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We in fact believe that – also for an accommodation facilities as an hostel is – it is today pivotal to be address to organic and to ethical management: a vocation that a lot of you already bring into their daily life, and that may also operate as an example for someone else.
Eco-furniture – The design and construction of the furniture of the hostel have been studied by the Informal Group, a collective operating in Genoa, which pays particular attention to the issues of re-use, self-construction, participatory design solutions oriented to cost containment. The eco-furniture of the hostel have been studied individually and are unique works.
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Edge #163, June 2006
This isn't meant to be a letter to, y'know, 'God' and that (that would be madness). The 'dear god' was merely an exclamation. Or, rather, an edited version of an exclamation I uttered aloud not two minutes before setting pen to paper. What I actually said was: 'Dear god - you have got to be ruddy kidding' (not to be confused with Rudyard Kipling).
I said this upon completing the game FEAR. Yes, I know it's been out a while. I bought it on the day of release, being - as I was at that point - starved of my beloved firstperson shooters. Unfortunately, both the PCs I owned were incapable of running it. One apparently wasn't powerful enough, and the other didn't have the right sound drivers. When I tried to update them it buggered up the sound card.
So, anyway. I've just bought a new PC, which runs it fine. Alas, it wasn't worth the wait. Indeed, it was one of the biggest prick-teasers I've ever played. Throughout, you're drip-fed portentous dialogue and doom-laden set-pieces, waiting the whole time for hell to be unleashed. Only in the game's closing moments - where (look away now, spoilerphobes) you briefly witness a nuclear explosion - does the game genuinely impress. And in that moment of being impressed you think: "Wahey! Here we go! All that tedious, sixth-form, sub-ghost train nonsense is finally going to pay off!"
Except it doesn't. You get your explosion, and then you get some dreadful epilogue in a helicopter; "How did you survive the explosion?!" - and then a thump on the helicopter roof - "What was that?" - and then the end credits. Like, hello? I mean, what?
I'm too enraged to discuss it further. Instead I shall discuss my current bete noir, EA's The Godfather: The Game. If ever there's been a game which highlighted the gulf of sophistication between videogame and cinema, this is it. Where to start? In terms of being a hilariously misguided licence, it's up there with the Game Boy version of Kramer Vs Kramer.
Who thought they could make a game out of The Godfather? Why even try? Do these people force their sons to wear dresses and press flowers? The Godfather and videogames are wholly incompatible. It's like trying to make a vulture live in a dog basket. To even think about attempting it underscores the naïvety that still exists within the games industry. To actually attempt it is nothing short of egomania.
Even bad films are about something. Let's take the example of Aliens; it's a classic sci-fi film, and has probably influenced more games than any other. But what's it about on a thematic level? Is it about space marines shooting monsters? No. It's about motherhood.
At its heart you've got two mothers looking to protect her offspring: Ripley, protecting her surrogate daughter, Newt, and the Alien Queen, protecting her saliva-dripping spawn. Mercifully, as far as the various game interpretations of the Alien franchise go, it's also a kick-ass action film. But show me a single game which approaches it for thematic depth.
The Godfather was about family, and power, and the interaction of its characters. To try and turn it into a GTA clone is beyond madness. It's like turning Cold Mountain into a football management sim.
The Godfather: The Game isn't an awful videogame. But it's an awful, painful interpretation of its source material. It doesn't understand the complexity. Playing it is like watching a bunch of primary school kids performing The Passion Of The Christ. It's embarrassing and makes videogames look stupid. Why? Because - once again - it's a videogame that thinks it's a film. Or, rather, it's a videogame that thinks it has the emotional, thematic and narrative complexity of a film, when in reality it's the same old guff with the same poorly-acted, weakly-scripted cutscenes.
Speaking as someone who has dabbled in writing scripts for videogames, I say this: stop now. That's enough. Games don't need a story. They don't need a theme. They don't need a narrative. They're just games, and that's enough.
If it's a shoot 'em up, give us new and interesting ways to shoot things. We don't need semi-interactive cutscenes featuring stupid, scary girls, and vague plots that are never explained. We don't want heroes who break off from the action to bemoan their amnesia, or flirt with their co-workers. If it's a platformer, I don't want the comedy monkey character's backstory. I want him to jump and collect stuff.
Game designers: focus your efforts on what you do best. Give us new worlds to explore, and new things to do, and let us come up with the stories in our heads. We can fill in the thematic and dramatic gaps if we want to, but if you're doing your jobs we won't care about any of that. We'll be involved and immersed, because we should feel like we're there, in the game.
You can spend all you want on licences to pretend you're Martin Scorcese, but unless what you're creating is honest and true the end result is going to be as hollow as, I dunno, paying someone to pretend they love you: it isn't real.

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HERITAGE 5, CV CHRISTIAN 1 >> Cumberland Valley Christian's girls soccer team fell behind early and never recovered in a Mason-Dixon Christian Conference loss to Heritage Academy on Thursday.
The Blazers (1-2, 1-2 MDCC) scored in the second half when Maddie Keck assisted Emily Rice for a goal, but Heritage had jumped ahead with three goals in the first half.
"Heritage took advantage of the opportunities that were available to them," CVC coach Paul Lundy said. "We need to continue to work hard each day to generate and finish scoring opportunities. Maddie Keck (our keeper) has assisted on two of our three goals."
The Blazers had only three shots despite racking up 13 corner kicks.
Heritage, goals — Mikayla Hoy 4, Hemphill.
CV Christian, goal — Emily Rice; Assist — Maddie Keck.
Shots — Her 13, CVC 3; Corner kicks — Her 2, CVC 13; Saves — Her 1 (Muller), CVC 8 (Maddie Keck).


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Q: Python: order of elements is wrong for dict I've the following code:
tweet = {"user" : "joelgrus", "text" : "Data Science is Awesome", "retweet_count" : 100}

print "tweet:", tweet

The output after running the script is:
tweet: {'text': 'Data Science is Awesome', 'retweet_count': 100, 'user': 'joelgrus'}

Why is the order of the elements (seemingly) wrong? I thought the output should just be:
tweet: {'user': 'joelgrus', 'text': 'Data Science is Awesome', 'retweet_count': 100}

A: Dictionaries do not keep their lists in order: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#typesmapping
Theres a note on the page that explains:

CPython implementation detail: Keys and values are listed in an
  arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python
  implementations, and depends on the dictionary's history of insertions
  and deletions.

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A Son of Man: La maldición del tesoro de Atahualpa es una película drama y aventura ecuatoriana del 2018 dirigida por Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador y codirigida por Pablo Agüero. Está protagonizada por Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador y Boloña, Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador y Campodónico y Lily Van Ghemen.

La cinta tomó 11 años en realizarse y fue filmada en locaciones inexploradas de Ecuador, utilizando prototipos de cámaras (inspirados por drones).

Fue propuesta por Ecuador como candidata al Óscar a la categoría Mejor película de habla no inglesa en la edición 91° de los Premios de la Academia.

Sinopsis
Tras la muerte de su abuelo, Pipe, un adolescente ecuatoriano que ha sido criado en Estados Unidos recibe una carta de su padre, Luis Felipe, quien le pide que regrese a Ecuador y se una a él en una expedición para buscar el tesoro perdido de los Incas. Pipe acepta y junto a un peculiar grupo de expedicionarios, entre los que se encuentra Lily, la misteriosa novia de Luis Felipe, se internan en los Llanganates, donde vivirán una experiencia que cambiará por completo el rumbo de sus vidas.

Reparto

Premios y nominaciones

En 2019, el filme fue seleccionado para representar oficialmente a Ecuador en la categoría de Mejor Película Internacional de la edición 91 de los Premios Oscar, además, fue nominado en importantes festivales de cine de Europa y América del Norte, obteniendo varios galardones, entre ellos: El Gran Premio del Festival de Rhode Island (USA) y el Premio al Mejor Documental del Festival de Terra Di Sienna (Italia).

Precuela

En una entrevista publicada por El Universo, el director de la película, Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador, aseguró que se encontraba produciendo la precuela de la cinta. "A Son of Man: la historia del cazador" es el título provisional del largometraje, con el que busca revelar el trasfondo de los personajes presentados en la primera parte. Llegaría a las salas de cine en 2020.

Récord
Un hito importante de la película es que se mantuvo por 15 semanas consecutivas en carteleras de Ecuador, convirtiéndose así en el primer filme de cine independiente en alcanzar este récord en el país.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial de A Son of Man
 Tráiler oficial de A Son of Man

Películas en español
Películas de Ecuador
Películas dramáticas de los años 2010
Películas de 2018

Películas rodadas en Ecuador
Películas dramáticas
Películas dramáticas de Ecuador
Películas de aventuras
Cine de aventuras de los años 2010
Películas de Ecuador presentadas para el Óscar a la mejor película internacional

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STRANGERS IN THE NIGHTSEASON
BY NICOLE GHAPGHARAN
Nightseason, the independent duo composed of drummer/producer Patrick Zeinali and singer/guitarist Jordan Caiola, debuted their music like any other artists would, for the most part. Interestingly, the pair didn't meet until after they finished writing their first EP, and even then it was via email. In an attempt to find a voice fit for his vision, Zeinali searched through Spotify until he came across indie-rock band Mo Lowda and The Humble. Caiola's soulful, howling pipes struck Zeinali as the missing link, and once the two found common ground between painful breakups, living on opposite coasts couldn't hinder their chemistry.
Caiola's raw vocals, combined with Zeinali's electro-infused alt-rock/ambient-pop production has made waves in the music scene, bending genres and drawing in comparisons to alt-J, Sir Sly and NomBe. The duo made a sizeable impression after their first release, "Calm My Mind," which held the #1 position on HypeMachine.
"Strangers"—the first single off their forthcoming EP—dropped 6/29 and has undoubtedly earned a permanent spot on my own playlist. Caiola explains, "[The track] revolves around the concept that two people who could eventually end up in a very intimate, meaningful (or sometimes superficial and fleeting) relationship at some point... always start the same way - as strangers."
Fans can expect the arrival of the five-track EP later this year. In the meantime, you can follow Nightseason on Spotify and stay up to date with any future releases through their Facebook.


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The Elements of a Strong Inbound Marketing Strategy
The Elements of a Strong
Inbound Marketing Strategy
Are you a huge fan of cold calls? What about the marketing emails — that you never signed up for — invading your inbox? TV commercials in the middle of your favorite show? Unless it's the Super Bowl, these marketing messages tend to be frowned upon or ignored rather than delightfully consumed.
Most people that I know record TV programs solely so they can fast forward through the commercials. My TV capabilities are less sophisticated, but I typically use commercials to brush my teeth or clean the kitchen. I'm already on a "do not cold call list" with Verizon, and marketing emails are unsubscribed from more often than read. Non-remarketing display ads (i.e. the banner or sidebar ads we see when scanning websites) are clicked on an average of only 0.2%, according to Double Click. All of these methods fall under the family of "outbound marketing." Shockingly enough, these disruptive outbound techniques convert at a much lower rate than inbound marketing strategies, where someone chooses to engage with your brand and actively seeks you out.
Inbound strategies are all about being found naturally rather than aggressively pursuing leads through in-your-face tactics. Which person do you think would be more likely to buy a house? A. The person who received a message saying "Buy this house!" or B. The person who searched for and found the perfect house on their own? We both know the clear winner, which is inbound. "Imagine a popup ad (outbound) vs. a funny infographic you chose to look at (inbound)," says Marketo's Johnny Cheng. "Data clearly shows that people who choose to interact with your brand naturally convert higher." Take a look at this conversion rate data by acquisition channel — inbound strategies have one of the highest rates, at almost 4%.
Inbound marketing strategy data proving the effectiveness of inbound on conversion rates
Convinced that inbound marketing strategies kick ass for driving targeted leads and sales? Here are the 5 elements of a strong inbound marketing strategy, which you should be using!
SEO (search engine optimization) is a hard-to-control, waste-of-time tactic, right? Wrong: SEO is the process of optimizing your website's content and structure for search in order to receive organic placements on the search engine results pages or SERPS. Having a quality website and content optimized for SEO ensures that Google's web-crawling technology is able to identify and index your site's content to have it appear for free to people searching. SEO is a critical part of your inbound strategy because if you can't be found, then you're not going to get business.
When SEO comes to mind I think keywords, code, website structure, link-building, and then my head starts spinning. SEO can actually get very complicated, quickly, so what should you be focusing on to get started? Start by identifying and utilizing the most important keywords to your leads. Of course you want to ensure these keywords have high enough search volume and user intent to attract the most relevant audience. "There are many aspects of SEO, from the words on your page to the way other sites link to you on the web. Sometimes SEO is simply the matter of making sure your site is structured in a way that search engines understand," explains Moz. I'm not an SEO guru by any means. Luckily, there's a plethora of free resources online so I'd recommend hoping over to Moz and our own SEO basics guide to get started.
Now we're speaking my language! You might be thinking, wait — PPC is a paid tactic and aren't paid strategies against the inbound methodology? Wrong! Paid search is technically still part of the inbound marketing family since search ads appear when a user is actively searching for something, therefore PPC ads are not interrupting another activity. Not all aspects of PPC will quality as inbound (like display ads), but ads on the search network are certainly one of the strongest elements of a strong inbound strategy, because search queries show so much intent.
So, how is PPC different then SEO? With paid ads you're paying for the placements on the SERPs rather than appearing organically. Why pay when you can appear organically? For multiple reasons… With SEO:
You have far less control over when and how you appear on the search results page
A tweak in the algorithms can ruin your organic visibility
Seeing results often takes a long time (and isn't guaranteed!)
With paid search you're able to pay for the top placements where people are more likely to see your ads, and bid on specific keywords to attract qualified visitors. You have the control to adjust your budget, pause your ads during irrelevant times, target mobile searchers, easily measure your ROI, and the list goes on. Moral of the story is that you should be doing both SEO and PPC to get the highest volume and quality of leads.
You wouldn't have guests over and not serve a cocktail, right? The same goes for leads! Now that you've warmly welcomed them in the door through PPC and/or SEO you need to provide them something to drink, aka content. Oftentimes marketers think of content as the sole component to inbound marketing strategy, and while it's certainly not the only aspect, it is a very critical one. Without fresh and useful content there is no chance of keeping and converting your leads. Your content should come in multiple forms with the goal of helping your audience answer a question or solve a problem.
The key to content marketing is that your content needs to stand out. "Your content must be remarkable enough to break through the clutter. It's not enough to just produce content," says Entrepreneur's Murray Newlands. "Your content must educate, inspire or entertain your audience."
So, where to start?
Create a blog:
You should already know this, but a quality blog is one of the most effective ways to market a business. Blogging will help you attract new visitors, gain returning visitors, and convince warmer leads. A blog is a hub to keep your audience informed and prove that you're a thought-leader in your industry. Here at WordStream, our blog accounts for more than half our total traffic!
Create guides, e-books, and other downloadable content:
This will help your nurture your leads with longer-form content where you can sell how your products or services will help them.
Gather customer testimonials and create case studies:
Case studies and customer testimonials will help convince leads that are further down the funnel. Hearing from someone like them will instill trust and up the chances of conversion.
Create a content calendar:
To ensure you stay on top of publishing fresh content regularly.
So you've created phenomenal content, published it on your site, and now you're lounging on your beach chair enjoying a glass of wine? Well, you're certainly not going to get profitable results with that attitude. You NEED to be attracting new and returning readers by sharing and promoting your content on social media. Creating the content is only a small piece of the puzzle. Ensuring the content reaches relevant people is where social comes in. This is inbound marketing because only people who want to see your content will follow your brand, and it's a great way to "subsidize" your organic traffic if you don't have great rankings yet.
Nowadays, anyone who's anyone is on social media, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vine, Instagram, or Periscope; your audience is likely on multiple of these channels. Determining which platforms are most relevant to your buyer personas in a task in itself, but I can guarantee that several of your leads are spending a significant chunk of their time-consuming content through their personal social channels. Spend time creating a social media promotion plan to distribute your content to the right people, analyzing your top performing content, and paying to promote and gain even more traffic to the content that's resonating with your audience.
Your landing page is where your leads land after clicking on your call-to-action (another important element of your inbound marketing strategy). Whether it be a product page, a form fill-out to download a whitepaper, or a subscription service page, you need to ensure your landing page is top-notch unless you'd like to jeopardize potential conversions from coming in. Some important elements to keep in mind…
Relevancy:
You need to make sure that the landing page is relevant to the call-to-action. For example, if your visitor lands on your page from a paid search ad advertising birthday cakes, you wouldn't send them to a landing page selling Christmas cookies, right?
What is the goal of your landing page? Is it to "Sign Up for this E-Newsletter!" or "Download this Guide Today"? Make your landing page's purpose singular. Ensure the CTA is big, prevalent, and above the fold. Also make sure to restrict the navigation to other pages and keep forms short.
This is a major component of keeping visitors engaged. Using videos or images, testimonials, and trust signals are all design elements that can help improve the conversion rates of your landing pages. Run A/B tests to decide on the best designs for your landing pages.
Bonus Inbound Marketing Tip: Remarketing
Once a lead has visited your site, expressed interest in your content, products or offerings, you need a strategy in place to keep them engaged. One of the most effective tactics? Remarketing. Tactic cookies your site visitors and follows them around the web with ads reminding them to come back. Remarketing can be set in a variety of ways. For instance, you can remarket to anyone who visited your site, show a specific ad to visitors who went to a certain page (or a set of pages), or even an ad to someone who has placed items in a shopping cart but hasn't converted.
My older sister called me the other day blown away when she saw an ad on Facebook of the exact dress she was just looking at on Nordstrom's website. Yes, she is a stay-at-home mom who's a bit disconnected from the marketing world, but it just proves that this tactic resonates with shoppers. Remarketing says "Hey there, remember us? Are you still interested?," which is why the tactic is considered a member of the inbound family since the shopper has already expressed interest. Covering these five elements will provide a solid infrastructure for a killer inbound marketing strategy.
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Public meetings suggested on future business development
County Commissioners are asking the Industrial Development Board
to host public meetings to gather citizen input about the county's industrial/business development future.Meeting Monday, the group postponed a vote on another motion setting a joint meeting on the same issue that would bring together Commission, IDB, the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Alliance, and others.The search for a way forward comes in the wake of a failed attempt by the IDB to interest Commission in purchasing industrial land in White Pine.
The motion for public meetings came from Commissioner David Seal, who has been calling for a "bottom-up" approach to industrial/business development. His motion, seconded by Commissioner John McGraw, asks the IDB to hold public meetings to gather input before proposing any other projects. Since projects have an impact on local quality of life and could be paid for by taxpayer funds, citizens "deserve to have direct input," his resolution states.Commissioner David Gaut told the group that Chamber representatives have indicated they can also help facilitate "town hall" style meetings. Chairman Jimmy Carmichael said he will work with the IDB, Chamber, and EDA to help set them up.
Last month, the IDB's proposal to spend $2 million for 216 acres in White Pine failed, with only a couple of Commissioners voting in favor. Residents in the area of the proposed commerce park opposed it, calling the proposal a gamble with taxpayer money that would be unlikely to pay off.The Board has been trying to find industrial land Commission will buy for over a decade. Back in 2011, they brought three parcels for consideration but were told to continue working. After that, an ambitious plan for an industrial "megasite the junction of Interstates 81 and 40 fell apart in the face of resident opposition.
The debate over the county's industrial future continued during Monday's regular Commission session. A vote on Commissioner Russell Turner's plan for a joint work session was postponed until June on motions from Commissioners Terry Dockery and John Neal Scarlett. Turner said he believes such a meeting can provide a "frame of reference" along with public input sessions — but Dockery and others said they want public input first in the process.
Turner said he feels public input was included in the White Pine proposal from the beginning. The IDB and Town of White Pine hosted town hall meetings about it, and a White Pine survey in 2014 showed that 80 percent of citizens favor industrial development, he said, adding that the project received support from White Pine Council.
Commissioner Rita Musick said the survey involved city residents only – while the project was to occur partially on county land.Citizens continued to give their input on the industrial issue during the comment section of Monday's meeting.David Nelson suggested that something is "out of sync" about the process when a project receives only a ten percent vote of Commission. He suggested a "walk before you run" approach using smaller tracts of land for business development.
Shonda Griffin, one of the White Pine residents who opposed the commerce park plan, said she is "thrilled" to hear officials welcoming citizen input and looking in other directions besides heavy industry. Ruth Gerard said she believes the town hall meetings should be held on all sides of the county. David Gerard told the group he believes greater scrutiny of its spending on the Economic Development Alliance is needed.
"Over $1 million has been spent over eight years, yet we have yet to see anything profitable come out of it,"
• Approved a rezoning request from John Hunt and Charlotte Lynn Morgan for property on Chestnut Hill Road. The zoning will change from A-1 (agricultural) to R-R (rural resort). The owners have plans for a marina and cabins on about 40 acres adjacent to Douglas Lake.
• Approved a resolution requesting the governor and state legislature to uphold an article of the state constitution which recognizes the only legal marital contract as between one man and one woman. The resolution passed 15-2, with Commissioners McGraw and Rob Blevins voting "no," and Seal abstaining. The resolution was introduced by Commissioner Bob Beeler at the request of Greeneville attorney Jeff Cobble, who told the group last week that he believes the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex should be nullified.
What's keeping cryptocurrencies from mass adoption?
Speculators flocked to Bitcoin and many of the alt-coins in hopes of getting in early and making a big exit, but everyday users haven't warmed to cryptocurrencies.
There are many reasons why, but one of the largest barriers to mainstream adoption is the price volatility of cryptocurrencies.
So the question is, why do the prices change so much in the first place? It comes down to supply and demand: Most cryptocurrencies have only a fixed total supply, and yet demand for the coins is uncertain and constantly fluctuating thanks to speculation.
Of course, it's easy enough to talk about the problem — coming up with a solution is quite another matter.
Why is Stability So Important?
The need for stability is not unique to cryptocurrency. Any currency needs to be stable in order to be used as a trusted medium of exchange. The more that prices rise and fall, the more ordinary people will shy away from using the coins for everyday transactions.
Whether they hoard the coins in the hope that prices will rise sharply soon, or they avoid using them altogether for fear that they will lose all of their value, people are not yet accustomed to seeing cryptocurrency as real money.
Worse, the unpredictability of prices wreaks havoc on regular money services, like remittance, currency conversion, and the use of ATMs. In order to use cryptocurrencies, businesses have to hedge their risks by charging exorbitant fees.
Bitcoin ATMs can charge up to 15% just to convert to fiat currency. This totally defeats the original purpose of cryptocurrencies, which was to offer a cheaper and more flexible alternative to other payment methods. With no advantage over government-printed money, why would the average person use them?
Patience is a Virtue
Price volatility has plagued Bitcoin from nearly the beginning. With what we have learned over the better part of a decade, why have cryptocurrencies still not solved this problem of fluctuating prices?
Human nature gets in the way, as it tends to do. It is difficult to stabilize prices in a world where people would rather play the market and get instant gratification by re-selling their coins for as high a price as possible. Without careful planning from the very onset of a cryptocurrency's existence, it's hard to recover from the effects of speculation.
Phase 1: Building a Stable Ecosystem
When building a cryptocurrency from scratch, you first need a solid foundation. From this foundation, the currency can grow and self-correct as it develops.
Gauging Demand
The first piece of the puzzle is being able to reliably predict demand. Uncertainty around demand is the main cause of price fluctuation, as every user's intentions are a mystery to every other user. Having a way to gauge real demand for a coin would go a long way in fixing this problem.
The issue with predicting demand, though, is the existence of speculators creating artificial demand. This is the core of the problem: With so much speculation, the price for the cryptocurrency will not reflect its actual usage and demand. It simply becomes a bubble that is constantly on the verge of bursting, and no one wants to risk their hard-earned money on that.
Traditionally, the solution to the problem of stability was to have a central bank. The government could then alter the money supply at will, for example by causing inflation. Cryptocurrencies are by definition decentralized — that is part of their advantage — and without a central bank they need an entirely new approach when it comes to squashing volatility. They need to do this without compromising the freedom of the users and without resorting to inflation.
Cooperation Over Competition: A Decentralized Community
What if there was a currency that encouraged people to cooperate? What if people were incentivized by a spirit of growth, rather than of greed? Under the ideal model, a network of cooperative businesses and services would coordinate with each other as a single unit. The coin would be shaped democratically by this co-op (shaped not controlled). Every user would have incentives to help the network grow as a whole, and the use of a blockchain would help make the process fair.
Instead of rampant online speculation, users would visit local exchanges to buy and sell the currency. The community as a whole would vote on when to increase the coin's price, which would keep things democratic and guard against sharp spikes.
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Let's Want to Close the Knowledge Gap on Crypto Currency
Let's Want to Close the Knowledge Gap on Crypto Currency
Cryptocurrency trading has become a way of life
In Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Cryptocurrency trading has become a way of life, but that is not the case in Nigeria and other African countries. In this interview, the Chief Executive and Principal Consultant, Crypto Plus Certified, Mr. Peter Ayoade Moradeyo tells Ndubuisi Francis that his company is poised to close the knowledge gap with the ultimate goal of enlisting Nigeria on the global cryptocurrency exchange.
What is a good way to concisely explain Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies?
The success story of Cryptocurrency dates back to 2009, during the financial breakout, when Bitcoin was formed on blockchain technology. Bitcoin was first introduced in Asian countries and gradually to Europe, US etc. It is needful to clarify however, that the blockchain technology is not the same thing as Bitcoin; the relationship between them is only that Bitcoin is deployed on the blockchain technology. Interestingly, Bitcoin seems to be more popular today than the platform on which it stands. Now, there are two things which distinguish Cryptocurrency from the normal currencies.
The first is that it is finite. It has a fixed number that can be taken off and immediately that happens, its value shoots up and we all know that anything that can finish naturally increases in value as it is being taken up. So, as the world gradually adopts cryptocurrency, the available number reduces and value automatically drives upwards, causing it to grow dynamically in value. That explains why Bitcoin has been able to grow like that since 2009.
The second thing is that cryptocurrency has intrinsic value or what some call store of value. Let me explain it this way: each copy of a coin is an address, a location on the blockchain. When one address belongs to a person, that address cannot belong to another person in any part of the world. This is unlike the fiat counterpart where any money reading on a person's bank account means that the bank owes the account holder to the tune of the said amount, but not necessarily that money is the account holder's to cash at any time. This is why sometimes the banks would tell an account holder that they do not have enough cash to complete a transaction. The case of the blockchain is different because the value is intrinsic and better preserved.
What is the function of CryptoPlus Certified?
Since 2009, Bitcoin and several other alt coins have been coming up. Alt coins are referred to as alternative coins to Bitcoin which is the first and most popular of them all. At a point, we realized there was an opportunity where Bitcoin and other coins can relate in value; there is value relativity between them. So, we started by trading Cryptocurrency. I can recall that sometime in 2015, there was an upsurge of certain Ponzis in Nigeria. Nigerians sustained the following of Ponzis until it became almost endemic. Unfortunately, very few Nigerians knew about the very essence of the medium of transfer which Bitcoin was during the transaction of these Ponzis. Bitcoin was only used because it did not need a third party like banks to facilitate a transaction between the Ponzis and their victims. So, the Ponzis took advantage of their patronage, cashing in on the anonymity of transaction which was part of the features of cryptocurrency. What was supposed to have been an advantage became a disadvantage because of the ignorance of Nigerians.
Someone needed to educate Nigerians appropriately as to what cryptocurrency really meant and what disruption it was meant to address. So, we now came up because before now, we had a deep background on its trading. We decided to reappraise the image of Cryptocurrency as it were in Nigeria.
Also, at several conferences we have been all over the world, we realised that Africans are non-existent on several cryptocurrency trading platforms. Just like we have the Nigerian Stock Exchange with several companies trading on its platform, there are also several participating bodies that trade value among us. The sad thing here is that Africans are non-existent on any Cryptocurrency exchange whether in US, Asia or Europe. This is also true when one considers Cryptocurrency graph. The Asians are up there; Europe and America are there too, but Africa is non- existent. Our function at Crypto Plus Certified is basically to close the knowledge gap so that people can take advantage available and then Nigeria can be enlisted on what we call the global Cryptocurrency exchange.
We trace the current state of Cryptocurrency trading to a slowness of adoption. The federal government is yet to adopt a framework for the implementation of blockchain that can give rise to participation. Several countries have done that but for some reasons it has not happened in Nigeria.
You have a dream to raise and establish 1,000 Nigerians on the Poloniex Exchange. What is the implementation plan put in place to achieve this and why the choice of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt?
We need to make it clear that Nigeria is a country with many opportunities. We also need to state that Bitcoin came into Nigeria with a wrongly perceived image, and on the wrong platform. So, our first goal is to take the responsibility to repair that image, and then reappraise the benefits and enlist Nigeria as a participator in the normal trading of Cryptocurrency.
In order to achieve that, we launched what we called, 'Dream 1000'. It is all about trading on Poloniex which is the largest Crypto exchange in America and we are currently working with them on releasing a mobile platform strictly for Nigerians and it will work as an arbitrage with our own exchange which will come from Germany. We want to work as an arbitrage so that they will trade on our own platform via the mobile interface. Nigerians can be taught on how to trade this currency easily, and our strategy is very unique because the mobile application is actually enhanced to be able to reduce all the variables of a trading system. Since we launched the 'Dream 1000' recently in Lagos, we have had some of our students who were able to distinguish themselves with the level of knowledge we passed to them and they are going to show Nigerians that we are serious about what we are here to do.
How has the response been like?
I grew up in Nigeria before I decided to relate with other countries for business reasons. One thing I know about Nigerians is that they respond to results. So, the first thing we want to identify is, we want to be able to have people who have had results and that is why all the events we have done, we have been showcasing people that distinguished themselves, those that we gave the knowledge and they applied it and got results. We want to be inspired by results and not just belief.
Can Bitcoin be regulated? What about Bitcoin and taxes?
Those conversant with information coming out of crypto plus certified would have noticed that Nigeria is currently on a discourse on how to regulate Cryptocurrency trading based on several frameworks. I have several write-ups regarding this. Cryptocurrency trading as it were is decentralized and this is why the banking system cannot operate it. It is decentralized because of its nature. For instance, Bitcoin as it were, does not have a management interface and that is why the regulation has not been somewhat forthcoming. But it is found to be very secured and has an ability to store values. That has been the reason for all the inquiries on how do we have a framework for a kind of currency that has thus kind of features? Sometimes, it takes time, but individuals are working and several people have stored values on it and exchanged it with another. The US is an example where Poloniex is operating. So looking at it more objectively, the regulatory framework and the operational climate go hand in hand but they can be mutually exclusive.
Bringing it to a layman's understanding, what are the advantages of Bitcoin and how does Bitcoin work?
In a layman's way, I would like to use the similitude of changing one currency to another, for instance. If you have some Naira notes and you want to change to Dollar, knowing the exchange rate that relates one to the other will be very helpful. Now to a layman if I bring my Naira and want to buy a Dollar, I will change the Naira to a Dollar based on the foreign exchange rate agreed between the person selling the Dollar and myself. Now imagine where you have the Bureau de Change in the middle and you have the buyer, that is, the demand, on one side and the supplier on the other side; that is the way it works. The person at the middle collects commissions from two persons. The buyer sells at a price based on demand and supply. So, if the demand is higher than supply, the price is likely to go up. If I'm able to read that the demand and price for a thing I bought and own have gone up and I sell it, now the difference between what I bought and what I am selling now that the price has gone up is my own profit. That is the basic analysis of how it works.
Demand for Cryptocurrency…what are your training modules like? The fee, process, and duration?
Training is 30 days and we have a huge demand for it and because of this, we have set up world class training hubs in the three geopolitical zones Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. So, demand is already there. We have a structure that accommodates different levels of trading — the strategic portfolio building and robotics. Our modules cover; Introduction to Cryptocurrency Trading — CPC 101, Cryptocurrency Masterclass — Advanced Trading CPC 102, Trading Engaging Robotics — CPC 103. People are already aware of what Cryptocurrency is; it will be wrong for us to say that people are not aware of it. The only thing is that there is a knowledge gap on how to use it and take advantage of the value in it, and that is what we are trying to close up.
Is there any risk attached to Cryptocurrency… Is Bitcoin legal? And how secure is Bitcoin?
The idea of trading Cryptocurrency and the national legal framework is mutually exclusive. Trading on Cryptocurrency can be done when someone knows how to handle it. The reason for the legal framework is to protect the participators because when there is no third party that puts power in the hands of those that know the 'Whats' and 'Hows'. Bitcoin is safe and this knowledge is out there. You are your own bank. Records are protected by mathematical laws and are irreversible. The Blockchain technology protects its addresses and have histories on an open ledger, and is always available and transparent for anyone to confirm.
ETHBITS Gets Green Light for New Copy Trading Cryptocurrency Exchange
Cryptocurrency exchange provider Ethbits has reached its minimum funding goal signaling that development on a new iTrade platform will now begin. The UK-based company has already built a peer to peer Cryptocurrency exchange, called Ethbits Local, to facilitate secure trades between people from bank accounts to cryptocurrency. Ethbits Local will offer the ability to trade face-to-face across a range of cryptocurrencies, a unique feature that is in high demand.
Given the current success of the crowd sale, Ethbits Local will now start development of Ethbits iTrade, an exciting new cryptocurrency exchange which will not only act as a standard exchange but also has a copy trade feature, where new traders can copy professionals and experienced traders can gain followers to maximize their profits. Ethbits Local will launch in May, immediately after the crowd sale ends followed closely by iTrade.
"Reaching our Minimum goal within the 1st week is super exciting, as a result the copy trading exchange is now in development. We are at the start of something ground breaking in the crypto world and the more support we can get, the faster we can grow and the more rewards we can generate for the token holders. We will now implement provably fair profit sharing to ensure the continued confidence in our company." Monty Singh, CEO, Ethbits LIMITED
Support for the platform has been strong with 300 contributors acquiring Ethbits (ETB) tokens. ETB gives the holder access to up to 40% of gross profit from trading fees, depending on how much is raised by the end of the crowdsale. ETB tokens can also be used to pay for transaction fees on the exchange ensuring the volume of the token remains a high as possible, driving both of the platforms. iTrade will launch with the top 15 cryptocurrencies on offer with plans to diversify further as the exchange grows.
Ethbits has just announced that it will partner with BCB ATM — an expanding Bitcoin ATM service based in the UK. Ethbits iTrade platform will be linked to BCB ATM's to help people find crypto traders in their local area. The crowdfund will run until 13th May at 5pm UTC. To get involved visit a website. Participants will receive 100 ETB for 1 ETH until Saturday 22nd April when the price will increase.
Cryptocurrency explainer: Everything you need to know
Cryptocurrency explainer:
Everything you need to know CryptoCurrency Bitcoin Stack
If you've ever had a company or friend offer to pay you with Bitcoins or another type of digital money, you've encountered cryptocurrency, also called crypto-money or cryptoassets. Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that is created through the use of encryption software. This approach is a solution to security and control issues that prevented a purely digital currency from being successfully developed in the past. If you hear someone talking about one of these currencies, it's almost certainly in a cryptocurrency format. This type of digitally created and secured money is currently in a period of very cool experimentation, so let's take a look at how it work, why it's popular, and where cryptocurrency is heading in the future.
How does cryptocurrency work?
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How does a currency exist in a totally digital format? What is it based on? While the process varies a little between different cryptocurrencies, they all follow the same general system. First, cryptocurrency chooses a base unit and how much that particular unit is worth when compared to other currencies (often, the U.S. dollar is used as a baseline). Some cryptocurrencies are more imaginative than others at this point. They try to represent debt registries, contracts, or the act of currency exchange itself. It can get a little weird, but ultimately the unit in some way relates to the value of other currency, as is true of all currencies in the world.
Units of cryptocurrency are then created, typically when a transaction occurs. The units are carefully formed and preserved through algorithmic encryption, then linked together in vast chains of data, where the currency can be tracked and exchanged. However, at this point, cryptocurrency is still too vulnerable and too easy to fake. The currency units need to be time stamped processed to make them more concrete and harder to copy. A third party developer can do this, but most cryptocurrencies prefer to crowdsource the process to those with the right hardware and software to "mine" the currency.
Mining uses algorithms to go through each transaction, encrypt the cryptocurrency, and add it to a digital ledger, essentially verifying it and cementing its position online. This process may also be referred to as "consensus protocols" or "consensus platforms," depending on the currency. This process is meant to make the currency impossible to duplicate, though whether it's successful is up for some debate. Some cryptocurrencies are highly centralized, with someone — usually the organization that created the process/software — making decisions about how much currency is created and how it is used. Other types are very decentralized, controlled only by how and where people are willing to use them.
Weekly Round-Up and Cryptocurrency Markets Update
Weekly Round-Up and
Cryptocurrency Markets Update
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a deal with the Ukranian government to put the latter's data on a Blockchain platform. The deal will ensure blockchain recordings for areas like public health and services, state registers, energy and social security. In a twist, High Tech Private Equity Fund SICAV plc is reported to have acquired nChain, a Blockchain company associated with Wright Craig, the man who once claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. The company plans to make available their intellectual property assets to the blockchain community via royalty-free licensing and open sourcing.
An initial Coin Offer intended for mining activities to support the signaling of Bitcoin Unlimited has been halted as a result of not reaching its goal. The ICO was allegedly linked to Chinese Angel Investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum Classic, Chandler Guo. On the Bitcoin Network scaling front, the world's largest Bitcoin mining pool, F2Pool has declared its support for Segwit. Wang Chun, Owner of F2Pool revealed on Friday that 56 percent of his network members are in support of Segwit.
Eventually, the advent toward mainstream adoption of blockchain gets after Mark Carney, Bank of England's Governor, claimed blockchain technology can save banks tens of billions of dollars a year. The governor was speaking International Fintech Conference last week in London, where he further revealed that the next generation of Britain's interbank wire system will be blockchain-compatible.
Market Updates (as of Monday)
Bitcoin's current price recovery
is outstanding despite the fact that the scaling debate is still raging on. Some experts believe it is being driven by mainstream adoption in Japan. As at 22:00 GMT, Bitcoin has appreciated by 0.22 percentage point and its market value was $1180.73 maintaining the number one position on CoinMarketCap. Ethereum is still holding on to the 2nd spot and has kept the velocity from the current altcoin rally although it lost 0.82 percent today. Its market price was $48.49.
After a stratospheric rise that resulted in Ripple ousting Dash from number three, it has slow down to some degree. The cross-border transfer crypto with KYC was selling at $0.033308 with a 1.33 percent downward adjustment. The battle for number four is so titanic. For three days now, Litecoin and Dash has been dislodging each other to take over momentarily. However, at the time of filing this report, Dash was reigning with a 0.21 percent depreciation, posting an exchange rate of $75.23. Litecoin also took a fall of 1.02% and was being sold for $10.71. It must be stated that the decision to implement Segwit has boosted its price and market cap.
Even though Monero was recently indicted in a finding that found out that some of its transactions are traceable, it doesn't seem to be affected much and is still at the 6th position. It scored a negative 1.76 percentage point and the exchanges listed it for $20.38. Moreso Ethereum didn't have a good time either. At number seven, it could be bought for $2.65 and dip 0.42 percent. With a market price of $0.024212 and 0.48 percent upward gain, NEM kept its 8th position intact. The consistency for the Smart Contract platform is impressive.
Angur with the selling rate of $11.52 and a 2.55 percent upward adjustment maintained number 9 as well as the biggest gain on top 10. In a surprising move, PIVX has pushed Maidsafecoin to the 11th position and it is now counted among the top 10 Cryptos on CoinMarketCap. This anon digital currency in a few months has established itself among the elites. It bagged a 0.93 percent growth and its price was $2.01.
Gainers And Losers
On the top 20,
Factom rose by a significant 14.37 percent. It is one of the Cryptos below top 10 that must be watched keenly. Sadly Bitconnect which was at top 10 briefly on Wednesday fell negative 26.63 percent to be the biggest loser.
ICO Report: iEx.ec
The iEx.ec project
is all about connecting Blockchain technology and cloud computing business. It aims to create a decentralized cloud and set up a marketplace for computing resources. Its founders conducted numerous scientific research over the years at prominent research institutions, such as the French INRIA and CNRS. The team has a step-by-step plan for the four years ahead. iEx.ec will rely on a set of its own technological solutions. However, the team has not done a lot of dissemination work till recently. Its track record on Github is quite modest. So the question remains open, whether the iEx.ec technological base is as good as they claim it to be.
Konstantin Lomashuk, CEO of Satoshi.Fund:
"The market of cloud computing is huge and we will see more and more new companies aiming at it. It's really good for the decentralized ecosystem."
iEx.ec stands for "I Execute". Headquartered in Lyon, France, the project was created in October 2016. It is a spin-off company from INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science. iEx.ec aims at starting off as a fully distributed Blockchain-based cloud platform. It is designed for distributed Blockchain-based applications (DApps) with plans to evolving into a market network for decentralized computing products and services. In total, their five editions of the project planned within four years from the launch date. The last outlined edition will represent a fully distributed platform for Blockchain computing.
Potential market
The iEx.ec market network will be designed for various participants of the distributed computing ecosystem. It will enable them to do business with each other to better monetize their products and services. Each new version of the network will be updated to host new types of participants:
DApps providers (version 1)
application and server providers (version 2)
data providers (version 3)
mining farms, miners, GPU apps providers (version 4)
emerging classes of applications (version 5)
at this stage, iEx.ec also plans to partner with telecom companies, attracting the latter, among other, with the possibility to halve their infrastructure costs, distributing small data centers along their network point-of-presence
The market network is to provide its users with
full traceability and trust
a wide range of customers and, consequently, new markets
an innovative Blockchain-based environment, tailored for its users' features and needs
The project's closest challenger is the Golem Network. It is a decentralized economy of computing power, where one can rent it out or develop and sell software. As pointed out in iEx.ec whitepaper, the key difference between the two is that Golem, with its supercomputer, focuses mainly on High-Performance Computing (HPC) users, while iEx.ec, with its decentralized cloud, will first attract DApps and expect Cloud and HPC users to join later when the Network will evolve becoming more competitive. The economy of DApps is on the rise now, and iEx.ec seems to fit perfectly in it.
Desktop Grid Software XtremWeb-HEP, to enable use of any computing resources to execute compute- or data-intensive applications
Blockchain, to coordinate the access of computing resources to distributed apps
Claim of Proof-of-Contribution consensus protocol, to certify off chain contributions directly on the Blockchain
Matchmaking smart contracts, to pair a resource request with a resource offer according to their description
Simplified version of a multicriteria scheduler [MulticritSched], to enable customers to define their own preferences based on specific criteria
Market management framework, including API to register bids, a set of template contracts, a web user interface and JavaScript code
Result checking algorithm, including escrow mechanisms and a reputation system, to choose business partners from the market based on their provable reputation and on the established budget
Native RLC token, to pay for Application, Server and Data providers on the market network
The core team members, including Gilles Fedak, Haiwu He, Oleg Lodygensky, and Mircea Moca, have an impressive research and development background in big data, grid and cloud computing. Gilles Fedak alone co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers. The core features underlying the iEx.ec are their own developments. They were produced in the scope of their work at INRIA and CNRS. The team is also linked with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Blockchain part is done by two experts from La Javaness, a French digital innovation accelerator. There are also a data management expert, the Energy Positive Server developer, two PR specialists and a new media expert based in the company's China office. In the future, the team considers collaborating with several well-known European and Chinese universities in research. It also intends to obtain complementary funding through national and European research agencies.
ICO Details
Launch: 19 April, 2017 at 13:00 UTC
End: as soon as the max cap of 60.000.000 RLC is reached (otherwise — in 30 days)
Max RLC total supply: 87,000,000 RLC
Max RLC sold by crowdsale: 60,000,000 RLC
RLC minimum objective: 10,000,000 RLC
Both BTC and ETH are accepted
1 BTC = 5000 RLC
USD/ETH — to be defined at the start of ICO, according to the ETHBTC rate
20% bonus — April 19 to April 29
10% bonus — April 29 to May 9
Crowdsale terms and funding URL: http://crowdsale.iex.ec
Token distribution
Maximum of 60,000,000 RLC — crowdsale
12,000,000 RLC to 15,000,000 RLC — founders, team and early investors
1,700,000 RLC to 6,000,000 RLC — a fund for developers, to be distributed in the form of bounty grants, marketing actions, and research grants
1,700,000 RLC to 6,000,000 RLC — special contingency reserve (not sold on markets)
Trade Coin Club Reviews – Is It A Scam Or A Legitimate Opportunity?
Trade Coin Club Reviews — Is It A Scam Or A Legitimate Opportunity?
I found out about this company called Trade Coin Club as I was surfing the web. This company is a fresh new company and as always, I have decided to have a detailed look at their business.
I am sure if you are like me, many of you would also like to know more about this new venture. Even more so, those of you, who are looking to invest in this web MLM business.
To help you guys, I have spent some time researching and prepared this Trade Coin Club Review. I have divided this into company profile, products, compensation plan and finally my thoughts.
Let's check what I dug up about them!
What Is Trade Coin Club?
Trade Coin Club may very well be the newest of the online bitCoin based MLM business. As for the domain registration, this company just started its operation in November 2016. I am not scared of being involved in a company in its infancy because if it is a good company I can get a head start.
Like most of the online businesses similar to this one, this company does not have any information about the company owners, stakeholders or management teams., however, they are licensed as a legitimate trading platform. Another point to note they offer all trades to be logged and viewed in the back office.
They have registered their domain name for 10 years.
Products Trade Coin Club Offers
Trade Coin Club does not have any physical or digital products to sell or rent.
After becoming an affiliate member, members can sell or promote memberships of Trade Coin Club. Each member is set up with a trading platform that allows them to have their cryptocurrency ie "Bitcoin" traded against the top ten cryptocurrencies. I like this because of the aligator tooth (the up and down price of Bitcoin) this allows members to not really be concerned about the lack of knowledge of trading because it trades on auto-pilot and they choose the level of risk. High, medium, low. More on this later in the study.
The Trade Coin Club Compensation Plan
You can join Trade Coin Club by signing on for one of 3 available investment plans.
Apprentice — Invest 0.25 to 0.99 BTC and receive a 0.35% daily ROI for 8 months
Trader — Invest 1 to 4.99 BTC and receive a 0.4% daily ROI for 12 months
Senior Trader — Invest 5 BTC or more and receive a 0.45% daily ROI for 12 months
However, you have to pay a 25% fee on your earned ROI every four months. So basically, you are actually earning 75% of their promised ROI.
Affiliate members can also earn referral commission on unilevel structure up to level eight. Your unilevel positions can be filled by both your directly sponsored members and their own sponsored members.
Apprentice — 10% on level 1, 3% on level 2, 2% on level 3 and 1% on level 4
Trader — 10% on level 1, 3% on level 2, 2% on level 3 and 1% on levels 4 to 6
Senior Trader — 10% on level 1, 3% on level 2, 2% on level 3 and 1% on levels 4 to 8
When you advance in affiliate ranks you receive rank advancement bonus.
Trader Level 3 — Earn 10 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a Montblanc pen
Trader Level 4 — Earn 50 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a cruise
Trader Level 5 — Earn 100 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive an "international Caribbean travel" cruise
Trader Level 6 — Earn 200 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a Rolex watch
Trader Level 7 — Earn 500 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a Toyota Corolla car
Trader Level 8 — Earn 750 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a BMW 320 car
Trader Level 9 — Earn 1500 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a BMW Z4 car
Trader Level 10 — Earn 5000 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a BMW 18 car
Trader Level 11 — Earn 10,000 BTC or more in monthly binary commissions and receive a Lamborghini Huracan car
They also provide residual commissions on binary compensation structure.
Your downline investment volume will be counted every day on both sides of the binary team and you will be paid commissions on the weaker side of your leg. The amount will be dependent on your rank.
Apprentice — 8% (capped at 2 BTC a day)
Trader — 9% (capped at 10 BTC a day)
Senior Trader — 10% (capped at 15 BTC a day)
Additionally, members can earn recruitment commissions through a 3×12 matrix. When an affiliate fills a matrix position they are paid 0.003 BTC a month, as long as each member continues to pay their monthly fee.
So I have researched results from other existing members. A member that I had talked with has earned a documented 174 Bitcoin since December 24, 2016. They were nice enough to show me in their back office and that they have received full withdrawal after the trade period was over. So I do know at this point this is a real trading platform.
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Cryptocurrencies Surge in Value — Threefold Increase since last year
The combined market value of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies is now $27bn, representing a threefold increase since the start of 2016, with bitcoin miners having earned more than $2bn since trading in the electronic currency began in 2009.
These are some of the findings of a new report the Global cryptocurrency benchmarking study by Dr Garrick Hileman and Michel Rauchs of the University of Cambridge.
The authors note that ten years after the publication of a white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto which led to the creation of bitcoin, the crypto-currency markets now have approximately the same valuation as AirBnB, with the value of individual coins, the total number of users and the number of crypto-currencies in use all rising fast.
The prices of bitcoin and "altcoins" such as dash, monero and ether have all rocketed in price in the last 18 months, more than doubling in the case of bitcoin and with monero worth 16 times more than at the start of 2016.
At the same time, the number of daily bitcoin transactions has risen from 201,595 in Q1 2016 to 286,419 a year later, with the ether being traded more than twice as much reaching 47,792 daily transactions in January-February 2017.
With the future direction of bitcoin uncertain due to arguments about the best way to increase its scalability without centralising power in the hands of a few giant "miners" (generally companies operating a large number of powerful servers that verify transactions on the bitcoin blockchain), alternative currencies such as the ether have risen in importance as a hedge for investors.
The alternative approaches threaten to split bitcoin in two, forking the blockchain. This could create difficulties as there would be two different versions of bitcoin in circulation, and other coins and services built on the bitcoin blockchain and currency exchanges would have to decide which way to go. However, despite the feuding, the price of bitcoin against the US dollar is close to an all-time high.
The transaction fees that miners can earn have risen sharply as the number of transactions, and hence the size of the blockchain, has grown, with users opting to pay more for a quicker transaction time. This has left the big miners with a lot of power and a vested interest in the way bitcoin evolves.
The report estimates the current number of unique actve users of crypto-currency wallets be between 2.9 million and 5.8 million, with between 5.8 million and 11.5 million wallets in active use. The industry is thought to employ around 2,000 people worldwide.
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Through my paintings, I am attempting to redefine an object's natural purpose, placing emphasis on the orchestrated exchange between them. Bathed in light, each one reveals its own mysteries. The details of their surface reveal signs of a life lived: dents, bruises, and more. It is as if they were having a conversation of their own, long before we approached the picture.
The inspiration for this current series of work has to do with various aspects of time (aging, the passing of, the displacement, and reorganization of things.) In most of my works, I present opposing stages of life. The objects are moved from their original growing place and somehow dropped, blown, moved and found their way to a congregated place among the other objects.
From my earliest interest in making images, I was naturally drawn to representation because I see and describe things in vivid pictures. My work is focused on the micro-the intricacies of things. I invite the viewer into a greater sense of looking into a painting. With a perceptual eye, even mundane objects open the universe within them and are only revealed to the careful observer. By placing these ordinary objects into an imagined space, I hope to transform the viewer from this world to another.
Within the last year, there has been a gradual shift in my work. After revisiting the paintings of one of my favorite painters, Walter Tandy Murch, I was reminded of something very magical that I have always admired about his small diminutive works. Murch discussed his analysis of reality, "I must not paint the thing itself, but will paint the air between myself and the thing and beyond." This challenged my observation of the object and my portrayal of it to the viewer.
In this recent work, the way I build the painting has become more improvisational. In my two most recent paintings ("Cherries, Muscadines, and Branch" & "Apple, Berries, and Leaf") the objects are woven together, combined in a type of visual briar patch. Much like the accumulation of debris within the natural environment, in every added layer of the painting, the image is realized as objects are added. The intimacy between each object is heightened by the condensed space. These are unusual and banal aspects of space and one might only see the relationship if they rummaged the forest floor. There one can see the universe brought together by nature itself.


It is, at best, encouraging to have received an e-mail from the Co-Chair of the Board of Education for School District No. 74 in response to the delivery of a petition, signed by some 650 people, requesting a revisit of the Board's undemocratic decision to adopt "Desert Sands Community School" as the name for the new Ashcroft K-12 school.
Responses that individual correspondents have received indicate that there is a feeling, within the School District, that it would be "undemocratic" to revisit the subject. But Trustees must realize that the whole process, as it was presented, was undemocratic, in that insufficient notification was given to all in the communities affected, and that the opportunity for input was insufficiently publicized, leaving many without a voice.
It also must be said that, despite a majority vote in favour of a school name including "Ashcroft", these wishes were disregarded; this certainly strikes me as the definition of undemocratic.
Now it remains for the Board of Education to institute a revisitation, and recognize community wishes and demands.


Here is a simple Christmas Tree that is very easy to make. You can make it any size you wish.
Perfect as a companion to the Snowman we made in an earlier post here.
In September I was cleaning out the paper supply room at school and came across a lot of odds and ends of corrugated paper....we use it as a background on bulletin boards.
The caretaker was going to toss it but I convinced him to keep it as I knew I could make it into a project. So this is what I came up with.
You need 3 identical tree shapes for this. You can use my tree template or make your own.
If you don't have any corrugated paper you can make some using a crimper...one of my favorite tools (about $23.00 at Michael's) or you can just use plain cardstock it works just as well.
Trace out 3 trees. At school I used the Ellison die cut machine. We had a tree die, I just needed to cut the trunk off.
If using corrugated paper you want the lines to run vertically...this makes for easier folding in the next step.
Take one tree and unfold...apply glue to the back with a glue stick.
Take the 2nd tree and stick one half on the tree with the glue on it. Try to match up all the edges.
Take the 3rd tree and apply glue to the 1/2 that will connect to the 2nd tree you just added. Press together matching edges.
Your tree should look like this now.
Using what you have on hand decorate your tree. I used sequins, glitter glue...I found these small Styrofoam stars at the dollar store...I left some of them plain and others I covered with glitter.
That's it....easy peasy. It's a good craft for younger kids and it's nice that it stands up on it's own.
Stay tuned for more Christmas crafts that we will be doing on Christmas craft day this Friday....125 kids rotating thru 12 crafts and I still haven't finished all the prep.
Next up....Pinecone Skiers ...see you soon.
I love that! A perfect craft for me to do with my daughter. Thanks for sharing!
I just found your site this morning and I love all of your wonderful ideas! I've posted a link to this on my blog. Hope that's okay? I wanted to share your little trees and snowman skiers with my dollhouse miniature friends! Thank you so much!
Attractive and easy! Great combination. Thanks for sharing it.


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Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has come out to perform his civic duty by voting in the Presidential election.
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Nicole Valentine–What Was on Her . . .
Posted on September 18, 2019 by sandranickel	8 Comments
Nicole Valentine
Nicole Valentine joins us today in celebration of A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity. I first got a peek at this brilliant middle grade novel when Nicole and I were studying for our Masters of Fine Arts, and I am thrilled that you too will be able to read it soon. It's coming out on October 1st!
Nicole writes about things that fill her with wonder, "the times where science falls short of explanation and magic has room to sneak in." And have no doubt, there is plenty of magic and wonder in A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity—plenty to go around for young and old readers alike. I fell in love with character after character. The narrator imparts aphorisms to live by. The story's key to changing history itself is wondrous.
For writers, there is also plenty of inspiration for how to write fantasy and sci-fi. Nicole's use of weather at that oh-so-difficult-to-write transition where the protagonist must believe the unbelievable is masterfully done. If you are struggling with your own real world-to-fantasy transition, be sure to pick up A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity. There is a lot to learn from what Nicole has done.
He believes in science, but only magic can help his mom.
Twelve-year-old Finn is used to people in his family disappearing. His twin sister, Faith, drowned when they were three years old. A few months ago, his mom abandoned him and his dad with no explanation. Finn clings to the concrete facts in his physics books—and to his best friend, Gabi—to ward off his sadness. But then his grandmother tells him a secret: the women in their family are Travelers, able to move back and forth in time. Finn's mom is trapped somewhere in the timeline, and she's left Finn a portal to find her. But to succeed, he'll have to put his trust in something bigger than logic.
In addition to writing, Nicole teaches workshops at the Highlights Foundation and is the founder of steaMG.org, The Middle-Grade Sci-fi Authors Alliance. She joins us today from Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and daughter, two dogs named Merlin and Arthur, and two cats names Tink and Pickwick. Here she is, with her own words, to tell us What Was on Nicole Valentine's . . .
Scrivener (i.e., how did she pull off Finn's impressive belief in the unbelievable): I used a lot of Scrivener's functionality to keep my timelines straight. I had a color coding system for my scenes and characters so I could track who was in each timeline and who was "doubling" in each scene. I can't really explain that without going into deep detail about the book, but when you've got characters hopping universes you really have to keep watch. Some of them would sneak up on me, and I'm the author! I'm also a big fan of Scrivener's character and setting sheets. I like to add more fields to them and add picture inspiration. I often put the laptop away entirely and write scenes longhand. I use a fancy fountain pen. It forces you to think differently.
Mind as she wrote: Oh, so much. My own childhood and my family, what it feels like to lose someone close to you and how it changes your perception of time. Time travel is very much a metaphor in this story. I think children who have experienced grief will recognize that. Grief automatically turns us into time travelers. We no longer can reside only in our timeline. We find ourselves drifting into the past or trying desperately to pull that person into the future with us, to show them all they have missed.
List of greatest challenges: This Traveler's greatest challenge? TIME. There is never enough of it. The more I learn how to manipulate it, the more I seem to need.
Schedule: I used to be a late night writer but in the last five years or so that has changed. I do most of my writing now in the morning hours when my mind is still fresh from dreaming. There is something about being so close to dreaming, you're still residing there on the threshold for a bit. It's especially good for writing fantasy and sci-fi.
Arm: My arm? I see what you're doing. You're baiting me for some hawk talk, aren't you? Lately there have not been enough birds on my arm. I'll be heading back to my favorite falconry school in a few weeks to fix that. Fellow Vermont College of Fine Arts alum and author Daphne Kalmar (A Stitch in Time and the upcoming Stealing Mt. Rushmore) will be coming with me. She's joining me for my Manchester, Vermont launch at Northshire Books on October 19th so… of course we're fitting in a lesson! I'm really looking forward to this signing event because it's a bit like launching my book inside of it. Dorset is the next town over and my novel is set there. That area of Vermont is my family's favorite Fall vacation spot. I wish I could take credit for dreaming up the magical setting, but truly, all I did was capture what is already there. It's a wonderful place.
Laptop: New content for steaMG.org, an article I'm writing about my favorite new five middle grade books and a picture of my dogs, Merlin and Arthur.
Back porch: Neglected flowers. I haven't had much time for gardening this summer.
Writing desk: UFO research. Another book. You'll just have to wait. 😉
Kitchen Table: Crumbs and two half empty cold coffee mugs.
Twitter: Nerdy science jokes and the occasional plea for Scotland to adopt me as a citizen.
Mind these past few weeks: That somehow I need to learn some new time manipulation. I need to know how to slow all this down so I can soak it in and enjoy every moment before it all goes whooshing by.
Thank you so much, Nicole!
You can keep up to date with Nicole Valentine by following her at nicolevalentinebooks.com, on Twitter at @nicoleva and on Instagram at nicolevalentine.
If you would like to order A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity, which is already a Junior Library Guild Selection, simply click on the image below.
If you would like to know more about me and my writing, please visit sandranickel.com.
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"Lately there have not been enough birds on my arm. " There is so much to love about that statement and this interview between two beloved classmates. 😘 So happy for this book to launch!
sandranickel says:
I love those words of Nicole's too, Linda. 😉 What fun to celebrate this book we've all been waiting for!
skvanzandt says:
Brilliant, just brilliant! Thank you Sandra and Nicole!
Sharon, our pleasure. It's always so nice to see you here.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann says:
Love it! I've noticed those pleas for Scotland to adopt you. Why Scotland and not Switzerland? 😉
Switzerland! What a great idea!
Nicole Valentine says:
I haven't been to Switzerland yet! Perhaps after my first visit I'll fall hopelessly in love. Edinburgh felt like my long lost home. I knew what was around every street corner.
I know what you mean about Edinburgh. I love it there too.
A blog about the writers and illustrators of children's and young adult literature. Here, we get to the heart of their work and lives by asking What Was on Their . . . minds, desks, play lists, refrigerators, and more.
Sandra Nickel
Sandra Nickel writes books and poetry for young readers. In 2020 and 2021, she has three books coming out: Nacho's Nachos: The Story Behind the World's Favorite Snack (Lee & Low), The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe (Abrams), and Breaking Through the Clouds: The Sometimes Turbulent Life of Meteorologist Joanne Simpson (Abrams). Sandra's poetry can be found in SCOOP magazine. Sandra holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has presented workshops on writing for children and young adults throughout Europe and the United States. Sandra has twice won the Katherine Paterson Prize for picture books.
Please visit Sandra's website at sandranickel.com
Sandra is represented by Victoria Wells Arms of the Wells Arms Literary Agency.
A ★ REVIEW FOR NACHO'S NACHOS
"Nickel's homage to this congenial, hardworking man and his renowned snack is a celebration of ingenuity and kismet."
★ Kirkus Reviews
80th Anniversary of Nachos
2020 is the 80th anniversary of the invention of nachos! Why not celebrate with Nacho's Nachos: The Story Behind the World's Favorite Snack? It will be in bookstores everywhere on August 11th!
Poetry . . .
'The Sun Has a Secret,' my poem about the sun falling for the moon, is in SCOOP's 1st anniversary issue. If you haven't yet picked up an issue of SCOOP, do. It's a brilliant children's magazine that counts among its contributors Neil Gaiman, Sir Tom Stoppard, Herbie Brennan, and Jacqueline Wilson.
Antagonists . . .
I started thinking about antagonists when I was working on my MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. It wasn't too long before I came to the conclusion that antagonists—yes, antagonists plural—were at the core of the very best stories. In fact, as I examined my favorite stories more closely, I realized that there are 13 Antagonist Archetypes, each capable of producing different reactions in the protagonist and reader. This realization turned into a presentation I gave in Amsterdam, morphed into a three-hour workshop I gave in Switzerland, and then was condensed into a breakout session for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrator's Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles. For those of you who missed it, you can find it here: Enter the Antagonist–no scratch that–Enter the Antagonists, Plural.
THE PARIS REVIEW . . .
The Paris Review celebrated James Fenimore Cooper's birthday by picking up and republishing portions of my April 30, 2014 blog–The Voracious Child Readers of Russia. If you would like to read the Paris Review's Natty Bumppo, Soviet Folk Hero (September 15, 2014), click below.
WRITING AND ACTING
Melanie Fishbane invited me to join her series on Embodying Character, where she interviews the actors of Anne & Gilbert, a musical adapted from L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, all toward the end of investigating the overlaps between writing and acting.
Before taking up writing, I studied acting for three years in New York City. If you were a fan of New York's acting scene, you might have caught me in some very dark, very serious off-off-Broadway showcases and as a nurse on The City or serving up coffee as 'Sandy' on As the World Turns. So, as you can imagine, I'm endlessly fascinated by the similarities between writing and acting and was thrilled to participate in Mel's series.
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