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1. [The total market value based on ERC-20 tokens has exceeded the total market value of Ethereum, and the market value gap reaches a record high]
Research by the on-chain analysis company Santiment shows that the total market value based on ERC-20 tokens has exceeded the market value of Ethereum itself, which is the highest market value gap between ERC-20 tokens and Ethereum. The current total market value of all ERC-20 assets is $46.7 billion, while the market value of Ethereum is only slightly higher than $41 billion. Two similar short-term fluctuations have occurred this year, with the longest lasting fluctuation occurring in July. Ethereum's price surge in August brought the market cap to more than $50 billion, but subsequent adjustments made the market cap of ERC-20 tokens exceed it again.
2. [TEDA pre-issuance of 1 billion ERC20 USDT, perhaps for USDT switching]
The Chainsmap monitoring system of Chains Guard Technology that in the early morning of September 11, Beijing time, TEDA added 1 billion USDT to the ERC20 USDT pre-issuance pool. This means that once the relevant instructions are executed, the actual ERC20 USDT will be issued. However, judging from the similar large-scale additional issuance of TEDA before, it is usually for switching between different standards of USDT. This type of switching often occurs after TEDA has issued a large number of USDT in TRON. In August, a similar operation of $1 billion was carried out. Judging from the recent situation, since September, TEDA has successively conducted multiple large USDT issuances in TRON (the total amount is exactly 1 billion USDT), and the phenomenon is similar to the previous law.
3. [European Central Bank President: The European Central Bank will soon announce the results of its research on digital currencies]
According to news from Sina Finance on September 11, in an online event of the Bundesbank on Thursday evening, European Central Bank President Lagarde said that a team of officials of the bank will soon come to a conclusion whether it should create a currency for the euro. Digital version. Lagarde said that so far, the euro system has not yet decided whether to introduce a digital euro.
[Today's market analysis]
Bitcoin (BTC)BTC oscillated in a narrow range around 10350 USDT in the early hours of this morning, and continued to fall at around 2 o'clock, with the lowest falling to 10249.6 USDT. Afterwards, BTC rebounded slightly and returned to above 10300 USDT. Currently, it continues to adjust in a narrow range near 10350 USDT. Most mainstream currencies follow the trend of the broader market, and rebound slightly after falling to varying degrees in the early morning. BTC is currently trading at 10260.6 USDT on LOEx Global, a decrease of 1.55% in 24h.
Although the buying power at the bottom is increasing, and the selling power at the top is increasing at the same time, it is difficult to distinguish between long and short, so it has formed a current shock trend.
How long will this situation last? This is a problem that many investors worry about. Whether it is rising or falling is hard to figure out. This kind of market is simply a torment for friends who do cash. However, the current shock market is a good opportunity for contracting friends to do band. As long as you grasp the rhythm, overestimate and underestimate, you can make money regardless of long or short.
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Support level: the first support level is 9800 points, the second support level is 9500 integers;
Resistance level: the first resistance level is 10500 points, the second resistance level is 11000 points.
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Decentralized Finance, or DeFi as it is popularly known, refers to the ecosystem created by decentralized digital financial institutions that are not only democratic but are also capable of operating autonomously, independent of several national and international regulations. DeFi has been garnering a lot of attention these days from everyday investors and institutions alike as more and more people are looking at non-traditional instruments of investments.
In simple terms, DeFi is an attempt to decentralize core traditional financial processes like trading, lending, investing, wealth management, payment and insurance using the blockchain.
DeFi platforms do not need to follow the highly rigid legal system which governs financial systems across the world. This cuts down many hurdles making the process fast and effortless.
Why DeFi is Hot These Days?
The current global scenario is not good for the economy and many nations are facing the brunt of extended lockdowns and near stoppage of almost all economic activities. Spending is down and people are wary of the security and safety of their investments. This has led them to look at alternative methods to create wealth and secure their savings. And DeFi has all the right ingredients to cater to them.
As of the time of writing this article, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi applications stands at roughly 8.9 billion USD. Now consider the fact that this figure had just reached 1 billion USD in the first week of February. This means a close to 900% rise in TVL in less than seven months. This shows the immense attraction of investors towards DeFi applications.
Today, more than 250 DeFi ecosystems function on the Ethereum, Bitcoin and EOS networks, with multiple asset management tools helping investors to secure their assets.
With High Returns Comes High Risk
While returns on investments have been exciting, there are inherent risks as well, but that comes with any kind of investments, even traditional. With their rising value, many blockchain projects have become very attractive investment options in recent times. This tends to be the right time to tap into these projects for a bumper return later.
While, like many other sectors, there are many fraudulent and underachieving projects, they can be a good option for an investor’s asset portfolio if chosen correctly. In fact, many analysts have gone on record with their concerns about what ill-conceived DeFi projects pumped up by ill-informed investors can mean for the crypto sector in particular and the financial market in general.
In this respect, education about these assets is very important for new investors who are trying to enter this sector. Informed and experienced investors can not only leverage more promising projects but also help the crypto sector grow in general. Yet, unfortunately, there are not many options to learn the process of investing in the crypto sector, about the potentials and limitations of new trends, and about hot financial products in the crypto sector like the DeFi projects.
Bithumb Global Provides a Solution
It is here that Bithumb Global can come in with its innovative products. While Bithumb Global comes from the house of one of Korea’s topmost and most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges — Bithumb. Bithumb has always been an innovator and this innovative DNA is evident in its many novel financial solutions that benefits all kinds of investors.
Bithumb Global Learning is the latest product from the company which tends to break the barrier between investment in practice and learning about investing. The service provides a platform for new investors to get a degree of handholding from experts as well as a chance to learn from peers at the same level of experience.
This service enables users to learn about specific projects which are advertised on the platform and about the opportunities of investing in them. While the users can actually invest in these projects through this service there is a safety net for investors who have failed to grasp the extent of risk involved in the investments. Moreover, the platform is designed to incentivize learning about the projects and the principles of investment in general.
The users who are able to show a consistently higher degree of learning will be rewarded with the tokens of the project and their investments will be leveraged accordingly. However, the users who have failed to demonstrate adequate understanding will be barred from participating in the investment event which will be organized periodically, the investment of such users will be nullified for their own good.
Such platforms help users to learn about new trends in the sector like the DeFi movement and understand them through practical engagement with such projects. In other words, they get a chance to actually become a part of these movements.
Previous Projects and Their Performance with Primary Listing on Bithumb Global
Mantra DAO was a very interesting project which tried to give the financial control of the company in the hands of the community members and was listed on the Bithumb Global Learning platform. The OM token was pumped 15X after pre-sale. It soared from 0.04$ to 0.6$. 18,000,000 OM were sold out in 2 days on the BG Staking.
It is a platform for cross-chain derivative issuance and peer-to-peer lending. The token saw a more than 3X surge after its primary listing on the Bithumb Global and is currently trading at more than 2X listing price. The project got more than 463,000+ votes on BG learning and the staking interest for the project was up to 88%.
Swipe is a reputed blockchain-based payments platform, which aims to increase the usability of crypto assets for everyday transactions. After the project was listed on the Bithumb Global, the token was pumped 5X.
Welcome to the BG DeFi Paradise
DeFi is gradually changing the face of the financial markets through its innovative decentralized solutions. While risks remain, learning consistently from experts can negate instances of losses, while leveraging real information to gain profits. Bithumb Global’s services have not only given opportunities for new investors, but it has helped DeFi projects get higher recognition as well. Bithumb Global continues to blaze the fintech innovation trail with novel offerings that will lead the decentralized finance movement.
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>Random rebasing between a period of every 12-36 hours
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Ample Gold ($AMPLG) is a supply-elastic, non-dilutive collateral asset that adjusts supply based on gold- equal to 0.01 gram of gold. The gold index used is PAX Gold (PAXG) a digital asset created by Paxos which is where 1 PAXG token is backed by 1 troy ounce (31.1035g) of a 400 oz London Good Delivery gold bar. The DeFi space needs a collateral utility that can be used as a store of value and a hedge against periods of high inflation in the global economy.
Why The Gold Standard?
The gold standard is a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. With the gold standard, countries agreed to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold. A country that uses the gold standard sets a fixed price for gold and buys and sells gold at that price. That fixed price is used to determine the value of the currency. For example, if the U.S. sets the price of gold at $500 an ounce, the value of the dollar would be 1/500th of an ounce of gold.
The gold standard is not currently used by any government. This has allowed the wealthy to benefit from inflation and monetary crises due to trickle-down economics.
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"AMPLG combines the best of Bitcoin and stablecoins, and tethers it to gold. It is an inflation hedged, decentralized primitive."
AMPLG's smart contract design allows the automatic increase and decrease of supply based on market conditions. This means that the number of AMPLG tokens you own fluctuates, thus confirming the elastic property. The supply adjustment operation happens universally across all AMPLG token holders. So while the number of tokens have changed, the value stored is not diluted. This supply adjustment operation is called a rebase and creates a fairer monetary system.
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A fixed time or interval-based rebasing will introduce predictability into the supply adjustment. To avoid such predictability and potential price manipulation and exploitation, Ample Gold implements a random mechanism that adjusts its supply at a random time from 12-36 hours after the last rebase. This will converge to an average of 365 rebase events per year.
Our ultimate goal is to serve as a hedge to inflation of the US dollar
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Axioms are our base assumptions about the world. They act as filters for new information coming into our consciousness.
In classic philosophy, an axiom is a statement that is so evident or well-established, that it is accepted without controversy or question. As used in modern logic, an axiom is a premise or starting point for reasoning.
We use these axiomatic assumptions to build our internal models of the world around us. They allow us to compare new information we receive from the outside with our internal narratives, which helps us to decide whether to reject or accept that new information. They are, for want of a better world, your "common sense" beliefs.
So how do you go about changing a relatively normal person's core beliefs and base assumptions to the point of rejecting their fellow citizens as traitors, committing acts of murderous terrorist or vigilante violence like Fascist white supremacists running down protesters in acts of terror, ISIS beheadings or mass genocide?
When I was a child I was subjected to regular mental and physical abuse from my dad. I would also see my mother repeatedly beaten up and then flee to a women's refuge where I would stay with her.
Each time my mom left, whenever I visited my dad at weekends, he would constantly try to pressure and manipulate me into convincing my mom to get back together with him.
This never worked of course. But what it did do, is make me highly sensitive to manipulation techniques.
I was fascinated by people like the magician Derren Brown and the economist Naomi Klein - who both reveal the tricks of the trade used in the advertising and marketing industries to convince people.
One way of changing people into killing machines or obedient sheep is through a big shock to the system, like how electroshock therapy allows for a clean slate to rebuild peoples intern mental models.
Psychedelics are another way, having a similar effect in the brain. Encouraged by the alt right and alt-light influencers like Jordan Peterson and Rebel Wisdom as they try to “Red Pill” people (an expression taken from the film The Matrix as a metaphor for revealing revealing the truth about the world).
They use this shock and disorientation as a way to prepare a “blank-slate” in order to rebuild peoples internal axiomatic models with different core beliefs.
Remaking people by shocking them into obedience and gas-lighting them about their existing internal models, making them seem irrational, silly or outdated. Reducing them to a mental state of a child and then rebuilding them with a new ideology and worldview, known as “shock therapy”.
As Naomi Klein explains in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, these techniques work on larger scales with use of trauma and shock to influence political outcomes has been used since at least Milton Friedman coined the term “Economic Shock Treatment”. He advised that politicians push through painful and unpopular policies all at once during a time of crisis, before people could regain their footing.
The technique is used in economic markets on the large scale, and also against individuals on a small scale with individuals too. Economics and politics is just human interaction on a larger scale, after all.
Regular repetition and gentle suggestions of ideas can also instil new axiomatic models and core beliefs into people's minds. As Derren Brown demonstrates how powerful subtly suggestions can be alone, without the need for hypnosis, shocks or drugs.
But used in combination, shock and repetition can shift people until they have moved their positions, perceptions and beliefs about the world, to a place they could never have imagined.
But luckily once you deconstruct the deception and understand how the trick works, the illusion falls apart.
Firstly, we must define Modern Fascism. Modern Fascism ticks every box of the traditional definitions in Umberto Eco’s essay Ur-Fascism, and not only does it fulfil every criteria, it reveals other motivational forces and has evolved to include new aspects, and has changed into something worse, while it’s main weakness remain the same - the fact that it is primarily motivated by weakness.
As General Franco said in a 1938 interview with Henri Massis: "Fascism presents, wherever it manifests itself, characteristics which are varied to the extent that countries and national temperaments vary. It is essentially a defensive reaction of the organism, a manifestation of the desire to live, of the desire not to die, which at certain times seizes a whole people. So each people reacts in its own way, according to its conception of life… What can it have in common with Hitlerism, which was, above all, a reaction against the state of things created by the defeat, and by the abdication and the despair that followed it?"
This quote perfectly illustrates the transient nature of the ideology, but also the core motivations of Fascism. It is an ideology based on the assumption of weakness which yearns for restoration of a past greatness or to get revenge and recognition. But the way that it manifests itself is different in each place it takes hold.
Therefore the aim of this isn’t to make the case that any particular party or country has embraced out-right fascism (plenty of other people have made that case already), the aim is to reveal the underlying motivations, highlight threats and weaknesses and analyse the less obvious negative effects of Modern Fascism.
A false equivalence that is often used is that Liberal Imperialism is just the same as Fascism. And while it is true that imperialists use fascist dictators to extract cheap labour and resources and also dominate smaller counties in a similar way to how fascist empires aspire to rule, the key difference is that the populations of those countries are not gripped by the same fear based delusions.
And therefore more Liberal democracies are better equipped to hold their imperial position of power long term because they are better able to assess risks and react accordingly, rather than over-react based on paranoia and competing egos under excessive pressure.
This false equivalence was also used in 1930’s Germany, because far-left Communists had been co opted and infiltrated by Fascists. They would repeat the mantra that “the Social Democrats were the real racists”.
Contrary to the assumptions of most people, Fascism, as an ideology and political system of government is very distinct to white supremacy. It does of course include white supremecists, but In fact includes many other groups who have been co-opted by Fascist propaganda, or who implicitly support and enable their agenda.
Examples of modern opposition which has been repeatedly infiltrated or just simply made up by Fascists include innumerable conspiracy theories, police groups like Blue Lives Matter, militant Black nationalists, the Boogaloo movement who call for a race war, the “Proud Boys” and even sometimes supposed Anarchists, far-left Communists and Left Accelerationists.
Fascism distilled down to its core reason for existing is the suppression of opposition who represent workers rights and economic justice. So they patently DON’T look after their own people. They con them into submission of the state by generating jingoistic fear of “the other” - whoever is convenient on that day to blame for their problems.
Fascism is is an economic shock doctrine upon the inhabitants of the country. We don't spread fascist propaganda in tip-pot dictators because we care about the indiginous people there. We install Fascist dictators in order to remove workers rights and open up access to their natural resources.
Artificial moral panics can be engineered and real disasters used to allow corrupt oligarchs and financial predators to consolidate power further by buying up small innovative businesses who don’t have the excess capital to survive the turmoil on their own without external support. Or as a way to eradicate public services by sabotaging them and building mistrust.
They are used to erode faith in public services and institutions by rich people who simply want to pay less tax and don’t see why they should subsidise other human beings who haven’t had the same luck as them. So a major motivation of fascism is to suppress the opposition left-wing party who represent workers rights and egalitarian freedoms.
Populists claim to be against free trade and to some extent they are, but whatever they do will fail because they are interfering with the markets, so they will retreat to the power of market domination. They use their threats of trade barriers as more just more shock treatment for markets, rather than protecting actual jobs or industries.
This is a trick that has been played by Neoliberals too. But while Neoliberals use fascism as a tool for opening markets to Imperialism, they differ from Libertarians, not only because they embrace guns and weed, but they are starting from different positions to achieve the same goal;
Neoliberals seek to remove already existing public services and workers rights that lift bargaining power. But Libertarians want to STOP the government from ever providing those services and investments into the poor or enshrining workers rights.
I have been researching and analysing how economic systems differ, using a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threads). For each economic system I tried to be as neutral, fair and balanced as possible - which included Fascism.
I might seem strange that someone who is anti-Fascist would want to explore the strenghts and opportunities of Fascist ideologies, but in doing so it reveals the real weaknesses and threats which are too important for us to ignore.
So what exactly IS Fascism? Is it just an economic doctrine or a personal philosophy about the world? The answer is both.
The ideology has TWO core reasons to exist, and TWO distinct audiences types - with one based primarily on fear and the other greed, with each having a malignant and symbiotic relationship with each other.
Fear - Authoritarian/Conservative Fascists
Greed - Libertarian Fascists
There are very few people who actually buy into full Fascist ideology, most believe a watered down version of which resembles Conservatism or right-wing populism or accelerationism, and most of them genuinely believe they aren’t fascist, even though they are being constantly fed subtle suggestions fascist ideology or that align with their plans.
But the most ironic thing is that these groups are mostly being used by the second group of rich Libertarians globalist elites pulling a confidence trick on the host nation. Often posing “anti-establishment” conspiracists who actually uphold the establishment through misinformation. See: Russia Today and Youtube Bitcoin and Gold shills who subtly suggest fascist talking points.
With those rich Libertarians at the top more than happy for those below them, who they deem less worthy, living in even more delusional ideologies with fake enemies to fear, often resembling traditional Christian but values wrapped in modern conspiracies with added elements of “satanic panic”.
Modern Fascism has clearly inspired the modern day equivalents of Brownshirts and Blackshirts, self-styled vigilantes like QAnon, The Proud Boys and “The Boogaloo” - white nationalist violent extremists who want to accelerate towards a full-on race war.
It has also infiltrated numerous alternative groups, such as hyper-evangelical “end times” cults, alternative health scenes, internet conspiracy scenes like flat earth and occult magic.
A commonly missing hallmark of fascism that is present in history during the rise of fascism is a controlled opposition and explicit suppression of opposition. This distorts a healthy society and has unforeseen consequences and blowback.
Fantasies and political thought bubbles are self delusional custom realities resembling an episode of Black Mirror. They act as coping and escape mechanisms. Especially during the Covid 19 lock-down, these tendencies have gone into overdrive with massive events entering the real world featuring David Ike leading protesters alongside fascists as people ignore rising Fascism, climate change destruction and Covid deaths tolls.
Using disasters like Covid or irrational scare tactics such as the "Satanic Panic" style Fascist propaganda from QAnon, can shock people using their fear and disgust response, while making them distrust the news - allowing the government to evade valid criticism from experts while suggesting to people that government public services are inherently evil or Communist.
This type of propaganda is a Libertarians wet dream - making a population not only give up on tax funded public services, but actively fear them. An example is Trump trying to discredit and defund the US Postal Service and other public institutions and regulatory bodies.
Anti Semitism has been used throughout history by those in power to provoke an “us vs. them” mentality, leading to today's establishment still sanctioning and allowing Qanon on major media platforms, provoking and agitating terrorist attackers from the far-left and the far-right.
Those in power in fascist regimes allow and encourage mistrust in the mainstream media, while the long-tail niche political and interest groups keep people separated from each other, who each live in their own custom realities while the real elites continue to dominate and increase their power.
With each bubble framing realities based of identity, race, class, nationality, or even subculture special interests like alternative medicine and “gamer bro” culture, so that when they interact in real life or online, they are speaking past each other because they don’t even agree on the basic principles of how they view society.
While the main flaws and weaknesses of Fascism remain the same, they are in-fact exacerbated by this new hybrid model. It’s main weakness is the very fact that it is motivated by weaknesses, fear and greed - rather than true strength, self-confidence or heroic benevolent power, as their adherents like to believe.
A misconception of fascists themselves that it is based on strength, when it is actually based on weakness - even when the driving force is greed rather than fear. Libertarian fascists want to extract labour and materials at cheaper prices, while inflating their own asset values.
In other words; international financiers with little allegiance to any country. Ironically the very type of people who Conservative fascists claim to be opposed to.
Fascism claims to make society more successful, but it actually accelerates the destruction of the culture, country or people, rather than preserving and conserving it, because it betrays a fundamental weakness of insecurity. Competitors and rivals can easily see through the charade of and take advantage.
If anything does the exact opposite. Russian and China are clearly goading Western nations into becoming more divided and totalitarian, as they themselves benefit from becoming more Liberal and open and reap the competitive advantages that brings. See Kraut’s excellent video about Trump on China as an example.
Keynesian investment in the country and people, giving workers more rights, opportunities and a more bargaining power is what makes a country successful and innovative, rather than the faux Keynesian policy of giving kickbacks to corrupt officials for government contracts and widening inequality by supporting the already rich, rather than the ordinary people.
Who is going to war with who? Who is winning? A modern adage is that tankies are just fascists because of their support of authoritarian proto-fascist leaders and regimes who often claim to be Communist.
But from my experience talking to actual fascists, they crave a more multi-polar world where other strong leaders rise up as competition and form alliances with dictators.
So to me, it looks like Fascists are the real Tankies; wishing our enemies be stronger and wanting to accelerate towards race war or civil war that weakens the society.
Not only did Donald Trump have knowledge of Russia allowing ISIS bounties on US troops and withhold that from the public while courting Putin, I have personally heard white supremacists backing extremists Islamists in Discord servers.
Trump jumped to the defense of the people who put a 17 year old with a gun against civil rights protesters and assumed the intent before saying that the outcome should be decided by the legal system.
They share common values and beliefs like Anti Semitism, accelerationist end-times fantasies, patriarchal traditional values and a fear of outside progressive cultures. In fact modern extremists white supremecist groups share recruitment and terrorist strategies and tactics with militant islamists.
You could argue that it was inflicted by Russian or Imperialist propagandists onto the German people in order to take control of larger areas of Europe after the destabilisation of war.
Hitler and Stalin came to a non agression truce called The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which as was a secret non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those two powers to partition Poland between them.
The pact, signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was officially known as the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
They divided Poland under the banner of fighting “Polish Fascism” nearly a century ago with both sides ultimately lying to their own people about spreading freedom while being authoritarian to their core and being able to blame “the other” as being the cause of all their problems.
But these days fascism seems to be a rogue meme that no longer serves any particular group. It is pathologically damaging to any society that it happens to grip.
Even the aforementioned Libertarians and accelerationists who think they are benefiting are only temporarily gaining by market price volatility. They ultimately lose through the blowback effect of the whirlpool they create.
It is well established that Fascist dictators are driven by psychopathic characters and tendencies. They either don’t care about the truth, or disregard it if it’s not convenient to their narrative.
In totalitarian despotic societies facts are reversed. As George Orwell proclaimed throughout his writings; “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”.
Similar to how authoritarian Starlinist Communists harnessed people’s alienation and tricked them into thinking that it’s possible for the state to fully decommodify everything without having markets, money to account for things, domination or hierarchy or try to convince people that a revolution is just around the corner.
But of course, a council representative is still the head of an organisation, for all intents and purposes, because they wield executive power over others, even if the name has changed. Markets are emergent properties when groups of humans want or need a certain commodity when it becomes available.
But while both Communist and Fascist ideologies are based on lies that harness peoples alienation, fear and envy, Fascism is also especially to the weak. It is attractive to those who want to be strong again (or were never to begin with), or those who want to have a strong leader to help them.
Fascism betrays to others the inherent weakness. Like the insecure kid in school who lashes out - others around can see that it is because of their own insecurity which makes them appear even weaker. Fascism is a psychopathy driven by insecurity.
When people become so absorbed in an ideology there is a phenomena of people to self identify as an actual ideology? This produces a phenomena called Identity Protective Cognition, where people's self worth becomes attached to a belief system or ideology. So that when new information contradicts their worldview it is seen as an attack on the person themselves.
Therefore irrational, emotional quick fix thinking is the default when there is too much pressure and they feel attacked. They no longer use their slow effortful reflective thinking. (See Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow)
This approach has parallels in evolutionary biology, in which a central issue is the ability to adapt to changing environments. Competency - over-competitiveness in management causes chaos which STOPS hierarchies of competence. (Insert video clips of Sapolsky on Chaos vs Reductionism etc. timestamps linked).
Fascists try to reduce variability in culture and outcomes - causes weakness of less adaptability - because as Sapolsky explains, the variability is not just noise in that type of system CAS (Complex Adaptive Systems) - the variability IS the system. It is fractal and scale free. The noise and variability is an intrinsic part of the system.
But the system doesn’t function properly when the agreed-upon parameters that individuals believe to be true aren’t universal enough to have any form of group coherence.
Birds and swarms of animals can produce amazing complex phenomena, which are greater than the sum of their individual parts. There is a “network effect” once a certain threshold and certain conditions and rules are met.
These rules can be very simple, like repulsion or attraction, or staying a certain distance apart while traveling in a similar direction, but collectively they create patterns that emerge with complexity and I dear say, a certain amount of beauty.
So what happens when millions of people are being brainwashed and misled by cults that are leaving them with a reduced ability to make decisions?
Giving them shit-for-brains just so that some rich people at the top can pay a few percentage less tax? That is the sign of a deeply sick system that cannot continue to function effectively. It is sick on so many levels.
The problem with viewing the world through only one lens of analysis (or bucket of knowledge) is that you can fall into unnecessarily reductive thinking. (Sapolsky clips)
I describe myself as a philosophical anarchist. Which does NOT mean I want total chaos and disorder - it means I want the optimal solution to emerge - including the influences and experiences from the bottom-up.
I also think that a bottom-up (or anarchist) lens of analysis is necessary for society to run cohesively in an optimal state. If it is repressed it distorts the overall picture of reality for everyone - similar to a CEO that doesn’t listen to employees and workers on the ground.
I interpret as constantly holding authority to account - to justify its existence and reason for dominating others. I also believe it is every citizen's responsibility to hold authority to account. This would be necessary under ANY economic system or society.
Anarchists also believe in stigmenric, rhizomatic action to make the world better, organically, not from a top-down authority, which fascism seeks to instill on society.
Human beings are collectively parts of a bigger chaotic but stable system known as a CAS (Complex Adaptive System). CAS’s are chaotic systems that can reach periodic steady states of equilibrium.
As Professor Sapolsky explains, humans uniquely exist with a mixture of both communal and individualistic tendencies; known in the scientific world as Tournament vs. pair bonding.
All the evidence suggests that this tendency has greatly improved our success as a species. But those tendencies distorted too far one way or another lead to pathologies and the worst collective misdeeds and wars.
Because as Professor Sapolsky also explains in his brilliant lecture series (which I have condensed the pertinent parts of into a 4 part YouTube video) about CAS; the signals coming from the randomness is being suppressed or repressed, it interferes with the functioning of the system.
Pressure in the system makes the patterns more complex but at a certain point of increasing pressure in the complex system, it stops being linear and the doubling of patterns and periodicity totally stops. Order completely begins to break down because of the butterfly effect.
Fascist regimes fettishise order and rigidity but in a complex adaptive system, the noise IS the phenomena, not a byproduct to be discarded, ignored or repressed.
The majority of people on the right genuinely want to help society by bringing order, using top-down draconian measures if necessary. Whereas the left generally wants to help society by proactively building from the bottom up.
I think both of these approaches are necessary to be balanced properly for a healthy functioning society to emerge.
It seems our tendency to harness both traits and to focus intently on one or the other is our greatest collective strength, while also being our greatest weakness.
And similarly, on an individual level I believe our greatest strengths and weakness are the fact that our brains work efficiently by categorising information to filter out the unimportant bits that slow us down.
As the book by Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow, brilliantly explains, slow deliberate, consideration thinking takes energy and time, so our brains developed filters which come out as biases. This is an inherent weakness of the human brain.
Now imagine the butterfly effect on the life of just one person who is influenced by the brainworms of QAnon cults or conspiracies which distorts their internal models of the world which they use to filter information about the world
The sad and shocking stories on forums like r/QanonCasualties show the devastating effects on their close friends, family and work life - amplified by their ever increasingly disconnected lives. (insert Flat earther clip - zoom in on idiot rolling head)
Now scale that up to the level of a whole of a society, a country, or the world? This is a collective madness to cope with and avoid the reality facing us as a species.
Only collective action with agreed basic facts to work from will do to avoid the total descent into actual chaos and destruction.
In this essay I will have put forward the case for the following four key arguments being true and I have present supporting evidence to explain the logical reasoning for why our current definitions need updating and the threat levels reassed, from a non-hysterical but critical perspective. The overall claims I made are:
This reality is something I think a lot of fascists, ultra-nationalists and people who have been influenced by the propaganda know deep down on some level already - that they are avoiding the realities of pandemics and ecological harms of ignoring science and reality as it is.
They ignore it because fantasies are simpler to understand. And a narrative based on fear of the other is a simpler way to to process a complex world.
It is also attractive to the part of us that is drawn to conflict and drama - that hunger for something genuinely interesting to happen.
But I would argue from my experience that the beautiful complexity of life in all it’s shades of grey is much more interesting, fun and genuinely fulfilling to understand and engage in, even if it might be harder to deal with and even harder to explain.
I believe doing so is also vital for the very survival of our species - we can no longer afford to live in a fantasy, we need to collectively take responsibility for the world as it exists in reality.
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This thread is for any events going on in Iowa this week! What events will you be attending? What events do you want to attend? What events do you want to promote? Whats new around that state this week? Add a comment below. Anything from music to politics to a house party.
If you have any recurring events, specials, or other suggestions for this weekly thread, please send us a modmail or post it here and ping /u/annarchist - else it will likely be focused on shit Im interested in.
Please provide the following when posting new events: Time, Date, Location, Cost and some sort of description of the event.
New threads start every week, and will be stickied at the top of the subreddit. I am still working on the formatting, so if it sucks or you want changes, please provide feedback.
Here are some places to find things to do - if you see something that looks cool feel free to discuss it here because I'm sure some of us will miss it: Cityviews Calendar - Juice Calendar - Des Moines Register Event Page - Catch Des Moines Calendar - Travel Iowa Event Search
Outdoors: Trout Stocking Schedule | Iowa Biking Maps | Outdoors Things to Do | Hunting Regulations | Fishing Regulations Note -Annual Iowa hunting and fishing licenses expire on Jan. 10.
Sports: Iowa Cubs Schedule | Cedar Rapids Kernal Schedule | Hawkeye Football Schedule | Hawkeye Basketball Schedule | Iowa State Football Schedule | Iowa State Basketball Schedule | Drake Basketball | UNI Football | UNI Basketball | Barnstormer Schedule | Waterloo Blackhawks
Music: Bands in Town - Des Moines | Bands in Town - Cedar Falls | Bands in Town - Iowa City | Nitefall on the River
Local Message Boards: UrbanDSM|IowaOutdoors515Crew Election|Dates :--|:-- General Election|November 6, 2018. City Primary|October 8, 2019 Regular City & Regular School|November 5, 2019 City Runoff|December 3, 2019 Primary|June 2, 2020 General|November 3, 2020
Des Moines Reoccurring Events:
*Third Friday of Every Month is Mixology at the Science Center in Des Moines * Blues Jam Band every Tuesday at Carl's Place, $3 tallboys * Area515 1731 Grand Avenue, Des Moines - Electronics Club 2nd Wednesdays at 7pm - 3D Printing Club 3rd Mondays at 7pm - Ham Radio Night 4th Mondays at 7pm * Young Professionals Connection Calendar * Des Moines Bitcoin and Blockchain MeetUp at Gravitate in West Des Moines - 4th Thursday of the month - 7:00pm * D&D at Mistress Brewery in Ankeny Sundays 3:30pm-7:30pm.
Quad Cities Reoccuring events: * Every other Wednesday (July 25th): Eat the Streets (downtown Davenport) * relevant sub thread
Cedar Falls Reoccurring Events: * Every Tuesday night there are rides that leave at singlespeed in CF. 5:30 is the 22mph average ride. 6:00 is the 18mph average ride and women's ride. * Every Wednesday is the the CvC WOW ride that meets at 6 pm at 4th and Main St in CF. Several types of rides for all types of riders.
Council Bluffs Reoccurring Events: * Every Thursday night in council bluffs is the Taco Ride from CB to mineola Iowa
Central Iowa Bar Map - If you know who created this or want to download the XML and expand on it, please do so! If you create an updated one including your regions bar, Ill replace this one.
Note this is going to start likely central Iowa Centric as I am using that as the baseline the creation of this.
Tag/ping /u/AnnArchist if you post in here with like something added on a weekly basis. I also included the tag here so I remember to check this.
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In order to interact and ensure higher sales, most companies choose to remain up-to-date with the most recent trends within the web domain. These website development trends provide a chance to achieve a wider audience pool for increased business outreach, and better generation of sales of products & services.
There are some exciting new website development trends which will be at the forefront of the 2020s. How will the 2020s be for the general look and feel of websites? What technologies and platforms will rule over the online dev scene now and within the next decade? These major trends are running supreme and can still grasp the worldwide Website Development industry.
Let’s explore website development trends that are prevalent now and can remain a priority within the future years explained by website agency in USA.
Alerts started as a simple way for a call to action from website viewer. However, now push notifications are a really popular trend which majority of web site follow.
Have you ever noticed a symbol on top of most of the webpages that prompt you for sending notifications? Well, that's an example of a push notification. These push notifications are often integrated through plug-ins or by employing a dedicated push notification platform.
Remember in class when handwriting mattered and the way you wrote on a paper had tons to try to to together with your overall impression on the teacher?
Well, somehow within the 2020s we are coming to it same thing but during a different way. the web is generally about giving information to people either through written or visual content. Because the text may be a major source of online content, the way it appears on your website may be a matter of utmost importance. Hence, typography is of high relevance in website development where there's an emergence of latest fonts to assist your content look sharper to its audience. This ultimately ensures a far better user experience.
Many eCommerce businesses are incorporating chatbots on their websites. the rationale is that it helps in customer engagement with higher chances of selling the products.
As AI and Machine Learning concepts are integrated into the event of chat-bots; the interaction with the purchasers goes to be more human-like and relevant.
Based on JavaScript, Single-page applications (SPAs) work alright among user devices. except for high performance, it also minimizes interruptions caused by page reloading.
Single-page applications are a wonderful choice for building responsive websites that support mobile, tablet, and desktop applications. The 2020s are going to be the last decade when single-page applications again become very fashionable with React and Angular frameworks as these two platforms are very appropriate for creating hybrid or cross-platform apps.
Following the footsteps of 2019, Progressive web apps (PWAs) also will stay within the limelight during the 2020s and beyond. the bulk of all browsers support the trendy web features that PWAs require. this suggests that companies can start to supply a smoother, app-like experience through the mobile web. PWAs also will still remain a well-liked choice for mobile app development.
Because of its high usability, state-of-the-art animation and dynamic graphics; Motion UI are going to be a number one web development trend for the 2020s. Motion UI helps developers within the art of storytelling by employing a wide selection of tools and techniques. Being a sustainable library, Motion UI provides seamless transition effects on the interface . Developers can employ Motion UI techniques without having very solid expertise in JS or jQuery library. this is often one among the explanations it's extremely popular and can still trend for the upcoming decade.
Representing the text, animations, pictures, and icons; Longreads helps in telling an entire story in simple words. The user can scroll to the page and even cling on to the main information points through it.
Longreads is right for giant chunks of content, because it helps the users in better readability and understanding.
Website developer in USA recommends to making webpages is not any longer restricted to the developer community, because of the concept of content management systems, sites can now be created through modules.
You can select a module of your choice and drop it into your website. The 2020s will see Gutenberg becoming a well-liked module, especially for WordPress users. The concept of drag and drop will become a traditional action for creating webpages.
One of the most important website development trends now and within the future goes to be Blockchain. It enables supply chain auditing; provides automatic protection of important intellectual properties, smart contracts, and failure-free decentralized file storage.
Need we are saying more?
Web developer in California suggest in the coming years, Blockchain are going to be opening doors for p2p commerce and crowd-funding. Gone are the times when Blockchain was only for the Bitcoin and other digital currencies. This decade it'll gain more traction for its upcoming features especially security.
With the constant emphasis on data collection and analysis, the concept of tracking user behavior has also caught the eye of the tech community. there's an entire science associated with how consumers act, think and make a choice on the websites. How users are engaged before making a sale features a lot to try to to with their thought process and what's provided to them at that point. as an example, consumers could also be given a reduction on the item, as long as they subscribe a newsletter.
Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) tools have tremendously helped businesses from guesswork and allowing actual statistics on what works for increasing customer flow also as overall sales on the web site.
By tracking user behavior, you've got a far better chance of knowing about how users are working on your website and therefore the potential means on what brought them here. for instance, a call to action, or by reading a blog, taking a quiz, etc. are a number of the ways a user can happen to land on your website.
Many free and paid tools for user behavior tracking are beneficial in web development and analysis. Google Analytics is the first choice for the bulk of companies for tracking user behavior.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Web development is both an art and a science. If done correctly, it can catapult a business to new heights and even establish an upcoming business as a household name.
However, it's important to interact the correct blend of resources and techniques for fulfillment. Create cost-effective and workable solutions to expand business by outsourcing website projects.
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From the article.
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The QDAO DeFi community is helping us push the project to global success! The development of the platform continues, participants accrue daily income and new products are under development. Let’s share some important updates from last week.
The situation in the crypto market has changed dramatically over the last week. It’s correction time! Market capitalization dropped to the $320 billion mark by losing almost 20% of its value. The reason is clear – a storm in the US stock markets.
Bitcoin lost 11.54% of its price and is now trading around the $10,050 mark. The breaking of $10,000 will be a strong signal for the whole community and could cause panic. The decline will continue towards lower figures.
The DeFi market reacted to the global sinking. In just one week, the total value locked in DeFi services dropped from the $9.5 billion height to $8 billion. Further decline is possible. Here are the week’s results of some popular DeFi coins:
Now, the crypto market is vulnerable to the events in the traditional financial markets. If the crisis continues, we can expect a further decline.
The DeFi Market took a short break before the next race but remains in the spotlight of news outlets. Here are the most important news feeds of the week:
The QDAO DeFi team is working hard to ensure the wealth of the community. Only consistency and users’ support will help our project achieve global success.
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Hi everyone. Aloha.
I'm a fellow ETH HODLer who first bought in at $39 and many times since then. I've been around crypto since BTC was $50 when I mined it using Jalapenos. About three ago I was the first (or one of the first) writers to teach others how to yield farm their ETH and other crypto...except I didn't know I was doing that because we didn't even have that term yet.
I've also written guides for farming LINK using CeFi on Reddit.
Recently, by request I wrote a guide for a few ETHtraders and LINKtraders about how to yield farm LINK using DeFi at up to 52% APY (at the time, we all know that's variable) using crypto derivatives. Since no one else was doing it - and I have tons of experience doing Tier 1-3 Tech Support, being an Organizer, and a Community Manager (another term we didn't have) for startup crypto projects - I ended up doing it by default.
One thing led to another: voila I'm the new Official lead mod and Community Manager for $YFI on Reddit. I also help with the project's Technical writing and documentation from an engineer's POV.
yETH vaults are black holes for ETH, meaning that ETH isn't being sold anytime soon which we can all agree is a good thing. They're black holes because they're too busy earning their HODLers more ETH. We discuss how it does this and more (including upcoming V2 improvements and the re-launch; $140M of deposits in 2 days were capped for now to protect investor ROI)
You can meet some of the Primary Dev Team members there, and get answers to general or specific questions from them directly in some cases, but usually from volunteers, mods, or myself.
These interactions includes technical support, as this has become a de facto location for troubleshooting issues as well, on what is admittedly a risky late stage Beta Test in yEarn Finance using very cleverly designed Smart Contracts from someone who had a lot of practice at reading and writing them.
If you don't mind taking extra risks after doing your DD, then it's easy to see that $YFI is one of if not the safest place and most profitable place on the web to reliably and safely yield farm your ETH. (Yes, I know it's a paradox, both risky and safe; it's weird)
Make no mistake though, you're still going to be a late stage Beta tester if you try it out. The risk/reward analysis and value proposition is interesting though. There's a reason why 15% of the top 50 gainers on the day were crappy YF clones.
Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope to see you there. Cheers!
