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Let life fill you with hurt…
By: Anne Nyanchoka
Tags: Life, Life Lessons, Human Behavior, Feelingstuff, Feelings

“Life is too short for loose ends, for feelings that that were never acted upon, gestures that were never taken. So take the damn chance. Get on a plane, send that person an I’m sorry, tell them that you love them, drive all night to see someone in the morning. I don’t care if it makes you vulnerable, if it exposes you, expose yourself. Open the hell up. Let life fill you with hurt, with happiness; let it weather you, let it teach you. Let it inspire you, let it break you down and build you up. You are here to risk your heart. Please don’t ever forget that. Please don’t ever forget that love is the answer.” Bianca Sparacino.

As a person who suffers from a serious case of fear of rejection, I must say reading that quote sends chills down my spine, every time I read it. Exposing myself is 100% against my nature. It seems like the thing you shouldn’t do. I am quite adventurous but I am a very careful and safe adventurous person. I can jump off a plane sky diving, or off a cliff bungee jumping because it is mostly safe, I can say I love you because I am 99% sure that they feel the same way too. But this quote, this one suggests a different level of vulnerability that I haven’t unlocked yet and I consider myself quite vulnerable. However, this quote exhilarates me and makes me want to live this way. Perhaps it’s because my adventurous spirit craves bigger adventure or perhaps, I’d like to look back at my life and say damn! I lived. But living means the good and the bad. Opening yourself up to hurt — deliberately? Ouch! Why? It however seems there is no other way to live a beautiful life. You must open up to all of it! You must take the chances and fail or succeed, experience happiness or hurt — it is the only way you will look back and say, “Damn! I have lived!” I hope my fear of not truly living surpasses my fear of rejection because I really want to look back and smile at my life and feel like I truly lived and not passed the time. So it seems it’s time to be open to it all — bumpy ride here I come!

How does this quote make you feel?
CryptoBlades is releasing new Shield NFT ahead of PvP! Officially going on sale at 10am ET tomorrow!
Tags: Playtoearn, Cryptocurrency, Binance, Bitcoin, Binancesmartchain

CryptoBlades is releasing new Shield NFT ahead of PvP! Officially going on sale at 10am ET tomorrow! CryptoBlades Aug 4·1 min read

We have some amazing news to share with you on this fine day!

As discussed earlier on the stream we will be releasing a new set of items that can be widely used on our up and coming Player Vs. Player feature.

These will be in the form of SHIELDS!

Shields are an optional item that will help you defend yourself from incoming attacks in the Arena. 🛡️ ⚔️

Various ratings will determine what the stats are on the shields. Just like weapons these can go from ⭐ to ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The stats available on the shields are as following:

DEF 🛡️ (Defense) Instead of the equivalent PWR 💪 (Power) on swords.

Base Element Resistance and Percentage % Resistance currently known as 🔥 , 🌲 , ⚡, and 🌊.

So prepare yourselves and get ready to purchase these wonderful new NFTs as soon as possible as there are only 10,000 minted!

We shall see you in the Arena!

Thanks and have fun

CryptoBlades.io
Binance.com vs Binance.sg
By: Cawin Chan
Tags: Binance, Investment, Guides And Tutorials, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

What’s your opinion?

Binance.com is simply the better option, due to its greater functionalities across the board at a lower cost and regulation. As such, it is definitly worth the greater effort required to fund and withdraw. (I will go through this in my FAQ below)

For safer long-term holds, I prefer to use Binance.sg to store and forget. It is worth noting that lower fees and lesser regulations are not always necessarily better. In light of the Robinhood trading halt, when there is a large amount of money on the line, you would want a proprotionally safe and reliable system and not one that could break at anytime. Security is often overlooked for greater profits, however there is value in being able to have a peace of mind which comes in the form of greater management fees.

A hidden perk of Binance.sg is its ability to hold prices. Since Binance.sg holds prices for a minute before you hit “Buy [Coin]” and “Proceed”, as long as you complete the purchase before that 1 minute, you can monitor the prices on your binance.com account and make favourable trades. Also, being regulated by MAS under the new Payment Service Act (PS Act), I feel more secure storing my coins in Binance.sg. However, with the changes incoming with the PS Act, larger investors might feel restricted by the 5k holding limit and the 30k annual spending limit. As such, Binance.sg might be better for investors who want less skin in the game.

If you do intend to create a Binance.com account, you can use my referral code to get a 10% kickback from your trading fees (reduce 0.1% → 0.09%):

Binance.com: https://www.binance.me/en/register?ref=ZLPPE0WW

Binance.sg: https://www.binance.sg/en/register?ref=35002741

FAQ

How do I fund my Binance.com account?

When attempting to buy Crypto with Visa/Mastercard on Binance.com, it will give you a prompt saying that this is an invalid bank for DBS/POSB. (18th Feb 2021)

There are three ways to fund your binance.com account:

Non-Natively: DBS Multi-Currency Account(MCA) (Cheapest and Easiest)

Non-Natively: Funding from Binance.sg account (Cheaper)

Natively: P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Trading (most expensive but fastest solution)

Funding through DBS MCA Account

First, set up your DBS MCA account, link here. (processed within 3–6 working days)

Go to → Deposit → Fiat → USD →Silvergate Bank (SWIFT) → Enter Amount you wish to fund.
Venus Reward Token Distribution & VENUS NFT Details
By: Joselito Lizarondo
Tags: Venus, Binance Smart Chain, Bsc, Binance

Venus token holders, including vXVS, will receive an airdrop exclusively on Binance Smart Chain on May 15th at block number 7479562. This airdrop will also be sent to exchange addresses, and they will announce their support plans, if any, directly. We are already coordinating with Binance.com to handle this distribution.

The ratio of the airdrop will be 1,000 VRT to 1 XVS. This will also apply to the net amount of XVS you have supplied to the Venus Protocol and hold vXVS.

What is VRT

Venus Reward Token is a mechanism created to become an additional mining distribution to suppliers and borrowers of Venus Protocol. The goal is to gradually lower XVS inflation rate and also include burning XVS throughout this process. Since XVS is the Governance token that controls the entire protocol, our goal is to make the total supply lower over time to make Governance more secure. In substitution to this, we realize that a lucrative APY yield created by the protocol is important. VRT will have a total supply of 30 billion and be distributed to users over the course of 4 years while we plan to have the XVS distribution double to around 8 years to compliment the reductions. All of this is subject to Governance changes and on-chain proposals.

Utility of VRT

VRT core value is that is the reward point for using the protocol. There will be a vVRT market on Venus so users can re-compound their VRT and earn/borrow against it. VRT distribution rates will be controlled by the Venus Governance modules.

VENUS NFT

We will be airdropping 1 VENUS NFT per 10 XVS owned (includes net XVS held as vXVS). This will not be sent to exchanges, but rather all non-exchange wallets. This limited edition NFT is a commemoration of the Venus Protocol for all circulating supply XVS holders and will never be re-minted again. This will have the same snapshot block number as the VRT.

Distribution Plan

Minimum of 0.01 XVS is required to be eligible

Snapshot: May 15, 2021 at Block number 7479562

Begin distribution: May 17, 2021

Finalize distribution: May 24, 2021

Deploy vVRT Market Proposal on Venus: May 30, 2021

VRT Contract address: 0x5F84ce30DC3cF7909101C69086c50De191895883
Trading With Order Flow — Part 1, Motivation
By: Daniel Stasek
Tags: Trading, Binance, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Order Flow

Motivation

“Researchers have long known that order flow is positively correlated with future price change — see Lyons (2001), Cartea, Jaimungal and Penalva (2015)” (Chan, 2013)

Trade classification methods

The most research papers regarding order flow examine mostly trade classification methods and not order flow applied to trading. Classification methods such as Bulk Volume Classification (BVC), Tick Rule (TR) and Lee-Ready Algorithm (LR) are necessary because there aren’t many data sources which would contain signed volume orders. Signed volume means that we can see whether the recent trade was a result of market buy, or market sell order. There are data sources like NASDAQ’s TotalView-ITCH which does provide such a type of data but you will likely not have the access to them.

Therefore, those classification methods try to classify the trades into two categories — result of market buy and result of market sell order, from more available data sources (e.g. tick-by-tick data). According to Chakrabarty (2012) whose research was conducted on US Equities — the best classificator is Lee-Ready Algorithm with 92.6% correctness, Tick Rule with 90.8% and BVC 79.7% of correctly classified trades.

Despite the fact BVC does not seem to be the best classification method it is believed that that the importance of this classificator will rise. Due to fact that the market is becoming more decentralized (it is hard to get all of the trades made on a certain asset), also due to hidden-market orders, Dark Pools and order cancellations.

Research on using order flow in trading

Lyons (2002) proposed exchange rate model based on order flow, which met with a tremendous success. At that time of “the discovery” this was a progressive exchange rate determinant even the Central Banks started to be highly aware of.

The only relevant source of information was found in research of Chan (2017) and also Chan (2018) who used the same approach on Forex, US Equities and Crypto. He used the Tick Rule (TR) approach as well as BVC. He found out that by entering at mid-price he is able to profit with both of the classification methods, however entering at more realistic prices, he was able to profit only with Tick Rule based classification method.

On Crypto: He used signed trade-by-trade data which has taken place at BitStamp throughout December 2014 timespan and achieved approximately 100% of annualized return.

What to download and where

However, at cryptocurrencies, we don’t have to use any of those classification methods, and instead of it we can download signed trades data timestamped to milliseconds, which are by definition 100% correctly classified for given market (exchange).

There are two exchanges from which we used these data, BitMex and Binance. The problem at other exchanges might occur with artificially inflated volume which was proved to be existent by Bitwise Asset Management (2019).
Hotbit Joins LOOP Union and Launches the Event of Deposit CKB and Receive 8‰ Reward For a Limited Time!
Tags: Huobiglobal, Binance, Nervous, Ckb, Blockchain

Hotbit Joins LOOP Union and Launches the Event of Deposit CKB and Receive 8‰ Reward For a Limited Time! HOTBIT Nov 15, 2019·2 min read

Dear Respected Hotbit Users:

Hotbit has officially joined in Loop Union founded by Cobo. After joining in Loop Union, Hotbit will be able to immediately enjoy the privilege of zero transaction fee for all transactions conducted within the union and instant transfer.

In celebration of being a member of LOOP Union, Hotbit is scheduled to host the event of “Deposit CKB and Receive 8‰ Reward For a Limited Time”. We sincerely welcome all of our users to participate in our event!

Deposit CKB and Receive 8‰ Rewards!

Event Duration: Within 48 hours after Hotbit opens the deposit function of CKB (Hotbit is expected to open the deposit function of CKB before dawn on November 16th, 2019 GMT+8).

Rules and Regulations:

- By depositing every 1,000 CKB into his / her Hotbit account, each user will receive 8‰ of rewards, which is equivalent to 8 CKB. Each user may receive as much as 800 CKB by participating in this event.

Note: In order to participate in this event, the users are required to deposit no less than 1,000 CKB in their Hotbit accounts as per unit. For example, Tom deposits 1,000 CKB into his Hotbit account, so Tom will receive 1000*8‰ CKB as reward. Mary deposits 1,500 CKB into her Hotbit account, according to the minimum deposit unit of 1,000 CKB, Mary will only receive 8 CKB as reward as well.

- The rewards are subject to the availability of 200,000 CKB and are claimed on the basis of first claimed first received.

- The rewards will be distributed to relevant users’ accounts in real time. During the event, the withdrawal function of CKB will be temporarily closed.

Note:

The ranking chart of the event will be published within 10 business days after the event terminates. The distribution of all rewards of the event will be finished within 10 business days after the event terminates. Hotbit reserves the final rights on the explanations and interpretations of all rules and regulations of the event. If Hotbit detects any cheating activities such as click farming, Hotbit is entitled to disqualify all users involved from claiming their rewards. Risk Warning: Cryptocurrency assets are known as an innovative type of investment products, which involve relatively huge fluctuations in their prices. Please do judge your own investment capabilities rationally and make your investment decisions cautiously.

We hope you enjoy your trading on Hotbit!

Hotbit Community：

Hotbit official website:https://www.hotbit.io/

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Hotbit Team

November 14th, 2019
Pavel Durov stored his bitcoins on the closed-down WEX exchange, bitcoin is expected to hit $12,000, and the best ways to invest in BTC
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Binance

Pavel Durov stored his bitcoins on the closed-down WEX exchange, bitcoin is expected to hit $12,000, and the best ways to invest in BTC BestChange Nov 15, 2019·2 min read

Pavel Durov stored bitcoins on the closed-down WEX exchange

A file with a database of WEX crypto-exchange clients is being distributed on the internet. The users found Pavel Durov’s email durov2005@gmail.com in the document, which he also used when registering Telegram legal entities.

According to the database, the founder of the messenger stored 2,070 BTC on the exchange. Two years ago Durov said that in 2013 he did buy 2,000 bitcoins.

WEX is the successor of BTC-e platform. In 2018 WEX ceased functioning and the clients lost their funds.

Bitcoin is expected to hit $12,000

Benjamin Blunts, popular Twitter-analyst, thinks tat bitcoin is going to reach $12,000 within the next weeks. At the same time, according to him, altcoins are not going to follow the world’s first cryptocurrency.

“Sooner or later btc is gonna chad straight up to 12k. The question is are you gonna be in it or left on the sides with heavy bags of alts while it happens”, — the trader wrote in his account.

Benjamin attached an image with the formation of a falling wedge. The growth to the specified level would start it case of breaking the mark of $8,800.

Binance exchange named the best strategy of investing in bitcoin

Analytics of Binance, the world’s largest crypto platform said that “hodling” is the most profitable strategy of working with bitcoin.

“Hodl” is a strategy of long-term keeping of cryptocurrency, despite any price drawdowns.

Binance Research published a chart in their Twitter-account which shows how the days with the maximum increase in the value of bitcoin affected the annual result.

For example, on 7 December 2017 BTC showed the highest daily absolute price increase — for $3,608 (25%).
Binance USD is listed on Bitcratic
Tags: Online Trading Platform, Binance, Bitcratic, Crypto Trading, Crypto Trading Platform

We are Happy to Announce: — Binance USD (BUSD) is listed on Bitcratic

Binance USD (BUSD) is listed on Bitcratic. All transactions are done through Smart contract on ethereum Blockchain. You don’t need to Register/Login to Trade on Bitcratic. You can just use Meta Mask/Ledger Neno to trade. No custody of tokens/eth is done by exchange. User uses their wallet to trade.

Pair available for trading: BUSD-ETH

Trading Link: https://www.bitcratic.com/#!/trade/BUSD-ETH

About Binance USD (BUSD)

Binance USD (BUSD) is a new USD-denominated stablecoin approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) that will be launched in partnership with Paxos and Binance.

About Bitcratic

Bitratic is a decentralized exchange for ERC 20 Tokens. Bitcratic use off-chain order book with On-chain settlement. The objective of the Blockchain is to decentralize the world. Bitcratic is here to empower the decentralized exchange.

Connect with Bitcratic:

Website: https://www.bitcratic.com/

Email: Info@bitcratic.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcratic

Medium: https://medium.com/@bitcratic

Telegram Group: https://t.me/Bitcratic

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bitcratic/
Cryptocurrency Or Gold: Find Out Which One Is a Better Investment
Tags: Bitstamp, Bitcoin, Binance

People are aware of the dynamics of the market and make a sagacious call to be prepared in advance to absorb any kind of financial shock. They invest in gold as well as cryptocurrency. This article will help you to decipher, which is a safer long term investment.

Gold is a valuable mineral and is known as a royal symbol for centuries. It plays a crucial role in making jewelry. It was significantly used to make coins as well as in the movies; one could see antagonists asking for a ransom. Without an iota of doubt, it is an outdated practice, but gold has immense value in the market, though its price keeps fluctuating. Also, with new currency coming into the picture, such as bitcoins, the internet is flooded with Sitios de comercio de criptomonedas. Are you not cognizant of what is cryptocurrency? Then scroll further to decipher it for yourself.

What is Cryptocurrency?

A cryptocurrency is a digital form of currency devised to function as a medium of exchange that is a secured form of currency and can be used to make secure financial transactions. This type of currency can be bifurcated into 3 broad categories, namely, altcoins, tokens, and bitcoins.

If you feel like you want to get involved in trading of this form of currency, you need to keep in mind that Comercio de criptomonedas para principiantes is not an easy task, one needs to strategize coherently to reap the benefits and avert the situation of burning a hole in their pocket.

A cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) VS Gold — Make a Prudent Long Term Investment

Both these forms of currency are popular among investors as well as potential investors. The growing popularity of trading sites of cryptocurrency substantiates this. And if you are a budding investor, you need to know the best Estrategias de comercio de criptomonedas to get favorable results.

Many people also consider bitcoins as gold for the digital world. Just like the limitation for gold exists — the amount of mining determines the stock of gold, similar is the case with bitcoins. It requires the power of a device (computer or laptop) to process. One major advantage that bitcoins have over this mineral is — the supply level. It mitigates the tension of inflationary pressures, and its production does not affect its price.

The Bottom Line

Both these elements have their fair share of advantages as well as limitations. When one contextualizes them in terms of long-term investment, an individual is bound to feel discombobulated. These both can co-exist, but the burgeoning demand for cryptocurrency is making this kind of currency a bang-on choice for the investors.
$13.8 Trillion Annual Spot Exchanges Trading Volume — 2019 Cryptocurrency Spot Exchange Industry Annual Report Shows
Tags: Exchange, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Binance

$13.8 Trillion Annual Spot Exchanges Trading Volume — 2019 Cryptocurrency Spot Exchange Industry Annual Report Shows TokenInsight Jan 14, 2020·4 min read

TokenInsight has just released its Cryptocurrency Spot Exchange Industry Annual Report to give you every important detail you need to know in the cryptocurrency spot exchange industry in 2019.

Key Points:

（1）$13.8 trillion annual spot exchanges trading volume

（2）48.29% BTC trading volume

（3）Twice the total trading volume of ETH is twice that of EOS

（4）0.78 Correlation between spot trading volume and BTC price trend

（5）82% The top 40 exchanges ranked by total annual trading volume accounted for 82% of the entire trading market (254 exchanges); the rankings of exchanges change a lot within the year, and the wash trading amount still cannot be underestimated.

（6） 18% of 227 exchanges surveyed support USD deposits

（7）0.01% The trading volume of decentralized exchanges only accounts for 0.01% of the entire market, and the industry as a whole is still underdeveloped.

（8）12 Countries/Regions have a positive attitude towards digital assets

（9）28% Following a 28% decline in trading volume in the fourth quarter, the market is forecast to continue to be depressed, and the spot exchange industry may continue to be under pressure.

In the 4th quarter of 2019, the top three exchanges with independent visitors were Binance, Coinbase Pro, and Upbit.

（10） The United States, South Korea, and Russia are the three countries with the most significant monthly average number of independent users on industry-wide exchanges.

（11）The layout of the exchange industry is targeted at the United States and Europe; various types of fiat currencies also have access to gold in market segment exchanges, and the threshold for digital asset allocation has significantly reduced in 2019.

（12）Benefting from exchanges’ product characteristics, especially its profit model, exchange-based tokens have relatively dazzling performance in 2019. Still, the value will return in the second half of the year. If the mainstream digital assets such as BTC cannot open a new round of bull market in 2020, exchange-based tokens may continue to decline due to the shrinkage.

💡Download the full report
Binance.US CEO: Cryptocurrencies Have Become Real Assets in Real Business Models
By: Marko Vidrih
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Binance, Finance, Cryptocurrency News, Cryptocurrency

Binance.US CEO: Cryptocurrencies Have Become Real Assets in Real Business Models

Binance.US CEO Katherine Coley said traditional finance officials now recognize that cryptocurrencies have become “real assets and real customers with real business models.”

“We’re finally recognizing that crypto is just another opportunity in our financial future, rather than seeing it as a kind of misfit or unacceptable type of industry,” Catherine Coley said in an interview with Cointelegraph.

Coley also responded to the news that JPMorgan Chase bank has taken on the services of the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini.

“I take it as a very positive signal. We’ve seen specialist banks before being established to specifically support crypto, because traditional banks were not taking crypto businesses seriously,”

Coley noted such banks have gained considerable popularity. For example, Silvergate from California last year became listed on the stock exchange, and in the I quarter of 2020 showed a significant increase.

“I think that was a strong, prior signaling that crypto businesses actually do have traditional revenue models, are consistent businesses involving real assets and real customers with real business models,” said Coley.

JPMorgan is now looking at Coinbase “as another business,” and this is “an extremely positive development,” she thinks.

Recall that in 2017 the head of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, called cryptocurrencies “fraud that is worse than tulip bulbs”.

Coleyemphasized that one cannot ignore evolution in views:

“Look how the tables have turned! It’s interesting to have seen the evolution of his stance in real time. This acceptance phase that we’re in now will lead to broader adoption, to more mainstream opportunities; prior skepticism has switched to seeing us as trusted businesses.”

Author: Marko Vidrih

Featured image credit: everipedia.org
Binance Coin (mainnet) is now available on D’CENT Biometric Wallet.
By: D Cent Wallet
Tags: Bnb, Bep2, Binance, English, General

Due to increasing popularity and requests from our customers, we are today, happy to announce Binance Chain mainnet (BNB) and (BEP2) are now compatible with D’CENT Wallet.

The new addition of Binance Coin is accessible by updating the Biometric Wallet to the latest firmware (version 1.9.2) released on May 20th, 2020.

Firmware Update (Version 1.9.2)

To perform the firmware update, please visit https://dcentwallet.com/support/FirmwareUpdate

Detailed instructions on performing firmware update can be found here:

https://userguide.dcentwallet.com/biometric-wallet/firmware-update

NOTE: You must also update the D’CENT Wallet App to its latest version available for Android and iOS.

Buy a D’CENT hardware wallet

https://dcentwallet.com/shop

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Binance.US Joins POSA
By: Proof Of Stake Alliance, Posa
Tags: Proof Of Stake, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Binance

Leading US Exchange joins industry group to help drive responsible standards for staking industry

New York & San Francisco, May 20, 2020 — Binance.US has joined the Proof-of-Stake Alliance (“POSA”) and signed on to support the recently released Industry Driven Solutions created by POSA.

The New York-based industry group, known as POSA, advocates worldwide for the appropriate treatment under the law of proof-of-stake–based technologies.

Industry Driven Solutions

Binance.US membership announcement comes a week after POSA released it’s Industry Driven Solutions which are a set of principles developed by POSA to ensure staking providers are seen as security and infrastructure providers rather than financial product providers.

Binance.US’ General Counsel Christopher Robbins was consulted on the drafting of the Industry Driven Solutions and helped provide guidance in the group’s engagements with the SEC. The Binance.US team will also be involved as POSA deepens its engagements with other key regulators including the IRS.

Binance.US CEO and founder, Catherine Coley, who says of the partnership, “Binance US is thrilled to join the Proof of Stake Alliance. In working hand-in-hand with federal regulators and POSA, we hope to continue to highlight the importance of using staking as a mechanism to ensure the security of various blockchains and promote sound governance of the networks.”

“We are extremely excited to welcome Binance.US as a new member of the Proof of Stake Alliance” said Evan Weiss, founder of POSA. “As staking gains mainstream adoption, exchanges will play a critical role in helping tokenholders secure Proof-of-Stake protocols. Leading exchanges play a critical role driving responsible standards for the staking industry. With Binance.US adopting the POSA Industry Driven Solutions, we are taking a major step in the right direction.”

About Binance.US

Binance.US is a fast and secure digital asset marketplace, delivering the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading technology, speed, and experience to everyday users in America. Based in San Francisco, California, Binance.US is operated by BAM Trading Services and built on the cutting-edge matching engine and wallet technologies licensed from Binance.

For the latest information, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BinanceAmerica

About the Proof-of-Stake Alliance

The primary mission of the Proof-of-Stake Alliance is to educate regulators and lawmakers about the benefits of proof of stake — a consensus mechanism that is more efficient, decentralized, and environmentally friendly than proof of work. The industry group, known as POSA, also addresses regulatory uncertainty that could limit the growth and adoption of this critical innovation. Its membership includes lawyers, protocol development teams, investment funds and industry service providers.

For more information on Proof-of-Stake Alliance, visit proofofstakealliance.org.
Going the Extra Mile (January 2019)
By: Mark Brinkerhoff
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Binance, Cybermiles, Blockchain, Blockonomi

Announcements

Binance launches industry standard ‘Gold Label’ list of cryptocurrency projects, including CMT

The blockchain industry may be still in its infancy, but there’s a growing polarization between good and bad projects, as well as issues in transparency. This is why Binance Info initiated its Gold Label Project, aimed at protecting the blockchain community by encouraging projects to ensure project-related information, “alleviating the risk from information asymmetry.”

The CyberMiles Token (CMT) one of 30 shortlisted by Binance for year-end list of top projects

According to Binance, the concept is to provide the cryptocurrency industry with a fully vetted list of credible projects, with the ultimate aim of “separating the wheat from the chaff.” The inaugural Gold Label list contains 30 cryptocurrency coins and tokens, ranging in size, market capitalization and reputation. CyberMiles is pleased to have CMT listed among them. Check out blockonomi.com to learn more.

CyberMiles relaunches cybermiles.io

We’ve redesigned our website, featuring blockchain-for-business use cases, our CyberMiles ecosystem, a developer portal, and e-commerce solutions. Visit cybermiles.io to see for yourself.

Wallet brings CMT trading right to your pocket

Version 2.3 of the CMT Wallet has been released and is available to download on Android devices. (iOS version will be released this month.)

Why should you update to this new version?

CMT Wallet now integrates BEX, powered by ByteTradeGlobal, which is based on a dual-chain system that enables third parties to easily build their own decentralized exchanges with strong cross-chain trading capabilities. And CMT is available there: bytetrade.io

You still can import your ERC20 CMT, if you have not already, into our CMT Wallet

Speaking of the CMT Wallet… for those of you who haven’t yet imported your ERC20 CMT into our blockchain, now that CyberMiles’ MainNet is live, don’t fret. You can do so today by following these simple steps:

Download the CMT Wallet Import your wallet via mnemonic words, private key, or keystore

It’s that easy. Visit cybermiles.io/en-us/blockchain-infrastructure/cmt-wallet today.
Binance DEX Official Launch
By: Raul Butuc
Tags: Bnb, Binance, Binance Chain, Binance Dex, Blockchain

Binance has announced the much-anticipated launch of the testnet of Binance Chain and the decentralized exchange (DEX) built on top of it as Binance Coin (BNB) reached a new all-time high value trading against BTC.

Binance DEX testnet is now live!

In an official publication, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by means of traded volumes, announced that both Binance Chain and Binance DEX have entered their public testnet phase.

This allows users to create their very own wallets and to interact with the platform’s interface which, as Changpeng Zhao puts it, is very similar to the interface of the existing Binance exchange.

As promised earlier, the DEX has added support for hardware wallets. Users can install the Binance Chain app through Ledger Live in order to access the DEX testnet with the Ledger Nano S.

After taking a look at the Binance DEX interface, you’ll notice that not much has changed from the original Binance platform.

Binance has also revealed a blockchain explorer for the testnet of Binance Chain. Via the explorer, users can find information about blocks which are added to the network, wallet balances, as well as transactions which have taken place on the blockchain among other things.

How decentralized is Binance DEX really going to be?

CEO ‘CZ’ Changpeng Zhao has more than once expressed his position on decentralization, outlining that it’s not safer ‘by default’ compared to centralized solutions. He also said ‘there is no absolute decentralization.’ So the DEX differs is a non-custodial exchange, but takes it a step further since the orders are matched by the blockchain and not the exchange.

Earlier this month, Bitcoinist reported on a live AMA of Binance’s CEO, where he outlined that, initially, the number of network consensus validators on the DEX is going to be small — starting with 11 validator nodes.

During the AMA, Zhao outlined that as the exchange goes live, they will be looking to select the nodes through their close partners. He also stated that Binance will have a lot of influence over the network, saying that the solution will be “more centralized” in comparison to other networks.

Additionally, Zhao also said that Binance DEX will charge “close to $100K” for listing new cryptocurrencies in an attempt to reduce the number of “spam or scam projects.”

Binance Coin (BNB) got pumped on the news

In anticipation for the testnet launch, BNB surged with over 13 percent in the last 24 hours.

With this, the cryptocurrency has reached a new all-time high (ATH) value when trading against BTC.

Earlier this week, Binance said that BNB will be moved to the Binance Chain, converting it into a native asset, as BNB is currently an ERC20-based token (Ethereum blockchain).

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How to close binance account?
By: Dan Jane
Tags: Binance

How To close Binance Account? you must perceive that the binance doesn’t enable users to shut their account. However, there’s how which might build your account disabled. Binance is that the cryptocurrency exchange that is growing incessantly.

How to close binance account?

This is the explanation it’s turning into one in every of the most important cryptocurrency exchange supported the commerce volume. it’s incessantly adding the new currency beneath its belt that has created it one in every of the foremost used web site and attracting a lot of users. However, their area unit some those that wish to shut their Binance account. There may be numerous reasons for that.

How to shut Binance account?

Currently, Binance isn’t permitting its users to delete the account however you’ll be able to go in our own way around by disabling your account. this will be a good thanks to shutting your account.

You can try this by implementing these straightforward steps:

1. You have to use another laptop to log in than the standard one you utilize.

2. When you log in your account from another laptop you’ll be obtaining the notification. during this notification, you’ll be asked if you have got logged in or not.

3. You have to click thereon notification and easily click on the Disable your account choice.

After this, your account is disabled and you’ll not be ready to log therein an account
Altcoin News: Bitmex Accused Binance of Plagiarizing
By: Marko Vidrih
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Binance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency News, Crypto

Altcoin News: Bitmex Accused Binance of Plagiarizing

A message appeared on Twitter of the BitMEX derivatives exchange, in which the Binance exchange is accused of copying part of the documentation related to the futures trading service.

“ Congrats on the Testnet Futures launches Binance. Glad to see you enjoyed reading our documentation as much as we enjoyed writing it!, ”the tweet says.

In particular, we are talking about the description of the auto-de-licensing option and the financing rate, which has a 100 percent match with the corresponding BitMEX documents.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao immediately commented on the allegations.

“Shame on us. Sorry about that. Missed this in the DD process before the acquisition (didn’t read the BitMex docs ourselves). Will fix/remove ASAP. The official docs of Futures A platform (developed internally) are here: https://binanceapitest.github.io/Binance-Futures-Documentation/… for your review.” he wrote in the comments on the BitMEX tweet.

Based on the words of Zhao, we can conclude that the description of the instruments, which is located on BitMEX, appeared on the new Binance site as a result of the acquisition of the JEX derivatives platform. CZ also added that Binance has prepared its documentation for the futures exchange, which is being developed from scratch.

On Monday, the company announced the start of testing two platforms for trading futures contracts, and also opened a vote among its users for the platform, which in the future will become the official division of Binance under the Binance Futures brand. Voting will last until September 8th. Users who choose a winner will receive a 50% discount on commission costs for 1 month.

Some participants in the discussion under the BitMEX post noted that during the development of its platform, it could also be inspired by the ideas of competitors. We are talking about the tools of the OKCoin exchange, which were created even before the founding of Binance when Zhao was the technical director of the Chinese exchange.

Author: Marko Vidrih
UDAP has officially joined Binance Info’s transparency initiative
Tags: Binance Chain, Binance Info, Blockchain, Binance

UDAP has officially joined Binance Info’s transparency initiative. By sharing project-related information such as news and progress reports on Binance Info,UDAP is contributing to keeping the community informed. Binance Info aims to provide users with the most trusted information on crypto projects — check out our page here: https://info.binance.com/en/currencies/udap-token

Binance Info is a cryptocurrency information platform, providing users with accurate and comprehensive crypto market data, news, and project rating reports. As an open information platform, Binance Info encourages all users to participate in maintaining accurate information on crypto projects by creating token profiles, editing missing or incorrect project information, contributing to news sources, and more. Users can help the community better understand coins and tokens.

Binance Info welcomes all projects to get involved in Binance Info’s transparency initiative. Apply to participate: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn6Nq3uvXBfsulKO_lH3I3O0_s-Nbmm0gWO8K-9bkWQJeKmw/viewform

Learn more details, to join UDAP with:

Telegram — Twitter — Facebook — Github — Linkedin — Medium — Youtube

For more information please contact — info@udap.io
The Binance News That You Have To Read Before The Lunch
Tags: Binance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain News, Cryptocurrency

We are writing to you from Brazil at this exact moment. Therefore, let us tell you that at this time many families are preparing lunch and before eating, we want to tell you some important news about Binance.

A very funny case

After Binance announced the tests of its platform to negotiate future Bitcoin contracts, a very funny thing came out of nowhere: BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Is Accusing Binance of Plagiarism 😂😂.

BitMEX blames Binance for forging their documents, a while ago through a tweet that came out as appalling for the later. In the tweet, they congratulated Binance for their Testnet futures and spoke that they’re happy to see the enthusiasm that their documents brought to their executives.

We really have nothing to say about it, we just have to laugh.

Binance launched the second phase of Binance Lending Products

Binance launched the second phase of Binance Lending Products (BNB, ADA, BTC, ETC, ETH, USDT) at 2019/09/04 6:00 AM (UTC) where 14-day and 28-day fixed term lending products will be made available.

WIN & BTT Trading Competition

In celebration of additional WIN/TRX and BTT/TRX trading pairs being listed on Binance.com, Binance, WINk, BitTorrent and TRON have together committed prizes including a BMW worth $41,950 in WIN or BTT tokens and more than $200,000 in WIN and BTT tokens to give away to our communities worldwide as it was written in support page.

Promotion Period: 2019/09/05 0:00 AM to 2019/09/12 0:00 AM (UTC).

Binance Will Support the Edgeware (EDG) Lockdrop For ETH Holders

To ensure that Binance users were eligible to receive EDG tokens from the Edgeware Lockdrop, Binance signalled with our ETH wallet to participate in the lockdrop on 2019/08/31 as say the support.

Binance will distribute EDG received from this lockdrop to ETH holders within the next 2 weeks once the EDG mainnet is online.

To calculate the distribution amongst our users, a snapshot of ETH balances was taken across all Binance accounts at an Ethereum block height of 8461046 on 2019/08/31 11:59:57 PM (UTC).

Based on current calculations, users will receive approximately 210 EDG per ETH held at this snapshot time.

Edgeware lockdrop statistics: 1,199,209 ETH (~$206.7M) locked; 3,955,955 ETH (~$681.9M) signaled; The network will launch on Sep 15.

BitTorrent Live testnet will be launched in one day

Are you excited?! The team will be inviting a selected group of users for internal testing as user testing is an important part of product development.

Please be patient with us as we continue to roll out and test different version of BLIVE!
WaykiChain(WICC) X Binance Chain Airdrop Second Round Result
By: Waykichain Wicc
Tags: Binance, Airdrop, Blockchain, Waykichain, Wicc

The second round trading airdrop ends today! It takes five days, some WICC users participated in this event. Thanks for the support from all WaykiChainers! We will also launch more excited and interesting events for community prosperity and WaykiChain ecosystem development, bringing more benefit for global WaykiChainers in the future!

According to the rules of WaykiChain X Binance Chain Airdrop (second round), 21WaykiChainers win WICC rewards! For the fairness and transparency of the event, We strictly followed the rules of the second round activity to choose lucky winners, checked and comfirmed the Twitter address and information in WaykiChain official Telegram group.

Congratulation Winners above! WICC rewards will be sent to your bnb addresses after addresses are comfirmed from you, then you can continue to buy and trade. Do not forget to follow WaykiChain Twitter @wayki_chain and continuously pay attention for our new events and project updates!

Welcome feedback from the community, so please do get in touch. Want to dive in further? Follow WaykiChain on Telegram, Twitter, Reddit and LinkedIn.
Muzika Biweekly Update: August 19-September 1
Tags: Binance, Development, Muzika, Bitcoin, Ontology

Hello, Muzika Community! We’re back with a biweekly update from August 19th to September 1st. We will post biweekly updates instead of weekly updates from now on, as most of updates on our main application Muziqlo takes at least 2 weeks from start to finish.

Thank you for your interest in Muzika, and let us know if you have any questions!

[ONTology Media Conference]

Muzika was invited to speak at ONTology Korea Media Conference held on the 30th aof August 2019 in Seoul, the media conference draw massive attention from top-tier traditional media in the region such as HanKyung, IT Chosun, BlockMedia, etc. Muzika team elaborated on the strategic partnership with ONTology and officially introduced about Muziqlo, a mobile music rhythm game which was recently released globally on Google Play and APP Store, ONTO wallet and ONG have been incorporated into the game to allow ONTology community members and ONTO wallet users to have fun with seamless blockchain user-friendly gaming experiences. ONTology Founder Li Jun himself was also present for the event of the day.

[Muziqlo X ONTO Challenge]

Muzika and ONTology are going to launch a grand game competition which is totally worth $4,000 ONG to celebrate the successful cooperation on Muziqlo from 10th of September to 9th of October 2019, there will be a consecutive 10 rounds of competition during the 30 days, and 3 days will account for each round.

NOTES :

each round of the competition will consist of 3 major events, any players who have ONTO Wallet downloaded into their Android phones are eligible for the competition. The event will be only available in Korean language settings, as it is targeted at Korean Muzika and ONTology communities.

Each round consists of the following three events

1. Challenge Song : a challenge song will be announced for each round of the event. We will choose one person to reward with $100 ONG among those who have successfully completed playing the challenge song.

2. Maximum Play : the player with the most accumulated play records will be chosen from each round and rewarded with ONG worth 150 USD.

3. Airdrop : 50 players will be randomly chosen from each round and rewarded with ONG worth 3 USD each.

Instructions：

STEP 1

Download ONTO Wallet from Google Play and generate ONTology address

STEP 2

Download Muziqlo from Google Play and log in on the game via ONTO Wallet

STEP 3

Refer to the banner announcement in the game & participate in the competition

[Muzika partners with Xangle.io]

Muzika partners with Xangle.io to secure transparency in the cryptocurrency community. Now you Muzika is available on Xangle.io — the most accurate disclosure platform for crypto assets. You can view recent news, trading statistics, major holder addresses, and other relevant information at :https://xangle.io/project/home/MZK/dashboard

If you find incorrect information on the website, please let us know. We will promptly fix errors to provide you the most accurate information.
Binance & The Ongoing Evolution of Security
Tags: Binance, Hack, Exchange, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

This is nothing new within the cryptocurrency industry as we are well aware. With the creation of any currency, be it decentralized or not, comes with it the possibilities of nefarious actions by many individuals and groups across the globe.

One would be remiss if not to note that the security vulnerabilities of an exchange are entirely different from that of a specific token or currency. In this case, the security integrity of Bitcoin (BTC) was not affected, nor targeted. Exchanges are a complex conglomeration of numerous technologies and services that operate within a structure of both traditional networking services, as well as blockchain based development and design. The end goal of blockchain technology is, of course, to meet, as well as exceed, the speed and efficiency of traditional networking services. This, however, has not occurred yet at this time, and is yet to be seen within the evolution of blockchain as a whole.

As directly made mention within Binance’s own statement:

We have discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). Hackers were able to obtain a large number of user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially other info…

A common issue in traditional network security was the “Security by Obscurity” mindset. This has been proven time and time again to simply not work. This concept could be thought of as burying your money under sand in a vast desert. People may not know where this desert or location is, nor even know where to start looking. With that said, you can guarantee that with any possibility of financial incentive, people will pursue, and many times find, these erroneous and simple blunders.

In the case of the recent Binance exploit, that’s not to say this is the case. Binance undoubtedly develops and progresses it’s own security measures.

Suffice to say, it was not enough.

Exchange vulnerabilities have continued a proven track record of being targeted by the possibility of least resistance. Time and time again we’ve seen new, lower volume, or even existing exchanges targeted as these security vulnerabilities have presented themselves.

This points to an ongoing responsibility of all exchanges to ensure that security compliance is rigidly met, tested and increased as necessary.