One of the exciting thingsabout the blockchain is it allowsfor the same services that onlylarge institutions can benefit fromacross the board.
What is even more exciting is you canactually think about communities. We can have smallcommunities develop their own ecosystem, have their own controlover it and gain the benefit from having a locallydedicated community that is designed toinvest and get the local economy to flourish.
This is where Colu comes in, connectingthe digital and the physical using blockchaintechnology.
We started with developingcolored coins back in 2012 and werealized that we can actually solve real world problems usingblockchain technology.
We decided to focus onone mission, to change how money is beingcreated and used.
To do that we've built adigital wallet based on local currencies.We have four communities and more than 50,000transactions on a monthly basis. We are now ready to bringcryptocurrencies tothe every day conversation.
Our vision is aneconomy that is powered by the people and bringswealth and prosperity to local communities.
I think [inaudible] will get us closer to thatvision. Tokens can be purchased or earned.When you pay with Colu, you earn tokens based on yourindividual local spend.
A community nativecurrency allows us to share the success of this network with otherparticipants.
Cities spend so much time and money tryingto promote their local economy and grow the localeconomy. But if you've got a tool to help do it that doesn'tcost taxpayers anything, that's pretty great.
It's a way to promote the localeconomy and build a sense of community and cut down on fraud and corruption.
I really do think thatColu is in the early stages of something really transformational.
We [inaudible] financial institutions to create amechanism that would help neighbors to each other withtheir mortgages and we couldn't do it.
Blockchain is going to allow this tohappen. We can re-envisionwhat the financial system would look like.
Building new types ofcredit, credit institutions, creditunions, local institutions and fundlocal initiatives and encourage localconsumption and ultimately better, moreprosperous communities.
This is more thanan idea. It's actuallyhappening. People are purchasing with Colu everyday.
This is what the future is going to look like.People having more control over their money.You can influence what happens inyour city and your community.
Join our movement and help us build communities from thewalletup.
Today'sdigital currencies don't scale and sufferfrom disruptive hard forks. Hard forkscan result in lose of investor funds. Theyalso damage investor confidence and can lead to attacks.
Decredwas built to solve these problems.A hybrid proof of work,proof of stake system ensures that no group canmaster the flow of transactions or make changes withoutinput from the community.
Decred is the onlydecentralized self ruling currencywhere everyone has a real voice.
Decred givesparticipants the tools necessary to makedecisions about the technical direction of the currency.All participants have a say in its futuredirection, budget and which projects are developed andpresented for vote.
We believe that striking abalance between infrastructure owners andcurrency holders is the only way to build a robustcurrency now and for the long term.
Decred has shown resilience where others havefailed. Thanks to our modular platform, that allows us to integrate newfeatures without disrupting the service.
Decred's transparency and scalability has notgone unnoticed. We won accoladesfrom fellow developers, industry experts and themedia.
Launched in Februaryof '16, we are completely independent, community funded,community owned.
Decred is engineers,artists, entrepreneurs.
Decred is a global community thatbelieves in financial independence and community basedgovernance.
We are thecurrency of choice for anyone who wants to take charge oftheir financial lives.
Weare the digital currency of the people.
Learn more about thefuture of finance atdecred.org
Evolution is behind all greatachievements. It has allowed us to gofrom ideas,tospace.
It has empoweredus to turn our dreams intoreality.
Todaydistributed ledger technology is the most sophisticatedphenomenon in the evolution in thedigital world. Itis thefuture.
Energi is the first cryptocurrencythat brings together some of the most powerfulideas in cryptocurrency.
Divisionbeyond just the technical infrastructure.
We are talking about something that is expansionary atits core and this goes beyond common features such as improving on transactionspeed, mass scalability, low fees.
Energihas all of these but the truly game changing propositionhere is Energi's decentralized governanceand treasury system. And that's a system that not only makes Energi selfsustaining but is also a self re-enforcing phenomenon.
That's theevolution of cryptocurrency.
Essentially it's a healthy growth snowballeffect. As awareness increases, so does its treasury economic power and sodoes adoption fueledby it.
An organization to beself funding, to be able to propel itself and pay its developers,pay its team and to do so in anaccelerating way where every dollar you invest in the organizationyields to a dollar of greater growth.
It's a positivefeedback loop.
The development, the marketing, the operations,the expansion... A self funded treasury that iswell directed is an incredibly powerful machine.
You arecreating no longer just a cryptocurrency but a living,breathing organization. Somethingthat can be as powerful as worldgovernance.
Intheory banks are agood idea. Bob needs some extra money and he goes to his bankand the bank gives Bob the money and over time Bob pays itback plus some interest.Everyone wins, right?
Well not if youare Bob.
Banks understand how dependentpeople are on them, this makes them powerful andensures they are the ones that make the rules. Rules that are in their bestinterest, not peoplelike Bob.
Need a credit card? A small businessloan? Glad to help. Just signhere, here and here.
Want to show your crypto as part of yourassets? Forget it Bob. Banks treat cryptolike monopoly money. Why does it have to be likethis?
It's time for a change.Some smart person once said, the worldneeds banking but it doesn't need banks. Banks generateobscene profits from taking your deposits and giving them out to borrowers.
Celsius is different. Wetake crypto deposits and use them to lend dollars backto our community so that you our members can keepthe profits, earn moreinterest and pay less for loans.
While banks focus on their ownprofits, our model is built on the community'sbest interest so that people like you, me andBob can enjoy the financial freedom we alldeserve.
With Celsiusyou can earn up to 5% interest on coins stored in yourCelsius wallet. Think of it as your crypto savingsaccount and when you need that dollar loan to let's say pay off yourcredit card or for a new businessloan, you can use your crypto ascollateral with a much lower interest rate.
Because it's an asset backedloan and you aren't selling your crypto, you won't have to pay tax rightaway. Meanwhile your coins are storedsafely with our custodian and once your loan is paidoff, your coins are returned.
Geniusright?
Finally the 99%has a chance to turn the tables. We now have a way tobank that works for us, notagainst us.
Here is the cool part. If we bring100,000,000 people into crypto, wethe people will be the ones in charge. Not the bigbanks.
The ethereum name serviceannounced via Twitter Monday January 14th thatit has launched a fully redesigned ENSmanager.
The ENS manager interface is builtwith non technical users in mind, allowing for individualsto search for names, manage addresses and createsub domains for names.
One community member noticed a possibleissue with the apps address look up functionality.But ENS developer Jeff Lowequickly addressed it. He even indicated that there areplans to later incorporate registration functionality into themanager.
For more news and updates,make sure to read today's distributeddigest on ETHNews.com[music][music]
In the medical fieldthe most up to date information saveslives every single day. But right now the bestadvice in medicine is locked up behindexpensive paywalls. And not everyone can afford topay for it.
The PeerAtlast blockchain existsfor one purpose, to create andmaintain a world class, peerreviewed, ad free medical libraryon your mobile compatible platform at no charge to theuser.
We will eliminate the paywall thatseparates timely peer reviewed medical advicefrom physicians and the public.
Qualityadvice adds great value to care givers.Large publishing companies figured this out and have cornered themarket.
Now they can setthe prices, charge high subscription fees to create the bestinformation. PeerAtlas'sblockchain was created by American doctors. We believethat blockchain technology can replacepaywall technology to spread the world'sbest medical advice across the internet.
Thesepaywalls directly increase the already highcost of medical care. That's why we are out to change thestatus quo.
PeerAtlas'solution is an online subscription-free,ad-free platform.
It offers evidence basedsupport for clinical decisions, primarily through the use ofmedical articles and algorithms.
Healthcare providers around the globe can use ourinformation to help them make the bestdecisions using the most recent discoveries researched by the brightestminds in medicine for theirpatients.
Medical algorithms are submitted both independentlyand collaboratively by qualified andverified individuals. They are then peerreviewed by teams of world renownedphysicians, authors and editors.
It's a rigorousprocess designed to create evidence basedrecommendations using the mostcurrent medical information.
We will earn the trust of patients and theirphysicians along the way.
Our blockchainledger will support the construction and maintenance of acomplete and cutting edge libraryof medicine on our current onlineplatform.
We aim to recruit the best physicians that our money can buyin every specialty.
Ourlibrary is intended to aid a widecommunity of medical professionals including specialists,general practitioners, physicians assistants,nurse practitioners and registerednurses.
And all of this information will be served to thegeneral public without cost or advertisements.
PeerAtlas will sign contracts with physiciansto create its library at first while continuallyimproving its user interfacewith blockchain bounties for developers.
Later a voluntarydonation system using the PeerAtlasblockchain will benefit new contentcreators directly and motivate them to keeptop quality advice flowing to patients.
Many ethicalcompromises present in some of today'sfinest medical resources are absentby design in PeerAtlas.
These conflict of interestsinclude reliance on advertisingrevenue. Reliance on subscription revenue.Financial relationships with drug companies or the manufacturersof medical devices. And founders compromisedby fiscal or ideologicaldependence.
PeerAtlas has taken steps to harnessits powerful blockchain technology toreward qualified individuals that can help itsmission in a transparent and ethicalmanner.
The mission of PeerAtlas is to instantly spread the mostmodern techniques and knowledge in healthcare,free of charge, worldwide.
Weare looking for people who share our vision. People whowant to change which patients are treated with the bestavailable medical knowledgeand techniques.
Decentralizedapps or dAPPS are super hotright now. Enormous sums ofmoney and brain power are flowing into the sector,and very exciting things are happening.
Butwhat a pity that it's so hard for beginnings to gain afoothold. Developing and bringing yourdAPP to market was no walk in the park untilnow.
Say hello toLisk, a platform for DAPPS and custom blockchainswritten in Javascript. Developers can build,publish, distribute and monetize their DAPPS usingour custom built cryptocurrency powered system.
Are you worried that it's too difficult or it's going to be a painto learn all these new languages and toolkits? Notwith Lisk.
We're doing it very differently.
You can write DAPPS for Lisk in Javascript, alanguage that over 100,000 coders are fluent in insteadof new and unproven languages used by otherprojects.
It makes for a much lower barrier to entryand encourages rapid developmentcycles.
With Lisk, every decentralizedapplication is running in its own side chainwith no limits as opposed to a single bloatedblockchain.
Lisk has a strong focus onan excellent user experience, making itaccessible for everyone.
Do you want to sell yourown dApp and rapidly turn your start-up into a successfulbusiness? With our integrated dApp store youcan.
Are you ready forLisk?
Get your share of Lisk in theICO, it will only last a few weeks so this is yourchance.
Zcoin is a digital cryptocurrencythat puts financial privacy at theforefront where your transactions are completely untraceable.
It is built on the solid fundamentalsof the Zerocoin paper, one of the mostcited cryptography papers' today.
Bitcoinand most other cryptocurrencies are not really anonymous asall transactions since the founding of the coin arepermanently open for the public to view.
Researchers,governments and law enforcement agencies havemade significant strides in using meta data andpattern analysis to reveal the real world identities of bitcoinholders.
This is a serious privacyproblem.
Imagine having all of your transaction historyand spending habits revealed orworse, innocently editing up with coins that have beentainted from illegal activities.
Not only is yourprivacy at risk, your coins could be seizedor you could even be implicated in crime you didn'tcommit.
Other attempts to anonymize transactionsinvolving mixing transactions with other people'stransactions but this still means that the real transaction is somewhere inthere. And its privacy is reliant on howmany transactions you are mixing with.
These models still providean analyzable network map of links.
Zcoin uses zero knowledge proofs tomake truly untraceable coins.
You mint a coin byburning it up and generate a mathematicalproof that you burn it.
This proof allows you to redeem a newcoin with new previous transactionhistory. A clean slate.
The genius laysin that the proof doesn't reveal which coin youminted, thus there is no relationship that can be drawn from the coin that youminted and the brand new coni that you redeemed.
No history to analyze. No mixingrequired. Just truly untraceablecoins.
The browsers oftoday are broken.They have been overtaken by a barrageof sneaking and annoying ads. Trackers thatfollow your habits and cookies that build profiles and allother sorts of internet clutter that is taking precidenceover the content that you want to see.
In fact theseuseless bytes can take up to a whopping 50%of page load times with a third of it anxiously trying tolearn more about you.
To makematters worse, some ad blockersare even letting ads through when large advertisers pay them.
But do you really want a leaky ad blocker?
It's because of these very reasons that wedeveloped Brave. A new browser that kicks internetcrud to the curb and makes it faster, saferand better to surf the web than your currentbrowser.
With Brave, everything you need is built rightin.
We integrated technology that automatically blockstrackers, annoyingads and shields everything that can cramp your style and disrupt yourprivacy.
With it you can expect increased speeds almost2x faster on laptops and up to 4x faster onmobile. And unlike any other browser, Brave allowsyou to support your favorite publishers with automaticmicro payments.
It's a win win for you and your favoritesites.
To top it all off, Brave is open sourcebecause we truly believe it's our web and we needto fix it together.
Ask yourself thisquestion, do you want a web browser made for the internet of today?
If so, try Brave. It's faster.Safer and ad free.[silence]
Whatis Aeternity? Aeternity is a newblockchain platform that solves the issues ofscalability, privacy and transactionspeed.
Built by an experiencedteam, Aeternity is a next generation technologythat takes the lessons from big projects like Bitcoinand Ethereum.
What makes Aeternity different from otherblockchains?
Aeternity hasseveral unique features that make it different from otherblockchains. The technology aims to be ready formainstream adoption by providing three keyelements.
One, statechannels. Users interact with each other instantly andprivately. Your business interactions arekept off chain without having to exposeyour transactions or smart contracts publicly.
Thisalso keeps the blockchain light and robust for years.
There is no limit to the volume of transactions beingprocessed at the same time. Aeternity is lighteningfast.
Two, the hybrid proof ofwork and proof of stake system.Consensus is achieved by proof ofwork, this means that people can mine the tokens on almostall devices including smart phones.
This is truely decentralized mining.
The governancemechanism runs a proof of stake model basedon prediction markets.
Three, theoracle machine. Oracle machines allowyou to connect real world data to smartcontracts. Any publicly availabledata can be integrated such as electionresults, weather conditions, sportevent results, and commodityprices like gold and oil.
Thisopen up the field for major use cases.Think of financial applications,supply chain management, information markets,insurance andgaming.
Combining these three elements,Aeternity breaks the bottleneck to even further adoption ofblockchain technology with countless use casesand payment solutions, trade finance, andthe internet of things.
How isAeternity unique?
Aeternity will come with theessential applications available at the launch of theplatform, making it immediately useful.
Aeternity is working on educational programsto support businesses and developers to findtheir own use cases.
An incubator foundationwill support projects that build upon theAeternity platform.
Aeternity, a lightand secure platform to bring the blockchain technology to thenext level.
Steem is a social blockchain that grows communit..
Steem was built to empowerpeople across the world. The Steem blockchainhas many ways for the regular person to earncryptocurrency.
In Steem, regularpeople get rewarded with Steem for created and curatingcontent as well as for mining, trading andholding the currency.
Similar to other cryptocurrencies,it pays contributors bycreating new tokens at a set rate with specificrules.
The technology that powers Steemhas publicly demonstrated its ability to process thousands ofactions per second which is more than enough capacityto handle several times the activity of some popularsocial media platforms such as Reddit.com
In social media applications, Steemrewards users with Steem dollars and votingpower for posting and curating quality content from all overthe internet.
One application for this isSteemit.com.
50% ofSteem's content rewards are paid asSteem Power which gives the winners more power tocurate content and get Steem rewards. And the other50% of all Steem's content rewards are paid in Steemdollars which drives their use.
In payments andremittance, the Steem dollar is a cryptocurrencythat is always worth about $1 worth ofSteem.
With this, anyone can reward,pay and remit to others without the monetaryand cognitive costs of price swings.
Thestability of the Steem dollar represents an opportunityto serve the 2 billion unbanked people on ourplanet.
For other types of people, Steem representsopportunities for our creators, curators,remitters, merchants, market makers,shoppers, entrepreneurs, bloggers,commenters, internet readers,community leaders, referrers and sign-up party hosts.
Check out Steem's informational website,Steem.io to learn more.
Or meetup with the community in the Steem Slack channel byfollowing thislink.
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In 130 BC,the famous silk road was established.Chains of camels transported goods andwealth from the east to west. It was a time ofimmense prosperity and wealth from globaltrading.
Fast forwardto 2018. Today blockchainhas become the camels of a newera. It carries bitcoin.
BTC, BCH and Litecoin from theeast to the west.
All these modernriches come from the mining pools ofMaxiMine.
MaxiMine is the source of themodern wealth. Maximize withMaxiMine.
We'vealways lived in asmart world. Oursocieties, ourart, our ecosystems,our universe itself all made of vastcomplex networks designed for interconnection,growth and innovation.
Thenthis happened.
That really started speeding thingsup.
The internet,originally conceived as a decentralized smartnetwork with no central authority, made itpossible to communicate directly all over theworld. But it wasn't built to evolve as itdid. And while our smartworld advanced, the internet stayed inthe past.
As it expanded, itsvulnerabilities become more serious,more prevalent.
Data. The life blood of the internet becamecentralized. Stored on servers ownedby giant corporations, easily found vulnerable toattack. Making our devices easilyhacked no matter how smartthey became.
Wedidn't lose the internet. Welost our internet.
Elastos is the moderninternet.
Elastos has rebuilt theinfrastructure of the internet from theground up, creating the world's first open sourcenetwork operatingsystem.
This is an operating system for the internet itself that iscompletely decentralized and it can beinstalled directly onto anything and everythingsmart.
Every person,every device, every business,every thing can be directly interconnected into onemassive global super computer. Each given their ownsecure identity that must be verified by theblockchain before accessing the network.
Enabling an internet of securityinstead of vulnerability.
An internetwhere central servers no longerexist. An internet where everyone owns andcontrols their owndata.
Simultaneously creating the world'sfirst platform for the secure internet anddata economy powered by theapplications of the future and the people who build them.
Because the platform is designed to run literally on anysmart device, developers can seamlessly write,install or integrate existingapplications onto Elastos using their ownsecure side chain allowing people andmachines alike to have direct exchange of the nextglobal currency.
It's laying the protocol, the foundation for the transportationindustry.
It's a combination of the technologiesI care deeply about.
Drones are oneelement. Blockchain is anotherelement. And distributed and trustedecosystem in a trustless environment.
DAV is an open transportation protocol. It enables us for the firsttime to create an open source peer topeer global transportation network.
This networkincludes anything and anyone involved inmoving people and objects from place to place.
Everyone on the DAV Network can discover services within thenetwork. For example riders can discoverdrivers and drivers can discovercharging stations. And developers can use the openprotocol to introduce their unique value to thenetwork in the form of routeplanning, machine learning, datasharing.
The opportunities this network can create areendless.
Looking a bit further down the road, the Dav Networkis an ideal entry point for thevehicles of the next decade which are autonomousvehicles on the ground, in the air and on the water.
The future is definitely autonomous.
If you had to summarize the future of transportation inone word, it's going to be autonomous.
Being able to do trueautonomous operations is what's becomingthe big push these days.
I canpredict that the autonomous world willexpand.
Once autonomousvehicles enter the market, you are no longerhiring the driver inside the car. You are hiring thecar. And this brings up a lot of interesting challenges.
For example, how do you get a quote and agree on atransaction with a car or with a drone?
How the vehicles compete for your business?
This is a completely newmarket and this is where theDAV protocol comes in.
It connects vehicles and users andservices, creating one big network so that wecan each have an entire network ofon demand vehicles at our disposal.
It alsoenables anyone to purchase equipment that is compatible with theprotocol and make it available on thenetwork in return for tokens.
For anyone that joins thenetwork, whether they are taxi companies,delivery companies or simply someone whoowns a drone, having a unified openprotocol means they don't need to be a multinational corporation to have utility.
The DAVprotocol connects them to a global network ofriders and drivers and vehicles anddevelopers and chargers.
The number of usefulcombinations within the network is exponential.
Theadvantages of a decentralized network like that isthat it allows true marketcompetition and doesn'tleave all the benefit and all the upside to one centralentity.
I firmly believe not a single entityhas all the elements to win. Nobody caneat alone. You have to share the pie.
Companies now have a choice. Instead of creating anentire network, an entire ecosystemfrom scratch, they can focus on theircore product and use the DAV protocol to become a part of anexisting network using completelyopen standards and without paying any fees.
The whole idea of theinternet was to break the middleman.And DAV is to the future oftransportation of what TCPIP was to theinternet.
The most exciting thing that Isee is the ability for DAV to be the key enablerof internet transport.
The DAV network isexpanding as more and more companies join. The DAVplatform is already being integrated into some of theirvehicles.
I believe no single technology is going tosucceed on its own. It's always going to be some mix oftechnologies.
Got to have a way [inaudible]transportation systems whatever they may be. So it's a combination ofgetting the players who do the best join in each of thosepieces to come in and work together.
I invite everyone to join ourgrowing community and take partin the futureoftransportation.
Are you ready for the future of playing forthings?
DigiByte is a new form of currency,similar to dollars, euros, yen or evenbitcoin. But on the very cutting edgeof digital technology. And with no centralauthority.
DigiByte is open source, free to use andanyone can get involved.
Want a safer way topay for stuff? DigiByte's state of theart security makes it 5x more secure than otherdigital currencies.
It incorporates the sametechnology that's used to secure nuclear launchcodes. So it's safe.
Want to get paidfaster? DigiBytescan be sent and received anywhere in the world with an internet connection in a matter ofseconds.
Wish you could have your computer make money foryou? Well a dollar might be sent from oneperson's bank to credit card processor to another person'sbank, DigiBytes are sent directly from person to person.
But in order to verify that eachtransaction is legit, it takes computingpower.
You can exchange the computing power you have fornewly made DigiBytes as you help processtransactions.
Want a super easy way to use yourmoney?
DigiByte is helping to speedup and link merchants and consumers across the globe in acutting edge manner.
DigiBytes can even be sentover social media helping to connect legacybusiness models with up and coming youngconsumers like gamers.
Want to get startedtoday? Get your own DigiByte walletfor free atDigiByte.co
What is NEO? In this video Iwill be going over the basics of this cryptocurrency.
NEO was developed by a blockchainR&D company called onchain. Launchedin 2014 as Antshares, it was rebrandedas NEO in 2017.
NEOfocuses on innovating in the areas of digital assettransfer, smart contracts and digital identity verification.
The NEOplatform consists of two currencies, NEO andGAS both of which are capped at100 million units.
NEO is the pre minedcurrency which represents a share of the network. It cannot bedivided below one coin like most othercurrencies.
GAS is the fuel that drivessmart contracts on the NEO network. Deploying and running smartcontracts consumes gas proportionalto the computing power used.
New GAS is generatedwith each block. The amount generated isreduced by one token every 2 million blocks. Oncethe 100 million cap is reached, no new GASwill be created.
Unlike NEO,GAS may be sub divided into much smaller units.
Collected GAS is distributed to holders of NEOcoin based on their share of the network on a fixedschedule.
GAS for transaction fees aredistributed to bookkeepers also known asconsensus nodes in exchange for validating transactions on thenetwork.
Every NEO coinholder has a vote. Coin holderselect consensus nodes who validate transactions,create blocks and make decisions for the blockchainsuch as creating transaction fees.
Ifa consensus node is not acting in the interest of the network,coin holders can vote out that node.
Much likeethereum, NEO supports smart contracts. Smart contractsallow code to run on the network which imposeslogic and rules on the transferof funds.
Simple examples ofsmart contracts include locking funds untila package is delivered. Or releasing cryptocurrencyroyalties to a content owner each timea digital item is consumed.
One of thedifferences between NEO and ethereum is ethereum applications arecoded in a proprietary languagecalled Solidity whereas NEO applications support commonlyused langues such as java, C#and VB.Net.
Notable items in theNEO pipeline are NEO X which will allowtransactions across blockchains. NeoFSwhich will allow for decentralized storage offiles and NeoQ which will allow for a quantum resistantcryptographic methods within the NEOsystem.
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