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1  Economy / Goods / 2 BED, Rosebank, Cape Town, SA Apartment for Sale for 16 BTC on: January 26, 2020, 07:55:57 PM
For sale for 16 BTC

see www.cryptoalchemists.com

This charming, centrally-located, recently-renovated two-bedroom apartment includes an open kitchen and lounge, a roomy bathroom and shower, and a dedicated parking place. It's a 60 sq metre corner apartment that was recently completely refurbished with new flooring, rebuilt bathroom with sandstone, new floor tiles in the bedroom, new plumbing, new wiring and more. There is also a spare area in a recently refitted loft.

It's located in Rosebank, a lively, university-student-populated, southern suburb of Cape Town, between the suburbs of Mowbray and Rondebosch and right on the campus of The University of Cape Town (UCT). The area of Rosebank houses some of the middle and lower campuses and contains the Law faculty, the South African College of Music, the School of Economics, most of the university administrative offices, and various sporting facilities.

Many of the residences in this area are occupied by students and staff from the university and this recently upgraded jewel makes a great rental property or live-in-residence in a very lively, young, central location.

It's a mere 10 to 15 minutes drive to airport, central Cape Town, wine farms, and amazing beaches on both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. It's a five-minute walk to walk to the main university building and the main shops and bars of Rosebank, with plenty of restaurants, nightlife, theatre, cinema and nightclubs.

It's a good, central, safe location, with plenty of street security, a well-fenced building and a police station three minutes walk away.

ed@cryptoalchemists.com

4 Hermitage Rd
Rosebank
Cape Town
7700
South Africa
2  Other / Politics & Society / "I'm a blockchain entrepreneur... tech connoisseur..." blockchainfreestyle.com on: October 19, 2017, 12:36:31 AM

I just can't make this stuff up.

"I'm a blockchain entrepreneur... tech connoisseur..."
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Hello The-Blockchain,

I created www.blockchainfreestyle.com and was wondering if this freestyle song about blockchain is worthy of sharing? It would be great to your audience if you shared this music with them. Your audience would enjoy this.


Thank You,

Michael Meram
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3  Local / Alt Coins (Nederlands) / ICO Exhibiting and Pitching at Blockchain Expo - Silicon Valley - DISCOUNT! on: October 15, 2017, 10:38:25 PM
USE BLOCK15 in coupon area and save 15 percent off!

Click here. https://gateway.blockchain-expo.com/north-america/ico-package/register/

Exhibit to American Cryptocommunity and Silicon Valley VC.
Get chance to pitch on stage!
Meet thought leaders at event!

Discount compliment of Blockchain News at www.the-blockchain.com (Published out of the heart of Haren, just outside Groningen, by Richard Kastelein)

See event here https://blockchain-expo.com/northamerica/track/icos-cryptofinance/

You can also email chris @ techforge.pub for more information.
4  Economy / Services / ICO Exhibiting and Pitching at Blockchain Expo - Silicon Valley - DISCOUNT! on: October 15, 2017, 10:30:52 PM
USE BLOCK15 in coupon area and save 15 percent off!

Click here. https://gateway.blockchain-expo.com/north-america/ico-package/register/

Exhibit to American Cryptocommunity and Silicon Valley VC.
Get chance to pitch on stage!
Meet thought leaders at event!

Discount compliment of Blockchain News at www.the-blockchain.com

See event here https://blockchain-expo.com/northamerica/track/icos-cryptofinance/

You can also email chris @ techforge.pub for more information.
5  Economy / Services / Top ICO services company looking for creative, smart, ambitious people on: August 26, 2017, 08:59:19 AM
Hello

At http://www.cryptoassets.io we are a leading ICO services company having helped raise over 200m for ICOs.

Are you creative, smart, and ambitious?

Do you want to make good money and work on cool stuff? We only work on the best. 

We need well organised people who understand the cryptocommunity. And know how to market. Who can manage Slack or Telegram channels... or flip out a Twitter campaign.

It's simple. We are a group of smart (including three Ph.D. on staff) people who  need some help from honest, hard-working folks who want to grow in the industry.

Contact richard @ the-blockchain DOT com or expathos @ gmail DOT com

6  Economy / Services / Looking for SMM and BitCoinTalk experts to join top ICO Design Company on: May 18, 2017, 08:04:32 AM
Hi all

We have a solid team at http://www.cryptoassets.io which includes three Ph.D.s and we have worked on a number of top ICOs in the past. We also own Blockchain News.

We are a loose organisation and work together (and not) on a case by case issue.

Are you interested in joining a group of good people who want to affect change?

Check out http://www.cryptoassets.io and contact me at expathos AT gmail DOT com

Best

Richard Kastelein
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / MIT Cryptographer Silvio Micali and his New Public Ledger ALGORAND… on: January 05, 2017, 08:57:15 PM
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and one of the world’s top cryptographers Silvio Micali recently published a paper called ALGORAND The Efficient and Democratic Ledger where he lays out a groundbreaking new vision of a decentralized and secure way to manage a shared ledger that provides a beautifully elegant solution to the Byzantine General’s problem.

Micali, the recipient of the Turing Award (in computer science), of the Goedel Prize (in theoretical computer science) and the RSA prize (in cryptography) has developed a new approach to proof of work –  which requires a negligible amount of computation, and generates a transaction history that does not fork with overwhelmingly high probability. In fact – over a million years statistically.

The approach cryptographically selects — in a way that is provably immune from manipulations, unpredictable until the last minute, but ultimately universally clear— a set of verifiers in charge of constructing a block of valid transactions and it applies to any way of implementing a shared ledger via a tamper-proof sequence of blocks, including traditional Blockchains.

According to Micali, best known for his fundamental early work on public-key cryptosystems, pseudorandom functions, digital signatures, oblivious transfer, secure multiparty computation, and co-invention of zero-knowledge proofs – there are much more efficient alternatives to current Blockchains.

And the basis for his solution is taking a totally different tack in the process of building a block. He noted that the idea was first seeded to him by a friend but he added that many of the Magistracies in Florence were elected by lottery.

He calls it cryptographic certation.

http://www.the-[Suspicious link removed]/2017/01/05/move-bitcoin-mit-cryptographer-silvio-micali-public-ledger-algorand-future-blockchain/

note the missing part is the world blockchain DOT com
8  Economy / Scam Accusations / MyCryptoCoin Scam? on: November 21, 2016, 09:24:18 AM
No clear founders - domain name is hidden on whois
Affiliation model that asks for pay to play
denies being a cryptocurrency for legal reasons.
example of affiliate page. http://felixandreas.cryptocoin20.com/index-EN.html
PATHETIC Whitepaper http://whitepaper.cryptocoin20.de/

1) What is MCC?

MCC is a cryptographic software token that can be used in the upcoming MCC network to send information based on transactions. It is software that enables transactions.

2) What MCC is not.

MCC should not be considered a cryptocurrency, even if it may have been described as that by us or others previously. Currently MCC tokens (i) cannot be exchange for any goods or services (ii) has no known uses outside of the MCC network, and (iii) cannot be traded on any exchanges and as such does not fit the the description of a cryptocurrency.

MCC should also not be considered an investment. There is absolutely no guarantee that the MCC that you purchase will increase in value. Instead you need to consider that over time it may decrease in value.
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Blockchain VC Says No to ICOs on: November 07, 2016, 08:04:04 PM
Written by Encrypto - aka me.

Well it won't take my link it calls me suspicious this is REALLY annoying.

www DOT the-blockchain DOT com  /2016/11/07/blockchain-vc-says-no-initial-coin-offerings-icos/

Snippet

In the crypto-hangouts – particular at Bitcointalk where almost all ICOs are first broadcast, scores of net-savvy investors start googling the history of the founders and teams, ripping apart the code, hammering the theory, and generally kicking the living shit out of the concept – by the tens. Then they out scammers who end up shrivelling out the forum with their tails tucked and hang the ICO. You also have new companies like Smith and Crown doing great work analysing ICOs and others are now moving into that space and providing more centralised market intelligence.

In terms of ‘breaking the law’ when it comes to spending your own money as you see fit in an investment you feel you can handle –  Obama has finally opened the doors slightly with the JOBS act and you don’t have to be an accredited investor or bike to work on Sand Hill Road to reap rewards any longer. And so it should be. The Americans are already three years behind the UK and Netherlands in crowdfinancing. ICOs are, in particular, have been a panacea to American investors (particularly those with a lot of unclaimed cryptocurrency) who want to participate.
10  Bitcoin / Project Development / IDEA: ICO for TV Pilot/Series based on Crypto-Community on: November 05, 2016, 10:08:37 PM
Hi All

I am currently working with a couple of writers I know to create a treatment/pitch for a pilot for a TV/Web Video drama series that would be based on the Crypto and Bchain communities.

www.encrypto.tv is the brand.



This is my thinking and feel free to beat it up. Please...

Yes, we could raise money via typical crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo for an idea like this - but I believe that the added value of having the community which inspires the show, is the one that backs it.

And not only that, having a cryptocurrency as part of the project is interesting and can be fungible - and be used, for instance, for a spinoff game product or by using transmedia tactics and game theory. Or be engaging brands in the show asynchronously in a post-pre show web version.

Or they can be traded and speculated on in the exchanges.

Or they can be traded at a fixed cost as a convertible loan and acquire shares in the project itself (30 percent of the company open for shares?).

Other perks/bounty could be given to Bitcoin whales and larger investors - such as 15 Bitcoin would get you on-screen credit as a producer and 100 bitcoin would get you a role in the show itself (not a leading role of course).

I can also imagine a co-writing process with some people in the community to help develop the narrative - maybe using Backfeed from Matan Field and reward contributors with bounties calculated by consensus.

Here's some of my thinking today...

Example lead character

Quote
Mateo Silva: 24.

His father is a mathematician at Cambridge, a computer genius with an outsized ego.

His father lost everything in the Bernie Maddoff scandal in 2008 while he was developing a new digital currency called Encryptocurrency which he developed while leading an anonymous life as a hero known only as ENCRYPTO to a generation of hackers. He donates his open source code to the world and walks away from it.

Mateo’s mother, an Italian art historian, fled her marriage, leaving Mateo with his father.

She teaches in the States. His parents’ marital drama left Mateo on the sidelines with enough space and brains to self-create himself.

Innately charming, geeky, painfully clumsy in matters of the heart, Mateo is a self-critical perfectionist. Fail again. Fail better! Beginning as a gamer and programmer, he has become an encryption and digital currency expert – he picks locks as a hobby.

At an encryption conference in Las Vegas, at a lock-picking table, Mateo meets a wily American operative who recruits him to the NSA.

Through the Agency, he designs and codes a hugely popular social media site for the Orthanc Corporation.

The social network site takes America by storm but really is a cover for the NSA to collect massive data on Americans. Mateo holds a clearance at the highest level – it’s his baby. The counterweight to his governmental/corporate self, his alter ego ENCRYPTO posts classified documents he considers in the public interest. Mateo becomes a hunted man, fleeing to Ecuador, and finally abducted back to the States, his ass is hauled off to solitary in a Federal prison.

But after a year, charges are dropped: he’s freed. He's not sure why.

When free, he realises that the code he dropped on the world called encryptocurrency has now taken on a life of its own and has spawned a whole new movement and means of trade. He's angry. He wants revenge. The system has betrayed his father and now him. He drops his real identity and goes into hiding as ENCRYPTO and begins to assemble a team of hackers, dissidents and others to take on the system.


Is this idea crazy? Would it be the first ICO for something that has nothing to do with Bitcoin, Blockchain, software or hardware, but rather a creative process? This is the kind of show that the establishment would not like to back - the status quo in Hollywood has rules. Mr. Robot broke some of them last year and opened the doors. We feel there's room to take a new narrative to the table - one that challenges the media, governments, and the establishment.

I have been writing for over 20 years and have had a show optioned by Sony Pictures Television in the past. I work with a couple of other writers in SF and London on ideas. I also publish Blockchain News THE-BLOCKCHAIN dot com (written over 700 articles on Blockchain in 2016). And advise a couple of ICOs. So not walking in here blind with an idea.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Blockchain News - Leading Source online for Intelligence on Blockchain on: September 27, 2016, 10:10:31 AM
Blockchain News at the-blockchain DOT com is a leading source online for news and intelligence on Blockchain - focussing on distributed ledger technology outside of Bitcoin.

I can't put my url here - as it blocks it for some reason - see www.the-[Suspicious link removed]

We do about 40k a month and are an official Google News source. Over 500 articles since October 2015, a solid video section, over 200 PDF whitepapers and thesis' and much more.

Come join us! Check it out.

If you are interested in advertising let me know. Richard AT the-blockchain DOT com

Cheers

Richard
Publisher
12  Other / Off-topic / Blockchain Hackathon in Groningen, Netherlands on: September 26, 2016, 02:00:53 PM
With Energy Transition as the key theme and innovation experts as the key players, Hackenergy 2016, sponsored by ENGIE Nederland and Energy Academy Europe, is set to run from October 14-16, 2016 at the Energy Barn in Groningen, Netherlands.

Fueled with Hyperledger and Bluemix expertise from IBM, this 48 hour straight Blockchain and AI Energy Hackathon in the Netherlands offers a weekend of hacking, food and drinks and floorspace to grab a few winks of sleep if needed! And more importantly – the opportunity to work with IBM mentors who specialise in Hyperledger and Bluemix! Come build and win! Join us!

More information here! http://www.h4ckenergy.com
13  Local / Meetings (Nederlands) / Blockchain Hackathon in Groningen on: September 26, 2016, 01:40:28 PM
With Energy Transition as the key theme and innovation experts as the key players, Hackenergy 2016, sponsored by ENGIE Nederland and Energy Academy Europe, is set to run from October 14-16, 2016 at the Energy Barn in Groningen, Netherlands.

Fueled with Hyperledger and Bluemix expertise from IBM, this 48 hour straight Blockchain and AI Energy Hackathon in the Netherlands offers a weekend of hacking, food and drinks and floorspace to grab a few winks of sleep if needed! And more importantly – the opportunity to work with IBM mentors who specialise in Hyperledger and Bluemix! Come build and win! Join us!

More information here! http://www.h4ckenergy.com
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