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Saturn square Uranus: old structures succumb to a new vision
On 24 December Saturn square Uranus becomes exact for the second time. This is the third of three exact contacts of Saturn square Uranus, the much discussed and defining transit of 2021. This time Uranus will be retrograde and so we may see protest and rebellion get out of hand or violent. Those demanding change may find themselves [read more...]
Saturn conjunct Jupiter: the Great Conjunction. What rules you?
Saturn conjunct Jupiter, called the Great Conjunction, occurs once every twenty years or so. It lasts for around a month and due to its significant impact on the socio-political level, and especially on governance, it is known traditionally as the King Maker. Saturn and Jupiter connect at 0'30" of Aquarius, on 21 December [read more...]
Astrology of November 2020: Jupiter Pluto Pallas conjunction
After the turmoil of the last few months the astrology of November 2020 is looking like a piece of cake! I for one am incredibly relieved as the t-square between Mars and Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn has hit our family pretty hard. It's been a tough time and even while I see that the hard work has been productive, I am looking forward [read more...]
Astrology of October 2020: Retrograde Mercury opposed Uranus
The Astrology of October 2020 is a mixed bag and how it plays out for you will depend greatly on your natal placements. September was a challenging month for many with the square between Mars and Saturn creating a tension that while highly productive for many, was also exhausting and relentless. Squares are like that: they signify [read more...]
Astrology of September 2020: it's hip to be square
If you're feeling exhausted by the current astro weather and looking for some relief I can say right off the bat that the astrology of September 2020 only takes things up a notch. We are in the midst of unprecedented social change and the transits reflect this. From whatever angle and scale we look life is intense and chaotic right [read more...]
Astrology of August 2020: Conflict can be creative
While conflict features heavily in the astrology of August 2020, if handled creatively and constructively, it can be part of a broader evolutionary process. This month features the first of three squares between Mars and our amigos in Capricorn, as it makes it's unusually long, six month passage through it's own war-like sign [read more...]
Astrology of July 2020: BLM, change and renewal
The astrology of July 2020 is certainly not calm and sedate. Shit is being stirred up and many things are never going to be the same again. But we must remember that change is fundamental to our survival and it pushes us to adapt and to evolve, as well as to advocate for our rights. Those that thrive are those who make the most of the [read more...]
Saturn in Aquarius: activists and visionaries, get organised!
On 17 December 2020 Saturn moved into the sign of Aquarius for the second time, after retrograding back into Capricorn at the beginning of July. This time the planet of authority, limits, and structure will remain in the sign of the visionary and rebel until March 2023, bringing with it the capacity to organise our communities in the [read more...]
What is the purpose of Pluto transits and why are they so damn hard?
Pluto moves really slowly, taking 248 years to orbit the Sun. Because of this many people will only experience a few personal Pluto transits in their lifetime. By personal I mean when Pluto moves into a position where it creates an aspect to one of your natal planets or points. For example, Pluto at 18 degrees Cancer forms a square to [read more...]
Saturn conjunct Pluto exact: an alliance for change
Well it's finally upon us. The long-awaited, much discussed and often over dramatised alignment of Saturn and Pluto in the sign of Capricorn. Although already well within orb, Saturn will conjunct Pluto exactly on 12 January, ushering in some pretty important social and economic changes. Saturn conjunct Pluto is a big deal. [read more...]
2019 Australian Bushfires: Saturn conjunct Pluto square Mars
The 2019 Australian bushfires are not your average Australian bushfires. Vast areas of land are on fire all over the state, with just one fire in the Wollemi National Park burning out over 140,000 ha (300,000 acres) since it started just over a week ago. Almost 500 properties have been destroyed and at its worst, at the beginning of [read more...]
Mars square Saturn: Resistance is futile, surrender to limits
On 13 January Mars squares Saturn for the third and final time in this six month cycle. The sensation of pushing an elephant up a hill, of trying to overcome an insurmountable obstacle, of working against yourself, will soon be over. This time, Mars is in Taurus squaring Saturn in Aquarius so the energy is rather different. Mars square [read more...]
New Moon in Scorpio 27 October 2019: Who You Want to Be
Scorpio season can force revelations on us that we seldom feel prepared for. These are soul declarations that disrupt our consciousness so completely that we must reshape around new beliefs about our self. We humans tend to resist the changes that time and circumstance bring, but learning how to be comfortable with these inner, seismic [read more...]
Saturn conjunct South Node (and natal Venus!)
Saturn conjunct the South Node occurs once every twelve years and usually only lasts about a week. But this time, due to retrograde motion, Saturn touches the South Node three times and the entire transit lasts six months! We're at the end of it now, with the last exact contact occurring on September 28th. But since April of this [read more...]
Jupiter square Neptune: addiction is always a choice
Let's be honest. Is there any among you who can say they are not addicted to anything? I certainly can't. Whether it be a glass of wine of an evening, a favourite television show, facebook, exercise, marijuana, food, martyrdom, relationships, sex, admiration, video games, romance novels, cigarettes, chick flicks or [read more...]


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Do soutěže ženské čtyřhry na tenisovém turnaji Katowice Open 2016 nastoupilo šestnáct dvojic. Obhájcem titulu byl pár Ysaline Bonaventureová a Demi Schuursová, jehož členky nestartovaly společně. Bonaventureová na turnaji nehrála. Spoluhráčkou Schuursové se stala Oxana Kalašnikovová, s níž skončila ve čtvrtfinále na raketách Ivachněnkové s Melnikovovou.

Vítězem čtyřhry se stal nenasazený japonský pár Eri Hozumiová a Miju Katová, který ve finále za 1:49 hodin zdolal ruskou dvojici Valentyna Ivachněnková a Marina Melnikovová výsledkem 3–6, 7–5 a [10–8]. Obě šampionky ve svém druhém finále na okruhu WTA Tour získaly premiérový titul a do žebříčku WTA si připsaly 280 bodů.

Nasazení párů
  María Irigoyenová /  Paula Kaniová (1. kolo)
  Oxana Kalašnikovová /  Demi Schuursová (čtvrtfinále)
  Věra Duševinová /  María José Martínezová Sánchezová (1. kolo)
  Jocelyn Raeová /  Anna Smithová (1. kolo)

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The Orange–Fish Tunnel is a  long irrigation tunnel in central South Africa, built to divert water from the Orange River to the Fish River valley. It is the longest continuous enclosed aqueduct in the southern hemisphere.

Purpose
For many years, large areas in the Eastern Cape experienced severe water shortages because of little rainfall in the arid Karoo. The situation was aggravated by the reduction in capacity of many of the existing dams due to heavy silt deposits.

The Project to alleviate this situation comprised two inter-dependent engineering schemes - neither of which was any use without the other.  First, a dam had to be built across the Orange River; and then a tunnel had to be driven to take the water across the water-shed into a further river system.  The Orange-Fish Tunnel, together with its network of canals, weirs and balancing dams, has enabled these areas to be restored and has made the irrigation of thousands of hectares of additional land possible. The main purpose of the tunnel is to divert water from the Gariep Dam to the Eastern Cape Karoo for irrigation, household and industrial use.

Route
The tunnel diverts water from the Orange River to the Great Fish River and the semi-arid areas of Eastern Cape province.  The Orange River is the largest river in South Africa by volume, and the longest. It rises in the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho and flows Westwards through increasingly drier country to discharge into the South Atlantic at Oranjemund, where, through evaporation and abstraction, the volume was far less than it was at the location of the Gariep Dam.

The inlet tower at  takes water from the Gariep Dam at Oviston: the name Oviston is an acronym based on the Afrikaans Oranje-VISrivier TONnel. After traversing due South under the Suurberg mountain plateau, it releases the water to the Teebus Spruit (tunnel outlet at ), to the Groot Brak River and onwards to the valleys of the Great Fish River and the Sundays River.

The tunnel is on what is called a "self-cleansing" gradient of 2% from North to South.  During construction, South Africa changed over from "Imperial" measurement to the metric system, but special dispensation was made for this Project to use Imperial measure throughout, which was half-built at the time.

Construction
Construction started in 1966; preliminary works included a tarred road running parallel to the route of the tunnel, and three towns, Oviston at the North end, one in the one middle called "Mid-shaft", and "Teebus" at the South end.   These towns included such facilities as a Clubhouse, tennis courts, a community hall, primary school, clinic, etc..  At Oviston there was also a power station to provide electricity to the tunnels and to the towns.  Other facilities included contractor's yards, a testing laboratory, and offices for the staff.

The tunnel is 19'-6" in finished diameter, with a 9" thick mass concrete lining.  The ground was excavated entirely by the drill-and-blast technique, and was tested both by flood and by fire.

The lining was done using a travelling shutter - concrete arrived first thing Monday morning, and continued unstopped until Saturday afternoon.  The concrete mix was specially developed for the project, and the "cement" content was 50% Slagment a.k.a. PFA (Pulverised Fuel Ash). The mix contained retarders to enable the concrete to be placed up to six hours after mixing, and it also contained accelerators, to enable the shutter to be moved after only eighteen hours. The speed of the shutter was about  a week.

The tunnel has a finished diameter of  and ranges in depth between  and . It is on a gradient of 1:2000.

It was engineered by the British firm of Consulting Engineers, Sir William Halcrow & Partners, in association with Messrs Keeve Steyn and Partners of Johannesburg. The Client was the South African Department of Water Affairs. Halcrow's senior partner, Sir Alan Muir-Wood, sometimes known as "the father of modern tunneling", worked on many of the world's leading tunnel projects, including the Orange-Fish Tunnel; the senior Engineer in charge of the design & supervision was Barry Kidd, who died young, before construction was completed.

The tunnel was opened in 1975. When completed the tunnel's length of  was the longest continuous enclosed aqueduct in the southern hemisphere and the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world. Over 200 000 m3 of concrete was used to line the tunnel which has a maximum throughput of 54 m3/s (about 2,000 cusecs).

Intake at Oviston
The intake tower is situated on the south bank of the Gariep Reservoir at Oviston, approximately  upstream of the dam wall. Seen from above, the intake tower is shaped like a four-leaf clover with each leaf containing an inlet gate - all at different levels. In this manner, water can be drawn from different levels to help control the water quality. Each of the four inlets can be sealed off to allow complete de-watering of the tunnel for routine maintenance.

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External links
 Panoramio Photo of the tunnel inlet

Orange River
Great Fish River
Water tunnels
Tunnels in South Africa
Tunnels completed in 1975
Interbasin transfer

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Q: Three images centered, side by side, at the middle of the page I'm trying to center 3 images side by side in the middle of the page but I can't seem to do the last part. My code:

<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Exercise #1: Problem 5</title>

    ////some other code not related

How can I change this to only html and how can I put the images in the middle of the page?

A: You can do this really easily with the help of bootstrap.

You need to add bootstrap to your HTML:

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

Note: the version of bootstrap in this example is 3.4.1

A: pseudoclass ::after is probably not the best idea to style the whole ".row". I would recommend to contain only "clearfix" attributes in pseudoclass, and the rest style attributes just in ".row" like below.
Also you didn't set attribute "height" for .row, so browser had no idea that you want it in the middle of the page. Attribute "align-items" sets flex items in the middle but perpendicular to flex-direction.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>Exercise #1: Problem 5</title>

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Wildcat alumnus kicks into high gear as pro soccer player
Lars Gustafson
Filed under Soccer, Sports
Octavio Guzman, left, battles for the ball against a player from the Charleston Battery team last year. Photo courtesy of Octavio Guzman
From the pitch in the University Soccer Stadium at Chico State to Bonney Field in Sacramento, former midfielder Octavio Guzman has worked his way into the United Soccer League playing for the Sacramento Republic.
Guzman played forward for the Wildcats and was part of a squad that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2013 during his senior year. The team fell in that match against UC San Diego in a shootout.
Guzman was one of the cogs on a Chico State team that made history and helped transform men's soccer into a California Collegiate Athletic Association powerhouse.
As a Wildcat, Guzman accumulated 36 victories and was one of the hardest workers on the team during the 2013 season, said Felipe Restrepo, the soccer team's head coach.
"Octavio was one of the nicest guys I have ever coached," Restrepo said. "A great teammate (and) hard-working player who was one of the guys who would put the team first."
Guzman was recently named the penalty kicker for the Sacramento Republic of the United Soccer League.
Penalty kickers are generally the most trusted players on the team brought in for overtime shootouts or for penalty kicks. As a penalty kicker for Chico State, Guzman was a perfect 2 of 2 on penalty kicks.
In only his second year as a professional soccer midfielder, Guzman has become the go-to player for penalty kicks on the team.
So far in the 2015 season, Guzman leads the team with three goals and has started every single game for the Sacramento Republic.
During his soccer career at Chico State, Guzman played a variety of positions after transferring from Los Medanos College in Pittsburg. He started his Wildcat career playing forward but finished as a midfielder.
In regard to being a professional penalty kicker for the Sacramento Republic, Guzman said that anybody on the team can step up and take advantage of opportunities when they are presented.
The Sacramento Republic hosted an invite-only college combine in 2013 and Guzman was offered a contract after performing, he said.
In his second year in the pros, Guzman has already made a name for himself on the Sacramento Republic and is hoping to make a Major League Soccer team eventually, he said.
Guzman's time in Chico was something that he benefits from because he learned a lot about becoming a blue-collar player and having a good work ethic, Restrepo said.
"The philosophy we have here at Chico and how we want to be as a program," Restrepo said, "some of that rubbed off on him, which has allowed him to look at becoming a pro a little different."
Lars Gustafson can be reached at [email protected] or @larsonsports on Twitter.
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Sigalionidae – rodzina wieloszczetów z rzędu Phyllodocida i podrzędu Phyllodociformia.

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Impact of intersectionality
Gender Analytics for Innovation
課程 1(共 5 門,Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design 專項課程)
Gender Analytics is a way to analyze your products, services, processes and policies with a gender lens to uncover hidden opportunities for innovation and effectiveness. We'll answer questions such as: Why are women 47% more likely than men to be injured when they get in a car accident? Why do financial products fail to meet women's needs across their life cycles? Why will automation and AI be more likely to impact women than men? Why are gender-neutral policies are not necessarily gender-equal? This is the introductory course in the 5-course Gender Analytics Specialization offered by the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. In this course, you will build the foundations for conducting Gender Analytics. You will get comfortable with the concepts and terms associated with Gender Analytics, including sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and intersectionality. You will examine how policies, products, services and processes may have unintentionally gendered outcomes that miss out on opportunities or create needless risks. You will learn to uncover assumptions underlying these policies, products, services and processes, and to break social, cultural, and or organizational norms that perpetuate exclusion and inequality. You will see how Gender Analytics can lead to transformational innovations. You will also evaluate your own competencies and start your Self Development Plan and begin your journey to build a workplan for your own Gender Analytics project.
Business Analytics, Intersectional Analysis, Gender Based Analysis, Leadership Development, Innovation
Brilliant foundation to learn more about the key concepts in gender analytics, diversity, equality and inclusion. Engaging instructors and great examples.
This course is an eye opener! Many things fly under the radar and this course gives us the necessary gear to track and identify them!!! A must! A must !!!
Why gender and its intersections matter
To be effective in Gender Analytics, you first need to have a solid understanding of key concepts and terminology. In this module, you will learn what gender means, understand the difference between gender and sex, and become familiar with terms such as gender identity, transgender and cisgender. We will discuss the concept of "intersectionality" and why it is important in Gender Analytics.
Defining gender8:59
Beyond the gender binary5:34
Impact of intersectionality6:23
Sarah Kaplan
Distinguished Professor & Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)
Okay, it's time to add another layer to our conversation about gender analytics. I've mentioned the term intersectionality already, but now is our chance to understand it in depth. Let's start with the definition. Intersectionality is the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination combine, overlap, or intersect, especially in the experiences of marginalized people or groups. The term intersectionality itself was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American lawyer, activist, legal scholar, and critical race theorist. In the next session, you'll get a chance to watch her explain its origins in greater detail. Intersectionality is a way of understanding how individuals are differently impacted by inequality on the basis of factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, ability, age, immigration status, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation and religion, and other identities. Intersectional inequality affects women and visible minorities differently, depending on their social, cultural, and occupational contexts. Evidence suggests that many of the organizational initiatives promoting diversity and inclusion tend to benefit white women and not other underrepresented groups. In Canada, for example, we can see unequal workplace outcomes on the basis of intersectionality in the gendered and racialized wage gap. Visible minority women, especially first generation immigrants, earn on average $5000 less than nonvisible minority women and $7000 less than visible minority men. Visible minority women are more frequently employed in precarious jobs, characterized by insecurity, low wages, low protection, and limited benefits. Poverty rates for visible minority families are three times higher than for nonvisible minority families. Research has documented many other types of intersectional inequalities in the workplace. For example, white men often experience a glass escalator when working in female dominated occupations, such as nursing and teaching, that enables their promotion through the ranks more quickly. However, the same benefits do not extend to visible minority men. Research finds that black male nurses, for example, are perceived as less skilled than female nurses. Just as organizations and occupations may contribute to inequalities that intersect along lines of race and gender, such inequalities may also be built into the design of policies, products, services, and processes. For example, in the United Kingdom, the UK Women's Budget Group analyzed the cumulative impact of changes in taxes and benefits over the ten-year period 2010 to 2020. They looked at how gender intersected with income level by decile, where the first decile are the poorest people, and the tenth decile are the richest. What they found is that these changes in taxes and benefits were mainly worse for women than for men, and worse for poor people than rich people. And even further the only people who benefited at all where the richest men. On the chart, that's the light pink bar circled in green. They then looked at what it would mean if they added an intersection with race, comparing white, black, and Asian communities. Again, they found that the cuts were worse for women in every community, though dramatically worse for the poorest women in racialized minority groups, the purple bar circled in blue in the chart. Again, the only beneficiaries of the policies were richer man, both white and black, though not Asian men. Without breaking down the data in this way, policymakers exacerbated social inequalities. While the UK Women's Budget Group is an advisory organization that works outside of the UK government, the ideal way to use these kinds of statistics would be in designing policies, so as to avoid these kinds of negative effects. Rather than just evaluating policies after the fact to show that they hurt the most needy. This kind of intersectional analysis can be used to show how biases play out unevenly in products and services as well. The emergence of facial recognition technology has been accompanied by quite a bit of controversy, not least because the algorithms led to biased results. Researcher Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, discovered in her research at MIT that the machine learning software of leading technology companies was biased. Through her intersectional analysis, she found that IBM's Facial Recognition software, for example, could accurately guess the gender of light skin men 99.7% of the time, nearly perfect. But could only guess the gender of dark skin women 65.3% of the time. Facial recognition software is increasingly being used for security purposes, and such built-in bias has repercussions for people of color. For example, it may be more difficult for dark skinned individuals to use facial recognition software to unlock their phones. More significantly, AI bias and facial recognition may increase surveillance errors made by police,and lead to more frequent misidentification of criminals. Buolamwini's attention to the intersection of race and gender, actually led IBM to address the disparity in their facial recognition software. When she reanalyzed their algorithm after changes had been made, she found that the accuracy for assessing dark skinned individuals had jumped from a rate of 88% to 99.4% for men, and from that 65.3% to 83.5% for women. This is the promise of gender analytics, with real attention to the ways that bias may be built into their products and services, companies can mitigate the bias and create better products. As another example, makeup brands have faced increasing scrutiny for their failure to provide products for a wide range of skin tones. Historically, most products have favored light skinned people and left people of color with few options. While major makeup and fashion houses have tried to expand product offerings in recent years, they frequently come up short. In 2018, for example, Yves St. Laurent launched a new line of concealers that only included one shade of dark brown. Fenty Beauty, a makeup line created by pop star Rihanna, stands out for its emphasis on including a wide range of shades in its product offerings. The company launched with 40 shades of makeup and is perceived as offering the widest and most inclusive range of colors. The products were accompanied by a marketing campaign that prominently featured women of color. The brand has been so successful in providing a wider range of color shades that the media has dubbed its influence, the Fenty Effect. It has led to a chain reaction with other makeup brands launching a wider, more inclusive range in response to the positive reaction to Fenty. And if you follow the hashtag Disabled and Cute on Twitter, you'll know that most fashion lines have overlooked disabled women, even though in the US for example, one in four people have some type of disability. Again, another missed opportunity. In short, a failure to appreciate how gender intersects with other identities could exacerbate inequalities, or conceal insights for improved policies, or innovative new products and services. It can also have other far-reaching social consequences, as you will see in the next session, which presents as I mentioned before, a video of Kimberlé Crenshaw talking about the origin of the idea of intersectionality.


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@interface ALSQLClauseTests : XCTestCase

@end

@implementation ALSQLClauseTests

- (void)setUp {
    [super setUp];
    // Put setup code here. This method is called before the invocation of each test method in the class.
}

#pragma mark - sql func test
- (void)testSQLFunc {
    ALSQLClause *sql = SQLFunc(@"length", @[@"column_name"]);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"LENGTH(column_name)");

    sql = SQLFunc(@"substr", @[ @"column_name", @5]);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"SUBSTR(column_name, 5)");

    // complex function and arguments
    NSArray *values = @[ @"/", @"//" ];
    sql = SQLFunc(
        @"length",
        @[SQLFunc(@"replace", @[@"col_name", @"?", @"?" ]).SET_ARG_VALUES(values)]);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"LENGTH(REPLACE(col_name, ?, ?))");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.argValues, values);

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQLFunc(@"replace", @[@"col_name", [@5 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue], [@3 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue]]).SQLString,
                          @"REPLACE(col_name, ?, ?)");
}

- (void)testSQLInnerFuncs {
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_MAX(@[ @"col1", @"col2", @"col3" ]).SQLString, @"MAX(col1, col2, col3)");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_MIN(@[ [@"?, ?, ?" al_SQLClauseWithArgValues:@[ @2, @1, @3 ]] ]).SQLString, @"MIN(?, ?, ?)");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_MIN(@[ [@1 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue], [@3 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue], [@2 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue] ]).SQLString,
                          @"MIN(?, ?, ?)");

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_ABS(@"col1").SQLString, @"ABS(col1)");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_ABS(@1).SQLString, @"ABS(1)");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(SQL_ABS([@"col1" al_SQLClause]).SQLString, @"ABS(col1)");
}

#pragma mark - sql operation test
- (void)testSQLClause {

    ALSQLClause *sql = [@"col1 = 1" al_SQLClause].SQL_AND([@"col2 = '123'" al_SQLClause]);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 = 1 AND col2 = '123'");

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(@"col1".SQL_EQ(@1).SQL_NOT().SQLString, @"NOT (col1 = ?)");
    sql = sql_op_left(@"~", @"col1".SQL_EQ(@1));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"~(col1 = ?)");
    sql = sql_op_left(@"-", [@"col1" al_SQLClause]).SQL_EQ(@1).SQL_OR(@"col1".SQL_GT(@2));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"-(col1) = ? OR col1 > ?");

    sql = @"col1".SQL_EQ(@1).SQL_AND(@"col2".SQL_PREFIX_LIKE(@"abc"));
    NSArray *values = @[@1, @"abc%"];
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 = ? AND col2 LIKE ?");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.argValues, values);

    sql = @"col1".SQL_EQ(@"abc").SQL_COLLATE(@"nocase").SQL_AND(@"col2".SQL_LIKE(@"abc\\_").SQL_ESCAPE(@"\\"));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 = ? COLLATE nocase AND col2 LIKE ? ESCAPE ?");

    sql = @"col1".SQL_EQ(@1).SQL_AND(@"col2".SQL_PREFIX_LIKE(@"abc").SQL_NOT());
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 = ? AND NOT (col2 LIKE ?)");

    sql = @"col1".SQL_NEQ(@1).SQL_OR(@"col1".SQL_NEQ(@2)).SQL_AND(@"col2".SQL_EQ(@0).SQL_OR(@"col2".SQL_GT(@100)));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"(col1 != ? OR col1 != ?) AND (col2 = ? OR col2 > ?)");

    sql = @"col1".SQL_EQ(@1).SQL_AND(@"col1".SQL_NEQ(@2).SQL_OR(@"col2".SQL_EQ(@0).SQL_AND(@"col2".SQL_GT(@100))));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 = ? AND (col1 != ? OR col2 = ? AND col2 > ?)");

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(@"col1".SQL_ISNULL().SQLString, @"col1 IS NULL");
    ALSQLSelectStatement *select = [[ALSQLSelectStatement alloc] init];
    sql = select.SELECT(@[@"col1"]).FROM(@"table").WHERE(@"col2=?").SQL_ISNULL();
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString,
                          @"(SELECT col1 FROM table WHERE col2=?) IS NULL");

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(@"col1".SQL_GT(@2).SQL_ISNULL().SQLString, @"col1 > ? IS NULL");

    XCTAssertEqualObjects(@"col1".SQL_IS(@"abc").SQLString, @"col1 IS ?");

    sql = @"col1".SQL_BETWEEN(@1, @2);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 BETWEEN ? AND ?");
    sql = SQL_LENGTH(@"col1").SQL_BETWEEN(@1, @100);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"LENGTH(col1) BETWEEN ? AND ?");
    sql = @"col1".SQL_BETWEEN([ALSQLSelectStatement statement].SELECT(@[[@1 al_SQLClauseByUsingAsArgValue]]), @20);
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 BETWEEN (SELECT ?) AND ?");

    sql = [[ALSQLClause sql_case:@"col1" when:[ALSQLSelectStatement statement].SELECT(@[@"'aa'"]) then:[@"NULL" al_SQLClause]  else:@"123"] sql_case_end];
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"CASE col1 WHEN (SELECT 'aa') THEN NULL ELSE ? END");
}

- (void)testIN {
    XCTAssertEqualObjects((@"col1".SQL_IN(@[@1, @2, @3])).SQLString, @"col1 IN (?, ?, ?)");
    XCTAssertEqualObjects((@"col1".SQL_IN(@"SELECT col FROM table")).SQLString, @"col1 IN (SELECT col FROM table)");

    ALSQLClause *sql = @"col1".SQL_IN([ALSQLSelectStatement statement].SELECT(nil).FROM(@"table"));
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(sql.SQLString, @"col1 IN (SELECT * FROM table)");
}

@end

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Bitcoin news November 15th 2013 - 99bitcoins.com
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Bitcoin news November 22nd 2013
QuadrigaCX: A history of suspicious activity
This is a compilation of everything suspicious I found with Quadriga. Please let me know if there's anything incorrect or missing
Early History (2013-2017)
QuadrigaCX started in 2013 and made history by being the first crypto exchange to register with FINTRAC and accept gold bullion deposits. By 2015, Quadriga became Canada's largest crypto exchange. So far, so good.
In March 2015, Quadriga attempted to go public and a month later, announced its intention to install Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Both these plans were eventually aborted.
Even though Quadriga never listed, it started selling its shares over-the-counter. In Sep 2015, Quadriga stopped publishing audits. In March 2016, Quadriga was banned from selling shares after the BCSC issued a cease trade order (CTO) for not submitting an audit.
Around the same time, 3 of Quadriga's 5 directors (Anthony Milewski, Lovie Horner, Bill Filtness) and CFO (Natasha Tsai) all resigned. Sometime in 2016, Director and Co-founder Michael Patryn resigned. This left Gerald Cotten ("Gerry") as the only remaining director.
Evidence shows that Michael Patryn has used several aliases (including Omar Dhanani) and is a convicted identity thief
In June of 2017, QuadrigaCX announced it lost over 67,000 ETH (about $14M USD at the time) due to a technical glitch. This didn't stop Gerry from registering a 50ft yacht less than 2 months later!
Quadriga has changed its business address several times. It started as a Vancouver-based exchange, with its addresses changing from Commercial Dr, Nelson St, and Homer St. Eventually, the address moved to Toronto. None of these were physical office addresses, but instead a mail forwarding address.
The Terms of Service on Quadriga's website have always suspiciously stated that:
All account fundings are considered to be purchases of QuadrigaCX Bucks. These are units that are used for the purposes of purchasing Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. QuadrigaCX Bucks are NOT Canadian Dollars. Any notation of $, CAD, or USD refers to an equivalent unit in QuadrigaCX Bucks, which exist for the sole purpose of buying and selling Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
QuadrigaCX is NOT a financial institution, bank, credit union, trust, or deposit business. We DO NOT take Deposits. We exist solely for the purposes of buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
Banking troubles throughout 2018
In late Dec 2017, Jose Reyes (CEO of Billerfy and Costodian Inc, Quadriga's payment processor) moved over a million dollars from Quadriga's account and into his own personal CIBC account
Shortly after, CIBC froze these funds and tried reaching out to Gerry, who refused to speak with them
All throughout 2018, Quadriga's fiat withdrawal times took 2-3 months to complete. Quadriga kept citing the CIBC freeze as the reason. What's very suspicious is how Quadriga constantly lied to customers with promises such as "the withdrawal backlog will be cleared in 1 week" or "your funds have been processed" when in fact they were months away from doing so.
Period leading up to Gerry's death
On Nov 27, Gerry filed his will just 12 days before his death. He left a plane, two houses, and $100,000 for the care of his two Chihuahuas.
Gerry had a plan for all his personal affairs in the event of his death but he had no contingency plan for $180M CAD of crypto in cold storage that only he had the private keys to?
India is a suspicious place to travel, considering Gerry had a medical condition and considering how easy it is to get a death certificate there
After a severe bear market, most crypto businesses have been struggling and laying off staff. It's odd that Gerry, who has no history of philanthropy, chooses to donate money. Especially when his exchange is having so many banking troubles.
The organization that built the orphanage states on their website that they take care of all construction. There was zero need for Gerry to go to India
A reddit post shows that the orphanage exists, although it's a mystery where the image came from
Bitcoin fell 50% in Nov – the worst monthly decline in 7 years. Gerry's death occurred shortly after
Gerry's death and announcement
On Dec 9, Gerry died in India "due to complications of Crohn's disease." However, there is a low probability that Crohn's disease is fatal, especially at the young age of 30
Just a couple days later, a reddit post indicated someone bought 300 BTC on Quadriga at a 25% premium and moved the funds out of the exchange
It took Quadriga over a month to announce Gerry's death on Jan 14th.
Over the following 2 weeks, Quadriga continued to assure customers that "our hot wallets are being filled and withdrawals are going slower but will complete."
On Jan 28th, Quadriga takes down their website. Initially they said "an upgrade is being performed," then the message changed to "site maintenance" before being changed to "Quadriga has filed for creditor protection" on Jan 31st.
The death certificate misspells his surname, as well as his parents' surnames. The hospital that issued the certificate has a history of fraud.
The funeral home in Nova Scotia where Gerry's funeral was held has no record/obituary of Gerry's death. There is no picture showing Gerry's deceased body.
Chain analysis of the crypto trapped in cold storage
Quadriga's crypto wallets have substantially less than the reported $180M CAD
There were no cold wallets. Quadriga moved everything onto other exchanges (Poloniex, Kraken, Binance, Bitfinex, And Huobi)
There has possibly been movement from Quadriga Litecoin addresses since Gerry's death
In the media, Gerry stated several times that Quadriga uses multi-sig cold storage. This is where 2/3 or 3/5 people can be used to authorize a transaction. Clearly no multisig was used if only Gerry had the private keys.
Formal Active Investigations
A preliminary court hearing was held on Feb 5, 2019 where the Canadian Apex Court appointed Ernst and Young (EY) as Monitor to further investigate into the matter. EY has stated that its an extraordinary challenge to decipher Quadriga's finances, as the company has no accounting records (and did not systematically track incoming and outgoing payments) nor a bank account in its name.
Toronto-West RCMP (with the assistance of Nova Scotia RCMP) are leading an investigation into QuadrigaCX
The Better Business Bureau (BBB), which gives Quadriga an F-rating, launched an investigation in Dec 2018
Quadriga has substantial personal information on its customers, including SIN, driver's license, and banking details. Given Quadriga's murky history, customers may have their identity at risk and should setup up credit report and identity theft alerts with either Equifax or TransUnion.
Quadriga's History
CCN Article listing suspicious activity
Court Documents
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Playing with fire with FinCen and SEC, Binance may face a hefty penalty again after already losing 50 percent of its trading business
On 14 June, Binance announced that it "constantly reviews user accounts to improve (their) platform security and to comply with global compliance requirements", mentioning that "Binance is unable to provide services to any U.S. person" in the latest "Binance Terms of Use" attached within the announcement.
According to the data from a third-party traffic statistics website, Alexa, users in the U.S. form the biggest user group of Binance, accounting for about 25% of the total visitor traffic.
In the forecast of Binance's user scale compiled by The Block, the largest traffic is dominated by users in the U.S., surpassing the total of the ones from the second place to the fifth place.
Also, considering that the scale of digital asset trading for the users in the U.S. far exceeds that of the users of many other countries, it could mean that Binance may have already lost 50 % of the business income by losing users in the U.S. Apparently, such an announcement by Binance to stop providing services to users in the U.S. means Binance has no other alternative but "seek to live on."
So, what are the specific requirements of the U.S. for digital asset exchanges and which of the regulatory red lines of the U.S. did Binance cross?
Compliance issues relating to operation permission of digital asset exchanges
In the U.S., the entry barrier for obtaining a business license to operate a digital asset exchange is not high. Apart from the special licencing requirements of individual states such as New York, most of the states generally grant licences to digital asset exchanges through the issuance of a "Money Transmitter License" (MTL).
Each state has different requirements for MTL applications. Some of the main common requirements are:
Filling out the application form, including business address, tax identification number, social security number and statement of net assets of the owneproprietor Paying the relevant fees for the licence application Meeting the minimum net assets requirements stipulated by the state Completing a background check Providing a form of guarantee, such as security bonds
It is worth noting that not all states are explicitly using MTL to handle the issues around operation permission of digital asset exchanges. For instance, New Hampshire passed a new law on 12 March 2017, announcing that trading parties of digital assets in that state would not be bound by MTL. Also, Montana has not yet set up MTL, keeping an open attitude towards the currency trading business.
On top of obtaining the MTL in each state, enterprises are also required to complete the registration of "Money Services Business" (MSB) on the federal level FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury Department) issued the "Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies" on 18 March 2013. On the federal level, the guideline requires any enterprise involved in virtual currency services to complete the MSB registration and perform the corresponding compliance responsibilities. The main responsibility of a registered enterprise is to establish anti-money laundering procedures and reporting systems.
However, California is an exception. Enterprises in California would only need to complete the MSB registration on the federal level and they do not need to apply for the MTL in California.
Any enterprise operating in New York must obtain a virtual currency business license, Bitlicense, issued in New York
Early in July 2014, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has specially designed and launched the BitLicense, stipulating that any institutions participating in a business relevant to virtual currency (virtual currency transfer, virtual currency trust, provision of virtual currency trading services, issuance or management of virtual currencies) must obtain a BitLicense.
To date, the NYSDFS has issued 19 Bitlicenses. Among them includes exchanges such as Coinbase (January 2017), BitFlyer (July 2017), Genesis Global Trading (May 2018) and Bitstamp (April 2019).
Solely from the perspective of operation permission, Binance has yet to complete the MSB registration of FinCEN (its partner, BAM Trading, has completed the MSB registration). This means that Binance is not eligible to operate a digital asset exchange in the U.S. FinCEN has the rights to prosecute Binance based on its failure to fulfil the relevant 'anti-money laundering' regulatory requirements.
Compliance issues relating to online assets
With the further development of the digital asset market, ICO has released loads of "digital assets" that have characteristics of a "security" into the trading markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed more comprehensive compliance requirements for digital asset exchanges. The core of the requirements is reflected in the restrictions of offering digital assets trading service.
In the last two years, the SEC has reiterated on many occasions that digital assets that have characteristics of a security should not be traded on a digital asset exchange
In August 2017, when the development of ICO was at its peak, the SEC issued an investor bulletin "Investor Bulletin: Initial Coin Offerings" on its website and published an investigation report of the DAO. It determined that the DAO tokens were considered 'marketable securities', stressing that all digital assets considered 'marketable securities' would be incorporated into the SEC regulatory system, bound by the U.S. federal securities law. Soon after, the SEC also declared and stressed that "(if) a platform offers trading of digital assets that are securities and operates as an "exchange," as defined by the federal securities laws, then the platform must register with the SEC as a national securities exchange or be exempt from registration."
On 16 November 2018, the SEC issued a "Statement on Digital Asset Securities Issuance and Trading," in which the SEC used five real case studies to conduct exemplary penalty rulings on the initial offers and sales of digital asset securities, including those issued in ICOs, relevant cryptocurrency exchanges, investment management tools, ICO platforms and so on. The statement further reiterates that exchanges cannot provide trading services for digital assets that have characteristics of a security.
On 3 April 2019, the SEC issued the "Framework for 'Investment Contract' Analysis of Digital Assets" to further elucidate the evaluation criteria for determining whether a digital asset is a security and providing guiding opinions on the compliance of the issuance, sales, holding procedures of digital assets.
As of now, only a small number of digital assets, such as BTC, ETH, etc. meet the SEC's requirement of "non-securities assets." The potentially "compliant" digital assets are less than 20.
Early in March 2014, the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) has stated that Bitcoin will be treated as a legal property and will be subject to taxes. In September 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated that Bitcoin is a commodity and will be treated as a "property" by the IRS for tax purposes.
On 15 June 2018, William Hinman, Director of the Corporate Finance Division of the SEC, said at the Cryptocurrency Summit held in San Francisco that BTC and ETH are not securities. Nevertheless, many ICO tokens fall under the securities category.
So far, only BTC and ETH have received approval and recognition of the U.S. regulatory authority as a "non-securities asset."
Since July 2018, the SEC has investigated more than ten types of digital assets, one after another, and ruled that they were securities and had to be incorporated into the SEC regulatory system. It prosecuted and punished those who had contravened the issuance and trading requirements of the securities laws.
Although there are still many digital assets that have yet to be characterised as "securities", it is extremely difficult to be characterised as a "non-securities asset" based on the evaluation criteria announced by the SEC. As the SEC's spokesperson has reiterated many times, they believe the majority of ICO tokens are securities.
Under the stipulated requirements of the SEC, Coinbase, a leading U.S. exchange, has withdrawn a batch of digital assets. The assets withdrawn included digital assets that had been characterised as "securities" as well as those that have high risks of being characterised as "securities." However, it is worth noting that although the risk to be characterised as "securities" for more than ten types of digital assets, which have not been explicitly required by SEC to be withdrawn, is relatively small, they are not entirely safe. With the further escalation of the SEC's investigations, they could still be characterised as securities and be held accountable for violating their responsibilities. However, this requires further guidance from the SEC.
*Coinbase's 14 types of digital assets that have yet to be requested for withdrawal
Poloniex announced on 16 May that it would stop providing services for nine digital assets, including Ardor (ARDR), Bytecoin (BCN), etc. under the compliance guidelines of the SEC. On 7 June, Bittrex also announced that it would stop providing trading services to U.S. users for 32 digital assets. The action of the SEC on its regulatory guidance was further reinforced apparently.
In fact, it is not the first time that these two exchanges have withdrawn digital assets under regulatory requirements. Since the rapid development of digital assets driven by ICO in 2017, Poloniex and Bittrex were once leading exchanges for ICO tokens, providing comprehensive trading services for digital assets. However, after the SEC reiterated its compliance requirements, Poloniex and Bittrex have withdrawn a considerable amount of assets in the past year to meet the compliance requirements.
In conclusion, the takeaways that we have got are as follows: Under the existing U.S. regulatory requirements of digital assets, after obtaining the basic entry licences (MSB, MTL), exchanges could either choose the "compliant asset" solution of Coinbase and only list a small number of digital assets that do not have apparent characteristics of a security, and at all times prepare to withdraw any asset later characterised as "securities" by the SECs; or choose to be like OKEx and Huobi and make it clear they would "not provide services to any U.S. users" at the start.
Binance has been providing a large number of digital assets that have characteristics of a security to U.S users without a U.S. securities exchange licence, so it has already contravened the SEC regulatory requirements.
On top of that, it is also worth noting that the rapid development of Binance has been achieved precisely through the behaviours of "contrary to regulations" and "committing crimes." Amid the blocking of several pioneering exchanges, such as OKCoin, Huobi, etc. providing services to Chinese users in the Chinese market under new laws from the regulatory authorities, Binance leapfrogged the competition and began to dominate the Chinese market. Similarly, Binance's rapid growth in the U.S. market is mainly due to its domination of the traffic of digital assets withdrawn by Poloniex and Bittrex. One can say that Binance not only has weak awareness of compliance issues, but it is also indeed "playing with fire" with the U.S. regulators.
In April 2018, the New York State Office of Attorney General (OAG) requested 13 digital asset exchanges, including Binance, to prepare for investigations, indicating it would initiate an investigation in relations to company ownership, leadership, operating conditions, service terms, trading volume, relationships with financial institutions, etc. Many exchanges, including Gemini, Bittrex, Poloniex, BitFlyer, Bitfinex, and so on, proactively acknowledged and replied in the first instance upon receipt of the investigation notice. However, Binance had hardly any action.
Binance has been illegally operating in the U.S. for almost two years. It has not yet fulfilled the FinCEN and MSB registration requirements. Moreover, it has also neglected the SEC announcements and OAG investigation summons on several occasions. The ultimate announcement of exiting the U.S. market may be due to the tremendous pressure imposed by the U.S. regulators.
In fact, the SEC executives have recently stressed that "exchanges of IEO in the U.S. market are facing legal risks and the SEC would soon crack down on these illegal activities" on numerous occasions. These were clear indications of imposing pressure on Binance.
Regarding the SEC's rulings on illegal digital asset exchanges, EtherDelta and investment management platform, Crypto Asset Management, it may not be easy for Binance to "fully exit" from the U.S. market. It may be faced with a hefty penalty. Once there are any compensation claims by the U.S. users for losses incurred in the trading of assets at Binance, it would be dragged into a difficult compensation dilemma. It would undoubtedly be a double blow for Binance that has just been held accountable for the losses incurred in a theft of 7,000 BTC.
Coincidentally, Binance was tossed out of Japan because of compliance issues. In March 2018, the Financial Services Agency of Japan officially issued a stern warning to Binance, which was boldly providing services to Japanese users without registering for a digital asset exchange licence in Japan. Binance was forced to relocate to Malta instead. Binance may have to bear hefty penalties arising from challenging the compliance requirements after it had lost important markets due to consecutive compliance issues.
The rise of Binance was attributed to its bold and valiant style, grasping the opportunity created in the vacuum period of government regulation, breaking compliance requirements and rapidly dominating the market to obtain user traffic. For a while, it gained considerable advantages in the early, barbaric growth stage of the industry. Nonetheless, under the increasingly comprehensive regulatory compliance system for global digital asset markets, Binance, which has constantly been "evading regulation" and "resisting supervision" would undoubtedly face enormous survival challenges, notwithstanding that it would lose far more than 50 per cent of the market share.
https://www.asiacryptotoday.com/playing-with-fire-with-fincen-and-sec-binance-may-face-a-hefty-penalty-again-after-already-losing-50-percent-of-its-trading-business/
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An in-depth interview with Coss founder, Rune Evensen:
About two weeks ago I decided to book tickets to Singapore to pay a visit to the COSS team. I was and still am heavily invested in COSS and I thought it was my duty to push the do your own research idea to the maximum and actually go there and meet them!
So, today was my first day in Singapore and it's been very busy! I spent the morning preparing my first official meeting with Rune and I headed to their offices around 2pm. They are a little bit outside of the city center, about 10 minutes drive. They look quite nice and leave a lot of room for growth, which is good cause a lot of people are coming in house in the next few weeks. The meeting went for about 2 hours and we talked about almost everything regarding COSS. Rune has been incredibly welcoming so far, I landed yesterday night and as soon as he knew I was in town he invited me to have dinner with him, so today was our second meeting, first official one. After the meeting, I headed back to my hotel caught a bit of sleep and started redacting the interview. Tomorrow I have a meeting with their head of compliance and will do the same thing, only much shorter. I'll also start vloging my adventures in Singapore :)
Here is the 1st part of the interview:
*Hi Rune, thanks for having me, how did you come up with the COSS idea? *
Rune Evensen: Originally, back in 2013, I to develop a one stop solution for social media. I was looking at the current platforms and realized twitter is undersharing, facebook is oversharing and LinkedIn is for professionals. You needed a different account for everything so I started building a solution. Unfortunately it was all 3d rendered and way too heavy. It was designed like a house with different rooms. I spent two years on that project and we were supposed to build-in something like facebook credits as an internal currency, but not a cryptocurrency because at that time I did not know about them. But when I showed my idea to people, especially here in Singapore, more and more of them asked me why don't you make it as a cryptocurrency instead of credits? Then I started to look into it, that was in 2015 but I found it quite complicated with a lot of hurdles especially for a beginner. So instead of working on a one-stop solution for social medias I figured I should build one for cryptos, because everybody talks about mass-adoption, but it is mostly IT guys, nerds and traders who are into cryptos. It is still way too complicated for people to get into it. So I started to plan my one stop solutions, many long nights of work. To get a better understanding I signed up for a FinTech course at MIT. During one of the weekly sessions there, we were supposed to submit a business idea that we had and could implement into blockchain. That was the first time I publicly presented my idea. We 1200 people in this course, and the average score for the assignment was 25, my project got the best rating, 100. They described it as a great business idea with real potential to take COSS to the masses. That was quite an endorsement! I needed this endorsement to actually build this idea. I had a consultancy company in Singapore with some staff. First I brought some of them in the project, then I met Dan from Romania and some months later we had the first drafts of the white paper. In November 2016 we moved to our offices in Singapore, in April 2017 we went live with the beta. Until then we were 100% self-funded, and that was the time all the ICOs were popping up. At first we started looking at institutional investors, but they wanted too many shares of the company for money that would last us a year at best. I did not want sell a majority stake of my company in which I already put so much time, efforts and money. The next natural step was to do an ICO and this is why we created our COSS token and came-up with the idea of the fee split allocation. We had to come-up with a clear use case. We then built our advisory board, we picked our advisory board according to our road map and not specifically for the ICO. For example Anson Zeall who is the president of ACCESS, Singapore's Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Industry Association. So we chose them so that they could help us to complete our roadmap. We did every possible mistake during the ICO because we had no experience in it, none of us had done it before. We did not realize the power of community at the time, we did not even have Telegram at the time! You need to start building a community months before the ICO, you need thousands of people on Telegram and people being active in the community. This is the key to a successful ICO. Nowadays we are actually asked for advices by companies doing their own ICOs because we did everything ourselves during ours. We did not do proper marketing too, we thought we could push it through social medias, that was a big mistake. Nowadays, you need at least half a million to start your ICO for marketing budgets etc… Some companies even offer funding to ICOs! I remember we were approached at the time by TokenMarket and they offered us to take care of everything in our ICO. For 4 months of their work we were asked between 30 and 40k USD. Nowadays they do not work for less than a million. It's been a bumpy road, that's why we call it the RollerCOSSter! We raised 3.2M during our ICO.
How much did you estimate you needed?
Rune Evensen: We were very ambitious because we made an audit through ICO ranker and at that time they scored us the highest they had ever done. So we thought we would reach our 50M hardcap really easily. We were asked by the community what we were going to do with the unsold tokens, we did a community vote and the result was that everybody that joined the token sale would get 10x more token than expected. We decided to stay on Ether with the ICO money as opposed to go to FIAT. We only convert as we go and we still have two third of ETH we raised, which at today's market price are worth 6M USD. For those who believe we have not hired more staff yet because of financial reasons, that is absolutely not true. We are very careful with the way we use our money, yes we have a big office but we decided to rent it a little bit outside of Singapore's center cause it is a lot cheaper. We got a big office because we know we want to hire a lot. We are 7 persons working at the office at the moment and 4 more will arrive in February. Three persons for compliance and one developer, Jay.
That was actually my follow-up question, how many people are on the current staff?
Rune Evensen: We have a very decentralized team. We currently have 7 people in house, then we have the core dev team in Romania, which is Dan's (one of COSS shareholders) team. It's a 20 people team but only two of them are working a 100% on COSS. Then we have the UI team in Amsterdam, with 5 people working on COSS. We have our content manager also in Europe, we have our graphic designer in Indonesia, we have our internal security expert and our lawyer (also a shareholder) here in Singapore. So we have a big team, but people need to understand the difference between team and staff. For instance we have Gary here in house for support but he's managing a four people team that we outsource. They all came here for training but do not work here. We are also planning to add 6 or 7 more in house developers. Mong (COSS's 1st in house dev) has determined what kind of team she needs and she has free hands to hire and build the team.
Just to clarify, if she finds someone that would fit the team, she is allowed to hire him/her immediately?
Rune Evensen: Of course, we still need to discuss it together. She cannot sign the contract all alone. But yes, she is free to hire! We want it to be as quick as possible. The very good ones often have a job, then we need to make good offers to convince them and once they accept they need to give notice to their former employers so that takes a bit more time. If there are some devs out there that can start immediately and fit our needs, then we will bring them in immediately.
Is it fair to say that Mong is COSS' CTO?
Rune Evensen: Yes, her contract does not say CTO but she is definitely acting CTO. It's the same for me, I am leading the company but I do not have the CEO title.
Rune Evensen: I'm normally at the office between 8 and 9, sometimes I try to hit the gym before coming there, not too much lately. At the office I spend a lot of my time acting as support role on Slack and Telegram, I help everybody that DMs me with issues. Maybe I made myself too available because now I am getting a lot of them everyday. Of course we have meetups with compliance team and the devs. Mong has taken over a lot of communications with the dev teams oversea. She is coordinating and leading the Amsterdam and Romania team. Before she came on board that was also part of my job. I also took part on the KYC process, which is now the compliance team's responsibility. I'm also the one negotiating when a coin wants to be listed.
The priority is to get off your support role?
Rune Evensen: Yes, as soon as support is up to speed, and can handle all the issues as fast I as I want to I will get off this role and go back to only leading the company.
You announced FIAT will be introduced by the end of Q1 can you give us more details?
Rune Evensen: We will introduce FIAT through credit card for Bitcoin and ETH. We will add more FIAT pairs as soon as the engine is up and running. I do not have an exact date for the engine. We are in the process of designing the architecture we need and want to use. Once that is done I will be able to give a more precise timeline. This should happen by the end of the week or next week.
One question that comes up a lot, why don't you buy the same engine as Binance?
Rune Evensen: We want to build something from scratch for a few reasons. One reason is security, we want to have full control of the code. But mostly we want the engine to fit our business model, that requires different solutions than a standard exchange. So even if we bought Binance's engine we would need to build a lot on top. We will speed up as much as possible the release of the engine, as long as that does not jeopardize security or quality.
There are now over 80 devs on the Trello board, what is their role?
Rune Evensen: They are giving us feedbacks and come up with solutions. For instance what can be done to increase the speed of the site. Some of them are working for Microsoft, Facebook and other Fortune 500 companies. Of course they are already very busy with their job and they are only helping us because they have an interest in COSS. Some of them reached out and sent their CVs to us. That's something I always rejected before because we did not have in house devs. I did not want to get more outsourced devs and put them under an already outsourced dev team. Now that we have a leading team in Singapore, I'm passing those CVs, of highly qualified people looking to contribute more, to Mong. Some of them will become COSS team members. That's really the true power of community that I talked about in my Medium update. Yes we have the FUD, from time to time, but to see the activity we have on Telegram and Slack, I really believe we have an amazing community. I know you guys also have a huge french community. France is actually our second biggest market behind USA.
Let's talk about security, it's always an important concern from users. How do you improve and assess the exchange's security?
Rune Evensen: We are doing regular penetration testing, you can never say that something is 100% hack proof. My personal recommendation is to leave on exchanges only what you intend to trade and send the rest to your hardware wallet. You can get your fee split allocation on Ledger very easily. We do our due diligence and have never been breached, but some users have through their emails. I'm also amazed by how many people have not yet set-up 2FA. We might make it mandatory.
You mentioned earlier that you still have 6M worth of ETH from your ICO. How much volume does the exchange need to cover your costs?
Rune Evensen: Right now, when we have 2 to 3M daily volume, we are paying weekly to COSS holders between 70 and 100k. That means we get the same amount for ourselves and that's almost enough to cover our expenses. If we reach 10M daily volume we should be very healthy financially.
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One Of The Most Used Crypto Tracking Websites Rolled Out A New Metric Aimed At Reducing Trading Volume Bubbles
CoinMarketCap.com, considered as the top crypto metrics website for the entire cryptocurrency industry, announced the release of their new Liquidity metric. The new analytics measurement will serve as a better reflector of the trading activity in the sector.
The new metric is live, and, according to CoinMarketCap, it would be the most valuable metric for ranking cryptocurrencies and exchanges. The new analysis tool will generate an average value based on factors, such as order sizes and the difference between the order price and a given currency's mid-price. The tool should gather information via several "snapshots" of the current state of the market at random intervals, based on a 24-hour timeframe. The average result would be generated in U.S. Dollars.
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The biggest reason for the new metric is the inflated orders that some exchanges place, in order to increase their trading volumes. Exchange operators place a strongly deviating from the average price order, thus – boosting their trading volumes.
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WTO Challenges before India (GS 3,Trade issues,Economy,UPSC IAS mains)
current affairs, GS-3
Why in news?
WTO dispute settlement panel has ruled against India in its disagreement with Japan over import duties on hot-rolled steel.
What is the role of WTO in trade?
The World Trade Organization came into being in 1995, it is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations, the HQ is located in Geneva.
Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
Virtually all decisions in the WTO are taken by consensus among all member countries and they are ratified by members' parliaments.
Trade friction is channeled into the WTO's dispute settlement process where the focus is on interpreting agreements and commitments.
What is the recent case on import duties all about?
In the last financial year, Indian imports of steel from Japan and South Korea were 45 per cent of the total steel imports of 8.4 million tones and the total value of steel imports was $6.5 billion.
India has sought to protect the domestic steel industry consistently over the past three years, following a plea by domestic producers to the government.
A three-member dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled against India in its disagreement with Japan over import duties on hot-rolled steel.
India has failed to substantiate that a sudden and sustained increase in imports had significantly harmed domestic producers.
What are the WTO challenges before India?
India's turn towards protectionist trade policy over the past years has not gone unnoticed at the WTO and a pattern is beginning to be visible when it comes to India at the WTO.
A sharp protectionist action is taken and, subsequently, India fails to back it up at the WTO with suitable arguments.
This might well happen next with its hard stand on agricultural procurement, where India is defending its complex web of minimum support prices at the WTO amid international isolation and even opprobrium.
In one landmark ruling earlier this year, a WTO panel ruled that "domestic content requirements" in India's solar panels breached trading rules.
These requirements were scaled up as part of India's effort to indigenize the manufacturing of solar panels amid a scale-up of renewable energy generation capacity.
The decision itself was contested within the government; the ministry of new and renewable energy argued that cheaper solar panels were essential to India's solar mission, while the department of industrial policy and promotion wanted to push Indian solar panel manufacturing.
What is the way forward?
Union government in this regard either need to stops trying to erect barriers that disadvantage Indian consumers in the name of domestic protection.
Or it creates sufficient capacity that ensures it is able to win enough of the disputes that such barriers will cause.
Thus a larger debate is needed on the nature and orientation of India's protectionist turn, which harms consumer welfare and causes international embarrassments of this sort.


Discussion in 'General Chat' started by NIGHTBRINGER, Feb 10, 2019.
Consider this the one "catch all" thread to rule them all. Anything goes (as long as it doesn't conflict with forum etiquette of course).
The more random the better.
The more dissimilar from other pre-existing threads the better.
The purpose of the thread is to provide a space for random conversations and posts. A chance to post something that might not otherwise warrant the creation of a dedicated thread (or one which doesn't already have a dedicated thread).
Unlike its sister thread "Last person to make a post wins", there exists no objective of winning here. Here there are only participation ribbons to be had, and even those are only figurative.
"I don't always post about random subjects, but when I do, I prefer The Random Thread of Random Randomness. Keep posting my friends."
You will find I am kind.
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Reaper Miniature Forums is on the fifteenth iteration ( XV ) of a thread like this.
Is that where you got the idea?
They lock each prior thread after ~10K posts.
Because, a thread of indefinite, possibly infinite length, will at some point Bork Up the software that runs a Forum.
Warden, NIGHTBRINGER and Paradoxical Pacifism like this.
Did we break the old "last post wins thread"? Or is this a cleaver ploy to win on that thread by usurping the comments with this one?
NIGHTBRINGER and Paradoxical Pacifism like this.
Because, a thread of indefinite, possibly infinite length, will at some point Bork Up the software the runs a Forum.
Interesting... I never knew that. Does that mean at some point I should create a "Just for laughs..." vol. 2 thread?
As for the idea for this thread, it was born out of conversations in the "Last person to make a post wins" thread.
Its still working. And no, a ploy is not required. I think a few others had issues with my shall we call it "proficiency" in that thread! After all, nearly 8 out of every 100 posts on this site have been made by yours truly.
Why do I feel like you have unleashed something not even you can control?
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That is definitely random... a good edition to this newly formed thread.
That alone made it worth watching.


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