Yes we have a workaround concept, TERMEPOSIT will stay

have fun
Matthias

Thanks to Grsecurity, hopefuly, the nightmare of the last three weeks finally ended.
Though a small feeling of discomfort is left, i generally feel to be back in control and
i am having a few good friends, keeping an eye on my systems.  Said so, lets summarize, where
we are. So here is my Statusreport, beginning with the news:

1) Hardware
Thanks to Olaf, we can enjoy a great power and shutdown management. It is an intelligent system,
that is aware about the runlevel state and about the network state of the device and therefor, not only takes
care about a clean shutdown on power disconnect, but can also detect crashes and can manage power distribution over
multiple clustered devices and its programable. It also will have a central role in our security concept.




2) Partnerships and features
Yesterday, in Frankfurt, we signed the contract with two investors, for the Forex and the FIAT gateway concept.
This part is now ready funded and legaly incorporated. It may be some advantage, that one of these Partners,
is a major ICO-Consulting firm, more soon to be disclosed This parnership gives also the opportunity to think about a privat
business kickstarter app for Financecloud.





Status Summary

Ideas like the kickstarter app, are for now, not what i am focussing on. If there is anything we are having enough,
for now, its "features". For most of the next weeks i will focus on interconnection, Interface and security.  Most important
goal is, to be able to present a device, that can demonstrate our vision at the blockchain Summit in November.
And even the last three weeks, nothing was able to stop us from progressing and from getting there.  

Last three weeks, have not only been scary for me, but for sure for some of my users, who did put their heart and their trust into
my work. Sorry for that, there wasn't a second, i did not feel bad about not being with you, but i did not know better, how to deal
with the attacks, than cutting the rope and then getting help. Nothing is able to stop me from running this project.

have fun  
Matthias


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In USA they call an Asset, making you profit from just holding it, without doing soimething, that creates the value, a security. They assume, if YOU don't create the value, somebody else does and therefore, its an investment into a foreign business. That's why they think its a security. The idea, that value can be created from just structuiral properties seemed to advanced to grasp for the regulators.

This is the point, that makes American regulation different from European regulation. In Europe there must, at least, a third party business, to be in existence, to invest in, to be able to assume, you are earning from it.

The point is, that securities are regulated different and you need a bank license, to handle them as an exchange. That means, if a coin is a security, most exchanges will have to drop it from their listing. So its a good idea, to do something, before this practice is coming into place. We will build something like "Press the button once a week", to be able to claim, the user is doing some work, to create the value. (the Button just serves as an examble, i feel we will come up with a function, that will make more sense)  In some regards, this is even a good thing for the ERC ecosystem, because we can come up with any function of work for the user and use it, to deepen the thight inside of the financeclound by giving ERC another imortant role as an agent


have fun
Matthias ;-)


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last 4 days  and the progress made before

well last few days, to be straight forward simply sucked. It started about 12 days ago, with me getting this broken (or maybe not) router. This problem was solved quickly and so i was happy to claim, to be back next day,  not knowing, what happened next. When i got the new router i did put it online, wrote a few mails and whent to bed, planning to configure the device the next day. In the morning then, i found already two new adnin accounts in the router, and while figuring out, how this could have happened i realized a connection frmn/to my computer. I immediately cut the rope and was offline again. in the last 5 days i found each and every device in my network exploited. Yesterday i decided, that this cannot waste my time any more. I have a single, usable device left, that is clean. Its an old DELL, that seems to be to old to be infected. I also ordered and installed a hardware firewall and network security device now. Said so, i am back. I will describe the exploitation at the bottom of this post, maybe someone of you has an idea and can enlighten me. I will now focus back on whats importand, the financecloud, i am not willing to allow suckers like this, to waste all my time. Even more, people, that are intercepting, stealing and violating other peoples live, are no better than the crackpots, that are around in the finance and political space, and they are just making me angry enough to keep going even harder. There are bad actors, that claim to be an anarchist, just to justify acting outside of any ethical framework. This is not whats named an "anarchist", it whats named an "asshole". They are the opposit of an anarchist, they are control-freaks ...... but lets forget about that ...


Progress

except of the las 4 days, the work continued, despite being offline, just as usual. Ther was enough stuff to do, that did not require an internet  connection.

I met with Olaf (Hardware Manager) and retought our current harware concept, because the needs have changed (good, i waited with producing) we added a Kondensator based shutdown process with memory protection and most importantly, audio components for the voicecontrol. luckily Olaf comes from the studio industies and has been able to add plenty of knowledge about microphones.

 i managed to integrate some audio components on my development environment and the financecloud was able to speak its first word.
This was a great "heureka, it's alive!" like moment

And this kind of work is exactly what is going on now. I really want to be able, to create a "heads up" in November in Malta.


Bittrex

I had some conversations with Richard, Bill and others from Bittrex. First we talked about some regulative stuff for Europecoin and the problem, that ERC could be seen as a "Security" in the U.S. because of the TERMDEPOSIT function. Because i refused to take fuNCtionS away from users, especially without their consent, I had several meetings with their layers and we found a way, to get around this, by giving Termdeposit users a small job in the future, that takes the "unconditional earnig" factor out of the game, without enoying the user.

Over the time and the meetings we have been talking very much about the stuff and the policies going on around Bittrex and we had the opportunity to find similarities in the needs of Bittrex and the needs of Europecoin Financecloud, especially from the regulation standpoint. I have been able to raise awareness abozut our work and so they wrapped their mind around oUr project and took the time to understand it. As a result we have decided to work closer together and to support each other. In return there is the idea to make a sleak intergration of the Bittrex API into the FINANCECLOUD TRADING DASHBOARD and we are in the progress of defining our collaboration. More about that later.


So far so good,
wish me luck, to stay save,
looks that someone is watching me,
but for now, he wasn't able to harm me,
lets hope, is stays like that.

Have fun
Matthias.


The exploid:
on independent machines, of some with locked and protected bios, A fresh linux install will start installing a controlpanel, and a gdm3/dbus based spying environment with a remote desktop. I did not find, where this function is sitting and it keeps up comming. I have my bios locked (since ages), i formated the Harddrives, inlcuding masterboot, but no chance. I used the debian based "subgraph" distibution, wich normally is a pretty good and secure basis. Any ideas are welcome.



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NEVER IDLE .....





My broadband contract is now upgraded and my connection has been repaired, after i received a non functional router.
So since yesterday my web is 10 times faster, and i am flying :-) Of course, just because i have been offline for nearly four days,
this hasn't rendered me idle. More even, it was a helpful situation,, to get all the things done, which i normally have to force myself to do.
Said so, i have plenty of stuff to report and its time to prepare one of my "weekly reports" -
TOMORROW, HERE, SAME-TIME-SAME-PLACE 

have fun,
Matthias   


PS:  YESSS the Summit is in November :-)

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Hy thank you,
thats quite cool, also the phonetics should work quite well (in terms of recognition),
In the next two days my audio testing equipment will  be delivered.
Then i will check out immediately.


small update on our release event, "Blockchain Summit" officially  announced us today





Spread this tweet:
https://twitter.com/BlockchainMT/status/1013445485359755266

Have fun
Matthias



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Thank you very much

we are buildig a finance-iot-service-bus where Products, coins, things and services can launch and cross-interact.
The servicebus is formed by a decentralized network  of home devices, that are providing
an easy interface into any of these coins, services, products and so on via an app-store.
The box/device can be controlled by voice with an ai voice-assistant.

Its a iot-finance-smarthub

have fun
Matthias

financecloud.org domain  now active

It points to the FINANCECLOUD API appstore, some of you might already have seen in an earlier stage,
that is now upgraded and sligtly modified.







***TRIGGER WARNING - SLIGHTLY TECHNICAL CONTENT***

This Appstore will over the next days hook on top of  our docker repository server.
Then combine the FINANCECLOUD APP section with docker deployment capabilities, to make apps
possible, that are combining cloud frontends with server instances. Given this Appstore already provides a
developer area with basic app-version control and github integration, this will be the place to go for future app developers.
It already provides an APP Skeleton builder, that will also over the next few days, modified, to be able, to integrate docker uploads
from our repository.This means you can

1) take create an enterprise level client server application
2) upload the server as image to the docker repository
3) provide the configurations to the App Generator and
4) let it generate a skeleton for the FINANCECLOUD API  app & interface.
5) Then you can serve the function as an app to the appstore

***END OF - SLIGHTLY TECHNICAL CONTENT***



6) for users this will provide powerful financial tools with the ease of a smartphone app.

have fun
Matthias


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OP UPDATED

added some basics

have fun
Matthias


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PLUGGED !

FINANCECLOUDS first successful voicecontrol pairing event into the mycroft AI API
This pairing isn't required for the user, he could use and manage our voicecontrol also via the internal dashboard,
but connecting directly into the community driven API gives him easy installation of skills, to extend the functionality.
For us its an important test. The pairing confirms that our voicecontrol, its interfaces and the skills-engine are functioning.





so long for today
have fun
Matthias




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jep sucks,  but you can't force people,
we are in the last few month untll public presentation.
We will manage to survive them anyway!
When i am back from China and still nobody has been interrested, to get those cheap ones,
i will for sure sell some other coins from my portefolio and then everything under 5000sat will be mine.
Later they will start complaining about uneven distribution then, lol

have fun
Matthias

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