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There are a number of projects [below] I am interested in and have
yet to pull the trigger and invest in.

Some of the newer projects have generated so much attention that
the threads are numerous and some are quite big so i feel that unless
I am keeping up to date it is easy to fall behind, and difficult to
catch up while keeping tabs on my existing portfolio.

So I have 12 sMerit to spend for information about the following:

Qtum - 0 merit remaining
Capp - 0 merit remaining
Iota -  1 merit's remaining
Steem - 0 merit's remaining
ETC - 0 merits remaining

Criteria:
I'm looking for relevant and up to date info, im not looking for info
taken from the first page of an ANN thread, I can read that myself.
I am looking for information and links and verified technical info to
back it up.

Reward:
3 merit's per project [above]
1 merit per person

Conditions:
I will not be answering questions about why I did or did not reward
particular posts, I will be rewarding on what interests me or persuades
me to finally invest in the above.

Here is the original merit announcement thread > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0;topicseen

and a quote from theymos from that thread:
"While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with."

How about activity token project? if you can't mine the coins you have mentioned, you might as well buy my activity token, every time I put some sell orders on Waves decentralized exchange, my orders would get canceled the next time I'd login to my Waves wallet.

I don't have any whitepaper for my token, because people already know everything there is to it, Bitcoin killer, much better and faster and cheaper, it will change the(my) world.

You just buy them, I will do the rest and would tell you that my tokens are fee-less. on paper, they all are really something, you have to invest on every token, coin. there is no useless coin in crypto, they are just selling you the future of crypto currencies cheap, nobody would ask them, why are you selling them? why don't you keep them for yourself?

I'm keeping my tokens for myself, they are the future right? a man has got to eat right?

Why would you sell 100 Million coins for $0.01 each and then *deving them into something worth $1 to make others rich? you could *dev them and then sell them for $1.

Hey,

Information about steemit:

I joined Steemit July 2017. My Profile Link:

https://steemit.com/@roy92

Steemit is a social network and content rewards platform that makes the crowd the beneficiaries of the attention economy. It does this be rewarding users with STEEM.

So this means, if you creat content, it can get upvotet by others. The more SteemPower you have, the stronger is your Upvote. But tbh, only the whales are getting bigger, because they upvote theyr own posts, so theyr posts are on the mainpage and only the posts of the whales are visible.

And Steem is the name of the Blockchain, Steemit is the front end. There are other frontend applications, running on the Steem Blockchain, like Dtube.

Oh and SteemBackedDollars (SBD) are a "stable" trading utility coin. SBD was considered to stay stable in the range of 0.9-1.1 USD. But it is enflated to high. It is currently on 3.3 $/SBD.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask me here or PM me.

Btw i need 10 Merit to reach Member rank  :P

This is something i posted in one of the Cappasity yesterday

According to the Cappasity Blog they have collaborated in some way with the Alibaba team
for implementing the Alibaba cloud platform to reach the China market.
Im not sure how far the partnership goes other than alibaba renting their cloud platform,
but it is positive and an impressive name to be associated with.

Here is the blog link
https://blog.artoken.io/cappasity-platform-launch-in-china-99a2be8dfe73

and the quote from that
"We utilize Google Cloud Platform for users from all over the world, except China where from now on we will be using Alibaba Cloud Platform."

Sorry, this is not relevant


Thanks for taking an interest in the thread and thanks for the info but its
general information which can be found on their ANN post.
You are welcome to post further info.

But only 1 merit will be awarded to 1 person regardless on the number of
posts they make.


1 merit awarded, thanks for the info!

I see you that you are looking for particular posts for specific topics, I have a topic which somewhat shows the domino effect of all the specific topics that you are looking for, and maybe you could consider giving me a merit ahehehe..... thank you kind Sir/Ma'am. =)

I am pretty active on Bitcointalk's Steemit topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1466593.0) and I have been a Steemian for around a year now. Ask me anything about it. I will help you. As for the latest updates, there aren't many. Just one that Steem was recently listed on Binance. I'll be waiting for your questions!

Tell me of the latest developments

This is the great news  about iota the Bosch the 131 old years company are investing in iota I'm not pretty sure this news is up to date but still this is a great news for iota holders.

https://www.ccn.com/bosch-bets-big-on-iota/
https://m.calcalistech.com/article.aspx?guid=3731506

Hi, I found news about QNTM :
1. Spacechain launch satellite hosting a QTUM  node into space.
2. Progress in the Chinese market, China's government has been surprisingly open to companies working with QTUM.
3.  Qihoo 360 and Baofeng, have established significant partnerships with the QTUM Foundation to experiment with integrating QTUM into their products.
4. Massive increase in Chinese Proof of Stake nodes , now over 1500 ( total nodes 3600) was 1000 in China and 3000 worldwide 3 days ago.

This caused grow in QTUM price in the last days and it’s a good prospective for the future development.

Source: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@kjnk/qtum-s-price-surges-after-a-massive-increase-in-chinese-proof-of-stake-nodes
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qtum/comments/7slzll/satellite_is_ready_making_qtum_the_first/?st=JDJ3012E&sh=f400bd0b.

Founders of new very hype project Fusion was heading company Bitse, that made a business incubator for QTUM project :) Proof https://t.me/FUSIONFoundation/66771

Very interesting, thanks for the links.
'As long as they don’t mislead the public about the nature of their partnership the way they did with Microsoft of course.'
1 merit awarded

Brilliant thanks for the info.
1 merit awarded

Steem


Steem is a cryptocurrency used to power the platform Steemit - an incentivized blockchain social media platform.

Users create and curate content on Steemit just like other social news platforms (e.g. Reddit, Hacker News) and get rewarded in Steem for their work.

Steem, another advanced money made to boost the utilization of Steemit, another examination in web-based social networking, has detonated in the previous couple of days, taking third place after Ethereum, with a present market top of more than $200 million, yet would this be able to really work or is it only a craze?

Source :https://www.weusecoins.com/what-is-steem/

Ill give this a shot. This is my own analysis and not from the thread.

IOTA is dangerous due to low liquidity and will not break out of the current price slump until volume increases. Why?

Last 24 hour volume is ~$40 million USD worth of IOTA trading. On a market cap of $5.2B the liquidity ratio is only 0.007%. Just like stocks, low volume assets are subject to market manipulation when small volume can be manipulated by large holders by working the Bid Ask spread.

As a comparison, all of the top 20 market cap coins have a larger volume in USD terms (or any currency for that matter). This is a given for the larger coins as the market cap comes with larger volumes although Stellar is similar in ratio. In addition the volume in USD of all of the top 20 coins is larger than IOTA. This includes much smaller by market volume coins like Bitcoin Gold with volume at $4.2 million on market cap half of IOTA. The 20th ranked coin VeCoin has a market cap of $2B with volume over $50 million. Over twice the volume ratio or twice as liquid.

Why is volume important?

Volume allows a coin to move. Less volume means large swings in bid ask move the coins value. In other words large investors can manipulate the price much easier. If bad news were to hit sellers will chew through buy orders and drive the price down. The opposite for good news.

What does low volume indicate?

Large institutional ownership which has a vested interest in not selling. Low interest in trading a coin both for buying and selling. In the case of IOTA we really do not know why the low volume. As recent as December volume crossed $2 billion/24 hours during the run up. Volume can help track or help indicate future direction of crypto coins. Typically volume decreases on dips and increases in run-ups. Use the volume of IOTA pick buys/sells.

To put all this in pespepctive Litecoin typically leads all of the top 10 coins in liquidity usually around ~5% per day trading hands. ATM Litecoin is showing nearly $9B market cap with $488 million trading volume. For the top coins 2% is a healthy number. Look for IOTA to move up only when liquidity crosses the 2% ratio of volume 24 hours/marketcap.

I did not post links but all numbers can be verified on coinmarketcap. I track these numbers daily to spot trends. I am not a fan of IOTA because of the low volume. Too risky for me.

I am looking for up to date info for ETC Ethereum Classic

if anyone would care to help?

I follow ETC also and have seen today something who looks interesting for me so I want to share it:

1) A actual chart about ETC: https://twitter.com/MNPoppe/status/965531618315309057

2) News about ATH: https://themerkle.com/ethereum-classic-price-may-reach-a-new-all-time-high-later-today/

Thanks for the links, 1 merit awarded.

Some news about QTUM:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qtum-launches-satellite-for-blockchain-advantages-with-spacechain-foundation-collaboration-300594163.html
"Qtum Launches Satellite for Blockchain Advantages with SpaceChain Foundation Collaboration"

The official site of SpaceChain: http://spacechain.com/

https://crypto-lines.com/2018/02/12/cryptocurrencies-you-should-pay-attention-to/
"3 Cryptocurrencies you should pay attention to"

https://twitter.com/SakerAli13/status/966045739313975296
"Blockchain platform comparison" (QTUM, NEO, Achain, Ethereum, Wawes)

1 merit awarded for the twitter link, interesting chart.

I see you asking info about Steemit.
Is this platform alive? I have registered here one month ago, but I never get a confirmational email or anything from them.
When I try to log in, I am an unknown user. Looks like dead platform

I'm really active on Steemit and I haven't seen any really good updates being mentioned in this topic yet.
Will try my best to mention most of the updates here.


The Steemit Winter update was just posted 6 days ago.

Source: https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/steemit-winter-update-2017-reflection-our-vision-statement-and-mission-and-a-look-forward

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- The biggest announcement in there was that they will be developing SMT's (smart media tokens). They will for example allow Steemit communities to distribute reward tokens to their members. (also other stuff)

- They will not be releasing their mobile app yet

- Changes to their communication strategy in 2018.

- They will work on scaling

- effortless onboarding (sign up + Hardfork 20) -> https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/proposing-hardfork-0-20-0-velocity

---

It's also worth noting that Steemit has gotten under 1000 in the Alexa rankings and it has been the most active blockchain of all coins.

Sources:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@maxg/steemits-alexa-ranking-is-now-981-on-02242018
https://blocktivity.info/ (blockchain activity, Steemit most active)

You don't have to give me merit perse, I just wanted to give you the most up to date info.

---

Confirmation takes a while and registrations are confirmed sporadically. They are working on that though...

Here's what you have to do to speed up the process:
https://steemit.com/help/@hopehuggs/njbyufvy  (What To Do if Your Steemit Account is Not Confirmed in 7 Days (Or You Haven't Seen the Email Verification Either))

Thanks for the links and info, well written up sir.
1 merit awarded. [Taken from Capp merit]
I am no longer awarding merit for Steemit info.

Following my post here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3023545.msg31106181#msg31106181

I am providing some info about ETC.

My first search brought me to this article from The Merkle - https://themerkle.com/the-future-of-ethereum-classic/
Looks like the ETH network is still struggling and could be in major trouble if further game developments materialise.

So I took a trip over to the ETC site and roadmap - https://www.etcdevteam.com/roadmap.html
Looks like there is a lot planned for 2018 and beyond with the development team working on 4 key projects (on the home page).

Here is another interesting report from coincentral - https://coincentral.com/ethereum-classic-beginners-guide/
Some snippet type info on a lot of aspects of ETC.
Here are the final thoughts by the author -

With ETC, you know you are investing in a commitment to an immutable blockchain. Their team hopes, in the long run,
there is value in sticking to your principles. With ETH, there is the precedent that they could hard fork again based on human influence.
It is important to remember cryptocurrencies arose out of the ashes of the banking collapse.
Satoshi Nakamoto originally designed decentralized blockchains to answer corruption in the financial sector.
“The immutable blockchain was meant to be free from the human tendency to corrupt.”
Cryptocurrency thefts have happened before and will happen again. Where do we draw the line of what requires a hard fork?
ETH blurred this line while ETC has clearly drawn their land in the sand.

Was aware of the Merkle report and the roadmap but thanks for the up to date link and info

1 sMerit awarded

Qtum is really a good project which has a price of about 28$ per coin and has a circulating supply of 73 million. But, a new cryptocurrency named APIS found a new error in the qtum core wallet. APIS conducted a presale for their token and there were many failed transactions from people.

The presale was executed through smart contract on top of QTUM chain.On competitive token sales, some participants exorbitantly raise their transaction fees to participate as priorities are given to transactions with higher transaction fees. This would effectively eliminate the likelyhood of small-capped investors to participate, so APIS decided to set a certain transaction fee(gas) limit for all participants.

After the beginning of the presale, however, various participants reported that they cannot get into the presale.

APIS development team conducted an emergency review of the transactions being sent, and found that many failed transactions had their gas prices arbitrarily set at 69.
The share of failed transactions with their gas prices set at 69 was a staggering 53% of the total transactions, providing sufficient reasons to suspect Qtum system error.

After the presale, APIS team coordinated with other IT professionals to analyze the incident, and came to the conclusion that it was indeed a QTUM core wallet error. This conclusion was summarily delivered to QTUM foundation, whom were able to confirm that the gas price was changed from 70 to 69 due to MINGW32 complier problem. APIS had to end its presale early without selling all of its available tokens due to this error.The error has been fixed since, and Qtum's acknowledgement can be seen on the Qtum Github.

For more info find here: https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/new-cryptocurrency-project-apis-fnds-fault-in-qtum

ETC information:

1) http://etc.today/#/

A useful newsletter that aggregates up-to-date information on anything related to ETC, which includes some of the articles already linked to you by others in the thread and others like:

ETC price predictions heading towards March 5:
https://www.cryptorecorder.com/2018/02/24/ethereum-classic-etc-to-hit-75-as-excitement-builds-towards-march-5/

Long term outlook for ETC:
https://medium.com/@pyskell/long-term-outlook-for-ethereum-classic-b6f1643f8f70

Feel it could definitely make your life easier in finding multiple articles for you streamlined in one location.

Hope this helps!

@ A Confused Shoe
@ Heisenberg_Hunter

Thank you very much for the info and links, I have awarded sMerit.

I have 1 sMerit remaining

Capp - 0 merit remaining
Iota - 1 merit's remaining

Information about IOTA.

It's about their Coordinator.
The Coordinator is a special node run by the Iota Foundation. It's main purpose is to protect the network from attacks, until the network is big enough to sustain a large scale GPU attack.
The Coordinator makes special transactions called Milestones, which are signed by the Coordinator and are "trusted and legit".

The problem is that now the IOTA network is no more decentralized than Ripple Unique Nodes. What if the Coordinator is compromised?

In future the Coordinator is to become optional or even useless, but as for now IOTA system looks like a centralized service. It's important that investors and users knows about this, even if this is information is polemic and controversy.

https://medium.com/@ercwl/iota-is-centralized-6289246e7b4d
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7c3qu8/coordinator_explained/

@ bitmover

Thank you for the explanation, I actually wasnt aware of this.
Negative or positive info, i doesnt matter, it helps us form decisions.

1 sMerit awarded

This is off topic not posting for merit

Since you are interested in Cappasity... Don't know if you are aware. But there is an Airdrop going on only until tomorrow.

I am interested in Cappasity too, almost joined the ico but gave up because I am on a similar project (blockv) and I think their 2 phase ico was confused... Airdrop, 100% bonus on ico, too many going on... I didn't like the way was managed.


Anyway, just received this on telegram
I hope that helps you if you are going in. Looks good project and already 11x from first ico according to icodrops (artoken , name was relabeled).

I'll try and give some relevant info about Cappasity as I invested in the first ICO, so have been following the project for a while. It is still one of my best performers even after the huge drop over the last couple of months. Currently they are running the second phase of the ICO, but as someone above has already mentioned, it has been very confusing, especially as the price on the exchanges has been consistently cheaper than the price at ICO (currently around half the price - not taking into account bonus or airdrop statistics, but still, big difference). The ICO itself has, in my opinion, partly caused the drop in price.

Project wise they are creating an AR/VR ecosystem whereby content creators and developers are able to create, advertise and sell their product, and on the other side, those interested in buying the content can easily search for and buy the content. Utilising the blockchain to improve access, speed, copyright issues and security of transactions is an obvious benefit, and something that proves a genuine need that they are looking to fill. As an incentive for developers and content creators to get involved, they offer rewards in return for the best and most promising contributors. Developers also get the benefit of using the tools on the platform to create and embed the content, including software for 3D imaging, the JavaScript API, iOS/Android 3D capturing framework, SDK and plugins for Unity and Unreal, etc. (as per an interview last month with Kosta Popov - CEO).

There is no doubt, in my mind anyway, that this area is going to massively increase over the next few years and there will be plenty of competition for Cappasity to stay ahead of. Other projects have similar aims, but Cappasity seems to be more wide ranging, with the others concentrating on niche aspects of AR/VR. They have also got a headstart on their competitors by partnering with the New York Academy of Art, and another 30 US educational institutions planning to utilize the platform in 2018. Another huge coup was the tie up with Alibaba, a massive boost to tackling the Chinese market, especially as China has the largest e-commerce market in the world. More recently they have secured a $2.5 million investment from Decema, including assistance with digital marketing and user acquisition, a key factor in building brand awareness.

They have already released an app on iOS, allowing anyone to make 3D images of objects wherever they are, without the need for complicated and/or expensive equipment (unless you count the phone used to take the pictures!). Later in 2018, they plan to release "free plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine so that anyone could easily integrate content from the Cappasity platform". The team behind the project seems to have extensive experience in both the 3D technology field and in blockchain (individual team and advisor details are all available on the website).

In conclusion, I will be holding my investment in Cappasity; and although I will probably not be investing in the second phase of the ICO, I will definitely be looking to pick up more on the open market.

NB. Most of the information above was sourced from the Cappasity website and social media channels, aside from my personal comments.

Thanks for the info on the airdrop, I have at this stage got into CAPP/Artoken
and have the tokens still on the cryptopia exchange so im not sure about an
airdrop reward there.


Thanks for the info. Some of it though I already knew.
I am awarding 1 sMerit for the effort, well written and explained.

1 sMerit remaining for IOTA info

Appreciate it. I'm holding for the moment anyway, once the ICO is finished I think it should see a decent upturn.

Hello,
Thanks to your topic I studied more about IOTA.

IOTA is a cryptocurrency that runs on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), and not on a blockchain.
DAG is a well-known data structure in Computer Science, and it is believed DAG can present solutions to some blockchain's issues.
The whole idea behind DAG is to create a cryptocurrency in which there is no proof of work (PoW), so there are no miners, no fees, no blocks and no 51 percent attack.

There is a huge discussion about PoW, because PoW is build by anonymous participants in an open, decentralized network, which makes the system very resilient to coercion, controlling regulations and censorship.

One interesting thing about IOTA is that it uses DAG and PoW.

The main feature of IOTA is the Tangle, which is a DAG for storing transactions.
In the graphic below, each transaction is represented by a square. Each new transaction that joins the tangle needs to approve two previous transactions, via Proof of Work.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*ugPaad_14ESxwsPi.
Transactions 2 and 3 were approved by transaction 5, which was approved by transaction 6.

No one receives a reward for approving transactions, and no one pay fees. As there is no mining, no mining centralization is possible.

Good information here:
 Andreas antonopoulos talks about DAG and IOTA (https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/80gtbq/andreas_antonopoulos_talks_about_iota/)
 Is Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) Blockchain’s New Competitor? (https://www.investinblockchain.com/dag-blockchain-new-competitor/)

view this project https://descrow.com/ award is not necessary)

IOTA: a crypto currency that will change the Internet of things IOTA is a revolutionary crypto currency and a platform designed specifically for the Internet of Things concept. It does not resemble any other project or coin, which makes it unique and very promising. IOTA is able to become that transactional fuel that will ensure the implementation of smart enterprises with the participation of machines integrated into one network. You visited the supermarket and saw there self-service cash desks? Agree that they are at times more efficient and economically more profitable than the cashier. And imagine that in the supermarket you can put the tablets for the choice of goods, install tapes that would feed products directly into the hands or into the trunk of the car. It is these clever solutions that underlie the Internet of Things (IoT). And the IOTA in it should perform a connecting role between the nodes of the entire network.

Internet of things Ipta Crypto currency - what is it? IOTA is both a crypto currency and a system for instant micropayments without any commission. In this way, it is seriously different from other coins, since a transaction of 1 coin or, roughly speaking, 0.001 cents in dollar terms, is possible. What does it give? For example, with the help of IOTA, you can ensure the fulfillment of the smallest tasks in the unified network: turn off the tap in the bathroom, stick a tag, and at least blow away a speck of dust. And thanks to such features, IOTA can be integrated into the Internet of Things by performing

Establishment of IOTA The history of this project began in 2015 with the ICO. During crowadding, the IOTA team managed to collect 1,337 bitcoins, which at that time was a very small amount. But it is worth noting that, in principle, the ICO was not held frequently in 2015, and all of them were in the shadow of the Etherium. Almost the whole of 2016 went to beta tests, and by 2017 the innovative project got to its feet. A substantial amount of money was allocated for development, marketing and new projects. And by June, IOTA (or rather MIOTA) made its debut at one of the world's largest exchanges Bitfinex. And in the autumn a number of strategic deals were concluded with large consortiums: Samsung, Fujitsu, Volkswagen, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom.

Just a few German companies on this list is not an accident. It was in Germany that the Foundation for the Development of the Project and the Internet of Things as a whole under the name of the IOTA Foundation was established. By the autumn of 2017, his "budget" exceeded $ 100 million. The role of the person of the project is performed by the Norwegian David Sunsteb. His team also includes Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Shiner and Sergei Popov. Sunstebu is an active contributor to the concept of Internet Things. Even before the launch of IOTA, he founded the startup Stealth, which manufactures processors with ultra-low resource consumption for IoT.

How it works? Iota does not look like bitcoin or ether, because she does not actually use blockade. This platform uses a special Tangle log, based on the DAG-directed acyclic graph. In the Bitcoin or Ethereum blockbuster everything is kept on the blocks, where the transaction information is recorded. There are no blocks in Tangle IOTA, and transactions there are related in their own special scheme: every new transaction that has arisen (let's call it A) confirms the two old ones (B and C). Verification can also happen indirectly - transaction D, which confirmed A and conditional Z, arose. But it indirectly confirmed B and C.

IOTA Transaction Scheme This system forms a whole web of verification that protects the network from double spending and makes it work with higher efficiency. That is, the more transactions on the network, the faster they will be processed. Note that IOTA mining is impossible. All the koins were emitted immediately. Their number is about 2.8 trillion, and to be more precise, this value is described by the value MAX_SAFE_INTEGER in Javascript language. On exchange trading, MIOTA is used - 1 000 000 IOTA. IOTA and the Internet of Things IOTA's prospects are measured by the prospects of the sphere that this platform is designed to serve. Back in 2015, the Internet industry Things "estimated" in 1.6 trillion dollars. By 2025, it is expected that the industry will grow to 6.2 trillion dollars, and the number of active devices will exceed the 50 billion mark by 2020.

The growing popularity of the Internet of things Internet of Things means a network in which physical objects interact with each other through built-in technologies. Now there is no full-fledged network - there are rather autonomous pockets. Take at least a smart apartment, where light, electricity and heating are automatically regulated. But after all, apartments can be united in houses, houses in cities, and cities into a whole network. Internet Things can change economic and social processes, largely rationalizing them. This concept was first proposed by MIT researcher Kevin Ashton in his report on the modernization of the logistics system Procter & Gamble. In two decades, the background has changed - now the number of devices connected to the Internet is measured in billions, things like cloud computing, IPv6, the role of wireless networks have grown, numerous sensor sensors and devices have appeared. IOTA is able to tie together virtually all processes in the IoT ecosystem by configuring transaction chains and the ability to conduct micro transactions in huge quantities. Problems with scalability in Tangle, unlike blockchain, do not. Moreover, the platform is implemented so that the device for interaction with other nodes should not have uninterrupted access to the Internet. For some "machines" it will be enough to connect once a month or even a year - it all depends on the functionality. This will save battery power or even electricity. The revolution in the field of decentralized applications! The revolution in the field of decentralized applications! The most ambitious cryptoproject of 2018 The most ambitious cryptoproject of 2018 This crypto currency will completely change the world! This crypto currency will completely change the world! Advantages and disadvantages of IOTA IOTA as a crypto currency has its advantages. The main ones are the absence of commissions, the possibility of conducting microtransactions and the high speed of operations. All these advantages are provided by Tangle, which many have secretly called blocking 3.0. Although in fact it is not blocking, as the blocks in it are not formed. From the point of view of the IOTA platform, it is still difficult to assess. It's like with Ethereum in 2015 or 2016 - everyone understood its huge potential, but there was not yet a tangible example that would show Efirium on the good side. The fact that the project is actively developing and cooperating with the world's largest consortiums suggests that it has prospects. The idea to become a driving force in such an innovative direction as the Internet of Things is a definite plus of IOTA. This means that koins really have some weight. After all, they must fulfill the role of "fuel" in a rapidly developing sphere. But the unique IOTA platform and the unusual POW without mining as such potentially create a situation in which a powerful transaction will disrupt network security. If it comes from a node that has collected 51% of the total capacity, then the so-called 51% attack will occur. The node will gain control over the network, which will allow it to double expenditure. This is like Bitcoin's mine with 51% of the processing power. Attack 51% Security is another point that needs to be worked out. At the forum of the IOTA project and other crypto-exchange sites, complaints have repeatedly been received about the loss of coins from the wallet. So far, no normal software purse has been implemented. And this is one of the main goals of the project for 2018. Advantages Disadvantages - No scalability problems - the more transactions, the better for the network; - Absence of commissions for transactions; - There is no mining, therefore IOTA is not threatened by forks and speculative fluctuations of the rate; - A trillion-dollar sphere, to which large companies are related; - IOTA Foundation - a fund that is engaged in the development of the project and attracts substantial investments; - Uniqueness of the platform in comparison with other projects, which makes IOTA an attractive investment asset. - Weak support on stock exchanges and limited coin function; - Absence of a reliable purse for IOTA storage; - It is possible own attack 51% on the network. How to install an IOTA wallet So far, the IOTA network is not as developed as the BTC or ETH, so the choice of wallets here is limited. In 2018, it is planned to issue a functional wallet for Windows, MAC, Linux with additional protection mechanisms and options. In the meantime, a raw variant of IOTA wallet is available for users. You can download it on Github.

Hello.
1)in Russia starts new project- endo.im. the project is developing a system for electronic document management and verification. Its difference from other projects - there is already a working interface. ICO starts on April 12. I personally have a very interesting project.
 I even have a place in the pool to enter this project with a bonus of + 50%.The project is international and does not look like a scam. I recommend to get acquainted.

2)https://genesisfound.io
international real estate project. Tokens are protected by real estate. Holders of tokens will receive dividends from the rental of real estate. The project is interesting, but there is no certainty that this is not a fraud.

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Support 20 Cryptocurrencies and 50 Fiat Currencies in a Single App

Today, Abra announced support for 20 cryptocurrencies and 50 fiat currencies in a new version of our mobile app that includes a real-time exchange service across all 70 currencies. Users around the world can now buy, sell or store any of these 70 currencies within the Abra app and exchange between them at any time with no limitations. Abra is now the only all-in-one smartphone app in the world with these capabilities.

The new Abra app will be available today to all users globally with an initial 13 cryptocurrencies. The remaining 7 cryptocurrencies will be available to all Abra users in the coming days.

The initial list of cryptocurrencies to be supported starting today includes: Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Dash, Zcash, Dogecoin, Golem, OmiseGO, Qtum, and Vertcoin. In the coming days we will add support for: Stellar Lumens, Bitcoin Gold, DigiByte, Augur, Status, Stratis, and 0x.

Consumers can fund their wallet globally with bitcoin, via bank wires or ACH as well as supported American Express cards in the United States.  Users depositing bitcoin do not have to provide any additional KYC details outside of their phone number. Users in the US wiring money or using their credit card will have to provide the requisite bank and KYC details to our bank partners. Abra will be adding native support for litecoin and ether deposits in the coming weeks.

There will be no transaction fees for exchanging between currencies, although Abra will make money on the exchange spread.

A brief word on the technology behind this new product. To develop the new wallet and integrated exchange, Abra has created a first of its kind stablecoin platform that facilitates holding both fiat coins as well as cryptocurrencies using a combination of litecoin and bitcoin-based contracts. For a technical overview of how the contracts work, check out our technology overview here.

Information about the IOTA

Brief about IOTA

If your appliances ever need their own money, they might end up using IOTA. IOTA is intended to be the cryptocurrency designed to be used by devices on the Internet of Things (IOT.) Microsoft has recently announced participation in some kind of project with IOTA as have some other large organizations. If IOTA gets adopted as the currency of the IOT then this could go up in value considerably.

Partnership with Volkswagen:-
It has also recently been announced that Volkswagen is joining ties with IOTA. In January, it became public that Volkswagen’s CDO, Johann Jungwirth, was now a part of IOTA Foundation’s advisory board.

On February 21, Jungwirth tweeted:

https://twitter.com/JohannJungwirth/status/966568625544015872?s=19
This means IOTA is working with Volkswagen to develop decentralized technology for connected smart cars. IOTA will probably be used at first to distribute Over The Air (OTA) software updates to vehicle computers in a secure, efficient, and wireless manner.

But, as Jungwirth states in his tweet, there’s a huge potential to utilize IOTA’s technology in really exciting ways for self-driving vehicles in the future. Imagine a smart car drives up to your house, automatically takes you to your destination, and instantly handles all payment and parking, without you having to do anything but sit back and relax. That’s exactly what IOTA and Volkswagen could end up doing, years down the road.

IOTA:
General News of this week, IMO:

1) Alexey Sobolev joined the IOTA Foundation; 9 years of experience in dev of IT systems. https[Suspicious link removed]y-sobolev-to-the-iota-foundation-5fbec98b696e

2) News on "Q" (processor exclusive to IOTA that will run its global transaction): No official announcement, but bringing on new talent (see above) and making major improvements to Trinity Wallet (see below), along with a new website; overall alluding to release/announcement by end of April.


3) Trinity Wallet Updates:
Cross-platform

Ensure delete account removes all relevant tail txes
Fix transfer value display bug
Improve manual sync function
Improve state selectors
Fix zero-value sent tx clearing on manual sync
Fix history re-render bug on transfer confirmation
Add first address to store on fresh seeds without tx history
Update translations
Add support for Czech and Slovak
Add feature-set documentation
Mobile

Optimise native iOS address generation with multithreading
Optimise native iOS address generation with batch address generation
Redesign and implement new seed storage methodology to improve security with additional encryption layer
Significantly improve initial load time
Add progress bar when sending with remote PoW
Combine manual promotion/attachment into ‘replay’ function on expert mode
Complete theming refactor and add new themes
Increase test coverage
Make transaction modal scrollable
Fix alert in quick succession visibility bug
Fix modal UI cut-off bug
Desktop

Add multiple seed functionality
Add confirmation dialog on transaction send
Improve UI responsiveness
Update wallet layout
Add account management settings
General bug fixes

1 sMerit awarded to Mr.Cross for the very long post and all the effort.

1 extra sMerit awarded to epidose for the updates.

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