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Hathor Network joins the Crypto Climate Accord
By: Hathor Labs
Tags: Hathor, Energy Web Foundation, Crypto Climate Accord, Hathor Network, Green Energy

Hathor Network signs an agreement to use 100% renewable energy by 2025.

Hathor Network is now a proud signatory member of the Crypto Climate Accord (CCA), a large treaty of companies working towards decarbonizing the blockchain and crypto sector.

The network has now committed to being 100% carbon-free by 2025, meaning no fossil sources in their operations.

This treaty aligns with their existing clean energy program, Hathor Green.

Hathor Green incentivizes miners who use renewable sources to obtain bitcoin combined with the native HTR token.

Individual or professional miners can benefit from the program with any currency based on the SHA256d mining algorithm, as long as the activity is also enabled with merged-mining on the Hathor Network.

“Being a part of the Crypto Climate Accord is a very important step in the Hathor Network’s trajectory. As we work with combined mining, we know that to generate our native token (HTR) the emission of gases is negligible, but we are making our commitment in this respect to help reduce this effect in bitcoin mining. The more renewable the energy matrix, the better it will be for the future of our planet,” says Guto Martino, Head of Marketing at Hathor Network.

The CCA was inspired by the Paris Climate Agreement and brought together organizations from the crypto industry that inform, develop, test, and implement new solutions that accelerate the transition to renewable energy. The agreement offers an open space to face challenges, gather requirements, present solutions, share findings and promote best practices in the sector.

This initiative is led by Energy Web Foundation, Alliance for Innovative Regulation, RMI, and the World Economic Forum, which called for several activities supporting the agreement, which already has more than 150 signatories, including Ripple, ConsenSys, and Tezos, among others.

The overall objective of the CCA is to decarbonize the global crypto industry, prioritizing climate management and supporting the entire transition to zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
Why We Invested in Energy Vault
By: Prime Movers Lab
Tags: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Startup, Green Energy, Venture Capital

Prime Movers Lab would like to congratulate Energy Vault CEO Rob Piconi and the rest of his team for entering into an agreement to merge with Novus Capital Corporation II at a valuation of $1.1B.

Robert Laikin and the team at Novus Capital bring a wealth of experience, and we believe they will be valuable partners to help Energy Vault realize its mission to accelerate the decarbonization of our planet by introducing the most advanced, environmentally sound, and economical energy storage technologies.

Using gravity to store and release renewable energy on-demand, Energy Vault’s energy storage systems are designed to be cost-efficient, reliable, safe to operate, and environmentally sustainable over a 35-year technical life. The company will address a large, unmet need for storing energy from intermittent renewable energy sources, enhancing grid resiliency as the world transitions away from fossil fuels.

Energy Vault has successfully demonstrated commercial-scale deployment of its technologies and has a strong pipeline of customer engagements, including eight executed agreements and letters of intent for 1.2 GW hours of energy storage capacity, with deployments planned to begin in the fourth quarter of 2021 in the U.S., followed by Europe, the Middle East and Australia in 2022.

Demand for clean energy is growing globally, with renewables expected to become 90% of total energy generation by 2050, according to a recent IRENA report. To support this transition, grid-scale energy storage capacity will need to increase tenfold in the next ten years, with more than $270 billion of investment expected over that timeframe. While demand is expected to continue to grow, current storage solutions are insufficient. Companies like Energy Vault will be needed to bridge this gap.

Energy Vault’s technology represents a major breakthrough in energy storage, and Prime Movers Lab is excited to see what it accomplishes as a public company. To read more about the announcement, check out Amrith Ramkumar’s story in the Wall Street Journal.
Configuring Android Project on Jenkins
By: Abhishek Jain
Tags: Jenkins, Android, Android App Development, Continous Integration

3) Running Android Project.

Let’s create a New project “Android project”, keeping it as a freestyle project.

Create a New Project

After that, you will see this screen

Source Code Management

Let’s start with Source Code Management, It provides us two options Git and Subversion. We will go with git as we have our repository at GitHub. Add repository URL, branch name.

For Credentials of git, click on add then below screen will open, add username and password (even if you have git generated token choose kind value as username with password, not as a secret value, otherwise it doesn’t show up). Press the add button and choose your added value in the previous screen.

Credentials

So far we set up how to get source code. Now we need to tell Jenkins how to build our project. Navigate to Build section, click on the Add build step button. There are two ways we can configure the build process for Android.

Invoke Gradle Script: By selecting this option, Jenkins will use Gradle installed on the host machine to build our project. For this, we need to tell Jenkins which Gradle version to use to build a project. Make sure Gradle is installed on your computer and require paths that have been set in environment variables. Use Gradle Wrapper: As we are using the same Gradle version that was used to build a project locally in Android studio, it is less error-prone as there might be some compatibility issues with other versions.

We will go with the first way, project root is referred by ${workspace} variable in Jenkins.

Set Build Information

After that, we need to tell Jenkins which Gradle task we want to execute. Here, we want to build our project and generate APK so we will first clean the project and then build it. Therefore, clean build command is added. The option — stacktrace is added so that we can see the stack trace of the build process if something goes wrong and it fails to build.

Now we are Good to Go, press build now option

If something goes wrong then the dot color will turn to red and if everything is okay and build is successful then the dot color will turn blue. For the first time, it will take time to build as it might need to download required Gradle wrapper, platform tools, build tools, etc required files. You can see the output in the Console output option.

For installation Issues: See Part 1

References :
Send Slack Notifications with Jenkins
By: Venessa Yeh
Tags: Jenkins, Programming, Jenkinsfile, Slack Tips And Tricks, Jenkins Pipeline

Install Jenkins app for Slack

Go to your Slack app on your desktop.

On the bottom of your left side navigation bar, you will see Recent Apps.

Click Add more apps.

Search for “Jenkins CI” and click Add.

You will be sent to the Jenkins app page in your browser. Click Install.

Select the Slack channel you want to post to and click Add Jenkins CI integration. (You can also create a new channel by selecting the bottom right link where it says create a new channel).

On the next page, scroll down to Integration Settings to find all the settings and info you need to customize your Slack notification in Jenkins.

We will need the auto-generated Token later for configuration in Jenkins.

Install Slack Notifications plug-in for Jenkins

Now, go to your Jenkins admin portal in your local browser.

On the top left corner, go to Jenkins → Manage Jenkins → Manage Plugins

Under the Available tab, filter and search for “slack notification.”

Select Slack Notification, then Install without restart on the bottom left.

It will take you to the installation page, and it should only take a few seconds to finish installing.

Once the “Success” message appears, go to back to the main page by clicking Go back to the top page.
Jenkins installation On Ubuntu 18.04
By: Ravindra Singh
Tags: Ubuntu 18, Ubuntu, Jenkins

=====Installing Jenkins======

To install Jenkins on your Ubuntu system, follow these steps:

=====Install Java.===========

Since Jenkins is a Java application, the first step is to install Java. Update the package index and install the Java 8

$sudo apt update

$sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

=====Add the Jenkins Debian repository.=========

$ wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins.io.key | sudo apt-key add -

=====The command above should output OK ============

===Add the Jenkins repository to the system==

$sudo sh -c ‘echo deb http://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list’

======INSTALL JENKINS=========

Once the Jenkins repository is enabled, update the apt package list and install the latest version of Jenkins by typing:

$sudo apt update

$sudo apt install jenkins

==================Jenkins service will automatically start after the installation process is complete. You can verify it by printing the service status:

$systemctl status jenkins

========================================

You should see something similar to this:

● jenkins.service — LSB: Start Jenkins at boot time

Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/jenkins; generated)

Active: active (exited) since Wed 2018–08–22 1308 PDT; 2min 16s ago

Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

Tasks: 0 (limit: 2319)

CGroup: /system.slice/jenkins.service

================================================================

Adjusting Firewall

If you are installing Jenkins on a remote Ubuntu server that is protected by a firewall you’ll need to open port 8080. Assuming you are using UFW to manage your firewall, you can open the port with the following command:

$sudo ufw enable

$sudo ufw allow 8080

==========http://your_ip_or_domain:8080======

=============Unlock jenkins=====

To ensure Jenkins is securely set up by the administrator, a password has been written to the log (not sure where to find it?) and this file on the server:

/var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

SSH on the jenkins server and change the root password.

Successfully Installed.
GitOps implementation
By: Pavan Kumar Ceemala
Tags: Jenkins, Gitops, Argocd, Eks

GitOps: Straight from the book “is to maintain a single source of truth i.e. your git repository. If you want to deploy a new application or update an existing one, you only need to update the repository — the automated process handles everything else. It’s like having cruise control for managing your applications in production.”

Tech stack used to implement GitOps: AWS EKS, ECR, Github, Jenkins for CICD, Helm and ArgoCD

GitOps Flow:

Developer pushes code to the application GitHub repo, after following proper PR process to test the quality of PR. Jenkins pipeline is triggered on poll SCM, and goes thru the Continous integration stages viz git checkout, SAST, and then we build and tag the image. Tagged image is pushed to AWS ECR, where we run image vulnerability scan, based on the scan results Jenkins pipeline proceeds ahead or exits Post image scan stage, we take the checkout of the confgi GitHub repo, and we update the image tag in Helm values file and push the updated file back to GitHub repo. There is one more way of updating Helm charts, if there is a requirement to update any other K8s manifest like configmap/deployments etc, the update is done by the Ops team and the changes are pushed to config Github repo post PR process. ArgoCD is kubernetes native tool and is present inside our EKS cluster in its own namespace, and it has the capability to deploy to other namespaces, it works on the pull based mechanism and it is integrated with config Github repo. We use argocd to create all our applications, and to on board any new application, we make changes to argocd helm chart. Whenever there is an update on the config Github repo, argocd detects it and syncs/creates applications on AWS EKS cluster. Post application create/update/delete process, argocd notification notifies the stakeholders over slack channel

Thank you!!
How to Setup Burp Suite Professional with Jenkins.
By: Siddhanth Dwivedi
Tags: Jenkins, Cybersecurity, Burpsuite, Devsecops, Jenkins Pipeline

First things First let's get started with configuring Burp Rest API.

Setting up the API

To configure the API, navigate to

User options — ->Misc — ->REST API, then select the checkbox to start the service.

By default, the service runs on http://127.0.0.1:1337 and requires you to generate an API key to use it. To generate an API key, select New, give the key a name, copy the key to the clipboard and click OK. Once you have the API key, you can start using the API. The API is self-documenting, so to understand the use of the API you can just browse to it and view the documentation located at http://127.0.0.1:1337/<your API key>/v0.1/<api_key>

Now configure NGROK to point to the Burp API so that you can access it from anywhere

ngrok http 1337

How to configure the Burp API to scan?

In order to scan your website. You have to choose the 2nd option i.e /scan.

Scan Section

Add your website where it says add array item. You can add more websites by simply clicking on Add array item.

Application Login Section

You can add a login to your application by checking the application_logins box.

We can choose 2 options to set your login. Either set your creds or record your login using Burps Embedded browser

Scan Configuration section

You can Configure Scans as well in the scan_configurations section. This means you can set your burp to do crawling or doing audit checks.

These scan configurations are the built-in configurations of burp. You can see them when you go to Burp → configuration library

In the Scan_Configuration section, you have 2 options Named Configuration and Custom Configuration. In Custom Configuration you have import your custom library. For this post, we will be configuring our burp to named configuration i.e. “Crawl strategy — faster”

Resource Pool section

In this section, you enter the name of the resource pool that you would have created previously you can leave this blank as well.

Scan Callback

You can configure a scan callback URL, which will be sent information regarding a scan.

After all the configuration is done you have to simply click on send request.
Dev Diary #7
By: Affil Coin
Tags: Progress, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, News, Affilcoin

Due to the COVID situation, it took us a while but we are back! The team behind Affilcoin is thrilled to share another exciting dev diary to share with the progress made by our team here at Affilcoin. The Affil team remains committed to delivering on our promise to providing users with the mutually beneficial affiliate environment they are looking for.

The past 1 month was dedicated to the Affil P2P exchange to make sure our community can exchange their coins with ease, back-end updates of the website, development of the Affilcoin mobile App, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Here are a couple of major updates:

P2P Exchange BETA is in its finale stage of testing. We thank you for understanding that it may still contain software bugs, suffer disruptions, and not operate as intended or designated. However, you can check P2P Exchange BETA here: https://affilcoin.com/account/buy-sell; Performance has been significantly increased on the platform; Affil Wallet BETA is also in its finale stage of testing. It was already released on the App Store and Google Play Market. To download and test the Application on your phone, simply follow these links:

App Store: https://bit.ly/Affilcoin-app-download-appstore Google Play: https://bit.ly/Affilcoin-app-download-googleplay; Minor bugs have been fixed; In a couple of weeks, the main affilcoin.com website will be completely renewed and updated with the new amazing design and tools (Dev Team is actively working on it right now). The improved platform is going to help our community to get even more benefits from the increased performance and updated tools. We cannot wait to show it to you. Thanks for your patience.

With another exciting update from the development team here behind Affil Coin, we encourage those interested in learning more about this project, register with us, and get involved by joining one of our many social media platforms! Feel free to send us (marketing@affilcoin.com) your ideas and suggestions that will help guide us in giving you everything you would like to see in your ideal affiliate marketing platform.
Another one!
By: Abhigyan Prakash
Tags: Progress, Personal Growth, Informative, Blog

Another one!

here it is folks! another blog started by a teen who thinks a cluster of words would be read by, let alone impact, people who visit this website. Abhigyan Prakash Apr 23, 2020·2 min read

I am pretty sure medium is currently facing a surge in the amount of content being published since this whole quarantine thing is bringing out the writers, bloggers and even reporters out of people (I am an example of that) and this isn't a bad thing, in fact, it's good that at least some people have a creative output, unlike the majority who are probably rewatching the tiger king for the sixth time now.

but this does make it hard for content creators to stand out now and although some may be worried, I’m not. for me, this blog primarily serves as a progress tracker for myself.

At the start of the year, I planned my whole year and for the first time, it felt like I would actually be doing something important and impactful. I was gonna start an organization, organize a bunch of fundraisers, expand my knowledge, and just become the best version of myself. And now that I cannot do the two main things I wanted I’m obviously in a state of absolute grief.

You see last year I realized, that although I have done some stuff in the 15 years I have inhabited this planet, I never did anything extraordinary or exceptional. I admire people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, people who have, as Jobs would say, made a dent in the universe. And I wanted to do the same. But for that, I need to do things, experience new things, absorb more knowledge.

So I decided to just that. aside from the organization and etc. I decided to read a book every week, read articles, just take in as much information as I possibly can.

Now comes the use of Medium. I wanted to have something to not only track my progress throughout the year but also have something to hold me accountable if I don’t. At first, I thought of starting a YouTube account, but since I get super nervous and awkward in front of a camera, that idea was short-lived. so here it is, a blog(so original).

Progress-tracking isn't going to be my only goal, I am going to be writing actual articles as well: mostly about people, books, movies, music, weird facts, anything that I find interesting and worth sharing

So stick around if you think I could entertain you and what do you know maybe you will learn something new.
Development of programming at its peak?!
By: Syed Amanat
Tags: Progress, Opinion, Programming, Technology, Thoughts

Hi there, I am a programmer and I write this with one goal, after coding for ages I have a positive opinion on why I think this is a golden time for programmers aspiring/experienced in terms of understanding the history, present, and the future of programming. This article does not go into detail, it is a write-up expressing my opinion.

This is one of the best times to be a programmer and I say this because a huge part of technology out there is running on legacy systems and a good part is adopting the latest trends/languages/frameworks, so that has led for the development of intermediary technologies which enable you to draw strict constraints between old and new, and continue developing a platform with new technology on top of the legacy system without disturbing it. To get to experience on a technical level three types of system old, intermediary and new is a pretty rare opportunity.

While it is absolutely important to stay updated with the latest frameworks/techs (sensible ones) it is equally important to comprehend why these new systems were needed in the first place, and that, we can do by learning the history of tech.

We are amidst old and new, the opportunity to learn old systems, their drawbacks, and benefits in terms of architecture, design, implementation etc., and understand how the new systems inherit the same and improvise the part which wasn’t pleasant.

Keeping in mind how quickly the front-end frameworks are changing and how quickly we are progressing ahead with a lot of new backend languages and attempting to move from OOPS to Functional programming, If we were to enter this field lets say in 2025, a lot of tech that you are seeing today wouldn’t exist, and they would meet the same fate as of COBOL, LISP etc.,

Cheery on top, the tools we have today for migrating platforms opens a door for us to learn the internal working of these old systems and then to learn the internal working of new systems and connect them both through the intermediaries.

I recently used Webpack for building react components on top of a Backbone.js platform and the number of things I had to learn to bundle the project varied from learning loaders, plugins, chunks, dist configs etc., It was an amazing experience to see how well a bridge can be established between old and new.

A lot of what I have written is coming from personal experience and this is my first medium post, what do you think? comment below, let’s have a discussion!
Attain SMART Goals
By: Sivakaresh Navaretnam
Tags: Goals, Progress, Smart

How To Set Goals

To help you write goals that will work, try the SMART system. Each letter in the word “smart” represents an important part of your goal.

Specific — Have a specific, clear focus. For example, “make 10 job search calls” is very specific. “Make some networking connections” is not specific.

Measurable — Make sure you have a way to measure your progress. Ask yourself the following questions about your goal: How much? How many? How will I know when it is accomplished? Try questions that focus on something that can be counted. For example, your goal might include how much time you want to spend on a project, how much money you want to make, or how many people you want to connect with.

Attainable — Goals should be attainable, or possible to reach. A goal is attainable when the steps are planned clearly and you have enough time to complete them. How do you plan to reach your goal? What steps should you take? Is the goal realistic based on where you are now? You should set a goal that is a challenge. However, your goal should not be impossible.

Relevant — A relevant goal is one that really matters to you and is important. Is it worth the energy? Is this the right time? Does your career goal fit into your life goals and future plans? Is there anything you will need to reach your goal that you don’t currently have?

Timely — A goal should have a clear timeline. This will help keep you focused. Decide when do you want to start working on your goal. Then ask yourself: When should I complete each step?

Here are a few tips for reaching your SMART goal:

Make A List

Write down your goal. Then write down the steps you will take to get there. This will help you to remember and accomplish each step. Put your list where you will see it.

Set Deadlines

Give yourself a date to complete your goals. Set a deadline for each step. Write down the date when you finish each step.

Reward Yourself

Working toward goals is hard. Think of small rewards to give yourself when you complete each step. The rewards will help you stay motivated.

Have A Goal Partner

Find someone to help you. The person can be a friend, co-worker, job coach or anyone else. Discuss your goals together, and meet up when you complete each step. If possible, do the same for your partner.
Love is love is love…
By: Ben Hartley
Tags: Progress, Acceptance, Gay Weddings, Love, LGBTQ

Being Pride month, it was appropriate timing that my husband and I recently attended the wedding of Jonathan and George.

To witness their union was a blessing. Family and friends from all corners of the world filled the rows of seats as we sat waiting patiently for the grooms to arrive. Jonathan, originally from Boston, has Italian-American roots. George, born in California, is Mexican-American.

As I looked from one row to another, what was abundantly clear was not the varied mixture of cultures, ages, genders, and sexual orientation of attendees, but the copious amount of love and support for this about-to-be newly married couple at the beginning of their journey together.

It would be easy to take this celebration for granted, but I can assure you that for members of the LGBTQ+ community, we do not. You only need to pick up a newspaper or switch on the news to hear about the continual attack on equal rights. To clarify, we have made immense progress, but will are still far from true equality.

I couldn’t help think back to my wedding, but not for the reasons you may think. You see, my soon-to-be father-in-law, who had only confirmed his attendance that very morning was initially not very happy to be there. Without going into too much detail, he was wrestling with his own demons, a case of right versus wrong spurred on by his religious beliefs. I bring this up not to point the finger at the misguided, archaic doctrine of the Catholic Church, but to tell you about something much more powerful; one man’s complete transformation from discomfort and confusion to acceptance and celebration. You see, as the day unfolded, my father-in-law realized that whether it be a man or a woman, or two members of the same sex, love is love. It was as if the dark clouds parted, allowing the sun to light up the sky. I still tear up at the memory of his transformation. It is a moment I will never forget. I believe the world would be a very different place if seen through the eyes of my father-in-law. If only.

This brings me back to the glorious wedding of Jonathan and George. For one evening at the Franciscan Gardens, where we cried, laughed, and danced the night away, we celebrated the union of two souls and the fact that love is love is love.

By Ben Hartley

#loveislove #lovewins #pride #lgbtq+ #gaywedding #celebrate #nohate #progress
Been living with anxiety for about half of the year or probably more, the fear is real, the worry…
By: Abhymantra Agusta Kurnia
Tags: Mental Health, Progress

Been living with anxiety for about half of the year or probably more, the fear is real, the worry is real, the panic attack is real.

How is it really affecting my concentration and focus is quite surprising, sets a scenario how i would fail in the future, having no friends, and not having a courage to fight for my dream.

This idea of fear really sets my world upside down with excessive worry, destroys my current situation, have been limiting my interaction with other people for half of the year. I thought what i have right now is somethinh “normal” that is also experienced by other people, but i dont think so.

Well it teaches me lot of insights about my weaknesses and how rude and bad i am during the college life, how i am not being myself and not being confidence enough to embrace myself. But, isnt that is life ? You cannot be being a person consistently, you experience difficulties and hardship, situation and environment that shapes you, you change, you evolve being who you are

I think in the situation where people develops, situation changes and environment becomes different, we need to stick to the basic, to do good and kind, to remember what are those basic kindness, so we wouldnt be harmful toward another.

Yes it might sound cliche, and it wouldnt be easy, but thats the simpliest rule we’re supposed to try isnt it ?

Correct me if i wrong.
Deploy Nest JS App using PM2 to Linux Server
By: Daniel Santoso
Tags: Ubuntu, Nodejs, Deployment, Node, Nestjs

STEP 1 (Install Node JS)

First, you need to install Node JS on your ubuntu server using this command :

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -

$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

STEP 2 (Install Nest JS CLI)

After that, to run and build Nest JS App you need to install Nest JS CLI using this command :

$ sudo npm i -g @nestjs/cli

STEP 3 (Install PM2)

PM2 is a library

$ sudo npm install pm2@latest -g

STEP 4 (Clone your project from Source Control)

You have Node JS, Nest CLI and PM2 installed in your server, now you can clone your project from The Source Control Repository to a folder :



$ cd projectname

$ npm install $ git clone http://sourcecontrolrepository.com/projectname.git $ cd projectname$ npm install

STEP 5 (Run project)

After downloading all packages on your project, you need to build your Nest JS Project first :

$ npm run build

If the build success, it will generate folder /dist on the root directory. Run your application using this command :

$ pm2 start dist/main.js --name <application_name>

In the code above, You can specify the application_name as you want. To make your application autostart after system reboot, use this command :

$ pm2 startup systemd

$ pm2 save

Now your Nest JS application has been successfully deployed to Ubuntu Server. Enjoy!
MEAN Basics (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)
By: Aaron Rhoades
Tags: JavaScript, Angular, Mean Stack, Node, Mongodb

I’ve learned a lot about Angular 2+ over the past several years (now version 8, Angular Ivy). It’s a powerful front end tool for Single Page Applications.

Now the first thing you should know about MEAN stacks is that the order of the technologies in the alliteration doesn’t MEAN anything (pun intended). Here’s the way I think of it:

Getting Data:

MongoDB -> Node.js / Express.js -> Angular

Writing Data:

Angular -> Node.js/Express.js -> MongoDB

It’s worth noting, however, that Node Package Manager (npm) does things for every part of the stack (maybe not MongoDB, depending on how you think about it). You use npm to install Node, Express, the necessary tools for communicating with your MongoDB, and Angular. As well as for updating and managing your versions of all said packages.

Some Notes on Where to Start

Heroku is a boss at getting you up and running with test projects. Clone their MEAN stack is a great way to get started learning with a boilerplate application. When you’re using Angular, make sure you update your code to use the HttpClient package (if you want to stay current and up to date, that is). The old import statement looks like this:

import { Http } from ‘@angular/http’;

The new import statement looks like this:

import { HttpClient } from ‘@angular/common/http’;

Differences include the ability to “reportProgress” on long requests, and the fact that you no longer need to map your responses to json. It just works (with less code).

You’ll want to set up a MongoDB somewhere. If you’re using Heroku, I recommend connecting to a free mLab sandbox (you’ll be asked for credit card info, but it won’t charge until you upgrade).

Once you’ve got all that set up, you’re ready to get into some code!
SuperLauncher introduces superior multi-chain node infrastructure to its network
Tags: Binance Smart Chain, Launchpad, Node, Blockchain, İdo

We are delighted to announce a partnership with GetBlock, an innovative Blockchain-as-a-Service platform that provides a fast and easy API connection to full nodes from multiple blockchain platforms.

This partnership will enable SuperLauncher to introduce cost-effective and reliable multi-chain node infrastructure to its IDO partners.

SuperLauncher x GetBlock

With GetBlock’s support, SuperLauncher’s IDO partners will be able to utilize GetBlock’s services to build blockchain Dapps in a faster, more cost-effective and scalable manner.

Running and maintaining nodes can be costly as one has to invest in hardware, electricity, bandwidth and large amounts of disk space.

GetBlock services enable developers to gain access to full nodes with fast integration, reliability, and security. This allows projects and developers to focus on their core product development without worrying about supporting node infrastructure.

GetBlock really stands out in their pricing system, which is structured in a way that the purchased requests do not have an expiration date. Unused requests from purchased packages are automatically transferred to the next month.

About GetBlock

GetBlock is a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides a fast and easy API connection to full nodes from multiple leading blockchain platforms. It allows developers to request on-chain information from a node without the need to set up one manually with JSON-RPC, REST, and WebSockets.

Website | Twitter | Telegram

About SuperLauncher

SuperLauncher is a cross-chain launchpad that empowers projects to raise capital with best-in-class features and gives investors access to quality projects in a safe, trusted and decentralized manner. SuperLauncher helps projects conduct token sales, automated listings, and liquidity locks on Binance Smart Chain. Soon to be available on Ethereum and Cardano.

Website | Whitepaper | Twitter | Telegram | Github
VirgoX Launches Node Competition with 1 Million $VXT Rewards Pool!
Tags: Node

1. Event Period:

From September 11, 2021, 16:00 to September 30, 2021, 16:00 (UTC)

2. Rules:

During the competition period, all nodes that use or promote VirgoX products will obtain a number of “points.” All nodes will be ranked and rewarded based on the number of points generated! In addition, we will launch a similar competition every month.

Rewards:

5 VXT for each referred real user. 50 VXT for each referred user that passes KYC. 100 VXT for each referred user that joins the VirgoX Vault. 200 VXT for each referred value node and 2000 VXT for each referred supernode. 50% of the newly added rebate amount. Rebate is available for spot trading, futures trading, NFT auction, and VirgoX vault. 50% of the income of the newly added VirgoX Vault assets. 50% of the newly added node staking commissions. 50% of the newly added node promotion commissions

Note: All rewards are paid with $VXT

3. Additional rewards:

The total VXT rewards of every node will be converted into a number of points. 1 VXT is equal to 1 point. All nodes are eligible to win rewards according to the ranking by the accumulated points.
Apron Network Partners with NFTmart
By: Apron Network
Tags: Nft, Apron Network, Node, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

About NFTmart

NFTMart is a marketplace for NFTs based on the Substrate Framework.

It’s a fractional trading NFTs marketplace in the Polkadot ecosystem, with our own public chain. and we commit to being the most professional NFT marketplace in the world.

NFTMart is committed to being a low-cost-to-participate NFT marketplace, which provides users with NFT issuance and transaction services.

It is divided into two parts:

The first part nftmart.network is an open and decentralized NFT public chain, which delivers the issuance of NFTs and transaction data on the chain.

The second part is nftmart.io which we provide a fun, simple, accessible transaction experience for all. NFTMart is taking steps toward developing itself into a decentralized autonomous organization.

NFTMart will also establish an ecological fund to support third parties to expand NFTMart through interfaces, contracts, and other methods to achieve a more diversified NFT+ ecosystem.

🛎Reach NFTmart on:

Website | Mart(Beta) | Twitter | Medium | Telegram | ANN channel|Discord

About Apron Network

Apron Network is a decentralized infrastructure service platform built by employing Polkadot technology in the blockchain world. Apron has adopted the idea of being a decentralized platform which belongs to a middle service that provides a connection between the blockchain and the application software. It aims to make transactions for infrastructure software services simple, efficient, and reliable by connecting service providers and users in the decentralized service market. Apron has obtained fund-raising from NGC, Monday Capital, DFG, CMS and other institutions and Web3 Foundation Grant.

Apron Network can connect to BSC, Heco, Polygon, Kusama, Polkadot, Mina, Cosmos ecosystems, providing developers with low-cost various blockchain ecological infrastructure services.

🛎 Reach Apron on:

Telegram | Twitter | Medium | ANN Channel | Whitepaper | Website| GitHub
The nationalist approach.
By: Radu Davidescu
Tags: Coronavirus, Politics, Crisis, Economy, Economics

The nationalist approach.

I’m still mesmerised to see that even in front of a big equaliser as COVID-19 people still relate as a national problem. Neither Germany was prepared, nor Italy or UK or Spain or you name it. No one was prepared. We, human kind where not prepared. We think we face it differently but we face it the same, open up our deeply hopes and fears in from of this big unknown and and the context that is changing rapidly. We start to blame the old context, our leaders, ourselves and this is our fear based response. And then we start donate, and listen to specialists that ask us to stay at homes — even if that’s hard. And we pray, and we cry when we see doctors working hours to save lives, and we volunteer. This is out faith based response.

Maybe, we will manage to get through that, not as US, or Italy or Spain or Germany or UK. As humankind, together. That would makes as stronger and maybe as John dreamed decades ago — the world will be as one!

Action as one, being part of something bigger that you that is representing you not against other but with all other is the hope for this world, and for our individual mind sanity.
CORONAVIRUS LANDS AN UPPERCUT. CAN BUSINESS RECOVER FROM KNOCKDOWN?
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid 19, Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis

CORONAVIRUS SOCIAL EFFECTS. A PAINFUL INJECTION IN OVERCONFIDENCE

In its early stages, COVID-19 looked nothing like a crisis. Even though several scientists had been warning of the potential for a catastrophe for weeks, the initial emergency declarations were met by skepticism by both the public and many policymakers. They assured that neither people nor economies should panic and stop because of the virus.

The COVID-19 crisis could change this in two ways. First, it has already forced people back to accepting that expertise matters. It was easy to sneer at experts until a pandemic arrived. Second, it may return humankind to a new seriousness. We are more fragile than we thought!

This loss of innocence, or complacency, is a new way of our existence that we can expect to change our interaction with the world. We know now that touching things, being with other people and breathing the air in an enclosed space can be risky.

How quickly does that awareness recede? It depends on people, for sure. But it can never vanish completely for anyone who will live through this year. It can become second nature to avoid shaking hands or touching our faces. And we may all find we can’t stop washing our hands. The comfort of being in the presence of others may be replaced by a greater comfort with absence, especially with those we don’t know intimately.

In any case, coronavirus pandemic made certain things obvious:
Behaviors of central banks and citizens in the crisis
By: Arzu Alvan
Tags: Crisis, Central Bank

States and central banks will have to print incredible amounts of money after the crisis in order to cope with the crisis, which the current health problem has had an accelerating effect. If they do, the price increases will also reach incredible proportions, which is actually nothing but a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

People who are aware of this situation make most of their investments on gold, silver and bitcoin. Quite a few make their investments in bonds. Bonds actually mean increased taxation in the future.

On the other hand, even large firms that are used to making traditional investments have started to invest in cryptocurrencies. Large pension funds have also started to announce that they will buy gold.

When people’s trust in bonds and stocks begins to wane, they start investing in real money that has intrinsic value. These are also gold and silver from time immemorial.

Because the medium of exchange that we use today, which allows commercial banks to multiply, is not actually money, it is currency. Currency does not have a value storage feature. The ability to carry and store value is only available in precious metals such as gold and silver, and it has recently been claimed to be in bitcoin (see “bad money drives out good money”, “gold and silver” “Gold price vs. US Bond rate”).

The modern monetary theory of the period we live in is actually similar to the feudal structure. We are like slaves working to pay the taxes that are the price of every currency printed.

It seems reasonable to invest in gold, silver and bitcoin to prevent the depreciation of our currency. But I should also emphasize that there is no market where two-thirds of the world can buy gold.

Source: https://arzualvan.com/behaviors-of-central-banks-and-citizens-in-the-crisis/
Trying to this Adulthood shite.
By: Nirali Trivedi
Tags: Anxious, Problems, Adulthood, Crisis, Life

It feels like jumping from one life crisis to another, without even solving one of them. The worse part is all of us around are also growing up and what you really do in this is compare your mountain to someone else’s mountain and think oh they climbed theirs, why can’t I climb mine. But what we don’t see is how your mountain is so different than theirs, theirs don’t have avalanches, theirs don’t have unstable ground, yours do. And you have to surpass yours with all this plus the mental state of your own being.

What I am learning through this amazing time that I am going through is to be a little gentler on yourself, give your mind and your body time and patience to go through things, you are battling your own demons, you don’t need to be your own devil.

And that talking but its okay if its not with you friends or your partner but it anyone else talk about it, maybe write about it. A huge part of me wants to start doing this adulthood writing thing is, so I know I am not alone that there are people like me. Misery does love company.

This is a start of a blog where I am just basically going to put up all the things I am going through and how hopefully and maybe I come out of my struggles and start climbing my mountain. And maybe meet people or help other people like me.

please feel free to comment and talk, maybe we can talk.
Crisis, Emergency, And Incident Management Platforms Priority Should Be Given To The Early Detection And Assessment Of Adverse Events
By: Vivek Vishwakarma
Tags: Incident Management, Crisis, Energy And Utilities, Emergency, Bfsi

Crisis, Emergency, And Incident Management Platforms Priority Should Be Given To The Early Detection And Assessment Of Adverse Events vivek Vishwakarma Jun 8·2 min read

Crisis emergency and incident management is a part of management that spotlights on crisis readiness. A crisis is characterized as any huge danger to an association, its assets, and its partners that may have unfavorable impacts if not managed as expected. In crisis management, the danger is just the chance of a crisis happening, which can have a few related effects: (1) adverse consequence on an association, (2) interruption of ordinary tasks, and (3) harm to the hierarchical or partner’s standing. Crisis emergency and incident management platforms center around early recognizable proof and appraisal of the occasion. It assumes a significant part in any association and particularly in enormous associations that frequently face emergency circumstances.

Crisis emergency and incident management platforms center around three fundamental viewpoints: avoidance, arrangement, and reaction. Anticipation is quite possibly the main parts of crisis management. This primarily manages methodologies and strategies to keep away from fiascos before they occur. Getting ready for calamities assists associations with getting sorted out their assets and plan for catastrophes like a cataclysmic event, fear monger assault, monetary crisis, or political distress. The reaction, then again, manages activities taken once a crisis has occurred and is utilized to react to the crisis.

Read More: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crisis-emergency-incident-management-platforms-focus-vishwakarma/
The Next Shoe to Drop? Why a Pandemic Induced Economic Crisis is Likely in the India
By: Rammohan Susarla
Tags: Consumer, Pandemic, India, Crisis, Economy

With unemployment in double digits, and India on the verge of an unprecedented jobs crisis, one cannot but wonder whether we should worry or be Ram Bharose (at the Mercy of Lord Ram). Indeed, there is not one positive sign amidst the prevailing economic gloom and doom prevailing in the country, and with “relief” being the priority, “recovery” is but a distant “mirage”. Moreover, with the possibility of a Third Wave as well, cautious governments and weary consumers are likely to focus on immediate survival rather than any high voltage consumption and spending binges.

Which leaves us with the inescapable conclusion that an economic crisis is just a matter of time, and it is not if, but, when it would hit. While many experts claim that the fundamentals are strong, there are some who believe that the Indian Economy has gone from good to bad to worse in the last 7 years. A “shock” Demonetization, flawed GST (Goods and Services Tax) rollout, and then successive budgets being exercises in polemics, rather than substance, have all contributed to the “weakening” of the foundations of the Indian Economy.

As mentioned earlier, nothing has been done to alleviate the NPA problem and accounting tricks and gimmicks would not save us from the inevitable “Day of Reckoning” which has merely been postponed, but not prevented. So, we are more or less “on our own” when the crisis strikes.
We can solve our global problems through Integral Education
By: Zsolt Hermann
Tags: Problems, Crisis, Education, Integration, Solutions

Question from the Internet:

“As a student/individual, how can you contribute to solving global health problems?”

We can contribute to solving global problems by first of all learning, understanding the root cause of these problems.

And the root cause is the explosive paradox, the inherent incompatibility of our inherently egocentric, self-serving, subjective, and individualistic nature and the global integration, interdependence we evolved into.

Our inherent nature makes us act like cancer in a system where we should be acting through positive, constructive, mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation.

And since this fully integrated, interdependent global system is “forced upon us” by Nature’s evolution and there is nothing we can do against it, we can solve our global crisis, the mounting problems threatening our existence by changing ourselves, changing how we relate to each other and how we relate to Nature and life in general.

For this purpose, we need a very unique, practical educational method that can teach us and make us feel this global interdependence and how we need to act, behave, exist in this system.