My iphone photography – test shot – flower and old fence post.

Ive been trying to decide for a while how to photograph this fence post so i thought i’d take a couple of test shots on my iphone. Hoping to stimulate ideas and decide whether to take it into the studio and photograph it with studio lights…

Taken with iphone SE. processed in photoshop CS6.


? Daily Crypto News, April, 3rd?

  • Japan: Crypto Trading Platform Liquid Hits Unicorn Status With Over $1 Billion Valuation ;
  • Russian Banks Join Chinese Swift – Is the Dollar Era Under Threat? ;
  • $255 Million: Coinbase Confirms Extent of Crypto Insurance Coverage;
  • PayPal Makes Its First-Ever Investment in a Blockchain Startup;
  • 61% of Major Global Digital Firms Invest in Blockchain, Report Finds;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 3rd?
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? Japan: Crypto Trading Platform Liquid Hits Unicorn Status With Over $1 Billion Valuation

Japanese crypto trading platform Liquid has hit unicorn status with the first close of an ongoing Series C funding that puts the company valuation at over $1 billion. The news was reported by Cointelegraph Japan on April 3.


Liquid’s parent company is Quoine, a global fintech company licensed by Japan’s Financial Services Agency.


As Cointelegraph Japan reports, the fresh funding and new valuation makes Liquid the country’s second unicorn in the tech startup space — the other being artificial intelligence firm Preferred Networks, which is backed by Toyota, Fanuc, Hitachi and others.

? Russian Banks Join Chinese Swift – Is the Dollar Era Under Threat

As a Saudi oil minister once remarked, the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It seems it’s neither the deficit of a tool nor its deficiencies that make it obsolete, but rather the invention of new tools that do the job better. With increasing competition, will the U.S. dollar continue to be the world’s primary currency, will it come to be just one of several reserve fiat currencies, or will cryptocurrency become the new instrument that powers the global economy?

No one can predict exactly how long the greenback era is going to last. What’s certain is there are different camps that want to end it for various reasons. And if cryptocurrencies are taken into account, there’s an evolutionary push in that direction as well. Bitcoin is an alternative to all traditional, government-issued currencies, of which the dollar is the most recognizable.

? $255 Million: Coinbase Confirms Extent of Crypto Insurance Coverage

Coinbase has revealed the details of its insurance arrangements for cryptocurrency held on customers’ behalf, a rare move in an opaque market.


In a blog post published Tuesday, Philip Martin the exchange’s vice president of security, confirmed that it is covered for up to $255 million for coins held in so-called hot wallets – in other words, assets which are essentially online and open to potential hacks. CoinDesk first reported in November that Coinbase’s coverage was in this ballpark.


San Francisco-based Coinbase holds less than 2 percent of customers’ assets in hot wallets, with the remaining 98 percent at arm’s length from third-party attacks in cold storage, where the private keys are offline, the company told CoinDesk. (At its height during the crypto bull market, the company stored $25 billion worth of assets on customers’ behalf, but the company would not provide a recent figure.)

? PayPal Makes Its First-Ever Investment in a Blockchain Startup

Online payments giant PayPal has made its first-ever investment in a blockchain technology company.


Announced today, PayPal has joined the extension of a Series A funding round in Cambridge Blockchain, a startup that helps financial institutions and other companies manage sensitive data using shared ledgers.


Neither PayPal nor Cambridge Blockchain disclosed the investment amount, but recent filings with the SEC indicate that Cambridge Blockchain has raised a total of $3.5 million in new equity from several investors over the past nine months. That follows the $7 million close of its Series A in May of 2018, and brings the total capital raised to $10.5 million.

? 61% of Major Global Digital Firms Invest in Blockchain, Report Finds

61 percent of high-profile digital companies worldwide are investing in blockchain, according to a report by identity management firm Okta shared with Cointelegraph on April 2.


San Francisco-based enterprise identity provider Okta has released a survey on new trends in technological developments and business opportunities of the world’s largest companies.


In its first “Digital Enterprise Report,” Okta surveyed 1,050 IT, security and engineering decision makers from global companies with at least $1 billion in revenue. Okta explained that decision makers were defined as someone at the company who is “responsible for making technology purchasing decisions.”

Percentage of investment in various emerging technologies by large companies
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? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 3rd?

Dev team hosts weekly status update at 5 PM (MST) on current developments.

The Wanchain staking pilot from April 3 – July 3. A minimum of 4 Million WAN will be locked for the pilot.

Catex hosts TRX trading competition from April 3rd – April 13th.

First project of KuCoin’s Spotlight, “MultiVAC”, begins its token sale.

“Trading will begin early next week.”

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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The STEEM had a nice UP also today due to the big move of the BTC. However we are still stuck under that resistance line around 0.49$ and you can see on the chart that we are not able to break it… This resistance line is becoming kinda annoying but let’s stay positive that we can break it very soon.

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? Daily Crypto News, April, 2nd?

  • Sudden Bitcoin Price Breakout Sets New Bull Target at Over $5K ;
  • “Bitcoin and Friends” Animated Series Airs Spicy First Episode ;
  • XRP Exchange-Traded Product Goes Live on Swiss SIX Exchange;
  • Puerto Rico Sees New Crypto Bank Accept First Client Deposit;
  • Pakistan Government To Issue Crypto Regulations;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 2nd?
  • STEEM Trading Update

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? Sudden Bitcoin Price Breakout Sets New Bull Target at Over $5K

With bitcoin’s move today to 4.5-month highs near $5,080, the transition from bear to bull market appears done and dusted.

The trend change would gain credence, though, if and when BTC finds acceptance above the former support-turned-resistance of the 21-month exponential moving average (EMA), currently at $5,200.

The cryptocurrency is looking overbought as per the 14-day relative strength index, so prices may have a tough time breaking above $5,200 in the near-term.

Bitcoin could see a pullback to $4,400 if signs of bullish exhaustion increase in the next few days.

? “Bitcoin and Friends” Animated Series Airs Spicy First Episode

There’s a new animated series called “Bitcoin and Friends” that’s been making its rounds across the web after the first episode was released by Uncle Chris Productions. The humorous and sometimes raunchy cartoon is an eight-part series that aims to make people laugh during the depressing bear market and the crypto saltiness on social media.

On March 29, Uncle Chris Productions released the first episode of an eight-part series that encapsulates the life of a lonely bitcoin in search of his lost father. The show “Bitcoin and Friends” stars “B,” a bitcoin who finds himself in a hospital and starts an adventure to find out who he is and who created him. Along the way, B finds some quirky friends in the first episode, called “Tears of a Clown”, whose storyline is based in New Jersey back in 2009.

? XRP Exchange-Traded Product Goes Live on Swiss SIX Exchange

An exchange-traded product (ETP) tracking the price of the XRP cryptocurrency has gone live on Switzerland’s primary stock exchange SIX.


Amun AG, the maker of the product, announced the news on Tuesday, saying that the XRP ETP had started trading on the exchange under the ticker symbol AXRP.


The firm first revealed it would launch an XRP ETP last month. Hany Rashwan, co-founder and CEO of Amun AG told CoinDesk at the time that his firm already had an approval in place from SIX to issue the product.


With today’s launch, Amun AG now has a total of four cryptocurrency ETP products listed on the SIX exchange. Last month, the firm launched an ethereum (ETH)-based ETP (AETH). The month prior a bitcoin (BTC)-based ETP (ABTC) went live, and the firm launched the Amun Crypto Basket Index ETP under the ticker symbol HODL in November.

? Puerto Rico Sees New Crypto Bank Accept First Client Deposit

Puerto Rico-based cryptocurrency trading platform San Juan Mercantile Exchange (SJMX) has launched banking operations via a new subsidiary, the company announced in a press release on April 2.


SJMX, which exists as a membership-based exchange for digital asset traders, is seeking to expand the scope of its operations for institutional investors.


The new venture, dubbed San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), received a banking license from Puerto Rican regulators last month.

? Pakistan Government To Issue Crypto Regulations

The government of Pakistan will soon release draft regulations for financial institutions that wish to provide services related to <abbr title="

A digital store of monetary value the primary use of which is for buying and selling goods, services, or property, such as Ether or bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies are cryptographically secured against counterfeit and often are not issued or controlled by any centralized authority.

“>cryptocurrency and other digital assets, according to local English-language news outlet The Express Tribune.


Citing sources in Pakistan’s ministry of finance, the article states that a ceremony to introduce the new regulations is being held today, April 1, at the Islamabad office of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). According to Pakistan’s finance minister, who attended the meeting, the Pakistani government is committed to transforming the country into a knowledge-based economy. It believes that information technology will help create more jobs and develop “world-class knowledge workers in sync with international market trends.”


To this point, the finance minister said, “It is our government’s policy to encourage the use of e-commerce amongst [the] public through awareness campaigns to promote a culture of e-commerce in the country, which supports electronic business transactions at national, regional and international levels.”

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 2nd?

NOVA 1.0 Release

Crex 24 Listing

“Join us on Tuesday 2nd April at 18:00 in St. Petersburg, Russia for a #Binance meetup!”

The creation and distribution of ZNN is made through the ZX algorithm that follows a supply demand pattern.

“ZB.com will list Grin/QC and Grin/UDST for trading at 2019/04/02 14:00 (UTC+8).”

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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Today again, STEEM is correcting while the BTC is increasing. So we are again in the middle of the 2 lines and we need to see which line the market want go test. Perhaps we are just taking some distance to go test again the resistance line at 0.49$ or the STEEM want do a bigger correct and we will go test the support line at 0.43$

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Centralized exchanges getting hacked isnt something new or unexpected.
But this exchange is one of those that account for a lot of STEEM trading volume. Most of the volume is probably fake and coinmarket cap doesnt even acknowledge it, but still, its there. 😀

So how much was stolen?

Some sources say 20 million USD. A hefty sum. The funds were moved to another exchange so they could potentially be frozen and returned to the rightful owner.
I dont have the live news on whats happening, im just retelling the story. lol

The difference between this hacking and the prior ones is that apparently most of the user funds were safe in cold wallets so hackers couldnt get to them. What was stolen is the exchange funds and the suspicion is that it was an inside job. Bithumb claims that they have a good protection against outside attacks but admit to a poor employee vetting process and poor security inside the exchange..

What does this mean for the end user?

It means what it always meant. No matter what was stolen, you should never keep your funds on a exchange.

Your keys, your STEEM. Not your keys, not your STEEM.

? Daily Crypto News, April, 1st?

  • Bitcoin Pushes Past $4,100 as Top Cryptos See Mixed Movements ;
  • Russian Social Media Giant VK Eyes Launching its Own Crypto: Report;
  • Crypto Exchange Bithumb Hacked for $13 Million in Suspected Insider Job;
  • Iran’s Crypto Regulations: What’s Happening Behind Closed Doors;
  • ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 1st?
  • STEEM Trading Update

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? Bitcoin Pushes Past $4,100 as Top Cryptos See Mixed Movements

Sunday, March 31 — the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting mixed, mostly mild, price movements on the day by press time, as Bitcoin (BTC) reaches just over $4,100.


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? Russian Social Media Giant VK Eyes Launching its Own Crypto

The most popular social media platform in Russia, VKontakte (VK), is considering developing its own cryptocurrency, local news outlet RNS reported on March 28.


Per the report, an unspecified person familiar with the company’s plans told the outlet that the project involves the creation of individual cryptocurrency accounts for all the users of the platform. Still, the article also claims that the firm has not yet made a final decision about whether or not to launch the coin.


According to the report, RNS has obtained a presentation from the VK that shows how one of the ways users would be able to obtain the firm’s tokens is in exchange for their activeness and time spent on the platform. According to the article, the coins earned this way could be accumulated, transferred between users, exchanged for goods and converted (presumably to fiat currency) via VK Pay.

? Crypto Exchange Bithumb Hacked for $13 Million in Suspected Insider Job

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job.


The company confirmed in statement on Saturday that it first spotted an “abnormal withdrawal” of the cryptocurrency through its monitoring system at 22:00 Korean time (13:00 UTC) on Friday, March 29.

The exchange suspended asset withdrawals and deposits on the platform after noticing the breach.


Bithumb stated:
“All the [stolen] cryptocurrency is owned by the company, and all members’ assets are under the protection of a cold wallet.”

? Iran’s Crypto Regulations: What’s Happening Behind Closed Doors

Under pressure for being months behind schedule, the Central Bank of Iran finally published a draft framework on the legality of cryptocurrencies in late January and welcomed feedback.


While some see the totality of the framework as a step forward, most members of the burgeoning local crypto community are unhappy with much of the specifics. They feel that the framework could severely restrict people and businesses operating in the fast-growing field if it is implemented in its current form.


Among other things, the framework proposes banning the use of global cryptocurrencies and various tokens as methods of domestic payment; requires cryptocurrency exchanges to obtain permits, therefore opening a new avenue for rent-seeking in a country that has already too much of it; and uses the word “forbidden” a lot, which could entail the threat of criminal prosecution.

? ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018

About $118 million has been raised via initial coin offerings (ICOs) in Q1 of 2019, over 58 times less than $6.9 billion, the amount raised during the same period in 2018, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports on March 31.


The report cites data provided by ICO analytics website TokenData. The WSJ argues that investors have been scared off by regulators’ actions against non-compliant ICOs, as well as by the general bear market over the past year.


One of the latest cases happened in February, when the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged crypto firm Gladius Network with selling unregistered securities after the company self-reported to the commission.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, April, 1st?

First version of the BTT live product launches in BitTorrent by end of Q1 2019.

“CFT starts trading on the 1st of April, at 4 PM Singapore time.”

Genesis (GENX) maturity-based masternodes go active on block 325,000. This is expected to occur on April 1.

“Decentralized exchange integrated into wallet”

QLC holds Reddit AMA at 2 PM (UTC) following mainnet launch.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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After the touch on the support line at 0.43$ yesterday we started a nice bounce in direction of the resistance line at 0.49$. To my opinion, the Break Out that we will have soon on the BTC will

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? Daily Crypto News, March, 29th?

  • IOHK Founder Charles Hoskinson Says Crypto Industry Needs More Interoperability ;
  • Coinbase Leads Wall Street to Brave New World of Crypto Staking;
  • New USStocks Token Lets Investors Access US Stock Market With Stablecoin Dai;
  • Fake Volume on Crypto Exchanges Isn’t the Half of It;
  • Russian Mining Giant to Tokenize Palladium ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 29th?
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? IOHK Founder Charles Hoskinson Says Crypto Industry Needs More Interoperability

Charles Hoskinson, a founder of IOHK, the firm that developed cryptocurrency Cardano (ADA), said that the cryptocurrency industry needs a “WiFi or Bluetooth moment” in an interview with media outlet Cheddar on March 28.


Speaking about the status of the cryptocurrency industry, Hoskinson said that it needs specific standards that will facilitate the development of more interoperability. Per Hoskinson, it will allow communication and information to be traded in an easier way among both digital currency and traditional financial institutions. Hoskinson argued:


“What we are seeing is a collection of standards being created [that] will inevitably converge over the next three to five years to create a situation where you can move information and value between all these different systems ー not just Bitcoin to Litecoin to Ethereum to Cardano ー but also your regular bank account.”

? Coinbase Leads Wall Street to Brave New World of Crypto Staking

The Takeaway:

Coinbase Custody is offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos.

Client assets will remain inside Coinbase’s fully insured cold storage at all times, mitigating risk to investors.

Since staking requires some funds to be kept online, Coinbase will put up its own coins, assuming the risk.

After deducting Coinbase’s fee, clients can expect to earn about 6.6 percent annually, the firm says.

? New USStocks Token Lets Investors Access US Stock Market With Stablecoin Dai

Decentralized financial contracts platform UMA has partnered with Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) MakerDAO to release a token tied to the United States stock market, UMA announced in a blog post on March 27.


The ERC-20 token, dubbed USStocks, seeks to offer investors access to the U.S. stock market using cryptocurrency. Users can purchase the token using MakerDAO’s own USD-backed stablecoin, Dai (DAI).


Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange DDEX is currently the platform of choice for onboarding potential investors.

? Fake Volume on Crypto Exchanges Isn’t the Half of It

Recently, a report was produced by Bitwise Asset Management showing the existence of faked volumes in the bitcoin market – 95% of total volume according to its research. It’s hard to disagree with many of the facts in the report. Yet there are some items left out in this presentation to the SEC.


It’s hard to justify bitcoin is a mature asset and has a sophisticated market supporting it. And despite the fabricated volumes across crypto exchanges, this presentation makes a compelling argument there is maturity.

? Russian Mining Giant to Tokenize Palladium

Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin is planning to create cryptocurrency tokens backed by palladium, Bloomberg reported on March 27.


Potanin — who is CEO of the Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC (Nornickel) — plans to deploy cryptocurrency tokens for trading palladium through a Switzerland-based palladium fund, and wants to launch several digital platforms.


According to Bloomberg, the platform will enable more fluid transactions. Currently, should a buyer discover that they do not need all the contracted volume in a purchase, they must either renegotiate with the supplier or sit on the excess supply until they find a buyer. However, with a tokenized asset, they could ostensibly sell the excess volume to a third party more easily.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 29th?

Nexus hosts workshops at the IETF in Prague during the afternoons of March 29 and 30.

Last trade of Bitcoin futures contract for March, 29th 2019. Trading terminates at 4 PM GMT.

Lethean will release its main product which is a wallet with VPN capabilities.

“Dear friends! The release of AzartPay wallet for iOS will be held on March 29.”

EDN releases technical paper, SDK & SDK document, and SDK sample codes to showcase their beta wallet.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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We are consolidating just in the middle of the 2 lines, waiting to see what the master BTC will do. We should go test one the 2 lines quiet soon. We have clear support and resistance on the chart and it would be nice if we can go test the resistance line around 0.49$.

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? Daily Crypto News, March, 28th?

  • Good News, Bad News For Bitmain ;
  • Top Cap and Delta Cap: New Metrics for Spotting Bitcoin Price Trend Reversals;
  • Why Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey Are Warming to Blockchain;
  • TechCrunch Founder’s Crypto Fund Tops $100 Million, Completes First Acquisition;
  • Stellar Patched an Inflation Bug and Burned the Resulting 2.25 Billion XLM: Research ;
  • ? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 28th?
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? Good News, Bad News For Bitmain

Hats off to the lucky ones, the crypto investors who bought <abbr title=”

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Mining is the process of repeatedly aggregating transactions, constructing a block and trying difference nonces until a nonce is found that satisfies the proof of work condition. If a miner gets lucky and produces a valid block, they are granted a certain number of coins as a reward as well as all of the transaction fees in the block, and all miners start trying to create a new block containing the hash of the newly generated block as their parent.

“>mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has published an official blog post outlining the company’s decision to name a new CEO and what it plans to do with its initial public offering (IPO) application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), which has recently expired. While Bitmain says the IPO listing process made the company “more transparent and standardized,” applying a second time could raise more questions about Bitmain’s future.


In November 2018, ETHNews covered Bitmain’s chief executive restructuring when Nishant Sharma, the company’s international marketing manager, reported that co-founder and co-CEO Jihan Wu would reposition and continue on with the company as a director. More recently, in January, the South China Morning Post reported that two unnamed sources believed both Wu and cofounder and co-CEO Micree Zhan would be replaced with Haichao Wang, Bitmain’s director of product engineering.

? Top Cap and Delta Cap: New Metrics for Spotting Bitcoin Price Trend Reversals

Believe it or not, there are more ways to anticipate the future market value of bitcoin than through practicing technical analysis or by observing network activity developments.


While valuable in their own right, thanks to researchers Willy Woo and David Puell, several new experimental bitcoin valuation metrics were released in February that combine the two fields to create a more holistic view of bitcoin’s market.  

Sample sizes are small in the cryptocurrency markets, with the oldest, bitcoin, having existed just 10 years, but two of the newly released metrics termed “Top Cap” and Delta Cap” have shown to be effective at identifying the tops and bottoms of bitcoin’s wild market cycles thus far.

Delta Cap
Proposed by Puell, the metric that successfully caught both bear market bottoms in 2011 and 2015, and that is known as the Delta Cap, is calculated as follows:


Delta cap = Realized cap – Average cap


Average cap =  “cumulative sum of daily market cap values / age of the market in days.”
Realized cap = “UTXOs are aggregated and assigned a price based on the BTCUSD market price at the time when said UTXOs last moved”


? Why Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey Are Warming to Blockchain

Believe it or not, there are more ways to anticipate the future market value of bitcoin than through practicing technical analysis or by observing network activity developments.

While valuable in their own right, thanks to researchers Willy Woo and David Puell, several new experimental bitcoin valuation metrics were released in February that combine the two fields to create a more holistic view of bitcoin’s market.  

Sample sizes are small in the cryptocurrency markets, with the oldest, bitcoin, having existed just 10 years, but two of the newly released metrics termed “Top Cap” and Delta Cap” have shown to be effective at identifying the tops and bottoms of bitcoin’s wild market cycles thus far.

“Left to their own devices, computer scientists would recreate the Soviet Union.”


That line belongs to Preston McAfee, an economist whose job history includes senior positions at tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. As he explained to an audience at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, recently, it refers to software engineers’ tendency to favor centralization as the most efficient design principle for any computing system.

The point, he said, is that decentralized networks, such as those based on blockchain models, can often enable more positive overall social outcomes despite the relative inefficiency of their command-and-control architecture. It’s useful to contemplate this idea, and McAfee’s colorful metaphor, in relation to the current state of play on the Internet.

? TechCrunch Founder’s Crypto Fund Tops $100 Million, Completes First Acquisition

One of Arrington XRP Capital’s largest limited partners (LPs) has injected a fresh $30 million into the digital asset firm, according to its founder Michael Arrington.


“The reason is, like everyone, we didn’t do particularly great last year, but we did better than the market. And that was a win,” Arrington told CoinDesk. With the additional investment, Arrington says the fund has now surpassed its initial target of raising $100 million.


First announced at Consensus: Invest 2017, the TechCrunch founder has never disclosed his eponymous fund’s LPs (other than to indicate that Ripple is not one of them).

? Stellar Patched an Inflation Bug and Burned the Resulting 2.25 Billion XLM: Research

Cryptocurrency intelligence company Messari has claimed that Stellar (XLM) suffered an inflation bug in April 2017 that was exploited to create 2.25 billion XLM (worth about $10 million at the time), which were later burned. The news was revealed in a Messari report published on March 27.

Per the report, the illicitly created XLM — which was equivalent to nearly a quarter of the circulating supply — was moved o exchanges and likely sold during the first half of 2017. An equivalent quantity of XLM was purportedly burned to preserve the intended supply and avoid the dilution of the value of the tokens.

The research also notes that the involved addresses and related records are no longer accessible on Stellar Expert or other block explorers but can be found using the Horizon Application Programming Interface. Also, the company claims that seemingly no media reported on the bug, its exploitation and the consequent burn before Messari.

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? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 28th?

“The Next Einsteinium block mining reward halves on block number 2,304,001. The coin reward will decrease from 4 to 2 coins.”

Jade Release v 0.13.0 – March 28 / Cut-off old nodes – Block height 2.327.000 / Proof of Stake switch – Block height 2.330.000.

“Fusion is excited to take the next step with the launch of PSN 2.0, targeted for release on March 28, 2019.”

“We’re hosting a #Stellar #Cluster event in Cape Town on 28 March.”

LYFE and Doogether present “How Healthtech Disrupt The World” in Jakarta, Indonesia from 6-10:30 PM.

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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Yesterday, we were testing the support line at 0.43$. This one held us and we are having a nice bounce helped by the UP of the BTC. The next objective is now again to go test the resistance line at 0.49$

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? Daily Crypto News, March, 25th?

  • Lending Your Crypto: Risks And Rewards Of Virtual Asset-Based Finance ;
  • Singapore Blockchain Accelerator Nets BMW and Intel Among New Partners;
  • R3 Co-Founder Jesse Edwards Is Leaving the Enterprise Blockchain Firm;
  • The Crypto ‘Trichotomy’ ;
  • @Bitcoin Account Accuses Twitter of Shadow Banning to Restrict Its Reach ;
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? Lending Your Crypto: Risks And Rewards Of Virtual Asset-Based Finance

Hats off to the lucky ones, the crypto investors who bought <abbr title="

A type of cryptocurrency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank. This term may also be used to reference either the network, protocol, or actual cryptocurrency.

“>bitcoin before market prices began to slide in January 2018. Many did nicely, converted some of their holdings to <abbr title="

Government approved currency (dollars, euros, etc.) that isn’t backed by a physical commodity (gold or another commodity).

“>fiat, and retained a sizable pile as a long-term bet.


Now what? How about earning an attractive interest rate on a small portion of those holdings by converting it into fiat and lending it out on a short-term basis to crypto holders who are underwater? Sure, there’d be taxes to pay on what is technically a securities <abbr title="

A transaction is a particular action that takes place on the blockchain. In a currency, the dominant transaction type is sending currency units or tokens to someone else; in other systems actions like registering domain names, making and fulfilling trade offers and activating contracts are also valid transaction types.

“>transaction. But what if the interest received is lucrative enough to put that concern aside?


There are a number of crypto lending sites that stand ready to help. Most of those we reviewed charge borrowers interest in the 12-to-22 percent range. The implication is that the borrower is better off with them than a credit card cash advance, which could cost 25 percent or more on an annualized basis. The pitch may also appeal to an individual lender who disdains short-term crypto trading and believes their digital assets will pay off over a long-term investment horizon.

? Singapore Blockchain Accelerator Nets BMW and Intel Among New Partners

Singapore government-backed blockchain accelerator Tribe has gained BMW and Intel as two major strategic partners, local English-language technology news outlet Tech In Asia reported on March 22.


Tribe, which began operations late last year, is the brainchild of Tri5 Ventures, a venture capital firm aiming to support later-stage startups.


Existing partners of the scheme include PwC and South Korean blockchain network Icon Foundation.

? R3 Co-Founder Jesse Edwards Is Leaving the Enterprise Blockchain Firm

Jesse Edwards, one of the co-founders of R3, has left the enterprise blockchain company, CoinDesk has learned.


Edwards, a former Sandler O’Neill investment banker, helped found R3 back in 2014 with CEO David Rutter and ex–Standard Chartered executive Todd McDonald.

In a statement provided by R3 to CoinDesk, Edwards said:

“It’s true that my work here is done and it is time to move on. This has been one of the best experiences of my professional career, and I am incredibly privileged to have worked alongside such a talented and passionate team in building this business. R3 has broken away as the market leader and standout partner of choice for professionals looking to apply this technology to their industries. I couldn’t be prouder.”

? The Crypto ‘Trichotomy’

The crypto space ain’t what it used to be.


In the good old days when bitcoin was the only “cryptocurrency” around, life was much simpler. Then, a few other “currencies” came along, followed by ICOs and things rapidly got much more complex.


Somewhere along the line, folks started paying as much or more attention to the technology underlying bitcoin as to bitcoin itself. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) or the “blockchain” suddenly became household words (well, with slight exaggeration…).


In the roaring months of 2017, crypto pundits, analysts and funds developed various taxonomies of the rapidly diversifying crypto space: exchange tokens, utility tokens, payment tokens, asset-backed tokens, etc. (My personal favorite was Tetras Capital’s, but there were many.)

? @Bitcoin Account Accuses Twitter of Shadow Banning to Restrict Its Reach

On March 23, the Twitter handle @Bitcoin became mired in controversy after BTC supporters complained about the account and attempted to get the profile shut down. The operator of the Bitcoin Twitter profile has also accused the social media platform of manipulating matters by placing restrictions on the account and limiting its overall traffic.


The owner of the Twitter handle @Bitcoin believes the account is being restricted for being critical toward the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network and the Lightning Network (LN). Over the last few weeks, several BTC supporters have advocated having the account suspended or reassigned to a group of core developers.

Bitcoin Account Accuses Twitter of Shadow Banning to Restrict Its Reach
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? Daily Crypto Calendar, March, 25th?

KIN at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Block halving at block number 2,304,001.

Full details will be disclosed on Monday March 25th. https://www.patenttx.com.

“RPM token holders must have their tokens deposited in their STEX wallet before March 25th at 12:00PM UTC.”

“We are delighted to announce that the Incorporations Marketplace will launch on the 25th of March”

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STEEM Trading Update by my friend @cryptopassion

Here is the chart of yesterday :

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Here is the current chart :

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Today, we saw the start of a nice UP on the STEEM, we even broke the resistance line during some hours but unfortunately, the BTC starts to drop and it stopped this nice move. We are now back just under the resistance line and the market is waiting to see in which direction the BTC will go.

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