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Post Script: Nature lover dies with a garden hoe in hand at age 93
By The Virginian-Pilot
The Virginian-Pilot |
Jul 11, 2007 | 12:00 AM
By Fred Kirsch
The Virginian-Pilot
SOUTHERN SHORES, N.C.
For years, most days at dusk, Angie Miller would fill the two rows of bowls with food. And from the edges of her sprawling yard, the foxes that lived in the surrounding woods would come for dinner.
Miller, known to many in the neighborhood as "The Fox Lady," died in June at age 93.
"That is just something Angie would do," said Ann Miller, who was once her daughter-in-law.
"She loved all animals. "
Angelina Miller was born in Union, N.M., to Spanish immigrants and raised in California.
For a time, she lived in Panama with her husband, Max, a radio operator in the Navy.
She moved to Hampton Roads when Max was stationed in Norfolk.
They later settled on the Outer Banks.
As many as 10 foxes would be dinner guests. Sometimes they'd bring their young, friend Christine Buckner said.
"She first put out dog food," Ann Miller said. "But soon she discovered that the foxes loved table scraps. So, she started mixing up regular food with the dog food in a big bowl and adding water."
The foxes grew so comfortable with Miller that they didn't mind her watching nearby.
Raccoons occasionally dropped by, as did stray cats. She also scattered birdseed and had a salt lick for deer.
Miller made friends easily with her gregarious personality and had a soft spot for children.
"She loved telling jokes, and she had a way of taking a very serious situation and turning it into something you could laugh at," Ann Miller said.
Miller grew fiercely independent over the years, especially after her divorce in the late 1970s.
She drove a car until she died.
Her goal, she often reminded her family, was never to live in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home.
She loved living on the Outer Banks, surrounded by such a wide variety of flora and fauna.
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She became a huge gardener, spending hours planting roses, lilies, grape vines and a peach tree in the back yard.
Miller turned over cutting the yard to Buckner, who owns a lawn service, but she continued to maintain the flower beds around the house up until her last day.
She died while working in the yard.
"She had a hoe in her hand," Buckner said. "She was putting in some flowers."
Fred Kirsch, (757) 446-2484, postscripts@pilotonline.com
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Roger Deakin, who died in August 2006 shortly after completing the manuscript of Wildwood, was a writer and film maker with a particular interest in nature and the environment. He lived for many years in Suffolk, where he swam regularly in his moat, in the River Waveney and in the sea, in between travelling widely through the wildwood landscapes he writes about in this book. Waterlog, the predecessor to Wildwood, recounts his swimming adventures and has been hailed as a classic of nature writing.
In this last book before his death in 2006, Deakin (Waterlog) delights with his curiosity and affection for rambling forests in Europe and Australia. The book is as much about the woodland animals and humans engaged with forest life as it is about the trees, the rooks "flinging themselves into a strong wind and somersaulting wildly upward, then diving straight down again into the woods like bungee jumpers"; the Essex Moth Group clustering around a mercury lamp to view moths with poetic names like "the willow beauty, the dingy footman, the clouded silver"; and artists engaging with nature, like John Wolseley, inspired by the fire-struck Australian Whipstick Forest to create works expressing "all the urgency and energy of the racing bushfire itself." Deakin's lyrical, sometimes anthropomorphic portraits of trees and wood are saturated with his scientific knowledge and passion: a hazel branch, "more of a magician's staff than a walking stick... naturally fluted and spiraled by the strangling effect of the honeysuckle stem that still encircled it like an asp... was a masterpiece of nature, the voluptuous embrace of the honeysuckle exciting the hazel into a frenzy of cell division." (Jan.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
With Wood as a family name and a great-grandfather who owned a timber yard, it is not surprising that British nature writer Deakin felt as strong a tie to the forest as to water, which he chronicled in his first book, Waterlog. From his school days of taking ecological surveys in a nearby forest to his adult years as a woodworker, trees have played an important role in his life. In this posthumous work, Deakin, who died in 2006, takes the reader on nature forays throughout his native England and beyond, where he meets an eclectic host of people including artists and scientists who live and work with trees. During his travels, he visits such places as a Jaguar factory, the dusty outback of Australia, the birthplace of apples in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan, and a dismal World War II-ravaged region of Poland. Liberally sprinkled with literary allusions, forest lore and myth, and instructions on forestry practices such as coppicing trees, this memoir, travelog, and natural history work will find a comfortable place in public libraries.-Maureen J. Delaney-Lehman, Lake Superior State Univ. Lib., Sault Ste. Marie, MI Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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Q: How to clear value select input and out of anothor loops in node.js **I have database here**
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| year | month | day | name |
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| 2017 | JAN   |  1  | John |
| 2017 | JAN   |  3  | Max  |
| 2017 | FEB   |  4  | Alex |
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and in select.jade I have three select input :
| select year |    |select month|   |select day|

if I selected year
| 2017 |  |select month| | select day|

I get result :
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| year | month | day | name  |
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| 2017 | JAN  |  1   | John  |
| 2017 | JAN  |  3   | Max   |
| 2017 | FEB  |  4   | Alex  |
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if I selected year , month
| 2017 | |JAN | | select day |

I get result :
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| year | month | day | name  |
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| 2017 | JAN  |  1   | John  |
| 2017 | JAN  |  3   | Max   |
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if I selected year , month , day :
| 2017 | |JAN | | 1 |

I get result :
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| year | month | day | name  |
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| 2017 | JAN  |  1   | John  |
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if I change selected month form JAN to FEB :
| 2017 | | FEB | | 1 |

Which is not in database and I want to clear value in selected day as :
| 2017 |  | FEB |  | select day |

and get result :
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| year | month | day | name |
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| 2017 | FEB   |  4  | Alex |
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How to do this out of loops condition.
code here :
db.select_years(function(err, selectYears) {
  if (err) return next(err);
  db.select_months(req.body.inputyear, function(err, selectMonths) {
        if (err) return next(err);
        for (var i = 0; i < selectMonths.length; i++) {
          selectMonths[i].monthName = moment({
            month: Number(selectMonths[i].month) - 1
          }).format("MMMM");
        }
        db.select_days(req.body.inputyear, req.body.inputmonth, function(err, selectDays) {
          if (err) return next(err);
          db.getresult(req.body.inputyear, req.body.inputmonth, req.body.inputday, function(err, result) {
            if (err) return next(err);
            var count = 0;
            if (result.length == 0) {
              // here if Which is not in database
            } else {
              for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
                if (Number(result[i].sum) > 0) {
                  count += Number(result[i].sum);
                }
                result[i].sum = numeral(result[i].sum).format('0,0');
              }
            }
            count = numeral(count).format('0,0');
            res.render("selectvalue", {
              result: result,
              selectYears: selectYears,
              selectMonths: selectMonths,
              selectordays: selectordays,
              count: count
            });
          });
        });
      });
    });

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Similar count against singer/actress Jennifer Lopez dropped.
NEW YORK — Rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs was arrested on a weapons charge Monday afternoon (Dec. 27) after being questioned about a triple shooting at a Manhattan nightclub earlier in the morning, police said.
Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, who was with Combs, also was charged, but the count was dropped within an hour when the Manhattan district attorney decided not to prosecute her, officials said.
Combs and two other people who were driving with him and Lopez in a Lincoln Navigator were stopped by police near the club shortly after the 2:30 a.m. shootings and were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property, according to Officer Joseph Cavitolo, a police spokesperson.
Cavitolo said officers found a stolen gun in the vehicle, making all of the occupants subject to the charges.
No one has been charged with the actual shootings, but the Associated Press quoted police sources as saying eyewitnesses told them that Combs was a gunman in the incident.
Lawyers for Combs and Lopez could not be reached for comment. Reuters quoted Combs publicist Dan Klores as saying Combs and Lopez were "victims of circumstances" who had been in "a life-threatening situation" when they were stopped by police.
Police arrested Jamal Barrow, 19, outside the club and charged him with criminal possession of a 9 mm handgun, according to Officer David Lanuto, another police spokesperson. The AP identified Barrow as the rapper Shyne, who is signed to Combs' label, Bad Boy Entertainment.
Three people were hit by gunfire in the incident at Club New York on West 43rd Street. Natanya Ruben, 29, was the most seriously hurt, according to police. She was shot in the face and was in stable condition at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan.
The other two victims, Robert Thompson, 39, and Julius Jones, 27, were hit in the shoulder. Jones was in stable condition at St. Vincent's; Thompson refused medical treatment.
Combs and Lopez, who police said are each 30 years old, spent the morning being questioned by detectives at two Manhattan precincts, as did the two people they were driving with, 41-year-old Anthony Jones and 34-year-old Wardell Fenderson.
Cavitolo said police were trying to determine a motive.
Combs and Lopez were attending a Sunday night party at Club New York, along with other celebrities, including several professional athletes, according to Eric Funk, a club manager. He said he could not name the athletes.
"Everyone here was having a good time," Funk said. "There was a scuffle at the end of evening by the bar. Shots were fired."
In September, Combs pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment in a case in which he had been charged with attacking record executive Steve Stoute — with a chair, a telephone and a champagne bottle — in April. Combs was ordered to attend a one-day anger-management counseling program.
Combs has said he was angry at Stoute, who is a consultant to rapper Nas, over the video for Nas' "Hate Me Now," in which Combs appears. In the initial version of the video, Combs was shown hanging from a cross.
Combs, who gained fame for his production work with the late rapper the Notorious B.I.G., became a star on his own in 1997 with the multiplatinum album No Way Out, which included the hit singles "It's All About the Benjamins," "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You" (RealAudio excerpt), a tribute to the Notorious B.I.G., who was murdered in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997.
Puff Daddy's second album, Forever, was released in August and debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Lopez, a dancer by training, was a successful film actress before emerging as a pop star this year. Her single "If You Had My Love" (RealAudio excerpt), from the album On the 6, reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.
Combs, Fenderson and Jones had yet to be arraigned Monday afternoon.


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If you've ever played sports in high school or college, there's a good chance you've had to deal with at least one of the common injuries that hamper athletes.
A couple of the biggest problems athletes may incur are sprains and muscle strains, according to veteran athletic trainer Brian Anderson of the Greenwood Leflore Hospital Outpatient Rehab and Wellness Center.
Sprains are injuries to ligaments, the tough bands connecting bones in a joint. Suddenly stretching ligaments past their limits deforms or tears them. Strains are injuries to muscle fibers or tendons, which anchor muscles to bones. He said strains are called "pulled muscles" for a reason: Over-stretching or overusing a muscle causes tears in the muscle fibers or tendons.
Anderson has 15 years' experience as an athletic trainer, and on Friday nights, he can always be found on the sidelines of high school football games in Leflore, Carroll or Montgomery county. He also helps out area schools in other sports as part of the center's outreach program.
In terms of muscle strains, Anderson sees more problems in the hamstring, which is made up of three muscles in the back of the thigh. The hamstring can be over-stretched by movements such as hurdling or kicking the leg out sharply when running.
He says hamstring injuries can be slow to heal because of the constant stress applied to the injured tissue from walking.
"You kind of have to let pain be your guide before you are back to full activity," Anderson explained.
Greenwood's Michael Nix, a registered physical therapist for Professional Physical Therapy and Wellness Center in Belzoni, has helped the Pillow Academy football team in years past. He says the most common sports sprain occurs in the ankle.
Ankle sprains, according to Nix, typically occur when the foot turns inward. This turning stretches or tears the ligaments on the outside of the ankle, which are relatively weak. Nix says for immediate relief, follow the R.I.C.E. treatment plan: rest, ice, compression and elevation. Many of the problems resulting from sprains are due to blood and edema in and around the ankle; therefore it is important to minimize swelling. After applying the ice, wrap the ankle in an ACE bandage or wrap to keep it supported and compressed. An anti-inflammatory can be helpful to reduce pain and inflammation for the first seven to 10 days after the injury.
Try to not place ice directly on skin.
Anderson said one common mistake made when icing sprains is keeping the injured area under ice for longer than 25 minutes at a time.
A high ankle sprain is slower to heal, Nix said, and a doctor should probably examine it to make sure the bones in the lower leg did not separate.
nGroin pull: Pushing off in a side-to-side motion causes strain of the inner thigh muscles or groin.
nShin splints: Pains down the front of the lower legs. They are most often brought on by running — especially when starting a more strenuous training program such as long runs on paved roads or hard surfaces.
nACL knee tear: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) holds the leg bone to the knee. Sudden cuts or stops or getting hit from the side can strain or tear the ACL. This is potentially the most severe of the common sports injuries.
Always, if you suspect an ACL injury, see a doctor immediately because a completely torn ACL usually will require surgery.
nTennis elbow: Caused mainly in racket sports due to, overuse of the forearm extensor muscles, along with repeated impact.Other factors that may contribute to tennis elbow include lack of strength, poor technique, and increases in duration or intensity of play.
The injury causes pain on the outside of the elbow, usually during or after intense use. In some cases, lifting or grasping objects may be difficult, and some have pain that radiates down the arm.
For immediate relief for pulls and strains, follow the R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation) treatment plan. Because many problems resulting from sprains are due to blood and edema in and around the ankle, it is important to minimize swelling.
After applying the ice, wrap the ankle in an ACE bandage or wrap to keep it supported and compressed. An anti-inflammatory can be helpful to reduce pain and inflammation for the first seven to 10 days after the injury.
Rest. Avoid weight bearing for 24 hours or longer for a severe sprain.
Ice. Apply ice (bagged, crushed ice wrapped in a thin towel) to the ankle joint. To avoid frostbite, ice should not be left on the area longer than 20 minutes at a time. Ice 20 minutes every two hours for the first 24 hours to control swelling.
Compression. Wrap the ankle with an elastic bandage (start at the toes and wrap up to the calf) to help prevent swelling and edema.
Elevation. Raise the ankle above the hip or heart to reduce swelling.
If swelling doesn't subside in 48 to 72 hours, seek medical treatment for a complete evaluation.
If unable to bear weight within 48 hours, seek medical treatment.
Treatment for hamstring injuries depends upon the severity of the injury. Due to the pain and limited ability to use the muscle, a third-degree strain usually results in a visit to a physician for evaluation and treatment. Less severe hamstring strains may be treated at home. These general treatment steps are commonly recommended for mild or moderate hamstring injuries.
nAfter an injury it's important to rest the injured muscle, sometimes for up to two or three weeks, before you can return to sports.
R.I.C.E: Rest, apply ice and compression and elevate the leg if possible.
An anti-inflammatory can help reduce pain and inflammation.
Use a strengthening program to rebuild the strength of the injured muscle in order to prevent re-injury. Make sure you increase this gradually.
Rest is the best treatment for shin splints. For immediate relief use the R.I.C.E. treatment method for controlling pain and inflammation. Return to activity gradually with non-weight-bearing activity (cycling, swimming) in your workouts until pain-free.
Strengthening and stretching exercises are helpful. The ankle injury rehab program can also be used for shin splint rehab.
Tape your shins to reduce stress.
Rest is the first treatment for tennis elbow. Stop all activities that cause the pain and use the RICE treatment method to reduce pain and swelling. Conservative treatments are often all that is needed for a full recovery of a tendinitis, which usually resolves itself in a few days to a few weeks.
If tennis elbow pain is due to a deterioration of the tendon (tendinopathy), it can take two to six months to fully recover. Many cases of lateral epicondylitis become chronic problems that progressively get worse if the athlete continues activity despite nagging elbow pain.
If elbow pain lasts more than a few days despite rest and conservative treatment, you should see a physician for an evaluation and a referral to physical therapy.
A physical therapist may use ultrasound or other modalities to help heal tendinopathy. The specific rehab depends upon the exact cause of the injury and the diagnosis; however, the most common rehab methods include ultrasound, medications, massage, braces or splints.


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Coronavirus: Todd Frazier stuck at home, waiting for MLB season
Daniel LoGiudice
For the first time in his baseball career, Todd Frazier isn't working on his game at spring training with Opening Day around the corner. He's at home.
The Texas Rangers slugger, like many other Americans across the country, has stayed mostly inside for the last 2½ weeks in his Toms River home, waiting for news regarding the spread of the coronavirus. With President Trump extending social distancing to the end of April, there is no current timetable for the return of sports or normalcy in the country.
So Frazier, 34, is home and doing everything he can to be ready for whenever the season may start, if it does.
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"It doesn't look like it's going to be a full season, as much as we want it to be," Frazier told the Asbury Park Press in a phone interview on Tuesday. "Once the president says we can go back to normal life, how many weeks is spring training? Are we going to play double headers? Are we going to play two seven-inning double headers? There's 10, 20, 30 different questions that have to be answered before we figure something out."
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Frazier said he believes the season could start by mid-July. MLB has suspended operations until at least mid-May and when the season returns, the initial games could be played without fan attendance.
"I believe that no matter how many games you play, at the end of the year if you're a World Series champion, I'm going to take that ring and be as happy as a clam," Frazier said. "I'm not worried about not playing 162 games. This is something that hopefully never happens again in the world.
"Let's say we play 82 games, then let's go. You can't get on a losing streak. It's going to be a fight every game and a battle. I think it'll make it even more satisfying for a team to win the World Series, knowing there's such a slim chance of getting to the playoffs because of how many games you played."
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Frazier said he usually needs about three weeks and 40 at-bats during spring training to prepare for the slog of a full MLB season. That schedule could very well be accelerated.
To stay fresh for whenever the season may start, Frazier has worked out in his basement gym in his home. He's also hit some batting practice with his older brother, Charlie, pitching to him in empty fields that are still open to the public.
"We wear gloves and use all the precautions that you're supposed to do," Frazier said. "I pick up the balls. I don't want him touching any more balls than he should. We're trying to follow the rules while trying to get ready for the season."
A position player like Frazier may have an easier time with the unconventional season, but starting pitchers who need to build up arm strength as the spring progresses will have a much more difficult time getting ready.
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"How many guys do we put on a roster? Do we come out guns blazing with pitchers throwing six, seven innings? I don't think that'll happen," Frazier said. "Say Lance Lynn is our No. 1 starter, he's not going to go six innings. He's probably going to throw three, four innings tops."
Frazier has found a silver lining in the pandemic. The time at home with his family, his wife, Jackie, a star gymnast at Freehold Boro and Rutgers, and his three young children, is quality time he usually doesn't get at this point during the year.
"We have so much fun together," Frazier said. "If somebody told me you would get four months with your family to hang out, I'd be happy about it because for me, I miss half of the year with my kids and my wife."
But that silver lining comes with great concern. New Jersey has been one of the hardest hit states in the country as nearly 20,000 people have been infected as of Tuesday. Over 200 people have died.
His youngest son, Grant, was hospitalized last year when he was just five weeks old with RSV, a virus that infects the lungs and respiratory system and can be extremely dangerous to infants.
"We're not letting him out of our sight," Frazier said. "It's worrisome. I know it doesn't hit the young population too much, but all it takes is one. I feel there's been a couple out there already, so we're being very safe and smart."
Wednesday would have been opening day for high school sports across New Jersey, including baseball. With the NJSIAA stating that sports will not resume until schools reopen, there's growing concern that the spring season will be canceled.
Frazier made a name for himself in the Toms River baseball circuit. He led Toms River East to the 1998 Little League World Series title and Toms River South to two state championships before committing to Rutgers University.
Now, many high schoolers may miss the magic of their senior years.
"I remember my senior year. I never wanted it to end. I had so much fun in high school," Frazier said. "That's something they'll never get back. It's pretty sad. I feel terrible for these guys and girls. You have to try to be as positive as possible, knowing that you'll be stronger from this in the future."
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Sports have often helped communities heal after tragedies. Baseball in particular has helped Americans, whether it be after the 9/11 or Boston Marathon terrorist attacks. Rapidly, the coronavirus has taken nearly all sports away.
But Frazier has hope that once they get the thumbs up to play, baseball can help bring together an ailing nation.
"When Kobe Bryant passed away, they didn't play for a couple games, and then sports brought everybody back together a little bit," Frazier said. "It's tough. I feel like when those first couple of games come back, it'll be uplifting for everybody."
Danny LoGiudice has covered local sports across New Jersey since 2014. Contact him at dlogiudice@gannettnj.com or @danny_logiudice on Twitter.


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So, I wanted to write here, because I think Nano community is open-minded, and can think it through - I really like it, and tho I don't have it (only tested it a few times from faucets).
As I see both of those CCs are focusing mainly on low-cost payments and microtransaction/micropayments, and "fun to use".
Even tho Dogecoin can be though as "meme" and "silly", it's actually used and adopted in many places - far more then Nano (ofc, it's also older and have easier codebase to implement - sharing it with bitcoin), but as I will outline, I think that there are a few things that Nano/Nano community can learn from them.
no leader - it's the main thing that makes cryptocurrencies decentralized. There is no leader only participants that are driving the development and services
easy to implement codebase - Nano should think, about having some function (like JSON-RPC) similar to Bitcoin's - this way more services could implement it - maybe it is now, but it wasn't
more liquidity - a real winner in cryptocurrencies we can only see, by their behaviour in bear market - Doge is always around 25-35 position on cmc or coinpaprika, because it's really liquid - around 10-11M USD (or equivalent) is sitting in the order books of exchanges around the world (at the bottom I have added a comment, where I have compared it on actual data)
consistent output of 30-40K transactions per day - this is ofc related to better adoption (there is 0 stress tests on Doge)
almost 0 fees - these Nano have better, but Doge is also good in it - although there is a "default" fee of 1 Doge in standard client - you can set in reality as low as 1 sat/byte, so it's usually around 250-500 "dogetoshi" - neglible at best (6e-9 USD)
inflation - to be used as "money" it must be dispersed and spended, and to be spended - it must have a little inflation to encourage spending instead of hoarding. Currently Nano have quite stiff supply, which can hinder it's later growth, and will encourage mainly speculation (fixed supply assets always have rampant speculation and often end in pump and dumps, if they aren't needed or used for anything in real world)
decentralized nodes - 1K+ nodes
Now Nano:
it has 0 fees - that's a huge plus for micropayments in any kind (although Natrium hinders it a little, giving only 6 decimals to use - it should be at least 8, like with other bitcoin-based currencies - fortunately other wallets seems to handle 8 decimals on Nano)
instant txs - also a huge plus
decentralized nodes (although Doge also has it - even more because it has about 1K+ nodes)
quite vibrant community
slowly being adopted in a few services - which is a plus
Liquidity comparison:
Nano: https://coinpaprika.com/coin/nano-nano/#!liquidity
Doge: https://coinpaprika.com/coin/doge-dogecoin/#!liquidity
The trend is evident, if you switch to 1y or max on market depth history - Dogecoin have almost +100% growth in this period (from June 2019) and Nano 50% decline.
Looking at the data from vcdepth it's even more apparent:
https://vcdepth.io/coins/doge-doge
https://vcdepth.io/coins/nano-nano
As I say, I think Nano can learn from Doge's some, especially regarding exchange's liquidity - that's preventing a lot from happening right now. Binance is the only source, and market maker for Nano, but there should be more - through the ecosystem.
What Nano team should do in my opinion is: take part of their funds from dev premine, and use it for liquidity purposes. Cryptocurrencies can't be "run" like startups, and Nano holding shouldn't be treated as equity or cash equivalent, dumping it straight on the books. Binance is making a lot to provide all of their coins with liquid markets (their MMs are one of the best on the market), but I think team can increase liquidity easily by a factor of 2-3x, just by hiring specialistic company, that will manage it. I know coins, that have done it - and it's the main thing that helped them stay relevant. Developing protocol is important, but without liquid market - it doesn't achieve anything (because it won't be used by more people). Especially I would try to improve USDT markets - they are basically USD pairs.
PS. I'm not a developer, but I research CCs on daily basis, because it's actually my work. I think my comparison is right, because Doge have achieve much more then being only "meme" currency, and Banano did not (it's only meme currency without liquidity, acceptance, or being really used anywhere).
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r/Bitcoin recap - April 2019
A recap of Bitcoin in April 2019
Lightning Network capacity crosses $5M USD and is up 44% in 30 days (2 Apr)
The global full node count is up from 60k to 95k in 2 months (5 Apr)
A reminder that Binance still hasn't adopted SegWit (6 Apr)
A senior gentleman spends bitcoin at Bic Camera in Tokyo (7 Apr)
Bitcoin reaches 400M transactions (8 Apr)
The Lightning Torch has reached its final destination (13 Apr)
The Lightning Network passes 8k visible nodes (16 Apr)
A parkour gym in Canada accepting btc (25 Apr)
Bitcoin has more daily transactions than during it's all-time-high price period (25 Apr)
An in-store bitcoin payment in Venezuela (28 Apr)
Coinjoins have tripled to over 4% of all bitcoin transactions over the past year (29 Apr)
Over 29k btc has been made fungible through Wasabi wallet (30 Apr)
Nopara73 re-applies for the 46 btc bounty for his work with coinjoin in Wasabi Wallet (3 Apr)
The next Bitcoin Core release will let hardware wallets connect to full nodes (9 Apr)
In-browser micropayments over the Lightning Network with WebLN, without invoice copying (14 Apr)
The lnd v0.6 beta is announced (16 Apr)
Someone creates a fee estimation tool (23 Apr)
Lightning Labs' desktop wallet is now on mainnet (23 Apr)
Gab is forking Brave's browser, removing their token and integrating bitcoin (25 Apr)
A friendly reminder to take your cryptocurrency off exchanges (2 Apr)
Electrum's servers are being DDoSed by a large botnet to drive people to scam version (7 Apr)
A reminder to not fall for scammers (9 Apr)
Intel wants to backdoor every computer (11 Apr)
A warning for a in-person trade scam through Telegram (19 Apr)
bitcoins from the Bitfinex hack in 2016 were moved (25 Apr)
Someone mining btc in 2011 at a loss (8 Apr)
A discussion on a small Chinese-owned mining operation that burned down (21 Apr)
Slush is planning to add Coinjoin functionality to Trezor (6 Apr)
Facebook stops the selling of bitcoin hats on its platform (7 Apr)
Samsung invests $2.9M in hardware wallet company Ledger (25 Apr)
$89M in btc is withdrawn from Bitfinex' cold wallet (26 Apr)
16 new Bitcoin ATMs in Germany as regulations are cleared up (26 Apr)
New York AG going after Bitfinex over $850M in Tether funds (26 Apr)
E Trade is close to launching cryptocurrency trading (27 Apr)
P2P Bitcoin exchange HodlHodl announces Lightning support (27 Apr)
Rakuten plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange (30 Apr)
Microsoft Azure now supports RSK's smart contracts (30 Apr)
Calculating the Merkle Root for a Block (3 Apr)
An infographic on the history of the Lightning Network (13 Apr)
Andreas Antonopoulos on the importance of bitcoin even if you don't need it (20 Apr)
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve claims to not know where $500B in loans to other Central Banks went (18 Apr)
Argentina's inflation is at 54.7% in 12 months (20 Apr)
Nasdaq is testing to offer bitcoin trading (22 Apr)
Ameritrade is testing the trading of bitcoin futures (24 Apr)
People discuss bitcoin passing a golden cross in price (22 Apr)
Bitcoin is an insurance policy against an Orwellian future (1 Apr)
A Lightning purchase with a fee of 0.003 satoshi or about $0.00000015 (4 Apr)
Free Bitcoin icons (9 Apr)
Julian Assange receives $20K in bitcoin donations in 24 hours (12 Apr)
Peter McCormack on being sued by a Satoshi Nakamoto impostor (12 Apr)
A Bitcoin update from Venezuela (14 Apr)
A reminder of what the average person on bitcoin can do to help (16 Apr)
Another fraudulous attempt of Craight Wright pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto is debunked (16 Apr)
US presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants more clarity around cryptocurrencies (20 Apr)
People discuss the euphoric feeling upon their first bitcoin purchase (20 Apr)
$1.6B in gold vs in btc (22 Apr)
Someone wrote a book about them travelling the world on 1 btc (23 Apr)
Fees are back down to 1 satoshi per byte (25 Apr)
A poster of the Bitcoin whitepaper (27 Apr)
BankDex - The First Exchange to Overcome High Latency in Cryptocurrency Exchanges
BankDex is a user-friendly decentralized exchange, which ensures fiat trading with fast withdrawals and near-feeless transactions. Our team aims to involve new users in blockchain community by eliminating barriers relating with the complexity of buying, transferring & cashing out assets. In this article we research crypto exchanges market and our potential share at first, and then show our benefits and solutions and how it works.
DEX market overview
Encrybit team revealed real-time cryptocurrency exchange problems survey insights1. 1108 crypto traders were questioned: "What are the biggest concerns that you see in currently available exchanges!". The main issues faced are:
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The second question was which exchange do you like, and virtually all respondents referred to centralized exchanges (CEX) here. This survey can be supported by market researches. Trading data from six major centralized exchanges (Binance, Bitfinex, Bithumb HitBTC, Huobi and OKEX) was compared to that from nine leading decentralized exchanges (Bancor Network, BitShares, DDEX, EtherDelta, ForkDelta, IDEX, OpenLedger, StellarTerm, and the Waves Platform). The share of DEX was only 2% of the total trading volume2. The reason is clear: the current generation of DEX has made progress only in security concerns3, while contributing to all other problems and suffering new, like fragmented markets4, no fiat support5, no scaling6, the impossibility of transactions between different blockchains7. Also clear that market is looking forward to flagman product which will eliminate challenges and will enable market growth. Experts highly estimate its potential. Increasing the number of institutional investors8, DEXs should reach up to 4% of total crypto market volume within the next two years. This would mean growth of 5–20x for DEX usage.
A Primer to BankDex
BankDex is a decentralized exchange built in response to the demands of the cryptocurrency users, for a simplified and enhanced trading platform. The platform is built on a robust ecosystem that promotes an enriched user experience, low latency, greater liquidity and security for user transactions.
BankDex employs a loose mesh topology powered by kernel nodes which are responsible for faster transaction persistence and validation. In addition to ensuring faster transactions that can be completed in less than a second, they are also highly resistant to security attacks by being Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT).
The exchange features an impressive collection of crypto — crypto pairing across its network. The array of its supported tokens and cryptocurrencies currently includes BTC, XRP, XLM, ADA, ETH, TRX, EOS, QNT, VIBE, MKR, ZIL and REM, with many more to be added along the timeline.
BankDex allows its users to withdraw funds for free from their wallet. Third party wallet integration is also one of those features to be integrated in the near future. The BankDex transaction management system is both unique and secure, ensuring a flawless trading platform for cryptocurrency users.
Latency and Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Traders handling large quantities of cryptocurrency trade often find themselves in need of an exchange with one particular feature — low latency. In the simplest of terms, latency can be defined as the delay to receive a response after a request is made. As it connects with trading, latency affects the amount of time required for traders to mingle with the market.
Latency, in trading terms, implies to the speed with which a trading platform can react to the present status of the market. Trading platforms integrate programs specially designed to buy and sell assets in less than a second. Low latency means that these platforms are able to react faster to the actions of the market. The rapid nature of today's market enables traders to make a significant amount of money.
Traders who take part in such kind of trade look for very low latency, somewhere in the range 10 milliseconds to 0.1 milliseconds. This kind of speed limit can be reliably accomplished by machines only. For low latency trades to be worthwhile and lucrative, users require an exchange that can handle such high speeds. The ideal latency will figure around a speed of 0.5ms, but this is quite difficult to accomplish.
Managing Latency in BankDex
BankDex decentralized cryptocurrency exchange addresses the latency issue with the lightning network concept, which ensures faster and safer trade of crypto & fiat currency. It overcomes the scalability issues, inherent to blockchain and enhances the throughput and latencies associated with a transaction.
The trading exchange consists of seven blockchains, which communicate with the core through a set of communication protocols. The communication between the different blockchains is established with the help of an interoperable blockchain router.
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BankDex and the Lightning Network
A lightning network can be described as a protocol layer that enables low-latency, high volume digital micropayments without the help of an intermediary. The fundamental technology of lightning network involves a payment channel, a local two-party consensus.
Both the parties involved in the transaction sends an initial amount of Bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency token into a multisignature transaction. The multisignature transaction involves a local consensus on the existing balance that is allocated between the two parties in the transaction.
Any update regarding the allocation of the existing balance can be only be made with the cooperation of both entities involved in the transaction. This is done with the help of a new transaction that spends the funds allocated for the multisignature transactions allocated to each party.
Website : https://www.bankdex.io/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/bank_dex Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bankdex.io Telegram : https://t.me/BankdexChatOfficial Whitepaper : https://www.bankdex.io/index.php/white-pape Technical Paper : https://www.bankdex.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Technical-Paper.pdf
Bounty0x username : nefsim
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InvestInBlockchain - Cryptocurrencies in the Top 100 With Working Products
Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency that started it all back in 2009, after the global financial crisis and subsequent bailouts of banks left many people disenfranchised with fiat currency and outdated, insecure financial infrastructure.
Today, Bitcoin is being used for peer-to-peer payments across the globe. More than that, though, it is leading the way towards a future in which financial technology is trustless, secure, resilient, and censorship resistant. Without Bitcoin, this list would not exist.
The platform that brought smart contracts to the blockchain, spurring a minor revolution in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Before Ethereum, Bitcoin and its transaction-oriented design was the central focus of most blockchain projects.
After Ethereum, teams saw the value of decentralized apps (dapps) and smart contracts, and shifted their focus to compensate.
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum whitepaper was released in late 2013. The project itself was announced January 2014, with a crowdsale the following July. The system officially went live in July 2015.
Since then, hundreds of businesses, individuals, and blockchain projects have adopted Ethereum as their main smart contracts platform.
Ripple is focused primarily on one thing: fast and cheap international transactions.
Current banking infrastructure has failed to evolve in the 21st century, such that it still takes 3-5 business days on average for an international transfer to be processed. With just 4 second transaction times and at a fraction of the cost of a wire transfer, Ripple's working product is already impacting the banking sector.
The big knock against Ripple is that its native token, XRP, is completely unnecessary. Indeed, driving adoption of Ripple's banking solutions is far easier than getting real-world adoption for XRP.
If you're interested in seeing a discussion about how XRP adoption will occur, you might find this reddit thread worth a read. Meanwhile, all of us will just have to wait and see whether XRP adoption strategies ultimately come to fruition.
Bitcoin Cash was created in 2017 when the first ever hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain took place. The split was the result of Bitcoin's 1MB blocks filling up. Transaction speeds were declining, fees were increasing, and it became clear to the community that the current model wasn't sustainable for scaling.
In a move that still causes cryptocurrency fights to this day, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash soon emerged as separate but similar projects. BCH has 8x the block size of BTC, giving it roughly 8x the transaction throughput. Its fees and transaction times are much faster, as predicted.
Learn more about Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash.
The Stellar project and its associated Lumens (XLM) token was forked from the Ripple protocol in 2014. Stellar has come into its own since then, providing a blockchain connection service for fiat transactions between banks, payment systems, and people. Stellar is fast and reliable, and it works with practically no fees for the end-user.
Stellar is a payments system, meaning its job is to move money as efficiently as possible. Partnerships with banks and financial institutions were key in evaluating its status, as was the ability to actually send money using the network.
Several non-profits and commercial entities have agreed to use Stellar as part of their financial infrastructure. Recently, the team partnered with IBM and KlickEx to facilitate cross-border transactions in the South Pacific and announced an affiliate with Keybase to streamline international transactions.
Stellar also has projects being built on its network by major established entities. IBM's blockchain division is using XLM for their payments infrastructure, for example, and the Veridium startup is working with both organizations to tokenize its carbon credits market.
Litecoin is a Bitcoin fork that was created in 2011 by Charlie Lee as a cheaper and faster (2.5 minute block time instead of 10) alternative to Bitcoin. This is accomplished predominantly because Litecoin uses a Scrypt hashing algorithm instead of the SHA-256 algorithm used by Bitcoin. It's common to hear Litecoin called "digital silver" to Bitcoin's "digital gold," and in reality Litecoin does not really expand upon the functionality of Bitcoin in a significant way so much as it makes different tradeoffs.
That being said, it does succeed in being cheaper and faster to use than BTC, which has led to it being accepted by hundreds of merchants and thus making Litecoin one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies for digital payments.
Tether is an unusual project. Whereas most cryptocurrencies rise and fall in value, Tether was designed to stay the same, fixed at a 1:1 ratio with the U.S. dollar.
This allows users to store, send, and receive digital currencies across platforms without incurring significant losses due to value fluctuations.
The Tether stable coin sounds straightforward, but the project isn't without controversy. USDT is supposedly backed by real USD sitting in a bank account. But in which account? Who controls it? And is Tether being used to manipulate the value of Bitcoin? It's all part of the Tether controversy.
Released in 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin, Monero has since made a name for itself as the most popular privacy coin on the market.
Most cryptocurrencies offer little in the form of anonymity. Monero was built for privacy from the ground-up, featuring stealth addresses, ring signatures, and complete coin fungibility. All of this adds up to a near-perfect cloak of anonymity, allowing Monero users to conduct transactions without exposing their identity.
Monero has had steady growth over the years thanks to a dedicated team of developers and an active community. The project continues to evolve with new privacy features and improved transaction security.
NEO was founded in 2014 as one of the earliest smart contract platforms, giving it a wide breadth of possible functionality. The platform's strongest use case is digitizing traditional assets so that they can be easily tracked and exchanged on the blockchain.
NEO is also well-known as the "Chinese Ethereum," and the fact that it is a Chinese-based project does seem to make Chinese dapp developers somewhat more likely to build on top of it than other platforms.
In fact, NEO has already supported dozens of ICOs and remains one of the predominant platforms for supporting smart contracts and dapps.
Binance Coin is an exchange token used to reduce trading fees on the Binance platform.
Users can opt to pay exchange, listing, and withdrawal fees using BNB and enjoy as much as a 50% discount on all charges. This turns out to be a powerful incentive for purchasing and holding BNB, as what trader doesn't enjoy saving money on transactions?
Binance Coin is an ERC-20 token that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. Its purpose is extremely limited, but because such a vast number of Binance users transact with it every day, it qualifies as a working and active product.
Zcash is another immensely popular privacy coin that often cracks the top 20 cryptocurrencies. It uses the tagline "internet money" and promises to fully protect the privacy of transactions with zero-knowledge cryptography.
Zcash provides anonymity by shielding transactions on the blockchain, preventing anyone from seeing the sender, recipient, or value of each transaction. The technology is so effective the Ethereum team is investigating it to enable anonymous transactions on their network.
Zcash has grown in leaps and bounds in 2018. The dev team published a roadmap through the year 2020, which includes a major features upgrade in the October 2018 Sapling release. Coinbase is also considering listing Zcash, which is a huge boost for any cryptocurrency.
Qtum is a smart contracts platform similar to Ethereum, only with a stronger focus on value transfers and decentralized apps. It's meant to be something of a hybrid between Bitcoin and Ethereum, allowing businesses to build smart contracts on the platform or just focus on cryptocurrency transactions.
Qtum launched in March 2017, and dashed straight to the top. The initial offering sold over $10 million in tokens after just 90 minutes. The project differentiated itself by providing a rare Proof-of-Stake smart contracts platform designed to compensate for some of Ethereum's shortcomings, including lack of compatibility for mobile devices.
Qtum released its mainnet in September 2017, opening the doors to a fully functional smart contract and dapps platform. Several projects already have an established presence on the network. One of the more exciting ones is Space Chain, which aims to create an open-source satellite network anyone can use for data transmission, storage, and development.
0x Protocol (ZRX)
0x Protocol has one of the most important working products in the entire Ethereum ecosystem. It is a permissionless, open-source protocol that facilitates trustless exchanges of Ethereum tokens through relayers and dapps that build on top of the protocol.
Not only has 0x been providing this functionality for over a year now, but they've been working to expand the protocol functionality significantly since that initial launch. In 0x protocol 2.0 and beyond, it will be possible to trade tokens built on standards besides ERC-20, including non-fungible ERC-721 tokens.
In a market full of scams and vaporware, 0x's valuable contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem have made it one of the best performing cryptocurrencies of 2018.
Bytecoin is another popular privacy-focused cryptocurrency with a strong community and user base. Transactions on the Bytecoin blockchain are instantaneous, untraceable, unlinkabe, and resistant to blockchain analysis.
Bytecoin has been around for a long time now, with contributions to the project beginning in 2012. However, that hasn't stopped the project's developers from continuously improving the product.
The recently updated Bytecoin roadmap has a hard fork for a consensus update scheduled for August 31, as well as numerous initiatives for community growth constantly in the works.
Founded in 2015 by former Bitcoin developers, Decred's most important working product is its solution to Bitcoin's biggest problem. No, not scalability… blockchain governance.
You see, early Bitcoiners have been debating block size limitations and the efficacy of other scalability solutions like the Lightning Network for years, even though the problem of scalability really only became discussed in the mainstream in 2017.
With its community-based governance model and strong adherence to the core ethos of decentralization, Decred is built to evolve and improve rapidly. That means that it's equipped to handle not only the scalability problem today, but other big problems that might arise down the line.
When you have poor governance, it is an arduous process making any upgrades to a project, no matter how necessary they may seem to the majority of coin holders. Decred's best-in-class and still improving governance model give it an intriguing case to be a leader in digital payments for a long time to come.
BitShares aims to improve worldwide access to financial services via blockchain. The tagline "assist the unbanked" summarizes the project nicely. In practice, this translates to BitShares operating as a decentralized exchange, one that was built from the ground-up to avoid scalability issues and keep transaction fees low.
BitShares was launched in 2014 by Dan Larimer, who would then go on to take a lead development role in both EOS and Steem.
The current state of the project offers decentralized asset exchange, price-stable cryptocurrencies, recurring and scheduled payments, user-issued assets, and more, all available through a decentralized system powered by delegated PoS consensus.
Steem is the cryptocurrency that powers Steemit, a decentralized social media platform that incentivizes user participation through micropayments. Think of it like Reddit, only instead of just upvoting or downvoting posts, users can actually reward creators for their effort.
Steem is a functional cryptocurrency used exclusively on the Steemit platform. That gives it something of a limited use, but seeing as how Steemit is live and boasts a few hundred thousand users, it's hard to argue it isn't a working product. Some people may even be earning money using Steemit.
Siacoin (SIA)
Siacoin is one of the leaders in decentralized cloud storage, a more secure and affordable alternative to centralized cloud storage solutions like Amazon S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, and others.
Sia 1.0 was launched in June 2016, and has achieved considerable adoption since then. With the $200 billion cloud storage market widely seen as one of the spaces most ripe for blockchain disruption, Sia has gotten off to a nice start by offering a functional decentralized cloud storage platform for over 2 years.
Augur is one of the most recently launched products on this list. The platform mainnet went live in early July 2018, bringing to fruition almost 4 years of post-ICO work.
Augur is a decentralized prediction market that uses game theory to generate crowd-sourced insights. Essentially, thousands of people working together have shown the remarkable ability to forecast outcomes.
With Augur, users can put REP tokens as bets on these predictions, essentially creating a form of "useful social gambling."
Augur's release was a long time coming. The project started as far back as 2014, nearly a year before the ICO. The creators cite the complexity of Augur's smart contracts as the chief cause of the lengthy development time.
Regardless of its past, Augur is now a live product with a bright future. Over 300 predictions have already been made, with the largest winning payout hitting $20,000. Betting volume even exceeded $1 million within the first weeks of launch.
Basic Attention Token was one of the easiest projects to include on this list. That's because its working product, Brave Browser, has more than 3 million active usersbetween its mobile and desktop platforms, making it one of the most widely-used working products in the blockchain space.
Not only is Brave Browser functional, it's the only browser on the market that has built-in ad-blocking and tracker blocking, making the browsing experience both cleaner and faster than what you get with other popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox.
The future remains uncertain for the BAT token itself, as its adoption depends heavily on whether or not advertisers buy-in to the Brave model, as well as how willing Brave users are to be shown relevant ads and to pass along the BAT they earn to content publishers.
Given Brave's success in just a short time since being launched, though, the future does appear promising for BAT.
Nano (XRB)
Nano (formerly RaiBlocks) is all about scalability. The coin has nearly instant transactions with a completely fee-less structure. The platform accomplishes this by creating a unique blockchain for every account, preventing bloat and allowing for practically infinite scalability.
Nano's motto of "do one thing and do it well" has gotten them a long way. The team doesn't have to deal with scaling or slowdown issues thanks to the underlying structure of the project, allowing its roadmap to focus on wallet updates and outreach. This is one cryptocurrency that's essentially feature complete, and it has been for some time.
Golem (GNT)
Golem has set out to be the Airbnb of computing resources. Have you ever needed extra GPU power to finish up a render? How about processing scientific data similar to the [email protected] project?
Even if you don't have those needs, a lot of groups do. Golem aims to provide easy access to those resources, all of which are rentable for a small cryptocurrency fee.
Golem hit the mainnet launch button in April 2018, and was met with a fair amount of fanfare. One of the main goals for the feature-incomplete launch was to push the product out so real users could put it to work.
The team was interested in strengthening their interactions with end users to help guide the future of the platform. The team has several major milestones planned for the coming months, so the mainnet release is only just the beginning.
Pundi X (NPXS)
Pundi X has been shooting up the market cap rankings so far in Q3 2018, and they also happen to have a working product that just recently became available to retailers.
The primary Pundi X product is a point-of-sale (POS) device that enables quick and easy mobile transactions for both fiat and cryptocurrencies. 500 POS devices are already being used by retailers in Asia, and there are thousands more scheduled to be distributed in the coming months.
In addition, Pundi X also offers XPASS cards, cryptocurrency credit cards that can work in place of mobile apps for making digital payments.
What makes the Pundi X project noteworthy is that it enables consumers to pay retailers in cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH, and it immediately converts the payments into local fiat currencies so that retailers don't need to worry about price volatility of the cryptocurrencies.
This makes it significantly easier for people to use cryptocurrencies in their daily lives, making Pundi X an exciting project for blockchain enthusiasts who are looking for signs of future mass adoption.
Waves was the first ever blockchain platform that made it possible for anybody — regardless of their programming experience — to create blockchain tokens. Additionally, Waves has a decentralized exchange where tokens can be traded and exchanged with fiat currencies.
Since the project's first releases in 2016, Waves has gone on to make their DEX accessible from mobile phones and expanded its functionality significantly, while also building several strategic partnerships to help grow the Waves community and user base.
Ultimately, though, the Waves Client is the project's most important working product, as it is what allows tokens to be issued, stored, sent, and exchanged among users.
KuCoin Shares (KCS)
Similar to Binance Coin, KuCoin Shares is an exchange token that can be used to pay reduced fees on cryptocurrency trades. KCS has the added bonus of paying dividends to long-term hodlers, as well, paying out a 5% ROI for most users.
The nature of KuCoin Shares is one of the reasons the KuCoin exchange has gotten so much attention since it appeared on the scene. The tokens themselves are limited in scope, of course, but the sheer number of people using them for trades and buying them for passive income is enormous.
Wanchain aims to build new and improved financial infrastructure to seamlessly connect the digital economy through blockchain interoperability. The use cases for Wanchain's network are vast, and they include decentralized financial services, supply chain logistics, medical data sharing and security, digital ID management, and more.
With the recently released Wanchain 2.0, it is now possible to transfer Ether cross-chain using Wanchain's Ethereum Mapping Token, WETH.
Ethereum interoperability is just the start, though, and it's expected that cross-chain support for Bitcoin and a couple of ERC-20 tokens will follow before the end of 2018.
Komodo is a fork of Zcash that uses the same zk-snark cryptography to hide information about transaction participants and amounts being sent. Functional privacy coins aren't unique (there are a handful on this list) but Komodo does have some unique features.
For one, Komodo was the first ever decentralized initial coin offering. Moreover, Komodo helps other developers to build their own customizable blockchain solutions, from building and securing independent blockchains and launching decentralized ICOs, to integrating projects into the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
KMD would already qualify as a working product for its anonymity features on digital payments, but add the end-to-end blockchain building solution and it's clear that Komodo is making meaningful contributions to the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Ardor is a scalable blockchain platform that allows businesses to create their own child chains and tokens with relative ease. This helps keep blockchain bloat to a minimum and provides multiple transactional tokens without sacrificing core chain transactions. It's also a remarkably energy efficient platform that uses Proof-of-Stake to power consensus.
Ardor launched its mainnet on January 1, 2018 after a full year in testnet status. Its core features are largely in place, with the roadmap set to improve things like scalability and snapshotting.
The Blockchain-as-a-Service-platform hosts a few projects of its own, including the Ignis ICO, which was the first child chain on the mainnet.
Huobi is a digital asset exchange platform founded back in 2013, now offering well over 250 different trading pairs. The Huobi Token, meanwhile, is an ERC-20 token that is used on the exchange for discounts on trading fees of up to 50%.
In addition, 20% of the income generated on the Huboi Pro trading platform is used to buy back HT on the open market.
Unlike most buyback programs, the main purpose of Huobi's program isn't to reduce the circulating supply of HT. Rather, the HT that is bought back goes into a Huobi Investor Protection Fund, which is used to compensate Huobi users if they lose coins or tokens on the platform, as well as to ensure market stability and protect investor interests.
ZenCash (ZEN)
ZenCash is yet another privacy coin with a working product in the Top 100, originally launched in the first half of 2017.
What makes ZenCash unique is that it's the first blockchain with Transport Layer Security (TLS) integration for node encryption, making communication on the ZenCash network both private and highly secure.
Some other interesting parts of the ZenCash product include Tor nodes and built-in chat messaging services. In the future, the ZenCash team will deliver a DAO Treasury Protocol-level Voting System as well as a scalability solution to handle greater transaction volume.
PIVX is another privacy coin that focuses on keeping users and their associated transactions hidden under a cloak of secrecy. The project also tries to keep transactions as fast and fee-less as possible, something not all privacy platforms can boast about.
PIVX launched in January 2016. The coin is currently spendable and delivers the privacy features it promises, though it's not yet a widely accepted currency by merchants.
Future plans for PIVX include governance functions to engage the community, wallet voting, and its own zPIV decentralized exchange.
Kyber Network (KNC)
Kyber Network launched their mainnet in Q1 2018, enabling instantaneous and secure inter-token settlements through a Decentralized Liquidity Network.
It's currently possible to swap ERC-20 tokens on the network with just a few mouse clicks, giving it some basic functionality that is already being used to improve liquidity for Ethereum tokens.
In the future, however, Kyber Network will expand its functionality significantly in an effort to seamlessly connect dapps, DEXes, protocols, payment systems, token teams, investors, fund managers, and digital wallets.
Bancor is a liquidity provider that enables users to exchange tokens without the need for a third-party to be involved in financing the transaction.
Gaining liquidity is incredibly important for young cryptocurrency projects, as a lack of liquidity makes it risky for investors to buy a considerable amount of a given coin or token, knowing that it might be exceedingly difficult to sell should they wish to.
Bancor's technology makes it possible to convert one token to another, so that investors can be confident that they won't be stuck involuntarily holding a cryptocurrency that they want to sell. This functionality makes the Bancor Liquidity Network one of the most promising working products on this list, and one that has already achieved a good deal of adoption.
Loom Network (LOOM)
Loom Network is still less than a year old, having been founded in October 2017. However, they have accomplished a lot in that short time span, including having launched numerous tools to help software developers learn how to build blockchain solutions.
The most important of these tools — and Loom's biggest working product — is the Loom software development kit (SDK).
However, Loom Network is far more than just a simple blockchain coding academy. It is also a production-ready scalability solution for Ethereum, as the Loom developer toolkit helps programmers to build highly scalable dapps which connect to the Ethereum blockchain through special side chains called DappChains.
The project may still be in its infancy, but Loom Network is already contributing more utility to the cryptocurrency ecosystem than the vast majority of other cryptocurrency projects.
Polymath wants to be the world's go-to resource for security tokens on the blockchain. What Ethereum did for tokens, Polymath will do for securities.
The advantages of this are enormous, but the Polymath team likes to point to 24/7 market access, the elimination of middlemen, and trading access for 2 billion unbanked people around the world as the chief benefits of their efforts.
The Polymath platform launched in October 2017, and has since released a new security token every week, attracting investors and traders alike. It's not as exciting of a project as some other blockchain tech, but it's delivering on its promises with a working product.
Bibox Token (BIX)
Bibox is a encrypted digital asset exchange whose primary differentiator from other crypto exchanges is that it integrates AI technology.
The purpose of the AI is to help Bibox's traders, which it does by providing quantitative computation and analysis of trading activity, personalized risk allocation strategy, speech recognition, and objective analysis of the various coins and tokens listed on the exchange.
The Bibox exchange first launched back in November 2017. It has operation centers in the US, Canada, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Estonia. BIX token holders receive 20% of the exchange profits, and also get discounts on trading fees, similar to Binance.
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Crypto News Recap for the week ending August 3rd
Decentralized security token exchange, DSTOQ, has launched a platform called its minimum viable product (MVP). MVP allows people to invest in real assets such as stocks, bonds, and commodities using cryptocurrencies. This platform runs using Stellar's blockchain testnet, and all transactions will happen completely on-chain.
Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the world fourth largest bank by assets, announces it will making its first loan on a blockchain system. The loan, valued at USD$300k, is meant to support the local tea industry in the Guizhou province and is backed by a piece of agricultural land.
"Civilized blockchain"1 company Billon, has partnered with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) to develop blockchain technology solutions. Billon implements blockchain solutions for the main purpose of processing fiat currencies. FIS will utilize Billon for document and identity management, the exploration of joint sales and product development opportunities, and smartphone micropayments among other services.
SBI Group, a Japanese financial services company, has announced plans to develop a platform to trade cryptocurrency derivatives. The platform would help crypto investors hedge their risk by offering cryptocurrency credit default swap (CDS) trading. SBI will accomplish this through its recent 12% purchase of North Carolina-based digital marketplace developer Clear Markets.
Equity research provider Fundstrat Global Advisors has announced that it will begin accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as payment for accessing research reports. Fundstrat is using payment operator BitPay, which has processed over USD$1 billion in Bitcoin payments CY2017, to process their new BTC payments accepted from institutional investors, high net-worth clients, and financial advisors.
The most popular cryptocurrency markets tracking platform, CoinMarketCap (CMC), has added a professional-grade API, and support for derivatives markets to its services. The API provides developers with access to aggregated data packages, providing everything from price and market cap, to trading pair data and conversions. CMC is marketing this product to those who need to back-test trading strategies, and run simulations more accurately.
Logos Network, a decentralized payments platform, successfully raised USD$3mm in seed funding. Logos is hoping to build a quick and scalable P2P payments network on a new blockchain. The payments network plans to be quick, scalable, and secure.
The Stuggart Börse, Germany's second largest stock exchange, has announced an initiative to construct a multilateral cryptocurrency trading platform, as well as an initial coin offering (ICO) platform. The exchange already launched in May a crypto trading app called Bison, which features zero-fee transactions.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), operator of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and 22 others, will develop a Microsoft cloud-based digital asset ecosystem. ICE is creating a new company for this, called Bakkt, which will work closely with companies including Starbucks and BCG. The ecosystem is planned to be a one-stop-shop for all consumers, from retail to institutional, to buy, hold, sell, and spend cryptocurrencies on a communal network. ICE will also launch physically-delivered BTC futures contracts.
The Chamber of Digital Commerce, an American advocacy group promoting the blockchain industry, is producing new guidelines to aid the in the responsible growth of the initial coin offering (ICO) markets and cryptocurrency markets all together. These guidelines were released in a whitepaper detailing current and future regulations for investor reference, a set of principles for trading platforms and token sponsors to follow, and a general discussion about the growth of the cryptocurrency industry so far.
The South Korean government has proposed revisions to its tax law, affecting cryptocurrency exchanges. The proposition states that cryptocurrency exchanges will be exempt from the tax benefits given to startups and small-mid-sized businesses. It is important to note that new propositions might be made to change this before implementation, but the South Korean government doesn't believe that crypto transaction companies do not generate added value like other companies do.
Indian cryptocurrency traders are finding ways to circumvent the India government's decision to ban cryptocurrency trading. Traders are now making use of a Dabba trading which refers to making OTC trades that are off the books. Dabba traders execute trades through platforms at international banks in Dubbai, Europe and the UK. Indian stock traders have used this method for years, and has experienced an upsurge after the crypto ban.
The U.S. Consumer financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has created an Office of Innovation. The Office of innovation is responsible for the development of a regulatory framework surrounding new products and services in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and microlending fields. This regulatory sandbox could give some guidance on creation of regulatory frameworks around innovative fintech companies.
South Korea Financial Supervisory Service is advising local regulators to work towards creating an integrated blockchain system for stocks transactions. The group finds the use of a centralized ledger to be inefficient and vulnerable to hacks.
It was recently reported that HTC will be releasing a new mobile phone utilizing decentralized ledger technology, but Litecoin (LTC) founder Charlie Lee announced July 29th that he will be one of HTC's advisors on the smartphone. The phone will be called Exodus and is expected to be the first blockchain phone. Exodus's built-in cryptocurrency wallet will now natively support LTC and the Lightning Network (LN), in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
Cointelegraph.com reported that digital asset exchange Huobi will begin supporting trades in the Indian rupee (INR) on its over-the-counter (OTC) service. Huobi's peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform will allow INR users free trading in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Tether (USDT). This comes at a good time for Indian cryptocurrency traders after the Reserve Bank of India banned banks from dealing with cryptocurrency-related companies in early July.
IOHK, the company behind the popular cryptocurrency Cardano (ADA), announced that it has launched the testnet for a new Cardano virtual machine. The virtual machine, called IELE, provides developers with a stronger and more reliable platform for developing smart contracts on Cardano's blockchain.
IoT and blockchain platform Ambrosus has announced the launch of its mainnet, called AMB-NET 1.0. Ambrosus improves pharmaceutical and food supply chains by allowing companies to record private and public supply chain data on its blockchain. Organizations can work with the Ambrosus Network through its native AMB token.
San Francisco-based platform, DCEX, will begin accepting registration applications for its new cryptocurrency exchange. DCEX's base currency, the currency participants use to exchange for other currencies, will be Ripple's XRP. This is a change from the cryptocurrency exchange norm of using Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as base currencies. Not basing all transactions off of Bitcoin is a step in the right directions for pushing the market to be more independent from it.
Thomson Reuters, a Canadian mass-media and information company, has announced a partnership with CryptoCompare, a cryptocurrency data tracking resource. CryptoCompare will provide Thomson Reuters will trade and order book data on 50 cryptocurrencies.
Major Cineplex, the largest movie theater chain in Thailand, is integrating cryptocurrency payments to permits moviegoers to buy anything from tickets to popcorn. Major Cineplex is partnering with RapizPay to deploy the digital currency payment system. This comes a week after the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission began allowing cryptocurrency operators to file license applications.
Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency services in the world, has announced in a blog post that Jeff Horowitz, an ex-Pershing exec, has joined as company's new Chief Compliance Officer. Horowitz has ample background experience for this position, as he was Managing Director and Global Head of Compliance for Pershing, a banking regulator for the FDIC, and even led compliance and anti-money-laundering (AML) programs at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Salomon Brothers.
Binance, the world's most popular cryptocurrency exchange, has made its first-ever acquisition, purchasing crypto wallet provider Trust Wallet. This move appeals to cryptocurrency investors wary of keeping their coins on centralized custodial services as Trust Wallet now introduces Binance users to decentralized custody. The decentralized wallet will be offered on mobile platforms, and supports coins built off of Ethereum's protocol. You can read more about decentralized exchanges in our latest Crypto Quant Shot: Atomic Swaps, Decentralized Exchanges, and the Future of Crypto Exchanges.
Google has announced that later this year, it will introduce open-source integrations of Ethereum and Hyperledger applications through its Google Cloud Product marketplace. This move pushes Google into the blockchain services industry, thereby joining others such as Amazon Web Services, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft Azure.
U.S. lawmakers working with the Congressional Valley Fever Task Force are looking for blockchain applications to help fight infectious fungal diseases. The lawmakers have proposed a bill as a part of the FORWARD Act for the creation of a blockchain pilot hoping to improve the way doctors share information about endemic fungal diseases such as Valley Fever. If information could be exchanged between doctors quicker and more efficiently, they would be better equipped to treat these infectious diseases.
Mobile engagement firm MobileBridge, has launched a blockchain loyalty program called Momentum. Momentum will offer other companies many data-based insights, and consumers full custody of their earned cryptocurrency rewards. Consumers can earn loyalty cards and other rewards for simply shopping at their favorite stores. These rewards can be exchanged for Momentum tokens, and then other branded reward tokens to be used with other companies.
CoinMarketApp, a cryptocurrency news multi-use app, has released compatibility with iOS and Android smartphones. CoinMarketApp is not like typical cryptocurrency apps, in that it offers crypto historic data, prices, mining information, trustworthy news, and even portfolio services.
Northern Trust, an asset manager with USD$954bn in AUM announces plans to start a custody service for digital assets. Pete Cherecwich, Northern Trust's head of corporate and institutional business, explained that the firm plans to offer custodial services similar to others, but with lower fees.
Swissquote, a Switzerland-based online banking firm which recently added cryptocurrency investing to its services, has seen a 44% profit increase in this C1H2018 relative to C1H2017. Throughout the second half of CY2017, Swiss quote has allowed trading in Bitcoin (BTC) with the EUR and USD, as well as Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP).
MINDOL is a blockchain platform aiming to disrupt the entertainment provider industry in Japan. MINDOL's whitepaper states a growing demand for and heavy government investing in spreading Japanese culture throughout the world, including animations, games, music, and movies. MINDOL hopes to regularly produce programs on TV. MINDOL's central network, called eMINDOL, lets consumers purchase products, watch content, and even invest in the projects and artists they like.
Telegram, a popular desktop and mobile app messenger, recently executed an ICO, raising USD$1.7 billion. However, US-based cybersecurity startup Virgil Security, praised the fact that Telegram published the application's API on an open source platform for developers to review, but has uncovered several security flaws with Telegram's ID verification app Passport. Virgil discovered issues with their encryption methods and the way they protect stored data. These issues are very important to fix if Telegram wishes to begin accepting payments on its platform.
Coinbase, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency trading services, has now allowed users in the UK to purchase cryptocurrencies with the British Pound. Before this announcement, users in the UK would have had to acquire Euros in order to purchase cryptos on Coinbase, which sometimes took multiple days.
The government of Queensland, Australia is giving USD$8.3mm to a crypto start-up as part of the state's innovation funding initiative. The start-up's goal is to increase the number of tourists to Central Queensland through selling travel offers based in different cryptocurrencies.
RandomCrypto, a fintech firm working with cryptocurrencies has released a Bitcoin (BTC) mining calculator, which improves upon the details given by competing products. Random Crypto CEO Josh Metnick says he developed this product after "many years of getting screwed… by mining companies," and that his goal is to "bring more truth, accuracy, and transparency to [proof-of-work] mining."1 The calculator shows that at today's current BTC prices, most bitcoin mining hardware on the markets is unprofitable.
Chinese company Seven Stars Cloud, has announced plans to build a USD$300 million crypto hub in Hartford, CT. Seven Stars Cloud is a fintech company hoping to create a community for itself and other fintech firms to collaborate on machine-learning, robotics, and crypto-related projects. The firm is also trying to launch a fintech college at schools near Hartford, CT such as Yale University, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, and University of Connecticut.
Canaan Creative, the world's second largest provider of Bitcoin mining components has announced a new product called the AvalonMiner Inside. The Avalon Miner Inside is essentially a television with built-in Bitcoin (BTC) mining capabilities. The TV will be powered by artificial intelligence and will also enable voice dictation. The mining components possess a 2.8 trillion hashes-per-second hash rate, and even includes a profitability calculator to measure performance.
Bitfi, a cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer claiming it is "unhackable", denies claims that it was hacked. Bitfi and its official partner John McAfee offered a $100,000 bug bounty in July to try to get people to hack its wallet. But when one twitter user claimed to have done this, Bitfi CEO Daniel Khesin denied these claims amid no evidence of a hack, and because of the fact that the "hacker" refused the bounty reward.
Switzerland-based cryptocurrency platform MCO has added Litecoin (LTC) to its supported coins. MCO enables users to purchase, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies from its mobile app. Formerly known as Monaco, MCO has amassed over 180,000 downloads, and expects to widen its user base as it adds more coins to its platform. This app will soon integrate with a Visa card allowing international purchases.
Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange OKEx says it will have to claw back millions in USD$ following a single user's large bet on bitcoin futures (the user lost "the bet"). Each futures contract has a notional value of $100, and OKEx estimate the total value of the position was over $400 million. OKEx initiated a forced liquidation of the account but because of the size, the exchange has had to trigger "societal loss risk management" mechanisms because of the size of the order. After insurance coverage is considered, the aggregate loss to investors is around BTC$1,200 (USD$8.8mm), which will "split proportionately by all profited traders' realized + unrealized gains".
Coinbase Commerce, Coinbase's non-custodial merchant payment service, has launched a product integrating with e-commerce company WooCommerce. WooCommercie is currently used by between 21% and 28% of all web stores, and affiliated stores will now accept cryptocurrency payments from Coinbase Commerce users.
Lightning is a lot more appealing for micropayments. The fees on regular transactions make it impractical to send tiny amounts on the main chain. Within a channel, however, you're free to send a fraction of a fraction of a Bitcoin for free. Micropayments are suited to plenty of use cases. Some speculate that they could be a viable replacement ... The only way you can lose your bitcoin is if the private key to the wallet is leaked or destroyed. reactions Thanks to the Bitcoin protocol, divisibility allows investors to hold fractions of bitcoin and do not have to hold 1BTC, in the case that they are too expensive. 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 satoshis, which means that 1 satoshi = 0.00000001BTC. This is a Bitcoin Wallets Review 2017 and The Guide on How to find Best Bitcoin Wallet.. On This Bitcoin Wallets review 2017 We'll show you how to start with Bitcoin, how to set up a secure online wallet, and finally how Bitcoin can become a way to make money online.. Without a Bitcoin wallet, you can't send or receive Bitcoin payments. The first consists of you withdrawing bitcoins from Binance, and the second of sending funds from your TrustWallet to your Electrum wallet. How to withdraw bitcoins from Binance. 1. Log in to your Binance account. If you don't have any bitcoins yet, check out our Bitcoin guide on how to buy some. 2. Hover over Wallet and select Spot Wallet. 3. Digital money that's instant, private, and free from bank fees. Download our official wallet app and start using Bitcoin today. Read news, start mining, and buy BTC or BCH. Crypto Wallet Extensions. If you're looking to sign transactions, access dapps, and send and receive cryptocurrency as you browse, you'll need an extension that will turn your humble web ... Bitcoin Lightning Wallet. Bitcoin Lightning Wallet (BLW) is an Android only, non custodial, standalone Bitcoin SPV node with LN functionality. It means that you have total control over your funds and that you need to manage your payment channels yourself (unlike Breez). Launched in 2014, Viacoin is an Auxiliary Proof of Work cryptocurrency with a 24-second block time, able to handle around 175 transactions per second, according to the Viacoin team.; Auxiliary Proof of Work allows miners of any Scrypt-based cryptocurrency, like Litecoin, to simultaneously mine Viacoin.Miners have an incentive to also mine Viacoin, as they are able to get rewards for "free". After Bitcoin's initial burst into the mainstream success, a lot of new cryptocurrency enthusiasts started taking interest in this crypto coin.Some people only wanted to know what the hype is about, while others were very adamant in investing in and making money from Bitcoin.. Before anything else, a cryptocurrency-holding wallet that would not only be fully functional but also have a high ... The BitWall Bitcoin & Crypto Micropayment Paywall Service Solution. BitWall sought to change this by incorporating the use of Bitcoin. With Bitcoin, payment of these small payments is possible. Since the fees are lower in Bitcoin, the startup allowed the publishers to unlock the world of micropayments.
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Repenting of a Serious Sin
On February 20, 2019 February 13, 2019 By Fr. TedIn Confession, Desert Fathers, Orthodox Church, Orthodoxy, Repentance
A brother asked Abba Poemen: "I have committed a serious sin and I want to repent for three years." The elder said to him: "It is a long time." "For a year, then?" said the brother to him, and again the elder said to him: "It is a long time." They who were present began saying: "How about forty days?" and again he said: "It is a long time," but he said: "I am telling you that if a person repent with his whole heart and does not go on to commit the sin again, even in three days God will receive him."
(Abba Poemen, Give Me a Word, p. 229)
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the V.i.V. guide and transport will pick you up at the hotel, municipal airport, or San Pedro Belize express water taxi. we start by going to the zip lines. fly above the trees and rivers. the lines are up to 1000 ft.
on a kayak, paddle thru dark chambers viewing awesome natural sculptures, the way our ancestors did thru Xibalba. swim and enjoy the crystal spring waters. enjoy a local rice and beans with stew chicken lunch.
*footwear with thick soles to walk thru the gravel path and river crossings. no flip flops allowed.
Altun Ha a major trading center and ceremonial site, where many priestly tombs laden with artifacts were found, view the mask on the buildings and the sacrificial altar.
this tour starts at 8:00 ands ends at 4:30.