope that you follow us to the next wave in content creation geared towards Indian creators.

Take part in our beta test and tell us how we can make the platform better. Creators and readers like you define verbys and we just can’t do without getting to know how you feel about it.

Here’s the link to verbys. This works best on a Laptop/Desktop: https://solid-heaven-224714.firebaseapp.com/efc098d0-fdfd-11e8-b532-f76535852eed/read

SEE YOU THERE…

with love and admiration,

Abhishek Thakur. Cofounder, maice.
Favorite Meals On The Road… Lambertville Station Restaurant
By: Mike Decastro
Tags: New Jersey, Seafood, Foodies

Favorite Meals On The Road… Lambertville Station Restaurant

During the making of ‘This Is Our Garden’, our music video shout-out to the state of NJ, we stopped by a few NJ foodie gems. The Lambertville Station Restaurant​ was absolutely one of our dining highlights. We intended to order entrees.. but stopped mid-order when the oysters arrived.

Photo courtesy of American Public House Review

It’s always a joy to receive good service, and when that service includes a fun & vibey young person, all the better. It’s contagious. Our road weariness gave way to and piggybacked onto our server’s enthusiasm. She was excited to share that the oysters were “SO fresh..”, and that her other customers of the day loved them. Which was a fantastic fit as our crew are all oyster fanatics.

We ordered a mix of NJ and New England oysters, and asked the server to pick a wine that would compliment. What came to the table was perfection. A dozen icey plump ultra fresh oysters swimming in their briny liquor. The taste of the oysters was heavenly. Author Pat Conroy in his book ‘The Great Santini’ eloquently writes of eating oysters fresh gotten from the sea. He describes how the oysters tasted like the best elements of everything around them, wispy grasses, sea, sun, salt, minerals, nutrients. That’s exactly what these oysters were like. Their liquor was a perfect symphonic blend of oyster and sea notes. We ordered another dozen almost immediately. All was topped off with the occasional palate cleanse of bright and summery Sauvignon Blanc served in a beautiful over-sized wine glass.

We shared a classic grilled shrimp Caesar Salad. A perfectly executed compilation of fishy, creamy, cheesey flavor salvos, and no easy feat to create. The lettuce was fresh and cold and crsip. The grilled shrimp bore proper grill marks and caramelization. Perfectly grilled shrimp is a babysitting task. And in a busy restaurant kitchen, with everyone square-dancing, requires skill and zen like focus. Seconds too long and texture is off and an awful mouth experience had. The classic Caesar dressing was harmony and a splendid balancing act of ever-so-slight fishiness and creaminess, with a hint of ripe lemon. On this day, our classic grilled shrimp Caesar was perfect. A well deserved hat-tip from our table.

Photo courtesy of TripAdvisor

The setting was perfect too. Our table was outside on a beautiful NJ summer day.. on the side patio next to the abandoned railroad tracks on the canal, close to Bridge Street. A wonderful spot for people and butterfly watching. The latter drawn to a butterfly bush someone had planted next to the bridge. Dozens of people stopped for a few moments to watch the butterflies, and carry the energy from that moment forward with them. It was one of the few times that we stopped our rushing and planning. The meal, the server, the location, the scene, all perfect, and we simply did not want it all to end.
新しいEtheremonの世界
Tags: Gaming, Art, Japanese, Blockchain, Ethereum

A blockchain game about collecting, training, evolving and trading Monsters, built with blockchain and VR technology. Think Pokemon on blockchain.

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