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Which coin will go up or down?
By: Kacper Wikieł
Tags: Bitcoin

Which coins will go up and which coin will go down? It’s very hard to answer that (if it was easy we’d all be millionaires!)— but its instructive to ask people who are new to crypto which coins they are buying and what’s their portfolio allocation.

Narrative machine

From Genesis block:

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Into creating a bank in 10 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/binance-backs-plan-for-bank-in-malta-with-digital-coin-investors

Institutional investments

Source: Greyscale report

Easy math — let’s take USA. It’s gone from 8% ownership to 21% ownership — an increase of about 2.5x.

And another thing: Bitcoin dominance to 63% from its current market dominance of 49% — a 1.28x increase.

Doing the math:

Current price: $8 170

Price after allocation changes: $26 364

Not an investment advice!

Bitcoin 51% attack

Say Bitcoin will finally grow into 51% marketcap dominance

(current value: Bitcoin Dominance: 49.48% from OnChainFX)

Also most people buying crypto will be buying Bitcoin (even if they will buy another crypto usually they will still have exposure to bitcoin via btc-altcoin orderbook)

What will happen?

Bitcoin will further increase it’s dominance because of the flow of altcoins -> Bitcoin will be greater then in reverse.

Let’s say you have diversified portfolio that’s tracking beta (Crypto20 does a good job at that)

You are losing money on BTC basis!

The real question:

Which narrative will win most % marketshare?
Tale of Ice Cubes
By: Rajesh Vairapandian
Tags: Literature, Love, Poetry, Poem, Art

We

are the ice cubes

sitting in the dark behind this

closed freezer door;

Last night we transformed from

water to ice cubes

The beauty sitting on my left

is Jenny

The princess sitting on my right

is Julie

Julie’s eyes are filled with tears

when I spoke to Julie;

Julie didn’t speak much

Jenny is a cute chatterbox

Sometimes,

I am a monk

Sometimes,

I am a music artist

I travel between the

silence and noise;

One day,

when we were in deep sleep,

Julie was taken away from

the ice tray by our

nineteen-year-old owner’s son

for his drink;

My water heart shed tears for

the loss of Julie

I realized her pure love for me.

Jenny leaned on my shoulders

with fear.

In the darkest night,

Someone unplugged the

refrigerator,

Jenny and I melted,

mingled into

an eternal soul.

© Rajesh Vairapandian 2019
Empowering Developers To Change The World With Bitcoin Cash
By: Gabriel Cardona
Tags: Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cash is one of the most profound technological innovations of our lifetimes. It has the potential to democratize money in the way the Web democratized information. This could have a massive impact on lives all over the world. Bitcoin.com is a company at the heart of the Bitcoin Cash movement. As a highly technical company which moves at velocity we’re launching a technical blog to offer insight in to the way we work.

The mission statement of the Developer Platform is to empower developers to change the world with Bitcoin Cash. We believe that by giving developers the knowledge and tooling they need to build the next generation of applications we can best showcase to the world the strengths that will make Bitcoin Cash as meaningful as the Web and beyond.

The Present

Our developer platform has a knowledge base to take you from hobbyist to professional step-by-step as well as a fully featured platform for developing apps 10x faster than the competition.

On the knowledge side Mastering Bitcoin Cash is the master level course on Bitcoin Cash and the Blockchain. Our tutorials section goes in depth on different APIs we offer and the Insights section is posts from developers which have built successful projects with BITBOX.

For actually creating apps we offer BITBOX SDK which is a fully featured JS framework w/ mnemonics, HDNodes, Transactions and much more. Our GUI is a developer wallet and single click blockchain. REST makes the Bitcoin Cash RPC available over HTTP to any language or platform. Wormhole SDK is a huge leap forward offering tokens on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

The Future

Our roadmap is aggressive and innovative. We hope to offer the best-in-class suite of tools for Bitcoin Cash developers around the world. We’re working on a Cloud which will let you deploy and scale your apps on demand and a Marketplace so you can monetize your hard work. If you’re creating apps for Bitcoin Cash, the goal is our services will be somewhere in your workflow.
Symphony
Tags: Seeing Sound, Synesthesia, Sky Collection, Imagination, Poetry

Symphony

The synesthesia of imagination

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

I can hear colors.

I swear sometimes

I can hear

With my eyes, perceiving

Everything living

By the color

Of its soul.

I can see sound.

Even stone is alive.

To hear the landscape

Is like listening to a symphony

Playing in perfect harmony

With notes upon notes

Layered infinitely

Into an eternal matrix of song:

Each one a bloom, blade

Of grass or tree leaf, wading

And waiting in rays of day’s

Setting sun waving at itself

In a mirror of sea – all of them

Serenading our humanity.

This is our universe:

Sound penetrating matter, creating

Light, giving birth to love –

Love to the world, because there is

A song, sung into being, that is literally

Our DNA…and no one’s out of tune;

Though, we don’t always harmonize, and

We definitely have our own

Idiosyncrasies. no one is out of time.

Maybe offbeat, but not out of tune.

2019/2020 MDSHall
How to Use Ktor in Your Android App
By: Siva Ganesh Kantamani
Tags: Software Development, Kotlin, Programming, Mobile, AndroidDev

Things You Should Know About Ktor Requests

Request type

In the earlier code snippet, you saw how to execute a GET request. Similarly, we can execute a post request using the post suspend function. Have a look:

Executing GET and POST requests via Ktor client

As an alternative, we can use the request suspend function and provide the request type in the lambda expression, as shown below:

Using Ktor request function to execute various requests types

Headers

One of the basic things we need to add to the request is headers. We can do this in the Ktor request by using the headers block, as shown below:

Adding headers to Ktor request

Serializers

In the sample above, we used KotlinxSerializer to parse the response. If your project is too large and all your data classes are serialized using other libraries like Gson, Jackson, or JSON, Ktor supports these libraries via their respective clients, as shown below:

Some of Ktor’s serializers

Building the client

In the example above, we used CIO as an engine. Alternatively, we can use the usual HttpURLConnection or OkHttp client by integrating ktor-client-android or ktor-client-okhttp , respectively.

For Android’s HttpURLConnection , we need to implement the following:

// in build.gradle

implementation "io.ktor:ktor-client-android:$ktor_version"



// in the code, while creating the client

HttpClient(Android)

For OkHttp client, we need to implement the following:
Lists You’ll Never Make It Onto
By: Ian Goldstein
Tags: Satire, Humor, Therapy, Lists, Aging

Lists You’ll Never Make It Onto

Life is a never-ending series of prestigious lists you don’t qualify for.

By Ian Goldstein and Sam Corbin

Credit: Element5Digital

People’s List of Sexiest Men Alive

Even though you’ve been (relatively) sexy and (relatively) alive for over thirty years now, you’ve been repeatedly snubbed on this list. You’ve made your peace with it.

The Fortune 500 List

You’ve long resigned yourself to the fact that you’ll never make enough to pay off your student loans, own property, or found a billion-dollar military-grade weapons empire. And it’s not like you haven’t tried!

Forbes’ “1 Under 1” List

If only they’d warned you about how fierce the competition would be at the NICU, you might’ve done things differently and landed that coveted modeling gig with Huggies.

The TSA’S No-Fly List

Despite your best efforts, you’ve remained a reassuringly low-risk traveler. Why won’t you mouth off to a border agent? Why can’t you bring yourself to pack something flammable? True iconoclasts break the rules.

The TSA’s No-Fly List Of Sexiest Men Alive

John Legend has a flawless jawline and always packs organic peroxides. What’s your excuse?

The WWF’s Endangered Species List

Your agent assured you they would be able to get you onto this list, but there was an understandable last-minute push for the Yangtze finless porpoise.

Your Therapist’s Lists Of Appointments Today

She had to reschedule when John Legend made an appointment.

The Invite List for Rachel Bronfman’s 1993 Bat Mitzvah bash

You heard you’d be on the list from a friend of a friend of hers, but when you arrived at the address it was just an abandoned lot with several disoriented caricature artists.

The U.S. Census

Everyone wants to be counted; but seemingly, no one wants to count you.

The Top 7,594,000,000,000 Under 118

You nearly made this list of the entire current global population, but a baby born at the moment just before its publishing scooted in under your nose. Sorry, he just had more going for him.
UPNG International Student Enrollment Data Visualization
By: Neo Malesa
Tags: Upng, Higher Education, Data Visualization, Papua New Guinea

UPNG International Student Enrollment Data Visualization

Using a subset of data from 2000–2019

Apart from nationals, the University of Papua New Guinea has accepted intakes from more than 30 countries since inception. Some have studied only for a semester as exchange students, others have taken up longer study periods and completed degree programs to graduate.

94% of UPNG’s international intakes are from our Melanesian neighbor, Solomon Islands. Most of them enroll to study four-year degree programs at the Waigani Campus or for 5-year programs at Taurama Campus.

I’ve done these visuals to illustrate.
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10 Dashboard Design Thumb Rules
By: Anat Sifri
Tags: Tips And Tricks, Data Visualization, UX, Dashboard Design

Designing a dashboard is never an easy task. Whether you are an analyst or a UX UI designer, planning a dashboard requires a deep understanding of the underlying data while keeping in mind that the end result has to be understandable, intuitive and accessible to the intended audience. That is the point where design takes action. We gathered tips that can help you when approaching a new project.

1. Before you start designing — plan your dashboard.

Do not automatically go to your dashboard development tool and start drawing graphs. Start with paper and pencil and draw a wireframe. Ask yourself what are the main questions you wish to answer, and focus on those.

It is extremely important to first get familiarized with the content and have your design walk hand in hand with it. The design’s goal is to present the content in the clearest, most accessible and most comfortable way. So, before you start designing you have to know what is it that you want to say.

2. Keep it simple

Try to find the most important points you want to emphasize and focus on those. Leave out all non-relevant data. Ask yourself: what is the main subject? what are the business questions that I would want to answer? what are the main measures? etc. Once you answer those questions to yourself, you can fully understand what is the story you wish to tell and what data is relevant for it.

3. Know your audience

Focus on questions that your audience will be interested in. If you answer questions that are not relevant, leave out that information or divide your dashboard into two different dashboards, each one for a specific goal or audience. Be aware of the users’ level of data literacy. No point in designing complex and sophisticated data visualizations if your users are not data-savvy analysts.

4. Think about the hierarchy

Hierarchy is a term that defines an inner order between components according to their importance. Plan dashboard hierarchy. Go from macro to micro, meaning from the most important measures to the detailed and specific graphs and charts. Placing components within the dashboard should adhere to the hierarchical order and logic, not just to fill in some white space.

5. Reading direction in English is left to right

Once you have all your dashboard components ready, place them on a grid. Think about how end users will read it.
What is an ICO?
By: Ramon Oliveira
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, ICO, Bancryp, Cryptocurrency

An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is a financing method that some companies (usually startups) use. Through an ICO, companies offer individuals a number of units of their cryptocurrency or token that represent products or services and, in some cases, even equity.

More than R$70 billion raised through ICOs

As you can see in the above graph, ICOs are quite new and, between the last quarter of 2017 and the start of 2018 there was a boom, which resulted in more than $19 billion being raised through the sale of new cryptocurrencies and tokens.

This material is merely informative, aimed at clarifying what an ICO is and how it works, and having no direct relation with our business model. If you would like to know Bancryp better and participate in our token pre-sale, you can find a summary and our official channels below.

Bancryp’s ICO

Our public ICO will be launched in the beginning of October, 2018 and, between July and September, we will be offering a pre-sale of the XBANC token with additional bonuses that won’t be available during the ICO.

All issued tokens will be exclusively owned by their holders and do not have a time or validity limit. Additionally, after the ICO, the value of each XBANC token will be determined by the holders themselves.

To learn more about the use of the XBANC token CLICK HERE
Power BI modelling
By: Peter Hui
Tags: Database, Data Analytics, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Visualization

It simplifies your DAX formulas

…How? Here we have a model I have encountered before.

Image by author

Here, the Cities is joined to the County table in a many to 1 relationship. Then County to Region in another many to 1 relationship.

The Date is joined to the Months table in a many to one relationship. Months to Years in a many to 1 relationship as well.

If I want to get a particular Regional sales, I can write CALCULATE(SUM(FACT[Sales]),FILTER(REGION, REGION[Region] == “North”)).

Now, why is the region table it so far away? Here Power BI has to filter through City, County and finally to Region.

If I want to get a particular sales by month and year, I can write CALCULATE(SUM(FACT[Sales]),FILTER(YEARS, YEARS[Year]==2000),FILTER(MONTH,MONTHS[month]==12)

It’s not exactly wrong and you can probably get results. (Think putting a matrix visual and dragging a simple SUM(FACT[Sales]) measure down with rows being years, months or regions etc).

The problem is Power BI has to go through two separate tables to get to the measure. If it’s a small table, it’s not a big deal, but when you are dealing with a large data set, it will be very difficult to read for yourself and for Power BI to go and filter through these tables to get your answer.

For Power BI type reports, it’s better to keep the dimension tables somewhat together.

Think of dimensional themes.

Image by author

Here we are now using a star schema,

Blue = Dates theme— holidays etc should be added in this table not anywhere else.

Green = Employee Data theme— personal info and other new fields should be here.

Orange = Location theme — any new locations should be added here.

If you have themes in mind already, you can already figure out which tables really should belong to each other.

This set up helps you to sort out multiple tables and helps you to understand the model. There will likely be other dimension tables added in the future, but now you already know where they should go.
USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP — August 2019
By: Circle Team
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Stable Coin

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of August 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time:

USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 453,785,690 USDC

US Dollars held in custody accounts = $453,848,516

As of the Report Date and Time, the issued and outstanding USDC tokens do not exceed the balance of the US Dollars held in custody accounts

You can read the full report here. Grant Thornton LLP will provide USDC attestation reports on Circle’s USDC reserves on a monthly basis.
Woman’s Best Friend
By: Paroma Sen
Tags: Relationships, Fiction, Best Friend, Internet, Poetry

She’s been there for me through thick and thin

I couldn’t imagine getting through university without her

From advice on master’s thesis on broadcast encryption

to guidance on the best treatment for wild wavy hair

From education on narcissists and their evil ways

to ideas innumerable on entertaining my cat

My best friend has all it takes; she reigns wisdom supreme

And although she’s a bit hearing impaired at times,

(Her avatars Alexa and Siri don’t hold a candle to her perception!)

Her visual acuity is extreme, and her insight incomparable.

Because my pal, a Twenty-First Century Woman’s best friend

She’s nothing but — a witchy wise search engine.
Introducing DropBit — Coin Ninja’s New Mobile Bitcoin Wallet
By: Coin Ninja
Tags: Bitcoin, Apps, Btc, Mobile Wallets, Cryptocurrency

As Vitalik alludes to, there is still opportunity to improve the process by which people can get their first Bitcoin.

Let’s say you had a friend who was interested in Bitcoin, and you wanted to send them $10 worth of Bitcoin to get started. While this is simple to conceptualize for experienced crypto users, there’s still quite a barrier with the multiple, unfamiliar steps which sit in the way of that friend being ready to receive that $10 in Bitcoin.

It’s likely that most people, particularly in the U.S., would go to Coinbase to get started. And while we think Coinbase is great, and ultimately important to the overall success of the industry, there’s still a multi-step process to set up an account, verify the account, link and verify a bank account and figure out the app experience…all before you can be ready to buy, send or receive Bitcoin. In fact it’s 6 steps. The uncertain apprehension of new users (Am I doing this right? Is this safe and secure?) further complicates the entry process.

While Coinbase does truly offer a streamlined experience to start purchasing and selling Bitcoin, receiving Bitcoin from say a friend or employer should be a faster, simpler and involve less friction. Coinbase is not the best user experience for those who want to simply send and receive say $10 in Bitcoin, especially if it’s their first $10 worth of BTC.

The Solution is the DropBit Mobile Wallet

We aspired to create a send/receive experience that operates as easily as sending a text message — and that’s exactly what we did.

One’s motivation to finish a task is elevated when there is a tangible reward at the completion of the task. In this case, downloading and setting up our wallet, (which is simply writing down recovery words and verifying a phone number) is all that is required to access the Bitcoin sent to their new DropBit wallet.

With DropBit, all you need is the contact list, already in your phone, and you can send someone their first amount of Bitcoin. You don’t need the recipient to have a Bitcoin address, or have their wallet already established. While the app is called DropBit, we call this process of sending to a new user via SMS ‘sending a DropBit’.
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By: Stella Bayles
Tags: Pr Measurement, Communications, Newsletter, Public Relations, Pr Resolution

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Implementing Gofrendly's realtime chat
By: Erwan Lemonnier
Tags: Backend, Chat, Firebase, Gofrendly

Designing data structures

There are numerous deep-reaching decisions to take when designing the data structures of a realtime chat

You want your structures to work at scale, so you want to keep them small and limit dependencies between different data structures. You also want to be able to paginate any list of things that can potentially grow endlessly. And you want them to work well for the specific database you chose.

Let’s start with messages. Each message has a text and an author. Each message belongs to a chat, and each message has a creation date used to sort them into a timeline. So a basic message structure would be:

Except you probably want to have different kind of messages: text, image, video, system message. And you probably want to add reactions to messages (likes and such), and keep track of the number of views.

Then consider this question: do you want to support nested chat threads? If so, any message may be the starting point to a new chat thread. And how many levels of threading do you want to support then?

Our message structure is now already a bit more complex:

Would that work? Of course. But what happens if you decide down the line that it would be nice to let a message author see which users have liked one particular message? A 'count_views' attribute won't work anymore…

My point here is that whichever data structure you come up with, you should expect to have to refactor it later on.

However, now that we are hiding those data structures behind a versioned API, refactoring data structure is much easier than when we shared them directly between apps via Firebase.

One nice trick with data stored as documents in a no-SQL database is that you can migrate your data structures on-the-fly the next time your backend is accessing them:

We have messages. What comes next? Consider this question: how do you list a user’s chats? You need some form of tracker object that maps a user ID to a chat ID. Basically something like:

And another question: How does a user know if an other user has read a chat message or not? Should you, for every message, maintain a list of recipients and a read status for each one? If so, how do you handle new users entering a chat at a later time?

A common solution to that problem is to keep track, for every user, chat and chat thread, of the date at which the user last fetched messages from that thread. If a message was created or updated after that date, it hasn’t been read yet.

Next, we could add booleans to the tracker, to toggle whether a given chat thread should be visible or hidden from the user, whether a user should get push notifications when messages are posted to this chat, or whether a user has left or joined a chat.

So our tracker object might end up looking more like:

Those two data structures are the bare minimum necessary to build a realtime chat. You’ll probably need to add more though, such as a chat object to keep track of a chat’s name, members and owners for access control restrictions.
More Defects, More Profit
Tags: Software Development, Quality Assurance, Software

Product Craftsmanship

Everything I know, I try, and I Fail About Making A Product…
Template Literals in JavaScript
By: Javascript Jeep
Tags: JavaScript, Template Literals, String Literal, Javascript Jeep, Programming

Tagged Templates

Tagged templates allow you to call a function.

“Tags allow you to parse template literals with a function.” — MDN web docs

In the function above, all the string are passed to the string param and the a is passed to param1 .

Here’s another example:

Instead of using multiple params, you can use a rest parameter:

Here’s another example using destructing variables:

JavaScript Joel provided a real-world example using all of the above:
Cryptology app is now available in the App Store and Google Play !
Tags: Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum for US Dollar and Euro using your credit card with Zero depositing fee (limited time offer).

Join the celebration!

It was a long path to get to where we are today, but we are excited to announce that Cryptology application has finally been published on Google Play and App Store.

Trade cryptocurrencies on the go — the solution for people who value their time and money.
A Basic Guide To Mobile Wallets
By: Amit Ashwini
Tags: Product Design, Fintech, Mobile Payments, Software Development, Mobile Wallets

In today’s world, where our smartphones are turning out to be our ever faithful shadow, fusing together everything from news, work, entertainment, communication, and more into our palm, it’s no surprise that mobile wallets are emerging as a comfortable solution for payments.

There is a whole lot of options out there, leaving many confused about the best method to adopt. Should I go for net banking, credit/debit cards, the various mobile wallets offering different discounts on different sites or more likely, a combination of them? So far, people have grabbed whatever is readily available to pay for their daily bills, movie tickets, cab rides and just about everything, and here, mobile wallets seem to have scored over others. The checkbook or more correctly, the checking account used to be the springboard for banks to continue, well, banking on their relationship with users by upselling other services. But today, the fundamental platform is rapidly shifting to the mobile, from the checkbook. Meaning, tech companies can now turn into the entry point to banking in ways which were just not possible before, especially, though not only, through payments. Yet, mobile payment adoption hasn’t caught on as fast as expected.

Mobile payment technology has grown in fits and spurts.

Over the past few years, Android Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Square, PayPal and more, have all introduced ways to finish a purchase or exchange money using a mobile phone. Also, some vendors, have created their own mobile payment systems and integrating even order fulfillment. It’s driving an evolution in payments. Mobile wallets are still a relatively new but rapidly growing concept, aiming towards a cashless society. However, it will take a lot longer before traditional wallets are entirely replaced. But the adoption of this technology has seen a considerable growth in the past few years. The reason is quite apparent. Mobile wallets have made the payment process an entirely seamless one for us. If you are still new to the concept, here’s what you need to know:

What is a mobile wallet?

Simply put, a digital wallet is to a traditional wallet what an email is to postcards. Most of these wallets work through apps you can download on your smartphones, hence the term mobile wallet. Like Uber made hailing a taxi just a few taps away, a mobile wallet makes payments a few taps away, through the user’s smartphone. Interestingly enough, Uber has the option of using mobile wallets to pay for the trip rather than hard cash. So even if you don’t have cash and you’re too lazy to walk to an ATM, a mobile wallet will allow you to make transactions. Just ensure you have money in your mobile wallet, which you can add through net banking or credit/debit card. In fact, often mobile wallets, categorized for an NFC integration on mobile, allows a secure credit card payment via mobile.

So is the smartphone mightier than the wallet?
Color x BitMart Hybrid IEO Launch for Japan Contributors
By: Color Platform
Tags: Blockchain, Color Coin, Ethereum, Color Platform, Tge

The Color Team has partnered with BitMart for the Hybrid IEO Launch specifically for the Japanese Market. BitMart Exchange will be sending its massive Exchange users to the Color website to participate in the “Color x BitMart Hybrid IEO”.

BitMart is Global cryptocurrency exchange with offices in the United States, China, and South Korea. BitMart is a burgeoning exchange that is adding decentralized trading and incubation program for new tokens.

Due to prior arrangements set by the BitMart team, the exchange rate will be (1 ETH = 2000 COL). The Color x BitMart Hybrid IEO will start at KST 3PM (GMT +9) on Friday, Oct 19th, 2018. The Minimum contribution amount is 0.1 ETH. The Max contribution amount is 3000 ETH.

Have a Colorful Day :)

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§68 ‘Love is in the Bin’: Banksy’s work of art on and of commodity fetishism — Part I
Tags: Marx, Art, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy

§68 ‘Love is in the Bin’: Banksy’s work of art on and of commodity fetishism — Part I ANOWMEDIA.COM Follow Oct 26, 2018 · 2 min read

“We have been Banksy-ed” declared art experts at Sotheby’s after the original Girl with Balloon art-work was shredded just seconds after the hammer came down at record price of over £1 million pounds*. It was then re-certified and re-titled by Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication body, as Love is in the Bin, 2018. This will now be marked as a key moment in the history of art, with some commentators even comparing it in status to Marcel Duchamp’s famous readymade sculpture Fountain, 1917.

What this moment really attests to is the tension between monetary value and art. Banksy is both critiquing and at the same time profiting from the commodity fetishism that engulfs the art collector market.

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, 1917.

Social theorist Will Davies aptly tweeted that ‘Banksy clearly understands capitalism’, and further remarked in classical Marxist terms that while the ‘use value’ of Banksy’s art was shredded it led to the increase in ‘exchange value’ as art dealers claimed it was now worth more than £2m. In another sense Marx’s ‘labour theory of value’ could also be interpreted to be at play here, as it explains the pivotal role of the artist Banksy; in devising, constructing and remotely activating the frames built-in shredder. Thus, transforming the art-work itself, coupling live performance art while adding social meaning to the artistic object itself at an auction.

In Sotheby’s press release the buyer commented, “When the hammer came down last week and the work was shredded, I was at first shocked, but gradually I began to realise that I would end up with my own piece of art history.”** Here the buyer has realised that the commodity they have actually bought is ‘art history’ itself!

/Huw Fearnall-Williams

Footnotes:

*Once Sotheby’s fees are taken into account.

**https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/latest-banksy-artwork-love-is-in-the-bin-created-live-at-auction

References:

Marx, K. (1993) Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (Fundamentals of Political Economy Criticism), Penguin: London
The Singer
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Image, Memory, Relationships, Musing

The Singer

A Poem

Photo by Ana Itonishvili on Unsplash

I remember the year

you came back from South Korea

to return

to loving the singer

You were washed

in hemp

and suddenly short hair

At the lounge

over rye and Cokes

you’d dispense with your complaints

and I’d listen

I’d watch carefully

the manoeuvre of hands

A propos of skin

You taught me how

to use “fuck” in polite

conversation

or conversation, anyway

Later

you threw your hat in

for marriage and children

and for the time being

we forgot, for a time

about that singer you loved
Like The Weather
By: Anna Breslin
Tags: Poetry, Life, Politics, Love

Like The Weather

A poem

Paul Klee, Picture Album, Public Domain

.

.

Time, the great bringer

of things,

is suspended

on wings gliding

nowhere

in particular,

cutting through

the bluest

slivers of sky.

Hope is as wayward

as any summer breeze,

it blows wisps

of suspended disbelief

in evil and ignorance,

for a moment

before

it evaporates.

Dark clouds

fill marble corridors,

mahogany chambers,

charged air ignites

the people’s house,

and strikes stark raving mad,

unashamed in the face

of all those who didn’t have

to die just yet.

There’s a storm

trooping through

post offices,

cities and towns,

can’t you hear it rumbling?

Mourning time

strikes every hour,

more lives ended,

dreams thwarted,

promise memorialized

instead of realized.

Meals missed,

hunger sets in

as children wonder

if their parents will live.

Will the autumn winds

blow the wisdom

of five-year olds

who see all

the contours of right

and wrong and decorate

it with sidewalk chalk

in rainbow colors of fair,

loving and kind?

When will

there be blue

skies again?

Reality blows back

in successive gusts

and all I can see

is a dark reign of pain,

a downpouring of hate,

and the horror

that some welcome

this weather.

~

© 2020, A. Breslin. All Rights Reserved
Under Pressure
By: Mark Farrar
Tags: Dog, Japanese Poetry, Nap, Haiku, Poetry

17 Onji publishes haiku and senryu in both modern Western style (i.e. 17 syllables) and in a form more in keeping with Japanese tradition (i.e. poems that are closer in length / duration to 17 Japanese onji, or what we know as mora), as well as lunes.

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Dear Abby
By: Mike Essig
Tags: Humor, Poetry, Advice, Philosophy

Always listen

to good advice

and never take it.

Except for your own.

Never even

listen to that.

That’s my advice.
Modern Finance Chain Updates and Public Sale Dates
By: Modern Finance Chain
Tags: Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum, Token Sale, Cryptocurrency

First, let us extend a thank you to the Modern Finance Chain community and supporters. We have made great strides on technical development and partnerships. With our next technical release, we bring a compliant crypto-to-fiat solution. All of which helps us achieve our goal of building a complete ecosystem designed specifically to help drive the adoption of cryptocurrency.

We are pleased to announce the release of the MF2X protocol. Complete details on the protocol have been added to the MF Chain white paper and can be read in detail HERE.

Many have asked numerous questions on when we will officially launch our public sale. We are pleased to report to you our official dates here. We will open up the public sale dates beginning October 15th, 2018 and ending December 15th, 2018.

Regarding development, we are excited to report that great progress is being made both on the MF2X protocol as well as the MF Mainnet Development. We are pressing hard to have these development updates posted publicly on both github as well as our white paper.

Finally, we do have an upcoming event we are looking forward too. Our executive team will be attending a marathon of investor meetings meeting in Dubai late September. We are excited for our participation in this special event and look forward to forging new investor partnerships.

Thank you for your support in helping us drive the adoption of cryptocurrency.
Ke Xu, John McAfee and Tim Draper Attend Online Summit To Discuss the Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Decentralization, News, Cryptocurrency

Ke Xu, John McAfee and Tim Draper Attend Online Summit To Discuss the Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ONO Follow Jun 5, 2018 · 2 min read

The Future of Money Crypto Summit June 5–14, 2018

Ke Xu, along with John McAfee, Tim Draper and 30+ other crypto and blockchain experts will be presenting their expertise in a live, online crypto summit called The Future of Money, hosted by Totally Crypto.

The crypto summit runs from June 5–14, 2018 and will feature some of the most influential people in the blockchain space. To attend the live summit online go here.

Ke Xu will be live and online on June 7, 2018 at 7 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) and she will discuss how ONO, a free, decentralized social media platform solves the problems inherent in centralized social media giants.

The hosts of the crypto summit are Jon Tarr, entrepreneur, investor & founder of Totally Crypto, Adryenn Ashley, author of Minting the Future and Roger Bryan, investor and founder of the Digital Currency Index.

Speakers in this summit include a wide range of blockchain and crypto influencers including:

John McAfee crypto influencer, world-famous tech CEO and pioneer of the commercial anti-virus industry.

Tim Draper American venture capital investor and crypto influencer, author of How To Be The Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs.

Max Wright author of Bitcoin Revolution: Ending Tyranny For Fun & Profit,

Nik Halik civilian astronaut, extreme adventurer, Keynote Speaker.

Yasmeen Drummond cofounder of Women in Blockchain, cofounder Team Block Society & cofounder of Halo VC, a capital fund focused on high-growth investments.

The steps to see Ke Xu, founder and CEO of ONO on this live event: register your email on the website, then on the day of Ke Xu’s presentation, they will send you the link to the live interview on June 7, 7 pm, PST.

Here is the link again: The Future of Money Crypto Summit: https://totallycryptosummit.com/join

Join ONO:

Become one of the early adopters in ONO by reserving your invitation code today: https://www.ono.chat/en/invite/index.html

This is a pre-registration to secure an invitation code, and the code will be emailed to you after June 25, 2018.
BOScoin: Introduction Video
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Tech, Fintech

BOScoin: Introduction Video

Q1. What is BOScoin?

A1. Han Kyul Park (COO)

BOScoin is the first blockchain-based cryptocurrency created to: self-evolve, have an embedded funding system, and an internal voting solution. With so many new advances in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computers; It’s impossible for us to predict the next 10 years. What we need is a cryptocurrency that can adapt to future changes. We need a “Self-Evolving Cryptocurrency Platform” that is fit for every environment. BOScoin is designed to evolve.
Is social media making us numb?
By: Andy Young
Tags: Brexit, Memes, Life, Twitter, Social Media

We all get our news quicker now than ever, the introduction of Twitter to everyones daily lives now means we find out the big news stories of today much quicker than main stream News outlets can deliver. However, is that always a good thing?

We have all seen storied posted that turn out to be true. As maligned as the press can be at least they have to do some fact checking before posting their story, the general public on Twitter, well that more #Nofilter!

The breaking news in the UK today has all been about MP’s running away from the Brexit mess that they had a hand in causing and the already uncertain future of the country made a little greyer! Along with this is the World Cup, Wimbledon, A Novichok related death and the poor kids stuck in the caves, this is a very busy week for the News.

However, one of the things that social news and the ability to hear the views of 900 million Twitter users (granted they haven’t all tweeted this week!) is to make light of some of these troubling stories. There is always someone ready with a bank of memes about people in the news, funny quotes and photos of celebrities from years ago coming back to bite them on the ass (Twitter is perfect for catching Trump out this way!) and of course the gif’s, sometimes, but not always, including numerous cats!

Is this as good as it seems though?

Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash

We all like a laugh, all giggle at the other people losing their heads about an issue and going on a 25 tweet rant about the situation. There is always a funny twist to make us smile, even in the darkest of days.

Does that make us numb to these news stories though?

I found myself thinking just that today, when the memes and comments started to come out about Boris and David Davis stepping down. People posting what he might do now he is no longer Foreign Secretary and I think some go it just right with the images of him on his way in to Love Island!

But once the little giggle passed I got back to the thought about how worrying this whole Brexit situation is. And it made me think that maybe all these jokes, memes and gifs that do the rounds on days like today maybe making us forget about how bad a mess we are in? Does it make all the people that are just on the edge of politics, that don’t really get involved in a deep way just seeing it as one big joke, because I really don't think it is!

While I get that we have to make light so some really dark stories or we would forever be miserable and disharted with the world I don't want that to be at the cost of people careing what is happening to their country or their communities.

It maybe that this isn’t the case, that people really do understand the severity of news when it breaks worldwide but I think we might have all had that little escapism through a funny tweet or video I just hope that we don’t move completely towards the parodies and way from the reality.
Satoshi is Female
By: Nyla Rodgers
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Satoshi, Cryptocurrency, Social Impact

In November of 2017, Mama Hope launched our Crypto for a Cause campaign to raise bitcoin for impact. Since then I have been invited to speak at multiple Crypto conferences as a “crypto philosopher” and I always start by stating to the audience,

“Isn’t it obvious? Satoshi is Female.”

For those of you who not familiar with the name Satoshi Nakamoto, he/she/it/they are the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin. I love that this person‘s identity is still unknown to the public because it allows me to imagine that they could be anyone on the planet.

Most people have heard about cryptocurrencies posed as a get rich quick scheme run by a bunch of crypto-bros. Thanks John Oliver. But as I began to dive in and really understand the technology and philosophy behind the Blockchain it became more and more apparent that this is an inherently feminine approach to the way value moves across the world.

Here are 5 examples that illustate “Satoshi is Female”

Collaboration — in opposition to ego. Instead of having one centralized point of transaction, the blockchain is built by multiple points working together in unison to create more security. Inclusion — The fact that it is open source encourages all people to participate in its further innovation. Values-driven — for the first time in history we have the ability to infuse values like generosity, equality and goodness into our currencies. Community centered — the Blockchain gains financial value when there is buy in by its community. Generosity — a crypto millionaire named “Pine” created the Pineapple Fund and donated over $55M in bitcoin to charities declaring that “once you have enough money, money doesn’t matter” and it should shared.

I see Blockchain and the wealth generated from it as an opportunity to build new systems that are power-with instead of power over. These new systems will only be better if there are a diverse set of perspectives that are part of its creation. I believe it is the people who were formerly left out of the current system, who if given access, will be the creators of a system that benefits all.

Satoshi is Female is a metaphor for a more optimistic, global and inclusive future. Join us.

#SatoshiIsFemale

All proceeds from Satoshi Is Female t shirts will help grow Mama Hope’s impact worldwide.
before the sun goes down.
By: Herbert Brown
Tags: Childhood, Brother, Love, Past, Life

I can remember many occasions when my older brother and I got into trouble. I had to be about four or five, maybe. My momma would say, “You two are going to bed before the sound goes down.” I must admit, I wanted to call her bluff; and several times we did. But, there was one day, she made good on her threat.

I forget what manner of foolery we did that day, but my mother certainly put us to bed before the sun went down. However faint, I remember how I felt that day, profoundly.

I thought, “We’re in bed. And it’s not dark outside.” What made it worse was that we could here the faint, playful laughter of neighborhood kids playing outside of our window. It was pure torture. I didn’t like it. My heart seemed to sink with each shallow step heard on the concrete.

As bad as that was, I look back upon those days, and I wish that they would return. At that time, our only responsibility was to play and not get into trouble. All of my grandparents were still alive. I didn’t live 500+ miles away from my Mom & Dad. My parents didn’t have much gray hair then.

On the flip side, I wouldn’t have two cool siblings, two amazing sisters-in-law, five outstanding nieces and nephews and a great girlfriend. I understand that time moves on, but it is still nice to take a nostalgic walk down the lane we call “memory”.

I am reminded to work while it is day, because when night comes, no man may work. So, I journey on, putting one foot in front of the other. I keep working…..

before the sun goes down.

Until next time.

💙+✌️

-Herbie