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The Rewarding Social Media: Sweat Equity
By: Rajat Dangi
Tags: Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency, Indian Startups, Steemit

The Unpaid Artists

People around the globe, create and post content on various internet platforms.

This content, be it information, knowledge, art, photos, videos, blogs or anything, this data is what makes the platforms both, useful and valuable.

And we know that people are happy to share useful things on the Internet to make this world a better place.

But, the millions of people who contribute on the Internet every day are like unpaid artists.

The Concept of Sweat Equity for Internet Platforms is exciting

All forms of capital are equally valuable. This means that those who contribute their scarce time and attention toward producing and curating content for others are just as valuable as those who contribute their scarce cash. This is the sweat equity principle and is a concept that prior cryptocurrencies have often had trouble providing to more than a few dozen individuals. — Steem white paper

That is really exciting. What these platforms like steemit and dtube are doing is new and challenging. But we are likely to see more and more similar services being built on the concept of sweat equity.

As we are moving the towards web 3.0 or as experts call it the ‘Internet of Value’. The transparency and ownership of the content that users post will improve. This kind of platforms will run on the basis of the value they create and share with all the stakeholders in the system.

Time Investments are Real Investments

The time that creators invest in building and growing a community around any Internet platform is equivalent to real investments.

This image caught my eye today on the Internet.

This is just one story. And it shows how much work goes behind the scene, the efforts that creators put in to produce a piece of art. This could be true for all the creative professions or people in similar domains.

Yet the creators put it on the Internet for free for the communities and to gain some audience. In return, the Internet platforms sell their attention, interests, and behavior to the advertisers without bringing any real value to the creator.

It is very early to say what shape the rewarding platforms will take in long run. But whatever shape they take, they will be more inclined towards providing real value to the communities.

These were my quick thoughts on the ‘Rewarding Social Media Platforms’, what do you think? leave your views in comments.
Ko Phi Phi Leh II
By: Teodora Maksimova
Tags: Love, Fiction Series, Fiction, Thailand, Travel

Ko Phi Phi Leh II

Chapter 2

Photo by Max Bender on Unsplash

“I always wondered what it would be like,” Nina said after she pulled out a chair and sat on their table. “The moment you finally come out here and your face when you see I got here first,” she continued with a carefree grin that Theo had never seen on her face before.

“Well look at you, little miss I rule the world now. I hope the moment did not disappoint,” he tilted his head.

Nina chuckled, “It was alright,” she paused. “Although, things never quite happen the way you expected them to, right?”

There was a weird mixture of unspoken questions and answers neither of them was ready to learn. It’s like the air had thickened and they just wanted to enjoy the company before they had to be adults in the real world again.

They spent the next half an hour soaking in each other’s energy. If you were to ask either of them what they discussed during that period, they wouldn’t be able to tell you. That was beside the point. All those years of forgetting and remembering each other, of trying to forget one another, and their childlike curiosity at the situation created a bubble of inexplicable joy that neither of them wanted to question.

“Looks like your ride’s here,” Nina nodded toward the beach. The boat taxis were coming and it was time for Theo and Alex to meet their future Thai home.

“So… I’m guessing you guys aren’t big on social media around here,” Theo looked around and smiled. People’s hands were occupied with refreshing drinks and not their phones for a change. It made him smile even more.

“Who needs that when you have real-life Instagram right in front of you,” Nina gestured toward the midlands of the island. His eyes were glued on her.

“Fair point. Well, I guess I’ll just ask for Nina and they’ll point me in your direction,” he laughed.

Alex, who kept uncharacteristically quiet up until this point, finally broke his silence. “He means we’ll ask for you when we get back,” he grinned.

“Why thank you, boys, this is quite flattering. But, believe it or not, I’m not the only Nina here,” she laughed.

“Ko Phi Phi Leh booooarding! Vamos, Vamos!” A local man was rushing a small tourist group into the empty boat. Nina rushed the boys to do the same.

Before he boarded, Theo turned to face her, “ah come on, how many Nina Stephens can there be on this piece of land? I’d wager no more than one!”

She clasped her hands and looked down like old ladies do when they’re sending people off at train stations. “It’s Maxwell now,” she said as he was boarding the boat.

Theo froze. “Maxwell? Wasn’t there a…”

Nina interrupted him quickly, “Have a safe trip, I’ll see you soon, boys! Take care now.” She waved briskly and hurried to get away from the beach.

If only she could get away from being a Maxwell, too.
Bit Mon Ex partnering with Bittrex to develop Mongolian crypto exchange platform
Tags: Token, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Partnerships, Bittrex

Bit Mon Ex partnering with Bittrex to develop Mongolian crypto exchange platform Foresting Follow Mar 12, 2019 · 2 min read

On February 4, 2019, Bit Mon Ex announced the launch of a new digital asset trading platform in Mongolia. The platform, leveraging Bittrex’s cutting edge technology, will offer customers a secure, reliable and advanced trading option.

The platform will target Mongolia initially, with plans to expand to customers in other Asian countries in the future. Citizens of Mongolia will be able to purchase and trade cryptocurrency using the native language.

According to Bittrex, Bit Mon Ex has access to all cryptocurrencies and digital tokens available on both the Bittrex and Bittrex International platforms.

“Our mission at Bit Mon Ex is to create more innovation and economic freedom to enable Mongolian companies to compete on equal footing on a global scale,” said Bit Mon Ex Chairman Unenburen Ulziiburen. “Our platform strongly focuses on security and customer service, so we are particularly excited to partner with Bittrex to bring their world-class service and reputation to our local Mongolian market.”

Unenburen Ulziiburen founded Bit Mon Ex LLC in August 2018 already being Foresting advisor. Bit Mon Ex LLC is initially opening the doors and gapping the bridge it was lacking between the global market and to local Mongolian citizens. In the future Bit Mon Ex LLC is planning to develop the infrastructure where businesses, government services are available to its users through the use of blockchain technology. Passion about blockchain with great leadership skill made Unenburen Ulziiburen prove that he can make Bit Mon Ex LLC globally recognized crypto exchange.

We are very proud to have such great people in our team and wish Unenburen Ulziiburen to achieve his goals and dreams.

Dreams come true!
BOOSTO x Internxt Partnership Announcement
Tags: Partners, Social Media, Announcement, Bockchain, Collaboration

On October 15, BOOSTO announced we have formed a strategic, multi-phase partnership with leading blockchain project Internxt. Internxt is a decentralized cloud storage service with a focus on privacy and security. The partnership will be in two phases. The first phase of this partnership involves the integration of Internxt tokens and BOOSTO protocol. The integrated protocol will allow joint followers to donate Internxt token to the BOOSTO influencer community, and BOOSTO tokens will be allowed to be used in the Internxt ecosystem. The Subsequent phases of the partnership will involve deeper collaborations such as allowing Internxt program to be intergrated and displayed in BOOSTO influencer stores.

The partnership has been discussed by BOOSTO’s head of product management, Rock Zhang, and Internxt Chief Marketing Officer, Conor Doyle during the San Francisco blockchain week. “we are reaching out to up and coming crypto projects that we think would be a great fit for a partnership.” Said Doyle.

In the BOOSTO and Internxt integrated protocol, both users from BOOSTO and Internxt will enjoy the following capabilities:

Within BOOSTO, users will have the option to donate Internxt tokens to influencers they like. Or, influencers will be able to airdrop Internxt tokens to their followers. Within Internxt, users will be able to use BOOSTO token to upload and download files on Internxt and receive a Free forever 10 GB plan for the Beta version of X cloud. X Cloud is a distributed, highly secure, cloud storage service which strives to compete with services such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

Internxt will be a new member of the BOOSTO community.

“Our influencer network is happy to see more good projects to join our network to enrich the variety of tokens flow in the ecosystem,” said Co-founder and CTO, Chen, Wang. “But it is very important that we work with high-quality projects. Internxt is a good project we would like to work with.”

BOOSTO welcomes more great projects as we move forward and to establish more stronger partnerships in the crypto space.
Loading your local files in TerminusDB
By: Cheukting Ho
Tags: Database, Tools, Data, Developer, Data Science

If your container is running stop it with:

./terminus-container stop

Extra tip: you may want to run ./terminus-container rm-config now before you mount the volume. This remove old settings to advoid version conflits that may comes in later if there’s a newer version of Docker image avaliable.

set the TERMINUS_LOCAL environment variable to the path to the parent directory of your csv:

export TERMINUS_LOCAL=/home/me/somewhere

for Windows users: export TERMINUS_LOCAL=c:/Users/you/somewhere Go to Docker Desktop Settings and make sure that the Drive (i.e. ‘C’) your file on is enabled in Shared Drives

Make sure the ‘C’ is clicked and ‘Apply’

then start your container again:

./terminus-container run

now, TERMINUS_LOCAL will be mounted as /app/local_files

so, in your WOQL query, you can use:
Communications simplified, refined and focused
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Lisk, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Communication

Lisk Chat Simplified

One of the first changes to streamline communications was to remove channels from the Lisk Chat as to focus efforts in several key channels (#announcements, #development, #general, #mainnet, #off-topic, #testnet and #trading). This was done to have a more streamlined approach towards open conversations and to make it easier for our team members to keep track of the conversations. The Lisk Chat is based on Rocket Chat — an open sourced online chat solution — where the Lisk community can have conversations with members of the team, so come join us!

Lisk Blog Refined

Moving forward, we believe the best way to communicate our advancements are through well written blog posts which will be re-distributed through our newsletter. These blog posts highlight different facets of the Lisk project and are being published by individuals working directly on it — this provides a personal experience for the community reading the updates. Furthermore, re-focusing communications through the Lisk Blog and the Lisk Newsletter allows us to have a wider reach on the community, specifically with new incoming members.

Lisk Subreddit Focused (Lisk Forums Deprecated)

The Lisk Chat offers the community a platform for direct conversations within themselves and with the people working on the Lisk Platform. However, interactions and important conversations on a chat solution are often missed, and there is a need for a forum-like platform where in depth discussions can nourish. The Lisk Forums played this role for more than a year, but its reach is quite limited. For this reason, we’ve decided to focus on the Lisk Subreddit as the first point of contact for new members and in-depth discussions. We’re currently in talks with several members of the community and weighing the options for moving delegate related topics off the forums and to another platform. As of last month, weekly updates on the Lisk Forum were discontinued and the changes above have taken into effect.

To receive the most up to date information regarding the Lisk platform make sure to follow the Lisk Blog, the Lisk Subreddit and subscribe to the Lisk Newsletter.
I Wait
By: Lisa Bolin
Tags: Senses, Poetry On Medium, Mortality, Poetry, Free Verse

I wait

looking longingly out

upon a world made of glass

fragile flowers bloom

crystal birds take flight

spun-glass clouds float

holy halos encircling soft forms

a sun’s gentle caress

in a bright blue sky

I wait

looking longingly out

upon a garden, muted greens

citrus scent upon the breeze

my lips taste tangerine

lemon drop tears

reminding me

I am mortal

as I wait
Our Hedge Whitelist Ending Soon! Sign Up Today!
By: Shane Moser
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Trading

First off, the team here at Rublix would like to thank you for your support! We are excited to announce we currently have over 98% confirmed participation for our TGE (with further pending confirmations).

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN WHITELIST!

Therefore, we have only a small amount of room left for last minute contributors. Now is your last chance to join so be sure to visit hedgetrading.io and sign up to our whitelist before it’s too late!

We have been overwhelmed by the number of whitelist subscribers and participants in support of Hedge over the last few weeks. Even in a bear market we have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of eager participation for our project and couldn’t do it without the support of our amazing community.

Many of you have reached out to us directly and we hope that we’ve been able to serve you in a timely manner regarding any questions or concerns about the Hedge platform and upcoming Token Generation Event.

Thanks again for your support. We look forward to the Token Generation Event for Hedge and having you a part of our growing community!
BOScoin LIVE Interview (9AM EST)
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Tech, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Fintech

BOScoin LIVE Interview (9AM EST)

BOScoin is having a LIVE interview with “Coin Interview”. Coin Interview is renowned for their “Hard Hitting Crypto Interviews”.

In the past, Coin Interview has had sessions with various major cryptocurrencies including: TaaS, WeTrust, Augur, Lykke, and ChronoBank.

Han Park (COO) will discuss core BOScoin features with Evan, Christian, and Alex (Coin Interview).

Feel free to join the LIVE broadcast at:
Tips from AIT desk | 25.06.18 | 1.1
Tags: Coins, Trading, Trading Tips, Bitcoin, Trading Strategy

Neo (NEO).

A month ago (May 22), Neo announced the reorganization of the project. It has now become a full-fledged fund that finances promising blockchain projects. Over this month, we did not get any more clarity on the future prospects of the project. This led to a falling price for the token. All support levels have been broken, and we believe it is a good time to establish a short position. Place a stop-loss just below local maximum, or exit the position on rising volumes. The take profit target is way down at 327910 Satoshi and 212210 Satoshi. This is a popular token, traded on many exchanges, including Binance, Bittrex, Bitfinex. The daily trading volume is about $70m.

Any questions or concerns? Ask our ML team in Telegram community!
§79 The Meaning of Paying Attention
Tags: Meaning Of Life, Jordan Peterson, Charles Bukowski, Aldous Huxley

In a recent podcast interview, Jordan Peterson brought attention to the problem of rationality in the existential quest to find ‘meaning’ in life. “Rationality”, he warned, “tends to fall in love with its own productions”. This, he explained, is why the ancient Egyptians (and to some extent Catholics) placed an onus on ‘attention’ being a higher virtue than ‘intelligence’.

To explain further, Peterson references the mynah birds in Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962). Huxley’s birds are trained to utter an imperative to the island’s inhabitants: “pay attention” they repeat. For Peterson, the process and practise of paying attention has been used from a clinical psychological perspective to enable his patients to realise meaning in their own lives:

“you have to watch, like you’re ignorant about yourself … and notice when you’re doing something that you’re engaged in.”

By this logic, Peterson challenges the very notion that you can find meaning in life. Rather, one must develop the proclivity to notice it. To do so, one needs to have cultivated a capacity to recognise and receive it. Meaning in life is not ‘out there’ as an external reality that must be found through rational, pragmatic or intellectual means, but rather is an experience that manifests itself at rare moments. The important thing is to pay attention and recognise when these moments arise.

The challenge for the individual then is to avoid the rationalistic impulse to go out after external things in the hope that meaning will be arrived at — such pursuits are often fads that offer only momentary distractions from meaning itself. The requirement, it seems, is to cultivate one’s capacity to receive what is of note when we pursue our everyday objectives. As Charles Bukowski put it in rather more simple terms: ‘be on the watch’:

‘The Laughing Heart’

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is light somewhere.

it may not be much light but

it beats the darkness.

be on the watch.

the gods will offer you chances.

know them.take them.

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life, sometimes.

and the more often you learn to do it,

the more light there will be.

your life is your life.know it while you have it.

you are marvellous

the gods wait to delight

in you.

/Pete Watt
This Week in Nightingale: Some Sensible Advice, Wrestling, and Board Games
By: Clare Harvey
Tags: Sports, Board Games, History, Career Paths, Data Visualization

It’s almost the holidays so we’re bringing some practical insight and fun applications of data viz your way.

Earlier this year Jane Zhang took a leap of faith and began working for herself. In her article “How I Quit My Full-Time Job to Pursue a Freelance Career As a Data Visualization Designer” she reveals the highs and lows of leaving secure employment behind.

Duncan Geere talks us through the endless possibilities for creating data viz in “Choosing the Right Tools for Data Visualization.” The article provides an up-to-date reflection of what members of the Data Visualization Society use in their day-to day work and — perhaps surprisingly — encourages us all to step away from the tech sometimes!

As though to prove that design really is everywhere, Johannes Wirges went to The Internationale Spieltage to find out “What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization.” You will never look at a board in the same way again.

Jorge Masvidal and Israel Adesanya are two of the best fighters in the UFC, but who deserves to be the Fighter of the Year? Check out what the data tells us in “UFC Fighter of the Year: A Data Viz Story.”

Jason Forrest wrote about “The Gilded Age Map That Shines a Light on America’s Past and Present.” Created in 1888 by John F. Smith, Historical Geography reflects the politics of that historical moment, and offers some context for our own.
Perform functional tests with Katalon recorder, Selenium, Chrome driver, and NUnit in Visual Studio
By: Sean Hs
Tags: Selenium, Software Testing, Nunit, Software Test Automation

Summary

Thanks for your patient. I am Sean. I work as a software engineer.

This article is my note. Please feel free to give me advice if any mistakes. I am looking forward to your feedback.

Please feel free to clap if this article can help you. Thank you.

You can also subscribe my page on Facebook.
Art Collection 12
By: Mac Daniels
Tags: Mind, Culture, Philosophy, Ethics

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By Art Collection 12

The cult of speed has a large following, and there’s no time to dally. For those who would dally, this publication is for you. Take a look
Crypto News & Signals — 24.01.2018
By: Divers Collective
Tags: Crypto, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Rapper 50 Cents became a Bitcoin millionaire, Stripe is turning its back on Bitcoin (but is still enthusiastic about cryptos), crypto opponents at the World Economic Forum are bashing Bitcoin.

These and other news in today’s news digest.
5 razloga zašto je privatnost toliko važna za digitalne transakcije
Tags: Anonymous, Arrr, Pirate, International, Bitcoin

Pirate Chain (ARRR) is an independent blockchain using the mining algorithm Equihash, dPoW. Pirate Chain (ARRR) is by general admission the most anonymous cryptocurrency with privacy by default. The Tor network is supported.

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C programming conundrums — Part I
By: Chaitra Ramaiah
Tags: Programming Languages, Programming, Software Development, Interview, C

C Language has survived a long way from its inception and still going strong in an era dominated by its urbane brethren aka the higher level languages. While it seems that the other programming languages have usurped the erstwhile domain niches that were C’s stronghold, this vintage programming language still survives all the vicissitudes that software development chimes in. Many higher level languages and compilers are indeed built on a solid foundation that C provides; they are written in C.

While C seems to loosen its grips in the application realm, where it really shines is the systems domain. Myriads of system programs are still coded in C language.

In this era where the proclivity for the new gen programmers is on the higher level languages, here are a few small C questions. They are not so convoluted but really whets our thinking a wee bit and brings out the affluence that the ancestral programming language holds in its repertoire.

Pointer to pointer to what???

Consider the following declarations.

char a [11][11];

char *a[11];

char (*a)[11];

char **a;

Big deal? Wait!!

Suppose I input 10 strings of 10 bytes, how do you allocate memory and store the strings in each of the declarations types?

Now change the data type to int. How will you now store integers? Do you guys like Keanu Reeves in matrix movie?

Ok, let’s spruce it up a bit. Please also explain how memory is organized with each type of declaration and the stride length while parsing.

2. A teasing data structure

Consider this declaration.

struct data {

int len;

char *buf;

};

Suppose I tell you to write a function where I pass a string and it’s len, can you store the data in the structure?

void store_data (int len, char *str)

{

struct data *ps;

}

So you do two allocations here. One allocation for the pointer ps and other allocation for ps->str (of size len).

Here comes the question. Can you design a data structure where you can store the same data with a single allocation (single malloc)?

3. No polygamy allowed

An easy puzzle. Assume an integer non-sorted array. The array contains duplicate entries (exactly 2) for each value but for one member which is single. Can you find the non-duplicate member by traversing the array only once?

4. A “bit” tedious

Assume an integer pattern like 01110011. You need to toggle bits from 2 position to 5th position. So the pattern becomes 01101101. Can you achieve this with a single C statement?

void toggle_bits(int n, int p, int q) where n is the 8 bit integer, p is the start position and q is the end position. Be on the alert that other bits have to remain the same!!

Please type in your answers in the comments section below. Let’s have a healthy discussion and try the Keep the ‘C’ spirit burning bright. I hope the questions are valid and carry no ambiguity. If you find any ambiguity please correct me.
GrabaMeal Advisory Board: Edilson Navas
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Peer To Peer, ICO, Ethereum, Blockchain

We at GrabaMeal are privileged to extend a warm welcome to Mr. Edilson as our Advisor.

Journalist and publicist, Edilson Navas is a blockchain technology enthusiast.

At present he as been studying the possibility of applying renewable energy, such as methane, obtained through organic waste, to feed mining farms.

He is a founding member of GBPA (Global Blockchain Pioneers Association), representative of medico health.io in Brazil and Latin America and advisor to thecargocoin.com

Edilson’s presence in Grabameal will expedite project’s progress.

GrababMeal is creating world’s first decentralized peer to peer meal sharing platform on blockchain.
How Gamblers Abolished the Nebraska House of Representatives
By: Alex Garrett
Tags: Leadership, History, Innovation, Culture, Politics

Just after the start of the Civil War, a small family of Pennsylvania Dutch farmers welcomed a baby boy to their Ohio ranch. That child, George William Norris, would ultimately become one of the most influential Republican Senators in an era when Democrats dominated both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Senator Norris fought the railroad lobby, rallied support for the direct election of senators, and attempted to abolish the Electoral College. In 1931, Senator Norris visited Australia, where he studied unicameral legislatures new and old.

When he returned to the Cornhusker State, he brought the gospel of the unicameral system back with him.

He not only described to his fellow Nebraskans the smooth functioning of Australia’s national parliament, which had been unicameral for many years; but also, he explained that Queensland — which had only recently abolished its lower chamber — was already experiencing some benefits.

Photo by Charles Forerunner on Unsplash

Norris persuaded state-level politicians that they should eliminate more than half of the Nebraska legislature — even if the shakeup cost them their own jobs. Nebraskans were particularly influenced by the Depression-era impulse to cut costs, and getting rid of a legislative chamber that had basically the same responsibilities as its counterpart seemed like a good place to start.

Under Norris’ supervision, the proposal advanced to a ballot initiative in 1934 — the year of the first midterm elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.

But another ballot initiative reached Nebraska voters that same year: a ballot to legalize horse betting.
Party Time
By: Natolie Webb
Tags: Short Story, Life, Old Age Home, Fiction, Death And Dying

When she next awoke something was unmistakably wrong. It seemed all the guests were already there. Betty sprang out of bed without thinking and rushed out to join the party. Why hadn’t Thea awoken her?

“Tommy!” She greeted her son with outstretched arms, “I’m so sorry I overslept,” but he didn’t reply or accept her embrace. “Are you angry, Darling? I am a hundred years old, you know, I’m allowed to oversleep.”

Still, he said nothing. She turned to her daughter Joanna. “Jojo, do you have a hug for your mother?”

Joanna turned away from her mother to speak to Tommy, “We can’t just sit here all day,” She touched his arm gently, “we’ll need to make some decisions.”

“I know. I’ll go talk to them,” but he didn’t actually move. He continued to sit there, staring off into space and ignoring his mother.

“Jojo, what’s wrong with Tommy?”

“C’mon, Tommy. I’ll be right with you. Let’s go see her.” Joanna stood taking his hand and pulling him up.

“Wait. Jojo, Tommy… Wait! Why aren’t you speaking to me?” Betty followed them down the hall to her room.

Thea joined them from the nurse's station as they passed. “She was so excited for her party today. She was dressed and ready by eight am and had tired herself out. She asked for a nap but made me promise not to let her oversleep. When I went in to wake her she was already gone. I’m so sorry. She was a wonderful woman. We all loved her very much.”

Betty, listening, felt the world tilt on its axis, “Thea… What? Am I…? What about my party? I wanted to see my whole family.”

They paused silently at the doorway to her room for a moment, taking a breath to prepare themselves. When they crossed the threshold Betty could see herself, her body, the shell which had contained her for all of one hundred years, lying motionless in the bed. It was a strange sensation to stare at her unmoving body from outside as if she hadn’t recently been tethered to it but it suddenly made sense…

She had leapt out of bed and ran to greet her children. Why hadn’t she realized that was odd? And had she really thought they would be angry she had been late? They weren’t talking to her because they couldn’t see her!

“Oh my God, I’m dead. Some party this turned out to be…”

Originally published for Instagram’s Romance Writer Challenge June 2019

Prompt day 11 “Party Time”
Scaling up Maecenas — Technology (Part 2)
Tags: Investment, Cryptocurrency, Technology, Blockchain, Fine Art

This is the second part of the “Scaling Maecenas” series. You can read Part 1 here.

Technology Platform

As a FinTech company, technology is undeniably very important to us. This is reflected in the demographic of our team, of which 40% are blockchain technology experts specializing in software development, infrastructure and cybersecurity.

We’re proud of our tech team. Despite working to a very tight deadline, we managed to launch the beta platform on schedule and without any major issues. As an investment platform, security is paramount as any breach could lead to a direct monetary loss. We put a strong focus on cybersecurity when building our platform and we will continue to do so as we grow.

Overall, we consider the beta version of our platform which we launched back in June, to have been highly successful.

The facts

We built our beta version over our existing prototype (our alpha product) meaning we were able to deliver the beta platform reasonably quickly.

Some of the alpha components, with regards in particular to the User Interface, were already using outdated technology (e.g. AngularJS).

The Andy Warhol auction was run entirely on cryptocurrencies. The approximate $1.7m worth of funds received were safely kept in cold storage. There were no issues or glitches.

The Dutch auction process, implemented as a smart contract on Ethereum, operated exactly as intended and designed.

Approximately 6 million ART tokens (6% of the total supply) were used within the first auction alone and were processed successfully by our platform.

The KYC processes implemented by our platform were manual but highly effective for the low volume of investors we allowed to participate.

The reasons

In order to fully exploit our first-to-market advantage, evolving our alpha version to the current beta version was the quickest approach to going live.

We prioritized security over user experience, for example, withdrawals of cryptocurrencies were processed manually.

Considering the low volume of users expected for the beta, we chose not to focus on automating processes.

Our plans

Fully revamp our UI/UX to have a best-in-class front-end platform.

Make the platform mobile-friendly.

Fully redesign our artwork shares exchange. Currently, our exchange is based on old JS frameworks and looks dated; this will be modernised.

In future posts I will be covering these other important topics:
Awakeless
Tags: Photography, Perspective, Poetry, Blue Insights, Fiction

Awakeless

A free-flow poem

Photo by LB

Unheard is this sordid symphony

Spirals of incomplete sentences

Inside bouts of greyed out signals

Lost in a toss and turn paradigm

We veer into an awakeless state

Foraging late night cul de sacs

Passing scores of unlit windows

Dulled from retired reflections
Missing Person Reported in Medford
By: Tom Beck
Tags: Atlantic City, Police, Missing Persons, Photography

Missing Person Reported in Medford

Taryn Ann DelRicci last spoke to family members on May 7th.

The Medford Township Police are looking for assistance in locating 27-year-old Taryn Ann DelRicci. She is described as a 27 year-old white female, 5' 03" tall, 105 lbs, dirty blond/brown hair and a fair complexion.

The Police investigation placed DelRicci at a 711 on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City on May 4th at 11:08 pm. During DelRicci’s last communication with family members on the 7th, she alluded to her being in the Long Beach Island area. Anyone with any information on DelRicci’s whereabouts should contact Medford Township Police at 609–267–8300 or the anonymous citizen tipline at 609–714–0302.
Build your PWA with angular. Service workers.
Tags: Service Worker, Progressive Web App, Pwa, Angular, Caching

Progressive web apps — cache assets for offline, Dynamic assets and URLs.

Let’s learn about pwa and how to configure pwa to cache assets and rest api for better performance.

What is PWA ?

Adding a service worker to an Angular application is one of the steps for turning an application into a Progressive Web App (also known as a PWA). At its simplest, a service worker is a script that runs in the web browser and manages caching for an application.

The ultimate goal behind a Progressive Web App is to deliver a fast, familiar, and optimized user experience, regardless of network connectivity, leveraging the latest browser features as they are available.

Make Your Angular Application a PWA

Let’s go ahead and see how easy it is to convert your existing Angular application to a PWA.

1. Adding service workers:

From a terminal Change directories to your angular project folder, with the Angular CLI installed globally, run the following command:

pwa included in your project

pwa added successfully

Points to remember

changes are highlighted in red color

The above screenshots shows the changes

Let’s take a little bit deeper look to see what changes are occurred,

angular.json:

It includes the serviceWorker: true property to the build configuration, as well as specifying src/manifest.webmanifest be included as a build asset. manifest.webmanifest:

It is the Web Manifest file associated with the app, which defines things like theme colors and app icons. Index.html :

Manifest file is linked in index html.

Now, let’s launch our angular app production version resides inside dist folder. lets serve our angular app with http-server from npm. You can find more details regarding install and run the server on the below link. https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server

http-server host angular application locally

Great!, we can see the production code of angular app in browser, by listening to the corresponding port number, (in my case port number was 8081). http://localhost:8081/

Cool, This is the beauty of pwa from angular, since we are offline mode, we still able to run application locally. Going forward, we will see how to cache the static and dynamic REST api using pwa.

2. Caching assets for offline use:

Let’s say i have linked google fonts which is downloaded over internet. But we could cache this fonts in offline mode.

To cache the static assets like fonts, images etc., we should dothe below changes in ‘ngsw-config.json’.

assetGroups is an array of objects and each object will have provision to add static assets path in the ‘urls’ property which is an array. Please refer the image below,
Exclusive One day Membership Offer!
By: Ø Crypto Union
Tags: Bitcoin

Dear Komodo & Dear ARK Community members,

Thank you for joining us, we are glad to count you as part of our Union.

To give a chance to access our products, we've decided to release exclusively today:

100 Earth Memberships at the price of $100 on Mercatox

Those memberships currently worth $5,000 at the private investor price (market value of the last private sales round). The new member will give immediate onboarding and access to:

We feel like giving back to the community and offering a fair chance to access the best financial services will empower each of us while I contributing to the ecosystem and its well being.

Kindest regards,

Fabien

CEO of Ø Crypto Union
Learn PHP & Project free and get certification on completion. Progate GIT Learning Challenge
Tags: Coding, Progate, Backend, Web Development, PHP

To become Hacker, think like a Developer & To Beat hacker, think like a Hacker

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ICO Review — 5 reasons why FTEC should be the tools of the trading future
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Ico Review, Trading, Blockchain, Trading System

1. A booming sector which need an all-in-one solution

The craze for Blockchain technologies and in particular crypto-currencies has been steadily increasing for several years, peaking in 2017.

After several studies and surveys, a very simple conclusion has emerged: people do not use crypto-currencies as a means of payment, despite all the benefits that this could bring them, but they use it as a means of trading. As a result, a new market has been created offering significant profitability prospects. In parallel, many cryptocurrency exchanges have been created to take advantage of this craze; we think in particular to Binance, Kucoin, gate.io, Bitfinex, iDex, … From then on, cryptocurrency trading became easy and accessible to all.

Except that, in such a volatile and decentralized market, it has become very difficult to generate profits without being an expert and without spending a lot of time to check the changes on each exchange, the latest news about crypto, a unusual change in volume, large purchase orders, …

To simplify the life of traders, many services have been created to automate some of their tasks and accompany them in others. So there are automatic trading robots, signals, learning academies, neural networks and many other products on the market. The problem is that all these services answer only one problem / task and that in order to cover all the aspects of the life of a trader, it would have to use a large number.

It is in this context that the idea of ​​FTEC, which proposes to bring together in a single holistic ecosystem all the necessary tools for traders, whatever their level of experience and knowledge in the field of cryptocurrencies, is born.
1. XLM Thoughts
By: Fernando Rega
Tags: Stellar Lumens, Bitcoin, Xlm

So this is my first post, and I will be short. The info this “blog” has and will have, I write it to myself in order to keep track of my ideas and analyses, to compare then in future.

In last days I’ve been trying to check where I will have most of my cryptocash stored, and also to have it in the best shape, and ready for the next move.

News say that BTC will reach 13k$ or even more during this month of March. I find this interesting, but I would like also to find some coin that would grow more than BTC comparing. The reason for this is that the grow in BTC is good news, but I would like to earn more than just have my cash stopped for 1month.

So now, STELLAR…

On day graph shows MAs not favorable yet, but the 77red shows a tendency of going to bottom, and 7green wants to go up. Maybe correction has end at sight? RSI is a bit oversold, but not yet the point. Since the big impulsive move of December, applying Fibonacci, we almost did touch the 61,8% retraction, which would be around 2600sat.

On the 30min chart, the MAs have crossed, and it seems that they will not cross again anywhere soon. We may have a new wave count (wave 1 already corrected 50%), with a previous to at least the previous resistance of 3500sat. Acc to the price of 3140sat at the moment, that would be about 10%, same as BTC rise from 11,5k to 13k.

On 5min charts I’m looking to this possible breakout and confirmation.

So definitely it is too early to say that bulls are awake in the general, but on XLM it seems that they didn’t go to sleep completely.
When a Coinbase tweet inadvertently pumped the value of 0xproject by 40%.
By: Phil Mcparlane
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Coinbase

Today popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that it would be supporting the Ethereum ERC20 technical standard (i.e. the token protocol which underpins the majority of ICOs); however they never announced which coins / tokens would be supported.

Despite this, Twitter quickly “worked out” which asset would most likely be listed, inadvertently increasing it’s value by 40% in a matter of minutes.

19:58: Coinbase posts the tweet

5 mins later: Tweets mentioning ‘$ZRX’ explode into life

But why does the number of tweets mentioning the 0xproject increase shortly after this post? After all, Coinbase’s tweet never mentions the 0xproject. Well, it’s probably because 0x has a number of Coinbase advisors on its board:

What’s most interesting, is the speed at which Twitter correlates 0x with Coinbase supporting the new token:

1 hour later: 0xproject tops out at $0.73 (+40%)
Automated Testing Is Not The Silver Bullet
By: Leo Soto
Tags: Software Development

“Automated tests ensure the software is working as designed. Human tests ensure the design is working.”

(quoted from Why Does Vista Suck? Blame Automated Testing)

Do not get me wrong, I am a huge fan of automated testing. In fact I am a huge fan of automating whatever we can. But it is always good to be reminded that There Is No Silver Bullet.
5 Romantic Reads
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, The Coffee Pot, Romance, Love

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

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Speaking at Waves Community meetup
Tags: Simdaq, Blockchain, Meetup, Blockchain Meetup, Bitcoin

Value of every type — from the money transfer to the art — is being transferred on the Internet of Value. And SIMDAQ will be an entry point to this digital assets world.

Meetups all over the world are run by Waves Ambassadors and we’re proud to have an opportunity to speak with Waves Community.
QuarkWorks: Meet the Team Series — Gregory Bryant
By: Hannah Pratte
Tags: Developer, Ecommerce, Software Development, Team Bonding, Meet The Team

This month get to know one of our amazing developers taking on our e-commerce projects who is fast approaching his one year work anniversary with us!

Name:

Gregory Bryant

Role:

Software Engineer

When did you join QuarkWorks and what led you to take on this position?

I joined QuarkWorks in September of 2019 after looking for a local software development job. I was pleasantly surprised when learning about QuarkWorks and the types of projects they work on.

What excites and energizes you about the company?

The environment at QuarkWorks is energizing. We have many exciting projects and a diverse set of people and skillsets to fulfill our client’s needs. I enjoy the fast paced cutting edge work that I do.

What has been your favorite project to work on or are currently working on?

I am currently working on TryNow, a platform enabling Shopify merchants to offer Try Before You Buy to their customers. Working with an e-commerce product is exciting because there is always lots of change and it is fun to adapt as needed.

Advice you would give someone working at a startup?

Don’t get overly attached to anything you create, be ready to pivot when the need arises. Always speak up, you’ll never know when it will make a difference.

What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

I enjoy spending time with my family, reading, building things, the outdoors, and numbers.

What is the best concert you have attended?

Knotfest, Squarepusher, Josh Ritter, Atari Teenage Riot, David Bazan…well, the short answer is every concert has been the best!
Wishful Thinking
Tags: Poetry

Photo found on bookwormroom.com — weird website though

Escaping from

My monotonous-mind prison

Has afforded me too much

Time to think, though

The days still slip like sand

Through creases in my fingers

Now! is the time to act

My energy engulfed in each

New task at hand

Hoarding lists of To-Do’s

Pretending the pressures still exist

Outside my head

Fantasies of brighter worlds

Stream through the glass

Haunting my brain

Taunting my imagination

Leaving wisps

On the ends of dreams

Seamless nights and days

Blend, perforated by

The reluctant and hopeful alike

Sending cyber-signals

Into the inter-verse as our

Attempts at artificial contact

Can only fall flat at our feet
ฝรั่งเศสวางกรอบกฎหมาย ICO ใหม่หวัง ดึงดูดนวัตกรรมจากทั่วโลก
By: Peace Art
Tags: Regulation, Crypto, ICO, Blockchain, France

France Finalizes New ICO Framework to 'Attract Innovators Globally'

France's Minister for the Economy and Finance has announced that the government has accepted an article of the Business…
ลงทุนในเหรียญสกุลเงินดิจิตอลทางไหนได้บ้าง แบบง่ายๆ?
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, การลงทุน, Bitcoin, บิทคอยน์

Love and Teach people on Crypto currencies, Blockchain AI, Cross-platform Application, and Web Technology in Thailand. Also love hot chocolate and cats.

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[GEEKY] Nicer way to run Ruby tests
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Shoulda, Ruby, Tests, Life, Geeky

Just came across this handy-dandy tool to run tests for Ruby and Rails, and produce much nicer and readable traces so you have a prayer to sort out what is going on when stuff fails.

Test::Unit Reporter — A new look and feel for Test::Unit output
“You’ll be More Conservative When You’re Older.”
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Liberal, Humor, Growing Up, Parody, Politics

“School should be free, and this isn’t fair.”

“Life isn’t fair. You’ll be more conservative when you’re older.”

“I’m 32 and I think we should forcibly break up student loan companies and give the money back to people who paid for this scam.”
Removing the Colors of the Desert
By: Anne Bonfert
Tags: Desert, Nature, Outdoors, Travel, Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY

Removing the Colors of the Desert

Black and white photography: Life in the desert

A desert is known to be a lifeless area. A barren landscape with little to no vegetation and conditions that make it hard for animals to survive. Yet I always tried to capture the variety of a desert. The various colors it has to offer. The countless animals that do live in these harsh conditions. I wanted to show its beauty.

But today I am taking a different approach. By eliminating colors.

Dennett shared her colorful world in black and white with the readers of snapshots a few days ago and I loved her collection. It inspired me to go out and see what my world looks like. What my world looks like without colors.

My world is the desert. At the moment at least. I’ve lived for five years in a desert and I got to experience all sides of it. After being away for a little over a year it’s time to reconnect.
How to Become Numb
By: Heath ዟ
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Lies, Love, Life Lessons

What a strange person you’ve become,

your depths are clever illusions

painted perspectives over miles of shallows

ankle deep where once I feared

a man could drown.

Is this really all you are?

What a strange person I’ve become,

my depths left dry by illusions

my once fertile words lying bone-bleached and fallow,

my joyful voice disappeared

without a sound.

Is this all I am now?

What a strange thing to have loved,

your depths of flesh and illusion

your words bold with color dried empty and callow

you laid bare my worst fears

your pen’s playground.

Was that really all I was?

What a strange thing to feel now

my depths burned clean of illusions

the numbness you taught me, I too now hold hallow

and love is just wasted tears

lost to the ground.

That is all we ever were.