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Famous Persons in Crypto Industry
Like any developing industry, the cryptocurrency world has its own stars and celebrities. StealthEX has made a list of the most influential people in the crypto world. So here are the TOP-5 people who are leading the digital revolution by transforming financial markets.
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Ripple's CEO, investor, businessman and a huge fan of blockchain technology.
Garlinghouse was born on February 6, 1971, in Kansas, USA. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Kansas and holds an MBA diploma from Harvard Business School.
Brad has worked for some major technology companies, such as Yahoo, AOL, Hightail, Tonic Health.
Nowadays he is the CEO of Ripple (a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network) and a member of its Board of Directors. Ripple (XRP) is the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and Brad as CEO owns 6% of the company's stock.
"There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before."
CEO and co-founder of the Coinbase platform, software engineer, risk manager, and public speaker.
Brian Armstrong was born in 1983 in San Jose, California. Armstrong was interested in technology at school and learned Java and CSS at an early age. He got his first job at school: he created websites for local businesses. In 2001, Armstrong joined Ryerson University in Houston and studied economics and computer science.
After graduation, he was an intern at IBM and then worked as a consultant and risk manager at Deloitte & Touche. Later, he founded the UniversityTutor.com, which allowed users to search for a suitable tutor based on various parameters: education, location, and topics. Brian also worked as a software engineer at Airbnb.com.
Great success came to Brian with the creation of a digital currency exchange platform – Coinbase. Today Coinbase serves 9.5 million customers in 32 countries and the volume of completed transactions exceeds $20 billion. Armstrong's fortune is estimated in the range of $900 million — $1 billion.
"We can actually change the line, actually bend this curve and materially change the economic freedom of the entire world by what we're going to build. … The vision for Coinbase is creating more economic freedom for every person and business in the world over the next ten years."
Charlie Lee
Creator of Litecoin, managing director of the Litecoin Foundation, computer scientist and an iconic figure in the cryptocurrency community.
Charlie was born in West Africa and moved to the United States with his family at the age of 13. Charlie received a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After graduation, Lee worked as a programmer at Kana Communications, Guidewire Software, and Google.
Charlie Lee first learned about cryptocurrency in 2011 and decided to create his own coin — Litecoin, which became the best version of Bitcoin: transactions became faster, the number of coins increased, another mining algorithm appeared.
Now Charlie Lee is engaged in the popularization of digital currencies as an expert in the field of blockchain technology.
"I believe that cryptocurrency will take over fiat currency and become the reserve currency."
Founder and CEO of Binance, computer scientist and China's crypto-king.
Zhao was born in Jiangsu province in China and moved with his family to Canada in the late 1980s. He graduated from McGill University with a major in Computer Science. Before setting up his own company, Zhao worked at OKCoin and Bloomberg.
In July 2017, Zhao launched the cryptocurrency exchange platform — Binance. The ability of the platform to process a high number of transactions (1.4 million per second) and a reliable system of protection quickly made the Binance one of the most popular crypto exchanges in the world. In January 2018, Binance came out on top among crypto-exchanges in the world in terms of the trading volume. And Zhao, who became the owner of about $2 billion in crypto, got on the cover of Forbes magazine.
Today Changpeng Zhao is one of the main figures of the crypto world who is actively promoting cryptocurrencies in Asia and North America.
"Cryptocurrency will survive regardless of any one country. Most countries that try to ban bitcoin cause their citizens to want cryptocurrency more."
Co-founder of Ethereum, co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, computer scientist and wunderkind.
On January 31, 2018, the guy will only turn 25, but he has already had a significant impact on the crypto industry.
Vitalik was born in Kolomna, Russia and moved to Canada at the age of six with his family. He has always had a flair for math and programming. His favourite childhood toy was Microsoft Excel.
Buterin is the winner of the Thiel Fellowship, thanks to which he was able to focus on the study of the Bitcoin network and then create his own — Ethereum, which has been called "the world's hottest new cryptocurrency." Ethereum network allowed to launch a giant ICO market, the volume of which almost $4 billion.
Nowadays Buterin works with such companies as Microsoft, HP, and JPMorgan. He was ranked "30 most promising entrepreneurs under the age of 30" by Forbes magazine.
"The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided."
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Cryptocurrency and Blockchain – Industry News – (04.05.19 – 04.12.19)
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• China's National Department and Reform Commission (NDRC) has added cryptocurrency mining on its list of industries it wants to encourage, restrict or eliminate.
CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING SERVICES
•As of April 8th, 2019, at 12:00pm PST, Coinbase Pro lists 3 new tokens – EOS (EOS), Augur (REP) and MakerDAO (MKR).
• Hong Kong based Bitfinex removes US $10,000 minimum equity requirement for accounts.
• Coinbase launches a crypto-to-fiat debit card for UK customers, enabling cryptocurrency to GBP conversions to pay at stores or withdraw cash.
• Binance announces partnership with CipherTrace to enhance existing AML processes with on-chain and analytic tools.
• Vancouver based crypto exchange Quadriga to move into bankruptcy proceedings. This will allow for examinations of parties under oath and efficiencies in documentation requests.
• The New York Department of Financial Services (NDFS) has granted a BitLicence to Luxembourg-registered exchange Bitstamp and denied US based exchange Bittrex. A BitLicence is required to serve customers within the US state of New York.
• 22-year-old US resident Jacob Burrell Campos has been sentenced to 2 years for funneling hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin (BTC) through an unlicensed money transmitting business – a San Diego precious metal dealer.
• In the upcoming version of Bitcoin Core (0.18), users will be able to connect Bitcoin full nodes to hardware wallets. This will enable safe storage of crypto assets alongside the ability to verify themselves transactions are taking place without the need of a 3rd party.
• In partnership with security Disconnect.me, the latest Mozilla Firefox web browsers (Nightly 68 and Beta 67) will be capable of blocking in-browser mining from services such as Coinhive and CryptoLoot.
• Web browser Opera launches "Reborn 3" – a new browser with a built-in Ethereum wallet. Users will be able to interact with dapps without the need of extensions such as Metamask.
INSTITUTIONALIZATION
• The endowment of Harvard University invests US 11,500,000 into full-stack decentralized computing network Blockstack.
• Western Union teams up with Coins.ph, a financial services firm in the Philippines dealing with purchases and sells of cryptocurrencies, remittances and bill payments.
• Former trading desk manager at Kraken, Jonathan Silverman sues firm to the tune of US $900,000 based upon an agreed compensation settlement of US $907,631 that has since been unpaid. Under leadership of Silverman, Kraken reportedly generated US $19,000,000 in profits during 3 months in 2017.
• PewDiePie, the worlds most subscribed Youtube channel (93.7 million subscribers) has joined blockchain based streaming platform DLive to livestream on a weekly basis.
• Bitcoin futures exchange BAKKT has hired Ex PayPal and Google veteran Mike Blandina as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Head of International Dan Romero announces registration from Coinbase, after 5 years in various positions.
• @jchervinsky – "I don't care which crypto wins, as long as the legacy finance industry loses"
• @drwasho – "This is what happens when you code a lot… @VitalikButerin dropping some beats #EDCON."
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) History
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are a means of fundraising for the initial capital needed to get new projects off the ground within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. More often than not, Bitcoin and Ethereum, are used to buy a quantity of project tokens. However, new projects are also being launched on alternative Blockchain platforms such as NEO or WANchain, wherein the "parent" chain's tokens will be used to fund these ICOs. Pre-launch, ICO tokens are endorsed as functional currency in the project ecosystem. After a project's ICO, it is available on exchanges, and then the market determines the value of those tokens. The main benefit of using the ICO funding system is that it avoids the prohibitive amount of time and expense incurred by launching a startup in the conventional method, by way of Initial Public Offering (IPO). The lengthy and costly process of ensuring regulatory compliance in different jurisdictions often makes the IPO format unfeasible for small companies. Thus, the ICO method of fundraising is far more attractive as a means of crowd funding for the project. But at the same time, an ICO is certainly riskier for the investor.
It is important to note the different stages of the token sale. Token prices generally escalate the closer the token gets to its listing date. Projects often seek funding from angel investors even before the date of the private pre-sale is set, though some ICOs do go straight to pre-sale. After potential initial investment has been sought from angel investors, pre-sale begins. Usually there will be a 15–30% discount from the public sale price. The main-sale begins after the pre-sale has concluded. At that time, normal everyday crypto enthusiasts, with no connections to the team, may buy into the project at pretty close to the ground floor price. Angel investors and pre-sale investors sometimes receive quite large discounts from main sale prices, but their tokens are locked up for varying amounts of time, to prevent dumping, or selling all their tokens for a quick profit at the time of listing. Today the vast majority of ICOs make use of the Ethereum blockchain and the ERC-20 token. The very first token sale was arranged by Mastercoin, a Bitcoin fork, in July 2013. Ethereum soon followed in early 2014, raising 3700 BTC in only 12 hours (equivalent to $2.3 million at that time, and just under $35 million today). Before late 2015 there were sporadic ICOs, with Augur, NXT and Factom all successfully raising funds. 2016 was the year that the ICO format grew to truly disrupt the Venture Capital industry. There were 64 ICOs in 2016 which cumulatively raised $103 million USD.
Tremendous Success & Why Real World Case Study
The ICON (ICX) Initial coin offering is an example of a project that reaped the rewards of a token sale done with precision of execution and clarity of vision. The project promised to build a world-wide decentralized network that would allow Blockchains of different governances to transact with one another without a centralized authority, and with as few barriers as possible. ICX offered fair and clear tokenomics, with 1 Ether buying 2500 ICX, and with 1 ETH costing approximately 250 dollars when the ICO began on September 18th. 50% of the total amount of tokens were put up for public sale, 400,230,000 out of a total of 800,460,000, equating to a fundraising goal of 150,000 Ether. One of the core reasons for the project's spectacular success was the incredibly distinguished background of those involved, and the foundation the project had in many years of stellar achievement. ICON was originally a project developed by "The Loop", a joint venture between DAYLI financial group and three Korean Universities. They lead the Korea Financial Investment Blockchain Consortium, one of the largest organizations of its kind in the world, boasting members including Samsung Securities. The Loop had already implemented Blockchain solutions for high profile clients well before ICX was born, including completing a KYC/AML authentication smart contract platform for Korea Financial Investment Consortium.
Real World Example of Failure & Why Case Study
The risk involved in starting your own company is huge. Over 75% of startups eventually fail, according to the Harvard Business School study by Shikhar Ghosh. The study's findings show the rate of failure for new companies is roughly 50% after 5 years, and over 75% after 10. Shikhar Ghosh identifies the following issues as the most common factors in start-up failure: -Insufficient Market Demand -Insolvency -Wrong Team -Got beat by competition -Pricing/Cost issues -Poor Product -Need for or Lack of business model -Ineffective Marketing -Disregarding Customer desires The statistics concerning rate of failure for conventional business startups pale in comparison to the number of crypto startups that fail according to Tokendata. They are one of the most rigorous ICO trackers, recording 46% of the 902 ICO crowdsale projects initiated in 2017 as failing by the time of writing. Of these 46%, 142 collapsed before the end of the funding stage, and a further 276 had either "exit scammed" (took the money and ran) or slowly faded into eventual obscurity. With no shortage of failed and abortive projects to look into, we thought it would be more helpful to look into an ICO that was mismanaged and unsuccessful in terms of its execution, rather than being fraudulent, or terminally mismanaged.
Real World Example of Failure & Why §3
Tezos was designed as a "new decentralized Blockchain that governs itself by establishing a true digital commonwealth". The project was a partnership between the husband and wife team of Kathleen and Arthur Breitman, and a Swiss foundation run by Johann Gevers. They had a novel idea of "formal verification", a technique that mathematically proves the veracity of code governing transactions and heightens security of smart contracts. That idea was wholeheartedly endorsed by investors, resulting in $232 million USD raised in the 2017 crowdsale. Trouble arose after the Breitmans asked the head of the Swiss foundation they were in partnership with to step down. In Gever's words, the Breitman's were attempting "to bypass Swiss legal structure and take over control of the foundation". The resulting 6 class action lawsuits that were spawned from the wreckage of one of the most successful ICOs of all time have yet to be fully resolved at the time of writing, though Gevers has stepped down and a new leadership team is in place. The Tezos Network has a prospective launch date of somewhere around Q3 2018. The debacle, though not terminal to the prospects of the Tezos network, provides a cautionary tale about the need for a clearly defined leadership structure and plan for the allocation of funds after an ICO. It is entirely possible that the Tezos project could have ridden the late 2017 market euphoria to sit near the top of the cryptocurrency hierarchy if boardroom strife could have been avoided.
Projects often also "pivot" from one focus or project to another. More often than not, teams change the project name entirely, even while retaining the same core team, to try for a successful venture one more time. One such project is Chain Trade Token (CTT) which, while technically speaking, not yet a "deadcoin", shows all the signs of shutting down operations within a few months, and "pivoting" into a new project. The CTT project aimed to be the "first blockchain-based platform for the trading of futures and options on food and raw materials (aka commodity derivatives)". But through a combination of a non-existent social media presence, and a distinct lack of urgency in securing listings beyond decentralized exchanges, the lofty ambitions of the top-level team were left unrealized. The team has supposedly split their operations from solely Chain Trade, to a former business endeavors, and the Nebula Decentralized Exchange. The project leaders then offered a 1-for-1 token swap which has been accepted by the vast majority of CTT holders.
The ICO Process
Before even researching the particular strengths and weaknesses of any specific project in which you may want to invest, it is important to know the overall processes of the ICO crowdfunding method. This will allow you to avoid any potential pitfalls if you do decide to move forward and invest money into a particular idea or project. How does an ICO happen? Stage One: Token sale details are set: This takes place usually after release of the whitepaper, and the presentation of a project to prospective investors in forums and on social media. Stage Two: Whitelisting for private sale begins: The vast majority of all ICOs have instituted KYC checks for investors which usually involve uploading a photograph of your passport or driving license along with a selfie holding the ID. Did you know? Participation in ICOs has proven to be a regulatory nightmare in some localities. Most token sales restrict contributions from investors in China and the USA entirely, though accredited investors may participate in the USA in some cases.
Stage Three: Private/Pre-sale states: Typically, 10% of tokens will be offered to early investors at a 10–30% discount. These select few investors will likely have a close association with the team. But not all projects have a pre-sale round, some go straight to public sale. Stage Four: Whitelisting for Public/Main sale starts: The same format used for pre-sale investors is used for public sale investors, though it is a regular occurrence to see main sale KYC checks closed early due to overwhelming demand. An investor must then register a contribution wallet address. That is the address used to send cryptocurrency from, to buy the ICO tokens, and then also into which you will receive your purchased tokens. This wallet address must be a non-exchange wallet, like Blockchain.info bitcoin wallet, or MyEtherWallet for ERC-20. You already understand from the prior lesson that making a mistake with your wallet address may mean you lose the tokens forever as well as the BTC or ETH you used to purchase them. Copying and pasting your cryptocurrency public key into the whitelist wallet form is the next task to complete. And then, as the investor, you wait for confirmation of successful ICO registration from the team.
Stage Five: Public sale starts: Commonly on a specific date, though sometimes for a specific period of time. If you are interested in participating in an ICO, it is important to make your contribution as quickly as possible, or you risk sending your ETH or BTC after the hard cap has been reached, resulting in your funds being sent back. This refund can sometimes take many days, or even weeks in times of high market activity. Did you know? In 2017 it was not unheard of to find ICOs that had originally scheduled their ICO period for many weeks, but then they met with such high demand that they could close their crowdsale in a matter of hours or even in just a few minutes!
Stage Six: Tokens are allocated to successful participant investor wallets, and trading can begin on some decentralized exchanges like IDEX, or EtherDelta in the case of Ethereum based tokens. Tokens will be sent to and received by the wallet addresses from which the investor contributions were made. Stage Seven: Tokens are listed on mainstream exchanges: The tokens will then be listed on the exchanges with which the teams have negotiated listing, prior to or during the sale. It can cost huge amounts of money to list on large exchanges like Bitfinex Bittrex, Huobi or Binance, so usually smaller projects will not be listed on top 10 exchanges so quickly. As tokens are listed on more and more exchanges, their price usually rises because more and more investors are exposed to opportunities to buy that particular token.
Evaluating a Blockchain Use Case
Evaluating a particular use case for Blockchain technology, and thus how successful an ICO project's ambitions might be in a particular market, is not a simple endeavor. As demonstrated in the graphic below, Blockchain technology has nearly limitless potential to be applied to a great variety of business areas, but as an ICO investor, you are looking for projects that have the potential to deliver significant long-term success. In the currently saturated ICO environment, some use cases have more potential than others. Ascertaining which use case is likely to have long term success is a key distinction. Also, we must recognize that businesses and corporate entities may be overeager to experiment with this new Blockchain technology, whether or not usage of the technology is actually advisable or profitable for their particular purpose. The main questions to ask when analyzing specific solutions proposed by the project are: What are the problems posed and the solutions offered? Does this particular area of business need a Blockchain solution? That is, is a Blockchain solution in fact superior to the current way this particular business operates? Is the use of Blockchain in this specific instance feasible and applicable? What are competitors doing about Blockchain projects in this same area?
A Blockchain network provides a shared, replicated, secured, immutable and verifiable data ledger. The implication for use case analysis: Shared and replicated: participants have a copy of the ledger and many people can view it or work on it Secured: Secured through cryptography Verifiable: Business rules are associated with all interactions that occur on the network Immutable: Transactions (records) cannot be modified or deleted, therefore a verifiable audit trail is maintained by the network So, with all this considered, what should we look for with regard to a possible business use case that would be best solved using Blockchain technology? 1. Data exchange that has trust issues i.e. businesses transacting with one another. Trust must be established through a multitude of verification processes with regards to employees and products. These processes increase operational cost. Example: Digital voting. 2. Any potential business process involving data storage, or compliance and risk data that get audited. Blockchain solutions would provide the regulators a real-time view of information. Example: Supply chain solutions like VeChain or WaltonChain. The possibility of close to zero operational loss would of course be attractive to any business. 3. All kinds of asset transactions. A Blockchain network, with its tamper-proof ledger, validating traceable and trackable transactions, could save many different industries untold amounts of money. Example: Tokenization of assets e.g. Jibrel Network or Polymath
Purpose of Tokens
Within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the definition and role of a token iswidely understood. They represent programmable units of currency that sit atop a particular Blockchain, and they are part of a smart contract "logic" specific to a certain application. In the business sphere, a token can be defined as a unit of value that a project or business venture creates to enable it to self-govern. And the business venture also allows token users to connect and collaborate with its business products, while facilitating the sharing of rewards to all of its stakeholders. A token can also be described in a more general sense as a type of privately issued currency. In the past it was solely within the purview of governments to issue currency and set the terms of its governance. With the advent of Blockchain technology we now have businesses and organizations offering forms of digital money over which they, not the government or central bank, have control of the terms of operations and issuance. Wide scale adoption of these mechanisms could fundamentally alter the global economy. This is like the creation of self-sustaining, mini-economies in any sector of business or life, via a specific token or currency.
Fun Fact: Tokens of the particular Blockchain upon which the project is launched will usually have to be bought in order to be exchanged for ICO tokens, hence it is important for traders and investors to be aware of the schedule for upcoming ICOs. ETH is usually the token used for exchange because the majority of ICOs launch on the Ethereum Blockchain. But this is not always the case. During January 2018, two NEO token ICOs, both the Key TKY and Ontology ICOs, were being carried out, and this caused the NEO cryptocurrency to spike to its all-time high in excess of $160 USD. Since the product or project is more often than not in its embryonic stage at the time of the ICO crowdfunding process, the ICO token's true function and purpose is in most cases yet to be realized. At the ICO stage the tokens can usually be grouped together into one of three categories. Knowing how to distinguish these categories involves determining the specific nature and function of the token around which the project is centered. The main and crucial distinction, is whether or not a token is a security, and therefore subject to securities registration requirements.
ICO Stage Token Categories
Howey Test: This is the test created by the US Supreme Court to ascertain whether certain transactions qualify as "investment contracts". If they are found to fall within this classification, then under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Exchange Act of 1934, those transactions are considered "securities" and participants must adhere to registration and disclosure requirements. One of the most important and amazing considerations of the effect of Blockchain technology is that normal people with a computer science background are now empowered to make decisions and offer products and services that previously only licensed financial institutions were able to do. This is a very complex and complicated situation with serious ramifications for anyone involved. One thing to note well is that ordinary participants and actors in this arena can easily commit white-collar crime, violating serious securities laws, without even realizing it. If a token falls within the US legal definition of "Investment Contract" then you must adhere to US regulations. For that reason, many ICOs simply do not want to sell to US based investors, perhaps until all the rules and regulations are clarified.
The broad and varying definition of the term "security" is a regulatory minefield. This has always been true for traditional financial products, and now it is especially true for the as yet unregulated cryptocurrency market. In the case of SEC V. Howey, parameters were established to determine whether or not a particular financial arrangement could be classified as a security and thus be subject to securities regulations. Cooley LLP Fintech Team Leader Marco Santori has said, an arrangement is a security if it involves "an investment of money, and a common enterprise, with the expectation of profit, primarily from the efforts of others." Investors have the option of accessing a huge range of security tokens through ICOs. Prime examples are the gold backed DigixDao (DGD) and CProp (still in crowd funding stage). A security token is fundamentally different from the currently available ICO project tokens in that it provides a legal and enforceable ownership of a company's profits and voice in its governance much like common stock traded on any exchange. If security tokens are the next step in the evolution of crypto-finance, real estate, stocks, venture capital, and commodities can all be tokenized. The traditional markets could be fully connected to the Blockchain. Financial assets would available to anyone in the world, not just licensed or accredited investors. That is one aspect of Fintech, the financial revolution taking place today, as Blockchain technology clashes with traditional finance.
Equity Tokens
One exciting application of smart contracts on the Ethereum Network is the potential for startups to distribute equity tokens through initial coin offerings. That would reduce the hurdles that an average person has to face in order to take part in the early stages of a company's development. And, democratic governance of a project could be conducted in a transparent manner through voting on the Blockchain. As of yet, few startups have attempted to conduct equity token sales for fear of falling afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US. But many Venture Capital insiders are bullish on the prospect of equity tokens taking a central role in the crypto finance industry, when and as the legal issues are resolved. For example, the Delaware State legislature recently passed a bill enabling companies to maintain shareholder lists on the Blockchain. That is one major step to enable Blockchain based stock trading. Lawyers also generally believe it is only a matter of time before the regulations are clarified. Did you know? Important consideration: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 made it unfeasibly expensive for smaller companies to be listed on exchanges, causing a halving in the number of IPOs between 1996 and 2016 (7322 to 3671). In 2017 there was an almost 5-fold increase in the number of ICOs, from 43 to 210, with the 2017 volume already being eclipsed in the first 5 months of 2018.
However, given that this area is still a regulatory nightmare for people planning to issue security and equity tokens, many projects attempt to ensure that the tokens within their specific model fall under the definition of Utility Tokens rather than securities, so as to avoid the SEC regulations altogether. If a token is imbued with a certain functionality and use within the Blockchain infrastructure of that particular project, the token can avoid being labelled as a security, and thus render SEC regulations inapplicable. Just this week in fact, the SEC made the long-awaited and momentous decision that Ether was not a security. In the words of William Hinman, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission division of corporate finance, "Putting aside the fundraising that accompanied the creation of Ether, based on my understanding of the present state of Ether, the Ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions." This means that Ethereum, in fact, fails the Howey test, which is exactly the decision the crypto world wanted. Hinman said, "When the efforts of the third party are no longer a key factor for determining the enterprise's success, material information asymmetries recede," Hinman said. "The ability to identify an issuer or promoter to make the requisite disclosures becomes difficult, and less meaningful." We will now cover various use cases that projects have been adopting up to now in order to get their tokens classified as utility tokens rather than securities.
Some coins portray themselves as a company with tokens being held in a way that is analogous to voting shares of a stock. One coin held is equal to one vote. This form of token utility has a major flaw in that so-called whales (people with huge amounts of a particular cryptocurrency) can manipulate any poll conducted. The cryptocurrencies Aragon and Lykke are examples of projects that have written voting rights into the structure of their code. In-App Reward: Another common tactic to evade the security label has been the addition of in-app rewards to the functionality of a particular token. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) is the unit of currency for use with the project browser named "Brave". The BAT is a unit of account for the advertisers, publishers and users of the platform. Filecoin, the cloud storage project that raised a record $257 million through their ICO, pays other people or companies for use of their spare storage space. Some of the many rights afforded to token holders in various Blockchain projects are described by the graphic below.
Token Roles Function
The token can be used as a mechanism through which user experience is enhanced, enabling such actions as connection with users, or joining a broader network. It may also be used as an incentive for beginning usage or for on-boarding. Examples include Dfinity and Steemit. Value Exchange: In its most basic usage, a token is a unit of value exchange within a specific app or market. This usually is made up of features that allow users to earn tokens through real work or passive work (sharing data, allowing use of storage space) and to spend them on services or internal functions within the specific market ecosystem created by that organization. Augur and KIK, amongst countless others, are projects that have implemented this functionality into their tokenomics. Toll: The token can also be used for getting onto the Blockchain infrastructure, or for powering decentralized applications run on that particular Blockchain. This ensures that users have "skin in the game". Tolls can be derived from running smart contracts, paying a security deposit, or just usage fees. Examples include Bitcoin and Ethereum. Currency: Seeing as the particular platform or app is designed with a view towards functioning in synergy with a particular token, the token is an extremely efficient means of payment and transaction engine, resulting in frictionless transactions. This means that companies can become their own payment processors and no longer have to rely on the often unwieldy stages of conventional financial settlement involving trusted third parties in the form of banks and credit card companies.
Rights: Owning a token bequests certain rights upon the holder, such as product usage, voting, access to restricted markets, and dividends (e.g.: GAS for holding NEO). Though most businesses are trying to avoid fitting the definition of a security laid out in the Howey Test, the right to real ownership of a particular asset is sometimes granted as a result of holding a token, for example DigixDAO or Tezos.
Comparison to Traditional IPO and Equity Capital Raisings
Despite the similarity of the acronyms and the derivation of one from the other, Initial Coin Offerings and Initial Public Offerings are very different methods of fundraising. The distinction is not limited simply to the fact that IPOs are used in conventional business, and ICOs are associated with cryptocurrency. Through ICO's, companies in their early stages issue digital tokens on a Blockchain and those tokens act as units of value for use within the ecosystem created by the project. They have many other uses, but it is also fair to say they are analogous to shares offered in an Initial Public offering.
In an IPO, shareholdings are distributed to investors through underwriters, usually investment banks. But in the case of ICO token sales, companies often do not even have an actual product to show. Often, all that there is a whitepaper, evidence of the partnerships involved and the particular social-media infrastructure they have established. IPO's take place when a more well-established company floats shares on a stock exchange. The company would have a well-established history of success and significant reasons to expect a bright future. In the vast majority of cases, an ICO is used for a new company with no such history, just trying to get off the ground.
Another important difference is the expected return in exchange for the investment. Companies engaging in IPOs may offer participants dividend paying stocks which result in various levels of return depending on the success of the company after the shares are issued. An ICO however can offer no such guaranteed return. When buying tokens in an ICO, you do so with no promise of return. An investor who holds the tokens of a particular project does so with the promise, rather than an assurance, of future success. The main benefit to investors taking part in Initial Coin Offerings, compared to Initial Public Offerings, is the need for only basic Know Your Customer checks in the case of the ICO, compared to the costly, complex and time-consuming regulatory obstacles that must be traversed in an IPO. In the case of Initial Public Offerings, a business must obtain authorization from a number of entities before the act of "going public". Prior to an IPO, companies are not obliged to disclose so much of their internal records or accounting. It is not so complicated to make a private company in the United States. But in the run up to going public, the company must form a board of directors, make their records auditable to the relevant authorities in one or more jurisdictions, and prepare to make quarterly reports to the SEC (or equivalent).
Relevant Factors to Consider in ICO process
When analyzing the chances of success for a specific project, and the likelihood of a favorable return on investment in the long term, it is essential to break down the project into its constituent parts, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each part individually. An effective investigation and analysis would start with the team and white paper. Consider the stage the project is at,and VC investments in the project. That would lead to a good initial idea of the actual progress thus far. Next, evaluate the social media presence and the credentials of the community that has formed around the core team. If a compelling case is made by the team, (e.g.: via an in-depth dive into the use case), and the tokenomics, distribution schedule, potential competitors, as well as the team's awareness of any future business or regulatory concerns all check out; then the ICO might present a good opportunity for investment. In the following slides we tackle each of these considerations in order so you will be able to evaluate an ICO's worth and assign a grade for the success of each project.
The Team First and most important, we need evaluate the background and experience of the team, the people involved in the project. Well-established developers, for example, will likely have LinkedIn profiles demonstrating their previous endeavors and occupations, from which we can judge their suitability to the project and the likelihood of the team's success. The LinkedIn profile is a point of reference for professional accomplishments and official positions. But we can also learn more about a person from their personal accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Medium etc. That is also a good way to follow along with the progress of the project. By investigating team members through as many means as possible, you will know how long they have been involved in cryptocurrency. If they have been around and active for a long time, they are that much more likely to be knowledgeable and capable of making better quality decisions in this business. It goes without saying that it is a huge red flag if it is too difficult to find information about the team members online, and worse still if the team members are anonymous.
A good Whitepaper gives a detailed description of the project, the problems the team is going to solve, the timeframe projected, and methods to be used in the implementation of their ideas. If, in answering the question about what the project actually does, it seems the team is presenting ideas that are too complicated or advanced to understand, then you simply should not invest until you are satisfied you have been given the requisite level of insight to understand the concepts described. It is always possible that the whitepaper is nothing more than a salad of buzzwords and technical language intended to give the impression of competence while really doing nothing but obfuscate the truth. The whitepaper should clearly and concisely present the problems and the solutions needed. The whitepaper must give a solid and coherent answer as to who needs this project and why. Also, if the team have put no effort into explaining why a Blockchain solution is needed for this particular problem, or why such a solution is superior to its "real-world" equivalent, it is likely they are only in it for the money. We have more to say about red-flags later.
While 2016 raised a comparatively small amount in comparison to the proceeding years, there were a few specific projects that raised significant amounts of capital. These are respectable amounts of money, even by today's standards, and especially impressive when contrasted with the immaturity of the ICO market at the time, and relative to amounts raised in traditional IPOs. Waves ($16.4mill), Iconomi ($10.6mill) and Golem ($8.6mill) were the three largest fundraisings of the year. 2017 was the year of the ICO whales. Hdac ($258mill), Filecoin ($257mill), EOS Stage 1 ($185mill) and Paragon ($183.16mill) were the largest that year. To be able to raise so much money, so quickly, in such a new market, using such a new mechanism is truly incredible. 2017 was the year that proved ICOs are for serious individuals and institutional investors as well. We have also had some phenomenal amounts raised so far in 2018. Telegram ($1.7bill), Dragon ($320mill), Huobi ($300mill) and Bankera ($150mill). Telegram might be the first mainstream example of an ICO, not only by raising close to $2billion, which would be beyond incredible and impressive even by traditional IPO standards; but also, because it is one of the first ICO companies to tangibly put a product in the hands of hundreds of millions of users, and successfully compete against traditional companies such as Facebook (MessengeWhatsApp), Microsoft (Skype) and Tencent (WeChat).
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Why should you invest in BlockMason?
Today I want to talk to you about why BlockMason Credit Protocol is a good investment. There are a few points that I want to talk about that will help showcase the value in BCPT.
In a short amount of time BlockMason will release their rebranded app called 'LNDR'. This is how it works: You send a debt to a friend, they confirm, and the amount is stored securely on the blockchain platform. BlockMason is run on the Ethereum platform, and benefits from stability, encryption, and permanent recording and tracking. This is a next step in blockchain technology, because working with debt and credits has huge potential. In the future you can also stake your BCPT that can generate transactions that run the dapps onto the Credit Protocol. These transactions can be sold in the future to companies that have dapps on top of the Credit Protocol.
There are 3 co-founders on the blockmason team, Timothy Galebach, Jared Bowie, and Michael Chin.
Timothy Galebach; Co-Founder
Timothy is a startup founder, technical expert, and business development specialist, with a particular focus on data-driven ventures and automated infrastructure. He is currently the owner and founder of Almond Media Solutions, a technology consulting firm in the e-commerce and display advertising space. Timothy graduated from Harvard University in 2007, with a degree in Computer Science, and went on to work with a variety of startups and established companies in CTO roles. His primary focus was making large quantities of data visualizable and actionable for salespeople and internal business teams, and eliminating cost centers through aggressive optimization and automated data orchestration.
Jared Bowie; Co-Founder
Jared Bowie has been designing systems to coordinate distributed databases and peer to peer networks for more than 10 years. He was an early adopter of Bitcoin and invested in multiple altcoin mining operations. He became fascinated with the power of Ethereum when he began writing programs on its blockchain and is now convinced of its power to take over the world. Jared graduated from James Madison University with a major in philosophy. After graduation, obsessed with the convergence of big data and display advertising, he started his first digital advertising venture. Since then, Jared has written specialized software and proprietary algorithms to run successful multimillion dollar ad campaigns and manage remote teams based in Hong Kong, mainland China, and India.
Michael Chin; Co-Founder Michael graduated from Washington University in St. Louis magna cum laude with majors in Finance and Accounting. He has spent his entire career in the credit industry, beginning with J.P. Morgan principal mezzanine credit group in New York. Michael then transferred to J.P. Morgans' Debt Capital Markets and Syndicated Leveraged Finance group in Hong Kong, helping Asian issuers with investment grade, high yield debt, and syndicated loan offerings. Then, Michael joined the Hong Kong office of Intermediate Capital Group (a FTSE 250 composite company), one of the pioneers of mezzanine debt in Europe, before helping co-found BlockMason.
They also have Anthony Di Iorio (co-founder of ethereum) as advisor of Blockmason.
Anthony Diiorio is a serial entrepreneur, VC, community organizer, and thought leader in the field of decentralized technologies. Born and raised in Toronto, Diiorio is the former Chief Digital Officer of the TMX Group and Toronto Stock Exchange, founder and CEO of Decentral, a software development company focused on blockchain technologies, and founder and CEO of Jaxx, a multi-token, blockchain interface that provides a unified experience across 9 platforms and devices. In 2013, Diiorio funded, and along with Vitalik Buterin and 3 others founded the smart contract platform Ethereum.
Anthony has been investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies since 2012. In 2014, his project Ethereum raised $18 million, becoming the largest, completed crowdfunded project of its time. The market cap of Ethereum was recently valued at $30 billion. Over a 4-year span, Anthony's blockchain and cryptocurrencies investments have yielded 2000x returns.
Since 2012, Diiorio has hosted over 100 technology event as well has spoken and keynoted events all over the world. Notable events he has organized include the first Canadian Bitcoin Expo in 2014 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and DEC_TECH events at MaRS Discovery District. In 2015, Anthony became a lecturer for the University of Nicosia's Master's program in Digital Currency and advisor at MaRS Fintech Cluster. He is involved in Deloitte's Exponentials.xyz initiative, is a member of the Bitcoin Speakers Bureau for the Bitcoin Foundation, as well as a member of the Satoshi Roundtable, an annual retreat for the top 50 thought leaders in blockchain technology.
BCPT has 45 million circulating supply, and is sitting at a market cap of 10$ million, and is currently below it's ICO price. It was recently listed on Binance, and Kucoin, and is also available on Etherdelta.
The Blockmason team are also working on patents take on major industries. This is what the BCPT team are telling us about it: First: We are currently filing key patents with our legal team that will challenge multi-billion dollar industries. We have gone to great lengths to assure that there is no prior art, that our methods and processes are sound, and that the USPTO should look favorably on our applications and designs. While no outcome is 100% guaranteed we are bullish in the extreme on what this portends for the future of Blockmason. While we are building out this new IP that supports Credit Protocol and other internal BM efforts, we believe that our team will allow us to operate more effectively.
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Why FCoin exchange is NOT a scam
Basically, this post is to debunk everything out there that says its a "Scam".
Misconception No. 1: The exchange is full of bots doing wash trading
Binance has bots trading. So does every other exchange out there. That doesnt classify as a scam. A scam is something that's out to trick you and steal your money. Most of these are third party bots that aren't owned by the exchange. Even if it was, nobody can prove it, except the exchange. Bots provide a valuable function such as liquidity to help traders move in an out of their position.
Misconception No. 2: A lot of pump and dump action, and token manipulation
Again, so does every other exchange out there. There are a lot of pump and dump groups on Binance. Join a pump and dump group on telegram and they all announce their action on Binance. If you fall for the pump and dumps, Fcoin exchange isnt scamming you. You are being scammed by third parties. Get that clear. It has nothing to do with the exchange.
Misconception No. 3: Its a Ponzi Scheme
If you look a bitcoin, and its history, people have been saying that's a ponzi scheme. Well, you shouldnt be in crypto in general if you are saying this.
Also, Fcoin token holders are receiving huge dividends (80% to 100% of revenue). Where did they get that money from it its a Ponzi. Bear in mind that Ponzi Schemes are illegal in China and people have been EXECUTED. It is very serious issue. You would be caught even if your servers are hosted elsewhere. Unless the founder's want a death wish....
Also, Fcoin has strong backing. They are backed by top Venture Capitalist in China. If you check out the profiles of the VCs, they've graduated from top universities, such as Harvard, Tsinghua (China's no.1 uni), and worked in top investment banks such as Credit Suisse. Doesn't make sense to scam someone when you've got so much credibility to loose.
Misconception No. 4: Volume is Fake
No, its real, except its done by third party bots. Fcoin invented a new mining model, where you get rewarded their token everytime someone does a trade. So naturally, that got more people to do trades on that platform.
Misconception No. 5: How they support themselves if they pay out 80% to 100% of revenues.
First of all, its not from all trading pairs. It's only from a few pairs of currencies. Also, new startup tokens listen still need to pay trading fees.
So why the hate?
People hate and spread false rumors when you they realise you are strong and are a threat to their vested interest (and jealousy). Especially other exchanges. Enough said. Also, people not doing enough research as well getting confused. If you are being manipulated by third party bots, that has nothing to do with the exchange.
Fcoin is a community model. Some people are angry and jealous when you are spreading the wealth. For example, they are currently setting up something whereby new organisations listing their coin on the exchange get 10% of the trading fee forever. Then we'd got the Binance CEO slating the new Fcoin business model. The fact he's good at programming/hacker, doesnt make him a genius at investing, or even qualified to comment on economic/token models.
Also, that original post calling Fcoin a "scam" said he'd release evidence. Its been more than a few weeks. Where is it?
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Learn basic Martial Arts self-defence skills using Yawara Karate and Anglo Japanese Judo in Wandsworth. First lesson free. These sessions are for children aged 4 - 16 years, parents and carers welcome. Karate and Judo are the ideal sports for people wanting to: build self-confidence, learn balance and…
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Yes Chef!
Interested in a career in catering? Aged 18 - 25 with mild or moderate learning disabilities? Then Yes Chef! is for you! Share is delivering this programme for young adults who: want to work; enjoy working around food; and need additional support in order…
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Learn a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures and improve fitness. Learn Yoga as a way of keeping fit and healthy. The activity is for young people aged 11-19 years.Young people can: make friends and…
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York Gardens Children's Centre
A message from Wandsworth Children's Centres Dear Parents and Carers, I hope in these extraordinary times you and your family are doing well. We know social distancing can be limiting and it's difficult to find new ways to keep busy and support young children with their…
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York Gardens Library
The library is a place where you can go to find information, to borrow books, use the internet and other resources. The service can be used by all children, young people and adults. Reading materials are available in a number of languages and…
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York Gardens Nursery
Our nursery is located within the Children's Centre in York Gardens, Battersea. The nursery has great resources and learning opportunities for all children and two outdoor play areas. The highly qualified and experienced team helped the nursery to secure their 'OUTSTANDING' rating in all areas…
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Young Carers E-Learning for Practitioners
The Department for Health and the Department for Education, alongside the National Young Carers Coalition (who, together, form The Children's Society), have created an e-learning module for practitioners around young carers. The module will help practitioners: to identify young carers; to support young carers; and by checking…
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Transurethral water vapour ablation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia
Interventional procedures guidance [IPG625] Published date: August 2018
2 The condition, current treatments and procedure
3 Committee considerations
Committee comments
3.1 To inform the committee, NICE did a rapid review of the published literature on the efficacy and safety of this procedure. This comprised a comprehensive literature search and detailed review of the evidence from 10 sources, which was discussed by the committee. The evidence included 1 randomised controlled trial (RCT) reported with 1, 2 and 3 years of follow-up in 4 publications, 1 comparative study (also including patients from the RCT) and 3 case series (1 of which was reported in 3 publications), and is presented in table 2 of the interventional procedures overview.
3.2 The specialist advisers and the committee considered the key efficacy outcomes to be: improvement of lower urinary tract symptoms, urinary flow rate, and quality of life.
3.3 The specialist advisers and the committee considered the key safety outcomes to be: bleeding, infection, disorders of sexual function, and need for re-intervention.
3.4 Fifteen commentaries from patients who had experience of this procedure were received, which were discussed by the committee.
3.5 The committee was advised that the procedure may also be effective for patients with an enlarged median prostatic lobe.
3.6 Patients may need a urinary catheter for several days after the procedure.
3.7 The committee noted that this procedure is also known as transurethral water vapour thermal ablation or transurethral steam ablation.
3.8 Patient commentaries were all supportive of the procedure, and most people reported improvement in symptoms.


The warmer evenings bring about patio season. The season often brings in more customers to enjoy the great weather. Customers tend to want to hang around a little longer enjoying a relaxing evening with friends, which means large groups of restaurant or bar-goers. While you enjoy the increase in customers, it can create a problem with seating. McCourt Manufacturing has the answer to your dilemma by offering two styles of tables and nine styles of chairs suitable for outdoor use.
The Commercialite® Table comes in two styles that work beautifully for patio use. The banquet style comes in four sizes and the round comes in two sizes. The table is extremely durable and easy to clean due to the plastic top. The tables cover beautifully with linens and accept ¾" skirting clips. The tables store and transport easily with the folding legs and simple design.
The Econolite® Plastic Folding Table is a low-cost option to keep your budget in check. This table also comes in four sizes of the banquet-style and two sizes of the round. It covers beautifully as well.
McCourt's Chiavari Stacking Chair was made with your high profile event, restaurant or bar in mind. This chair is reliable and lightweight due to the aluminum construction. It comes in seven beautiful colors to match any décor.
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Q: How get list of databases for certain user As Admin I want to help to user select database, schema, table in web UI.
I have account with accountadmin role. Need by the user login get all available databases, schemes, tables. For example like useing 'MASTER.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.DATABASES' view with parameters.
The 'MASTER.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.DATABASES' returns databases only for current user. Need to have possibility to define a user.

A: Snowflake uses role-based access so users aren't granted access directly to a database but their role is.
To see which roles have access to which databases you can get this info from the Snowflake database which you should have access to if you have the accountadmin role:
select
    roles.privilege,
    roles.name as database_name,
    roles.grantee_name as role_name
from snowflake.account_usage.grants_to_roles roles
where roles.granted_on = 'DATABASE'
;

Note that I think this table only shows privileges that have been granted directly to a role and doesn't show privileges that are attained through their hierarchical relationships. You could write a more complex query to figure out the privs granted through the hierarchy and down to user by using a recursive query on grants_to_roles along with the grants_to_users tables. I think ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Xia, Y.; Lu, Y.; Larock R.C. Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of norbornenyl-functionalized fatty alcohols, Polymer 2010, 51, 53-61.
Bio-based polymers are experiencing an explosion of growth, fueled by pressures to move away from traditional petroleum-derived polymer feedstocks. Richard Larock's group recently published an account of their work with ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of vegetable oil-derived monomers, highlighting one role that metathesis can play in the development of such polymers. Larock's group used both vegetable oils (linseed oil and castor oil) and commercially-available vegetable oil derivatives (Dilulin and ML189, two variations of cyclopentadiene-modified linseed oils) as their feedstocks. The triglycerides were reduced to the corresponding fatty alcohols, and reacted with norbornene dicarboxylic anhydride to form a series of functionalized norbornenes with similar yet distinct characteristics (Scheme 1 – each monomer is a combination of products derived from the three fatty acid chains of the original non-symmetric triglycerides).
The homopolymers of each of these four monomers were obtained by ROMP with 2nd generation Grubbs catalyst, and various mechanistic and mechanical properties of the polymers were explored. The NMCA monomer was far more viscous than the others studied, giving a slower initiating and less complete polymerization. Compared to polyNMSA, polyNMDA and polyNMMA demonstrated more highly-crosslinked polymer structures, resulting in homopolymers with Young's moduli and tensile strengths comparable to HDPE and polynorbornene.
Biorenewable chemicals offer great opportunities for the future of metathesis, and new metathesis polymers will certainly be one of the highlights of the field.
Searching for a mentor that would help me inspire my 10th grader into this fascinating technology.Don't know anyone in the science field other than his teachers.I would not ask too much time and will be forever thankful.


Diabetes isn't easy, and having to prick your finger day in and day out to check your blood sugar can be grating. Even though this task takes up about a combined 120 seconds of our day, it's a tedious responsibility that comes with "good" or "bad" news depending on whatever our blood sugar is. After a while, who could blame you for being sick of it, for forgetting to do it, or for wanting to forget you have diabetes altogether?
This kind of diabetes burnout might mean that you aren't checking your blood sugar as often as you should (or at all). But don't give up yet! Here are some tips to help you overcome diabetes burnout and get back on track with checking your blood sugar.
1) Ease up on the pressure to be perfect.If you're barely checking your blood sugar once a day, intentionally letting go of some of the pressure to test four times a day might help you recharge and overcome your burnout. Create a purposeful, thoughtful goal statement to ease yourself back into blood sugar checking. For example: I will check my blood sugar before breakfast and dinner, every day, for two weeks. You might be looking at that statement and thinking, "But that's way less than what I'm really supposed to do." But if expecting 100% perfection leads you to checking your blood sugar almost never, then creating an expectation that you can meet successfully will help you get back in the groove of checking more often down the road.
2) Pick one part of the day that is really consistent in your life—like brushing your teeth before bed—and create a mental habit of always checking your blood sugar at that time. For me, I always take my dogs for a walk in the woods every morning; the first thing I do before that walk is check my fasting blood sugar.
3) Keep your meter in the same place whenever you're at home or at work.For instance, create a space on your desk (yes, right on top) where your meter will live when you're at work. At home, pick a space on the kitchen counter or the coffee table where your meter will always live. This way, it's in a visible area that you'll pass by many times a day.
4) Use all that technology!If you have a smartphone, use it to help you. The best diabetes app by far is "mySugr" but there are many others. At the very least, schedule your phone to alert you at a certain time of day to check your blood sugar. Almost all cell phones have this capability, not just smartphones.
5) Ask for help. See if someone you live with, or someone you see almost every day, would be willing to ask you once a day, "Have you checked your blood sugar recently?" If that phrase sounds annoying, think of a clever way that they could remind you about checking your blood sugar that would feel supportive instead.
6) Think of your meter like it's your newborn baby.You need that meter in order to ensure your safety. Just like you would never leave a newborn home alone, make it a priority to bring it with you everywhere—even if you don't use it every time you're out and about. This can help develop your overall awareness of checking your blood sugar more often.
Even though checking blood sugar doesn't take much time, it is a big deal in many ways, and you have every right to hate doing it. The reality is that it's part of our life, but we don't have to let it burn us out.
Ginger Vieira is the author of Dealing with Diabetes Burnout: How to Recharge and Get Back on Track When You Feel Frustrated and Overwhelmed Living with Diabetes. This article has been adapted from the book. Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999. Today, she is an avid freelance writer and motivational speaker with a background as a certified cognitive coach, personal trainer, and Ashtanga yoga instructor specializing in coaching people with diabetes. She creates diabetes video blogs at her YouTube Channel and produces regular freelance content for various diabetes websites including DiabetesDaily.com and ASweetLife.org. In 2009 and 2010, Ginger set 15 records in drug-tested powerlifting with her best lifts including a 308 lb deadlift, 190 lb. bench press, and a 265 lb. squat. She writes articles and blog pots for DemosHealth.com where this article originally appeared.


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Asset managers at different stages of Brexit readiness
by Expert Investor Europe 4 July 2016 29 March 2021
This would leave non-EU asset managers, most of whom currently passport their UCITS funds to the EU through London, without access to the EU market.
Last week, Columbia Threadneedle was the first asset manager to take concrete action: it announced it would expand its asset management operations in Luxembourg "to enable an asset management presence in the EU". Though most international asset managers who currently passport their funds to the EU through the UK face similar risks as Columbia Threadneedle, they have tended to adopt a wait-and-see approach or shroud their plans in mystery.
Democratic primacy
Neuberger Berman, for example, said "it is still too early in the process for us to specify any plans", while others simply refused to comment. UBS AM, which has its EU headquarters in London, suggested its Swiss roots make it well-prepared to deal with Brexit-induced turmoil. "As a Swiss organization, we're used to preparing our business for change in line with the democratic will of the public," said a spokesman.
A UK exit from the single market, as promised by the Leave campaign in the run-up to the referendum, will probably see financial passporting rights repealed. So asset managers would probably do well to put plans in place to move some of their asset management operations from the UK to elsewhere in the EU to prepare for this eventuality.
Tagged: Brexit, Asset Management, Passporting