Friday, February 8, 2019

Make crypto trading frictionless and free.

SophonEX — a commission-free crypto to crypto exchange, for the decentralized community.

SophonEX is a group of programming geeks, previously working for Facebook, Google, KCG, JP Morgan, etc. ‘Digital natives’ could be a pretty fit description for us. The majority of our founding team members are veterans of ACM-ICPC and TopCoder competitions, with great enthusiasm in coding, data structure, algorithm and mathematics

When we first came across bitcoin’s technical paper, we were fascinated by its engineering beauty and philosophy depth. From there, we start to imagine a decentralized world where trust doesn’t comes with a charge, and trade doesn’t comes with a commission. After months of sophisticated design, it’s no longer a dream… It becomes real, in SophonEX.

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Mission

Make crypto trading frictionless and free. We believe that charging per-trade commission (no matter 0.1% or a staggering 3%) is evil in the decentralized world. Decentralized services need to be commission-free; and this spreading freedom is beneficial to the human society.

Our Values — How we do things around our offices?

  • Focus on impact and priority
  • Delay gratification
  • Relentlessly Optimistic and Transparent
  • Customer first
  • Be Bold and Open

Why make SophonEX?

The time when the founding team came to know and started researching on bitcoin whitepaper can be dated back to the mid of 2017. At the end of that year, we initiated a quantitative fund, focusing on the bitcoin arbitrage across different exchanges worldwide. Our fund size (prop + LP invested) is about ~3000 BTC in maximum, and we traded across nearly 20 exchanges, including: BitFlyer, Coincheck, Quoinex(liquid), Zaif, Fisco, Binance, Bitfinex, GDAX(coinbase pro), Gate.io, Huobi.pro, OKEX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bithumb, Bitstamp, HitBTC.

We wrote the arbitrage and quant trading system mainly in C++, and deployed it on multiple AWS ECs to colocate with these exchange servers. Our fund trading system is highly performant and reliable, making tens of thousands of orders per day. This high performance and reliability brings us to top5 in terms of 24-hr volume in the ranking.

Despite of the success, it is also due to the 10-month trading experience, we came to realize the facts that all the de facto crypto exchanges share several similar flaws, which we concludes as below:

  • Clumsy and out-of-date backend architecture with poor engineering quality. E.g. most of the existing exchanges are written in old style PHP or J2EE or other stacks, which makes it hard to ensure high performance and reliability;
  • Digital Asset Security: hacking and security incidents happen every now and then;
  • APIs (restful and websocket) are badly designed and lagging. Based on our own experience, some of those APIs are being updated without prior announcements, which resulted in mal-functioning of our strategy occasionally;
  • Most importantly, the traditional trading commission is outrageously high. In traditional stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE, etc), trading commission is ~0.02%, and the brokerage commission (e.g. Charles Schwab, Scottrade, Interactive Broker, etc) is charged at $0~6.95 flat fee Fees List. A younger stock brokerage, Robinhood launched in 2013, brands itself as commission free broker, which inspired us.

In light of this, we are dedicated to creating a brand-new crypto exchange with zero commission, high engineering quality and best security from the design. We’re still a centralized exchange with the cutting-edge and up-to-date engineering standards. Whereas the SophonEX team is conceiving a roadmap to gradually switch to a hybrid, and then fully decentralized exchange in the near future.

SophonEX project was kicked off in June 2018, and aims to officially launch in March 2019. Prelaunch registration is available now: Priority access



Bitcoin Bulls Stampede Past $3700 Wider Crypto Market Rallies with Them (current BTC/USD price is $3659.45424624)

Latest Bitcoin News:

Bitcoin Bulls Stampede Past $3700 Wider Crypto Market Rallies with Them

Other Related Bitcoin Topics:

Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


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[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

Thread topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
  • Quick questions that do not warrant a separate post

Thread guidelines:

  • Be excellent to each other.
  • Do not make posts outside of the daily thread for the topics mentioned above.

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Make crypto trading frictionless and free.

SophonEX — a commission-free crypto to crypto exchange, for the decentralized community.

SophonEX is a group of programming geeks, previously working for Facebook, Google, KCG, JP Morgan, etc. ‘Digital natives’ could be a pretty fit description for us. The majority of our founding team members are veterans of ACM-ICPC and TopCoder competitions, with great enthusiasm in coding, data structure, algorithm and mathematics

When we first came across bitcoin’s technical paper, we were fascinated by its engineering beauty and philosophy depth. From there, we start to imagine a decentralized world where trust doesn’t comes with a charge, and trade doesn’t comes with a commission. After months of sophisticated design, it’s no longer a dream… It becomes real, in SophonEX.

Get priority access

Want more details about our team? → Team Profile

Mission

Make crypto trading frictionless and free. We believe that charging per-trade commission (no matter 0.1% or a staggering 3%) is evil in the decentralized world. Decentralized services need to be commission-free; and this spreading freedom is beneficial to the human society.

Our Values — How we do things around our offices?

  • Focus on impact and priority
  • Delay gratification
  • Relentlessly Optimistic and Transparent
  • Customer first
  • Be Bold and Open

Why make SophonEX?

The time when the founding team came to know and started researching on bitcoin whitepaper can be dated back to the mid of 2017. At the end of that year, we initiated a quantitative fund, focusing on the bitcoin arbitrage across different exchanges worldwide. Our fund size (prop + LP invested) is about ~3000 BTC in maximum, and we traded across nearly 20 exchanges, including: BitFlyer, Coincheck, Quoinex(liquid), Zaif, Fisco, Binance, Bitfinex, GDAX(coinbase pro), Gate.io, Huobi.pro, OKEX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bithumb, Bitstamp, HitBTC.

We wrote the arbitrage and quant trading system mainly in C++, and deployed it on multiple AWS ECs to colocate with these exchange servers. Our fund trading system is highly performant and reliable, making tens of thousands of orders per day. This high performance and reliability brings us to top5 in terms of 24-hr volume in the ranking.

Despite of the success, it is also due to the 10-month trading experience, we came to realize the facts that all the de facto crypto exchanges share several similar flaws, which we concludes as below:

  • Clumsy and out-of-date backend architecture with poor engineering quality. E.g. most of the existing exchanges are written in old style PHP or J2EE or other stacks, which makes it hard to ensure high performance and reliability;
  • Digital Asset Security: hacking and security incidents happen every now and then;
  • APIs (restful and websocket) are badly designed and lagging. Based on our own experience, some of those APIs are being updated without prior announcements, which resulted in mal-functioning of our strategy occasionally;
  • Most importantly, the traditional trading commission is outrageously high. In traditional stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE, etc), trading commission is ~0.02%, and the brokerage commission (e.g. Charles Schwab, Scottrade, Interactive Broker, etc) is charged at $0~6.95 flat fee Fees List. A younger stock brokerage, Robinhood launched in 2013, brands itself as commission free broker, which inspired us.

In light of this, we are dedicated to creating a brand-new crypto exchange with zero commission, high engineering quality and best security from the design. We’re still a centralized exchange with the cutting-edge and up-to-date engineering standards. Whereas the SophonEX team is conceiving a roadmap to gradually switch to a hybrid, and then fully decentralized exchange in the near future.

SophonEX project was kicked off in June 2018, and aims to officially launch in March 2019. Prelaunch registration is available now: Priority access



[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

Thread topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
  • Quick questions that do not warrant a separate post

Thread guidelines:

  • Be excellent to each other.
  • Do not make posts outside of the daily thread for the topics mentioned above.

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HITBTC Scam! Possibly an internal scam operation?

Of course I am not the first to post this type of warning but seeing as HitBtc has responded to my ticket only once and have been ignoring me ever since I thought I would voice my experience in effort to save someone else the trouble.

These events took place January 30th, 2019.

Someone logged into my account and traded all of my iota for Bitcoin and withdrew the funds!

Now usually, I can be clear minded and think it was possibly my fault or a very skilled hacker but certain things seem very odd.

  1. I have been trying to withdraw my IOTA into my wallet (Ledger) for quite some time however it would not allow me.
  2. They did NOT send me an email notifying me of a new IP login as per usual (biggest hint this may be someone from HitBtc)
  3. They blocked me out of my account for 5 days following the transfer of all my funds (changed my password and 2FA settings)!!!

Going through many posts similar to mine, I have realized there is a pattern that appears to be prominent with HitBtc and robbing us folks out of hard earned money & potential ROI.

If anyone has any advice please let me know, or if anyone knows of any method to report stolen bitcoin using the transaction hashes or something.

It is really not fair that HitBtc would even be so bold as to ignore my ticket after such a loss.


[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

Thread topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
  • Quick questions that do not warrant a separate post

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  • Do not make posts outside of the daily thread for the topics mentioned above.

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[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
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[uncensored-r/Bitcoin] Got a 1099k from Coinbase for trading my bcash for bitcoin. Not sure what to do with it.

The following post by KronusGT is being replicated because some comments within the post(but not the post itself) have been silently removed.

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I traded my bcash for bitcoin once Coinbase made it possible to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if many others here did the same thing. As a result I just recently got a 1099k from Coinbase. I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do with it. I didn't buy/sell/use/trade anything else last year, I just traded the bcash for bitcoin. Unless I'm mistaken, buying bitcoin with bcash isn't a taxable event. If that is the case, how would I go about informing the IRS of this?

P.S. I wasn't even planning to file my taxes because I didn't have any income in 2018.

EDIT: Ugh. So it is taxable. I'm kind of freaking out here. Worse case scenario is I have to sell btc, and probably pay capital gains on it?, just to pay the taxes from the trade... and hope I still come out ahead thanks to the market being way down. I'll be royally pissed if that shitcoin ended up costing me money.


[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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[Altcoin Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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02-09 01:42 - 'What happened to that one guy who was scammed by Craig Wright into believing Craig is Satoshi?' (self.Bitcoin) by /u/AnonAh525252 removed from /r/Bitcoin within 25-35min

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Can’t remember his name but he was a prominent fella in the industry. Was that event really his undoing?

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What happened to that one guy who was scammed by Craig Wright into believing Craig is Satoshi?

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[uncensored-r/Bitcoin] What happened to that one guy who was scammed by Craig Wright into believing Craig is Satoshi?

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Can’t remember his name but he was a prominent fella in the industry. Was that event really his undoing?


Bitcoin και Blockchain events στην Στέγη του ιδρύματος Ωνάση | To Blog της Ελληνικής κοινότητας του Bitcoin

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Venture Capitalist Loses Bitcoin Bet, But Doubles Down on Crypto (current BTC/USD price is $3656.48544175)

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Venture Capitalist Loses Bitcoin Bet, But Doubles Down on Crypto

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[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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How did you discover bitcoin?

What event led you to discover the existence of bitcoin?, When did it happen?, etc...


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https://bitcoindev.network/exploiting-cve-2018-20587/

Check out the Bitcoin Developer Network BND for more tutorials.



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Bitcoin Breaks Out Of Its Doldrums After Sentiment Recovers (current BTC/USD price is $3644.1899847)

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Bitcoin Breaks Out Of Its Doldrums After Sentiment Recovers

Other Related Bitcoin Topics:

Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


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[Daily Discussion] Saturday, February 09, 2019

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[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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Got a 1099k from Coinbase for trading my bcash for bitcoin. Not sure what to do with it.

I traded my bcash for bitcoin once Coinbase made it possible to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if many others here did the same thing. As a result I just recently got a 1099k from Coinbase. I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do with it. I didn't buy/sell/use/trade anything else last year, I just traded the bcash for bitcoin. Unless I'm mistaken, buying bitcoin with bcash isn't a taxable event. If that is the case, how would I go about informing the IRS of this?

P.S. I wasn't even planning to file my taxes because I didn't have any income in 2018.


[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
  • Quick questions that do not warrant a separate post

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Bitcoin surges as much as 10%, on track for biggest daily gain of 2019 (current BTC/USD price is $3672.6405694)

Latest Bitcoin News:

Bitcoin surges as much as 10%, on track for biggest daily gain of 2019

Other Related Bitcoin Topics:

Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


The latest Bitcoin news has been sourced from the CoinSalad.com Bitcoin Price and News Events page. CoinSalad is a web service that provides real-time Bitcoin market info, charts, data and tools. Follow us on Twitter @CoinSalad.


[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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Bitcoin Meetup - February 12, 2019

A preview to the Blockchain and Technology Symposium to be held March 5 and 6 at the Edmonton Convention Centre. Come out and network with industry leaders and technology enthusiasts and this intimate local meetup on February 12, 2019.

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[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

Thread topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General discussion related to the day's events
  • Technical analysis, trading ideas & strategies
  • Quick questions that do not warrant a separate post

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  • Be excellent to each other.
  • Do not make posts outside of the daily thread for the topics mentioned above.

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[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

Thread topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General discussion related to the day's events
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Hitbtc scam! All of my funds have been stolen!! Possibly internal scam?

Of course I am not the first to post this type of warning but seeing as HitBtc has responded to my ticket only once and have been ignoring me ever since I thought I would voice my experience in effort to save someone else the trouble.

These events took place January 30th, 2019.

Someone logged into my account and traded all of my iota for Bitcoin and withdrew the funds!

Now usually, I can be clear minded and think it was possibly my fault or a very skilled hacker but certain things seem very odd.

  1. I have been trying to withdraw my IOTA into my wallet (Ledger) for quite some time however it would not allow me.
  2. They did NOT send me an email notifying me of a new IP login as per usual (biggest hint this may be someone from HitBtc)
  3. They blocked me out of my account for 5 days following the transfer of all my funds (changed my password and 2FA settings)!!!

Going through many posts similar to mine, I have realized there is a pattern that appears to be prominent with HitBtc and robbing us folks out of hard earned money & potential ROI.

If anyone has any advice please let me know, or if anyone knows of any method to report stolen bitcoin using the transaction hashes or something.

It is really not fair that HitBtc would even be so bold as to ignore my ticket after such a loss.


[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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  • General discussion related to the day's events
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Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 3-Month High: Is BTC Price Next? (current BTC/USD price is $3683.07940392)

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Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 3-Month High: Is BTC Price Next?

Other Related Bitcoin Topics:

Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


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What effect would a no-deal Brexit have on the cryptocurrency market?

Financial markets are known to react strongly to major political changes. Britain is increasingly likely to crash out of the EU without a deal, wrecking economic havoc in the UK. How would Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and others react to such an important event?


Make crypto trading frictionless and free.

SophonEX — a commission-free crypto to crypto exchange, for the decentralized community.

SophonEX is a group of programming geeks, previously working for Facebook, Google, KCG, JP Morgan, etc. ‘Digital natives’ could be a pretty fit description for us. The majority of our founding team members are veterans of ACM-ICPC and TopCoder competitions, with great enthusiasm in coding, data structure, algorithm and mathematics

When we first came across bitcoin’s technical paper, we were fascinated by its engineering beauty and philosophy depth. From there, we start to imagine a decentralized world where trust doesn’t comes with a charge, and trade doesn’t comes with a commission. After months of sophisticated design, it’s no longer a dream… It becomes real, in SophonEX.

Get priority access

Want more details about our team? → Team Profile

Mission

Make crypto trading frictionless and free. We believe that charging per-trade commission (no matter 0.1% or a staggering 3%) is evil in the decentralized world. Decentralized services need to be commission-free; and this spreading freedom is beneficial to the human society.

Our Values — How we do things around our offices?

  • Focus on impact and priority
  • Delay gratification
  • Relentlessly Optimistic and Transparent
  • Customer first
  • Be Bold and Open

Why make SophonEX?

The time when the founding team came to know and started researching on bitcoin whitepaper can be dated back to the mid of 2017. At the end of that year, we initiated a quantitative fund, focusing on the bitcoin arbitrage across different exchanges worldwide. Our fund size (prop + LP invested) is about ~3000 BTC in maximum, and we traded across nearly 20 exchanges, including: BitFlyer, Coincheck, Quoinex(liquid), Zaif, Fisco, Binance, Bitfinex, GDAX(coinbase pro), Gate.io, Huobi.pro, OKEX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bithumb, Bitstamp, HitBTC.

We wrote the arbitrage and quant trading system mainly in C++, and deployed it on multiple AWS ECs to colocate with these exchange servers. Our fund trading system is highly performant and reliable, making tens of thousands of orders per day. This high performance and reliability brings us to top5 in terms of 24-hr volume in the ranking.

Despite of the success, it is also due to the 10-month trading experience, we came to realize the facts that all the de facto crypto exchanges share several similar flaws, which we concludes as below:

  • Clumsy and out-of-date backend architecture with poor engineering quality. E.g. most of the existing exchanges are written in old style PHP or J2EE or other stacks, which makes it hard to ensure high performance and reliability;
  • Digital Asset Security: hacking and security incidents happen every now and then;
  • APIs (restful and websocket) are badly designed and lagging. Based on our own experience, some of those APIs are being updated without prior announcements, which resulted in mal-functioning of our strategy occasionally;
  • Most importantly, the traditional trading commission is outrageously high. In traditional stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE, etc), trading commission is ~0.02%, and the brokerage commission (e.g. Charles Schwab, Scottrade, Interactive Broker, etc) is charged at $0~6.95 flat fee Fees List. A younger stock brokerage, Robinhood launched in 2013, brands itself as commission free broker, which inspired us.

In light of this, we are dedicated to creating a brand-new crypto exchange with zero commission, high engineering quality and best security from the design. We’re still a centralized exchange with the cutting-edge and up-to-date engineering standards. Whereas the SophonEX team is conceiving a roadmap to gradually switch to a hybrid, and then fully decentralized exchange in the near future.

SophonEX project was kicked off in June 2018, and aims to officially launch in March 2019. Prelaunch registration is available now: Priority access



Make crypto trading frictionless and free.

SophonEX — a commission-free crypto to crypto exchange, for the decentralized community.

SophonEX is a group of programming geeks, previously working for Facebook, Google, KCG, JP Morgan, etc. ‘Digital natives’ could be a pretty fit description for us. The majority of our founding team members are veterans of ACM-ICPC and TopCoder competitions, with great enthusiasm in coding, data structure, algorithm and mathematics

When we first came across bitcoin’s technical paper, we were fascinated by its engineering beauty and philosophy depth. From there, we start to imagine a decentralized world where trust doesn’t comes with a charge, and trade doesn’t comes with a commission. After months of sophisticated design, it’s no longer a dream… It becomes real, in SophonEX.

Get priority access

Want more details about our team? → Team Profile

Mission

Make crypto trading frictionless and free. We believe that charging per-trade commission (no matter 0.1% or a staggering 3%) is evil in the decentralized world. Decentralized services need to be commission-free; and this spreading freedom is beneficial to the human society.

Our Values — How we do things around our offices?

  • Focus on impact and priority
  • Delay gratification
  • Relentlessly Optimistic and Transparent
  • Customer first
  • Be Bold and Open

Why make SophonEX?

The time when the founding team came to know and started researching on bitcoin whitepaper can be dated back to the mid of 2017. At the end of that year, we initiated a quantitative fund, focusing on the bitcoin arbitrage across different exchanges worldwide. Our fund size (prop + LP invested) is about ~3000 BTC in maximum, and we traded across nearly 20 exchanges, including: BitFlyer, Coincheck, Quoinex(liquid), Zaif, Fisco, Binance, Bitfinex, GDAX(coinbase pro), Gate.io, Huobi.pro, OKEX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bithumb, Bitstamp, HitBTC.

We wrote the arbitrage and quant trading system mainly in C++, and deployed it on multiple AWS ECs to colocate with these exchange servers. Our fund trading system is highly performant and reliable, making tens of thousands of orders per day. This high performance and reliability brings us to top5 in terms of 24-hr volume in the ranking.

Despite of the success, it is also due to the 10-month trading experience, we came to realize the facts that all the de facto crypto exchanges share several similar flaws, which we concludes as below:

  • Clumsy and out-of-date backend architecture with poor engineering quality. E.g. most of the existing exchanges are written in old style PHP or J2EE or other stacks, which makes it hard to ensure high performance and reliability;
  • Digital Asset Security: hacking and security incidents happen every now and then;
  • APIs (restful and websocket) are badly designed and lagging. Based on our own experience, some of those APIs are being updated without prior announcements, which resulted in mal-functioning of our strategy occasionally;
  • Most importantly, the traditional trading commission is outrageously high. In traditional stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE, etc), trading commission is ~0.02%, and the brokerage commission (e.g. Charles Schwab, Scottrade, Interactive Broker, etc) is charged at $0~6.95 flat fee Fees List. A younger stock brokerage, Robinhood launched in 2013, brands itself as commission free broker, which inspired us.

In light of this, we are dedicated to creating a brand-new crypto exchange with zero commission, high engineering quality and best security from the design. We’re still a centralized exchange with the cutting-edge and up-to-date engineering standards. Whereas the SophonEX team is conceiving a roadmap to gradually switch to a hybrid, and then fully decentralized exchange in the near future.

SophonEX project was kicked off in June 2018, and aims to officially launch in March 2019. Prelaunch registration is available now: Priority access



[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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[ACT, Australia][x-post r/auslegal]My room was searched, I think illegally. What do I do, how do I get my belongings back?

My room was searched about 2 weeks ago after I overdosed in my room and was taken to hospital. The overdose involved a legal new prescription which had the severe side effect of apparently causing me to act irrationally and take more drugs as well as lose memory of the events of the night. I only have (now deleted) conversation logs with friends to go off for what happened. I do not know for sure what I took, except for 10mg zolpidem. While I was in hospital, my room was searched for the purpose of finding evidence for drug related crime.

A search warrant was left at the premises which detailed the basis on which the search warrant was issued and my rights. Included in these rights was the right to be present during the execution of the search warrant, however, I was never given this opportunity due to being in hospital. I don't know when the search warrant was executed. No other people live at my address who would have been present. It's possible one of the staff members at the place where I live was present on my behalf but would they be allowed to bypass my right to be present like this? I haven't yet confirmed whether this was the case. After searching my room, they left a massive mess which took me multiple days to clean up.

I've read my rights for the execution of the search warrant and a few things are of note: it seems that they're only allowed to hold my electronic equipment for up to 24 hours and have to give me notice beforehand, and they should have allowed me to be present during the execution of the search warrant.

Many things were taken from my room, some of which were quite silly and definitely would not be useful in any legal proceeding. I'm quite annoyed about them being gone because I need them to get along with my daily life. The items taken include:

  • Drugs and drug paraphernalia
  • My diary (very personal and I'm extremely upset about this)
  • A bottle of 5-HTP (legal substance)
  • My scales which I use for legal purposes
  • My encrypted mobile phone and my old broken encrypted mobile phone
  • Multiple spoons/measuring spoons?????
  • Drug testing kits and fentanyl test strips
  • 20 physical bitcoin (no monetary value)

I have asked for my phone back and was refused on the basis that I would not provide my password. I also refused an interview with the police. I have not spoken to them outside of this.

I also have been told I'm on "probation" from the place where I live for breaching my rent agreement and have had multiple conditions attatched to my being allowed to continue to live there. I haven't been proven guilty yet, are they allowed to do this?


[Daily Discussion] Friday, February 08, 2019

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What is your crypto starter pack?

So I've been thinking it would be cool to have a starter guide and a kit of tools and services for newbies to the crypto world. I made my own list of such crypto tools.

First, a person who is new to crypto should know a lot about blockchain and coins. So, you need trustable media sources. I would recommend BitcoinMagazine, Coindesk, Investing but even then, I’d still check the info twice.

There may be some troubles with exchanges, but perhaps Coinbase with its user-friendly interface would be suitable for newbies. And, you can’t go wrong with Binance ofc.

For price tracking - coin360.

A decent mobile wallet is Lumi wallet with an intuitive, understandable, and safe design.

I’m not a miner, so I don’t know what they use. Miners, could you share some stuff which can help a newbie, pls?

Correct me if I'm wrong, and please add more if I missed something!



Litecoin Is Surging, Boosting Ethereum, Ripples XRP And Bitcoin--Heres Why (current BTC/USD price is $3446.70528672)

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Litecoin Is Surging, Boosting Ethereum, Ripples XRP And Bitcoin--Heres Why

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Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


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Announcement: Xpetroleum Token Pre-Sale (12th February 2019)

https://xpetroleum.com

Token Sale is a modern method of crowdfunding that allows us to issue Digital Tokens in exchange for investments. This token sale event allows participants to contribute to Xpetroleum and receive XPL tokens. The maximum XPL token supply is 80million tokens. XPL is an ERC20 token that serves as currency on XPetroleum platform. During the Token Sale, the Token exchange rate will be as follows: 1 XPL= $0,15USD. The minimum purchase amount is 0.1 ETH. Early contributors of XPetroleum received a 35% bonus during the Pre-Sale round. All unsold tokens will be burned at the end ofthe ICO. All Tokens will be of equal value and functionality. To buy XPLtokens you will need to send a desired amount of ETH to the Ethereum Smart Contract address published on the Buy Token page of our website. Never send ETH to any address other than what we publish on the Buy Token page of this website. The exchange rate is updated for each investment during Token sale ( We use Etherscan.io for ETH exchange rate).

During the pre-sale, tokens can be bought only through the links provided on our website https://xpetroleum.com

Pre-Sale Start: 12th February 2019–08:00 UTC
Pre-Sale End: 14st March 2019 –18:00 UTC
Bonus Percentage: 35%
Accepted Currencies: only ETH.
Exchange Rate: 1 XPL = $0.15 USD (Based on https://coinmarketcap.com ETH/USD pair)
Minimum Purchase: 0.1 ETH

TOKEN INFORMATION

Token name: Xpetroleum
Token symbol: XPL
Standard: ERC20 (Ethereum)
Decimal: 8
Total Token Supply(max): 80,000,000 XPL
Contract Address: 0x0d3b80fe9999e40Ab4b3F1FcF6a90e8b946BC5Fa

Why Blockchain?
Blockchain offers many features to make back-office work more efficient: Transparency, Financial transactions, Enabling performance-based contracts, Track provenance for authenticity, Secure, Cost and Time.

What is Petroleum?
Petroleum is a general term for oil and natural gas. Oil is the world’s most important fuel and underpins our high standard of living. It provides modern convenience and freedom of movement and is crucial to transport systems.

Why Oil is important?
Oil has become the world’s most important source of energy since the end of World War II. Oil is a lever for economic and social development in the twenty-first century, because it brings in hard currency from abroad and because, linked up with other industries, it is a good that can increase its value importantly, creating many jobs.

Why Choose XPetroleum?
Decentralized Currency — XPL is a peer-to-peer, next-generation oil platform token with an average transaction time of few seconds!
Cost and speed — XPetroleum will have nearly instant transaction times and reduced cost of transactions.
The world’s largest sector — Oil industry is the sector with the world’s largest demand. The oil industry is one of the most essential markets in the world, oil market size is $1.7 trillion
Safe and Secure — ERC20 is the token standard of the Ethereum smart contracts platform.Transactions are guaranteed and secure.
Eliminates the Third Party — XPetroleum eliminates the dependency on third party intermediaries in all major oil sectors.
Locked Team Tokens — The team tokens will be locked using the smart contract for 2 years.

Which wallets can be used to store XPL?
XPL is an ERC20 token, and can be stored in ERC20 compatible wallets.

How will I receive my bonus tokens?
We will be given to you automatically into the wallet you bought tokens from in the Main Sale.

How can I buy your tokens?
During the public sale, tokens can be bought only through the links provided on our website https://xpetroleum.com

How much will the token cost?
XPL token will cost $0.15 USD.

What exchanges will list the XPL token?
We will announce the official listing into the exchanges after Main Sale.

What will happen to unsold tokens?
The unsold tokens will be burned.

Questions or Concerns?

If you’ve got a question about XPetroleum, a problem we can sort out, or some feedback that would help us get better, we’d love to hear from you. All questions and inquiries will bе attended tо in a professional mаnnеr.

About XPetroleum

XPetroleum is a next-generation oil platform based on the Ethereum blockchain with smart contracts. We are building one of the largest trust oil economy in the Blockchain. XPetroleum will revolutionize the oil industry and make it transparent. The oil industry is one of the most essential markets in the world, oil market size is $1.7 trillion.

To learn more visit xpetroleum.com and check out our white paper.
Official links:
♾Website : https://XPetroleum.com
♾WhitePaper : https://xpetroleum.com/docs/WhitePaperXPetroleum_en.pdf
♾Announcement Channel : https://t.me/XPetroleumAnnouncement
♾Twitter : https://twitter.com/XPetroleum_xpl
♾Medium : https://medium.com/@XPetroleum
♾Reddit : https://reddit.com/u/XPetroleum
♾Instagram : https://instagram.com/XPetroleumcom
♾BitcoinTalk (Airdrop ANN): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5096885

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of our Admins directly in our Telegram Chat.

We appreciate everyone for waiting and being patient, so take advantage of our presale!
Best Regards,
Xpetroleum Team


[ACT] Room searched, I think illegally. What do I do, how do I get my belongings back?

My room was searched about 2 weeks ago after I overdosed in my room and was taken to hospital. The overdose involved a legal new prescription which had the severe side effect of apparently causing me to act irrationally and take more drugs as well as lose memory of the events of the night. I only have (now deleted) conversation logs with friends to go off for what happened. While I was in hospital, my room was searched for the purpose of finding evidence for drug related crime.

A search warrant was left at the premises which detailed the basis on which the search warrant was issued and my rights. Included in these rights was the right to be present during the execution of the search warrant, however, I was never given this opportunity due to being in hospital. I don't know when the search warrant was executed. No other people live at my address who would have been present. It's possible one of the staff members at the place where I live was present on my behalf but would they be allowed to bypass my right to be present like this? I haven't yet confirmed whether this was the case. After searching my room, they left a massive mess which took me multiple days to clean up.

I've read my rights for the execution of the search warrant and a few things are of note: it seems that they're only allowed to hold my electronic equipment for up to 24 hours and have to give me notice beforehand, and they should have allowed me to be present during the execution of the search warrant.

Many things were taken from my room, some of which were quite silly and definitely would not be useful in any legal proceeding. I'm quite annoyed about them being gone because I need them to get along with my daily life. The items taken include:

  • Drugs and drug paraphernalia
  • My diary (very personal and I'm extremely upset about this)
  • A bottle of 5-HTP (legal substance)
  • My scales which I use for legal purposes
  • My encrypted mobile phone and my old broken encrypted mobile phone
  • Multiple spoons/measuring spoons?????
  • Drug testing kits and fentanyl test strips
  • 20 physical bitcoin (no monetary value)

I have asked for my phone back and was refused on the basis that I would not provide my password. I also refused an interview with the police. I have not spoken to them outside of this.

I also have been told I'm on "probation" from the place where I live for breaching my rent agreement and have had multiple conditions attatched to my being allowed to continue to live there. I haven't been proven guilty yet, are they allowed to do this?


How to Use the Wibson App

In just one month since we released the Wibson app and launched the Wibson data marketplace, we’ve already surpassed 5,000 data sellers. This is a very important milestone for Wibson and shows the tremendous interest individuals have in a secure and easy way to monetize their personal data. As our user base continues to grow, we will attract more Data Buyers, providing Wibson users more opportunities to profit from their data. We want to thank all of the Wibson data sellers who have supported this project and shared valuable feedback to help improve Wibson.

Here are other updates for the week.

Worldwide Events

November will be a busy month for the Wibson team. We are excited to participate in three major events in the next month. More than 6000 attendees are expected at Tri TEC 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2–4. This is an important digital media event that focuses on disruptive technology, digital products and the creation of content in new formats. Rodrigo Irarrazaval of Wisbon will be presenting. The Singapore Fintech Festival 2018 is the world’s largest platform for the global financial technology community and runs November 12–16, and Wibson CEO and Co-Founder, Mat Travizano, will be one of the keynote speakers. Finally, the C20 Conference — Bitcoin + Blockchain in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 16 and 17 is the most important crypto conference in the Spanish-speaking world. More than 3000 attendees and 50 speakers will be featured across two days of seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and Q&A sessions.

Wibson Is Live in Uruguay

Wibson has successfully launched in Uruguay! This is the fourth country where the Wibson marketplace is live, and the community there is growing rapidly. We plan to keep expanding Wibson’s presence across the world as quickly as we can.

https://wibson.org/

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02-08 11:52 - 'In some countries, like South Africa, you get charged for [making a deposit]. You have to pay the bank so they can put the money into your account. Doesn't matter if it's a check or cash. / In USA, they won't even [let you...' by /u/CryptoNoob-17 removed from /r/Bitcoin within 8-18min

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In some countries, like South Africa, you get charged for [making a deposit]1 . You have to pay the bank so they can put the money into your account. Doesn't matter if it's a check or cash.

In USA, they won't even [let you make a cash deposit]2

Security reasons prompted Bank of America and Wells Fargo to prohibit customers from depositing cash into others’ accounts. “The security and safety of our customers’ accounts is our top priority, and this change helps us to reduce risks from cash transactions involving persons who aren’t authorized on the account,”

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Step by step tips for beginners

Hey all, Put together this step by step guide/tips for people new to the space of Bitcoin and crypto. These are tips and the order I think myself, and something I would have wanted to know when I got started.

Have a look if you like https://gocryptowise.com/how-to-get-started-with-crypto/



Make crypto trading frictionless and free

SophonEX — a commission-free crypto to crypto exchange, for the decentralized community.

SophonEX is a group of programming geeks, previously working for Facebook, Google, KCG, JP Morgan, etc. ‘Digital natives’ could be a pretty fit description for us. The majority of our founding team members are veterans of ACM-ICPC and TopCoder competitions, with great enthusiasm in coding, data structure, algorithm and mathematics

When we first came across bitcoin’s technical paper, we were fascinated by its engineering beauty and philosophy depth. From there, we start to imagine a decentralized world where trust doesn’t comes with a charge, and trade doesn’t comes with a commission. After months of sophisticated design, it’s no longer a dream… It becomes real, in SophonEX.

Get priority access

Want more details about our team? → Team Profile

Mission

Make crypto trading frictionless and free. We believe that charging per-trade commission (no matter 0.1% or a staggering 3%) is evil in the decentralized world. Decentralized services need to be commission-free; and this spreading freedom is beneficial to the human society.

Our Values — How we do things around our offices?

  • Focus on impact and priority
  • Delay gratification
  • Relentlessly Optimistic and Transparent
  • Customer first
  • Be Bold and Open

Why make SophonEX?

The time when the founding team came to know and started researching on bitcoin whitepaper can be dated back to the mid of 2017. At the end of that year, we initiated a quantitative fund, focusing on the bitcoin arbitrage across different exchanges worldwide. Our fund size (prop + LP invested) is about ~3000 BTC in maximum, and we traded across nearly 20 exchanges, including: BitFlyer, Coincheck, Quoinex(liquid), Zaif, Fisco, Binance, Bitfinex, GDAX(coinbase pro), Gate.io, Huobi.pro, OKEX, Poloniex, Kraken, Bithumb, Bitstamp, HitBTC.

We wrote the arbitrage and quant trading system mainly in C++, and deployed it on multiple AWS ECs to colocate with these exchange servers. Our fund trading system is highly performant and reliable, making tens of thousands of orders per day. This high performance and reliability brings us to top5 in terms of 24-hr volume in the ranking.

Despite of the success, it is also due to the 10-month trading experience, we came to realize the facts that all the de facto crypto exchanges share several similar flaws, which we concludes as below:

  • Clumsy and out-of-date backend architecture with poor engineering quality. E.g. most of the existing exchanges are written in old style PHP or J2EE or other stacks, which makes it hard to ensure high performance and reliability;
  • Digital Asset Security: hacking and security incidents happen every now and then;
  • APIs (restful and websocket) are badly designed and lagging. Based on our own experience, some of those APIs are being updated without prior announcements, which resulted in mal-functioning of our strategy occasionally;
  • Most importantly, the traditional trading commission is outrageously high. In traditional stock exchanges (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE, etc), trading commission is ~0.02%, and the brokerage commission (e.g. Charles Schwab, Scottrade, Interactive Broker, etc) is charged at $0~6.95 flat fee Fees List. A younger stock brokerage, Robinhood launched in 2013, brands itself as commission free broker, which inspired us.

In light of this, we are dedicated to creating a brand-new crypto exchange with zero commission, high engineering quality and best security from the design. We’re still a centralized exchange with the cutting-edge and up-to-date engineering standards. Whereas the SophonEX team is conceiving a roadmap to gradually switch to a hybrid, and then fully decentralized exchange in the near future.

SophonEX project was kicked off in June 2018, and aims to officially launch in March 2019. Prelaunch registration is available now: Priority access



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Bitcoin Volatility is Dying Fast; BTC Plunged 50% From $6500 in Last Free Fall (current BTC/USD price is $3405.14318925)

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Bitcoin Volatility is Dying Fast; BTC Plunged 50% From $6500 in Last Free Fall

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Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs


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ABL Team is proud to announce CHAOS IS A LADDER - 24/5 hourly lobbies! $2K BTC Main Event!

Discord: https://discord.gg/6PUdk58

24/5 Hourly Lobbies A new lobby starts on the hour every hour Wednesday to Sunday 128 players per lobby This will create 55,296 lobby spots per month Anyone can play in any lobby as much as they please

$2000 BTC Main Event 128 players All players qualify from the leaderboard No invites, maybe next season will have some spots for invites $2K BTC Main Event takes place last weekend of the month, details to be announced February’s Main Event will be March 2-3 because February is short.

Format BO1 Single Elimination with BO3 Final This format is due to logistical issues, server bugs, and game constraints. Draft Only - Constructed will come when one or more expansions are released 15 minutes to draft, 5 minutes to queue for your game at any stage. Admin will kick without remorse, with or without warming. Lobbies must be kept moving along. No redrafts All admins are volunteers, this is the best format for keeping burnout to a minimum

Lobby links distributed over Discord, Wechat, and QQ!

lobby-links channel is where invite links will be posted 30-60 minutes before the start of each lobby If you only care for the lobby links, mute all channels except this one. You will receive a push notification if you are online at the time of the link being posted.

Discord is the main place of coordination and source of information. It is too much extra effort to diligently update multiple sources of information. Inevitably something falls through the cracks and it creates problems. If you want to play, join the ABL Discord. WeChat and QQ are for our Chinese brothers and sisters behind the GFC and unable to access Discord without a VPN. This is the only exception being made for the Discord only rule.

Scoring 1st = Number of players at the start of the lobby (n) 2nd = n/2 3rd/4th = n/4 5th-8th = n/8 9th-16th = n/16 This means points will automatically be adjusted based on the size of the lobby.

Leaderboard this will be up in the leaderboard channel and eventually the ABL website as well currently the leaderboard is not up as we are having trouble figuring out how to pull data from ATCs without an official API. Any help pointing the volunteer coders in the right direction would be fantastic. if we fail at making a bot, score will be entered manually but it will take some time. Please be patient.

ABL-Journal-of-Applied-Science If you have insight on redrafting, please see the above channel in discord. A panel of your peers will seriously consider any coherent submissions based on sound mathematics, statistics, or modeling. Opinions, anecdotal experience, or piecemeal thoughts are not actionable and will not be considered. Remember to step out of the ivory tower and consider how any redrafts will impact the volunteers who have to run the lobbies.

We still need a few NA/SA and Indonesian admins.

-Opsy

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Special thanks to <BAD> - akbasemre1 and all the new Chaos admins! Also our volunteer coders who are working on automating the leaderboard!