Yes, the quantity of the token during bounty and ICO is limited.

Good point on buying collector items and art for profit... guess I'd better go get that Hulk #181 instead of investing in another ICO. 

Thanks bitekoin! All the info was there, but not super easy to find in all the content. Moved to the top of the announcement!

Chat soon,

duberCoin

Thanks VC!

Also, don't forget that we've gone the extra mile to certify as a SAFT ICO --> düber Technologies Inc. Announces SAFT-based ICO to Transform the Cannabis Industry
https://dubercoin.com/duber-technologies-inc-announces-saft-based-ico-transform-cannabis-industry

SEATTLE, Washington — Oct. 5, 2017 — düber Technologies Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider serving the cannabis industry, today announced its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The Pre-sale will start at 15:01 UTC on Oct 25. The ICO will use a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens) structure conducted under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of Section 4(a)2 of the U.S. Securities Act, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”) which accredits token buyers as investors.

The düber token (DBR) is intended to incentivize and improve information exchange in the cannabis community, including consumers, retailers, labs, processors and growers. Examples are rewarding community members for providing product information and photos, submitting product reviews, participation in loyalty programs and interaction with advertising and other communication channels. Blockchain technology will measure and allocate growth in economic surplus throughout the supply chain as a result of increased information exchange across all network participants. The DBR is an Ethereum (ETH) blockchain cryptocurrency that can be used within the network to pay for goods and services provided by licensed cannabis businesses.

“At düber, we believe that we have the unique opportunity to transform the cannabis industry through incentivizing the creation and sharing of information, which benefits all patients, consumers and businesses,” said Glenn Ballman, founder of düber. “We have chosen the SAFT ICO structure, and combined it with a broad-based seeding program to enable a wide distribution of the tokens to members of the cannabis community.”
düber is an emerging leader of technology and services within the cannabis industry. The company provides integrated retailer and supply chain solutions including online ordering, supply chain management, retail automation and advertising and has a healthy track record of growing sales for cannabis retailers.

“We began implementing düber’s technology in 2016 and have seen sales and order sizes increase as customers order online, use self-serve systems located in the store and respond to product advertising,” said Nick Antonie, owner of Herban Legends, Seattle. “We believe in the vision düber has for the future of the industry and appreciate how its technology allows us to deliver a superior customer experience.”
To visit düber’s ICO website, including the white paper and the private placement memorandum prepared in connection with the ICO, visit www.dubercoin.com. The private placement memorandum contains information on the offering, including details on purchaser qualification requirements and risk factors.

About düber Technologies Inc.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA, düber Technologies Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider serving the cannabis industry. düber’s mission is to help small companies compete with large corporations through superior technology. The company currently provides customers with online ordering, self-serve systems, global product search, digital signage and advertising products and has plans to launch several more including retail point of sale and a home delivery engine for retailers. düber operates in state jurisdictions that have legalized both medical and recreational cannabis, and assists with compliance of the laws of these jurisdictions. To learn more about düber Technologies Inc., please visit www.duberpartners.com.

About the düber SAFT ICO

The SAFTs will only be offered in the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and in Canada by way of private placement exemptions from Canadian prospectus requirements, in each case to qualified “accredited investors” only. All securities issued will be subject to restrictions on re-sales in accordance with applicable securities laws. The SAFTs have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent U.S. registration or an applicable exemption from U.S. registration requirements. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction where such offer or sale is prohibited or unlawful.

Media Contact
Zachary Weiner
duber@emerginginsider.com
1-312-933-5205

Yes! We're not offering this ICO because we're trying to fund a great idea. We're ALREADY profitable and a large business with VC backing. We're offering this token because we believe it's the next, best, step to integrate all verticals of the cannabis industry.

Looking forward to more interactions and your success with our bounty program! LET'S DO THIS!

NOT pump and dump. We're the REAL DEAL --> düber Technologies Inc. Secures Funding for 15 Distribution Centers with $50 Million Dollar Agreement with Vacone Real Estate 
https://dubercoin.com/duber-technologies-inc-secures-funding-15-distribution-centers-50-million-dollar-agreement-vacone-real-estate

Software-as-a-service provider takes steps to expands its leadership position in the cannabis market by master leasing 400,000 square feet of distribution space in key locations across the U.S.
SEATTLE, Washington — Sept. 26, 2017 — düber Technologies Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider serving the cannabis industry, today announced it has signed a $50 million dollar funding agreement with Vacone Real Estate for the acquisition, fit out and master lease for 15 cannabis distribution centers in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona.
The deal will allow düber to expand operations to include 400,000 square feet of distribution space that will form the basis of the düber unified distribution technology platform.
“At düber, we see an unmet market opportunity for cannabis producers, processors and retailers in key parts of the country,” said Glenn Ballman, founder of düber. “This expansion will allow us to serve our distribution and courier partners while continuing to expand our integrated, omnichannel, real-time platform to partners and consumers in key markets in the cannabis industry.”
Vacone Real Estate is a diversified real estate company, headquartered in Anaheim, California with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and more than 1 million square feet under ownership including industrial, multi-family residential, restaurant and bar space.
“We see the growth and opportunity within the cannabis industry as unprecedented,” said Brandon Rainone, president at Vacone Real Estate. “We welcomed the opportunity to work with düber, as we believe in the vision they have for the future of the industry, their technology platform and their commitment to helping small and medium cannabis companies succeed.”
About düber Technologies Inc.
Headquartered in Seattle, WA, düber Technologies Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider serving the cannabis industry. düber’s mission is to help small companies compete with large corporations through superior technology. The company currently provides customers with online ordering, self-serve systems, global product search, digital signage and advertising products and has plans to launch several more including retail point of sale and a home delivery engine for retailers. düber operates in state jurisdictions that have legalized both medical and recreational cannabis, and assists with compliance of the laws of these jurisdictions. To learn more about düber Technologies Inc., please visit www.duberpartners.com.
Media Contact
Katie Long
klong@ideagrove.com
(972) 850-5872

More great insight from Dasani!

Still, what about this --> Biggest ICO Ever? tZERO to Launch Pre-Sale Nov. 15 via SaftLaunch
https://hacked.com/biggest-ico-ever-tzero-to-launch-saft-pre-sale-nov-15/


Overstock CEO and tZERO Chairman Patrick Byrne made the announcement at the annual Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas. Byrne provided a general description of the tZERO token, and said the first round of funding will be administered as a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) project. New York-based SAFTLaunch.com will handle the pre-sale, which is expected to run from Nov. 15 until Dec. 31.

SAFTLaunch provides a secure and compliant ICO platform, where companies and investors are vetted to ensure maximum quality.

tZERO made headlines last month after it announced plans to work with Argon Group and RenGen to launch a U.S. regulated Alternative Trading System (ATS).  The platform will enable trading of both security tokens and app tokens administered through ICOs as well as SAFTs.

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Byrne first announced his vision for tZERO all the way back in 2014. In Las Vegas, he commented on how quickly the blockchain community has evolved over the past three years.

“While many doubted, the tZERO team worked hard to be at the tip of the spear in creating and launching credible, capable and institutionally scalable blockchain technologies for crypto assets,” he said, according to GlobeNewswire. “Today those efforts are attracting interest from both the crypto community and the largest global institutional funds.”

About tZERO
As a subsidiary of Overstock, tZERO is a distributed ledger platform for capital markets and private exchanges. In addition to launching the world’s first SEC compliant ATS for cryptocurrency assets, tZERO also issued the first private blockchain bond offering, as well as the first public blockchain security.

As CCN reported two weeks ago, tZERO could very well become the biggest token raise yet. Byrne predicts the tZERO token sale could “easily” raise between $200 million and $500 million, breaking the all-time record set by Filecoin.

Hi all! Yes, we've extended our original bounty program for all you "bounty hunters!" Looking forward to having you all participate! Make sure you check our bounty on Twitter as well --> super easy to accrue those DBRs!

Thanks for that! I just sent your message to duber Partners... hopefully we can get this done.

Announcing the duberCoin ICO Token Sale!


Important Links:
· Website: https://dubercoin.com/
· Whitepaper: https://gdbr.co/whitepaper-en
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/duberpartners
· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dubertechnologiesinc/

About duber -
Our mission is to help small and medium size businesses compete with large corporations through superior technology, while helping them to stay compliant. We currently provide customers with online ordering, self-serve systems, global product search, digital signage and advertising products and are launching several more including retail point of sale and a home delivery engine for retailers. We operate in state jurisdictions that have legalized both medical and recreational cannabis, and assist with compliance of the laws of these states.

duber bits -
1. duber was founded in 2016.
2. We are a team of 25 with 16 full-time developers.
3. Our mission is to help small and medium size businesses compete with large corporations through superior technology, while helping them to stay compliant.
4. We currently provide customers with online ordering, self-serve systems, global product search, digital signage and advertising products and are launching several more including retail point of sale and a home delivery engine for retailers.
5. We operate in state jurisdictions that have legalized both medical and recreational cannabis, and assist with compliance of the laws of these states.
6. This is what our industry needs, and we can’t wait to see what else düber has in-store for us.” -Justin Wildhader, CEO, Green Freedom, Elma, USA
7. Customers love the convenience of browsing online, and our staff loves the convenience of preparing the order at a quiet moment.” -Nick Antonie, Owner, Herban Legends, Seattle, USA
8. düber is the only provider whose applications are truly integrated.
9. Only düber offers Omnichannel loyalty programs, fully integrated with your online ordering, instore POS, mass messaging, promotions and more.
10. duber is an established business with significant financial backing, multiple launched products, and happy customers.

Team -
Collectively we have led a US$240 million IPO, built a US$6 billion business, developed the technology and patents behind several others, occupied board positions at multiple US$1 billion+ businesses, and held senior positions at prestigious financial, legal, and strategy advisory firms in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. We are a team of 25 with 16 full-time developers. Our technical staff have been instrumental in the success of numerous startups and enterprise-level companies over the past 15 years. Our team members have worked in military/defense, video game/digital entertainment, online sports betting and poker, SEC/FINRA compliant banking/financial compliance, PCI Level 1 mobile payment processing, retail POS and inventory management, DevOps frameworks/cloud hosting, online lease origination, online real estate, 3D graphics/visualization, and medical document management/HIPAA compliance.

The Cannabis Opportunity -
The legal cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing markets on earth. In North America alone, the industry is forecasted to top US$20 billion by 2021, from US$6.7 billion in 2016, and create more than a quarter of a million jobs. Currently, 37 US states plus Washington, DC have passed medical or recreational cannabis laws, and Canada is projected to legalize recreational cannabis by July 2018.

Challenges for the Cannabis industry which the duberCoin plans on resolving:
A. Challenges for retailers:
1. Overburdened and complex delivery system.
2. Fragmented supply chains.
3. Inability to offer integrated home delivery.
4. Inaccurate date resulting in lost sales.
5. Tax regime resulting in 70%+ taxation levels.

B. Challenged for producers and processors:
1. Forecasting demand and planning production.
2. Unique crop data with each harvest.
3. Non-standardized nomenclature, no central inventory catalog.

C. Challenges for regulators and law enforcement:
1. State regulators lack the tools and logistics support to service legitimately licensed producers, processors, labs, and retailers.
2. With product moving through a complex point-to-point distribution network, and more than 1,400 locations for potential enforcement in Washington state alone, regulators simply lack the resources to monitor all points effectively.
3. The situation will only get worse: regulators in California expect to issue more than 15,000 licenses to industry participants for 2018.
4. Law enforcement is almost completely without tools to protect licensed legitimate businesses and consumers.
5. Much of the infrastructure for tracking crime is managed federally, so states that have legalized cannabis cannot use the standard law enforcement tools.

D. Payment challenges:
1. Settlement in cash.
2. Credit cards are not the solution – many customers lack bank accounts and credit cards.

The düber (DBR) token -
1. An efficient measurement and incentive system rewarding consumers and helping small & medium-sized cannabis businesses succeed.
2. Information exchange creates value for network participants: Crop-growing data, lab results, supplying product photos and descriptions, submitting reviews, referring brands, making repeat purchases (loyalty), and acting upon advertising benefits all network participants (Growers, Processors, Labs, Retailers and Consumers).
3. Value creation deserves to be incentivized: Any network participant who creates valuable information for the network is rewarded. This incentivizes participants to contribute additional information.
4. Our DBR token rewards value creation fairly and instantly.
5. The DBR token is our blockchain cryptocurrency. Based on Ethereum, it will acknowledge, measure, and allocate growth in economic surplus across the value chain fairly and instantly. DBRs will become the preferred method of payment in the düber network.

DBR is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token -
1. We chose Ethereum as the base blockchain technology for DBR tokens due to its powerful built-in scripting language that lets us build complex smart contracts for DBR tokens relatively easily. Ethereum has already proven itself to be a capable and well-documented blockchain at the heart of many successful ecosystems.
2. The düber Platform: Off-Chain Processing with Results Published On-Chain
3. The Raiden Network is a form of off-chain transaction settlement. We will develop and utilize a similar off-chain ledger to expedite transactions and reduce fees.
4. All transactions and data handled off-chain will be signed digitally by all involved parties, with the ultimate result stored and verifiable on the Ethereum blockchain.
5. In this way, the düber network will be a fast, reliable, and secure solution that can safely handle near-instantaneous transaction speeds, while still recording the end results on the Ethereum network in a verifiable way.
6. Blockchain is a Cannabis IMPERATIVE!
7. Blockchain provides a secure and traceable form of payment.
8. Blockchain is a superior verification technology:
9. Traceability, from manufacture to purchase and delivery.
10. Immutable records of lab results.
11. Verification of consumer reviews.
12. Growing economic surplus for all network participants by providing proper incentives to those who create and distribute new information is a significant opportunity.
13. Blockchain technology and a token are ideally suited to acknowledge and measure the growth in economic surplus, as well as allocate this increase fairly across the network.
14. DBR Tokens will be Less Expensive to Accept than Cash or Credit Cards.
15. The instant and sustained demand for DBRs is in the interest of all network participants.
16. The DBR token will acknowledge, measure, and allocate growth in economic surplus across the value chain fairly and instantly.

The duberCoin reward system:
Order online from your phone, tablet or computer!
1. DBR tokens will be accepted as form of payment presenting an attractive and more secure alternative to cash.
2. Self-serve browsing and ordering from in-store tablets so you can skip the line! DBR tokens automatically credit to your customer account with pickup at the counter.
3. Paying with DBR tokens in store at the Point of Sale eliminates the need to carry cash, protects your privacy, and earns you instant DBRs!
4. See something you like on our eye-popping advertisements or menus? Take action with your duber app and receive DBRs for ‘closing the loop’.
5. Use duberex.com to search live inventory, find stores and products near you, and order for home delivery. Earn DBRs for ordering from retailers in the duber network and let duber licensed drivers speed it to your door.
6. Information exchange creates value for network participants: Crop-growing data, lab results, supplying product photos and descriptions, submitting reviews, referring brands, making repeat purchases (loyalty), and acting upon advertising benefits all network participants (Growers, Processors, Labs, Retailers and Consumers).
7. Value creation deserves to be incentivized: Any network participant who creates valuable information for the network is rewarded. This incentivizes participants to contribute additional information.
8. With the duberCoin token system, consumers (or any network participant) will earn düber tokens (DBRs) for:
 --Providing detailed product information.
 --Curating based on completeness, correctness, and quality.
 --Providing photos or descriptions for products missing this information.
 --Voting on the metadata for consumer-provided photos and descriptions
 --Consumers can also earn DBRs by writing product reviews.
 --Community participants who upvote a review receive a proportionate number of tokens for their effort

Our DBR token rewards value creation fairly and instantly. duber is uniquely positioned to stimulate the growth of economic surplus. We are an established business with multiple products launched. Our technology is already integrated into our partners’ supply chains at the inventory level, which enables us to get immediate traction, and our offering targets a high-growth, emerging industry with ideal characteristics for a blockchain platform. With its strong technical foundation and comprehensive incentives, we expect DBRs to become the preferred method of payment by all participants (growers, processors, labs, distributors, retailers, and consumers) in the legalized cannabis market.

duberCoin is a SAFT ICO -
https://dubercoin.com/duber-technologies-inc-announces-saft-based-ico-transform-cannabis-industry

The SAFTs will only be offered in the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and in Canada by way of private placement exemptions from Canadian prospectus requirements, in each case to qualified “accredited investors” only. All securities issued will be subject to restrictions on re-sales in accordance with applicable securities laws. The SAFTs have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent U.S. registration or an applicable exemption from U.S. registration requirements.

The Platform in the Market -
As we have built out the system, we have received numerous enhancement requests from retailers, consumers, and regulators. Our solution now extends into the supply chain for producers, brand owners, labs, distributors, courier companies, and processors, and is integrated in its entirety to the online ordering and point-of-sale terminals. We have emerged to be the only “omnichannel” retailing solution entirely comprised of a modern, event-based architecture, built from the ground up to function as a unified system. This platform helps local businesses expose their available inventory in an online ordering system and coordinate delivery of controlled substances, without having to step away from the point-of-sale terminal.The düber platform is used by some of the largest and fastest growing cannabis retailers in Washington State. The largest retailer (monthly revenue of $1.4 million) has two stores on the ordering system. Others are adopting our in-store ordering and digital menus system, while others are focusing on the unique opportunities brought by our integrated digital advertising platform that provides millions of annual page views and in-store advertising impressions for customers every day. Consumers have motivated the development of our duberex.com ordering platform, which allows customers to find accurate product inventory at any retailer on our system in Washington, and immediately place an order with them. In total, we have more than 23 retailers live on one or more modules of our system, and another 30 under contract for installation as we conclude our beta trials and move into the commercial launch of our online ordering and advertising modules in October 2017. In Q4 we will be beta-launching the first POS-integrated seed-to-sale home delivery platform (using local retailer inventory) in Canada and the United States.

The duberCoin ICO token sale Bounty Program -
https://medium.com/@duberpartners/d%C3%BCber-bounty-program-68941e73d718
Welcome to the düber Bounty Program! Our attractive bounty program accompanies the düber token (DBR) sale.
Links:
· Website: https://dubercoin.com/
· Whitepaper: https://gdbr.co/whitepaper-en
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/duberpartners
· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dubertechnologiesinc/

Our bounty program will start on October 5, 2017 and end on January 19, 2018 (or as soon as we reach our token raise target). We have put aside 66,780,000 DBR tokens to distribute as part of our bounty program, an ETH value of 22,260 (!). Thanks for participating in our bounty program in support of our exciting token sale!

As we are using a stakes structure, we will not know the number of bounty DBR tokens that you have earned until after the end of the token sale or Jan 19, 2018, whichever comes first. We intend to publish the stakes that you have earned on your dashboard before the end of October and show your stakes progression from then onward. All bounty DBR tokens will be recorded within 14 days of closing the bounty program, and will show up in your DBR Crowdsale account. As well, because we are using a SAFT structure, bounty DBR tokens will be distributed at the same time as all other DBR token purchasers receive their tokens with the release of the minimum viable product. The exact timing is difficult to predict but this is expected to take a minimum of several months and potentially longer.

How to join the DBR token bounty program -
Anyone is welcome to participate in our program.
To get started:
Visit our website, and sign up for an account at https://crowdsale.dubercoin.com/#/signUp
Please fill out this Google form. Enter the same email as your dübercoin crowdsale account — this is a requirement to receive your bounty at the end of the ICO

Bounty Program Details -
We are splitting our main pool of 66,780,000 DBR tokens into smaller pools based on the type of bounty.
The breakdown is as follows:
● Twitter — 30% or 20,034,000DBRs
● Facebook — 20% or 13,356,000 DBRs
● Blogs — 20% or 13,356,000 DBRs
● Professional Articles — 20% or 13,356,000 DBRs
● BitcoinTalk Signature Campaign — 10% or 6,678,000 DBRs

Twitter -
The total pool for Twitter participation is 20,034,000 DBRs. To collect stakes in the Twitter pool, you simply retweet selected posts from düber’s Twitter account. The details for participations are as follows:
● You must follow us on twitter
● Retweet any post from düber that contains the hashtag #duberICO
● Your account must be at least 4 months old
● Your account must have at least 100 followers
● Your Twitter account must be publicly accessible
● You must keep your retweets up for the duration of the düber ICO
● We will keep track of all your retweets on our side. There is no need to submit each one to us!
For every retweet, you will get a stake in the pool depending on the number of followers you have. The breakdown is:
● 100–250 followers — 10 Stakes
● 251–500 followers — 20 Stakes
● 501–1000 followers — 40 Stakes
● 1001–2000 followers — 60 Stakes
● 2,001–5000 followers — 100 Stakes
● 5,001+ followers — 200 Stakes
Note: We reserve the right to disqualify any account we deem to be fake or lacking relevance in general.

Facebook -
The total pool for Facebook participation is 13,356,000 DBRs. To collect stakes in the Facebook pool — share, like, and comment on selected posts from düber’s Facebook Page. The details for participation are as follows:
● You must like düber’s Facebook Page
● Share, Like, or Comment on any of our posts marked with the hashtag #duberICO
● Your account must be at least 4 months old
● Your account must have at least 100 friends or followers
● Your account must be publicly accessible
● Your comment must be at least 30 characters in length, not including spaces
● You must not unlike our posts, delete your shares or comments for the duration of the ICO campaign
● We keep track of likes, shares, and comments on our side. There’s no need to submit each one to us!
For every share / like / comment you will get a stake in the pool depending on the number of friends / followers you have.
● For a Share, it is:
○ 100–250 friends/followers — 10 Stakes
○ 251–500 friends/followers — 20 Stakes
○ 501–1000 friends/followers — 40 Stakes
○ 1001–2000 friends/followers — 60 Stakes
○ 2,001–5000 friends/followers — 100 Stakes
○ 5,001+ friends/followers — 200 Stakes
● For a Like, it is:
○ 100–250 friends/followers — 1 Stake
○ 251–500 friends/followers — 2 Stakes
○ 501–1000 friends/followers — 4 Stakes
○ 1001–2000 friends/followers — 6 Stakes
○ 2,001–5000 friends/followers — 10 Stakes
○ 5,001+ friends/followers — 20 Stakes
● For a Comment, it is:
○ 100–250 friends/followers — 10 Stakes
○ 251–500 friends/followers — 20 Stakes
○ 501–1000 friends/followers — 40 Stakes
○ 1001–2000 friends/followers — 60 Stakes
○ 2,001–5000 friends/followers — 100 Stakes
○ 5,001+ friends/followers — 200 Stakes
Note: We reserve the right to disqualify any account we deem to be fake or lacking relevance in general.

Personal Blog Articles -
The total pool for blog posts is 13,356,000 DBRs. We are looking for people who are really excited for the düber platform, and want to share that excitement with the world! For this bounty, we are looking for you to post on your own blog, Facebook, LinkedIn, or another social media platform. The details for this bounty are as follows:
● All posts must be publicly accessible, with no requirement to sign up or sign in
● Each post must be at least 1,000 characters in length, not including spaces
● Each post must contain at least two links to our ICO Page — https://dubercoin.com
● If your post is on a social media platform (Facebook, LinkedIn e.g.), we also ask you to point your readers to follow düber’s social media page or website link
● Your post must remain publicly accessible until at least the end of the ICO
● We welcome posts in every language
● We require your posts to reflect positively on düber
● After each post, you will submit them to us for review here. You must already have signed up to be a bounty participant to earn stakes
● We will maintain a public list of each submission, and the stakes it earned
● Examples of what we are looking for is: the uniqueness of the düber platform, the ideal fit of cryptocurrency with the cannabis industry, and different ways to create value through information exchange. All these topics are covered in our whitepaper
After submission, we will assess the quality of the post. We try to reward each blog based on its quality, with a basic breakdown as follows:
● Basic post — 100 stakes
● Medium post — 200 stakes
● Extraordinary post — 400 stakes
● Sky’s the limit! We will reward extra stakes for high traffic posts (likes, shares, positive comments), as well for things we deem have gone above and beyond (graphics, diagrams, etc.)
Note: We reserve the right to disqualify any post we deem to be fake, plagiarism, or lacking relevance in general. We will check to make sure posts are not submitted more than once. The latter would exclude you from earning further stakes.

Professional Articles -
The total pool for Professional Articles is 13,356,000 DBRs. This is intended for professional journalists, social influencers and trendsetters. The details are as follows:
● To be eligible for this category, you must first be approved by someone from the düber bounty team. Please apply at bounties@dubercoin.com
● We welcome anyone who thinks they might be eligible. If we feel it’s not a fit, we urge you to submit your articles through the Personal Blog bounty. High quality blogs will earn you lots of stakes there!
● After you apply, you will be in contact with someone from the düber team who will explain the submission and reward process in greater detail
● düber will not publicly disclose your participation to the program, but we ask that you are open about your participation to your audiences. See further legal disclaimer at the end
● Examples of what we are looking for is: the uniqueness of the düber platform, the ideal fit of cryptocurrency with the cannabis industry, and different ways to create value through information exchange. All these topics are covered in our whitepaper

BitcoinTalk Signature -
The total pool for BitCoinTalk Signature is 6,678,000 DBRs. We are looking for people who will set their BitcoinTalk signature to one that düber provides for the duration of our ICO. The details for this are:
● If you want to participate, you must give us a link to your BitcoinTalk profile when signing up for the bounty program
● Accounts with negative trust will not be considered
● You must be at least a Jr. Member to be eligible
● düber must be your only signature for the duration of our ICO
● Your account may not have the avatar/description of another ICO
● You must make at least 10 posts a week on BitcoinTalk, not including the following forums — Off-Topic, Politics & Society, Beginners & Help, Gambling.
● We will keep track of all your posts, just make sure you give us your profile URL
You will earn stakes each week that you meet the required number of posts, based on your membership level:
● Jr. Member — 100 Stakes/wk
● Member — 200 Stakes/wk
● Full Member — 300 Stakes/wk
● Sr. Member — 400 Stakes/wk
● Hero Member — 500 Stakes/wk
● Legendary Member — 600 Stakes/wk
The signature you must use is as follows:
Thanks for participating in our bounty program in support of our exciting token sale!
The düber Team!

Legal disclaimer -
It is the sole responsibility of individuals involved in the düber bounty program to comply with all regulations for disclosures and/or disclaimers in their jurisdictions. As you will have a relationship with düber Technologies Inc., this must be disclosed and/or disclaimed appropriately. By participating in our bounty program, you agree that düber will not be held liable for your materials, methods or content. düber will retain the right to ban individuals from its bounty program with or without cause.

all the noise just makes better and more frequent opportunities for traders...

Is there any sort of community support worth noting, though?

Not that I've heard, but how could they NOT be? With all the tech going into Dubai and UAE, from autonomous flying taxis to IoT smart cities...

Blockchain & Dubai -->
Dubai Goes Blockchain to Become Fintech Hub for The East
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dubai-goes-blockchain-to-become-fintech-hub-for-the-east

Having discovered and bought Bitcoin in the early 2010s, I initially had a hard time convincing my peers in the Middle East about the benefits of the underlying technology. Even harder was finding a way to buy Bitcoin if you lived in a region where people at the time were predominantly underbanked and dealt almost strictly with cash transactions.

Any discussion with those who worked in the financial industry ended up with hyperbolic accusations of Bitcoin being a currency for sex-trafficking on the deep web, and Blockchain being nothing more than a vaporware hype.

Today, I ironically see that the Middle Eastern Blockchain ecosystem is a completely different story. The same people working in the financial sector that joked about Blockchain being a fad are now propping it as the future of finance.

For example, Dubai’s endeavor to become the world’s first Blockchain city has picked up serious momentum halfway through 2017, and as with everything else “Dubai,” the UAE city-state is doing it in the flashiest way possible.

Fintech ambitions
Just hours ago, the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong cemented an agreement on fintech cooperation between the two authorities, with the intention to pave the path for startups in the MENA and East Asian markets. In a press release, Mr. Ian Johnston, the Chief executive of the DFSA, said that providing a regime that “fosters innovation in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is a strategic priority.”

This agreement with Hong Kong’s SFC is the newest step in setting the foundations for fintech in Dubai, subsequent to the recent inauguration of the FinTech Hive in Dubai’s financial hub.

This fintech accelerator was created with the intention of connecting technology innovators and startups with a network of regional and international financial leaders such as the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, HSBC, VISA, as well as governmental Islamic Financial development organizations.

New euphoria
Over the years, Cointelegraph reported on several crypto-related Middle Eastern startups, ICOs and exchanges, but only recently has the interest in Blockchain in Dubai’s governmental and private sector exploded to the euphoria we are currently witnessing. In fact, not a day goes by where I do not read about Blockchain being in the news in Dubai’s newspapers, with a special focus on the developments of Smart Dubai’s Blockchain strategy. There are also several conferences lined up in Dubai before the end of 2017, some of which are about to sell out.

Major projects
This wave of digital innovation comes as part of the government’s plan to become the first Blockchain government by 2020. Some of Dubai’s recent Blockchain ambitions by 2020 include:

Reducing the cost of document processing by billions of dollars through eliminating manual processing of residencies, passport documentation and visas through a partnership with ConsenSys.
Improving governmental operations and Islamic banking by moving inter-governmental paperwork onto the Blockchain through a new local startup called ArabianChain.
Several other Blockchain prototypes are currently being deployed by the Dubai government and the tech giant IBM, using Hyperledger’s Fabric tech.

It is, therefore, safe to say that Dubai no longer views Blockchain as a fad, and will likely be the world’s first in deploying fully functional governmental Blockchain services.

And then there IS this -->
EmCash Is Dubai’s First Official Cryptocurrency

https://futurism.com/emcash-is-dubais-first-official-cryptocurrency/

The government of the city of Dubai launched their own blockchain-based cryptocurrency last week. The city’s economy department partnered with one of its subsidiaries called Emcredit Limited and U.K.-based Object Tech Group, Ltd. to create emCash. This new “encrypted digital currency” is a product of partnerships Dubai has cultivated through their Accelerators Initiative and brought under the umbrella of the Dubai Economy Accelerators.

“A digital currency has varied advantages – faster processing, improved delivery time, less complexity and cost, to name a few,” Dubai Economy deputy director general Ali Ibrahim said in a press statement. “It will change the way people live and do business in Dubai, and mark a giant leap for the city in harnessing game-changing innovations to improve ease of business and quality of life.”


Officials claim that emCash uses the latest blockchain technology and works as part of payment system called emWallet. As the city’s credit bureau, Emcredit has made sure that the emWallet handles various types of transactions—from “their daily coffee and children’s school fee to utility charges and money transfers”—with a near-field communication (NFC) support through a smartphone.

The city will also have a shared platform, called Blockchain as a Service, to help Dubai government agencies use blockchain in various projects.

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

Blockchain’s potential as a decentralized and secure platform for transactions, financial or otherwise, isn’t lost to those with eyes to the future. Dubbed as the “city of the future,” Dubai is certainly one of those, but it isn’t the first to have an “official” cryptocurrency. The launch of the emCash, however, is only a first step.

Dubai has been working on becoming the world’s first economy that’s built on the blockchain, and with it its own cryptocurrency. This is where the city’s efforts differ, and could potentially influence economies through the entire United Arab Emirates (UAE). “Obtaining approvals from other UAE authorities will be taken into consideration if required,” Ibrahim said.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Smart Dubai, the government office responsible for encouraging innovation in the country, will be conducting government and private organization workshops over the next few months to identify those services best enhanced by blockchain. After that, the office expects that pilot projects in both the public and private sectors will begin rolling out this year.

“The fast paced environment and incredible willingness to adopt innovative technology has made Dubai the perfect place for us to do business,” said Muna Al Qassab, CEO of Emcredit Limited, in the city’s press release. “This project is a great example of the ambition we have met here, together we are essentially creating a whole new economic ecosystem.”

Disclaimer: The Dubai Future Foundation works in collaboration with Futurism and is one of our sponsors.

Any chance JP Morgan and Saudi Arabia are colluding on BTC to manipulate prices / markets?

Is anyone really into this fork? Coinbase isn't supporting it, sounds kinda sketchy. Let us know! It would be great be find some good news, if it exists...


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Anyone who owns bitcoin will soon be able to receive a new cryptocurrency.

As of block 491,407 on the bitcoin blockchain, another alternative version of the protocol will be launched, resulting in a variant that's being branded bitcoin gold (BTG).

The project, which seeks to improve bitcoin's technology by changing how its competition for rewards is conducted, is the second to launch since August via an increasingly common process called a "hard fork."

Readers may remember the term from the launch of bitcoin cash, the alternative version of the bitcoin protocol that spurred global headlines for unexpectedly creating billions of dollars in value, seemingly out of thin air.

Looking ahead, many industry observers are expecting the same results this time around, though there may be reasons for enthusiasm to be tempered.

What is bitcoin gold?

In short, bitcoin gold aims to achieve two goals:

First, bitcoin gold wants to change how mining works by making it so the most powerful mining machines (called ASICs) can no longer be used.
Second, by attracting more people to this system over time, it hopes to free the bitcoin network from the large companies that offer these products, and it argues, command undue influence on the network.
Instead of scaling bitcoin to support more users, bitcoin gold tweaks bitcoin in an effort to "make bitcoin decentralized again." This, proponents argue, will make the network, designed to offer an egalitarian way to send payments digitally around the globe, more accessible to users.

And while created via the same mechanism, bitcoin gold differs from bitcoin cash in a few ways, most notably in its distribution.

Differences include:

The bitcoin gold cryptocurrency is set to be created in advance (prior to the code being open-sourced to the public).
About 1 percent of the total cryptocurrency tokens mined before the blockchain goes public will be used to pay the bitcoin gold development team.
Once this distribution is over, the team claims it will launch the cryptocurrency so that users can redeem their coins.
Of course, while it aims to become the de-facto version of bitcoin, others might consider bitcoin gold an "altcoin" – the term has long been used to denote any cryptocurrency launched using bitcoin’s existing code, but that has an alternative market or use case.

Do I have bitcoin gold?

All bitcoin owners will receive the cryptocurrency at a rate of 1 BTC to 1 BTG, setting the stage for possible market activity.

But, that's not to say it's totally intuitive to retrieve.

One quirk is that it'll be easier to redeem the funds from wallets or exchanges that recognize the cryptocurrency. The easiest way, then, to retrieve the bitcoin gold is to move bitcoin to a wallet or exchange that supports bitcoin gold, or to hold bitcoin in a wallet where you own your private keys (rather than holding them with an exchange).

To date, 20 exchanges and wallets promise to support bitcoin gold once it launches, according to the project's website.

Although one of the most popular U.S.-based exchanges, Coinbase stated on October 20 that it does not support bitcoin gold due to skepticism about how developers have made project information available to others.

"At this time, Coinbase cannot support bitcoin gold because its developers have not made the code available to the public for review. This is a major security risk,” the post reads.

This is perhaps something to keep an eye on as the project progresses. Although the project will officially fork on Monday night, it's not yet open to anyone and everyone, and there’s still plenty left on the developers' to-do list.

Who is behind bitcoin gold?

The team behind the hard fork appears to be a relatively small group.

Hong Kong-based LightningAsic CEO Jack Liao, who's an outspoken critic of the state of bitcoin mining, first broached the idea of bitcoin gold back in July.

His company LightningAsic sells mining equipment, including GPUs, the type of computing hardware bitcoin gold is supposed to rely on.

Since first introduced earlier this summer, the team has expanded to include pseudonymous lead developer h4x3rotab, as well as a team of five other volunteers who are now working on developing and promoting the cryptocurrency in their spare time.

The project can be tracked on Github and on the community Slack group.

How do people feel about bitcoin gold?

All that said, for those interested in exploring or using bitcoin gold, it's worth noting that it has generated its share of controversy.

Satoshi Labs CEO Marek Palatinus, who launched bitcoin's first ever mining pool, is skeptical the project will actually work to decentralize mining as planned.

And he's not the only one to throw shade at the new project.

Bitcoin developer Rhett Creighton is working on alternative bitcoin gold "protest fork" software that seeks to pursue the same idea but without setting aside some of the new cryptocurrency for development.

If more than 51% of miners choose to use his software, the so-called pre-distribution to developers will be erased, he told CoinDesk. "It's up to the miners to decide what they want," he added.

All in all, it's unclear if business and mining groups will ultimately support the project, and if they do, how much value the alternative blockchain could create.

For example, while a list of roughly 50 businesses and miners support the so-called Segwit2x fork, similar support hasn't been seen for bitcoin gold. Likewise, though bitcoin cash began with support from vocal miners and exchanges, bitcoin gold has arguably yet to benefit from such early activity.

Just saw this post! --> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blockchain-innovation-in-healthcare-and-life-sciences_us_59c91296e4b0b7022a646c4b

An interesting take on non-crypto related blockchain use-cases. Thoughts?

Is blockchain the future of.... everything?

“The blockchain is the most consequential technology since the internet. The internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.” — Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21.co

Blockchain Is Changing the Healthcare and Life Science Industry

Government and states domestically and globally have started to explore the Blockchain technology for streamlining back-office paper trails and business operations. In 2007, the government of Estonia began a nationwide implementation of a version of Blockchain to secure all Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the country running on the Guardtime Blockchain (specializing in “Keyless Signature Infrastructure – KSI) to authenticate on a massive scale. Estonia has virtually eliminated the need to have a Health Information Exchange (HIE), all-payer claims database, or Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This has made the entire population much more “health smart” and built a huge foundation of trust for accessing patient records. In 2015, they started streamlining driver license renewals with over 80,000 medical certificates being forwarded to its Road Administration Agency. On May 10, 2016, the Estonian and Finnish Prime Ministers signed a joint declaration to allow patient data exchange, cross-border e-services and e-prescriptions.

Hospitals can have as many as 20 different ways to enter a simple date-of-birth for a patient. Blockchain can tie patients to their data, rather than identity. According to Deloitte, the healthcare industry is planning the most aggressive deployments of blockchain, with 35 percent of health and life sciences planning to deploy by 2018. Deloitte found that 28 percent of respondents across all industries said they’d already invested $5 million or more, while 10 percent have invested $10 million or more in blockchain.

The proof-of-work scheme is also making inroads for clinical trials where the Blockchain verification can help increase trust, integrity in clinical research publication and restore some of the tarnished reputation from the clinical research community. Clinicians applaud the decentralized ledger that allows for a simpler, more efficient and cheaper way to share peer-reviewed research.

Summary of Blockchain opportunities Across Markets

Broader awareness of new clinical studies, disease prevention and genome strains. This could start with grants to help researchers develop a repository to support clinical trials especially for diseases that have no cure currently.
Donors in the network can choose the research cause to benefit further advancement, gain control of the data sharing process and be rewarded
Rewards as part of the Blockchain contribution generates the emergence of a new shared economy (“Shareconomies”) where members in the network benefit from being “Claimless”
New treatments and drug discovery to reach FDA approvals is faster because the sampling pool of data is much more diverse, focused and accessible
Duplication of work and fraud is minimized as consensus of parties in the network embodies trust in the network
Smart contracts allow for logic to be enforced on top of the Blockchain transaction. This means rules can be executed in terms of how the transactions are carried out as per the contract.

Blockchain Disruption in Healthcare

Blockchain technology is particularly helpful to streamline processes, minimize fraud, lower operational costs, eliminate duplication of work and generate new ways to integrate in a sharing-based economy. Salesforce has an excellent foundation to help capture and manage a patient’s profile, their preferences, visibility to the patient’s entire care-giver(s), what it takes to engage and stay connected with the care-giver(s), what interests lies in the community that they are a part of and how to cultivate the entire patient journey.

Let’s imagine Samantha is part of the Blockchain for a new chronic arthritis research program and is sharing her progress with a clinical institution about a new type of pain management drug. Samantha learns from the network that they are looking for donors to share their latest experiences with the latest advances in arthritic care. She decides to communicate the new program within the “Salesforce Arthritis Care Community” to expand her outreach to other patients who are also looking at advances in pain care. Samantha remembers another community member, Mark (who shares similar interests about the program), is curious as to how he can donate to science and at the same time, learn more about the new clinical trials benefiting from his contribution.

Patients have minimal or no trace-ability of the types of research benefiting their contribution. With Oprah’s recent 2017 HBO release of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” where Henrietta’s tumor cells aka HeLa cells were harvested and duplicated into “Immortal” cells by John Hopkins researchers raised questions of consent at the time (1951). Fast-forward to today, imagine the compensation Henrietta could benefit with proper guidance and tools let alone her invaluable contribution to research and science.

Another fundamental need is making the patient’s experience much easier to use via a trusted platform that’s purposeful for the network of care and personal use e.g. for Samantha to easily view all in-network claims, recent clinical research articles, transactions, due payments, from all 3rd party transactions, her in-patient stays, patient transfer to rehabilitation centers to in-home care services. In this case, the combined use of smart contracts, patient journey and overall engagement experiences could undoubtedly serve this purpose well.

or what about this one --> do you think Prince Alwaleed is secretly stashing BTC? -->

"Prince Alwaleed says bitcoin will implode: 'Enron in the making'"
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2017/10/23/prince-alwaleed-says-bitcoin-will-implode-enron-in-the-making.html

Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Monday that bitcoin will "implode" one day.

"It just doesn't make sense. This thing is not regulated, it's not under control, it's not under the supervision" of any central bank, Alwaleed said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"I just don't believe in this bitcoin thing. I think it's just going to implode one day. I think this is Enron in the making," Alwaleed said.

The billionaire investor was referring to the massive accounting fraud that took Enron, a U.S. energy-trading and utilities giant, into bankruptcy in late 2001.

Alwaleed runs Kingdom Holding, a massive conglomerate whose investments include Citigroup, Apple and Twitter. The company is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Alwaleed said Monday he agrees with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who last month called bitcoin a "fraud" that will eventually blow up.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has also called the digital currency an "index of money laundering" for its ability to facilitate illegal commerce on the internet.

And then, of course, --> this guy, which no one cares about, lol -->

Jordan Belfort, the infamous "Wolf of Wall Street" penny stock broker, told The Financial Times in an interview published Sunday that initial coin offerings are the "biggest scam ever."

Dimon manipulated bitcoin BTC, for sure... isn't Switzerland suing JP Morgan?

https://news.bitcoin.com/after-the-boss-calls-bitcoin-a-fraud-jp-morgan-buys-the-dip/

There's the proof, in any event. 

Yeah, China seems much less important now in retrospect, but they still have all that tech! Maybe Russia is going to welcome China's BTC miners?

Wow! Hyperme has some great insight!

Do you think SAFT ICO's help as a bridge to equity and stock investors of public companies?

I agree with you Seriy!