Get Ready, Blockchain Is Going to Space http://bitguru.co.uk/the-blockchain-in-space/The Blockchain, this time, in Space The groups over at Vector and Nexus are teaming up to bring the world of cryptocurrency into space. They believe that they can tackle different aspects of decentralization through escaping government control and improving other user aspects with enhanced, next level technology. So what exactly are they doing? Well, they are working to host the world’s first cryptocurrency on a satellite platform in space, adding to the increasing interest in the space economy. Vector The firm, Vector, which primarily serves as a “nanosatellite launch company” and commands a stellar team of experts from companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch, VMware and other has recently announced their partnership with Nexus to host the world’s first decentralized space cryptocurrency. The two groups will be conducting this launch with the GalacticSky Software-Defined Satellite Platform that the company, Vector, has created. Where does Nexus fit into the picture? Nexus will officially be the first company to have the honor of deploying a cryptocurrency on a satellite that orbits the planet earth. The project showcases the use of GalacticSky platform and flexibility it provides for potential users. Furthermore, the partnership will facilitate, the aspect of payments for customers who are interested in future launches. Payments can be made in NXS, the cryptocurrency of Nexus. A representative of the firm, Colin Cantrell, the founder and lead developer of Nexus, states: “With Bitcoin’s valuation at an all-time high, people are beginning to accept cryptocurrency as a real form of payment, but there are still problems with storage and ownership.” The founder of Nexus continued: “The capabilities provided by the GalacticSky platform, combined with the flexibility of Vector’s launch model, bring us one step closer to accomplishing our mission of providing the world with a decentralized currency that can be accessed virtually anywhere, anytime.” The Value The developers of the Nexus technology believe that they can offer significant advances in the cryptocurrency sector. Nexus is incorporating SHA-3 cryptography and 571-bit keys, priming for the future, with quantum oriented safety and defense mechanisms. This means that they can have security that prepares for the threats that one can face in the quantum age. Another critical aspect that the company is working on is the idea of the 3D chain to allow for a better scaling solution. Further Decentralization By hosting NXS in space through Galactic Sky, Nexus can free itself from being tied to a single nation and can create a more decentralized financial ecosystem. This aligns with their mission: “To free humankind from centralized systems. Merely being decentralized is not enough. We must decentralize the decentralization. Using software and hardware, Nexus seeks to build the foundation for the most decentralized system to ever be developed: Nexus Earth.” Their mission makes an additional crucial point that is line with what founders from other projects like Kin has said: “This network will empower everyone from the first world to the third world. Not everyone has money, but everyone has time.” The founders of Nexus are looking to tackle fundamental aspects of the internet, allowing for decentralization. They are seeking to conduct this through the aspect of satellites. Satellite virtualization utilization via GalacticSky, allows Nexus to spread their blockchain across many satellites, giving their blockchain and increased aspect of reliability and performance. Their cryptocurrency is supposed to be secure and a decentralized peer – to – peer network, providing users with more freedom and transactional transparency in their access worldwide access to financial services. Hosting Nexus cryptocurrency on Vector’s software-defined satellite, allows Nexus to demonstrate their versatility for innovation which can be hosted on the GalacticSky platform.............. |
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SECURITYMassive Intel Hardware Vulnerability Discovered: Crypto Users Affected?In a shocking development, researchers are now assuming every Intel processor made over the previous ten years could have a catastrophic, low-level CPU vulnerability. A software patch could be coming soon, but it’s estimated to degrade CPU performances by up to 30 percent. How will miners and crypto users be affected? Also read: China Won’t Ban Bitcoin Mining but Will Monitor Electricity Use Join the Bitsonline Telegram channel to get the latest Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and tech news updates: https://t.me/bitsonlineA “Zero-Day” Vulnerability Microsoft, Linux, and everyone in between are now scrambling to respond to the critical “kernel memory leaking” flaw that’s just been identified as potentially inherent to every modern Intel processor, per a bombshell January 2nd report from The Register. The problem is thus: there lies a hardware bug in Intel’s CPUs that can allow malicious agents and their code to read into what should be protected areas in these device’s kernel memory. In layman’s terms, kernel memory facilitates the most fundamental aspects of an operating system (OS). Accordingly, this devastating vulnerability can expose secure data like passwords with ease. And particularly dire are how exposed virtual machine server farms (e.g. Amazon Web Services, or AWS) seem to be in light of the nature of the bug at hand. The solution can’t come in the form of hardware, as doing so would be logistically impossible from Intel’s end. Instead, OS-level software patches will be needed. Cryptocurrency Users Affected? Yet again, the cryptocurrency space is reminded through this expansive Intel vulnerability not to leave non-trivial investments on crypto exchanges for any extended period of time, as exchange passwords are precisely the kind of sensitive data that could be retrieved from a CPU’s kernel memory. Has anyone’s crypto been stolen through this exploit already? It’s hard to say, though seemingly unlikely since Intel and other dedicated researchers just discovered it themselves. But the vulnerability should have everyone in the space considering the switch over to a cryptocurrency hardware wallet, that is if they haven’t already. Hardware wallets are simply the safest way to store cryptocurrencies as it stands, and there are a range of reputable ones to choose from. CPU miners in the cryptocurrency ecosystem may also be affected, as the coming software patches are projected to degrade CPU performance from anywhere between five and 30 percent. Though these miners might escape mostly unscathed, as CPU mining relies less on memory and more on processing. https://bitsonline.com/massive-intel-hardware-vulnerability/
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It was posted by a user in their official Telegram. SALT is apparently accepting millions of dollars in loan applications without knowing how long they will take or whether they'll be able to process them at all.... https://i.redd.it/k9feoqma1x701.jpg |
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The head of Internet of Things @Amazon AWS just tweeted about IOTA... https://twitter.com/jojobickley/status/948609600839806978#IOTA is the first distributed ledger technology (DLT) to go beyond a #blockchain — it enables machines to securely transact data and money with each other for a micro fee. Imagine a car that, from sensor data, retrieves information about a malfunctioning car part. #connectedcars |
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u dont need Coinbase .....u have Vertbase.... Vertbase: Direct USD-to-Vertcoin exchange getting ready to launchhttps://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@xsid/vertbase-direct-usd-to-vertcoin-exchange-getting-ready-to-launchMaking the unique coin more widely available through direct fiat-to-crypto purchasing will encourage adoption. Vertcoin has made tremendous strides over the past year. The coin is, in many ways, similar to Litecoin, with a few added features (check out vertcoin.org for more details about Vertcoin's unique characteristics). As we begin 2018, a direct USD-to-Vertcoin exchange has been announced, with the goal of launching during Q1 2018. Vertbase, a sort of "Coinbase-for-Vertcoin", will connect directly to the customer's bank account for easy purchasing and selling. This has not been as easy to accomplish with lesser known coins, often requiring users to buy another coin first, such as Litecoin, and then using services such as Shapeshift to access other coins. Vertcoin is available on Bittrex, Poloniex, and YoBit, so any experienced crypto-trader already has relatively easy access to the coin. However, being able to directly purchase from fiat has spurred the popularity of certain coins. We witnessed this with the addition of Bitcoin Cash to the Coinbase service. Of course, Vertbase will be a considerably smaller scale operation than Coinbase, but because of Vertcoin's future atomic swap capabilities - the ability to swap to other atomic-swap capable coins such as Bitcoin and Litecoin - it may offer a unique entry point for new crypto-investors as the market continues to grow in 2018. source: https://www.vertbase.com/ |
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TRON Reached Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Game.com to Expand Its Presence in Gaming https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/tron-reached-strategic-cooperation-agreement-with-game-com-to-expand-its-presence-in-gaming-5e8ee92e8deaTRON announced today that it has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Game.com, an online gaming platform which centers on blockchain game content, and has extended its operations to crowdfunding platforms, social IM tools and capital support area. The future will see Game.com expanding the boundary of its gaming operations based on its partnership with TRON; meanwhile, Game.com will also become an important stakeholder of TRON network, a pioneer of the decentralized Internet 4.0. Game.com adheres to a product-focused concept. Through directly landing such games and entertainment contents on various blockchain projects, it allows players to use their GTC, a crypto currency issued by Game.com at the exchange, to purchase games and entertainment content, and investors to add value to their investments. Ultimately, Game.com envisions a new online gaming world helps other crypto currencies generate practical entertainment and game services and application scenarios, and facilitates the rapid popularization and development of blockchain technology through creating, integrating game contents, and cooperating with a wide array of blockchain projects. Presently, the Pets’ Planet section, customized by Game.com for TRON, has been launched on tron.game.com, where players can use TRX, the official token of TRON, to purchase various pets, and experience pet matching, raising, growth and transactions, thus enjoying the companion of virtual pets. The Chinese version of Pets’ Planet has been available now at tron.game.com, while the international version is also well underway.......... |
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Classic & Cash — How we are using ETC and BCH to decentralize Scandinavia https://medium.com/scandinavian-cryptocurrency-exchange/classic-cash-how-we-are-using-etc-and-bch-to-decentralize-scandinavia-97d01914e62d“We are the Scandinavian Cryptocurrency Exchange, and we believe in the core principles of decentralization, unchangeable code and a proof-of-work socioeconomic democracy for Scandinavia.“Bitcoin Cash — The go-to crypocurrency for micro and large paymentsWith an ever increasing flow of new users getting into virtual tokens and cryptocurrencies, the Bitcoin core blockchain has shown itself lately to be more of an investment vehicle then a payment solution. It’s expensive and slow to transact with and in some cases has become quite centralized regarding its development. Bitcoin Cash still follows the principles of what Bitcoin should be, namely decentralization +instantaneously and cheap transactions. We at SCCEX therefore see BCH as being the optimal cryptocurrency for payments, something we intend to support fully. We thrive from cryptocurrencies being adopted in Scandinavia, and we have decided that when our exchange platform releases in March of 2018 we will offer completely free exchanges of BCH between 20+ cryptocurrencies and 5 fiat currencies. Bitcoin (BTC) will have a small exchange fee (0.05% per trade), this is because we currently see BTC as more of an investment than payment solution. Ethereum Classic — The platform for the future of Scandinavia’s IoTThe Scandinavian Blockchain Consortium develops all their software on the ETC platform and intend to make it an integral part of Scandinavia‘s’ future ‘Internet of Things’ implementations. The SCBC develops what the users of Aether determines it should create, but with that said there are some set proposals for voters to choose from in the beginning, these include creating a transparent supply chain software, managing digital private and public bonds and securing transaction / ID data in a user-friendly environment. With these software implementations users will have to own Aethers to use the software, while at the same time supporting the network and ETC miners by using the Classic blockchain for all operations. We intend to create an entire infrastructure of Dapp’s on the ETC blockchain made with Scandinavia in focus. ConcludingThe SCCEX and SCBC will help Scandinavians understand Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic and we will offer native support for both cryptocurrencies. With the BCH and ETC investment trust users will also be able to invest in the currencies in a secure and cheap way, giving users two different faucets to use depending upon if they are investors or everyday users. In conjunction with offering free exchanges of the currencies we intend to increase the adaption and usefulness of ETC as an Scandinavian IoT backbone and BCH as the go-to payment solution through workshops, expo’s and user-friendly Dapp’s. We are the Scandinavian Cryptocurrency Exchange, and we believe in the core principles of decentralization, unchangeable code and a proof-of-work socioeconomic democracy for Scandinavia. Help us realize this dream by participating in our ICO coming early 2018, thanks for reading. |
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is there any website that shows GAS earned per day on an address?
Everywhere I see it is cumulative ..
https://neotogas.com/ |
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MOONLIGHT Building a Decentralized Workforce Platform https://neonewstoday.com/development/moonlight-building-decentralized-workforce/Building a Decentralized Workforce Platform Moonlight takes an alternative approach to the mechanic used for project staffing, realization, and compensation to create a distributed workforce that is capable of fulfilling the needs of the current blockchain ecosystem while also tackling some of the issues presented in the conventional product development space as well. In the project announcement for Moonlight, we outlined some of the fundamental goals of the project: Accessibility of critical project resources Verifiable organizational skill-sets Improved project success rates While these aren't the only goals of the project, they are certainly some of the more important ones. If you missed the project announcement, you can find it here. Over the next few months, leading up to the formal whitepaper and ICO, we will be releasing a series of announcements that will provide some conceptual information about how Moonlight is being designed to meet the project's goals. These announcements are meant to seed the community with some of the Moonlight concepts in the hopes that we can fine-tune the project using community feedback. In this article, we are going to cover some of the terms used in the Moonlight ecosystem as well as a concept for the Moonlight system token. We believe this information will be valuable for the community and helpful for understanding concepts presented in the next article which will cover the project definition and analytical project management components of the ecosystem. All of the concepts presented here will be presented in extended detail in the whitepaper. Moonlight Terminology: Organization In Moonlight, organizations are the entities which generate content. An organization can be an individual or group of individuals. Organizations can also be made up of other organizations. They have the ability to generate tasks in the ecosystem and also resolve them. Organizations can act in one of the following roles during task resolution: Issuer: The organization that creates a task in the system. Resolver: The organization that fulfills a task in the system. Moonlight provides a number of mechanisms to track organizational competency: Skills: Every task completed by an organization is published to the blockchain. The skills required for each completed task are logged to the organization and can be used to represent the domain-specific capabilities of an organization. Reviews: After a task has been completed, the participating organizations (Issuer and Resolver) are prompted to review eachother. Organizational reviews are published to the blockchain. This review represents the overall quality of interacting with the organization. Bid Accuracy: When acting as a Resolver, organizations place bids on tasks (see bidding). The accuracy of these bids relative to the actual completion duration are also logged as a tool to indicate the organization's bid quality for tasks. The skills associated with the tasks are taken into consideration when evaluating bid accuracy within the system........... |
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Why Tron (TRX) may be the most ambitious project in crypto right now. by perogies https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7nnkjp/why_tron_trx_may_be_the_most_ambitious_project_in/?st=jbxwicy6&sh=30b929afTron Foundation want to be a platform for multiple use cases across a wide variety of industries, and have them all connected within a decentralized shared economy. They want to build Web 4.0 and take on Google, Apple and Facebook as a content distribution platform. Giving the power back to the people to decide their own pricing, distribution, and economic models and control every aspect of their own creations and content. Instead of giving Google of Apple 40% you'd just pay the content creator directly for things. There are so so so many possibilities here.. This is starting to be represented in their partnerships.. Weibo (10 million users) a Chinese social media app, Gifto (20 million users) a decentralized gifting platform, oBike (10 million users) a bike sharing platform.. Using TRX as a transferable currency between ALL partners and apps built and connected to TRON will be huge. TRX is designed to be an inter-game currency for all games built on their platform. Meaning instead of holding CNY, USD, CAD, AUD (as well as all other crypto currencies) etc and having wallet dust in various games, you will be able to use your TRX in one wallet and seamlessly transfer it between games. One account, one currency. It's going to be absolutely massive given the popularity of mobile gaming and micro payments. Content creators will be able to publish their own games, set their own method of distribution, and their own prices. They will earn TRX based on whatever parameters and rules they set from people buying and playing their games. It will be a huge component in the self sustaining multi use case decentralized economy they are seeking to build. Keep in mind the creator of Clash of Kings is one of the investors in Tron. Partnerships with mobile gaming companies are something i fully expect for Tron in the future. This will add millions of daily users, and open up those games to all holders and users of TRX. The oBike partnership is another aspect of this shared economy. Users will be able to pay for rides with ocoin and earn it as they ride, this can be used on the Tron platform within the decentralized economy. Pretty sure they can either spend their ocoins on everything or they can easily transfer it to TRX to spend elsewhere across the platform. Same goes the other way, someone could theoretically take money from their gaming account and transfer it to ocoin to ride a bike, earn ocoins from riding that bike, and then transfer back into a game and spend them there on an item. 'In 2016, the global video game market was to $ 9.66 billion, of which the scale of the phone game market was $ 4.61 billion, accounting for 42%. TRON provides the possibility for establishing an on-line game platform. Developers can freely set up game platforms through TRON, achieve crowd funding for game development, and common investors can contribute to game content creation'. - From the Tron whitepaper The first game to be released will be TRX dogs, but over time as the platform evolves developers will launch more sophisticated titles that appeal to a broad range of people. The data storage and distribution aspect will be fantastic for sharing video, photos and articles free from censorship due to the distributed nature of the ledger. Tron will build a massive user base across a wide variety of uses cases and industries, have them all interconnected, and build a self sustaining decentralized economy that ANYONE can participate in across the globe. There is also something called Tron Power: “TP is locked TRON. Users can acquire TP by locking their TRONIX. TP, in nature, is TRONIX with voting rights, which means TP holders have more privileges in the ecosystem… TRON tries to build an ecology under the full control of TRON holders who are optimistic about TRON on a long-term basis, and we hope TRON could be controlled by those whose values are consistent with TRON’s over the long term. As time passes, we’ll give TP holders more TPs as a reward, and the reward will be dynamically allocated. This means that those who hold and lock TP for the long term will be rewarded. TRON POWER’s balance cannot be transferred nor sold, which means TRON POWER is not tradeable.’’ Tron has a 10 year roadmap and a plan to take things step by step and build all the different aspects of this platform. It has a solid team behind it, a bit of a rockstar CEO who excels at promoting his product, and a growing list of investors and partnerships. It's being designed for 100 million plus users and is a long term hold. https://tron.network/en.html first million registered users get free TRX apparently. New website is also being designed. Medium post about Tron |
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Regulation - NEO and Macau Gambling similarities, and likely outcome. by largenutz https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/7nbjsw/regulation_neo_and_macau_gambling_similarities/?st=JBVJR1B0&sh=124cb114During the financial crisis of 2008, publicly- traded casino operators in Macau lost 90% of their value. This is partially a result from large debit-encumbered projects half built, decrease in China's GDP from 12% to 6%, and one other thing, VISA RESTRICTIONS! The Chinese government tightened visa restriction on Chinese citizens from traveling from Hong Kong to Macau for a limited amount of visits per month. The reasons behind the restrictions was to protect both the economy, and its' citizens from losing large amounts of money gambling. Once GDP rose again, the Chinese government felt that the economy was safer to lesson the restrictions, and increased the amount of time mainland Chinese citizens could visit Macau in a given month. As a result, the socks of casino operators shot up. Why is this important to NEO? This is important to NEO because understanding how the government has operated in the past, can allow you to draw important conclusions to a future NEO thesis. The exchange closure in China was implemented to protect its' citizens from ICO fraud and to protect its' financial system to risks from the rise of crypto-currencies that could possibly have had a negative effect on the monetary policy and banking system of China. So far things are starting to look very similar for the crypto-currency-exchange-ban as they did for the visa restrictions in Macau. Sometime soon, when China's central bank either creates their own crypto-currency, or implements regulations for crypto-currency exchanges; most likely the later, we will see a very powerful and explosive gain in and across all China-based cryptographic asset classes. This will eventually happen, it's just a matter of when. In the meantime however, NEO being a cutting-edge global organization does not need the aforementioned government effect to continue its price rise. We can expect NEO to rise to tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization without China regulations. However, when this does happen, when the small amount of cloud to the worlds' largest consumer base is gone, NEO can potentially grow to the number 1 cryptographic asset in the world. |
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Weekly Report #23–2017.12.31 City of Zion (CoZ) is a global community of open source enthusiasts, with the shared goal of helping NEO achieve its full potential. CoZ primarily operates through the community Discord and CoZ Github, central places where the community shares knowledge and contributes to projects. CoZ is neither a corporation, nor a consulting firm or a devshop / for-hire group. Governance There is no formal process in joining CoZ. Interested individuals will have to do the work first, and the submitted code has to be licensed under the MIT License. Consistent contributors will become eligible to join the CoZ organization, and begin collaborating on projects. The governance process of this organization can be found here. Funding Since its inception, the CoZ Council has been in close contact with the NEO Council. The NEO Council provides support to the community, in the form of NEO rewards, which CoZ redistributes weekly. For individuals who are interested in financially supporting CoZ development, our donation address is AXSoNQEKjmqPBNPg5cNrHyWivfjok3Vj9D. For transparency, CoZ Council members are excluded from weekly NEO rewards, and any CoZ competitions. This week, 434 NEO were awarded for the contributions to the NEO ecosystem. Week in Review............. https://medium.com/proof-of-working/weekly-report-23-2017-12-31-e02aae674aedInterview with AntShares (NEO) & Nebulas (NAS) Co-Founder Hitters Xu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFB1b1hopmc |
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worth read... NULS: China’s Undiscovered Blockchain Platform https://medium.com/quantstamp2017/nuls-chinas-undiscovered-blockchain-e56cd508848dOverview: To understand when NULS will be worth more than Beyoncé, it is important to understand what NULS is and what its use will be in the future of the blockchain economy. NULS aims to offer an enterprise blockchain application solution to a wide range of companies and businesses. To differentiate themselves from their competition NULS allocates its users ‘‘the ability to customize modules to suit the developer’s needs [which] promotes innovativeness and does not constrain the possibilities of what can potentially be built.”² NULS claims it will simplify and speed up development by ‘offering a simple programmable environment that caters to the less experienced developer while facilitating extendibility for the more experienced individual.’² In doing so, NULS aims to solidify its standing as an emerging blockchain platform within the Chinese crypto community. As of today, NULS has completed the bottom layer for its test net and plans to release the full product in 2018.⁴............ |
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(Great news) Former Alibaba Chief Data Mining Expert Zhao Hong (Marcus) Joined TRON https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/great-news-former-alibaba-chief-data-mining-expert-zhao-hong-marcus-joined-tron-2fb73ccd802fReport on December 26th, 2017 said the former Alibaba chief data mining expert Zhao Hong joined the core team of TRON. Zhao Hong will mainly take charge of the overall structure of block chain, research and development of smart contract design. TRON once again got an expert in this field. He is also another senior expert who enters TRON after Chen Zhiqiang, the Ali big data expert joined in this early October. Zhao Hong (Marcus) graduated from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, where he obtained his master’s degree. He used to serve in various top enterprises such as Alibaba (data mining expert), Dangdang(development manager), zenmen group (senior algorithm platform architect), VMware China development center, China Academic of Electronics and Information Technology, and he has an interdisciplinary technical talent with both rich academic experience and commercial practical ability. He worked in Alibaba for many years, mainly focusing on advertising searching (ten billion-level real-time response system). In addition, he also possesses extensive experience in data mining, big data platform, high concurrent online architecture and mass data storage. He used to work as the development manager of the advertising platform of Dangdang, where he was responsible for the overall architecture and strategy of advertising and gained much team management experience. In the meantime, being an early investor who owns his own private mining machine, Zhao Hong also knows something about blockchain and cryptocurrency investment. He said: “It is the strong technological atmosphere and good vision of TRON that makes me leave Ali and join TRON, and I believe TRON will definitely stand out from many block chain projects.” Sun Yuchen (Justin Sun), the founder of TRON said: “All engineers of TRON are passionate and ambitious, including Zhao Hong. Mr. Zhao Hong is an expert in big data. I believe he will speed up the progress of TRON with his technology and experience, and I look forward to the results we’re going to achieve soon. What is TRON? TRON：Meet Decentralized Internet, The next Web 4.0 blockchain Dapp platform. TRON is a world-leading blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide free content entertainment system with the blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows each user to freely publish, store and own data, and in decentralized autonomous form, decides the distribution, subscription and push of contents and enables content creators by releasing, circulating and dealing with digital assets, thus forming a decentralized content entertainment ecosystem. The key features of TRON: Decentralized Trustworthy Application; Smart Contracts Empowered by Blockchain; Digital Values issued and obtained by everyone. The Ranking and Market value of TRON The circulating market cap of TRON is $2,468,838,053 (Coinmarketcap.com) and the daily volume is$397,956,000. Now TRX ranks 18 in the world with over 300,000 token holders (Etherscan.io) worldwide(24th Dec. 2017) |
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(Great news) Former Alibaba Chief Data Mining Expert Zhao Hong (Marcus) Joined TRON https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/great-news-former-alibaba-chief-data-mining-expert-zhao-hong-marcus-joined-tron-2fb73ccd802fReport on December 26th, 2017 said the former Alibaba chief data mining expert Zhao Hong joined the core team of TRON. Zhao Hong will mainly take charge of the overall structure of block chain, research and development of smart contract design. TRON once again got an expert in this field. He is also another senior expert who enters TRON after Chen Zhiqiang, the Ali big data expert joined in this early October. Zhao Hong (Marcus) graduated from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, where he obtained his master’s degree. He used to serve in various top enterprises such as Alibaba (data mining expert), Dangdang(development manager), zenmen group (senior algorithm platform architect), VMware China development center, China Academic of Electronics and Information Technology, and he has an interdisciplinary technical talent with both rich academic experience and commercial practical ability. He worked in Alibaba for many years, mainly focusing on advertising searching (ten billion-level real-time response system). In addition, he also possesses extensive experience in data mining, big data platform, high concurrent online architecture and mass data storage. He used to work as the development manager of the advertising platform of Dangdang, where he was responsible for the overall architecture and strategy of advertising and gained much team management experience. In the meantime, being an early investor who owns his own private mining machine, Zhao Hong also knows something about blockchain and cryptocurrency investment. He said: “It is the strong technological atmosphere and good vision of TRON that makes me leave Ali and join TRON, and I believe TRON will definitely stand out from many block chain projects.” Sun Yuchen (Justin Sun), the founder of TRON said: “All engineers of TRON are passionate and ambitious, including Zhao Hong. Mr. Zhao Hong is an expert in big data. I believe he will speed up the progress of TRON with his technology and experience, and I look forward to the results we’re going to achieve soon. What is TRON? TRON：Meet Decentralized Internet, The next Web 4.0 blockchain Dapp platform. TRON is a world-leading blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide free content entertainment system with the blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows each user to freely publish, store and own data, and in decentralized autonomous form, decides the distribution, subscription and push of contents and enables content creators by releasing, circulating and dealing with digital assets, thus forming a decentralized content entertainment ecosystem. The key features of TRON: Decentralized Trustworthy Application; Smart Contracts Empowered by Blockchain; Digital Values issued and obtained by everyone. The Ranking and Market value of TRON The circulating market cap of TRON is $2,468,838,053 (Coinmarketcap.com) and the daily volume is$397,956,000. Now TRX ranks 18 in the world with over 300,000 token holders (Etherscan.io) worldwide(24th Dec. 2017) |
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Korean Article Covering Icon's U-Coin Project - "The government hoped that the spread of the U-Coin (ICX), a currency coin, would reduce the cost of real money and the cost of building infrastructure." (( google translated )) Vending machines that can buy goods with virtual money in Korea? A vending machine that can buy goods with a password chain based on a block chain was first introduced in Korea. It is expected to be the first case to use the cryptographic currency (virtual currency), which was considered only as a speculative means, as an electronic commerce payment means. The first vending machine is piloted at Sogang University. According to the financial industry and IT industry on November 25, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Information Industry Promotion (NIA), and Daily Intelligence started "U-Coin Demonstration Service based on Block Chain" do. The company has commercialized a smart bending machine that can buy goods in virtual currency, and plans to expand it nationwide. The No. 1 smart bending machine was installed at Sogang University. We will expand and apply it to POSTECH integrated virtual currency demonstration project soon. This business, named as Yukoin Service, is characterized by the commercialization of block-based cipher services available at online and offline merchants centered on universities. The goal is to enter the society without cash. The government selected Daily Intelligence as a private operator and built a platform for purchasing vending machines and mobile applications (apps) as part of its national policy. Daily intelligence is based on the block chain engine and has all the necessary systems for service operation such as issuing, inquiring, and settlement of passwords. How to use is simple. After installing the cryptographic service app on the mobile, the user turns the real money into a cryptogram with a smart bending machine. The user installs the app and buys the goods in the vending machine with a password. The Ministry of Finance and Economy (MIC) and the NIA are considering plans to expand their long-term and long-term prospects, including the supply of bank cipher services based on bank block chains. "We will expand the scale of the consortium after the trial service," a business official said. "We will expand the franchise so that students can use virtual money to buy things at a number of universities." The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) started a pilot project for college students with high acceptance of new technology. We also plan to use local currency in consultation with local governments. It is a strategy to spread the pilot projects step by step by linking universities and local governments nationwide. In order to flexibly respond to the payment environment, we will continue to develop technologies based on the Internet (IoT) environment as well as smartphones and smart bending machines. The government hoped that the spread of the U-Coin, a currency coin, would reduce the cost of real money and the cost of building infrastructure. The goal is to upgrade the cipher money to social public service for quick entry into 'cashless society'. http://www.etnews.com/20171222000304 |
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What is DeepBrain Chain? https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@crypto-steven/what-is-deepbrain-chainDeepBrain Chain provides a "decentralized, low cost, and private AI (artificial intelligence) computing platform." Similar to golem, they use computer resources from people all over the world and pool them together to provide computational resources. Their goal is to provide AI companies with cheaper computational resources as they consistently grow more expensive. Supposedly, 10%-30% of an AIs companies' budget is spent on hardware for computing power. DeepBrain Chain can reduce that cost by 70%. From 2012 to 2016, there was an increase of 5154 AI startups worldwide with a total net worth of ~$20 billion and with a net investment of ~$100 billion. It's a fast growing field that's generating excitement worldwide and for good reason. AI has the potential to revolutionize our world but is being held back because of the immense costs of the purchase and maintenance of computer hardware. Miners get paid in DeepBrain Coin (DBC) for the work they provide on the network that goes toward AI computational needs. They also get payed in GAS since DeepBrain Chain is on the NEO platform. GAS is the fee AI companies pay in order to use DBC, it's estimated that miners will get paid in 70% DBC and 30% GAS. But DBCs ultimate goal is more than just decentralized supple of computing power. They also intend to have an AI data trading platform, AI algorithm trading platform, AI model trading platform, AI container trading platform, and AI application trading platform but there isn't much information yet out about those. Token allocation.png Total Circulation: 10 billion DBC Circulating Supply: 1,500,000,000 DBC ICO Price: $0.015 (December 15, 2017) Price: $0.0926 Market Cap: $138,900,000 Team: CEO - Feng He CTO - Shu Chang CMO - Chuanfeng Lee Business VP - Tony Lee Internal Affairs VP - Jenny Wu Hardware Director - Louie Lu Artificial Intelligence Prinicpal Investigator - Chenyu Lu Block chain Senior Engineer - Lingbin Wang Roadmap: .... |
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Sarang Noether Provides Decemeber Update On Monero https://www.cryptocurrencyfreak.com/2017/12/29/sarang-noether-provides-decemeber-update-monero/The latest update from Sarang Noether is out and its full of interesting information on Bulletproofs, Multisig and discusses whether or not zk-SNARKs would benefit Monero. Read the entire post below or at the Monero forums. Hello there! Sarang Noether here with my monthly report for December. I’m pleased to report good progress on several important projects, and want to start by thanking the Monero community for your support. The primary task this month has been a continuation of Bulletproofs. As you’ve probably read elsewhere (like this blog post), range proofs are an important component of Monero’s confidential transactions that allow us to keep amounts secret. Bulletproofs are a replacement for our existing range proofs that used Borromean ring signatures and took up a substantial amount of space on the blockchain. I used the recent Bulletproof white paper to work up Java code, perform testing on correctness and efficiency, and work with moneromooo to get the test code ported for eventual inclusion into the Monero codebase. Single-output Bulletproofs are currently undergoing testing on testnet and will be included in a future release when ready. Multi-output Bulletproofs, which offer even more space savings that scale to larger transactions, are being tested separately since they necessitate a change to the way we handle fee scaling in order to avoid denial-of-service attacks from transaction packing. Releasing Bulletproofs in stages will provide an immediate reduction in transaction size and continue to offer further benefits once the rollout is complete......... |
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oBike Users to be World’s First to Earn and Ride on Tron Platform Singapore, 26 December 2017 — In a world’ first of its kind, users will soon be able to get more out of their oBike rides in addition to keeping fit and burning calories. Thanks to a new partnership announced by─oBike, Singapore’s first homegrown and biggest bikesharing operator, and TRON, a world-leading blockchain-based decentralised protocol─oBike users will be able to generate and earn oCoins whenever they take an oBike ride. As part of this new partnership which will officially launch in first quarter of 2018, oBike will introduce its very own cryptocurrency called oCoins, which is based on the TRON protocol. oCoins will form the backbone of oBike’s new rewards and credit points system, thus enabling oBike users to pay for their rides as well as top up their oBike wallets using oCoins. Users will generate ocoins whenever they ride on oBike. The longer they ride, the more oCoins they earn. Ocoins can also be used to purchase online content consumption, or on any applications that are on TRON’s platform including Peiwo, a leading audio content community, and Uplive, a popular live streaming app........... https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/obike-users-to-be-worlds-first-to-earn-and-ride-on-tron-platform-46db41d19bae |
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