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Set and Drift | Analysis - Estimating Future Income from the FIRE Portfolio

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Overview

The focus of the voyage to financial independence so far has been designing the portfolio, and measuring the distance still to travel. There is more basic question to be asked as the journey progresses - will the portfolio produce the income targets set for it, or will something need to change?

Currently, the income estimates from the portfolio targets - $67 000 from a short-term target of around $1.6 million and $83 000 from a target of around $2.0 million in several years - are set on an assumption of a total portfolio return of 4.19 per cent.

That does not mean, however, that the portfolio will simply automatically produce an income of that level. Just pointing the ship in the direction of travel is not enough. This is because the total return assumes both capital growth and distributions or interest.

This analysis examines what income the portfolio is likely to produce when the targets are achieved, and assesses whether or not selling down or changing the portfolio in other ways to meet the income goals may be necessary.

To answer this question, history and three different methods of estimating the potential income produced by the portfolio are reviewed.

Approach #1 - Navigation by landmarks

The first approach is to simply use what is already known to establish one’s position.

Previous analyses have discussed the overall trends in portfolio distributions, and reached some approximate estimates of the likely underlying level of distributions. These estimates differ according to the precise method chosen, and time period considered. So far, these analyses have established that the portfolio appears to be generating between:

$5 000 per month or $60 000 per year, if an approach where the moving average of the past three years of distributions is used; or
$3 800 per month or $45 000 per year, if a conservative approach of an average of the past four years of distributions is applied.

This is healthy progress, however, both of these figures are short of the Objective #1 income requirement of $67 000 per year (or $5600 per month), and even further from the projection of $83 000 (or $6 900 per month) under Objective #2.

Will the future look like the past?

These historical figures are useful because they are real data based on holdings in the actual portfolio. Their disadvantages are that they are backward-looking. This has two possible impacts.

First, the growth of more than 50 per cent in the total portfolio size over even the past three years means that the level of historical distributions will underestimate the income generation potential from the now larger portfolio. In short, this is like trying to estimate interest from a bank account by looking at your balance three years ago.

Second, the distributions of three or four years ago will reflect past asset allocations, and investment products. As an example of this, two years ago the portfolio contained over $55 000 invested in Ratesetter’s peer to peer lending platform. This was earning an average income return of 9.1 per cent. Today, Ratesetter is less than half of this size, due to a slow asset reallocation process and withdrawals as loans mature.

This suggests a purely backward view of the actual achieved distributions may be incomplete and misleading.

Taking an average distribution rate approach

The other potential way of estimating the income return of the portfolio is to use the average distribution rate of the portfolio in the past.

The rate is calculated as total distributions over a defined period divided by the average portfolio level over the same period.

This eliminates any errors from the first impact discussed above of growing portfolio growth size, as it is a rate rather than a level measure. It does not eliminate the second impact. For example, higher interest rates meant that cash holdings in 2013-14 could make up over third of total distributions, a position not likely to reoccur in the short or even medium term.

Yet it still may be an approximate guide because while overall portfolio asset allocation has shifted in the past two and half years, it has remained within some broad bounds. As an example, total equity holdings were at 70% of the portfolio both 5 and 10 years ago. Additionally, using a median long-term average of 4.4 per cent will tend to reduce the impact of one-off changes and outlier data points.

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As established in Wind in the Sails the average distribution rate over the past two decades has been around 4.4 per cent.

This implies that the portfolio would produce:

-$5 900 per month or $70 300 per annum income when the portfolio is at Objective #1 (e.g. this suggests that the target income at Objective #1 would be met, with around $3 000 to ‘spare’). - $7 300 per month or $87 100 per annum income when the portfolio is at Objective #2 (e.g. as above it suggests meeting Objective #2 would produce around $4 000 more income than actually targeted).

An interesting implication of this is that the portfolio has been producing distributions (at 4.4 per cent) at a rate that is higher than the overall rate of assumed long-term total return (around 4.2 per cent).

This is consistent with the fact that the Vanguard funds, and to some extent shares and other ETFs have been realising and distributing capital growth, not just income. This means that if I truly believe my long-term total return forecast is more accurate than the distributions estimate, I would need to re-invest the difference, to ensure I was not drawing down the portfolio at a higher rate than intended.

Approach #2 - Navigation by 'dead reckoning'

A different approach to reaching an income estimate from the portfolio is to forget about the actual history of the portfolio, and look to what the record shows about the average distribution rate from the asset classes themselves.

That is, to construct an hypothetical estimate of what the portfolio should produce, based on external historical data on average income from the individual portfolio components of Australian shares, international shares, and fixed interest.

To do this, estimates of the long term income generated by each of the asset classes in the portfolio are needed. For this ‘dead reckoning approach’ I have used the following estimates.

Table 1 - Asset class and portfolio income assumptions

Asset class Allocation Estimated income Source Australian shares 45% 4.0% RBA, 1995-2019, May Chart Pack International shares 30% 2.0% RBA, 1995-2019, May Chart Pack Bonds 15% 1.0% Dimson, Marsh and Staunton Triumph of the Optimists 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, Table 6.1 Gold/Bitcoin 10% 0% N/A Total portfolio 100% 2.55%

This analysis suggests that at the target allocation for the portfolio, based on long-term historical data, it should produce a income return of around 2.6%.

This equates to:

$3 400 per month or $40 700 per year when the portfolio is at Objective #1
$4 200 per month or $50 500 per year when the portfolio is at Objective #2

These figures are also well short of the income needs set, and so imply a need to sell down assets significantly to capture some of the portfolio's capital growth.

Abstractions and obstructions

Of course these figures are highly averaged and make some simplifications. Year to year management will not benefit from such stylised and smooth average returns. Income will be subject to large variations in distribution levels and capital growth will vary across asset classes and individual holdings.

Another simplification is that is analysis does not include the value of franking credits. If it is assumed that Australian equities continued to pay out their historical level of dividends, and the franking credit rate remains at the historical average of around 70 per cent then Australian shares dividends should yield closer to 5.2 per cent, lifting the total income return of the portfolio to around 3.1 per cent. In turn, this would marginally reduce the capital sell-down required. Adjusting for this impact means the portfolio income would be $4100 per month at Objective #1, and $5100 per month Objective #2

Yet these assumptions can be challenged. It is possible that the overall dividend yield of the Australian market will fall and converge with other markets. This would be particularly likely to happen if further changes to dividend imputations or the treatment franking credits to occur. It could also occur due to a maturing and deepening of Australian equity markets and domestic investment opportunities available to Australian firms. Shorter term, uncertainty around the future ability of shareholders to fully benefit from franking credits could encourage a payout of credits currently held by Australian firms.

Approach #3 - Cross-checking the coordinates

Due to these simplifications and assumptions, it is appropriate to cross-check the results of one method with other available data. An alternative to either a purely historical approach using distributions received, or the stylised hypothetical above discussed in Approach #2, is relying on tax data.

Specifically, taxable investment income can be estimated as the sum of the return items for partnerships and trusts, foreign source income and franking credits (i.e. items 13, 20 and 24) in a tax return.This has been previously discussed here.

Using this data is - of course - not independent of my own records of distributions. It's benefit is that it strictly relies on verified data provided in tax calculations. This will include income distributions and realised capital gains from within Vanguard funds, for example, but will not pick up unrealised capital gains.

As with Approach #1, as the portfolio has changed in size and composition the absolute historical levels of taxable will not necessarily produce the best estimate of the expected level of distributions looking forward. For example, because it is drawing on a period in which the portfolio was smaller, a five year average of investment income would suggest future annual investment income of $32 300 or $2 700 per month.

So instead an 'average rate' approach can be used to overcome this. Over of the past five years, the portfolio has produced an annual taxable investment income of around 3.5 per cent of the value of portfolio. This in turn implies an average taxable investment income of:

$4700 per month or $56 000 per year when the portfolio is at Objective #1; and
$5800 per month or $69 000 per year when the portfolio is at Objective #2

Once again, these estimates imply the existence of a significant income gap remaining at reaching both portfolio objectives.

Summary of results

So far historical data from the portfolio and three different approaches have been set out to seek to answer the question: how much income is the portfolio likely to produce?

Comparing estimates and income requirements

These individual estimates (blue) and the average of all estimates (green) are summarised in the charts below, and compared to the monthly income requirements (red) of both of the portfolio objectives. The chart below sets out the estimates for Objective #1.

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The following chart sets out the same data and projections for the portfolio when it reaches Objective #2 (a portfolio total of $1 980 000).

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The analysis shows that:

Portfolio income is likely to be below target at reaching Objective #1 - Using the approaches and history as a guide the portfolio should on average produce an income of around $57 000 per annum at Objective #1
And also below target at Objective #2 - When Objective #2 is reached portfolio income should on average be around $71 000
Therefore an income gap does exist to solve - Under most estimation approaches there will be a significant income shortfall at reaching both Objective #1 and #2
The gap is significant, but not disastrous - Assuming an equal weighting to the three approaches and actual historical distributions over the past three years the size of the income gap will be around $900 per month at Objective #1 (or $10 200 per annum) and greater, around $1000 per month at Objective #2 (or $12 000 per annum)
Only one estimation approach doesn't identify a gap - Only if the 'average distribution rate' approach under Approach #1 is accurate will there be no income shortfall.

This implies that at the $1.6 million target of Objective #1, a small portion of any portfolio gains (around 0.6% of the value of the total portfolio) would need to be sold each year to meet this income gap. An identical result applies at the Objective #2, around 0.6% of value of the total portfolio would need to be sold annually.

Another intriguing implication of the reaching the average estimates is that it allows for an approximation of the required portfolio level to rely entirely on portfolio income, and avoid any sale of assets. At both portfolio Objectives the average of all estimation approaches indicate portfolio income of around 3.5 per cent.

Reversing this figure for the target portfolio income (e.g. for $67 000 at Objective #1 is 0.035/67000) implies a portfolio need of $1.91 million. For the higher target income for Objective #2, the implied portfolio required to not draw down capital is close to $2.4 million. This would require many additional years of future paid work to achieve.

Trailing clouds of vagueness

There are many caveats, inexactitudes and simplifications that should loom large in interpreting these results. The level of future returns as well as their income and capital components are unknowable and volatile.

In particular, the volatility of returns introduces key sequence of return risks that are simplified away by the reliance on deceptively stable historical estimates or averages. Particularly sharp movement in asset prices could change the asset allocation. Legislative or market changes could change the balance of income and capital appreciation targeted by Australian firms.

For these reasons, the analysis does not make me consider any particular remedial action. It indicates that under a range of assumptions and average outcomes, there will need to be a sale of some investments to meet the portfolio incomes targeted.

The same analysis shows that the superficially attractive choice to live only off portfolio income would in reality mean aiming for a target around 20 per cent higher - needing an extra $300 000 to $400 000 - potentially adding many years to the journey.

The relatively small scale of the required sales is the most surprising outcome of this analysis. Selling around 0.6 per cent of the portfolio annually does not on its face appear to be a high drawdown in most market conditions.

Another potential issue to consider is what this result means for asset allocation. There is no doubt that history would suggest that the income gap could be reduced by either reducing the bond allocation, or lower yielding international shares.

To give a sense of the magnitudes of this - using the 'dead reckoning' Approach #2 set out above - allocating 100 per cent of the equity portfolio to Australian shares would produce around $900 per month (or $10 300 per year) additional distributions at the Objective #1 portfolio of $1.6 million.

In theory, this domestic shares only option would all but close the income gap. Yet the benefits of diversification and risk reduction bonds and international shares offer make this a trade-off to consider, not a clear choice. At present, my plan would be to revisit this issue at my annual review of the portfolio asset allocation.

In the meantime, having produced these estimates has helped starting to think in more concrete terms about the draw down phase, its challenges and mechanics. In a small way, this seems to clear some of the clouds away, and enable me to glimpse some possible futures more clearly.

The post and graphs can be viewed here.

Note: The historical average estimate for this purpose has been proportionally adjusted to increase based on the increased size of the portfolio between now and reaching Objective #2

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It was around the same time last year that the cybersecurity pioneer said he “feared for his life.” He claimed then that the U.S. government was out to get him.

That time around, he posted a series of videos eluding to his issues with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that had forced him to “go underground.”

Crypto Twitter Remained Rightfully Skeptical

Highly revered by some and regarded as a clown by others, love him or hate him, John McAfee is hard to ignore.

He promised to ingest hisown genitals on national TVif Bitcoin doesn’t reach $500k by 2020. He’s claimed several death threats on his life and repeatedly stated that the government is out to silence him. The man’s life is packed with drama.

He is also known for his heavy consumption of dubious crypto, drugs and alcohol. That may explain the smattering of typos in the majority of his tweets. Perhaps also the ridiculous ramblings about Ethereum being too hard to spell, Dogecoin being “adorable”, and Vitalk being oddly dressed.

Folks asking my opinion of Ethereum:

Well . . .. Frankly, I prefer one syllable coins and am not fond of Ethereum's spelling. Additionally, many of my friends who hold Ethereum dress oddly. And, of course, Buterin looks underfed to me. But do not take this as investment advice.

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) May 15, 2019

Followers alluded to Mr. McAffee’s various addictions and made comments like “this isn’t his first rodeo” and “PR stunt.”

Rule #1 of going dark:

Do not announce to 916,000 people that you’re going dark.

PR stunt!

— John Miles (@imjmiles) May 17, 2019

There was also a flurry of rumors about him being captured by the IRS:

McAfee taken as a POW and being held as a detainee in a irs labor camp close to where his pirate ship was last reportedly seen

— Crypto♤Nitro [Buy $BTC] (@adiobox) May 16, 2019

However, it turns out McAfee was just toying with us all once again, proving that you can’t keep an old dog down for long. This latest stunt was just more misdirection from the man who’s incapable of ‘going dark’ for long.

Just a few days ago he wrote:

The U.S. Gov. thinks it’s watching me. I’m the master of disinformation and obfuscation. Must be in.order to make McAfee Inc fight an army of hackers. It is me that is watching the U.S. Gov. You will soon see the truth. Silence me and hundreds will cintinue to release the Truth.

Will John McAfee’s bitcoin price prediction come true in 2020? Share your thoughts below!

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Bitcoin FOMO is Strong But The Bears Will Not Go Quietly

As Bitcoin breaks significant resistance at $6,000 and $8,000, all within the space of a week, interest is reaching fever point. But despite the strong performance, which some say is buoyed by economic uncertainty over the US-China trade war, there are those among us who remain skeptical.

Bitcoin FOMO

An impressive week for cryptocurrencies saw Bitcoin break the $8,000 mark on Tuesday. Up 120% since the start of the year, this momentum is continuing to lead the rest of the market into a bull run. Unsurprisingly, mainstream news outlets and everyday people are once again talking about Bitcoin.

In view of this, Bitcoin advocate, Thomas Lee of Fundstrat Global Advisors, believes no-coiners will FOMO into cryptocurrencies. Speaking to CNBC, he said:

“There have been positive developments, including some of the announcements coming out of Consensus, like the BAKKT launch and merchants starting to accept Bitcoin. But, what’s getting investors quite optimistic is that, now Bitcoin is approaching that $10,000 level, I think there’s an increasing chance that traditional non-crypto investors are going to start looking at crypto again.”

Lee went on to talk about the importance of getting new investment into the space. Which he believes will be the key catalyst for pushing prices back towards all-time-highs.

All-Time-Highs

Thomas Lee has continually pushed bullish sentiment, even during the height of crypto winter, which saw Bitcoin lows of around $3,200. And as each day passes, it looks more and more certain that we have finally left the bear market behind. Part of the reason behind the upswing may relate to economic uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, which Lee mentioned in the CNBC interview.

Last week, Trump announced a tariff hike on Chinese imports from 10% to 25%. This move was the culmination of months of political wrangling, which only served to strain already tense relations.

The trade war between the US and China is escalating after President Trump raised tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports from 10% to 25% on Friday.

Now, the White House’s top economic adviser is contradicting the President, admitting Americans will pay the tariffs. pic.twitter.com/BzTMIouWw9

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) May 13, 2019

The traditional financial markets reacted severely, seeing a 600 point drop on the Dow Jones. At the same time, Bitcoin broke $6,000. While these events may be coincidental, some analysts, including Lee, see Bitcoin as a safe haven during times of uncertainty.

Indeed, Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Fund, spoke about Bitcoin being the solution to an unsustainable economic system. Where investors look to trusted alternatives as a hedge. He said:

“This is a hedge against irresponsiblity from governments and central bankers…the world is waking up to the value of a hedge against quantitative easing.”

Bitfinex’s insolvency – didn’t crash the market

Binance hack – didn’t crash the market

FinCEN’s crypto doc – didn’t move the market

Sherman’s crypto ban BS – didn’t move the market

China/US trade war tension? gonna MOON the market

— Dovey Wan (@DoveyWan) May 10, 2019

The Bears Aren’t Done

All the same, even though things are looking up for Bitcoin, and the cryptocurrency markets as a whole, not everyone believes Bitcoin will see a major rally.

Greg Thomson, writing at the start of the year for Hacked, cited a variety of reasons why Bitcoin will go to zero, chief amongst which was the lack of demand for decentralization. He wrote:

“We all talk about decentralization and freedom as though it were obvious that these things are what people desire. Throughout all of human history people have organised themselves into hierarchies, with a centralized governing figure at the very top; be it God, the King or the latest President.

A lot of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency movement is about personal freedom, personal responsibility, emancipation from centralized power – but I ask: just what makes you think that’s what people want?”

And more recent than that, following Lee’s CNBC interview, the cynics were quick to criticize Lee. All without any basis of an argument, only negativity and pessimism. One thing is sure, only a return to $20,000, and beyond, will be enough to satisfy the naysayers.

Tom Lee is here harvesting more crypto fools pic.twitter.com/hWLPHmJtEK

— Jango Fett 916 (@jangofett916) May 14, 2019

Really Tom? pic.twitter.com/8BgGZazevW

— BW (@abcdbandit2017) May 14, 2019

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Bitcoin Events to Host South Africa’s First Crypto Festival

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MinedBlock platform

The issues that the miners face are not just a joke, but a matter of verification of business-mining. Systems such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dash are increasingly concentrated. The ability to control these systems is in the hands of a few modern mining tasks that consume power. In order to compete, individual diggers must be connected to mine pools. These mine pools are organizing centralization. Mining currently results in a matter rather than an answer.

In the previous year, with costs reaching new levels, digital currency became increasingly efficient. The rapid expansion of a worldwide mining movement led to the presentation of several new tokens. MinedBlock will build a faithful mining office within the main 50 markets to ensure the range of revenue streams that customers can exploit.

Thanks to the proposed large-scale activity, the Minedblock will help improve decentralization of coins where the mixed rates of common coins are overwhelmingly large pools. In the same way, MinedBlock will move in the direction of decentralization within its organization through the worldwide distribution of mining information.In addition to increasing physical resources, MinedBlock Limited will also assume responsibility for the expenses incurred from the income generated in the event that it is unlikely that the administration will act towards the benefits. If this happens, they will never have to deal with the misfortune of token owners.

One of the basic standards of minedblock is simplicity. Minedblock arrangements will be fully open with continuous improvements and revenue streams.

Mining is a major piece of the blockchain for any crypto resources that aren't pre-mined. Diggers have the system and structure the premise of the decentralization model of the Cryptocurrency field however we are getting to a point where a lot of hash control, the key fixing to settling squares, is getting to be unified which is making it progressively trouble for people to engage with mining because of the money related speculation required to mine intensely

There are different arrangements out there, for example, cloud mining administrations, yet they aren't straightforward or savvy and MinedBlock means to change that. There have been various mining ICOs directed through 2017/2018 that offered an offer of digging income as a byproduct of venture yet that haven't led their token deal as a managed Security Token Offering which builds the hazard to financial specialists.

Bounty0x Username: Slimmm1

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Bitcoin starter pack

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" They say that when your friends start pestering you about bitcoin, it is time to sell. I think I have smarter friends, but tech this days waits around for less and less. This is a starter pack of knowledge, links, videos and tools I would have loved to stumble upon some years ago, updated for the current events and market structure. I’m sure i have omitted a lot, but it might be a good bookmark for getting started. "

I wrote a starter pack on what makes crypto important, as a few friends have been asking me whats up lately. I wanted to keep it informal but informed. Feel free to have a look and provide feedback:)

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I've identified 6 backtesting libraries for Python, but none of them seems to support options backtesting? Am I missing something, or do any of you know how to backtest options?

PyAlgoTrade

PyAlgoTrade is a muture, fully documented backtesting framework along with paper- and live-trading capabilities. Data support includes Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, NinjaTrader and any type of CSV-based time-series such as Quandl. Supported order types include Market, Limit, Stop and StopLimit.

PyAlgoTrade supports Bitcoin trading via Bitstamp, and real-time Twitter event handling.

Project Page: github.com/gbeced/pyalgotrade
License: Apache 2.0

bt - Backtesting for Python

bt “aims to foster the creation of easily testable, re-usable and flexible blocks of strategy logic to facilitate the rapid development of complex trading strategies”.

The framework is particularly suited to testing portfolio-based STS, with algos for asset weighting and portfolio rebalancing. Modifying a strategy to run over different time frequencies or alternate asset weights involves a minimal code tweak. bt is built atop ffn - a financial function library for Python.

Project Page: pmorissette.github.io/bt
License: MIT

Backtrader

This platform is exceptionally well documented, with an accompanying blog and an active on-line community for posting questions and feature requests. Backtrader supports a number of data formats, including CSV files, Pandas DataFrames, blaze iterators and real time data feeds from three brokers. These data feeds can be accessed simultaneously, and can even represent different timeframes. Supported brokers include Oanda for FX trading and multi-asset class trading via Interactive Brokers and Visual Chart.

pysystemtrade

pysystemtrade developer Rob Carver has a great post discussing why he set out to create yet another Python backtesting framework and the arguments for and against framework development. The backtesting framework for pysystemtrade is discussed in Rob’s book, "Systematic Trading".

pysystemtrade lists a number of roadmap capabilities, including a full-featured back tester that includes optimisation and calibration techniques, and fully automated futures trading with Interactive Brokers. Open source contributors are welcome.

Project Page: github.com/robcarver17/pysystemtrade
License: GPL v3.0

Zipline

Zipline is an algorithmic trading simulator with paper and live trading capabilities. Accessible via the browser-based IPython Notebook interface, Zipline provides an easy to use alternative to command line tools. Supported and developed by Quantopian, Zipline can be used as a standalone backtesting framework or as part of a complete Quantopian/Zipline STS development, testing and deployment environment. Zipline provides 10 years of minute-resolution historical US stock data and a number of data import options.

Project Page: zipline.io
Github: github.com/quantopian/zipline
License: Apache 2.0

QSTrader

QSTrader is a backtesting framework with live trading capabilities. QuantStart Founder Michael Halls-Moore launched QSTrader with the intent of building a platform robust and scalable enough to service the needs of institutional quant hedge funds as well as retail quant traders. QSTrader currently supports OHLCV "bar" resolution data on various time scales, but does allow for tick data to be used.

Both backtesting and live trading are completely event-driven, streamlining the transition of strategies from research to testing and finally live trading. Core strategy/portfolio code is often identical across both deployments.

The main benefit of QSTrader is in its modularity, allowing extensive customisation of code for those who have specific risk or portfolio management requirements.

SOMESING in BlockBattle Season 2

Catch SOMESING on BlockBattle Season 2, premieres June 20.

Greetings SOMESINGholics!

We saw your huge smile from here. We know that your assets are in green today, After Bitcoin passes 7k$, who will not be excited for the bull run right? The excitement and optimism spilling to us as we have been selected to the top 10 blockchain startups to be participated in BlockBattle’s Season 2!

World's first Blockchain Survival Reality Show, BLOCKBOTTLE; Who's the next Satoshi?

Do you think SOMESING? To what extent do you agree?

BlockBattle Season 1

When it comes to South Korean Television, everyone are excited to see Kpop music and idols, but the most of you do not know, in South Korean TV a Blockchain Survival Reality Show also exists. Indeed.

It's never been done before, until The first BlockBattle the World's first Blockchain Survival Reality Show, season was broadcasted in October last year through PAX Economy TV (formerly Asia Economic TV) and now it would be done for the second time when April 10th, The Pax Economy TV (CEO Kim Hyun-woo), announced the broadcast of the Season 2 of Block Battle: Who is the Next Satoshi?—the “world’s first blockchain survival program” on Thursday, June 20 that will be televised in China, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong (and on the Youtube channel Coin Cast).

The series, which is co-produced by a production studio Viral Nation, mentioned “This year’s question is simple,” they said, “Why does your project need blockchain technology.”

“journey into the heart of the global emerging technology of Blockchain.” It takes place over five episodes, with teams competing to contrive the best blockchain tech solutions for a prize of “up to $10 million.”

This seasons goal is to find projects with real-world use cases, " For this, the project needs to prepare 5-minute mission presentation for the first recording session. The first recording will be held on May 24 (Fri) in Korea time.

Everyone are curious and asking a number of questions about the progress of the blockbattle, So the team release a detailed information about the upcoming season of BlockBattles. According to the Blackbattle team,

There will be 4 total recording sessions. As teams will be competing with each other, eliminated teams may not be in every recording session. 4 total teams out of 10 will be on each recording session. Outside of the following recording days, teams will be individually contacted to schedule pre-recording interviews and sessions.

1st recording – May 24th (Friday)
2nd recording – May 27th (Monday)
3rd recording – June 21st (Friday)
4th recording – June 24th (Monday)

Judging will be done by several professionals from venture capitals, cryptocurrency exchanges, successful project CEOs, crypto funds, and top blockchain projects.

+This is their recommendations for the accommodations while everyone are here in Korea.

It's close to the 1st/3rd/4th recording studio(Isan Bitmaru studio -

Its in Goyang city which is a city next to Seoul(half an hour from Incheon international airport and one and a half hour from Gangnam area)

The second recording will be done HERE.

After the first recording, we'll give you a guide to that place.

Below is the request from the broadcasting crew.

1) For overseas teams we will need a quick introduction video regarding the project. This can be recorded using a camcorder or smartphone. The video should be about 1 minute showcasing the team at work in the office, and include the following:

A quick glimpse of the local area, office, working space, or outdoor meeting place.
Introduction of the team members, introduction of the project , and what you are aiming for and the reason you want to take part in BlockBattle Season 2. (it would not matter if it is short, and feel free to show whatever)

2) Please send us a text copy of your 5 minute presentation. This is for the text to be translated for judges prior to the shooting, along with allowing judges to prepare questions they will ask during the Q&A sessions.

3) For Overseas teams: Please let us know the number of team members that will be coming to Korea, along with their name, picture, and profile text. Also please let us know who will be the main presenter for the team.

Blockbattle Team

SOMESING, something different in the Hunger Game; BLOCKBATTLE.

SOMESING is a social music service that incorporates blockchain technology so that producers can get rewards for creative activities that everyone can enjoy their favorite songs and recreate the songs.

It needs Blockchain It's because we aim to realize reasonable compensation of contributors according to contribution through a transparent and decentralized system of blockchain. To give them rewards as well as to provide transparency in it.

We have an Application that is already downloadable both in APPSTRORE and PLAYSTORE.

SOMESING is a platform for SingLovers, Sing more and get rewarded in a very transparent reward system with the use of Blockchain.

SOMESING in BlockBattle Season 2

Catch SOMESING on BlockBattle Season 2, premieres June 20.

Greetings SOMESINGholics!

World's first Blockchain Survival Reality Show, BLOCKBOTTLE; Who's the next Satoshi?

Do you think SOMESING? To what extent do you agree?

BlockBattle Season 1

When it comes to South Korean Television, everyone are excited to see Kpop music and idols, but the most of you do not know, in South Korean TV a Blockchain Survival Reality Show also exists. Indeed.

The series, which is co-produced by a production studio Viral Nation, mentioned “This year’s question is simple,” they said, “Why does your project need blockchain technology.”

1st recording – May 24th (Friday)
2nd recording – May 27th (Monday)
3rd recording – June 21st (Friday)
4th recording – June 24th (Monday)

Judging will be done by several professionals from venture capitals, cryptocurrency exchanges, successful project CEOs, crypto funds, and top blockchain projects.

+This is their recommendations for the accommodations while everyone are here in Korea.

It's close to the 1st/3rd/4th recording studio(Isan Bitmaru studio -

Its in Goyang city which is a city next to Seoul(half an hour from Incheon international airport and one and a half hour from Gangnam area)

The second recording will be done HERE.

After the first recording, we'll give you a guide to that place.

Below is the request from the broadcasting crew.

A quick glimpse of the local area, office, working space, or outdoor meeting place.
Introduction of the team members, introduction of the project , and what you are aiming for and the reason you want to take part in BlockBattle Season 2. (it would not matter if it is short, and feel free to show whatever)

Blockbattle Team

SOMESING, something different in the Hunger Game; BLOCKBATTLE.

We have an Application that is already downloadable both in APPSTRORE and PLAYSTORE.

SOMESING is a platform for SingLovers, Sing more and get rewarded in a very transparent reward system with the use of Blockchain.

Catch SOMESING on BlockBattle Season 2, premieres June 20.

Greetings SOMESINGholics!

World's first Blockchain Survival Reality Show, BLOCKBOTTLE; Who's the next Satoshi?

Do you think SOMESING? To what extent do you agree?

BlockBattle Season 1

When it comes to South Korean Television, everyone are excited to see Kpop music and idols, but the most of you do not know, in South Korean TV a Blockchain Survival Reality Show also exists. Indeed.

The series, which is co-produced by a production studio Viral Nation, mentioned “This year’s question is simple,” they said, “Why does your project need blockchain technology.”

1st recording – May 24th (Friday)
2nd recording – May 27th (Monday)
3rd recording – June 21st (Friday)
4th recording – June 24th (Monday)

Judging will be done by several professionals from venture capitals, cryptocurrency exchanges, successful project CEOs, crypto funds, and top blockchain projects.

+This is their recommendations for the accommodations while everyone are here in Korea.

It's close to the 1st/3rd/4th recording studio(Isan Bitmaru studio -

Its in Goyang city which is a city next to Seoul(half an hour from Incheon international airport and one and a half hour from Gangnam area)

The second recording will be done HERE.

After the first recording, we'll give you a guide to that place.

Below is the request from the broadcasting crew.

A quick glimpse of the local area, office, working space, or outdoor meeting place.
Introduction of the team members, introduction of the project , and what you are aiming for and the reason you want to take part in BlockBattle Season 2. (it would not matter if it is short, and feel free to show whatever)

Blockbattle Team

SOMESING, something different in the Hunger Game; BLOCKBATTLE.

We have an Application that is already downloadable both in APPSTRORE and PLAYSTORE.

SOMESING is a platform for SingLovers, Sing more and get rewarded in a very transparent reward system with the use of Blockchain.

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XinFin Network Presents One-Click Installer For Blockchain Node Setup

XinFin invites its existing as well as new global users to set-up masternode using one-click installer function, and make an impact in the world of decentralized trade and finance.

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that is re-defining an inevitable component of our lives, finance. It has always been debated that the world’s financial system is due for a massive upgrade in terms of trust, transparency, accountability, and most importantly decentralization. Bitcoin, the earliest and the most successful chain supports over 8,000 nodes while Ethereum has about 25,000 nodes. Most of the nodes run by these ecosystems are mining nodes that participate in decentralization and distribution of the network.

Setting up Nodes

Nodes are a necessary component when it comes to becoming a part of the blockchain ecosystem and connecting to the world of decentralized finance, also maintaining the ownership of one’s own data and funds, at the same time.

For Blockchain to reach its full potential, it is necessary to make it simple so that any common person can understand it and can run his own node.This would enable the common men (without much technical knowledge) to control their own data and finances.

Considering that, in; not a very distant future, a household fridge will successfully track the available home food supplies and will make decisions automatically, interacting with the food supply chain, at the same time. It will automatically settle accounts and access external finance using its in-built wallet. It wouldn’t be wrong to say, we are heading towards a future of one blockchain node per household. Seeing the current scenario where every household has a minimum of one computer chip, one blockchain node per household isn’t much of an overwhelming prediction.

Scalability comes with innate simplicity and the purpose of this article is to make things so simple that someone with an average intelligence also finds it easy to set up a node.

At XinFin (eXchange inFinite), our vision is not to reinvent the wheel or compete with any other network (whether legacy, centralized or decentralized), but fine-tune the work already being done in the blockchain industry so that it finds its use in the real world on a day-to-day basis. At the same time, making it interoperable to achieve a use case that runs on the fundamentals of blockchain-something that is still not fully achieved. Yes, you guessed it right!! Decentralized trade and finance.

One-Click Installer from XinFin

XinFin developer community has been working tirelessly to make XinFin tech simpler and to make it easily accessible to masses. We are happy to present a multi-platform one-click installer that makes setting up a node seamlessly easy.

XinFin invites you to join the Bounty Program and run masternode on XinFin TestNet called apothem.network.

Let’s have a look at how to set up a XinFin one-click installer.

Setting up XinFin One-Click Installer

1) Download the one-click installer: https://xinfin.org/setup-masternode.php (This option is available for Windows and Linux O/s.)

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2) Now, run the downloaded file to start the installation.

3) For installing the XinFin installer, read the PUBLIC LICENSE properly and click on “I Agree”.

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4) Then, provide a path to create your destination folder.

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5) Then, select the location where blockchain data will be stored.

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6) Now, your installation is complete.

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7) Open the folder where you have stored XinFin network files.

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8) To access the application, start XinFin.Network where you will see the node info and the hosted master node.

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9) If you want to see your blocks getting synced, you can see at your log file.

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10) You can see your master node status at apothem.network.

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Other steps to setup masternode:

Get XDC
Check Your Wallet / Explorer: Livenet: https://XinFin.Network and Testnet at https://apothem.network/

Future Provisions

XinFin is developed with a vision of being an interoperable hybrid platform that can work with mission-critical, data and price sensitive legacy systems as well as decentralized networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

XinFin Network will be supporting interoperability for the below-mentioned platforms in the near future:

R3 Corda, Hyperledger, ETH, BTC, XRP, Stellar, EOS, Tezos, Cosmos, and Tron

XinFin invites users to set-up masternode

Whether you are a financial institution, a federal agency or a developer, you can easily set-up a masternode using the above-mentioned one-click installer guide. XinFin invites its existing as well as new global users to set-up masternode using one-click installer function, and make an impact in the world of decentralized trade and finance. So, Setup Masternode Now and be a part of XinFin ecosystem.

About XinFin

XinFin is an open source enterprise-ready Hybrid Blockchain for Global Trade and Finance. It combines the power of public and private Blockchains with interoperable smart contracts. XinFin is fully EVM compatible. For more information on XinFin, please visit www.xinfin.org or learn more about XinFin in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-tHZkV6zAs.

Follow XinFin on:

Twitter: ( @ ) XinFin_Official

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xinfin/

Telegram: https://t.me/xinfintalk

Slack: https://launchpass.com/xinfin-public