Not an expert trader? Use ICONOMI’s DAAs to outperform the crypto market https://medium.com/@owenoneill/not-an-expert-trader-use-iconomis-daa-s-to-outperform-the-crypto-market-20da5edd455fICONOMI DAA’s in comparison to the markets leading cryptocurrencies It’s important to note that I have already touched on the subject of ICONOMI’s flagship fund; BLX outpacing Bitcoins latest rally with a staggering 47.41% monthly return, an easy-to-read 3-minute article that explains it all. If you‘re’ impressed by Bitcoin and wish you rode the Bitcoin train as everyone watched it climb, maybe you should have considered BLX as a viable option instead, as this offered a far more profitable return, something that you might not have been aware of. Ethereum, touching an all-time high at $420.99* is showcasing an exciting bull run and it looks like it’s finally ETH’s turn to grow — but, how does Ethereum compare when stacked up against diversified DAA’s on the ICONOMI platform?.... |
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Paradise Papers Reveal Bitfinex’s Devasini and Potter Established Tether Already Back in 2014 https://news.bitcoin.com/paradise-papers-reveal-bitfinexs-devasini-and-potter-established-tether-already-back-in-2014/Bitfinex’s Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter has been named in the Paradise Papers – an enormous data leak identifying over 120,000 companies and individuals who have employed the services of offshore service providers operating in ‘tax havens’. The leaked documents contain evidence that Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter established Tether in the British Virgin Islands already back in 2014. The Paradise Papers Reveal That Appleby Assisted Philip Potter and Giancarlo Devasini Set up Tether in the British Virgin Islands in 2014 Paradise Papers Reveal Bitfinex's Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter Established Tether in 2014Bitfinex’s Giancarlo Devasini and Philip Potter have been identified in the recent Paradise Papers leak. Italian media outlet, Nuova Societa, describes the leak as revealing “specialized companies to carry capital in tax jurisdictions other than their country of origin.” The leak saw the release of approximately 13.4 million files which were leaked to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, before being forwarded to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICJC). The Paradise Papers comprises the second largest data leak in history, second only to the Panama Papers leak of 2016. The leak details the documents of offshore service providers, Appleby and Asiaciti Trust, and the company registers of 19 tax havens. Among the companies named in the Paradise Papers are Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Disney, Uber, Nike, Walmart, and McDonald’s. The individuals identified in the leak include high ranking officials from Kenya, Liberia, Ukraine, Jordan, Nigeria, Lithuania, Greece, Brazil, Indonesia, Uganda, and Kazakhstan, Queen Elizabeth II, and Bono. The operations of Tether, Bitfinex, and Mr. Devasini have come under increased scrutiny recently – owing to a significant proliferation in the number of Tether in supply since Bitfinex lost its associated banking earlier this year. In response to accusations that Bitfinex has inflated the supply of Tether in order to remain solvent, the company recently posted a tweet stating “Bitfinex is solvent and both fiat and crypto withdrawals are functioning as normal,” and that “a formal announcement is forthcoming.” The following day, Tether announced that approximately $31 million USDT had been “removed from the Tether Treasury wallet on November 19. 2017,” resulting in a hard fork to isolate the hacked funds. Mr. Potter and Mr. Devasini Have Long Sought to Distance Tether and Bitfinex, Stating That Such Are Separate Entities The Paradise Papers evidence that Mr. Potter is Tether’s director, and states that Mr. Devasini is a shareholder in the company, in addition to illustrating that the pair established Tether in the British Virgin Islands in 2014. A recently leaked document, however, indicates that Mr. Davasini and Tether chief executive officer, Ludovicus Jan Van Der Velde, are the current directors of the Tether. Mr. Van Der Velde is also the chief executive officer of Bitfinex. Philip Potter, Bitfinex’s chief strategy officer, worked for Morgan Stanley in the 1990s, but was fired from the company after Mr. Potter was featured in a 1997 New York Times article that portrayed him as shallow and materialistic. Little is known of Mr. Devasini’s background, other than that he founded a computer hardware company during the 1990’s. Mr. Devasini was fined 100 million Italian lira in 1996 for selling pirated copies of Microsoft software. |
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Wallet-Monero Is a New Website Attempting to Steal Your XMR https://themerkle.com/wallet-monero-is-a-new-website-attempting-to-steal-your-xmr/WALLET-MONERO IS NOT AN OFFICIAL PROJECT When people enter the phrase “Monero wallet” in any search engine, odds are they will come across the Wallet-Monero website sooner or later. While this website may seem genuine and somewhat professional, it is evident the service is not endorsed by the Monero community in any official capacity. There are a few working wallet solutions for Monero right now, with Ledger and TREZOR support to follow in the next few months. The list of “approved” Monero wallets contains no mention of Wallet-Monero. This goes to show the company has no honest intentions whatsoever, and the service should be avoided at all costs. Although it may seem like a genuine web wallet solution, the only service people should trust is MyMonero, which is the only official web wallet and is run by the XMR developers themselves. Any other service claiming to provide similar functionality is not legitimate until proven otherwise.... |
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cybercrypt Ensuring Security Security is paramount for our epoch of technological omnipresence where autonomous devices and machinery communicate ceaselessly and influence virtually every aspect of our society. The vast majority of devices that permeate this landscape are small sensors and actuators that act locally with very scarce resources; this necessitates new thinking and technology; in processing, bandwidth, battery, software etc. but also cryptography. This realization has given birth to vibrant efforts to develop and establish lightweight cryptographic standards. IOTA is about the future Currently IOTA uses the relatively hardware intensive NIST standard SHA-3/Keccak for crucial operations for maximal security. Since the origin of the IOTA vision back in 2014, we — a diverse group of electrical engineers, cryptographers, distributed ledger pioneers — started tackling the hardware side with new thinking in computational processing. A next generation of microprocessor architecture based on ternary logic for ultimate efficiency in IoT is the result. (A deep dive blog post on trinary’s superiority over binary will come soon). Then there is the software protocol and platform side which acts as the adhesive holding this new ubiquitous realm together (the IOTA project itself), and finally, the cryptographic requirements that this paradigm shift demands for optimal efficiency, which is what this announcement is centered around. Enter Curl-P, P = Prototype..... https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2df79001John Licciardello to the IOTA Foundation John Licciardello has built a career focused on financial innovation. Following his undergraduate degree, John moved to Mexico City where he played a key role in an early stage financial technology startup. The venture developed and brought to market an innovative and patented product to empower unbanked remittance beneficiaries to access any ATM. From 2011 to 2015, John had an active role in all aspects of the business from IT to finance. He spearheaded the integration of the technology with over 2,000 points of sale across Mexico, and played a leading role in closing a $10 million Series-A financing round. This experience — developing a market-based solution to help those most disadvantaged by the current financial system — ignited a passion in John to build a career working on financial innovations enabling the economically disenfranchised to build a better life..... https://blog.iota.org/welcome-john-licciardello-to-the-iota-foundation-fec74e93031c |
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Blockchain at Berkeley To Assist Kyber Network’s Exchange https://blog.kyber.network/blockchain-at-berkeley-to-assist-kyber-networks-exchange-938c9a844f51Kyber Network is honoured to announce the collaboration with a world-class academic institution to enhance our exchange implementation and business model. Kyber Network and Blockchain at Berkeley announced a strategic partnership aimed at shaping the robustness and efficiency of decentralized exchanges. Bringing together education, the blockchain technology, research and innovation, the research efforts will explore topics including trading diversity, trading strategies, and trading sustainability in the context of the Kyber Network model............. |
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THE NAGA GROUP / NAGACOIN ICO: “DOUBLE PUMPING” THE CRYPTOCRAZE by memyselfandi007 https://valueandopportunity.com/2017/11/17/the-naga-group-nagacoin-ico-double-pumping-the-cryptocraze/I have had some posts on Bitcoin and Crypto currencies on the blog before. Overall I find the technology very interesting, but at least for Bitcoin I am not certain about the real value. Things are though very different for a German company called “The Naga Group”. The company IPOed 5 months ago on July 10th in Germany in the lightly regulated “Scale segment”. Initially, its aim was to specialize in “disruptive Trading technologies”. The disruptive technology is an App which is the “Tinder of Stock trading”. The product is a “social trading business platform” called Swipestox, trying to earn most of its money with advertising. I have looked up the App on the Google play store and it has been downloaded a 100.000 times which is OK, but not great. Interestingly the newest comment/rating is from beginning of September, so I am not sure how actively this App is used. The company boasts 2 prominent pre IPO investors: Hauck and Aufhäuser, a well-known German private bank and Fosun, the conglomerate from China whose founder went “missing” some months ago, but then reappeared , Oh, and Fosun actually bought Hauck and Aufhäuser last year. In the first 6 months of 2017, the company had around 4 mn EUR in Revenues and roughly the same amount of losses and virtually no cash on hand despite significant amounts raised from Fosun.......... |
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Explanation of last few days Author fangyuting@neo.org posted on 11/22/2017 https://neo.org/blog/details/3037The last few days have been a rollercoaster, and the community deserves an apology and an explanation. This has been a big weekend for the NEO ecosystem. Firstly, Ontology, a new public platform for distributed trust networks had its sneak peek in Shanghai. Secondly, we revealed a big development contest together with Microsoft China, with big prizes and invitations to NEO DevCon in Silicon Valley. Thirdly, a few members from our largest community organization, City of Zion, released their whitepaper for NEX, a decentralized exchange which we believe adds exceptional value to our ecosystem. For us in the NEO Council, these are all big events and important additions to the NEO ecosystem. We wanted the community’s attention, which was why we released a cryptic message on Friday afternoon. Prior to releasing the “announcement of an announcement”, we had specific discussions concerning the impact this approach would have. Observing projects that used similar marketing strategies, we knew that the community would expect big news, such as an announcement of a large partnership. Eventually, we concluded that the announcements over the course of the weekend will be comparable to a large partnership, and decided to go ahead with the teaser. We have heard your voice, and understand that the community would prefer it if we refrain from using this marketing approach in the future. What we did not expect was that people would start to speculate on China regulations. For us, it is natural that regulations would come from the government, and not from an open source project. Throughout Saturday, rumors spread further whilst the NEO Council was occupied with the Ontology reveal and China Open Source Conference. On Sunday, it came to our awareness that the community had expectations of regulation changes. We stated explicitly in our Slack channel that there will be no announcements regarding regulations and denounced any messages claiming so. Photoshopped pictures that spread false rumors were quickly denounced as well. We would like to reiterate that NEO is an open source community project, and compliance is a core design philosophy for this project. It is a big leap to go from being regulatory compliant, to a point where regulations are changed to comply with the NEO platform. We urge the community to adjust their expectations accordingly, as speculation of NEO becoming the ‘official’ cryptocurrency of China is a misrepresentation of our true goal, which is to build an ecosystem within the existing legal frameworks. The “new” thing we wanted to reveal on Monday was the development competition organised with Microsoft and our DevCon in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, the competition website template was leaked on Friday, removing the element of surprise for the community, and leaving us with an awkward announcement. Upon reflection, we acknowledge there are many things we could have done better to minimize the damage. We should have put an end to the speculation sooner. Once the competition details leaked, we should have formally announced the competition. We could have made it clear to the community when the announcement would be made, and quickly confirmed when all the news had been released. Members of our team should have had the self-awareness to not place themselves in a position where they may fuel further speculation. We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the community for the events that occurred over the past few days, and to anyone who felt let down by our team. We are currently evaluating our communication strategies in detail, and working hard to improve so that similar issues never occur again. We have also heard the community’s concerns regarding Ontology as a potential competitor to NEO. Ontology will be a strong enabler for NEO’s vision of a smart economy, and we invite the community to join the Ontology AMA on NEO Reddit to have all your questions answered. The Ontology AMA will start this Thursday the 23rd of November at UTC 3:59 PM, and more details found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/7e9w2b/ama_from_today_november_20th_ontology_network_a/Finally, we’d like to end on a positive note and say how excited we for what the future has in store for NEO. There are many exciting projects coming to the NEO ecosystem, and many exciting events on NEO’s horizon. We stay firmly committed to our goal of building the new smart economy, and recognize we can’t do that without you, the community. We know how lucky we are to have you on our side, and we definitely do not take your support for granted. |
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First-Ever IOTA Mixer Hits the Testnet https://themerkle.com/first-ever-iota-mixer-hits-the-testnet/Cryptocurrency mixers do not necessarily have the best of reputations. Centralized solutions like these require a lot of trust to remove any taint from people’s coins. In a way, it is a money laundering-esque tool which provides additional privacy and anonymity. Surprisingly, IOTA now has its very first mixing service, which is running on the testnet. It’s an interesting development that may bring more privacy to this particular token in the future. |
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The BarterDEX Whitepaper - beta-release v0.3 https://www.reddit.com/r/komodoplatform/comments/7ehra4/its_finally_here_komodos_the_barterdex_whitepaper/We are working to produce whitepapers for each of the components that comprise the Komodo ecosystem. One of the most essential aspects of the Komodo project is a protocol we built that we call, The BarterDEX. This protocol provides end-users with a fully decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, powered by atomic-swap technology, and it protects end-users from counterparty risk. The following early draft of The BarterDEX whitepaper provides a thorough, high-level explanation. As we mention in the title of the paper, we consider this to be a beta-release draft. We invite all community members to read the whitepaper and provide constructive feedback on anything therein; we will adapt the paper following community feedback and prepare for a final v1.0 draft. The BarterDEX Whitepaper - beta-release v0.3....... |
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I heard that Bittrex is going to add GAS coin and it`s going to accrue GAS to users who hold NEO on Bittrex. Does anybody know - what amount of GAS will we recieve for every NEO?
https://neotogas.com/Nope! I meant they would give additional GAS to NEO holders... Or are they just going to allow us to earn GAS for holding NEO on bittrex? If second variant - i better use NEON wallet  second variant |
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Blockchains that Aim to Beat Ethereum https://cryptostreet.co/eth-competition-blockchains-beat-ethereum/Since it was created Ethereum has been an inspiration for many developers. Created by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s purpose was to be a comprehensive platform that allows developers to build blockchain apps. Today there are a lot of projects based on the Ethereum blockchain. But it is not the only existing technology that offers the possibility to host applications. Buterin stated that he invented Ethereum because of the lack of options bitcoin was offering when he tried to create applications. But he also opened a door for other developers which are constantly raising the bar. The Ethereum Foundation held an initial coin offering (ICO) in July 2014 during which they sold 60 million tokens. Shortly after other developers started to create technologies inspired by the immense success of Ethereum. Here are some of the existing blockchains similar to Ethereum that are aiming to surpass it or improve the blockchain industry: ............. |
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Blockchains that Aim to Beat Ethereum https://cryptostreet.co/eth-competition-blockchains-beat-ethereum/Since it was created Ethereum has been an inspiration for many developers. Created by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s purpose was to be a comprehensive platform that allows developers to build blockchain apps. Today there are a lot of projects based on the Ethereum blockchain. But it is not the only existing technology that offers the possibility to host applications. Buterin stated that he invented Ethereum because of the lack of options bitcoin was offering when he tried to create applications. But he also opened a door for other developers which are constantly raising the bar. The Ethereum Foundation held an initial coin offering (ICO) in July 2014 during which they sold 60 million tokens. Shortly after other developers started to create technologies inspired by the immense success of Ethereum. Here are some of the existing blockchains similar to Ethereum that are aiming to surpass it or improve the blockchain industry: ............. |
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ICONOMI’s flagship fund; BLX reaches a staggering 47.41% monthly return Let’s get straight to the point; did you know that ICONOMI’s flagship index fund, Blockchain Index (BLX), outperformed Bitcoin’s recent rallies? Yes, you read that right, there is a hidden gem amongst the pack, and it’s called BLX. It’s been incredible to watch Bitcoin’s price reach all-time highs, offering an exciting 38.24% return on investment over the last month. Its safe to say that hardly any investment vehicle in the world could even come close to that yield. Bitcoins 38.24%, 30-day ROI has made headlines across all major media outlets; Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes and many more. However, BLX continues to remain an incredibly well-kept secret, but not for long(!) ICONOMI’s BLX offered an unbelievable 47.41% return on investment in the last 30 days.......... https://medium.com/@owenoneill/iconomis-flagship-fund-blx-reaches-a-staggering-47-41-monthly-return-2012f14e1a76 |
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