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TOP-10 Greenest cities. Infographic, facts, and a special bonus
By: Anastasia Shcherbina
Tags: Green Energy, Renewable Energy, Copenhagen, Infographics, Solar Dao

New York

The US federal system policy system is specifically designed so the city development plan is often adopted at the national level, forcing cities to be at the environmental movement center. More than half of the city’s bus fleet operates on alternative fuels.

The city improved air quality, using clean types of fuel resources. CO2 emissions per capita are now lower than in other US cities.

Helsinki

Helsinki — the capital of Finland, is famous for its rich nature. There are 40 national parks here, as well as other green spaces. Being anywhere in the city, you can reach the park or the natural zone in less than 10 minutes!

Helsinki is an ecologically clean city, known for its efficient, advanced and environmentally friendly public transport system.

Vancouver

Amsterdam

The development policy of Amsterdam is aimed at the intelligent and effective use of space, energy, and resources. You should note: the city is also the most bike-friendly one in the world. Another central policy goal is to make the city life as simple as possible.

Amsterdam is the leader in the electric transport sphere. Nowadays, more than 2,000 stations for charging electric vehicles, boats, electric bicycles, etc have been built. New charging stations appear every week. It goes without saying that it all use green electricity.

Zurich

The world finance & banking center, the city of Zurich, is called the pioneer in the “society of 2000 watts” idea. The city is planned to use only 2000 watts of energy per capita (the level recognized as a sustainable) by 2050.

Long-term development and country ecology improvement gave great results: the best world ratings on the city life quality, the leading levels of public transport in Europe, inexpensive transport infrastructure, and limited use of cars, even for people with high incomes.

Vienna

Systematic planning at the city, national, and supranational levels facilitates the rapid implementation of climate, environmental and energy projects in Vienna. A huge number of projects on climate protection, renewable energy, waste use and recycling have already been implemented and are now borrowed by other countries.

San Francisco

Organic food + Waste reduction + Renewable energy + Zero emissions + Water conservation = One of the cleanest cities in the world.

San Francisco. Source

Oslo

The daily life of citizens, the result of eco-politics:

Stockholm

Since 1990, the city has reduced its CO2 emission level by 25%. The goal is to completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050. Buses, taxis, private cars operate on biofuel. Several special eco-districts have been built in Stockholm, consisting of new non-volatile houses.

The European Commission gave Stockholm the first title of the “European Green Capital” in 2010. The city has long been searching and solving the problems that face all major modern cities — traffic and pollution.
How to become the “owner” of your data and privacy
By: Wusu G
Tags: Big Data, Privacy, Technology

Background on Big Data and Privacy

We are living in 2020 —— the age of big data. As the volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value of big data increases exponentially, we have witnessed the substantial applications of big data in practice.

Here is the definition of Big Data according to Oracle:

In this era of the Internet of Things, data is the basis of almost everything

For example, today, WeChat(a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent) already has more than 900 million independent device users every month.

Similarly, Google’s monthly activities have already exceeded 2 billion, and Facebook’s monthly activities are approaching 2 billion as well, which is equivalent to nearly 30% of the world’s population!

Take Google, for example, there are as many as 7 products with Google’s monthly activities exceeding 1 billion: Gmail, Google Search, Google Chrome, Google Play Apps, YouTube, Android, and Google maps. Such shocking data support the market value of Google as high as 670 billion dollars, which is almost double that of Tencent in China.

Just because of this such a large user base, with its various applications, make Google obtain a much higher skill for the customization of users than any other platforms. By using Google search, you might notice that there are fewer ads, but once there is one, the clicks for that ad is particularly high, that is because these ads are based on all the aspects of your personal “portrait” calculated by Google.

So this also means that as soon as you start searching, Google is tracking your personal information. Gmail can scan your daily social activity and work content, the browser can find your personal preferences, Google Maps can track where you’ve been, and Android, of course, knows where you are and what you are doing online.

However, with such intellectual technologies, Google still cannot guarantee the security of every single user’s data.
EMX 와 다른 거래소 비교하기, 1편
By: The Emx Team
Tags: Trading, Crypto, Korean, Exchange, Cryptocurrency

in Both Sides of the Table
Daily Bit #145: Voyagers, Phishers, and Auditors
By: Daily Bit
Tags: Fintech, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash

Word On The Street

There’s a new Robinhood in town

Commission-free crypto trading. That business model has been wildly successful for Robinhood, with the company last valued at a mouthwatering $5.6 billion.

That being said, the company will face stiff competition from Voyager, an Uber-backed startup that plans on providing a similar platform to the public this October following the completion of their beta testing.

Robinhood has a first mover advantage

But, they’ll need to expand their crypto support beyond 5 assets before Voyager voyages over their regulatory moat and offers trading pairs for as many as fifteen tokens. Failure to do so puts their market share at jeopardy.

How to cash in fee-free: Robinhood charges interest on account holdings and premium subscriptions, while Voyager looks to shoot below the belt by providing lower prices than what is offered on centralized exchanges.

So, we ask you: is this an early warning sign for commission-based companies? With Voyager entering the niche, we wonder if other companies will follow and whether that will squeeze fee-based platforms. Or will they go the Coinbase route and slap a fee-based model onto institutional grade services?

Be Brave and wary of phishing

Yesterday’s casual hump day mayhem on Google Chrome’s web store highlighted the perks of using Brave Browser. What happened? Chrome temporary delisted MetaMask, opening up the floor for cronies to rotate in phishing software.

So, what are Brave’s perks? The browser uses its own extension service. Meaning: their MetaMask support isn’t fazed by impromptu removals of extensions from sites such as Chrome’s store. That kept Brave users out of harm’s way, whereas regular MetaMask users who rely upon Chrome were at the very least at risk of downloading the corrupted software.

It’s like Binance’s desktop application: everything you need is already there. Meshing in a more elaborate comparison, using Brave Browser is also akin to remaining inside the reef in the Disney film Moana… venture beyond and you *might* have a bad time.

Here, let me audit that for you

Embrace debate: Does Bitmain only account for 4% of Bitcoin’s hash rate? That’s the rough figure obtained after plugging the numbers that Jihan Wu’s mining monopoly quoted in their hashrate disclosure post. Indirectly, this suggests that all reports on Bitmain’s overwhelming dominance on the network were Fake News.

So folks are understandably scratching their chins. One way to check their claims is through a third party audit, and a volunteer has already offered to perform the heavy lifting via Bryan Bishop. The ball is in your court, Jihan.

Bitmain’s disclosures are a step forward for the ecosystem, though an audit that combines quality technical expertise with forensic accounting would put any doubters to rest… or cause an uproar if Bitmain is caught in a lie.
Why Gaia and TM overstep reason
By: Stephen C. Rose
Tags: Sense, Tm, Philosophy, Reason, Gaia

1

Reason means what makes sense. Reason is overstepped when claims are not sensible. The claim that anything human works universally oversteps reason.

The result of believing such claims is risk. Claims of universal efficacy are a warning sign, TM’s claims are sensible but it is not sensible to suggest that TM is the only way that works. Gaia’s claims of knowledge about the aims of the spirit world are not sensible and can be harmful.

Harm is believing in the inevitability of conflict. Harm is investing in sham theories. Harm is believing we know truths that are impossible to know.

2

I maintain that LOVE POWER describes the nature of reality. It is my claim. It is true for me.

If others agree, I do not add them to a list. I advise they give to KIVA. No organization or leader can save humanity, but we are known by what we do and how we do it.

When there is widespread consensus on a proposition tends to be believed. Unfortunately, some propositions prove false. The power and efficacy of love has never proved false, though we have often distorted love by the misuse of our power.

3

I also champion the individual. This is because each individual is at bottom a soul. This is my opinion and the only proof is in the lives of those who understand that they have a mission related to LOVE POWER.

Many individuals do not to believe as I do. But evidence piles up and much of it has survived the basic requirements of science. Failure to see and report this merely delays the triumph of this reasoning.

The revolution in thought today is seismic. A great change is underway. Reality is either all there is or we are left to a binary universe with binary consequences.
You’re Too Dumb to Know What $1 Trillion Is
By: Keith Mcbride
Tags: Politics, Money, Economics, Personal Finance, Finance

You’re Too Dumb to Know What $1 Trillion Is

Or at least that’s what our government is betting

A quote from comedian George Carlin

By now, you’ve no doubt heard of the $1200 stimulus check that many Americans will be receiving this month. Those checks makeup $300 billion of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act signed into law to combat the coronavirus.

It’s easy to let your mind go blank when hearing or reading a number like 2 trillion. That’s because your brain literally can’t conceive a number that large. I want to help change that. If politicians are going to produce trillions of dollars on demand, out of thin air, then I think you deserve to know exactly how much money they’re talking about.

Even 1 trillion is a number your mind doesn’t quite grasp. A number like 1 trillion tends to get grouped with other numbers like 1 million and 1 billion. Your brain just lumps them all together as being really large numbers, but you can’t quite understand their value.

This isn't the first time our government made a wager against the intelligence of the average American. I remember President Barack Obama used to make speeches talking about millionaires and billionaires in the same breath as though they were closely related. They couldn’t be more different. I remember Tony Robbins gave an example of how different those numbers are. He said 1 million seconds ago was 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds ago. While 1 billion seconds is 31 years, 251 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, and 54 seconds ago.

Now that you are beginning to understand how much different 1 million and 1 billion are, perhaps you’re ready to understand how extreme 1 trillion is. One trillion is 1000 times larger than 1 billion. So a trillion seconds is 32,000 years ago.

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Visualizing Money

Since we’ve dealt with imagining the differences between 1 million, 1 billion, and 1 trillion seconds, it’s time to apply that to something a bit more exciting. Let’s apply that idea to money. When most people hear that someone has $1 million, they think that person is rich. However, $1 million simply isn’t as much money as many people think it is.

Let’s start out with a $100 bill. It’s the largest single bill in regular use in the United States. A quick Google search will tell you that US currency bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long 0.0043 inches thick, and weigh 1 gram. That’s enough for a typical dinner and a movie date night on average in the US.
Overheard Lines From The Annual National Cargo Shorts Association (NCSA) Meeting
By: Tavis Putnam
Tags: Cargo Shorts, Humor, Meetings, America, Satire

Overheard Lines From The Annual National Cargo Shorts Association (NCSA) Meeting

The members reserved their right to attend the nearly canceled 2020 event in Nashville, despite Gary’s obvious flu-like symptoms

“Owning a pair of multi-pocketed shorts is our legal right, and they want to take that away from us!”

“Cargos are just so versatile!”

“The Far-Left would have all the Old Navys closed down if they had their way!”

“These Buzzy-Feeds and whatnot, they want us to give up the extra pockets! Well, I say NO!”

“Where else am I supposed to put my meds, my wallet, my phone, and my reading glasses for when I look at the print newspaper that I am single-handedly keeping afloat, by the way!”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Skechers?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our khakis?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Boston Red Sox hats?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our fluorescent Under Armor polo shirts?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Oakleys?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our 2012 silver Toyota RAV4s?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our blonde wives?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our NFL Sunday Tickets?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our kids’ boring soccer games?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our golf clubs?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our over-watered lawns?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our intelligent, child-friendly dog breeds?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our imported Kobe beef?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our Bud Light Radlers?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our annual trips to South Beach?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our sexually suggestive wall posts to teenage girls on Facebook?”

“And these teenagers these days, they don’t even use Facebook anymore!”

“Well, I guess THEY already got around to taking that one away, the cucks!”

“You could try Instagram?! My daughter just set one up for me!”

“Thanks, Gary, I’ll keep that in mind!”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our bi-annual big game hunting trips to South Africa?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our authentic Rhodesian Army Selous Scouts badges?”

“What’s next, they’re going to try and take away our ancestors’ moral right to the very land they conquered fair and square when Chris Columbus landed on Plymouth Rock in 1492?”

“They can pry these damn shorts off my cold, dead crotch!”
Blockchain Report — 5/10/2018
By: Christopher Durr
Tags: Bitcoin, Ethereum, News, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Summary: U.S. Congressmen Speak Highly Of Blockchain During Hearing; Facebook Is Starting To Focus On Blockchain Technology

U.S. Congressmen Speak Highly Of Blockchain During Hearing

According to Coin Telegraph, two United States House Subcommittees held hearings today related to blockchain technology and how it can be used for supply chain management. The end-result of the hearing was concluding that blockchain has a wide number of use-cases despite the lack of standardization in the industry currently.

Congressman Barry Loudermilk said, “If we can get over the stigma of cryptocurrencies and look at the technology beneath it, it could be a solution to a lot of our cybersecurity and data protection issues.”. Other Congressmen spoke highly of the technology, including Ralph Abraham. Abraham said, “if I understand blockchain correctly — and I am in a steep learning curve — it will revolutionize the tracking of goods somewhat like how GPS revolutionized navigation…So I think this is world-changing technology we are dealing with.”

Facebook Is Starting To Focus On Using Blockchain

According to CNBC, Mark Zuckerberg is starting to focus on blockchain technology and how it can be used. Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital which is a venture firm that invests in blockchain companies and cryptocurrencies, said “I certainly don’t think blockchain is an existential threat to Facebook today… [but] could it be? Yes, longer term. That’s why they want to be smart and stay engaged.”

Facebook’s head of its Messenger platform and former CEO of PayPal David Marcus announced that he’s leaving Messenger to setup “a small group to explore how to best leverage blockchain across Facebook, starting from scratch.” In addition to working with Facebook, Marcus is also a board member at the massive cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

Bogart was appeared wary about the technology, however. He said about blockchain “The technology is still pretty nascent. There are scalability challenges.”

Tyler Winklevoss Dares Bill Gates To Short Bitcoin

According to CCN, Tyler Winklevoss (founder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini) tweeted out to Bill Gates to tell him to short Bitcoin after Bill Gates attacked the cryptocurrency. Winklevoss tweeted:

“Dear @BillGates there is an easy way to short bitcoin. You can short #XBT, the @CBOE Bitcoin (USD) Futures contract, and put your money where your mouth is!”

This tweet came out after Gates made a series of disparaging remarks against Bitcoin, such as stating “I would short it if there was an easy way to do it. As an asset class, you’re not producing anything, so you shouldn’t expect it to go up,” he said. “It’s kind of a pure ‘greater fool theory’ type of investment.” In another interview, Gates said “Right now cryptocurrencies are used for buying fentanyl and other drugs, so it is a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way.”
The Flowered Bridge
By: Arvindh Shyam
Tags: Death, Faith, Soul, Poetry, Poem

Photo by Leonard von Bibra on Unsplash

The gears of time finally moved over

Revealing the flowered bridge gateway

Slim and tender it looks from afar

Held together by the slimmest of hopes

The first step is always the hardest

For it requires only a leap of faith

Slow and cautious come the next few

Before we slowly break into a run

Leaving behind the chains of fate

And roads taken through the woods

Into the momentary escapes of desires

And reliefs from heartaches and wounds

Time goes faster on the other side

But memories there last longer

A staggering cost that one must pay

For each shot to reclaim one's soul
Blockchain.com’s Sam Harrison on How Origin Enables New Possibilities
By: Coleman Maher
Tags: Sharing Economy, Venture Capital, Blockchain, Decentralization, Videos

In this video, part of our ongoing testimonial series, Sam Harrison, managing partner of Blockchain.com Ventures, the venture arm of one of the largest and most venerable companies in the space, explains the new possibilities Origin enables. He does this from two perspectives, first as an investor and secondly as a user.

Sam describes his investment thesis as seeking big opportunities in large markets where there can be a fantastic financial outcome, stating that there aren’t many bigger opportunities than powering the underlying infrastructure of internet commerce, marketplaces, and the sharing economy. He stresses the importance of a strong team and the ability to build applications that don’t expose users to complicated blockchain tech, but that just work.

Learn more about Origin:
Chapter 12: Claire Dover: Skeleton
By: Kristen Pizzo
Tags: Novel, Transgender, Identity, LGBTQ, Fiction

Photo by Diana

On the day before the party, the anxiety had already set in. I wished I could go to sleep and wake up in an alternate universe where I could put on my father’s suit and walk out the door. A universe where I could pick up one of the miniature samurai swords my mother kept on display and hack my already short hair off Mulan-style and announce to the world that my name would no longer be Claire. That it never really was meant to be in the first place. A universe where I was completely and unapologetically myself, just like Cara. A universe where I knew exactly who that was and accepted it entirely.

In that universe, I’d stride into that party and no one would give a second thought to my shorn hair, men’s clothing, and flat chest. I’d sink into the plush cushions of a sofa with ease next to an unconventionally beautiful girl who’d think I was just the cutest guy and we’d start talking, eyes blazing, hands waving, leaning closer and closer as the night carried on, and then suddenly our lips would collide and she’d reach for my shirt to pull me closer and..all would be lost.

No. I couldn’t think like that. Not in this body. Not when I wanted nothing more than to unzip my skin and let everything but my bones fall away. Nothing can be wrong about a skeleton. You could lay two skeletons of opposite genders side by side and, to an untrained eye, both would look the same. Bones are bones. They couldn’t betray my mind; they couldn’t show many obvious signs of the mistake that I was. My skeleton would never lie about who I was supposed to be. My bones are not mismatched parts and labels defining my gender. With just bones, I could touch and be touched, satisfying my longing for human contact without forcing me to declare a sexuality or pretend to be someone else. I wouldn’t have to have my torso mummified in Ace bandages. I could simply be free of the weight that my skin and organs and tissues that held me back and held me down. If I could just be an empty skull set on a spine running parallel down a ribcage on a neutral pelvis with bony limbs, I would never be ashamed. Of course, we’d all have to be skeletons then, so I’d never be an outcast. Ageless, sexless, faceless, and empty yet animated skeletons. Skeletons dancing, skeletons running, skeletons touching, skeletons living blissfully ignorant, because we’d be more of beings and less of humans, living and loving not on the basis of looks and body parts and sexual orientations.

But I’d want someone to fall in love with my brain at least, my thoughts and everything. I’d need a new one though, one with just the right hormones. Then I could be complete.

But by that time the next day at the party, I knew I wouldn’t be. I wouldn’t be fearless, reckless, or brave.

I’d just be Claire, undefined.
[Algorithms In Brief]: What is Binary Search?
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Women In Tech, Binary Search, Algorithms

An example of a binary search in JavaScript

const arr = [10, 25, 34, 77, 94]; function binSearch(arr, el) {

/**

* STEPS:

* 1. Define the boundaries of the array;

* 2. Find the middle of the array and compare with

* the desired element;

* 3. if (mid > el) -> go to the left || if (mid < el)-> go to

* the right;

*/



// 1 STEP: Define the boundaries of the array.

let left = 0;

let right = arr.length - 1;



/**

* If the first or last elements of the array

* are equal to the element - return the index and exit the

* function without going into the 'while' loop.

*

* This method improves performance on arrays

* with millions of values.

* /

if(arr[left] === el) return left;

if(arr[right] === el) return right;



/**

* We enter the loop only if there is more than 1 value

* between the right and left borders.

*/

while (right - left > 1) {

// 2 STEP: Find the middle - average.

let mid = Math.floor((right + left) / 2);



if (arr[mid] === el) {

return mid

} // 3 STEP:

if (arr[mid] > el) {

/**

* Cut off the right side of the array

* and the right border becomes the middle.

*/

right = mid

}



if (arr[mid] < el) {

/**

* Cut off the left side of the array

* and the left border becomes the middle.

*/

left = mid

}

}



return -1

} console.log(binSearch(arr, 77)) // => 3 - index of 77
How to Handle UIKit Gestures With Apple’s Combine Framework
By: Rahul Garg
Tags: Programming, iOS, Mobile, Swift, Combine

Creating a Custom Publisher

First, let’s create a custom publisher by conforming to the Publisher protocol. A Publisher protocol is composed of two associated types, Output and Failure .

Output represents the type of value it is going to produce and Failure is the type of error it can throw.

To handle the gesture type, first, we need to create an enum GestureType with the values the gesture Publisher will recognize.

Now we are going to create our custom Publisher.

Since the output will be one of the GestureType cases, we set the Output to GestureType and Failure to Never as it will never throw an error.

receive(subscriber:)

Attaches the specified Subscriber to this Publisher.

Since the GesturePublisher struct is conformed to the Publisher protocol, receive(subscribe:) needs to be implemented. It basically attaches the specified Subscriber to the Publisher.

Since we haven’t created a subscription yet to be attached here, let’s create a Subscription.
「哼不就是停電吃飯嗎⋯⋯咦好像不太一樣？」——無光晚餐體驗心得邀約
By: 曼努 Manzoo
Tags: 設計寫實派, Review, Design, Writing, Experience

in Both Sides of the Table
Practicing Presence in Poison
By: Jemma Jorel
Tags: Meditation, Personal Development, Psychology, Growth, Mindfulness

Practicing Presence in Poison

May it last into calmer times

Well, I’m at the voluntary book report phase of the pandemic.

I’ve read two books during Shelter-in-Place that have been excellent, poignant companions to the situation we’re in. When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön and How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. It’s almost like the strangeness of these times allowed them to soak into the fabric of my being, changing me, freeing me.

If you’re feeling a sense of panic, dread or loss, I can’t recommend either of these highly enough. They are neither affirmations of positivity nor uplifting takes of hard times. Both of those genres sit on my shelf right now, but don’t feel quite right. This is not a blessing in disguise, the challenges we’re facing are profound. But an easy life without discomfort was never promised. I think there’s a lot to learn here.

Pema talks about the practice of letting thoughts and feelings arise without rejecting or indulging, just noticing and letting go. You want a practice for your psyche? Hoo boy, you got it. Can you witness your experience without avoiding it or letting it totally consume you? The current and future impact of this virus was fodder enough, but I also managed to get a bad case of poison oak two weeks ago. Legs, feet and one arm covered in excruciating itchy, oozing rashes that are at times so intense, I long to pass out. I know it’s temporary, and of course there are worse things to have. Entire pockets of society are buckling under reverberation from the pandemic. I could be alone on a ventilator in a deathbed. But in the moment, it’s damn near impossible to think of anything but this howling, screeching discomfort.

Can I witness it without indulging it? Without drama? Without judgment? I’m a full-grown adult and I want to scream and cry and scratch and faint. I won’t say I’m glad for it, but it’s been a powerful opportunity to practice presence with my reality.
Zeus Protocol Partners with Ben, the easiest way to buy, store, and learn about Bitcoin and Ethereum!
By: Paul Almasi
Tags: Venture Capital, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Zeus Protocol and Ben, a platform that makes it easy to buy, store, and learn about Bitcoin and Ethereum, are excited to announce a partnership.

Ben is a mobile assistant for cryptocurrency helping people buy, store, and learn about Bitcoin and Ethereum. Ben’s mission is to bring mass consumer adoption to cryptocurrency use cases.

Zeus Protocol, is a 2nd layer network for Ethereum, which focuses on providing the network with key innovations to support applications with scalable computation, interoperability, identity and off-chain information.

Zeus Protocol’s first solution, ZeusID (http://id.zeusprotocol.com/), will provide their partners and clients with decrypted on-chain identity and insightful reputation analytics, which will give them significant advantages over their competition. ZeusID is one of the core capabilities of Zeus Protocol because it solves one of the biggest pain points of the blockchain ecosystem — trust & reputation. That is why we’re proud to say that for the first time, 30 million+ ETH wallets now have a reputation score, miner verification, wallet persona and graph — all algorithmically verified!

ZeusID Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxMJEOgcRdU&feature=youtu.be

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Zeus Protocol,” said Ben’s co-founder and CEO Miguel Kudry, adding that “through this partnership, we will continue to improve the experience of new users getting into the space, as well as extend additional layers of security and identity verification to our customers and partners.”

Both projects have talented and experienced teams and unique value propositions, which makes them an ideal fit for a strategic partnership. It became very clear once the two teams met that their interests were aligned. Both teams are looking forward to helping each other achieve their goals within the blockchain ecosystem.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Email: Business@ZeusProtocol.com

ZEUS Protocol:

Website: https://zeusprotocol.com/

Telegram: https://t.me/zeusprotocol

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeusprotocol

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

BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4931168.msg44431361#msg44431361

Ben:

Website: https://ben.co

Ben for iOS: http://ios.ben.co

Ben for Android: http://android.ben.co

Twitter: https://twitter.com/getbendotco
Reading This Article Will Change Your Life Forever
By: Chloe Leb
Tags: Life Lessons, Happiness, English, Exploration, Life

Reading This Article Will Change Your Life Forever

Startup Cycling : 39/120

Then you’ll tell me: Can We Really Live in The Now?

I would have probably did the same as you and clicked on this article. The more I think about it and the more I think I will always do.

Does that mean that we would like to see our life changing for ever? Does that mean that we are attracted by the unknown? Or does that mean that we believe that somebody figure something out that we don’t?

Why do we bet on promises?

Yesterday I read the fifty first pages of «The Power of Now», by Eckhart Tolle. Maybe you read it too. It is a contemporary spiritual master shows how living in the present leads to a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life.

I lay down in the bed of a motel to Stratford, in Canada. I was in the middle of a bike tour where I go from New York to San Francisco. Why? For the same reason for which I would have clicked on this article: a mixture of curiosity, a desire of learning and the feeling that maybe it would help me to figure something out on life.

More to read > On Being a Woman Who’s Riding a Bike From New York To San Francisco

During the first pages of this book «The Power of Now», something caught me. I always knew I was an over thinker but I was wrong. I am not my mind. I probably spent 27 years of my life being a thinker instead of just being. Until the moment I read these pages, I always relied on my thoughts. I was allowed define by my past or by the woman I want to be. By travelling I lived moments in the now and during which I felt whole and complete. Then the moment left and I continue to read books and articles, to write and to think as I always make it and will make it probably always.

The human being was made with thoughts. Shall we be never human if we could live in the now every moment of our life? Shall we work, love, care, create the way we do? Should we even work, love, care or create if we can live in the present moment, breathing and observing the person we are and the world around us?

You clicked on this article as if something called you to do so. You were probably sure that it won’t change your life – so why give it a try?

You are wrong. Whatever you think of this article, you are wrong. Because the matter is not to think, but to be. To be conscious that whatever we believe, we feel, we know, this is nothing compared of being.

None of our answers are written somewhere. None of my articles means something or made me the person I am today.

Today I am just someone somewhere in the world, trying to figure out something that can’t be. Thoughts can’t be figure it out. Life can’t be. We are, and that’s all.

If you try to understand a relationship, to lead a career, to make a decision, to have money or whatever it can be, call back you to inhale, to empty your mind and that none of these things really matters now.

More to read > What Means Being Happy in 2016?

Because beyond all, we remain the same and we are all the same. A human being trying to understand things which will never really be.
超瘋狂！這6個比特幣小故事，你看了會想笑還是想哭呢？
By: 加密胖艾美 Fat Amy
Tags: Bitcoin News, Bitcoin, Mibinews, Cryptocurrency, Fatamy

in Both Sides of the Table
A Massively Transformative Purpose to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people in next 10 years?
By: Mike Mongo
Tags: Children, Space, Kids, Future, Education

Simple:

Encourage Kids to go to Space.

Which of these objectives better inspires students to succeed?

Teaching kids global climate change implies global catastrophe. Teaching kids tomorrow’s jobs are in space.

A better question is: Of these two objectives, which will more likely produce all the solutions we need for the challenges our world faces today?

If ever any two specific options have so characterized the cost-reward nature of the “Carrot vs Stick” model, it is most certainly these two. One says, “Stop, humanity. Go no further.” The other says, “Go. Don’t stop, humanity. Go!”

The one approach, the first, is our current direction. It can be expressed so: “Unless we change our ways, humanity is doomed. And we are changing but it is not happening fast enough. So, we may be doomed.”

The other approach, the second, amends our current direction. It says the same thing, while further adding this vital bit: “However, there is hope.”

Space, as our future, represents that extra distance which carries us well past the terminating gloom of “so, we may be doomed” to the salvation-like repose of “however, there is hope.”

Which is why I tell other teachers Space, as a teachable movement, is hope.

Future Jamaican Astronauts.

And in learning about the future, today’s young students must have hope to carry them well beyond the predicament we have found to be our present.

Space, as a bridge, gets us from one place to another — in the case of humanity, from one epoch to our next.

Future Cuban astronauts.

Tomorrow’s jobs are in space. By teaching this to today’s students — and explaining how nearly every job or career on Earth will have a counter-part in space (plus a whole lot of new opportunities, some as yet unimagined or unforeseen) — we give permission to young students to imagine themselves in a future that works.

Future American astronauts w/ astronaut permission slips.

That permission is all it takes to engage all the most fresh, most limber and most uninhibited minds on the planet to begin working on and solving for the real challenges and obstacles we face in moving to space.

And in doing so, by means of our encouragement and their solving for space, we will begin solving all the important problems today facing the population of Planet Earth.

This is no exaggeration. In order to move to space, we must solve for:
Django Admin- Populate subcategory
By: Malak Ben Romdhane
Tags: Programming, Python, Django, Data Science, Web Development

Scenario

The scenario is adding products from Django administration for an ecommerce website.

We have three tables: Category, Subcategory, and Product.

Each product is related to one category and to one subcategory, which is also related to one category. You can see the models of all three tables below.

The product has these fields to fill: Name, Slug, Category, subcategory (which should be related to one category), and Description.

While inserting a new product, there are two select dropdown fields (Category and Subcategory).

The problem here is: When I fill the name and the slug and then select the category of the product that I want to add, I get all the items in the dropdown of the subcategory, even the items that don’t belong to the category selected. So I need to populate the items in the dropdown subcategory which are related to the category selected.
Making It Up
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Imagination, Madness, Image

Making It Up

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

You call for the poets to come

and wrestle the violet cucumber

the arcane torch with a voice

the deadly growing cape with

a garrote to tie it round the neck

The microphone

already belongs to you

your show, showing

the blood that is on your mouth

at the end of every night

Scoffing at what passes for the relics

insisting that copper and gold

should be mixed

that pebbles have a return like silver

And you’re making this up

the belly-flop competitions

the anarchist farmer

torturers with conscience

the elevators that only go down

buildings that vanish when you

glance at the horizon

Those books you furnished

with your lies and images

are at a boil in the kitchen

and you fumble with keys

wondering who melted them

into a candle
Seeds
By: Jonathan James Anderegg
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Seeds, Squirrels, Nature, Poetry

Squirrel — Photo by Author

A squirrel in reverie sits stone as a jay dives below his fence,

indifferent, curious, a dance of balance as she waits

Dashing through the remnants of war like a Jack o’ the dust

Toward decadent consumption of worlds that could have been

Fir needles make a tattoo that is only permanent in the regrets formed.

Profligacy elegant and slobbering feast, she stuffs her face head first

In latent energy before seeing me. Which oak apples cracked between my feet

or pine cones poked through from within the pockets of my coat?

What forms will sprout anew from the twitch of the arm

and the fear in the eyes

of that squirrel, surprised by my presence

Can never be denied.
That’s a rather gross misunderstanding of fiat money.
By: Kady M.
Tags: Bitcoin, Money, Economics, Cryptocurrency, Finance

U.S. dollars are not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who accept it as payment and of other fools who agree in turn to accept it as payment from them. The main difference is that, for the moment at least, the illusion, in the case of dollars, is more widely and more fiercely believed.

That’s a rather gross misunderstanding of fiat money. And a very generous treatment of cryptocurrency.

For any national currency, be it the Euro, Dollar, Rupee, whatever…….that little piece of paper is “backed”, not by hard metal as it was in the past, but by the productive capacity of the issuing country. If the productive capacity of the issuing country is insufficient to back the amount of currency in circulation, it’s relative value falls, and the interest rate people demand to hold that country’s debt rises. If the productive capacity of the issuing country is considered sufficient, it’s relative value rises, and the interest rate people demand to hold its debt falls.

In the case of the US dollar, despite some very poor economic management and some very frightening headwinds to be dealt with in the future (entitlement funding), the productive capacity of the US remains *awesome* by international standards, and thus the relative value of the dollar is reasonably strong, and thus investors are willing to hold its debt at rates which in some cases (based on duration) actually cause them to lose money relative to inflation.

In contrast, there is no “backing” of cryptocurrencies at all, other than Keynes “animal spirits”.

Now, that doesn’t mean that cryptos are a fool’s game; but it is not correct to represent it as equivalent, in any way, to a national currency; there is no productive capacity which “fixes” its value; it’s value is wholly determined by supply and demand. If it is “backed” at all (if that’s the right word), it’s backed by the desire of a small but not insignificant group of speculators who want very much to be able to transact in a currency which exists outside the money mischief of national banks.

(Unfortunately, that not insignificant group of speculators includes drug overlords, terrorist organizations, and money launderers…….but I digress.)

Don’t interpret the above as being negative on cryptocurrencies; I’m not. I’m simply critical of your characterization. Cryptos and national currencies are *not* equivalent instruments.
Blockchain Report — 7/26/2018. Summary: Tron Buys BitTorrent For $126…
By: Christopher Durr
Tags: ICO, Bitcoin, News, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Summary: Tron Buys BitTorrent For $126 Million USD; Coinbase Launches Cryptocurrency Gift Card Service In Europe; Uber Co-Founder Launches No-Fee Cryptocurrency Trading Platform

Tron Buys BitTorrent For $126 Million USD

According to Tech Radar, cryptocurrency startup Tron has bought the popular file sharing company BitTorrent for $126 Million. After the acquisition, BitTorrent’s team will continue to operate from Tron’s offices in San Francisco, “pursuing its vision for the world’s largest decentralized ecosystem.”

BitTorrent is one of the most popular peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing software, with 100 million users. It was founded in 2004, and also owns the popular uTorrent which is the most popular p2p software outside of China.

Last month BitTorrent issued a statement that it wouldn’t be changing its business model to enable mining of cryptocurrency. In hindsight, this is possibly in preparation for its acquisition by Tron, which has its own TRX currency.

Coinbase Launches Cryptocurrency Gift Card Service In Europe

According to Coindesk, the massively popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is now offering customers the ability to purchase retail goods and services using cryptocurrency. This is a result of a new partnership Coinbase has with digital gift card startup WeGift.

Gift cards purchased by cryptocurrencies can be used in over 120 retailers that accept WeGift, including Tesco, M&S, Uber, Carrefour, Google Play and Costa. Currently the service only available in the U.K., France, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.

This isn’t the first time Coinbase has made such a move. In 2013, Coinbase partnered with a New York-based digital gift card firm called eGifter to offer crypto gift cards.

Uber Co-Founder Launches No-Fee Cryptocurrency Trading Platform

According to Fortune, Uber co-founder and CTO Oscar Salazar revealed a startup called Voyager, which aims to offer no-fee trades of at least 15 different cryptocurrencies.

The platform will allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin and other digital assets at the best value available among them. Voyager expects to compete with Robinhood, as a result of waiving commission fees.

Voyager CEO Stephen Ehrlich says of the platform:

“We saw an opportunity to build a dynamic smart order router that can take advantage of the marketplace and also offer customers no commissions… [we generate revenue] by beating the average price of the coins at the point in time we execute the trade.”

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Launching the 2020 AI for Social Impact and Equity Speaker and Blog Series
Tags: Equity, Social Impact, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Innovation

Launching the 2020 AI for Social Impact and Equity Speaker and Blog Series Chiensras Follow Sep 24, 2020 · 2 min read

The 2020 season of the Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact and Equity Speaker and Blog series — a series of discussions on legal responses and frameworks for dealing with algorithmic and emerging AI technologies — launches today.

Register to join us for this free series of remote talks with leading lawyers, technologists and researchers about the role of the law and policy in harnessing AI for the greatest positive social impact:

For more information about each individual event see the series landing page.

Can’t make them all? Don’t worry, concise and in-depth summaries of the talks, books and relevant content and reports on AI will be provided in the accompanying blog series on Medium edited by Robert Murillo II JD ’21 and Emily Chen, JD ’22. Follow us there for the latest developments and additions.

Since 2018, Professor Colleen Chien (@colleen_chien) has curated the AI for Social Impact Series, a series of hosted talks from leading thinkers on the impact of artificial intelligence on society. This year, we are centering the question of equity — and how artificial intelligence and the algorithms around us are making our society more or less fair and prosperous. This season is co-curated by Irina Raicu (@IEthics) (Director of the Internet Ethics Program for the Markkula Center). All events are co-sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.