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AI systems generally require large amounts of data. However, organisations must comply with the minimisation principle under data protection law if using personal data. This means ensuring that any personal data is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

What is adequate, relevant and necessary in relation to AI systems will be use-case specific. However, there are a number of techniques that organisations can adopt in order to develop AI systems which process as little personal data as possible, while still remaining functional. In this blog, we explore some of the most relevant techniques for supervised Machine Learning (ML) systems, which are currently the most common type of AI in use.

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Do Payment Gateways Affect your Business?
Choosing the right payment gateway is crucial when it comes to the success of your e-commerce store. Payment gateways are like a bridge between the buyer and seller. They permit fund transfer directly to the seller, keeping the security and comfort of the buyer in mind.

As per a survey by Baymard Institute, 6% of the customers abandoned their cart because there weren’t enough payment methods available. Added to this, most users these days prefer mobile payment options as they are quick and effortless.

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Are we headed for a worldwide recession?
As Crypto is a worldwide currency it retains a balance across other currencies that rise and fall.

Bitcoin fell which would be normal but it should be more difficult to move than individual currencies as it’s a world-wide currency.

You can see that although Bitcoin has fallen in the last days it’s nothing like the drop in the Dow and other major currencies.

There are a lot of things happening at once that could cause a world-wide recession. For instance Brexit, which the British government and EU are making a hash of, instability in China and Hong Kong all make for the ingredients that could create the environment for recession.

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UCBI Bitcoin Industry News, Price, Information & Analysis
About Blog UCBI is a Crypto and Exchange service that covers bitcoin, technical analysis and forecasts for bitcoin and other altcoins. Here at UCBI Banking, we are dedicated to enlightening people all around the world about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. We cover news related to bitcoin exchanges, bitcoin mining soon and price forecasts for various virtual currencies.

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Telegram Finally Releases Code for Its $1.7 Billion TON Blockchain
Telegram’s blockchain project, TON, has entered the last preparation stage before going live.

The code for running a blockchain node was released on the test network portal late Friday. Now developers and community members interested in the messaging app provider’s blockchain can start kicking the tires of a full node, a validator node and the blockchain explorer.

The release had been previously scheduled for Sept. 1, according to the sources familiar with the project’s progress, but was delayed a few days for unclear reasons.

According to Mitja Goroshevsky, CTO of TON Labs, which is working on tools for devs, there are currently 100 nodes maintained by Telegram itself on the testnet. Several more are maintained by his startup, helmed by investors in Telegram’s token sale, which raised $1.7 billion in early 2018.

“Source code for a full node that can access testnet, create and validate blocks has been released. Lite client was released several months ago.

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The Blockchain is no doubt a smart innovation and the most important thing is that UCBI is developing
a very considerable feature in the blockchain industry.
UCBI is building a technology that will decentralise every system and also would incorporate scalability,
flexibility and usability while utilizing smart contracts and other Blockchain applications.
UCBI is developing a digital pass technology which will serve as a digitalization ecosystem that allows
Industries, companies, and individuals access Blockchain banking system ensuring standard user
security and User Experience (UX) requirements are met.
We are building a system of security token which is incorporated with standardized banking KYC/AML
protocols, which combines the features of modern banking with digital currency.
UCBI Stands for Union of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain International.
UCBI accompanies you in your investment approach, internationally. Indeed, the goal is to support the
customer by creating synergies between trading partners around the world. It is true, UCBI wishes to
commit itself to business school students, investors, salespeople, financial and financial companies, as
well as multinationals, government agencies and start-ups in new technologies.
UCBI is part of a demanding approach to bring real solutions to the new imperatives of investors. Our
department devoted to innovative new technologies in line with medium and long-term strategies
allows us to guarantee investments that are always performing and adapted to the profile and
objectives of each of our investors. In this context and to ensure an optimized and individualized
support, a KYC form is required to validate the opening of your Blockchain account.

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Spanish banking giant Santander has issued and settled a $20 million bond on the Ethereum blockchain.

The bank itself is the issuer, it announced Thursday, adding that the bond carries a quarterly coupon of 1.98%. The one-year bond will exist on the blockchain until maturity.

Santander Securities Services is serving as a tokenization agent and custodian of the cryptographic keys for the tokenized bond and tokenized cash. “The cash used to complete the investment (on-chain delivery-versus-payment) and the quarterly coupons have also been tokenised, i.e., represented digitally on the blockchain,” the bank explained.

The automation of end-to-end process has helped Santander reduce the number of intermediaries required in the process, thus making the transaction “faster, more efficient and simpler.”

London-based fintech startup Nivaura lent technical support to Santander, while law firm Allen & Overy provided legal advice, per the announcement. Santander also has a stake in Nivaura, having invested in the startup via its venture arm, Santander InnoVentures, in February.

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Blockchainer forum will tackle the blockchain technology development, application and investment and other aspects of exchanges in order to open the doors for blockchain development promotion, future application, infrastructure and game development. Among the speakers there will be Li Jun (Co-founder of Onchain, Founder of Ontology), Dr. Andrew Long (Founder of CP Chain), Chen BoHui (Chairman of the Asia Blockchain Industry Institute), etc.

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When you find yourself completely overwhelmed by something exciting, surprising, colorful, delicious, tuneful, beautiful, funny, inexplicable, shocking, huge, or joyful, your eyes grow big, your mouth drops open and the rest of the world kind of disappears for a moment. You have no choice but to stand right where you are and just take it all in.
Right now, your life is full of moments like these, when the world is so extraordinary that we struggle to wrap our heads around the bigness of it all — it’s something we might call “wonder.”
I think it’s a big part of our responsibility as parents to help you encounter as many wonderful moments as you can, and we’re encouraging you to discover what you love by trying new things, exploring interesting places, playing new games, meeting new people, watching new films, eating new food and listening to new music.
Wonder is about experiencing more of the world, exploring it, and using it to stretch and expand our brains (remember that understanding the world is a key part of growing up? So finding moments of wonder are a really good way to keep growing up).
When it comes to wonder, I have two bits of not-great news, and one bit of much better news for you.

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we’d like to share an update about the exciting new features we’ve just introduced into Crypto Wallet in the beta version of our Opera browser on Android (version 53 beta). Starting today, we have added support for Bitcoin and TRON blockchains. This is a further step towards making Web 3 more mainstream.

Until now, our built-in Crypto Wallet had only supported Ethereum and ERC-tokens. We are now making it more inclusive by supporting Bitcoin and TRON. It’s now safe to say that our browsers are Web 3 ready and that this should be the new standard for all browsers.

Bitcoin support in Opera’s Crypto Wallet

Bitcoin was the initial blockchain that piqued the world’s interest in cryptocurrencies. Currently, its value is soaring. Traditionally, Bitcoin has been used for speculation and storage of value but rarely for actual payments. With this release, Opera’s Android browser (beta) allows users to send and receive Bitcoin (BTC) and access their transaction history.

Most importantly, we are including an experimental integration of Web 3, which makes it possible for websites to request and receive addresses and for users to make transactions with Bitcoin. Opera is bringing Bitcoin to Web 3, allowing you to use this cryptocurrency for transactions on the Web.

Opera adds TRON support

TRON is a popular and quickly growing blockchain. With this release, Crypto Wallet in the Opera browser on Android (beta) will be displaying TRX and TRC10 token balances. It will also allow users to send and receive TRC10 and TRX tokens and access their transaction history.

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Every blog needs a structure, every article needs an outline.
First, determining the structure of your blog simply means categorizing topics you want to write about and writing about them consistently.

For example, you could categorize content related to crypto regulations, locally, nationally, and globally, together and continue tagging new articles under something like “ICO Regulation Updates”. Doing this is important as readers will begin to return to your blog for specific types of content.

Second, your articles should have a consistent outline. Good writers know that a strong outline helps identify the key topics of your content and helps build out the sections.

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The Internet has been one of the most transformative existences in the contemporary world and modernity. Monnin and colleagues attempted to articulate some of the philosophical aspects of the Internet in Toward a Philosophy of the Web. Whereas a clear first phase of the Internet could be formulated as the free and widespread transfer of information, a new and emerging phase of the Internet could be shaped as the secure and decentralized transfer of value. Blockchain technology is one means of enabling secure value transfer across networks; blockchains are the distributed ledger software that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. More broadly the ability to transfer value across networks in ways that obviate the need for traditional intermediaries could come to allow all human interaction regarding value transfer and contractual engagement to be instantiated in blockchains for quicker, easier, less costly, and less risky execution. Blockchains could become a tracking register for much of world activity; essentially the whole of a society's memory, a tool for more profoundly automating human patterns, and integrating human and technological activity.

Just as the Internet was a revolutionary occurrence in reality that triggered a rethinking of self, world, materiality, embodiment, the individual and society, subjectivation, objectification, potentiality, temporality, and other philosophical topics, blockchains too warrant philosophical inquiry. Many philosophical topics might be probed, including and extending beyond the classical fields of study in ontology, epistemology, and axiology/ethics. Ontology most broadly treats questions of existence; what is blockchain technology, how might it be characterized, how is it being created, implemented, and adopted; how does it operate in the world; definitions, classifications, teleology, possibilities, and limitations. Epistemology deals with knowledge; are there new kinds of things that blockchain technology is helping us to know, like what for example; and with what proof or truth standard; how do we know; what new knowledge is required to engage with blockchain technology? Axiology, ethics, and aesthetics concern how blockchain technology is valorized, taken up, and regarded; what aspects are being valued, and over or undervalued and why; what behavioral norms are arising; what constitutes a blockchain aesthetics, what aspects are seen and valued as beautiful, elegant, or aesthetically pleasing? A philosophy of blockchains might also be quite practical, and aim to provide a concise definition of what the technology is and its purpose and dimensions.

The scope of this CFP is to consider a wide variety of philosophical approaches, schools, methods, and fields, and as such invites the broad philosophical investigation of topics related to blockchain technology. This special journal issue welcomes submissions of long (approximately 8,000 words) and short papers (approximately 4,000 words) addressing these and other related topics:

- Organizational models: hierarchical, decentralized, hybrid, complex adaptive systems
- Inter-agent coordination systems, human-technology relations, algorithmic reality
- Individual and society: digital social realities, social contracts, and rules of law
- Blockchains and cognition, learning, artificial intelligence, automated memory
- Parts-whole; global-local; atomism-holism; plurality-monolithicity; materialism-idealism; digital-physical realities; immune systems (porous-fixed)
- Intelligent agent reputation systems, consensus trust, network systems, checks and balances, good-agent behavior; automation economy
- Blockchains and automation: smart contracts, Dapps, DAOs, DACs, DCOs, DASs
- Blockchain-enabled technology entities: IOT, drones, robotics, cognitive enhancement
- Blockchains and mining: decentralized participative ecosystems, innovation
- Blockchain temporality: blocktime, programmable time, contingent time, futurity, historicity, virtual reality, cloud computing, temporal multiplicity
- Blockchain sociality: social good-social pathology; abundance-scarcity; transcendence-immanence; microaggression-recognition
- Blockchain language grammars; forms of life; organicism; virtue; happiness (hedonic-eudaemonic); personal utility functions, actualization
- Blockchain Aesthetics: digital morality, computational ethics modules; moral pluralism

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City Blogs is a service for staff and students to create content about learning, teaching and research activities at City, University of London. It runs on the CampusPress network which specialises in WordPress blogs for educational institutions.

Students are using City Blogs in a variety of ways including:

Recording Personal Development Planning (PDP) activities;
Charting project progress;
Managing group projects;
Collaborating on the development of course resources;
Commenting on lecturer-led blogs and
Interacting with guest speakers.

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Changes Afoot for Philippine Crypto-Friendly Economic Zone
The special economic zone in the Philippines known for its crypto friendliness is undergoing some changes. Government-owned Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (Ceza) is investigating a case involving one of its licensed crypto exchanges after a tip from the Chinese government. The authority has also issued new directives to all of its licensees, including 40 crypto exchange operators.

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A deep test of support pushed the bitcoin market down $600 over the course of an hour. Ultimately, after testing weekly support, the market managed to retrace the entire drop and push a new high.

At the moment, we are retesting macro support/resistance at $10,300 and if we can manage to close our weekly candle back above the support, it will be a strong bullish signal that we are likely in for a  continuation of our uptrend.

Trading and investing in digital assets like bitcoin is highly speculative and comes with many risks. This price analysis is for informational purposes and should not be considered investment advice. Statements and financial information on Bitcoin Magazine and BTC Inc sites do not necessarily reflect the opinion of BTC Inc. They should not be construed as an endorsement or recommendation to buy, sell or hold. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

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The sharing economy sounds like an attractive idea, with its promise of more convenient access to services and products, at low cost.
Via digital technology the sharing economy brings billions of people together to interact and transact. This relatively new and rapidly growing corner of the digital universe is worth many trillions — $229 billion in China alone, according to The Economist.
Yet, while the sharing economy might be expected to be an unalloyed success story, accompanied by runaway growth and stellar media coverage, the reality is less straightforward.
Unfortunately for its proponents, the sharing economy is having something of a bumpy ride. Take Uber, for example. The ride-sharing firm has been mired in disputes across the globe, its CEO resigned in 2017 following investor pressure, and it posted a loss of a billion dollars in the quarter ending September 2018.
Other sharing economy firms have run into difficulties too. With ride-sharing firms there have been reports of sexual assaults on passengers and inadequate driver background checks, for example, while ride-sharing drivers have gone to court to claim that they are employees rather than contractors.
Home-sharing firms have tangled with municipal authorities over local laws restricting use of residential property for short-term rentals, as well as having to deal with stories of accommodation being used to host pop-up parties and brothels. The result is a trust deficit, a lack of confidence that needs to be overcome if the full potential of the sharing economy is to be realised.
The sharing economy has led to the creation of some extremely highly valued technology businesses and in a very short space of time (Airbnb was founded in 2008, Uber in 2009).
While there is no universally agreed definition, one can think of the sharing economy as digitally-enabled, peer-to-peer exchange platforms for goods and services, that connect spare capacity with demand, or offer access-over-ownership by enabling renting, lending, re-selling or swapping.

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Payments giant Stripe announced they will be raising $250 million in funding at a pre-money valuation of $35 billion. This happened only a week after they launched some new services and now, the money they want to raise, they want to use for growing on the international level (that includes adding more new payment products and even start working with larger companies).

When Stripe was firstly valued at $22.5 billion, they’ve raised (only) $100 million so this step represents a huge rise. Allegedly, in the round of funding are General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia but it seems that SoftBank is also one of the possible players. However, it might be not in this round, but president and co-founder of Stripe, John Collison, mentioned it might be considering second round of funding.

Also, as he said, there will no be any “corporate strategics and the bank that is giving its support is Celtic Bank. However, Collison said that neither Celtic bank will be involved strategically in the whole deal. He added the $250 million will probably stay as is and everything should be finished in the next few weeks.

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Worries of a twenty something

I spent about two days in bed hating myself.


Why don't I simply do the things that I know will make me feel better?

It isn't rocket science. It isn't that difficult. Get out of bed. Eat. See people. Talk to people. Exercise. Write. Read.


If you want to do something with your life, well ok just go ahead and do something.

Ugh it's too much work and I don't even know where to start. I don't know how to do anything and it'll never work. I'll be judged. I can't do it. I can't do it alone. I don't know anybody It will be a complete utter disaster and no one will care about it and of course the point of doing everything is to get attention and praise from other people. Yeah I need to get the most followers and the most views. And by doing that I have to promote myself and become a phony and pander like hell. Good job you're really following all the ideals you hold so dearly.

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Easily transfer crypto from Coinbase.com to your Coinbase Wallet

We’re excited to announce that you can now link your Coinbase.com account to your Coinbase Wallet app. Once your Coinbase account is linked, you can easily transfer crypto to your Wallet app with just a couple of clicks, anytime you need it.

The Coinbase Wallet app is Coinbase’s user-controlled cryptocurrency wallet. With Coinbase.com, you can buy crypto and Coinbase stores it (along with your private keys) for you; with Coinbase Wallet, you store your own crypto (safeguarded by a private key that only you know). To learn more, visit our website.

Whether you use Coinbase Wallet to store your own crypto or to use decentralized apps (i.e., “ DApps”), managing your funds across Coinbase products just got a lot easier.

Your Coinbase Wallet app will update in the next few days, after which you will receive an in-app notification to activate this optional new feature.

To connect your Coinbase.com account, click Connect Now in the notification, or select ‘Connect to Coinbase’ from the Settings menu at any time.