I was going through the names, I saw names that are always on different lists about merit and reputation. Great names. So I was surprised and happy to see mine too. Thank you for creating this list. It is cool to know that I've been doing interesting topics and posts in different sections of the forum, instead of focusing on one place.


Have you considered the possibility of being 1000 times more comfortable writing deep texts in the native language? The time that is consumed, the difficulty of expressing everything you think, the difficulty of writing with the correct grammar, the difficulty even in understanding what others are writing. Even telling a joke or giving a funny answer is MUCH more difficult.

I do not believe that merits are only distributed among friends in those sections.

Cryptocurrency will only be adopted when greater incentives are given for the universalization and acceptance in every corner of the planet. Rather than being restricted to small bubbles where only those with excellent English, enough money for just Hodl without selling and deep knowledge of programming, encryption and technology related topics. I believe that there should even be a greater incentive for local sections to grow. With more sources of merit in them.

If we take global statistics, the global population is not fully represented here. What is a shame.


Indonesia+Brazil+Pakistan+Nigeria+Bangladesh=1Billion.

This is probably because in some countries the penetration of internet access is much higher. In the USA it is 85%, in Africa it is only 10%.

But the expectation is that the world will be completely connected in the next 10 years. That is, if the Bitcoin-related communities know how to open the doors to these people, instead of always trying to close them, we would have disruptive power over the banks. This has always been the concept of Bitcoin intended by Satoshi. And opening doors does not mean talking: learn English or disappear. It means allowing the growth of these communities.

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thank you

I will start to be worried when it hit the 4k. If it never goes bellow 6k again, it will be everything ok. It was already tested too many times and the only way would be probably up. I am trying to get everything I can.

Essa historia e bem legal. Eu tinha acompanhado pelo Reddit. Lembro de um topico la pedindo doações e depois do twitte dele agradecendo. E isso é uma prova de que é dificil só acumular sem gastar. Muita gente precisa vender e não tem nada de errado com isso. E ele é de fato apaixonado pela tecnologia.

Pessoal sempre fala da história da Pizza, se você olhar o histórico dele verá que foram várias transações. São alguns millhões em pizza. Só que o cara minerava MUITO, mais do que o próprio Satoshi. E pra ele fazia todo sentido utilizar em diversas coisas que o fariam feliz. Demonstrar um uso pra tudo isso.

Quem acumula é quem se sacrifica absurdamente ou quem não precisa.

OMG is in a great cumulating zone. They will probably release Plasma cash soon and we will be read to see PoS this year. Will jump more them 1000% in just few weeks.

Impress me how Electroneum is still alive. How the hell a scam could live for so long? It has no utility, their coders suck. They do not bring anything new or revolutionary. It lies when they it could be mined on smartphones. it is centralized.

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First Principle – Operate a Fair and Orderly Market
The main intention is to provide protections and active monitoring of market activity in order to ensure a healthy market.

So as to achieve that goal, Coinbase will take different actions such as operate a Market Operations team that will have the best practices to control and monitor market health, or administer a Market Surveillance function that has the same standards as important global exchanges.

Another action that the company will take is related to adhere to business practices and procedures that are key to ensure reliability, performance and durability of the global market. Finally, they will be actively monitoring suspicious trading behaviours developing best-in-class market surveillance, compliance and fraud detection practices.

Second Principle – Protect Customers with Better Infrastructure and Processes
The second principle aims to protect customers with institutional-grade infrastructure and processes. Coinbase will be operating a wide range of institutional grade tools and teams that ensure the safe storage of customer data and information.

Additionally, it will be complying with state and federal regulations, and it will be analysing and participating in new licensing and compliance activities.

But there are two other actions that will be taken into account, such as protect the assets of its clients using leading cold-storage and custody technics and maintain institutional-grade Markets platform with deterministic connectivity.

Third Principle – Enforce Transparent Market Rules and Governance
Participants will have access to current market rules. That includes a market rulebook that has been specifically developed for the structure and dynamics of crypto assets.

To do that, Coinbase will be providing public trading rules and policies that are applied to all the participants in the market and publish transparent trading fees and incentive programs.

At the same time, it will be clearly communicating market capabilities such as order minimums/maximums, execution options, trading volumes and more.

Other actions will be taken in order for all the participants to have transparent market rules. The exchange will be prohibiting and monitoring malicious trading practices, make audits with independent third-party companies, and follow a documented process for trading halts and the opening and closing of markets.

Fourth Principle – Fair Access To Market Participants
This is another important thing that Coinbase will take into account. All the participants will have the same rule set applied to them. So as to achieve that, all market access methods will be documented and publicly available, distributed market data will be fair and consistent, and capabilities and data available will have different options for customers to select their own needs.

Additionally, it will be cooperating with other important industry participants to provide customers a safe and reliable ecosystem.

Fifth Principle – Disclose in a Public Way Listing Practices and Market Rules
Coinbase wants to add new assets and instruments in a clear and transparent way. There will be a strict and transparent listing process that will be considering different factors including: sophistication and security of technology, governance process, market demand, and regulatory considerations.

Coinbase

 Bitcoin has more liquidity. Bitcoin is in more places and has more people buying. Bitcoin is the most test full and resisted currency. And every coin has as pair BTC.

It’s good news following aelf’s testnet — they achieved 14,968 transactions per second, an extremely promising result which shows the technology is developing well.

Zhuling Chen, aelf’s COO and co-founder, had good things to say about the results. He said, “We have hit 15,000 TPS, and this is just the beginning. Imagine where we will be in 6 or 12 months’ time!”

One of aelf’s investors is Alphabit Fund, and their CEO Liam Robertson is enthusiastic about the future, saying, “Aelf is currently among the largest holdings in Alphabit’s portfolio, and we believe that the team will continue to be successful in creating the blockchain infrastructure to enable the future of scalable commercial applications.”

Now, following the encouraging start, aelf intend to launch their mainnet in early 2019. It’s a step closer to their ultimate goal of building a system that will help bring blockchain into the physical world.

Right now blockchain technology generates a lot of hype and attention. It has the potential to change the way we do things in many ways, from more secure data storage to decentralized digital networks and transparent record keeping.

But one of the things holding blockchain back from mainstream adoption is the issue of scalability. Right now, most major blockchains struggle to support many transactions per second. That’s a problem, because the technology will need to handle much greater volumes if it’s to appeal to large businesses and organizations.

aelf want to change this, by making blockchain able to handle high volumes of transactions per second. As the testnet results show, they’re well on the way to achieving this goal.

But how do they do it? Their model is based around nodes — the individual computers that make up a blockchain network. In the current system, many blockchain networks are clogged with slow and inefficient nodes, which slows the whole network down and results in fewer transactions per second.

aelf plan to change this. In their system, nodes are made up of multiple computers instead of just one, and they can run in parallel. That means nodes can easily process multiple non-competing transactions at the same time, and verify multiple transactions at once.

This is what seriously increases the transactions per second in aelf’s model, and increases blockchain’s scalability. aelf’s model also takes the part of the node that stores data and splits it from the part that deals with computational processing.

This way, the node is split into two clusters, each with a different role. Every node still contains the complete ledger of transactions, but that ledger is shared between a number of computers.

This system allows multiple tasks to take place at the same time in one node. It’s a much quicker and more efficient way of processing transactions — for reference Ethereum’s blockchain can handle roughly 1000 times fewer transactions than aelf’s.

aelf’s early success is truly exciting for the blockchain space, and is proof that scalability issues don’t have to stand in the way of widespread adoption of the technology.

 If you chose carefully, then yes. The risk is that some projects could lose a lot in the short term, and to go back is really hard. ZIL is a great project, but have lost a lot since they change their roadmap. Kyber is a great project too, But have lost more them 60% in the last month.

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You should put the list of ICO that you have participated. The idea of legitimated could be totally different. But mostly of great projects are still given a great ROI. The problem is that we have many that do not offer anything. It is just a paper and ERC20 token. SO, they could be listed in many exchanges but as they do not offer anything relevant, they will be killed really soon.

What I have recently discovered, is that many Exchanges put a minimal listed day. So on Binance is something like 130 days. The coin will be there for 130 days, if they do not offer great volume or appears to be something useful, it will be delisted.

Nope. The language of choice will be any language that works. We will not have a solo winner. We could use many languages and there are tons of projects that will help with that. I prefer Haskell and I believe is the most secure. But even on Cardano they will allow people use other languages.

We do not speak only one language. Why should a global project?

bitcoin-real ?

WTF is this LOL?!! People are getting creative with Lol-Forks. This is just another garbage. If people want to really build something better them Bitcoin using the original code, just send a Bip request. Another shitcoin trying to get some money from people that buy things like they are in a cassino.

Everyone who could have dumped, dumped these last weeks. In addition the attack on the network is already decreasing. We have big announcements in the coming months like Casper and others. Buying today means that in two months you will have double the value in fiat and 3x the value in BTC.

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Thank you =)

This is a stupid way to evaluate an asset. There are several differences between these two projects: total supplay, its functions, its roadmap, its yield.

We are not talking about two products. You should never invest like you are buying apples at a fair. Same price does not exist. If it were for this logic, buying NANO would be much better since it is costing less than half. But it is exactly the opposite.

Now, about the projects. OMG has a gorgeous roadmap. It is one of the projects with greater potential that is not a currency or platform. That is, it does not compete directly with BTC or ETH. You can live with these other giants. It has practical use in commerce and already has use cases. It has already hit almost $ 20 a few months before.

Lisk is already a platform. It has had its governance seriously compromised and needs radical changes. Compete with platforms that today are much better as ETH and Cardano ADA.

I would choose OMG.

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Jonathan Cheesman
Partner @ Distributed Global


As 2018’s woes continue for crypto, the last month has seen Ethereum fall dramatically — 42% in a month.

Ethereum’s meteoric rise at the start of 2017 brought a lot of focus on and investment into cryptoassets. It also provided a crowdfunding platform for new projects to access global capital via the ICO.

While many, or even most, of the 2000 cryptoassets are likely to fail, until recently Ethereum was held as a safe haven. It’s recent decoupling from Bitcoin suggests that safe haven status is at risk.

With the price pressure on, the market is clearly asking existential questions. For some time Ethereum has been “in development”, working on scaling updates and an evolution from proof of work to proof of stake.

With some justification, Mr Market is asking:

“Can these scaling improvements be achieved?”

“How commercial will decentralized platforms be?”

“What is being built and who is using it?”

“How far ahead of the technology has the price got?”

“Is this just a very expensive experiment?”

Riccardo (in his characteristically salty manner) highlights this point and the comparison to the milestones that would be expected from a centralized corporation are easy to see:


The crypto pendulum has likely swung into negative territory on Ethereum. The problems they are addressing — building a decentralized, secure & scalable smart contract protocol — is an extremely difficult innovation. Expectations were clearly too high and we are now gravitating back to a more reasonable place.

The “no useful Dapp” criticism is also somewhat misguided. Consensys’s goal isn’t to only build Dapps to compete with centralized Apps. They are also building infrastructure across the web stack (storage, query tools, and wallets) that will ultimately enable scalable progress.

That said, this is a necessary wake up call for the folks at Consensys and other projects. Once you open the door to market forces it cannot be closed and investors have expectations that need to be managed. The primary mismatch here is on timeline — this is an early stage technology and should be appreciated as such.

The open source world blurs lines between, investors/participants/community but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a communication function where targets, progress and milestones are identified.

Where is the link to the article that you copy and paste? You could be banned for something like this.
https://www.bitcoinunicorn.io/viewtopic.php?t=7873