The global financial crisis began yesterday

However, nothing new, crises are an inevitable part of the market economy, and taking into account the globalization and interdependence of international economic relations, its consequences are felt by absolutely all countries.

February 5, 2017, the industrial production index Dow Jones showed a drop of 1200 points. He has never fallen so much in the history of his existence. According to Bloomberg, the 500 richest people in the world lost 114 billion of dollars in one day and all the shares in the US stock market fell on average by 10%. Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page and Sergey Brin have lost 2–3 billion dollars. Another pair of alarming indicators — the growth of the Swiss trademark, which always worries in the face of crises, and an insignificant but still rising gold rate.

What about the crypto-currency? The market of crypto-currency after the January shock therapy for traders on short positions finally went up. It is fair to assume that part of the investment from the stock market will be poured into the market for crypto-currency, for the reason that in this relatively new fast-growing sphere the blossoming is just the same. Bitcoin, despite falling more than 2 times per month, still made 400% per annum, the number of crypto-currencies on coinmarketcap exceeded 1500, there is an increasing number of promising ICO projects, like IZX https://izx.io/, the established crypto-currencies branch out on forks and overgrown with a community of enthusiasts.

The fact that the big guys of the financial market will take up the market for crypto-currency is both good and bad at the same time. It is good, because the market capitalization will increase, more interesting projects will receive financing, the Bitcoin and Ether rate will skyrocket, but not immediately. The downside is that the crypto-currencies will finally turn into a speculative instrument and a financial bubble, and their value will be little related to the practical use of the technology they carry.

Well, keep the crypto-currency — if it is, buy the crypto-currency — if it is not there. Stocking up on popcorn and watching the emergence of new large professional and regulated brokerage houses that will specialize in trading with crypto-currency.

Of course, this will be a bubble, but after the last bubble bursts, it will only be invested in canned goods and weapons.

https://medium.com/@izetex_project/the-global-financial-crisis-began-yesterday-de32ceb5c6c5

True Global Transaction Freedom on a Decentralized Exchange! CloakCoin is added for trading on OpenLedger/Bitshares Exchange



Open Ledger is a decentralized financial platform!
True Global Transaction Freedom!

What is Cloak?
CloakCoin is a cryptocurrency designed to facilitate private, secure and untraceable decentralized transfers with Enigma.

Enigma is CloakCoin’s private, secure and untraceable payment system, that forms the basis of future development and provides the underlying transaction system for the decentralized applications running on the CloakCoin network.

Why Cloak Coin?

Privacy today is perhaps more important than ever. The thundering pace of technological advancement has rapidly broadened our horizon and connected the world like never before. Thanks to Bitcoin’s introduction in 2009, cryptocurrency is steadily moving into the mainstream and we can now transfer digital currencies securely across the globe in an instant, using the power of the blockchain. As cryptocurrency adoption becomes more widespread, increased regulation is inevitable. It remains to be seen what form this regulation will take, but many are concerned it may be overly draconian and designed to stifle some of the more libertarian aspects of cryptocurrency.

Due to Bitcoin’s quest for ubiquity, anonymity for users has never been a priority for the core Bitcoin developers. This has led to the emergence of a number of privacy-centric, alternative cryptocurrencies, designed with anonymity in mind. There are many different methodologies and approaches to solving the problem of anonymous transactions — Cloak suggests its own way.

https://steemit.com/cloakcoin/@cloak.blog/true-global-transaction-freedom-on-a-decentralized-exchange-cloakcoin-is-added-for-trading-on-openledger-bitshares-exchange

Dentacoin Announces Strategic Partnership with Arklign, San Jose, CA
February 7th, 2018: Dentacoin made a significant breakthrough towards its wider acceptance within the industry as it started partnering with Arklign, a state-of-the-art full service dental laboratory partner, based in San Jose, California!

Arklign: Transforming the Dental Lab Experience
Arklign is an innovative company, uniquely positioned as an end-to-end partner for dental service providers. It uconnects and transforms the dental lab experience by centralizing workflow and automating communication while simultaneously providing a personalized, hands-on approach to customer service.

Arklign’s offering consists of the dental restorations fabricated by its lab and Arklign Case Relationship Management (aCRM), a proprietary online platform through which customers track and manage the restoration cases handled by Arklign. Arklign’s full-service dental lab offers a comprehensive range of solutions for fixed restorations, removable restorations and implant restorations, and benefits from a distributed global operations model that is driven by technology and automation, allowing for 24-hour operations and maximized efficiency in creating high quality dental restorations in a timely manner.

With Arklign, dental practices benefit from a systemized workflow, data insights and high-volume laboratory capabilities that make their business more efficient.

The idea to provide value-based and affordable services within the dental industry through a highly efficient approach naturally led Ray Alde, CEO of Arklign, to Dentacoin. Now Dentacoin is implemented into Arklign’s payment options, allowing dentists to pay a percentage of their bills in the industry-specific currency! In the future, Dentacoin could also be utilized in Arklign’s own rewards program via their Case Relationship Management platform (aCRM), which will be another big step forward!
https://blog.dentacoin.com/dentacoin-announces-strategic-partnership-arklign-san-jose-ca/

TokenStars Partners With Nomadic Capital To Expand Its Reach And Promote Awareness In MENA

Nomadic Capital is no newbie to the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem as their main mission, prior entering the blockchain era, is to be a boutique incubator and actively invest in the startup ecosystem in the UAE. Today Nomadic has proactively supported an ICO by financially investing Ethereum in order to acquire TEAM tokens as well as by utilizing marketing strategies to create awareness of, what it sees as a viable and scalable project led by Mr Pavel Stukolov, CEO of Tokenstars.

TokenStars, the first celebrity management platform on blockchain, today announces that Nomadic Capital has participated in the TEAM token sale and will help the company to expand its activities in the MENA region through various channels to ensure both awareness and growth.

As mentioned above, the acquisition of Tokens called TEAM, an ERC-20 compatible token built on the Ethereum blockchain was Nomadic’s first intention to form a partnership with Tokenstars as they believe the projects characteristics do not only possess a first-mover in blockchain technologies but are very applicable to our region. The alliance is multi-fold and Nomadic will proactively seek to strengthen Pavel’s presence in the UAE, starting with Dubai and expand regionally throughout the GCC and MENA.

About TokenStars

TokenStars is a blockchain-based platform which connects rising talents and successful professionals in sports and entertainment with fans and advertisers. ACE and TEAM tokens by TokenStars provide the fans opportunities to interact with their favorite athletes and celebrities as well as to support their careers. Learn more on our website or contact us at: pr@tokenstars.com

About Nomadic Capital

An incubator of fresh new ideas, Nomadic’s mission is to support all potentially viable ideas, no matter at which stage, and to encourage the startup ecosystem in the UAE primarily and GCC/MENA. Nomadic is a startup itself and strives day by day, growing wiser and financially more capable to take on new projects that are either “homemade” (idea from within the company) or from our new partners / clients. Nomadic has expanded its wide array of services in order to offer a full-fledged turnkey solution.

https://medium.com/@TokenStars/tokenstars-partners-with-nomadic-capital-to-expand-its-reach-in-mena-a2f4afd28c84

The Adbank Business Model Explained by CEO Jon Gillham



Jon Gillham recently caught up with Roger at Digital Currency Index for an interview to chat about the business model behind Adbank.

Here are some of the topics covered in the interview:

-How the idea for Adbank was born
-The problems that exist today in digital advertising
-The payment protocol Adbank is building & how it will bring transparency to the industry
-Adbank’s acquisition strategy & how it will quickly drive token volume

https://medium.com/adbank-blog/the-adbank-business-model-explained-by-ceo-jon-gillham-83173d20b8cf

ELCoin: ICO Stage 1 complete



ELCoin ICO Stage 1 is completed successfully.

Congratulations to all the participants!

ELC tokens will become transferable starting from 12:00 GMT January 12, 2018.

For the last week we received many applications from potential investors who did not have time to take part in the first stages of our ICO, for this reason the option of extending the main stage of ICO is being considered, which will be reported additionally.

Stay tuned for further news from ELCoin!

https://medium.com/@ELCoin/elcoin-ico-stage-1-complete-8f3d764c62c7

Despite Market Headwinds — IUNGO continues to Execute on our Roadmap



In just a few days after hitting our Hardcap on the 31st January , ING went live on the exchanges yesterday. We wanted to avoid the endless waiting game that some projects do, give our supporters liquidity and of course, welcome net new buyers who missed the ICO to join us and support the IUNGO mission to build the first truly global, decentralized WiFi Network.

We were given a date by the exchange and had to either accept it or our listing would be “delayed indefinitely”, we listened to the wishes of our 12,000 strong Telegram community and pressed ahead with the 4th February . Obviously we could not have listed at a worse time — On top of it being Chinese New Years and Super Bowl Sunday it was a perfect storm of a complete market meltdown with Bitcoin and Ethereum down over 40% in the last few days and shocking regulatory news from China among other places.

Iungo is not alone in this suffering. Many strong performers and fantastic projects are in the red. However, we believe that a significant market sell of like we are currently enduring will result in a flight to quality.

Projects like IUNGO that have a real business, an ambitious achievable, talented hard working team and a rock colid use case for decentralization and tokenization will rise to the top.

We thank you all for your support and we ask you to stand by us as we build our our global network and keep the world updated on our Partnerships, Commercial and Technological milestones as we cross them of the road map. Sure the short term speculators have been hurt as they would if they were holding any other crypto asset recently but as our network grows, the network effects and critical mass will allow value to accrue to the platform itself and therefore the holders of the Iungo Tokens.

We look forward to an exciting year ahead, with the team and our ICO participants standing shoulder to as we spread the IUNGO Network to every continent on earth.

https://medium.com/@iungo/despite-market-headwinds-iungo-continues-to-execute-on-our-roadmap-e42410f03d22

Notice, good news, APP updates again

To give users good mining experience, M-Berry has updated its version, IOS to 1.0.5, Android to 1.0.9. This time, M-Berry APP adds the function of self-service query. Users can enter super miner and click my mining code list on the top right corner to get SMS message about S mining code. Please update the APP! We are sorry about the inconvenience. Thank you for your support!

https://medium.com/@BlockCDN/notice-good-news-app-updates-again-6857aacb4346

Why CryptoBite ?

No 1: Providing various earning opportunity under SMART EARNING OPPORTUNITY
No 2: CryptoBite has clear Vision to keep demand of CryptoBite coin in Market by Providing service like USB Wallet, Payment Gateway, Decentralize Booking system. CryptoBite ICO is live now. Visit www.cryptobite.co and join future of cryptocurrrency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aStVvOiOynw

Dear investors of the project LH-CRYPTO!

5 days have passed after the successful completion of the ICO of our project. We would like to tell you what has been done during this time and also to share our plans for the near future.

We have already started sending the tokens to our investors and have already sent more than 80% of the total number of the tokens. About 20% of the investors have fully received the purchased tokens. If you haven’t received the tokens yet — don’t worry, the distribution process will be completed until the 25 of February.

We have already placed our tokens on a few small exchanges. Now you can make deals on two exchanges:

-ETHERDELTA — https://etherdelta.com/#0x0778cc2e8bbad3d483e82371606d100cc8604522-ETH
-YOBIT — https://yobit.net/en/trade/LHCOIN/BTC
-IDEX — https://idex.market/eth/lhcoin

We would like to remind everyone that the correct Ticker of our token on exchanges is-LHCoin

Also we would like to share with you our plans for the future:

· In February we will complete sending the tokens to investors (including bonus, gift and referral tokens)

· In late February — early March — we will place this coin on exchanges (including the major exchanges) — the list we will publish later

· During March and April we will continue the work on listing the coins on the exchanges and expand the number of exchanges, where presents the project, to at least five. We will also have the identification of the holders of our tokens according to the international standards procedures KYC (know you client). It is necessary for us in order to enter on such exchange as POLONEX and BITREX

· In April we will launch a separate website for bitcoin broker and trading platform based on the latest software MetaTrader 5

· In May — June the deployment of our own nodes is planned, and live processing for major crypto-currencies for the accounts of LH-CRYPTO

· In July — August we will begin to accept customer funds for margin trading and activate the CASHBACK program

Of course, this plan is approximate, but as you can see we are planning to start our work even earlier than planned in the Road Map! We believe in our project and want to implement it as quickly as possible!

Also in the next few days we will publish on our YouTube channel the speech of Georgy Pavlov, who will tell you more about the company’s plans.

https://medium.com/@lhcrypto/dear-investors-of-the-project-lh-crypto-f2d5e71d58f8

Zeepin Progress Update
It’s shocking to witness the slump in cryptocurrency market with BTC price dropping to $6500. The fluctuation is leading to panic over investors as the price of ZPT is inevitably affected. Good news is that the majority of users in Zeepin community can understand the current situation and still have faith in Zeepin holding ZPTs, which means a lot to us. The world of cryptocurrency never fails to surprise us — you may become a millionaire overnight or be dead broke within just a few days. However, Zeepin has never been interested in any kind of speculative activity- we are always committed to being the pioneer of creative industry with the power of blockchain. It’s beyond our ability to manipulate or tamper with the dramatic market. All we can do is making more efforts to speed up the development of all dApps guided by user-friendly principle. That’s something we can promise — a promising project with long-term and sustainable development.
https://medium.com/@zeepin/zeepin-progress-update-a5ab0b0ac8f8

Cibus — Earn free tokens from the bounty campaign



Bounty program
In my previous blog, which you can find here — CIBUS — Food Ecosystem on the blockchain I went over the Cibus project, and how it’s aiming to bring trust and transparency to the food ecosystem. In this post i’ll be going over their bounty projects, so you can earn some token for free by taking part in one of the below campaigns they are running.

https://steemit.com/crypto/@darkoth89/cibus-earn-free-tokens-from-the-bounty-campaign

Dentacoin (DCN): The Altcoin Investors Actually Believe in During a Dip

Cryptocurrency investors are still reeling after the horrid miniature market crash that started happening yesterday. Suddenly, yet again, coins across the board were posting double-digit losses in their 24-hour price movements. It was an all too familiar feeling for a lot of hodlers out there. Thankfully, the market has picked back up a bit and things are starting to look brighter. A few coins are achieving some pretty impressive gains today – and Dentacoin (DCN) is one of the currencies leading the pack.

https://theusacommerce.com/dentacoin-dcn-the-altcoin-investors-actually-believe-in-during-a-dip/

JOE BLACKBURN, NEW E-CHAT ADVISOR, PROMOTES THE PLATFORM IN THAILAND

Joe Blackburn joined our team recently, yet the recognition he has brought to the project and the help he has provided in promoting our first decentralized multitask platform is enormous. Apart from being an e-Chat advisor, Joe is currently the community manager at TokenMagic, a platform providing a comprehensive white glove service for end-to-end token sale solutions.

Being an ardent Bitcoin Ambassador, Joe created one of the most successful cryptogroups, Crypto Coin Trader on Facebook, with over 50K members and the target audience of around 100K potential investors.

Today Joe is flying to Thailand to speak about the e-Chat project in front of Asia- and world-level financial key players.

Stay tuned, and rush to invest in ECHT, e-Chat tokens, as right now we are running our Main Round of ICO!

https://investors.echat.io/news/article/678

SCR Tokens Available on OpenLedger DEX



As the Scorum Crowdsale enters its last week, our partnership with OpenLedger opens a new door for cryptocurrency enthusiasts who would like to purchase SCR tokens. We’re glad to announce that 1 million SCR tokens is set aside for purchase on the OpenLedger exchange as open.SCR tokens here starting February 2.

These SCR tokens are reserved from the 18.6 million tokens available during the Scorum Crowdsale.

This is the first step towards open market trading for SCR and offers current OpenLedger DEX users along with the wider BitShares community the chance to add increased liquidity to the SCR cryptocurrency.

Until the crowdsale ends on February 11th at 17:00 GMT, SCR tokens will be available on the OpenLedger decentralized exchange as open.SCR. This first version of open.SCR will have its value pegged at 1 USD until the end of the crowdsale and will guarantee the wallet holder receives open.SCR tokens of an equal amount when the Scorum blockchain is launched.

Open.SCR will be paired with bit.USD so that the community of traders on BitShares decentralized exchange can easily purchase SCR tokens without registering on the Scorum Crowdsale website. Along with further visibility, this offers SCR buyers a chance to purchase SCR in cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin and ethereum.

After the Scorum blockchain and wallet are launched in March. Open.SCR holders who wish to redeem their open.SCR for SCR tokens will send their open.SCR to OpenLedger accounts with their Scorum Wallet address. OpenLedger will then send them the same amount of SCR to their Scorum wallet.

Fans of Scorum who have joined the Scorum crowdsale already will be able to generate the private keys to their Scorum wallet and transfer the SCR tokens to OpenLedger and trade open.SCR in their wallet once the Scorum Blockchain and Wallet are launched. Once there, they can participate in buying further open.SCR or filling orders for open.SCR from other users on the exchange. After the end of the crowdsale, open.SCR will no longer be pegged at 1 USD and the open market will dictate the value of SCR tokens.

https://medium.com/@scorum/scr-tokens-available-on-openledger-dex-942c3940dd8d

The future of Solar Energy. Dream or Reality?



Today we can for sure say that Solar Energy is not technology of future.
Solar energy is Energy of Today!

Solar DAO — a tokenized fund designed for everyone to easily participate in PV solar plants construction across the globe. SDAO tokens on: YoBit.

Introduction and development of new RES technologies is not only the idea of economy, but also a huge benefit for the Ecology. Scientists all countries are constantly discovering new ways of producing and distributing Solar Energy. And not only on Earth

Japan considers a really “cosmic” idea. The Shimizu company plans to surround Moon’s equator with solar panels, electricity from which will be transmitted to Earth for the needs of people. Of course, this idea is still far from implementation, but the future for Solar Industry development is very bright.

https://medium.com/solardao/the-future-of-solar-energy-dream-or-reality-46c8abdf9e13

Interview with Mong Suan Yee, Engineering Director at COSS.io

How did you end up working for COSS? Did they contact you or did you reply to a job offer?

Mong Suan Yee:

I was interested in blockchain technology already a year ago when I was working in Malaysia. I then came to Singapore for another job, but I was already part of the blockchain community. Then Dave Appleton, who knows Rune too, introduced us. I started talking with Rune who offered me the job, and I thought the position was interesting, so I took the job!

https://medium.com/@raphaelblouet/interview-with-mong-suan-yee-engineering-director-at-coss-io-f03df1095228

What is Dentacoin (DCN)? A Beginner’s Guide

Dentacoin (DCN) is the first blockchain concept designed to help make the global dental industry more affordable. Following a decentralized, Ethereum-based smart contract protocol, the DCN token rewards users through a system that inspires community contribution. Ultimately, the project’s mission is to make quality dental health care available to the nearly 80% of the world’s population without it.

By removing the middleman (big insurance companies) and placing authority back into patient’s/dentist’s hands, costs can be significantly reduced. One way this is accomplished is through the establishment of smart contracts directly between patients and dentists. These facilitate small monthly contributions of Dentacoin to dentists. Tailored directly to the patient’s needs, this smart contract solution will streamline dental care and remove the need for patients to pay high premiums to insurance companies.

According to the American Dental Association, the average American pays $544 in out-of-pocket expenses. As well, nearly 90% of costs can be avoided only if patients take preemptive care and visit the dentist at least 3 times a year. The problem is, going to the dentist is not the most pleasant of experiences for the average person, and fewer visits correlate with higher instances of gum disease, cavities, etc.

With Dentacoin, patients are empowered to take control of their preemptive dental care (such as proper nutrition/ flossing) and dentists benefit monetarily from patient’s long-term dental success. Unfortunately, the current dental system doesn’t encourage dentists to think of the long-term benefits to patients (due to economic disadvantages) and instead focus on short-term value.

Today, the global dental treatment industry is valued around $400 billion dollars, yet comes with high-cost barriers for both smaller companies and patients. In order to break into this industry, the Dentacoin Foundation is relying on the power of crowdfunding to harness its goals.

https://thebitcoinnews.com/what-is-dentacoin-dcn-a-beginners-guide/

bitJob — January 2018 Update

We have been working on multiple levels at parallel planes, and we want to give you an update regarding our recent developments. We planned to publish a short review video, but due to the great amount of information we decided to make it easier to translate and understand in all languages.

We are very close to completing the website construction and the new branding in the next few days. The site is in the final stages of QA, and will be launched in the next two weeks.

This objective has been somewhat delayed, but we are sure you will like the result! The new branding style has passed an opinion poll in relevant focus groups — both in the Crypto community and the “old” world.

https://medium.com/bitjob/bitjob-january-2018-update-30b001dd7af2

Viberate Announces Collaboration with Imogen Heap

Viberate has announced a collaboration with Imogen Heap, an early adopter of the blockchain technology.

Viberate is a crowdsourced live music ecosystem and a blockchain-based marketplace, where musicians are matched with booking agencies and event organizers. The aim is to list and map the global live music industry, deliver more transparency, increase payment discipline, and enable under-the-radar artists to gain exposure.

Heap and Viberate will work creatively towards empowering those in the live music segment in listing and mapping the global live music ecosystem by building a database of profiles for musicians, venues, agencies and event organizers. The project’s goal is to set a standard for the live music industry and connect the stakeholders in a way that they will be able to get in contact and do business with one another directly on the platform.

Vasja Veber, Viberate’s co-founder and COO, says that Imogen Heap is the best celebrity ambassador they could imagine: “Influencer marketing has been a hot topic lately and as a music service we are always on the lookout for partnerships with famous musicians. Imogen is not only one of the best artists out there and an inspiration to many of today’s superstars, she is also widely known for getting on the blockchain train before it was cool. We respect that and that is why we are so excited to have her on board.”

The vision of the two-time Grammy Award-winning artist is a sustainable music industry ecosystem. With her Mycelia Creative Passports project, she is working on new potentials for music makers and the services who interact with their works in light of the distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. She says: “Blockchain has become the long overdue catalyst for the music industry to update its policy and business models toward music makers and to provide quicker and seamless experiences for anyone involved in creating or interacting with music“.

Once she discovered Viberate’s mission, she felt excited about the opportunities Viberate could give to the music industry: “Anything that involves music makers being independent and having space where they can reach out to anybody who wants to make business directly with them is a really positive thing.”

https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2018/02/viberate-announces-collaboration-with-imogen-heap/