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DELPHY Monthly Airdrop — July, 2018
By: Ada Gao
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Prediction Markets

Time flies faster in the Crypto world. It’s almost end of July, and it’s time for the Monthly Delphy Airdrop. If you have been holding DPY (Delphy token) at the moment of snapshot, you will benefit from our Monthly Delphy airdrop. Yes, you heard that right!

We value our community, in fact Delphy promised to give 50% of all DPY tokens, which equals to 50 million DPY tokens in total, to our token holders in a linear distribution way within two years, for free. By end of each month, Delphy will monitor the number of holders and the amount of tokens held by each holder at a randomly picked moment (a snapshot) decided by Delphy. This reward program has started from Oct, 2017, as said before, will last for 2 years.

The total amount DPY token to be awarded to our holders is exactly same amount every month, which is: total of 50 million (DPY) /24 (months) = 2,083,333.33333 (DPY).

For July 2018, the snapshot moment is 18:00 on 30th July, 2018, Beijing Time. The number of tokens to be received by a holder = the amount of token held at snapshot moment/ 33 — transaction fees (which is about 0.5DPY at this moment = Gas price * Gas used/Price of DPY). (Why 33? Because, the total months for airdrop is 24, and till now, 9 airdrops have already happened.) Due to the transaction fees, if the number of DPY tokens you are holding at the moment of snapshot is less than 15.5, you will not be able to receive airdrop.

You can get the airdrop, if you keep your DPY tokens at your exchange account, like gate.io, okex.com, cybex.io, and CoinMex.com. However, the speed at which the tokens are received, may depend on the workflow and workload of the respective exchanges. Therefore, if you would like to get the airdrop immediately, the best option would be to have your DPYs in your wallet.

Thank you for your continued support!

About Delphy

A Decentralized mobile social platform for prediction markets. Delphy is a decentralized, mobile prediction market platform built on Ethereum. The Delphy App is a light Ethereum node running on mobile devices. Delphy uses market incentives to allow participants in a market to communicate, instantly and transparently, their wisdom regarding the outcome of upcoming events, effectively predicting the future. We design Delphy from the start to be decentralized, which makes it difficult to manipulate prediction results.

These are our official social platforms:

Telegram Ann: https://t.me/DelphyANN

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/DelphyCHAT

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Delphy_org

Medium: https://medium.com/delphy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Delphyfoundation/

Discord: https://discord.gg/gjWaS5M

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delphy_org/

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2046622.0

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Delphy/

The Delphy Team
Masternode Payments Date Set:
By: Rici Ingenito
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Investment, Bitcoin

Due to resounding community feedback, Energi will be starting Masternode payments as originally planned — on approximately day 150.

Masternode rewards will start accruing on approximately Sept 16th, 2018.

ROI Calculations:

If there are 400 Masternodes on the network, each Masternode (consisting of 10,000 NRG) will generate 1000 NRG per month, or 12,000 NRG per year.

(400,000 Energi divided by 400 Masternodes per month).

If instead there are 200 Masternodes on the network, each Masternode will generate over 2,000 NRG per month, or over 24,000 NRG per year. This will provide a massive return of well over 100% on Energi Masternodes per year (this will gradually decline over time).

Energi structured high Masternode payments to strongly reward our Masternode holders and also to encourage the community at large to invest in them.

See our Energi Discord channel for more details.
Encryption in Azure Blob Storage Explained
By: Shivanshu Goyal
Tags: Encryption Policy, Cryptography, Blob Storage, Azure Blob

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn’t adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data. Any file, image, text can be uploaded to blob store.

There could be some scenarios where data need to be encrypted before getting uploaded to blob store. This article is to explain the Java implementation to encrypt a blob onto a blob store and how to generate permanent RSAKey(which can be used in multiple instances of your java application) used to encrypt the blobs.

How to upload an encrypted file to blob store?

BlobService uploads/downloads blobs to/from blob store in plain/encrypted format. Blob will be encrypted if the inEncrypted is set to true. If a blob is uploaded with encryption, it can be downloaded only with encryption enabled in BlobRequestOptions and with the same BlobEncryptionPolicy.
A Call for Community Input from Vite Labs CEO Charles Liu
By: Vite Editor
Tags: Decentralized Exchange, Vite, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Dear Vite community,

Time flies! Vite is now two years old since we first published our white paper in 2018.

In the past two years, we delivered the Vite public chain, ViteX DEX, Vite app, Vite block explorer, Vite API/SDKs, Vite Pay, Vite Store with many upgrades and improvements along the way. We are particularly proud of the Vite app, a one-stop shop for all things Vite, including a multi-chain wallet and ViteX.

Having delivered nearly all key items we originally set out to create, we are now ready to undertake more ambitious missions. And we enter this new phase with a product-first mentality, the idea that we want to build things our community truly needs. We hope this mindset has been clear to you all along. “Making something the community needs” is, after all, aligned with the crypto ethos of decentralized governance.

Indeed, in the past, we’ve found that many great product decisions came from the community’s input. Recent examples include VX’s release curve, excellent altcoins to integrate on our gateways, and the stablecoin zero-fee conversion feature.

Therefore, today, we are asking you, our community, to share your ideas for what systems/products/tools/features Vite should build next. Please complete this short survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfF3NWRaxCf2_-gFylvWvZ7P5-KyeZuiL_1icOnv6nTXIV10g/viewform.

No suggestion is too big or too small. They can be related to DEX, public blockchain, wallet, or anything else in the crypto universe. They don’t need to be anything on the current roadmap. And indeed, your ideas will be pivotal as we consider next steps in our roadmap.

(By the way, watch out for an oncoming review of our Q2 deliverables in a separate note)

Now, of course, as a matter of practicality, not every idea will be implemented. But at this stage, we would like to keep our mind as open as possible in hearing your ideas that would shape the future of Vite.

Thank you!

Charles Liu
Introducing Cryptosheets Scenarios
By: Chris Ware
Tags: Investing, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Data Science, Bitcoin

OVERVIEW

🌐 Crypto data is a paradigm shift in the evolution of data accessibility. It’s fully transparent and also everywhere right? So why then does it remain so challenging to consistently get coherent, actionable data to line up for simple comparison or validation? Why is @Coingecko’s data different from Messari data?

👉 The issue lies in part with how we inherently assume & expect the data will be served to us, in what format, data type etc. This heuristic flaw born from decades of binge access to highly uniform, regulated data is what leads people down the dangerous path of assuming everything can be curated, conformed and served the same way it always has been.

👏 Our hats off to those teams like Messari, CoinGecko and others who have made herculean efforts to build large teams and continuously curate the exploding crypto data universe. You might think of Cryptosheets scenarios as a universal swiss army knife that can be used and applied to anybody’s crypto data, regardless of format, curation, ownership, brand etc — therein lies the truly unprecedented power of scenarios.

Cryptosheets scenarios are specifically designed to accommodate for that dynamic and represent an evolved way of thinking about how to access and represent the data. Thus scenarios are capable of spanning and transforming multiple levels, attribution layers and dimensionality dilemmas to deliver the data exactly how it’s intended by the user.
Guilty Pleasures
By: Sandra Barrett
Tags: Food, Recipes For Desserts, Baking, Memories, Guilty Pleasure

This piece is dedicated to Dennett’s Weeds & Wildflower prompt- Guilty Pleasures. Thank you, Dennett, for bringing back these memories for me.

As far back as I can remember, my mother baked, whether it was cakes, pies, cookies, or cupcakes. Whether it was for a holiday, birthday, visiting family, or just around the house. Baking was the one constant in our lives. With five kids at home, I’m amazed that she ever had the time. But then again, we knew when mom was baking; if we wanted to partake of these mouthwatering desserts, we needed to stay out of the way.

When we got a little older, she took a few classes to learn how to decorate the cakes and cupcakes fancier. Most likely because she wanted to be able to make birthday cakes designed for each of us. It made her so incredibly happy to see the look in our eyes when we saw what she had created just for us.

And she never used fancy kitchen gadgets, even as she got older. She used rolling pins, an old mixer (when the recipe didn’t call for hand mixing), and a very basic oven. No food processor or fancy dicers for her. She would sit and talk with our neighbor at the kitchen table while she spent over an hour shredding carrots for carrot cake or dicing and peeling apples for pie or cake.

Every week she would bring a dessert when we gathered at our grandfather's home with our aunts, uncles, and cousins. Everyone loved whatever she brought; I never remember anything but an empty container coming home with us!

What desserts do I remember the most? Apple pie, pumpkin pie, baked apple cake, carrot cake, chocolate cupcakes, snickerdoodles, peanut cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, and ginger snaps. Sure, you can buy these things in stores, but I dare anyone to say they were as flavorful as those made by my mother. There really is something special about food made with love. Love of the process, and love for those she was making it for.

Somehow with all of these desserts around, I was never a heavy child, no matter how much I ate. Of course, with four siblings and plenty of friends at our home, there also wasn’t much time spent sitting around indoors.

My mother died earlier this year, and this Thanksgiving, she was sorely missed. This year in her honor, I gave baking a try and gave my own family a taste of these guilty pleasures. I made pumpkin bread from the pumpkins we bought for Halloween. It was really time-consuming, and I definitely don’t have my mother’s patience. But I was able to experience the joy of my son not being able to get enough of something I made, and that meant the world to me.

Below is a copy of her recipe for carrot cake, my favorite thing she made. If you try it, be prepared to be asked to make it over and over again.
Creating a Vanilla Neural Network with Tensorflow
By: Renan Lolico
Tags: Keras, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data Science, TensorFlow

What is a Neural Network?

Generally, the easiest way to explain them is to say that they’re related to neurons in the animal brain but created by engineers, using the name Artificial Neural Network (ANN).

Image by Renan Lolico — Medium

Designed to recognize patterns, they act like neurons, triggering when one is detected. Artificial Neural Networks are based on the animal’s Central Nervous System but not identical, just similar. It’s a common mistake when talking about neural networks.

Neural networks are composed of input, hidden and output layers; The Input Layer is the first, where our data is added; The hidden layers are the “neurons” that adjust the weight and bias for each epoch; Finally, it's in the output layer that we receive a response from our model, based on the target.

Epoch is the number of times our Machine Learning model pass through the entire training data; Inside each epoch, the weight and bias are computed in order to make our model find better patterns.

Image by A Neural Network Playground — Google

If you’re new to Neural Networks, check out this Google playground; You can modify the number of epochs, activation, learning rate, and more (without breaking your model).

The Multilayer Perceptron

Today we will be building a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), also called the “Vanilla” Neural Network; By default, this type of MLP has only a single hidden layer and looks like the gif above.

Being one of the simplest types of neural networks, the Multilayer Perceptron is perfect to understand how a neural network works and each step of the entire process.
Immortalized
By: Tarrant Smith
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Writing Life, Lovestory, Relationships, Poetry

Photo by Anastasia Zhenina on Unsplash

I stole that line

that scene

the snippet of conversation

just between us

the way you made me laugh

so effortlessly

and how it warmed my heart

my witty response

and your chuckled reply

It lives on

in the book

a confession of my love

only slightly altered

words uttered by another

a character imagined

but it’s you

standing behind the curtain

forever immortalized

in print

and only we know

the truth and lie

of fiction.
[백준] C 알고리즘 풀이 — 10871번
Tags: Baekjoon, C, Algorithms

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Interpretability of Deep Learning Models with Tensorflow 2.0
By: Raphaël Meudec
Tags: Deep Learning, Interpretability, Machine Learning, TensorFlow

Did you ever wait long hours for training that turns out unsuccessful? I have, and not just once. So I began looking into tools that could help me anticipate and debug neural networks that come out of training.

This article is a summary of what I found:

A visual logging to check pipeline integrity

Interpretability methods to have insights on the inside of neural networks

All the methods presented in this article are implemented in tf-explain, a library built for interpretability with TensorFlow 2.0. Check out the introduction!

Let’s look now at those implementations.
ALWAYS Be Dying to Have Sex With Me
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Satire, Humor, Sex, Dating, Covid Diaries

ALWAYS Be Dying to Have Sex With Me

Not just when I’m leaving forever

Photo by Erik Lucatero on Unsplash

So, I’m leaving New York. I’ve been here since March, trying to make plans — trying to find a guy who will social distance, who will take a Covid-19 test, who will be safe and romantic at the same time.

Now I’m leaving, and the deluge begins:

HAVE YOU LEFT YET?!

WHEN CAN I SEE YOU???

I NEED TO SEE YOU BEFORE YOU GO!

Ugh. Do you? Really? Because now, I’m trying to pack. I subletted this apartment and I’m trying to get it clean. I’m replacing the things I ate and drank, and I just washed the sheets. I don’t want you coming now and messing up my plans because YOU waited until the last minute to see me.

I’m trying to figure out if I should take a cab to Penn, or if I can drag my suitcase up the Lorimer staircase and take the subway.

Now I also have to host you? The night before?

…Why would I do that?

THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.

Yeah, last chance for you.

Where was this energy before? I wanted to meet up earlier because I wanted to relax! Because I didn’t want to rush! This fake urgency isn’t romantic!

I am stressed about moving now. I don’t want the added stress of you!

Just, as a general rule, always be dying to have sex with me. Always! Not just when I’m moving and suddenly you realize the “sure thing” isn’t a sure thing anymore. I’m not about that.

🥺🥺🥺

Don’t give me the 🥺. I don’t want to see it. I don’t feel bad for you! We were literally in lockdown. We could have had like, a sex weekend. A sex week!

I’m moving now. I’ve cleaned everything. I’ve said my goodbyes. I’ve done everything I wanted to do.

I don’t understand how you went from 👻🥱 to 🥵😞, but I’m not interested. My disappointment over the course of months far outweighs your temporary panic.

This is 2020…nobody is looking to be taken for granted.
Donald Trump and the Dark Art of ‘Positive Thinking’
By: Ross Mccammon
Tags: Donald Trump, Debate, Joe Biden, Self Improvement, Positive Thinking

Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images

One of the most negative nights in American history is connected to one of our country’s most “positive” movements, notes GEN’s Douglas Rushkoff in his recap of the train wreck that was the first of three presidential “debates” between Joe Biden and Donald Trump:

“… to understand our president’s great vulnerability — as well as the way it played out last night — you have to understand the magical tradition that informs his actions and beliefs. As a child, Donald Trump went to Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, where every Sunday he listened to the sermons of Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking. Trump came to believe that the world is manifest through our thoughts. Thinking makes it so. We create our own realities, and those of others, with our thoughts and with our words. It’s all based on the hypnosis of oneself and others.

Peale, a close friend of Richard Nixon, is one of the only people Trump has cited as a personal inspiration and mentor (he’s referred to him as his “pastor” growing up, and Peale officiated Trump’s first wedding). The president is one of millions of people influenced by Peale’s teachings, even though the self-improvement guru’s techniques have been criticized by experts ever since the book was published in 1952.

And for good reason. Much of the “power of positive thinking” involves channeling narcissism through a kind of rhetorical hypnosis.

The best defense for this kind of bullying, whether you’re on a debate stage or in a meeting at work or on a call with a politically opposite family member? See it as an attempt at mind control. Your subject will instantly seem more desperate than dominating. And if you pay less attention to what they’re saying and more on how they’re saying it, the next time you face off, you’ll be a lot more ready to handle their attacks.
Help Lombok earthquake victims to rebuild: send crypto
By: Pundi X, Writers
Tags: Charity, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Npx, Bali

The world has watched in horror at the humanitarian disaster in Lombok — not just the immediate impact of the earthquake last month but also the slowly unfolding consequences of the displacement of thousands of lives and people.

At Pundi X we mourn the more than 250 immediate victims of this disaster but less than a month later we continue to fear for the many hundreds of after shocks and the more than 350,000 displaced persons and the shelter so many lack, as well as necessities such as running water.

Indonesia is deeply embedded in the Pundi X story. It’s where our company was founded. But regardless of one’s nationality this is a disaster of a scale that demands a humanitarian response.

So we’re partnering with Kopernik, founded by Toshi and Ewa who had previously worked for United Nations and the World Bank over a decade. This is the Indonesian non-profit that provides help to people in need and in disasters everywhere, to make it easier for NPXS holders to donate to this disaster.

Kopernik has already raised $26,491 in relief efforts, money being used to buy basic shelter for homeless families and secure basic necessities for the displaced. However, there are still remaining $15,000+ to be raised. We want to speed up the progress by asking help from the crypto community members.

Project cost of Kopernik Lombok Emergency Response

Now donations can be made in NPXS, ETH, BCH and BTC.

Pundi X is proud to announce it will be partnering with such a worthy Indonesian NGO and for such a worthy cause.

Contributors can send money in NPXS, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum via the Kopernik website from today following a partnership with Pundi X to enable crypto donations in four cryptocurrencies, Pundi X (NPXS), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin (BTC).

Donating is easy. Just send the crypto you want to donate to the address on the page of Kopernik Lombok Emergency Response.

We will be conducting a buyback based on the final amount of NPXS tokens raised in this project and take these NPXS tokens out from our circulating supply.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Drawing, Illustration, Tuesday, Art

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Home Depot Digital Gift Cards Now Available — Coincards.com
By: Mike Olthoff
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Coincards, Blockchain, Ethereum

Hey “Doers”, it’s almost Spring! Are you planning any Home Improvement projects?

We have just the thing you need — Home Depot Digital Gift Cards are now available on Coincards.com in both the USA and Canada!

Available in your choice of denomination ($5-$2000) and delivered automatically to your inbox after just 2 confirmations on the blockchain (or instantly with the Bitcoin Lightning Network). This is your fastest, cheapest & most convenient way to exchange your bitcoin, litecoin, dash, dogecoin, ethereum, monero (and more) for Home Depot gift cards in North America.
Slump or Not, BUIDLers Gonna BUIDL
By: Finrazor Team
Tags: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin

The cryptocurrency market has been anything but stable in recent days. But we, the Finrazor team, do not let the spikes and free falls distract us from work. For the past few weeks, we’ve been preparing a series of educational beginner-friendly articles about some of the more established as well as newer technologies

After all, it’s the tech that we are here for, isn’t that right?

Some of the more widely supported and well-established projects include

Ripple, a set of technologies that promise to revolutionize cross-border payments and provide on-demand liquidity;

Nano, a highly scalable cryptocurrency powered by the block lattice DAG-based structure;

IOTA, another DAG-based high-performance cryptocurrency enabled by the Tangle technology that seeks to be useful in the age of Internet-of-Things and M2M economy.

Cardano, a highly ambitious smart-contract platform that employs a strict academic approach to development and peer review process.

Privacy coins and the explorers of the mysterious zero-knowledge cryptography

Monero, the biggest Bitcoin-based privacy coin which uses a clever combination of cryptographic technologies such as Ring Signatures, Bulletproofs and stealth addresses;

Zcash, another cryptocurrency that uses zk-snarks to give users an option of making their transactions anonymous. Zcash recently held a hardfork called Sapling;

Dash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that provides users with anonymity by employing coin-mixing techniques,

Mimblewimble, a protocol that promises an unprecedented level of scalability which concurrently solves the issue of privacy. It can be implemented as both a sidechain to Bitcoin or a separate blockchain, as are Grin and Beam.

Some of the lesser-known, yet promising projects
Defining Your Own R Operators
By: Haroun Shihab
Tags: Data Science, R Programming

Defining Your Own R Operators

for better readability and for its sheer awesomeness!

Say you are on your R console, writing some R code that will conquer the world! Let’s say you reached the point where you want to check the non-existence of the letter “a” in a list of characters [“a”, “b”, “c”]. So, you might think, negating the %in% operator like this:

!("a" %in% c("a", "b", "c"))

… but conquering the world requires more readability! So how about we define our own negation operator? This is done like this:

'%notin%' <- Negate('%in%')

Using our freshly minted negation operator makes for much more readable code:

"a" %notin% c("a", "b", "c")

The source of this tip is this tweet by LearnR.

Why stop at negation? We can extend this neat trick to build other operators as well. For example we can create a binary addition operator like this:

#define the add operator

'%add%' <- function(a,b) a+b #perform addition using our defined add operator

1 %add% 3 #output

4

Now you are much more equipped for that world conquest thing!
Meditation is like an Old Cow Peeing
By: Ryan Reudell
Tags: Mindfulness, Self, Meditation, Personal Development, Self Improvement

Getting into the practice of meditation is like an old cow peeing in a bucket, says Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

At first, not much comes out, just a little trickle, and it’s tough to squirt out even that tiny amount.

But over time, these tiny trickles can fill a whole bucket. We have to be patient. We have to relax and let go. If we try to force it out all at once like a young cow trying to pee, we might run into some problems, not the least of which is disappointment and shame.

Why can’t I pee as fast as I want to pee? we might think. I feel like other people can pee quickly, but I seem to struggle with every drop. At this rate, I’ll never fill this bucket!

This is why it’s important not to compare your meditation to other people’s, no matter how zen they may seem.

You are not them, and no amount of meditation can make you switch places or circumstances with them.

You are you and your best measurement for improvement is how much pee you put in the bucket yesterday.

Only compare yourself to who you were yesterday because you’ll always find someone “more skilled” if you look hard enough. And if you have a mental illness like depression or anxiety, you probably tend to find those people “better than you” very easily.

Also, don’t expect too much from yourself early on. Instead of saying, “I will master meditation and become better than everyone else,” tell yourself, “I will try my best to meditate, I will use concentrated effort, and whatever happens…happens.”

No expectations, no lofty goals, no competition, just concentration and acceptance of what happens.

Over time, these tiny trickles can fill a giant bucket and you’ll wonder how it could’ve ever been empty.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go wash my hands. All this talk of old cow pee has gotten to me.
MotoGP™ NinjaStickers Ethereum Edition, now live on OpenSea
By: Devin Finzer
Tags: Featured, Guest Post, Ninjastickers

NinjaStickers is a technology company, whose vision is to build the history of sport online with beautifully presented and easily traded NFTs. The first set of exclusive stickers for MotoGP™ is available on OpenSea now.



Read the full post on our blog.
Vite Labs formed Strategic Partnership with KardiaChain
By: Khun Sir
Tags: Vite, Kardiachain, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Announcements

We are glad to announce a strategic partnership with KardiaChain, a fully interoperable and non-invasive blockchain platform. Kardiachain is a public blockchain platform focused on Interoperability and providing hybrid blockchain solutions for enterprises and governments in Vietnam and countries in Southeast Asia.

Strategic Partnerships

Vite Labs and KardiaChain will cooperate to develop infrastructure of blockchain interoperability. KardiaChain has started to build proof-of-concept for cross-chain transactions. In the future, KardiaChain will integrate Vite chain into their ecosystem to achieve cross-chain transactions among different blockchains. Vite Labs will implement KardiaChain’s technology onto ViteX decentralized exchange.

On the application side, Vite Labs and KardiaChain will explore payment use cases together. KardiaChain is working with a top telco company of 60 million users in Vietnam, and aiming to build the first mobile payment gateway in Vietnam.

Vite is currently working with our partner Alchemy for integrating merchandise payment in various countries, starting with Singapore. The cooperation with KardiaChain’s will provide us opportunities to leverage KardiaChain’s mobile payment gateway to expand Vite’s user base, and develop new payment use cases in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia.

KardiaChain Token (KAI) Listing on ViteX

To further cooperate on ecosystem building as well as technical integration to both Vite and KardiaChain, we will list KAI on ViteX exchange via the Vite Labs Gateway. Deposits and withdrawals will start on May 8. KAI/ETH trading pair will be opened on May 9. Market making as mining will be eligible. Please check ViteX official announcement for the specific time.

1,250,000 KAI Shared to VX Holders

To benefit ViteX users, KardiaChain will distribute 1,250,000 KAI to VX holders. Anyone who holds more than 10 VX (no matter staked or not) in Vite wallet will be able to claim KAI in the wallet airdrop page. The airdrop will start on May 8.

About KardiaChain

KardiaChain is a fully interoperable and non-invasive blockchain platform. The aim is to bring hundreds of millions of people onto blockchain, starting with the local market in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. KardiaChain’s approach is to partner with existing service providers (enterprises and governments), and help them transform their centralized products and services. This approach allows KardiaChain to expedite the blockchain mass adoption process in an efficient manner, reducing the need for educating the market, as well as providing more usability as more and more service providers are joining the KardiaChain ecosystem. KardiaChain has released 2 versions of Testnet and is aiming for Mainnet launch in 2020.

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March 22–23: Meet us at Asia Trading Summit in Shanghai
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Finance, Blockchain, ICO, Trading, Conference

Serenity team invites you to attend Asia Trading Summit that will take place in Shanghai on 22–23rd of March 2018.

Serenity will be welcoming attendees at the booth #64. Come to the expo to meet with Serenity SEO Denis Kulagin, the project co-founder Sergey Kozlovsky, CBDO Aleksander Stanovoy and Tian Haowen, our regional development manager.

Asia Trading Summit is held by Financial Magnates — one of the largest sources for finance news. The organizers are planning to host 5,000 attendees, 70 participants and 20 leading experts who will speak about the modern finance industry.

Event address: Shanghai Exhibition Center, Central Hall (Shanghai Exhibition Center Nanjing W Rd, NanJing XiLu, Jingan Qu, Shanghai Shi, 200000).

Hours: 22nd of March from 09:00 AM until 16:30 PM and the 23rd of March from 09:00 AM until 15:30 PM, local time.

You can register and learn more about the upcoming event on the Asia Trading Summit website.
Soulmates
By: Lady Foxx
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Relationships, Illumination, Soulmates, Poetry

Soulmates

A Journey Together

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

He feels so close to me

Yet so faraway from reach

But my heart is comforted

Solely by just that proximity

Created by my thoughts

Slowly and steadily we shall

One day sooner or one day later

Grasp in our hands and squeeze

With pleasure and accomplishment

Those coarse sheets that announces…

Only then I know shall this feeling

Culminate into a real expression

And the beautiful fantasy that comforts

Be more than our imaginations

As we may now walk hand in hand…

Our joining transcending the physical

And our souls resonating with power

The highest compassion ever found

The magic of being manifesting for years…

In a litter of beings made of me and him

In our arduous journeys we share our strength

And as our brood prospers and find their paths

The seasons too gradually herald the greys

As our spirits ebbs with the night we hold on still

Till together alas we bid our final adieus!…..
This Week In Crypto — Poloniex Purchase, Coinbase Lawsuits, SEC Crackdown, And More
By: Joseph Harris
Tags: Events, Cryptocurrency, News, Bitcoin, Altcoins

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.
4 Use Cases Characteristics Ideal For A Blockchain Application
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Blockchain Application, Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Blockchain is a kind of chicken and egg. Still, it is challenging to decide on how to resolve the conflict. Crypto concepts are highly debated and always find a lucrative way of its own. To be in peace, I believe we should speak more about the Blockchain than the crypto debate.

Being the unique nature of Blockchain: Decentralised System, Distributed Ledge, Tamper free echo system and Minting, the whole arena of application development is already getting to the next new architecture wave.

Again the debate and discussion revolve around how Blockchain can replace typical Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). It seems very close on RDBMS resolves most of the use-cases. But in my opinion, Blockchain matches much better option than an RDBMS. Am going to list down four use cases characteristics where Blockchain can do much better the typical RDBMS.

First, one characteristic is to evaluate the system on the criticality of “Immutable Ledger.” In RDBMS, “Edit” is possible. During application development, to control “Edit” action a lot of code is required. But using the underlying characteristics of “Immutability” blockchain allows the application to have the business rules in place appropriately.

Second, the scenario where “Trust & Identity” plays a critical role. There may be the situation where “Trust & Identity” is critical for the business, but the people involved are not known to each other. By the nature of Blockchain, platform handles the “Identity,” multi-party identification and rule base actions can be effectively implemented over a Blockchain platform.

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Third, for the use case which finds “Data” security as its top priority. Centralized Data is always a pinch of salt in the salad. More than safety, if data recovery plays a critical role in the application development, the only way is distribution. Being a distributed system on its own, Blockchain makes the application development easy in the angle for data distribution.

Fourth, an expectation to make the application data “Transparent” to a set of users actions under consideration. With inbuilt features of Immutable & Distributed nature, Blockchain makes the application data ready for shared with a large group of system users. The immutable distributed data will increase the Business Transparency in the intended application.

The above four use-case characteristics are a bunch of simple pointers to make an informed decision. Please share your thoughts and help with your experience on the topic in the comments section.

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The 3 Biggest Money Mistakes Men Make at the Strip Club
By: Erin Taylor
Tags: Sexuality, Sex Work, Finance, Money, Work

The 3 Biggest Money Mistakes Men Make at the Strip Club

Whether it’s your first or twentieth time at the strip club, avoid these three financial blunders for a good time.

Photo by Alfonso Scarpa on Unsplash

Money, money, money — you can’t plan on a good night at the strip club without it. And while a great strip club experience doesn’t require much more than an open-mind and a pocket full of cash, many first time strip club patrons are unprepared, sometimes peer pressured, or both when they arrive. And it’s very common for new strip club clients to make one, two, or all three of the money mistakes below in one night. So listen up:

These are the top 3 money mistakes I saw men make at the strip club.

Money Mistake #1 — Asking for free dances.

Never ask a hot, half-naked stripper for discounts, free dances, or two-for-ones. Just don’t do it. If you’re on a tight budget and can’t pay fairly for a stripper’s time, we kindly suggest you stay at home and watch Netflix instead.

I can’t quite explain how much we hate men who feel entitled to our free company at the club. This is the stuff we hear every night:

“I don’t have money for a dance, but you can sit and have a drink with me. I want to get to know you better.” “I’m sure you make a lot of money here. I’ve seen you giving dances to a lot of guys. It won’t hurt you to sit with me for a song or two. Or at least give me your number.” “That other girl only charged me $10 for a dance. Why don’t you give me a discount?”

Well, for starters, you can’t come to our place of work and expect us to have a heart to heart with you without being compensated. In case you need reminding, you came to see us at our place of work and we’re trying to pay our bills.

And yes, we make a lot of money at the club. But that wouldn’t be the case if we took a break on our own dime with every single client who asked.

And finally, most strip clubs I’ve worked at allow the dancers to set their own prices for dances. That means one girl may charge you $10 for a lap dance, but another will ask for $20. If you want dances from both, you pay them each what they ask for. That’s how it goes, and I understand the frustration that comes with it.

It may feel like one dancer is ripping you off. But many clubs leave the strip club rules up to the dancers, including what we charge, what we’re willing to do in a private room, etc.
Aloyo Goes to Hollywood
By: Fovrth Studios
Tags: Uganda, Human Rights, 360 Video, Jesseayala, Updates

Aloyo Goes to Hollywood

SIGGRAPH 2019 Features “Children Do Not Play War” in Los Angeles Screening

At the 2019 SIGGRAPH event in LA, Children Do Not Play War was featured at the annual conference highlighting global innovators who are changing what’s possible in computer graphics, animation, VR, Gaming, and Emerging Technologies.

Last summer, Fovrth Studios partnered with Vild Studios, Facebook, Oculus, and Go Campaign to create Children Do Not Play War, an immersive film documenting the challenges of life after being a child soldier. Children Do Not Play War is a cinematic virtual reality tale of Uganda’s war told through the eyes of a young girl, named Aloyo. For more on Fovrth’s VR Film with Vild Studios & Facebook-Oculus, check out our Medium posts on Children Do Not Play War’s Tribeca Premiere and the behind-the-scenes Visual Diary from Uganda. Learn more about the important work of Children of Peace Uganda here!

At #Siggraph2019, the virtual reality / 360 video presentations include:

Fovrth Studios is a production studio specializing in virtual reality experiences and documentary video content. We remix highly cinematic techniques with new technologies, so your stories inspire and ignite. www.GoFovrth.com
Once in a Blue Moon
By: Jeremy Divinity
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Grief, Emotions, Moonlight

Once in a Blue Moon

A poem dedicated to grief

Image by Jeremy Divinity | Location: Zion, Utah

That night, I stood in the middle of the forest

Under the blue moonlight

Casted shadows by the trees

Swayed with the rhythm of the breeze

Time stood still

As if the grains of sand

Ceased to fall through the hourglass

The world collapsed around me

Stars drifted across the night sky

A reminder of fleeting moments

The transient nature of life

Perpetual loss with ensuing grief

I’ve tried to soften it with time

But time no longer passed by

I reached my hand out to the leaves

To feel some type of relief

Instead, it was grief

That touched my wounded soul

An essence to heal

That night, the full moon shined bright
in hindsight
By: Lina Reisinger
Tags: A Cornered Gurl, Creative Writing, Life, Reflections, Poetry

in hindsight

Wasn’t it supposed to be more beautiful than this?

by lina reisinger

How we assume things about another . . .

We so want to be right,

to soothe ourselves in this little twisted world of ours.

Wasn’t it supposed to be more beautiful than this?

I wonder sometimes how it all came into place,

and how not knowing oneself seems to be the hardest thing.

Still, I believe that the universe will wake up to itself when it’s ready.

That we will find the face we had before the earth was made.

I remember the sundown approaching the city.

Like a wild woman, what a beautiful face she had.

Moonlight dripping from her fingertips.

Months later, I would meet you.

A man of many shapes and forms,

of ways to get away from you.

How I felt like the only sane one in this sea of drunkenness

and yet, I thought I could grow a little stronger in the shadow of those people.

I was good at it,

at not having a home, but being one —

how now I know better.

Where do things go when you stop believing in them?

How you said you will get back to me, and I am still waiting.

How you assumed I couldn’t hold that thought for you.

How you wanted my weakness to be the truest thing to me.

How we all live in our own reality,

running to hold each other tight.

But what an angel I got to meet through loving you.
Beginners Guide to Investing In Cryptocurrencies
By: Chris Douthit
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Investing, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain

Today we are going to be talking about how to invest in cryptocurrency. For beginners taking their first plunge into the crypto world it may seem a bit confusing as there is a lot one needs to know before investing in any one particular type of coin. However, with a little guidance one can start to learn the ropes, and soon be well versed in this type of investing.

Like any kind of investment, one should never invest in anything without first knowing what they are investing in. The fear of missing out sometimes will push you to make snap decisions, and in the world of investing this can lead to losses. Understanding the space is the key to investing in cryptocurrency, and if you don’t know the space then you need to take some time and study about blockchain technology to get a good understanding of the platform and how it works before you get started.

Take your time with this research, there are also a few quality research centers than can train you quickly on how to invest in the space. Don’t think that this needs to be something done in a few days, or worse, a few hours. Take the proper time and become skilled in the field before making decisions about where to invest your assets. Then it’s time to get into an investment group, open an account on an exchange, and venture into the world of cryptocurrency.

To get started you might want to open an account with a cryptocurrency investing and research center, then an exchange Kraken or Coinbase because these are fairly easy to set up. Deposit money, and now you’re ready to invest. There is no need to start big. We would recommend you start off small, and don’t think that you are going to strike it rich right off the bat. Can you get lucky? Sure, anyone can get lucky just like anyone can get knocked out in the ring with one lucky punch, but getting lucky is not an investment strategy and you should never count on it happening.

So start small, maybe only putting in $500 at first, and then start looking at the charts. You will notice right off that the crypto marked has some pretty extreme volatility, and there are a lot of cryptocurrencies out there to invest in. So which one? Probably better to start off with the big two, which is Bitcoin or Ethereum, and they are the most trusted and safest among all the various types of cryptocurrency.
The Best (FREE) Data Repositories for Aspiring Data Scientists
By: Kishen Sharma, Data Scientist
Tags: Coding, Data, Data Science, Data Visualization, Education

The Best (FREE) Data Repositories for Aspiring Data Scientists

A Quick Reference guide to data for any and every industry imaginable

Earlier this week, Google announced that its Dataset Search engine is now out of beta. This is a great accomplishment for the world and an invaluable tool for any aspiring Data Scientist in 2020.

In honor of the news, I thought I’d put together a list of my favorite data repositories that I’ve used in the past to create a quick reference guide for any and all aspiring Data Scientists. No matter what industry you want to get into, there’s definitely a dataset for you here :)
SCI Daily Crypto Digest: It’s a Trap!
By: Jervis C. Tinimbang
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Philippines, Fintech, Blockchain

April 26, 2018

Image from Coindesk

Bitcoin (BTC) gave up all its gains over the past two days as it fell below $9,000, after reaching highs of around $9,760. Sellers took profits, securing gains after the run that saw the cryptocurrency go up almost 50% over the two-week period. The broader cryptocurrency market started the decline, pushing the market cap to below $400 billion.

Support levels are at $8,800 and $8,400 while resistance levels are at $9,200 and $9,800.

*BTCPHP: 479,920 / 443,730

*ETHUSD: $616.28

*USDPHP: 52.253

*BTC market cap: $150B

*Crypto market cap: $388B

Image from coin360.io

News:

*Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said that the exchange would certainly consider “becoming a crypto exchange” in the future, after regulations have been ironed out and when the crypto space matures.

*The Winklevoss Twin’s cryptocurrency exchange, Gemini Trust hired Nasdaq Inc. to conduct market surveillance for all of its trading pairs as well as the auction that helps price Cboe Global Markets Inc.’s Bitcoin futures. Gemini seeks to level the playing field and discourage market manipulation practices in their exchange.

*A unit of VC firm Sequoia Capital sued Binance founder Zhao Changpeng in Hong Kong over a failed funding deal. A deal to buy an 11% stake in Binance, which would value it at $80 million, broke down after Zhao told Sequoia that the shareholders think that the deal undervalues Binance. Meanwhile, IDG capital approached Binance and offered a better deal which would have valued the firm as much as $1 billion. Sequoia is suing Binance over an exclusivity agreement which may have been violated when Zhao talked to IDG capital.

*A bug in the Ethereum-based ERC-20 tokens has been discovered and has prompted numerous cryptocurrency exchanges to halt withdrawals and deposits temporarily until it has been resolved. The bug, called batchOverflow, could allow “an attacker to possess a huge amount of tokens by exploiting” a vulnerability in ERC-20 smart contracts, thus allowing for price manipulation.

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Hope
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Politics, Biden Harris

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Visual journalist/writer for New Yorker, New York Times, CBS News, CNN. TED, SXSW speaker. Looking to change world w humor. lizadonnelly.com