This is pretty interesting as well: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/department-of-homeland-security-wants-blockchain-applications/. Department of Homeland Security Wants Blockchain Applications Through a predominant public-private partnership program called Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking to understand bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the SBIR’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is now accepting proposals from small businesses comprising of fewer than 500 employees in at least 10 topic areas. Interestingly, the areas also cover the topics of “Applicability of Blockchain Technology to Privacy Respecting Identity Management” & “Blockchain Applications for Homeland Security Analytics”. Presumably, the former is looking for research into providing better awareness and the know-how for identity management beyond current systems in the active directory. The other topic seeks blockchain technology to help enhance analytics done by DHS. The S&T Directorate, in particular, commenced its SBIR program in 2014 with the objective to foster the “participation of innovative and creative small businesses” in the country among federal research programs and new innovations. Ultimately, the goal is seen as one to bring new solutions for the betterment of homeland security. |
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All, so the idea in progress for the book and accompanying site is this: The book is designed to help small business be successful. Drawing from Alan's schooling and knowledge in business and as a business consultant for hundreds of businesses that needed help.
The book I am writing is dedicated to assist small business owners, including many women small business owners. The vast majority of small business owners and their employees are struggling today in the face of mounting regulations and high cost of doing business. Many small business owners struggle to meet payroll on a regular bases and skip supporting their own retirement savings. Many employees have not see a pay raise in years. We are committed to help in ways we can to foster better employer/employee relationship and improved ways of doing business. We believe that CRISP For Retirement, and CRISP For Employees Incentive Benefits when offered as a package with interactive support by virtual of a dedicated web site will make a difference. We also plan to engage other groups as part of the resources that are beneficial for small business owners. Any suggestions you may have will be very much appreciated.
The book and the site will be utilized in the upcoming business to help fund and grow this business. We will be exploring both publisher options and self publishing options if we cannot make a favorable deal with a publisher. We have also created a model for a marketing plan in the event we do have to self publish to ensure it is a viable option. The site will be a membership site designed to compliment the book, likely with different levels of membership. We intend to keep the cost of membership low in the spirit of helping small business and not becoming a burden, and we plan to over-deliver in terms of value to the customer. The first level of membership will likely include additional content and explore more in depth the concepts within the book via video and articles published on a regular basis. We intend to have articles from Alan directly and approved articles from industry experts. This would also include specific forms, spreadsheets, and materials that would help small businesses, Alan can go into more detail on that than I can. The second level may include access to a forum, where we can help answer peoples business questions, give them advice and guidance, and also use it as an outlet for vetted consultants to help in various aspects of their business. One of the requirements for being a vetted consulted in the forum would be that they spend some time helping answer questions on the forums. So this is the rough idea, I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. I like the idea for the membership site. Are you going to sell the book on the site as well in digital and audio format? I would recommend using affiliate marketing to sell the book and memberships, Shareasale, Commission Junction, Clickbank. I've used all of those to earn money and to sell products, and wouldn't mind earning a few bucks promoting the book and new site. Thanks Kanus, depending on how the publishing works I can see selling the book and a audiobook version. Affiliate marketing sounds like a great way to promote the membership site and the book. I will have to take a closer look and may want to pick your brain. |
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All, so the idea in progress for the book and accompanying site is this: The book is designed to help small business be successful. Drawing from Alan's schooling and knowledge in business and as a business consultant for hundreds of businesses that needed help.
The book I am writing is dedicated to assist small business owners, including many women small business owners. The vast majority of small business owners and their employees are struggling today in the face of mounting regulations and high cost of doing business. Many small business owners struggle to meet payroll on a regular bases and skip supporting their own retirement savings. Many employees have not see a pay raise in years. We are committed to help in ways we can to foster better employer/employee relationship and improved ways of doing business. We believe that CRISP For Retirement, and CRISP For Employees Incentive Benefits when offered as a package with interactive support by virtual of a dedicated web site will make a difference. We also plan to engage other groups as part of the resources that are beneficial for small business owners. Any suggestions you may have will be very much appreciated.
The book and the site will be utilized in the upcoming business to help fund and grow this business. We will be exploring both publisher options and self publishing options if we cannot make a favorable deal with a publisher. We have also created a model for a marketing plan in the event we do have to self publish to ensure it is a viable option. The site will be a membership site designed to compliment the book, likely with different levels of membership. We intend to keep the cost of membership low in the spirit of helping small business and not becoming a burden, and we plan to over-deliver in terms of value to the customer. The first level of membership will likely include additional content and explore more in depth the concepts within the book via video and articles published on a regular basis. We intend to have articles from Alan directly and approved articles from industry experts. This would also include specific forms, spreadsheets, and materials that would help small businesses, Alan can go into more detail on that than I can. The second level may include access to a forum, where we can help answer peoples business questions, give them advice and guidance, and also use it as an outlet for vetted consultants to help in various aspects of their business. One of the requirements for being a vetted consulted in the forum would be that they spend some time helping answer questions on the forums. So this is the rough idea, I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. I like it. It ties crypto/business/economy/money/success and surviving in the future monetary world together in one place. I think this is something currently lacking in our industry. Everyone involved has an idea of how to make their version of crypto or, blockchain (read sequential database here) or whatever part of this new technology they have bought in to work for them but, very few have the vision to pull it all together or, even show how one area effects the others in real world. Again, lets look at "blockchain". How many blockchain projects have been announced in the last year? Hundreds? Certainly there is something under the radar here. Not sinister but fearful. Fear of being left behind. As much as banks and other financial institutions try to "pooh pooh" crypto, behind closed doors they are scared to death but, they need to show the public they are engaged. Large corporations and governments are in the same boat, get involved or, get left behind. All these "blockchain" projects are simply vehicles to get funding to explore the technology using the current "buzz" words that are quickly becoming a part of the Lexicon. A website that could take all this into consideration and perhaps show the way to integration without pain, would be welcome. I feel there are very few places on the Web where professionals can go to discuss the technology and how to best leverage it for their needs. Real world data, working examples, technical input and support, that would be something to get them all in one place. Thanks RJF, great post, you've drawn attention to a few angles I had not really considered. |
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All, so the idea in progress for the book and accompanying site is this: The book is designed to help small business be successful. Drawing from Alan's schooling and knowledge in business and as a business consultant for hundreds of businesses that needed help.
The book I am writing is dedicated to assist small business owners, including many women small business owners. The vast majority of small business owners and their employees are struggling today in the face of mounting regulations and high cost of doing business. Many small business owners struggle to meet payroll on a regular bases and skip supporting their own retirement savings. Many employees have not see a pay raise in years. We are committed to help in ways we can to foster better employer/employee relationship and improved ways of doing business. We believe that CRISP For Retirement, and CRISP For Employees Incentive Benefits when offered as a package with interactive support by virtual of a dedicated web site will make a difference. We also plan to engage other groups as part of the resources that are beneficial for small business owners. Any suggestions you may have will be very much appreciated.
The book and the site will be utilized in the upcoming business to help fund and grow this business. We will be exploring both publisher options and self publishing options if we cannot make a favorable deal with a publisher. We have also created a model for a marketing plan in the event we do have to self publish to ensure it is a viable option. The site will be a membership site designed to compliment the book, likely with different levels of membership. We intend to keep the cost of membership low in the spirit of helping small business and not becoming a burden, and we plan to over-deliver in terms of value to the customer. The first level of membership will likely include additional content and explore more in depth the concepts within the book via video and articles published on a regular basis. We intend to have articles from Alan directly and approved articles from industry experts. This would also include specific forms, spreadsheets, and materials that would help small businesses, Alan can go into more detail on that than I can. The second level may include access to a forum, where we can help answer peoples business questions, give them advice and guidance, and also use it as an outlet for vetted consultants to help in various aspects of their business. One of the requirements for being a vetted consulted in the forum would be that they spend some time helping answer questions on the forums. So this is the rough idea, I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. Great ideas, it's certainly going to be interesting seeing this all come together. It's funny you should mention the consultation, literally minutes before I saw this post I added cryptocurrency support and consultation to www.DNotesEDU.com . Coming on here with so many wily industry professionals might seem like a daunting task for new users, because they may be afraid of asking embarrassing beginner questions. With DNotesEDU Support, all questions are kept confidential. Thanks CryptoBroker, I can see your point and also see the benefit of learning new things from reading through others questions. Maybe the best answer is to have both options available. Great start on your site by the way, I need to make sure I have to links setup to it. |
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All, so the idea in progress for the book and accompanying site is this: The book is designed to help small business be successful. Drawing from Alan's schooling and knowledge in business and as a business consultant for hundreds of businesses that needed help.
The book I am writing is dedicated to assist small business owners, including many women small business owners. The vast majority of small business owners and their employees are struggling today in the face of mounting regulations and high cost of doing business. Many small business owners struggle to meet payroll on a regular bases and skip supporting their own retirement savings. Many employees have not see a pay raise in years. We are committed to help in ways we can to foster better employer/employee relationship and improved ways of doing business. We believe that CRISP For Retirement, and CRISP For Employees Incentive Benefits when offered as a package with interactive support by virtual of a dedicated web site will make a difference. We also plan to engage other groups as part of the resources that are beneficial for small business owners. Any suggestions you may have will be very much appreciated.
The book and the site will be utilized in the upcoming business to help fund and grow this business. We will be exploring both publisher options and self publishing options if we cannot make a favorable deal with a publisher. We have also created a model for a marketing plan in the event we do have to self publish to ensure it is a viable option. The site will be a membership site designed to compliment the book, likely with different levels of membership. We intend to keep the cost of membership low in the spirit of helping small business and not becoming a burden, and we plan to over-deliver in terms of value to the customer. The first level of membership will likely include additional content and explore more in depth the concepts within the book via video and articles published on a regular basis. We intend to have articles from Alan directly and approved articles from industry experts. This would also include specific forms, spreadsheets, and materials that would help small businesses, Alan can go into more detail on that than I can. The second level may include access to a forum, where we can help answer peoples business questions, give them advice and guidance, and also use it as an outlet for vetted consultants to help in various aspects of their business. One of the requirements for being a vetted consulted in the forum would be that they spend some time helping answer questions on the forums. So this is the rough idea, I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. |
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This article has some good points regarding "climbing onboard the blockchain bandwagon" that is going on now. It's a bit long, out of my area of expertise, and I only skimmed the farther I got into the article. Avoiding the pointless blockchain projectHow to determine if you’ve found a real blockchain use case Blockchains are overhyped. There, I said it. From Sibos to Money20/20 to cover stories of The Economist and Euromoney, everyone seems to be climbing aboard the blockchain wagon. And no doubt like others in the space, we’re seeing a rapidly increasing number of companies building proofs of concept on our platform and/or asking for our help. As a young startup, you’d think we’d be over the moon. Surely now is the time to raise a ton of money and build that high performance next generation blockchain platform we’ve already designed. What on earth are we waiting for? I’ll tell you what. We’re waiting to gain a clearer understanding of where blockchains genuinely add value in enterprise IT. You see, a large proportion of these incoming projects have nothing to do with blockchains at all. Here’s how it plays out. Big company hears that blockchains are the next big thing. Big company finds some people internally who are interested in the subject. Big company gives them a budget and tells them to go do something blockchainy. Soon enough they come knocking on our door, waving dollar bills, asking us to help them think up a use case. Say what now? Full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/avoiding-pointless-blockchain-project-gideon-greenspanI will read the full article another day when I have a little more time to spare. In the mean time, here is my take. Blockchain technology, indeed offers massive potential and will be hugely disruptive. Yes, it is currently over-hyped and attracting too many "me toos", may be more than usual. A lot of investment will not work out with many disappointed investors, but nothing unusual. Most will be too early and many will fail. DNotes is taking Blockchain very seriously. We will be a major player one day but we will not the first bull to charge into the "China Shop." We are keeping ourselves well informed and mapping our the most viable Blockchain related projects. Frankly, we believe that we have a huge advantage of packaging the technology with our own digital currency. It's a great article that points out when not to use the blockchain, and for the most part I agree, because we do have better solutions for most database needs. However we haven't seen every iteration of blockchain or thought of every specialized version of the blockchain. When speaking to the blockchain as we know it, he is correct that most companies don't really need it. The most compelling case for blockchain is where the asset is created within the blockchain itself (IE blockchain's killer app... Digital Currency), or maybe even created once and traded without the need for editing the initial values (this could be like the launch of a company and the shares are traded off, sold, by the company itself, but even this case has some issues). The article details very well when to avoid blockchain. Here is a snippet: Conclusion As I mentioned in the introduction, if your project does not fulfill every single one of these conditions, you should not be using a blockchain. In the absence of any of the first five, you should consider one of: (a) regular file storage, (b) a centralized database, (c) master–slave database replication, or (d) multiple databases to which users can subscribe. And if you do fulfill the first five, there’s still work to do. You need to be able to express the rules of your application in terms of the transactions which a database allows. You need to be confident about who you can trust as validators and how you’ll define distributed consensus. And finally, if you’re looking at creating a shared ledger, you need to know who will be backing the assets which that ledger represents. |
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A bit longer this week, but worth the extra read. Digital Currency Weekly Recap 12-13-2015North Carolina Exempting Some Cryptocurrency Companies from Regulation. Central Banks Consider Creating Digital Currency. BitWalking: Stepping for Digital Currency! Minnesota Issues Crypto Warning. http://dcebrief.com/digital-currency-weekly-recap-12-13-2015/ |
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Sorry for the delay today all, had a bit of a fiasco to deal with this morn, all good now. Blockchain Weekly Recap 12-12-2015Equibit Founder on Blockchain OTC Market. Infosys to Add 250 Jobs in Ireland. Stampery Brings Blockchain Benefits to Lawyers. Russia’s Sberbank Gives Nod to Blockchain. Imogen Heap Praises Blockchain. http://dcebrief.com/blockchain-weekly-recap-12-12-2015/ |
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This is an interesting article explaining why a disruptive technology takes a long time to go mainstream and why block chain technology still has a ways to go. One thing the author didn't delve into too much is working out the bugs involved with scaling up (Cryptsy, anyone?). http://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-decade-away-mainstream/We're all early adopters. Great article. We are all early adopters, indeed. Like we have mentioned many times before, positioning DNotes to stay on the right track with a solid foundation is our highest priority. As we continue to advance and add value to our ecosystem, the value of DNotes will take care of itself. It will take DNotes five years to become firmly established and we are barely two years old. For a young organization of this age, without VC funding, we have accomplished a lot - thanks to you all. Agreed on all counts, the article touches on some important information. I’m often asked how quickly the changes I outline will take place, and my answer is between 10 and 20 years. The building of the real-time, almost free financial network on the Internet using blockchain and mobile will take about a decade at least before it becomes mainstream. "Oh," some go. "That's a way off. Can we talk about something happening sooner?" That's an interesting reaction, as sure, we could talk about how Apple Watch payment apps aren't working or the big deal with Chase Pay, but c'mon. I'm not talking about incremental innovations here, but fundamental ones. The rebuilding of whole financial markets using shared ledgers. The inclusion of 7 billion people in the financial network through mobile. Those are the big ticket items. Another user of Stripe is interesting, but it's not the massive change we can see coming downstream. So why is this fundamental change going to take 1o years, at least? Because that's how long any major change takes to become mainstream due to "the Waterfall Effect". The Waterfall Effect is exactly that: the cascade of flowing change from idea to implementation to acceptance to mainstream. And you have to remember there are many players in play here. |
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The atmosphere on Cryptsy chat is pretty serious. Users are actively seeking coins to bolt with. I just made a withdrawal of 90 NOTE.*
And my Dnotes wallet will shortly be synched, ready to receive the withdrawal if it happens.
So, any Dnoter who establishes that Dnotes can still be pulled from Cryptsy may reasonably go on the chat there, and say so.
Mark
EDIT: came through in literally five minutes. Have posted on Cryptsy chat.
*I bailed on Cryptsy a fortnight ago, but I had enough scraps left to get hold of 90 NOTE.
Getting DNotes in and out of Cryptsy does not seem to be an issue. However, I made two withdrawals at .1 BTC each over two days ago and have not received them. I wish them well but find it difficult to accept that they are working hard to resolve a technical issue. At a minimum, they are handling damage control poorly. I hope it's not more than that. Yes, the vague "we're dealing with technical issues" is stretching credibility after having gone on for weeks. I currently have a pending BTC withdrawal that's almost 24 hours old. The last one took about 36 hours. I figured I'd take my chances so we'll see if I ever get it. Most alt-coins are withdrawing fine, hence the premium on their price. EDIT: on the bright side, Big Vern finally posted some kind of update (with promises to post more updates). Maybe we should all tweet back and suggest they contact Alan to help with reputation building  Oh good, a little goes a long way when it comes to customer relations. "Thank you everyone for the patience while we get these issues resolved. Team is working hard and we will try to do more frequent updates" - BigVern |
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The atmosphere on Cryptsy chat is pretty serious. Users are actively seeking coins to bolt with. I just made a withdrawal of 90 NOTE.*
And my Dnotes wallet will shortly be synched, ready to receive the withdrawal if it happens.
So, any Dnoter who establishes that Dnotes can still be pulled from Cryptsy may reasonably go on the chat there, and say so.
Mark
EDIT: came through in literally five minutes. Have posted on Cryptsy chat.
*I bailed on Cryptsy a fortnight ago, but I had enough scraps left to get hold of 90 NOTE.
Looks like a lot of people are bailing on Cryptsy. Hopefully nothing is seriously wrong, but I'm sure this has hurt their customer base regardless. |
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spot price UNO
that's how i do it ... i think we can find a stable metric.
(keep in mind one is low inflation so that's the scale i'm on) ((under 4 coins per day))
granted the other (NOTE) has superior market cap.
Yeah, I know where you are coming from, in 2016 we should be in position to start overcoming it. It would be nice if we had a tool to make those conversions, for all coins and pairs. But in the same sense I like those pairs could take on their own identity and market. I do encourage everyone to be active in the UNO/NOTE pair. |
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At the end of the day, NOTE is an intel network, so respect and hats off. Don't forget your NOTE/UNO pairing, signals within Thanks BitcoinNational. I've been checking the Cryptopia markets. It takes a bit of time to figure out what the price of each market should be compared to the BTC markets (or by dollar value). The easiest way for me is to go to coinmarketcap, get the dollar price of each: NOTE: 0.007568 UNO: 2.14 2.14 / .007568 = 282.76955602537 1 / 282.76955602537 = 0.0035364485981308 So the UNO price per NOTE should be: 0.00353645 Is that how you guys do it? Is there an easier way? |
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Bitcoin Weekly Recap 12-11-2015New Info May Hold Clue to Satoshi Nakamoto’s Real Identity. Wright’s Home Raided by Australian Police. New German Survey Shows Little Confidence in Bitcoin among CEOs. Debate Thriving at Hong Kong’s Scaling Bitcoin Conference. Gavin Andresen Calls for Segregated Witness Implementation. Bitcoin Foundation Reportedly Running Short of Money. http://dcebrief.com/bitcoin-weekly-recap-12-11-2015/
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North Carolina Exempts Select Bitcoin Businesses from RegulationNorth Carolina has carved out regulatory exemptions for select bitcoin and blockchain businesses in a move industry supporters say avoids problematic provisions in place in other US states. In a substantial update to its money transmitter FAQ page, the North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks (NCCOB) has exempted digital currency miners; non-financial blockchain services; and multi-signature and non-custodial wallet providers from the state's Money Transmitters Act (MTA). Notably, the exemptions are the result of collaboration between the NCCOB and industry advocacy group the Chamber of Digital Commerce, which worked with law firm BuckleySandler LLP and government relations consulting firm Gide on the initiative. The NCCOB had previously supported a legislative bill that would have covered bitcoin and digital currency related business activities. As noted by the CDC and its partners, the decision by North Carolina to instead collaborate directly with industry stakeholders contrasts with efforts like New York’s state-specific licensing regime, the BitLicense, which was enacted earlier this year. BuckleySandler counsel Amy Kim said in a statement: "These FAQs are quite remarkable as they define specific activities as falling outside the scope of the regulation, which very well may serve as a template for other state interpretations." In addition to the exemptions, the agency specified that digital currency transmission is regulated under the MTA, as are virtual currency "exchangers and administrators" depending on their business model. "An exchanger that sells its own stock of virtual currency is generally not considered a virtual currency transmitter under the NC MTA. In contrast, an exchanger that holds customer funds while arranging a satisfactory buy/sell order with a third party, and transmits virtual currency and fiat currency between buyer and seller, will typically be considered a virtual currency transmitter," the FAQ page reads. ... http://www.coindesk.com/north-carolina-exempts-bitcoin-regulation/
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That is interesting. Chances are, criminals will always find a way around the existing systems, but paper money will always be better for criminal activity and digital currency and blockchain technology would make it more difficult for criminals to go unnoticed. |
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At this second:
Note is 1740 on Poloniex, but 2200 on Cryptsy.
[Unobtanium is 39.0 P, 46.6 Cr.]
i have like a month for differents crypto chats and forums reading alerts about cryptsy .... all kind of rumors about bankrupt, legally closing for licenses, that they maniputale trading register, bla bla bla... Nothing of this happen trully in cryptsy almost for the moment, if anyone have trusted news about this please share. and yeah its good chance toy buy the anual bag for your retirement plan this year  Or for holiday gifts There is a lot of arbitrage opportunities for those that don't believe Cryptsy is going down. |
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