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October 6, 2018

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Yesterday's Market Movements: Sideways

After yesterday's runup to 2700 satoshis ($0.18), we've maintained around that price the rest of the day. Not a very large correction at all, so if we maintain around this price this weekend, we could breach 2800 very soon. Bitcoin has broken out of the top of the flag, just by a tiny bit. Judging by the movement in the last few hours, it looks like traders are very weary to make any big commitments and nobody wants to pull the first trigger that either launches Bitcoin sky high, or drops it way down. From the looks of it, selling pressure seems to be reducing, so hopefully later today we see possibly $6700 getting hit again.

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Bitcoin Breakthrough Claims Block Size Increase Possible Without Hard Fork (current BTC/USD price is $6607.64001552)

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Bitcoin is close to bottoming, cryptocurrency expert says (current BTC/USD price is $6616.79775681)

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Bitcoin Market Has ‘Run Out of Juice’: Cryptocurrency Analyst - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-market-has-run-out-of-juice-cryptocurrency-analyst/180169

New Zealand: Crypto Exchange Cryptopia Doubles its 1 Million User Base in Less Than a Year - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

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Crypto Mining Giant Bitmain Acquires Bitcoin Cash Wallet - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

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Institutional Investors Bullish About Cryptocurrency Prospects During Economic Recession - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

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U.S. Investors Divided on Outlook for Cryptocurrency: Survey - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

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Daily Discussion Thread - Major Announcement/News/Developments Found Here (Updated Daily!) - October 06, 2018

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ARROUND ICO REVIEW

What is ARROUND? Before you invest in the ARROUND ICO, it’s important to understand its aim, the technology and where it wants to be in the future. The ARROUND ICO Concept Why should you look at the ARROUND ICO register? The main aim of this project is to develop an AR platform that allows businesses, developers and users to connect in new ways. ARROUND wants to create a four-tiered platform: a disruptive advertising network, an AR marketplace, a social platform and an AR map that will allow developers to create their own AR products.

Within the ARROUND ecosystem, ARR tokens will be used as currency and for usage rights. In essence, the team are creating a world that Satoshi Nakamoto envisaged when he/she created Bitcoin. For this reason alone, the ARROUND token sale is worth a look.

Which blockchain will ARROUND launch on? Like many of the latest ICOs, ARROUND and its ARR token are based on the Ethereum platform. For those not versed in the nuances of this blockchain, our Ethereum guide notes some of the main benefits of hosting apps and, moreover, ICOs on this platform.

The main benefits include:

As well as preventing data breaches, the Ethereum network is highly secure. Cryptography protects the blockchain and its dAPPS from cyberattacks. Smart contracts allow for an exchange of value between two parties without the fear of interference or fraud. The system is always active, which means dAPPS can run 24/7. If you wish, you can buy Ethereum, complete the ARROUND ICO registration process and invest in ARR tokens. However, you don’t have to. If you choose to participate in the ARROUND token sale, you make purchases in a variety of cryptos.

The ARROUND Team Leading the ARROUND ICO is social media expert Neil Bryant. A former development manager at the Alpari Group and owner of multimedia company RIA Novosti, Bryant knows how to connect people. Indeed, during his career, he’s worked on some major dating and social media apps, which makes him well placed to create a next-generation social platform.

The ARROUND Roadmap After launching in 2016, ARROUND has been busy developing its platform and recruiting some initial partners. In 2017, the company began working with Russian pharmacy chain 36.6 and, in 2018, it has created campaigns for the Atrium shopping mall.

By the close of 2018, an alpha version of the ARROUND app will be released before more companies are recruited in 2019. All being well, ARROUND is also planning to make its platform compatible with ODG Augmented Reality Glasses and Microsoft’s HoloLens. Finally, in 2020, the product will be released in the US, Japan, Germany, the UK and more.

Is it a scam? The ARROUND ICO register isn’t a scam, in our opinion. The team working on the project has some verified credentials and the overall concept is one that’s in tune with the latest tech trends.

Strengths & Challenges of ARROUND The major strength of the ARROUND ICO is that it’s on trend in three ways. Firstly, social media platforms have become an integral part of our society over the last decade. With Facebook, Twitter and Instagram boasting more than 3 billion users combined, it’s clear people love to be connected.

In addition to harnessing the power of social media, the company is using cryptos and AR. Even though some may still be sceptical about cryptos, AR is already making an impact on the world. As it stands, the AR and VR (virtual reality) market is worth around $14 billion. By 2022, experts predict it will be worth closer to $210 billion. Based on this, the ARROUND ICO is clearly on trend.

It’s greatest challenge will be convincing businesses, developers and general users that connecting via AR is more beneficial than not. Even though AR holds a lot of promise for gaming companies, advertisers and businesses, it’s not clear whether an entire ecosystem is necessary.

The Token Sale The ARROUND token sale is due to start on September 15, 2018 and close on November 15, 2018. A single ARR token will cost $0.035. A total of 3,000,000,000 coins will be issued and any unsold will be burned.



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A Deeper Look at Bitmain Filing for Long-Awaited IPO

One of the loudest conversations in the financial technology world surrounds Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of the ASIC chips used for bitcoin mining, and their future business plans. Bitmain is widely considered to be the ‘king’ of bitcoin mining, as their devices own the majority of the hash rate on the bitcoin mining network, which also causes some concern amongst the community. For a number of years now many have wondered whether Bitmain would host an ICO or IPO.

A Deeper Look at Bitmain Filing for Long-Awaited IPO

Rumors began to surface in early 2017, and then the idea of an IPO became almost a no-brainer when Bitmain saw nearly a 936% increase in profit according to their recently opened accounting books. After a long wait, Bitmain has finally announced that it has filed an application to publicly list its company with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The controversy surrounding Bitmain’s dominance in the hash rate centers around the trust that is placed with them; although bitcoin aims for decentralization by distributing hash rate to different peers, if a peer controlled over 50% of the hash rate it would almost have the ‘authority’ to make decisions by itself (something that is not supposed to be possible in the bitcoin network).

Since Bitmain devices have recently surpassed the 50% mining participation rate in the bitcoin network, researchers and computer scientists have stated their concern for the legitimacy of bitcoin’s peer-to-peer and decentralized aura. By launching an IPO and opening its books to the general public, it might almost appear that Bitmain is looking to do away with these allegations.

Bitmain’s revenues surged nearly 936% over the course of 2017–2018, to approximately $2.84B. According to the report released to the public by Bitmain’s internal team, however, current operating cash flow is still negative. Many attribute the slide in cryptocurrency prices to the decline in the company’s cash flow.

“The Bitmain IPO has remained an ominous topic for many years now. At first, rumors were swirling of an ICO, then the company’s announcement of an impending IPO made it clear that Bitmain still believes in the core values that the cryptocurrency market can bring to the forefront of the global economy,” says Dima Zaitsev, International PR Lead and Chief of the Business Analytics Department at ICOBox. “Both methods are ways of enabling the public to get involved with their company. Bitmain opening their books was a big step for them. Being a cryptocurrency related company, allowing the general public to see their financials goes a long way toward eliminating the speculation and uncertainty that surrounded Bitmain as an entity. This will be great for cryptocurrency, blockchain, and chip-manufacturers alike.”

Bitmain’s IPO will be the most anticipated event since Telegram’s ICO, being that it is one of the largest companies in the cryptocurrency space to seek out public offerings. Telegram’s ICO, which was initially intended to be public, was reverted to a private offering, claiming to have raised over $1.7B in funding in the form of SAFTs. Seeing that Bitmain is a billion-dollar company, their total fundraising may even exceed Telegram’s, which would put it amongst the most successful IPOs of the year in funds collected.


Litecoin [LTC] creator Charlie Lee says Bitcoin [BTC] transactions are not peer-to-peer right now (current BTC/USD price is $6578.05407702)

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Discord Log from Ravencoin Open Developer Meeting - Oct 5, 2018

joey at 1:57 PM

What kind of transaction types are possible with RVN assets? Is it possible to create an asset that has a set lifetime or self-destruct time?

Tron at 2:00 PM

Not for assets/sub-assets/unique. We might be able to do that with voting tokens.

RavencoinDev at 2:01 PM

Hello Everybody!📷1

SpyderDev at 2:01 PM

Hi boss📷1

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:01 PM

SUP📷1

Chatturga at 2:01 PM

^📷1

BruceFenton at 2:01 PM

Probably lots of ways to do a self destruct on second layer as well if desired

russ at 2:01 PM

suuuuuupso what is todays topic?

RavencoinDev at 2:02 PM

Thanks for joining us today. We would like to discuss the current status of the 2.1 release.As well as doing an open Q&A at the end.First though I want to thank everybody that helped get the word out on upgrading to the 2.0.4.1 release!Without that fix being in place and exchanges and pools upgrading we would be having a different conversation today.This community is amazing.

russ at 2:04 PM

we would have ended up like pigeoncoinnot a good look📷2

watsure at 2:05 PM

Hello Mr. God

RavencoinDev at 2:05 PM

Exactly

russ at 2:05 PM

i gave pigeoncoin the pullrequest but they ignored meglad we have competent devs

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:05 PM

Everyone, So we are planning on getting out build 2.1 as soon as possible. We are still doing bug fixes, and getting the code hardened for release. There is currently one bug is the asset layer that we are fixing right now, and once that is done we should have a couple days of testing. It would be lovely if the community helped with testing, and we appreciate all of the testing that the community has already done. Once, we have a basic build that is tested, we are going to make a public release and notify the miners and pools.

RavencoinDev at 2:06 PM

Once that bug is addressed a release branch will be created.

russ at 2:06 PM

that duplicate ownership asset bug is nasty

RavencoinDev at 2:06 PM

You should all be able to build that and jump on testnet.

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:07 PM

@russ Yeah, didn't see that one. BUt I have a fix right now that seems to be working on my local machine

RavencoinDev at 2:07 PM

We need as much testing help from our devs as possible.

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:07 PM

so, I will have that pushed up with the day.

russ at 2:07 PM

nice

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:08 PM

Just a reminder, that when the new wallet is published, if you don't update your wallet by the time assets are voting in by the blocks you will fork. So, we are going to try and get the wallet out there as soon as we can so users have weeks to upgrade.

Skan at 2:09 PM

Hey everyone

RavencoinDev at 2:10 PM

Any questions comments about the 2.1 release?

Skan at 2:10 PM

Mojave support?

SpyderDev at 2:10 PM

Yes and no

RavencoinDev at 2:10 PM

Good question SkanRight now that's also an issue with Bitcoin.

SpyderDev at 2:12 PM

The short version for Mojave is that the released binaries will work fine.

Skan at 2:12 PM

Interesting, so is it likely going to be a future upgrade that brings stability?

SpyderDev at 2:12 PM

However, developers should hold off.

RavencoinDev at 2:12 PM

We are currently building on High Sierra

Skan at 2:12 PM

Ok good to know for those who ask

SpyderDev at 2:13 PM

There is an incompatibility with Berkeley db version 4 that causes a segfault on init.

RavencoinDev at 2:13 PM

Or using the build scripts that Under created to build on Linux. Thjanks @Under

[Master] Roshii at 2:13 PM

Looks I'm late to the event

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:13 PM

THE MASTER!

RavencoinDev at 2:13 PM

Sorry it's late for you @[Master] Roshii

Skan at 2:14 PM

master roshi is never late, he is simply the turtle hermit

SpyderDev at 2:14 PM

One can upgrade Berkeley-db to the latest version and compile with the --incompatible-bdb and things will run, but there are some unknowns as far as wallet compatibility is concerned.

RavencoinDev at 2:15 PM

Raven will likely follow Bitcoin on Mojave support.

SpyderDev at 2:15 PM

The release binaries are compiled on Linux which we have tested on Mojave, so as long as you aren't compiling binaries go ahead and update to Mojave

RavencoinDev at 2:15 PM

It's a problem they have to solve as well, so...

SpyderDev at 2:15 PM

There is supposed to be a patch to bdb, but so far it isn't working

[Master] Roshii at 2:15 PM

@RavencoinDev it's never late for me.

Skan at 2:15 PM

Ok, and for the devs interested just point them to the berkeley upgrade with some warnings or to Under's scripts?

RavencoinDev at 2:16 PM

Right, the wallet runs just fine on Mojave. It's just a developer issue.

[Master] Roshii at 2:16 PM

If I can say anything it will be : don't update to Mojave

SpyderDev at 2:16 PM

There is a warning note in the docs section for OSX building

RavencoinDev at 2:16 PM

Mojave slowed down @[Master] Roshii and the iOS wallet.

Skan at 2:16 PM

YikesOk good to know, just want to be able to help / point people in the right direction

RavencoinDev at 2:17 PM

Thanks @Skan

SpyderDev at 2:17 PM

There is also an issue with Mojave dark mode and the QT wallet that makes things difficult to read (white on white text). We have a workaround which is to disable dark mode for QT in the plist file.

Skan at 2:17 PM

Ok so this is going to be pretty soon then, right ? Next week, likely?

RavencoinDev at 2:18 PM

Any further Mojave questions?Which @Skan ?

Skan at 2:18 PM

I think that covers it for me2.1 releaseIn order to have weeks to upgrade before main net

RavencoinDev at 2:18 PM

Yes, it is looking like we can work through this last issue with asset re-org very soon.Likely early next week.

Skan at 2:20 PM

Is 2.1 going to have any UI updates ?

RavencoinDev at 2:20 PM

Yes, frogs has more details.

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:20 PM

The UI is done. It is currently in the develop2. So if you have built the develop2 branch, you would be looking at the new UI for now.

RavencoinDev at 2:21 PM

There have been other QT designs kicked around and we would love to see more from the community.

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:21 PM

Future upgrades to come though. but those won't be mandatory upgrades. Just visual upgrades.

SpyderDev at 2:21 PM

The UI tweaks are subtle, but they make a big difference.

Skan at 2:22 PM

Very cool, I will check out dev2 branch

russ at 2:22 PM

new asset creation UI is awesome

Skan at 2:22 PM

I saw that, I like it. And the longer asset holdings list

RavencoinDev at 2:22 PM

@russ Don't make @[Dev] Blondfrogs head any larger...

russ at 2:23 PM

lol

RavencoinDev at 2:23 PM

Other 2.1 release questions/comments?

Skan at 2:23 PM

Cant think of anything else at the momentThanks!

Hans_Schmidt at 2:23 PM

Is dividend support officially part of 2.1 release? It wasn't intuitive to me how that works.

RavencoinDev at 2:24 PM

No it will be in the next release. However, you could write a script that would provide the same functionality with what will be released in 2.1.

Skan at 2:25 PM

I heard something about Phase 4 being complete already, is that true, and is that in 2.1?

RavencoinDev at 2:25 PM

List all addresses with an asset, loop through sending X raven to each.

Skan at 2:25 PM

Unique assets>

RavencoinDev at 2:25 PM

Yes, Unique assets are complete.(edited)

Tron at 2:25 PM

Dividend support can be done without modifying the protocol. We can add it to a version of the software that can be used by the payer, without requiring others to upgrade.So we did phase 1, 2, 4

Skan at 2:26 PM

Oh wowGreat job everyone!

RavencoinDev at 2:26 PM

Yeah, we're super excited about the use cases that assets and unique assets provide to our develoepers(edited)

Skan at 2:27 PM

Can you tell us anything else about this separate software client? Will it be geared more towards enterprise use in general or will it just be that feature?

RavencoinDev at 2:27 PM

Speaking of, do any of you have a dev project in the works with assets?

russ at 2:27 PM

well its not a separate software client, its a backwards compatible release @Skan(edited)kind of like a softfork if you know what that is

Skan at 2:28 PM

Yeah unique assets will be awesome, actually there's a korean community member planning on issuing them along with silver ravencoinsIf im not mistaken

RavencoinDev at 2:28 PM

That's awesome!

russ at 2:28 PM

@RavencoinDev @Scotty is working on an asset explorerhttp://ravencoin.asset-explorer.net/

RavencoinDev at 2:29 PM

Yes, we've been watching that.

Skan at 2:29 PM

I am working with him on a Korean translation of the whitepaper, x16r whitepaper, and an introduction article so that we can take advantage of our availability in that market📷1

RavencoinDev at 2:29 PM

Super excited to see that mature.

Skan at 2:29 PM

@russ ah ok that makes senseWill there be anything else to that release?

RavencoinDev at 2:30 PM

Thanks @Skan. We want Raven to span the globe.Okay, Open Q&A time.What other questions do you guys have?

Skan at 2:31 PM

This release with rewards capability, will there be anything else added/changed for that version?

Tron at 2:31 PM

It might be released as phase 3, 5, 6.Although it could be released separately, without impacting anything.

Skan at 2:32 PM

Ah ok, so all of these features can be opted-into by someone who wants to take advantage, without cluttering the experience for a basic user

Tron at 2:32 PM

Phase 5 and 6 will be together as it requires a hard-fork.

RavencoinDev at 2:33 PM

Yes, we want to focus on user experience so it's super simple to do what you want to do.

Skan at 2:33 PM

Awesome

russ at 2:33 PM

so is anyone working on RSK yet

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:34 PM

We aren't yet.

russ at 2:34 PM

yea im gonna have a look at the code soon

[Master] Roshii at 2:34 PM

Who said ravencoin needs RSK

RavencoinDev at 2:34 PM

It'd be great to have that done by the community.

russ at 2:34 PM

i think some people would like smart contracts @[Master] Roshii

Skan at 2:35 PM

RSK would be great for token distributions

russ at 2:35 PM

the real trick would be getting RSK to recognize assets

Tron at 2:35 PM

RSK, Segwit, Lightning are all on the table, but lower priority than phases 3, 5, 6.

[Master] Roshii at 2:35 PM

This is just like saying let's do what ravencoin does in the old fassion!

russ at 2:35 PM

well not really, smart contracts can do other things

[Master] Roshii at 2:36 PM

What's the RBF status @Tron

Skan at 2:36 PM

Keep us posted russ I think that would be amazingWhen you write smart contracts in RSK what language is it in?

russ at 2:36 PM

solidity i thinlthink

RavencoinDev at 2:36 PM

yes

russ at 2:36 PM

eth contracts also work on RSKso thats a plus

Skan at 2:37 PM

Ok great so we dont even have to work on templates or anything

RavencoinDev at 2:37 PM

Having solidity contracts that interact with Raven assets would open up a lot of possibilities.

Skan at 2:37 PM

I think so too, especially for stuff like tokens in gaming use case📷1

russ at 2:37 PM

i guess it would also help with cross chain atomic swaps too

Skan at 2:37 PM

Yep

RavencoinDev at 2:37 PM

Yes!

russ at 2:38 PM

BTC directly for an asset

Skan at 2:38 PM

sounds like a good product

russ at 2:38 PM

making ICOs easier

Tron at 2:38 PM

Yes, cross-chain atomic swaps would be amazing with user issued assets.

RavencoinDev at 2:39 PM

Other questions?

Skan at 2:40 PM

Smart contract atomic swap erc20token 1:1 for their new RVN counterpart

Hans_Schmidt at 2:40 PM

I believe that every cross-chain atomic swap implementation I have seen requires a trusted federation. That's even true for RSK.

Tron at 2:40 PM

@Skan I like it!

Skan at 2:42 PM

No more questions from me

RavencoinDev at 2:42 PM

Okay, seems that we're winding down on the Q&A.Thank you all for joining us today. I've really liked how this discussion has worked out on Discord.Did anybody miss IRC today?

russ at 2:43 PM

hell no

Hans_Schmidt at 2:43 PM

Like a toothache

russ at 2:43 PM

this was waaay better

RavencoinDev at 2:44 PM

📷

Hans_Schmidtat 2:44 PM

Missed the mems tho

RavencoinDevToday at 2:44 PM

I agree. I was even able to fix my typos.That's right, we had some epic memes last time.Where are you @Pathfinder

Chatturga at 2:45 PM

@Pathfinder Do you have an epic meme for us today?

Skan at 2:45 PM

Meme please

[Master] Roshii at 2:46 PM

Can somebody give @Pathfinder a Master Memer role and color

Chatturga at 2:46 PM

https://i.imgflip.com/2jgpgw.jpg📷📷1📷1

Pathfinder at 2:46 PM

heyayeah, that was my meme for today 📷 ty Chatturga

BruceFenton at 2:46 PM

Good stuff

RavencoinDev at 2:47 PM

Thanks everybody!

[Dev] Blondfrogs at 2:47 PM

peace out

Skan at 2:47 PM

Later!

RavencoinDev at 2:47 PM

Have a great weekend. NH Raven Meetup next week!!!!

Jeroz at 2:47 PM

📷

SpyderDev at 2:47 PM

Thanks guys!

RavencoinDev at 2:47 PM

See you there!

Pathfinder at 2:47 PM

I'll be there! looking forward to seeing folks 📷

Hans_Schmidt at 2:47 PM

See ya in NH

Tron at 2:48 PM

See ya there!

Jeroz at 2:48 PM

Cant make it, but have fun! 📷

RavencoinDev at 2:48 PM

^ did you have a question about tron's Comment?

Jeroz at 2:49 PM

No I was super excited about it

RavencoinDev at 2:49 PM

Ah, me too!

russ at 2:49 PM

mtarget is streaming the meetup, right?

RavencoinDev at 2:50 PM

Not sure, we have really appreciated his work in the past but haven't heard.

Chatturga at 2:52 PM

Yes, he is planning on doing a stream📷1

RavencoinDev at 2:53 PM

Thanks again everybody.


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AERGO: BRINGING THE NEEDED TOOLS THAT WILL MAKE ENTERPRISES BETTER

INTRODUCTION

Arguably, the blockchain offers the most intuitive, safest, open and reliable means for developers as well as enterprises to get value in a more open and reliable future shared networks. Blockchain serves as the driving mechanism. For the very first time in a long time, blockchain allows enterprises to create a decentralized architecture from the internet where the consensus across the whole network can be achieved safely and efficiently without a third-party involvement.

Blockchain-driven systems are designed to allow for the development of a simple, global and completely reliable and lasting record of digital assets and related transactions. However, as great as the blockchain is to enterprises, it has its own shortcomings. For instance, businesses will most probably find it herculean to incorporate blockchain into their business plan. The thing is in recent past, growing acceptance of the blockchain technology has led to several innovations as well as implementations of open and trustless blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum amongst others. Such trustless blockchain presents exciting features but has a lot of challenges as regards private company building a blockchain framework. For several reasons, the companies normally require a measure of regulation and privacy on their blockchain platform, as such what suits them the most is a private and encrypted blockchain. However, building such a private structure translates to huge transaction cost, high technicalities, risks and doubts as regards the outcome.

In an attempt to fast-track the adoption, ease the implementation process and offer an enhanced solution, AERGO develops a present-day “enterprise-suited” blockchain protocol together with an IT network through the use of sophisticated technologies.

THE AERGO PLATFORM

AERGO comes with a 4th generation ‘enterprise-oriented' blockchain that is capable of working on both public and private blockchain platforms. AERGO offers to enterprises the much-needed dynamism in building and using blockchain applications that offer high speed, scalable and incredible performance. AERGO is built to be a flexible, plugin-oriented smart contract facility that affords clients to execute smart contracts designed for Ethereum Virtual System or the AergoSQL. By working with Smart Oracles, users of the network enjoys access to smart contracts that consume data with external services or internal databases and initiate events.

Core Elements Of AERGO Platform

The AERGO platform consists of three basic central elements. Firstly, the AERGO chain. The AERGO chain is an open internet of blockchains. The AERGO Chain is a recently-developed worldwide open network of enterprise blockchains driven by node providers. The aim is to host AERGOSQL which is also a newly added SQL smart contract system that allows for the easy development of sophisticated smart contracts in a bid to give intuitive enterprise products and services.

The second core element of the AERGO platform is the AERGO Hub which is an open interface to the basic AERGO Chain. The AERGO Hub seeks to work alongside and link safe decentralized applications with AERGO chain. The decentralized applications created will be able to work on either of the AERGO Public Repository which is a shared, public and decentralized facility for decentralized applications or the AERGO Private Repository which is a private, regulated and safer facility for decentralized applications.

The third core element is the AERGO Marketplace which is planned to be a megastore for software apps, computing facilities as well as other services designed to enhance the AERGO Chain. AERGO Marketplace Software, computing as well as other services are designed to run on or work together with AERGO Chain and the marketplace will be accessed through the AERGO Hub public interface and run through AERGO Horde. On this platform, computing facilities like Storage Computing Power and others can be bought and sold.

The developers of AERGO are planning to introduce a broad ecosystem that consists of related decentralized applications as well as service providers that uses safe cloud delivery patterns. AERGO seeks to allow businesses and developers to structure, develop and use their own blockchain applications in the cloud and as well enable creators to alter their blockchain and applications to their particular needs by offering the choice to be deployed on both public and private ecosystem. The team equally intends to relieve firms from running huge transaction costs by removing the need for setting up physical facilities as all will be based on a safe cloud-based shared network. The core technology of AERGO core is based on COINSTACK2 built by Blocko Incorporation and the team plans to leverage and develop on the current AERGO platform and offer a total framework for building and deploying decentralized applications on a safe, very efficient cloud framework.

AERGO seeks to allow businesses and developers to easily set up and use their personal blockchain and decentralized applications on both trust-based and trustless chains. The devs will be able to build their own applications on private chains, open chains and sophisticated configuration. AERGO protocol equally settles the challenge of IT incorporation and software building for businesses and solves the issues of scalability and interoperability problems.

Concurrency Regulation On AERGO Network

Concurrency control is a vital role of the blockchain platforms. This feature ensures that the DPOS consensus algorithm is completely predictable when assigned within a blockchain network schedule. The essential block creates transactions. AERGO Chain will seek to offer two means for transaction arrangement with time. The two are block-level serialization and the pool-level serialization. In the block-level serialization, each layer of the blockchain is made up of blocks and the transactions can be arranged by setting each block on the other. AERGO seeks to offer MultiVersion Concurrency Control (MVCC) which is premised on block heights. Immediately a block height is specified, it is possible to offer succeeding reads through several nodes in the store. AERGO’s MVCC role seeks to offer both a snapshot separation that is utilized for consistent reads as well as a form of optimistic blocking via row or document separation. MVCC can only be feasible for a block-stage arrangement.

Pool-level arrangement

People accessing AERGO nodes can leverage on the deterministic node of the prearranged blocks through assignees. This is a feature offered by the crux DPOS consensus. Through this, execution of synchronized transactions, offering a reliable assurance on completing finality. As each assigned node in an AERGO network can use equal arrangement in a bid to analyse network new transactions in the memory hub and build recent blocks, clients need not tarry for block interval completion to get the result of transactions. Consequently, the latency of processing a transaction reduces and gets more swiftly processed.

AERGO TOKEN INFORMATION

The AERGO token is the local currency proposed to be used on the AERGO blockchain platform. It seeks to offer a plethora of several functions and will usually be utilized as a means of exchange in the AERGO network. Users who have the tokens will be able to access a number of services open to a member of AERGO platform. The token is an ERC20 standard type token and it is Ethereum-based with a total supply of 500,000,000. 30 percent of the token is allocated for sale, community incentives and strategic partners also account for 30%, 25% is reserved for use by the token issuer, 10% goes for advisors and key backers, while the remaining 5% goes for employees of token issuers and affiliates.

N/B: There is no public sale and as such no whitelisting of any kind.

CONCLUSION

The team behind the AERGO ecosystem identified the problems with the current blockchain platform in enterprises and consequently developed an intuitive blockchain network that is safe, fast and dependable that uses high-end technological infrastructures.

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT AERGO

Website: https://www.aergo.io

Author: Aaemma

Reddit Username: Emmrex


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Venezuela to Release its Own Cryptocurrency Petro

On October 1st, the Venezuelan government announced the official date for Petro cryptocurrency release into the market. The crypto is developed and controlled by the authorities, with the coin pegged to the country's oil value.

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However, the announcement came with many critics, both domestic and foreign-based. The opposition, general crypto community and experts in the financial fields expressed their doubts whether this new measure will help the government to control hyperinflation Bolivar.

It remains to be seen how the market will react and whether the 110 million worth of supply will help Venezuelan economy to recover. More importantly, if successful, it will be interesting how bitcoin (and other alts) will react to a new player in the industry.

In the meantime, U.S. will not sit by idly, with President Trump already ordering domestic exchanges not to accept the said crypto.

We would also recommend readers to give our guide regarding global regulations of cryptocurrencies a read, to better understand how crypto global markets work https://www.cryptocointrade.com/about-trading/crypto-trading-regulations/.



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Ang aim ng community is to give the subscribers more education about Cryptocurrency and keep them from those scammers na ginagamit ang hype ng cryptocurrency for investment scams or networking. 💯💯

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Ang CoinrunnersPH ay region partner ng CoinrunnersVIP and BitGoSu.com ng Korea and minsan nakakainteract din natin ang mga hosts nila like sir Ryu Dang na very approachable and humble just like our hosts.

And speaking of hosts we have the most wonderful team namabubuo sa cryptocurrency community sa pinas kung iccompare sa NBA parang pinagsama niyo na ang Golden State Warriors and LA Lakers.🏀

The team compose of Mr. Nick Galan, one of the most generous on the team and a very wise and clever man with his humble yet handsome producer Sir Paolo Viloria and super funny and intelligent, and we have the Mining Genius Sir Wowie Na-Obre and the Trading Master named Risk Trader! And also hindi mawawala ang ating Lovely Ladies na sina Ms. Kim Sia, Mrs. Bea Inocencio and Ms Gail Jao to deliver our Crypto News and Facts!💕

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Wagerr Betting Release Recap & Latest News

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Wagerr community,

It has been over two weeks since our inaugural betting event on the Wagerr blockchain, Canelo v GGG 2. In that time, we have provided over 120 betting events, have seen over 4,700 bets placed on the blockchain, totaling over 3.2 million WGR. This betting activity has resulted in a net burn / supply decrease of over 440k WGR.

You can view our full 'Burn Report' here.

We are delighted to confirm that we haven't encountered any major issue to date. As such, we believe we have laid the foundation for a global, mainstream, blockchain application and that it is time to set our sights on the deliverables which will push us closer to that future. With that in mind, we have released an updated version of the core wallet with some user interface improvements and fixes for minor issues encountered to date.

You can find our latest core release here.

The month of September was a busy one, full of achievements. Alongside releasing the Wagerr betting application, we partnered with Netcoins, Blockfolio and others, and were covered by BusinessInsider, NASDAQ, and CCN to name a few.

You can view our full 'September Progress Report' here.

To celebrate our successful release we have decided to run a competition for UFC 229: Nurmagomedov v McGregor, with bottles of McGregor's Proper Twelve whiskey up for grabs!

For details on how to enter the competition see here.

It is hard to think how far we have come in the past twelve months. We could not have arrived at this point without the incredible support of all WGR investors, supporters, holders, Masternode operators and bettors. We aim to set an example of a successful ICO, and we believe you have set an example of a successful community that other projects can only envy.

Together we will turn the betting industry on its head and establish Wagerr as one of the leading blockchain applications. We are just getting started.

The Wagerr Team


[Daily BAT Discussion] Hello My Baby, Hello My Honey - October 5, 2018

October 5, 2018

Hey BAT gals! Welcome to the Daily BAT Discussion!

Yesterday's Market Movements: Up

And we have a break in the sideways movement! This morning we saw a sudden surge of volume up to 300 BTC on Binance, propelling us into the realm of 2700-2800 satoshis ($0.18). No sudden news that caused this small bump that I'm aware of. The only thing of significance that happened I'm aware of was the small meetup last night at Founder's Fund. We'll see whether or not these prices will hold up in the short term. Bitcoin still floating around just under $6600, forming quite a flag/triangle on the daily chart. We may be seeing substantial movement either up or down within a week, so keep your fingers crossed!

Happy Friday everybody! Remember, invest responsibly!

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Bitcoin [BTC]: SEC releases report for rule change to approve a Bitcoin ETF (current BTC/USD price is $6596.49190034)

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Bitcoin [BTC]: SEC releases report for rule change to approve a Bitcoin ETF

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More about mixin

Mixin Kernel (Multiply Mixin) 

Duplicate is the center part of the Mixin arrange. It utilizes an intermittent diagram outline toward extending computerized resource exchanges. 

DAG innovation - A non-roundabout direct chart is a structure that comprises of hubs associated together in a non-straight example. With DAG, data is scattered utilizing the 'gossip convention' on numerous hubs in the meantime, permitting accord on quicker exchanges. 

Agreement convention 

The distributive book of the Mixin portion utilizes a proof of offer agreement convention (PoS). The "hubs" must place somewhere around 10,000 as insurance in return for exchange validation on the Kernel disseminated bookkeeping book. 

Each catch "augmentation Mixin" speaks to 10,000 Xin, equal to 2% of the system shares. The duplicate can just work with no less than 7 hubs included, representing around 15% of the aggregate number of offers of the system. 

Private 

For security purposes, Mixin utilizes a one-time key calculation, which enables the framework to create 'phantom tends to's that can be demolished after each exchange a client makes. 

Mixin Domain 

The mixin space speaks with the part through framework calls. 

All together for an outer resource (eg from the bitcoin square chain) to be related with the mixin portion, people in general key of the mixin is first made to associate with the space, and afterward the specific open key (eg open key Bitcoin ) was made to interface the substance to the mixin piece. In the event that somebody needs to send cash from their Bitcoin wallet to the Mixin arrange, the area will make an exchange for the Mixin open key and duplicate Mixin will check the exchange. 

Mixin Domain Extension (Mixin Domain Extensions) 

The Mixin space augmentation enables clients to set up a shrewd arrangement from a solitary figuring unit (for instance, your PC or iPhone). These savvy contracts are more viable and more grounded than the agreements right now offered on blockchain Ethereum. 


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Sibos 16th October 17 Bridging DLT and SWIFT Messaging with SmartContract.com - - Slide Deck


NEWS RECAP: Cryptocurrencies are mixed as a report reveals Yale University is beginning to invest in cryptocurrencies through their endowment fund

Crypto News

  • Augur, a decentralized platform for prediction markets based on real-world events, is gearing up for its first ever major upgrade to improve user experience. Augur is a decentralized platform meant to be a hub for sports betting, election forecasts, derivative trading, and risk hedging, however, the platform has had trouble maintaining daily users. Many Augur users complain that the decentralized platform is far from intuitive and not user friendly in the slightest. Augur developers hope their version two of Augur will address these problems and help grow daily active users, which currently sits at ~100.  
  • Blackberry, a large software company, announced plans Thursday to develop a blockchain platform to store and share medical data. In a press release Thursday, Blackberry detailed that its “carrier-grade network operation center” would be used to support the digital ledger, which will be developed by ONEBIO, a biotech incubator. The platform would create “an ultra-secure global ecosystem” for securely storing data from patients ,labs, and monitors.  
  • Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has filed for a patent through the US Patent and Trademark Office for a system that allows third-party administrators to intervene in smart contract operations in the case of illegal activity using blockchain technology. The patent describes a system that would allow authorized administrators to freeze or halt user accounts associated with illegal or fraudulent activities. Alibaba originally filed for this paten in March 2018.  
  • Coinbase is losing one of its most senior and tenured employees, according to a Reuters report. Adam White was Coinbase’s fifth employee when he joined in 2013 and has held positions at Coinbase including roles as a Vice President, General Manager, and most recently, Head of Coinbase's Institutional Coverage Group. White’s leaving comes as Coinbase announced earlier this week that the US-based cryptocurrency exchange has hired former Instinet CEO, Jonathan Kellner, as a Managing Director of Coinbase’s Institutional Coverage Group.  
  • Education Ecosystem is in the process of developing LiveEdu, a decentralized online learning platform. Education Ecosystem has described LiveEdu as, “Netflix for professional development”, with the platform aiming to offer complete products in programming, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, and many other advanced fields. A survey by the Training Industry indicates USD$362.2 billion was spent on professional development in 2017.  
  • High levels of inflation in Argentina have caused cryptocurrency ATM firms to project a large increase in ATM installations in the country. Argentina is on pace to finish 2018 with above 40% inflation, causing Argentinians to flock to cryptocurrencies for a stable currency. As of today, there are just 2 Bitcoin ATMs in Argentina, however, Reuters projects that figure to rise to 30 by the end of 2018. US-based cryptocurrency ATM firm, Odyssey Group, has plans to install 150 cryptocurrency ATMs by the end of 2019.  
  • Italy’s second largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, along with 13 other Italian banks have completed the first phase of a trial of an interbank reconciliation blockchain platform. The trial of this platform began on June 4th and was administered by ABI Lab, a research lab with backing from the Italian Banking Association. The interbank blockchain platform was built on top of Corda Enterprise, the platform developed by blockchain consortium, R3.  
  • The mayor of South Korea’s capital, Seoul, has introduced a five-year plan to develop the blockchain industry in the city. The five-year plan lays out various blockchain initiatives to be pursued through 2022 and sets aside 100 billion won (USD$88.2 million) to invest in blockchain startups in the city. The plan also details a plan to spend 60.3 billion won (USD$53.1 million) to create two business centers to house 200 blockchain companies by 2021.  
  • Rebecca Harding, a financial journalist, CEO of Coriolis Technologies, and author of “The Weaponization of Trade: The Great Unbalancing of Policy and Economics,” believes financial institutions are waiting for regulatory certainty to invest in cryptocurrencies. Harding went on to add in an interview with Forbes that major banks have expressed serious interest in investing in cryptocurrencies, however, they are waiting for the green light from regulators.  
  • Yale University is reportedly beginning to invest in cryptocurrencies according to an anonymous source familiar with the matter. The Ivy League school is investing in cryptocurrencies through its endowment fund, which is the second-largest among higher education funds in the world. Yale pledged an unspecified amount to a USD$400 million digital assets fund managed by Coinbase co-founder, Fred Ehrsam, former Sequoia Capital partner, Matt Huang, and ex-employee of Pantera Capital, Charles Noyes. The school’s USD$30 billion endowment fund has a target of 60% to invest in alternative investments.  

Sources:

r/https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-prediction-market-augur-is-gearing-up-for-its-first-major-upgrade/ 
r/https://www.coindesk.com/blackberry-unveils-blockchain-partnership-to-support-medical-research/ 
r/https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackberry-introduces-blockchain-backed-platform-focused-on-healthcare-services 
r/https://cointelegraph.com/news/alibaba-files-patent-for-blockchain-system-that-allows-administrative-intervention 
r/https://www.ccn.com/alibaba-seeks-patent-for-blockchain-that-allows-administrator-intervention/ 
r/https://www.coindesk.com/early-coinbase-executive-adam-white-is-leaving-the-firm/ 
r/https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbases-institutional-platform-head-leaves-firm-after-five-years 
r/https://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-says-top-executive-adam-white-is-leaving-the-company/ 
r/https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/10/05/crypto-startup-coinbase-opens-new-york-office-why-is-its-institutional-head-leaving/ 
r/https://cointelegraph.com/news/netflix-for-professional-growth-platform-helps-users-learn-by-watching-videos 
r/https://www.ccn.com/from-zero-to-30-more-bitcoin-atms-coming-to-argentina-as-peso-dives-and-inflation-rises-by-double-digits/ 
r/https://www.coindesk.com/italian-banks-complete-blockchain-trial-for-interbank-payments-application/ 
r/https://cointelegraph.com/news/seoul-mayor-announces-five-year-plan-for-promoting-blockchain-industry 
r/https://www.ccn.com/expert-banks-are-enthusiastic-towards-crypto-waiting-for-regulators-to-invest/ 
r/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-05/yale-is-said-to-invest-in-crypto-fund-that-raised-400-million 

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