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For sale for 16 BTC see www.cryptoalchemists.comThis 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.com4 Hermitage Rd Rosebank Cape Town 7700 South Africa |
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My score went down 30 points yesterday. I did five reviews yesterday. I always take the time to write something thoughtful whether I like it or it sucks. Can you explain why? I am not going to put in effort into this community if I work on assessing ICOs when I get unexplained drops like this. I was at number four yesterday and today dropped from 80 to 50 for no apparant reason. I have worked hard to do 65 reviews and all of them have text. I don't just throw in a rating and walk out like other reviewers. And yes I am hard on some projects. Too bad. Also there needs to be an option to leave the community - delete profile button, which can remove an experts reviews and profile. Because if I don't understand how it works clearly, I am not going to give my thoughtful reviews of ICOs for free. I'd rather just go back to Blockchain News (which I still am editor at large) and review ICOs there again. I have a lot of experience in this space - having been involved in 35+ ICOs in one way or another. Richard Kastelein https://icobench.com/u/expathos |
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I just can't make this stuff up. "I'm a blockchain entrepreneur... tech connoisseur..." ___________________ 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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Something is wrong with MCI token in myetherwallet. It now states. Not a valid ERC-20 token - MCI Please advise what has happened with my investment. Best Richard K. Blockchain News |
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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 |
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You should build a simple website with your services. Hey , I' interested in building your website  Shoot me an email: [redacted on request] |
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Can someone add
airdrop?
Thanks
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I bought 10ETH of Tezos, downloaded my paper wallet, submitted my funds and my money dissappeared into a scam.
It followed instructions to a tee. Go figure.
Support for my problem was shite - giving me a semantic lecture how I was not an ínvestor but a participant and it was not an investment etc.... fuck. I just want to know where my money went dude!
Last thing I publish about this crap coin at Blockchain News at any rate.
It was terribly managed.
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Hi We could likely use your help in the future as we are doing a number of high profile ICOs Please see www.cryptoassets.io for more information I am best reached as expatforums on Skype or expathos @ gmail dot com Best Richard Kastelein |
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We are interested at www.cryptoassets.io and working on a number of projects. contact me via skype at expatforums Or by email expathos AT gmail.com Best Richard |
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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 |
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Most people that run companies don't have time to hang around chat forums. Calling someone a scammer because they are not addicted to anonymous trashing of other people is pretty lame. Dude. I am willing to put my name here. Richard Kastelein Publisher Blockchain News Director Blockchain Partners Founder Cryptoalchemy.com Founder Crypto-Financing.com Conference - London 2017 Who are you? Name: Alex Fork Posts: 37 Activity: 37 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: December 09, 2016, 09:14:28 PM Last Active: March 29, 2017, 07:06:23 PM hi newbie scammer  |
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My thoughts after reading the paper: I think the intention of banking unbanked people is good and should be pursued. But, I think that the people and organizations pursuing this should be foundations, volunteers and governments. For example the UN or the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation ($40B+ fund) is more suited to give $10 to 2B people, they could actually pay for it. If you want to wait for them to take the action, then wait. We don't believe in waiting - we believe in action. If we can prove what we doing is viable then we can prove to them it can be done. Then we are more than happy to partner with the likes of the UN, World Bank, and Foundation such as Gates. But saying that we should push a proposal forward using a yet untested technology at these kinds of institutions is a waste of time. They have safer, less risky investments to deal with. These are risk averse sources of funding, they are not VC. The main technological value I see you may develop is doing secure cryptographic signatures in a smartphone, more precisely, storing a private key securely, even if the device was stolen or lost and the memory was removed and sniffed. Also an app can be reverse-engineered, so your app needs to be resistant to that. Those are security problems that are unsolved unless you use a long password and encrypt the private key with it, I don't see how you are securing a private key without a password here. The software to do facial and voice authentication is definitely valuable, on my own searches I haven't found 3rd parties that do this well which is part of the reason pretty much no one is using facial and voice authentication on money apps. Iris and fingerprints are more common but less secure that a password. Agree. To a point. We secure it on a central server until we have the technology to do otherwise. And that does not exist yet. In the paper I read that this is not a charity, therefore (1) how do I make money as an investor in this token? Why are you pushing a new currency when these communities live in countries with an established fiat currency, (2) Wouldn't it make more sense to just digitize that already accepted currency?. (3) How are you going to finance this development after you burn through the pre-ico and ico money, do you have a business model? (no business model found on the paper). And finally (4) What smartphones cost $10-$20 and how are these going to be distributed or sold in developing nations. Actually the project will be run out of a foundation - which will control and hold all the core software stack similar to Ethereum or DECENT. There will also be a 'profit with a purpose' corporation which will develop and fund development via an accelerator and incubator programme investing in Blockchain startups to build on top of the stack to create more services for the end users. From my experience living in a developing country, one that is dark in the maps shown in your paper, the only communication infrastructure that many villages and small cities do have is cellular. So these people can call and text on pre-paid telephony plans. Most of them have access to basic phones with no internet and wouldn't afford a wireless internet plan if they had a smartphone. So I'm guessing that for this to work on a massive scale you would need to partner up with telecommunication companies so they give these people access to data related with your app/domains for free (which is what internet.org is doing) and sell them a smartphone for the price of a basic phone that shows their native currency in the app. A way to withdraw those electronic funds in cash would also be good for the money in the app to be accepted as money. For now, I think cash works very well for these places.
Personally I have thought about this alot. And when I was in Nairobi in Kibera, I realised we could be at the mercy of telcos in the country. However, I also know that we are months away from using k-band low orbiting satellite solutions with cheap receiver technology such as Kymeta (Bill Gates backed) which can allow us to bypass the telcos and pull in broadband via the sky. There would be perhaps some regulatory issues - but it's also a chance for Gates to put his stamp on it if we use Kymeta and let's see them fight that war. Telco has their lobbyists in Nairobi in government and all governments but strangling the people from lower cost Internet is a losing war. If we were to do Kibera - Africa's largest slum, I would come in with a dozen receivers, empower the huts selling mPesa and give them one along with the banking function to convert HMQ to Kenyan Shillings and they become de facto broadband suppliers as well as bankers. That's just an idea. It's not in our milestones or set in stone. It's one way I have been thinking about how to tackle this. Best Richard Kastelein Interim CMO Humaniq |
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Congratulations guys - was great to meet in Tel Aviv and look forward to your successful ICO! This is a killer project, long tail all the way baby!
Best
Richard Kastelein
Blockchain News
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My name is Richard Kastelein and I have also joined Humaniq as interim Chief Marketing Officer for a few months - in addition to my role as publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Blockchain News, Director of Blockchain Partners and board member of the Blockchain Ecosystem Network. See article here. https://medium.com/@Alex_Fork/richard-kastelein-joins-humaniq-as-cmo-f03feba685ae#.a6fm02nafI will bring my large network and marketing acumen as well as the full backing of Blockchain News to this project, to help ensure their ICO is a massive success. Why? The reason I decided to spend my time and energy in Humaniq is not just because I believe Alex Fork has the knowledge and the Network as Russia's leading Blockchain expert, but I believe in the cause. For almost a decade I have been lending money via http://www.kiva.org to scores of entrepreneurs in emerging economies because I believe that empowering people (particularly women) with loans to build businesses can lift them out of poverty. And I like to believe I have - by lending my money to many of them to buy extra stock for their little shops or a new cow so they can breed and expand their small farm. But what makes Humaniq revolutionary is that we have the ability, using Blockchain Technology, Banking 4.0, Mobile Devices and Biometrics - to potentially empower millions of people and bring them into the world of digital commerce and lift many more people out of the horror of poverty and the destitution of living on less than a few dollars a day. Over two billion people in the world don't have bank accounts. Over three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day. I believe in Humaniq because it's an organisation that believes in profit with a purpose. It's not like a fat NGO with a CEO on a million dollars a year - doling out free money at people - but rather - Humaniq aims to empower them by giving them economic tools via mobile devices that have rock solid security and identity management features built on the Blockchain. It's like the old saying: "Give a man a fish and he will eat it in a day. Give a man a fishing rod and he will eat fish the rest of his life." We also think this will help deal with other issues such as the immigration influx in Europe. Humaniq can help lift people out of poverty which can allow them to stay with their family, their friends and their loved ones rather than having to try to improve their economic prospects by giving what little money they do have to smugglers, risk their lives by getting in a small boat, and cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. A Europe which is being overwhelmed by millions of economic refugees... putting a strain on European social welfare systems, inciting xenophobia and causing the current rise of the populists - putting European politics on a dangerous path, regressing to ideologies we have not seen since the 1930s. So yes. Humaniq is more than just banking. To me at least. It's a mission. It's a project that can truly have huge impact across the globe with the support of you and many others Richard Kastelein Interim CMO Humaniq http://www.linkedin.com/in/expathos (feel free to connect on Linkedin) |
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MIT has the Bitcoin Killer 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/ blockchain DOT com has been removed due to my newbie status. http://www.the-blockchain DOT com/2017/01/05/move-bitcoin-mit-cryptographer-silvio-micali-public-ledger-algorand-future-blockchain/ |
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