ARK Ecosystem Announced ARK Core V2 Update

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 03:09AM

Crypto market in a nutshell

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 04:56AM

Ethereum begins developing Proof of Concept for Sharding

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 01:37AM

The Banks Are Coming! "Morgan Stanley Wants To Beat Goldman Sachs To Crypto Trading Riches"

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 01:22AM

Eventhough my wife gets mad I invest almost all our extra money on Crypto she still got me a BTC cake haha!

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 01:54AM

Sharding is coming. - Vitalik Buterin

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/991021062811930624

Submitted May 01, 2018 at 01:33AM

The Solution to Blockchain Interoperability

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Submitted May 01, 2018 at 12:09AM

PayFair is going live in 4 hours !!

PAYFAIR is a decentralized Escrow platform and p2p exchange. In my opinion it is one of the biggest sleeping giants of 2018. Their ICO was never massively advertised, yet the project and the team are very serious and definitely talented. The website will allow anyone to buy and sell crypto tokens and exchange for cash via direct p2p exchange - all secured via a decentralized escrow system. This means a trust-less exchange with the all the benefits that a decentralized system brings. Crypto after all has always been about decentralization. So when localbitcoins starts demanding ID you know that something new is needed - well here it is: PayFair.EDIT: Check it out in 2 hours!https://payfair.io

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 08:51PM

Bought my first car with my Litecoin profit, one of the best currencies out there in my opinion!

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 10:51PM

Security Audit Firm Discovers Critical Vulnerability in EOS Smart Contract System

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 06:52PM

Someone put a gigantic Bitcoin symbol on the Swiss Federal Bank!

https://twitter.com/JohannesGees/status/990127891026530304?s=09

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 04:30PM

Mass adoption is coming: use cryptocurrency to pay for services and small jobs on Crypico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QT7GcKrlGk

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 06:51PM

Introduction of ICONest: ICON’s Token Launch Platform [Officially from ICON - the release of their token launch platform]

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 05:49PM

ICONest - Icon Token Platform Launch!

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 05:53PM

I entered a Tron Telegram group with 24.000 people in order to get info about tech. An unbelievable experience.

So I'm writing this article about the top 15 crypto projects. It's an IOTA blog, but this article is not aiming at "IOTA IS THE WINNER" or so, I absolutely don't care.Everyone can get rich, 3842% ROI I don't care. It's a neutral comparison.I want to look for fields of application, feasibility, similarities, problems, rumours.As neutral as I can.I can't find information about Tron, the whitepaper doesn't answer the questions, there's not a single entry in google about it.While entering the telegram group with 24.000 members(!), the first thing I see is a dude asking:"so should I buy more TRON?"a guy named kaan answered "If you can, yes"I asked: "I'm looking for information about Tron in terms of the CAP theorem, does anyone know if Tron is partition tolerant?syed efti writes "when 1000 sat"someone writes: "PUMP THE SHITTT"and I ask "this group is not really tech savvy is it?"Someone answered. "Bro you got google"I answer: "bro, try to google it, there are ZERO answers"he sais "not doing your work"I say: "I'm trying to write an article, I want basic tech-info about Tron, is there ANY expertise in here?"A moderator-bot comes up and deletes a question of "Dennis" who is looking for a developer of Tron for an exchange listingThe bot answers: These questions are not allowed, next time you will get banned.Approx 15 people come up and start to attack me:"TRON IS AWESOME GTFO, no one needs your article!"GO TO /R/IAMVERYSMART"FUUD"YOU MISSED THAT TRAIN BRO BASTARD"MODERATOR BAN"two guys with the name of zy and hz come up and write /ban.I'm banned.Is this the innovation that replaces the internet, the banks? Is this the saviour of humanity, is this Satoshi? btw: is Tron partition tolerant? -I still need this info.

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 04:29PM

intro to token launch platform of icon

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 04:29PM

Bang!

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 03:32PM

Binance Twitter: All listed ERC20 tokens are not affected by the Batch or Proxy Overflow Bugs . Thank you @Quantstamp

https://twitter.com/binance/status/990792315496087553

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 02:00PM

Venezuela Offers India Crude Oil On 30% Discount, Only If It Agrees To Pay In Cryptocurrency

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 03:09AM

VeChain: Part 2: How the Transaction Model Enables The Necessary Public Blockchain Adoption

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 06:11AM

The Future of DApps: Mapps

There is a lot of hype about DApps (decentralized applications) and there are new ones each day, everyone is saying DApps will be the future of software. No one is talking about the future of DApps though, as they are far from perfect.Blockchains have always been hard to implement in existing business infrastructures as it often requires a complete overhaul. Blockchain is great, but for the average business it is too costly to implement. After a company has figured out if the cost is worth it they have to compare all current blockchain projects and pick one they think is best, this is where things go wrong.Because once a company has chosen one blockchain to build on, be it their backend or a dApp, they are forever stuck to that one blockchain even if it becomes obsolete. Everyone is screaming ‘internet of things’ but no one has ever stopped to think how all the blockchains will work together so there can actually be a ‘internet of things’ that works. Like all industries, there won’t be a single winner in the race of blockchains, development is constant and new competing technologies come online every day.Blockchain infrastructure should be build as an operating system, not a single application. The ability to cross-connect and swap blockchains is mandatory for main stream adoption. This is where ‘MApps’ come in, Multi-Chain Applications. In my opinion these will be the new DApps and we’ll start seeing these in the future, Applications that can run on multiple blockchain platforms resulting in flexibility, redundancy and future proofing the application.What projects do this? Well, as I mentioned before new technologies are constantly being invented so it might be a new project that doesn’t even exist yet or it could be one of the current projects out of the top of my head: ARK (?), Quant Network and maybe some others. Let me know if there are more projects doing this btw.I hope you liked my little write up, I’d appreciate an upvote if you liked it :)

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 02:29AM

Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, made 2 graphic images for 'Bitcoin' years ago. Here they are.

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Submitted April 30, 2018 at 12:13AM

OKEX Wash trading on a MASSIVE scale. EOS is being manipulated

Wash trading and artificial volume inflation are to be expected in a thoroughly unregulated market. But this data shows the true scale that it is happening and it is frightening.A research experiment was recently completed. The data was calculated by collecting order books from all major exchanges, and to measure how badly market selling $50k USD worth of each cryptocurrency would crash the price.(pesky Reddit doesn't allow pictures. I'll provide a link to the group that has this data)Anyways I'll do my best to explain the charts. They are a representation of the average slippage and volume of all pairs among a selection of a score of cryptocurrencies with a daily volume over $100k over four major exchanges: OKex, Kraken, Bitfinex and GDAX. Slippage refers to the difference between the expected price of a trade and the price at which the trade is actually executed . There is a ridiculous amount of discrepancy between exchanges.Here is an example taken from the data. The GDAX pair, with a volume close to $200m has a slippage of less than 0.1%. The chart is striking. It shows how, although all first three exchanges seem to behave rather similarly, OKex pairs, in red, all have a massively higher slippage with regards to their volume.(again sorry I'll provide the link to the group that did the research below)Not convinced? Here there is more data gathered that may persuade you to think differently.At this very moment, you can check coinmarket cap and look at the volumes of EOS being moved. Bitthumb, and OKex are responsible for the majority of the volume being moved. Without a doubt, EOS is being wash-traded. These volumes are insane and are following a clockwork pattern. Higher volumes create the illusion of more demand and as a result falsely inflating the price.For those who think “Crypto doesn‘t need regulation!”...Take a look at the evidence. Because as it stands the state of crypto is arguably a testament to the failure of the free-market.I couldn't provide the link to the direct data because it is in a group post but I cannot recommend you looking into this enough. The empirical evidence is there and the proof is in the pudding so to speak. If there is one article you should read, it is this one. Seriously it is concerning.https://ift.tt/2Hv2ou0

Submitted April 30, 2018 at 12:33AM

Some things you may or may not know about Stellar, and why it's important.

Hi guys, I’ve invested in crypto and been following many blockchain companies since October of last year. There are a few things I’d like to say today more so now than ever; since many newcomers joining the sub will inadvertently see a lot of inadequate explanations or straight up misinformation about Stellar. I rode the highs and lows of Stellar and also did quite a bit of buying and selling; but one thing that stayed consistent is my continued efforts to research the company and its technology. I’ve also started building a project with a friend that will function on the Stellar Network but that’s a topic for another day.Now on to the main issues I’m here to discuss. There are generally a number of question types that I see come up over and over again about Stellar and many times the answers are very confusing and misleading. I’ve given many individual responses but I thought making a post about it would get more exposure and set some things straight (if only the simple questions I’m capable of answering). Some of these will just be copypastas of my responses to other people’s questions or comments.Isn’t Stellar a fork of Ripple?Probably one of the most asked questions, and the answer is a bit more complicated than a simple yes or no. Stellar was based on the Ripple Protocol when Jed Mccaleb first departed from Ripple and founded Stellar. It started out as a fork from Ripple with a few modifications. However after code review by Dr. David Mazieres of Stanford, many critical flaws were discovered and with his help (and many other contributors), the Protocol was completely redesigned, and became what is known as the Stellar Consensus Protocol. Stellar has been perfecting and growing its codebase of many major programming languages ever since.Stellar or Ripple? Will one wipe out the other?This is another one I see a lot of discussions about. A lot of people in this sub seem to have the “us or them” mentality, and it’s similar in the Ripple sub. Truth is, if we analyze the historical charts we find that Stellar and Ripple have followed very similar patterns during most price movements, save from a few very big news announcements that affected them individually. This really shows most of the traders (and bots) who drive the price movements associate the two together, if one does well so must the other, and vice versa. At this point many of us know Stellar and Ripple are indeed very different, whether it’s their consensus protocol or the companies’ missions and target consumers. We are at an early stage of adoption of crypto and the distributed ledger technology, and there will be many casualties along the way as indirect results of newer technologies replacing them and taking their market share. But so far, most of the ones that do fail are due to questionable fundamentals and shady dealings, not so much from the technologies being outdated, since in a sea of open sourced goldmines and talented developers, technological inferiority can be remedied. The competition between different crypto startups is what propels the technologies forward, this doesn’t just apply to Stellar and Ripple, because many of the cryptocurrencies have a similar end goal, which is becoming the store of value currencies that have the most network utilization. For companies like Stellar and Ripple that go after one of the biggest sectors – financial industry, there is more than enough pie for everyone.Centralization, what it means and how much of it applies to Stellar.It’s funny how carelessly the word “centralization” gets tossed around to make an argument in crypto these days. Centralization of trust in the financial world can be either two things – centralized ledger and/or supply. Having a centralized ledger is what traditional banking is all about. A bank will have all your digital records of your savings and investments etc. on their internal ledgers. Although they have redundancies to prevent loss of data, customers are still placing trust in just one institution, hence centralization. Because the ledger is not distributed by banks, they only need to keep a fraction of the total customer savings liquid to accommodate withdrawals. While showing you a full balance on your digital records/online banking, banks will actually double-spend most of your saving and loan/invest it to make interest. If you ever tried to clean out your savings account in one go, you’d realize how hard banks will try to preserve their liquidity, because they are leveraging their customers’ money to make money for themselves. Even Ripple is better than the traditional banking system in that sense because their ledger for the most part is public. Stellar has a publicly distributed ledger for all assets that move on the stellar ledger, it is as transparent as any other digital currency on DLT. Now about centralized currency supply. Every fiat currency issued by governing bodies is centralized in terms of its supply, which means monetary policies can directly influence its value and purchasing power. Prime example - The Federal Reserve prints USD when the US government doesn’t have enough money to pay for its treasury bonds that mature, in return for more IOU’s in the form of bonds, and it contributes to the growing debt, while devaluing the US dollar us citizens hold in our hands. They are silently robbing us of our purchasing power and it can’t really be helped until most of us see through this Systemic Violence known as Quantitative Easing. So how is Stellar any different since it also holds and issues all of its XLM right? While Ripple owns all of XRP supply and can sell them to financial institutions for a profit, Stellar does NOT own most of the XLM except for 5% of the total supply. The rest of the XLM is used as an incentive for adoption and granted to new participants of the network – Developers, Liquidity Anchors and Partners that all contribute to growth of the Stellar Network. The 5% Stellar does own is liquidated gradually to fund Stellar’s continued operations. A lot of critics of Stellar will point out that while all of this is true, participants of the network still has to place trust in the Stellar Foundation in the sense that they will not mismanage the funds and cause a market meltdown whether due to human error or malicious intent. This is not a concern of mine but a valid concern nonetheless for people who know much less about the company. But just remember, being a non-profit organization that’s also in the cryptocurrency space and provides financial service instruments in the US places Stellar under a lot of scrutiny. There are exceptions like the Church of Scientology that blackmails and strong-arms legislators and judicial branch into leaving them alone (clarifying for argument’s sake), but for the most part Stellar welcomes transparency if it’ll help them earn your trust. All of their SDK’s are open source and dev friendly. Stellar is built upon compliance and is in the crypto game for the long haul.If the Stellar Network is so cheap to use, and SDF is a non-profit, then they don’t really have a good profit model, why should I invest in XLM as it’s been proven time and time again that impact investing doesn’t bode well for investors?Since Stellar Network only collects a tiny fraction of 1 XLM for each transaction (1/100,000th XLM per TX), some people might suggest that XLM liquidity is not needed to make transactions work, and they are not wrong. For tokenized assets on the Stellar Network, i.e. MOBI, SLT, RMT, TLU, etc. even though they are stored on Stellar addresses, to move those assets you do not need to hold much XLM, since the TX’s are virtually free and the minimum balance requirements to add each trustline is only 0.5 XLM. But for most people, Stellar will become more than just a bridge currency but rather a store of value since it is the base currency for exchange for all other assets tokenized on the Stellar ledger. As the network use cases expand we will also see more liquidity anchors like SatoshiPay using XLM for transactions directly for their customers instead of creating another Stellar token, because it saves them the hassle of adding trustlines on each account for that new token and raising the base reserve requirements, when it’s easier to just use XLM. Let’s say a stock brokerage decides to incorporate Stellar’s technology into their back end to enable feeless P2P Stock trading on an open Ledger. Each stock/bond/ETF etc. a customer holds requires 0.5 XLM base reserve. A relatively small stock brokerage with only 1 million customers and 15-20 assets on average per person will need tens of millions of XLM not counting the XLM required to represent each customer’s base balance that they trade with, then we are looking at hundreds of millions of XLM required for liquidity just for this small exchange. Now there’s a valid point that XLM is subject to more volatility from speculative trading and a tokenized Stablecoin on Stellar Network backed by USD or Gold for instance makes more sense for financial institutions that want to protect their customers from volatility swings. This definitely holds true at the early adoption stage of Stellar and crypto in general. As adoption spreads however, the currency with the most utilization becomes the store of value. At the end of the day, will you trust a currency with fixed total supply and 1% fixed annual inflation, or printed paper that the Federal Reserve can inflate at will at any given time? When will this inevitable paradigm shift occur? On a related side note, Gold or rare metal backed Stablecoin however are safer assets than USD since the supply is virtually fixed and they hold their relative values against the USD quite well. But they also have very saturated market demand, so their potential for growth is much smaller if at all. Lastly let’s address the criticism of impact investing. Stellar IS a nonprofit, while keeping the network use virtually free for anyone that joins the ecosystem, how will the company grow? While Stellar makes nothing from the network processing TX’s, the foundation DOES own 5% of the total XLM supply, or roughly 5 Billion XLM. By spreading adoption of the Ecosystem and increasing network utilization, the value of XLM will increase and therefore the company’s equity will increase with it, giving the SDF more resources to grow and expand. The rest of the XLM will be given out for free as incentives to front-end service builders and liquidity providers that grow the ecosystem and spread adoption. The front-end UI/UX is a huge barrier to adoption of cryptocurrencies in general and Stellar has incentivized developers to build bridges for the common folks by giving XLM for free in grants and being one of the most developer friendly platforms out there today. So really, XLM holders are NOT impact investors. We are not holding securities issued by a nonprofit (which doesn’t make sense anyway) we are holding a store of value currency that will see more and more organic growth of demand for years to come.Stellar Vs. Ethereum, who will reign supreme in the ICO world?This has come up time and time again; and while many companies launching ICO’s are eyeing the stellar platform instead of Ethereum, many cryptocurrency enthusiasts are still not convinced of Stellar’s utility as an ICO platform. So let’s break down the pros and cons of each platform for tokenizing assets. Ethereum is no doubt an ingenious invention by Vitalik, who created a much broader spectrum of blockchain applications by introducing smart contracts and the idea of tokenization of non-fungible assets on the main ledger. It also solved the problem of the diminishing reward system in Proof of Work protocols for selfish mining since the supply is uncapped (granted ASICs are really messing with this reward system but the talented developers will probably find a solution soon). The beauty of Ethereum comes from its Turing complete smart contracts capabilities, which is not being utilized by most of the tokenized assets on the network. While not reaping full benefits of the Ethereum platform, a lot of these ERC20 coins will do nothing but contribute to the network congestion, and miners will choose the transactions that pay the highest fees to process first, no matter how frivolous they are, i.e. Cryptokitties. DApps on the Eth blockchain are great fun but at the same time take up so much of the network that will inadvertently cause some of the companies that need to scale to develop their own blockchain or move to another platform. Ethereum is a great construct and allows technology focused companies to build complicated backend structures. But what about companies that just want to leverage great technology without having to build too much back-end constructs to improve the Eth blockchain because they are more focused on the front-end goods and services? They shouldn’t want to deal with scaling issues and high TX fees or delays, and that makes Stellar a better fit. For companies that already have working products and a solid business model, they can leverage Stellar’s technology for free and just tokenize part of their business and move it onto the distributed ledger without having to spend much on R&D to really delve into distributed ledger technology. This is not to say that Stellar’s Tech isn’t at the forefront of DLT like Ethereum, but they are indeed very different platforms. While Ethereum platform drives more creativity, Stellar excels at practical implementation, and I think the future is very bright for both platforms.Lastly, nothing is without fault and I would be remiss to not mention some of the risks associated with investing in Stellar and Crypto in general. One of the concerns about company issued digital currencies is one that plagues Ripple as well - The foundation controls all the rest of the coins to be distributed and we as investors are placing a lot of trust in the SDF that they won't mismanage the funds. However, this is a bigger problem for Ripple holders as the company is for profit and they sell their XRP to introduce more into circulation. There is a monetary incentive for Ripple Labs to sell their xrp. For Stellar, since future lumens will be granted for free, they are extremely selective in the grants, and will legally bind their grantees from dumping their XLM. For any business growth is always a main goal, and we already see many companies that leverage Stellar’s technology become market disruptors in their respective sectors. As these anchors and partners mature, they will only need more and more XLM liquidity to accommodate their growth. As Jed Mccaleb has said before, the value of XLM represents the size of the pipe – how much value is able to move across the network, so naturally it will grow organically as the network grows. The price volatility from speculative trading represents a very small amount of XLM in circulation and for long term investors it should just be background noise. Another concern of mine is the lack of manpower in the SDF to handle the growth it has seen in the last year. Recent events have shown that many good projects that want to strike a partnership with Stellar have had their requests ignored or put on the side. The Stellar team’s explanation is that there’s an overwhelming number of requests from developers and companies to work with them, which is understandable. But for a company with great scalable technology, the company itself needs to be able to scale too. Having great technology does not directly drive demand, especially for the masses. Being able to sell that technology is key. Stellar enables the goods and services providers in the front-end to spread adoption of the technology, so really the partners and anchors are Stellar’s bread and butter. Not being able to address all potential partnership queries and satisfy their needs will turn some away and stifle potential growth.This marks the end of my long post and if you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading! I have tried to be as factual as I am able but if you find discrepancies in my writing please feel free to DM me or comment. I am not associated with the SDF in anyway and I have not been paid by anyone or any organization to write this post. This post is my personal opinion only and does not represent the stance of any members of the SDF or the company. This is not investment advice and you should always conduct your own due diligence when investing.Cheers All!

Submitted April 29, 2018 at 09:01PM

How in hell do you want your Ethereum to moon, when Master Vitalik is anorexic?

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 09:24PM

Dogecoin Has More Transactions than Bitcoin Cash

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 09:53PM

You can now send Nano via any messaging service (Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack, etc) using NanoMate.

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 09:18PM

Did Bitcoin Hit Rock Bottom? Here’s A Potential Timeline For Recovery

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 07:01PM

France has moved to reduce the Cryptocurrency Taxes rates in half - from up to 45% to a flat 19%

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 04:36PM

Introducing the VeChainThor Blockchain Transaction Model

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 08:25PM

Warning: Do not invest in MoneroV.

Okay MoneroV gets posted about enough I think it's time someone told the truth about what's going on. Save this post and paste it on other XMV threads, because this shit is a fucking scam.Everything MoneroV does "differently" is a lie. Here are their claims.On DecentralizationMoneroV claims that Monero is run by one individual and therefore vulnerable. This is false. Monero development is freelanced and funded by the community through charity donations, and that can be seen live HERE.More evidence proving the contrary is how many times Monero has kicked their figurehead off the team: Monero was created by Thankful_for_today and the community banned him. It was acquired by Tacotime - Who the community blocked out as well.Also, how can MoneroV have a decentralized development team if 1) it's closed source 2) has A DEVELOPER PREMINE and 3) doesn't invite anyone on the team? Who even audits their code?MoneroV also boasts about their full-time development team. But HMM, somehow it's a decentralized full-time development team..On Supply CapMoneroV sites in their whitepaper that the Austrian School of Economics determines that a fixed cap on the circulating supply of a coin is best from an economic standpoint. They fail to realize the following things though:Because Monero works differently than Bitcoin, THERE CANNOT BE a supply cap. Monero scales on-chain so they never have to fork to a larger block size. This is done through Dynamic Block Sizing, which relies on people mining for a reward on each block. Monero must always mint new coins for this to work.On Legitimate MiningMoneroV claims to fight the botnets that Monero allows to allow more competition for legitimate miners using their computers.Monero has never supported the use of botnets, and has forked to bar ASICs from ruining the network. MoneroV - Has not.This is not a shitfork like Bitcoin Gold where you just "Claim free money". MoneroV damages both networks.Because of how Monero works, forking the chain in the specific way MoneroV has chosen to ruins Ring Signatures on both networks for users who decide to participate in the "Free Coin Airdrop".Monero is anonymous through the Cryptonote protocol which enables Ring Signatures and Stealth Addressing by default. Over the years, more things have been added on top such as subaddresses and RingCT. This makes the transaction A -> B invisible on the blockchain to an outside observer, and MoneroV still has that.The issue with re-using the chain is when B is trying to find out who sent it money by only looking at the blockchain. A -> B is invisible to the average user by stealth addresses, but only to B via RingCT and Ring Signatures. Due to some complicated math I can't get into with a single Reddit post, this risks the anonymity of A to B.Monero also supports forks in open arms. /r/Aeon is linked on their sidebar for fucks sakes. This is not an issue with forking Monero - This is an issue with MoneroV.Please save, share and spread this post like wildfire. As a large user of Monero I'm making this post completely against my own economical gain, but this really needs to be said. I would even encourage you to ask these questions on their subreddit (although fair warning you will get banned ). Stay safe and happy forking.

Submitted April 29, 2018 at 11:15AM

Oyster Mainnet Progress Update #1

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 04:55PM

Omisego twitter, regarding the confusion about staking and honte, professional as always.

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 10:27AM

3 Projects being built upon Request Network by other developers

Back in january, Request Network announced that they would allocate 30 million USD to the Request fund, a fund meant to encourage outside developers to build upon the Request Network, with an amount of 20-100k in USD per project.According to what I have read over the past months, most people don't know the possibilities with Request, but the mind map puts it into perspective.There are currently 2 projects that I know of at this point that have been in contact with the Request team to build upon Request Network.Donaid - an easy way for anyone to accept donations.Chango - easy transactions between family and friends, by Elunic.Wooreq - Application for WooCommerce to accept payments in cryptocurrency or fiat (Currently on ethereum is accepted, with plans to integrate ERC20 tokens and Bitcoin soonish) This application is under development by one of the team members at Request.Request Network is still in it's early days, and there are a ton of possibilities to build on it. If you are a good developer, you might wanna get in contact with them. I genuinely believe this will help bridging the fiat to crypto for your average Joe as easily as possible, and help with the adoption of crypto currency as a whole.Edit: Published before I could edit title, Wooreq is not a outsourced project.

Submitted April 29, 2018 at 11:02AM

Found this at the gym.. ???

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 03:35AM

Cryptocurrency Traders Reported to FBI and SEC For Pump and Dumps

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 03:13AM

Binance CEO Only Accepting Interviews from Crypto Holders

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 01:23AM

Cryptocurrency Trading Terms: Some things you should know

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Submitted April 29, 2018 at 12:42AM

Coinbase Valued at $8 Billion!

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Submitted April 28, 2018 at 06:13PM

Be the change you want to see!

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Submitted April 28, 2018 at 10:36PM

Nasdaq May Launch Bitcoin Trading in October 2018

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Submitted April 28, 2018 at 10:02PM

I'm going to expose the secrets behind one ICO, Exchange or Ponzi scam weekly. Will also cover several of their media strategies. If you are a cryptocurrency enthusiast you don't want to miss this.

I think I have enough karma to make this thread now, my account is years old and I never even knew karma would be used to limit an individual from posting. Nevertheless, I've spoken to the moderators of the sub and they've allowed me to continue with this.Cryptocurrency has grown into more than anyone could ever predict when Bitcoin first came about. In my opinion the introduction of ethereum has fostered, grown and attracted criminals to take advantage of the tools that is readily available. Creating tokens under their own brand names, 'fund raising' which they say will help the currency grow, help the currency develop and attract influence. An ICO is not too different from a IPO, only an ICO is much easier to initiate, build and attract potential investors. I'm sure many of you have seen the movie Wolf of Wallstreet. I'm going to spare you on the background to all of this, but IPO scams have been going on for years now, ICO scams which are even easier and requires less resources to pull off.Nevertheless, I am sure you know about this already. And I think it's about time someone show them that you don't mess with the cryptocurrency community. My research thus far shows that these criminals are greedy and stupid. You can't hide behind a domain, behind a host, your bitcoins and ethereum transactions can be traced.I am an analyst from the beginning and have been following and used my expertise, before bitcoin came to light, in order to expose ponzi schemes and IPO scams which is basically the ICO scene 1.0. So tell the truth, I have had my experience with law enforcement, they're too slow and you have to go through a jurisdictional system, they're also not 'allowed' to include information obtained by the informant illegally in a court room. (excuse my poor English). Criminals who commit financial fraud also gets away very easy.I'm making this thread on Reddit, on this sub as I believe this is where it would gain the attention it requires. I don't mind if you copy my evidence, information and post it elsewhere. I'm well understood with the regulations on Reddit, no personal information and so on, but I will be using steganography for images, hosted outside Reddit that way I believe it wouldn't be within their regulations. Who knows, you might find a treasure upon decryption :-)So from my recent several months of research, there is at least 3 groups that control a majority of the successfull scam ICOs, they control exchanges you wouldn't believe was involved in crime. They have connections with large media (Reuters, Bloomberg, Telegraph, etc)Their headquarters, offices, workshops, whatever you want to name it are all carried out from the same continent. A continent where corruption, bribes and using individuals who's salary is no where near what a American or European make in 5 days, even working at McDonalds.I will be disclosing either a ICO, Exchange or Ponzi scheme every week. However, my exposures will always feature a little of both. I'm going to give you the big fish first, media claims they made over $8bn on a scam that lasted only a few years, they're now on the top, silently in control and manipulating markets for their own benefit. So let's call them 'group 1' You'll see images, sometimes audio and videos as evidence that will expose them.Please discuss and if you would like to help, there more people who help the faster I would be able to provide the information. It wouldn't be paid though, however I might add a donation address later. Every expose will be posted in this thread, but i'll make a post each week to redirect users to this thread to see the latest one.And one last comment, if you have a Youtube channel or any audience, it would be much appreciated if you share the information and evidence that I provide. I think victims or individuals who has made significant losses would want to know about them, and make their own decision on what to do or how to use that information.First disclosure will happen 5th May if this thread comes through this time.

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 11:09PM

Ethereum’s Founder ‘Vitalik Buterin’ to receive the 2018 LSC Genius Award

https://ift.tt/2HXsLeM

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 08:50PM

BULLISH: Localbitcoins transaction volume is still trending upward with a new ATH almost every day.

https://twitter.com/coinmoon_com/status/990191275600117760

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 06:42PM

The future of supply chain coins imo

In the cryptocurrency community there is a lot of bad blood between the main supply chain coins, the communities downvote the competing projects and upvote theirs like zombies because they are emotionally attached to their investments. But if we really want supply chain coins to be adopted in the real world and make a difference, we will need to work together.The market for supply chain tracking is huge, more products get shipped internationally than ever and all our food comes from places around the globe. It makes no sense for there to be only one supply chain project who rules the entire market, and this would probably even go against anti-monopoly laws. TL;DR The market is huge, let’s work together.So, how do we actually do this? First off if you’re just a community member you should start with not downvoting other competing projects and instead unite as one supply chain team. Discuss the competition, don’t shout at them. As for the developers of the main projects, start working together instead of seeing other projects as enemies. This can either be through partnerships, or even better by using platforms that cross connect Blockchains together like Quant Network or maybe ARK.These let blockchains work together and share information, which could result in more efficient supply chain tracking around the world. As we all know, China likes to have their own companies instead of foreign ones. So imagine VEN tracking a product in China which then get’s shipped to Europe where it is tracked by Ambrosus, blockchains working together using Quant. That’s basically my TL;DR vision for the future of supply chains if all goes well. This is assuming the leaders of supply chain projects are open to this and not blinded by hate for the competitors though. Working together they will reach a much bigger market size than they ever could have imagined.

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 08:10PM

Binance Signs $15 Mln Agreement with Bermuda Govt for Crypto Investment, Jobs

https://ift.tt/2vVjhvF

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:55PM

MATRIX AI Network; a Potential Moonshot? - IIB

https://ift.tt/2vKQ5Ya

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:23PM

Holochain ICO just finished. Two ETH Genesis wallets invested 1,574 ETH ($1 MILLION USD) into ICO! Thoughts???

HoloChain ICO address was: 0xa28fc2102da86e424b37ad86c7bc7855fc441239This ETH genesis wallet put in 1,374 ETH staggered over 9 hours into Holo ICO (possibly to avoid public detection) https://ift.tt/2KlDv4R The only other contribution to an ICO from that address was to Polkadot & Tezos ICOAnother ETH genesis wallet put 200 ETH in https://ift.tt/2Foxktl ETH total x $682 per ETH = $1,073,468 USD investment into HoloChain. Why would these Ethereum developers/founders/advisors invest so much in a competing product? Do you think it's a hedge bet or to control supply? This sorta reminds me of when Microsoft at it's top invested a massive amount of $$ in their competitor -- Apple (when they were months away from bankruptcy and Apple stock was super cheap).From what I understand:~ Holo believe they have found a way to run decentralized apps with virtually no transaction limits/bottlenecks. So confident in this, they have scheduled their roadmap to include a testnet to have 100mill tps/per hour (about 27.77k tps/sec) by Q3/Q4, 2018!!~ Dev code started in 2016 but project was developed even before Bitcoin was invented~ Team believe they found a solution that is up to 1,000,000 more efficient than Ethereum~ Team believe they can scale and handle Facebook/Twitter traffic volume if there are enough nodes to support it~ Holo Team & Mozilla Foundation (Firefox browser) have been having secret meetings for months @ Mozilla HQ in San Francisco. They don't post it anywhere on their website but a Google search for: mozilla holochain reveals this. The latest Firefox browser has been installed on 170+ million desktops. Holo says their P2P solution allows anyone to host their own website and run Dapps by just having HoloFuel tokens. In short, they are planning to tackle Amazon AWS, and other cloud providers but in a totally decentralized way. They expect to be magnitudes cheaper than all "centralized" solutions currently on the market. I have a feeling the team at Mozilla see something in the Holo code and are working on something together. More Silicon Valley companies will jump on board if Mozilla follow through. It could become a new standard, like the way HTTP started the Web revolution.~ They have been selling node boxes in a crowdsale which so far has resulted in over 1,388 sales. This means when main net launches, over 1,388 nodes will be running HoloChain with 30,000+ expected by Q4.~ They have a massive supply which they say is required because in the future, people don't want to pay 0.00032 HOLO tokens, but would prefer something nicer, e.g. 2.52 HOLO fuels, thus the huge supply. They are planning for the day when HOLO is widely adopted.~ Github activity is very activeA lot of people are comparing Holochain to Dfinity or Hashgraph, however Dfinity is raising for a market cap of $2billion and all indications so far seem to indicate they will be oversubscribed. Meanwhile, Holochain's mcap is just $27million!!!I know a lot of people are interested in Dfinity right now, they have huge backing from major VCs, however big backing doesn't always lead to a runaway success. Take for instance, Ethereum was founded by Vitalik when he was just a 21 year old kid with no prestigious VC backers.FYI, full disclosure: I have bags in this, however I am really happy but also curious to know why a genesis wallet invested a massive amount of ETH, late in Holochain ICO stage. Supply Control, hedge bet? Your thoughts?

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 07:12PM

Blockchain + Retail: Waltonchain Embraces A New Era.

https://twitter.com/Waltonchain/status/990186518223372288

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 06:28PM

If you think the EOS valuation is real, first watch John Oliver dissect it before buying into the hype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg&t=18m41s

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 06:10PM

Just integrated the Request WooCommerce Plugin and I am absolutely amazed

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Submitted April 28, 2018 at 03:45PM

BTC 1-Minute Candle: $8750 Low. $9500 High. 1 Minute.

https://ift.tt/2Hz0Q1q

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:09PM

ICON Dapps Presentation by Deblock — Part 1 — ICON Features, Roadmap & SCORE

https://ift.tt/2r6Ne6r

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:22PM

EOS will be extremely centralised with 21 handpicked nodes

EOS will be extremely centralised. 21 nodes is a paltry sum. Non-full-nodes will not have any way to do lightweight verification, thus multiplying its degree of centralisation.On top of all of this, the 21 full nodes will be delegates, which are voted in. By necessity, this turns consensus into a political process instead of an automated one. One of the practical effects of this is that the delegate nodes will be known/trusted third parties.To sum up, EOS will be a trusted third party based ledger. Eliminating the need for trusted third parties was the great breakthrough that Satoshi made in inventing the PoW blockchain, and which Ethereum is putting all this work into to try to replicate with Proof of Stake.TTP-based ledgers do not have the high assurance of immutability of permissionless Byzantine fault tolerant ones like Ethereum. Therefore, they're not as attractive for new projects as a platform to launch on.EOS is more like an attempt to create an evolved version of the traditional centralized server-client architecture rather than an attempt to introduce a paradigm shift like Ethereum.

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:14PM

Waltonchain: The Months Ahead

https://ift.tt/2HA1JuN

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 12:40PM

Elastos ($ELA) Explained + List of Impressive Partnerships and dApps

What is Elastos?BLOCKCHAIN POWERED INTERNETElastos is a blockchain based operating system which is the world's first open source Internet Operating System. The Elastos Foundation was founded by Rong Chen and Sunny Feng Han, aiming to create a new Internet system powered by blockchain technology. On this new Internet, people will be able to own digital assets and generate wealth from them. Elastos will be used as the base-layer infrastructure rather than an application and has received sponsorship of over 200 million RMB from the Foxconn Group and other industry giants for its research and development. Elastos has open-sourced tens of millions of lines of source code, including more than four million lines of original source code. DApps are forced to never connect directly with the internet and only interact with the Elastos runtime (which in turn acts as a middle layer, then connecting to the internet) and you’ve essentially got a system that’s 90% more secure than the way IoT or smart devices currently work. Today if I have 50 smart devices in my home, they all interact with the internet, I need to worry about 50 security threats. With Elastos, all I need to worry about is 1 threat, an attack on the Elastos runtime itself, this is a 10x better set-up and applies to IoT or frankly any device, with the beauty being its code written in C++ so any device can run it, even your fridge, and it’s open source, so any developer can make whatever DApps they want.The Elastos Value PropositionThere are three major value propositions to Elastos. First is consumer/enterprise IoT as the key Elastos feature is security. In essence, this is targeting the onboarding of infrastructure/industrial software. ‘DApps’ here would really be non-interactive secure software behind smart devices, not something you and I would really interact with on a tablet for example but necessary to be secure if you want sustainable IoT per above.Second is consumer DApps, i.e. B2C. This really takes advantage of the P2P network aspect of Elastos OS and user IDs on the blockchain, with the security being an added plus but not the prime driver per say. These DApps will have their own side chains/tokens for whatever utility they serve. Elastos has a number of DApps already building on the platform - Zapya is a good example on the consumer end for P2P file sharing with 500 million users. Elastos often talks about facilitating a real digital asset economy where ‘scarcity’ and thus re-sale/trading of digital assets is possible (today if you buy a movie on the internet you can’t resell it like you can in the real world, which Elastos thinks should be fixed). Again, a big market with essentially the whole eCommerce market as a target market, underpinned by the security of Elastos.Third is enterprise DApps, i.e.B2B. Again this makes use of the P2P network, a good example here is ULink (China rentals) or the seed company Elastos has building DApps on it. Here the emphasis really is ability to track supply chain or information across the value chain and uses sidechains again. This market is large but this is where competitive advantage is weakest for Elastos as could use any blockchain for this purpose.Brief Summary?Bitcoin = Trustworthy Ledger: Bitcoin introduced the power of decentralised ledger technology to the world, showing how we don’t need financial institutions to transact value. Bitcoin's purpose is a digital currency, with the intent to become electronic cash. Bitcoin is great; however, it is extremely outdated. Bitcoin has very slow transaction times, expensive transaction fees and uses Proof of Work mining which is vastly uneconomical. Thanks to Bitcoin, the 2nd generation cryptocurrencies were born.Ethereum = Trustworthy Ledger + Smart Contracts: Ethereum, as well as many others, are second generation cryptocurrencies. Ethereum was one of the first cryptocurrencies to introduce ‘smart contracts’ and the concept of decentralised apps. Smart contracts put the trust of contracts in the trust of code. For example, If I bought a TV from an online merchant, the payment would only clear once the TV had arrived and I was satisfied with it. They can be coded to included things like ’14-day money back guarantee’ and every other element that is in a normal contract. Drastically improving efficiency and breeds a new generation of trust. Ethereum is a great project, however the scalability of smart contracts that are hosted on the Ethereum network is limited. A game called ‘CryptoKitties’ caused massive network congestion and that is just one of many decentralised applications that use smart contracts.Elastos = Trustworthy Ledger + Smart Contracts + Monetizable Dapps and Digital Assets: Elastos is one of many new cryptocurrencies that are build on a third generation blockchain, focussing on a few main elements to combat the scalability issues that arise with 2nd generation cryptocurrencies:Storage and SpeedBugs within the Smart Contracts (security vulnerability).CostDeletion of redundant dataSecurityThe issue with second generation smart contracts is that they have to run solely on the blockchain, which causes network congestion and high transaction costs. Decentralized applications for Elastos are run by blockchain technology but can be built on current Operating Systems (IOS, Andriod and computer). Rong Chen understands the importance of ease of use for both the consumer and the producers. The integration of multiple well known coding languages make development relativity easier than other blockchains. They also support Android and Apple Operating Systems, which most other blockchains do not.Elastos is not just the new internet, but the entire smart economy. Focusing on digital assets, monetizing computing power and spare storage, financially incentive trade of digital assets all combined with the highest level of security and the removal of the middleman. With speed, security and minimal cost at the heart of Elastos, it is bound to scale over time. Elastos is a third generation blockchain technology that tackles the issues we have with second generation cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum.What is the business model for Elastos?Provide large blockchain applications with the secure running environmentDigital content remains intact after multiple usesBig data and digital content can identify ownership on blockchain and correspond to tokensTokens can be transferred and traded legally on the blockchain, realizing future capitalUsage of tokens can consume/use digital content in Elastos Runtime.Elastos can set a fixed limited amount for digital assets, thereby creating a scarcity of valued productsDevelopment History(Tens of Millions of Open-Source Code spanning Decades)Rong Chen talks about Elastos' 17 years of history: https://ift.tt/2vTGrmp 2000, Rong Chen, a senior alumnus of Tsinghua University’s Computer Science department, returns to China from Microsoft USA and begins research and development for the first-generation Elastos network Operating System.In 2003, Rong Chen was received by Jin-Tao Hu, the former CPC General Secretary.In 2013, Foxconn makes investments in the Elastos Operating System open-source software project.In 2017, Sunny Feng Han and Ji-Han Wu started running the Bitcoin Investment Elastos Blockchain Community and founded G3 with Bitmain and NEO.In 2017, the Elastos Blockchain community received a global digital token investment worth 600 million RMB.PARTNERSHIPSSAIC Motor: China's largest auto manufacturer. Elastos and SAIC have an official partnership, the details of which can be found here: https://ift.tt/2HzBiRv Da Hongfei is chief advisor to Elastos and is financially invested. Elastos, Bitmain, and NEO form a partnership called G3.Bitmain: Jihan Wu is advisor to Elastos and partnered with them as Bitmain in the G3 alliance along with NEO.Urban Catalyst: UK real estate company valued in excess of $2 billion https://ift.tt/2r59VZp Eastern Transport Airlines: Partnered with Elastos and accepts ELA as payment https://ift.tt/2vQOvUR World's first blockchain based art asset network partners with Elastos https://ift.tt/2HVdRFL World's largest electronics manufacturer and China's largest employer. Invested $20 million in Elastos for R&D https://ift.tt/2vVX8gU importantly, we see Elastos being adopted by huge projects to build out their blockchain solutions.Origin Agritech: Leading developer of crop seed biotechnologies in China, Origina is traded on Nasdaq as $SEED. They have partnered with and will be launching their dApp on Elastos https://ift.tt/2r4YeSq Green Energy: Panda Green has built solar plants for the United Nations and is one of the largest solar institutions in China and the world with a plan to build 100 solar power plants. They are traded on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and will be using their subsidiary energy exchange NEX to to leverage blockchain technology to enable a globally connected network of energy transfer and and bring affordable, reliable and sustainable new energy to thousands of households.https://ift.tt/2HzBjVz Chinese p2p file sharing app with 500 million + users. They will build their dApp Viewchain on Elastos https://ift.tt/2HZxqgm Credit Power: AirBnB for China, on Elastos https://ift.tt/2w2Vt9x Independent Game Guild https://ift.tt/2HUvIga + Silicon Valley congressman Ro Khanna https://twitter.com/Elastos_org/status/976720413274206214Elastos visited by Huawei https://twitter.com/elastos_org/status/981234500394012672Feng Han, co-founder of Elastos, is blockchain advisor to Huawei. He tirelessly travels and promotes Elastos at prestigious universities (Cornell, Boston, Harvard, Yale....) around the United States and has met with congressmen who are very excited about Elastos https://twitter.com/sunnyfenghanElastos met with JP Morgan chief https://twitter.com/Elastos_org/status/979135440786808833Elastos meeting with Passport Capital ($5 billion fund) https://twitter.com/fayliela/status/978754364952072192Elastos + Tencent (Chinese company worth $43 billion) https://twitter.com/fayliela/status/960734800691716096Utilities of ELA(currency for Elastos)?The Elastos blockchain really only serves one function, being the ID system needed to connect into the Elastos intranet. The blockchain doesn’t need to scale as it’s just storing simple IDs. This is important as unlike other platform blockchains like ETH etc which are trying to push millions of transactions through the blockchain (thus resulting in ballooning ledgers and scaling issues), here transactions go through the decentralised secure P2P network not the blockchain, so no scaling issues. Incentive for DApps to use Elastos does not come from an incentive to use the Elastos blockchain itself, this isn’t Ethereum. DApps are incentivised to use the Elastos operating system/P2P infrastructure and using its blockchain for decentralised IDs is a requirement to use that.ELA tokenholders will get airdropped a special amount of every dApp tokens launched on Elastos as a platform. this is known as sugar dividendsELA tokenholders will have first-come buying rights at ICO price of every dApp.Other use cases are as follows:Dapps will be paying in ELA for the services they'll be using like cloud services, DNS services, acquisition of UUIDs for digital assets, etcElastos ecosystem collaboration projects(dapps built on Elastos in collaboration with Elastos) have to lock no less than 2-5% of their project tokens published for converting into ELA. 20% of the project tokens(converted to ELA) will be used for Elastos foundation development. 80% of the actual project tokens will be rewards shared by all ELA holders. Eg. If a dapp decides to create 10 billion of tokenX, at least 200 million will be distributed. Out of these 200 million, 40 million will be converted to ELA and given to the Elastos foundation. The rest 160 million will be distributed to all ELA holders. So, if you are holding 300 ELA and the supply of all ela holders adds up to 10 million(locked and unlocked ela both), you’ll get approximately 4800 of tokenX airdropped to you for free.Users can use ELA to register an ID in Elastos and use this ID to purchase items such as DApps, cloud storage and many other resources, including other digital products and so on.Those who decide to lock their ELA(minimum of 300) will earn an interest of 4%, 5%, 6% for up to 3 years(not compounded year-to-year).ELA will be the main currency that will be used to reward developers for creating dapps on the Elastos platform.Users can participate in token sale projects and products with ELA within Elastos.Apps built on elastos can implement their system to process transactions using ela/sela.And many more…VIDEOScrypto lark, Elastos review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacbW62dkDIblockchain brad overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb4movhMWi4blockchain brad interview with Elastos founder Rong Chen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2haB-GQJZQ

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 03:14PM