AtoX leads blockchain 4.0

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Since Satoshi Nakamoto created bitcoin in 2008, the blockchain has gone through ten years. Nowadays, the blockchain has passed the barbaric age and needs the landing of real public chains and killer applications. Based on summarizing the past blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, the AtoX project team introduced blockchain 4.0 based on Ai's enhanced cross-chain protocol and the new financial revolution. AtoX blockchain 4.0, a leading technology, is also a killer application, aiming to promote the world revolutionary process of blockchain transformation and lead the industry.

1. The blockchain 4.0 proposed by AtoX avoids the defects of 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 in the past blockchain, which is a more mature version.

The Bitcoin of Blockchain 1.0 solves the problem of digital currency. The Ethereum of Blockchain 2.0 solves the problem of digital asset securitization. Here, there is also a fork, IBM's super ledger, is a permissioned blockchain, designed to open up cross-industry applications of finance, and later it did not work. The Ripple of Blockchain 3.0 solves the problem of cross-bank settlement. There is also a fork here, the ecosystems of EOS is criticized by the industry for its lack of centralization, and even being questioned that it is not a blockchain. Although the development of the public chain has experienced three generations of 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, it is still immature, and major technical problems still need to be broken through, and large-scale commercial applications will take time.

AtoX proposes Blockchain 4.0 in a timely manner. Based on Ai's enhanced cross-chain technology architecture, it not only overcomes the technical challenges of blockchain 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, but also based on the new financial business model, through integrated payment settlement and UT/ST dual-token issuance, achieving the digitization or programmization of currency, securities and banking, and open the way for funds to enter the real economy, and promote the chain reform and the revolution in the mode of corporate governance, and finally realizing the dream of “enterprise launch onto the chain and everyone have coins” . We believe that the AtoX of blockchain 4.0 is a relatively mature and ideal public chain.

The following are the basic elements of the AtoX blockchain project.

Positioning: blockchain 4.0;

Technical architecture: AtoX algorithm, ie Ai enhanced cross-chain protocol;

Business model: New Finance, integrated payment settlement and UT/ST dual-token issuance, extended to the whole finance to support the revolution of enterprise chain reform and governance;

Team: Jewish genes.

AtoX algorithm, AI enhanced cross-chain protocol, can effectively solve the triangle paradox of decentralized, security and easy of use, it is a leading technology architecture

The decentralization of Bitcoin of blockchain 1.0 is good, but the transaction speed TPS is too slow and the scalability is limited. Although the Ethereum of blockchain 2.0 has scalability, the transaction speed TPS is still not ideal. Although some solutions have been proposed, the cost of implementing these solutions is often to limit the number of possibilities for transactions pair, or to rely on a centralized transaction entrustment platform, such as EOS, which is vulnerable to human tampering and hacking. There is thus the possibility of counterfeiting transactions and cheating, as well as the security risks of stolen funds. The AtoX algorithm uses the AI enhanced cross-chain technology as the core of the technology, and builds a digital trading system that avoids the above-mentioned defects and realizes decentralization in real sense.

1. About AtoX algorithm

The AtoX algorithm exploits the scalability of lightning networks, making it possible for traders to trade at high speeds between almost any blockchain;

At the same time, the exchange rate is detected in real time by the delinked transaction entrustbook stored on IPFS; and the use of a consensus mechanism that is both energy efficient and alleviating the problem of turing; multi-token and wallets, and design of interfacing to the token trading platform, can effectively support a variety of applications.

AtoX protocol, through AI models and algorithms, real-time learning, through a large number of data analysis, constantly repairing possible loopholes in the system to prevent hacker attacks or other unexpected events;

It is also enhanced by Ai to maintain the decentralization of the blockchain and to timely adjust to the problems;

It also enhances its performance and improves TPS through Ai enhancements.

The AtoX protocol is truly able to effectively solve the triangular conflicts that have long plagued the public chain for a long time, decentralization, security, and commerciality.

In addition, AtoX's open blockchain platform integrates multiple functional modules and can plug in to add new features. These create conditions for later scalability of platform functionality.

At present, the platform supports the bank's payment and settlement business, and it needs to support services such as deposits, loans, factoring, and bills in the future. The platform will also support enterprise asset to launch onto the chain, that is, digitization, tokenization, and securitization of various types of enterprise assets. After that, the token on the blockchain requires government supervision, and the platform needs to be connected to the policy sandbox. These, the pluggable function modules will be of great use.

The introduction of Ai technology will also play a role at the application level in the future. Use big data and AI to provide analysis and prediction services to assist users in decision-making.

1. AtoX new financial business model

AtoX's new financial business model set payment settlement and dual-token issuance together, expanding to the whole finance, promoting the chain reform and corporate governance revolution.

The blockchain is finance, which is digital finance, programmable finance, and new finance. And finance is the lifeblood of the modern economic system. The application of blockchain must first be applied in the financial sector, using new finance to leverage technological innovation and the development of the real economy.

AtoX's new financial model, adhering to the three major value points of blockchain,  stranger credit, card incentive and co-governance, the core is to build a new, technology-leading and approachable financial ecosystem through a mature, stable, scalable and sustainable new financial public chain platform, open up the channels of funds and the real economy, provide enterprises with chain reform and governance revolution services, and promote economic development and human civilization.

Prior to this, bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and other solutions, although they also explored in digital finance, but there are defects such as cutting leeks, currency value instability, lack of supervision, difficult to land, etc., they are still immature.

AtoX's new financial model firstly integrates Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple functions in one furnace, supports UT/ST dual-token issuance and bank payment settlement, and has three types of financial functions: currency, securities and banking. The stable currency UT enhances the stability of the digital currency; ST and later expands to the corporate asset chain and connects to the supervision, and eliminates the cutting of the leeks under the premise of supporting the token economy model; the wallet design improves the ability of the payment and settlement of trade finance. Relying on the strong support of AtoX technology architecture, AtoX's new financial model has corrected various shortcomings of past blockchain financial applications, and has become a mature, integrated and efficient new financial public chain platform.

The UT/ST dual-token mode design has two functions: one is to increase the diversity of internal strategies and adapt to investors with different needs; the other is to operate the whole model, and the platform motivates each participant to act with the aim of maximizing their own interests, and promotes the whole platform to develop positively.

AtoX's new financial model is an independent financial platform that can directly connect with corporate and personal services. It can also cooperate with traditional financial institutions such as banks, securities, and factoring to enhance the role of traditional financial institutions.

Nowadays, people can not only own the legal tender assets of the atomic world, but also can own the digital assets of the bit world, and everyone can enter.

AtoX's new financial model, it also with the inclusive financial characteristics. AXC is a platform incentive token model designed for investors with high growth and high returns.

New finance is the direction of the future of finance and the direction of the future of the economy. The blockchain revolution was first and foremost the new financial revolution. AtoX saw the trend of the new financial revolution and took the responsibility of the new financial revolution to become the leader of the blockchain 4.0.

The blockchain embraces traditional finance to realize the new financial revolution;

The blockchain industry is available in many industries to achieve chain reform;

Everyone can enter into blockchain and move towards common prosperity.

Blockchain 4.0 advocated by AtoX, using chain and AI combination, using new finance, and using the spirit of “love herism” to create a high-dimensional world of wealthy and loved ones with enterprises launching onto the chain and everyone has coins.

The importance of being mindful of security at all times - nearly everyone is one breach away from total disaster

This is a long one - TL;DR at the end!

If you haven't heard yet: BlankMediaGames, makers of Town of Salem, have been breached which resulted in almost 8 million accounts being leaked. For most people, the first reaction is "lol so what it's just a game, why should I really care?" and that is the wrong way to look at it. I'd like to explain why everyone should always care whenever they are part of a breach. I'd also like to talk about some ways game developers - whether they work solo or on a team - can take easy steps to help protect themselves and their customers/players.

First I'd like to state that there is no practical way to achieve 100% solid security to guarantee you'll never be breached or part of a breach. The goal here will be to get as close as possible, or comfortable, so that you can rest easy knowing you can deal with problems when they occur (not if, when).

Why You Should Care About Breaches

The sad reality is most people re-use the same password everywhere. Your email account, your bank account, your steam account, your reddit account, random forums and game websites - you get the idea. If you haven't pieced it together yet the implication is that if anyone gets your one password you use everywhere, it's game over for you - they now own all of your accounts (whether or not they know it yet). Keep in mind that your email account is the basically the holy grail of passwords to have. Most websites handle password changes/resets through your email; thus anyone who can login to your email account can get access to pretty much any of your accounts anywhere. Game over, you lose.

But wait, why would anyone want to use my password? I'm nobody!

It doesn't matter, the bad guys sell this information to other bad guys. Bots are used to make as much use of these passwords as possible. If they can get into your bank they might try money transfers. If they get into your Amazon account they might spin up $80,000 worth of servers to mine Bitcoin (or whatever coin is popular at the time). They don't care who you are; it's all automated.

By the way, according to this post (which looks believable enough to be real) this is pretty much how they got into the BMG servers initially. They checked for usernames/emails of admins on the BMG website(s) in previous breach dumps (of which there are many) and found at least one that used the same password on other sites - for their admin account!

If you want to see how many of your accounts are already breached check out Have I Been Pwned - I recommend registering all of your email addresses as well so you get notified of future breaches. This is how I found out about the Town of Salem breach, myself.

How You Can Protect Yourself

Before I go into all the steps you can (and should) take to protect yourself I should note that security is in a constant tug of war with convenience. What this means is that the more security measures you apply the more inconvenienced you become for many tasks. It's up to you to decide how much is too much either way.

First of all I strongly recommend registering your email(s) on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - this is especially important if your email address is associated to important things like AWS, Steam developer account, bank accounts, social media, etc. You want to know ASAP when an account of yours is compromised so you can take steps to prevent or undo damage. Note that the bad guys have a head start on this!

Passwords

You probably need to have better password hygiene. If you don't already, you need to make sure every account you have uses a different, unique, secure password. You should change these passwords at least once a year. Depending on how many accounts you have and how good your memory is, this is your first big security vs convenience trade-off battle. That's easily solved, though, by using a password manager. You can find a list of password managers on Wikipedia here or you can search around for some comparison articles.

Some notable choices to consider:

• 1Password - recommend by Troy Hunt, creator of Have I Been Pwned
• LastPass - I use this at work and it's generally good
• BitWarden - free and open source! I use this at home and in some ways it's better than LastPass
• KeePass (and forks) - free, open source, and totally offline; if you don't trust "the cloud" you can trade away some more convenience in exchange for taking full responsibility of your password security (and backups)

Regardless of which one you choose, any of them is 100x better than not using one at all.

Multi-Factor Authentication / Two-Factor Authentication (aka MFA / 2FA)

The problem with all these passwords is that someone can still use them if they are found in a breach. Your passwords are only as strong as the website you use them on. In the case of the BMG breach mentioned above - all passwords were stored in an ancient format which has been insecure for years. It's likely that every single password in the breach can be reversed/cracked, or already have been. The next step you need to take is to make it harder for someone else to login with your password. This is done using Multi-Factor Authentication (or Two-Factor Authentication).

Unfortunately not every website/service supports MFA/2FA, but you should still use it on every single one that does support it. You can check which sites support MFA/2FA here or dig around in account options on any particular site. You should setup MFA/2FA on your email account ASAP! If it's not supported, you need to switch to a provider that does support it. This is more important than your bank account! All of the big email providers support it: GMail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, etc.

The type of MFA/2FA you use depends on what is supported by each site/service, but there is a common approach that is compatible on many of them. Time-based One-time Password or TOTP is probably the most commonly used because it's easy to implement and can be used with many different apps. Google Authenticator was the first popular one, but it has some limitations which continue the security vs convenience battle - namely that getting a new phone is a super huge chore (no backup/restore option). Many alternatives support cloud backup which is really convenient, though obviously less secure by some measure.

Notable choices to consider:

• Authy - probably the first big/popular one after Google Authenticator came out (I think) - NOTE: They let you use it on your desktop/browser, too, but this is TOO much convenience! Don't fall for that trap.
• LastPass Authenticator - conveniently links up with a LastPass account, some sites support extra features (like not needing to type a code, just answer a phone notification)
• Yubikey - A real physical MFA device! Some models are compatible with phones, too.
• Duo - this one is more geared towards enterprise, but they have a free option

Some sites/services use their own app, like Blizzard and Steam, and don't allow you to use other ones. You will probably have a few apps on your phone when all your accounts are setup, but it's worth it.

Don't forget to save backup codes in an actual secure location! If you lose your backup codes and your auth app/physical key you will be locked out of accounts. It's generally not fun recovering in that situation.

There is such a thing as bad MFA/2FA! However, anything is at least better than nothing. A lot of places still use SMS (text messaging) or e-mail for their MFA/2FA implementation. The e-mail one has the most obvious flaw: If someone gets into your email account they have defeated that security measure. The SMS flaws are less obvious and much less likely to affect you, but still a risk: SMS is trivial to intercept (capture data over the air (literally), clone your SIM card data, and some other methods). Still, if you're not a person of interest already, it's still better than nothing.

What Does This Have To Do With GameDev?

Yeah, I do know which subreddit I'm posting in! Here's the section that gets more into things specific to game development (or software development in general).

Secure Your Code

Securing your code actually has multiple meanings here: Securing access to your code, and ensuring your code itself is secure against exploitation. Let's start with access since that's the easier topic to cover!

If you're not already using some form of Source Control Management (SCM) you really need to get on board! I'm not going to go in depth on that as it's a whole other topic to itself, but I'll assume you are using Git or Mercurial (hg) already and hosting it on one of these sites (or a similar one):

• Github
• Gitlab
• BitBucket

First, ensure that you have locked down who can access this code already. If you are using private repositories you need to make sure that the only people who have access are the people who need access (i.e. yourself and your team). Second, everyone should have strong passwords and MFA/2FA enabled on their accounts. If 1 person on the team does not follow good security practices it puts your whole project at risk! So make sure everyone on the team is following along. You can also look into tools to do some auditing and even automate it so that if anyone's account becomes less secure over time (say they turned off MFA one day) they would automatically lose their access.

Additionally you should never commit secrets (passwords, API keys, tokens, social security numbers, etc) to your code repository. Probably 90% of cases where people have their AWS/Google Cloud/Azure accounts compromised and racking up huge bulls for bitcoin mining is due to having their passwords/keys stored in their git repo. They either accidentally made it public or someone got access to the private repo through a compromised account. Never store sensitive information in your code repository!

Next topic: Securing your code from vulnerabilities. This one is harder to talk about for game dev as most engines/frameworks are not as susceptible to these situations as others. In a nutshell, you need to keep track of the following:

• Is my code doing anything "dangerous"? (system-level stuff, memory access, saving passwords anywhere)
• Could someone get the keys to the kingdom (API key, server password, etc) by just opening Cheat Engine and looking at memory values? Or doing a strings/hex edit/decompile/etc on my game executable?
• Am I using outdated libraries/framework/engine? Do they have any known security bugs?

A lot of these things cannot be solved automatically, unfortunately, but some of it can. If you are using Javascript for your game you likely will be using packages from npm - luckily they (recently) added security auditing for packages. For other languages you can look at tools like Snyk or some other alternatives to audit the libraries you use in your project. Unfortunately none are particularly aimed at game dev in particular, but it's still important to use these tools when you can. In general, be aware of all of your code dependencies and what impact they can have on your game or your customers if there are security bugs. Impact can range from "can cheat in multiplayer" to "can get IP addresses of all players in the world" or even "can get all information I ever put on my server", etc.

In general you'll want to look into Secure Software Development Lifecycle (commonly SDLC) practices. Microsoft has some information on how they do it.

Secure Your Computer

I'm not going to go in depth on this one because at this point everyone should have a handle on this; if not there are limitless articles, blogs, and videos about the how/what/why. In summary: Keep everything updated, and don't open suspicious links.

• Update your OS for security updates ASAP
• Update your web browser ALWAYS (this is your 99% chance attack vector, so don't postpone it!)
• Don't install browser extensions that you don't need - a LOT of extensions are either malware from the start or become malware later (my favorite emoji extension started mining bitcoins, FFS!) - check reviews regularly after extensions update
• DO use adblock and privacy extensions - ads are a common attack vector - I recommend uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger at a minimum (note that some legit sites can break and so you'll have to fiddle with settings or whitelist)
• Don't open suspicious or unknown links on e-mail, social media, discord, etc (be sure to hover over the links in this post before clicking them)
• Don't open attachments, ever - unless you were expecting it from that person at that time
• Don't fill out ANY forms (comments, login, registration, etc) on websites that don't have HTTPS (secure) connection - your browser will show this in the address bar, usually
• In general, be suspicious of everything that comes from people you don't know - and even from people you do know if it was unexpected
• E-Mail is (probably) the least secure form of communications ever invented - so try not to use it for sensitive things

Secure Your Website

I will have to add more to this later probably, but again there are tons of good articles, blogs, and videos on these topics. Hopefully the information in this section is enough to get you on the right track - if not feel free to ask for more info. Lots of guides can be found on Digital Ocean's site and they are relevant even if you don't use DO for your servers.

• Use HTTPS (SSL/TLS) secure connections - it's FREE and EASY thanks to Let's Encrypt
• Don't think your website needs HTTPS? You're wrong; check here if you don't believe me
• KEEP EVERYTHING UPDATED - automate as much as you can
• If you have control over the server, you MUST update the OS, the web server, and any backend application servers/languages/frameworks involved. Equifax breach was due to having out of date server software. BMG breach was worsened by having out of date server software. YOU MUST STAY UPDATED, ALWAYS
• Don't store sensitive personal information - it's a huge pain to be PCI compliant, it's a huge fine if you mess it up - avoid storing any customer information that you don't actually need (see also: GDPR)
• Use secure password storage (salt + secure hash method) - do NOT reinvent the wheel, this has been solved already by smarter people than all of us combined
• Follow OWASP Top 10 guidelines - especially if you built the website yourself
• Do not allow access to SSH/Remote desktop/Database services from the whole world; the general public should only ever be able to reach ports 80 and 443 on your web server (and 80 should permanently redirect to HTTPS)
• Use SSH keys instead of passwords on Linux servers
• Don't run your own email server - it's just not worth it; use google apps for business, office 365, zoho, or something else for business email
• Secure your domain registrar account! Don't lose your domain to a bad password or lack of MFA/2FA or an old email address! If your registrar doesn't support actual security then transfer to one that does. (namecheap, namesilo, google domains, amazon aws route53, even godaddy, the absolutely worst web company, has good security options)

A lot of this will apply to your game servers as well - really any kind of server you expect to setup.

That's it, for now

I ran out of steam while typing this all up after a couple hours, but I may revisit it later to add more info.

TL;DR (y u words so much??)

• Use a password manager so you can have different, random, secure passwords on every account on every website/service/game
• Use MFA/2FA on every account, if possible
• Update your operating system (we all hate Windows Update, but it really is for our own good)
• Update your browser
• Use good adblocker/privacy blocker browsers extensions
• Don't use browser extensions that you don't really need (they could be a trojan horse of bitcoin mining later)
• Don't trust anything sent by anyone, unless you were expecting it and know it's safe
• E-mail is the least secure form of communications in use these days; don't trust it for sensitive things
• Use source control for your game code (git, mercurial, etc)
• Lock down access to your source code
• Don't put secrets (passwords, API keys/tokens, social security numbers, credit card numbers) in your code repository
• Don't do dumb things like store your AWS keys in your game for players to just find with simple tools
• Check your code dependencies for security bugs, update them when needed
• Use HTTPS on your website
• Update your web server OS and software
• Use secure password storage (don't reinvent this wheel, it's solved by way smarter people)
• Use SSH keys instead of passwords for Linux servers
• Use a firewall to block the world from getting in with SSH/Remote desktop/database direct connections
• Only allow your own IP address (which can change!) into the server for admin tasks
• Don't run your own email server, let someone who knows what they are doing handle that for you
• Secure your domain registrar account, keep email address up to date

Why Should I Trust This Post?

Hopefully I have provided enough information and good links in this post that you can trust the contents to be accurate (or mostly accurate). There is certainly enough information to do some searches on your own to find out how right or wrong I might be about these things.

If you want my appeal to authority answer: I've been working at a major (network/computer) security company for almost 7 years as a software developer, and I've had to put up with pretty much every inconvenience brought on by security. I've also witnessed the aftermath of nearly every type of security failure covered in this post, via customers and the industry at large.

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RaspiBolt Guide done till "Lightning" now Read-only?

I suddenly get the error that file system is read-only. But everything worked out before:

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Also same when I try to install something:

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Cocos-BCX：The decentralized gaming application & crypto assets creation platform

I. Project Overview

Cocos-BCX is a platform used for the development, operation, management and transfer of decentralized applications and in-application assets on the blockchain ecosystem. The platform mainly includes three function modules:

（1）The application development framework that supports multiple operating systems and various blockchain environments.

（2）Completely scripted, componentized and data-driven application development tools;

（3）An improved blockchain system, which is oriented to high performance applications and based on graphene technology framework, and its related functional components.

Cocos-BCX can allow developers to perform programming, debugging, and publishing of decentralized applications oriented to the blockchain environment, and hybrid architecture applications. Meanwhile, the platform integrates the distributed user account system, wallet and digital asset circulation platform based on the blockchain, which can realize the permanent saving and cross-chain use of in-application assets.

II. Project evaluation

(一) Market analysis

1. Market conditions | 8 points

The organizing pattern of productivity dominated by governments in some areas or industrial domains is apt to change in the context of bottlenecks existing for global scientific and technological progress, rising resource consumption, an aging population, and intensified geopolitical conflicts. In particular, in 2008, when Nakamot published his thesis "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", discussions on blockchain and digital currency have gradually extended from technological aspects to economic, social and political, and other fields. The general public have begun to pay close attention to the impact of blockchain on social development as well as the role of digital currency in the world economy. Based on the decentralized characteristics of the blockchain and the vibrant vitality of the digital economy, the general public has enough confidence to predict that the decentralized "digital assets" will be a sweeping trend in the future, and will derive new business models and social values.

At the same time, in the development process of decentralized applications of different types, the game industry enjoys unique development advantages, because the game's production mode is the most sophisticated, enjoys the highest degree in terms of commercialization, and is one of the scenarios with the most profound foundation in terms of developers and users.

u Analysis: The game field has a huge room for development, which is highly consistent with the characteristics of the blockchain, and accords with the future development tendency of the digital economy.

The digital asset economy model carried by the project through the blockchain technology will assetize the content produced by the developer, enable the developer to continue reaping benefits during the use, management and transfer of his assets, and provide him with a convenient, decentralized game distribution channel; meanwhile, it helps players to transform the data formed by time and energy as well as the props they obtain as a result of their consumption into the assets that can be safely stored and circulated, offering players the right to manage and commercialize them.

2. Competition | 8 points

Since the last century till now, owing to the sustained efforts and promotion by a variety of IT technology game enterprises, the national and even global online game market is developing by leaps and bounds. If there is no systematic risks, such as policy regulation, vicious incidents and other factors, there will be no smooth and endless development momentum unless something unexpected happens. However, an objective analysis reveals that the current online game market is still dominated by IT technology companies, and even in a controlled and monopolized development, which, of course, also brings substantial profits, such as Tencent, Blizzard Tech.

u Analysis: It can be predicted that the Cocos-BCX project will hardly have any direct competitors in the strict sense for the time being, but will encounter a marginal pressure competitive environment from two dimensions. In summary, the classical IT game companies at home and abroad are massive in size and have obvious capital advantages. However, the Cocos-BCX project has an advanced philosophy and cutting edge technology, and thereby enjoys first-mover advantages for a breakthrough; The blockchain game project of the same business is currently marked by wide participation and generic applicability. But in comparison, the Cocos-BCX game industry has such advantages as a salient background, special project orientation and sophisticated development in technical modules, and therefore has greater development potential.

(二) Token Status

1. Token situation | 6 points

(1) Basic situation of Token

Token name: COCOS

Total tokens in circulation: 100 billion

Consensus mechanism: DPOS

(2) Token usage and allocation

Part I 82%: Cocos-BCX is used for the platform community construction in various ways, including but not limited to the witness' block reward, incentives for platform ecological developers, global community construction, marketing and promotion, industry alliances, eco-investment, research, financial and legal compliance. The use of this part of Cocos-BCX includes swapping by means of the consensus work contributions, free gifts, gifts in exchange for service, and gifts in exchange for other tokens, etc.

Part II, 18%: Cocos-BCX is intended as incentives for the sponsoring team of the project. The incentive part will set up a locking mechanism, which will be issued and unlocked one-third at the end of each year after Token generation, and the issuance will be completed within three years.

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u Analysis: The use of Token is mainly divided into two parts, among which, 82% is used for project development and construction. The remaining 18%, which has a locked position mechanism, is intended for team incentive and construction. The use design is rather rational, but the team part is slightly higher. Given that the industry is in the initial stage of development, it is of great importance to seize the first opportunity and acquire early traffic users. It is suggested that the proportion of Token used by the team be reduced slightly, which is more conducive to the long-term development of the project. It should be noted that the original holding distribution of Token has not been queried via the official channel, while this link for the conventional blockchain project are basically disclosed. Meanwhile, from the standpoint of ordinary investors, Token’s original holding ratio is also one of the important parameters for its investment.

2. Ecological cycle | 8 points

（1）The Token (COCOS) positioning of the platform: circulation media and governance proof in eco-economic activities

COCOS not only serves as a value exchange carrier and community participation proof for Cocox-BCX, but its orientation as a basic pricing Token is likely to play a critical role in the digital asset ecosystem. With the continuous development of the industry, a large quantity of decentralized digital assets will exist in multiple blockchain ecosystems according to different standards in the future, and the value existing in asset pricing media transcending the chain ecology will be infinitely magnified.

, which is specifically manifested in that developers and users can evaluate, compare, trade and manage digital assets of different chain ecosystems, worldview content, and technical standards based on COCOS. Meanwhile, as a primary and basic pricing medium, COCOS is positioned to become the necessary conditions for the blockchain industry to develop and trade financial products and derivatives of digital assets in the future.

（2）Basic use model of Token (COCOS)

Ø Value exchange medium within the platform ecosystem;

Ø Entrusted consensus equity share representative of the Cocos-BCX public blockchain;

Ø The reference and basis for the measurement of the participation in and contribution to the platform community.

（3）How to obtain Token (COCOS)

Ø Value creation: It includes the contribution of the behavior of creating digital assets, that is, developing games, making props, etc.

Ø Platform contribution reward: Users who contribute to the Cocos-BCX community is entitled to COCOS;

Ø Market transaction: Selling the prop assets obtained in the game to get COCOS;

Ø Behavioral incentives: Various effective behaviors within the Cocos-BCX platform, community and platform games will be converted into COCOS

according to a certain contribution degree.

u Analysis: The use model, scenario application, acquisition method, market orientation, etc. for the Token ecosystem design are all well deliberated, to be verified by the market.

The ecosystem design of the Token project not only takes the macroscopic use model and scenario application, but also gives a detailed description of the acquisition method. Another point that must be pointed out is that it has a clear market orientation and future prospect as soon as the design begins, therefore, in general the Token ecosystem design is well-considered and far-sighted. However, for the volatile blockchain market, the crux depends on whether the ecological design philosophy can keep pace with the times, which is very essential. In a word, in the face of massive uncertainties, it needs to be finally verified by the market.

(三) Team member

1. Founder | 8 points

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Haozhi Chen

China's renowned Internet serial entrepreneur, and has successively led and participated in the creation of Joyo.com, Xcar.com.cn, and cdn.yeeyan.org since 1999, and founded Chukong Technology in 2009. Chukong is a leading game development and distribution enterprise in China and a major maintainer and supporter of the Cocos-BCX global open source game engine and developer community.

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Xiaolong Yang

With over 14 years of experience in technology entrepreneurship and investment, he once co-founded China's leading entertainment social networking company. As an investor, he once worked for China's leading private equity fund, during which period, he led and participated in investment projects totalling over 1 billion US dollars, and realized the exit of some projects at home and abroad. His interests and expertise mainly concentrate on information technology of the global primary market and secondary market in the later stage, and macro multiple asset category investment, and has a profound understanding of the financial market mechanism and asset pricing. He is also an investment partner in China's major technology investment fund and provides counselling for Chinese and American hedge funds, venture capital funds and large enterprises.

u Analysis: Chen Haozhi, as a founder, has rich experience in the game industry, and enjoys widespread networking and abundant resources in the industry as being one of the early Internet entrepreneurs; Another founder, Yang Xiaolong, has a strong experience in technology venture capital investment, and has the expertise for global investment layout. On the whole, two co-founders have a prominent advantage in overall industry background and integrating resources.

2. Founding team | 8 points

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Kevin Yin: An early contributor of CocosChina community, NOI winner, and ACM guest. A senior developer of blockchain, and having years of experience in compilation and distributed computing. An investor of the blockchain technology.

Jane Jin: Responsible for CocosChina community, the "Aipuworks" incubator, etc., and an expert of the Techincal Committee for Blockchain, China Software Industry Association. Bachelor of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, and mini-EMBA of Tsinghua University. He once served important functions in "Fortune Global 500" including Lucent, Nortel, NSN, Nokia, Intel and other multinational companies in the marketing, sales, executive and developer relationship domain.

James Jeon: Responsible for the business development strategy and implementation of the project's South Korean section. From 2012 to 2015, he served as CEO of Gurum Company, a South Korean subsidiary of Chukong Technologies, earning an annual revenue of over $30 million from the scratch for the South Korean company and leading the South Korean subsidiary in going public successfully.

Frederick Lim: Responsible for the business development strategy and implementation of the project's South Korean section. From 2014 to 2015, he served as co-CEO of Gurum Company, and was once the director of the Strategic Investment Department of Hyundai Group, responsible for investment in Internet, communication, telecommunications and other fields. He is a doctor of Engineering Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

Hirokuni Fujita: originally head of the Japanese subsidiary of Chukong Technologies. He graduated from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, majoring in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.

Jason: preacher of the Cocos-BCX community and meanwhile, senior manager of the Cocos 2d-x global community. He started to program on the Commodore-64 computer when he was 8. In addition to developing the community, he was keen on studying mathematics, finance, C++ and improving his Chinese proficiency.

Qinzhou Wang: Since entering the game industry in 2009, he has worked in the brand market in ZOL. Com. CN, Howell Expo, host of ChinaJoy, and is responsible for the brand market in Chukong Technologies.

u Analysis: The special technological talent construction of the team technicians needs to be further strengthened. At present, there is a blockchain technician. The game background and the advantages of the international architecture building enjoy prominent advantages, and there are sufficient team members on the strategic level and in the aspect of ecological construction. It is worth mentioning that team building is stable, and there is a high level of consensus among team members, which is conducive to the robust development of the project.

One member of the founding team has experience in the blockchain project development, that is, Chief Technical Officer, who is a senior blockchain developer. He has many years of experience in compiling and distributed computing, and is also a technology investor of blockchain.

In the early stage, owing to the demand of the game industry in the Japanese and Korean markets, Japanese and Korean market leaders were specially arranged in the early team structure of Chukong Technologies. In particular, due to the prosperity and popularity of the game industry in the Korean market, two co-leaders were specially arranged for the Korea market, responsible for strategic and investment issues respectively.

Consultant Team | 8 points

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Zhe Wang: Founder of the Cocos engine, and CEO of Xiamen Yaji Software Co., Ltd. He graduated from Department of Electronics, Nanjing University, and later studied a postgraduate program at Department of Management Science, Xiamen University. He created the Cocos engine in 2011, which currently has 1.1 million registered developers worldwide and 300,000 monthly active developers in over 200 countries and regions in the world. The Cocos engine has arrested the attention of platform vendors at home and abroad, and has established a long-term cooperative partnership with Microsoft, Google, ARM, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei and Tencent, etc.

Edith Yeung: One of some "Silicon Valley's Must Meet" investors as covered in Inc magazine. She is the head of 500 Startups, Silicon Valley's famous venture capital company and incubator in Greater China, and meanwhile, manages a Mobile Collective fund worth tens of millions of dollars. She has invested in over 40 mobile Internet, VR, AR and AI start-ups, including Hooked (App store's No. 1 reading App), DayDayCook (one of Asia's largest food communities), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense and so on.

u Analysis: The consultant team has obvious advantages in technological achievements, rich experience in technology innovation investment and incubation experience for startups.

The consultant team consists of a Maker-oriented technical talent and two venture capital managers with a senior venture capital background, among whom, Wang Zhe, technical consultant, graduated from Department of Electronics, Nanjing University and CEO of Xiamen Yaji Software. Wang is the founder of Cocos-BCX engine. At present, the Cocos engine has 1.1 million registered developers and 300,000 monthly active developers in over 200 countries and regions worldwide.

(四) Tech Analysis

1. Tech highlights | 9 points

(1) Smart contract system which can be updated iteratively: The smart contract system, represented by Ethereum, is not subject to modification once its definition is published, making it difficult to meet the volatile demands of market. Therefore, an iterative smart contract system is designed to address this pain spot.

(2) Prop circulation platform: Unlike conventional game transaction platform, Cocos-BCX's decentralized digital asset circulation platform does not have intermediary agencies. Players can complete the transfer and purchase of non-homogeneous assets, including "game gold coins" and prop assets acquired in the game on the prop circulation platform. In the whole process of transfer, the platform will adopt smart contract for automatic matching to help users complete the transfer process more efficiently.

(3) Game interactive operation environment:

Based on the judgment of the operation environment characteristics of blockchain games in the future, Cocos-BCX has designed a set of integrated operation environment that accommodates various types of APPs, as well as the supporting interoperability interface. Combined with COCOS Creator, it simplifies the process of docking game programs and blockchain, making intra-chain interaction transparent to developers, and allowing conventional game developers to develop or migrate blockchain game without a threshold.

(4) Mapping gateway that supports multi-chain and asset riveting:

Cocos-BCX provides a set of mapping gateways used for the automatic mapping of game gold coins and props. Under the unified value measurement system, it realizes the smooth transition of different in-chain game content and different platform content. The content that can be used for mapping includes game gold coins, game equipment data, etc.

(5) Transaction authentication mechanism that prevents BP/developers from cheating:

BP, as the core of transaction processing and communication of the whole network, can know the processing result of the latest transaction prior to general nodes. Therefore, BP enjoys a priority for information with timeliness or confidentiality

, as compared with general nodes, so it has a cheating potential in terms of

information acquisition. To address the drawbacks of this technical link, five modular confrontation mechanisms has been specially designed to hold the likelihood of BP/developer cheating at bay.

(6) Economies Principle Design of Cocos-BCX:

The Cocos-BCX platform carries the game assets value created by developers by providing a complete set of functional components including the underlying public blockchain, digital property management, and exchanges. Its technology and governance structure design, based on the graphene standard, has the economic attributes corresponding to the DPoS consensus mechanism.

u Analysis: There are a multiplicity of technical highlights in that the overall technology construction shows characteristics such as rigid logic and prominent modularity, and various technical solutions and mechanisms with a strong pertinence have been put forward.

Based on the market pain spots of the game industry, and combined with the development opportunities of blockchain technology, the Cocos-BCX project puts forward a vision system to create consistence between the content producer and consumer in the digital world. In view of the initial intention of the project and the relatively profound background of the game industry, the overall technical structure design of the project is highly targeted and has a strong logic, which can be described as closely connected with each other. Based on the large technical framework system, each technical link and organization also has a strong sense of target and logical gene, and on this basis, many modular and modified technical programs or mechanisms have been proposed. However, it is worth noting that the synergy of a series of highlight technologies remains to be verified and examined. Meanwhile, attention should also be paid to the practicability and rationality.

2. Impossible Triangle | 7 points

(1) Decentralization

Ø Low fork risk: Cocos-BCX uses the DPoS consensus mechanism, which does not require miners to use mining machines for mining, and thereby it can effectively avoid the impact of centralized computing on the entire basechain, which in turn reduces a low fork risk. Under the DPoS mechanism, if a witness wants to fork by voting, it is necessary to guarantee that over one third of the witnesses violate this mechanism at the same time.

Ø Improved DPOS consensus mechanism: The consensus layer of the Cocos-BCX test chain adopts the DPoS consensus algorithm. The advantage characteristics of the improved edition DPOS are as follows: all active witnesses have the same block predefined probability as the witnesses' predefined algorithm in the DPoS consensus algorithm, which ensures that the block probability of all witnesses is consistent with the block reward.

Ø Lightweight node: In Cocos-BCX design, lightweight node is essentially an environment with chain interoperability. Unlike the whole node, the lightweight node does not require to synchronize the whole network data. Instead, it needs the contract information and environment data required for synchronous running. This design can greatly reduce the data volume and synchronization time required for node synchronization, enabling the in-chain game terminal software to have a capacity which is actually used and a plausible time cost.

(2) Security

Ø Player autonomy and asset security: Because of the open and transparent characteristics of the blockchain network, the digital asset information obtained by players in the game can be viewed through the blockchain.

Ø Guarantee by modern cryptography: Modern cryptography is a technology based on mathematics. Currently, it has been widely used in many industries in the Internet domain. Common symmetric encryption technologies include AES encryption used for WiFi, and asymmetric encryption algorithms (public and private key cryptography) RSA, ECC, etc., among which, ECC (Elliptic Curves Cryptography) is an encryption algorithm commonly used in the blockchain field.

Ø A transaction verification mechanism that prevents BP/developers from cheating: BP enjoys a priority compared with general nodes, so it has the probability to cheat in terms of information acquisition. Therefore, the BCX program has designed a set of transaction execution, messaging, and operating mechanisms to address the possible links that allow cheating by BP and developers.

Ø Iterative updated smart contract system: It can provide logical updating and loophole repair for the in-chain game smart contract, thus ensuring the security and timeliness of the smart contract.

(3) Expandability:

Ø Strong expandability of the top-level design of the project

The expandability of Cocos-BCX is powerful, which is specifically shown in a decentralized game production and an overall solution to the game economy operation established by means of the game engine, development environment and Cocos-BCX game chain.

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A business ecosystem is constructed based on the above overall solution, with the purpose of connecting the global game ecosystem. The main ecological links include developers, users, creative content, key ecological links and blockchain system, etc.

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Ø Expanded design of specific technologies and mechanisms

1. Multi-platform game integration running environment: This platform is mainly characterized by four features, consistent and perfect chain interoperability interface, downward transparent accepting mode, encapsulated atomic operation and multi-platform compatibility.
2. Interactive interface of blockchain:

Cocos-BCX provides a chain-interactive development environment so that developers can easily interact with the chain through this set of environment. Meanwhile, its blockchain interactive development environment provides development components compatible with multiple working platforms, including SDK for the Android and iOS system, javascript libraries for front-terminal web applications, and python and PHP libraries for back-terminal applications.

u Analysis: The expandability of the project's "impossible triangle" shows the most prominently, and the decentralized attribute is the weakest, whose security is between the two. However, the project takes the three into consideration in terms of the technical mechanism and program function. Yet, the focus is different.

The project interprets the “impossible triangle” by means of thinking and design that focus on technical aspects and key issues.

The security level first guarantees the assets security and freedom of the ecosystem participants, and meanwhile ensures the rationality and security of the overall framework design, and finally takes its system updating and safe recovery into consideration mainly by means of player autonomy, modern cryptography and transaction verification mechanism that prevents BP/developers from cheating.

3. Development difficulty | 8 points

According to the summary of the project white paper, the blockchain game can be generally divided into four developmental stages.

（1）Using the homogeneous assets for the settlement of the game "gold coins";

（2）Free conversion of the game "gold coins" and props;

（3）In-chain operation of critical rules;

（4）Overall in-chain operation of the game

The game in-chain operation is the final form of the industry. Based on the above summary, Cocos-BCX proposes the future development prospect, mainly represented in seven aspects:

（1）Players having a lightweight full-node environment;

（2）The service stack operating in the blockchain environment;

（3）The game engine as one of the node infrastructures;

（4）Providing a joint development/debugging environment including engine, visual IDE, and chain network interactive interface;

（5）a set of asynchronous consensus tasks between nodes to ensure the trustworthiness of the engine environment. This consensus may be based on the discrimination of feature code of

the engine critical function's target code

(6) The game code (contract) is executed by the secure virtual machine controlled by the engine, and the key numerical calculation of the contract may adopt

the “Trusted Execution Environment” scheme, which is executed independently of the main part of the contract;

(7) The key process of the contract is witnessed by the adjacent or related nodes (like players in a copy).

u Analysis: The project covers a multiplicity of technical characteristics and functional mechanisms. The overall development is rather difficult. However, it is highly practicable in terms of performance.

At the initial stage of the project, four stages of blockchain game development were analyzed. After combing, the highest prospect was proposed, implicating to create a complete multi-platform game running environment, which can provide game developers with convenience in developing blockchain games and a perfect ecological environment to the maximum, while bringing game users a brand-new gaming experience and a game form that transcends the previous ones.

Based on the initial project prospect, numerous technical goals and functional modules are listed, indicating that the technical support for the project vision is rather effective. However, as public blockchain of the industry application basis, it encompasses various technical applications and functional modules. Comparatively speaking, the development difficulty is rather big. Meanwhile, as released by the white paper, the theoretical throughput of the Cocos-BCX test chain can reach up to 100,000 tps. The actual throughput is approximate to 3,500 tps, and the block time is 3 seconds, that is, the information broadcast across the entire network is completed once every 3 seconds. It can be seen from the project technical performance data that it has a relatively strong realistic significance. Therefore, on the whole, the project puts forward a sizeable technical challenge, and in the meantime has a reasonable practicability, therefore, it is worthwhile to look forward to!

(五) Project status

1. Product | 7 points

（1）System-level products

Ø The application development framework that supports multiple operating systems and various blockchain environments.

Ø Completely scripted, componentized and data-driven application development tools;

Ø An improved blockchain system, which is oriented to high performance applications and based on graphene technology framework, and its related functional components.

Ø Supporting non-homogeneous wallets;

Ø A blockchain browser that supports the contract event subscription;

Ø Supporting the third-party non-homogeneous asset exchanges;

Ø Supporting the blockchain game developed by a third party;

Ø Cross-chain asset acceptance gateway.

(2) Functional products

Ø De-intermediary assets (prop) operation interface;

Ø Paradigms of non-homogeneous assets circulation platform;

Ø Supporting player autonomy and blacksmith shop mechanism;

Ø Visual IDE (including visual editing of the game program and contract);

Ø Complete wallet, user system and blockchain browser;

Ø Smart contract system that allows iterative updating.

u Analysis: According to the information released on the official website of the project, the timeline shows that the Cocos-BCX main chain has started the closed beta test in the third quarter of 2018. Based on the obvious characteristics of the project technology module, Cocos-BCX has launched two series of projects, namely, system-level and function-level products, including development frameworks, blacksmith shop mechanisms tailored to various operations and multiple environment.

2. Code updating | 2 points

u Analysis: It is learned from official communication that the source code of the project has not been made public for the purpose of keeping the project's trade secret confidential. It is planned that the project will be open source in the future after the ecological and system products become gradually stabilized.

3. Completion status | 8 points

u Analysis: The project has formulated an overall development plan and recent work tasks, and at the same time it has demonstrated its strong vitality through weekly report, timeline and development broadcast.

According to the official channel inquiry, the project has formulated the Roadmap for the 2018 key milestone quarter and the recent detailed work task breakdown plan, and the project has a very complete display system featuring three major development progresses:

(1) Weekly reporting system

(2) Project timeline

(3) Development broadcast

Through the Roadmap+ work breakdown + 3 major system model, the project's development trajectory and dynamics have been display in a basically three-dimensional, spatial, meticulous and detailed manner, and in the meantime, the powerful execution and self-vitality of the project have been also displayed.

(六) Institution enabling (Investors)

1. Cooperative institutions | 9 points

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u Analysis: Cocos-BCX has a wide margin for cooperation, and its cooperation institutions are not only numerous, but also mainly of leading and quality enterprises in the industry.

The cooperative institutions include HelloEOS, NEO, NEBULAS (chain), Loom, IMEOS.ONE, Kingsoft Cloud and SlowMist Technology, etc.

NEO is one of the earliest blockchain projects in China. It was officially created in 2014 and was open sourced in real time in Github in June 2015. Since its establishment, the NEO team has experienced ups and downs of the blockchain industry. This project can be said to be a veteran project in the industry. NEO combines with a series of technologies, such as point-to-point network, Byzantine fault tolerance, digital certificate, smart contract, superconducting transactions, and cross-chain interoperability protocols, to perform rapid, efficient, secure, and legitimate smart management of assets.

2. Investment institutions | 9 points

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u Analysis: There are numerous investment institutions, many of which are Class I institutions, with a strong institutional strength.

Investment institutions include NGC, Binance, INB Capital, Dfund, 500 Startups, BlockVC, OK Blockchain Capital, Yisu Capital, Xiong'an Capital, ONTology, FreeS FUND, NODE Capital, Consensus Capital, Hash Capital, NEO Capital, Ticker Capital , ContractVC, Junwu Capital, Candy Capital, Hofan VC, BMETA Capital, BYTE Capital, Nimble Capital, InsurFun, BA Capital, Consensus Lab, TOKENMANIA, Byzantium Capital, etc.

The rest investment institutions are also well-known. For example, DFUND was founded by Zhao Dong, a well-known figure in the digital currency domain in July 2017. Yisu Capital is engaged in the early investment and project cooperation, focusing on blockchain technology and big data intelligence analysis, and other domains.

(七) Drawing attention | 6 points

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Project content description

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u Analysis: The game user and developer group are highly active, and meanwhile the publicity of the media and news client are enhanced. The overall heat and operation and maintenance thinking are well-balanced. However, the current community operation link is relatively weak, and requires improvement in the follow-up.

Presently, the number of community fans is small. Therefore, the operation link of project content is rather weak. However, media communication and news broadcasting, two links of propaganda and promotion efforts, are quite effective, basically realizing a timely and real-time posting of the latest developments of the project. Although the media and news client are widely disseminated, their social interaction is relatively weak. The social platform has its own communication limitations. However, it is highly involved in interaction.

(VIII) Social Response | 7.78

User A | Point: 7.9

Comment: From the perspective of production mode and commercialization, this game is the most sophisticated. So I think this project has a very extensive application scenario, especially for developers and users.

User B | Point: 7.0

Comment: Currently, it seems that the game industry is greatly influenced by macro policies. Tencent's recent performance is a case in point. However, the project orientation is quite good.

User C | Point: 8.0

Comment: The technical advantages of the project are particularly prominent, and it also seizes the development opportunities of the blockchain. However, ultimately it needs to undergo the test of the market.

User D | Point: 9.0

Comment: First of all, COCOS has a large number of developers, solid underlying technology and reliable team work, which is worth looking forward to. Of course, great "undertaking" calls for enormous input, especially in technology. The way is arduous and long. Come on.

User E | Point: 7.0

Comment:

As a game practitioner, I would talk something about Cocos-BCX project: when the concept of blockchain game is put forward for everyone to consider, at this stage, it is no doubt that the dimension (type) of the game is developed from the perspective of "inheritance" and "tracing its very origin". If the Cocos-BCX project can be applied by game developers in terms of "development kit", is easy to learn and use, and allows the mobile game developers to shift to the development of blockchain games without a threshold, then the game dimensions and users can be further expanded. In a word, phenomenal games of blockchain games need the support of Cocos-BCX and the efforts of developers, both of which are indispensable. It is hoped that the team will make great efforts in development and publicity. "Coin friends" may not need to know how the game is developed, but they will certainly care about its future space. Such evaluation can only be called prospects and expectations. It remains to be determined whether the project adopts capital operation or the mode as solid as the old engine of COCOS till the project is landed.

III. Evaluation Summary

The project orientation is accurate, and the team has a strong lineup. It merits pointing out that its technical strength and model architecture design are particularly prominent, and there are an array of investment and cooperation institutions with strong strength. However, at present, the code has not been open sourced and the community operation and maintenance is deficient. The information disclosure of the Token link is not particularly perfect, and individual investors may care much about it. The Roadmap of the project development is all too simple. These are the deficiencies of the project development at the current moment.

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be "Failing" Bitcoin Ownership Event

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COSMiC Miner v4.1.2 Update (Win64/nVidia | GUI-based | Multi-GPU)

Hello everyone! I'm happy to share what I've been working on with you today. This is an update to COSMiC Miner which adds new features, under-the-hood improvements and (of course) optimizations to the CUDA core for greater efficiency. I call this build "beta", although it appears to be very stable. With miners' feedback, I'll make any desired improvements for 4.1.3. :)

Important Note: Now built against CUDA v10.0 - It is strongly recommended that you update your nVidia graphics drivers. It is NOT necessary to install the CUDA toolkit. :)

FEATURES: - Mining on multiple CUDA devices in one instance, auto-detected - Mines on CUDA Devices and sending results to Pools (TokenPool etc.) - Fully-integrated Graphical User Interface for Windows 64-bit (Intended to make Token Mining as easy as possible for newcomers) - All settings can be configured in the GUI (no manual config editing required!) - Integrated Hardware Montioring and Safety Features ('Watchqat') - Faster, more efficient and lower CPU/RAM use than COSMiC V3.4 and the classic 0xBitcoin-miner - Aims for very few stale Shares at the Pool level and verifies GPU-found solutions on the CPU - Improved support for Cloudflare-protected pools (running on port 8080) - Multi-Threaded for enhanced performance on CPUs with >2 threads

CHANGES THIS VERSION: - Integrated Hardware Monitoring ('Watchqat') with safety features - Now built against CUDA v10.0 (please updare your nV graphics drivers! CUDA tookit is NOT required.) - Various internal improvements for stability, CUDA engine tweaks and optimizations (specifically to enhance performance on Pascal and newer architecture GPUs) - Increased hashrate observed on Maxwell Gen2 (GTX 9xx) and Pascal (GTX 10x0) architectures - Keyboard hotkeys (see Help menu or README.txt) for quick Intensity adjustment (more will be added.) - Ability to copy Events out of Event Viewer (select Events, right-click and choose Copy Events). - Network code improvements and bug-fixes - Optimizations to further reduce CPU usage - UI Reworking/Improvements (Feel free to let me know what you think of the design/UX!)

Download Link: https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20Miner%20v4.1.2b.zip

If you have any questions, comments or feedback feel free to leave them here or contact me on the 0xBitcoin Discord. (Username is LtTofu#6168.)

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[uncensored-r/BitcoinMarkets] From Christmas to Christmas. One month. One btc.

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Merry Christmas and happy new year! Have you heard about X-mas contest? It made my day as I believe the idea of conducting a draw from Catholic to Christian Christmas really well thought out. Did anybody divide this event, or celebrate it twice? Regarding to contest, does somebody trust the «xcoex»?  what are the odds it could work?

Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be "Failing" Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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Proof of Keys: Several Exchanges Said to Be “Failing” Bitcoin Ownership Event

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[uncensored-r/Bitcoin] User published "Bitcoin Anonymity Guide" - Medium account suspended

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If 2018 Was A Bust And 2019 Might Boom, Crypto Investors Of 2020 And Beyond Could Feel Remorse - Bitcoin Exchange Guide

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@techreview: The rising tech made popular by Bitcoin has applications extending far beyond banking and finance. Learn about blockchain's impending impact at our one-day event in May. Purchase your tickets today! https://t.co/0k2vyhKSDN https://t.co/hpuWOdLSYQ

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Bitcoin (BTC) is Set to Become the Worlds Reserve Currency, Max Keiser Says (current BTC/USD price is $3836.11747036)

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Leading Crypto ATM Company Moves to Greener Pastures to Avoid Financing Struggles - Bitcoin Exchange Guide

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User published "Bitcoin Anonymity Guide" - Medium account suspended https://t.co/VtAO1CmIdY - Crypto Insider Info - Whales's

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