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Apptuse — Omnichannel Commerce Simplified
By: Nameet Potnis
Tags: Ecommerce, B2B, Digital Marketing

At Apptuse we want to power individuals and businesses all over India to start selling products they make, in a language they understand. So today we are launching the new Apptuse Ecommerce app with support for 12 Indian languages.

What can the app do?

You can sign up, manage and grow your ecommerce business right from your phone. What’s more — you can set up an ecommerce store + mobile commerce apps + app POS + sell on multiple marketplaces from one single platform — your Apptuse Dashboard — we are enabling businesses to go truly Omnichannel!

You can add products, manage your inventory and your orders right from your phone!

The best part is you can do set up, manage and grow your business in 12 Indian languages.

How much time does it take to set up?

Setting up your business online now take less than 5 minutes, Download the Apptuse app. fill in your details and get started with adding your products and selling. If you already have a payment gateway, integrate it, or we can get you a brand new payment gateway in no time. Once you add a product, it automatically becomes available for sale online, as well as on your POS, right within the app. You can also use the Apptuse app to accept digital payments and go cashless. To know more about going cashless read this.

How much does it cost?

We are one of the first companies to launch an omnichannel solution, that too with extremely affordable pricing plans. You can view all our pricing plans here. Our basic plan starts at Rs 2999 per month and includes the following:

Ecommerce Website + inventory management system Mobile commerce apps on Android + iOS (iPhone + iPad) App based Point of Sale System for offline selling Sell on multiple marketplaces like Snapdeal, Amazon, Ebay Flipkart and more Payment Gateway + Logistics tie up

To top this off, we are currently running an introductory offer. You get all of the above at Rs 1999/- per month if you sign up before 31st January 2017. Use Coupon Code “AMAZING1000”

To get started, all you have to do is download the Apptuse App and get started. Click here to Download Now
5 Ways You Can Benefit from an HSA
By: Kevin Alexander
Tags: Life, Insurance, Investing, Growth, Healthcare

Photo by Xan Griffin on Unsplash

This is a story about benefits. Or more importantly one medical benefit you may not be aware of and how it can help you.

For many people in the U.S., it’s Open Enrollment time; that annual window where we choose our health insurance plans for the coming year. This can be a confusing blur of options, and it’s easy to just check out.

I share that frustration; I get it.

But what if I told you there was one benefit that would help you not just one way, but five different — and valuable — ways.

Enter the Health Savings Account (HSA).

What is it?

The Health Savings Account is an account you fund to help with medical expenses. The HSA is used in conjunction with a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). High deductible plans can be beneficial, as the premiums are generally lower, saving you money. The HSA can be used to cover any out of pocket medical costs you may incur.

Contributions are pre-tax and usually done through payroll deduction. That said, you can still contribute if you are self-employed or unemployed, as long as your plan is a qualifying HDHP.

The table below shows the maximum annual contribution limits. You can fund your HSA with any amount you feel comfortable with. The numbers may seem high, but remember any dollar you contribute is one that is tax-free.

What’s in it for me?

All contributions are tax-free.

That means a few things. To start, it means the money you set aside will go further than setting aside money post-tax. You can certainly use this fund for qualifying medical expenses, but if you’re able to cover those costs with other sources, you can invest your HSA dollars the same way you would with a 401k plan. Make sure you use the same principles/risk tolerance you do with your other retirement vehicles. Speaking of retirement, you can use your HSA funds to cover your Medicare premiums when the time comes.

2. Tax-free earnings.

In an HSA, your money works for you, Any interest earned on your account is tax-free. When you factor in to power of compound interest over time, that can add up to very real gain.

Wondering just how much that could amount to? Try this calculator to find out.

3. Tax-free withdrawals.

Unlike an IRA or 401k, withdrawals from an HSA are generally tax-free. As long as the money is being used for qualifying expenses, the withdrawal is not taxed.

4. It’s not “use it or lose it.”

Any contributions stay in the fund as long as you choose for them to. Unlike a Flexible Spending Account, you won’t find yourself buying cases of Band-Aids at the last minute just because you have to. An HSA offers you more control of what you do — or don’t do — with your money.

5. It’s portable.

Gone are the days of staying at one job for 30 years. In today’s era of career hopping and freelancing, an HSA can be a constant. When you switch jobs, it will come with you- again giving you flexibility and control over your money.
HelloGold Foundation Update #21– 17th March 2019
By: Quentin Bignon
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Gold

Highlights

AUM increased by almost 2 kg over February, confirming the quickened pace seen in January.

Direct debit integrated for new Smartsaver subscribers.

HelloGold’s blockchain is now running live!

Business

A steady rise in AUM

The rate at which AUM increased over January left the HelloGold team confident its marketing and branding efforts were starting to pay off, and February has largely confirmed this. AUM jumped from 14936 grams to 17784 grams, on the back of a new campaign build in collaboration with Boost.

Have you tried your luck yet?

Integrating UNCDF’s Finlab accelerator program

HelloGold is one of 18 fintechs to have been chosen from over 100 applications to integrate the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF)Finlab accelerator program 2019. The accelerator program is organised with the support of the Bank Negara Malaysia, MDEC and the Metlife Foundation, and is the first of its kind organised by the UNCDF worldwide.

HelloGold will participate in two bootcamps, each 1 week long, and get the opportunity to build on the UNCDF’s expertise to design a product that specifically meets the financial needs of underserved in Malaysia.\
If You Admire a Woman, Tell Her
By: Kerstin Krause
Tags: Women, The Masterpiece, Empowering Women, Love, Self Love

Let’s remake ourselves

Telling a woman — in all sincerity — that you admire her starts with yourself. For who you are and what you do or don’t do in life. It leads us to a universal truth: no two lives are ever identical. And while we strive for something another woman may already have achieved, we need to question our motivation.

Do we feel like losers just because we think we can’t get there? Or do we resent the other woman’s success just for the sake of it?

Once we understand the uniqueness of each and everyone’s path and that we’re here to deal and heal with what we’ve been presented with, the coin drops.

If you can look yourself into the eye and tell yourself, “I love you,” you see a woman irrespective of what she has or hasn’t yet accomplished. A woman who tells another woman, “I love you.” And this person is you.

We see so much suffering in the world today that arises from a totally debased struggle that we’ve mostly and often unknowingly joined. An uneven match that has turned many of us into copies of men and at such lousy quality that we will eventually stumble.

So, it seriously is time that we step back (not physically) and look at ourselves. And smear that love and admiration on to each other to allow the beautiful powers we have been bestowed with to blossom.

Let’s just remember one thing here: for every woman you tell you admire her, there’s surely one admiring and telling you.
My Keurig Says “Please”
By: Ann Litts
Tags: This Happened To Me, Life Lessons, Spirituality, Kindness, Technology

It really is the magic word

Author’s photo: My Beloved Coffee Maker — Making Nice

March 2018:

I love technology. I blame my dad. He wasn’t all that in the parenting department — however, he was a tool and die maker and all-around lover of gizmos. A machinist by trade and a tinkerer by design — he adored all things mechanical.

Cars that drive themselves. Computerized everything. Phones that are video cameras/digital cameras/computers/calculators. My dad would have loved it all.

Yeah, I got those genes — not the ones that make great spaghetti sauce. I can troubleshoot most of the equipment and computers I work with. Back in the day when I was an ICU nurse, I discovered my love for gizmos. When I went to the OR, I knew I had landed in heaven. There were more, bigger, brighter toys there.

Which brings me to my coffee maker. I recently bit the bullet and bought a Keurig. I resisted mainly for ecological reasons, but when they came out with reuseable pods I was convinced to give it ago.

I have to tell you, I love my coffee maker. It’s programmable and makes damn good coffee. Plus I can use my own favorite blend — which I have a shit-ton of in my freezer. I get it on sale — of course.

But mostly — what I adore about my coffee maker is this: It’s so polite. It’s kind. The last time it needed water — it said please.

In a cruel world, it is the small kindnesses that will make your morning and thus propel you into your day with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. And the caffeine in your bloodstream is just a bonus.

Namaste.
Frozen by My Love
By: Mary Jones
Tags: Grief, Prompt, Depression, Death, Poetry

False prophet,

Where are your manners?

I bled into a stream of caskets and memories

Pictures burned by a stake in my eye

Yet, you stood there,

Allowing this fantasy to become real

Blaming life’s plan and destiny

Now all I want is to heal

Now all I want is to feel

Your hand and your face

Filled with warmth and love again

Instead I still stand touching a corpse

Frozen by my love

Something I couldn’t understand

Mary Jones

In response to prompt by J.D. Harms at:
I think I just Moved
By: Gail Walter
Tags: Moving, Poetry, Reality, Disorientation, Covid 19

I think I just Moved

A poem about not being sure

Varo, Remedios | Exploración de las Fuentes del Río Orinoco

I think I just moved

I wasn’t planning to

well yes

no that’s not true

I was

planning to

I just hadn’t told myself yet

I still haven’t heard anything

so I don’t know what this is

I’m in another city

another state

a pandemic later

I have a dog, a puppy

when I didn’t before

I ordered it

at the other home

on the sofa on a Sunday

when everyone was dying

and I thought perhaps

we would and

that’s when I thought

a puppy being so alive

was a good idea

I have glints

of grey hair now

that I don’t hate

because it’s grave

with all this death and

ashen seems right

People are protesting

where I used to live

and here now

and everywhere

close by at the park up the street

that’s famous because

apparently it’s beautiful

but I haven’t been there yet

because I’m not sure

I’m here and I half

don’t believe this

and it’s misty

because it rains here

and it doesn’t where I was

and I really like it

because it’s sad

like tears and did I mention

my dad died this year

at the beginning

before everything changed

but I’m not sure it happened

any of it

because it’s too much

and it’s everything

they protested in the park

up the road

and I wish I’d been there

but I didn’t know

until it was happening

and I thought it might end

before I got there

but it didn’t

it’s gone on for days

and it might never stop

until the killing ends

and there are videos

of the most terrible obdurate

violence like all the order

swallowed trump

and now they are him

and nothing

nothing resembles itself

anymore

so many people died/ are dying

so suddenly

but I don’t know

if it’s real

because I haven’t seen

their bodies

only numbers

and graphs

and red-eyed nurses

with marks from the masks

on their faces

and I can’t hug my children

and they’re here

where I’ve moved

if I have

and maybe they aren’t

because I can’t

touch them

and it rained tonight

so I didn’t see them

for Algerian take out

six feet away in

my back garden

like fairies as we

planned

so I don’t know

if I have them

these children

I can’t touch

I can’t understand this

all of it

it’s too big

and I don’t know

if I moved

or if everything else did

© Gail Walter 2020

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Scrub Jay
By: Moriah Rivera-Lawrence
Tags: Scuzzbucket, Poetry, Birds, Self Reflection, Poem

on my stoop again

wet drops slipping down my nose

patter against the lilac leaves

falling seeds

a foggy quiet breeze

filtered light hidden between trees

scrub jay screams; a shock between the leaves

he stops to stare

his feet scraped into the pear

a screeching song of joy he weaves

i wonder if he remembers me

possibly

the one i found beneath the tree

a cat-broken hip unset

a ball of puff

a sodden fluff

a tiny screech aloud

handed across the fence

i confess the neighbor set him down

near the nest, we wished him the best

but Nature had him now

i don’t know if the bird that screams

remembers these

as forgotten soliloquies

the background of the nest

or if this is my friend

the one captured

who fought against the best

can i say i saved him

or that i let the cat out in the first place —

so the fault would be mine

nonetheless
Reading Hadoop SequenceFile from Pig
By: Iván De Prado
Tags: Computers, Hadoop

A trick to read SequenceFile generated by Hadoop into Pig:





public class SequenceFileStorage implements LoadFunc {



protected SequenceFileRecordReader reader;



public SequenceFileStorage() {}

public void bindTo(String fileName, BufferedPositionedInputStream in, long offset, long end) throws IOException {

Path file = new Path(fileName);

FileSplit split = new FileSplit(file, offset, end-offset, new JobConf());

reader = new SequenceFileRecordReader(new Configuration(), split);

}



public Tuple getNext() throws IOException {

MyKey key = new MyKey();

MyValue value = new MyValue();



if (! reader.next(key, listing)) {

reader.close();

return null;

}



Tuple tuple = new Tuple();

tuple.appendField(value.getData());



return tuple;

}

}
Data Scientists, Ask Yourself Often: So What?
By: Rama Ramakrishnan
Tags: Towards Data Science, Analytics, Data Science

I used to work at a global management consulting firm many years ago. As a new associate, when I presented the results of my work, I’d often be stopped in my tracks with, “That is interesting. But what is the so what here?”

“So what” was shorthand for several related things.

Is there anything actionable here?

What should we tell the client to do differently because of this?

If we continue down this path, does it get us closer to our ultimate destination?

New associates quickly developed the habit of considering the so-what of their findings before presenting anything. While painful and humbling at first, this turned out to be a very useful habit. It helped us avoid “boiling the ocean”, perform better under time pressure, and made us more productive.

I think data scientists would benefit from cultivating this mindset.

Data science work involves activities that are rife with opportunities to get distracted. Getting the data, exploring the data, understanding relationships between variables, formulating a problem, creating a common-sense baseline, building models, tuning hyper-parameters and so on.

Good data scientists tend to be intellectually curious which, of course, is a fantastic thing. But it also means that they are likely to catch the glimmer of a shiny object off to the side of the road and follow it into a rabbit hole. While this is almost always intellectually fun, sometimes it will be useful, sometimes not.

To make sure you are spending your time wisely, you should periodically pause and ask yourself, “What’s the so what here?”.

Is there something concrete and actionable I can get out of this? Does it get me closer to solving the ultimate problem I am working on?

Your answer to the ‘so what’ question doesn’t have to be detailed or exact. It just has to pass a gut check that there’s at least a conceptual path from your current obsession to something useful. If you can’t find a path, you should re-assess if you should switch your focus to something else.

This habit is particularly useful when you start to work on a new problem, especially one posed by someone else and presented to you. As you try to understand and crystallize what exactly needs to be solved, you may come to realize that the problem as defined isn’t actually worth solving because something else is the bottleneck and that needs to be solved first.

Having a so-what mindset gets you to clarity faster and, as a bonus, also builds your reputation in the organization as a pragmatic, clear-thinking data scientist.

All this said, an important caveat.

Ask ‘so what’ in moderation. I am not recommending you become a so-what asking humorless robot.

Going where your curiosity takes you can be useful — you may serendipitously stumble on something valuable in your random explorations. More importantly, it is clearly necessary for one’s happiness. If I couldn’t randomly check stuff out and ‘aimlessly’ play with ideas, I will go crazy.
South Korea’s Largest Cryptocurrency Fund Backs SureRemit
By: Samuel-Biyi 'Laolu
Tags: ICO, Hashed, Bitcoin, Sureremit, Cryptocurrency

A lot has happened since we opened our ICO pre-sale for SureRemit a few weeks ago. We’ve actively engaged our community and answered hundreds of questions from people all over the world. The feedback have been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re more energized to pursue our mission to make cross-border transmission of non-cash value cheap and seamless. We know the pain-points we are trying to soothe from personal experiences, but the ICO process has further exposed the global scale of the impact we could potentially have.

A really major validation so far is the decision of the largest cryptocurrency fund in South Korea, Hashed, to back the SureRemit project. Hashed is an impact-focused cryptocurrency fund that have backed many notable blockchain and blockchain-enabled projects in the past, including Airswap, Ethereum and Simple Token. They are now taking the lead in supporting high-impact blockchain projects originating out of Africa, including clearly viable cryptocurrency use-cases like SureRemit.

It’s uncommon to learn about a South Korean fund backing a project developed from Africa in such a big way, but that’s one of the beauties of the cryptocurrency world. Hashed’s participation in the SureRemit project is not only a testament to the merits and potential impact of our mission, it also demonstrates the opportunities provided by blockchain and cryptocurrencies to connect and support people wherever they are across the world.

Developing regions are generally behind the rest of the world in exposure to cryptocurrencies and blockchain implementations, even though such assets and projects are bound to have more tangible applications and profound impact in places like Africa and Latin America. In many countries, fiat currencies cannot be relied upon for transactions or as a store of value, and trust-based systems are notoriously compromised by human or system failures. A token like the Remit that is being developed to facilitate the transfer of non-cash value to destinations all over the developing world could potentially enrich the lives of billions of people, and that is exactly the kind of mission that excites them at Hashed.

We’re also excited about Hashed’s participation. As we enter into the crowd-sale of the SureRemit ICO, we have enough courage and conviction to take the lead with the development of real-life applications for cryptocurrency in markets where the revolutionary instruments are needed the most to solve today’s biggest problems.

Join the SureRemit ICO here.

About Hashed

Hashed, Formerly, Blockchain Partners Korea (BPK), are on a mission to accelerate the global enablement of blockchain through community building and impact investing. They are conveners of #HashedLounge, which introduces global thought leaders and ground breaking project to Korea: giving investors and developers a chance to meet face to face.
Ladies!-!
Tags: Poetry, Female, Peace, Love

Written by

I write to escape, and I read to learn. Each day is taken one step at a time.
ICONOMI Weekly Update
Tags: News, Blockchain, Iconomi, Weekly, Updates

Welcome to this edition of the ICONOMI Weekly Update series. This week, we published our Q2 Development Overview, updated the rules for our Rocket.Chat AMA channel, confirmed attendance and became a sponsor of Consensus: Invest, and more.

Development Update

Yesterday, we published a development overview for Q2. Take a look at the graphic below for a quick synopsis, or read the full blog post for more details.

Rocket.Chat AMA Updates

We have also pinned a set of guidelines in the #amaquestions channel regarding questions we are unable to answer. We cannot answer questions that:

1. Could compromise an ICONOMI employee’s privacy.

2. Could jeopardize private aspects of ICONOMI’s business.

3. Ask for specific long-term projections about the future of ICONOMI or its business.

This list may evolve as time goes on.

Events

On June 16, ICONOMI Head of DAAs Jure Sutar spoke at the Zero-In Conference in London on the challenges the digital asset management industry is currently facing and how ICONOMI is solving them.

ICONOMI Head of DAAs Jure Sutar speaking in London

Yesterday, on June 21, ICONOMI Head of Legal Janez Kravcar participated in a panel on blockchain regulation at the “Ready to trade?” conference in Ljubljana.

ICONOMI Head of Legal Janez Kravcar discussing blockchain regulation in Ljubljana

ICONOMI will be attending Consensus: Invest on November 27 and will also be a sponsor of the event. The event “brings 2,000+ institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers, banks, and family offices together and o­ffers attendees the chance to get connected with how to invest, store, trade and judge value in this new asset class.”

Media Highlights

St Louis Fed Now Tracks Crypto Prices on Its Research Database, by Wolfie Zhao, CoinDesk

“The St. Louis branch has had its eyes bitcoin since as early as 2014, when its vice president, David Andolfatto, hosted a seminar on the topic and notably commented at the time that the innovation is forcing traditional institutions to either ‘adapt or die.’”

Hacked S. Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb Confirms It Will Reimburse Affected Users, by Marie Huillet, Cointelegraph

“Bithumb today says there will be “no damage” to its customers as a consequence of the theft, emphasizing its strict separation of customer and company assets, the latter of which it says are stored in cold wallets.”

Sneak Peek

The activity data export feature will be released on Wednesday, June 27.

Follow our official channels for more updates and news:

Facebook / Twitter / Reddit / Medium

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“Heart Shape”
Tags: LGBTQ, Mental Illness, Love, Poem, Poetry

Pills in a heart shape

Another body behind yellow tape

Another heart broke on a Thursday

Why buy love

In the first place?

Don’t blow my high

Gazing at the sky

Trying to make sense of the clouds

While my thoughts too loud

I can see the moon

From here

Waving at all the stars

Whispering not to fall apart

Moonlight shines

On all my scars

You told me

You could handle the dark

Heart-shaped pills

Straight to the head

Lightning bolt through the chest

Fading from reality

Until there’s nothing left

To see
Bitcoin Price Manipulation Puts Trust In Cryptocurrencies At Risk
By: Bitbay Official
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Investing

Last year was a huge year of firsts for cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, which soared from a price of $1,000 at the start of 2017 to a peak of over $19,000 in December.

As the price of Bitcoin doubled, doubled again, then doubled again, its price seemingly on a parabolic trajectory for the moon and beyond, the apparently ‘easy money’ to be had from investing in Bitcoin resulted in a rush of retail investment.

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Tags: Goals, Success, Work, Perseverance, Life

A member of Mutrack and Inthentic. I lead, learn, and build with vision, love and care. https://piyorot.com

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ICOVO Status Report by CEO Yamase
By: Icovo Ag
Tags: English, Blockchain, Token

Hello, this is Yamase, CEO of ICOVO.

It’s my pleasure to take this chance and provide you with a report regarding the progress made as we sit here in November 2018.

<Promotions>

Website traffic on icovo.co keeps steadily increasing, with our global ranking on Alexa rising more than 800,000 places from ranking position outside of 1 million to place higher than two hundred thousand.

<Products>

Already completed are ICOVO App and DAICOVO, our smart contract framework. The ICOVO Website development is also going smoothly, and at this rate, we expect a release of ourα+ version by the end of this month.

<Listing>

With the continuous stagnant crypto market with heavy selling pressure, ICOVO took the decision to push the timing of our major listing to January instead of December. Avoiding the current turmoil we believe as most prudent for our community. That said, we are now putting the final touches to our first 3 minor exchange listings despite the trying crypto conditions.

For further details regarding this listing, please click here.

＜Project list＞

Make sure to look out for all our “coming-soon” projects on icovo.co. First few will start to appear later this month. Traffic volume of our media channel ’’Block Chain Insight’’ is growing steadily. Only launched in August, the ranking on Alexa moved up above four hundred thousand in around 3 months.

We are excited to report ICOVO will proudly host a blockchain event of 2,000+ people in Japan next February with the aim to discover and cultivate high-quality projects to be then listed on ICOVO. Look forward to seeing you in Tokyo!

＜Crowd sale＞

With the challenging crypto-market conditions seen in this second half of 2018, ICO funds raised were 10% smaller compared with last year. Not immune in this environment, ICOVO’s ICO in crowd sale is also significantly below the initial forecasts. Feel free to monitor our ICO’ progress a icovo.co . We are big believers in a transparent environment for our ICO community, which is not always the case with other projects. Make sure you question why other projects are not as transparent? All of us benefit from a more pure ICO Ecosystem.

Below URL is for you reference

＜Appreciate your cooperation＞

Though successfully launched our own ICO as βversion of DAICO model, next stop is Tap β exam and we need your support! We appreciate your cooperation to ask someone around you to participate together in the ICOVO token sale.

If you any questions, feel free to contact us on Telegram. We look forward to receiving your message.
Home Boy
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: College, Cartoon, Moms, Humor, Motherhood

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Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Why Did Oil Drop Into the Negatives?
By: Fahim Ahmed
Tags: Oil, Trading, Economy, Investing, Futures Trading

Chart of US Crude Oil, from Reuters

On Monday, April 20, 2020, the price of US oil dropped to -$37.63. This was shocking, bringing attention from across the globe. But why did oil drop so low, and why into the negatives?

A clarification.

Oil as a whole didn’t drop into the negatives. More specifically, the May 2020 futures contract for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is what fell into the negatives. June 2020 contracts, along with Brent Crude Oil did not go negatives at the time. Before we explain why the May 2020 futures contract went negatives, lets first explain Crude Oil futures.

How Crude Oil futures work.

Crude Oil futures are traded on the NYMEX with the ticker symbol CL, between 6PM to 5PM ET. These contracts contain 1000 barrels of oil that are physically delivered once the contract settles. What this means is that when the May contract settled, traders who held onto a call (in other words, bought the contract) are responsible for the physical delivery of the oil.

Why did the May 2020 futures contract go into the negatives?

Not only was there an increased supply and decreased demand as mentioned in my previous article, but there was also no place to store oil. The May contract expired on Tuesday, April 21, and with traders not able to store oil at facilities meant to store the commodity, they were forced to sell their contracts beforehand even if it meant that they would be paying another person to buy it. This loss would be less than the cost of carrying oil.

A quick lesson on contango.

Crude Oil Futures Quotes, from CME Group

If you were looking at the price for all futures contracts, you would have realized that as the time till the contract settles increases, the price of the contract also increases. The general reason for this is because of the cost of carry, such as storage costs and insurance. However, overtime this spread in price reduces as the contract’s settlement date approaches. In many markets, such as with Bitcoin, traders can take advantage of the contango. This is done through an arbitrage, where traders sell contracts with a large premium and buy spot to lock in a profit.

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11 Years Later: Is Satoshi Nakamoto Finally Moving Bitcoin Funds?
By: Crystal Blockchain
Tags: Blockchain Analytics, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitfury, Crystal Blockchain, Bitcoin

More than ten years after the launch of the Bitcoin Blockchain, coins that were mined on February 9, 2009 have just started moving. Yesterday, 50 BTC left the address 17XiVVooLcdCUCMf9s4t4jTExacxwFS5uh. They were initially received in block number 3,654, created on February 9, 2009 — exactly one month after bitcoin mining started.

[May 28, 2020 Update]

UPDATE: On May 25, 2020, a second outgoing transaction was sent from the same address that received the old coins (3A6AsxxxzgHnGKhiFyW4tYX1Hn2sjNfrQP), after which that address was clustered into an entity. Now, with a degree of certainty, it can be interpreted that 10 BTCs were transferred by the “early miner” directly to the Coinbase exchange address. This happened after someone sent a small transaction to the address, which was probably a test transaction.

Also of note is that to date, the remaining 40 BTCs that were sent to the “change” address are still not spent.

Distribution of Early Miner’s Funds

Original Post

From activity at May 22, Crystal Analytics has established that 40 BTC was sent to the wallet 1BzN95J72BLBafwgZiZZvM9s7Wj2bxzA6m and remained there. 10 BTC was moved to the wallet 3A6AsxxxzgHnGKhiFyW4tYX1Hn2sjNfrQP which has then distributed funds within different entities.

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The majority of funds were moved to well-known exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance, according to Crystal’s proprietary clustering feature, on May 21, 2020. Furthermore, a relatively small amount of BTC was sent directly to darknet entities.

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As we can see in Picture 2, according to Crystal’s Indirect Connections feature, as for May 25, 2020, about 1.718 BTC is still settled in unknown addresses. The Indirect connections feature includes direct connections, but also analyzes incoming and outgoing transactions that occur with unnamed entities and tracks them until the funds reach a known entity.

Despite research published on some social networks that are either based on analysis of the so-called Patoshi pattern, or jokingly referring to as “ Satoshi’s accountant “, who incidentally “denies” any transactions from his client’s wallets, it’s hard to prove that this early miner was or was not Satoshi Nakamoto — however, Crystal Analytics will continue to follow this transaction pattern as it unfolds.

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E-Sign, secure document processing
By: Kevin Hart
Tags: Blockchain, Document Processing, Security, Document Management

E-Sign raised over $500k and we talk with its team.

PetaCrunch: How would you describe E-Sign in a single tweet?

E-Sign: A brilliant solution that makes life easier for businesses and their document management processes

PC: How did it all start and why?

E-Sign: Our CEO, Tom Taylor, had the idea back in 2012 when he became frustrated with several documents being lost in the mail, with no accountability. He realised that the technology was available to be developed, upon which a platform could be built that would allow for secure document processing, that incorporated a full audit trail which provided accountability and security to those involved in the document workflow, as well as Identity validation of all those involved in the document signing process, and complete document transactional management. This was developed to create what E-Sign is today.

PC: What have you achieved so far?

E-Sign: The product has evolved significantly over the years to include a whole host of features that allow users to have complete control and management of their document workflow. Some of these include Veri-me (real world ID validation, linked to each signer, two factor authentication and interoperability between the E-Sign platform and any other software via out S-Sign/Zapier app.

PC: How will you use your recent funding round?

E-Sign: We will continue to dedicate resource to our ongoing marketing campaigns as well as looking to improve and increase functionality in line with the consumption requirements of the larger electronic signature market.

PC: What do you plan to achieve in the next 2–3 years?

E-Sign: We aim to expand our market reach into more industries that are now investing in digital technologies to improve business processes, and increase our presence and market share.
Chinua Achebe, 1930–2013
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Obits, Writers, Chinua Achebe

“The time has come round to a change in millennia when, history tells us, all kinds of excitable people are apt to go bonkers; when even more equable souls like ourselves may get high on prophecies. The last time around W.E.B. Du Bois had held high hopes for the twentieth century on the matter of race. Mindful of that, alas, unfinished business, my hope for the twenty-first is that it will see the first fruits of the balance of stories among the world’s peoples. The twentieth century for all its many faults did witness a significant beginning, in Africa and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, of the process of ‘re-storying’ peoples who had been knocked silent by the trauma of all kinds of dispossession. I was lucky to be present at one theater of that reclamation. And I know that such a tremendously potent and complex human reinvention of self — calling, as it must do, on every faculty of mind and soul and spirit; drawing as it must, from every resource of memory and imagination and from a familiarity with our history, our arts and culture; but also from an unflinching consciousness of the flaw that blemished our inheritance — such an enterprise could not be expected to be easy. And it has not been. […]

“An erosion of self-esteem is one of the commonest symptoms of dispossession. It does not occur only at the naive level…; even more troubling is when it comes in the company of sophistication and learning. It may then take the form of an excessive eagerness to demonstrate flair and worldliness; a facility to tag on to whatever the metropolis says is the latest movement, without asking the commonsense question: later than what? Let us imagine a man who stumbles into an alien ritual in its closing stages when the devotees are winding down to a concluding chorus of amens, and who immediately and enthusiastically takes up the singing with such loudness and gusto that the owners of the ritual stop their singing and turn, one and all, to look in wonder at this postmodernist stranger. Their wonder increases tenfold when they ask the visitor later what kind of modernism his people had had, and it transpires that neither he nor his people had ever heard the word modernism…. [E]ccentricities such as his can liven up the gathering and may even save it from righteousness and solemnity; but in the final reckoning the people who will advance the universal conversation will be not copycats but those able to bring hitherto untold stories, along with new ways of telling.”

— Chinua Achebe, from Home and Exile, 2000.
Extraterrestrial Sightings Are Struggling to Make News Headlines
By: Hardik Mittal
Tags: Satire, Short Story, Social Media, Fiction, Humor

In today’s time, news outlets rely on sound bites, clickbait, and flashy pictures to attract audiences with increasingly short attention spans. This has allowed the media to effectively prioritize content and cover only the most important news stories, as indicated by the following news headlines in 2019: “General Mills is giving away 15,000 boxes of Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms,” “Gator Crashes Picnic Date and Eats Bowl of Guacamole,” and “Zoo Offers Revenge on Your Ex for Valentine’s day.”

For content creators, the landscape has become more competitive and extraterrestrials –in particular– are struggling to adapt. Even though they have maintained consistent messaging intended to establish them as an ultra-advanced species that threatens life on Earth, aliens are still failing to reach large audiences. On May 26, 2019, the New York Times released video footage, shot by U.S. Navy pilots, of alien sightings in the sky. Despite spending enormous lumps of money on a state of the art UFO and gracing the front page of the NY Times, the aliens were unsuccessful in being the talk of the town.

In response, content marketing experts in the alien community are directing their species to pivot to a more popular content distribution channel that will remove the need for pilots and retired astronauts as middlemen — social media. Even so, extraterrestrial life forms will likely have trouble differentiating themselves from a human demographic that already uses social media to express its hatred for people while hinting at its underlying need for attention — millennials.
Zeals Engineers are going to host an Advent calendar
By: Tamaki Takato
Tags: Company Information

The Advent Calendar is an event that runs from December 1 to 25 each year, where each Zeals engineer posts an article. In other words, it is like a 30 days challenge.

The articles are associated with technologies in which our engineers are currently interested as well as those we adopt in our product.

If you’re interested in learning more about it, please visit and take a look!

Zeals Advent Calendar 2020 https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2020/zeals
Gas Station Terrorists
By: Eric Vanderburg
Tags: Cyber Terrorism

The Patriot Act allows the government to classify unruly activity by passengers on airlines as acts of terrorism. Some individuals have been treated overly harsh because of this. For example, the following article describes a woman, Tamera Freeman, who was charged with a federal felony because she cursed at a flight attendant and threw her tomato juice on the floor.

As I was at the gas station, I thought about the potential dangers we have all been warned about such as smoking at the gas station, talking on a cell phone, and filling your car while the vehicle is running. These acts could all cause a massive explosion resulting in loss of life. What if the government, realizing this potential avenue for terrorism, decided to treat gas station violators as terrorists…..

A man pulls into the gas station and begins to fill his car with gas. As the meter slowly climbs, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a box of cigarettes and a lighter. He lights up and takes his first puff. Before he can begin to enjoy the cigarette, a bucket of cold water is thrown on him, and he is tackled to the ground. Rough hands pull him up and drag him to the back of the gas station where he is beaten and then chained to the bathroom urinal until federal agents can arrive. In the meantime, his car is impounded.

Imagine another scenario. A woman pulls into the gas station. Her kids are bouncing around in the back seat, and you can hear their playful voices as she steps out of the vehicle. Her phone rings as she begins to fill the car. “Hello?” she says as she answers. “Oh yes, I am on my way home. I just stopped at the gas station. We’ll be home soo…” She is cut off mid-sentence as a bullet tears through the phone sending fragments into her ear and shoulder. The man with the gun commands her to get on the ground. In her panic, she looks to her children as they begin to scream. Another man vaults over the hood of the car and sprays pepper spray in her eyes while pushing her to the ground. She is handcuffed and led away. Agents arrive later to collect evidence from the scene and take custody of the woman. A social worker begins speaking with her children.

Sound plausible? Not right now but that is not the point. We need to make sure we don’t go too far when trying to protect people. We still have rights — sacred rights — that must be protected.
hubii core wallet feature now live for testing
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, https://github.com/hubiinetwork/core/releases/tag/v0.1

Our last product blog post (https://medium.com/@jacobotoll/hubii-core-release-a-combined-wallet-manager-and-exchange-built-with-the-user-in-mind-eb818ac511ab) revealed that we are working on a full set of asset management features as part of hubii core. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing in more detail what hubii core will look like. In fact, today, we are happy to share with you the release the first version of our hubii core wallet.

You can add a new wallet, restore or import a wallet

What we have released today is an early alpha and should be treated as such: please test it, but only with limited funds. In one of the next deployments we will add hardware wallet integration (we always recommend their use, for their added security). The code of this project is not open source yet, but will be eventually. However, we wanted to start sharing and collecting feedback — so please do download the wallet on GitHub (https://github.com/hubiinetwork/core/releases/tag/v0.1) and give us feedback by joining our telegram group (https://t.me/hubiinetwork).

“All Wallets” provide users with a single view of all their crypto assets

While this version is an early alpha and clearly still pro-user material, you can already see a glimpse of the user friendly features we are building in: from an address book that allows you to manage those pesky long keys to a UI that makes it a lot harder to make common mistakes such as confusing price / amount / gas — don’t dismiss this, it happens more often that you may think. We have seen it!

hubii core supports a night & day theme

We also promised more details on the exchange we are building as part of hubii core. Please look at the next blog posts for those. For better readability, we are splitting our news and updates into easy to digest bites.

The “Transfer” screen offers a comprehensive and clean interface

We also promised more details on the exchange we are building as part of hubii core. We will share more details in the next post — very soon.
All you need to know about the Kineticex Project
By: Kineticex Support
Tags: Smart Contracts, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Token

Kineticex Token is designed to allow anyone easily access a cryptocurrency. Just through the installation of the mobile app, any user will be able to see KRC Token being added to his/her wallet based. Unlike most cryptocurrencies that are “mined” with special heavy equipment, a user can obtain KRC Token through the mining system on the app.

Kineticex aims to make KRC Tokens the cryptocurrency of the future. Kineticex team is working on a system that will help users to generate steady profit. We are committed towards creating a transparent and secure environment for cryptocurrency enthusiasts on our platform.

Our mission is provide a simple, secure and transparent cryptocurrency platform for every individual and organization regardless of the eld. Kineticex are creating a stable digital currency with high distribution and high value on an Ethereum blockchain platform that will embrace everyone to the cryptocurrency world.

KRC Token is designed on Ethereum, a blockchain-based distributed computing system that allows smart contracts. The Ethereum blockchain platform allows us to incorporate all the features of KRC Token into smart contracts. Smart contracts provide a means to validate transactions, and the Ethereum blockchain reduces the chance of any attack on the coin and solidifies the security of the platform.

There will be Soft-CAP of 7500 ETH, Hard-CAP of 68750 ETH and 500 Million KRC Tokens in total supply. We have allocated 70% of tokens to be sold to public. There will be Pre-sale, during which KRC Token will be available on “1 KRC = 0.0001 ETH”and 25% KRC Tokens will be sold in Pre-Sale from public allocation. The ICO will be done in three rounds, and 45% KRC Token from public allocation will be available on “1 KRC = 0.00025 ETH” throughout three rounds.

The ICO will begin from August 15th, make sure you get KRC tokens.

Read more:

Exchange: https://kineticex.com/

Follow us in Twitter: https://twitter.com/KineticexE

Like and share: https://www.facebook.com/kineticex.io/

Join us Telegram: https://t.me/kineticexexchange

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kineticex-revolution-ltd/
Roundtable #25: Good TRON v Bad TRON (TRX), EOSBlack Scam?, Fastwin & Sylo
By: Ico Alert
Tags: Blockchain, Crypto, Medium, Podcast

Q and Ev talk Good TRON v Bad TRON before catching up with co-founders of Sylo to talk about their mobile application.

Don’t miss this week’s episode of The Roundtable with co-hosts Zach Quezada and Evan Schindler holding casual crypto conversations on the latest news and the hottest topics.

Q and Ev chat about the latest happenings in the crypto and blockchain space before catching up with the co-founders of Sylo to talk about their mobile application.

2:39 — Comments from Last Week

5:16 — Good Tron v. Bad Tron

15:15 — EOSblack

18:42 — FastWin

24:39 — Interview with Sylo Founders

Originally published on blog.icoalert.com

https://blog.icoalert.com/roundtable-sylo
May the Fourth be nerdsplained to you!
By: Phil Johnson
Tags: Star Wars, Cartoon, Comics, Geek, Humor

Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate — and to those who don’t but are quarantined with those who do.