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The Beginning
By: Gaurav Agrawal
Tags: Newsletter, Cryptocurrency, Coinmonks, Blockchain, Bitcoin

The Beginning

Weekly Letters -01

Today we are announcing our weekly newsletter 👏, now you will get best stories in your inbox directly. There are few important things we want to tell you before diving into stories.

Coinmonks forum: We have Coinmonks forum up and running from more than 6 months. We like to invite you on the forum, You can use the forum for discussions and If you are a blockchain founder who is recruiting, please post jobs too. We want to help community to get hire too 😃. We already posted first job for freelance writers.

Contribute to Coinmonks: If you write on medium and want to publish your stories with coinmonks, send us mail with your story link to gaurav@coinmonks.com.

Donate to Coinmonks: This is important part 😉. We started accepting donations, your donations will help us to hire editors and writers and it will motivate us too.

Now let dive into stories 👇

Starting late last year, I’ve been taking a closer look at the cryptocurrency (aka crypto) landscape. Given the nine years I’ve spent running an algorithmic hedge fund, I’m naturally drawn to the dynamics of crypto trading…...

by Gary Basin

This is the second part in a series of beginner tutorials on integrating physical devices with the IOTA protocol. In this tutorial we are going to recreate the project from the first tutorial replacing hard wiring with WiFi communication….

by Hugo Gregersen

Blockchain technology has come a long way since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white-paper. People have since realised the potential of this technology and have found use cases for blockchain in so many different fields…..

by Stanly Johnson

One of the most prominent (and complicated) stablecoin projects in the ecosystem. Maker has great backing from Polychain Capital, Andreesson Horowitz, and others…...

by Michael Bogan

Do you want to earn crypto too? Do you already use an app on your iPhone which is connected to the blockchain? Read on and find my top-ten picks and be amazed what’s already out there…..

by Bert Bosman

In How Blockchains and Decentralized ID Solutions Flip the Switch on Privacy, I explored decentralized identity (DID) and Web3, comparing 3 unique DID approaches to interoperability…..

by Alex Broudy

You probably have heard of or read in newspapers the words cryptocurrency or utility token when it comes to describing types of digital assets. Cryptocurrency implies desire to function as a currency…..

by Joel Camacho

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— Gaurav Agrawal
“How to Protest Without Offending White People”
By: Jess Brooks
Tags: Race, Activism, Protest

“If there is one thing white people outer-city people hate, it’s being left out. If you watch the nation unite in empathy and mourning for the single Caucasian victim of white supremacy, while ignoring the fact that the same supremacists have terrorized people of color for more than a century; when you see Justine Damond’s death change the leadership of an entire police force while streets run red with black blood spilled by acquitted police officers, you still shouldn’t say, “Black lives matter.”…

There has never been a movement for the freedom or equality of people of color that has gained white approval. Not the abolitionist movement. Not the anti-lynching movement. Not the Black Power movement. Not the civil rights struggle.”
[공지] PXS 토큰 액면분할
Tags: Blockchain, Pundix, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Pundi X is a leading developer of blockchain-powered devices, including the world’s first point-of-sale solution, the XPOS, which enables merchants and consumers to do transactions on the blockchain in physical stores.

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Home
By: Kae Smith
Tags: Poetry, Prose, Home, Scuzzbucket, Mountains

Photo by Kate Joyce on Unsplash

Those tall, unnerving desert mountains welcome me back, shrouded in the darkness.

To the untrained eye, the view is nothing but darkness, but as a born and bred here woman, I can differentiate the darkness of the mountain peaks and the darkness of the sky. That’s how you know you’re home.

There’s a certain part of the drive where it’s no longer the in-between — that blurry not the ocean, not the mountains that I’m sure is home to someone but certainly not me — and the paved route becomes a welcome mat.

The road curves in a familiar fashion, then there’s a third darkness joining the peaks and the sky; the lakes.

There’s salt water on my skin, but fresh water in my veins, drifting down from the mountain tops and settling in the loch; vast and deep and murky. In the summer, the lakes are blue and open; in December, in the night, they’re just another shade of black.

In the Okanagan language, our home is translated to mean a place to stay forever, but in reality it means where water passes through, and sometimes I think that’s about me; always passing through, never settling there.

You never think billboards would be comforting, but there’s those ones placed alongside the channel that runs from lake to lake, and they never change. The one for the grocery store, the one for the moving company, the one for Tim Hortons, even though there’s a Tim Hortons right there at the intersection, does it really need a billboard, and this could really be any small town in the interior, any dry and dusty, summer-time-tourist driven town in Canada, but it’s not.

Because it’s home.
Live Stars in the middle of the token sale
By: Live Stars
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ICO, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Currently, we are doing a great job together. We have sold 58% of the tokens and there are 3 more weeks left and plenty of marketing activities will be done.

Half of the team is currently working on the architecture of beta release and we will start to recruit new team members soon. We plan to implement media server backed streaming and we work on token integration as well.

Thank you for staying with us and stay tuned for more updates!
Discovery of Female Hunter-Gatherers Question Gender Role Hypotheses
By: Oliver Pines
Tags: Inspiration, History, Life Lessons, Feminism, Women

Discovery of Female Hunter-Gatherers Question Gender Role Hypotheses

A read for when you still doubt the equality between men and women

Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer Reconstruction by Oscar Nillson — 1 October 2019 (modified in black and white)

Until now, it was generally agreed by the scientific and historical communities that early male hunter-gatherers hunted animals and the women gathered herbs, fruits, vegetables, and reared the children.

However, in 2018, the discovery of the burial site of a 9000-year-old woman in the Andes Mountains, Peru, by Dr. Randall Haas and his team started to shed some doubt on that hypothesis. Indeed, the woman was buried with an impressive array of twenty-four stone tools that an ancient hunter would need to take down big prey.

The grave goods (items buried with the dead) were to be used by the deceased in the afterlife; therefore, their favourite foods or everyday objects were left with them. Often, social status played a role in what was left.

When looking at more recent hunter-gatherer societies, the repartition of the daily tasks was very sexualized. One could think that sexual inequalities might have been seen as natural. But this discovery provides a commencement of proof that tends to show that gender roles between men and women were more equal in our distant past.

However, this could be an isolated case.

The only way for the palaeontologists to be sure was for them to analyze the remains of 429 individuals in 107 sites linked to the same time frame as the Andes huntress. The results from the study were undeniable: 30% to 50% of hunters were probably biologically female.

In a society that presumably had a more binary gender role distribution of daily tasks, age was probably more important than gender insofar as criteria to be allowed to hunt.

Our ancestors were equal

Another study from five years ago, led by the anthropologist Dr. Mark Dyble, suggests that male and female hunter-gatherers tended to have equal influence on where their group lived and who they lived with. The idea that sexual equality is a modern invention might be a fallacious assumption.

Dyble said: “There is still this wider perception that hunter-gatherers are more macho or male-dominated. We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”

Sexual equality may have been an evolutionary benefit for early human societies. It would have given them a broader range of social networks and interactions with unknown individuals. When you can communicate with more people on an equal level, it allows you to share innovations, ideas, tools, and to have more opportunities to reproduce.
A UX Guy’s Perspective On Bitcoin
By: Joe Kelly
Tags: Payments, UX, Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

Its value to me as a person — as an end user ⼈ — is that I can use it, like cash, to pay someone. Like cash, I am free to create a transaction any time I want, with no-one else overseeing or handling the process.

Compared to cash, the unique value of Bitcoin is that I can use it on the internet. Compared to other electronic payment systems (e.g. Visa, PayPal), the unique value of Bitcoin is that no-one oversees or handles my transaction, no-one can stop me making it if they don’t like what I’m doing, and it’s cheaper.

This is the utilitarian value that Bitcoin offers its end users ⼈. This is why an end user ⼈ chooses to use Bitcoin as an electronic cash system.

Back to this in a minute.
Marketing Attribution with Markov
By: James Kinley
Tags: Marketing Technology, Data Driven, Attribution Modeling, Cloudera, Markov Chains

Marketing Attribution with Markov

How Cloudera uses Markov models to solve the multi-channel attribution problem

Photo by Clemens van Lay on Unsplash

An edited version of this article was first published on ClickZ: Marketer’s guide to data-driven marketing attribution.

Marketing attribution is a way of measuring the value of the campaigns and channels that are reaching your potential customers. The point in time when a potential customer interacts with a campaign is called a touchpoint, and a collection of touchpoints forms a buyer journey. Marketers use the results of an attribution model to understand what touchpoints have the most influence on successful buyer journeys, so that they can make more informed decisions on how to optimise investment in future marketing resources.

Buyer journeys are rarely straightforward and the paths to success can be long and winding. With so many touchpoints to consider it is difficult to distinguish between the true high and low impact interactions, which can result in an inaccurate division of credit and a false representation of marketing performance. This is why choosing the best attribution model for your business is so important.

In this post, I provide some insight into how Cloudera has used Cloudera products to build a custom, data-driven attribution model to measure the performance of our global campaigns.
How I Plan to Construct an Ugly Christmas Hat
By: Lauren Busser
Tags: Wearables, Ugly Christmas, Creative Coding

I made multiple sketches for how the design should look, but I wasn’t happy with any of them until Scott mentioned Krampus.

Krampus is a German Christmas devil who steals naughty children. I started looking at photos on Krampus.com and was able to incorporate the face of the Christmas devil as well.

With that in mind, I went to EnvisoKnit and started creating my Krampus Hat pattern.

I am not particularly worried about materials for this because over the last four or five years I have accumulated an abundance of scrap yarn. Using that as a palette I decided to create a woodland scene with snow falling. The snow will be augmented with LEDs and ideally, a weather API will trigger a certain pattern when snow is falling or imminent to give it an element of realism.

Adding the Tech

When it comes to constructing the hat, The LEDs will be placed inside with conductive thread. I plan to use a duplicate stitch technique to hide my stitch work and make sure the stitches are relatively seamless.

When it comes to the tech I can use, I know of two wearable microcontrollers at the moment: the Flora from Adafruit and the Lilypad. Given how small these are, I anticipate making the brim longer accommodate making a pocket to hide the controller and power source.

Goals

I have staged my goals into two parts:

Create a hat that lights up on command.

Program the lights so that the pattern simulates a snowing effect.

Interface the lights with weather API so that it snows when it’s actually snowing outside.

Possible Materials

Research and Technical Sources

Since this is my first wearable project, I have decided to take a look at books online. I found the following that might be useful in further developing this hat.

Where I Expect to Run Into Trouble?

The hat itself is not a problem. I’ve made hats like this before and know I can get it knit by the end of Thanksgiving weekend if not early the following week.

I expect that I will run into trouble in one of the following places:

Constructing a circuit with the Adafruit Flora or LilyPad: I suspect I will need to string the LEDs and test my code numerous times.

Incorporating the API and getting it to work. I’ll likely have to fudge some numbers in places where it actually is snowing to get a read on if that works. (Knowing me, it won’t snow when I start testing my code.)

Stretch Goal

If time allows, I am hoping to construct a virtual scene that mirrors my hat with a class of snow that syncs with a weather API. This is a stretch goal if and when this hat functions before the deadline.

For the virtual interface, I imagine that Bluetooth might give me some trouble and that programming snowfall to correspond to weather conditions might also be difficult. (It may even require a robust weather API that I can’t afford.)
Decrypting OpenSSL Data with JavaScript
By: Joe Bologna
Tags: JavaScript, Encryption, React Native, Nodejs, Programming

I recently wrote a mobile app to keep track of an inventory. The inventory has about 1,000 records and the app only reads the data. I chose to store the data in JSON format and host it from an AWS S3 bucket. This allows just downloading the file using a public S3 URL.

I don’t care if the file is download by someone else, so I didn’t need authentication, but want to keep the contents secret, so I encrypted it. The pass phrase is included in the program somewhere, but the user must enter a PIN to complete the encryption pass phrase. Because the file is obtained via https, this keeps the data secret until it’s decrypted in the app. The file should not be stored unencrypted in the app.

I’m using the openssl command to encrypt the before uploading it to AWS. I'm using the FileSystem component in Expo to download the file into my React Native app. The encrypted file is then read, decrypted and parsed to create a JSON object. The app just displays the JSON in a long list.

We need an NPM module for React Native that an decrypt data that has been encrypted by openssl . The crypto-js NPM module is used in most NodeJS programs, but it does not work in React Native. A pure JavaScript implementation is needed. Fortunately, some nice folks have re-implemented crypto-js in pure JavaScript and published it as the crypto-es NPM module. This module does work in React Native, NodeJS and a browser.

openssl can encode data in binary or Base64. I found that it's easiest to download and decrypt files encoded in Base64 using a combination of the FileSystem component and crypto-es . Base64 encoding is often formatted in rows of 76 characters with a newline at the end. openssl can create one long string instead, this is the best format. The command line to encode the file is:

% openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -base64 -A < file.txt > encoded_file.txt

-base64 selects Base64 encoding with rows, -A makes the rows a long string.

I tried decrypting files without using -base64 and -A using crypto-es without success. I'm sure it's possible, but using this format worked best for me.

We can use this JavaScript file with NodeJS:

import fs from 'fs'; import CryptoES from 'crypto-es'; if (process.argv.length == 3) { const pass = process.argv[2].split(':')[1]; const data = fs.readFileSync(0, 'utf-8'); function decodeBase64String(encrypted, pass) { var decrypted = CryptoES.AES.decrypt(encrypted, pass); var utf8 = CryptoES.enc.Utf8.stringify(decrypted); fs.writeFileSync(1, utf8); } decodeBase64String(data, pass); } else { console.log('need -pass:PASS'); }

Save this file to decrypt.js.

Now, let’s use NodeJS to decrypt it:

% node decrypt.js -pass:PASS < secretmsg.b64s The file contents are displayed.
Measures to Avoid Investing in Crypto Scams
Tags: Crypto, Investment, Blockchain, Scam, Cryptocurrency

While we think that cryptocurrency is under no centralized authority, has no regulations, is decentralized and autonomous and is ‘safe’ to invest, but we can’t ignore the fact that with time cryptocurrency has been a soft target to make it fall into the category of scams. Its transparency has led it to be a target of hacks, phishing, fraud and theft.

Scam- this word has been closely associated with cryptocurrency today. Due to the increasing number of scams, the popular social media platform- Facebook, and the mega search engine- Google, has banned cryptocurrency advertising. I am glad at least they are concerned about the investors falling into such traps (directly or indirectly) and so are WE!

Here are a few pointers that you should keep in mind before investing your hard earned money and detect if it’s a scam:

Don’t! directly invest into cryptos by just seeing a money making ad on social media Research for the team involved behind that particular currency Don’t judge them over a recent high spike in their rates Review their historical rates and progress Don’t believe in ads/posts promising you to make wealthier overnight It’s a pure scam if they guarantee you a profit by your investment Look for the transparency of the company Scrutinize every detail shown to you Research about the company and their motive Ask questions, and every every information shown to you

Lastly, Take your time!

Featured Image Credits: Daily Reckoning UK
Bones and Black Cats
By: Elaine Hamilton
Tags: Poetry, Skeleton, One Line, Halloween, Trick Or Treat

One-line Poetry

Oh the time as it nears Halloween

pumpkins and skeletons

of which I’m keen

vampires and witches

that fly through the night

black cats yowl and give

such a fright.
“Love Covers All” The Life Principle That Shouldn’t Be Abstract
By: Cameo Contreras
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Jesus, Spirituality, Life

Photo by Robert Nyman on Unsplash

For many of us, it’s easy to get caught up in our problems. Personal and social obligations can either take a toll on our lives or keep us blissfully distracted, anesthetized to what others around us may be enduring. It doesn't take much to perceive ours as the most important issues of the day — and perhaps at the moment, compared to others around you, they are. However, that certainly can’t always be the case yet we can find ourselves behaving as if it always is. As believers, we are called to cover in love, at times this can mean putting the needs of others above our own; and this has been amongst the hardest traits for some to practice.

Still, when I think about those individuals who have made a profound impact on my life, who’ve kept me from abandoning even my half-hearted attempts to know Christ, it was always the love they showed me that kept me from walking away. You have to be a cold-hearted and angry individual to continuously reject pure unfiltered love when it’s constantly and unquestioningly offered you, and maybe that’s why we don’t see the conversion of lives we claim we wish to see in this fallen world: because not enough of us are offering this type of love?

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Oooh, realization and correction just caught me there. That was for me as well as many others.

So I’ll accept what I discern is a challenge from God directly, and offer it to those of you who might find that perhaps your own walk could use a bit more love mixed in. What if, for thirty days we covered every encounter, every difficult conversation with love? What if we behaved as if we alone were responsible for fixing any misunderstandings or difficulties?

Radical right? And if your anything like me, near impossible to do. Still, throughout the time we have seen the impact of those who’ve lived a life in service and love of others. Mother Theresa, Gandhi and of course Jesus Christ.

Except for Jesus Christ himself, none of us are perfect. Still, some manage to live a good part of their lives simply loving on others. The results of these acts have impacted the lives of countless individuals and withstood the test of time. We study them today, thousands of years later, and I’d argue, that alone should be a testament to a job well done. But you decide. As for me, I need to brush up on my loving-kindness. I’ve got a challenge to meet, and I’m not perfect, but I can try to be. God bless.
Why Is The Sky Our Protective Covering
By: Pierre Trudel
Tags: Heaven On Earth, Earth, Theequest, Love, Sky

I am a writer, sharing my life with a partner and soul mate for over 52 years. We love to help others reach their Dreams. Thee Quest. Let us be your compass.

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About motivation, inspiration, productivity & concentration
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #39: Motivation, inspiration, productivity, concentration… all those are common words we are used to hear everyday. But, what we really know about those concepts? Let’s take a quick tour to understand them better and discover some tricks and tips. I’ve personally found much of this stuff really helpful in different stages of my own career, and I hope you find the tools that work best for you!

#1 — Feed Your Fire

A non-technical talk with the goal of giving you a new idea, some battle-won advice, and leaving you excited and energized. I hope you enjoy!

#2 — Inspiration vs. Motivation

It may seem like a subtle distinction, but the worlds of motivation and inspiration are millions of miles apart.

A lot of people use the words “motivated” and “inspired” interchangeably. But I’ve found something different to be the case.

#3 — Help Others Develop Self-Pride

At some point, we need to make the transition from looking for external praise to the ability to praise ourselves and to develop self-pride. If we have never made the transition, we are stuck. If we have made that transition, we need to help others make it too, and here’s why.

#4 — Start A Productive Day

Make your intentions clear to yourself and the universe is by asking yourself the same ten questions every morning and reviewing how the intentions worked out before you go to sleep at night.

#5 — Skyrocket Your Concentration For Success At Work

There seemed to be all the time in the day to get things done, and all the entertainment in the world to make sure that they weren’t done immediately.

Sensory distractions — such as if your Facebook tab is flashing while you are trying to write a report, and emotional distractions — such as anxiety, fear, worry or anger — are the biggest obstacles that prevent you from concentrating.
How do you value success?
Tags: Business Strategy, Software Development, Project Scoping, Pricing Strategy, Product Development

Regardless of the way we are approached by any potential client and hear their “ask”, we won’t shut out any opportunity. We simply have our own way of digging in and determining if an opportunity is one where we can cultivate a true partnership, move the needle over and above expectation, and be as invested in its success as its the creator.

Is there Chemistry?

This one many rub against the money-making business person inside many of us, but it is not something that should be overlooked. Success is not a solo endeavor and a potential client who comes to us looking to tap into our knowledge and expertise, for the express reason that they don't understand the moving parts as well as we do, is a potential client we can hop into the product building vehicle with, and go on a long rocky road-trip with, knowing we will look after each other well.

Can we believe in the mission?

Every good idea has a reason for being. In almost all cases, that mission and passion will be a true indicator of future success. Drive towards a passionate goal, and the dollars and cents to get there become pale in comparison to the need to reach that goal. If there’s a smart and fast way to get an envisioned product into market, that's where the real measures of success can begin. Of course, everybody is concerned with budgets and staying within their means. But product building is a long term relationship where the managing of costs, and stepping stones of investment, will steer you towards success. This is as much an element of the journey we can help with at Finlabs as delivering on design or development needs. By doing so, we are driving towards fulfilling a joint mission, in a financially conscious way, where ROI can be determined for every step of the process in order to stay within financial boundaries and build financial success at the same time as building a product.

Can we, and is there a desire to, add real value?

As I mentioned, even if the initial ask seems to be for a skilled resource or defined development build, we may still explore the opportunity in order to determine true needs and surface areas we can potentially add “real value”. If those opportunities are exposed, and there is a desire to pursue them, then the reality is that the potential client REALLY needs to engage Finlabs as an organization rather than the basic need of Finlabs skilled employee, John Doe Developer. We aim to add value, insight, and knowledge to the mix to take any project or idea to places that were not initially envisioned and push success far beyond expectations
The difference between CSS units (px, pt, rem, em, vh, vw, ch, ex and the rest)
By: Bradley Nice
Tags: Tips, Web, CSS, Web Development, Web Design

I’ve seen a lot of developers (especially novices) and other people who deal with CSS who do not really know the difference between units in CSS. And that’s kind of understandable — there are so many of them, one can get easily confused.

Let me shine some light on this topic. In this article, I’ll talk about three types of CSS units: Absolute, Relative and Viewport.

Absolute

As their name suggests, these units are of fixed size. They do not change according to screen size or anything else. After all, a centimeter is always a centimeter, right? These include

cm — centimeters

— centimeters mm — millimeters

— millimeters in — inches

— inches pt — points

— points px — pixels

— pixels pc — pica

1 in = 2.54 cm = 254 mm = 72 pt = 96 px = 6 pc

Relative

This is where it gets a bit more complicated… In most browsers, the default font size is 16px — I suggest using this value as a basis for any relative calculations. Relative units are comprised of

% — percentage

— percentage em — font size of the element , relative to its parent(3em means that 3 times the normal font size)

— font size of the element , relative to its parent(3em means that 3 times the normal font size) rem — font size of the element, relative to the root html element

— font size of the element, relative to the root html element ch — width of the “0” character (in monospace fonts all characters are of equal width)

— width of the “0” character (in monospace fonts all characters are of equal width) ex —x-height of the font used (the height of “x” character)

Note, that ch and ex will change with the font you are using.

Viewport Units

Viewport units are relative in their nature as well, though they are different from Relative Units. As the name suggests, they are relative to your browser’s viewport size. They include:
How To Be A Jerk To Your Friends w/ Amanda Cerny (Lesson 7)
By: Funny Or Die
Tags: Darren Miller Tamara, Jerk, Funny Original Videos, Funny How To Be A Jerk, Amanda Cerny

How To Be A Jerk To Your Friends w/ Amanda Cerny (Lesson 7)

How To Be A Jerk To Your Friends w/ Amanda Cerny (Lesson 7)

Tag your frenemy who took this master class, then use it to ruin all your friendships! (Starring Amanda Cerny)

Posted by Funny Or Die on Monday, December 21, 2020
“STQ product”: Big Updates MVP Q2-Q3 2018
Tags: Crypto, Storiqa, Blockchain, Stqmarket, Ecommerce

Dear tokenholders!

On 31 May, 2018 we have launched beta.storiqa.com, where buyers will be able to enjoy a wide choice of different stuff from all over the world, discounts and special offers after the start of the platform. We develop our marketplace continuously adding more new functions and improving those which are already implemented. You are able to check now most of them if you explore beta.storiqa.com but still we decided to prepare this post for you to know about all existing updates immediately!

Q2-Q3 2018. Results

Payment with STQ

We have developed billing system, and now we are working on internal system testing. Right now we’re doing some final preparations before the upcoming updates that will include a feature for actually buying goods for cryptocurrencies.

Web-site mobile version

We have made an adaptation for our web-site for its proper displaying on iOS and Android mobile devices.

Shop page

Those sellers who registered on our platform are able to create their shops by clicking “Sell on Storiqa”. After filling all the data required sellers will be provided with the access to the page where they can edit all the information about their shops and goods display page will be available as well.

Backoffice both for sellers and buyers

By choosing “Orders” option, buyers will be able to track their orders status and check its main details. Sellers have not only Backoffice displaying current orders but warehouse accounting system as well.

Order processing

After going to cart folder a user can click “Checkout” button in order to go to an order processing: e.g., add the address or choose one of the saved if there is any.
January. Storiqa results
Tags: Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Cryptocurrency, Stqmarket, Storiqa

Many people have not removed Christmas decor yet but January almost passed — too fast, didn’t it?

Let’s take a look at the first month of the year and gather the most important Storiqa updates.

TURE wallet release

It’s an extremely secure wallet for cryptocurrency payments with integrated currency exchange. TURE Wallet currently supports BTC, ETH, STQ, and allows transactions between its users with no fees. It relates to the marketplace and makes your payments on Storiqa instant but at the same time it can be used out of STQ ecosystem. Download:https://itunes.apple.com/app/ture/id1448865994

Selling guides for Storiqa sellers

We have launched the knowledge base that could help sellers to boost their sales or start their own business. Storiqa will be not only a marketplace but a community of experienced people who sell globally and make high profit. Read:https://storiqa.com/selling-guides/

The development of the platform

We have added a description editor to allow editing product and shop info, highlighting the text and uploading extra images; switched to our own payment system; and we are still in changes. You can find our current development plans using the hashtag #stq_product.

Referral system

We have released a referral system that can make you get a passive income from shops that you like. If you invite a favorite seller to Storiqa with your referral link, we will pay you 1% from every sale of this store. You will find the referral link in your profile settings at storiqa.com.

Tomorrow we will share our plans for February so don’t miss it and stay tuned with Storiqa!
A New Love
By: Ravyne Hawke
Tags: Poetry, Life Lessons, Spirituality, Love, Spiritual Saturdays

take all of me, sweet Spirit

don’t let me fade away

blood curdles in my veins

breathe into me new life

chase away the doubt and despair

the stench of death looms

heavy, heavy upon my heart

lift these burdens from my bones

give me new wings of flight

never wanted to be this dead inside

release these memories from my mind

that twist into ashen visions

would have preferred one last breath

one last lingering kiss

to spiral in your sweet embrace

give to me instead joy and love

and contentment you know I desire

Why wasn’t our existence meant to be?

fill me, renew me

make me whole again

© 2020 Lori Carlson. All Rights Reserved.
MITH is listed on Swapzone｜秘銀 X Swapzone|미스릴, 스왑존에 상장합니다
Tags: Exchange, Ecosystem, Listings, Blockchain, Mith

We are thrilled to announce that you can now exchange MITH on Swapzone !

Swapzone is a cryptocurrency exchange aggregator. Browse through services, compare exchange rates and swap cryptocurrency in just one interface. The crypto space is striving for transparency and usability, Swapzone is here to take the leap!

Swapzone official website: https://swapzone.io/

MITH is dedicated to keep building up the MITH Ecosystem for users to Earn and Spend MITH. More partnerships and listings will be coming up in the future.

Do not hesitate to email us (contact@mith.io) for business inquiries.
Principle #2: Yes, And…. Principle #2: Yes, And…
By: Elan Bailey
Tags: Thriving Teams, Organization Development, Team Development, Leadership Development, Adaptive Leadership

Whether you’ve actually done improv or not many people are familiar with the idea of Yes, and. More than just a fun way of improvising the scene, it’s an opportunity to alter our relationship to ourselves and to life. We get to suspend all of the resistance and conditions we place on how life and others should be.

“Yes,” is the act of accepting what is as perfect for the moment instead of shoulding all over ourselves and each other.

“And,” is the act of bringing yourself into relationship to what is happening. It is a way of including yourself and each other. In the process we create a sense of belonging for everyone on the team.

Yes, And is an incredible culture building tool giving us a practical tool to allow for diverse ideas and experiences and develop new levels of synergy in our execution and deliverables.
Keras Image Classifier on AWS Sage-Maker
By: Pranav K
Tags: Machine Learning, Keras, Sagemaker, Neural Networks

I still remember I used to hate Neural Networks subject in my engineering course but after spending 7 years into the software industry and seeing various use cases I decided to give it a go again. Yeah, I know you may call it a desire to solve business problems or just an interest in technology.

Recently after spending nearly 6 months, I got my Professional certification on AI & Machine Learning. I really like how the course was designed and I got a chance to know more deeply about ‘Deep Learning & Neural Networks’ with libraries such as PyTorch, Google’s TensorFlow, and Keras. Among all these Keras is the one which interests me more and I guess why because their tag line is “Keras is an API designed for human beings, not machines.”

Today, we will build a simple fully custom image classifier, using a transfer learning mechanism that you can very easily lift and try using yourself for your own projects. Whether you’re totally new to the platform or have played with the Sage-Maker before, you should walk away from this article equipped with the knowledge necessary to run your own custom machine learning jobs and endpoints on top of AWS (Because I really like AWS!)

The objective of this article is to show how to create and train a simple Keras model to classify an image between two classes of X-Ray: Normal and Pneumonia.
HWFO Newsletter 11/12/2020 … YOU ARE (HERE)
By: Bj Campbell
Tags: Politics, Election Fraud, Covid 19

This is a screenshot from a Facebook discussion I was in, in early October. Annotated.

Enough said about that.

New Material

Quitting drinking for a bit has led to insomnia, and insomnia leads to articles, so everyone wins.

The current media melee revolves around election fraud and Biden’s Covid plans. On election fraud, I find it highly likely that there was some fraud somewhere, but intensely unlikely it could have possibly changed the result of the presidential election. Put simply, you’d have to have an operation much larger than 20,000 votes worth of fraud to have stolen it. Orders of magnitude larger. Biden is president, we all should accept that as quickly as possible, although rooting out fraud is good for its own sake. Conceptual Fraud Math, with time travelling spacemen:

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/an-outside-look-at-election-fraud-87bdba723e73

Part of the great Covid debate is how vaccines should be distributed, and who gets to choose that distribution plan. Cuomo has been all over the media talking about this, and pissing people off, and potentially killing people with his actions, but he has a curious point that’s definitely valuable and is worth looking at. Stacking Cuomo’s bodies to find the nugget beneath the math:

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/steelmanning-cuomos-body-count-3e53a09b5203

Stay frosty.
Trustworthy Vs. Trustless Apps
By: Lane Wagner
Tags: Crypto, Open Source, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Trustworthy Vs. Trustless Apps

By Lane Wagner on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

In the wake of the hearings about Facebook’s new Libra blockchain, it is more important than ever that we all understand the difference between trustworthy and trustless apps.

A trustworthy app is an app whose developers are known and trusted by the community. The developer’s reputations and businesses are on the line, so they are motivated to make sure their applications have few bugs and no malicious code.

A trustless app is an app whose code is open source so that the community can see for themselves that the code has few bugs and no malicious code. Trustless apps are cryptographically signed by the developers so that users know that the application they download corresponds to the open-source code. Trustless apps also don’t move user data unless it is encrypted by keys only the user holds.

Facebook is at best a trustworthy app. They say they will keep our information secure, and our only choice is to trust them. When they inevitably fail to secure user data, congress comes down hard on them but fails to understand the problem. User data should be trustless.

Which Is Better?

Ideally, an application is trustworthy and trustless. It is open-source and manages user data properly, which can be verified by the users and community. It also means that the developers aren’t anonymous and are available in case something goes wrong.

However, if you have to choose between a trustworthy and trustless app, trustless is better every time. “Don't trust, verify“ is the best motto when it comes to your private data.

For this reason, Bitcoin is better than banks, and opensource security software will always be safer than proprietary solutions. Stay safe out there and always do your own research!
What Changes You
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Relationships, Musing, Poetry, Poem

What Changes You

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Not the fragments

crammed into your drawers

extra thread you never use

times and dates

more numbers than you thought

you could hold onto

What was going to scrape

clean these etches with ink described

countenances and clinical variety

with subjects and objects

nicely blended, everywhere

a gallery of hate?

These woodcuts don’t belong to you

or the wisdom I put up against

the world raining on my vision

taking the snow up to the eaves

raking in solitude as more plentiful

than the fucking leaves

I cannot now

begin to open up, to brace for the torture

the lines that might be coming

the sad state of words that weren’t

up to expressing the lack of coffee

one morning

Bitterly afraid of what it is

that changes the depth of you

that organizes revolt in my name

then there are the images

that stay late for the hauntings

the trial and verdict

long gone asleep
SRNT is now listed on Kkcoin
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Forex, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Hello everyone!

Tokens of the Serenity blockchain escrow platform are now listed on KKcoin exchange.

Info: Kkcoin exchange is registered in Singapore, the financial center of the world, providing global users with crypto-trading such as bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and other digital assets and aggregating a number of global high-quality blockchain assets. Kkcoin cooperates with world-class liquidity providers to ensure the fast and convenient transactions.

Trade SRNT on KKcoin

At the moment SRNT tokens are also listed on Yobit (ETH / BTC) and EtherDelta exchanges.
How to Carry $50 Million through TSA
By: Nicholas Bevelock
Tags: Blockchain, Big Government, Cryptocurrency, Search And Seizure, Bitcoin

Anyone would tell you that it is ill-advised to hop on a flight with a suitcase full of cash. That this is a commonly accepted fact is a sad state of affairs. In clear defiance to the fact that the fact that cash makes a poor knife, gun, or high explosive, and especially to the fact our justice system supposedly presumes innocence, there are apparently statutes that allow the government to seize cash. The reason for these statutes: sometimes money launderers do that. Innocent until proven guilty anyone?

Not abusive in the least

Such is life. And we know this, as we know that flying with a bunch of cash in a suitcase is risky for a number of reasons; reasons beyond unjust government seizure. Sometimes, however, you might have to deal with situations that are less than ideal. Such is life. Life happens to people all the time, as this guy, this guy, or this guy will tell you. The fact is, traveling with cash has different attributes that make it preferable to relying on cards alone, but using cash as it was intended now comes with considerable risk.

Cryptocurrencies provide an invaluable solution to this issue, as they function as a true electronic cash; fundamentally different from electronic bank transfers. It may seem simple to point out, but a sum of money, no matter how large, is weightless in a bitcoin wallet. This means with properly secured bitcoin, you could go through a random TSA search, hop on a plane and fly anywhere with $5 billion cash in your possession if you really wanted to. It goes beyond badly behaved agencies — imagine carrying cash that can’t be taken from you when mugged. Even in a nightmare scenario where a government agency is somehow aware you own bitcoin and wants to seize it, if you’re trained in how to properly secure your bitcoin, there is absolutely nothing they can do to separate you from your cash.

As times become increasingly orwellian, readying yourself with knowledge of bitcoin best ownership practices could prove literally invaluable.

Bitness offers education and engineering services for individuals and businesses seeking opportunity in the brave new world of blockchain.
Perform.
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Relationships, Fiction, Creative Writing, Short Story, Sex

Perform.

A short story.

Photo by josue rosales on Unsplash

I thought her orgasms sounded fake. But I think everyone’s orgasms sound fake unless they are my own.

She sounded performative, pornographic, and a little too determined. I understood. She thought he was rich and he thought she was helpless. It was the same tired thing.

I was just setting up the router. Maybe, with internet, they’d stop their fucking.

Orgasms, I thought, should sound like someone is stealing something from you. The sound should be involuntary, like being stabbed in the lungs.
“Gün Olur Asra Bedel” Hakkında
By: Mücahit Muhammet Karakuş
Tags: Kişisel Gelişim, Kitap, Edebiyat, Türkçe

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The Tension of Thanksgiving
By: Michael Murray
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Sadness, Jesus, Thanksgiving

There is a tension to embrace this Thanksgiving.

To be fair, I think the tension is there every year, but it is especially present in a year where we’ve experienced so much loss.

God calls us to be thankful, but he also calls us to mourn with those who mourn.

I don’t know about you, but when COVID first began earlier this year, I never imagined we’d be dealing with it going into the holiday season.

For some of you, this Thanksgiving is the toughest Thanksgiving you’ve ever faced. The losses have been insurmountable this year, and you don’t really feel like celebrating. That’s okay. I stand with you. My encouragement to you is to know God is with you.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18, NIV)

When we see friends and family who are sad, our first instinct is to want to fix them. We mean well. “Cheer up,” we say, with all sincerity. “Look at all you’ve got to be thankful for.”

There are times when it can be helpful to remind others of their blessings. But more often than not, I think our call is to sit with people in their grief. As we are reminded in Proverbs:

Singing light songs to the heavyhearted

is like pouring salt in their wounds. (Proverbs 25:20, MSG)

The tension of Thanksgiving is to express our gratitude while still acknowledging the pain and mess of this world. I believe a grateful heart is also a mournful heart. A friend of mine captured this tension well when she posted on Facebook, “Grief has sharpened my gratitude and gratitude has in turn softened my grief.”

I think Paul embraces this tension well in one of the most-quoted verses of Scripture:

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6–7, NIV, emphasis mine.)

Paul tells the Philippians not to be anxious. But why would he need to tell them that?

Because he knows there’s plenty of things in this world to be anxious about!

And God knows it, too.

Even in our anxiousness, the invitation is to go to God and tell him how we’re feeling. He doesn’t promise our circumstances will change, but he does promise peace in the middle of those circumstances.

And so, no matter where you find yourself on this Thanksgiving day — whether you are joyously celebrating or just trying to make it through the day; whether your gratitude list is overflowing off the page or it’s a struggle to scribble down one item — my prayer is that you would feel the peace of God.

May this day be a reminder that you are loved by Jesus.

P.S. Feel free to skip the veggies this year and go right to the pie. You’ve earned it!