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When it Comes to BSV, Stay Cool
By: Nicholas Bevelock
Tags: Bitcoin Sv, Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig S Wright, Satoshi, Bitcoin

The name “Dr. Craig Wright” is more often paired with colorful opinions than not. On social media, the reigning opinion is one that labels Dr. Wright a ‘fraud,’ and celebrates provoking defamation lawsuits. No matter the man’s legitimacy, this is devolving into insanity.

Pump the brakes.

I’m agnostic to the various bitcoin chains and their claims to the crown — BTC and BSV both have vibrant development communities doing exciting things, with competing ideas for how to handle scaling. May the best chain win.

I do, however, see an echo chamber forming in the vocal BTC camp, comprised of equal parts entitlement and codescension. It’s very reminiscent of the reigning Silicon Valley paradigm. This does nothing for the legitimacy of BSV (again, I’m agnostic), but what this does tell me is the thinkers and doers in BTC might be too arrogant to react the way they should to challengers.

A distinction between absence of proof and proof of absence must be made: Dr. Wright failing to publicly prove he is Satoshi is not proof that he isn’t Satoshi. If this is the standard of proof for calling Dr. Wright a fraud, naysayers should be absolutely petrified by Gavin Andressen’s claims that he is in fact Satoshi.

Risk = Probability of Event ⨉ Magnitude of Event

Multiply whatever chance you give Dr. Wright of being Satoshi Nakamoto by the influence access to 1 million BTC could have on the crypto space.

I’m not taking a stance on block size. I’m not endorsing Dr. Wright or staking a claim that he is Satoshi. I’m not even trying to make a point on group-think. I want to caution all my friends in crypto. Anything can happen in this space; check your confirmation biases and hedge your risk, please.

Everyone who is here found a hidden gem. I want all of you stick around and grow wealthy. Be cool.
A Quiet Storm
By: Deidre Delpino Dykes
Tags: Abuse Survivors, Disabilitystories, Divorce, Self Love, Human Prompt

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

To my ex husband,

I do not forgive you and I do not forget what you have done.

I lived in a desiccated shell of a marriage for years and let you dress me down often for telling you I needed help or for trying to get a job and then losing it because my body couldn’t handle the strain. I slept on the couch for three years because I could not climb the stairs to our bedroom and because I no longer felt welcome in your space. I felt the anger and disappointment radiate off of you everytime I needed to be rushed to the emergency room. I folded in on myself, made myself smaller, asked for less, knew I did not deserve better.

When I became disabled and could not work, you accused me of not contributing to the marriage anymore (you meant money). When I was in the hospital after a suicide attempt, you told me you wanted a divorce (you meant you no longer wanted to support me emotionally or financially). When you got drunk one night two days later, you physically assaulted me (money again). When you got out of jail the next morning, you locked me out of the credit cards (was it always about money?). I remember these things with perfect clarity.

But I also remember leaving our home in the middle of that night and staying with a friend for a few weeks. I remember navigating the courts for a restraining order. I remember settling out of court so I could stay in our home alone for a few months while I looked for work and my own apartment. I remember going to doctor after doctor, begging for some way to manage my pain so I could work again (and I found one, finally, after six years). I remember talking to my therapist every week. I remember getting a job, getting a place, getting furniture, getting back on my feet. I remember receiving the call that my mother was dying. I remember being angry, furious, resentful about all that I had been through

I remember facing down every awful thing that had happened to me for almost a decade and realizing that I had never been stronger than I was now, after leaving you. I remember being reborn like a phoenix, the flames of strife making me a healthier, happier version of myself. I remember not crying through it all. I remember losing 95 pounds. I remember becoming a new person, better than myself pre-illness and better than I had been for years.

I remember strengthening my friendships. I remember holding my mother’s hand as she died. I remember healing my relationship with my father. I remember rediscovering my passion for writing. I remember finding new hobbies that I loved. I remember paying my own bills. I remember one day, waking up and realizing that I was not angry anymore. I remember I remember I remember.

I remember that your abuse actually, in the end, made me stronger. So I must thank you for breaking me down so that I could rebuild myself again.

I do not forgive and I do not forget, but this does not mean I am not healing.

No longer yours truly,

Deidre
Displaying Progress in a Loop or Function [R]
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Code

Displaying Progress in a Loop or Function [R]

and how to create a screen recording GIF in Windows 10

While I was waiting for my not-very-complicated setup but complicated gbm model to run (it’s still running), it occurred to me that I really appreciate seeing which iteration my modeling function is currently on, especially if the run-time is many hours. Partially this is to make sure that the program hasn’t frozen and is still running and that functions don’t get stuck in endless loops, but some bigger motivator might be that seeing the progress fulfills some human need of having control… At least I’m aware.

Whatever the reason, I like being shown progress. Many modeling and other functions don’t have a built-in progress indicator and saves all the output results for after the function completes. One of the simplest cases that can be used to see this is is the for loop.

Note: All the code used below can be found in the gist at the bottom of this article. The GIFs show base R screenshots because RStudio was taken up by the gbm run.

Example 1: Simple For Loop

The GIF below shows a simple loop that goes through the integers 0 to 101 with a print(i) command and short lag time between each iteration.

print everything after loop is finished

The output to the R console is buffered. This means that all the outputs are printed to the console at once after the loop is finished.

Example 2: Simple For Loop with flush.console

The R FAQs suggest as a solution to either change the R GUI buffering settings in the Misc menu (Ctrl-W) or to tell R explicitly to empty the buffer by adding the line flush.console().

Add `flush.console()` to force print within loop

This method can be very helpful for debugging. When writing or editing a function within a for loop, message(paste0(“some text: ”, somevar)) can also be used to print interim results.

Example 3: Pretty Progress Text

To get fancier, install the svMisc package and use the progress() function.

Load `svMisc` to create pretty progress text

Example 3: Pretty Progress Text Bar

To get even fancier, set progress.bar = TRUE.
Create an Awesome Loading State Using SwiftUI
By: Karthick Selvaraj
Tags: Animation, Mobile, iOS, Swift, Swiftui

Create an Awesome Loading State Using SwiftUI

Beautiful loading states

Creating an intuitive animation is very simple and efficient in Apple’s brand new framework, SwiftUI. Before getting started, check out the video below to get to know what we are about to discuss.

Animations

In the above video, you saw five simple activity animations using different inbuilt solid shapes in SwiftUI.

In SwiftUI, we can add animation to view animatable properties using .animation() modifier. There are the list of animatable properties in a view, like:

Opacity Offset Scale Frame etc…

You should apply any one of the animatable properties to your view to get an animation effect using the .animation() modifier. A view with the .animation() modifier without any animatable property does nothing. Being this said, let’s get started.
Welcoming Girls Who Code at Pinterest
By: Pinterest Engineering
Tags: Girls Who Code, Nonprofit, Women In Tech, Diversity In Tech

Sydney Brunson | Diversity Programs Specialist

For the past three summers, we’ve hosted the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion program, which encourages rising junior and senior high school students to spend the summer learning how to code. This year, 46 students joined Pinterest engineers for a day of activities including resume building sessions, coding workshops and interview training.

The day ended with a panel of Pinterest engineers discussing their personal and professional journeys. Panelists included Kinnary Jangla (Discovery engineering), Elsa Birch (Partner engineering), Zaria Howard (Engineering intern), Christina Lee (Android engineer) and Michelle Vu (Core Experience engineering).

A look at the day

From left to right: Kinnary Jangla, Zaria Howard, Michelle Vu, Christina Lee, Elsa Birch

“I wasn’t ambitious growing up. And I think it’s okay to not be ambitious growing up. Life will work out just fine, as long as you follow your passion.” She also shared, “You don’t need math to be a computer scientist. You need the desire to want to be a detective and want to solve problems.” — Kinnary Jangla, Pinterest engineer

“One important piece is how many ways you can do tech ‘right.’ Almost none of the panelists had a traditional tech background. It was inspiring to see how many different ways people came to tech and how they made it theirs, capitalizing on previous experiences and using their individual strengths to contribute to their teams. When looking at the girls from GWC I was excited of all the different ways they had in front of them to navigate their college years, and what they would say about how those experiences shaped them in another 10 years looking back at young girls like themselves.” — Christina Lee, Pinterest engineer

“I’m glad we had the opportunity to challenge some of the stereotypes around software engineering, like how to look for real world learning experiences in college, how much math is really needed, and what we learned from our first jobs.” — Michelle Vu, Pinterest engineer

“The panel brought up the variety in reasons they’re interested in coding, which I’m happy to say was matched by the variety of paths we (the panelists) took to tech at Pinterest.” — Elsa Birch, Pinterest engineer

“The opportunities to meet young people like this is a big part of what gets me out of the bed in the morning. For every bit of advice I can give any of these girls, I receive tenfold that in clarity on why I’m here, working hard to be good at what I do. They remind me of the future I want for our industry, and how building that future takes dedicated attention and a bit of feisty courage.” — Christina Lee

We look forward to the program each year and are excited to continue our work with this amazing non-profit organization.

Learn how you can get involved with Girls Who Code!
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By: Christine Macdonald
Tags: News, Hope, Resistance Poetry, Racism, Covid 19

The rabbit hole of truth. It seduces me with promises of knowledge. It haunts me when I cannot look away.

It is raw.

It is ugly.

The agony weighs me down until my tears lift the cloak of despair.

My tears have been born from heartache with too much consumption: social media hashtags of racism and hate.

Call it shock.

Disbelief that human beings can be filled with such hate. My addictive brain feeds off the toxic wheel of on-line information. It’s hard to walk away.

After another day of immense pain, I have a talk with my heart. Channeling wise souls who’ve helped guide me to where I am today after a lifetime of struggle.

“There is goodness in the world,” I say. “There is love. Seek love with the same energy you follow tragedy. Lean into the light. Darkness doesn’t serve your soul.”

I breathe with intent, shutting off my laptop.

I exhale with hope. “Tomorrow is a new day.”

Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash
Verge Currency and MobiePay team up
By: Swizzlesticks - Lloyd
Tags: Mobiepay, Mobie, Verge, Bitcoin, Xvg

Verge Currency and MobiePay team up

June 11th, 2020

Verge Currency is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with MobiePay™, A New-Era payments & rewards ecosystem, created with the sole purpose of empowering the people.

This partnership will drive our users one step closer to a key element of the Verge Currency vision: our users being in control of their own data, which exactly mirrors the MobiePay™ vision. Whether it be shopping habits, movies you have chosen to watch, or simple social media usage, you should control what you share and to who.

This is why we chose to collaborate together, jumping on this fantastic opportunity now.

Brandon Burgason, CEO and Founder of Mobie™ had this to say “We are excited to partner with such a great team and community. Together we aim to provide more ways to use Verge and provide as much value as possible to eachother”

Alex, Verge’s marketing strategist, exclaimed: MobiePay is THE tool needed to spearhead mass-adoption, not only does it give the digital currency evangelists rewards for signing up businesses, it offers clear incentives for them to sign up! This exactly in line with our vision of digital transactions for everyday life.

Verge Currency is a digital currency pushed forward by a team of volunteers, through the use of VergePay; built from the foundation of Bitcoin, Verge promotes ease-of-use, speed and community ownership. In its 5 year lifespan, it has grown to be a global currency which can be used everywhere.

MobiePay™ is being developed as the universal payment ecosystem that provides a mechanism for users to spend or transfer fiat and cryptocurrency instantly from their mobile phone to merchants or other users. Mobie intends to bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and local currencies enabling a revolutionary new payment standard.

What do you think of this new partnership? Let the community know!
The Illustrated Interview: Summer Pierre
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Spiralbound, Summer Pierre, Comic, Illustrated Interview, here

Every week on Spiralbound we ask one of our featured artists: How do you make comics? This week we spoke with Summer Pierre, of “The Scavenger Hunt.” (Check it out if you haven’t already! And see here for our full interview archive.)

So, Summer, how do you make comics? (Text from Summer, drawings by Edith Z.)
🌐 G20 Won’t Regulate 🗞️ News Roundup — Cryptos for the Rest of Us
By: Shan Han
Tags: Hacking, Blockchain, Regulation, Bitcoin, Coinbase

🌐 G20 Won’t Regulate

What’s the Story?

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) which coordinates global financial regulation between the Group of 20 (G20) nations stated that cryptocurrencies do not currently pose a systemic risk to the global financial markets.

The FSB’s initial assessment is that crypto-assets do not pose risks to global financial stability at this time

FSB Chair Mark Carney said in a letter to G20 central bankers and finance ministers who will meet in Buenos Aires on Monday and Tuesday.

Why Isn’t it a Risk?

The main takeaway is that the total of crypto assets even at their peak was less than 1% of the global financial system. In short, because it’s such a small portion of the global market any failure would be very well contained.

Why Should I Care?

The FSB is a powerful force when it comes to creating new regulatory frameworks. It has been one of the primary forces coordinating the G20 regulatory response to the global financial crisis of 2008.

Carney, who is also the head of the Bank of England, resisted calls within the G20 to start regulation around cryptocurrencies.

The decision seems in line with his view that the FSB will be more focused on reviewing rules, rather than pushing out new standards.

As its work to fix the fault lines that caused the financial crisis draws to a close, the FSB is increasingly pivoting away from design of new policy initiatives towards dynamic implementation and rigorous evaluation of the effects of the agreed G20 reforms

In particular, this shows that while cryptocurrencies may have been in a bubble earlier this year, they are far from being a mainstream part of the financial markets — for now. In short, the FSB have bigger fish to fry.

The immediate response from the market was a rally which saw Ethereum jump $60 (~10%) after the news broke. Whether this will signal a reversal of fortunes for the crypto markets is yet to be seen.
Live Friday Prayers — 8th April 2016
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Ahmadiyyah, Islam, Friday

This live service is for those of you who are unable to attend a Mosque in person today, and for all our Jamaat who are spread across the World.

We are dedicated to spreading the true message of Islam — A message of peace, patience and tolerance.

Click here to WATCH LIVE

Speaker: Shahid Aziz

Topic: The Panama Papers

Venue: UK Mosque (Wembley)

Time: 1.00pm (BST)

Next Broadcast — Friday 15th April 2016

If you miss the live broadcast then you can always click on the link again at any time and re-watch the full broadcast.
Team Zero Weekly Newsletter
By: Zero Currency
Tags: Technology, Computer Science, Blockchain, Internet, Bitcoin

Wallets

Cryptoforge is making some great progress on the new desktop wallet, and there have been a few sneak peeks released already as some may have seen. We’ll keep you updated as we have firm dates on this particular release.

(The UI is also looking super sleek, and thanks to MuphDiV3r @Amazon too for the contribution on this one!)

Our web wallet is also now alive and kicking, and it’s great to have had the assistance from @H_tchet on Telegram to get this one over the line.

The mobile wallet that was submitted this week to the team came admittedly as a surprise, but we are thankful nonetheless. We are reviewing this wallet in the background, and will formally announce further details once this review is completed.

In terms of tutorials for our new suite of wallets, Ingar and Rick will have some handy helping points available shortly for a clear and concise approach to running the wallets. This is great to have as the community organically increases, and we can all no doubt pick up some great information from this initiative.
Reader Survey 2020
By: Frame Rated Staff
Tags: Feedback, Surveys, Features

We celebrated our five year anniversary earlier this year, so it feels like a good time to take stock of Frame Rated and plan for the future.

But in order to do this, we need your help!

Running a website involves a lot of work and organisation, so it’s easy to get stuck in a routine that allows articles to flow in most days. But maybe there’s room for positive changes that we’re just not seeing?

If you’ve ever wanted to suggest an improvement or let us know what you’re not so keen on, now’s your chance!

Click into the form below to participate in our 2020 Reader Survey. It’s six sections of (mostly) multiple-choice questions. It should take you between 5–10 minutes to complete.

We’ll be using the results to decide what’s working, what isn’t popular, what needs improvement, and how we can evolve to meet expectations.
How to Send and Withdraw INCNT from your Dashboard
Tags: Fintech, Rewards, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Incentloyalty

Once you’ve earned your INCNT, you might start to wonder what you can do with it, so here are some tips on how you can use some of the newest functions of the Incent Loyalty platform.

Two different functions allow you to send funds internally to other users or withdraw them from the platform to an external Waves wallet. Incent’s backend tech works almost exactly like an exchange. We hold users’ balances in a secure cold wallet, with a small amount in a hot wallet for day-to-day operations. You can withdraw your Incent to an external Waves wallet at any time which will allow you to exchange it for your preferred currency.

Our setup also lets you move balances between other Incent accounts instantly and for free with the new Send function — which is what you’ll see Rob doing when he settles the tab for the Owl House with Amir.

To SEND Incent to another marketplace user:

Go to www.IncentLoyalty.com and log in to the platform.

Using the drop-down menu to the right of your balance in the top right of the screen, select Send.

Type the name of the recipient in the bar — you’ll get an instant-search list of matching names as you go — and the amount.

Click Send. Your transfer will show up in your Transaction History tab.

To WITHDRAW Incent off the platform to a Waves wallet:

Go to www.IncentLoyalty.com and log in to the platform.

Using the drop-down menu to the right of your balance in the top right of the screen, select Settings and then Transfer Out from the left-hand menu.

Enter your Waves address and the amount you want to withdraw. There’s a minimum amount and a fee for external withdrawals.

Click Send. Once again, the transaction will show up in your history.

That’s it!
❤️ New Ubcoin app version is available for download!
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Ubcoin Product, Android, Ethereum

In this release:

- Each seller now has a profile page with all his items for sale (it is convenient to see all items from one shop/seller on one page).

- Now you can note in your listing whether your item is in new condition or it is used. And you can use options “new” or “used” in the search filters (Android only).

- You will see the seller’s location (country and city) written on the item page. It makes the buying process easier.

- We added the exchange rate UBC/USD in each item description.

- There are lots of other improvements, small and invisible but very important to the market infrastructure.

Ubcoin app is available for ALL countries! Try buying and selling things for cryptocurrency now:

🔥 Download Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubcoin

💥 Download Ubcoin Market iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/ubcoin-market-cryptocurrency/id1410295111?mt=8
Lauren Larson Diehl, VP of Customer Success
By: Sankaet Pathak
Tags: Banking, Fintech, Customer Success

Today we are excited to announce that Lauren Larson Diehl is joining Synapse as Vice President of Customer Success.

Lauren comes to Synapse with 20 years’ experience in enterprise customer success management. Her most recent role at Oracle was Senior Director, Global Customer Success Management, where she ensured the integrity of Oracle’s global strategy for international enterprise customers.

At Synapse, Lauren will lead all of our customer-facing teams, including Customer Success, Customer Service and Implementation, with the goal to unify our customer teams to better delight our customers and help them achieve success with Synapse.

As Lauren commented,

I am excited to join the leadership team at Synapse to drive Customer Success to the next level. We will focus on delighting our customers and enabling greater success through innovation, education and collaboration, which will lay our foundation for growth. I believe that with passion, purpose and persistence you can achieve anything, and the collective enthusiasm at Synapse around democratizing access to banking can help to empower the world.

Lauren is an experienced Customer Success leader with a proven track record in building robust customer success programs and infrastructure, and we welcome her leadership as we move into our next phase of growth.

Welcome, Lauren!
long stems make awful arcs
By: T L Oberman
Tags: Confusion, Love, Poetry, Sonnet, Acrostic

Long stems make awful arcs when heads inhale,

Invert, and strive to earth with its stern pursed

Simple lips and tempting tan breast well versed

And content in curves running head to tail.

Many gardeners do not choose to veil

Inspecting eyes. Oh, where they may have nursed

Growing decline, they quickly think the worst,

Leap forward, and prune the round plants which fail.

In the center of reflecting tables,

Or on the sunny edges of curtained sills

Roses rooted in urns spire toward gables

And wilt to moist folds despite plant food pills;

Then they are pressed thin in books of fables

Or preserved in freezers filled with stark chills.
Online Ad Campaign Bill would require more disclosures for digital ads
By: Paul Dughi
Tags: Government, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Elections, Politics

It’s been a long time coming. Television and radio stations have had to live up to often onerous regulations on political advertising. From requiring identification on funding, how large and prominent certain disclosures are, and maintaining online political files showing who bought what, where it ran, and how much they paid. In some cases, long lists of officers and funders were required.

Online political ads? Nothing.

With all the talk about Russian interference in the last election, including buying ads on Facebook and other social media platforms, Congress is trying to do something about it.

“Americans have a right to know who is using political advertising to influence their votes and their views,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, President of Common Cause. “As technology changes and political advertising shifts to online platforms, our transparency laws should keep pace.”

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee, U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services have introduced what they call the “Honest Ads Act” to help prevent foreign interference in future elections and improve the transparency of online political advertisements.

“In the wake of Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, it is more important than ever to strengthen our defenses against foreign interference in our elections,” said Senator McCain.

“This bipartisan legislation would help protect our democracy by updating our laws to ensure that political ads sold online are covered by the same rules as TV or radio stations — and make them public so Americans can see who is trying to influence them,” said Senator Klobuchar.

“Online political advertising represents an enormous marketplace, and today there is almost no transparency. The Russians realized this, and took advantage in 2016 to spread disinformation and misinformation in an organized effort to divide and distract us,” said Senator Warner

Here are the specific things the Act does:

Amending the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002’s definition of electioneering communication to include paid Internet and digital advertisements.

Requiring digital platforms with at least 50,000,000 monthly viewers to maintain a public file of all electioneering communications purchased by a person or group who spends more than $500.00 total on ads published on their platform. The file would contain a digital copy of the advertisement, a description of the audience the advertisement targets, the number of views generated, the dates and times of publication, the rates charged, and the contact information of the purchaser.

Requiring online platforms to make all reasonable efforts to ensure that foreign individuals and entities are not purchasing political advertisements in order to influence the American electorate.
“It-Just-Doesn’t-Feel-Right” Bugs
Tags: Software Development, Product Management, Testing

Product Craftsmanship

Everything I know, I try, and I Fail About Making A Product…
Controller discussion is excessive, we need more about other aspects
By: Ken Lai
Tags: Networking, Sdn, Ken Lai

Ever since SDN has been revealed and considered as the future in the industry by public. There are abundant discussions about OpenFlow, ACI, NSX, etc. The main focus right now is the software part including southern API, northern API and more.

The discussion about those new features which SDN could bring us has instigated the aspires of this Old-thought-with-new-implementation for network fellows who have been suffered for a long time for the poor management & controllability of network entities.

As I always standing on the side that SDN need a complete solution covered almost all main specs, even though we probably won’t bring it to the real life. But it is a theoretic way to validate the concepts & abilities for my point.

OpenFlow is not SDN as we all have known about. Controllers are not neither. Infrastructure which lies under controller in the SDN stack and also is THE fundamental network seems to have been ignored by most people.

There is at least one thing to have a detail discussion even we only focus OpenFlow — functionality differentiate between versions. For instance, if we setup a controller with a feature only support in a higher version, how could we solve this issue if we only have lower version support in physic devices? Also lacking of practical transition plan from traditional network we are using today to this hi-tech future also refrains us.

More, even VMware and Cisco have their own solution & plan for SDN, we still cannot guarantee they can fit to each other. Since customers won’t bring two SDN systems for the exact same purpose obviously, best choice for them may be waiting for their cross-platform support which we have no insight about the time or just keep themselves out of SDN and waiting.

Meanwhile, flaws could happen even for the biggest companies like Cisco & Huawei. I could specify big flaws about mature switches & routers from Juniper & Huawei though I haven’t worked in them for one single minute. SDN also depends on a lot of chip and hardware work in the lower part of it. Possibility of defects is higher than those we have used for 10 years in design and manufacture. Vendors could make new devices, but we have to pay all.

So, if vendors are really thinking about improving network with their implementation of SDN, infrastructure, transition plan is equally important to controllers. Also, please give us an integrate, solid solution of SDN. Thank you all kind vendors.
Mixin Network Monthly Report — August 2020
By: Liang Jingxuan
Tags: Blockchain, Mixinnetwork, Defi, Namecoin, Bitcoin

08–01–2020 ~ 08–31–2020

Mixin Main Network

•The MainNet has been running for 551 days at the height of 33,187,016

•Mixin’s top 100 assets, excluding BOX and XIN, are worth 117,464,702 dollars

•The Network has 1,354 assets in total

•Complete the upgrade and maintenance of Bytom, Ethereum Classic and Binance Chain Nodes

Current Assets Statistics

The above data were collected at around 14:20 p.m. on September 1, 2020（UTC/GMT+08:00）.

Mixin Dapps

Mixin Messenger

•Optimize group voice call

•Optimize network connection

•Added reminder for repeated transfers

•Detail adjustments and minor bug fixes

FoxONE

•BTC, ETH current wealth management is online

•Start lending business

•Open up the “氢定投 ，Mixin ID 7000102362” account system of Mixin and Fox App

ExinONE

•ExinOne’s fixed investment function upgrade, brand new UI interface, smoother interaction

•“Faucet” supports Meituan

•ExinOne & Faucet National Offline Meeting held in Shenzhen Station as scheduled

Thorb revealed that up to now, the Faucet App had rebated 2.5 BTC, worth more than ¥200,000 .

Poolin

•Launched a variety of structured wealth management products such as Bishengke, Shark Fin, and Bikeying

•Launched ETH and USDT fixed investment products

•Launched ETH lightning loan and term loan products

•Support all currency withdrawal 0 commission

•Optimize lightning swap function

•Optimize App UI design

Others

•08–01–2020

Cedric Fung started a multi-day Tesla trip to the east coast of China, passing through Yantai, Qingdao, Yancheng, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places to gather colleagues who work remotely and meet new and old friends 👏

•08–06–2020

Mixin data bot (7000103056) is online. It is very convenient to view information on Mixin network hot assets, network recharge, public chain synchronization status, withdrawal fee and other information. It is highly recommended.

•08–11–2020

The number of Mixin network BTC exceeded 7000

•08–29–2020

Support the 29th public chain Namecoin, token ticker NMC
Finding an Edge with Blockchain
By: Bob Mcnulty
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Featured Writers, Small Business, Competition, Blockchain

I’ve started to see a pattern throughout the various industry transformations that I’ve witnessed in my time. The biggest boons to any business or industry occur when opportunities come around that decrease operational costs and improve logistics times. What I mean to say is that supply chain management is typically at the epicenter of most expansions, disruptions, and evolutions in business. Figuring out the edges that lead to optimized supply chain infrastructures has allowed me to take part in a few significant and eye-opening shifts during the course of my career.

When George Handgis and I started HomeClub back in 1983, we saw an edge that had been developing across warehouse clubs at the time. We noticed that if we doubled the import footprint of what most other warehouse home improvement retailers were doing, we could house more inventory, decrease our logistics times, and increase our turnover rate. So while more standardized retail operations were doing about 3.5 inventory turns per season with something like $3.5 in sales, we were able to up that by almost tenfold.

That was the basis for the big box retail explosion of the eighties which led to the dominance of giants like Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot. There was an opportunity to improve logistics by thinking about the retail process a bit differently. Those improvements enabled these businesses to become tremendously successful by giving them an edge against their competition which primarily involved supply chain management at its core.
Where can you store your DRT?
By: Domraider Team
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum Wallet, Digital Wallet, Hardware Wallet, Cold Wallet

Whether you have been a long-term DRT holder or have just recently decided to buy DRT, you may be wondering what the best solution to store your tokens is. While we do not pretend to know which wallet is the best, here’s a selection of trustworthy options for you to choose from. Let’s go!

If you want to know more on where to store your DRT, you should check out our article available here.
PPC Bee Support in a Nutshell
By: Michaela Zákopčaníková
Tags: Tips, PPC, Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, PPC Marketing

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Five Reasons Why We Love Palm Desert
Tags: California, Cryptocurrency, Travel, Bitcoin, Palm Desert

If you’re intrigued by cryptocurrency, interested in a convenient way to get into crypto and purchase bitcoin, or are curious about our ATMs, come check our machines out. We have ATMs all over the country, and they are located in some pretty great cities (and we’re expanding to more in the coming months).

Located just a short drive from L.A., the Coachella Valley (and it’s close proximity to both Indio and Palm Springs) is the proud home of one of the newest Coinme bitcoin ATMs. While we think this is a great reason to visit, we want to share with you some of OUR favorite things to do in Palm Desert!

1. Living Desert Zoo and Gardens

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is a desert botanical garden and zoo whose objective is to preserve part of the Colorado Desert in its natural state. By educating visitors and focusing on preservation, the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens provides a safe space for various plants and animals facing extinction in the wild state.

2. Moorten Botanical Garden

Known as a Historic Landmark, the Moorten Botanical Garden is a favorite for those visiting the Palm Desert area. The Moorten Botanical Garden is a family-owned botanical garden housing cacti and other desert plants. If you’re a fan of gardens, strolling among desert plants might be a nice change of pace.

3. Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is the world’s largest rotating tramcar and travels over two and a half miles over Chino Canyon. It only takes ten minutes to get up to the top, but along the way, you’ll get gorgeous 360-degree views. And once you reach the top? You can soak in the view from the top of the observation deck, history museum, gift shop, restaurants, or get some exercise by walking one of the hiking trails.

4. Palm Springs Art Museum

When you get too hot from being out in the sunshine, step inside to the cool Palm Springs Art Museum (they always keep it a comfortable 75 degrees) for a change of pace. The museum features modern and contemporary art collections, photography, among many other offerings. With a quality selection of art, the museum is a reasonable size for a couple hours of wandering and admiring.

5. PGA West Golf Academy

Whether you know how to golf or not, the PGA West Golf Academy is the gold standard for golf lessons. It’s a legendary golf academy where you can get custom club fittings and health and wellness consultations, in addition to tech video analysis. Play a round of golf, then pop over to our Westfield Palm Desert Crypto ATM kiosk location. Our ATMs are straightforward to use, no lessons needed!
Another Syrian Tragedy
By: Sylvia Wohlfarth
Tags: Syria, Russia, Poetry, Resistance Poetry, China

Another Syrian Tragedy

Thumbs Up To The Gladiators

Cold-blooded and blue-less, a liquid

of wickedness seeps through geographical

arteries and capillaries. Venomous

it wriggles and writhes blocking

veins and all access to the heart

with layers of toxic sediment —

our airflow blocked, we will gasp for air

and choke to death, such is our predicament.

Pernicious the words of the heartless

As China and Russia veto

a humanitarian corridor essential

to secure food and medication

to a people suffering a shattered

Syria, strangled in the grip

of an inhumane chain of power greed

and national self-preservation

With a suffocating lack of empathy

and love — for children and their families

anguishingly awaiting a winter of disease —

Assad and his cronies lean back

to watch them die with cynical ease.
Attic Lab`s Answer to EOS Voter Bounties (EVB)
By: Attic Lab
Tags: Eosio, Eos, Blockchain, Atticlab, Cassandra

Everyone in the EOS community is very much aware of the issues that the network is facing with History APIs. The blockchain keeps growing in terms of transactions and configuring the centralised server for logs is a daunting task given the variety of transactions we have on the blockchain. Relaying in case of any system failure is quite a complex and time-consuming process. The need of a solution which is both reliable and scalable to meet the demands of all the wallets, explorers and dApplicaitons is evident.

The community have developed few innovative solutions like Hyperion, MongoDB and others since legacy history solution got deprecated. We feel if EOS scales and gains mass-adoption most of the settlements might fail to scale. We have built our own temporary solution based on Elasticsearch history plugin by LaoMao, but we always wanted to develop our own product and help the EOS community.

Since the time we launched our Full-History node solution on Elasticsearch with native API a while ago, the team has been working hard to develop the EOS full-history solution that utilizes our own ScyllaDB/Apache Cassandra plugin.

Git link: https://github.com/atticlab/scylladb_cassandra_history_plugin

Here’s what the progress looks like so far:

The solution is now going through the alpha-testing stage.

Reached 38,500,000 head block; 2.5 Tb space used.

No major issues found.

Started syncing the ScyllaDB cluster.

As soon as alpha is finished, we’ll start development of the API layer for both ScyllaDB and Apache Cassandra storages and announce public beta stage in order to perform thorough and complete testing process of the plugin.

Setup details:

Apache Cassandra 3.6, level compaction, LZ4 compression, LZ4 compaction strategies.

3 servers

Configuration:

Dedicated Root Server EX42-NVMe

Intel:registered: Core:tm: i7–6700 Quad-Core Skylake

64 GB DDR4 RAM

2 x 512 GB + 1 х 1000 GB NVMe SSD

1 Gbit/s bandwidth

ScyllaDB 3.05

Setup price: €180

Follow us!

Website: http://atticlab.net/eos/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/atticlab_it

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/atticlab/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/atticlab_it

Steemit: https://steemit.com/eos/@attic-lab

Medium: https://medium.com/eosatticlab

Golos: https://golos.io/@atticlab

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/atticlabeosb
Space Ecosystems: China with Jean Deville
Tags: Tech Ecosystems, Space, China Startup, Space Exploration, China

If you’d like to get in touch with Jean, you can find him at the following:

If you’re keen to hear on the go, it’s also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher Radio under Clayming Space.

Enjoy! And please like, share and subscribe, so we know the types of content you want us to produce.
Gereja St. Ignatius Loyola, Jl Malang
By: Yacob Wijaya
Tags: Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Pusat, Gereja, Salib

in In Fitness And In Health
Why building Safari App Extensions is a nightmare in 2020
By: Chris J.
Tags: Safari, Mac, Browser Extension, JavaScript, Swift

Vladimir Cauchemar and Clara Safari

Safari App Extensions is the new way of Apple to develop Safari Extensions along with Cocoa Mac apps. Integrated into the App Extensions environment, it was a logical step to harmonize the ways to extend your Mac apps’ functionalities.

It came with a promising and innovative tech stack for a browser extension: a Swift/Javascript combination rather than a full Javascript experience.

With this in mind, I was pretty excited. I mean: develop for the web with Swift ? This is the best news since the release of Vapor !… Right ?

Or so I thought. I decided to give it a shot, and I discovered how unstable the development experience was.

Why though ? I’ll explain.

The Debugger kills your process abruptly

Yes, you heard me. While you run the “hello world” example that Xcode provides, after 1 or 3 minutes, Safari closes itself, and so does your extension.

You might think that’s a Safari crash, but that’s in fact a part of the dev process. From what I have seen, the Xcode debugger kills the browser if no interaction/messaging is found during a certain lapse of time.

So to avoid this, what you have to do is to write that code inside your injected script :

This will send a ping to the app every second, just like a keep-alive, begging the debugger not to kill your process. However, this should be done only while debugging and not for production code.

Also, under release configuration, this does not apply, and the Safari App Extension runs without killing the browser.

In addition, the docs do not mention this debugger behavior at any time. Well almost, as this archive paper proves that an App Extension can be killed anytime by the system if it takes long to load.

The extension sometimes fails to install to Safari

When you’re developing Safari App Extensions, you might run into that error in Xcode’s debug console :

Computing the code signing dictionary failed for extension with identifier com.developer.myapp

This might happen more often when your extension’s certificate is self-signed.

To avoid this, you have to:

Close and quit all instances of Safari Click Product → Clean build folder Run your Cocoa Mac App first by changing the scheme in Xcode’s toolbar. Run the Safari Extension by changing the scheme in Xcode’s toolbar.

My theory is this happens because self-signed app certificates might expire sooner than Developer Program Certificates. And that’s why we have to rebuild the app almost every time we run the project: to renew the local certificate.

Recommended articles

Being totally honest, those frustrations were a bit legitimate.

I believe it is a common developer behavior to start digging into the code without really understanding how everything works.

Great programming guides from Apple explain the interactions between a Safari App Extension and the Containing App. Reading them toned down my anger and made me understand the overall functioning.

So, I highly recommend to read:
DEx.top Launches Whistleblower Initiative For Joint Project Supervision
Tags: Security, Ethereum, Decentralized Exchange, Blockchain

DEx.top is and has always been committed to providing users with high-quality digital asset trading services.

To safeguard the interests and assets of our users, we hope to track the progress of listed projects effectively and be alerted about project risks in a timely fashion. Hence, to encourage our community to join with us in co-monitoring projects and create a safer trading environment, we’re pleased to announce that users who alert us to the following activities will receive a reward (subject to conditions*).

The activities include but are not limited to:

(1) Criminal activities involving fraud, money laundering, false propaganda and pyramid schemes.

(2) Other major risks in the projects, such as hackings and unannounced additional issuance.

(3) Project team members are suspected of violating relevant national laws and regulations that will affect the operation of the project.

Please note DEx.top does not review or take any responsibility relating to the value or functionality of listed tokens, or the veracity of any claims relating to any of the listed tokens. DEx.top or any of our affiliates will in no event be responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of using DEx.top

If you have relevant information to report, please send it together with your evidence and contact information to bd@dex.top. The whistleblower reward will be determined according to the severity of the activity reported, ranging from 0.3–1ETH.

DEx.top reserves the right to assess the evidence.

We look forward to working with the community to build a healthier blockchain ecosystem.

28 Sept 2018

DEx.top
Press Release: Announcement of TenX Token Sale end of June 2017 — making any blockchain asset spendable instantly
By: Tenx Wallet
Tags: Tenx, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Blockchain

(This is a re-post from TenX see the original post here)

TenX, a Singaporean based company supported by PayPal, focused on making any Blockchain asset spendable instantly, has recently announced their initial token sale for the end of this June. TenX offers a debit card to its users who can then spend their crypto-assets anywhere in the world online and offline without any forex- or transaction fees. Especially noteworthy is their backend, which is based on the open source cryptographically secure, off-chain and multi-asset instant transaction network called COMIT that allows for any new Blockchain to be connected in a decentralized manner.

In March 2017 TenX already raised a 1 million USD round from famous investors such as Fenbushi Capital with Bo Shen and Vitalik Buterin. Now TenX is aiming to sell 200,000 ETH worth of PAY tokens for an equivalent of 100,000 ETH in a public token sale. The funds will be used to offer TenX on Android, webApp and iOS and to also fully integrate COMIT into their service together with additional research projects. On YouTube one can already see videos of users spending Bitcoin, Ether and Dash in stores all over the world. The company’s vision is to make any crypto asset as liquid as a 10 dollar bill in your pocket by offering the most convenient way possible.

For further info and the official TenX whitepaper, visit their website at www.tenx.tech
This Laboratory Earth
By: Alexander Nagel
Tags: Poetry, Spirituality

Intrepid souls abound

upon a hellish proving ground -

Nightmare incantations

quell celestial reverberations.

Amid Squeaking squealing rhythm,

only the gallant confront this schism.