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2021 virtual conference/event recommendations (x-post from /r/Bitcoin)

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How does DAO work with blockchain?

The DAO concept is indispensable for the future of the internet of value.

DAO is bringing a brand new form of substitute governance to the test ground.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are typical examples of DAO. Most of the rules are open and transparent, such as quantity limit, competing ledgers’ consensus mechanism and management rules. To some extent, DAO is a self-regulating payment organization. Every DAO member is the shareholder and developer of the organization. Miners and cryptocurrency exchanges also provide their services to participate in this organization. Every proposal for improvement must obtain universal consensus among all network participants to pass.

When DAO is requested by more people, the shares they were holding is likely to increase in value. Therefore they will be able to share the income from the value increment.

The adoption of DAO governance poses a very high requirement to blockchain project’s technical capability and financial strength. The project must be decentralized in its core logic.

In essence, DAO is a mechanism to transform organizational structure. DAO’s mission is to lower transaction costs through coordination. DAO is creating a brand new organizational structure. This is highly valuable to corporations.

In order to have a powerful DAO, its members must abide by the following rules:

  1. Equality in obtaining the same information so as to make informed decisions;

  2. Same fees for preferable transactions;

  3. Decisions should be based upon DAO’s own interest and biggest benefit (as opposed to coercion or fear)

DAO attempts to unify individual incentives with overall best results (for individuals or companies). DAO is designed to solve issues related to group actions, thereby solve the coordination issues. By pooling the funds together and vote by fund allocation, all stakeholders will be motivated to coordinate and share the cost. This will benefit the entire ecosystem.

DMEX utilizes DAO’s brand new governance mechanism.

DAO is a loosely connected party that builds upon smart contract and token. DAO’s members share a common goal. Their cooperative relationship is only loosely coupled. However, their interests are highly interlocked.

DAO typically builds around a project. DAO utilizes token as incentive and proof of value. Implement smart contract to determine the cooperative relationship between its users and the allocation of profits. Members are not designated to specific roles such as investor, developer, partner, operator or consumer etc. Everyone who holds the token is a part of DAO. Everyone can participate in the building and decision making process of DAO.

Just like DMEX’s founder once said: We intent to utilize DeFi to provide an authentic and effective, just and fair trading environment for both users and miners. This is a fundamental safeguard for DeFi and other financial innovations’ further advancement. From the standpoint of corporation management and strategic planning, a methodical organization is able to gather more valuable inputs, work to a higher standard and dispense the benefits more equitably. Together we will be able to push the DMEX ecosystem to every corner of the world.

Hence, the decentralized cloud mining power financial service platform of DMEX is built to create a marketplace that can tokenize mining power as NFT, lower the barriers to user participation, make mining machine income transparent, automatically distribute income, collectively share the risk, and impartially governed by the DAO community. DAO is the obvious option. When a user purchased mining power, the miner must release income every day as the contract stipulates. If the miner defaults, or if the released income is lower than 80% of the average baseline for 5 consecutive days, the user will be entitled to apply for refund to the DAO. The platform will also punish dishonest miners. DMEX’s has reserved a portion of its platform token DMC as the rainy day fund. This fund is managed by DAO. If a miner black swan event occurs and causes significant economical loss to the users, the users can initiate a vote via DAO. If the vote is passed, the platform rainy day fund will be used to compensate the users.

DMEX’s innovation is also reflected by its tokenization of mining power NFT. DMEX offers a variety of creative financial tools in order to help users to obtain stable mining income. These tools include but not limited to mining power trading, NFT backed loan, and NFT backed mining. Whether you are a miner or an average user, you will be able to mobilize your capital on DMEX and maximize your income.

In conclusion, the brand new DAO infrastructure will greatly improve the flexibility and dexterity of future innovations. It lays the groundwork for a fair and trustworthy financial ecosystem.


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In 2015 some event at my university were giving away 20$ CAD worth of bitcoins to people who wants it. Today it is worth now more than 1 000$. Anyways I bought 200$ worth of bitcoins in 2017 where it was right before at the bubble peak then crashed. Lost money obviously and didn't paid attention to bitcoins until recently where today's value is even higher than 2017 bubble. Should I sell it right now and wait for the next crash or the value will keep going up? What's the best way to sell it for someone who lives in Canada? I heard that coinbase is really good but I have to pay taxes on capital gain...


Liquidity pools update, mass liquidations on Compound, Graph launch – what's new for Yearner Finance this week

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As we are preparing to launch the liquidity pools on Yearner Finance, here's a development update plus our take on some of the recent events in DeFi.

Many of you have asked what's taking us so long to launch the pools. The main reason is that we're going to have quite a few liquidity pools, and for each of them there's a lot of testing to do. We literally have to go through every line of code several times. After what happened to Percent Finance a few weeks ago, we've become even more convinced that DeFi requires very meticulous bug testing.

By the way, we're also in talks with a professional blockchain security agency for a full-scale audit of our contracts – hopefully it's coming in January 2021. Ideally, we'd like to do the audit before the launch, but by this point we're 99% sure that the code is secure – an official audit report would be just an extra proof for the community.

Anyhow, a lot has happened in DeFi in these couple of weeks. The biggest news is obviously Bitcoin at above $22,500, but since it also pushed the price of ether to $650, the total value locked in DeFi protocols jumped above $10 billion. We're very happy about this, of course, because that means a lot of new users will soon flow to DeFi – and Yearner Finance will be there to serve them. We couldn't have chosen a better moment for launch!

Of course, there's also an element of risk to the BTC and ETH rally. If the price continues to go up, many investors might choose to take their funds out of DeFi protocols and buy Bitcoin or ether instead. But we believe that only larger holders will do this, as withdrawing money from a protocol with the current gas fees is impractical for a small investor.

Another interesting thing that happened and that affects Yearner Finance (though indirectly) is the $85m liquidation on Compound that affected 120 users. Something happened on Coinbase to push the price of DAI to $1.30 – most probably it was someone very consciously exploiting a vulnerability and targeting Compound, because Coinbase is the only price oracle used for DAI by this DeFi protocol. In any case, when the price jumped, there was a wave of liquidations as people's collateral wasn't enough to cover their now-expensive loans in DAI. The victims later submitted an improvement proposal that would compensate them, but the rest of DAI holders voted against it.

Why does it matter to Yearner Finance? Because it shows that even the biggest DeFi protocols are vulnerable and that you have to diversify your funds. You shouldn't just put everything you have in Compound, or Aave, or any other platform. Yearner Finance will do the diversification for you: our algorithm redistributes funds across several protocols to maximize the returns. Even if there's a problem on one platform, your losses will be minimal.

Finally, we have to talk about the Graph mainnet launch. It's not exactly a DeFi project, though it can be used for DeFi. Graph queries blockchain network for data, so, for example, you can build an API that returns the value locked on different platforms. We at Yearner Finance love the idea and are already looking how to implement Graph into our interface. For example, we'd like our users to be able to see how much of the funds deposited in Yearner Finance are allocated to different protocols, what percentage they constitute there, what the current APY is for each, and so on. This would help us show that our allocation algorithm really ensures the highest possible rewards.

But before we can work on our own subgraph on Graph, we should launch the liquidity pools, so we'd better get back to work. Remember that you can still join our amazing bounty program and earn 5 ETH! You'll find all the details on https://yearner.finance/.


CEZO Token next level blockchain for dapp builder

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CEZO Token INTRODUCTION

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In the event that ledger just disappeared. With there being no support or updates would we lose our coins? (x-post from /r/Bitcoin)

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Inheritance/disaster planning with hardware wallets

I hope this thread will be interesting to everyone interested in the technical side of Bitcoin, as I suspect that anyone reading /r/bitcoin in 2020 is going to need this information by 2025. If you don't know the answer, can you send it to someone who might?

Like many people here I am in a fortunate position and have considerable value in BTC, controlled with a hardware wallet.

There are two situations I am planning for:

  1. My unexpected death (or incapacitation)
  2. A severe fire which destroys my home

I need to securely store my backup so that there is not a single point of failure, or single point of trust.

I think that a multisig address is not suitable:

  • If I move the coins out of that specific address, the system fails
  • Trustees can see how much money I have, and what I am spending
  • It is very difficult to set this up with Trezor and I keep having technical issues with electrum at the point of setting the derivation path. I cannot find a good tutorial for the Trezor One
  • There appears to be significant drawbacks to multisig with hardware wallets
  • and technical challenges which my family may not be able to overcome in the event of my death.

Therefore the next best thing seems to be splitting my seed phrase up and giving 3-4 words to friends and family. This has the disadvantage that ALL the friends need to be contactable if I die in 10 years. They could collude to steal, but this is the same as multisig. I don't think it's reasonable to try and brute force 20 words of a 24 word seed phrase.

Am I missing something? Is there an easier, secure way to do this? Ideally I would like to multisig encrypt my entire seed phrase so that m of n trustees would be able to unlock the whole phrase, allowing a little redundancy.


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How to recognize manipulation: comparing the silver and cryptocurrency bubbles

How to recognize manipulation: comparing the silver and cryptocurrency bubbles

From January to December 2017, the price of bitcoin increased from $1,000 to $20,000. Experts predicted bitcoin at $100,000, and investors took loans to buy bitcoin and exchanged cars for ASIC miners. In 2018, the price of bitcoin dropped to $4,000. Some users lost their savings, some of them went into debt.

A similar situation developed in the silver market in the 1970s. The value of the asset increased from $2 to $50 and then dropped to $4. Metal prices were inflated by the sons of Haroldson Hunt, one of the richest Americans according to the New York Times at the time. The subsequent market crash went down in history as Silver Thursday.

The Hunt brothers: billionaires without income

Haroldson Hunt is an American oil tycoon. In the 1940s, he received $1 million a week from 900 oil fields in the United States and Libya.

In the 1960s, Hunt imported Arab oil into the United States and capitalized on the price differential. By 1969, the billionaire lost this earnings: Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya and nationalized the oil industry.

Three years later, Hunt’s empire began to fall apart: Haroldson developed dementia, and an oil crisis erupted in the United States. In 1973, the OAPEC countries stopped supplying oil to the United States. America cut its consumption of petroleum products, and Hunt lost some of his income.

A year later, OAPEC lifted the embargo and restored supplies. American companies started buying Arab oil: its cost was three times lower than the American one.

Haroldson Hunt’s sons were left without a source of income. Herbert and Nielson Hunt assessed the state of the oil industry in the United States and decided to make money on other raw materials.

The Hunts chose silver. In the 20th century, it was used by jewelers and film makers. Companies like Kodak consumed several tons of this precious metal every year.

The oil crisis of the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the flourishing of the American film industry. The number of films shot annually increased by an average of 7%. Hollywood needed film, and its producers needed silver.

The Hunts buy silver. Asset price — $2,9

The Hunts’ plan was simple: to monopolize the silver market and sell it at a premium. In 1973, they bought 40 million ounces (1,244 tons) of silver for $116 million. The average asset price was $2.9 per ounce.

By February 1974, silver had risen to $6.4 an ounce. In December of the same year, the Hunts owned 55 million ounces (1,770 tons) of the precious metal — 8% of the world’s reserves at that time.

For five years, the Hunts created a silver deficit: they bought up futures, demanded delivery on them, and exported the metal to Switzerland. By 1979, they practically monopolized the market.

The shortage of silver has led to a jump in prices. In two months — from August to October 1979 — consumers and speculators raised the asset price from $8 to $16.

The Hunts’ plan worked: the suppliers were hoping for further price increases and canceled the exchange sell orders. This exacerbated the deficit, and in 1980 the price of silver climbed to $50 an ounce.

The Hunt own one third of the world’s silver reserves. Asset price — $50

By 1980, the Hunts held a third of the world’s silver bullion reserves. In addition, the brothers owned 69% of the futures for April delivery.

Th Hunts hoped for a further rise in the asset price. They did not sell ingots and continued to buy futures contracts.

In early 1980, the Hunt brothers’ paper profits were $3.5 billion.

Their futures positions were worth $7 billion, while the Hunt borrowed $6 billion from brokers.

The Hunts’ actions were reflected in the jewelry houses and the owners of the silver mines. The former lost buyers due to high prices for jewelry, the latter hedged risks and incurred losses.

Silver consumers and producers feared market capture. They wrote complaints to the CFTC financial regulator and the management of the commodity exchanges, and also covered the situation in the newspapers. For example, in 1980, the Tiffany jewelry house ran an article in the New York Times denouncing the Hunt’s greed.

The Hunts sell silver. Asset price — $5

In the early 1980s, representatives of the jewelry industry approached the management of the American commodity exchange COMEX. They asked the exchange to stop the Hunts from accumulating silver.

COMEX employees did not find grounds for freezing the market: the Khanty acted within the law. Then the exchange offered the brothers to sell the April futures at $50, and instead buy the July contracts at $25 or silver coins at $35 per ounce. The Hunts refused.

The Hunts’ decision led to accusations of market manipulation. COMEX announced a freeze on futures trading and banned new positions. They could not buy futures and maintain the price of silver. Meanwhile, traders were closing long positions in April futures.

By March 1980, the price of silver had dropped to $30 an ounce. The brokers then asked the Hunts for $135 million in margin.

The brothers did not comply with the demand, and on March 13, the largest lender forcibly liquidated their positions worth $2 billion. Silver prices dropped to $20 an ounce.

On March 27, 1980, the Hunts liquidated the rest of the silver positions. This day was called Silver Thursday: the price of the metal fell by 50% to $10 per ounce.

The Hunt lost $9 billion. The brothers liquidated their futures positions, sold silver in Switzerland and started the family business. Even after that, they had $1.5 billion in debt.

On Silver Thursday, market participants realized that the Hunts would not support the asset price. After the liquidation of their positions, the silver market supply increased by a third.

Over the course of two years, the value of the metal has been gradually falling. In 1982 it returned to the 1975 level at $5 an ounce.

Silver 1979 and Bitcoin 2017: what do they have in common

The 1979 and 2017 market bubbles began with traders’ belief that other investors would buy the asset at a price higher than the current one. But the silver bubble and the bitcoin boom have other things in common.

The asset price rose thanks to the infusion of borrowed money. The Hunts raised the price of silver to $50 an ounce thanks to a $6 billion loan. The brothers were going to get it back after selling the positions at a profit.

According to a study by University of Texas at Austin professor Joe Griffin, in 2017, an unknown manipulator bought bitcoins after releasing new batches of USDT. After bitcoin fell in 2018, the manipulator returned unsecured USDT to Tether for burning.

The asset price was growing due to manipulative actions. The Hunts maintained the value of silver due to the previously created deficit. According to Griffin, an unknown manipulator in 2017 bought bitcoin on drawdowns, accumulated a position and did not allow the price to fall below the previous lows.

The rise in the price of the asset caused panic in the society. In 1979–1980, Americans sold silver bars from remelted cutlery, coins and jewelry to dealers. The thieves took silver from the houses and did not touch other things.

In 2017, the media covered the rise of Bitcoin and Ethereum. This attracted newcomers to the crypto market, who took out loans for trading on crypto-exchanges, buying coins and devices for mining.

Silver 1979 and Bitcoin 2017: what’s the difference

The Silver and Bitcoin Bubbles followed a similar scenario, but had several differences. This is due to the lack of regulators on the crypto market in 2017.

The silver bubble burst due to the intervention of the exchange, bitcoin — after the depletion of demand from large investors. The COMEX stock exchange stopped trading in silver due to suspicions of market manipulation. There was no such regulator on the crypto market. The Bitcoin bubble burst when large investors closed their purchases and the asset price fell 25%.

Silver fell 80% in two months, bitcoin in a year. After the COMEX decision, the Hunts could not maintain the silver price. Other traders closed positions and brought down the market. New investors bought silver due to the freeze in trading.

Crypto exchanges continued to work after the fall in the price of bitcoin. Newbies bought bitcoin, while speculators made a profit.

At the moment, the role of regulators in the crypto market is partially played by technical problems on the exchanges. Trading cores fail to keep up with the number of orders during market panic. At such times, traders cannot place new orders, and the exchange manages to execute liquidations.

The Hype Cycle: From Bubble to Mass Adoption

The emergence of the market bubble is partly described by the hype cycle — a pattern that research firm Gartner investigated in 1995. The hype cycle consists of five stages:

  • Technological trigger — a new technology is talked about in the media, but there are no commercially successful products based on it;
  • The peak of excessive expectations — success stories of early investors fuel interest in the technology, while analysts cannot correctly assess its prospects;
  • Getting rid of illusions — the disadvantages of technology prevent its mass use. The first investors take profits and exit the market. The cost of technology drops sharply;
  • Overcoming disadvantages — the technology is used by commercial projects, and it makes a profit;
  • Productivity plateau — the technology becomes widespread, its price stabilizes.

The hype cycle. Gartner draws a plateau as a straight line. In fact, the development of technology leads to a gradual increase in prices.

Several blockchain technologies have gone through the hype cycle in whole or in part:

  • Bitcoin. In 2013, investors invested $10 billion in bitcoin. The price of the cryptocurrency on the Mt.Gox exchange reached $260. The trading core of the exchange was frozen due to high load. This led to a panic and a drop in the price of bitcoin to $45. The plateau stage began in 2015, along with the improvement of crypto exchanges;
  • Cloud mining. In 2015, companies appeared that leased mining power. In 2018, the price of bitcoin dropped and cloud mining ceased to be profitable. The technology hit a plateau in 2019 thanks to the rise in the price of bitcoin and the emergence of more powerful ASIC devices;
  • ICO. In 2017–2018, investors invested $28.4 billion in tokens of blockchain startups. Projects raised funds in ETH, so by January 2018, the price of Ethereum rose to $1400. In 2018, interest in ICOs declined, and the cost of Ethereum dropped to $90. The technology is in the process of overcoming obstacles;
  • Ripple. In August 2018, Ripple promised to talk about partnerships with banks at the Swell conference. Before the conference, the price of XRP token rose from $0.32 to $0.76, but then fell to $0.37. The plateau came after the introduction of the RippleNet platform in 200 financial institutions;
  • DeFi. Decentralized finance became the trend of 2019: cryptocurrency loans, deposits in stablecoins, decentralized exchanges and profitable farming. The technology is at a stage of excessive expectations.

Gartner warns that not all technologies are hitting a productivity plateau. Products like smart glasses and 3D TVs are not being used commercially. Such technologies die at the stage of getting rid of illusions.

How to recognize a stock market bubble

As a rule, bubbles occur in a small sector in which large investors are interested. It is always a market with limited supply: raw materials, real estate, companies with new technologies or assets with a fixed emission.

The formation of market bubbles begins with publicizing the success of investors in the media and coincides with the stage of the technological trigger in the hype cycle.

The hype cycle is not suitable for predicting the beginning and end of market bubbles, but it can help you choose the moment to invest:

  • at the stage of a technological trigger — to make money on the bubble;
  • at the stage of overcoming obstacles — to make money on the stable growth of the asset.

Gartner defines a technology trigger based on the following criteria:

  • You first hear about a growing market or asset;
  • The media position the asset as a means for quick earnings — 100% or more in a few months;
  • Clone companies offer the same asset in different wrappers;
  • The price of the asset rises in a parabola without significant corrections below recent lows.

It is easier to identify the stage of overcoming obstacles: commercial projects make money on the properties of the asset, and not on the growth of its price. For example, Ripple makes money on international transactions using XRP. The XRP rate does not affect the size of transaction fees and the company’s profit.

Conclusions

The events of 1970–1980 on the silver market showed that people without a clear plan with $6 billion of borrowed funds can form an exchange bubble. In the stock market, regulators are struggling with this, and cryptocurrency users have to independently take care of the safety of investments.

Investors expect too much from new technologies. They invest money on the wave of hype and form market bubbles. And the safest moment for investment comes when the technology has proven its worth.

When choosing a project for investment, consider at what stage of the hype cycle it is. If the technology trigger is passed, you risk losing money in a bubble.

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What occurs in the event that you don't have a clue how to exchange? It is safe to say that you are any acceptable at investigating the business sectors or comprehend what that incorporates? In the event that you addressed no to either or the two inquiries, Cfd Trader is for you! This auto-exchanging programming finds proper exchanges for you, so you don't need to sort it all out for yourself.

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Cfd Trader is a great auto-exchanging application. You're not needed to download anything since it works from your program. This makes it simpler and more secure to use on your telephone or any gadget.

When you join and sign in, you access the product. Information the boundaries you like. Most tenderfoots utilize the preset choices since they're now set for an ideal encounter. Prepared brokers might need to transform them to test hypotheses and techniques. This is totally up to you.

At the point when you've done that and are happy with the guidelines set up, click 'Auto Trade.' You have nothing else to do in light of the fact that the framework begins looking out exchanges that meet those rules and opening the best ones for you.

When everything is finished, it shuts the exchange naturally and begins looking for the following one! Cfd Trader is anything but difficult to such an extent that anybody can utilize it, even with no involvement with the web based exchanging world.

Begin making exchanges right away. Pursue free, which is anything but difficult to do, and start live exchanging now!

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Exchange on Any Device

Cfd Trader can be gotten to on any gadget. It just requires web, and the gadget should offer a program. More often than not, you can download one if vital. At that point, you can put resources into Bitcoin the easy way.

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Anybody can join Cfd Trader and begin exchanging. We've made it so natural to make your record. Since the solid calculation does the vast majority of the work, you're allowed to do different things without investigating the business sectors for quite a long time.

You don't need to get digital money or have exchanging experience to be an expert online dealer. Simply join with your PC, tablet, cell phone, or another gadget. This is the initial step to turning into a top dealer of Bitcoin.

The Advantages of Utilizing Cfd Trader

It's imperative to know the upsides of Cfd Trader. We're certain to such an extent that you will discover web based exchanging simpler with our auto-exchanging programming. Here are a portion of the advantages:

Utilize Any Device

You're not attached to a PC the entire day. With solid web (free WiFi works), you can run Cfd Trader anyplace.

Security

We secure your own data. Both the exchanging stage and site are exceptionally secure. Simply check for the lock at the highest point of the page to ensure it's shut.

Withdrawals

You can't be an online broker on the off chance that you can't get to your profit. We guarantee that it's anything but difficult to make withdrawals varying.

Low introductory store

With just $250, you can turn into a Bitcoin broker like you've generally needed. This cash is yours; we just hold it for you until exchanges are made in your name.

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Simply register to utilize the authority Cfd Trader application, sign in, and start making exchanges right away.

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How to fork bitcoin

To begin with, we’ll take you through the fundamentals. How to fork bitcoin happens when two diggers find legitimate squares simultaneously. Accordingly, when two squares have a similar square stature, this is alluded to as a fork.

The chances of finding the following squares on the two branches simultaneously again are fairly low. Be that as it may, in the event that one split of the blockchain develops longer, excavators will join this split, withdrawing the more limited split.

The squares in the more limited variant are classified “vagrant squares”.

No exchanges are lost since exchanges on the stranded square, in the event that they were not as of now added to the substantial square, are re-communicated to the organization and added into the following legitimate square. These forks generally don’t change the hidden convention. On the off chance that a fork, notwithstanding, is purposeful, it is alluded to as a lasting fork.